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This is History (366)
Most of the anarchist leaders, were extraordinarily gentle, idealistic and likeable in their private lives.

Who will be BJP's CM Face in UP? (3)
If sources are to be believed, BJP is likely to choose CM face from among the five prominent leaders. They are active in national and State politics.

Why AAP leaders are nervous ?
Relations between the Union govt and the AAP govt have never been cordial and after the judgement of Delhi HC it has become more strained. AAP leaders are said to be more nervous after the appointment of an expert committee by the LG. The Committee will review about 400 decisions taken by the Kejariwal govt during last one and a half year. According to sources, the committee is likely to indict the AAP govt on some issues . If such thing happens than LG will be able to null and void various decisions of the state govt.

Will 21 AAP MLAs be disqualified ?
Fingers are crossed whether Election Commission ( EC) would disqualify the 21 MLAs of ruling AAP. These MLAs have been appointed Parliamentary Secretaries by the AAP govt. EC's decision is expected any day.

BUREAUCRACY

J&K DGP to get extension !
In all probability, J&K DGP K Rajendra Kumar will get extension in service on October 1. 1984 batch IPS officer Rajendra Kumar is scheduled to retire on September 30.

Who floated the name of Patnaik for CISF ?
Why did 1983 batch IPS officer Gujarat cadre Ashok Patnaik meet DG CISF Surender Singh on Monday evening and who floated his name for successor of the latter ?.This was topic of discussion in the police circles.

Who will head NSG ?
The elite force National Security Guard's (NSG) DG, R C Tayal retired today . Govt has yet to announce new chief of NSG . According to sources names of three IPS officers Mssrs PVK Reddy, Spl DG, CRPF, R Pachnanda, ADG, CISF and S.P. Singh, ADG, CRPF are doing the round for the post.

Krishna Chaudhary gets additional charge of DG CISF
DG ITBP Krishna Chaudhary has been given additional charge of DG CISF. He is 1979 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

K K Sharma gets additional charge of DG NSG
K K Sharma DG BSF has been given additional charge of DG NSG.He is 1982 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Lt Gen Rawat to take charge as Vice Chief of Army
Lt Gen Bipin Rawat will take charge of Vice Chief of Army Staff on September 1.

Lt Gen Hariz to succeed Lt Gen Rawat
Lt Gen P M Hariz, the GOC-in-C ARTRAC will succeed Lt Gen Bipin Rawat as the GOC-in-C Southern Command in Pune take over on September 1.

Shrish Gangadhar Bhogle selected as Director (Mkt), NFL
Shrish Gangadhar Bhogle, Chief General Manager, RCF, has been selected for the post of Director (Marketing), National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on August 31, 2016. As many as five persons were interviewed for the same.

Manoj Dwivedi continues as Chairman, Tobacco Board
Manoj Dwivedi, Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce, will continue holding an additional charge of Chairman, Tobacco Board, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh till a new incumbent is appointed to the same. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre.

Atul Goel to be ED Union Bank
General Manager of the Allahabad Bank Atul Goel is likely to be appointed Executive Director (ED) of the Union Bank.

Chandrasekhar appointed Adviser (DT), Moscow
C Chandrasekhar has been appointed as Adviser (Defence Technology) in the Embassy of India, Moscow Russia. He is a Scientists 'F'.

Santosh Jha to move to Washington !
Joint Secretary (Policy Planning ) in the Ministry of External Affairs Santosh Jha is likely to move Washington as Deputy Ambassador.

66 vacancies of Chief Commissioner Income Tax
There are presently 66 vacancies of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax in the country.

Lakshminarayana is new PS Information and PR in Karnataka
M Lakshminarayana has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Information & Public Relations, Government of Karnataka. He is 1987 batch IAS officer.

Sanjay Kumar likely to join central deputation as ADG
Sanjay Kumar is expected to join central deputation as Additional Director General in Government of India. He is a 1985 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

A Vijay Anand promoted to Principal Chief Commissioner of Customs grade
A Vijay Anand of Indian Revenue Service of Customs and Central Excise cadre has been promoted to the grade of Principal Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise.

A K Tripathy gets non-functional upgradation to SAG
A K Tripathy has been granted non-functional upgradation to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) with effect from April 1, 2016. He is a 1984 batch officer of Indian Statistical Service (ISS).

Neihsial to be promoted in Apex Scale
N. Neihsial ,HAG+ officer and Addl CGDA is likely to be promoted in the Apex scale. He is 1980 batch IDAS officer.

Top retired bureaucrats to enquire 400 files
Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has appointed a three-member panel consisting of former CAG V K Shunglu, former CVC Pradeep Kumar and former CEC N Gopalaswami to look into the "irregularities and infirmities" in over 400 files submitted to him after the August 4 Delhi High Court judgment.

