Ananjay Kumar Tiwary (IRS-IT:2012) has been selected for appointment as Deputy Secretary in the Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation, Delhi for a period of four years. According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training on Wednesday (04.01.2023), the central government approved the appointment of Mr. Tiwary to the post for a period of four years under the Central Staffing Scheme from the date of taking over charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Apurva Chandra gets addl charge of Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment
Apurva Chandra (IAS:1988:MH), Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, has been given additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment. According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Wednesday (04.01.2023), the competent authority has approved assignment of additional charge of the post to Mr. Chandra from 05.01.2023 to 11.01.2023 during the period of absence on leave of Ms. Arti Ahuja (IAS:1990:OR).
Telangana: 29 IPS officers shifted, Rajiv Ratan is MD, TSPHCL
The Telangana government on Tuesday (03.01.2023) announced the transfer and posting of 29 IPS officers to different posts.
The names of the officers and their postings are as follows :
- Rajiv Ratan (IPS:1991:TG): Managing Director, Telangana State Police Housing Corporation.
- C V Anand (IPS:1991:TG): Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City, has also been given full additional charge of the newly created post of Additional Director General, Telangana State Anti-Narcotics Bureau.
- Sandeep Shandilya (IPS:1993:TG): Director, Telangana State Police Academy, Hyderabad.
- Kothakota Sreenivasa Reddy (IPS:1994:TG): ADGP, Organization & Legal.
- B Shivdhar Reddy (IPS:1994:TG): ADGP, Railways & Road Safety.
- Abhilasha Bisht (IPS:1994:TG): ADGP, Welfare and Sports with full additional charge of the post ADGP, Home Guards.
- Shikha Goel (IPS:1994:TG): ADGP, Women Safety, SHE Teams & Bharosa, Hyderabad.
- Veerisetty Venkata Srinivasa Rao (IPS:1995:TG): Chairman, TSLPRB has been given full additional charge of the post of ADGP, Police Computer Services.
- Swati Lakra (IPS:1995:TG): ADGP, TSSP Battalions.
- Vijay Kumar (IPS:1997:TG): ADGP (Operations), Greyhounds & OCTOPUS, Telangana, Hyderabad.
- Y. Nagi Reddy (IPS:1997:TG): Director General, Telangana State Disaster Response & Fire Services.
- Vikram Singh Mann (IPS:1998:TG): Additional Commissioner of Police, L&O, Hyderabad City.
- M Stephen Raveendra (IPS:1999:TG): Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad has been given full additional charge of the newly created post of IGP, Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau.
- G Sudheer Babu (IPS:2001:TG): Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Hyderabad City.
- Shahnawaz Qasim (IPS:2003:TG): IGP, Multizone-II.
- Dr. Tarun Joshi (IPS:2006:TG): IGP, Training O/o DGP, Telangana, Hyderabad.
- V B Kamalasan Reddy (IPS:2004:TG): IGP (Personnel) O/o DGP, Telangana, Hyderabad.
- S. Chandrasekhar Reddy (IPS:2004:TG): IGP, Multizone-I.
- M. Ramesh (IPS:2003:TG): DIG, Provisioning and Logistics.
- Kartikeya (IPS:2006:TG): DIG, Intelligence.
- K Ramesh Naidu (IPS:2006:TG): DIG, Rajanna Zone.
- M Srinivasulu (IPS:2006:TG): Joint CP, CAR, Hyderabad City.
- Tafseer Iqbal (IPS:2008:TG): DIG Intelligence Security Wing.
- Dr. Gajarao Bhupal (IPS:2008:TG): Joint CP, Rachakonda.
- Rema Rajeshwari (IPS:2009:TG): Deputy Inspector General of Police, Yadadri Zone in the rank of SP. She will also continue to hold the charge of Superintendent of Police, Nalgonda District.
- L S Chauhan (IPS-SPS): DIG, Jogulamba Zone in the rank of SP.
