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N award is a form of honour, a felicitation to recognise ones contribution

in a chosen field. An award is not only a matter of prestige or
a mark of excellence, but also a tremendous boost for someone to
strive and excel higher and aim for even bigger accomplishments in life. gfiles
May issue is dedicated to two awardsPrime Ministers Excellence Awards,
celebrated as the Civil Services Day, and SCOPE Excellence Awards, celebrated
as the Public Sector Day. gfiles has been covering these awards since 2007 and
witnessing the robust performance of civil servants and public sector enterprises
(PSEs) professionals.
Both the awards this time had a common thread in that they sought to
recognise excellence in the implementation and impact of the Prime Ministers
flagship programmes. While the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, Swachh
Bharat, Swachh Vidyalaya and Soil Health Card schemes resonated on Civil
Services Day, Make in India, Digital India, Skill India, and Swachh Bharat
programmes were reflected in the SCOPE awards. The Prime Ministers Awards
for Excellence were dedicated to the implementation of the priority programmes
by the District Collectors across 677 districts of India. Cabinet Secretary PK
Sinha informed that implementation of the priority programmes was rigorously
monitored and it was a tough competition among the districts. On their part, the
PSEs have never shirked from their social responsibility. One can now criticise
the dominance of the government over the PSEs, but recall the socio-economic
conditions of the days when everything from oilpins to salt used to be imported.
With a meagre investment of `20 crore, the CPSEs have grown manifold to 298
in number, as of March 2015, and with nearly `11 lakh crore in total investments.
PSEs registered a turnover of about `20 lakh crore, which is 16 per cent of the
GDP of the country. Significantly, SCOPE has set up an Academy of Public
Sector Enterprises, which will be a guiding force in shaping young talent into
future leaders. The biggest challenge in making PSEs pride of India is
that deadwood PSEs have to be either amalgamated into the profit-making PSEs
or shut down.
Interestingly, the Prime Ministers Awards for Excellence in Implementation
of Priority Programmes have done away with the traditional system of selecting
civil servants for the awards, where a committee used to invite nominations,
scrutinise and recommend for awards. Narendra Modi has focused on a very
significant point: the last mile delivery mechanism of priority programmes has to
be implemented through the districts only and the civil servants who implement
it well must be awarded. The last mile delivery has been the biggest bottleneck
in the federal structure of India. Without the support of the Chief Minister; central
governments programmes are hardly ever successful in the States. As reflected
on the 10th Civil Services Day, Modis priority programmes have indeed reached
across India and finally, the citizen has not only benefitted but has been engaged
to participate in a continuous mode. Modi gave a clarion call to civil servants,
saying that if officers reformed and performed, transformation would become
visible on its own. Let us transform India.
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CONTENTS
LETTERS
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05 Bric-a-Brac
rahuls press meets, man behind nitish,

eyeing rajya sabha seat, ajit singh
waits his turn
absent in India. There is a lack of regulatory framework, especially in the general

aviation sector, which has a huge growth
potential. Reforms require ongoing consultations with the industry, and currently, there is no positive movement on this.
R Menon via blog
08 Civil Services Day
awards recognise implementers of

priority programmes 10 districts
across the country picked for excellence
in last mile delivery
26 Scope Awards
The terror landscape
leaders of the pack: 18 public sector

undertakings score on contributing to
national priority areas
40 Governance
tamil nadu poll: addressing corruption
44 State Scan
stalemate in kashmir
48 Perspective
tool for transformation
49 Stock Doctor
signs of improvement
57 By the Way
dd update, working in haryana, grand

event, retiring early
Make in India
This is with reference to the article The
fear of taking decisions (gfiles, April
2016). We must acknowledge that it is
only thanks to the Prime Ministers
Make in India campaign that the
defence sector has finally moved from
the periphery to the core of Indian
manufacturing. Being a multi-billion
dollar and most lucrative defence
market in the world, India provides
several opportunities for Indian and
foreign corporate entities for defence
manufacturing. The sector not only has
the potential to augment manufacturing
but also add nearly one million direct
and indirect jobs. Some of the top
industrial houses have already made
some inroads into the sector. Several
more are waiting for the right
opportunity. It is now important that
letter matches up with the spirit.
SK Sinha via email
Despite various committees being
appointed, no marked changes are visible on the ground be it the negative
fiscal environment (including taxation),
the lack of critical infrastructure (roads,
ports and power), antiquated labour
laws, or corruption continuing to loom
large. Manufacturing requires infrastructural support, which is currently

