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As a matter of fact, for ages past, life has been such a burden for vast numbers of people,and it is amazing how they have tolerated it.

OROP: committee to submit report in December
A Judicial Committee on OROP headed by Justice L. Narasimha Reddy, Retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court has been appointed in December 2015 to look into anomalies, if any, arising out of implementation of OROP. The Committee shall make its recommendation within one year of the date of its constitution.

BUREAUCRACY

Will senior Railway officers resign?
Rumour mill says that if any junior or outsider is appointed new CRB,one or two senior Railway officials may call it a day. Till then wait and watch for the next episode of high drama.

1984 batch IPS officers to be posted as Additional Secretary
About half a dozen 1984 batch IPS officers are going to be posted as Additional Secretary in GoI. Their posting orders are likely to be issued in a couple of days.

Pvt Banks MDs now eligible for same posts in PSU banks
Managing Directors of Private Banks will now be eligible for the same posts in Public Sector Undertaking Banks. The Government of India already nodded a proposal in this regard.

44 Railway officers empanelled for General Manager posts
As many as 44 senior Officers of Railways have been empanelled for the posts of General Manager and equivalent for the year 2016-17. The officers are: Ashwani Lohani, M K Gupta, O P Agarwal, Debat K Gyan, Ghanshyam Singh, M S Chauhan, Akhil Agrawal, A K Gupta, Sudhanshu Mani, Umesh Singh, Girish Pillai, Rakesh Aron, Alok Ranjan, S P Trivedi, V K Agrawal, Ved Pal, Ajit Pandit, S N Agrawal, D K Sharma, V P Pathak, V K Jain, Roshan Parmar, V K Yadav, R K Kulshreshtha, Sachchidanand Singh, Alok Gupta, S S Soin, Lokesh Narayan, Anil K Gupta, Harinder Rao, Rajiv Agrawal, Ratanlal, Ajay Vijayvergiya, O P Verma, Rajendra Jain, L P Sinha, P K Mishra, B K Dixit, Jagdip Rai, S L Verma, Ramanlal Gupta, G C Budhalkoti, Rajesh Agrawal, T P Singh.

180 IAS officers of CSE-2015 allotted cadres
As many as 180 candidates of Civil Services Examination (CSE)-2015, who were allocated Indian Administrative Service (IAS), have been allotted various cadres.

IAS toppers of CSE-2015 to serve in Rajasthan
Three toppers of Civil Services Examination (CSE)-2015, Ms Tina Dabi, Athar Aamir Ul Shafi Khan and Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, who secured first, second and third rank respectively, will be serving in Rajasthan as they have been allotted this cadre.

34 IAS officers retiring in July
As many as 34 IAS officers belonging to various cadres and batches are retiring in July, 2016. They are: Ramesh Negi, V C Pandey, K J R Burman and Z U Siddiqui of AGMUT cadre; M V Satyanarayana of AP; Swapnanil Barua and Mahtabuddin Amad of AM; Prabhat Shankar and Ram Bujhaban Choudhary of Bihar; T Radhakrishanan of Chhattisgarh; Ganga Ram Aloria of Gujarat; Prem Chand Dhiman of HP; Dr Pravin Shankar and Vidya Kant Pathak of Jharkhand; Suranjana Ray, Arun Tiwari, Dr Akhilesh Kumar Shrivastava, Surendra Kumar Upadhayaya and Nisar Ahmed of MP; Dr Prem Singh Meena and S D Wardhane of Maharashtra; Vinod Kumar Thakral and S Minlianthang Vaiphei of MT; Onkar Singh and Ajay Singh of Rajasthan; C V Sankar, Hemant Kumar Sinha, A Mohamed Aslam and V M X Chrisso Nayagam, Vijay Bahadur Singh, Satya Narayan Srivastava and Jai Prakash Singh of UP; Avnendra Singh Nayal of Uttarakhand; Ananda M Chakraborty of West Bengal.

Tapas Kumar Sengupta selected as Director (Pers), MMTC Ltd
Tapas Kumar Sengupta, CGM, MMTC, has been selected for the post of Director (Personnel), MMTC Limited at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on July 25, 2016. As many as six persons have been interviewed for the same.

Asnani likely to join as CMD, UCIL on Aug 1
C K Asnani, Director (Technical), IREL, is expected to take over the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) on August 1, 2016 as vacancy of this post is arising on the same day.

BCCL headless since August 2015
The Director, Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) is headless since August 8, 2015. The selection of B K Mishra, Director (Technical), WCL for this post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, has been scrapped by the Government of India. CIL Director Technical N Kumar is holding an additional charge of this post.

