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POLITICS

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That government is best which governs not at all.

Who will be BJP's CM Face in UP ? (2)
Caste ridden politics is a big challenge of national parties in UP. Though these parties are focusing development as their main political agenda but they are keeping close eyes on caste factors also. Keeping in mind these factors, BJP is also trying to project the leader who is accepted to all. Who is such leader in the party/ Guess the name.

Now appointment as Independent Director on political recommendation ?
Who says PMO has centralised all appointments in the Government of India. This is evident from the fact that Independent Directors are being appointed on the recommendation of MPs and Ministers. In the process, the Department of Public Enterprise has no role to play.

Appointment of new DGs not today ? (UPDATED)
Appointment of new DG CISF and NSG has been delayed for a couple of days.

BUREAUCRACY

Panel for Member CBDT is ready ?
A panel for the appointment of Members in Central Board of Direct Taxes is said to be ready. It reportedly comprises of Rajendra Kumar, K C Jain and Abrar Ahmed.

Satbir Singh to be Ambassador to Algeria ?
Satbir Singh is being tipped to be new Ambassador to Algeria. He is 1985 batch IFS officer.

Sujoy Mojumdar quits Indian Forest Service
Sujoy Mojumdar has resigned from the Indian Forest Service (IFS). He is a 1991 batch IFS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

12 short-listed for Spl Director ED ,Mumbai
Altogether one dozen IPS and IRS officers are believed to have been short-listed for the post of Special Director ED in Mumbai.

Rajiv Gauba is also Secretary, I&B
Rajiv Gauba has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting tillSeptember 11, 2016. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Secretary ( Defence Finance) retiring Today
Shobhna Joshi , Secretary ( Defence Finance),Ministry of defence is retiring today. She is a 1979 batch IDAS officer.

Will Kohli be next Secretary Defence Finance ?
If govt goes by seniority then the senior most IDAS officer S.K. Kohli is likely to be appointed new Secretary ( Defence Finance) , Ministry of Defence. Presently he is posted as CGDA. he is a 1980 batch IDAS officer.

Orders of Anoop Kumar Sharma for CMD, SCI issued
The orders of Anoop Kumar Sharma, MD, Essar Shipping Ltd, for the appointment as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) have been issued by the Government of India.

Interviews for CMD, NMDC likely in last week of September
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is reported to have fixed interviews for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NMDC Limited in the last week of September this year. The post has been lying vacant since February 2016.

Will Sengupta be ED of Allahabad Bank ?
P Sengupta is likely to be appointed Executive Director (ED) of the Allahabad Bank.He is presently GM in State Bank of Jaipur and Bikaner.

Singhal joins as JS Health in GoI
Arun Singhal has joined the Government of India onTuesday as Joint Secretary Health.He is 1987 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Dinesh Patnaik to be Deputy HC , London
Indian Ambassador to Morocco Dinesh Patnaik is being tipped to be Deputy High Commissioner in London.

Sumit Goswami appointed Adviser (DT), Washington DC
Sumit Goswami has been appointed as Adviser (Defence Technology) in the Embassy of India, Washington DC, USA. He is a Scientists 'F'.

Sanjay Singh promoted as PMG, Gorakhpur region
Sanjay Singh, PMG, Gorakhpur region, UP circle, has been promoted as PMG, Gorakhpur region UP circle. He is a 1996 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Hindupuru Pradeep Rao empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Hindupur Pradeep Rao has been empanelled for holding Secretary level posts in Government of India. He is a 1981 batch IA&AS officer.

Vandana Sharma empanelled as Additional Secretary in GoI
Vandana Sharma has been empanelled for holding Additional Secretary level posts in Government of India. She is a 1984 batch ICAS officer.

Sudhir Kumar among nine IAS officers of AGMUT empanelled as Joint Secretary
Only one officer out of nine belonging to Indian Administrative Service of 1999 batch in AGMUT cadre, Sudhir Kumar has been empanelled for holding Joint Secretary level posts in Government of India.

