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This is History (185)
Inspite of the victory of the English in Bengal and over the French they had to face great difficulties in the south.

Will RS TV and LS TV be merged ?
Rumours are rife that Rajya Sabha TV may be merged with the Lok Sabha TV. An exercise to this effect has reportedly already started in the PMO.

TARC recommended for TPA
Tax Administrative Reform Commission (TRAC) has recommended that a tax council supported by a common Tax Policy and Analysis (TPA) unit should be established to cater to needs of both direct and indirect taxes.

Now Secretary in GoI on Contract basis- Professional
Paramesaran Iyer has been appointed as Secretary Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on contract basis for a period of two years after he took voluntarily retirement. He is a 1981 batch retired IAS officer of UP cadre.

BUREAUCRACY

Will post of Member Electrical in Railway Board be abolished ?
If sources are to be believed, post of Member Electrical is likely to be abolished in Railway Board. After retirement of Navin Tandon, additional charge has been given to one member. It is said that Railway Board is planning to merge this post with some member. Presently Railway Board has seven members. In case Member is appointed, Ashwani Kumar Kapoor presently GM Metro Kolkata will take over.

Alok Verma will either be CP Delhi or Secretary Security ?
In the corridors of power there are reports that senior most IPS officer in UT cadre Alok Verma will either be Police Commissioner Delhi or Secretary Security in the Government of India. He is 1979 batch IPS officer.

Dr Anand Kumar appointed as Special Director, IB
Dr Anand Kumar has been appointed Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau in Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). He is a 1981 batch IPS officer of MP cadre.

Who will be new DG Doordarshan ?(4)
1991 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre Supriya Sahoo is also a contender for the post. She has served in the I & B Ministry for long and reportedly enjoys the support of CEO and the IAS lobby.

Who will go to Manila ?
Who will go to Manila as Senior Advisor in ADB ?. Tie is said to be between 1996 batch IAS officer of UP Cadre M Devaraj and Joint Secretary in DEA Manish Kumar Singh.

Who will be Member (Finance) TRAI ?
Latest grapevine says that a panel consisting of Ms Annie Moraes,Sadhna Dixit and Suman Saxena for the post of Member (Finance) TRAI has been rejected.

Anil Kumar Agarwal appointed as Secretary, Commission for SC
Anil Kumar Agarwal has been appointed as Secretary, National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCST). He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Kamal Chowdhery appointed as MD, NCCF
Kamal Chowdhery has been appointed as Managing Director at Joint Secretary level in National Co-operative Consumer's Federation of India Limited (NCCF). He is a 1991 batch IDAS officer.

B D Sharma is new Advisor to Arunachal Pradesh Governor
B D Sharma has been appointed new Advisor to the Arunachal Pradesh Governor. He is 1980 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Y S Dadwal quits
Advisor to the Arunachal Pradesh Governor Y S Dadwal is reported to have resigned on personal Grounds. He is former IPS officer of UT cadre.

A K Poddar appointed as CVO, CONCOR
A K Poddar has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in CONCOR, New Delhi. He is a 1987 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

C K Asnani selected as CMD, UCIL
C K Asnani, Director (Technical), IREL, has been selected for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on February 3, 2016. As many as 12 persons were interviewed for the same.

Chockalingam appointed as Director (Fin), BHEL
T Chockalingam, GM, BHEL, has been appointed as Director Finance, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) for a period of five years. The post has been lying vacant since June 1, 2015.

Muralidhara appointed as Director (DB), BEML Ltd
R H Muralidhara, CGM, BEML Ltd has been appointed as Director (Defence Business), BEML Limited.

Kuldip Prasad appointed as Director (Tech), SECL
Kuldip Prasad, GM (Min), SECL, has been appointed as Director (Technical), South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL).

Mrs Aruna Sethi joins as Head of ICoAS
Mrs Aruna Sethi, Principal Adviser (Cost), has taken over the charge as Head of the Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS). She is a 1985 batch ICoAS officer.

Satender Kumar is HC to Saint Lucia
Satender Kumar presently Ambassador of India to the Republic of Suriname, has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to Saint Lucia with residence in Paramaribo.

VRS of IRS (C&CE) officer accepted
VRS of 1985 batch IRS (C&CE) officer Sushil Solanki has been accepted by the GoI.

