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These "Boxers" were a patriotic reaction against foreign aggression and the innumerable insults which had been offered to China and the Chinese by foreigners.

Only one to one meeting?
When various ministers of NDA govt are holding press conferences to highlight their ministries achievements, one minister seems do not believe in Press Conference. He is now meeting more than 45 newsmen to have one to one chat. What is the reason behind this strategy ? Only concerning minister can reply.

NBCC gets six Independent Directors
Sairam Mocherla, C Subba Reddy, C R Raju, Ashok Khurana, Rajendrasinh Rana and Maj Gen Tajuddin Moulali Mhaisale have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC).

Seethaphathy Chander appointed as Independent Director, NTPC
Seethaphathy Chander has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of NTPC Limited.

STC gets four Independent Directors
Arvind gupta, N Sundaradevan, Dr K Rangarajan, Sunil Trivedi have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of State Trading Corporation (STC).

MMTC gets two Independent Directors
R Anand and Balkrishna Khanderao Shukla have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of MMTC.

Baria Udesinh Mohanbhai appointed as Independent Director, PEC
Baria Udesinh Mohanbhai has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of PEC.

BVFCL gets two Independent Directors
Prof. Alak Kumar Buragohain and G M Inamdar have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of BVFCL.

RCFL gets two Independent Directors
Harin Pathak, Bharatkumar Chimanlal Barot have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of RCFL.

PDIL gets two Independent Directors
N C Bhojraj and Prof. Kunal Ghosh have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of PDIL.

MFL gets four Independent Directors
Sunil Vashisht, Dr Hemant A Thakore, C Ramesh and Mrs Vanathi Srinivasan have been appointed as non-official Directors on the Board of MFL.

FACT gets two Independent Directors

K P S Nair and Dr S Murli have been appointed as non-official Directors on the Board of FACT.

Ms Bhavnaben Dave appointed as Independent Director, NFL
Ms Bhavnaben Kardambhai Dave has been appointed as Non-official Director on the Board of NFL.

P N Vijay appointed as Independent Director, NFL
P N Vijay has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of Indian Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO).

Krishna Kumar Singh appointed as Independent Director, HEC
Krishna Kumar Singh has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the board of HEC.

AYCL gets two Independent Director, NFL
Sudhir Jhunjhunwala and Dr Dhanpat Ram Agarwal have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of AYCL.

Raj Kumar Fulawari appointed as Independent Director, HMTMTL
Raj Kumar Fulwaria has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of HMTMTL.

Mahender Gupta appointed as Independent Director, CCI
Mahender Gupta has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of CCI.

ILK gets two Independent Directors
Yogesh Gautam and Ram Naresh Singh have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of ILK.

Manhar Valjibhai Zala appointed as Independent Director, IDPL
Manhar Valjibhai Zala has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of Indian Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL).

Ms Pushpa Trivedi appointed as Independent Director, HOCL
Ms Pushpa Trivedi has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited (HOCL).

Dr Chitralekha Mahanta appointed as Independent Director, BCPL
Dr Chitralekha Mahanta has been appointed as non-official Independent Director on the Board of Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL).

HUDCO gets three Independent Directors
Anand K Pandit, Mukesh Arya and Prof Chetan V Vaidya have been appointed as non-official Independent Directors on the Board of HUDCO.

Panel of Bhattacharya for CMD, HPCL scrapped, fresh interviews onJune 9
The panel of S N Bhattacharyya, Director (Operations), HPC, made for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) has reportedly been scrapped by the Government of India. PESB is holding fresh interviews on June 9, 2016.

DEBATE

In world's biggest democracy- Who can be termed as dictator and why ?

In India - world's biggest democracy - Who can be said to be dictators from among the following. Narendra Modi (Prime Minister), Ms. Sonia Gandhi (AICC Chief), Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi Chief Minister), Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan Chief Minister), J Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu Chief Minister), Mamta Banerjee (West Bengal Chief Minister), Naveen Patnayak (Orissa Chief Minister ), K Chandrasekhar Rao (Telangana Chief Minister), Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed (Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister) and Nitish Kumar (Bihar Chief Minister).
Mail your views to suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com or mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com

BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega SBI Chairman (1) ?
Who will succeed Arundhati Bhattacharya in October as Chairman of the State Bank of India ? If seniority is taken into account, B. Sriram - Managing Director and Group Executive of National Banking at State Bank of India should succeed her. Sriram who served as the Managing Director of State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur from March 1, 2013 to July 16, 2014 has been MD since July 2014. If three year criteria is discussed then he may not be considered for the post.