Nanda to hold additional charge of FC in Railway Board
K B Nanda, Additional Member (Finance) is going to hold additional charge of Financial Commissioner, Railway Board .

Rajnish Kumar Goyal deputed as GM, RITES, Mumbai
Rajnish Kumar Goyal has been deputed to RITES for Railway Energy Management Co. Ltd as General Manager/Electrical at Mumbai. He is an IRSEE officer.

Ms T M Sreelatha promoted as PMG, Vishakhapatnam region
Ms T M Sreelatha, DPS Mails & BD, AP Circle, has been promoted as PMG, Vishakhapatnam region, Andhra Pradesh circle. She is a 1996 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Anuradha Mitra empanelled as Additional Secretary in GoI
Anuradha Mitra has been empanelled for holding Additional Secretary level posts in Government of India. She is a 1984 batch IDAS officer.

Ashutosh Agnihotri among six officers of AM empanelled as Joint Secretary
Only one officer out of six belonging to Indian Administrative Service of 1999 batch in Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Ashutosh Agnihotri has been empanelled for holding Joint Secretary level posts in Government of India.

Roy S Mathrani promoted to ADC and AG grade
Roy S Mathrani, Director General, International Centre for Information Systems and Audit (iCISA) Noida, has been promoted to the grade of Additional Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General. Roy is a 1983 batch IA&AS officer.

Bhagwati Prasad Pandey empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Bhagwati Prasad Pandey has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

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

Burman appointed as Addl CIT in PrCCIT office, Delhi
Rajnish Dev Burman has been transferred and posted as Additional Commissioner of Income Tax (OSD) in the office of Principal CCIT, Delhi Region. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Esther Kar is now DG
Esther Kar, a SAG level officer has been promoted in the HAG and posted as DG, PIB, Delhi. MIB order says that She will look after the work related to Ministry of Agriculture in PIB. She is a 1984 batch IIS officer,
(We said this on August 18)

E Vikram to be relieved on Sept 2 to join IGNFA, Dehradun
E Vikram, who was appointed as Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun, will be relieved on September 2, 2016 to join the same. He is a 2005 batch IFS officer of HP cadre.

Nagaraj joins as CMD, PEC Ltd today
M Nagaraj, MD, NSKFDC, is joining as CMD, PEC Limited on September 1, 2016.
(We said this on May 3, 2016)

Sanjay Swarup joins as Director, CONCOR today
Sanjay Swarup, GGM, CONCOR, is joining Director (IM&O), Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) on September 1, 2016.
(We said this on Mar 18, 2016)

C K Asnani takes over as CMD, UCIL today
C K Asnani, Director (Technical), IREL, is taking over the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) on September 1, 2016.
(We said this on Feb 3, 2016)

S K Sinha joins as Director (HRD), SPMCIL today
S K Sinha, GM, DMRC, is taking over the charge Director (HRD), Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL) on September 1, 2016.
(We said this on Feb 2, 2016)

Vivekanand takes over as Director, ONGC Videsh Ltd today
Vivekanand, GM, OVL, ONGC, is taking over the charge as Director (Finance), ONGC Videsh Limited on September 1, 2016.
(We said this on Jan 25, 2016)


Sreekant joins as Director (Fin), PGCIL today
K Sreekant, GM, NTPC, is taking over the charge as Director (Finance), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) on September 1, 2016.
(We said this on Dec 21, 2015)

A K Srivastava joins as Director (Tech), SPMCIL
A K Srivastava, GM, SPMCIL, has taken over the charge as Director (Tech), Security Printing and Minting Corporation (I) Limited (SPMCIL). The post has been lying vacant since June 1.
(We said this on Nov 27, 2015)

IPS changes in Bihar
2010 batch IPS officer Deepak Barnwal has been appointed as new Superintendent of Police (SP) of Madhubani. 2004 IPS officer and Assistant to Inspector General of Police (Inspection) Vijay Kumar Verma has been posted as SP (G) Special Branch. Another 2004 IPS officer Upendra Prasad will now be Assistant to IG (Inspection.

Jawed Ashraf appointed as High Commissioner to Singapore (UPDATED)
Jawed Ashraf has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Singapore. He is a 1991 batch IFS officer.

Ajay Misra promoted to Chief Secretary rank in Telangana (UPDATED)
Ajay Misra has been promoted to the Chief Secretary rank. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre.

Orders of Girish Pillai as GM, West Central Railway issued (UPDATED)
The Government of India has issued posting orders of Girish Pillai as General Manager, West Central Railways. He is an IRTS officer.