A K Srivastava appointed as CVO, MCI
A K Srivastava has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in Medical Council of India (MCI). He is a 1991 batch IFS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

New post of Air Marshal created in Air Force !
A new additional post of Air Marshal is reported to have been created in the Indian Air Force.

PESB seeks applications for Director (Fin), PFC
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Director (Finance), Power Finance Corporation Limited falling vacant on January 1, 2017. Those willing to apply for this post can send their applications for this post before February 25, 2016.

Justice R S Reddy appointed as Chief Justice, Gujarat High Court
Justice Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy, Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh has been appointed Chief Justice of the Gujarat high Court.
(We said this on January 21 )

Allahabad High Court gets Additional Judges
Justice Vivek Kumar Birla, Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi, Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra, Justice Rajan Roy, Mrs Justice Ranjana Pandya, Mrs Justice Vijay Lakshmi, Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra-I, Justice Anant Kumar, Justice Harsh Kumar, Justice Shashi Kant, Justice Om Prakash-VII and Justice Yashwant Varma, Additional Judges of the Allahabad High Court have been appointed as Judges of the Allahabad High Court.

Justice Bhatt transferred to Gujarat High Court
Justice Pradipkumar Premshanker Bhatt, Judge of the Jharkhand High Court, has been transferred to Gujarat High Court.
(We said this on Feb 2 )

Justice Patel transferred to Karnataka High Court
Justice Jayant Maganlal Patel, Judge of the Gujarat High Court, has been transferred to Karnataka High Court.
(We said this on Feb 3 morning)

Ms Justice Trivedi shifted to Gujarat High Court
Ms Justice Bela Madhurya Trivedi, Judge of the Rajasthan High Court, has been transferred to Gujarat High Court.
(We said this on Feb 3 morning)

Sushil Kuamr Sahai allotted charge of Member, Income Tax in CBDT
Sushil Kumar Sahai has been allotted the charge of Member (Income Tax) in Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) with holding zonal charge of Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Kochi. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Ahuja and Rai on board of SBI
Girish Kumar Ahuja and Dr Pushpendra Rai have been appointed as part-time non official Director on the Board of State Bank of India.

12 IPS officers get field postings in UP
As many as 12 IPS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Uttar Pradesh. Accordingly, Hemraj Meena has been appointed as SP, City Gorakhpur while Yamuna Prasad is SP, rural Bareilly and Sachindra Patel was posted as SP, City West Kanpur. Similarly, Vijay Dhul has been appointed as SP, North Lucknow; Anshul Gupta as SP, City Aligarh; Patil Salman Taj Jafartaj as SP, City Gajiyabad; Somen Barma as SP, City East Kanpur; Abhishek Yadav as SP, City Gautambuddhnagar; Vipin Tada as SP, City Ajamgarh; Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan as SP, City, Agra; Mrs Garima Singh as SP, Intelligence, PHQ, Lucknow and Pratap Gopendra Yadav was posted as SP, rural Lucknow.

Reshuffle of IPS officers in Sikkim
Services of 11 IPS officers have been affected with their transfers and new postings in Sikkim. Accordingly, S D Negi has been given an additional charge of ADGP, Armed police while A Sudhakar Rao will also be holding an additional charge of ADGP, Training and Akshay Sachdev is posted as Director, Vigilance and ADGP, special Branch. Similarly, Avichal has been apointed as IGP, Law and Order with continuing additional charge of Security; B K Tamang as Principal, Police Training College, Yangang; Shiva Prasad Yellasiri as Commandant, 1st IR Btn, New Delhi; Tenzing Loden Lepcha as SP, Check post, Gangtok; Mrs Linda Palmu as Additional SP, Ravangla; Dr Tsering Namgyal Gyatso as Additional SP, Vigilance and K B Gadaily as Vigilance Officer, Energy and Power Department.

Mann is now Chairman in Punjab
Former Punjab Chief Secretary R S Mann has been appointed as the Chairman of Sixth Punjab Pay Commission .

