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Karl Marx was an exile from Germany for the greater part of life.


Who after Modi ?
Old timers would tell you that there used to be long discussions during the era of Jawaharlal Nehru that 'Who after Nehru ?' as also during the regime of Indira Gandhi that 'Who after Indira ?'. Now the buzz around is 'Who after Modi ?' i.e. who will lead the country after Narendra Modi.

India had 'accidental PMs' in past three decades
After the assassination of Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, all the Prime Ministers that India had in past three decades have been 'accidental PMs' except the present one. Now the country is again faced with a big question as to who would lead the country after Narendra Modi as all other leaders seem to be a 'big zero' when it comes to the caliber of leading the country.

Dr Urjit R Patel is new Governor of RBI
Dr Urjit R Patel has been appointed as Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a period of three years with effect from September 4, 2016.
(whispersinthecorridors only media in the country which predicted about Urjit Patel on June 21, July 14,July 18 and August 10)

BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega CBI Chief ? (10)
DG BSF K K Sharma is also a contender with his previous experience. He is 1982 batch Rajasthan cadre IPS officer.

Who will be new Ambassador to US ? (4) Arun Singh to continue
If Indian Ambassador to US Arun Singh is not appointed Deputy NSA then he may get an extension.Singh who maintains low profile is said to be a trusted man of PM Narendra Modi. One can only wait and watch .

Ten 1986 batch IFS officers promoted as Additional Secretary
As many as 10 officers belonging to Indian Foreign Service (IFS) have been promoted to the Grade-II of IFS in the HAG scale. The officers are: Sandeep Kumar, Satbir Singh, Rajamony Venu, Ravi Shankar Aisola, Anumula Gitesh Sharma, Ms Riva Ganguly Das, Mrs Gaitri I Kumari, Alok Kumar Sinha, Vikas Swarup and Rajeev Shahare.

11 Customs officers promoted to Chief Commissioner/DG grade
As many as 11 officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service of Customs and Central Excise have been promoted to the grade of Chief Commissioner/Director General of Customs and Central Excise. The officers are: Jayant Mishra, Mahendra Singh, S Ramesh, Rajesh Kumar Mahajan, Sudhanshu Sekhar Lenka, S K Panda, Vinay Chhabra, Ameeta Suri, Subhash Chandra Varshney, Rakesh Kumar Sharma-I and Arvind Singh.


Solitary officer from Railways Ashwani Lohani empanelled as Secretary in GoI
CMD of the Air India Ashwani Lohani has been empanelled for holding Secretary level posts in Government of India. He is a 1980 batch IRSME officer.
(We said this on February 1)

Three IA&AS officers empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Three IA&AS officers have been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. They are Mssrs Prasenjit Mukherjee, IA&AS: 1980, Rakesh Jain, IA &AS 1981 and Hindupur Pradeep Rao IA &AS 1981.

IFS officer Goyal empanelled as Secretary in GoI
A K Goyal Indian Forests Service officer has been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1981 batch Kerala cadre officer.

Two IRS(C&CE) officers empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Two IRS (C&CE) officers Ananya Ray 1980 batch and Deepak Shetty 1980 batch have been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.

11 officers of other services empanelled as Additional Secretary in GoI
As many as 11 officers of different services have been empanelled for holding Additional Secretary level posts in Government of India. They are: Dr Nagesh Singh IES: 1982; Sujata Prasad ICAS: 1983; Ashok Pai, IFoS UK 1983; Sudha Krishnan IA &AS 1983; Meenakashi Gupta IA & AS 1984; Vandana Sharma ICAS 1984; Anuradha Mitra, Sanjiv Mittal, Rajnish Kumar, V Venugopal of IDAS 1984 and Ashok Kumar Dash of IPoS 1984.

