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England has a way of bending when real trouble threatens, and so avoiding it.

Modi govt sans 'recommendation' !

'Recommendation' is something that has no place in Narendra Modi regime. While it existed during the Congress or even Atal Behari Vajpayee government, it has now totally vanished under Modi government.

In a Ministry, a Joint Secretary calls shots ?

People say that one Joint Secretary of an important Ministry in Shastri Bhawan is calling the shots whereas his Secretary has no say. Guess.

Govt wants guidelines for desiltation

Ministry of water resources has set up a committee for preparation of guidelines for works on desiltation from Uttarakhand to West Bengal. Madhav Chitale, Expert, will be Chairman while Secretaries of water resources, Environment and Dr Mukesh Sinha, Director, CWPRS, Pune have been appointed members of the committee. The committee will complete the report within three months. The committee will establish difference between desilting and sand mining.

BUREAUCRACY

Panel for DIB in September?
Panel for the selection of new Director, Intelligence Bureau (DIB) is likely to be formed in September. Present DIB is schedule to retire in November this year.

Seven empanelled officers unlikely to join GoI
Out of the 29 empanelled IAS officers of 1986 batch to the rank of Additional Secretary seven officers are unlikely to join Government of India.

Dr Adhia to continue in GoI
Secretary Revenue Dr Hasmukh Adhia is not returning to Gujarat as Chief Secretary. He is 1981 batch IAS officer.

Pvt Co CEOs eligible for CPSU Board level posts
Private Company and Autonomous Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have been allowed to apply for CPSU Board level posts.

CBI registers 3970 corruption cases in four years
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered as many as 3970 cases of corruption from 2013 to June 2016.

ISS officer Mrs Sunita Chitkara quits
Mrs Sunita Chitkara, presently posted as DDG, ESD, CSO in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, has quit Indian Statistics Service (ISS) with effect from August 1.

MP gets 11 new IAS officers
As many as 11 candidates, who were provided Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after clearing Civil Service Examination-2015, have been allotted Madhya Pradesh cadre. They are: Ashish Tiwari, Ashish, Siddharth Jain, Anshul Gupta, Sarneet Kaur Broca, Jayati Singh, Swapnil G Wankhade, Preeti Yadav, Gaurav Benal, Kirodi Lal Meena and Harendra Narayan.

Diniesh Kumar empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Dinesh Kumar has been empanelled for holding Secretary or Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Why orders of Kharkongor for CMD, NEEPCO delayed ?
Why are the orders of A G W Kharkongor for the post of Chairman & Managing Director, North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) getting delayed as vacancy has arisen on July 1 with entrusting an additional charge of this post to NTPC CMD Gurdeep Singh?

Sahab Narain yet to join as Director (Fin), NPCC
Sahab Narain, DGM, REC, is yet to take over the charge as Director (Finance), National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC) as he has not been relieved of by his present organization.

29 IPS officers retiring in July
As many as 29 IPS officers belonging to various cadres and batches are retiring in July, 2016. They are: Satyanarain, Madireddy Pratap, V Venugopala Krishna, D Rama Krishnaiah and M Naganna of AP; Ram Niwas meena of AGMUT; Rajiv Kumar of Jharkhand; B Shivakumar, D Prakash and Bhagwandas HR of Karnataka; D Sali of Kerala; Dr Anand Kumar, Kamal Singh Rathore, P K Mathur, Renu Shukla of MP; P N Dixit and Suray Pratap Gupta of Maharashtra; Khocherao Elias Lotha of Nagaland; Anil Kumar Sharma, Rajinder Prasad Mittal and Mohinder Singh Teji of Punjab; Pradeep, Girdhari Lal Sharma, Rohit Mahajan, Anil Kumar Jain of Rajasthan; P Siwanandi of Tamil Nadu; Rakesh Pradhan of UP and Pushkar Singh Sailal and Vijay Pal Singh of Uttarakhand cadre.