Terrorism is a global curse. Nobody can

hide from it or prevent it. The recent
events in Europe only go to confirm that
no amount of security can protect
innocent citizens. I agree with the
author, (India vs Pak binaries, gfiles,
April 2016), that for any meaningful
action, it is first important to understand
the nature of the threat, landscape and
the context in which terror politics is
playing out today.
Meena Rao via email
The foremost challenge to international
security continues to be posed by
terrorism. The international community
must get together to counter terrorism
through joint action, including at the
United Nations. If we continue to adopt
double standards in dealing with
terrorism, it will have serious
consequences for the international
community as a whole.
Ramesh S via blog
Power shift
I want to congratulate you on an
extremely thought-provoking article
regarding the role of various democratic
institutions (Testing times, gfiles,
March 2016). When one starts thinking
about it, there has indeed been a shift in
power away from the legislature and
executive to the judiciary and the media.
The country needs to think about
whether this is harmful for our
democracy and intervene before things
spiral out of control. I hope to read more
such articles in future.
P Gupta via email
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Bric-a-brac
feats & meets
Heart-to-heart
rt
meeting up with rahull
HE Congress Party is
worried that the media
has been hypnotised
by the BJP. The party has
a big media set-up, but it
lacks leaders who can talk,
motivate and present issues
before the media. Rahul remains
ains
their only hope. Rahuls secretariat
etariat is in
action; he has been meeting journalists across
India for the last three months.
hs. Randip
Randi
d p Singh Surjewala
and Ajay Maken selectively choose
hoose the journalists. The
selection is based on the feedback
dback of State leaders, or
monitoring of byline stories. One can say that the first
round of discussion has been planned with journalists
who are generally Congress sympathisers or loyalists.
Each journalist is briefed that the discussion with Rahul
is strictly off the record. Rahul opens his heart before the
journalist in the one-and-a-half hour meeting. He informs
journalists where and with whom he goes to see movies.
Issues about the entry of Priyanka Gandhi into politics
are also discussed. Rahul meets every journalist, shakes
hands and if he finds someone impressive, notes down
his number also. In one such session, Rahul disclosed
that most of the

people welfare schemes
were drawn with the help of
industrialists, saying that rich and
poor both have to grow. He disclosed
that now industrialists have come and revealed that they
were promised the moon during the 2014 elections by
Modi, but the action is far from reality. Most journalists
are happy when they come out for one reason alone: the
inaccessible Rahul met them. Nobody is clear about the
results of such interactions as Rahul does not discuss any
roadmap for the development of India. Unless there is an
agenda, no amount of interaction will help the Congress. Is
Rahul listening?
The man behind Nitish

tish
h
aiming for the top post
he actual strategist behind the successs of Nitish

Kumar is RCP Singh and not Prashant
Kishore, as is widely believed. The
Grand Alliance in Bihar was Singhs idea.
The schemes and promises that paid
Kumar the maximum electoral dividends
were devised and discussed among the
top leadership of Bihar by Singh, including
giving cycles to, and making education
compulsory for girls, ensuring women
empowerment, promising a ban on liquor
once he became CM, and so on. Kishore
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is a technocrat who just implemented what he

was instructed to do. Singh, a 1984 batch IAS
officer from the UP cadre, but originally from
Bihar, took voluntary retirement from the
civil services in 2010 to work with Kumar. A
Rajya Sabha member, he is one of Kumars
main pillars of strength and is all set to be
re-nominated to the Upper House. Out of the
two vacancies that the JD(U) will have in June,
one seat will go to Singh and the other may go to
Sharad Yadav. Singh is now working hard towards
making Nitish Kumar the Prime Minister in 2019.

INSIDE EYE
ILLUSTRATIONS: ARUNA
Subhashs Mission RS
hitching a bicycle ride
UBHASH Chandra, the proprietor of Zee TV, has

received only disappointment at the hands of the BJP.
Maybe that is the reason why he is
now a part of the Mulayam durbars nine
ratnas. Sources say the BJP leadership
had promised the media mogul that he
would be given a Rajya Sabha seat
from the Haryana quota. When that
didnt happen, Chandra went to
meet Mulayam with the help of
his now dear friend, Amar Singh.
With Singhs assistance, Chandras
meeting with Mulayam was
quite satisfactory. Akhilesh
Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh, also spoke to Chandra.
Thereafter, Chandra and Singh
jointly hosted the reception
party of Mulayams younger
brother Shivpal Singh Yadavs