- K Narayan Naik (IPS:2009:TG): Joint CP, Traffic, Cyberabad in the rank of SP.
- J Parimala Hana Nutan (IPS): Joint CP (Admn), Hyderabad City in the rank of SP.
- R. Bhaskaran (IPS:2012:TG): SP, CI Cell, Intelligence.
Maharashtra : Deven Bharti appointed Special Police Commissioner of Mumbai
Senior IPS officer Deven Bharti (IPS:1994:MH) was on Wednesday (04.01.2023) appointed as Special Commissioner of Mumbai Police, which is a newly created post. Presently, Bharti is an Additional Director General and was awaiting a posting.
The city police till date had a police commissioner who had five joint commissioners reporting to him. The creation of a new post will divide responsibilities. As per sources in the home department, the Joint Commissioner of Police, Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Law & Order, and Crime may report to the Special CP.
Bharti is close to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and was one of Mumbai’s most powerful bureaucrats under Fadnavis when he was CM. He was Joint Commissioner of Police (Law & Order) when the BJP leader was Chief Minister of the state from 2014 to 2019. Subsequently, he was shifted to the Anti-Terrorism Squad on promotion to Additional Director General of Police (ADGP).
When the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government came to power in Maharashtra in 2019, Bharti was made Joint Managing Director of the Maharashtra State Security Corporation. On December 13, 2022, Bharti was replaced by Joint Commissioner (Traffic) Rajvardhan and since then he had been awaiting a new posting.
Bihar : 52 IPS officers shifted, Alok Raj to head Vigilance
In a big reshuffle in Bihar Police administration at the top level on Saturday (31.12.2022) 52 IPS officers were transferred and assigned new postings.
The names of the officers and their postings are as follows :
- Alok Raj (IPS:1989:BH): DG, Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB).
- Preeta Verma (IPS:1991:BH): DG, Training.
- Sunil Kumar Jha (IPS:1993:BH): ADG, Technical Services & Wireless.
- Sudhanshu Kumar (IPS:1996:BH): ADG, Traffic.
- Amrit Raj (IPS:1998:BH): ADG, Prohibition.
- M R Nayak (IPS:1998:BH): ADG, Bihar Special Auxiliary Police (BSAP).
- K S Anupam (IPS:1998:BH): ADG/Special Secretary, Home (Special Branch), Patna.
- Kshatranil Singh (IPS:2005:BH): IG (Magadh Range), Gaya.
- P Kannan (IPS:2005:BH): IG, EOW, Patna.
- Rajesh Tripathi (IPS:2005:BH): IG, Rail, Patna.
- Naval Kishore (IPS:2005:BH): IG, Modernisation, Patna.
- Rajeev Ranjan (IPS:2005:BH): IG, Civil Defence.
- Daljeet Singh (IPS:2007:BH): DIG, (Anti-Dacoity), CID.
- Satyavir Singh (IPS:2008:BH): DIG, ATS, Patna.
- Vikas Kumar (IPS:2008:BH): DIG, Saran Range, Chhapra.
- Navin Chandra Jha (IPS:2009:BH): DIG, Shahabad Range, Dehri-on-Sone.
- Babu Ram (IPS:2009:BH): DIG, Begusarai.
- Jayant Kant (IPS:2009:BH): DIG, Bihar Special Auxiliary Police (Central Division), Patna.
- Harpreet Kaur (IPS:2009:BH): DIG, Special Branch, Patna.
- Mohammad Abdullah (IPS:2009:BH): DIG-cum-Deputy Director, Bihar Police Academy, Rajgir.
- Binod Kumar-2 (IPS:2009:BH): DIG, Home Guard and Fire Services.
- M S Dhillon (IPS:2009:BH): SSP, Patna (Promoted to DIG Rank)
- Himanshu Shankar Trivedi (IPS:2010:BH): SP, Arwal has been attached to PHQ, Patna.
