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The fame of Garibaldi spread. Such was the magic of his name that armies melted away at his approach.

Goswami to be Press Secretary to CM, Assam ?
Hrishikesh Goswami is set to become the press secretary to the CM, Assam . He is a private person and a writer. His order is likely to issued In a couple of days.

BUREAUCRACY

Lt Gen Surinder Singh to be Western Army Commander ?
Lt Gen Surinder Singh is likely to be appointed as new Western Army Commander. Presently he is heading 33 Corps.

Justice I H Ansari appointed Chief Justice of Patna High Court
Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari has been appointed Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
(We said this on July 12,2016 )

Tenure of A K Mital as Chairman Railway Board extended
The tenure of A K Mital as Chairman Railway Board (CRB) has been extended for a further period of two years with effect from August 1, 2016. He is an officer of Indian Railway Store Service.

Mrs Veena Ish relieved to join as Member, NHAI
Mrs Veena Ish has been relieved to join as Member (Administration), National Highways Authority of India,
New Delhi . She is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Will Dr.Balaji be OSD to MOS Rlys ?
Name of Dr. L Balaji is doing the round for the post of OSD to Rajiv Gohain, newly appointed MOS, Railways. He is a 2001 batch
Assam cadre IAS officer and presently posted in the cadre.

Jharkhand Govt asked to relieve Pradhan to join as Joint Secretary, DoNER
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked Jharkhand Government to relieve Satya Narayan Pradhan to join as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER). He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

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

Sahab Narain joins as Director (Fin), NPCC
Sahab Narain, DGM, REC, has taken over the charge as Director (Finance), National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC).
(We said this on January 8, 2016)

Rajasthan gets six new IAS officers
As many as six candidates, who were provided Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after clearing Civil Service Examination-2015, have been allotted Rajasthan cadre. They are: Tina Dabi, Athar Aamir Ul Shafi Khan, Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, Pratap Singh, Amit Yadav, Manju and Ravindra Goswami.

B N Reddy concurrently accredited as High Commissioner to Cameroon
B N Reddy, High Commissioner of India to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has been concurrently accredited as the High Commissioner of India to the
Republic of Cameroon . He is a 1993 batch IFS officer.

Vishvas Vidu Sapkal concurrently accredited as High Commissioner to Cook Islands
Vishvas Vidu Sapkal, presently High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Fiji , has been concurrently accredited as the High Commissioner of India to the Cook Islands, with residence in Suva ( Fiji). He is a 1998 batch IFS officer.

Nilabhra Sengupta deputed as Addl Chief Engineer, BMRCL
Nilabhra Sengupta presently working in RITES as AGM, Bangalore, has been deputed as Additional Chief Engineer (Signaling), BMRCL. He is an IRSSE officer.

Rathendra Raman deputed to CONCOR as GGM, Kolkata
Rathendra Raman presently in Eastern Railway has been deputed to CONCOR as Group General Manager, at Kolkata. He is an IRTS officer.

P K Sharma is also Managing Director, Geospatial Delhi Ltd
Pawan Kumar Sharma has been given the additional charge of Managing Director, Geospatial Delhi Limited. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

Ms Amrita Dash relieved to join as Asst Director, SVPNPA
Ms Amrita Dash has been relieved to join Assistant Director in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA), Hyderabad . She is a 2006 batch IPS officer of Odisha cadre.

Deepak Kumar relieved to join as SP, NIA
Deepak Kumar has been relieved to join as Superintendent of Police in National Investigation Agency (NIA). He is a 2004 batch IPS officer of Odisha cadre.

R K Arora gets premature repatriation
R K Arora, Additional Secretary (at Joint Secretary level), Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), has been accorded premature repatriation to his parent cadre. He is a 1990 batch IDAS officer.

SAG level sanctioned post of IES transferred to Commerce
A sanctioned cadre post of Indian Economic Service (IES) at Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) has been transferred from the Ministry of Power to Department of Commerce.

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

Shekhar Kumar Sinha promoted to DG, Postal Services grade
Shekhar Kumar Sinha has been promoted to the grade of Director General Postal Services. He is an Indian Postal Service officer.

Nandan Dube is Vice Chairman of DMI in Madhya Pradesh
Former DGP Nandan Dube has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Disaster Management Institute in Madhya Pradesh. He is former 1976 batch IPS officer of MP cadre.

Surendra Singh is Vice Chairman DMA in Madhya Pradesh
Outgoing DGP Surendra Singh has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Disaster Management Authority. He is former 1980 batch IPS officer of MP cadre.

JN Singh appointed new Chief Secretary, Gujarat (UPDATED)
JN Singh has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Gujarat . He is 1983 batch IAS officer.

SC Mathur appointed new DGP of Maharshtra (UPDATED)
SC Mathur has been appointed new DGP of Maharshtra. He is 1981 batch IPS officer.

(We said this on July 25,2016)

Two IAS officers shifted in UP (UPDATED)
Manoj Singh has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Social Welfare Department while Neena Sharma was made Secretary to the Department of Women's Welfare in Uttar Pradesh.

