Promotion interviews to CGM grade in State Bank of India ( SBI) are likely to take place  next weekend.

Joint Director in CBI Rakesh Agrawal  has now been relieved to join the parent Himachal Pradesh cadre on May 2 after completion of his deputation tenure. Earlier there were  reports of his extension. He is 1994 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Neeraj Semwal has been appointed Joint Secretary Lok Sabha Secretariat.He is 2003 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Two dozen IAS officers belonging to 1992 batch IAS have been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.

(We said this on Feb 23 and Feb 8, 2023)

Vibhu Nayar has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. Nayar is 1990 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Puneet Kumar Goel has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Arunish Chawla has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Chanchal Kumar has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Ms Nidhi Khare has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. She is 1992 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Vineet Joshi has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.

Vumlunmang Vualnam has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.

Neelam Shammi Rao has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. She is 1992 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

Pankaj Agrawal has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

V L Kantha Rao has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

Rajat Kumar Mishra has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Sanjay Jaju has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre.

J Radhakrishnan has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Neeraj Mittal has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Narendra Bhooshan has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Subhas Chandra Lal Das has been empanelled for holding Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Ashish Kumar Bhutani has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Rakesh Ranjan has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.

Rajendra Kumar has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Shashi Ranjan Kumar has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Tripura cadre.

Sriram Taranikanti has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Tripura cadre.

Vijay Kumar has been empanelled for holding Secretary equivalent posts in the Government of India. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Saurabh Garg, Secretary Social Justice & Empowerment, has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities from June 3 to June 25, 2023. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Results of the elections of office bearers of CSS Forum have been declared. Udit Arya, ASO, Defence has been elected President of the Forum. The Vice Presidents are: Sahayar Kumar Bairwa, Neeraj Nara and Piyush Kumar. Similarly, Ashutosh Mishra is elected General Secretary and Jatin Kumar Organizing Secretary. The Secretaries of the Forum are: Vipin Singh, Indu Balyan, Yatendra Chandela, Monalisa Dutta and Kanchan Thakur. Himanshu Prabhakar was elected Coordination Secretary, Amit Kumar Sahu is Treasurer and Simarpreet Singh has been elected unopposed as Auditor.  

Prof. Anoop Swarup  has been elected Secretary General of the Associaton of Unversities of Asia and the Pacific. Prof Dr Anoop Swarup, Founding Vice Chancellor, JLU India and Chairman, Centre for Global Nonkilling, Hawaii, US, is a recipient of many awards during his over 40 years of distinguished professional experience in diverse roles as an educationist and life scientist, poet, writer and columnist, futurist and peace activist, social entrepreneur and civil servant. Dr Swarup has held key posts in Ministry of HRD, Ministry of Finance and held top posts including UN Representative with UNSC, Emeritus Professor in India and abroad and as a Vice Chancellor. He is UN Representative with UNSC appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in 2007, Emeritus Professor in India and abroad and as a Vice Chancellor.

Admiral R Hari Kumar, CNS interacted with the cadets of King Fahd Naval Academy, Saudi Arabia, undergoing sea training at Southern Naval Command, Kochi. 55 cadets of the Royal Saudi Naval Force (RSNF) along with five Directing Staff are attached with the First Training Squadron ships, INS Tir and INS Sujata as part of afloat training with the Indian Navy. The CNS was apprised of the ongoing harbour and afloat training activities.

