Suneet Sharma, Chairman & CEO, Railway Board is likely to get one year extension beginning January 1. He is an IRSME officer and holding the post for the last one year.

It is said that Indian Ambassador to Netherlands Pradeep Rawat is moving to China. He has been an expert in China affairs.

Higher Education Secretary K Sanjay Murthy is likely to get additional charge of the Chairman UGC. He is 1989 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Ms V Madhu Vani, CIT, Visakhapatnam, has resigned from Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre.

Sensing the mood of PM Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, without the knowledge of the Home Minister  and the officials,  suddenly announced the Police Commissioner system. The announcement created ripples in the bureaucracy. It was expected that the system will be implemented any time. Several meetings between officials  remained inconclusive. Now there is a big talk “Will the system be implemented or closed down in files like previous  decisions by various CMs”. If insiders are to be believed, this time a totally changed CM ShivRaj Singh Chauhan will see to it that it is implemented.

Sunil Arora, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, has joined the Board of Advisers for International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). He is a retired 1980 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Outgoing  Gujarat Chief Secretary Anil Mukim  has been now appointed as Chairman of Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC).  He is former 1985 batch IAS officer.

D P Mishra has taken over as the OSD to the Chairman, CBIC. He is a 2007 batch IRS(C&IT) officer.

Ms Ajeeta Longjam, presently working as AIGF, MoEF&CC, New Delhi, has been relieved from Ministry consequent upon her appointment as Joint Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Delhi under Department of School Education and Literacy under CSS-DoPT. She is a 2012 batch IFS officer of Manipur cadre.

Atanu Bhowmick, ED, SAIL, has been selected for the post of Director in-charge (Rourkela Steel Plant), Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on December 7, 2021. As many as eight candidates were interviewed for the same.

Kamran Rizvi, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), has been given extension on his additional charge of Chairman & Managing Director, Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO).  

The DoT has transferred two Advisors of HAG+   Both are ITS officers. Accordingly, A K Mittal has been appointed as Advisor(Operation) while Nizamul Haq will join as Advisor Delhi LSA.

The CBIC has posted 37 IRS(C&IT) officers as Asstt Commissioners on Probation at different units. These officers belong to 71st and 72nd batches i e 2019 and 2020 batches.

Ms Gargi Sharma Goel has been appointed as Additional CIT (OSD) in TPL Division, CBDT. She is an IRS-IT officer.

As many as 26 officers of Indian Statistical Service (ISS) have been promoted to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG). The officers are: Subhra Sarkar Pramod Kumar Thakur, Priyanka Kulshreshta, Ajit Kumar N, Venkatramana R Hegde, Kailash G Sharma, Amit Nirmal, Deepak Mehra, Nagesh Kumar Singh, Sidhi Sasi, C F Joseph, Rakesh Kumar, Raj Kumar Gautam, Sandhya Singh, R Manohar, C H Honey, Manoj Kumar, Suresh Kumar S, Aditya Kumar Arya, Harmeet Minhas Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Anjali Rawat, Pratima Gupta, Chetna Shukla, Vinay Kumar Pandey and Rahul Sharma.

Bivas Chaudhuri has been promoted to Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). He is a 1987 batch ISS officer.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has invited nominations of eligible officers of the SP/DIG level by December 27 for appointment against two posts in the United Nations Office in African Union (UNOAU).

A proposal has been received from Chief Justice of India N V Ramana vis-a-vis establishing the National Judicial Infrastructure Authority of India (NJIAI) to look into the infrastructural requirements of various courts in the country. The proposal envisages a governing body with the CJI as patron-in-chief.As per the proposal, the NJIAI will act as a central body in laying down the roadmap for planning, creation, development, maintenance and management of functional infrastructure for the Indian court system, besides, identical structures under all the high courts.

Seven-year-deputation tenure of Ms. Alpana Shukla working as CVO, Engineering Projects India Limited (EPIL) is ending on December 16, 2021. She is a 1994 batch ITS officer.

