Power galleries are abuzz with new rumours related to the Ministry of Finance. They say that one should not be surprised if the new Finance Secretary is appointed from the open market on a two to three years contract. Earlier also Dr. Manmohan Singh and Montek Singh Ahluwalia were during the Congress govt regime appointed as Finance Secretary from outside. Both were economists and non- IAS. Now the question is, who will be that lucky person ? One has to wait till February next year when A B Pandey retires. He is a 1984 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer.

It is said that empanelment of 1994 batch IAS to the rank of Additional Secretary  will now take place in early neaxt year.

Subhash Agrawal is likely to be appointed Special Director ED. He is 1993 batch IRS(C&CE) officer.

Ms Anjali Goyal (IRAS)  has been appointed as GM, Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi.Sunil Sharma (IRPS)  will be GM, Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction), Guwahati.A Gangal (IRSME)  has been made  GM, Northern Railway, New Delhi and VK Tripathi (IRSEE)  will be GM, North Eastern Railway, Gorakhpur.

Nitin Gupta has been promoted to the grade of Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Pr.CCIT) on in-situ basis. He is an IRS-IT officer. 

Abhay Choudhary, ED, Powergrid, will be taking over the charge as Director (Projects), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited on November 1, 2020.

No internal candidate has turned up for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, National Research Development Corporation. External candidates are expected to be selected for the post. Dr Vipin Chandra (IRS-IT), Joint Secretary (Administration), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), is holding an additional charge of this vacant post. 

The tenure of Ms. Meenakshi Davar as Director (Human Resources), Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO), is coming to an end on December 31, 2020. Anshul Bhargava, Chief People Officer/Head HR, Administration and CSR, PNB Housing Finance Limited, is expected to succeed her on January 1, 2020.

Manoj Kumar, Director Technical, WCL, will be taking over the charge as new Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) on January 1, 2021. He will succeed incumbent CMD R R Mishra retiring in December 2020. Appointment of Manoj Kumar is under process.

The Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises is yet to select the candidate for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited (HEC) lying vacant for more than two years. The Ministry was entrusted with selecting a candidate after the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) failed to find a suitable candidate for the second time at a selection meeting held on March 13, 2019. The PESB had also failed to find a suitable candidate at its first meeting held on August 1, 2018. Presently, BHEL CMD Dr Nalin Singhal is holding an additional charge of HEC.

The tenure of Vishal Pal Singh as Deputy Secretary, Power has been curtailed in order to enable him to join as Vice President in GSTN, New Delhi on deputation basis. He is a 2006 batch IRS-C&CE officer.

The post of Ms. Prena Puri has been upgraded as Director in the office of RG & CCI. She is a 2006 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Country's leading international trading company MMTC Limited has fallen by the wayside. The real crunch came when the company failed to disburse salary for the month of September, due to heavy diversion of funds to NINL. The Federation of MMTC Staff Unions wrote the CMD requesting him to downsize the manpower by offering VRS in order to bailout the company from financial crisis. The company, which has always striven to outperform its own past records, fell into a decline as the Government failed to take timely decisions and extend financial support to the PSU at the beginning of financial difficulties, sources say.

Around 2000 promotions of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officers from Section Officer, Under Secretary to Director levels have been lying pending for two years.  Around 300 officers are waiting for promotion to Under Secretary, while 150 officers for Director and 1500 for Section officer. Many officers are retiring from the service while waiting for promotions. Central Secretariat Service is said to be a cadre of 5000 officers and is a backbone of the Government of India. 

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed to fill up the post of Principal Advisor on deputation on foreign service terms.

The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has invited applications for the post of Chairman in HERC.

Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM), Faridabad is seeking to appoint Chief Administrative Officer on deputation.

Tarun Beniwal, who is returning from deputation to National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), has been posted in the cadre on Northern Railway (NR). He is a senior administrative grade (SAG) officer belonging to Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS).

As many as 14 officers of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) have been promoted to Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). They are: Ramendra Pal Singh, Panchanan Behera, Nand Kishore Verma, G Mondal, Ashok Kumar, Brij Mohan, Luskar Boro, VC Majhi, Brajendra Singh Rawat, Debashis Pathak, Arvind Kumar Mishra, PK Pattanayak, GS Manna and Chaman Singh Chaudhary.

AK Ranjan has been transferred from South Eastern Railway to South Central Railway (SCR) and posted in the cadre. He is a selection grade (SG) officer belonging to Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS).

