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I have many problems in my life but my lips don't know that. They always smile.

Cong Ministers respect each other, in BJP not so
It is now an established fact that Congressmen respect each other's sentiments. If one Minister recommends anything, the other tries to honour it. But in the case of the BJP, it is not so. Here if one Minister recommends any work, the other scuttles it.

Politician - criminal nexus detrimental for democracy !
The nexus between a politician and a criminal is detrimental for democracy. One can see many such examples in Uttar Pradesh and at several other places.

States starved of funds !
Grapevine has it that several states are these days starved of funds since the Centre is reportedly not sending them the funds. Is it a fact ?

BUREAUCRACY

Appointment of four SC Judges this week ?
Appointment of four new Supreme Court Judges is expected to be made by this week end.They are Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court Justice Yashwant Chandrachud, Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar, Justice Ashok Bhushan, Chief Justice, Kerala High Court and eminent lawyer L Nageshwar Rao.

Part of the DEA goes to Disinvestment !
Department of Economic Affairs in the Government of India is being weakened. Major part of the DEA has now been given to the Department of Disinvestment.Any reason ?.

Four vacancies of GM in Railways
There are presently four vacancies of GM in the Railways. Vacancies are in NFR,Eastern Railway, Raibarelly,Metro Railway and Staff College.

Satyanand Mishra in Advisory Group of Clean Ganga Mission
Former Chief Information Commissioner of India Satyanand Mishra has been nominated in the Advisory Group of the Clean Ganga Mission. He is former 1973 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Saurabh Chandra is Independent Director of MCX
Former Secretary Petroleum Saurabh Chanda has been nominated as Independent Director of the MCX. He is former 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Pradip Bhargava is Independent Director of NMDC
Pradip Bhargava has been appointed Independent Director of the NDMC. He is former 1973 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Justice Bhosale not coming as CJ of Madhya Pradesh High Court ?
Latest information says that Acting Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court Justice Dilip B Bhosale of the Hyderabad High Court is not being moved as new Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

Justice Menon to be Acting CJ of Madhya Pradesh High Court !
Senior most Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Rajendra Menon is being tipped to be Acting Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

Amit Mohan Prasad is new JD, ACB CBI in Mumbai
Amit Mohan Prasad has joined as new Joint Director CBI (ACB) with additional charge of EOW. He is 1989 batch IPS officer of Odisha cadre.

Women & Child Dev Secretary V Somasundaran retiring in May
V Somasundaran, Secretary in the Ministry of Women & Child Development, is retiring on May 31, 2016. Somasundaran is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

PS of a Minister proceeds on long leave ?
According to sources Sameer Verma PS of union Minister Water Resources Uma Bharti has proceeded on long leave. He is a 2002 batch UP cadre IAS officer.

Ranjit Kumar to be PS of Uma Bharti ?
Dr Ranjit Kumar Singh is likely to be appointed new PS of union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti . He is a Gujarat cadre 2008 batch IAS officer.

Appointment of Rawat as Director (PM), BRC pending
The appointment of S S Rawat, DGM, SAIL, as Director (Project Management), Bridge & Roof Company Limited (BRC) is still lying pending with the Government of India as the vacancy of this post has been lying vacant since June 2015.

Subramanian to join as Director, HLL Lifecare Ltd on June 1
E A Subramanian, MD, BCPL, will be joining as Director (Technical & Operations), HLL Lifecare Limited (HLL) on June 1, 2016.
(We said this on Nov 18, 2015)

Kuldip Prasad to take over as Director of SECL in June
Kuldip Prasad, GM SECL/CIL, will be joining as Director (Technical), South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) on June 1, 2016.

Long term vacancy of Director (Tech), ECIL
The post of Director (Technical), Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), has been lying vacant since September 2013.

DG of CISF to retire in August
Surendra Singh, DG, CISF is scheduled to retire in August this year. He is a 1980 batch West Bengal cadre IPS officer.

IFS officer's announcement
Consul General of India Toronto, former Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea and Liberia Dinesh Bhatia has made an announcement that " Anyone can meet me at Consulate without appointment on Fridays 10am-12 noon ". He is 1992 batch IFS officer.

IDAS officer to attend DSS Course
Anupam D. Sonalkar , an IDAS officer has been selected for 72nd Defence Services Staff Course ( DSSC) at Wellington Chennai. The 45 weeks course commencing from June 6, 2016.Presently he is posted as DCFA at GCF, Jabalpur.

12 Group-A IIS officers confirmed
Ministry of I & B has confirmed the following 12 group -A IIS officers of 2011 & 2012 batches. They are mssrs-Anuj Chandak , Kapil Gade, Pawan Singh Faujdar, N.Verghese, Karmakar Tushar Arun,, Abhinav Prasoon, Rahul A.Tidke,S.R.Hashmi. S R Dattatray,Ashutosh Mohiley, R.Shyam and Anubhav Singh.

