Will another Secretary IPP Ramesh Abhishek be new CEO of the Niti Ayog. When Amitabh Kant was made CEO Niti Ayog he was also the Secretary IPP. Abhishek is 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar  cadre.

As many as 15 officers of Indian Revenue Service of Customs & Central Excise (IRS-C&CE) from Principal Commissioner to Assistant Commissioner level have been given compulsory retirement from the service. The officers include: Dr Anup Srivastava, Principal Commissioner; Atul Dikshit, Commissioner; Sansar Chand, Commissioner; G Shree Harsha, Commissioner; Vinay Brij Singh, Commissioner; Ashok R Mahila, Additional Commissioner; Virendra Agrawal, Additional Commissioner; Anresh Jain, Deputy Commissioner; Nalin Kumar, Joint Commissioner; S S Pabana, Assistant Commissioner; S S Bisht, Assistant Commissioner; Vinod Kumar Sanga, Assistant Commissioner; Raju Sekar, Additional Commissioner; Ashok Kumar Asval, Deputy Commissioner and Mohd Altaf, Assistant Commissioner.

Gossiping are in full swing in power galleries about Anil Dhasmana, RAW Chief. Many want to know will he get three months extension or will be given some other responsibility. But PMO has the final say.

After three extension in dates, the DoPT has got 73 applications for Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). Maximum applicants belong to IAS, IPS and IRS services.

The bureaucrats of Government of India are reported to be under increasing pressure to work longer hours and meet the objectives of 100 days programme of Government. The concerned Ministers are said to be cracking the whip over the officers.

Five IPS officers who were empanelled for the post of DG or DG equivalent at the Centre are still waiting for posting. They are- C V Muralidhar, WB cadre 1984 batch, M S Gupta, MP cadre 1984 batch, Ajay Kashyap, AGMUT cadre 1985 batch, S N Srivastava, AGMUT cadre 1985 batch and M Hari Sena Verma, WB cadre 1985 batch. Will any of them be considered for NSG Chief ?

Chief Justice of the Manipur  High Court, Jusitice Ramalingam Sudhakar  is likely to be new Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court.

The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has decided that a total ceiling of 10 years be prescribed beyond which an officer may not be permitted to be appointed in the personal staff of ministers irrespective of level.

Neeraj Semwal is expected to continue as Private Secretary to Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment, at the level of Deputy Secretary. He is a 2003 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Pankaj Mehta is expected to continue as Officer on Special Duty to Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment. He is an officer of Madhya Pradesh State Civil Service.

The central deputation tenure of Alok Vardhan Chaturvedi, working as Director General, Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), has been extended upto September 30, 2019. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

The Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises has reportedly written to the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) disapproving the recommendation of panel of Dr Nalin Shinghal, CMD, Central Electronics Limited (CEL) made by the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, a Maharatna PSU. The tenure of present CMD Atul Sobti is ending on June 30, 2019. However, there are whispers in the corridors of power that he may be accorded extension for yet another term. The Ministry has doubted the capability of Dr Shinghal, who bailed out CEL to a profit level. Some sources are of the view that the ACC can approve the appointment of Dr Shinghal as Government of India is laying a special emphasis on external competent candidates.

Sunil Kumar Sarder, Chief Engineer (Civil) in Indian Railways Service of Engineers (IRSE), has been selected for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Bridge & Roof Company (India) Limited at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on June 18. Five candidates were interviewed for the same.

Interesting aspect of Dr S Jaishankar being appointed as External Affairs Minister would be that he will always be compared with Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale.

IndusInd Bank had been working on a succession plan for MD & CEO in advance while grooming candidates for the post.

Former Gujarat cadre IAS officer and former Civil Aviation Secretary Ashok Chawla and former MD of State Bank of Mysore (now merged with SBI) Sharad Sharma , have quit as Independent Directors of Jet Airways as no bank-led resolution for revival of the airline was moving forward.

As per official information, Millions of people in over 200 countries are expected to participate in the 5th International Day of Yoga (IDY) on June 21 this year. 

Sanjeev Hans whose tenure as Private Secretary to Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution has ended, is unlikely to continue on the post. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Pradip Kumar Agrawal, Director (Domestic Division), Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR), is in the race for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, State Trading Corporation of India Limited (STC).

