Raghuraj Rajendran appointed as Deputy Director, LBSNAA

The 2004 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, Raghuraj Rajendran has been appointed as Deputy Director in the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration(LBSNAA), Mussorie. He has been appointed for a period of four years.

The 1983 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, C. K. Mishra, presently Secretary in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change.

His appointment comes in the wake of vacancy caused due to appointment of Ajay Narayan Jha, IAS (MN 82) as OSD, Department of Expenditure.

The 1982 batch IAS officer of MN cadre, Ajay Narayan Jha, presently Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Expenditure.

AN Jha would succeed Ashok Lavasa (IAS:1980:HY) on his retirement on 31 October 2017

The 2002 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, G K Srivastava presently working as Additional Commissioner, Kendriye Vidalya Sangathan(KVS) has been appointed to the post of Director, Central Vigilance Commission(CVC) on shift basis for the period upto 17 Dec 2019.

The 2002 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, Ms. Debjani Chakrabarty presently serving as Director in the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has been appointed as Director in the Central Vigilance Commission on shift basis for the period upto 18 Feb 2020.

tul Kumar Singh, 1998 batch ITS officer has been appointed as Director, Ministry of Defence has been appointed to the post of Director in the Central Vigilance Commission(CVC) on the shift basis for the period upto 31 Jul 2019.

Jayant N. Khobragade,  a 1995 batch IFS officer has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Dept of Atomic Energy. Prior to this he was posted as OSD in the same Department of Atomic Energy.

The 2002 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre, C. Sudarshan Reddy has been appointed as Director in the Ministry of Defence, Govt of Indi, for a period ending April 26, 2020.

Reddy is presently on ‘Compulsory Wait’ in the M/o Labour & Employment.

Vipul Bansal has been appointed as Private Secretary to the Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, for a period up to January 26, 2022.

The appointment of the Karnatka cadre IAS officer of 2005 batch as PS to the Defence Minister is at the Deputy Secretary level on lateral shift basis.

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for implementation of umbrella scheme of “Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF)” for years 2017-18 to 2019-20. The financial outlay for the scheme over the three year’s period is Rs.25,060 crore, out of which the Central Government share will be Rs.18,636 crore and the States’ share will be Rs.6,424 crore.

Salient Features of Umbrella Scheme:

o Special provision has been made under the Scheme for internal security, law and order, women security, availability of modern weapons, mobility of police forces, logistics support, hiring of helicopters, upgradation of police wireless, National Satellite Network, CCTNS project, E-prison project etc.

o Under the umbrella scheme, central budget outlay of Rs.10,132 crore has been earmarked for internal security related expenditure for Jammu & Kashmir, North Eastern States and left wing extremism affected States.

o Scheme of Special Central Assistance (SCA) for 35 worst LWE affected districts has been introduced with an outlay of Rs.3,000 crore to tackle the issue of underdevelopment in these district.

o An outlay of Rs.100 crore has been earmarked in the North Eastern States for police infrastructure upgradation, training institutes, investigation facilities etc.

o Implementation of this scheme would bolster the Government’s ability to address challenges faced in different theatres such as areas affected by LWE, Jammu and Kashmir and North East effectively and undertake development interventions which will catalyze in improving the quality of life in these areas and help combat these challenges effectively at the same time.

o New initiatives are being introduced to provide assistance to States for upgradation of police infrastructure, forensic science laboratories, institutions and the equipment available with them to plug critical gaps in the criminal justice system. Police Stations will be integrated to set up a national data base of crime and criminals’ records. It will be linked with other pillars of criminal justice system such as ‘prisons, forensic science laboratories and prosecution offices.

o The umbrella scheme also provides for setting up of a State-of Art forensic science laboratory in Amravati, Andhra Pradesh and upgradation of Sardar Patel Global Centre for Security, Counter Terrorism and Anti Insurgency in Jaipur and Gujarat Forensic Science University in Gandhi Nagar.

It is expected that the umbrella scheme, “Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF)” will go a long way to boost the capability and efficiency of Central and State Police Forces by modernizing them.