Raj Kishore, who is serving in East Central Railway, has been placed in non-functional selection grade (SG) with effect from January 1, 2019. He is an Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer.  

Pulkit Srivastava has been transferred from Central Organisation for Railway Electrification (CORE) to Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO). He is an Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) officer. 

As many as seven IAS officers have been given new assignments in Delhi Government. Accordingly, Prince Dhawan has been appointed as Special Commissioner, Trade & Taxes, while Himanshu Gupta was made Deputy Commissioner, North DMC and Dr Sonal Swaroop is Deputy Commissioner, South DMC. Similarly, Ms Harleen Kaur has been appointed as Special Secretary, PWD with additional charge of Special Secretary Vigilance and Secretary Sahitya Kala Parishad; Y V V J Rajashekhar as Deputy Commissioner, East DMC; Rahul Singh as Commissioner, Excise and Ms Chestha Yadav was made Deputy Commissioner North West, Revenue Department.

Sandeep Mishra has been appointed as Registrar NSUT with additional charges of Registrar, Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University and Registrar, Delhi Sports University as well as Secretary, State Election Commission and Vishwendra was made Deputy Commissioner, South East Revenue Department  with continuing additional charges of Deputy Commissioner Census and Deputy Commissioner, HQ in Delhi Government. 

Rahul Dwivedi has been posted as State Project Director, Samgra Siksha Abhiyan, Mumbai, while Shantanu Goel was made Commissioner, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Maharashtra, Nagpur and Ajit Patil is Joint Secretary, General Administration Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai. Besides, M V Mohite has been posted as Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Washim in Maharashtra.

There are reports that Telangana Intelligence Chief V Naveen Chand is being given extension after superannuation on October 31.

Mangi Lal Sonal, SFS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been notionally appointed as IFS against the Select List of 1996-97.

As many as eight officers of Indian Statistical Service (ISS) have been promoted to the Junior Time Scale. The officers are: K Suryanarayan, Ashok Pandey, Sunil Kumar, P T Kumaran, Ramesh Prasad, K K Dutta, R K Sharma and Dilip Kumar Bhattacharjee.

Ms Usha Sharma is likely to be appointed new Chief Secretary of Rajasthan. She is 1985 batch IAS officer.

Tan Yong Choo – who was serving as Non-Executive Director of Bharti Airtel Limited – has resigned from her position. Meanwhile, Tao Yih Arthur Lang has been appointed as an Additional Director of the company to hold office as Non-Executive Director.

Aspy Cooper has ceased to be Independent Director of Godrej Industries Limited on completion of his tenure.

Devendra Agrawal has been re-appointed as Whole-time Director and CFO of 63 Moon Technologies Limited.

Mrs. Ashu Jain appointed as an Additional Director (Independent) of Nath Bio-Genes (India) Ltd.

Gown Sankararao Naramsetti has assumed charge as Director (Finance) of Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited. Meanwhile, the tenure of Ms. Madhubala Kalluri as the company’s Chief Financial Officer has come to an end. However, she will continue to serve as Assistant General Manager (Finance & Accounts).

Aditya Deb Gooptu has been appointed as Additional Director and Managing Director and CEO of VST Industries Limited. He is set to take charge on December 1, 2020. Devraj Lahiri, who is serving as Managing Director, will vacate office on December 9, 2020.

K Srinivasan has tendered his resignation as Independent Director of Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited. He has been appointed as Additional and Whole-Time Director, designated as Executive Director with effect from October 27, 2020, to January 1, 2021, and further re-designated as Managing Director from January 2, 2021, up to October 23, 2023. Meanwhile, Tejas Deshpande has been appointed as Additional and Independent Director of Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited.

Rakesh Malhotra has been appointed as Additional Director and Executive Director by Vijay Textiles Limited.

Arjun Gupta has ceased to be Independent Director of Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited on completion of his tenure.

Sunilkumar Saini, who was serving as Director of Ken Financial Services Limited, has resigned from his post.

Sardar Singh Mudgal has resigned as Director of Jagson Airlines Limited.

Ms. Priya Nair has been appointed as Additional Director in the capacity of Independent Director of Ceat Limited.

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IAS people  know the nerve of the people because of their field posting.IFS do not know the pulse .

N D Verma

Dr. Shekhara appointed DG, Institute of Agricultural Extension Management

I am Happy that my friend became DG MANAGE but NIRDPR is still to get independence from IAS Club

Dr Murugesan

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