S K Ghotia promoted as Air Marshal in IAF
A V M S K Ghotia has been promoted to the rank of Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Rajpal Singh appointed as Director, DFE, Dehradun
Rajpal Singh has been appointed as Director, DFE, Dehradun. He is a 1991 batch IFS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Ravi K Duraisamy appointed as Technical Member in NCLT
Ravi Kumar Duraisamy has been appointed as a Technical Member in National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for a period of five years.

Justice Mrs Manorama Kumari appointed as Judicial Member, NCLT
Justice Mrs Manorama Kumari has been appointed as Judicial Member in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for a period of five years.

R Tamil Chandran empanelled as DIG in GoI
R Tamil Chandran has been empanelled for holding Deputy Inspector General (DIG) level posts in Government of India. He is a 1999 batch IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

New office bearers of IPS Association Gujarat
H P Singh has been elected President of the Gujarat IPS Association.A K Singh will be Vice President and Vikash Sahay Secretary.R B Brahbhatt is new Treasurer.

IRS officer is no more
Gautam Bhattacharya, IRS (Customs & Excise: 1985), Principal Commissioner, Service Tax, Pune. Earlier, he had a long stint as Joint Secretary in the Tax Research Unit of the Ministry of Finance and considered an expert in Service Tax. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter.

HAL Completes its Rs. 477 Lakhs KRRP (UPDATED)
Much to the relief of the parched land and water-starved population, Mr. T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL handed-over the Kumudvathi River Rejuvenation projects to the beneficiary village panchayats of Nelamangala Taluk of Bengaluru rural district. "We are extremely happy to contribute to such a noble cause of reviving dried natural water resources at this critical juncture when water has become a precious commodity everywhere. Our efforts, we hope, gives a new lease of life to the natural habitat of the region and we will continue to support such ventures", he said. The event Lokarpana was held at village Thyamagondlu, about 70 km from Bengaluru yesterday. The beneficiary villages are Doddabele, Kalalghatta, Kodigehalli, Thyamagondlu, Hasurahalli, Budihal, Kuluvanahalli and Shivgange.

HAL spent Rs. 477 lakhs in the past two years on this project under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by joining hands with International Association for Human Values (IAHV), a sister organization of the Art of Living to rejuvenate Kumudvathi river, a tributary of river Arkavathi that originates from Shivagange hills in Nelamangala Taluk of Bengaluru rural district. The river once catered to 30 percent of Bengaluru's water needs but now the whole river basin is "over-exploited".

HAL sponsored the work for Tavarekere (2014-15); Thymagondlu and Mondigere mini watersheds (2015-16) that included re-charging of wells (202), boulder checks (202), Injection Borewells (27), Water-pools (35) and planting of saplings (15000). The post three rain-cycles at the entire river basin, the expected results include revival of defunct borewells and open wells, protection of drinking water sources, rejuvenation of irrigation tanks leading to agro - horticulture developments, increase in natural vegetation and eco-restoration.

For instance, in Tavarekere mini-watershed taken-up in 2014-15, has already standing water in water-pools even in the middle of the summer. This shows the base flow effect of the ground water recharge that has taken place through rejuvenation work.

V.M Chamola, Director HR (HAL), senior officials from IAHV, members of gram-panchayats and villagers were present on the occasion. Chamola in his speech called for collective responsibility of all the stakeholders involved in taking such environment friendly projects a complete success.

Picture caption (Kumudvati river rejuvenation1): T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL handing over documents related Kumudhvathi River Rejuvenation Projects to the village panchayat member at a program at Thymagondu village, near Bengaluru on May 8, 2016. V. M. Chamola, HAL Director, HR and other senior executives are also seen.

Picture caption (Kumudvati river rejuvenation2): T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL alongwith officials from HAL and International Association for Human Values are at the Kumudhvathi River Rejuvenation Projects site, near Bengaluru on May 8, 2016.

Sanjay Awasthi is new Member-Secretary NCTE (UPDATED)
Sanjay Awasthi has been appointed Member –Secretary of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) under the Ministry of HRD. He is 1989 batch IRS (IT) officer.

Ashok is new JS NCST (UPDATED)
1983 batch IFS officer of Uttarakhand cadre Ashok has been appointed JS National Commission for Scheduled Tribe (NCST).

Rajesh Aggarwal moves as JS Tribal Affairs (UPDATED)
Joint Secretary Financial Services Rajesh Aggarwal has been moved in the same capacity to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs on lateral shift basis. He is 1989 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Ms Anna Roy moves to Niti Ayog (UPDATED)
Joint Secretary Financial Services Ms Anna Roy has been moved to the Niti Ayog as Advisor Knowledge and Innovation Hub (KIH). She is 1992 batch IES officer.