son, in Delhi. Initially, it was thought that

the reception would be hosted at Singhs
10-acre farm in Mehrauli. But later, the
venue was changed to Bhagwan Dass
Road. To make the occasion really special,
Singh had invited the President, Prime
Minister and several Cabinet ministers;
several noted film personalities were
also invited. But, as was expected from
Delhis power circles that move
with the wind, nobody turned up
except Sridevi-Boney Kapoor, and
Jaya Prada. Akhilesh was at the
programme for a fairly long time
and he too identified with the
feelings of other guests
that the two hosts were trying
to hitch a ride on the bicycle to
reach the Upper House
of Parliament.
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Bric-a-brac
feats & meets
Ajit Singh in a fix

awaits meeting with amit shah
ow did the talks break down between Ajit Singh and

Nitish Kumar? A few days ago, when KC Tyagi went to
meet Kumar in Patna with Ajits son Jayant, the Bihar
CM played a big political move and told Jayant that if his father
wanted to merge his party with JD(U), the latter was ready to
launch Jayant as its chief ministerial candidate in UP. Sources
say, Jayant said this was a conversation for a later stage. He, on
the contrary, wanted to know whether the JD(U) was ready to
give his father a Rajya Sabha seat this time? Kumar said it was
not possible this time, but he can promise a Rajya Sabha seat
for Ajit next year. Jayant then spoke to his father. Ajit told his
nave son that in politics, the deal was always instant. And, so
the communication snapped between JD(U) and Ajit. Being an
experienced politician, Ajit sent feelers to BJP chief Amit Shah
and planned for a meeting. This news spread to Muzaffarnagar
and big group of supporters came to meet Ajit, who briefed his
supporters saying that it wasnt he who went to the BJP, but
it was the BJPs top leadership that came to meet him. One
worker asked, Choudhary sahib, how many seats will the BJP
give us in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections? Ajit admonished the
worker and told him not to see so far into the future, and that
they will decide on things only after sensing which way the wind
is blowing at that time. Reportedly, central minister for state
Sanjiv Baliyan told this to Shah, who was extremely upset. He
cancelled the meeting with Ajit and Jayant, and sent a message
that the meeting will take place in May, after the results for the
Assembly elections are out.
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CIVIL SERVICES DAY

awardees priority schemes
Delivering at
The 10th Civil Services Awards had Prime Minister
Narendra Modis stamp all over them. The way
awardees have been chosen, it is clear that the Modi
government worked hard to select the performers
from the field. Modi assigned the job to 677 District
Collectors to implement his four flagship
programmes Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana,
Swachh Bharat (Gramin), Swachh Vidalaya and Soil
Health Card. The awards were given in three groups,
comprising Other States (consisting more than 500
districts), Hills and North East States (more than 100
districts) and Union Territories. The districts were

selected following a tough cross-checking system laid
down by the PMO. Phone calls were made to direct
beneficiaries and two officials were sent to do a field
study. The message was loud and clear, for any
programme to reach the people, district collector was
the nodal point; they were the real implementers. The
award comprises a trophy, a scroll and an incentive of
`10 lakh to the district.
Many Indian states failed to make a mark in Prime
Ministers Award for Excellence in Implementation of
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the last mile

priority programmes. No districts from states such as
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar
Pradesh or Karnataka won a single award. Of the 10
awarded districts, two were from Union Territories
Chandigarh and Dadra & Nagar Havelione from
Jammu & Kashmir (Anantnag), two from North-East
(Nagaon in Assam and West Sikkim district in
Sikkim), and one each from Himachal Pradesh
(Hamirpur district), Andhra Pradesh (Ananthapuramu
district), West Bengal (North 24 Parganas district)
and Chhattisgarh (Balrampur district).
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The work done in these districts was put together

in the form of a booklet, Citation Booklet. Three other
books were also released on the occasionThe
Change Makers, containing the voices of the
beneficiaries of the priority programmes; Recreating
Excellence, containing replication of the earlier
award-winning initiatives; and, Transforming India,
containing the presentation by NITI Aayog CEO
Amitabh Kant and presentations by the eight Groups
of Secretaries. These were available to the Prime
Minister and cabinet members for ready reference.