- Pramod Kumar Mandal (IPS:2010:BH): Commandant, Bihar Special Auxiliary Police-5, Patna.
- Ashish Bharti (IPS:2011:BH): SSP, Gaya.
- Rakesh Kumar (IPS:2011:BH): SSP, Muzaffarpur.
- Swapna Ji Meshram (IPS:2011:BH): SP, Aurangabad.
- Anand Kumar (IPS:2012:BH): SSP, Bhagalpur.
- Kumar Ashish (IPS:2012:BH): SP, Rail, Muzaffarpur.
- Sanjay Kumar Singh (IPS:2012:BH): SP, ATS,Patna.
- Neeraj Kumar Singh (IPS:2012:BH): Assistant IG (Inspection), Patna.
- Gaurav Mangla (IPS:2013:BH): SP, Saran.
- Santosh Kumar (IPS:2014:BH): SP, STF (Training), Patna.
- Kantesh Kumar Mishra (IPS:2015:BH): SP, East Champaran, Motihari.
- Vinay Kumar Tiwari (IPS:2015:BH): SP, Samastipur.
- Hridaykant (IPS:2015:BH): Commandant, Bihar Special Auxiliary Police-2, Dehri with additional charge Commandant Bihar Special Auxiliary Police (Women), Sasaram.
- Swarn Prabhat (IPS:2017:BH): SP, Gopalganj.
- Vinit Kumar (IPS:2017:BH): SP, Rohtas.
- Ambrish Rahul (IPS:2017:BH): SP, Nawada.
- Pramod Kumar Yadav (IPS:2017:BH): SP, Bhojpur.
- Mohammad Kasim (IPS): SP, Arwal.
- Manish Kumar (IPS): SP, Buxar.
- Amritendu Shekhar Thakur (IPS): SP, Rail, Patna.
- Lalit Mohan Sharma (IPS): SP, Kaimur.
- Harimohan Shukla (IPS:2014:BH): Commandant, Special Security Force, Patna with additional charge of SP (Security), Special Branch.
- Sagar Kumar (IPS:2018:BH): SP City, Darbhanga.
- Vaibhav Sharma (IPS:2018:BH): SP City (Central), Patna.
- Syed Imran Masood (IPS:2018:BH): SP (Rural), Patna.
- Sandeep Singh (IPS:2018:BH): SP City (East), Patna.
- Roshan Kumar (IPS:2019:BH): SDPO, Lakhisarai.
- Shubham Arya (IPS:2019:BH): SDPO, Masaurhi, Patna.
- Kamya Mishra (IPS:2019:BH): SDPO, Sadar, Patna with additional charge of Assistant SP, Secretariat, Patna.
Rajasthan: 27 IFS officers promoted to higher grades
The Rajasthan government has promoted 27 IFoS officers to various grades. According to an order issued by the state’s Department of Personnel on Saturday (31.12.2022), the promotion is effective from January 1, 2023.
IFS officer (1998 batch) promoted to Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests:
- Priya Ranjan (Proforma Promotion)
IFS officers (2005 batch) promoted to Chief Conservator of Forests:
- Khyati Mathur
- Dr. Chanda Ram Meena
- Anup K R (Proforma Promotion)
- Roop Narayan Meena
- Amar Singh Gothwal
- Ram Karan Khairwa
- Mahesh Chandra Gupta
- Hanuman Ram
IFS officers (2009 batch) promoted to Conservator of Forests Grade:
- Harini V (Proforma Promotion)
- Shashi Shankar (Proforma Promotion)
- Sunil
- Dr. T Mohan Raj
- Balaji Karri (Proforma Promotion)
IFS officers (2010 batch) promoted to Selection Grade:
- Vikram Kesharee Pradhan (Proforma Promotion)
- Bijo Joy
- Anita (Proforma Promotion)
- Kapil Chandrawal
- Sudeep Kaur
- Supang Shashi
IFS officers (2014 batch) promoted to Junior Administrative Grade:
- Ramanand Bhakar
- Venkdoth Ketan Kumar
- Mohit Gupta
IFS officers (2019 batch) promoted to Senior Time Scale:
- Arun Kumar D
- Manas Singh
- Maria Shayenne
- P Balamurugan
Rajasthan: 41 IPS officers promoted to higher grades
The Rajasthan government has promoted 41 IPS officers to various grades. According to an order issued by the state’s Department of Personnel on Saturday (31.12.2022), the promotion is effective from January 1, 2023.