Anjali Prasad empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Anjali Prasad has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. She is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

Sushil Kumar repatriated to parent cadre
Sushil Kumar, who is presently on compulsory wait in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, has been repatriated to his parent cadre. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Tripura cadre.

R Ravindra accredited as Ambassador to Republic of Liberia
R Ravindra, presently Ambassador of India to the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to Republic of Liberia, with residence in Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire). He is a 1999 batch IFS officer.

Amitesh Kumar Sinha appointed Director, Cabinet Secretariat
Amitesh Kumar Sinha has been deputed as Director in the Cabinet Secretariat. He is a 1997 batch IRAS officer.

Krishna Kant Singh appointed Director, Cabinet Secretariat
Krishna Kant Singh has been deputed as Director in the Cabinet Secretariat. He is a 2000 batch IDAS officer.

Outgoing Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary suspended
Outgoing Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary K. Gnanadesikan has been suspended. He is 1982 batch IAS officer.

Sudheer Kumar promoted as Adviser (RS), Railway Board
Sudheer Kumar presently working as Executive Director, Electrical Engineering (RS), Railway Board, has been promoted to the Higher Administrative Grade and posted as Adviser Electrical (RS), Railway Board. He is an IRSEE officer.

A C Shukla is also CCIT, Thane and CCIT, Pune
A C Shukla has been given the additional charge of CCIT, Thane and CCIT, Pune. He is an IRS officer.

A Vijay Anand promoted to Principal Chief Commissioner of Customs grade
A Vijay Anand of Indian Revenue Service of Customs and Central Excise cadre has been promoted to the grade of Principal Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise.

A K Singh transferred to South Western Railway
A K Singh, SAG, has been transferred to South Western Railway in the same capacity and posted as FA&CAO (CHOD). He is an IRAS officer.

Three IRAS officers given new postings
N P Pande has been transferred to North Eastern Railway, appointed in HA grade and posted as FA&CAO while Mrs Reena Ranjan was transferred to Integral Coach Factory, appointed in HA grade and posted as FA&CAO and Bishwamitra Pande is appointed in HA grade on the Railway itself and posted as FA&CAO.

Posting order of K R Meena cancelled
The posting order of K R Meena as a Member, VAT, Appellate Tribunal has been cancelled. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

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

Pala Singh Tanck gets non-functional upgradation to SAG
Pala Singh Tanck has been granted non-functional upgradation to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) with effect from April 1, 2016. Tanck is a 1981 batch officer of Indian Statistical Service (ISS).

93 lakh FIRs registered
In India, under Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) and National Emergency Response System (NERS) 85% computerization has been completed and 93 lakh FIRs have been registered using the CCTNS System till date. 32 States/UTs are sharing data with National Data Centre (NDC).

Tenzing Norgay National Adventrue Award to IG,ITBP
The President ,Pranab Mukherjee has awarded prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventrue Award to Harbhajan Singh, IG, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), in recognition of his life time contribution in the field of mountaineering. He is a cadre officer.

Bhawna Garg is back to Punjab
Bhawna Garg who was on deputation to the UT Administration in Chandigarh is back to the parent Punjab cadre. She is 1999 batch IAS officer.

Meeting to discuss ArcelorMittal and SAIL automotive joint venture held (UPDATED)
ArcelorMittal welcomed Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh, Union Minister of Steel of the Government of India, P K Singh, Chairman, SAIL and the Indian Government's Joint Secretary Ministry of Steel, Sunil Barthwal, to its London offices for discussions regarding the proposed US$1 billion automotive steel joint venture ('JV') between ArcelorMittal and SAIL. Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO, Aditya Mittal, group CFO and CEO ArcelorMittal Europe and Brian Aranha, Executive Vice President and head of global automotive, who is leading the joint venture discussions on behalf of ArcelorMittal, attended the meeting along with other members of senior management. ArcelorMittal and SAIL signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May 2015 to explore the possibility of setting up a state-of-the-art automotive steel manufacturing facility under a JV arrangement in India. The proposed JV will construct world-class facilities for manufacturing automotive steel that will offer technologically advanced steel products for India's rapidly growing automotive sector. The hot rolled input products for the proposed facility would be supplied by SAIL's new state-of-the-art hot strip mill in Rourkela, Odisha, thus making the entire value chain indigenous. The project's Joint Working Group, which was established following the signing of the MoU, has completed the major part of the project's Feasibility Report. India is forecast to become the world's third largest automobile manufacturing nation by 2026, with passenger vehicles likely to grow from approximately 3 million units today to over 7 million units in the next 10 years. In response to the growing level of automotive demand, and supported by the Indian Government's 'Make In India' programme which has been designed to transform India into a global manufacturing hub, automotive manufacturers have been establishing an increased presence in the country.

