- COVID19: Seven IAS officers placed under Department of Health & Family Welfare Appointment of Eight members reconstituted – Yes Bank Board Shailendra Singh asked to report to Department of Health Research High and mighty countries proved to be a damp squib by Chinese: Failure of diplomacy & intelligence ? Govt of India recalls Sudhansh Pant IACA, Laxenburg: P K Sinha gets extension Dy RBI Governor Kanungo gets extension IAS officer suspended for jumping home quarantine DOPT going slow, officers under dilemma: SFIO Director Bhatia completes tenure ONGC: Aggarwal appointed as Govt Nominee Director IOCL: Kothari appointed as Government Nominee Director Shobha Oza’s appointment scrapped DOPT going slow, officers under dilemma: SFIO Director Bhatia completes tenure Kerala cadre IAS jumps isolation to go to Kanpur Corporate Affairs Ministry issues advisory against COVID-19 UPSC: Gaur’s tenure extended Mrs Esha appointed as Government Nominee Director on GAIL’s Board NaMo Govt announces Rs 1.70 lakh cr package to fight Covid-19 Coal India comes out with its own hand senitiser NTPC flexes muscle, augments capacity: A glance Pangariha holds bureaucracy responsible for slow reform COVID-19: India requires a multi-pronged strategy, 21 days lockdown and beyond COVID-19: UN applauds India's lockdown initiative Positivity and happiness to deal with stress and anxiety: A K Choudhary RSS: Reshuffle of assignments of senior functionaries IAS officer set to join Uber India at a salary & perks of 03 Crs a year GAIL: Ranganathan selected for Director Nagaland: Alam is ACS, Chief Minister’s Office GSL: B K Upadhyay selected for Director post Rajasthan: 30 IAS officers reshuffled ib a major rejig PFC, Kumar prematurely repatriated Reclaiming PoK: Is it a prelude to 2024? Railways: Board restructured, cadres merged into a single cadre Disappointing news for IPS officers: Centre set to cut posts under CDR Secretary, Security: Bhushan given additional charge Ministry of Defence: Reddy prematurely repatriated Sinking BSNL set to get a fresh lease of life Four officers laterally shifted to MHA, NITI & DFS Two IAS officers appointed Director Census Operations Major JS elevel bureaucratic rejig effected; posting of 2002 batch IAS begins Ad dolores quas et d
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ONGC: Aggarwal appointed as Govt Nominee Director
Rajesh Aggarwal (IAS:1989:MH) has been appointed as Government Nominee Director of ONGC (w.e.f. 24.03.2020); a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Aggarwal had recently replaced Rajiv Bansal (IAS:1988:NL) as who is currently serving as Additional Secretary & FA in MoPNG. The information was also shared by the Oil PSU in a regulatory filing to the stock exchange on Wednesday.
IOCL: Kothari appointed as Government Nominee Director
Dr Navneet Mohan Kothari (IAS:2001:MP) has been appointed as Government Nominee Director of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (w.e.f. 25.03.2020); a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG). He had recently replaced Ashish Chatterjee (IAS:1999:TN) as Joint Secretary, MoPNG.
ONGC: Aggarwal appointed as Govt Nominee Director
By IndianMandarins 27 Mar 2020
Rajesh Aggarwal (IAS:1989:MH) has been appointed as Government Nominee Director of ONGC (w.e.f. 24.03.2020); a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Aggarwal had recently replaced Rajiv Bansal (IAS:1988:NL) as who is currently serving as Additional Secretary & FA in MoPNG. The information was also shared by the Oil PSU in a regulatory filing to the stock exchange on Wednesday.
IOCL: Kothari appointed as Government Nominee Director
By IndianMandarins 27 Mar 2020
Dr Navneet Mohan Kothari (IAS:2001:MP) has been appointed as Government Nominee Director of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (w.e.f. 25.03.2020); a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG). He had recently replaced Ashish Chatterjee (IAS:1999:TN) as Joint Secretary, MoPNG.
Mrs Esha appointed as Government Nominee Director on GAIL’s Board
By IndianMandarins 26 Mar 2020
Mrs Esha Srivastava, a 2004 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, was on Thursday appointed as a Government Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG). Presently, she is Director (International Cooperation), MoPNG.
