Exactly after one month on August 18, Chairman of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) Alok Joshi will relinquish office. Joshi who is former R&AW Chief is former 1976 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

Revenue Secretary, MoF has reportedly served a show cause notice to Karnail Singh, ED last week over alleged conduct of one JD, ED. It is reported that after this episode ED had gone on leave.

Karnal Singh, Director ED has joined duty on Tuesday. He was on leave for few days. He is an AGMUT cadre 1984 batch IPS officer.

Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Justice Hemant Gupta from the quota of Punjab and Haryna High Court, is likely to move as Judge in the Supreme Court of India.

Gossip mill is curious to know that why one Special CP of Delhi Police  is frequently visiting Enforcement Directorate ? The IPS officer was posted in ED some time back. Only concerning officer can tell his purpose of frequent visit.

 Director CBI has reportedly given clear directive that no arrests and FIR should be filed without his permission. In case, if he is on leave or out of hq, written/telephonic permission is a must for any major action. Now official circles are surprised that why CBI Chief is so much scared ?

The cadre of Ms Anuj Malik has been transferred from AGMUT to Uttar Pradesh on the grounds of marriage to Gaurav Singh Sogarwal, an IAS officer of 2017 batch. Ms Malik is also a 2017 batch IAS officer.

No suitable candidate was found for the post of CMD, National Small Industries Corporation Ltd (NSIC) from four candidates interviewed by PSEB on July 17.

The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has failed to find suitable candidate for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) for the second time. The Board has recommended the concerned Ministry to choose an appropriate course of further action for selection. The PESB had held first interviews on May 17, but did not find suitable candidate and decided to see more candidates. Notably, the whispersinthecorridors.com on its June 12 bulletin highlighted that the Government of India was searching a candidate who could lead the legacy present incumbent Ravindra Nath who bailed out the company from financial crisis and made it a profitable PSU.

The tenure of U Venkata Ramana as Director (Technical), Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) is coming to an end on July 31, 2018. R Srikanthan, CGM, CPCL, is expected to succeed him.

Saraswati Prasad, Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Steel, who has been assigned an additional charge of Chairman, Steel Authority of India (SAIL), is reported to be continuing for the time being. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

The Ministry of Steel has agreed to the proposal received from various CPSEs under its control to introduce the pension scheme with effect from January 1, 2007 in case of executives and January 1, 2012 in case of non-executives or from a subsequent date as decided by the company. The agreement was reached after detailed consultation with representatives of employees unions and officers associations belonging to SAIL, RINL, MSTC, FSNL, MECON and KIOCL. This was announced by the Union Minister of Steel in New Delhi. NMDC and MOIL have also introduced the pension scheme to its employees as per the Second Pay Revision Committee recommendations.

(We said this on June 18, 2018)

The appointment of Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe as Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, has been renewed.

The post of Ms Mandeep Kaur as Joint Development Commissioner under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) has been upgraded to Director level. He is a 2004 batch IAS officer of Jammu & Kashmir cadre.

The post of Abhijit Phukon as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been upgraded to the Director level. He is a 2004 batch IES officer.

Atleast six senior diplomats are in line to get posting as Ambassador at the Indian Embassy in Japan when incumbent Sujan R Chinoy retires in September this year.

The Central Government is reported to be considering appointment of Non-executive Chairman for Allahabad Bank and UCO Bank.

RBI approval is pending for Yes Bank CEO Rana Kapoor's tenure extension for another three years even as the Bank's Board had already approved it. The Yes Bank CEO's current tenure will expire in August 2018. He is most likely to get RBI approval.

