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When the war began, early in August 1914, all the world looked at Belgium and the northern frontier of France .

Jharkhand is no longer backward state !

The way Jharkhand business summit was conducted and drew big names has drawn widespread praise in the country. Credit goes to low profile Chief Minister Raghubar Das and his team of bureaucrats who played a major role in making the event a great success.

Is Naveen Patnaik's magic fading?

BJP's unexpected success in Local Bodies elections in Odisha is setting new waves in the political arena of the state. According to observers, Union government's initiatives and programmes are appealing Odisha people .

Local Bodies elections will decide BJP - Sena fate

According to sources results of BMC and other local bodies elections will decide whether alliance between BJP and Shiv Sena will continue. Sources say that SS is likely to break ties if it wins BMC polls.

Belagaam...

I take the 5.13 Andheri Fast. I jump into the train at the last minute to find my Train Buddies Amar, Akbar and Antonywaiting anxiously for me. Today it's Amar's treat and he's brought Pizza Slices and Coffee.

Amar: Motta Bhai ...late....not like you....
Me: (Throwing up my hands in exasperation) Mumbai Traffic....magic ...that I was able to catch the train...
Akbar: In UP humaare Aki and Rahul are doing the real magic..
Amar: Ha ha... now they've resorted to insulting as they cannot attack Modi on important issues..development..black money...Governance ...
Me: What language ..... Akhilesh Yadav (a CM) called Prime Minister Modi a Donkey indirectly ; Azam Khan called him Ravana; Satish Mishra called him Yamaraj , and Rajendra Chaudhary called him a Terrorist.
Antony: All is fair in elections ..
Amar: If a referendum were to be done ...you know who would be voted as the National Gadha ...and we know 'birds of a feather flock together'....from UP ke Launde...it would be ..UP ke Gadhe..
Me: And when Modi takes them on the Liberals and Presstitutes start crying ...
Antony: Mayawathi has rightly said...Modi's initials mean...Negative Dalit Man....
Me: And BSP ...Bhenji is Satkeli and Pareshaan... she was expecting as per rotation ...this was her chance to win UP and get elected ...but.....alas...
Akbar: Rahul Baba said in UP....out of the total dues from Mallya... Modi forgave Mallya 1200 crores ...this amount could have set up many Food Factories ....in Amethi...Raebareilly ..Sultanpur....
Amar: Reality check...Mallya's outstanding ammount has not reduced...the write-off does not mean the amount has been forgiven.....and by the way if you add up the amount involved in UPA's corruption cases ...why Amethi, Raebareli Sultanpur.... ...Food Parks could be set up in every cluster all over India...
Me: Rahul should realize the more he says such things the more Public admires Modi ...and the comment Modi made about the Cemeteries and electricity is abs right...backed up by FactSet ...BJP MP Sarvesh Kumar had lodged a complaint with PMO about this taking place in Moradabad... RECL investigated this and found truth in this charge... all over UP while implementation of the DDUHJY scheme this has taken place...on Cemeteries...in the 2013-14 ..in UP..300 Crores spent of Kabristans.... 0 on Shamshaans..
Akbar: Aamchi Mumbai...look at the way Sena and BJP are attacking each other..
Me: You forget Congress NCP did the same in 2012...bhool gaye kyaa..
Antony: I expect Congress to do well...
Me: BJP will do the best and tomorrow for numerical compulsions if BJP Sena have to come together ...BJP will be the Elder Bro ...I expect BJP to win 100 Wards ...
Akbar: I don't think so....and then this is like a mini General Election viewing the fact that electorate is from all over India..
Amar: Voters will vote for the Party they perceive that will cure Mumbai from the Pothole menace. ..from the Monsoon flooding ...reduce BMC taxes ...don't know why you people make every election into a referendum for the Centre...
Me: Chalo Andheri next Station....parting joke ...Big B should respond to Aki... Aise Aadmi doh hee time aise bolltha hai...jabh uss ke paas koyi jawaab nahi ho...ya firr pechch dheele ho gaye ho...based on Big B Dialogue in..Amar Akbar Antony..

Disclaimer: Poetical Satire. Not meant to influence or inform. With inputs from MSM, SM and Blogs
VJS

BUREAUCRACY

Will Gupta be new Secretary Defence ?

If govt goes by the tradition, then Ashok Kumar Gupta , Secretary, Defence Production, has a good chance of becoming Secretary Defence . Earlier also Secretary , DP was made Secretary, Defence. Gupta is a 1981 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer and scheduled to retire in October this year.