Gurdeep Singh to take over as CMD, NTPC today (UPDATED)
Gurdeep Singh, Managing Director, Gujarat State Electricity Corporation, is assuming the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) for a period of five years on February 4, 2016.
(We said this in the morning of January 28)

Sanjay Agrawal is new Police Commissioner Jaipur (UPDATED)
Sanjay Agrawal has been appointed new Police Commissioner Jaipur. He is 1992 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
(We said this on Jan 18, 2016)

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
As many as 63 IAS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Kumari Nilima Johri has been appointed as Chairperson, Rajasthan Civil Service Appellate Tribunal, Jaipur while Om Prakash Meena will be Chairman and Commissioner, Rajasthan Housing Board and Ashok Shekhar is Chairman, Revenue Board, Ajmer. Similarly, Rakesh Shrivastava has been appointed as Chairman, Indira Gandhi Canal Board, Jaipur; Rajhans Upadhyay; Nihal Chand Goyal as ACS, Forest, Environment as weel as ACS Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor and Special Officer, Bhiwadi Industrial Development Authority; Bal Krishna Mena as DG, Indira Gandhi Panchayati Raj Institute; Om Prakash Saini as Chairman Rajasthan Tax Board, Ajmer; Dr Lalit Mehra as PS, Cooperative; Giri Raj Singh as CMD, Rajasthan State Warehousing Corporation; Deepak Upreti as PS, Mining and Petroleum and Chairman, RSMML; Mrs Nilkamal Darbari as Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Horticulture; Pawan Kumar Goyal as Principal Secretary and Commissioner, Transport; Rajeshwar Singh as Divisional Commissoiner, Jaipur; Kuldeep Ranka as Secretary, Women and Child Development; Mrs Shrya Guha as Secretary, Governor; naresh Pal Gangwar as Secretary, Middle and Primary Education and Langauge; Ashwini Bhagat as CMD, Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation Limited; Kunji Lal Meena as Secretary and Commissioner, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries; Mrs Gayatri A Rathod as Secretary-II to Chief Minister; Vaibhav Galriya as Commissioner, Appropriation and NRI; T Ravikant as Commissioner, Commercial Taxes; Subir Kumar as Secretary, PHE and Water Resources; Mahavir Prasad Swami as Commissioner, Rajasthan Primary Education Council; Dr Ajay Singh as Commissoiner, Departmental Inquiry; Madan Singh Kala as Commissioner, Rajasthan River Basin and Wter Resources Planning Authority; Omkar Singh as Commissioner, Departmental Inquiry; Suva Lal as Divisional Commissioner, Irrigated Area Development, Bikaner; Hanuman Sahaya Meena as Divisional Commissioner, Ajmer; Raghuvir Singh Meena as Divisional Commissioner, Kota; Navin Jain as Mission Director, National Health Mission and Director, IEC; Dr Babu Lal Jatawal as ED, Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Finance and Development Corporation Limited; Dr Prathvi Raj as Special Secretry, Medical Education; Lalit Kumar Gupta as DM, Churu; Madhusudhan Sharma as Director, Cultural Education; Satya Prakash Baswala as Joint Secretary, Administrative Reforms (Inspectoin); Kailash Chand Verma as Director, Public Services and Examination Controller, Administrative Reforms; Chandra Shekhar Mutha as Collector, Pratapgarh; Dr Pritam B Yashwant as Additional Mission Director, National Helath Mission; Dr Neeraj Kumar Pawan as Commissioner, Agriculture; Badri Lal Swarnkar as Director, Middle Education, Bikaner; Priyavrat Pandya as Commissioner, Ajmer Municipal Corporation; Vimal Kumar Jain as Secretary, Revenue; Babulal Kothari as Secretary, Rajasthan Public Service Commissoin, Ajmer; Ved Singh as Commissioner, Mid-day Meal, Jaipur; Anil Gupta as Collector, Jalor; Jagdish Chand Purohit as Director, Primary Education, Bikaner; Banna Lal as Director, State Insurance and Provident Fund; Dr Samit Sharma as Director, ICDS; Jagrup Singh Yadav as Secretary, State Bus Terminal Development Authority; Surajbhan Jaiman as Joint Secretary, TAD; Bhanwar Lal Mehra as Commissioner, Ajmer Development Authority, Ajmer; Premchand Berwal as Project Director, State Agriculture Competative Project; Subesing Yadav as Joint Secretary, Urban Development and Housing; Kailash Bariwa as Secretary, Administrative Reforms; Dr Satya Pal Singh Bhadiya as Collector, Baran; Naresh Kumar Thakral as Collector, Bundi; Babu Lal Meena as Director, National Middle Education campaign; Vishnu Charan Mallik as Collector, Jodhpur; Mrs Archana Singh as Collector, Rajsamand; Dr Jitendra Kumar Soni as Collector, Jhalawad; Mrs Neha Giri as Additional Commissioner, Appropriation and NRI and H Guite was made Secretary, Ajmer Development Authority.