Around three dozen IPS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Gujarat. Accordingly, Tirth Raj has been apointed as DG, Human Rights, Gandhinagar while Mohan Jha was made DG & IG, Prison and T S Bisht is DG, Administration, Gandhinagar. Similarly, Sanjay Srivastava has been appointed as ADG, Law and Order; K K Ojha as ADG, Prevention of Atrocities on SC/ST and Weaker Section; Vikas Sahay holds additional charge as ADG, Training; P B Gondia as Director, Civil Defence, Home Guards; V M Pargi as ADG, Technial Services; Ajay Kumar Tomar as ADG, CID Crime; Dr Shamsher Singh as ADG, Armed Unit, Gandhinagar; Manoj Agarwal as Police Commissioner, Rajkot City; Dr K L N Rao as ADG, Inquiries, Gandhinagar with additional charge of P&M; Hasmukh Patel as MD, Gujarat Police Housing Corporation; Dr Neerja Gotru Rao as  ADG, Monitoring Cell; Manoj Shashidhar as IG, Police Panchmahal Range with additional charge of IGP, GUVNL, Vadodara; N N Komar as IG, Bhavnagar range; Dr S Pandia Rajkumar as IG, Surat range; Anupam Singh Gehlot as Police Commissioner, Vadodara City; Khurseed Ahmed as ED, GSRTC, Ahmedabad; Piyush Patel as IG, Armed Unit, Gandhinagar; Amit Kumar Vishwakarma as Joint Police Commissioner, Sector-1, Ahmedabad City; Brajesh Kumar Jha as Secretary, Home Department; S M Khatri as Joint Police Commissioner, Administration, Traffic and Crime, Rajkot City; S G Trivedi  as IG, Junagarh range; D S Bhatt as Additional Director ACB, Ahmedabad; D B Vaghela as IG, Border Range; D N Patel as Additional Commissioner of Police, Sector-2, Surat City; J R Mothaliya as Additional Commisisoner of Police, Traffic, Ahmedabad City; Sandeep Singh as Deputy Inspector General, Rajkot range; Guatamkumar M Parmar promoted as DIG, Railways, Gandhinagar; Sachin Badhshah promoted as DIG, CID, Crime IV, Gandhinagar and H R Muliyana was promoted as Additional Commissioner of Police Traffic and Crime, Surat City.

Arvind Deep has been empanelled as Additional Director General in Government of India. He is a 1988 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

B B Das has been given additional charge of PS to KJ Alphons, MoS Tourism. He is a 1999 batch IOFS officer and presently posted as Director in the Ministry.

The tenure of G Loganathan as Procurement Adviser-International with Capacity Building for Results Facility (CBR) Project at Directorate General Budget, Ministry of Finance Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Kabul has come to an end. Loagnathan is a 1990 batch IRSS officer.

The Government of Andhra Pradesh has permitted IPS officer, G V G Ashok Kumar, presently Superintendent of Police, Ananthapuramu district, to pursue Ph.D in the functional area of Human Resource Management in Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Ananthapuramu.

Indian Railway is going to introduce trains for religious circuit. First train of its type is Ramayana Exp which will cover lord Rama's places of visit in India and Sri Lanka. Train will be flagged off on November 14 in Delhi.

Three SAG level IIS officers who were transferred few months before by previous Minister are returned to their respective old stations. V Raviramakrishna, DG, PIB, Chennai has been transferred back to Delhi at BoC ( DAVP) hq in the sane capacity. TVK Reddy, who was transferred from Hyderabad to Delhi as ADG, BoC, is going back to PIB, Hyderabad as ADG. E. Mariappan has been transferred to PIB, Chennai as ADG. He has been transferred from Hyderabad.

Posting order of Rajesh Dahiya, Asstt Commissioner, GST & CX, Ahmadabd to OSD in Judicial Wing of CBIC, has been cancelled. He is a 2014 batch IRS (C&CE) officer.

CGDA has asked the Heads of  various field units dealing with Pension cases, to send monthly report in amended format from July onwards positively.

Rajendra Jain, PCSTE, South Western Railway, has been transferred to Central Railway as CSTE while Mohan Chalamalasetty of South Central Railway is transferred as PCSTE, South Western Railway. Both the officers belong to IRSSE.