44 candidates of CSE-2015 allocated IFS
As many as 44 candidates of Civil Service Examination (CSE)-2015 have been allocated Indian Foreign Service (IFS). They include: Abhimanyu Gahlaut, Rishi Tripathi, Sohag Sen, Harsh Chirania, Ms Jonnalagadda Snehaja, Vipul Bawa, Naman Upadhyaya, Ms Neethu Rajan, Pramyesh Basall, Ms Amrita Banerjee, Ms Deepthi A, Ms Shreeranjani K, Yashbir Singh, Yashika Mehta, Rishikesh Swaminathan, Rachit Rawat, Saurabh, Arpit Jain, Ms Gurleen Kaur, Ms Jeeva Maria Joy, Asim Anwar, Vemuri V L Ambarish, Ketan Bansal, Ms Manita Kumari, Ms Jose Antro Healtha J, Samrat Deval, Ms Walunj Aditi Balasaheb, Piyush Singh, Saurabh Kumar Sharma, Kriti Das Thokchom, Ms Rachna Chhokar, Amit Shreeansh, Ms Vidyavathi R S, Wankhade Aakash Sagar, Parmar Prakashbhai Rameshbhai, Ms Sona Soman, Ms Shruthi P, Harshvardhan Patel, Ms Chandrakanta Rathore, Naresh Bundel, Anuj Swarup, Venkateswarlu Sridhara, S Vijayakumar And Ms Goldi Sharma.

Ramesh is new DG of IMD
K J Ramesh has been appointed new Director General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) He will succeed Laxman Singh Rathore.

No Top Level Vacancy in Navy
There is not a single vacancy availabie at the higher level in Indian Navy for next two years. The First vacancy will arise only in 2018.

Chief of Air Staff to retire in December
Chief of Air Staff Chief Air Marshal Arup Raha is superannuating in December this year.

Five CSS officers promoted to Deputy Secretary grade in GoI
Five officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been promoted from Under Secretary to Deputy Secretary in Government of India. They are: Geetha Nair, D K Sengupta, Pranab Biswas, Raman Kant Sood and Alka Joshi.

K N Babu deputed to Banglore Metro as Dy Chief Engineer
K N Babu presently in Integral Coach Factory has been deputed to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited as Deputy Chief Engineer Rolling Stock Mechanical. He is an IRSME officer.

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

Two IPS officers shifted in MP
Swarn Singh has been appointed as Director General of Training, PHQ, Bhopal while Vijay Kataria was made ADG, PTRI, PHQ, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.

Chaturvedi to head BHEL unit in Bengaluru
S Chaturvedi has taken over as new General Manager in-charge of Industrial Systems Group (ISG), a Bengaluru-based unit of public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL).

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Tamil Nadu (UPDATED)

As many as 14 IAS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Tamil Nadu. Accordingly, G Govindarajf has been appointed as Collector, Karur while A Annadurai was posted as Collector, Thanjavur and Mrs M Asia Mariam is Collector, Namakkal. Similarly, S A Raman has been posted as Collector, Vellor; L Nirmalraj as Collector, Tiruvarur; A Gnanasekaran as Collector, Cuddalore; Dr G Vinay as Collector, Dindigul; Archana Patnaik as Director, Horticulture & Plantation Crops; S Suresh Kumar as Joint Commissioner of Land Administration; Dr R Nanthagopal as Joint Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries; Dr N Subbaiyan as Director of Employment and Dr M Mathivanan as CEO, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority.

Krishna Kant Tiwari deputed as CF, Regional office, Ranchi (UPDATED)
Krishna Kant Tiwari has been deputed as Conservator of Forests, Regional office, Ranchi. He is a 1997 batch of Jharkhand cadre.

Three officers confirmed in IAS (UPDATED)
Three IAS officers of 2012 batch: Anurag Verma, Swarochisha Somavanshi of Madhya Pradesh and Prasanna Venkatesh V of Andhra Pradesh have been confirmed in Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Mrs Aruna Sharma is new Secretary, Steel (UPDATED)
Mrs Aruna Sharma has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Steel. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

B P Sharma appointed as Secretary, DoPT (UPDATED)
Bhanu Pratap Sharma has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar.

Mrs Smita Chugh appointed as Member Secretary, Tariff Commission (UPDATED)
Mrs Smita Chugh has been appointed as Member Secretary, Tariff Commission. She is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Rakesh Srivastava appointed as Secretary, NCBC (UPDATED)
Rakesh Srivastava hs been appointed as Secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC). He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Dr Amarjit Singh appointed as Secretary, Water Resources (UPDATED)
Dr Amarjit Singh has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.



