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B K Nigam
POLITICS
This is History (248)
His old skill is still there, but he moves more heavily now; often he
hesitates and is in doubt, and his armies are more cumbrous.
Modi is need of the hour !
Narendra Modi is often compared to a dictator and the fact is that India
requires one at this point of time.
Vanjara likely to join BJP
It will not be a surprising if DJ Vanjara, ex- IPS of Gujarat cadre,
joins a political party likely BJP. After release from jail he arrived
at Ahmedabad after nine years. Reports from Ahmedabad say that Vanjara
is active in meeting with various leaders.
BUREAUCRACY
5 Secretaries in GoI retiring in April
As many as five Secretaries in the Government of India are retiring
in April 2016.
Gujarat DGP P C Thakur is new DG Fire Services,
Home Guards in GoI
P C Thakur has been appointed as Director General, Fire Services, Civil
Defence and Home Guards in Government of India. He is a 1979 batch IPS
Officer of Gujarat cadre.
Will Singh stay in ED ?
Vikas Singh , an IRS-IT officer has been promoted in his cadre as Jt
Commissioner IT. Presently he is posted as Dy Director , ED. According
to sources if Singh did not get the posting as JD, ED he may go back
to his cadre.
Prabhat transferred
Prabhat an 2007 IRS-IT has been promoted as JCIT and posted in Delhi
. He was Dy. Director , IT in Noida.
Rudra Gaurav Shresthhas is new HC to Mozambique
Rudra Gaurav Shresthhas been appointed as the next High Commissioner
of India to the Republic of Mozambique.He is 1999 batch IFS officer.
Lola Rakh Nath deputed to KRCL, Jammu
Lola Rakh Nath presently in Central Railway has been deputed to Konkan
Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL) as Chief Engineer (Project) at Jammu.
He is an IRSE officer.
Himanshu Sharma deputed to RVNL, Bangalore
Himanshu Sharma presently in Central Organisation for Railway Electrification
has been deputed to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited as AGM (Electrical) at
Bangalore. He is an IRSEE officer.
10 IDAS officers appointed Expenditure Observes
The ECI has nominated 10 IDAS officers as Expenditure Observers for
the assembly elections of TN, Kerala and Pudduchery.They are mssrs-
Priyanka Chandra, Kavita Sharma,Sanjay H. Sansare, Mital S. Hiremath,Roshan
M.Thomas, Aadarsh Kumar UKRS, Satish TJ, Chandra Prakash, Senthil Kumar
B. and Dr. S.Venugopal.
Joint Secretary level post of CVO vacant in
NTC
The post of Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at Joint Secretary level has
been lying vacant in National Textile Corporation Limited (NTC), Delhi.
Neeraj Agrawal appointed as ED, Audit in LIC
Neeraj Agrawal has been appointed as Executive Director, Audit department
in the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).
Sharad Srivastava appointed as ED, HR in LIC
Sharad Srivastava has been appointed as Executive Director, Human Resources
in the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).
8 posts of Judges lying vacant in Jammu &
Kashmir High Court
As many as 8 posts of Judges have been lying vacant in Jammu & Kashmir
High Court against the approved strength of 17. Total posts of 5 permanent
Judges against the approved strength of 13 and 3 posts of Additional
Judges against the approved strength of 4 are vacant.
P B Vishnukanth appointed as Deputy Accountant General, Thiruvananthapuram
P B Vishnukanth, Deputy Director (CS/CX-II), in the office of Director
General of Audit, Central, Chennai at branch Kochi, has been transferred
and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Funds) in the office of Principal
Accountant General (A&E), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gilani empanelled as Joint
Secretary in GoI
Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gilani has been empanelled for the post of Joint
Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1994 batch IPS officer of
Jammu and Kashmir cadre.
Tatipudi Ravikanth empanelled as Joint Secretary
in GoI
Tatipudi Ravikanth has been empanelled for the Joint Secretary level
posts in Government of India. He is a 1998 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan
cadre.
Two SP level IPS officers shifted in UP
Atul Sharma has been appointed as SP, Oriya while Satyarth Aniruddh
Pankaj was posed as SP, Railway, Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
P P Pandey looks after as DGP, Gujarat
(UPDATED)
P P Pandey, Director, Anti-Corruption Bureau, has been assigned additional
charge of Director General and Inspector General of Police, Gujarat
with effect from April 16, 2016. He is a 1980 batch IPS officer of Gujarat
cadre.
P C Thakur relieved to join central deputation
as DG, Fire Services & Home Guards (UPDATED)
P C Thakur, Director Generarl and Inspector General of Police, Gujarat,
has been relieved to join the central deputation as Director General,
Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guards. He is a 1979 batch IPS
officer of Gujarat cadre.
P S Pradyumna appointed as Secretary, IT in
AP (UPDATED)
P S Pradyumna has been appointed as Secretary, IT & C Department
while G S Phaini Kishore (IRS) removed from this post asking him to
report GAG in Andhra Pradesh.
CORPORATE
Ganesan appointed MD of Alstom India Limited
Ashok Ganesan has been appointed as Managing Director of Alstom India
Limited w.e.f May 1, 2016.