Empanelment of 1983 and 1986 batch IAS officers under new policy
Empanelment of 1983 and 1986 batch IAS is going to take place under the new policy.

Balwinder Singh to be Member (Technical) NCLAT ?
Deputy CAG Balwinder Singh is being tipped to be Member (Technical) of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).

Will Khan get extension ?
Will Deputy Governor of the RBI H R Khan get extension ?.Chances of his extension are rated high. His term is coming to an end in July first week. Meanwhile , on Monday after interview N.S. Vishwanathan, an Executive Director (ED) at the Reserve Bank of India and Chandan Sinha, another ED are believed to have been short-listed for the post.

Pankaj K Mishra appointed Director, FIU-IND
Pankaj Kumar Mishra has been appointed as Director, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND), Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance. He is an IRS-IT Officer.

Panel of Bhattacharya for CMD, HPCL scrapped ?
The panel of S N Bhattacharyya, Director (Operations), HPC, made for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) has reportedly been scrapped by the Government of India?

HOCL yet to get full time CMD
The Government of India is yet to appoint a successor of V B Ramachandran Nair who ceased to be Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited (HOCL) in March this year.

Choudhury likely to join as MD, IRFC on July 1
A K Choudhury, ED, RVNL, is expected to take over the charge as Managing Director, Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC) on July 1, 2016. He will succeed incumbent Rajiv Datt retiring in June.

Rawat likely to join as Director (PM), BRC June 15
S S Rawat, DGM, SAIL, is expected to take over the charge as Director (Project Management), Bridge & Roof Company Limited (BRC) on June 15, 2016.

Abhay Singh relieved to join CBI
Abhay Singh has been relieved by the Madhya Pradesh Government to join as SP in the CBI. He is 2002 batch IPS officer of MP cadre.
(We said this on March 17 )

10 IAS probationers get posting in Tamil Nadu
As many as 10 IAS probationers of 2015 batch have been posted in various places as Assistant Collectors and Special Judicial Magistrates and Executive Magistrates in Tamil Nadu. Accordingly, T Charusree has been posted to Tirunelveli while I S Mercy Ramya was posted to Erode. Similarly, S Arunraj has been posted to Kancheepuram; M S Prasanth to Thanjavur; Raja Gopal Sunkara to Thoothukudi; Kranthi Kumar Pati to Tiruchirapalli; B Priyanka to Coimbatore; B Vishnu Chandran to Madurai; K M Sarayu to Villupuram and A K Kamal Kishore was posted to Tiruvallur.

Justice Aradhe to move to J & K High Court
Justice Alok Aradhe of the Madhya Pradesh High Court is moving to the J & K High Court.Formal orders of his transfer are expected to take place in a couple of weeks. He is presently Judge in the Gwalior Bench of the M P High Court.

Pradeep Chandra to be Special Chief Secretary Finance in Telengana ?
K Pradeep Chandra is expected to be appointed as Special Chief Secretary Finance in Telengana. He is 1982 batch IAS officer.

Subbiah is now CEO, Alliance Air
Subbiah who was GM in the Air India has taken over as CEO of the Alliance Air.

G Ashok Kumar joins as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff
Vice Admiral, G Ashok Kumar, AVSM, VSM, has assumed the charge as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff. An alumnus of National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, Pune, he was commissioned into the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy on July 1, 1982.

Ms Nivedita appointed as Principal Director, Commercial Audit, Bengaluru
Ms E Parameswaran Nivedita (IA&AS-1993), on return from leave, has been posted as Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Bengaluru.

Dilip Kumar Adak empanelled as DIG in GoI
Dilip Kumar Adak has been empanelled for holding Deputy Inspector General (DIG) level posts in Government of India. He is a 2000 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.

DoPT seeks applications for Director, NISD
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited the name of willing and suitable officers for a filling up the post of Director, National Institute of Social Defence (NISD) under the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment at the Deputy Secretary/ Director level.

Lok Sabha in search of Additional/Joint Secretary level officers
Secretary-General, Lok Sabha, New Delhi has invited the names of willing and suitable officers for a filling up the one post of Additional Secretary and three posts of Joint Secretary.