IPS officer (1990 batch) promoted to DGP Grade:
- Rajiv Kumar Sharma
IPS officers (1998 batch) promoted to ADGP Grade:
- Vipin Kumar Pandey
- Alok Kumar Vashishtha
- P Ramji
IPS officers (2005 batch) promoted to IGP Grade:
- Ajay Pal Lamba
- Dr. Vishnu Kant
- Param Jyoti
- Satyendra Singh
- Ashok Kumar Gupta
- Sawai Singh Godara
IPS officers (2009 batch) promoted to DIG Grade:
- Shweta Dhankar
- Preeti Jain (Proforma Promotion)
- Ajay Singh
- Yogesh Yadav
- Kunwar Rashtradeep
- Kalyan Mal Meena
- Anil Kumar-II
- Pradeep Mohan Sharma
- Deepak Bhargav
- Sunil Kumar Vishnoi
- Manish Agrawal-II
- Shivraj Meena
- Dr. Rameshwar Singh
IPS officers (2010 batch) promoted to Selection Grade:
- Deshmukh Paris Anil
- Dr. Gagandeep Singla
- Vikas Sharma
- Dr. Rajeev Pachar
- Rathod Vinit Kumar Trikamlal (Proforma Promotion)
- Bhanwar Singh Nathawat
- Yogesh Dadhich
- Manoj Kumar
- Rajendra Kumar
IPS officers (2014 batch) promoted to Junior Administrative Grade:
- Anil Kumar
- Dharmendra Singh
- Monica Sen
IPS officers (2019 batch) promoted to Senior Time Scale:
- Sushil Kumar
- Brijesh Jyoti Upadhyay
- Ranjeeta Sharma
- Hari Shankar
- Sumeet Meharda
- Praveen Nayak Nunavath
Rajasthan : 56 IAS officers promoted to higher grades
The Rajasthan government has promoted 56 IAS officers to various grades. According to an order issued by the state’s Department of Personnel on Saturday (31.12.2022), the promotion is effective from January 1, 2023.
IAS officers (1993 batch) promoted to Chief Secretary Grade:
- Tanmay Kumar (Proforma Promotion)
- Akhil Arora
- Alok (Proforma Promotion)
- Aparna Arora
- Shikhar Agrawal
- Sandeep Verma
IAS officers (1999 batch) promoted to Principal Secretary Grade (Above Super Time Scale):
- Bhawani Singh Detha
- Vikas Sitaramji Bhale
- Mugdha Sinha (Proforma Promotion)
IAS officers (2007 batch) promoted to Secretary Grade (Super Time Scale):
- Bishnu Charan Malik (Proforma Promotion)
- Anandi (Proforma Promotion)
- Dr. Tina Soni (Proforma Promotion)
- Shuchi Tyagi
- Dr. Pratibha Singh
- Yagyamitra Singh Dev
- Chauthi Ram Meena
- Sanwar Mal Verma
- Mahesh Chandra Sharma
- Pawan Arora
- Rajendra Bhat
IAS officers (2010 batch) promoted to Selection Grade:
- Prakash Rajpurohit
- Dr. Jitendra Kumar Soni
- Indrajeet Singh
- Neha Giri
- Vishwa Mohan Sharma
- Om Prakash Bunkar
- Kanhaiya Lal Swami
- Mahendra Kumar Parakh
- Hridesh Kumar Sharma
- Laxman Singh Kudi
- Nalini Kathotia
- Rajendra Singh Shekhawat
- Sohan Lal Sharma
- Meghraj Singh Ratnoo
- Anuprerna Singh Kuntal
- Rajendra Vijay
- Prakash Chandra Sharma
- Shakti Singh Rathore
- Kumari Pragya Kewalramani
- Sri Mahaveer Prasad
IAS officers (2014 batch) promoted to Junior Administrative Grade :
- Chinmayee Gopal
- Shubham Chaudhary
- Dr. Bharati Dixit
- Suresh Kumar Ola
- Qummer Ul Zaman Choudhary
- Dr. Bhawar Lal
- Ashish Modi
- Piyush Samariya
- Ankit Kumar Singh
IAS officers (2019 batch) promoted to Senior Time Scale:
- Kanishak Kataria
- Rahul Jain
- Saloni Khemka
- Rishabh Mandal
- Sri Giridhar
- Dhaigude Snehal Nana
- Lalit Goel
ONGC ‘Sagar Samrat’ starts Oil and Gas production in Arabian Sea
