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Bismarck said "The great questions of the time will be decided, not by speeches and resolutions of majorities, but by iron and blood".

No answer with Modi ?
There was a discussion about corruption. A couple of interesting reaction came with one question why there is corruption in the BJP ruled states? And everyone asks this question from PM Narendra Modi.

Mayawati offers 100 seats to Congress in UP ?
There are rumours that Mayawati has offered 100 seats to the Congress in the ensuing Vidhan Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. Will the Congress accept the offer ?

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BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega CBI Chief ? (3) Krishna Choudhary
If the Government decides to go by seniority, Krishna Choudhary is number one in all the batches.1979 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer Choudhary is presently DG ITBP. Present CBI Boss Anil Sinha is his batch mate. If top sources are to be believed this time NDA Government may not appoint Bihar cadre officer. Incidentally three IPS officers have been CBI Chief from Bihar during the last six years. They are A P Singh, Ranjit Sinha and presently Anil Sinha.

Will Kamath succeed Raghuram Rajan ?
In the corridors of power latest name of Private Banker K V Kamath is now doing the round for the post of Governor Reserve Bank of India. KV Kamath is presently head of the new development bank of the group of BRICS countries. Two names of Deputy Governor Urjit Patel and former Dy Governor Subir Gokarn are already in circulation. It means either of the three will succeed Raghuram Rajan.

Who will be Deputy NSA ?
Who will succeed Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA)Arvind Gupta ?.Guessing game has started in the corridors of power.

Lt Gen Surinder Singh is new Western Army Commander
Lt Gen Surinder Singh has been appointed as new Western Army Commander. Presently he is heading 33 Corps.
(We said this on July 30 )

Lt Gen Nimbhorkar to be new MGO
Lt Gen RR Nimbhorkar, GOC Nagrota-based 16 Corps is being appointed as Master General Ordnance (MGO).He will succeed Lt Gen Ravi Thodge.

Mrs Rina Mitra relieved to join as ADG, BSF
Mrs Rina Mitra has been relieved to join as Additional Director General in the Border Security Force (BSF). She is 1983 batch IPS officer of MP cadre.

Ravindra Prabhakar Marathe appointed as MD & CEO, Maharashtra Bank
Ravindra Prabhakar Marathe, ED, Bank of India, has been appointed as MD & CEO in Bank of Maharashtra with effect from October 1, 2016.
(We said this on May 31)

Pawan Kumar Bajaj appointed as MD & CEO, UBI
Pawan Kumar Bajaj, ED, Indian Overseas Bank, has been appointed as MD & CEO in United Bank of India.
(We said this on May 30 )

Dinesh Kumar Khara appointed as MD, State Bank of India
Dinesh Kumar Khara has been appointed as Managing Director of State Bank of India for a period of three years.

Ashok Kumar Garg appointed as ED, Bank of Bardoa
Ashok Kumar Garg has been appointed as Executive Director of Bank of Baroda, a Public Sector Bank.
(We said this on May 19)

Raj Kamal Verma is ED, Union Bank of India
Raj Kamal Verma has been appointed as Executive Director of Union Bank of India, a Public Sector Bank.
(We said this on May 19)

Gopal Murli Bhagat appointed as ED, Corp Bank
Gopal Murli Bhagat has been appointed as Executive Director, Corporation Bank, a Public Sector Bank.
(We said this on May 19 )

Himanshu Joshi appointed as ED, OBC
Himanshu Joshi has been appointed as Executive Director in Oriental Bank of Commerce, a Public Sector Bank.
(We said this on May 19 )


Goutam Chatterjee selected as Director (Comm), MECON Ltd
Goutam Chatterjee, GM, MECON, has been selected for the post of Director (Commercial), MECON Limited at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on August 9, 2016. As many as eight persons were interviewed for the same.

Dr Pattanaik appointed as Member, WDRA
Dr B B Pattanaik, former MD, CWC, has been appointed as Member, Warehousing Development & Regulatory Authority (WDRA).

Orders of M Nagaraj for CMD, PEC Ltd issued
The orders of M Nagaraj, MD, NSKFDC, for the appointment as CMD, PEC Limited have been issued by the Government of India.

Ms Meera Handa appointed Member (Planning), Postal Service Board
Ms Meera Handa has been promoted as Member (Planning), Postal Service Board. She is a 1982 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Tilak De appointed Member (Technology), Postal Service Board
Tilak De has been promoted as Member (Technology), Postal Service Board. He is a 1983 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Md Asad Alam appointed CMD, BSCL
Md Asad Alam, ADRM, KGP, South Eastern Railway, has been appointed as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Burn Standard Company Limited (BSCL) on deputation. He is an IRSME officer.