Dinesh Singh appointed as Secretary, Land Resources (UPDATED)
Dinesh Singh has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Mrs Latha Krishna Rao appointed as Secretary, Social Justice (UPDATED)
Mrs Latha Krishna Rao has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Social Justice & Empowerment. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Mrs Aruna Sundarajan appointed as Secretary, Electronics, I&T (UPDATED)
Mrs Aruna Sundarajan has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Mrs M Sathiavathy appointed as Secretary, Labour & Employment (UPDATED)
Mrs M Sathiavathy has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Post of Rajiv Kapoor as Director, LBSNAA upgraded to Secretary rank (UPDATED)
The post of Rajeev Kapoor as Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) has been upgraded to the grade of Secretary. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Amarjeet Sinha appointed as Secretary, Rural Development (UPDATED)
Amarjeet Sinha has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Rural Development. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

C K Mishra appointed as Secretary, Health & Family Welfare (UPDATED)
C K Mishra has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

B K Prasad appointed as Secretary, Denotified Tribes Commission (UPDATED)
B K Prasad has been appointed as Secretary, National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic & Semi-Nomadic Tribes. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Post of N S Kang as DG, AIDS Control upgraded to Secretary grade (UPDATED)
The post of N S Kang as Additional Secretary and Director General, National AIDS Control, has been upgraded to the grade of Secretary. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar appointed as Chief Justice, Punjab & Haryana HC (UPDATED)
Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar has been appointed as Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court.

Justice Dilip Bhosale appointed as Chief Justice, Allahabad HC (UPDATED)
Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale has been appointed as Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.

Bhullar to get charge of DGCA? (UPDATED)
B S Bhullar is being given additional charge of DGCA. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

CORPORATE


Jawaharlal Nehru Port gears up to put its customers at ease
Long queues, standstill traffic, truck drivers waiting for hours; is now a thing of past at Jawaharlal Nehru Port. JNPT, the gateway port for industrial India has unleashed a series of initiatives to address the traditional issues relating to congestion, paper work, time and cost. It has now demonstrated that the conduct of business at JNPT is at par with its global counterparts. The number of documents required by the port has been removed and presently only one document from the trade is required and that too is made online. This has helped in reducing the waiting time for tractor trailers (TT). The major initiatives taken by JNPT are switching over to e-platform for all its commercial procedures and improving its road infrastructure to streamline the traffic. Port has also started inter-terminal movement of tractor trailers (TTs) and also incentivizes the movement of containers from and to CFS by rail. These two initiatives have taken a lot of pressure off the road. Another major step has been the commencement of direct port delivery (DPD) from the terminal for ACP clients. The transaction time and money is saved by avoiding the earlier format of taking containers to the CFS and clearing it there from. The port has allotted additional area to the private terminals to facilitate more DPD volumes. There is significant increase in the number of containers cleared after the facility has come into vogue. In pursuance of port initiatives, the shipping lines have switched over to e-delivery orders in place of manual orders which has now made container deliveries quick and hassle-free. JN Port has made significant improvements to its road infrastructure and especially on the last mile connectivity. Port has widened and concretized the critical Junctions on the roads to the terminal. The work was completed in June 2016. For the long term, a SPV formed by JNPT, NHAI and CIDCO with NHAI being the implementing agency has initiated 6/8 lanes road widening project of linkages to national and state highways. This project will be in four packages with a completion period of two years. The work has already been awarded and on site work has started. For regular management of traffic to ensure least inconvenience to non-port traffic, Port has deployed dedicated team of Officers for coordinating the flow of traffic round the clock with police authorities. As a result of these initiatives, the average import dwell time has reduced to 1.5 days, which compares well with international benchmark of 1.5-2 days. Similarly, average export dwell time is reduced to 65 hours from the earlier 88 hours. The Port is constantly striving with plans and initiatives for meeting the increased traffic and business as first phase of its mega fourth container terminal of 4.8 Million TEUs capacity, which will be ready by Dec 2017.

Two Addl. Directors appointed on Dhanlaxmi Bank Ltd Board
Dhanlaxmi Bank Limited has appointed Arun Rao M.G and P S Sreekumar as Additional Directors of the Bank.

Three directors appointed on Canara Bank Board
Venkatachalam Ramakrishna Iyer, Krishnamurthy H and Mahadev Nagendra Rao have been appointed as Directors of Canara Bank.

Cooper appointed MD of Zuari Cement Ltd
Zuari Cement Limited has appointed J N Cooper as Managing Director of the company w.e.f. August 1, 2016.

Rao appointed Independent & Non-Exec. Director of Tata Elxsi Ltd
Tata Elxsi Ltd has appointed Sudhakar Rao as Independent and Non-Executive Director of the company w.e.f. August 1, 2016

Kaarthikeyan appointed Independent Director of Texmaco Infrastructure & Holdings Ltd
Texmaco Infrastructure & Holdings Limited has appointed D R Kaarthikeyan as an Independent Director of the company.

Ojha appointed CMO of SPR Group
Pankaj Ojha has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer of SPR Group.

Kelkar resigns as Non Exec. Director of IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd
Suresh G Kelkar has resigned as a Non-executive Director of IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited due to his other professional commitments.