Vacancy of DDG (C&A), DoT arising in June
A vacancy of DDG (C&A) in the Department of Telecommunications is arising in June.

Vacancy of Joint Secretary, Defence arising in June
A vacancy of Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence is arising in June.

Ms Usha Venugopal transferred to East Coast Railway
Ms Usha Venugopal presently working in Southern Railway has been transferred to East Coast Railway as FA & CAO. She is an IRAS officer.

Ms Saroj Ayush deputed to UNESCAP
Ms Saroj Ayush presently in Southern Railway has been deputed to UNESCAP, Delhi office as Transport Connectivity Specialist Consultant for a period upto December 31, 2016. She is an IRTS officer.

Kailash Singh transferred as ED, RDSO
Kailash Singh presently in North Eastern Railway has been transferred to RDSO as Executive Director, Structures. He is an IRSE officer.

Nikhil Chandra Shukla is new Collector of Mathura
Nikhil Chandra Shukla has reportedly been appointed as new Collector of Mathura, in place of Rajesh Meena, in Uttar Pradesh. He is 2002 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Three IPS officers shifted in UP
Bablu Kumar, SP Jalon, has been appointed as new Senior Superintendent of Police, Mathura while Rakesh Singh SSP, Mathura was attached to DGP office and Ashok Kumar Tripathi, SP, STF, Gautambuddhnagar was made SP, Jalaon in Uttar Pradesh.

IPS reshuffle in Kerala
Rishiraj Singh will be new Excise Commissioner .Anil Kant ADG will replace Singh in Jails as ADG. R Sreelakha will be new Intelligence Chief. Sudesh Kumar is new ADG North Zone.S Sreejinth has been posted as ADG Ernakulam Zone. K Padmakumar will move to KSEB as Vigilance Officer.

Jawed Shamim's posting changed
Gyanwant Singh has been appointed new Commissioner of Bidhannagar City Police. He will replace Jawed Shamim, who has been made the Director of the West Bengal government's economic offence wing.

( We said this on May 24, 2016)

Young IAS officer no more, prayer meeting on June 8
2006 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre Akshat Gupta has passed away in Delhi due to cardiac arrest. 39 year old Akshat is survived by his 2005 batch IPS wife Ridhim Agrawal and two children. His elder sister, Rakhi Gupta Bhandari, is a Joint Secretary in Union Home Ministry, while his brother-in-law Rahul Bhandari is Resident Commissioner, Punjab Government, in Delhi. His elder sister Roli Agrawal is 1992 batch IRS officer married to Subodh Agrawal 1988 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre. His third sister is married to 1995 batch IAS officer of MT cadre Ashutosh Jindal, Joint Secretary - Commerce. IFS Madhav Chandra and 1982 batch IAS officer of MP cadre Raghav Chandra are his maternal uncles. Prayer meeting will be held on June 8 at 7 pm at Chinmay Mission Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

Ms Arundhati is 5th world's most powerful women in finance 2016 (UPDATED)
Arundhati Bhattacharya, first Woman Chairman of India's largest commercial Bank has been ranked in the top five most powerful women in finance by Forbes. The Forbes annual list of the 100 most powerful women feature smartest and toughest female business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, philanthropists and CEOs. Mrs Bhattacharya has moved up five spots from the previous year. Forbes has also ranked Mrs Bhattacharya at the 25th spot in the world's most powerful women in Forbes 2016 list. Mrs Bhattacharya is instrumental in transforming the bank and embraced various initiatives in technology such as sbiINTOUCH digital banking outlet, State Bank Buddy a mobile wallet, State Bank Anywhere a retail internet banking based application for smartphones, SBI Tech Learning Centres for educating customers, SBI e-Pay a payment aggregator service to mention a few. Under her leadership, State Bank of India grew its network close to 17,000 branches and services over 330 million customers with presence in 36 countries.

Justice Vipul Manubhai Pancholi appointed as Judge, Gujarat HC (UPDATED)
Justice Vipul Manubhai Pancholi, Additional Judge of Gujarat High Court has been appointed as Judge of the same.

Satish Chandra is back to Punjab now ACS (UPDATED)
On return from central deputation Satish Chandra has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Local Bodies Department in Punjab. He is 1985 batch IAS officer

CBDT Member Mrs Nishi Singh to look after Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur (UPDATED)
Mrs Nishi Singh, Member Personnel and Vigilance in Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has been assigned the zonal charge of Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.