CIVIL SERVICES DAY

by MK SHUKLA
RIME Minister Narendra Modi

has exhorted civil servants to
reform, perform, and transform. Addressing a full-house of officials gathered from the Central, State
and Union Territories governments
at Vigyan Bhavan to observe and celebrate the Civil Services Day on April
21, he argued that if officers reformed
and performed, transformation would
become visible on its own.
He asked them to continually
experiment with new ideas so as to
become agents of changebecause
the country wants changes, because
sustained changes alone would compel us to transform our attitude to
administration and regulation of different set of policies meant for bringing about transformative changes in
the life of 1,250 million people.
He reminded civil servants that
they were not workers who worked for
wages; they were civil servants
engaged in the noble task of public
service. In this context, he recalled the
words of a college-day friend, who
told him during the course of a
discussion that he would like to join
civil services. Asked why he wanted to
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do so, he said it would throw open a

vast opportunity to serve the people.
Told that he could do the same by
joining politics, his answer was a
loaded one: politics provided
temporary opportunities, if at all, to
serve the people, while the civil
services offered a life-long sustained
opportunity to engage with civil
society, hear out their problems and
grievances, and the power to remedy
those problems and grievances.
The Prime Minister said he has
been privileged and honoured to lead
a team of committed, dedicated and
experienced officers. He recalled that
when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat,
he had nil experiencehe didnt have
the experience of even running a
Panchayat. But officers came forward
on their own, helped him in running
the administration and taught him a
Prime Minister Narendra

Modi reminded civil
servants that they were not
workers who worked for
wages; they were civil
servants engaged in the
noble task of public service
lot in the process. In the last two

years, he has undergone the same
experience at the central government.
In this context, he mentioned the
exemplary work done by several committee of secretaries he had set up at
the beginning of 2016. No circular
was issued, no one was compelled, but
each member of these committees
burnt midnight oil to think out of the
box and prepare documents to ensure
success of the government in many
difficult areas. He cited a Niti Aayog
presentation to state that these groups
voluntarily put in 10,000 man hours
to complete the tasks set out for them.
Using this exemplary contribution
of the administration, Modi said more
could be achieved by simple coordination among different departments.
Asking officials to avoid and drop
what he called a silo psyche, he said
this has lead to unnecessary litigations among government departments, wastage of time, and interventions by judiciary. Precisely to break
this silo mentality he constituted
those random groups, without any
one heading one group or another. In
these groups, officials met and melted
into each other; even though being
batchmates, they had no time to interact with each other earlier; each of
them worked from the silo of his
ministry/department, carried away
by precedents and previous noting on
the file. For the first time, through
these informal groups, batchmates
came into contact with each other and
figured out, as he likened, what the
other preferred, a samosa or pakora,
and intuitively turned into teammates from batchmates.
Frequently repeating that he was
privileged and proud to be the leader
of most talented and experienced
officers, the Prime Minister drew
their attention to the huge water crisis
in the country. He asked them to use
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Speaking on the occasion (top to

bottom): Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu, Minister of State (IC) Dr Jitendra
Singh and Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha
this challenge into an opportunity by

maximising the fund expenditure
under MGNREGA on creation of millions of water-harvesting facilities,
dredging up the canal, building of
ponds, desilting of reservoirs, and so
on, in view of the forecast of good
monsoon this year. He added that we
should be prepared to store as much
water before it rains. This would also
insure us against a drought next year
in case it hits us, he said.
A day before the PMs address,
inaugurating the two-day Civil
Services Day function, Minister of
Railways, Suresh Prabhu, said the
Indian economy has the potential to
grow at 8 to 9 per cent, but this
required team-work between political
leadership and civil servants. Only
through team-work could we identify
the deliverables and targets and then
gear up government machinery at all
levels to achieve them.
EFERRING to the growth story

of Indian Railways in the recent
past, he said that the Railways
were able to achieve an all-time high
capital expenditure because of teamwork and united efforts and dedication. Railways undertook doubling of
lines and electrification, all a record
performance, he added. He called
upon all stakeholders to work for the
common objective of national development. He emphasised on the need
to devise a system of rewarding and
incentivising good performers and, at
the same time, inspiring others to perform better through motivation and
training. He said that it is necessary
to harness this huge human capital of
civil servants, but it needs to be constantly updated and upgraded to keep
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CIVIL SERVICES DAY