Ramawatar Meena appointed Director, CVC
Ramawatar Meena has been appointed as Director in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), Delhi. He is a 1998 batch ITS officer.

Gill to continue in Chandigarh Administration !
SSP of Chandigarh Administration S S Gill is expected to continue. He is 2003 batch IPS officer of Punjab cadre.

Girja Shankar deputed to RVNL, Raipur
Girja Shankar has been deputed to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited as DGM (S&T), Raipur. He is an IRSSE officer.

Voluntary Retirement granted to IIS officer
G.R. Chippalkatti, a junior grade officer of IIS group A service has taken Voluntary Retirement from the service w.e.f. August 9, 2016. He was posted as AD, AIR News, Panaji.

Senior officer in cadre with one year residual service to be FC
The Ministry of Railways has come up with a new policy. As per policy, officer should be normally the senior most in the cadre of working as GM/AM having one year residual service on the date of vacancy for the post of Financial Commissioner.

Bhatt is new Chairman of Karnataka PSC
T Sham Bhatt has been appointed chairman of the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC). He is 1992 batch IAS officer.
(We said this on August 8 )

Gujarat gets 10 new IAS officers
As many as 10 candidates, who were provided Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after clearing Civil Service Examination-2015, have been allotted Gujarat cadre. They are: Vipin Garg, Shalini Duhan, Nitin Sangwan, Bhavya Verma, Devi Lal, Gavhane Navnath Kondiba, Khatale Ravindra Dnyaneshwar, Yogesh Choudhary, Parmar Tejas Dilipbhai and Om Prakash.

V K Tahilramani to perform as Chief Justice of Bombay HC
Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani has been appointed to perform the duties of Chief Justice in Bombay High Court.

Devendra Bhushan Gupta empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Devendra Bhushan Gupta has been empanelled for holding Secretary or Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Yadav Naresh promoted as GM, SBI
Yadav Naresh has been promoted to the grade of General Manager in State Bank of India (SBI).

Noyal Thomas is also DIGF (FP) in EF &CC
Noyal Thomas, DIGF in the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, has been assigned an additional charge of DIGF (FP). He is a 1991 batch IFS officer of Kerala cadre.

CBDT Membrer, Sahai gets North West, South zonal charges (UPDATED)
Sushil Kumar Sahai, Member (L&C), CBDT, has been assigned zonal charge of North West Region, Delhi, UP and Uttarakhand as well as South zone, AP, TN, Karnataka. He is an IRS-IT officer.

35 IRAS officers promoted to JAG (UPDATED)
As many as 35 officers of the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) have been promoted to the Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). They are: Lakshmi Natarajan and Bharati Bangale of West Central Railway, V P Sharma of North Central Railway, V V K R Varma of Northeast Frontier Railway, K Nagendra Babu of South Central Railway, B Vijayanath of South Eastern Railway, R Venkataramana Murthy of CLW, V H Nageshwar Rao of South Central Railway, K Srinivasa Murthy of South East Central Railway, P K Halder of Eastern Railway, S Senthamil Selvan of Northeast Frontier Railway, G V Ramesh of Southern Railway, Sudesh Kumar of DMW, N Vijayaraghavan of South East Central Railway, C M Rajasekharappa of South Western Railway, N Sunderrajan of South East Central Railway, P Ranganathan of Metro, Y Mallikarjuna Rao of RDSO, T S Latha and M Krishnan Unni of Southern Railway, S K Natrajan of ICF, Vinoy Koty of South Eastern Railway, K Rangarajan of Southern Railway, V Prakash of Railway Board, Shashi Ranjan of East Central Railway, Devashish Mukharji of Eastern Railway, A K Srivastava and T P Pandey of North Eastern Railway, V K Srivastava of CORE, V Balaiah and R Mohan of ICF, B Athma Rao of East Coast, S M V Saravanan of Southern Railway, Amarjit Singh of Northern Railway and D Biswas of Eastern Railway.