A move likely to be initiated to merge the Group B & C staff cadre- Executive, Ministerial and Non- Technical-of all Directorate under CBIC into one Common Cadre. It is said that at a recently held meeting this topic was discussed and it was agreed that all out efforts should be made to ensure that new Recruitment Rules (RRs) for the Directorate are issued as soon as possible. For this a meeting should be held with JS (Admn) and DG,HRM.

The Ship Cargo Manifest and Tran shipment Regulations (SCMTR), 2018 will come into effect from August 2019.This will bring  a paradigm shift in the way the manifest declarations are currently made and cast a huge responsibility on various stakeholders involved in the movement of Cargo and Advance declarations.

Tenure of Shrikant Deshpande has been extended till 21 April 2020, who is serving as Senior Civil Affairs Officer with UN Mission in South Sudan.

Kumar Saurabh has been appointed as Assistant IG, PTRI, PHQ, Bhopal, while Siddharth Bahuguna was made Assistant IG, General, Special Branch, PHQ, Bhopal and Hemant Chauhan is Assistant IG, (Recruitment), PHQ, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.

The Goa government has carried out a major reshuffle in postings of IAS officers while assigning new duties to a total of 37 officers. Accordingly, Michael D’Souza has been posted as Additional Secretary (Housing) with additional charge of Director (Training) GIPARD, Nikhil Desai has been posted as Managing Director of Goa Tourism Development Corporation, Prasanna Acharya, who was awaiting posting, has been posted as Additional Collector-I South Goa, Arvind Bugde has been transferred as the Director of Handicrafts, Textile and Coir with additional charge of the post of CEO of Khadi and Village Industries Board, Gopal Parsekar has been posted as the Director of Panchayats, Meghanath Porob has been posted as Managing Director of Goa State SC and OBC Finance Development Corporation and Ex- officio Member Secretary of Goa State Commission for Backward Classes, Agnelo A J Fernandes posted as Managing Director of Goa State ST Finance and Development Corporation, and Derrick P Neto posted as Joint Secretary (ARD) with additional charge of Managing Director, GHRSSIDC, Sunil Masurkar has been posted as Additional Secretary (Finance), Raju Gawas as Director (Administration) of Electricity Department, Vasudev Shetye has been posted as Custodian of Evacuee Property with additional charge of Goa State Mental Health Authority, Rajan Satardekar posted as the Director of Transport, Prashant Shirodkar posted as Additional Commissioner of Excise, and Mahesh Corjuenkar as Special Land Acquisition officer of EDC with an additional charge of GSIDC, Johnson Fernandes has been posted as Managing Director of KTCL, Agnelo Fernandes as Chief Executive Officer of South Goa Zilla Panchayat, Narayan Gad posted as Director of Settlement and Land Records, and Ajit Pawaskar as Joint Secretary (Health), Ashutosh Apte has been posted as the Director of Mines and Geology, Dashrath Redkar as Additional Collector-II, North Goa, Meghana Shetgaonkar posted as the Director of Information and Publicity, Parag Nagarcekar posted as the Director of Social Welfare, Varsha Naik posted as Director (administration) of Education, Gourish Kuttikar as Joint Secretary (GAD), Brijesh Manerkar posted as State Registrar cum Head of Notary Services, Sheru Shirodkar as Member Secretary of Sanjay School for Special Education, and Santosh Kundaikar as the Director of Small Savings and Lotteries, Neetal Amonkar has been posted as Managing Director of Goa Education Development Corporation with an additional charge of State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, Arvind Khutkar as Additional Collector-III, South Goa (Ponda), Pipi Murgaonkar as Director (Administration) Sports Authority of Goa, and Sagun Velip posted as Member Secretary of Ravindra Bhavan Margao, Sushma Kamat has been posted as Secretary of Goa Rehabilitation Board, Maria De’Souza as Director (Administration) – Directorate of Health Services, Gaurish Shankhawalkar as Chief Officer of Mormugao Municipal Council, Mahadev Araundekar as Additional Collector-III, North Goa, Sarita Marathe alias Gadgil as Additional Commissioner of Commercial Taxes-I and Sangeeta Rawool alias Porob has been posted as Director (Administration) of Higher Education.

Amitabh Banerjee (IRAS), Director (Finance), Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL), has been selected for the post of Managing Director, Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on June 19, 2019. Three candidates were interviewed for the same.

Manoj Kumar Prasad, GM, NCL, has taken over the charge as Director (Technical), South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL).

Muktesh Chandra has joined Delhi Police. He is yet to be given charge. He is an AGMUT cadre IPS officer and was DGP Goa. 