Prime Minister Narendra Modi releasing the book on Transforming India
pace with the changing times so as to

deliver the best possible results. He
said it is important to have a proper
system for ensuring effective delivery.
The Union Minister of State
(independent charge) for Development of North Eastern Region
(DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel,
Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic
Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh,

said that in the last two years the
Government has become more
citizen-centric towards the goal set by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in
delivering his promise of Minimum
Government, Maximum Governance.
He said the Government has been
able to address the public grievances
more successfully. Compared to an

average of 2 lakh grievances annually
received in the previous years,
more than 6 lakh grievances were
registered last year. And, over 90 per
cent of these grievances were
redressed, which showed that civil
servants were not that apathetic
towards the plight of the common
man as they were painted.
Delegates at the Civil Services Day function
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categories have been included
in the Prime Ministers Awards
for excellence in public administration. These awards pertain to the
four priority programmes of the government namely, PMJDY, Swachh
Bharat (Grameen), Swachh Vidyalaya
and Soil Health Card.
Speaking on the occasion, Secretary, Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances
(DARPG), Devendra Chaudhry said
that the Civil Services Day function
spread over two days will include
eight sessions being attended by more
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replication, that emerged from eight panel sessions at Civil Services Day
(April 20, 2016) are:
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and to derive actionable insights to increase effectivenessfor
example, cashless economy, JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhar & Mobile).
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than 1,200 civil servants from

different States.
Chaudhary also said that for the
first time a theme has been dedicated
to the Civil Services Day this year. The
theme reflects the Prime Ministers
visionTransforming Indiaand 10
districts have been selected out of 677
districts for this years Prime
Minister Awards.
Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, former Cabinet Secretaries, Secretaries,
Chief Secretaries of States and senior
officers from various Ministries of
Central and State Governments were
also present.
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also
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details the replication of the Prime
Ministers awarded initiatives last
year on the Civil Services Day. Later,
Union Ministers and top officials discussed threadbare the governments
priority programmes. Union Minister
of Minority Affairs, Dr Najma A
Heptulla, chaired the panel discussion on Preventing Child Marriages,
Preventing Female Foeticide, Save
the Womb and Malnutrition; the
session on Swachh Vidyalaya
was chaired by Human Resource
Development Minister Smriti Zubin
Irani; Dr Jitendra Singh chaired
the session on On-Time Delivery
of Public Services, the core of any
Good Governance Initiative; the session on Swachh Bharat Gramin was
chaired by MoS for Drinking Water
& Sanitation, Ram Kripal Yadav;
Union Minister of State for Finance,
Jayant Sinha, chaired the discussion
on the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan
Yojna (PMJDY); Minister of State
for Information and Broadcasting,
Col Rajyavardhan Rathore, chaired
the session on Vocational Training &
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prabhat kumar
Find time for introspection
T is always a pleasure to listen to

Narendra Modi, except when he
is addressing an election meeting.
And the occasion of Civil Services Day
was no exception. Notwithstanding
the ostentatious setting and bureaucratic audience complete with the
most stringent security arrangement,
the Prime Minister spoke with professional ease, boosting the morale of the
pack of bureaucrats assisting him in
the task of reengineering government
for maximum governance, whatever
that means.
He extolled the virtues of being a
civil servant. Speaking from the heart,
he called them the chosen few and
said that they have never given him a
chance of chiding them. And then,
alluding to the work of groups of
secretaries in deliberating on the
eight flagship programmers of his
government, he paid them the
ultimate compliment of being
intellectually superior to the best
consultants in the world. Whether he
really meant it, one does not know.
But, he got real when he said that
while no one had faulted the initiatives
of the government, questions have
been raised about the impact on the
ground and said that the government
should take a lesson and strive to
improve its image. Perhaps the
realisation has dawned on the PM
that starting a score of ventures and
taking a few steps in each of them
may be a good long-term strategy, but
the patience of the electorate is
severely limited. Therefore, shortterm programmes of reaching out to
the farmer and the other weaker
sections of the society are equally
important for refurbishing the image
of the government.
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We wait for the next Civil Services

Day to see the course correction.
A simultaneous development on
the social media was the collective
decision of a large number of civil
servants to boycott a certain
mainstream newspaper for unpretentiously
addressing
the
entire
bureaucratic tribe as babus. One
does not know when the otherwise
respectful sobriquet became pejorative, but the fact is that today it is used
in the most derogative sense of
conjuring the bureaucrats image as
inefficient
and
often
corrupt
The function in Vigyan