10 IPS officers of 1983 batch empanelled as DG in GoI
As many as 10 officers belonging to 1983 batch of Indian Police Service of various cadres have reportedly been empanelled for holding Director General level posts in Government of India. They are: Neelamani N Raju of Karnataka; Rishi Shukla and Rinta Mitra of Madhya Pradesh; Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar and OP Singh of Uttar Pradesh; R Prachanda of West Bengal; Ashok Patnaik of Gujarat; S P Singh of Rajasthan; S K Sinha of Bihar and Girdhari Naik of Chhattisgarh cadre.

Anoop Kumar Sharma is new CMD, SCI
Anoop Kumar Sharma, MD, Essar Shipping Ltd, has been appointed as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) for a period of three years.

ATFP gets three new Members
B K Bansal, Member of CBEC, Ahri Anand Kishore, CCIT, New Delhi and Gopal Chandra Mishra, Joint Secretary & Legal Adviser, Department of Legal Affairs, ILS have been appointed as Members of Appellate Tribunal for Forfeited Property (ATFP).

Dr Renu Swarup is also MD, BIRAC
Dr Renu Swarup, Scientist 'H' Department of Biotechnology has been assigned an additional charge of Managing Director, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).

Tenure of Ms Banu as Director (Fin), HHEC extended
The tenure of Ms Azra Banu as Director (Finance), Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India (HHEC) has been extended upto May 31, 2017.

ED Karnal Singh continues as Enforcement Director
The additional charge period of Enforcement Director to Karnal Singh, Special Director, Central Region, ED, has been extended for a period of six months beyond August 19, 2016. He is a 1984 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Mrs Sushma Nath appointed as part-time Member, IRDAI
Mrs Sushma Nath, ex-Finance Secretary, has been appointed as part-time member in Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for a period of five years. She is former 1974 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Ms Neera Rawat Kumari empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Ms Neera Rawat Kumari has been empanelled for holding Joint Secretary level posts in Government of India. She is a 1992 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.

Two IRS (IT) officers get new postings
On return from deputation two IRS-IT officers have got new postings. Abhay Kumar Thakur has been posted as Addl CIT, Lucknow while Amit Kumar Sharma has been posted as Joint CIT, Delhi.

Three DIGs to be promoted in RPF
Three DIG rank officers in the Railway Protection Force are being promoted to the rank of IG. They are Mssrs Ratan Chand, Ravindra Verma and R K Malik.

S P Shakarwal promoted to Chief Engineer (E&M) in CPWD
S P Shakarwal has been promoted to the grade of Chief Engineer (Electrical & Mechanical) in the Central Public Works Department (CPWD).

Mrs Vinita Srivastava continues as CMD, SIL
Mrs Vinita Srivastava, Director, DHI, will continue holding an additional charge of Chairman & Managing Director, Scooters India Limited (SIL) till the appointment of a regular incumbent.

M Srihari Rao promoted to Commissioner of Customs grade
M Srihari Rao has been promoted to the grade of Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise. He is an IRS-C&CE officer.

Labh Singh is also Presiding officer, DRT-I, Ahmedabad
Labh Singh, Presiding Officer, DRT-2, Ahmedabad, has been assigned an additional charge of Presiding Officer, Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT-I), Ahmedabad.

Ms Preeti Jha deputed as GM, CRIS
Ms Preeti Jha has been deputed to Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) as General Manager Finance at New Delhi. She is an IRAS officer.

Kerala gets seven new IAS officers
As many as seven candidates, who were provided Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after clearing Civil Service Examination-2015, have been allotted Kerala cadre. They are: Eesha Priya, Vinay Goyal, Anupam Mishra, Asif K Yusuf, Arun K Vijayan, Sridhar Chamakuri, Snehil Kumar Singh.

T M Vijay Bhaskar empanelled as Secretary in GoI
T M Vijay Bhaskar has been empanelled for holding Secretary or Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

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

New grade in GCS
With the addition of one more grade ,the Goa Civil Service (GCS) rule will have now five grades. According to govt notification a new grade namely Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) have been added in GCS Rule 2016.