Khadim India Ltd has appointed Amit Kumar Gope as Head of Marketing.

Celestial Biolabs Limited has appointed Hardeep Choudhary as Company Secretary of the company.

Ms Meghna Ghai Puri has quit as Non- Executive Independent Director of Adlabs Entertainment.

Anil Kumar has quit as Company Secretary of Jindal Cotex.

Jinen Manoj Shah has quit as  Non-executive Director of Boston Leasing and Finance.

DEBATE (1)

This Lok Sabha election was also an election like Presidential election in US and Narendra Modi emerged victorious.

Raveena Gill

DEBATE (2)

No doubt about it that in January 2022 country will have Presidential form of Government.

S Singh

Increasing revenue to spur the economy-2

Increasing revenue or cut the expenditure to make the money available for development of the country. Discrepancies in tax system should be minimized. Tax compliance in salary class is maximum but the benefits are not as given to professionals. Professional earning upto 50 lakhs gets rebate of 50% i.e. 25 lakhs without any problem where as others earning even Rs 5 lakhs has to give so many explanation and is discriminatory. Give the same advantage to salaried class also. This gives rise to inequality among equals and divide between poor and rich increases which results in 1% of population holds 73% of national wealth. This should be looked carefully in the budget 2019-20. Likewise many provident funds are available for investments/deduction like PPF, GPF, EPF, CPF but the interest rates are all different. There is need to harmonize the same that is same interest rates for all PF like age above 60 yrs is considered to be sr, citizens. Some of the points worth considering like: 1. Stopping of budgetary support to loss making PSUs and recapitalisation of banks. 2. Cutting down expenditure of non-essential items. 3. Freebies to be curtailed. Subsidies to be reduced instead create job and earning opportunities. 4. Monitoring of Foreign Exchange transaction thru RBI as gate keeping. 5. No tax and filing of returns upto 5 lakhs. Concentration of work towards higher income group to stop leaking of tax bucket. 6. Bring transparency and honesty in the system by creating some examples and lead role. No cash donation even not Rs. 2000/-. All cashless working. Receipt and expenditure to be in public domain for all NGOs, trust, parties etc. and paying the tax as formulated. Govt. will know the details of financial transaction and assets while filing of ITR by the concerned group. This will empower the Govt. to have necessary financial details as may be required in future. Let us hope for good budget to increase GDP growth, reduce inequality, spur the economy, creates more job opportunities, increase in farmers income etc. Good luck!

Naveen

Routine denial of information by CBI under section 24

The Complainant sought information regarding the details of criminal case registered against certain officers by Anti-Corruption wing of Central Bureau of Investigation. The representative of PIO regretted the exemption of Section 24 of RTI Act invoked by the PIO but went on to justify the denial under Section 8(1)(h) of RTI Act by claiming that although the investigation was completed and chargesheet was filed, the prosecution is still pending. The CIC admonished the representative of PIO for tendering feeble explanation without understanding the scope and ambit of Section 8(1)(h) of RTI Act. The CIC also reprimanded the PIO to have failed to gauge his conscience regarding the clear allegation of corruption referred in the RTI Application while taking the refuge of Section 24 of RTI Act. The PIO was warned to ensure that each RTI Application is assessed carefully for the applicability of Section 24 of RTI Act and to steer clear from using cyclostyled replies for all cases alike in future. The CIC noted that the PIO does not mention his name in the replies which further reflects on the prima-facie evasive and callous approach of the PIO in owning up to his acts of omission and commission. The PIO was directed to ensure in future that all correspondences sent under RTI Act by him should bear his name. A copy of the order was marked to the FAA to take note of the adverse remarks of the CIC and to look into the manner in which the PIO appears to be dodging request for information under the garb of Section 24 of RTI Act.

Comments

The CIC observed that the conduct of the PIO is reflective of his gross non-application of mind and irrational approach towards the letter and spirit of RTI Act. It is a wakeup call for the PIO’s to take a notice and not resort to cyclostyled replies to RTI queires.

Citation: B Bharathi v. CPIO, Head of Branch Central Bureau of Investigation in File No : CIC/CBRUI/C/2017/175974/SD, Date of Decision: 06/02/2019

Dr. Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in) is an expert on RTI matters and has co-authored the books RIGHT TO INFORMATION - LAW AND PRACTICE and PIO’s guide to RTI. Her other articles can be read at the website of RTI Foundation of India at the link: http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/

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