IFS officers promoted to PCCF grade in UP (UPDATED)
As many as 15 IFS officers have been promoted to the grade of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) in Uttar Pradesh. They are: C L Manikant, Pawan Kumar, Diwakar Kumar, V K Sinha, R K Singh, A K Halen, A K Dwivedi, C B Nath, Sunil Pandey, Vikas Verma, D N Srivastava, Shailesh Prasad, JV Sharma, R K Garg and M S Bhuppal.

IFS officers promoted to APCCF grade in UP (UPDATED)
Over two dozen IFS officers have been promoted to the grade of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests. They are: Sukhjinder Singh, Prashant Kumar Verma, Ravi Ranjan Jamuar, K C Gusia, Suresh Chandra, S P Srivastava, V M Arora, Manoj Sinha, P K Sinha, M P Singh, Ajay Sehgal, Mamta Sanjeev Dubey, Abhay Kumar Singh, C V Subbarao, A K Jain, Devendra Kumar, Dr Prabhakar Dubey, Sanjaya Singh, K P Dubey, K R Yadav, G N Murthy, K Praveen Rao, Awani Kumar, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Kamlesh Kumar, Atul Jindal, Alok Kumar Srivastava, Arvind Gupta, K K Jha, C P Goyal, M R P Rao, B C Tiwari, Aditya Kumar, Y S K V R Sheshu Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Vishnu Singh, Anjani Kumar Acharya, K V Subbarao, R Hemanth Kumar, Eva Sharma and Anupam Gupta.

IFS officers promoted to CF grade in UP (UPDATED)
Over two dozen IFS officers have been promoted to the grade of Chief Conservator of Forests. They are: Chaitanya Narayan, S K Awasthi, Sunil Kumar Dubey, Anuradha Vemuri, G Sudhakar, Ashok Kumar, Kartik Kumar Singh, Bishwajit Banerjee, R C Jha, B Prabhakar, Pratibha Singh, R K Tripathi, Ajay Prakash, Deepak Kumar, N Ravindra, Ram Kumar Ramji, Sushant Sharma, Ajai Kumar Srivastava, Pankaj Mishra, Ramesh Kumar Pandey, Lalit Kumar Verma, Ashok Prasad Sinha, Bheem Sen, Sanjay Kumar, A P Tripathi, Ramesh Chandra, Sujoy Banerjee, Renu Singh, Shiv Pal Singh, Om Prakash Singh, R P Verma, V K Singh and S N Singh.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in J&K (UPDATED)
One dozen officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted to different places in Jammu and Kashmir cadre. Accordingly, B B Vyas has been assigned an additional charge of Relief and Rehabilitation while Bipul Pathak was made Commissiner/Secretary, Transport and Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon is Commissioner/Secretary. Similarly, Vinod Koul has been apopinted as Chairman, J&K Special Tribunal; Ms Sarita Chouhan gets additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Science and Technology; Mohd Afzal Bhat as Commissioner/Secretary, Floriculture, Parks and Gardens; Mod Ashraf as Commissioner/Secretary, Revenue; R K Bhagatf as Secretary, Animal & Sheep Husbandry; Baseer Ahmed Khan as Dvisional Commissioner; Hemant Kumar Sharma as Secretary, Cooperatives; Vipira Bhal as MD, J&K Housing Board and Sarmad Hafeez was posted as Labour Commissioner.

Rakesh Srivastava relieved to join as Secretary, NCBC (UPDATED)
Rakesh Srivastava, Chairman, Indira Gandhi Nahar Board, has been relieved to join central deputation as Secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC). He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

G L Rao appointed as Secretary, PWD in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
G L Rao, Chief Engineer, has been appointed as Secretary, Public Works Department (PWD) in Rajasthan.

Dr R Master Manoj Kumar appointed as Medical Officer, Guntur (UPDATED)
Dr R Master Manoj Kumar has been appointed as Medical Officer under the Department of Posts at Postal Dispensary, Guntur in Andhra Pradesh circle.

Two IPS officers shifted in Haryana (UPDATED)
Navdeep Singh Virk, Police Commissioner, Gurgaon, has been transferred to Rohtak while Sandeep Khirawar was made new Commissioner of Police in Gurgaon in Haryana.

S R Mohanty is also Chairman, MPBSE in MP (UPDATED)
S R Mohanty has been assigned an additional charge of Chairman, Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE). He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

NLC gears up its solar power projects (UPDATED)
As part of NLC's plan to establish 4000 MW Solar Power Projects in various states under green initiatives, in line with the National Solar Mission announced by the Government of India, the commencement of construction works for 65MW Solar Power Plant at Block-1, Neyveli was held on 29.07.2016 . This 65 MW Solar Power Plant will be constructed in an area of 325 acres at Neyveli and approximately 2,30,465 Solar Photo Voltaic modules (Solar Panels), each with the power generating capacity of 305/310 Watt will be installed in the project. The power generated from this plant is fed to the Tamilnadu Generation and Distribution Corporation, the former TNEB. TANGEDCO - the sole beneficiary. M/S Jakson Engineering Limited, is the Engineering, Procurement and Commissioning Contractor of this Project. In a small function organized for performing Bhoomi Pooja at Neyveli for setting up of grid interactive of 65 MW Solar Plant Rakesh Kumar, Director (Finance), Subir Das, Director (Mines ), SelvaKumar, Director (Planning & Projects) and Senior officials & employees of NLC and M/S Jakson Engineering Limited participated.