Gurrala Srinivasulu is also MD, APEWIDC in AP (UPDATED)
Gurrala Srinivasulu has been given full additional charge of the post of Managing Director, APEWIDC in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 2005 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre and is on deputation to AP Government.

Somashekhar to serve as APCCF, Southern Regional Office, Bengaluru till Nov (UPDATED)
The additional charge period of APCCF (C), Southern Regional office, Bengaluru to S M Somashekhar, CCF, RO, Bengaluru, has been extended upto November 30, 2016. He is a 1983 batch IFS officer of Haryana cadre.

Who will Head, NSG? (UPDATED)
The elite force National Security Guard's (NSG) DG, R C Tayal retired today . Govt has yet to announce new chief of NSG . According to sources names of three IPS officers Mssrs PVK Raddi, Spl DG, CRPF, R Pachnanda, ADG, CISF and S.P. Singh, ADG, CRPF are doing the round for the post.

A K Srivastava joins as Director (Tech), SPMCIL (UPDATED)
A K Srivastava, GM, SPMCIL, has taken over the charge as Director (Tech), Security Printing and Minting Corporation (I) Limited (SPMCIL). The post has been lying vacant since June 1.
(We said this on Nov 27, 2015)

Shrish Gangadhar Bhogle selected as Director (Mkt), NFL (UPDATED)
Shrish Gangadhar Bhogle, Chief General Manager, RCF, has been selected for the post of Director (Marketing), National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on August 31, 2016. As many as five persons were interviewed for the same.

Manoj Dwivedi continues as Chairman, Tobacco Board (UPDATED)
Manoj Dwivedi, Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce, will continue holding an additional charge of Chairman, Tobacco Board, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh till a new incumbent is appointed to the same. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre.

Krishna Chaudhary gets additional charge of DG CISF (UPDATED)
DG ITBP Krishna Chaudhary has been given additional charge of DG CISF. He is 1979 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

K K Sharma gets additional charge of DG NSG (UPDATED)
K K Sharma DG BSF has been given additional charge of DG NSG.He is 1982 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Lt Gen Rawat to take charge as Vice Chief of Army (UPDATED)
Lt Gen Bipin Rawat will take charge of Vice Chief of Army Staff on September 1.

(We said this on Aug 13,2016)

Om Prakash Kohli is also Governor of MP (UPDATED)
Om Prakash Kohli, Governor of Gujarat, will discharge the functions of the Governor of Madhya Pradesh, in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Madhya Pradesh.

C V Rao gets addl charge of Governor, Tamil Nadu (UPDATED)
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao, Governor of Maharashtra will discharge the functions of the Governor of Tamil Nadu, in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Tamil Nadu.

CORPORATE

Pai is new MD of Hindalco Industries
Satish Pai has succeeded Debu Bhattacharya as MD of the Hindalco Company of the Aditya Birla Group. He was earlier Deputy MD.

Steinhoff resigns as Chairman of Ingersoll Rand (India) Limited
Roman Steinhoff has resigned as Chairman of Ingersoll Rand (India) Limited.

Arora steps down as ED & CEO of Zee Media Corporation Limited
Rajendra Kumar Arora has stepped down as an Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zee Media Corporation Limited.

