National Security Council (NSC) is likely to be reconstituted. A number of members are likely to be inducted.

Power corridors say that number of 1987 batch IAS officers to be empanelled  to the rank of Secretary will  not be more than two dozen because of vacancies.

Informed sources say that this time an IPS officer is unlikely to be appointed Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC).

Who will succeed T K Rajendran as DGP of TamilNadu on July 1. Tie is said to be between 1985 batch IPS officer  JK Tripathy and 1986 batch IPS officer MS Jaffar Sait .

The Government of India is yet to appoint new Director, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad. A vacancy of this post arose with the retirement of incumbent Ms D R Doley Barman. NPA Joint Director, Umesh Sharraf, 1989 batch Telangana cadre IPS officer, is holding additional charge of this post.

Umesh Sinha is set to move from the Election Commission of India to the GoI as Secretary. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

S Masood Hussain, Chairman, Central Water Commission (CWC), is superannuating by  June end. He is a CWES officer.

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has excellent rapport with Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale which means proposals made by the latter are unlikely to be turned down.

Govt has accepted the Voluntary Retirement of Chetan Lama. He was Addl Commissioner, Kolkata. He is an IRS(C&CE) officer.

Ranganathan, longest serving, MD, IGL, appears to be a contender for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, GAIL (India) Limited.

Bhola Nath Shukla, Director (Technical), Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL), has taken over the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL).

Dr T R K Rao, whose tenure as Director Commercial, NMDC Limited ended, has joined Telangana Government as Director, Project Commercial and Fuel Management. Dr Rao is a 1986 batch IRTS officer.

Vinaya Prakash Singh, (IPoS-1988), has taken over as Senior DDG (Vig) & Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) of the Department of Posts. Being a manpower-intensive Department with about half a million workforce, India Post has the distinction of having its CVO at Additional Secretary level unlike many other Departments/PSUs, whose CVOs are generally at Joint Secretary or Director level. Prior to joining the Postal Headquarters, he worked as Chief Postmaster General of Uttar Pradesh. 

Rashmi Siddharth Zagade will be joining central deputation as Director of Census Operations/Director of Citizen Registration, Maharashtra, on July 1, 2019 for a period of three years. She is a 2010 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Minaxi Malik will now be new Director (Commercial ) of the Air India.

Merger between Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank has taken place. But it’s still a long way before senior executives from merged banks get adjusted in BoB. There is an issue of ‘cultural fit’ as BoB work culture is different when compared to two merged banks.

The tenure of Ved Prakash as Chief Vigilance Officer, National Hydro Power Corporation Limited (NHPC), Delhi, is ending on June 26, 2019. He is a 1986 batch officer of Indian Trade Service.

CBIC has issued transfer orders of Group-A officers of Central Revenue Chemical Lab (CRCL). Accordingly, V Suresh , JD has been transferred from Chennai to JNCH Lab, Nhava Sheva, B.Halshet, Chemical Examiner (CE), Nhava Sheva to GOAW,Ghazipur, Perimal Banerjee,CE, from Kolkata to GOAW, Neemuch, Arun Kumar Maurya,CE, from Neemuch to CH Lab, Kolkata, Gyanendra Saxena, CE, from Delhi to JNCH Lab, Nhava Sheva, Pradeep Marro, CE, from Vadodara to CRCL, New Delhi and Vinod Kumar, CE, is going from Ghazipur to C.Ex & C H Lab,Vadodara.

As many as 32 officers of Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS), who were promoted to Senior Administrative Service (SAG), are: M Bavandoss, V Mathivanan, Sanjeev Kumar Bhola, Ashok Kumar, Ravin Kulshrestha, Vivek C Verma, Sunil Sapre, Sanjay MEHrishi, Uday Kumar Sharma, Ramachandra Mishra, Praveen Kumar Arora, Vijay Mittal, Shishir Khare, Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Shiva Shankar Prasad, Subir Kumar Saha, p K Bummerkar, Vijay Badlu Kuril, Salil Kumar Sarkar, Abhbijit Banik, Shiv Babu, Gyanendu Kumar Choudhary, Praveen Kumar, Rajiv Srivastava, Muralidhar Pandey, G Krishna KIshore, Anuj Kishore Prasad, Ilage Tari, Alok Kr Agrawal, Sharad Kumar Maltare, P Satyanand Kumar and Vinod Aggarwal.