Ms. Shilpi Bishnoi – who is presently working in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Commerce, Logistics Division on loan basis – has been posted back in the cadre on Northern Railway. She is an Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer.

KK Das – who is presently working as DRS (I&S), Railway Board at Kolkata – has been transferred to South Eastern Railway (SER) at present in the cadre. He is an Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) officer.

Jora Singh – who is a ‘Group B’ officer of Civil Engineering Department of North Western Railway (NWR) – has been transferred to Northern Railway (NR) on his own request and posted in the cadre.

Seven IPS officers in Delhi have been shifted and given new postings. Ms Chhaya Sharma has been appointed as Joint CP/EOW, while Vivek Kishore was made Joint CP/Traffic and Veenu Bansal takes charge as Additional CP/Northern Range. Similarly, Ms Suman Goyal will be posted as Additional CP/Central Range; Rajneesh Gupta as Additional CP/ Special Branch and Sanjay Kumar Tyagi was appointed as DCP/IGI Airport. Besides, Ravindra Kumar Pandey, Additional CP/Vigilance, was assigned additional charge of General Administration.

FCA Nidhi Shrivastava, General Manager (Finance Account), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED), has been appointed as Director Finance, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).

As many as 64 posts have been allocated in the newly created Ministry of Cooperation into Central Secretariat Service (CSS) and Central Secretariat Stenographers' Service (CSSS). The posts are as under: Three CSS posts for Deputy Secretary, 10 for Under Secretaries, eight for Section Officer, 15 for ASO and while three CSSS for Sr PPS, three for PPS, 14 for PA, two for Stenographer Grade D.

Rawther Dawood Nazeem has been posted as PS, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Himachal Pradesh on his return from Central deputation. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of HP cadre.

Dr Raj Krishan Pruthi, Director, Agriculture, also holding the charge of Director, Horticulture, Himachal Pradesh, will also hold the charge of CEO-cum-Secretary, HIMUDA, Shimla. He is a 2009 batch IAS officer of HP cadre.

Dushyant Mudgal, GM (Operations), Parcel Directorate will hold additional charge of DDG (Mail Operations) in addition to his own duties. He is a 2003 batch IPoS officer.

Sumer Singh Gurjar, Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities holding additional charge of Secretary, Freedom Fighters, will also hold the charge of Secretary, Printing & Stationery in Punjab. He is a 1998 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Ramesh Abhishek has been appointed as Additional Director (Non-Executive & Independent) Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited with effect from January 1, 2022.

Anil Kumar Misra has been appointed as Non-official Independent Director on the Board of Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI).

Shreekant Tejappa Pattar has been appointed as Non-official Independent Director on the Board of Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI).

Nageswara Pramod Chakravarthy Kalla has been appointed as Non-official Independent Director on the Board of Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI).

Ms Arunima Dwivedi has been appointed as Non-official Independent Director on the Board of Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI).

Kirit Gala has resigned from the position of Independent Director of Shemaroo Entertainment Limited due to his pre-occupation.

Buddhichand Maroo has resigned from the position of Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Shemaroo Entertainment Limited due to his advancing age.

Mrs. Pooja Behere has been appointed as Additional Director (Non-Executive & Independent) of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Amit Wadkar has been appointed as Additional Director (Non-Executive & Independent) of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Mrs. Supriya Gangadhare has been appointed as Additional Director (Non-Executive & Independent) of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Abhinav Salgaonkar has been appointed as Additional Director (Non-Executive & Independent) of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Ramesh Bhosle has resigned from the position of Whole-Time Director of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Shrikrishna Pandey has resigned from the position of  Non-Executive Independent Director of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Kishan Lal Sanganeria has resigned from the position of  Non-Executive Independent Director of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Mrs. Bandana Singh has resigned from the position of  Non-Executive Independent Director of Cressanda Solutions Limited.

Mrs. Kamini Jindal has resigned from the position of Executive Director of Vikas WSP Limited.

Buta Singh has been appointed as Additional Executive Director of Vikas WSP Limited.