Patni appointed MD of Rohit Ferro-Tech Ltd
Rohit Ferro-Tech Limited has appointed Ankit Patni as Managing Director of the company.

Agarwal ceases to be a Director of GACL
Arvind Agarwal, IAS has ceased to be a Director of Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited.

Ms Moin appointed CS of Madhucon Projects Ltd.
Madhucon Projects Limited has appointed Ms Asfia Moin as Company Secretary of the company.

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Arguments are strange indeed !

I am shocked and surprised at the suggestion of Sivaraman - former Secy Revenue. He dismisses UPSC and wants political leaders and others to select. Perhaps written exam should be done away with and only a 30 minute interview should decide the fate of a candidate. Well he should know that even now the UPSC has academics from universities in the interview and the system is robust. If his suggestion is to be accepted then take people from the open market, in the name of experts, especially those who failed the civil service. How do you select experts from the market otherwise, among lakhs of professionals, by their proximity to the selectors.

Even today, the academics and judiciary have only interview, and the result is that both have relatives and friends , without any competition in the service, and become experts. On the other hand children of IAS have to go through competition, and are fools! Strange arguments indeed!

S Chatterjee

TIME TO PAUSE- Distinguishing characteristic of the premier service

Sivaraman - former Secy Revenue has very rightfully brought out the rot that has penetrated into once an elite and respected IAS-Civil Services. Unfortunately to a great extent the royalty of civil servants is missing. Good number of them consider the entry as an opportunity of facilitating his own limitless economic growth that can't happen without compromising the exchequers interests. The hallmarks - intellect, modesty and service - have been taken over by arrogance and greed in this service. Instead of happily devoting time on redressing public grievances and researching intellectual , painstaking innovative ways of policy formulations to right track and smooth-en the en- cumbersome systems in the interest of a common man, they find time and company of brokers and fixtures more meaningful. Some of them, if reminded of the rules against the "desire" go vindictive in framing the colleague and teaching him a lesson. To settle scores they even generate litigation at government costs. As a result of their vested and sycophancy attitude some of the corrupts even succeed in snatching post retirement positioning. Unfortunate it may be but this is undeniably a hard core reality. However, despite the rot this service still attracts the best of talents. Majority of them get into the service to serve the masses and practice the highest standards of morality throughout life .While over all deterioration of ethical values and standards in the society could be one of the reasons of this evil not sparing the IAS as they too belong to the Society the process of selection of Civil Servants, subsequent training, role of reputation/perception of IAS in progression ,sacred and secret dossiers on functioning deserve to be looked into. The IAS Association, need to play a more responsible role in strengthening the image of this service which is falling to its low with each passing day rather than wasting time in supporting retired bureaucrats riddled in scams. It will be more appropriate if the Courts pronounce their innocence.

O P Sharma

Were all Sivaraman's colleagues honest to the core ?