(We said this on Aug 23,2016)

Two IRTS officers shifted (UPDATED)
S C Prasad has been appointed as CCO, Northern Railway while L Saikia was posted as L Saikia was promoted to SAG and posted in place of S C Prasad in NFR.

15 ITS officers promoted to CGM grade (UPDATED)
As many as 15 officers of the Indian Telecom Service (ITS) have been promoted to the grade of Chief General Manager. They are: Pramod K Mittal, Brijesh K Mittal, Prabhash Singh, Sunil Kumar, Bhagwan Dass Garg, G K Audhya, P Nagaraju, Debi Prasad De, Narendra Kumar Singh, Ram Narain, Bal Kishan, Shiva Lal Singh, Deepak Sinha, P V Murlidhar and Damodra K Rao.

Two IAS officers get additional charges in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Sudarsan Sethi has been given an additional charge of Director General, Indira Gandhi Panchayati Raj Institute while Pawan Kumar Goyal was assigned an additional charge of Principal Secretary, Administrative Reforms Coordination Public Prosecution Disposal, Stamp and Stationery in Rajasthan.

K D Reddy is also Commissioner, Disaster Management in AP (UPDATED)
K Dhananjaya Reddy has been given full additional charge for the post of Commissioner, Disaster Management & Ex-Officio Secretary, Revenue in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 2006 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

7 IRS-IT officers given additional charges (UPDATED)
As many as seven IRS-IT officers have been given additional charges. Accordingly, Ajit Kumar Srivastava has been assigned an additional charge of DGIT (Investigation) Chennai, and DGIT (Investigation) AP & Telangana while B D Vishnoi will hold additional charge of DGIT (Investigation) Karnataka & Goa and Aditya Vikram is given an additional charge of Pr. DGIT (Admn & TPS) Delhi. Similarly, K C Jain has been given an additional charge of Pr. DGIT (L&R) Delhi; Akhilesh Ranjan as Pr. DGIT (System) Delhi; Arbind Modi as Pr. CCIT Bhubaneswar and Bijoy Kumar Mishra was given the charge of CCIT-8, Mumbai and CCIT-10, Mumbai.

Transfers of IRS-IT officers (UPDATED)
As many as ten IRS-IT officers in the grade of Additional/Joint Commissioner of Income Tax have been transferred and posted to different places. Accordingly, Sanjay Kumar Yadav has been appointed as Pr. CCIT (IT & TP) at Delhi while Sanjay Kumar Bharti was posted as Pr. DGIT (Systems) at Delhi. Similarly, Mahesh Thakur has been posted as Pr. DGIT (Logistics) at Delhi while Anima Barnwal and Rishpal Bedi will be appointed as OSD in Investigation division, CBDT; Amit Raj in Data Base Cell, CBDT; N Senthil Kumar as CCA Tamil Nadu; Ashutosh Rajhans as Pr. DGIT (VIG) at Mumbai and Vidya Ramachandran and A Sundarajan will both be retained in Pr. DGIT (Vigilance) at Chennai.

Ex-DG, Mines Safety convicted in disproportionate assets case (UPDATED)
The Special Judge for CBI cases at Dhanbad (Jharkhand) has convicted Capt. Brij Nandan Singh, then Director General of Mines Safety, Dhanbad and sentenced him to undergo five years rigorous imprisonment with fine of Rs two lakh in a disproportionate assets case.

Rajit Punhani relieved to join as Joint Secretary, Labour (UPDATED)
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has reportedly relieved Rajit Punhani to join as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Sanjay Swarup joins as Director, CONCOR (UPDATED)
Sanjay Swarup, GGM, CONCOR, has joined as Director (IM&O), Container Corporation of India (CONCOR).
(We said this on Mar 18, 2016)

C K Asnani takes over as CMD, UCIL (UPDATED)
C K Asnani, Director (Technical), IREL, has taken over the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL).
(We said this on Feb 3, 2016)

Lt Gen PM Hariz joins as Army Commander, Southern Command (UPDATED)
Lieutenant General PM Hariz, AVSM, SM, VSM, has taken over as General Officer Commanding in Chief Southern Command.

CORPORATE

Puranmalka is now Advisor in Birla Group
Chief of the Cement business in the Aditya Birla Group O P Puranmalka is now Advisor in the Group.He was looing after Ultrateck.

Two new GMs in SBH
Rajiv Sharma and Sudhir Thakore have taken over as General Managers of State Bank of Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Rustogi to be CFO and COO of HEG Ltd
HEG Ltd has appointed Raju Rustogi, who is the Chief Financial Officer of the company also as Chief Operating Officer of the company w.e.f. September 1, 2016.