Pradyuman Manubhai Vaghasiya has resigned from the position of Whole-Time Director of Golden Legand Leasing & Finance Limited  due to his pre-occupation.

Srinivasan Sridhar has been appointed as Shareholder Director of Bank of Baroda with effect from December 12, 2021.

Ramesh Chandra Sharma has been appointed as Additional Non-Executive Director of Sybly Industries Limited.

Nishant Mittal has stepped down from the position of Managing Director of Sybly Industries Limited due to personal reasons.

Mahesh Chand Mittal has been re-designated and appointed as Managing Director of Sybly Industries Limited.

K Rajkumar, IFS, has been appointed as Additional Nominee Director of  Seshasayee Paper and Boards Limited.

Ms. Charmi Parikh has been appointed Independent Director of Goenka Business & Finance Limited.

Sunder Rajan Raman has been appointed as Additional Director (Non-Executive & Independent) Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited with effect from January 1, 2022.

DEBATE(1)

I had been reading lot of comments about whether a married or bachelor PM/CM delivers better. My question to all those suggestions is, have we got a democracy in India, the answer seems a big NO. As we do not have a government but a Personality Government right from Independence day1. A personality is installed and caucus around him/her rules. In addition to that none of the political parties have a vision document or road map for India of tomorrow or in next 50 years. In the primitive years of independence Congress had an ideology/vision of mixed economy, Congress too lost that track later. What India needs today is new breed of politicians who can have a vision for India,its vision poor lot and above all roadmap for economy so that India can lead the world. Alternatively we need a peaceful voters movement to recall these duds.

Harish Kumar

Keeping Pace with the Technology

We are keeping pace with technology in Financial Matters but there are some gaps, In InFinity Forum there was mention of Digital Bank without any physical branch is reality and may become common in decade in Fin Tech. But on other side our post offices are still following orthodox and old rules of local addresses for opening and maintaining the accounts. Many accounts are getting closed as addresses in Aadhaar is changed due to movement of persons due to job, work, medical, education etc. and KYC is not being accepted with changed address. It is submitted to  Minister for Communications and IT to please see that KYC and its update can be carried out with the addresses given on Aadhaar (without insisting local address requirement) and PAN and Mobile number. These three things are more than sufficient to verify and update KYC without closing accounts in post offices. Technology is going to play a big role in Financial Sector and Post Offices working cannot be on age old working methods. It is essential to keep the pace with change in technology. There are many transformational initiatives taking place. How we can afford to follow the old procedures being adopted in maintaining accounts in Post Offices. World is talking about Cryptocurrency which even does not exit physically and we are still following KYC based on local address. Our local address should be treated at par with address given in Aadhaar and accounts can be opened anywhere in the country without referencing local address. It should be clear enough a person with Bihar address in Aadhaar can open the account in J&K with two additional IDs PAN and mobile number without insisting him local address. Let the local address should be mentioned as a option not mandatory. Let us move with the technology and reap the benefits of financial inclusion. With Good Luck.

Naveen

Pappu can also be right

Pappu can also be right once in a while. That does not mean he ceases to be Pappu. He continues to be a pappu.

Kumar

Claiming charges despite the delay in replying

The Complainant pleaded that as the reply was delayed, the photocopying charges are not applicable. The PIO submitted that on 29.02.2020, the complainant was given all the required information free of cost who submitted an undertaking that he is satisfied with the information. The Complainant submitted before the CIC that he was forced to sign the undertaking stating his satisfaction. The CIC held that there is no ground to accept that the undertaking was signed under pressure. However, the PIO was issued a warning for not providing the documents free of cost on time and claiming charges despite the delay in replying.

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As per Section 7 (6) of the RTI Act, the person making request for the information shall be provided the information free of charge where a public authority fails to comply with the prescribed time limits. A PIO must ensure timely disbursal of information

Citation: Raashed Ashraf Rather v. Military Engineer Services in File no.: CIC/UTOJK/C/2020/114700/IAIRF, Date of Decision: 03/11/2021

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