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In Germany Bismarck was now the all-powerful Imperial Chancellor. The policy of 'BLOOD AND IRON" had succeeded for the time being, and Germany accepted it and liberal ideas were at a discount.

Who would be the next Prime Minister of India ?
Grapevine has it that anyone who can arrange Rs. 1000 crore and take along media with him could be the next Prime Minister of India.

Why Minister is fed up?
From horses mouth- it is said one senior and powerful Minister of Modi cabinet is fed up with slow and allegedly negative attitude of bureaucrats of his ministry. In a recently held review meeting the Minister was very upset that most of the field officers gave same report which they are submitting during the last two meetings. It is said that on top of this the Secretary of the ministry was not pulling up the concerning officer for delay. It is said that frustrated minister remarked- nothing could be done to this ministry.

Announcement of new RBI Governor next week?
Announcement of new RBI Governor is expected to be made next week.

BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega CBI Chief ? (9)
In 1982 batch, RPF DGP S K Bhagat is a contender because of his CBI experience. Uttarakhand cadre IPS officer Bhagat has served the CBI in different capacities.

Who will be new Ambassador to US ? (3) Y K Sinha
People in the MEA say Y K Sinha is a top contender for this prestigious post. 1981 batch IFS officer Sinha is presently Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka.

Sunil Arora appointed Advisor, Prasar Bharti Board
Sunil Arora, a 1980 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer has been appointed as Advisor in Prasar Bharti Board. His orders were issued on Thursday evening. He retired as Secretary, I & B in April this year.

1984 batch IPS officers Additional Secretary promotion deferred
Latest information says 1984 batch IPS officers' promotion to Additional Secretary (AS) has been deferred. Next meeting is expected to take place in September. It is said that matter was deferred due a complaint received against one officer. DoPT has asked MHA to send the report in this regard.

Narendra Kumar to be next Chairman?
Narendra Kumar, Member, CWC is likely to be next Chairman, Central Water Commission (CWC). In all probability he will take over as Chairman, CWC in February next year.

Member Electrical re-designated as Member Traction in Railway Board
The post of Member Electrical has been re-designated as Member Traction with redistributing assignments in Railway Board.

S C Collegium to meet soon
The Supreme Court Collegium is expected to meet this month end to discuss the revised draft sent by the Government for appointment of Judges. The Government wants power to reject any name recommended by the Collegium on the grounds of National Security and Public interest.

Officers should seek extension six months before the expiry of deputation
The officers, who are on inter cadre deputation, have been told to apply for extension just six months before the expiry of deputation tenure. The States Government should initiate the process of proposal accordingly, the DoPT guided.

Inter cadre deputation of Chaourasia only after comments of Jharkhand Govt
Shailesh Kumar Chourasia, who is seeking inter cadre deputation from Manipur to Jharkhand, will get the same only after the comments of Jharkhand Government as well as vigilance status. He is a 2007 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.

Sunil Kumar Gupta likely to be appointed as CMD, HIL
Sunil Kumar Gupta, GGM, PDIL, is likely to be appointed as Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD), Hindustan Insecticides Limited (HIL). The post, which has been lying vacant for a long time, is being looked after by the Director Marketing, S P Mohanty.

Revival plans for HEC, Ranchi
A Revival cum Modernization Plan was prepared for HEC by MECON Limited envisaging a comprehensive overhaul of HEC's plants and facilities. The Plan has been further augmented and additional schemes have been included for a more comprehensive overhaul of the Plants and systems of HEC. The total cost of modernization after including contingencies, IDC and pre-operating expenses adds up to Rs. 956.48 crore. An MoU was signed with CINITMASH of Russia for technology for Nuclear and Defence items and with Rosatom, the State Atomic Energy Corporation.

Kar orders likely to be issued this month
Esther Kar who is empanelled as DG is likely to get her posting orders this month. She is a 1984 batch Indian Information Service ( IIS)officer.