Rao appointed as MD & CEO of SBI Mutual Fund
Anuradha Rao has been appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of SBI Mutual Fund

Gaur to continue as Non Exec. Director of Jaypee Infratech Ltd
Sameer Gaur will continue as Non Executive Director of Jaypee Infratech Ltd even as he has decided to step down as Joint Managing Director of the company citing unavoidable personal reasons.

Arif appointed Addl. Director of Fenoplast Ltd
Fenoplast Ltd has appointed Dr Batul Alladin Arif as an Additional Director of the company.

Dhruva resigns as Independent Director of Fortune Financial Services India Ltd
Nishit Dhruva has resigned as an Independent Director of Fortune Financial Services India Ltd.

Kumar ceases to be CFO of Universal Cables Limited
Sanjay Kumar has ceased to be Chief Financial Officer of Universal Cables Limited.

Ms Thakur resigns as CS of Batliboi Ltd
Ms Namita Thakur has resigned as Company Secretary of Batliboi Ltd.

Shenoy resigns as CS of Stel Holdings Limited
Ms Sripriya M Shenoy has resigned as Company Secretary of Stel Holdings Limited.

Subhash B K resigns as CS of HMT Limited
Subhash B K has resigned as Company Secretary of HMT Limited.

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My reply

The response to my plea was as anticipated. They could not have been otherwise. The question is not whether ICS officers and IAS officers of my vintage were corrupt or not. Yes there were some. And that cannot be eliminated. Nobody as usual seems to have read carefully what I have suggested.
The process of selection and NOT THE SELECTION should be determined by a committee consisting of two/ three noble laureates who know Indian economy and its administrative structure well. The HM is the person who is an important member of the ACC. The presence of the FM is necessary as he manages the economic foundation of the country. The External Affairs Minister is there to give inputs regarding selection for the IFS. The eminent social scientist of India will give his / her inputs as to what kind officers have to be there in the service given the complex nature of our politico social structure. Cabinet Secretary being the primus inter pares of all the services has to give his inputs to the committee.
The committee will determine only what kind of examination, age profile, interview process and training are necessary and not to select candidates as one commentator has said.
Now regarding the numbers arrested or are being prosecuted -it is absurd to think that it is a small number and therefore everything is fine.A district collector is the guardian of the welfare of hundreds of thousands of people if not millions in some cases.If he is caught pants down or arrested for corruption where will the distressed people go.We do not have elected district officials.
Yes the service is the superior most but not elitist. The Collectors do not do ball room dancing anymore as their ICS predecessors did but unfortunately their dance is now to the tune of politicians. Should this dancing to the tune of politicians continue in administration ? This is what has to change. They must respond to the people's interest, enforce laws fearlessly and offer their comments without fear or favour. Some still do and they require to be commended.
Unless the two services IAS and IFS are separated and their recruitment process is changed and their service conditions modified to ensure performance we will witness a withering away of the service as it has started happening in TN with a former Chief Secretary after first being demoted stands suspended as of yesterday.
It is for the new generation to take a call.

We are on the waiting line for our final release.


Sivaraman, Former Secretary Revenue, GoI and ED IMF

Get your facts right
Pl get your facts right. ITDC is being privatized while Air India is still in loss. MPSTDC has only turned around after aq 5 fold increase in rentals. Why not make Ashwani Lohani, the CRB?

Amitabh Agrawal

Regulations on adulteration a farcry

Central govt is making a lot of noise about preventing adulteration in edibles and other consumer goods but the administration of the regulations in this behalf continue to be a far cry. A very simple and effective solution of the issue could be requiring the manufacturer to indicate on the packing of the article itself the method of checking the purity of its contents by the consumer himself. Spurious and adulterated products would lose the market in no time while the pure and genuine ones will earn public goodwil and confidence. Let Swami Ramdev take the voluntarily in respect of Patanjali products. Other players will be forced to follow in no time.

Surendra Sharma


Were medals at Rio rigged before hand ?

While India did badly at the Olympics, the BBC had already started drumming up a campaign against India a week before. This could mean that the award of medals at the Games could have been rigged before hand. After all this happens all the time in cricket matches all over the world. There is nothing sacro sanct about the Olymic Games and they are not free from big betting money and politics by the former super powers, the USA and the USSR. See the enormous amount of politics involved in the anti-doping verdict which was aimed specifically against President Putin. How come only the anglo-saxon powers who are close allies alone got all the gold medals ? The leftovers were distributed here and there.

D Choudhary

Perennial difficulty of govt servants

The problem of pending bill either of TA/DA/ Medical or any other type is a perennial difficulty faced by government servants. You have highlighted the problem and also a possible solution. In this case, the person got the bill sanctioned using the power of RTI. But the administrative staff can try to take revenge by delaying all the future bills.

Swapnil Kudalkar

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