Dr Budha Rashmi Mani appointed as DG, National Museum
Dr Budha Rashmi Mani has been appointed as Director General, National Museum New Delhi. Dr Mani, who retired as ADG, Archaeological Survey of India, is appointed on contract basis for a period of three years.

Jagdish Prasad Meena empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Jagdish Prasad Meena has been empanelled for holding Secretary or Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Chandra posted in Bengaluru
Ashutosh Chandra who retired as CCIT Int. Taxation Bengalu ru is posted as Member AAR Revenue NCR Bench.

Justice Banerjee moves to Delhi High Court
Judge of the Calcutta High Court Justice Indira Banerjee has been moved to the Delhi High Court.

Karnataka High Court Judge transferred to Kerala HC
Justice S M Malikarjunagouda Judge of the Karnataka High Court has been transferred to the Kerala High Court.

Secretary Defence Finance to retire in August
Shobhna Joshi presently Secretary , Defence Finance is schedule to superannuate in August this year. She is a 1979 batch IDAS officer.

Neihsial and Prasad likely to get Apex grade
Two senior IDAS officer, N.Neihsial and Veena Prasad are likely to be promoted in the Apex scale. Presently both officers are in HAG+ grade and are posted as Addl CGDA, Delhi . Neihsial is a 1980 batch officer while Prasad is a 1981 batch IDAS officer. Presently IDAS has only two Apex grade posts.

Jain is still in-charge DGP, Meghalaya
Meghalaya govt could not take the decision about a regular DGP of the state. S.K.Jain is still in- charge DGP, Meghalaya. He was given this responsibility after the retirement of Rajiv Mehra as DGP on June 30 last month, since then Jain is holding the post as in-charge, He is a 1984 batch AM cadre IPS officer.

Additional charge of Chairman, CWC extended till December
Ghanshyam Jha, will hold additional charge of Chairman, Central Water Commission (CWC) at least six more months. Presently he is the Chairman, GFCC, Patna and holding additional charge of Chairman ,CWC since January this year. It is said that UPSC had organised interview for the post in June and his name is said to have been cleared .His name should be empanelled by the ACC. Which is still awaited.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in West Bengal
More than one dozen IAS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in West Bengal . Accordingly, Sumit Gupta has been appointed as District Magistrate, Nadia while Mrs Manmeet Kaur Nanda was posted as Secretary, Health & Family Welfare department and Mrs Alice Vaz R is MD, West Bengal Small Industries Dev Corp Ltd. Similarly, Mrs Smaraki Mahapatra has been posted as Commissioner, Commercial Taxes; Onkar Singh Meena as Secretary, Municipal Affairs with additional charge of CEO, KMDA; Binod Kumar as Secretary, Health & Family Welfare; Trinanjan Chakraborty as Commissioner in Personnel & Adminstrative Reforms; Amalesh Pathak as Secretary, Public Enterprises & Industrial Reconstruction; Rupendra Chowdhury as Director of Consumer Goods; Mrs Ayesha Rani as District Magistrate Utt Dinajpur; Randhir Kumar as Excise Commissioner, West Bengal; Himangshujyoti as Joint Director, Administrative Training Institute; Dr Vijay Bharti as Director, Micro, Small & Medium Enterprieses & Textiles; Ms R Vimala as Additional District Magistrate, Malda and Dr Deepap Priya P was posted as CEO, Siliguri with additional charge of Assistant Director, Tea Directorate.

Sanjeev Bhatnagar relieved to join as Addl Director, CEIB
Sanjeev Bhatnagar has been relieved to join as Additional Director at Director level in Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB). He is a 2002 batch IRS-C&CE officer.

Sambasiva Rao appointed as DG, Coordination in AP
N Sambasiva Rao, VC & MD, APSRTC, has been transferred and posted as Director General of Police (Coordination) with additional charge of the post of Director General of Police (HoPF) in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1984 batch IPS officer of AP cadre.

Ms Jamir is PS to Smriti Irani
Ms M Imkongla Jamir has been appointed as Private Secretary to Mrs Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister for Textiles. She is a 2002 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Ms Hazarika appointed as ED to MoSR
Ms Utpalparna Hazarika has been posted as Executive Director, Public Grievances to the Minister of State for Railways (G). She is an IRTS officer.

Three Addl CPs shifted
Three Additional CPs in Delhi Police have been shifted to new places. They are - S. Norbu Mosobi, Rupendu Kumar and D. K. Singh have been posted in traffic cell in Eastern, Southern and Western ranges respectively.

Why EOW Chief not being posted?
EOW wing of Delhi Police is without Chief for the last four months. Its a Jt. CP level post but being looked after by an Additional CP rank officer additionally. Last Chief was Sandip Golcha.