CGDA has issued the transfer orders of two IDAS officers. Accordingly, A Mandal of 2011 batch has been posted as IFA, 4 Corps, Tezpur and R V S Phungreihor of 2012 batch is going to Dimapur, as IFA, 3 Corps.

Three HAG and seven SAG officers of IDAS has got new postings. Accordingly, Alok Chaturvedi of 1985 batch will be PCDA(R&D), New Delhi, SPN Singh of 1986 batch has been posted as PIFA(Coast Guard), New Delhi and Mrs. Shashi Bala Srivastava of 1989 batch joins as PCDA , Bangalore. Among SAG officers, Santosh Kumar of 1990 batch has been shifted from Meerut to Hq CGDA, New Delhi, K Venkata Rao of 1994 batch has been posted as CDA, Secundrabad, K. Balakrishna of 1996 batch will be new IFA (Navy), ENC, Vizag, T Rambabu of 1996 batch is joining Hyderabad as IFA (R&D) MSS Cluster, Roshan Lal Hegi of 1996 batch has been transferred from Delhi to Avadi

Indian Telecom Service Association (ITSA) has strongly condemned brutal assault perpetrated on the doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.

Vice Admiral R B Pandit, AVSM has assumed charge as Chief of Staff, Western Naval Command in Mumbai.

Rajgopal Sharma has been appointed as CIT (OSD) in the office of Principal CCIT, Delhi. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Organizations can use human resources better through organized training programs and skill up-gradation of their employees. It’s a known concept in Organization Management. The magnanimous effect of this powerful concept, if applied in a PSU, would not have been gauzed till recently the principle was applied by HR team in SECL.

It would be pertinent to state here that during FY 2017-18, a total of 1617 employees were absorbed in various skilled jobs through internal selection. A few of the designations at which the employees were absorbed were Mining Sirdar, Shovel Operator, Pay-Loader, Dumper Operator, Dozer Operator, Grader Operator, Security Personnel, Pharmacist, etc. An opportunity of growth within the organization was a well-received HR initiative in SECL. Now such efforts have become routine in SECL. New ideas and innovations in HR are appreciated and if found viable are immediately implemented. The success of such initiatives can now be overtly seen in positive work culture in SECL.In a recent HR initiative, SECL under the Apprenticeship Act, had selected youths for a defined period of apprentice. They have been gainfully employed and assigned woks that donot only enrich their skills & knowledge but also enhances their employability. During FY 2019-20, SECL has already initiated process to take 5500 apprentice in various disciplines. The relentless efforts of SECL’s HR team has been successful in creating a worthy culture based on human values and mutual acceptance. SECL story is like realization of a great dream. But knowing the inside story, one would never falter to realize the quantum of meticulous planning and crisp execution that has made the initiative, the one of high impact. The change is clearly visible in the organizational results. SECL is now a coal mining company that produces humongous 157.35 Million Tonnes of Coal, the highest production by any single largest coal company. Experiments are carried out. Some succeed, some fail and some change the way we look at the world. SECL story beckons to revisit the old systems and adopt new culture of positive change, impactful innovations and higher organizational values.

Three officers of Indian Statistical Service (ISS): Rakesh Kumar, B N Tiwari and Tapas Kumar Sanyal have been promoted to the grade of Director General and given new postings. Accordingly, Rakesh Kumar has been appointed as DG (Survey), NSSO, MoSPI, Delhi, while B N Tiwari was posted as DG (Statistics), Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi and Tapas Kumar Sanyal is DG (Social Statistics), CSO, MoSPI, New Delhi.