IAS officer transforms Naxal-infested region into a developing path
By dint of education and hard work, one can attain desired objectives. A 2005 batch IAS officer, Om Prakash Chaudhary has proved this during his posting as District Collector of Dantewada, a Maoist hotbed in the tribal Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. This was a district where all projects ran years behind schedule because skilled manpower from outside were reluctant to come to the conflict-ridden region and the local youth lacked the training. Facing this stark reality and understanding the threat it posed to the future generations, Chaudhary took it upon himself to do something that would transform the district forever. This is the story of how this determined young officer educated and empowered the people of a region that hardly knew life beyond left wing extremism. He realised that the district didn't have enough doctors, engineers, or even science teachers in its schools. He decided to bring the district-wide science based intermediate level education under one roof at the Dantewada Education City to improve the prospects of Dantewada's 400 science students. To do this, he hand-picked the best teachers, renovated and painted an existing campus, and named them J C Bose house, C V Raman house, Kalpana house, and A P J house, after prominent Indian scientists and mathematicians. Under his education initiative, Choo Lo Aasman, as this project was named, students from different parts of Dantewada were brought to district headquarters and given post classroom special tutorials for entrance examinations by teachers from reputed private institutions from Kota, the mecca of coaching classes. This prepared the students (the overwhelming majority were tribals and lived below the poverty line) for various professional courses like engineering, medical, polytechnic and nursing. Global audit major KPMG had selected the Dantewada Education City as one of the 100 most innovative urban infrastructure projects in the world! Today, the Dantewada Education City at Jawanga has around 15 institutes, including an engineering college, an Industrial Training Institute, a sports school, a tribal girls' school, as well as a residential school for children who have lost their parents in Naxal violence. O P Chaudhary also revived residential campuses called 'Pota cabins' that had been set up by the district administration in 2009 for the children of distant areas. Students of class one to eight were provided free of cost food and lodging at these residential-educational campuses.

Upadhyay is now Principal Advisor in Madhya Pradesh
Madan Mohan Upadhyay has joined as Principal Advisor Atal Behari Vajpayee institute of Good Governance in MP. He is former 1981 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Chattisgarh gets four new IAS officers
Four candidates, who were provided Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after clearing Civil Service Examination-2015, have been allotted Chhattisgarh. They are: Ravi Mittal, Nitin Gaur, Rahul Deo, Vinay Kumar Langeh.

Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar has been empanelled for holding Secretary or Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Dr Singray Soren promoted as Adviser
Dr Singray Soren has been promoted to the post of Adviser (Homeopathy) under the Ministry of AYUSH.

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

8 CEO in four years in UP
UP has seen 8 CEOs in YEIDA between 2012 to August 2016. P C Gupta had a longest stay of 18 months while Ram Raman was CEO for one year. After that CEOs tenure were 3 months,30 days, 8 months, 30 days and one day. And now Dr. Arun Vir Singh eighth CEO from August 16, 2016.

28 IAS officers of 1999 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
As many as 28 IAS officers belonging to 1999 batch have been empanelled for holding the posts of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. They include: Sudhir Kumar of AGMUT cadre; Ashutosh Agnihotri of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Gulzar Natarajan of AP; Sonmoni Borah of Chhattisgarh; Ajay Bhadoo of Gujarat; Pushpendra Raput and Amandeep Garg of HP; M Beena of Kerala; Subodh Yadav of Karnataka; Richa Bagla, Kunal Kumar, Atul Nilkantha Patne and Anshu Sinha of Maharashtra; E Ramesh Kumar and Pawan Kumar Sharma of MP; Subha Sarma and Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma of Odisha; Bhawna Garg, Nilkanth S Avhad and Ajoy Sharma of Punjab; Mugdha Sinha of Rajasthan; V Sheshadri and Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi of Telangana; Brajendra Navnit and Ashish Chatterjee of Tamil Nadu and Navdeep Rinwa, P Guruprasad and Ravinder of Uttar Pradesh.