CRPF DG to get extension ?

There are indications that DG CRPF K Durga Prasad may be given extension in service. 1981 batch Telengana cadre IPS officer Durga Prasad is scheduled to retire on February 28 .

Eight Secretary level 1983 batch IAS officers to retire this year

Eight 1983 batch IAS officers who are in the Secretary rank in the Government of India will retire this year. They are Mssrs - . R.Shreedharan KN ,Anjali Pradasad UD,Basudev Banerjee WB ,V.J.Kurian KL , Dinesh Sharma KL, Bhagawati Prasad PandeyUD, Jitendra Bir Singh AM and U.N.Behra OR .

Mrs Neelmani Raju likely to join central deputation at DG level

A 1983 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre, Mrs Neelmani N Raju is expected to join central deputation at Director General level post in Government of India.

Himachal Pradesh to have 16 ACS rank officers

After the promotion of 3 IAS officers to the rank of ACS number of ACS rank officers in Himachal Pradesh will be risen to 16.

Ganai is new CIC J&K

Khurshid Ganai will be new Chief Information Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir.He is former 1982 batch IAS officer.

Will minister get PS of his choice ?

Mahesh Sharma, Union MoS Culture and Tourism is without a regular PS for the last few months. His PS Ravinder, IAS, has been empaneled JS and waiting for his posting order.

Gopal Singh to complete tenure of nine years as CMD, CCL

Gopal Singh, whose tenure was ending in February this year, will complete tenure of nine years as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Central Coalfields Limited (CCL). Singh, who assumed the charge in March 2012, will continue as CMD till his retirement in 2021.

GoI yet to advertise post of CMD, RCF

The Government of India is yet to advertise the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited (RCFL) lying vacant for more than six months. Manoj Mishra, Chairman and Managing Director, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL), is holding an additional charge of the same.

Manish Bhimte likely to get another term as CVO, MECL

Manish Bhimte whose tenure as Chief Vigilance Officer, Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL) is coming to an end in March is expected to get another term of two years. A proposal of extension has been moved to the Government of India. He is a 1992 batch IRSME officer.

Only 44 IAS officers from AGMUT deputed to GoI

As many as 44 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of AGMUT cadre have been deputed to the Government of India in Central Deputation Reserve (CDR). There is a quota of 73 IAS officers from AGMUT in Central Deputation Reserve (CDR) and the cadre authority has deputed only 44 IAS officers.

Tarique Ahmad likely to get extension as CVO, Andrew Yule

The tenure of Tarique Ahmad as Chief Vigilance Officer, Andrew Yule And Company Limited, is expected to be extended for a further period of two years. He is an IRPF officer.

Pattanayak yet to be relieved to join as MD, IRFC Ltd

Santosh Kumar Pattanayak, who was appointed as Managing Director(MD), Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) Limited, is yet to be relieved of to assume the charge. He is former IRAS officer and presently Director Finance HEC.

Bharat Bhushan of UII promoted as GM

Bharat Bhushan Dash of United India Insurance Co. (UII) has recently been promoted as General Manager.

Indu Agrawal empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI

Indu Agrawal has been empanelled for holding the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. She is a 1985 batch officer of Indian Audit & Account Service (IA&AS).

Ms Aradhana Johri appointed as Independent Director, HLL

Ms Aradhana Johri has been appointed as Non-official Independent Director on the Board of HLL Lifecare Limited.

Dr Bharat Bhasker appointed Director, IIM, Raipur

Dr Bharat Bhasker has been appointed as Director, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur.