I read Sivaraman's lamentation about the declining values among the younger officers in the IAS with great interest. Sivaraman laments the fact that some young IAS officers are being jailed for corruption. As a solution he suggests that age of intake be reduced and examination for the IAS and IFS should be a separate one, just as it was in his day.
Let us examine his thesis dispassionately. Firstly, if in a cadre of 5000 people, some are dishonest, does that make everyone fit for the same label? Are all judges dishonest, only because some have been found to be so? Are all politicians dishonest, just because a tiny majority have been found to be so?
As a matter of fact, for Sivaraman's recall, even some ICS officers during British times were dismissed for corruption. They were recruited at very young age and through a different examination. By his thesis, were all ICS officers dishonest.
Were Sivaraman's colleagues, all of them, honest to the core (recruited at a young age, through a separate examination)?
A cursory recall of many IAS officers' doings during the emergency would be enough to prove Sivaraman's thesis wrong.
The newspapers also have the names of retired IAS officers among those who had bank accounts abroad. Retired IAS officers are also facing charges of graft. The IAS officers jailed for graft during the last thirty years were not all junior officers, most of them were recruited through separate examination and recruited at a young age.
The UP IAS Association voted some IAS officers as most corrupt. Many IAS officers recruited through a separate examination and at a young age were searched by the CBI and Income tax and were found to be in possession of assets running into hundreds of crores. Were they not recruited young and through a separate examination?
Sivaraman and his colleagues served during the heyday of the licence, permit quota raj. The unscrupulous among the lot were subservient to some of the political masters, lined their pockets and left, their reputations intact, to rail at the corruption indulged in by some who were to join the service they had joined. They could do so because those were less transparent times, when IAS officers (and of course all other officers and politicians and judges) were mai baap and also enjoyed powers far wider than IAS officers of recent vintage. Nobody could point fingers at them, they were protected by law (till very recently, the CBI could not initiate proceedings against officers of Joint Secretary rank and above without sanction from the government) just like Judicial officers.
The truth is that Sivaraman's thesis is flawed. Under colour of a tirade against corruption among younger officers, he actually longs for the days of yore, when the IAS was an elitist preserve. What he finds unpalatable, is the older candidate, who might have suffered many inequalities of birth and upbringing, but joins the IAS despite those initial handicaps by overcoming all odds, due to the equality of opportunity provided by the Indian state to older candidates. Sivaraman would do well to recall that the beginnings of the freedom struggle were rooted in the struggle to get the age for the appearing candidates for the ICS examination increased !

Ram Raj


Janab Nafri haini

In the police magistracy meeting being held at the police lines, in the aftermath of killing of two innocent citizens at the hands of the terrorists, more than three decades back, an elderly deputy commissioner said, ''Since such incidents have increased in the area, we should increase the patrolling and the number of barriers in the city, as well as in the rural areas. ''The SSP said that he had already taken up the matter with the DGP for providing 4 battalions of para-military forces and in whispers he also asked the deputy commissioner to speak to the Home Secretary about this for expediting the matter. The concerned SDM wanted more policemen to be deployed in a town by sparing from the other places, which was highly volatile communally and had also undergone curfew for a few days, only a month ago .The SSP looked at the DSP of that sub division, who seemed already prepared with the answer, ''Janab saade kol ttan nafri haini (sir, we do not have numbers).The SDM was a very outspoken person and would not be satisfied without going into the details. He wanted that very tall and heavily built DSP to give him the details of deployment of available police strength in the sub division.That triggered the bickering and deputy commissioner assured to look into the matter.
Quite substantial portion of that area situated in the foothills was suitable for plantation of fruit trees particularly Kinnus and the throw-away prices of the land had tempted many high-ups to purchase land there. SDM had seen police tents pitched at some places, but he had not made enquiries as to what some people living in police tents in the deserted areas, in such dangerous times were doing. He started to collect their details through the Nambardars, Chowkidars and some trust-worthy Patwaris. He was astonished to know that the DSP, who was very vociferous in saying that sufficient number of police force was not available had purchased 25 acres of land and kept ten policemen in that land for its levelling and plantation of orchard. High ranking Civil officers, some even posted at Delhi had also invested in land purchases and through their contacts had also got such tents pitched in their lands for the same purpose. It was surprising that when it was considered unsafe to invest in the state , so many people were investing here. SDM noted down the ownership details and the number of policemen and civilians working at 6 such places .
That SDM was perhaps the only one who did not have a gunman.In the next meeting of police and magistrates, it was proposed that at each police barrier a duty magistrate should be deployed. The deputy commissioner did not agree on the plea that number of magistrates was limited and a magistrate would be posted where DSP was performing law and order duty. Some police officers raised the issue of magistrates not being co-operative in detaining the accused under 107/151CrPC.Most vocal was the DSP, who had deployed his subordinate force at his newly acquired farm- house. The daring SDM then very politely explained that he had requested for a gunman for a number of times, but each time it was turned down with the excuse that there was no Nafri. Then he divulged the details of the Nafri, which had been deployed at the farm-houses. The number surprised many but not all.

Surinderjit Singh Sandhu, Amritsar

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