50 IRS-IT officers get new postings
50 IRS-IT officers in the grade of Commissioner of Income Tax have got new postings/ transfers. They are- Mssrs Dr. Shikha Darbari, Agra,Rajashri Dwivedi, Agra,P.S.Chhina, Bangaluru, Sanjay K Verma,, Bangaluru, Chandana Ramchandran, Bangaluru, Manoj Mishra , Chandigarh,Ruby George,Chennai, J.Sebastian, Chennai,Bhanumati M. Vishwanathan, DelhiT.M.Shivakumar, Delhi,Sulekha Verma, Delhi,B.K.Singh, Delhi,Anurag Prasad , Delhi, Kavita Pandey, delhi,Vatsala J. Yadav,Delhi,Kamlesh C, Varshney,Delhi, Dr. Sipak Sehgal, Delhi,Munish K Gupta, Delhi,Sunil C Sharma, Delhi,Satpal Gulati,Delhi,Anurag Goyal,Delhi,J.K.Goel, Gurugram, Lal Chand, Indore, A.K.Singh,Kochi,L.K.Aggarwal, Kokata,Aanand Kumar, Kolkata,Rakesh Goyal, Kolkata,Mithilesh K.Jha, Kolkata,Capt. P.K.Bajaj, Luvknow,Sanjay Mishra, Lucknow,R.Manjunatha Swamy, Mumbai,Bijayendra Pruseth, Mumbai,R.P.Meena, Mumbai,Lakshami V.P.Gude, Mumbai,Prawin Kumar, Mumbai,. M.Sridharan,Mumbai,N.K.Chand, Mumbai,Anupam D.Shukla, Mumbai,Asok Kumar Jha, Mumbai,Kumar sanjay, Mumbai,Rupinder Brar, Mumbai,Banwari Lal, NagpurM.Jagdish Babu, Hyderabad,P.Chandrasekhar, Hyderabad,Venkat T. Reddy, Hyderabad and Meenakshi Singh, Delhi.

NBCC, GSL ink MoA for construction of MCMV (UPDATED)
NBCC, a Navratna CPSE under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Govt. of India, has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Goa Shipyard Ltd.(GSL), another CPSE, on August 8, 2016 for construction of Office Building of Mine Counter Measure Vessels (MCMV), Vasco-Da-Gama, Goa, at an approximate value of Rs.100 crore. The MoU has been signed by Dr Anoop K Mittal, CMD, NBCC, on behalf of NBCC and Admiral Shekhar Mital, NM (Retd.), CMD, on behalf of GSL. In addition, NBCC shall also develop Master Plan for entire area comprising the existing Parking Complex, Garden area, existing HR & Admin block including Medical Dispensary, Time Offices and punching booths, Amenity Building, Administrative Building, Transport Section, Power House West and Fire Station and such other areas within the vicinity. Construction work at GSL by NBCC will start in next 06 months time and will be completed in 18 months. MCMV Project envisages construction of 12 MCMVs for Indian Navy at a budgetary cost of Rs. 32000 Cr , as part of ‘Make in India’ and import substitute program of MoD. These state-of-the-art war vessels will be built indigenously first time in the country by Goa Shipyard Ltd at Goa. The ships are to be equipped with most advanced Anti Submarine Weapons and Sensors by GSL.

V K Majotra passes away (UPDATED)

V.K. Majotra (IAS, MP, 1966) has passed away in Gurgaon . His wife had predeceased him. He was Collector, Bhopal in 1979-80.

Empanelment file of 1983 batch IPS cleared (UPDATED)
The Prime Minister has cleared the empanelment file of 1983 batch IPS officers to the rank of DG in the Government of India.

Three Manipur officers awarded IAS cadre (UPDATED)
Three officers of Manipur State Civil Service have been awarded Indiani Administrative Service (IAS) cadre. They are: A Tombikanta Singh, Kengoo Zuringla and Naorem Praveen Singh.

Birendra Kumar relieved to join CVO, PFC (UPDATED)
Birendra Kumar has been relieved to join Power Finance Corporation (PFC), Delhi as Chief Vigilance Officer for an initial period of three years. He is a 1984 batch IA&AS officer.

Calvin Harris Kharshiing relieved to join NEC (UPDATED)
Calvin Harris Kharshiing has been relieved to join North Eastern Council Secretariat (NEC), Shillong under the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region on deputation as Planning Adviser (Joint Secretary level). He is a 1991 batch IA&AS officer.

V P Singh Badnore is also Administrator, Chandigarh (UPDATED)
V P Singh Badnore has been assigned an additional charge of Administrator of Union Territory of Chandigarh.

Three IPS officers shifted in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Three IPS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Hawa Singh Ghumariya has been appointed as IG, Jodhpur range while S Sengathir was made IG, CID, CB, Jaipur and K Bahadur Singh Kapoor will now be IG, Training, Jaipur.

A K Gupta selected as Director (Comm), NTPC Ltd (UPDATED)
A K Gupta, ED, NTPC, has been selected for the post of Director (Commercial), NTPC Limited at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on August 19, 2016. As many as 13 persons were interviewed for the same.