248 IRS-IT officers promoted to Principal Commissioner grade

As many as 248 officers of Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre have been promoted to the grade of Principal Commissioner of Income Tax. They include: Kale Hari Lal Naick, Shanta Sujata Abrol, Ajay Singh, Rakesh Kumar Kakkar, Pramod Chandra Modi, A K Jaiswal, Laxmi Narayan Pant, Mukesh Chand Singhal, Abhijit Chakravertty, Meeta Nambiar, Pawan Parmar Singh, Hukum Chand Jain, Neena Kumar, Abha Anand Kishore, Rajnish Kumar, Desh Deepak Goel, Madhu Mahajan, A K Nigam, Amresh Chander Shukla, Abhay Tayal, Braj Kishore Singh, S S Narain, Desh Bandhu Goel, Akhilesh Ranjan, K Ramalingam, Prasana Kumar Dash, Girish KR Maheshwari, Sreekant Chatterjee, Harjit Singh Sohi, Anand Kishore, Ashutosh Chandra, Pushap Lata Srivastava, K Ajay Kumar, Buta Singh, K C Ghumaria, R P Srivastava, Kishan Lal Maheshwari, Arun S Bhatnagar, Binay Kumar Jha, Gauri Shankar Singh, Rakesh Mohan Garg, K K Arumugam, G M Belagali, Sushil Kumar, Ravindra Kumar Jain, Sunjay Kumar Patra, Ashu Jain, Pradeep Sharma, Shyama Prasad Choudhary, Prabhash Shankar, Mukulesh Chander Dube, Bharat Bhushan Nanawati, Akhoury Abhay Shankar, Seema Khorana Patra, Feroz Khan, D C Sreedhar, Asha Agarwal, Shishir Sinha, Subrata Kumar Dash, Vidhu Shekhar Singh, Vinodanand Jha, Kailash Chand Naredi, Kavita Jha, Bishwanath Jha, Neena Nigam, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Girish Chandorkar, B R Balakrishnan, Shyam Bihari Singh, Yog Raj Saini, Sunita Puri, Pragati Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Shukla, Binod Kumar, Rang Nath Jha, Hemendra Patidar, Vijay Kumar, T P Krishna Kumar, Pranab Kumar Das, B Murali Kumar, Dharma Vir Singh, Lav Chandra Joshi, P Ventakateshwara Rao, N Sankaran, Santosh Kumar Singh, Pramod Kumar Gupta, Narender Prasad Sinha, Rajani Kant Gupta, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Virender Kumar Saksena, Yogender Kumar Batra, Vinod Kumar Pandey, Shambhu Dutta Jha, Satish Kumar Gupta, Kishore KR Vyawahare, Davendra Shankar, Krishan Mohan Prasad, Raman Kumar Goyal, Om Prakash Kakralia, Praveen Kumar, Ajay Kumar Chauhan, Suraj Bhan, Manoj Kumar Singh, Rakesh Suri, Anil Kumar Jain, Ashok Kumar Sinha, Sangeeta Gupta, Sunali Arora, Anuradha Bhatia, Usha S Nair, Ajai Das Mehrotra, Samir Mukhopadhyay, Rajiv Jain, Ravindra KR Srivastava, Suresh Kumar Mittal, Shafiqur Rahman Mallik, Niraj Nabh Kumar, Rashmi Saxena Sahni, I Vijay Kumar, Alka Tyagi, T Sasi Kumar, S S S Bharamarbar Ray, Ajay Kumar, P Sridhar, Pradosh Chandra Mohanty, S K Choudhary, Venigalla Naga Prasad, Rajib Kumar Hota, Anirudh Rai, Surinderjit Singh, Vinay Kumar, J S Naurath, Sukhpal Meena, Jugesh CH Pegu, Kalu Ram Meena, Om Prakash Meena, Hukam Chand Negi, Prakash Chandra, Sunil Kumar Ojha, Virendra Singh, P K Ambastha, P S Punia, Girija Dayal, Ashim Kumar, Himalini Kashyap, I Sasikala, A K Satapathy, Om Prakash Mehra, V Mahalingam, Anil Mehta, Ajay Pal Singh, M Tirumal Kumar, Manoj Kumar Dubey, Narender Singh, Arun Kumar Thatai, Tapaskumar Dutta, Kantipudi Krishana Rao, Rananjay Singh, Harish Kumar, Bharatendu Pratap Singh, Sushil Kumar Agrawal, Promod Nangia, J B Mahapatra, Anjali Tiwari, D P Semwal, Nilimesh Barua, G V Gopalal Rao, Anu J Singh, Shefali Shah, D V Reddy, Chitta Ranjan Pati, Ravinder Singh Gill, Geetmala Mohananey, Manas Shankar Ray, Nitya Nand Mishra, Pravin Verma, Raghubir Sharan Upadhayay, Satbir Singh, Amit Jain, Davendra Nath Mishra, Anuja Sarangi, Hemant Kumar Sarangi, Kan Ram Meghwal, S R Sikder, Jagdish, Manik Lal Karmakar, H L Dihana, Vijay Kumar, Chet Ram, K Timothy Zimik, D P Haokip, Chandra Shekhar Prasad, R S Meena, Pritam Singh, Anuradha Mukerjee, Sandeep Kapoor, Ravindra Kumar, Anand Kumar Agarwal, Aji Kumar Sinha, Chhavi Anupam, Patanjali, Arvind Kumar, Shiv Dayal Srivastava, Smita Jhingran, S Venkateswarulu, Durga Charan Dash, Nabin Kumar Pradhan, R Bhama, Pramod Kumar Srivastava, Nageshwara Rao Koripalli, Pramod Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Paliwal, Satyakam Mishra, Mahendra Singh, Susie S Varghese, Nitin Gupta, Dinesh Chander Patwari, Saroj Deswal, Ronmoy Das, Sridhar Karavadi, Atul Pranay, Ruby Srivastava, Kaushalendra Singh, Devashsish Roy Choudhary, Md Wasimul Haque, Avinash Kishore Sahay, Rajiv Kumar Nabar, Sangeeta Singh, Pawan Singh Tomar, Bommarddy Gangadhara Reddy, Arvind Kumar, Suresh Singh Panwar, T Tonsing, Anil Kumar, Shri Krishna, Prem Prakash, Jagtar Singh, Shyam Kumar, Sailendra Mamidi, A Vasantha Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Rakesh Bashkar, Ramesh Kumar, Lekha Kumar, Ashutosh Dikshit, Sadhana Shanker, Pragya Sahay Saksena and Ramesh Kumar Yadav.