Simranjeet Singh has been transferred from Northeast Frontier Railway to Northern Railway. He is an IRAS officer.

On return from deputation to IIT, Madrasa, H Anantharaman has been posted to Southern Railway. He is an IRSE officer.

Harishankar Upadhyay has been promoted as PCCF in Odisha. He is 1985 batch IFS officer.

Mahesh Chandra Laddha has been appointed as Visakhapatnam City Police Commissioner while T Yoganand was made Additional Commissioner, Vijayawada Police Commissionerate and Dwaraka Tirumala Rao is Vijayawada City Police Commissioner. Besides, T Ravi Kumar Murthy has been posted as Eluru Range DIG; Shemushi Bajpai as Rajamahendravaram SP and B Raja Kumari was posted as Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crimes) Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.

Sudheesh Kumar has been appointed as head of the Coastal Security while H Venkatesh was made IG, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau and Sparjan Kumar is as head of the KSBC in Kerala.

Sumed Marwaha has been appointed as MD of India Operations of Unisys Corporation.

Ms Khushboo Chugh has quit as Company Secretary of OCL Iron and Steel Limited .

Danube Industries Ltd has appointed Ms Anita Lalwani as Company Secretary of the company.

Simran Farms Ltd has appointed Surjit Singh Kohli as an Additional Director of the company.

Shree Kumar Daga has quit as Director of Rathi Steel & Power Ltd.

DEBATE

Power hungry bureaucrats

The IAS from MP cadre who voiced that there are several bureaucrats who serve the politicians for their selfish needs is absolutely true. This has been happening since decades without a sign of it being stopped. Their education means nothing and they become shameless during their service so much that they stoop to any level to please their political masters. In Maharashtra, there are many such officers who have been rewarded with post retirement postings which ultimately costs the exchequer. Shameless people.

Ashok K Menon, Mumbai

Interference unwarranted

Interference by DM is unwarranted. It is not in the spirit of the Apex Court judgement which prescribes internal autonomy to the police.

Somesh Goyal

Rita Teotia is ideal person

Ms Rita Teotia is the ideal candidate. She is the chosen Commerce Secretary. Any IAS officer of Gujarat cadre would be able to handle CCI effectively.

V Kumar

Disclosure of beneficiaries of the Anganwadi centres

The appellant sought the names of all beneficiaries including pregnant and lactating women at Anganwadi Centre situated at a particular village but did not get any response from the public authority. The CIC directed the PIO of Ministry of WCD to issue necessary guidelines for voluntary disclosures as per the mandate under Section 4 of RTI Act for the guidance of all Child Development Project Officers, ICDS Project to provide complete information voluntarily on their websites, which would eventually benefit the appellant also. The CIC directed that all CDPOs of ICDS project all over the country to voluntarily publish the month-wise expenditure incurred for functioning and maintenance of Anganwadi centres, names of the beneficiaries, details of benefits regularly on their website and display the printed copies conspicuously on notice board.

Comments

Though the State Governments directly monitor and supervise the functioning of Anganwadi centres, this massive programme receives around 50% of the funds (Rs. 16,000 crores approximately) from the Central Government. Section 4(1)(b) of RTI Act, clause (xii) mandates voluntary disclosure of the manner of execution of subsidy programs, including the amounts allocated and the details of beneficiaries of such programs; and under clause (xiii) the particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by it. Therefore, it is the mandatory duty of the every public authority to disclose complete details of money spent on subsidy program like that of the ICDS on Anganwadies including the details of each individual beneficiary of this program.

Citation: : Myathari Janardhan v. PIO, MOWCD in CIC/MOWCD/A/2017/166012 Date of Decision – 10.07.2018

Dr. Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in) is the co-author of the books: RIGHT TO INFORMATION – LAW AND PRACTICand PIO’s guide to RTI. Her other articles can be read at the website of RTI Foundation of India at - http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/

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