CORPORATE

Sreekant appointed Director (Finance) of POWERGRID
K Sreekant, General Manager, NTPC Ltd has been appointed as Director (Finance) of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID) for a period of five years w.e.f. September 1, 2016.

Ms Singh appointed Senior Vice Chairperson of Punjab Communications Ltd
Punjab Communications Ltd has appointed Ms Shruti Singh, IAS, as Senior Vice Chairperson of the company.

Garg ceases to be Director of Dhanuka Agritech Ltd
Kapil Garg has ceased to be a Director of Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

Jain appointed as Chief Product and Technology Officer of Housing.com
Vivek Jain has been appointed as Chief Product and Technology Officer of Housing.com.

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Mindset of IAS officers

To share with the readers one instance that reflects the mindset of IAS officers. This relates to one of the review meetings chaired by Hasmukh Adia, Revenue Secretary, in Mumbai. A very senior officer of IRS pointed out shortage of officers at senior level as one of the constraints in effective implementation of the IDS. Sri Adia remarked that people who are otherwise entitled to two bed room houses, crib even if they get 3 bed-room house if they start expecting a bungalow. What he meant was that since IRS expects promotions in view of cadre restructuring, which they were not entitled to, the service is dis-satisfied for not getting promotions ! He asked the officers to forget about promotions. Fantastic management style !!!!
Sri Adia may please see that even after re-structuring, IRS lags behind the 'elite' service in promotions. The average salary of an IAS officer is more than any other service. Even the discrimination is in respect of officers who are on Central Deputation at any level. It may be checked that this service has a separate queue for even club memberships leave alone housing etc. Is there any logic of a deputy secretary rank officer in IAS getting a D-I flat in IAS whereas senior Joint Secretary on Central Deputation has to contend with lower accommodations ! The 'bunglows' in new moti bagh are occupied by secretaries, all from IAS. Isn't it an irony that none of the secretary level or equivalent officers are entitled to these residences. Exploitation at its peak ! Its actually a shame on the system.

What is appalling is the expression. He considers the revenue service as entitled to a two bed room house! This is how he treats the service that he is supposed to provide leadership. Can he be expected to be a bridge between political boss and the service that has more than 3500 officers.

There is a lot of hue and cry about the IRS. If government or political bosses are not satisfied with the performance please wind up the service and arrange for another set of people to garner revenue. Let us not embarrass the service or its officers.

AK

Who is the next Cabinet Secretary likely to be?

Most likely candidate is Hasmukh Adhia, the most brilliant officer of the 1981 batch of the IAS, belonging to the Gujarat cadre. Brilliant, sincere, hard working, a topper in the Public Policy course at IIM Ahmedabad (to which course civil servants are sponsored by the Government), he holds a Ph D in Yoga, a true karmyogi, he also has the advantage of proximity.

Vijay Kumar

PMO has several mediocres

The PMO at subordinate level and middle management level have staff/officers, who are mostly mediocre and most of them flatters. People get good APAR reports based on their flattery skills. PMO should first conduct a written examination and interview while appointing staff/officials in their office. An official could be capable enough to go through and pursue, all the grievances being received in PMO. Some CSS officials are very competent, hardworking and intelligent. They can easily manage work at middle level and improve the image of PMO.

A Srivastava

Indians' poor performance at Rio !

I was surprised to see that Pakistani newspapers were more worried about our performance in Olympics 2016 than our own newspapers.

Pradeep

Factually incorrect

Delhi Govt not participating in Bharat Parv reported by you is factually incorrect. Today, Kapil Mishra, Tourism Minister of Delhi NCT has tweeted with picture attending the function.

Krishna Das

She is not aware !

Ms Arti Khosla is not aware that Indian Railway Stores Service Officers are also inducted in the Railways through the Indian Engineering Service Exam and not through the Civil Services Exam. All the Indian Store Service Officers are qualified Engineers unlike all other Allied Railway Services like IRAS, IRPS, IRTS etc. are possessing non-technical qualifications. Well most of them aspired to become IAS but landed in Railway Service. No doubt very neglegible percentage of them are also qualified Engineers. So it is perfectly step in the right direction to merge all technical cadre including the IRSS and all others in non-technical group to begin with. Inter-departmental rivalry will be the thing of the past when all the services of the Railways are integrated into a single Railway Service.

Kabal Singh

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