The person  who has spent  many years in the CBI is Hitesh Chandra Awasthi. 1985 batch IPS officer of UP cadre Awasthi has  recently been empanelled to the rank of DG in the Government of India. He is said to be having support in the PMO.

Power galleries are abuzz that  after  one vacancy  in the CBIC in June end Vinay Chhabra   will become Member, CBIC ? . 1982 batch IRS(C&CE) officer Chhabra is scheduled to retire in December this year. He is a Pr. Commissioner rank officer.

Kuladhar Saikia  will succeed Assam DGP Mukesh Sahay on May 1. He is 1985 batch IPS officer. Name of 1984 batch IPS officer R M Singh was also in circulation.

Nine Chief General Managers in the State Bank of India  have been promoted to the level of Deputy Managing Directors.They are Anil Kishore, Ramesh Babu Boddu, PN Prasad, Sujit Kumar Varma, Sanjeev Nautiyal, DA Tambe, Hardayal Prasad, Partha Pratim Sengupta, and Challa Srinivasulu Setty.

MBA, LLB, MCA, M.Com, M.Phil, M.Tech, MSc, M A. B.A. and B.Sc Degree holders have applied for Constables job in CISF. Recruitment for Driver, Fire and Tradesman are going on in the Force. These Professional  Degree holders have applied in good numbers.

The Bank Board Bureau recommends that the Directors on the Board of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) should not be a member of any political party or related to any member of a political party.

Eight IAS officers of different cadres are presently on Inter State deputation in Bihar. They are- Manish Kumar Verma, Odisha cadre 2000 batch, Abhishek Singh, Tripura Cadre, 2006 batch, Pradip Kumar Jha, Manipur cadre, 2006 batch, Mrs Poonam, Rajasthan cadre, 2005 batch, Rahul Ranjan Mahiwal, Maharastra cadre, 2005 batch, Chandra Shekhar, Jharkhand cadre, 2008 batch, Dr. Mrs Karuna Kumar, Assam- Meghalaya cadre, 2010 batch and Dr Ranjit Kumar Singh, Gujarat cadre, 2008 batch.

After the ouster of Gopal Singh as Acing Chairman of the Coal India Ltd.,  it is now  expected  he would retain his post of the chairman of Central Coalfields Limited - a Coal India subsidiary.

Atul Bhatt is expected to emerge as longest serving Chairman-cum-Managing Director, MECON Limited. Bhatt, who donned the mantle on October 1, 2016, will complete his first tenure on September 30, 2021 and can get second term until November 30, 2024.

The tenure of D S Ahluwalia as Director Finance, NMDC Limited is ending on April 30, 2018 as Government of India is yet to find his successor.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is in search of a Joint Secretary level officer for the post of Chairman, Marine Products Exports Development Aurhotiry (MPEDA), Kochi.

Anup Chatterjee, GM, HAL, whose appointment as Director (Engineering and R&D), Hindustan Aeraunatics Limited (HAL), has been cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC), will be taking over the charge on June 1, 2018 as present incumbent D K Venaktesh is retiring on May 31, 2018.

Sanjay Chaubey, Project Dir, Indian Navy, whose appointment as Director (Technical), Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), has been approved by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) in December 2017, will be taking over the charge on April 27, 2018.

Surinder Pal Singh Jaggi, ED, SAIL, has taken over the charge as Director (P&A), Shipping Corporation of India (SCI).

Three Addl Directors posts at Chennai, Chandigarh and Kolkata are vacant in Enforcement Directorate. ED wants officers for these posts on deputation basis. Interested can apply.

Amit Kumar, DDG in the DGDE Hq, Delhi , has been transferred to Jodhpur as Defence Estate Officer (DEO). V K Bhalla, DEO, Udhampur has been transferred to  Dy Director, DE, Western Command, Chandigarh. Vilas H Pawar, CEO, Cantt Board, Deo;a;i has been transferred to Addl DEO, Madras.