Dr Sarwal posted as PS, School Education, Industries, IT in Tripura (UPDATED)
Dr Rakesh Sarwal has been appointed Principal Secretary, School Education, Industries & Commerce, I&T in Tripura. He is an IAS officer.

CORPORATE


Chandok appointed ED of ICICI Bank Ltd
Vijay Chandok has been appointed as an Executive Director of ICICI Bank Ltd.

Shrikhande re-appointed MD of Shoppers Stop Ltd
Shoppers Stop Limited has re-appointed Govind Shrikhande as the Managing Director of the company.

Munjal to step down as Joint MD of Hero Motocorp?
Sunil Kant Munjal is to step down as Joint Managing Director of Hero Motocorp.

Seshasayee resigns as Non-Exec Vice Chairman of Ashok Leyland Ltd
R Seshasayee has resigned as Non-Executive Vice Chairman of Ashok Leyland Limited.

Vaidyanth ceases to be a Non-Exec. Director of ITC Ltd.
K Vaidyanth has ceased to be a Non-Executive Director of ITC Ltd.

Taparia appointed Addl. Director of Cera Sanitaryware Ltd
Cera Sanitaryware Limited has appointed J K Taparia as an Additional Director of the company.

Sanghavi appointed CS of Shoppers Stop Ltd
Shoppers Stop Limited has appointed Bharat Sanghavi as the Company Secretary of the company w.e.f. August 1, 2016.

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Who cares for improving services in CGHS ?
Many of the surfers on WIC have voiced their concerns on the deteriorating services in the CGHS. We thought someone in Government would take notice of it and set things right. It seems no one cares or bothers about improving the service on which Government spends so much and lakhs of serving employees and pensioners depend upon it. Actually things have gone down from bad to worse. When the old doctors in the dispensary with which you are registered (They now call all CGHS dispensaries as Wellness Centres. What a joke!) get transferred the new doctor wants you to get the specialist's prescription afresh when at the end of the month you visit the dispensary for replenishment of your medicine which you are taking regularly. This happened with us the other day when we went to our dispensary to get our regular two medicines. Who would take a date for the specialist which in any case would not be available before three weeks, come on that date starting from home at 8 a.m be in the Q just to make the specialist write "repeat'. Better go and buy from the market. Even the clerk in the dispensary acts high and mighty even with senior citizens sometimes in a very rude manner. A service which is a right of the employee as part of his service conditions is dispensed in a manner as if the doctor or the staff are obliging him or her. Why the health Ministry not paying any attention to improve matters here?
Aarti Khosla

Are members of elite service most competent ?
So called members of elite service feel that they can perform surgeries in hospitals also. They feel that they are the most competent persons. If it is success, it is their efficiency and just because of them. If failure it is not because of them.
Akhil K Reddy

" Racism in Bureaucracy must go"
The media reports ( WIC, TOI, Business Standard dt July 29,2016) regarding IRS officers Association's Resolution protesting Deptt of Revenue's (DoR) alleged interference into their day-to-day functioning ,is a serious indictment of government's functioning.
The following anomalies need immediate attention :-
(a) Have pay parity among different organised services;
(b) Why should the IAS have an edge over other services at every stage ;
Discriminatory, unjust and unfair. Causes heart-burnings.
(c) Why should DOR be headed by an IAS officer. Functional expertise of the specialized cadre of IRS officers must be recognized;
(d)The IRS officers blame DOR for fixing unrealistic targets for revenue collection and then reprimand them for failure to achieve the same; Secretary(Revenue ) must share the blame instead of passing on the buck to IRS officers. Unethical.
(e)DOR calls IRS association's remonstrance as an act of insubordination. A high-handed approach to please the political masters.
(f) Why can't MHA be headed by an IPS officer; Financial Services by a professional banker; DPE by a turn-around professional from public sector, Revenue Secretary should be an IRS officer and so on. Why allow these sinecures to be monopolized by one Service, alone ?
No wonder, the situation could reach a flashpoint, once other disgruntled Services jump into the fray. Successive governments at the Centre have been busy cultivating their favourites instead of addressing the genuine concerns of organized Services. There is a simmering discontentment in all Services that might adversely impact GoI's image.
One trusts, PM Modi does not go the same way. He must take the call and rein in the elite service. Blind reliance on one set of civil servants, is detrimental to Good governance.
A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)

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