Suchindra Mishra is new Joint Secretary Financial Services (UPDATED)
Suchindra Mishra has been appointed new Joint Secretary Financial Services. He is 1992 batch IDAS officer.

Madnesh Kumar Mishra appointed Joint Secretary, Financial Services (UPDATED)
Madnesh Kumar Mishra, IRS (IT:1990) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance.

Ms. Anju Nigam appointed Joint Secretary, Information & Broadcasting (UPDATED)
Ms. Anju Nigam, IPostalS (1988) has been appointed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

Arun Baroka appointed Joint Secretary, Drinking Water & Sanitation (UPDATED)
Arun Baroka, lAS (UT:1990) has been appointed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation.

Sudhir K. Saxena appointed Joint Secretary Home affairs. (UPDATED)
Sudhir K. Saxena, IPS (MP:1987) has been appointed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home affairs.

R.K. Mitra appointed Joint Secretary, Home Affairs (UPDATED)
R.K. Mitra, CSS(1998) has been appointed Joint Secretary(in situ), Ministry of Home Affairs as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home affairs

Ms. Kalpana Awasthi appointed Director General, National Productivity Council (UPDATED)
Ms. Kalpana Awasthi, lAS (UP:1990) Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry has been appointed as Director General, National Productivity Council (NPC) by downgrading the post from AS to JS level for two years under CSS on lateral shift basis

Jayant Sinha appointed Joint Secretary, Defence (UPDATED)
Jayant Sinha, IA&AS (1990) has been appointed Joint Secretary, Department of Defence, Ministry of Defence, on completion of his tenure in the Seventh Central Pay Commission for a period of overall five year central deputation.

Ms. Meenakshi Sharma appointed Additional Director General, Tourism(UPDATED)
Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, IA&AS (1988) has been appointed Additional Director General, Ministry of Tourism from the date of assumption of the charge of the post for a period of five years.

Sanjeeb Kumar Patjoshi appointed Joint Secretary, Panchayati Raj (UPDATED)
Sanjeeb Kumar Patjoshi, IPS (KL:1991) has been appointed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj for a period of combined seven year central deputation.

G Venugopal Reddy granted Premature repatriation(UPDATED)
Premature repatriation has been granted to G Venugopal Reddy, IRSEE (1985), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment to his parent cadre with immediate effect.

Rajiv Arora appointed Joint Secretary, NATGRID (UPDATED)
Rajiv Arora, lAS (HY:1987) has been appointed Joint Secretary, NATGRID under the Ministry of Home Affairs as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment on lateral shift basis for a period of overall five year central deputation

SAIL Chairman visits Bhilai Steel Plant (UPDATED)
The Chairman of SAIL, P K Singh, visited the Sinter Plant-III and the MODEX sites of Steel Melting Shop - III, Bar & Rod Mill and Universal Rail Mill the other day and reviewed the progress of the ongoing projects besides reviewing the production and operational areas of the Bhilai Steel Plant. He called upon senior officers to give off their best to enable SAIL to maintain its leadership position and market share.

Atma Ram Nadkarni appointed Additional Solicitor General (UPDATED)
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Atma Ram Nadkarni, Senior Advocate, Bombay High Court as Additional Solicitor General of India in Supreme Court of India for a period of three years.

DEBATE
Who should be RBI Governor ?

Who should be the next RBI Governor ? Whether he should be an Economist, a professor, a Banker or a Politician. The term of present RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan is coming to an end in September.

Mail you views to mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Only 135 Customs sites are under EDI
More than half of India's Ports and Customs point are yet to be covered by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Trade Facilitation System. 135 customs sites are under EDI. These 135 sites generate more than 90% of the Custom's Revenue and account for more than 98% of import-export declarations.

DBT Update
Government has initiated Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) with effect from January, 2013 in 43 identified districts for 24 selected schemes. Government expanded the scope of DBT to cover all Central Sector Schemes/Centrally Sponsored Schemes in which cash benefits are transferred to individual beneficiaries. During 2015-16, Rs. 61, 824.32 crore has been disbursed to 30.78 crore accounts in 59 schemes of 14 Ministries/Department.

Kamath appointed CFO of Union Bank of India
Vivekanand H Kamath, General Manager of Union Bank of India has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Bank.