MMTC gets three Independent Directors

Jayant Dasgupta, Ranjnish Goenka and Rajendrasinh Rajatsinh Jadeja have been appointed as Non-official Independent Director on the Board of MMTC.

3 IAS officers promoted to Principal Secretary grade in Bihar

Three IAS officers of 1992 batch have been promoted to Principal Secretary grade in Bihar. They are: Arunish Chawla, Hukum Singh Meena and Ravi Manubhai Parmar.

Three new posts of GM in AAI ?

Three new posts of GM in Vizak,Indore and Varanasi in the Airports of Authority are reportedly being created.

Four IAS officers get new assignments in Chhattisgarh

N K Aswal has been appointed as ACS, Planning, Economic & Statistics, 20 Points Programme Implementation while S K Kujur was given an additional charge of Higher Education and Subrat Sahu gets an additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs. Besides, Ms Rina Baba Saheb Kangale has been appointed as Special Secretary, Tribal and Scheduled Caste Welfare, OBC and Minority Development in Chhattisgarh.

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Karnataka

More than one dozen officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted to different places in Karnataka. Accordingly, P Ravi Kumar has been appointed as ACS, Forest, Ecology & Environment with additional charge of Animal Husbandry & Fisheries while Ms Renuka Chidambaram was made Principal Secretary, Planning, Programme Monitoring & Statistics and Dr Rajneesh Goel is ACS, Energy with additional charge of Youth Empowerment & Sports. Similarly, Ms V Manjula has been appointed as ACS, Health & Family Welfare; S R Umashankar as Managing Director, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation; Rajender Kumar Kataria as Secretary, MSME & Mines, Commerce & Industries; S S Pattanashetty as Secretary, Cooperation; Mrs Priyanka Mary Francis as Deputy Commissioner, Udupi; T Venkatesh as MD, Mysuru Sugar Company Limited; Anirudh Sravan as CEO, special Purpose Vehicle Smart City Tumakuru with additional charge of same post, Davanagere and MS Hephisba Rani Korlapati was posted as CEO, Kalaburagi Zilla Panchayat.

Ravi Dhawan posted as Joint Secretary, Urban Development in Delhi Govt (UPDATED)

Ravi Dhawan has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Urban Development in Government of Delhi. He is a 2011 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Bihar (UPDATED)

Lalan G has been appointed as Commissioner of Koshi division while Aditya Kumar Das was made Managing Director, Beverage Corporation, Patna and Birendra Kumar Mishra is Director, Land Record, Revenue with additional charge of Land Reforms. Besides, Mithilesh Mishra has been appointed to Katihar district Magistrate in Bihar.