Patel ceases to be Independent Director of GNVFCL
HV Patel, IAS (Retd.) has ceased to be Independent Director of Gujarat
Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited.
Tennety appointed as CBU Head of Tata Docomo for MP, Chhattisgarh and
Gujarat circles
Tata Docomo has appointed Ravi Tennety as Consumer Business Unit (CBU)
Head for Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat circles.
Bhalla resigns as CS of India Glycols Ltd
Kapil Bhalla has resigned as Company Secretary of India Glycols Limited.
Gavas resigns as CS of Crest Ventures Ltd
Rohan Gavas has resigned as Company Secretary of Crest Ventures Limited.
FORUM
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"Banking frauds, a national time pass "
Unethical banking practices are not new. Bank nationalization in 1969
did not reduce corruption. State control encouraged giving loans on
oral orders of successive ruling dispensations, influential politicians,
corporate houses, bankers and bureaucrats.
The current scam came to light after the Supreme court took suo motto
cognizance of a media report and discovered that bad debts (Rs 1.14
lakh crores) were secretly written off by 28 state-owned banks (between
2013 and 2015) flouting all norms and without taking stake-holders into
confidence. The common perception was that the corruption ,was at its
zenith during the later part of UPA misrule.
India is not a banana republic. The scams cannot take place without
the active collusion of top bank executives , politicians and bureaucrats
who influence banks to give loans to would be defaulters. The Supreme
Court bench headed by CJI, slammed RBI and castigated public sector
banks for loan waiver spree as defaulters keep leading a "lavish
lifestyle".
Spilling the beans, former Dy Governor RBI called the write-off a big
scam. Top state-owned lender the SBI attributed this to the "discretionary
power of its committee". Other banks blame it on their Management
committee, Board of Directors, Executive committee etc. All banks have
sought exemption from disclosures of defaulters' names, citing Section
8(1) (d) of RTI Act. RBI and other banks express inability to reveal
names of loan defaulters citing "fiduciary relationship" with
clients, commercial secrecy, trade secrets, intellectual property, adverse
impact on economy and so on. Preposterous, simplistic and absurd explanation
to cover-up unethical practices. Details of all defaulters must be kept
in public domain as it involves mind boggling loss of public exchequer.
This could not have been possible without kickbacks. The corrupt beneficiaries
have been dodging investigations in the past due to absence of written
orders. Seize all records. Show- cause RBI's and state-owned banks'
executives, MOF's bureaucrats, interrogate them and record their testimonies.
Due to country-wide ramifications of the scam, let investigations be
carried out by the court-monitored CBI.
A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)
Political pirates to abroad
Punjab has a very large and prosperous NRI population to invariably
entice the politicians to approach them before elections, mainly for
funds to a lesser extent for votes. Since the next elections to the
state Assembly are due in Feb 2017, the exercise of looting NRIs by
the state politicians, had already begun six months ago. But some powerful
politicians of the ruling party had to run for cover this time after
the knowledgeable and courageous Indians living abroad asked them million
questions about the maladies, which have attained epidemic proportions
of late and which have almost ruined the state. The traditional political
parties have not realized until now that their game was over and people
in the state and abroad were looking for an alternative. Incidentally
Aam Aadmi Party has jumped in the arena to wrest political power. So
far this party has hardly done any good work worth the name, but to
public's shock has indulged in age-old tactic of political poaching
to bring in its fold, desperate politically ambitious non-entities.
However there is time for the new political outfit to correct its course
to sustain its credibility, otherwise its complacence will ruin it and
also dash people's already diminished hopes. It is time for all the
parties to go in for introspection, while staying back in Punjab, instead
of seeking NRI'S help to further ruin the already devastated state.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
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Copies of documents held after the completion of retention
period
The appellant filed the RTI application seeking attested copies
of external examination question papers of B. Arch. for a certain
period, some answer sheets etc. The Respondent informed that according
to rules of the University, the students are supposed to apply
for copies of answer sheets, within 15 days from the date of declaration
of the result. As per the University's retention policy, answer
sheets are retained for three months, from the date of declaration
of result. But, if the student fails to apply within the prescribed
period of 15 days, the answer sheets cannot be given to the student,
though the same are held by the public authority upto three months.
The CIC ruled that the above retention policy of the University
is not a correct practice. If they have retained the answer sheets,
even after the prescribed retention period for any reason, they
cannot deny if it is not destroyed as on the date of RTI application
Comments
No public authority can impose additional restrictions over and
above those prescribed under Section 8 of the RTI Act to deny
any information to the applicant. A Public Authority is expected
to make its own record retention policy and provide information
to any RTI applicant as per the same as long as the records are
not weeded out. If the records have been retained even after the
prescribed retention period, copies of the same cannot be denied
if it is not destroyed as on the date of RTI application. Further,
a Public Authority is required to hold the records, if an RTI
application is pending before the authorities.
Citation: Swati Babber v. Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University,
GNCTD in Case No.CIC/SA/A/2015/001407
Weekly article by Dr. (Mrs.) Anuradha
Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore.
Her other articles can be read at http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/
(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant
to IIM, Indore and Co-author of the books: RIGHT TO INFORMATION
- LAW AND PRACTICE and PIO's Guide to RTI by Taxmann. (The views
are Personal)
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