CBDT Member Mukherjee gets charge of Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna, Bhubaneswar (UPDATED)
Gopal Mukherjee, Member Revenue in Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has been assigned the zonal charge of Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna and Bhubaneswar.

Upendra Tripathy is also Secretary, Minority Affairs (UPDATED)
Upendra Tripathy has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Minority Affairs upto June 20, 2016. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

CORPORATE

Sura Balakrishna posted as MD, AP Seeds Development Corp
Sura Balakrishna has been posted as Managing Director, A P Seeds Development Corporation. He is a 1997 batch IDES Officer.

Vijaya Kumar appointed VC & MD, APSC Coop Finance Corp Ltd
G S R K R Vijaya Kumar has been appointed as Vice Chairman & Managing Director, APSC Coop Finance Corporation Limited. He is a 2001 batch IAS Officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Post of OSD(Admin.) on deputation basis in ITPO required
India Trade Promotion Organisation is a public sector undertaking under the administrative control of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt of India. It is a nodal agency for trade promotion of the country and maintains state-of-the art exhibition complex, popularly known as Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi. Presently, plans are afoot to redevelop the complex. 2. It is proposed to fill up one post of Officer on Special Duty (Administration) in ITPO initially for a period of three years on deputation basis. The post is at the level of Director in Government of India. The post of OSD(Admn.) is very crucial and has important nature of responsibilities in HR and Admin.

Bansal appointed CS of Gujarat Craft Industries Ltd
Gujarat Craft Industries Ltd has appointed Ms Anchal N Bansal as a Company Secretary of the company.

Patodia resigns as Director of Voltaire Leasing and Finance Ltd
Dilip R Patodia has resigned as Director of Voltaire Leasing and Finance Ltd

Kalra appointed Addl. Director of Neelkanth Technologies Ltd
Neelkanth Technologies Ltd has appointed Harpreet Singh Karla as an Additional Director of the company.

Maj. Gen. (Retd) Sudhir Jatar resigns as Independent Director of Videocon Industries Ltd
Maj. Gen. (Retd) Sudhir Chintamani Nilkanth Jatar has resigned as Independent Director of Videocon Industries Ltd

Agarwal appointed CS of Nova Publications India Ltd
Nova Publications India Ltd has appointed Ms Ekta Agarwal as Company Secretary of the company.

Guha resigns as Independent Director of Power Mech Projects Ltd
Amitabha Guha has resigned as Independent Director of Power Mech Projects Ltd

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DEBATE (1)

"No place for dictator in India"

India being the largest, vibrant democracy, there is no place for dictators.No leader can be put in the category of Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, Gaddafi , Saddam Hussain or even the present day Kim Jong of North Korea.
Of the ten political celebrities enumerated in WIC, I would focus on PM Modi and Ms Sonia Gandhi. The rest exhibit specific personality traits that give the misleading impression of being dictators. Sample these. Kejriwal( confrontationist,); Mamta Banerjee ( mercurial, impulsive ); Vasundhra Raje ( arrogance of power );Nitish Kumar( loud mouth of jungle raj) ; Jayalalithaa( Obdurate, calculative); Naveen Patnaik ( ruling Orissa without knowing the mother tongue but, thanks to a weak Opposition ) K Chandrasekhar Rao (opportunistic ) and Mehbooba Mufti (politically shrewd, bound by the Constitution of J&K ). Having said that, let us now analyse PM Modi and Ms Sonia Gandhi.

PM Modi is a leader. He has not come to just sit silently and sign on dotted line like his illustrious predecessor. Decision-making was out-sourced under UPA. Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh was " hired" to formalise decisions taken by extra-Constitutional persons on extraneous considerations. Modi may not be considered as highly qualified as his illustrious predecessor. But, he, surely, has an independent mindset to get the work done . His body language exhibits his disciplined approach and impatience, not dictatorial temperament. But, such an attitude will do more good to the country than bad. To push developmental reforms, a strong leader like Modi, is needed who will not bow before anyone within the party or opposition. Contrast this with the mild-mannered Dr Manmohan Singh, whose reticence led to UPA's serial scams. Corruption can be attributed to a weak Prime Minister.

On the flip side, Sonia Gandhi had been the worst autocrat that we had during ten years of misgovernance under UPA. She was the de facto PM. Dr Manmohan Singh, the spineless and pliable, was planted as de jure PM. By backseat driving, Sonia Gandhi misused all powers- political, financial and administrative, with zero accountability. Dr Pranab Mukherjee's claim to Prime Minister ship was ignored due to his independent mindset.