Dinesh Bist repatriated to his parent cadre (UPDATED)
Dinesh Bist as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minorities Affairs, has been repatriated to his parent cadre. He is a 1987 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

Arun Singhal appointed as Joint Secretary, Health (UPDATED)
Arun Singhal has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Health and Family Welfare. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Nikunja Kishore Sundaray appointed as Joint Secretary, MSME (UPDATED)
Nikunja Kishore Sundaray has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Ms Dharitri Panda appointed as Joint Secretary, Defence (UPDATED)
Ms Dharitri Panda has been appointed as Additional FA & Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence (Finance). She is a 1987 batch ICAS officer.

Armane Giridhar appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat (UPDATED)
Aramane Giridhar has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.

V G Reddy appointed as DDG, UIDAI (UPDATED)
V G Reddy has been appointed as DDG, UIDAI under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. He is a 1985 batch IRSEE officer.

Ali Raza Rizvi appointed as Joint Secretary, Commerce (UPDATED)
Ali Raza Rizvi has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Commerce. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of HP cadre.

Rajit Punhani appointed as Joint Secretary, Labour (UPDATED)
Rajit Punhani has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

R K Sinha appointed as Additional Secretary, UPSC (UPDATED)
R K Sinha has been appointed as Additional Secretary at Joint Secretary level, UPSC under DoPT. He is a 1991 batch IDAS officer.

Dilip Sharma appointed as DG, ECI (UPDATED)
Dilip Sharma has been appointed as Director General, Election Commission of India. He is a 1992 batch IRS-IT officer.

K C Samaria appointed as Joint Secretary, Minority Affairs (UPDATED)
K C Samaria has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of AM cadre.

Sanjay Kumar appointed as Joint Secretary, HUPA (UPDATED)
Sanjay Kumar has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA). He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre.

Lav Agarwal appointed as Joint Secretary, Health (UPDATED)
Lav Agarwal has been appointed as Joint secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare. He is a 1996 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.

Ms Rakhee Gupta Bhandari appointed as Minority Affairs (UPDATED)
Ms Rakhee Gupta Bhandari has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs. She is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Suresh Kumar Vashist appointed as Joint Secretary, Food (UPDATED)
Suresh Kumar Vashist has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Food & Public Distribution. He is a 1998 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

V Sheshadri appointed as Joint Secretary, PMO (UPDATED)
V Sheshadri has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Prime Minister's Office (PMO). He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre.

B Navnit appointed as Joint Secretary, PMO (UPDATED)
B Navnit has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Prime Minister's Office (PMO). He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi appointed as Joint Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat (UPDATED)
Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre.

Sudhir Kumar appointed as Joint Secretary, Health (UPDATED)
Sudhir Kumar has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare. He is a 1999 batch IaS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Ashish Chatterjee appointed as Joint Secretary, Petroleum (UPDATED)
Ashish Chatterjee has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Ms Anshu Sinha appointed as Joint Secretary, I&B (UPDATED)
Ms Anshu Sinha has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. She is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

E Ramesh Kumar appointed as Joint Secretary. Animal Husbandry (UPDATED)
E Ramesh Kumar has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

Navdeep Rinwa appointed as Joint Secretary, Health (UPDATED)
Navdeep Rinwa has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Health and Family Welfare. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Dr P D Gupta appointed as VC, HBNI Mumbai (UPDATED)
Dr P D Gupta has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai for a period of five years.

Dr Rajender Singh Sangwan is also ED, NABI (UPDATED)
Dr Rajender Singh Sangwan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali, has been assigned an additional charge of Executive Director, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI).

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in MP (UPDATED)
Around 50 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) including two Divisional Commissioners of Bhopal and Sagar as well as nine District Collectors have reportedly been transferred in Madhya Pradesh.