Kamboj appointed Independent Director of Orient Bell Ltd
Orient Bell Ltd has appointed Sameer Kamboj as Non-Executive Independent Director of the company.

Ms Jain appointed CS of Ashoka Refineries Ltd
Ashoka Refineries Ltd has appointed Ms Monika Jain as Company Secretary of the company w.e.f. August 1, 2016

Sunitha appointed Addl. Director of TMT India Ltd
TMT India Ltd appointed Ms Rendla Sunitha as Additional Director of the company.

Prajapati appointed CS of Aimco Pesticides Ltd
Aimco Pesticides Ltd has appointed Chetan Prajapati as a Company Secretary of the company.

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Fixed tenure of two years required

Perhaps a fixed tenure of two years for the senior most member (Pradeep Kumar - Member Staff) will put all tensions and drama to rest. This is done for Finance, Home and Foreign Secretaries.

Railways

Get rid of dead woods

In the event of the much awaited and desirable induction of a Professional as CRB, the so called threatened exodus by the so called experts of 35 years or so of proven irrelevance would be most welcome. The system has to get rid of the dead woods be it in Railways or any other wing of the Government. Its a tragedy that the world's richest organisation in terms of talent and expertise, commitment and sincerity has come to a state where it has been reduced to beg for its survival. All this is attributable to the total lack of professionalism and honesty of purpose on the part of the "SEVEN SISTERS" of the Railway BOARD over the past several decades. Exceptions will be almost impossible to find. Its high time we inducted someone of proven calibre to steer the railways out of the quagmire it finds itself in. May wisdom dawn on Prabhu Sir !

Ravi

Prabhat

An outsider can't run Railways

How can an outsider run the Railways ? What will he understand from words like route tonne kilometerage, bogie, couplers, brakes, wagons, operations, railway electrifications etc. There are a number of technical terms, which an official working in the Railways should or otherwise he will be at sea and Railway will go to dogs. Railways had been profiting today, if an only if the politicians would have allowed to increase the railway fares from time to time. In our country, rail travel, is hobby of many of the people. People living in Bihar and East travel in one or the other pretext, gauna, mundan, kan chedhan, nak cheddan and the tax payers provide them relief through cross subsidization. People are talking about lateral entry in the Railways. What about in other services?

A Srivastava

Brave and sturdy people!

There were very heavy rains in July, August,1988 followed by incessant heavy rains for 4 consecutive days in the third week of that September.

Sutlej in Anandpur Sahib was joined by many rivulets and the river Swan from Himachal Pradesh. Those ,who have not seen Swan in spate, cannot even imagine the volume of water it carries and the speed at which it flows. So the unprecedented devastating floods had set in the area. Anandpur Sahib has a very unique geographical location. Many big villages and small hamlets have been existing in the Sutlej bed for many centuries, much before when the Bhakhra and Nangal dams were constructed. Earlier it could be reached from Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar area only via pontoon bridge constructed at sarawan da pattan. But then a big bridge was constructed near kahlwan turn and the area opened out. River Swan submerged in Sutlej near the bridge. The area in the bed of Sutlej was worst marooned and army help was accordingly requisitioned. There were reports that a small village Harsa Bela was under 3 feet of water and some katcha houses had been destroyed. The water level in the Gobindsagar lake was rising because of continuous rain in its catchment area in Himachal. Naturally, in order to save the dam the water from it had to be released gradually. The rumours were afloat that the BBMB authorities had released excess water and that caused floods, which ultimately claimed the life of its chairman. Army boats reached Harsa Bela village to evacuate its population. Unfortunately the boat carrying three women and two children and som e brave army men capsized. Army men with great difficulty put the ladies and children on the overturned boat . The area was near the bridge. Everyone was worried as from the bridge it appeared that many villages must have been washed away with this flow of more than 5 lac cusecs of water. Big ropes were hung down the bridge ,so that ladies could catch these. They caught hold of the ropes ,but could not do it for long as the current of the river was very fast. One Harjap Singh an ex-serviceman and one young-man Niku hardly 18 years old, of that village jumped into the river and followed those ladies for about five miles in turbulent waters.These two brave men saved those ladies near village Burj and Gobindpur Bela.It was a great feat of human bravery and concern for the womenfolk. The story of bravery became a folklore in the area.The two children were saved by the army men as they had climbed the trees taking them along, with great difficulty.The army people had reached to safety and some persons left in the village were rescued in the helicopter There was not a single casualty in the area.The two brave men were honoured by the then governor of Punjab for saving precious human lives by putting their own life in danger.

Surinderjit Singh Sandhu,

Amritsar

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