As many as 28 IAS officers of various cadres and batches are retiring in February 2020. They are: Ramnganing Muivah of Manipur cadre; Dr Ajay Kumar Singla and Lalthangpuia Sailo of AGMUT; Shamsher Singh, Sanjib K Gohain Boruah, Manoj Kr Deka and Biren Phukan of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Deepak Kumar of Bihar; Ajay Singh of Chhattisgarh; Dina Nath Pandey of Gujarat; Rajni Sekhri Sibal of Haryana; Dr Purnima Chauhan of Himachal Pradesh; Rakesh Kumar Gupta of Jammu & Kashmir; Rajeev Kumar, Ranendra Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Danial Kandulna of Jharkhand; Manohar Lal Dubey and Rajendra Singh of MP; Bipin Bihari Mallick of Mahrashtra; Lithrongla G Chishi and Kelei Zeliang of Nagaland; Dr Roshan Sunkaria and Bakhtwar Singh of Punjab; Surendra Kumar Solanki of Rajasthan; Ashok Dongre of Tamil Nadu; Rajeshwar Tiwari of Telangana and Trinanjan Chakraborty of West Bengal cadre.

Orders of Sanjay Kothari for CVC and Bimal Julka for CIC are to be issued in a couple of days. Formal orders were delayed because of US President’s visit. Kothari is presently Secretary to the President.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Tanweer Qamar Mohammad as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation. He is 1994 batch IPoS officer.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Sanjay Kumar Jam as Joint Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises. He is 1990 batch IRTS officer.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Navneet Mohan Kothari as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He is 2001 batch MP cadre IAS officer.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Baldeo Purushartha as Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs. He is 2002 batch Punjab cadre IAS officer. 

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of K V Pratap, presently working as Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. He is an IES officer of 1992 batch.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Charanpreet Singh Bakshi as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs. He is an IRS ( C&CE) officer of 1992 batch.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Niraj Kumar Gayagi as Joint Secretary, Department of Justice.He is an IDAS officer of 1997 batch.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Neerja Sekhar as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.She is 1993 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Purushottam Tiwary as Joint Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry. He is 1996 batch IA&AS officer.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Atul Saxena as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries. He is an IRSS officer of 1991 batch. 

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Mukta Shekhar as Joint Secretary, Department of Food & Public Distribution. She is an IRAS officer of 1994 batch.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Satish Singh as Joint Secretary, Department of Defence.He is an IRSME officer of 1996 batch.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Aditi Das Rout, as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Surendra K. Ahirwar as Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce. He is an IRTS officer of 1997 batch. 

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Deepak Kapoor, as Additional CEO, GeM SPV, (JS level) under the Department of Commerce. He is an IA & AS officer of 1998 batch. 

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Sushma Taishete,  presently working as Joint Secretary, Department of Justice, as Joint Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, (Mumbai).

50+ years or 33 years of service  personnel of different CPOs from Constables to Inspectors, will be sent to CISF. This step is being taken to avoid them to perform hard and tough duties . According to sources this step will benefit ITBP, CRPF and BSF personnel the most. MHA has asked all CPOs to send the names of such personnel by Feb 25.

Jaideep Singh has been appointed as Minister (Personnel) in the Embassy of India in Berlin. He is a 1997 batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

Rohit Yadav, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Steel has been appointed as Joint Secretary in Prime Minister’s office on lateral shift basis for the balance period of his Central deputation upto July 31, 2020. He is an IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre of 2002 batch.

Gujarat cadre IPS officer Vipul Aggarwal has been made Deputy CEO of National Health Authority (Ayushman Bharat).

The Central Government has approved the proposal of Department of Atomic Energy for premature repatriation of  Mervin Alexander S. , Joint Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy to his parent cadre on grounds of availing promotion in the cadre.He is an IPoS officer of 1987 batch. 

The Central Government has approved the proposal of Ministry of Culture for premature repatriation of S C Barmma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, to his parent cadre on personal grounds. He is an IPoS officer of 1987 batch.