Rajbir Singh Panwar appointed as PS to Mansukhbhai Mandaviya (UPDATED)
Rajbir Singh Panwar has been appointed as Private Secretary to Mansukhbhai L Mandaviya, Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers. He is a 1991 batch IFS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Two IAS officers given new postings in HP (UPDATED)
Tarun Kapoor has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Forests, Environment, Science & Technology, Excise & Taxation and Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs while Ram Dass Dhiman was posted as Principal Secretary, Education, Industries and Labour & Employment in Himachal Pradesh.

Gopal Mukherjee holds zonal charge of Karnataka & Goa (UPDATED)
Gopal Mukherjee, Member (Revenue), CBDT, will also hold the zonal charge of Karnataka & Goa and Kerela in additional to the zonal charge of Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna and Bhubaneswar.

Madhu Ranjan appointed as Secretary, NCMEI (UPDATED)
Madhu Ranjan Kumar has been posted as Secretary at Joint Secretary in National Commission for Minority Educational Institution (NCMEI) under the Department of Higher Education. He is a 1984 batch IRSS officer.

Tenure of Kumar Alok as Joint Secretary, MHA extended (UPDATED)
The central deputation tenure of Kumar Alok as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs has been extended for a period of one year from September 30, 2016. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of MT cadre.

Tenure of Chawla as Joint Secretary Expenditure extended for bridge period (UPDATED)
The central deputation tenure of Arunish Chawla as Joint Secretary, Department of Expenditure has been extended for the bridge period of one month beyond August 9, 2016. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

1983 batch IFS officers promoted to Grade-I (UPDATED)
Five IFS officers of 1983 batch have been promoted to the Grade-I of Indian Foreign Service (IFS). The officers are: Navdeep Singh Suri, Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi, Dnyaneshwar Manohar Mulay, Lalduhthalana Ralte and Rajiv Kumar Chander.

Monga continues as CMD, HDCPL (UPDATED)
M P S Monga will continue holding an additional charge of CMD, Hindustan Diamond Company Private Limited (HDCPL) till the winding of HDCPL.

CORPORATE

Amul MD R S Sodhi inducted into India Post Payments Bank Board
R S Sodhi the Managing Director of Amul has been inducted as Independent Director on the Board of Directors of India Post Payments Bank.

Vora appointed CFO of Spaceage Products Ltd
Spaceage Products Ltd has appointed Bhavesh Vora as Chief Financial Officer of the company.

Mitbawkar resigns as Independent Director of Panoramic Universal Ltd
Vilas Mitbawkar has resigned as Non-Executive Independent Director of Panoramic Universal Limited.

Raj resigns as CFO of Interlink Petroleum Ltd
Sushant Raj has resigned as Chief Financial Officer of Interlink Petroleum Ltd.

Oberoi resigns as Independent Director of Everest Kanto Cylinder Ltd
Naresh Oberoi has resigned as Independent Director of Everest Kanto Cylinder Ltd.

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Kejriwal Failure ?

What is the report card of Arvind Kejriwal today ? Failure? All his time is spent in railing against Modi. No work is being done except, maybe, in education. Media campaigns take up most of his time. He would be better advised not to resort to such tactics and instead, concentrate on his work as Chief Minister of Delhi. As it is, Delhi is looking at a dengue and chikungunya epidemic. No work has been done to curb mosquito breeding despite the terrible toll in Delhi due to dengue last year. No lessons have been learnt. Excuses, excuses and excuses, followed by advertisement campaigns not to panic can be expected. Even now, if fogging or other measures are resorted to, the proportion of the menace might reduce and the aam admi od Delhi might get relief. Will the anonymously named party listen to aam admi or would it instead keep thinking of more power and more pelf ?

Aam Admi

Politicians admire, in India?

Surprising answer is Lalu Prasad Yadav. The reason is simple. All politicians like staying in power. Laluji has been in power for decades now. Secondly, what better if you can stay in power without too much to show for it in terms of governance? On this ground too, Laluji is way ahead of all, for instance, his nemesis turned ally, Sh Nitish Kumar. Nitish Kumar might have succeeded but it took him a lot of governing. Laluji got by without doing much work.