Thiagarajan appointed Independent Director of Grasim Industries Ltd
Grasim Industries Ltd has appointed Arun Kannan Thiagarajan as Independent Director of the company

Kedia steps down as MD of PS IT Infrastructure & Services Ltd
Sajjan Kedia has resigned as Managing Director of PS IT Infrastructure & Services Ltd w.e.f. June 4, 2016

Khande appointed CFO of KCL Infra Projects Ltd
KCL Infra Projects Ltd has appointed Sunny Khande as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company

Sharma appointed Whole-time Director of Monnet Industries Ltd
Monnet Industries Ltd has appointed Mahesh Kumar Sharma as the Whole-time Director of the company.

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DEBATE (1)

An Economist should be the next RBI Governor because he understands pros-cons and causes of good and bad economic policies.He can give proper direction to boost up the sagging economy.

Raman Kackar former DGP (MP)

DEBATE (2)

An Economist with Rajan's commitment should be picked preferably Rajan should repeat term.

Rajendra Kothari

Curb feeling of invincibility

Only 2 years of NDA and the misdeeds of Congress/UPA ministers are being unearthed. The arrogance with which PC seems to have acted in Ishrat affidavits is typically true of the style of UPA governance. Congress/UPA has done a incalculable damage to the services and to the governance - true imports will be known to your readers a few years hence. Not known to many, reduction in annual recruitment of services during Chidambaram's tenure as M/o Personal and AR has led to crucial vacancies arising in services like IAS & IPS. One is left hands tied e.g. large vacancies in CBI and other watch dogs while the corrupt and schemers go scotch free. Para Military forces too are suffering from vacancies in officers cadre. There is no system of accountability of such politicians being brought to books for their ministries to come to sorry state of affairs. The arrogance and corruption will continue to damage the governance. There is a feeling of invincibility among this class which needs to be curbed.

S P Gaur

Breaking the hegemony of the IAS !

Modi has to be congratulated for breaking the hegemony of the IAS in the Central Staffing Scheme. When 36 services are eligible for the schgeme, why were posts of Joint Secretary and above filled by only the IAS? If rank in the Civil Services Exam is the criterion, let officers be selected on the basis of rank in the Civil Services Exam, more than half the officers in the IPS and IRS have higher ranks than IAS officers of their batch. A person recruited through the Civil Services Exam of a particular year may also be deemed senior to subsequent years for this purpose, why should a person ranked lower in one year be empanelled earlier only bewcause he took the exam again and again and joined the IAS two years later, even then at a lower rank than the person in the IPS two batches earlier who still has a rank higher than him?

V Singh

Jago CBDT Jago !

Nowadays there are big debates in all TV channels and print media about the corruption and black money. Basically corruption and black money are two sides of same coin and go hand in hand. In general public understanding, black money is generated on which proper tax is not paid, whether it is direct or indirect tax.There are two major authorities responsible for tax collection i.e. CBDT and CBEC. Recently CBDT has taken a step forward for declaring Assets & Liabilities from the people who file ITRs and having taxable income more than 50 lakhs. It means the people whose taxable income may be more than 50 lakhs and are not in tax net are exempted completely. Jago CBDT & CBEC Jago and start collecting data yourself to find out the people earning more than 25 lakhs. If they earn large sum of money, they will be spending somewhere. Make database of people having luxury cars more than 25 lakhs(data can be collected from transport authorities and car manufacturers), buying properties more than 1 crore (data from real state builders), staying five star hotels (data from hotels), undertaking foreign travels data from immigration department), going in holiday trips, buying jewelries more than 5 lakhs (data from big jewelers) etc. Concentrate on high transactions only. After proper data mining, list can be prepared to find out the people whose income more than 25 lakhs. Crores are being spend on elections. From where this money comes. Start monitoring how much money is being spent by each candidate in various elections. When one billion Aadhaar card can be made then this job can also be undertaken and completed. Only CBDT and CBEC have to wake up. We should learn some lessons from the data published by CBDT that 1.2 crore returns filed pay zero tax then why collect data and waste manpower and energy in dealing such matters. Good luck in data collection!

N Prakash

Man of impeccable integrity

Narasimha Sahu, 1967 Batch IRS, was a man of impeccable integrity and thorough knowledge of his subject. Extremely polite in his dealings with his Juniors including subordinate staff, he was deply revered. He is survived by his wife-Annapurna Devi, Daughter -Anu and Son and Daughter-in-law (Priya Sahu) who are serving IRS officers.

RIP

May his noble soul rest in eternal peace

Anil Jain

Lohani would be best choice for CRB

Have not known many in the zone of consideration, need not, even without knowing any, I can assert with utmost confidence that Ashwani Lohani will prove by his work and worth to be the best ever Chairman- Railway Board. Wish, the Prime Minister with his robust commonsense and resolve to improve governance will decide to appoint Ashwani Lohani as CRB, very early and Lohani will show spectacular and positive results in the working of Indian Railways, the Lifeline of the nation and of overall Indian economy as well.

Kanakasabapathy

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