As many as 19 IAS officers have been given new assignments in Maharashtra. Accordingly, Mrs Sujata Saunik has been posted as ACS (Home), Home Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai, while S V R Srinivas was made OSD, Dharavi Redevelopment Project, Mumbai and Lokesh Chandra is CMD, MAHADISCOM, Mumbai. Similarly, Mrs  Radhika Rastogi has been posted as PS & Development Commr., Planning Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai; Mrs I A Kundan, as PS, Minority Development Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai; Sanjeev Jaiswal as VP and CEO, MHADA, Mumbai; Asheesh Sharma as PS(2), Urban Development Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai; Vijay Singhal as GM, BEST, Mumbai; Mrs Anshu Sinha as Secretary, OBC Bahujan Welfare Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai; Anup Kumar Yadav as Secretary, Women and Child Welfare Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai; Tukaram Mundhe as Secretary, Marathi Bhasha Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai; Dr Amit Saini as Mission Director, Jal Jeevan Mission, Mumbai; Chandrakant Pulkundwar as Commissioner, Sugar, Pune; Dr Manik Gursal as CEO, Mah.Maritime Board, Mumbai; Mrs Kadambari Balkawade as DG, MEDA, Pune; Pradipkumar Dange as Director, Sericulture, Nagpur; Shantanu Goel as Joint Managing Director, CIDCO, Navi Mumbai; Prithviraj BP as Director, Information Technology, Mumbai and Dr Hemant Vasekar has been posted as Commissioner, Animal Husbandary, Pune. Besides, Dr Sudhakar Shinde, IRS (1997) has been posted as AMC, BMC, Mumbai.

Saha Deo Singh Purti, Senior Rajbhasha Adhikari, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has been transferred to Southern Railway (SR) and posted as Deputy General Manager (Rajbhasha).

Tirmal Singh, Senior Rajbhasha Adhikari, Rail Wheel Factory (RWF), has been transferred to Northern Railway (NR) and posted as Deputy General Manager (Rajbhasha).

VB Vishwakarma has been transferred from South Eastern Railway (SER) to Eastern Railway (ER) and posted as Principal Chief Electrical Engineer (PCEE). He is an Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) officer.

Seven IAS officers have been given new postings in UP. Akhand Pratap Singh was made DM Deoria, while Jitendra Pratap Singh is now DM Baghpat and Neha Prakash takes over as DM Auraiya. Similarly, Prakash Chandra Srivastava has been posted as DM Pratapgarh; Dr. Nitin Bansal as Special Secretary, Home; Kritka as DM, Shravasti and Rajkamal Yadav is shifted as Addl Director, Industries, Kanpur.

Abid Khan, posted as AIGP in Police Headquarters Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, has been made Coordinator Administration in Haj Cell of Ministry of Minorities. His services have been handed over to the Ministry of Minorities on deputation. He is a 2010 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Ms Bhawna Garg, Deputy Director General (DDG), UIDAI, Regional Office, Chandigarh, has been extended for a period of one year beyond May 14, 2023. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Shiv Nandan Kumar, Chairman, Krishna River Management Board (KRMB), Hyderabad, has been entrusted with additional charge of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Polavaram Project Authority, Hyderabad for a period of six months.

The central deputation tenure of Dr Pandurang K Raut working as Deputy Director General (DDG) in the office of DG, Shipping, Mumbai, has been extended upto June 18, 2025. He is a 2006 batch IRS-C&IT.

The transfer of Rushal Garg from UT of J&K to UT of Chandigarh is cancelled due to administrative reasons. He is a 2018 batch IFoS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Joint CGA (TRBR) is appointed as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for CGA Organisation including PFMS Division. Joint CGA (TRBR) will be assisted by Krishna Raju, ACGA (GIFMIS) and Neeraj Kumar, Joint Director (NIC) in performing the role as CISO.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has, in an order to Chief Secretaries of five states directed to transfer all the officers, who are directly involved in election process and posted in home districts or working on the same position since long time. The ECI has, in a letter to the Chief Secretaries of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana said that the term of Mizoram Assembly is ending on 17 December 2023, Chhattisgarh Assembly on 3 January, 2024, Madhya Pradesh Assembly on 6 January, 2024, , Rajasthan Assembly 14 January 2024  and Telangana Assembly on 16 January 2024. So, following the consistent policy of the Commission, the transfers should be made.