Srivatsa Krishan appointed as Secretary, Public Enterprises in Karnataka (UPDATED)

Srivatsa Krishna has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises in Karnataka. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

DVC's pavilion at Momentum Jharkhand (UPDATED)
Two days Global Investors' Summit 'Momemtum Jharkhand' was organized at Khelgaon Complex, Ranchi on February 16 and 17, 2017. On this occasion, DVC also installed a pavilion along with hundreds of other companies. Andrew WK Langstieh, Chairman, P K Mukhopadhyay, Member-Secretary and other senior officials of DVC visited the stall and went through all the panels displaying various welfare works in the field of education, health, environment, drinking water etc. done by DVC under the CSR Programme in the State of Jharkhand. The SUMMIT was inaugurated by Arun Jaitley, Finance Minster, Govt. of India in presence of Raghubar Das, Chief Minister, Jharkhand and other Central and State Ministers as well as high profile dignitaries and industrialists.


Dhananjay Dewangan confirmed in IAS (UPDATED)
Dhananjay Dewangan has been confirmed in Indian Administrative Service. He is a 2005 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

CBI registers case against President, Dental Council of India (UPDATED)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against President, Dental Council of India, Delhi; former Officiating Secretary, DCI; Chairman of a Dental College & Hospital based at Garhwa; then VC of a University based at Palamu and others on the charges of committing frauds.

Ajay Tyagi repatriated to his parent cadre (UPDATED)
Ajay Tyagi, Additional Secretary, Economic Affairs, has been repatriated to his parent cadre. He is a 1984 batch IAS of HP cadre.

CORPORATE

Ahuja is ED of RBL Bank Ltd.

RBL Bank Limited has appointed Rajeev Ahuja, Head-Strategy , Retail, Transaction Banking and Financial Inclusion as Executive Director of the Bank .

Sonavaria quits as Non-Exec. Director of Piramal Phytocare Ltd.

Dr Vandana Sonavaria has quit as Non- Executive, Non Independent Director of Piramal Phytocare Ltd.

Kachhap is Non Exec. Director of Amsons Apparels Ltd.

Amsons Apparels Ltd has appointed Agusteen Kachhap as Non Executive Director of the company.

Nair quits as Independent Director of Maestros Electronics & Telecommunications Systems Ltd.

Muralidharan Karathedathuraman Nair has quit as Independent Director of Maestros Electronics & Telecommunications Systems Ltd due to his other professional commitments.

Ms Patkar quits as CS of Elpro International Ltd.

Ms Rashmi Patkar has quit as Company Secretary of Elpro International Ltd.

Elfrink is Non Exec. Director of CyberTech Systems and Software Ltd.

CyberTech Systems and Software Ltd has appointed Willem Elfrink as Non-Executive and Non-Independent Director of the company.

Khanna is Addl. Director of RLF Ltd.

RLF Ltd has appointed Ashish Khanna as an Additional Director of the company.

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CBDT slept over promotions of IRS

Officers of Other services like IPS/IAAS/IFS/IRTS etc, are getting timely promotions to the grade of JS/AS but despite the best work being done by the IRS officers, they are not getting promotions. The Government has given a letter of commendation to the CBDT, but, this piece of paper is useless if they are far far behind the other services in promotions.

S K Singh

Ideal decision for decision makers by Prime Minister --

Decision for decision makers by Hon. Prime Minister by allowing married IAS and IPS couple to get posting at one station is a great relief to married IAS and IPS couple and certainly a remarkable decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As per long existing practice after marriage of each of such IAS and IPS couple has to apply to DOPT through proper channel with request to get posting at one common station which itself is a complicated task for decision makers of DOPT due to various administrative reasons. one can understand details of complication through Minutes of meeting dtd 1-9-2015 issued by DOPT ( in public domain) can be accessed through link below:
http://www.geod.in/dopt-orders/dopt-on-31082015-to-consider-the-cases-of-inter-cadre-deputation-inter-cadre-transfer-requiring-relaxation-of-provisions-of-the-guidelines.

S Bhatnagar

Encouraging Step

Finance Minister has made a encouraging proposal during the presentation of Budget 2017 that first time return filer will not be subjected to scrutiny. This is progressive approach and may result in widening the tax net and increase revenue as this will allay the fear of problems faced during scrutiny. If the tax rules are further simplified e.g. tax payers whose income is below 5 lakhs are not subjected to scrutiny, the tax compliance will be much higher and there will be increase in revenue as the people are not averse of paying tax but are afraid of harassment during scrutiny. If this fear is taken out, the people will come forward and pay the taxes and file the return. It is expected that number of return filer may be double in five years. There will be no loss to the Govt. in this approach. This will be win-win situation for the Govt. as well as for the people. A simple approach may result in widening of tax net and increase in revenue. This can be tried. If results are not as desired, the scheme may be withdrawn immediately.

N Prakash

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