28 Group 'B' IRAS officers appointed to Group 'A' (UPDATED)
As many as 28 Group 'B' officers have been appointed to Group 'A' of the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS). They are: Prakash Chand Saraswat, Jagdish Prasad Jat, Sunil K Malhotra, Anjali B M Bakshi, Naresh Kumar, S S Dahiya, Sulekh Chand Jain, P K Chaudhury, S K Singh, M R Phadnis, V Ramkrishn, Vijay Kumar Panwar, Maitreyee Sharma, N P Sharma, T Delson Joseph, Subhashish Gupta, Bholanath Chatarjee, S Mukherjee, A Sundaram, P J Radha Ramanan, R K Sethi, R Kalo, Bharat Lal Meena, B Ramakrishnan, S K Prasad, Ajay Kumar Sinha, Girish Kumar Sharma and Rajendra Kumar Sharma.

S K Ashok is also Addl Commissioner in PMC, Bihar (UPDATED)
Shirsat Kapil Ashok has been given the additional charge of Additional Commissioner in Patna Municipal Corporation. He is a 2011 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Kartikeya Misra is also VC & MD, AP Industrial Dev Corp (UPDATED)
Kartikeya Misra has been given full additional charge of the post of Vice Chairman & Managing Director, A P Industrial Development Corporation Limited. He is a 2009 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Vijay Kumar Bidhuri appointed as PS to Babul Supriyo (UPDATED)
Vijay Kumar Bidhuri has been appointed as Private Secretary, Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises. He is a 2005 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Raja Ram Sah continues as Director, Cabinet Secretariat till Aug (UPDATED)
The tenure of Raja Ram Sah, Director, Cabinet Secretariat, has been extended upto August 30, 2016. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Karnataka (UPDATED)
Around one dozen IAS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Karnataka. Accordingly, Mrs M V Savithri has been appointed as MD, KSSIDC while Dr M N Ajay Nagabhushan was made Commissioner, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Mrs C Shikha was posted as Commissioner, Social Welfare Department. Similarly, Manoj Jain has been appointed as Managing Director, Karnataka Food & Civil Supplies Corporation Limited; D Randeep as Deputy Commissioner, Mysuru; Ramandeep Chowdhary as Additional Commissioner, Department of Public Instruction; H R Mahadev as Additional Commissioner of Commercial Taxes Enforcement, South Zone; S Ziyaullah as Deputy Commissioner, Mandhya district; K B Sivakumar as Deputy Commissioner, Vijayapura District and M G Hiremath was posted as MD, Humbballi Dharwad BRTS Company Limited, Hubballi.

JNPT fast tracks Phase II dredging of JNPT channel from 14mtrs to 15 mtrs (UPDATED)
JN Port, which is India's No.1 container terminal, has initiated the Phase-II dredging project of its existing 33.54 km long navigational channel from 14 mtrs to 15 mtrs at a cost of Rs. 2029/- crores. JN Port has already successfully completed the Phase -I dredging of deepening and widening the existing channel to 14 mtrs for accommodating vessels of +6000 TEUs in April 2014. Phase-II dredging will allow bigger container vessel of 12, 500 TEUs to be docked at JN Port. The project work will be completed within a period of 24 months after the completion of bidding process. The consultancy service for project management has been assigned to M/S TATA Consultancy Engineering Ltd. The key benefits of the project includes handling bigger size vessels up to draft of 15 meters by using tidal window , increase in future container traffic , reducing ocean freight cost per TEU , faster turnaround of larger vessels & optimum utilization of capacity.

Birender Singh Yadav appointed as High Commissioner to Republic of Ghana (UPDATED)
Birender Singh Yadav, presently Joint Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Ghana. He is a 1997 batch IFS officer.

P Mohan promoted as Assistant Commissioner of Customs (UPDATED)
P Mohan Superintendent has been notionally been promoted to the grade of Assistant Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise with effect from October, 2014. He is an IRS-Customs officer.

CORPORATE

100% FDI allowed for private companies in Petroleum sector
Government of India permits FDI across the hydrocarbon value chain covering the upstream, downstream and midstream sectors. The present FDI policy for petroleum & natural gas sector allows 100% automatic route for exploration and production, refining by the private companies and for public sector companies 49% on automatic route without any divestment or dilution of domestic equity in the existing PSUs,

Nagarajan appointed as Nominee Director of Indbank Merchant Banking Services Ltd
Indbank Merchant Banking Services Limited has appointed M Nagarajan, General Manager, Indian Bank as a Non-Executive Nominee Director of the Bank.

Natarajan, appointed as Joint MD of Gujarat State Petronet Ltd
Dr T Natarajan, IAS, has been appointed as Joint Managing Director of Gujarat State Petronet Limited

Joshi appointed Director (Power) of BHEL
The Department of Heavy Industry, Union Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises has appointed Akhil Joshi as Director (Power) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.

