Resignation of CBEC Chairman P K Das is believed to have been accepted. Grapevine has it that he is going to Brusells in World Customs Organisations in January - four months before his superannuation. He is 1982 batch IRS (C&CE) officer.

Siddhanta Das has resigned from the Indian Forest Service (IFS) with effect from December 31, 2019. He is a 1982 batch IFS officer of Odisha cadre.

Mohit Tiwari is all set to join the Punjab govt as Special Secretary on deputation for three years. He is a 2009 batch IRS(C&CE) officer and presently posted in CGST & CX Zone, Chandigarh.

CBIC has accepted the Voluntary Retirement (VR) Notice of Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Asstt Commissioner, w.e.f. November 19, 2019. He is an IRS (C&CE) officer.

Believe it or not, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has seen 37 per cent year-on-year decline in its consolidated net profit at Rs 5,486.55 crore for the second quarter ended September 30, 2019 as per its BSE filing.Shashi Shankar is the Chairman of the ONGC.

Sridhar Patra, Director (Finance), National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), will be taking over the charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NALCO on December 1, 2019. He will succeed T K Chand retiring in November this year.

Other oil and gas PSUs such as Indian Oil, HPCL, GAIL and ONGC will not be able to bid in the disinvestment process of BPCL which means no Board control or representation in the target company.

Railway Board (RB) has decided compulsory use of e-office, paperless processing from December 1, 2019 in Board's office at all level.

Ms Rohini R Bhajibhakare has been relieved to join as Deputy Secretary in the Department of Higher Education. She is a 2008 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

OP Singh, DGP UP, has been conferred Transformation Leadership Award by  Ministry of Happiness of Bhutan at International Convention on Promoting Happiness through Public Policy held by Lucknow Management Association at Lucknow on November 16, 2019.

MIB has issued transfer orders of some more IIS officers. Accordingly, DJ Narain, who was ADG (Region), Mumbai, has been posted to Imphal (Region) in Manipur in the same capacity.

Orders of Rajiv Dutta for being appointed as OSD to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla have been issued on Nov 18. He is 2003 batch Rajasthan Police Service officer.

( We said this on Nov 16, 2019)

The Central Government has commenced the process for appointing Member (Actuary) and Member (Distribution) at IRDAI. The term of the current members is ending next year.

Ms Smita Vats Sharma, ADG, Films Division, Mumbai has been given the additional charge of PIB (Region), Mumbai.

Shantanu Pratap Singh, Dy Director (News), DDK, Shillong, has been transferred to RNU, AIR, Chandigarh in the same capacity.

Bharat Bhushan Babu, IIS officer, was appointed ADG, DPR (Defence), in July this year and since then he drew his salary against three different posts. Initially, he was posted with an instruction from MIB that he will draw his salary against the post of ADG, RNI, New Delhi. After two months, he got fresh order to draw salary against ADG, Imphal and now third order, which was issued on November 15, 2019 by MIB, further says that Babu will draw his salary against ADG (Region), Chennai's post.

Only seven Chhattisgarh cadre IAS officers have joined central deputation against total central deputation reserve (CDR) of 38 in the year 2018-19.  As per DoPT report, only 18 percent IAS officers from the state are working with the Government of India on central deputation.

There are 14 vacancies of permanent Judges in Andhra Pradesh High Court as on November 1, 2019.

Vijayendra has been empanelled for holding Additional Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Mrs Shikha Lal, presently posted in Southern Railway, has been posted as Member Secretary, Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), Chennai. She is an IRPS officer.

Manoj Kothari has been appointed Collector, Narmada-Rajpipla, Gujarat. He is an IAS officer of 2005 batch.

I K Patel has been appointed as District Collector, Kheda-Nadiad, Gujarat. He is an IAS officer of 2006 batch.

Justice S A Bobde has taken oath as the next Chief Justice of India today.

The Federal Bank has appointed Samir Pravinbhai Rajdev as Company Secretary of the company w.e.f. December 1, 2019.

The Hi-Tech Gears Limited has appointed Naveen Jain as Company Secretary of the company.

Visu International Limited has appointed K. Siva Kumar as Independent Director of the company.

Dibakar Chatterjee has quit as Chief Executive Officer of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation.

Kishore Biyani has quit as Independent Director of INOX Leisure.

Sandeep Kumar Agarwal has quit as Chief Financial Officer of Maan Aluminium.

(DEBATE 1)

Poonam Mahajan is the lady who believes in fighting with courage in difficult times with a smile on a face as according to her every challenge is an opportunity.

Dr Krishna Jain

DEBATE (2)

Aparajita Sarangi will prove her mettle.

R N Padhi

Govt should form Ram Temple trust carefully

It is said that the trust for Ram temple would include scholars and historians. Well from experience we find that most so called scholars and academicians are leftists pretending to be academicians. The government needs to be extremely careful in its nominations and not repeat the mistakes done in nominating many bureaucrats/ retired ones, who are blatantly anti government and some actively trying to sabotage from within

S Chatterjee

Alok Verma and Lavasa on same page

Yes of course they are on the same step, ready to be pushed down to darker depths. This is the only prize they will get for opposing the sycophants of Narendra Modi.

Mohd Ayoub Ashfaq

Alok Verma and Lavasa on same page

Though might is right, such a practice will definitely affect the moral of the senior officials in all the organs of govt offices.

Kumar

Alok Verma and Lavasa on same page

Honest officers are discouraged and face the heat. Double standards.

Yogesh

Alok Verma and Lavasa on same page

Vindictive attitude of Delhi sultans.

P N Badhri

Information about a private person

The PIO, ISRO, Department of Space, was requested to provide information on five points pertaining to M/s KHFM Hospitality Management Services, (a Contractor), including information about the labour license and the category of workers. A copy of the wages paid by the Contractor, duly endorsed by the ISRO (Principal employer) was provided to the appellant. The PIO further stated that the record sought by the appellant may be available with the Contractor but documents cannot be obtained from a private person and provided to the appellant under the RTI Act. The CIC observed that the PIO was not aware that information can be obtained from a private person under Section 2(f) of the RTI Act. In the absence of any malafide intention, it would not be appropriate to initiate any action for imposition of penalty on the PIO.

Comments

As per section 2(f) of the RTI Act, if a law or statute permits and allows the public authority to access the information relating to a private body, it will fall within the four corners of Section 2(f) of the RTI Act.

Citation: K Sambasivaiah v. CPIO, ISRO, Department of Space in Second Appeal No. CIC/DSPCE/A/2018/125894, Date 01.11.2019

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: - Right to Information Act 2005- RTI Foundation of India

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