The Central Government has approved the assignment of additional charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of Steel to M M Kutty, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas from February 24, 2020 to February 28, 2020 during the period of absence on leave of Binoy Kumar, IAS. He is an IAS officer of UT cadre of 1985 batch.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the lateral shift of Ajit Kumar, from the post of Deputy Secretary, Prime Minister's Office to the post of Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs for a period upto February 24, 2022 (i.e. combined tenure of seven years at the Centre).  He is an IAS officer of Kerala cadre of 2006 batch.

Justice Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari, senior-most Judge of Bombay High Court has been appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.

The Delhi Govt has assigned new postings to 14 IAS officers. Accordingly, Dr G Narendra Kumar had been posted as  CMD, DSCSC, Sanjeev Khirwar has been posted as Principal Secretary(Environment & Forest), Rajesh Prasad has been posted as Principal Secretary (UD) and Director (Local Bodies) with additional charge of Principal Secretary (co-operation),  Manisha Saxena has been posted as Secretary (Education) with additional charge as Secretary (TTE) and Secretary (Higher Education), Sandeep Kumar has been posted as Secretary (Finance) with additional charge of Secretary (Planning), Manoj Kumar has been posted as Secretary (GAD), Vikas Anand, Secretary, Industries had been given additional charge as Secretary (Tourism), Ms Padmini Singla had been posted as Secretary (Health) with additional charge as Secreatary (Power), Vivek Pandey had been posted as Commissioner (Trade & Taxes), Ms Garima Gupta, MD, DSFDC had been handed over additional charge  of Special Secretary , PWD, Shilpa Shinde, Special Commissioner, Trade and Taxes had been handed over additional charge as Member Secretary, Delhi Commission for Women, Udit Prakash Rai had been posted as MD, DSFDC, Ms Neha Bansal, Deputy Commissioner, West Revenue Department had been handed over additional charge as Special Secretary (Art , Culture & Language) and Ms Patil Pranjal Lahensingh had been posted as SDM, Vasant Vihar, Revenue Department.

Dr Dharampal Jaroli has been appointed new Chairman of Rajasthan Secondary Education Board. He retired from the Zoology Department. The post of Chairman, RSEB was lying vacant since October 2018. 

A total of five DANICS cadre officers had been made Secretary to ministers in the Delhi Govt. Accordingly, C Arvind had been posted as Secretary to Manish Sisodia, Vivek Kumar Tripathi has been posted as Secretary to Gopai Rai, Shailendra Singh had been posted as Secretary to Satyender Jain, Sravan Bagaria had been posted as Secretary to Imran Hussain and Gurpal Singh had been posted as Secretary to Kailash Gahlot.

Mrs Aruna Nayar presently posted as Principal Chief Personnel Officer in Eastern Railway has been posted as PCPO in Southern Railway.She is an IRPS officer.

Alok Kumar presently working as EDE in the Railway Board had been posted as PCPO in South Western Railway.He is an IRPS officer.

Vinay Kumar Nama, Director (Safety), Railway Board has been selected for deputation to DFCCIL as Deputy Chief Vigilance Officer for a period of three years.He is an IRSEE officer.

In a major reshuffle in CRPF, 11 IGs have been transferred. Among them two are IPS officers while 9 are Cadre officers.  Accordingly K S Bhandari will be new IG, RAF hq  in Delhi, Arun Kumar is going to Mount Abu as IG, Internal Security Academy,(ISA), Pradeep Kumar Singh to take over as IG, West Bengal Sector,Kolkata, Anshuman yadav, IPS joins IG(Intelligence) at CRPF, Hq,Randeep Dutta to replace Yaday as IG of Manipur & Nagaland Sector, A V Chauhan is coming to CRPF Academy, Kadarpur as IG, Vikram Sahgal has been transferred to Rajasthan Sector as IG in Jaipur, Vivek Vaid will take over as IG(Estt) at the Hq, Ajay Kumar Yadav,IPS, will be IG(Provisioning) at the Hq, RDS Sahi will be IG(Communication & IT in the Hq and G V H Giri has been posted as IG, Bihar Sector, Patna.