A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)

DEBATE (2)

Vasundhara Raje is Dictator. Her body language is an indicator. She takes decisions on her own.

Gajendra Singh

Will new criteria lay down parameters ?

Hope the new criteria lays down parameters which are verifiable from factual documents and not on individuals opinion .It is suggested that the new criteria should be posted on the website of DOP@T for the benefit of officers.

S Gopal

Empanelment criteria changed in GoI

Empanelment criteria changed in GoI (WIC 6.6.16): Yes JS Empanelment process in GOI needs to be drastically changed. Presently, the criteria suits only IAS officers at the cost of 36 non-ias organised Class-1 services, including professional services of Doctors, engineers, Law, CAs etc. See the trick. Very few IAS come at Director level on deputation to GOI, hence the process of empanelment of Director does not exist. Officer of any service can apply to DOPT and get retained for posting, without waiting for their senior batches to apply for deputation. There is no process of 'empanelment' at Director level. But since, lot of IAS officers apply for Joint Secretary level postings in GOI, hence they have prepared a 'biased' criteria of empanelment for themselves, which make non-ias officers ineligible. The rules in DOPT have been made BY ias, FOR ias. The tricky rules of biased eligibility criteria for JS 'empanelment' are:

1. All senior batches should have been empanelled as JS in GoI. (Reason - IAS officers seek deputation to GoI on a regular basis, every year, hence their cadre controlling authority i.e. rule-making DoPT itself, ensures their empanelment as JS with an unfailing regularity, every year. Officers of remaining 36 non-ias services do not enjoy this privilege and blessing of DoPT, hence they are out of race for being posted as Joint Secretary to Govt of India. In one non-ias service, officers of even 1971 batch have not been empanelled as JS, till date. Hence junior batches possessing minimum eligibility of 17 years of service are not eligible for being empanelled as JS.)

2. Officers should be drawing grade pay of Rs.10,000 in PB-4 in their cadre. (Reason: IAS knows that theirs is the only cadre who gets regular time-bound promotions in States. Although, other 36 non-IAS services fall under the category of organised services, but their officers are not given time-bound promotions. Hence, they get delayed because of this and become ineligible for being empanelled as Joint Secretary. Again, IAS gets the artificially created edge.)

3. Officers should have completed 17 years of regular service as Class-1 officer. (This clause is ok and is necessary).

Suggested Modified Procedure for appointment to Joint Secretary Level posts in GoI:

1. Empanelment process should be abolished completely, as in case of Director level postings in GOI. There is no empanelment process for Director level posts in GOI. An Officer has to simply apply to DOPT, even if his senior is not applying, and is given posting. He need not wait for his seniors to apply first.

2. There should be no bar, as in case of Director, that all senior batches should have been empanelled or applied for posting as Joint Secretary. In the existing system, cases of all senior batches, say from 1971 and onwards, have to be processed including data feeding of their 10 years ACRs, who may ultimately not be willing to leave their cadre post and proceed on deputation. Why should the time be wasted in processing of cases of unwilling officers for JS, at the cost of delay of willing junior officers?

3. The eligibility criteria for JS should be: (a)Any officer who is in PB-4 band (Director level, Grade Pay Rs. 8700) AND (b) has completed 17 years service in Group-A, should be eligible to apply. This shall make majority officers of 36 non-ias officers eligible for JS posting in GoI. It may be noted that both the Director and JS belong to the same pay-band PB4.

Only the present PM Narendra Modi has the courage to defy biased norms and bring change drastically for the betterment of 36 non-IAS organised services, including Govt Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Law experts, Accountants etc. Jai Hind.

Bharat

New criteria for empanelment ?

Can you please explain what are the new criteria for empanelment ? It would be great if the whispers can put the new criteria on the site

Sugrive Meena

Why do All India Officer have cadre ?

When most of the officers are on deputation, then what is their contribution for the respective state. There is a need to have reform in these services to make officers more accountable.

Subramanian N

DGQA needs to be wound up

If there is one institution that needs to be wound up in a liberal economic and industrial set up, that is DGQA. Every Defence industry should have its in house quality assurance division and products should be purchased on self certification. What about the Defence equipment that is imported. Does DGQA assures quality for them ?

Somesh Goyal

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