Vikramjit Singh likely to join Crime branch
Vikramjit Singh DGP outer Delhi is likely to be posted in Crime branch in Delhi Police. He is a 2006 batch IPS officer.

Will Parmaditya join West District?
Parmaditya, DGP East District in Delhi Police is likely to be shifted to the west district in the same capacity. He is a 2006 batch IPS officer.

Vijai Singh Meena deputed to RVNL, Abu Road
Vijai Singh Meena presently in Rail Wheel Plant, Bela, has been deputed to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited as Joint General Manager (Projects) at Abu Road . He is an IRSE officer.

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

NBCC MoU 2016-17 with ministry focuses on new technology adoption (UPDATED)
NBCC, a Navratna CPSE under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Govt. of India, has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the FY 2016-17 with its Ministry today. The annual MoU has been signed by Rajiv Gauba, IAS, Secretary (UD), Govt. of India, on behalf of the MoUD and Dr. Anoop. K. Mittal, CMD, NBCC, on behalf of NBCC.

The signed MoU outlines certain performance targets for the Company based on various financial parameters, dynamic parameters, sector specific and enterprise specific parameters. While sales turnover has been fixed at Rs.6500 Crore, profit has been targeted at Rs.445 crore. The Company during the year, aims to secure new works worth Rs.7500 Crore.

Further, this year's MoU has laid specific emphasis on adoption of New Technologies for implementation of the Company's upcoming projects. These technologies include: Monolithic Concrete Construction System using Aluminium Formwork; Industrialized 3-S System using Cellular Light Weight Concrete Slabs & Precast Columns (Pre-cast/Prefab); Monolithic Concrete Construction System using Plastic Aluminium Formwork; Composite Steel Structures.

It may be mentioned that NBCC's performance during FY 2015-16 remained excellent as it registered a substantial 21% Growth in CAGR by achieving turnover of Rs.5749 crore against targeted turnover of Rs.4600 crore. Talking to the Media, during MoU signing, Dr. A.K. Mittal, CMD of the Company gave an encouraging outlook of the Company for FY 2016-17 and beyond.

Mittal informed that the Govt. has very recently awarded three huge redevelopment projects to NBCC valued at approximately Rs.25000 crore. This, alongwith already secured redevelopment projects and the projects under various schemes of the Govt. at Centre, have opened up immense future opportunities for NBCC. Dr. Mittal expressed confidence that from FY 2016-17 onwards, NBCC would be in a position to consistently register a 25% Growth in CAGR.

Ghanshyam Singh appointed as GM, Eastern Railway (UPDATEd)
Ghanshyam Singh has been appointed as General Manager, Eastern Railway, Kolkata. He is an IRSEE officer.

(We said this on May 11 and july 22,2016)

M C Chauhan appointed as GM, Metro Railway Kolkata (UPDATED)
M C Chauhan has been appointed as General Manager, Metro Railway Kolkata. He is an IRSEE officer.

(We said this on july 22,2016)

M K Gupta appointed as GM, Modern Coach Factory (UPDATED)
M K Gupta has been appointed as General Manager, Modern Coach Factory, Rae Barali. He is an IRSE officer.

(We said this on May 11 and july 22,2016)

Inter cadre deputation of Ms Sreenivas to AGMUT extended (UPDATED)
An inter cadre deputation of Ms A Mona Sreenivas from Haryana to AGMUT Delhi Segment has been extended for a period of one year. She is a 2006 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Ravinder Nath Mishra appointed as Addl Member, Railway Board (UPDATED)
Ravinder Nath Mishra has been appointed as Additional Member, Production Unit in Railway Board.

Swaminathan appointed as Addl Member, Railway Board (UPDATED)
K Swaminathan has been appointed as Additional Member, Mechanical Engineering in Railway Board.

Two IPS officers shifted in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Chuna Ram Jat has been appointed as Assistant SP, Kota city while Devashish Dev was made Assistant SP, Ajmer in Rajasthan.

D S Chauhan appointed as DIG, SSB (UPPDATED)
D S Chauhan, who is presently working as General Manager, FCI, has been posted as Deputy Inspector General in Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). He is a 1997 batch IPS officer of Telangana cadre.

Rashmi Ranjan Das relieved to join as Joint Secretary, CBDT (UPDATED)
Rashmi Ranjan Das has been relieved to join as Joint Secretary (TPL-I), in Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). He is an IRS-IT officer.

Notification issued (UPDATED)
The much awaited notification about 7th Pay Commission is issued today. Payment will be made from August, 2016. Gazette resolution can be seen from Finance Ministry website.