NBCC has been conferred with the prestigious “Global Safety Award 2020” by Energy and Environment Foundation at its Global Excellence Awards Event held in New Delhi. The award was given for outstanding contribution towards practicing excellent workplace culture in Health & Safety by evolving Safe Work practices at the Central Information Commission (CIC) Office Building, New Delhi, constructed by NBCC. Justice (Retd) Swatanter Kumar gave away the award and Neelesh Shah, Director (Projects) received the award on behalf of the company.

The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended elevation of Justice B.P. Dharmadhikari, Acting  Chief Justice, Bombay High Court as Chief Justice of that High Court.

Raghavan Rangarajan has quit as Managing Director of HCL Infosystems w.e.f. March 31, 2020.

Ms Aziza A. Chitalwala has quit as Non-Executive Independent Director Jai Corp.

Vintron Informatics Ltd. has appointed Mrs. Rupam Chaudhary as Independent Director of the company.

C Parthasarathy has quit as Director of Pennar Industries Ltd due to personal reasons.

Denis Chem Lab Ltd has appointed Hemendrakumar Chamanlal Shah as an Independent Director of the company.

Opto Circuits (India) Limited has appointed Ms Yallamma V Pujari as Company Secretary of the company.

DEBATE(1)

Complete mismanagement and ordeal.

Harpal Singh

DEBATE (2)

This is like saying one nation one ministry

However merger of services with similar functions is the need of the hour.All India services should be merged. There is no ground for one particular service hogging all the limelight and promotions. Merger of 8 railway services is a laudable step. Similarly all accounts based services should be merged-defence, civil, audit and accounts, cost accounts service etc. Customs and income tax services should be merged. Indian Economic and Statistical services, postal and telecom services be merged etc. There is an urgent need for overhaul of recruitment process which is long, laborious and encourages rattu totas with average intelligence. A lot of the current lot of officers are under utilised, doing repetitive work, almost redundant and deadwood by the time they spend 10 years in service. A bunch of officers are kept engaged for a work item which can easily be delivered by one officer. The evaluation system of annual confidential reports does not give a correct evaluation of the officer. It is just a reflection of the buttering, back biting and scratch my back and I scratch yours. Officers have retired at very senior posts including FA in key infrastructure ministries with disastrous results in performance and revenue downslide in the ministry witnessed during their tenure, with no questions asked. In this kind of a comfortable scenario , lining your own pockets especially before retirement is a prime mover. Urgent overhaul of recruitment, training, merger and streamlining of services is the need of the hour without further delay.

Ramesh Sinha

Merge MoD with DMA

The MoD should be merged with the DMA and handed over to the men in uniform.

Amitabh Agrawal

Non - compliance of CIC order

Appellant filed RTI application seeking information about the status of Vigilance Enquiry against Shri Balraj for alleged filing of false affidavit and related information. The Respondent submitted that similar matter was heard and adjudicated by the Commission earlier in CIC/DELJB/C/2017/156869 dated 16.05.2019 and that the investigation in the case was completed as on date. On being queried regarding the compliance of the aforementioned order directing the PIO to send a reply afresh to the Complainant within 2 weeks, no satisfactory response was offered by the Respondent. The CIC instructed the Respondent to ensure the compliance of the earlier order pronounced by the CIC and provide a revised reply to the Appellant within a period of 02 weeks from the date of this order under intimation to the CIC failing which penal action u/s 20 (1) of the RTI Act may be initiated.

Comments

This case shows that the Information Commission does possess an independent mechanism to ensure compliance of its own orders. The number of cases where the PIO has not complied with the directions of the CIC is likely to increase in the absence of fear of penalty.

Citation: Shri MadanSain v. PIO, DJB in Second Appeal No. CIC/DELJB/A/2018/131952, Date of Decision: 14.02.2020

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