Tapan Mishra and Somnath Panicker  are expected to get Secretary rank in the Department of Space. The file is believed to have reached the DoPT.

It now seems to be the turn of the Navy’s top brass, as one hears, to be in key Govt advisory committees on defence including the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).

There is no proposal to put retirement age at 60 years or after completion of 33 years of service for central government employees, the Rajya Sabha was informed. The government was asked whether it was actively considering to retire government officials either at the age of 60 years or after completing 33 years of service, whichever is earlier.

Now picture is clear, Chief Secretary of Delhi Vijay Dev and Police Commissioner Delhi Amulya Patnaik are going to continue

Telengana Chief Minister is said to have decided to recommend six months extension in service to Shailendra Kumar Joshi  beginning Jan 1. Million dollar question is will the GoI accept the recommendation of the Chief Minister ?

According to informed sources, nine top officials of the Indian Railways have been served Vigilance notices.

The Government of India has given 'in-principle' approval for strategic disinvestment of 33 CPSEs, Anurag Singh Thakur, Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs told Rajya Sabha. The CPSEs are: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd, Hospital Services Consultancy Ltd, National Projects Construction Corporation (NPCC), Dredging Corporation of India, Project &Development India Ltd, Hindustan Prefab Ltd. (HPL), Engineering Projects (India) Ltd, Bridge & Roof Co. India Ltd, Hindustan Newsprint Ltd, Scooters India Ltd, Bharat Pumps and Compressors Ltd, Cement Corporation of India Ltd, Hindustan Fluorocarbon Ltd, Central Electronics Ltd, Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML), Ferro Scrap Nigam Ltd, Nagarnar Steel Plant of NMDC, Alloy Steel Plant, Durgapur; Salem Steel Plant; Bhadrwati units of SAIL M/o Steel, Pawan Hans Ltd, Air India and its five subsidiaries and one JV M/o Civil Aviation, HLL Lifecare, Indian Medicines &Pharmaceutical, Corporation Ltd (IMPCL), Kamarajar Port Limited, Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd, Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (except Numaligarh Refinery Limited) & BPCL stake in Numaligarh Refinery Limited, Shipping Corporation of India Ltd, Container Corporation of India Ltd, THDC India Limited and  North Eastern Electric Power Corp. Ltd (NEEPCO).

Nine 1989 batch IAS officers have been promoted to the rank of ACS in TamilNadu on Thursday. Four officers of this batch who are on deputation to the GoI will get pro-forma promotion.

The Supreme Court still has one vacancy of Judge as on December 1, 2019.

Amarjeet Sinha, Secretary , Rural Development is superannuating by this month end . He is a 1983 batch IAS officer.

Mukesh Kumar, DGM, PDI, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance), Braithwaite Burn & Jessop Construction Company Limited (BBJ) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) held on December 5, 2019.

The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has extended the last date of receipt of application for the post of CMD Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) till December 31, 2019.

Lt Gen K K Repswal has assumed charge as Chief of Staff,  Satpa Shakti Command.

S K Bansal presently posted as Senior Professor in NAIR is being posted with North Western Railway as CPD/SD. He is an IRSE officer.

Sushant Jha on his return from deputation with Government of Bihar will be posted in East Central Railway. He is an IRPS officer.

Rajiv Kishore, Executive Director, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), has been given premature repatriation to his parent cadre in order to avail promotion. He is a 1988 batch IRPS officer.

Atul Chaturvedi has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Department of Fisheries from December 6 to December 9, 2019.

More than one dozen IAS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, O P Shrivastava has been appointed as Director, Public Relations, while Basant Kurre was made Collector, Rewa and Mrs Pratibha Pal was made Collector, Sheopur. Similarly, Rajnish Kumar Shrivastava has been appointed as Divisional Commissioner, Hoshangabad; Ravindra Kumar Mishra as Commissioner, Jabalpur division; Shriman Shukla as MD, Agricultural Development  Corporation, Bhopal; Alok Kumar Singh as Deputy Secretary, Planning, Economic and Statistics; Avinash Lavania as Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection; Mukesh Kumar Shukla as Director, RCVP, Naronha Academy of Administration and Management, Bhopal; Sanjiv Singh as Director, Kisan Kalyan and Agriculture Development; Babu Singh Jamod as Deputy Secretary, Jail and Transport; Saurabh Kumar Suman as Additional Mission Director, State Educatoin Centre, Bhopal; Rohit Singh as Collector, Datia; Mrs Harshika Singh as Collector, Tikamgarh; Dhananjay Singh Bhadoria as Collector, Hoshangabad; Shilendra Singh as Deputy Secretary, Revenue; Sanjiv Kumar Jha as Secretary, Spirituality; Dr M K Agrawal gets additional charge of Secretary, Commissioner & Director of Ayush, Homeopathy.

S M Kakani has been posted as Additional Municipal Commissioner, Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai, while   Dr Ashwini Joshi was posted as State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, Mumbai and Mrs Suman Chandra is Collector, Buldhana.