Major reshuffle of IPS officers (UPDATED)
As many as 33 IPS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly Om Prakash Galhotra has been appointed as ADGP, Rajasthan Police Academy while Sudhakar Johri was made ADG, Jail and Bhupendra Singh as ADG, Administration and Community Policing; Bhagwan Lal Soni as ADG, State Disaster Management Force; Utkal Ranjan Sahu as ADGP, Intelligence and Security to CM; Indu Kumar Bhushan as ADG, Rules; Janga Shrinivas Rao as ADGP, PHQ; Ravi Prakash Mehrda as ADGP, Telecommunicatoin and Technical; Dharmchand Jain as ADG, Vigilance; Sourabh Shrivastava as ADG, Re-organisation; Hemanth Priyadarshi as IG, Jaipur range; Sanjay Agrawal as Jaipur Commissioner; Biju George Joseph K as IG, Operation; Sachin Mittal as IG, Armed Btl Jaipur; Bipin Kumar Pandey as IG, Training; Alok Kumar Vashisht as IG, Bharat range; Sarwar Khan as IG, Jail, Jaipur; Prafall Kuamr as Additional Commissioner, Commissioner office, Jaipur; C Santosh Kumar Tukaram as SP, Intelligence, PHQ, Jaipur; Deepak Kumar as SP to CM; Swai Singh Choudhary as Commandant 4th bt, RAC, Jaipur; Jainarayan as DIG, Jail; Lavali Katiyar as SP, anti-corruption bureau; Vikas Pathak as Deputy Commissioner Crime, PHQ Jaipur; Sweta Dhankhad as SP, CID, SSB, Jodhpur; Priti Jain as SP, Tonk; Kalyan Mal Meena as SP, Jalor; Mamta Gupta as SP, anti- corruption bureau, Jaipur; Adarsh Sidhu as Commandnat 2nd Bt, RAC, Kota; Puja Awana as Commandant, Hadi Rani Bt, Ajmer; Rashi Dogra Dudi as SP, Vigilance, Jaipur; Kiran Kang as Director, Intelligence Training Academy, Jaipur and Jai Yadav was made SP, CID, SSB, Kota.

16 IFS officers transferred in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
As many as 16 IFS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Durga Prasad Sharma has been appointed as Director, FTI, Jaipur while Rajiv Kumar Tyagi was made APCCF, Valuation and Training and G Viswanath Reddy is APCCF, Wildlife. Similarly, Deepak Bhatnagar has been appointed as APCCF, Administration; Dr Deep Narayan Pandey as APCCF, KAMPA; Rajiv Kumar Goyal as Project Director, Forestry and Biodiversity; Arindam Tomar as CCF, Wildlife, Jaipur; Kumari Shikha Mehra as CCF, Udaypur; Venktesh Sharma as Member Secretary, State Medicinal Plants Board; V S Bohra as CCF, Jodhpur; Akshya Singh as Joint Project Director(Administration), Biodiversity Project; Mrs T J Kavitha as Conservator of Forests, JDA, Jaipur; Rajiv Chaturvedi as Conservator of Forests, Training; Ajay Chittora as Deputy Conservator of Forests, Ajmer; Dr S Sarath Babu as Deputy Conservator of Forests, Dungarpur and Ashok Kumar Mahriya was made Deputy Conservator of Forests, Hanumangarh.

Gurdeep Singh takes over as CMD, NTPC (UPDATED)
Gurdeep Singh, Managing Director, Gujarat State Electricity Corporation, has assumed the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) for a period of five years.
(We said this in the morning of January 28)