Coal India comes out with its own hand senitiser
By IndianMandarins 26 Mar 2020
NTPC flexes muscle, augments capacity: A glance
By IndianMandarins 26 Mar 2020
Pangariha holds bureaucracy responsible for slow reform
By IndianMandarins 26 Mar 2020
In his latest book, former vice chairman of government think tank NITI Aayog Arvind Panagariya delves about Indian bureaucracy that often suffers from a socialist overhang leading it to slow down even in the cases of such reforms that the top leadership seeks to implement.
PFC extends support to fight COVID-19 in Rajasthan
By IndianMandarins 24 Mar 2020
New Delhi, 24th March, 2020: Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC), the leading NBFC in power sector has agreed in principle to provide a financial assistance of Rs. 50,00,000 (Rupees Fifty Lakh only) to Indian Red Cross Society.
Under the CSR Initiative, the financial aid provided by PFC will be used for distribution of Health Masks and Sanitizers, as a part of preventive measures against COVID-19, in the Sate of Rajasthan through Indian Red Cross Society.
PFC stands strongly by the society in these testing times. As a responsible corporate, PFC will work towards implementation of all precautionary measures to deal with the pandemic.
COVID-19 Crisis: Time to give govt officials, civil servants and public sector their due
By IndianMandarins 24 Mar 2020
Country’s entire civil society responded generously to PM Modi’s call for Janata Curfew by blowing Conch cells, clapping and cranckling plates to express gratitude and solidarity with the doctors and paramedics serving Coronavirus patients. But is that enough? The PM thanked Air India for its services in bringing Indians stranded in countries affected from Coronavirus.
But the fact of the matter is that the entire government machinery, public sector enterprises, civil servants, government officials across the hierarchy need to be thanked and applauded for relentless service directly or indirectly putting their own lives at risk.
People quite often make careless remarks on government establishments but the country is watching that entire machinery is involved ensuring health services, enforcement agencies ensuring law & order, issuing SOPs, circulating guidelines, executing regulatory mechanism, securing supply of food, fuel, milk, medicine, water, electricity, banking and and what not.
Ministries, departments, municipal bodies are at work round the clock. There are numerous government officials who are working day and night in the service of the nation. For example; a Director level officer in National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority suffering auto-immune disease refused his family’s request to abstain from office in the hours of emergency needs. Another IAS officer Nikunja Dhal (1993), Principal Secretary, Health, Govt of Odisha, showed exemplary courage and sense of responsibility when he joined office the very next day he performed the last rites of his father. Lateral entry in Civil Service from corporate sector is appreciated in bureaucracy but it’s not corporate sector which contributes in the hours of crisis the way the government framework does. It does not mean at all that the country does not recognises the service and contribution of private sector in nation building.
Amid lockdown a long list of service and officials going viral on social media which reads;
- Aviation sector: It is Indian Air Force and much maligned Air India that were at the front. But where were private aviation operators. The only private payer that was involved at the last moment was Air Asia.
- Security as Airports, government offices and Border posts: Who is screening people at Arrival at airports and at different other places from Parliament to Krishi Bhawan to Air Ports. It is paramilitary forces, state police and other government employees while private sector employees or people having huge package in the IT sector are missing from the scene. They can be found causing ruckus at the air ports obstructing works of these people.
- Who is manning isolation centres: Defence services personnels and government health workers and government hospitals are at service. Not private luxury hospitals and they are demanding money to conduct Covid-19 tests up to Rs 5000. It is government doctors and health workers who are serving these patients not private hospital doctors with 6 digit salary.
- Now the question is, where is the private sector? Has any big corporate house come forward to pitch in? Has any private sector airline volunteered? Has any private hospital chain deputed doctors? Have they opened quarantine centres? In fact, many private corporates houses are not even allowing people to work from home till the time lockdown happened let alone coming forward to take responsibility of disinfecting at least their areas but waiting for the government to do it! The Central government had to issue directives for establishments and outlets to provide things like sanitizers at entry points.
- But people always support private sector and criticise the government establishment which is overburdened everywhere. If a Yes Bank collapses, SBI needs to take care but SBI will be criticised for everything. The police that is enforcing law and order and telling people to stay put at home which should actually be the common sense. So be responsible citizen and support government employees in this critical situation instead of causing more trouble to them.