Dr. M. Ravi Kanth CMD HUDCO released HUDCO calendar and diary for  the year 2020, at a  function held to mark the 63^rd    death anniversary of Babasaheb Dr. B.R.  Ambedkar, Architect of our Constitution.

Former adviser to the Governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, K Vijay Kumar, has been appointed as a senior security adviser in the Union Home Ministry .He is former 1975 batch IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

I C P Keshari has been appointed as Chairman, Professional Examination Board and OSD-cum-cum Resident Commissioner, Madhya Pradesh Bhawan, New Delhi as well as ACS, Commercial Taxes and Manu Shrivastava was made Principal Secretary, New and Renewable Energy and Small Scale Industries and OSD-cum-Commissioner, New and Renewable Energy as well as Commissioner, Industries.

Indusind Bank has appointed Sanjeev Asthana as Non Executive Independent of the Bank.

Patel Integrated Logistics Limited has appointed Mrs Jasmine Mehta as Non- Executive Independent Director of the company.

Lalit Bhasin has quit as Non- Executive Independent Director of Ansal Properties & Infrastructure.

Winsome Yarns Limited has appointed Ms. Meenu Khandelwal as Company Secretary of the company.

D.J. Kakalia has quit as Independent Director of Escorts Ltd. due to personal reasons.

Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited has appointed Sunil Kumar Bansal as Chief Financial Officer of the company.

DEBATE (1)

In my view Nusrat Jahan is the rising star.

R Banerjee

DEBATE(2)

My vote goes to Dimple Yadav.

Anupam Gupta

DEBATE (3)

I consider Saroj Pandey as a most talented Indian Women Politician. Her prominence on the national stage is a matter of immense pride for us! Hope to see you win.

Siddharth Malhotra

Good Work

In the Durg Railway Station, to facilitate the facility of the elderly and the elderly, the battery-driven vehicle was re-started. 

Siddharth Malhotra

Pre-filled ITR2

Forms A very good idea to start from this financial year. It is very essential and necessary to be successful in schemes like faceless scrutiny and pre-filling of ITR2 forms, the rules should be simple and easy to follow and implement. This can be explained and judged from a very very simple example that the things are not in line. LTCG less than 1 lakh from transfer of equity or equity oriented mutual fund, is tax exempted. It means no tax liability from the tax payers side and no tax revenue for the Govt. but still tax authorities wants all details to be filled in. What is the purpose of such exercise except wasting of man power and time which otherwise can be used for some other useful work. There may be one entry may be fifty entries for which data has to be captured and matched. There are chances of mistakes and a small mistake can create havoc for the tax payers. LTCG under this category should only be asked for reporting purpose not for other details as was being followed till FY 2017-18. There are other are area where Govt, should work for innovative solution to find out the methodologies and procedures to find the real income of professionals like film artists, doctors, lawyers, traders, sports persons, contractors etc. as no tools are available at present to assess the correctness of their income. These are the areas where lot of work and innovation is needed to reduce the leakage of tax revenue instead of spending time in unproductive work like asking for unnecessary details where no tax liability on the assessee. To get away from LTCG complexes is, make LTCG tax free instead increase STT to recover the expected loss of revenue. It is simplest way to collect the tax as it is directly collected at the time of each transactions without disturbing the tax payers. Many such things have to be found out to make the faceless scrutiny and pre-filling of ITR2 successful. All the best to work out for best solution.

Naveen 

Role of a PIO under RTI Act

Part information was provided in response to the applicant seeking information regarding seniority list of staff nurse. On appeal, the First Appellate Authority directed the PIO to provide information to the appellant, if available. A Show Cause Notice was issued by the CIC for complete non application of mind, non-furnishing of information in response to the RTI application, non-compliance of the FAA’s order and violation of the mandate laid down by the RTI Act. The PIO submitted before the CIC that as PIO, Health Department as Nodal Officer, his responsibility always involved forwarding the questions/information sought by the applicant to the concerned branches under Health Department and forwarding the response received from them to the applicant i.e. the role of a Nodal PIO is that of a post office. The CIC observed that such a poor understanding of the RTI Act can be rectified not by imposing penalty, but by referring the Nodal PIO for a training session to upgrade his knowledge about RTI Act. The CIC marked a copy of the order to the FAA, H&FW Department to take necessary steps ensuring that the Nodal PIO is appropriately trained to handle RTI cases and made aware that the role of Nodal PIO encompasses more duties than acting merely as a post office

Comments

A PIO is not just a post office and should act as a catalyst in expediting dissemination of information by the actual custodian of information.

Citation: Smt. Nirmala Kumari v. 1. PIO, Deptt. Of Health & Family Welfare and PIO, O/o Medical Supdt., Lok Nayak Hospital in Second Appeal No. CIC/LOKHN/A/2017/151062, Date of Decision: 30.10.2019

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