Central deputation tenure of Mrs Limatula Yaden as Director in the Department of Health and Family Welfare is coming to and soon. Mrs Yaden who belongs to a 1996 batch IRS-C&CE officer is completing her tenure in July this year.

Ms Vedika Bhandarkar, Former Vice-Chairman & MD, Credit Suisse, Panja Pradeep Kumar, Former MD, SBI and Pradeep Panalal Shah , Founder MD, CRISIL are Part-time members of Banks Board Bureau.

The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is yet to issue advertisement for the post of Chairman, Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) fell vacant after incumbent A W K Langstieh (IA&AS) relinquished the control of the company.

Delhi based journalist Sanjay Mishra has been appointed OSD to the Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb.

Group Captains, Colonels and Brigadiers with excellent track records holding staff and command positions are being chosen by Ministry of Defence to serve as Defence Attaches in Indian missions abroad.

All India State Bank Officers’ Federation (AISBOF) has urged upon the Bank Managements to extend adequate compensation to the staff members for toiling during the demonetization period.

Railways has come up with a wearable GPS device, resembling a fitness band, for track maintainers or gangmen. The move is also aimed at preventing seniors from asking track staff to do odd jobs. The track maintainers have to keep the device on during duty hours and their movement can be traced through a mobile application.

As many as seven officers of Madhya Pradesh State Police Service have been awarded Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre. The officers are: Rajesh Singh, Shishindra Chouhan, Rakesh Kumar Sar, Bhagwat Singh Virde, Raghvendra Sinigh Belwenshi, Kiranlata Kerketta and Manoj Kumar Rai.

P Mallikarjuna Rao has been appointed as Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) (Head of Forests) in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1985 batch IFS officer of AP cadre.

GVVS Raju, Sr. DEN, SCR, has been appointed as General Manager, Rail Land Development Authority, Hyderabad. He is an IRSE officer.

Trivendra Nath Kakaji, ED(RE), has been appointed as General Manager(Electrical), Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS), New Delhi. He is an IRSEE officer.

Amit Kumar Agarwal, DRM, NGP, has been transferred to Northern Railway and K S Jain, ADRM, TVC is transferred to South Central Railway. The officers belong to IRSME service.

PSC, UP has invited applications for the seven posts of Members which are going to be vacant in 2018. Application can be filed online only and the last date is May 25,2018.

Rahul Kaushik has been appointed to Assam circle while Rameshwar Dayal was posted to West Bengal circle.

Hardeep S Puri, Union Minister (Housing & Urban Affairs), inaugurated the 48th Foundation Day celebrations of HUDCO and addressed the august gathering.  The Minister, congratulated HUDCO on completing 48 glorious years of service to the nation and highlighted the significant role of HUDCO in realizing the vision of “Housing for All”.  He added that HUDCO must now look to adopt some of the identified aspirational districts under its CSR activities. He highlighted the importance of the need to encourage initiative, imagination, and institution building to develop a new India.

The Supreme Court Collegium has resolved to recommend Umesh Amritlal Trivedi, Advocate and  Ajaykumar Chandulal Rao, Vishnukumar Prabhudas Patel, Vireshkumar Bavchandbhai Mayani, and Dr Ashutosh Pushkerray Thaker, Judicial Officers, be appointed as Judges of the Gujarat High Court.

The Supreme Court Collegium has resolved to recommend that Parth Prateem Sahu, Advocate, Gautam Chouradia, Mrs Vimla Singh Kapoor and Mrs Rajani Dubey, Judicial Officers be appointed as Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court.

The Supreme Court Collegium has resolved to recommend Chetan S. Kapadia, Advocate to be appointed as Judge of the Bombay High Court.

Upon repatriation, three IPS officers of AGMUT cadre: S Sundari Nanda, Devesh Chandra Srivastava and Fulzele Piyush Nirakar have been posted to GNCTD.

The Supreme Court Collegium has resolved to recommend B. Pugalendhi, Advocate, to be appointed as Judge of the Madras High Court.

The Supreme Court Collegium has resolved to recommend Mrs B.Sarodjiny Devy, Judicial Officer, to be appointed as Judge of the Madras High Court.