Ranganathan appointed CEO of Archies Ltd
Archies Ltd has appointed Seshan Ranganathan as a Chief Executive Officer of the company.

Two Independent directors appointed on ITDC Board
Ajay Swarup, former Indian Foreign Service Officer and Patel Karsanbhai Bhikhabhai who is a prominent Agriculturist, Businessman and Social Worker have been appointed as Independent Directors of India Tourism Development Corporation Ltd.

Sharma appointed Independent Director of DCM Shriram Ltd
DCM Shriram Limited has appointed Pravesh Sharma as Independent Director of the company.

Thakore appointed Chairman of Prism Cement Ltd
Prism Cement Limited has appointed Shobhan Thakore as the Chairman of the company.

Oswal appointed MD of Vardhman Holdings Limited
Vardhman Holdings Limited has appointed S P Oswal as Managing Director of the company.

Kumar resigns as Director of GGL
Mukesh Kumar, IAS, has resigned as the Director of Gujarat Gas Limited.

Chaturvedi resigns as COO of NIIT Technologies Ltd
Sudhir Chaturvedi has resigned as Chief Operating Officer of NIIT Technologies Limited w.e.f. September 9, 2016

Ms Ray appointed CS of Usha Martin Ltd
Usha Martin Limited has appointed Ms Shampa Ghosh Ray as Company Secretary of the company.

Satwalekar resigns as Independent Director of IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd
Deepak Satwalekar has resigned as Independent Director of IL&FS Transportation Networks Limited.'

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Indian Olympics - A mess of high proportion

Indian Olympics bid started with send off by Prime Minister Modi. But despite best intentions of our beloved Prime Minister, the campaign is in shambles.

First, athletes need continuous nurturing for several years with world class facilities for Olympic level performance. It is missing as success of USA shows.If India needs transfer of technology from USA, what better than to transfer sports technology,

Second, athletes came to Rio de Janeiro a few days before opening ceremony. Unlike other teams, they could not adjust to weather conditions and different time zone. This impacted their performances leading to no medals.

Third, Indian sports are mired in politics. Indian Olympic Association and Sports Ministry are at constant loggerheads with each other. This led to no facilities for athletes at Olympics Games village. They can't watch other athletes performance, forget video analysis etc. Indian officials behave like clerks, without thinking of national interest.

Fourth, Indian Ambassador Sunil Lal made a major mess of the situation which was a recipe was disaster. He never met any athlete nor helped in making their facilities attuned to best performance. Thefts and robberies of Olympic athletes and coaches were widely reported. But he set up his office 2 hours away from Olympic village. This he did so that no Indians or athletes could reach that place. Why Indian Ambassador ignored Indian athletes or biggest world sports event is a mystery.

Fifth, Indian sports athletes are poorly paid and state does not recognize their excellence by way of financial support. The medal campaign is in disarray as countries like Hungary, Australia and China win medals after medals. No country can become major power without sporting excellence.

If after all this, any Indian athlete manages a medal, kudos to her and her spirit of excellence.

A Visitor

Direct all MPs to visit their constituencies

To our Respected PM -That All Member of Parliament and Rajya Sabha should be directed to visit their constituencies and particularly the villages and should hold meetings with the Residents/Panchayats/Area Representatives/NDA hard core workers/Local officers from Collectorates to Superintendent of Police to explain the good things which NDA government has started. Listen to their grievances and suggestions and direct the officials to look into the same and report back in a fixed stipulated time period. Similarly, all officers in the Central Govt. and State Govt. should be directed to visit the states, districts, Tehsil etc. and must implement the policies of their Government's respective departments, beneficial for the public. With this, the General Public will feel that there is somebody in the Govt. which take cares of their grievances/problems which Govt. have started sorting out the same.

Ram Kumar Garg

Sardar Patel's response for reservations

With all these violent agitations for reservations, Sardar Patel's response on similar issue in the early days of freedom comes to mind.

The Sikh community met the Sardar with the demand that they should be granted reservations in government jobs in proportion to their population (these was when communal angles were more powerful than caste angles and when the religious identities were at the fore, just after partition).

The Sardar heard them and then responded that they might be given reservations in Civil government jobs in proportion to their population, but the same percentage would be applied to the Police and military jobs where they were far in excess of the percentage of their population!