As many as nine officers of Indian Statistical Service (ISS) have been promoted to the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). They are: Arun Kumar Biswas, S Krishnamurthy, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Ashok Kumar Toprani, Asis Kumar Ray, Pawan Kumar Dhamija, Naresh Kumar Sharma, Madan Mohan and Rakesh Kumar Kamra

Two officers of Indian Statistical Service (ISS) have been transferred at ADG level. Accordingly, P K Mukhopadhyay has been posted to Training Division, CSO, MoSPI, New Delhi and Mamta Saxena is appointed to DSDD, CSO, MoSPI, New Delhi.

Lakshmi Vilas Bank has appointed Mrs Supriya Prakash Sen as Non-Executive and Independent Director of the Bank.

Pricol Limited has appointed V Balaji Chinnappan as Executive Director of the company.

Reliance Infrastructure has appointed Mrs Manjari Kacker as Independent Director of the company.

Creditaccess Grameen Ltd has appointed B R Diwakar as Executive Director of the company.

Ujaas Energy Ltd has appointed Ms Saloni Naidu as Company Secretary of the company.

Suresh Thakur has quit as Non- Executive Independent Director of Arcotech Limited.

Threatening situations

First Politicisation of Bureaucracy, Then Bureaucratisation of Government Are the public servants expected to be completely loyal to the politician and compromise transaction of official business as per law mandated? Should they be rewarded as ministers for their loyalty to a political leader, party or ideology? Both the situations are threatening to a vast majority of public servants, examined, interviewed and subjected to background check by more than one state agency. The politician public servant manages everything from interview to background check and succeeds in acting too much of an arrogant for long years of a career of a public servant. Once in the political executive, s/he acts like a bureaucrat, forgetting all sense of public service. The issue is: should political interference be continued to be treated with contempt or accepted as the new norm of Indian democracy? One reason why an occasional emergence of a Narendra Modi receives such a warm welcome is the expectation of those public servants who doggedly refuse to compromise their loyalty to the Constitution of India or exchange it for the loyalty of the politician. Can permanence to a changed public service culture be assured by the present Narendra Modi or the future Narendra Modi ? The problem is very serious taking into consideration state governments. Sting operations telecast threats to public servants to fall in line or be ready to suffer consequences (very derogatory to say “boria-bistar baandh lo”). Such political interference with the law emboldens and bonds the politician and the public servants. That is responsible for ruining the image of a great India in just 70 years !

M L Gupta

Prediction went true

On my inputs a few weeks ago, you had predicted that NS Nigam, IAS posted as MD West Bengal Transport Corporation would become next Secretary, Transport Department succeeding the then Principal Secretary, BP Gopalika, IAS. The prediction went true this week. Please post the message in your site for information of all concerned.

Rabindra Nath Sarkar

Anger will not help Mamta Bannerji !

Doctors are on strike in many parts of the country in sympathy with the doctors in Calcutta. Who is responsible for this sorry state of affairs where common people are suffering ? Decidedly the Chief Minister of West Bengal who not only failed to handle the doctors' strike tactfully but added fuel to the fire. What after all the doctors are wanting ? Safety against violence from the patients ' relatives who sometime in their grief on losing a kin lose all sense of proportion. Doctors are not God .They can give care and treatment for cure but then they also cannot save if a patient is dying. What happened in the hospital in Calcutta was truly repugnant. Doctors were beaten up so mercilessly by the relatives of a person who died that one of them landed up in ICU. The anger of the doctor community on this episode is understandable. Instead of condemning and threatening the doctors Mamta Bannerji should have taken some action to ensure their safety so that such attacks do not happen again. It seems the electoral reverses in West Bengal in Lok Sabha elections have rattled her so much that she is not able to think properly or concentrate on governance. Calmness not anger can help her in showing her the way to reclaim her lost ground.

Aarti Khosla

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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