Around 20 IAS officers from various cadre are going to retire this month. Among them Rudra Pratap Singh and Ajay kumar Singh of Uttar Pradesh, Snehlata Srivastava and SK Mishra of Madhya Pradesh, Hanumant Singh Bhati from Rajasthan and Dr P Ram Mohan Rao from Tamilnadu.
Limatula Yaden’s tenure as Director,Department of Health and Family Welfare extended
The deputation tenure of Limatula Yaden as Director in the Department of Health and Family Welfare has been extended by one more year. Therefore, she will continue as Director for another term of one more year.
The 1996 batch IRS(C&CE) officer, Limatula Yaden has been given the extension for the period of one year beyond 30 July 2017 to 30 July 2018, 2018.
Amitabh Prasad is new PS to Railway Minister
Amitabh Prasad, IA&AS (2001), has been appointed as Private Secretary (PS) to the Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on a co-terminus basis.
He is also the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the Coal Minister.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved appointment of Prasad as PS to the railways minister in addition to his duties as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the Minister of Coal, it said. Goyal is also the Coal Minister.
Govt curtails tenure of PS to MoS External Affairs M J Akbar
The government has curtailed the tenure of Kashish Mittal as private secretary to Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the curtailment of tenure of Mittal, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said.
Mittal, a 2011 batch IAS officer of union territories cadre, was in August 2016 appointed as the PS to the minister for a five-year term.
Bureaucratic reshuffle: 17 new joint secretaries appointed
The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister on September 18 cleared the appointment of 18 Joint Secretaties.
Of these, 11 officers are from Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and six from other civil services. The appointments are as follows:
(1) Anil Malik (IAS-1991; HY) will be Joint Secretary in Ministry of Home Affairs.
(2) Vivek Bharadwaj (IAS-1990; WB)has been appointed as Joint Secretary in Ministry of Home Affairs.
(3) Anurag Agarwal (IAS-1990; PB), also from the same service, has been appointed Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs.
(4) Dr. N Sarvana Kumar (IAS-2000; BH), appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Higher Education..
(5) Ruchika Chaudhry Govil (IRS IT-1990), an officer of Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre), has been named Joint Secretary, Ministry of Steel.
(6) Manohar Agnani (IAS-1993; MP) will be Joint Secretary in Department of Health and Family Welfare.
(7) Vijoy Kumar Singh (IAS-1990; PB) has been named as Joint Secretary, DoPT
(8) Amit Sahai (IFoS-1987; AM), an Indian Forest Service officer, will be Joint Secretary, Department of Defence Production.
(9) Ravinesh Kumar (IDAS-1994), an officer of Indian Defence Accounts Service, has been named Financial Advisor (JS Level), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), under Ministry of Home Affairs.
(10) Sanjay Goel (IRTS-1991) has been appointed Joint Secretary in Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
(11) Gopalakrishnan S (IAS-1991; TN) has been appointed Joint Secretary in Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
(12) Anuradha Thakur (IAS-1994; HP) will be Joint Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management.
(13) Kalpana Rajsinghot (IPoS-1992) have been appointed Joint Secretary in Ministry of Labour and Employment
(14) Manju Pandey (IPoS-1989) appointed as Joint Secretary , Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
(15) Niranjan Kumar Sudhansu (IAS-2000; MH) will be Joint Secretary, Ministry of Coal.
(16) S Suresh Kumar (IAS-2000; AP) has been appointed Additional CEO ( JS Level), Government e-marketplace Special Purpose Vehicle— a portal to procure goods and services by all government departments and public sector undertakings, under Department of Commerce.
(17) IAS officer Rajiv Arora, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment has been sent back to his cadre state Haryana before completion of his central deputation tenure.
Rajni Kant Misra appointed as SSB Chief
Rajni Kanth Misra, a senior IPS officer was on Monday appointed director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
He will replace Ms Archana Ramasundaram, who will retire on September 30, 2017. She is a 1980 IPS officer of T.N Cadre.
Misra has been appointed director general of the SSB till the date of his superannuation, ie, August 31, 2019, the DoPT order said.
Misra, a 1984 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, is at present additional director general in the Border Security Force (BSF).
YC Modi to succeed Sharad Kumar as NIA Chief
Y C Modi has been named as the new Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA). He’ll take over from Sharad Kumar, whose terms as the NIA chief ends in October 18, 2017.
Modi was a part of a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed three most important cases involving the post-Godhra riots: Gulberg Society, Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gam.
Modi is a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. He has also been the Additional Director General of Police in Shillong.
Modi is at present additional director in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
MP government terminates woman IAS officer over corruption
The Madhya Pradesh government has terminated the services of a woman IAS officer, Shashi Karnawat, following her conviction in a corruption case.
Action against Shashi Karnawat, who was placed under suspension in October 2013, was taken under the provisions of the All India Service (Discipline and Appeals) Rules, 1969.
The services of Karnawat, a 1999-batch IAS officer, have been terminated in agreement with the advice of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and orders of the Government of India, a Public Relations Department official said.
Karnawat was deputy secretary in the youth and sports welfare department prior to her suspension.
She was a state administrative services (SAS) officer before being promoted to the IAS in 1999.
Humans of Hindutava
It was a good run but ultimately I realized that you guys are not worth a bullet in my fucking head.” That’s how the anonymous administrator of Humans of Hindutva chose to announce the shutdown of the Facebook parody page on Saturday.
Humans of Hindutva (HOH), inspired by the popular Humans of New York, routinely mocks the far right by exaggerating their anti-Muslim, pro-cow biases. It has close to 1 lakh followers.
It’s come to the point where I have to argue with people who I thought were on the same side as me. I’m tired of explaining the intention behind my words again and again and again, writes the admin.
He wrote it on his Facebook
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