Needless to add, the delegation retracted its demand! Unfortunately, this thing is continuing unbridled. The Yadavs want and have reservations in government jobs and education. But the percentage of their MPs and MLAs exceeds their percentage in population by far. The Meenas want and have reservations in government jobs and education. But the percentage of their IAS and IPS officers exceeds their percentage in population by far. Reservations, initially for SCs and STs for 10 years, now seems to be here for perpetuity. There is not even a creamy layer for them. Generations upon generations of them have availed of the benefit and will continue to do so, at the cost of the poorer of their own community.
For OBCs, again, reservations have been extended without a even time frame, for perpetuity, both in Government jobs and education!

Naturally the other communities like the Patidars and Jats are desperate to gain some kind of reservations, somewhere. Meanwhile, quality and merit continue to suffer. Doctors, Engineers, professionals are not the best there could be, but are based on quotas. All kinds of logic is given to retain these self serving quotas- population, backwardness (everyone now claims backward status, because it helps), the prevalence of the caste system...anything to retain the privileges by birth given in independent India!

Arjun Mallik

Citizens Should Approach Parliament's Ethics Committee

The ordinary citizens in the country suffer all kinds of brutalities in silence largely because of the apathy of the system- police indifference, costly justice, poor health care and education. In effect the gross crime in the country can be reduced by 90% or more ONLY IF the Leadership in the country decides unanimously to cripple it. The Leadership has proved only yesterday (3rd August 2016) that it is not only capable but also competent to take well considered decisions in every complex matter of public interest. Their unanimity can reduce crime almost instantly. Can gang rapes or murders take place if the Leadership attacks the perpetrators instantly as one voice? The public at large may not be aware of a very powerful institution called the Ethics Committee of Parliament to whom grievances of the public can be submitted by public spirited individuals (just like the PIL). Individuals harassed by the system can also approach them for inexpensive redress. A word of caution: be absolutely honest. Students of political Science & Law need to help the poor citizens.

M L Gupta

Honest, committed and inspiring leadership required in Railways

If an IA & AS officer can bring about a visible and commendable change in DVC, why can't the Government think of doing so with the Railways as well. The work force was the same, the managers were the same, the business model was the same but what made the difference was an honest, committed and inspiring leadership free from preconceived notions. Its high time that the Indian Railways is also allowed to be run in a similar fashion. The insiders in the Railways have proven to be uninspiring and therefore incapable of taking the Railways to greater heights. All that happens under the "HOME GROWN' leadership is a few percentage point change in the Operating Ratio (a misplaced obsession) by some accounting jugglery. This is not to belittle the managerial competence of the IR personnel (IR has decidedly some of the best talents), it is just that they have not been able to perform to their potential inside their own territory, while have proved their worth wherever they have gone-whether in the Government or PSUs or Private Sector. Examples of such 'Success Stories' galore and would form a Treatise on Management Practices if one were to compile the same.It is still not too late in the day to have a fresh and holistic look at the issue. The argument often advanced that IR is too technical an organisation to be managed by outsiders is at a charitable best "laughable".I am sure, if proper and adequate promotional avenues are identified for the IR personnel at the highest level (which they deserve) there would be no heart burns in the IR fraternity and the country would be the ultimate beneficiary. It is an "Experiment" worth being experimented with.

Ravi Prabhat

Refixation of pension

Seventh Pay Commission had prescribed two alternative formula for refixation of pension. For the first option a committee has been appointed to examine and report on whether option1 can be implemented. Sample cases show that option1 gives more benefit to pensioners than option2 under which pension is refixed at 2.57 times of current basic pension. In fact the factor under option1 works out to figures much higher than 2.57 There is therefore a strong case for enhancing the factor of 2.57 The aforesaid factor of 2.57 does not give much benefit to pensioners.

Arun Kumar

U K Bansal was suffering from Brain Cancer

My batch-mate U.K.Bansal did not die in Lucknow but in Delhi, Max Saket Hospital. He was suffering from Brain Cancer. He resigned as Member, CAT, Allahabad only for this reason. He was cremated in the Electric Crematorium, Lodhi Road, New delhi.

J K Khanna IPS

Rest in peace

Shocked to know about the sad demise of U K Bansal. A thorough professional, patient listener, very hard worker and a thorough gentlemen with whom, had the privilege to work with was a true hard core patriot. He will always be remembered in BSF for taking many bold initiatives. His sole may rest in peace.

Ashok Kumar Jain

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