Vikram Misri is new Ambassador to Myanmar (UPDATED)
Vikram Misri (IFS:1989), presently Ambassador of India to spain, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Union of Myanmar.
(we said this on july 23,2016)

CORPORATE


Winham appointed Chairman of Ricoh India Ltd
Ricoh India Ltd has appointed Ian Peter Winham as Chairman of the company.

Takano resigns as Chairman of Ricoh India Ltd
Tetsuya Takano has resigned as Chairman of Ricoh India Ltd.

Puri re-designated as COO of ITC Ltd
ITC Ltd has re-designated Sanjiv Puri as Chief Operating Officer of the company. He is Whole-time Director of the company.

Pacheria re-appointed as Whole-time Director of S Kumars.Com Ltd
S Kumars.Com Ltd has re-appointed Omprakash Prahladrai Pacheria as a Whole-time Director of the company w.e.f. July 26, 2016.

Saydiwal ceases to be Workmen Employee Director of Bank of Maharashtra
Ramadev L Saydiwal has ceased to be Workmen Employee Director of Bank of Maharashtra.

Agarwal resigns as Director of Burnpur Cement Ltd
Prem Prakash Agarwal has resigned as Director of Burnpur Cement Limited.

Balu ceases to be Independent Director of Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
K K Balu has ceased to be Independent Director of Karur Vysya Bank Limited.

Aggarwal resigns as Addl. Whole-time Director of Arihant Superstructures Ltd
Rajesh Aggarwal has resigned as Additional Whole-time Director of Arihant Superstructures Ltd.

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Empanelment/appointment of Secretaries to Government of India

The observation of N Subramanian

that empanelment or appointment of Secretaries in Government of India need to be rationalised by inducting equivalent grade officers/professionals/scientists /academicians etc. from other services also in addition to IAS , is not only logical but also meritorious. An eminent doctor with sufficient experience and service in the Health Departments shall do more justice to the post than an IAS who would first learn from his medical colleagues and then be bossy on them.
Similarly an academician as Secretary Education , a scientist as Secretary Science and Technology is the order of the day and Prime Minister can initiate the process to make a beginning . This will provide the expertise to the fields that these deserve leading to the over all development of growth and quality of the sector and inspirational to the said profession inter alia attracting moe talent . Gradually the IAS could be confined to the core fields of administration as they are better trained and equipped in maintaining the law and order.

O P Sharma

Retd Gov Officer.

Next CRB basis - Seniority-cum- Suitability !

The next CRB will be through the hitherto followed custom of Seniority-cum- Suitability, however, the Corporatisation of the Railway Board will commence from Members. As the existing Members retire induction is proposed from the vast talent pool of technocrats available in the country including persons of proven caliber from private sector.

Ravinder Kumar

Search committee for next CRB, strange !

A Search committee for finding the next chairman of the Railway Board ! Strange, the Railway Minister or the dispensation in PMO should know that selection to every post in the Government high or low is governed by a set of Rules and principles of seniority usually laid down in consultation with recruitment agency (in this case UPSC) and DoPT. Then there are well-established conventions where the seniormost Member becomes the Chairman. If a person is fit to become a Member he is as well fit to become Chairman. If he is short of two-year tenure by days or months he can be given that tenure as is being done in case of Home Secretary and Defence Secretary. Leading an organisation like Indian Railways is no less important a job than that of these functionaries. As for bringing in an outsider how can a person who is not familiar with the working of this vast organisation can deliver better than a Railwayman. The move is whimsical which will only cause frustration among the Railway officers which is not conducive to the health of the department. Tempering with the time-tested practices is not really the way to improve governance.

Aarti Khosla

Are we really moving towards tax friendly environment ?

The recent steps taken by CBDT are welcome and more is required when tax authorities help tax payers during scrutiny of assessment to pay taxes in case of any default instead of scaring about the consequences of taxes not paid. This is positive approach. Black money issue is hot topic. There is public perception that too much reporting sometimes create negative impact. We want investor growth oriented environment. There has been debate in most of TV channels on black money and following points are emerging as per debates:

1. It is alleged that sizable part of black money is used in election. A structured and focused approach is needed to unearth money in this cluster.
2. It is estimated that a large sum of money needed by the Govt. can be recovered from approx. 40 big loan defaulters. A concerted effort is required.
3. Monitoring and controlling of outflow and inflow of foreign exchange.

Above points are worth considering. Govt. needs money for infrastructure development and many social schemes etc. For all round development a positive approach is needed to help the government in this direction.

N Prakash

Terrible experience

My experience with officers of the ITS and the Indian Postal service has been terrible. I can give examples with names.

Amitabh Agrawal

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