All politicians love a ready made vote bank. Laluji has got one of the strongest vote banks in India.

All politicians in India want to emulate Laluji-all play and no work-makes Jack an intelligent boy.

And that is the bane of India.

Vijayan K

Proud to be an Indian

Y K Sinha has made me proud to be an Indian with the work he has done in Sri Lanka and we hope to welcome him to the US with open arms! His work in the IFS has been exemplar and I'm sure he will continue those efforts in Washington! Jai Hind
Asif R

The Chief Justice of India vented his grievance for delay in promotion and delay in filling up of vacancies ! Its appreciable that the top man in the judicial set up has expressed his concern for the mounting stagnation in the service ! It would be great if a similarly placed officer in the Civil Service can take up the cause of delay in JS empanelments of Group A services especially in some services like the Indian Railways JS empanelments of several services is way behind. It is also advisable that complete transparency wrt the process of empanelment i.e 360 degree review needs to be practised !

VP

Why just group A services ?

As a natural corollary why just group A services ? Why not recruits of all group B services as well?After all they have passed the same examination?

Amitabh Agarwal

Reasons ?

It has been argued :let IAS remain rulers bacause they are rulers.
No reasons given. We should have continued with the British rulers in that case.
What a sick argument ?

ARC Kumar

Unfortunate !

This channel has many contending that the rules of the game are such that the IAS is a superior service. Unfortunately for these folk, they are ignorant of history and are trying to perpetuate their ignorant world view. It is true that historically, the ICS was a superior service. Because they had a different exam. When the IAS was constituted after independence, till the various services were recruited through different exams or different number of papers in the same exam, this could be a valid theory. So, this had validity till a new system of recruitment was put in place in 1979. In 1979, the recruitment pattern changed. All Civil Services were thereafter recruited through the same examination through the same number of papers. Taking cognisance of this, the 4th Pay Commission abolished the higher pay for the IAS and IFS in the junior time scale. At that time it was argued that since the earlier entrants had competed in 5 papers vis a vis the IRS and IPS, the change and parity should be brought about gradually and subsequently in the higher grades, so as not to affect these seniors. So it was left to subsequent Pay Commissions to rectify the situation and place the services at par over a period of time. Unfortunately, the IAS tried and succeded in retaining its edge by hook and by crook, though in 1979 itself, there was parity in selection and subsequent parity in pay and conditions was equally envisaged.

A K Singh

Proud of our Indian Olympians

Our girls performed very good and brought laurels with Bronze and silver. Congrats to Shakshi and PV Sindhu and their parents and we all Indians are proud of our Indian Olympians.

Regarding some views, that it was a poor performance, waist of money and time, it is all baseless.

What we are doing for our athletes and players ? Nothing as compared to other countries are doing to promote their sportsperson and athletes.

In my view, Ministry of Sports should allocate funds as to develop Sports like a newly created District or State.

1. First of sports complexes be created at all districts in India and all facilities for all the games or events. Selection of District level champion or winners be made looking into their merit/performance and not on the basis of seniority or favoritism.
2. Selected persons be sent to State level events where all such facilities should be available and those selected at state level be sent to National level.
3. At national level, such selected for each event be trained for ASIAD, Olympic and other International events. They and their families should be free from all financials meets and International level couch be provided to train them for such events.
Ministry of Sports in

Government of India should come forward to think on the above suggestions and see the result how Gold, Silver and Bronze, our players will bring.

I hope Sh. Vijay Goyal Ji, Minister of Sports, Govt. Of India will read and take immediate action to tell his officials that prepare our players etc. that next time they participate, they bring so much medals. Regards

Ram Kumar Garg

Congratulations

Congratulations and best wishes to all empanelled IPS officers.

Rajdip Singh. IPS, Retd 1979 UP

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