The two–week 60th capacity building programme (CBP) for the civil servants of Bangladesh organised by the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) concluded on Friday. The valedictory session was chaired by Bharat Lal, Director General, National Centre for Good Governance. In his address, he highlighted how these capacity building programmes are meticulously curated.

Five IAS officers have been shifted and posted to different places in Maharashtra. Anil Diggikar has been posted as Vice Chairman and Managing Director, CIDCO, Mumbai, while Mrs Manisha Patankar-Mhaiskar takes over as Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works Department with additional charge of ACS and Chief Protocol Officer, GAD, Mantralaya, Mumbai. Similarly, Dr K H Govinda Raj has been appointed as PS (2), Urban Development Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai; Dr Sanjay Mukherjee as Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA, Mumbai; Asheesh Sharma takes over as Addl Metropolitan Commissioner-2- MMRDA, Mumbai.

IAS officers in UP have been handed over new responsibilities. Nitin Bansal has got the responsibility of Special Secretary, Home while Devendra Kushwaha is posted as Special Secretary, Medical Education and Renu Tiwari is now Secretary, SC/ST Commission. Besides, Krishna Kumar has been sent as Special Secretary, Irrigation Department. Transfer of Special Secretary Housing Rakesh Kumar Mishra to Excise Department has been cancelled and Yashu Rustagi, Director, Labor and Adjustment Department, has been relieved of the responsibility of Special Secretary, Technical and Vocational Education.

Kailasnath Adhikari has been appointed as Additional Director and Managing Director of SAB Events & Governance Now Media Limited with effect from July 1, 2023.

Jairaj Purandare has been appointed as Additional Director (Independent) of Mahindra CIE Automotive Limited with effect from June 10, 2023.

Ms. Zohra Chatterji has resigned from the position of Non-Executive Independent Director from the Board of Dish TV India Limited.

Aditya Shirish Joshi has resigned from the position of Non-Executive -Independent Director of NIBE Limited.

Sudhir Chand has resigned from the position of Independent Director of ESAB India Limited.

Why not think of changing Bihar state to a Union Territory for a while? The kind of lawlessness that seems to be all pervading in this state, probably that is the way out.

Vijay Kumar

What happens to the copies of the newspapers sent to RNI?

The appellant sought to know if the record copy of the newspapers maintained by the Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI) was in print format or otherwise; and some other related information was also asked. The PIO informed that the details of newspapers received in RNI as per section 11(B) of PRB Act, 1867 is updated on regularity portal on RNI website and RNI does not maintain copy(s) of newspapers. The Appellant contended that the PIO has provided a false and misleading reply and quoted Rule 5 of the Registration of Newspaper (Central) Rules, 1956. The CIC observed that the PIO has reaffirmed the factual position of not maintaining copy of newspapers and is within the confines of the RTI Act. The CIC observed that action or inaction of RNI in not maintaining the said record cannot warrant any punitive action against the PIO under the RTI Act. The CIC directed the PIO to place this order before their competent authority to look into the allegations of the Appellant in consonance with the extant rules governing RNI.

Comments

It is a classical case which demonstrates how the RTI Act can be used to initiate action against non-compliance of any act or rules. Rule 5 (1) of the Registration of Newspaper (Central) Rules, 1956 reads that “Every publisher shall, within 48 hours of the publication of an issue of his newspaper, send to the Press Registrar one copy of the issue by post or by a messenger”. Sadly, in many cases, no copies of the newspapers are retained for future.

Citation: Samir Sardana v. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers of India, CIC/RNIND/A/2021/662365; 27/04/2023

Dr Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in) is a RTI Consultant currently working with IIM Visakhapatnam. She has co-authored the books, RTI Right to Information - Law and Practice and PIO’s Guide to RTI. She offers consultancy on RTI matters and Third party audit. Her other articles can be read at the website of RTI Foundation of India at the link www.rtifoundationofindia.com

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