21 IRS-IT officers transferred (UPDATED)
As many as 21 officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre have been transferred at Commissioner level. Accordingly, Yagysaini Kakkar has been appointed as CIT (A)-37, Delhi while Shukvinder Khanna is posted as ADG (RTI), Delhi and Nikhil Pandit is CIT OSD, Delhi. Similarly, M Krishnasamy has been appointed as Secretary, ITSC, Chennai; Ruby Goerge as DIT (Inv), ITSC, Chennai; Amarapalli Das as CIT (A)-13, Delhi; Anand Kuamr Kedia as CIT (DRP-2), Delhi-1, Delhi; Amardeep as CIT (Admin & CO), Nagpur; Nausheen J Ansari as CIT (DR), AAR, Delhi; Kumar Hrishikesh as ADG (HRD)-2 CBDT, Delhi; Ram Bilas Meena as CIT (A)-2, Kolkata; Sanjiv Shankar as DIT (I&CI), Pune; Mohanesh Verma as CIT (A), Karnal; Mahesh Kumar Shah as CIT (A)-10, Ahmedabad; Anita Sinha as ADG (Recovery), CBDT, Delhi; M Jagdish Babu as CIT (A) Kurnool; Sunita Singh as CIT (TDS)-2, Chandigarh; Ratna Dasgputa as DIT (I & CI), Ahmedabad; Vanita Rattan Sharma as Secretary, ITSC, Delhi; Vandana Sagar as CIT (A)-26, Mumbai; Meenakshi Goswami was made CIT (A)-38, Delhi. Besides, Govind Lal was given an additional charge of ADG, DTRTI, Hazaribagh.

Three Customs officers get additional charges (UPDATED)
Sandeep Prakash, Commissioner, Logistics, has been assigned an additional charge of Director, Revenue Laboratories in Central Revenues Control Laboratory, New Delhi while Kamal Jyoti Principal (Prev) was additional charge of Delhi Customs and Mahender Singh, DG (Audit) will also be looking the charge of Directorate General of Performance Management.

D J Pandian appointed as Vice President & CIO, AIIB (UPDATED)
Former Chief Secretary of Gujarat, D J Pandian has been appointed as Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of newly created Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

DEBATE
Is PM Narendra Modi losing his charm ?. Is he a changed man ? Any suggestions ?
Mail your views to:- mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or Suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Ramaswamy appointed CFO of Vijaya Bank
Murall Ramaswamy, who is General Manager heading Central Accounts Department of Vijaya Bank has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Bank

Ramasubramaniam appointed as Addl. Independent Director of PNB GILTS Ltd
PNB GILTS Ltd has appointed Rayaprolu Sambamoorthi Ramasubramaniam as an Additional Independent Director of the company.

Veeraiah appointed CMD of Kakatiya Cement Sugar & Industries Limited
Kakatiya Cement Sugar & Industries Limited has appointed P Veeraiah who is Joint Managing Director as Chairman and Managing Director of the company.

Jain appointed CFO of Bajaj Finance Ltd
Bajaj Finance Limited has appointed Sandeep Jain as Chief Financial Officer of the company w.e.f. February 4, 2016

Rajan appointed Addl. Independent Director of TTK Healthcare Ltd
TTK Healthcare Limited has appointed N Ramesh Rajan as an Additional Independent Director of the company

Anand appointed COO of OLX India
Irwin Anand has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of OLX India.

Chatterjee appointed as Chief Human Resources Officer of OLX India
Joyeeta Chatterjee has been appointed as Chief Human Resources Officer of OLX India

Kannan resigns as CEO of Snowman Logistics Limited
Ravi Kannan has resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of Snowman Logistics Limited

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DEBATE (1)

Modi doesn't have democratic conscience. Besides he is an autocrat. He is an adjustment with democracy.

L S Hardenia

Dr Aruna Sharma always used IT as a tool to improve Governance

Dr Aruna Sharma has always used the Information Technology as a tool to improve Governance. As early as mid 80s she was first to float shift to PC based model of 'Computerization of Land Records'. In late 90s when autocat was mandatory for any special display she developed gram DRISHTI a desktop GIS application with an indigenous GIS Engine enabling virtual navigation from country to village, data conversion of tabular data to GIS map based representation that worked on windows platform using GRAM ++ components. That got reward from none less than Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. She was also instrumental to design the shift from analog to digital platform. Her creation of family identification mechanism for common data base 'Samagra' got national award. Panchayat Darpan is another platform for fiscal discipline in local bodies and creating statutory reports mandatory for audit. Her posting as Secretary IT will definitely enable to develop team to bring out ease of governance and access to information with ease of navigation.

Jaideep

Appropriate choice

From start up point of view he is appropriate choice but I personally feel Government should have posted him in dynamic and big ministry like Industry / Commerce or infrastructure. Any way he will make mark here also all the best.

Negi

Election symbol of AAP is its undoing

Broom, the election symbol of AAP, is literally proving to be its undoing in the national capital. High time the party chooses a new one.

Surendra Sharma

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