The iconic offshore drilling Rig of ONGC ‘Sagar Samrat’ has been commissioned as a Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) on 23 December 2022. Sagar Samrat MOPU will handle up to 20,000 barrels per day of crude oil, with a maximum export gas capacity of 2.36 million cubic meters per day and is expected to add 6000 bbls/day of oil to ONGC’s production in the coming days. The first oil from WO-16 cluster flowed into the processing system of MOPU and dispatch to onshore terminal commenced.
WO-16 is a cluster of four marginal fields in the Arabian Sea at a water depth of 75-80 m and 130 km from Mumbai which is about 40 km from the Mumbai High. Since, no nearby facility exists to produce from this field, it was planned to install a MOPU for production, processing and transportation of oil and gas from WO-16 Cluster.
The project to convert Jack-up rig Sagar Samrat into a MOPU was awarded to a Consortium of Mercator Oil & Gas Ltd, Mercator Offshore (P) Ltd and Gulf Piping Company (GPC) on 17 November 2011. After several hurdles like the legal challenges and Covid-19, the MOPU was transported to India, on a Heavy Lift Vessel and post statutory clearances, successfully installed close to the WO-16 wellhead platform on 16 April 2022.
The Sagar Samrat conversion project is one of the most complex projects executed by ONGC. The MOPU stands tall in the Arabian Sea, as a testimony, to narrate the stories of several tough decisions taken during its execution and the excellent stakeholder consultation by ONGC which eventually yielded results.
NTPC starts India’s first green hydrogen blending operation in PNG network
NTPC Ltd commissions India’s first green hydrogen blending project. The green hydrogen blending has been started in the piped natural gas (PNG) network of NTPC Kawas township, Surat. The project is a joint effort of NTPC and Gujarat Gas Limited (GGL).
The first molecule of green hydrogen from the project was set in motion by Shri P Ram Prasad, head of project, Kawas in presence of other senior executives of NTPC Kawas and GGL.
After the start of blending operation, NTPC Kawas held awareness workshops for township residents with help of GGL officials.
NTPC and GGL have worked relentlessly towards achieving this milestone in record time after the foundation stone laying by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India on 30th July 2022. This set-up is geared up to supply H2-NG (natural gas) to households of Kawas township at Adityanagar, Surat. Green hydrogen in Kawas is made by electrolysis of water using power from already installed 1 MW floating solar project.
Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), the regulatory body has given approval for 5% vol./vol. blending of green hydrogen with PNG to start with and the blending level would be scaled phase wise to reach 20%. Green hydrogen when blended with natural gas reduces CO2 emissions keeping net heating content same.
This feat is achieved only by few select countries like UK, Germany, and Australia etc. This would bring India at the centre stage of the global hydrogen economy. India would not only reduce its hydrocarbon import bill significantly but can also bring forex ashore by being a green hydrogen and green chemicals exporter to the world. (PIB)
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