Reliance Home Finance Limited has appointed Jai Anmol Anil Ambani as Non- Executive Director of the company w.e.f. April 24, 2018.

Bharti Airtel Ltd has re-appointed Craig Edward Ehrlich as an Independent Director of the company.

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited has appointed Vishal Mahadevia as Non- Executive Independent Director of the company .

Sunil Sethy has quit an Independent Director of Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.

JBF Industries Limited has appointed Sharadchandra N Thakar as Non- Executive Independent Director of the company .

Lalit Misra has quit as Executive Director of Sharon Bio-Medicine Limited.

DEBATE (1)

Of late, I am a regular reader of your whisperinthecorridors.  When I was looking at yesterday events, there has been a question " can anyone replace PM Modi in BJP or any other party.

My reply:  No. Not at all possible at this juncture.   After a long gap, we have a dynamic and performing Prime Minister for our country.   When we have given chance to other parties for 6 decades, can't we give him a chance to perform.  Actually, before he took as PM, our country's image was at dark and now needless to say the image is flying high across world.   I do not say, whatever decision taken by the PM & party is 100% successful but I can say that every decision taken is in the interest of our county and development of our economy.

As everyone knows, our PM is a very hardworking person and has got in depth knowledge in every area.  Certain section of people and parties, keep on criticizing him pin pointing his failure to fulfill the commitment he made before Lok Sabha election.   All the commitments can not be fulfilled over night and require some time and will be done in order of priority.

I feel sorry for our Hon.ble PM, his achievements/performance made all through 4 years are wiped off due to misdeed done by some of his own party members.

However, I could not see anyone or any party who can match the class of roaring PM Modi.

V. Shankar

DEBATE (2)

Though PM Modi did not deliver much to peoples expectation still there is no true substitute of him. Of course, there are competent persons like Nitin Gadkari and Suresh Prabhu in BJP as also Nitish Kr. and Mamata Banerji. In the present situation of country top leader should be honest, competent and able to take quick/right decisions. Also, it is expected from top leader that irrespective of party in power economic policies should be allowed to continue. Unnecessary too much questioning and investigations lead to the fact that nobody likes to take a decision and country's development is hampered..

Prosun Banerj

India should be a casteless society

Seven decades down the line since Independence India should have seen the end of caste system. It has actually grown up thanks to our politicians who play one caste against another all for vote bank politics. It is indeed shocking to see how upper castes look upon Dalits specially in villages so much so that a dalit boy riding a horse provokes them so much that they kill him or they would not allow a dalit boy to take out his barat from their side. Really sickening. On the other hand the dalits also exploit their pedigree to take several benefits from the Government. Many get even fake certificates to garner the advantage of reservations etc. It is indeed an irony that even our Prime minister has to flaunt his OBC background to earn some points. It is high time India becomes a casteless (or even classless) society.

Aarti Khosla

Information regarding the assets disclosed by officers

The Appellant sought information regarding the assets disclosed by officers and staff in a certain Income Tax office, copy of the proactive disclosure made under section 4 (1) (b) of the RTI Act in Telugu Language and The IT Act in Tamil language. The PIO informed that the Act had not been printed in Telugu Language. The CIC ruled that the information with respect to the assets and liabilities of an employee qualifies as personal information within the meaning of Section 8(1)(j) of the Act. The Commission advised the Respondent to consider publishing the aforesaid information in Telugu Language for the benefit of the Public at large.

Comments

Many judicial fora have ruled that the information with respect to the assets and liabilities of an employee, which he discloses to his employer in compliance of the Service Rules applicable to him qualifies as personal information within the meaning of Section 8(1)(j) of the Act and such information cannot be directed to be disclosed unless the PIO is satisfied that larger public interest justifies disclosure of such information.

Citation: Mr. Ravuri Ramesh Babu v. Income Tax in Appeal No.:- CIC/DITIN/A/2017/104537-BJ, Date of Decision: 16.03.2018

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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