Bhavan appears to be a
poor showcasing of the
realities of the Indian Civil
Services as it is not used
as an occasion to pause
and introspect on the
shortcomings
individual. Though I have also joined
them in unsubscribing the newspaper,
I feel the bureaucrats should
deliberate on what do they think of
themselves, and what do others think
of them?
The Civil Services Day to celebrate
the Indian civil servants contribution
to the task of nation building was
introduced nine years ago. Apart from
the official function in Vigyan Bhavan,
where the Prime Minister addresses
the bureaucrats and distributes
awards for good work, there is no
serious reflection on the trials and
challenges for the civil service, though
the format is being continuously
improved. This year, for instance,
expanding the deliberations to two
days, power point presentation by

the CEO of Niti Aayog and broadening the awards for excellence were
new features.
However, there is no indication
that the internal contradictions within
the civil services are being cogently
addressed. The function in Vigyan
Bhavan appears to be a poor
showcasing of the realities of the
Indian Civil Services as it is not used
as an occasion to pause and introspect
on the shortcomings and challenges
for bureaucracy and find ways to
improve the attitudes of civil servants.
Besides the usual official inauguration
and valedictory sessions by VVIP, the
rest of the time should be devoted to
soul searching.
In my view, the occasion should
also be used to develop an overarching
vision of the Civil Services with the
following goalposts in mind:

To be acknowledged as the
repository of knowledge and skills
relating to all subjects of governance

To be recognised for their ability
to deliver services and implement
the policies and programmes of
the government efficiently and
honestly

To be seen as capable of working
with other stakeholders, including
the civil society, and

To be perceived as people friendly
and helpers of the weak and less
privileged.
Is anybody listening?
Endpoint: A smart comment by an
eminent non-IAS colleague, shouldnt
the Civil Service Day be renamed as
IAS Day? g
The writer was the Cabinet Secretary and
the first Governor of Jharkhand. He can be
reached at pkumar1511@hotmail.com
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Priority Sector Schemes

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
he Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is the National Mission for Financial Inclusion to ensure
access to financial services, like bank savings and deposit accounts, remittances, credit, insurance,
pension, in an affordable manner. This financial inclusion campaign was announced by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in his first Independence Day speech of August 15, 2014. The scheme was launched soon
after, on August 28, 2014. On the day of the schemes inauguration, 1.5 crore bank accounts were opened.
The Guinness World Records recognises this achievement as the largest opening of bank accounts ever
made in a single week anywhere in the world ever. The Guinness World Records Certificate declares: The
most bank accounts opened in one week as a part of financial inclusion campaign is 18,096,130 and was
achieved by banks in India from 23 to 29 August, 2014.
Swachh Bharat (Gramin)
wachh Bharat Mission is a national campaign for total sanitation by the Government of India. On
October 2, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the mission, which aims at eradicating
open defecation by 2019. Its goal fulfills the dream of the Father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, of
making our country clean. Under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) scheme, the government aims to
achieve an Open Defecation Free (ODF) India by the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, by facilitating
construction of 12 crore toilets in rural India.
Swachh Vidyalaya
Swachh Bharat
Swachh Vidyalaya
A National Mission
wachh Vidyalaya is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India,
to ensure a functional toilet in every school by August 15, 2015. Public sector units under 25 ministries
pledged Rs 400 crore for the campaign and private and public sector companies were encouraged to
build toilet blocks in schools. A key feature of the campaign was to ensure that every school in India
has a set of functioning and well-maintained water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities. WASH in
schools is a potent combination of technical and human development components necessary to produce
a healthy school environment, so as to develop and support appropriate health and hygiene behaviour
among children. The technical components include drinking water, hand-wash, toilet and soap facilities
in the school compound for use by children and teachers. The human development components are the
activities that promote conditions within the school and the practices of children that help to observe
clean habits and prevent water, hygiene and sanitation related diseases.
Soil Health Card Scheme
he Soil Health Card Scheme was launched by the Government of India in February 2015. Under the
Scheme, Soil Health Cards (SHCs) are issued to farmers. The cards have crop-wise recommendations
of nutrients and fertilisers required for the individual farms to help farmers improve productivity through
judicious use of inputs. Soil samples are being tested in various labs across the country. Thereafter, experts
are analysing the strengths and weaknesses, including micro-nutrient deficiencies of the soil, and are
suggesting measures for judicious fertiliser usage. The results too are displayed on the cards. It is expected
that 14 crore farmers would be issued SHCs.
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SCOPE AWARDS
excellence public sector
Unlocking wealth
To face the challenges of a globally integrated economy, it is essential that our
CPSEs collaborate and pool their resources to overcome competition
by ANIL TYAGI
RESIDENT
Pranab
Mukherjee gave away the 7th
SCOPE
Excellence
Awards
in a function jointly organised by
the Standing Conference of Public
Enterprises (SCOPE) and the
Department of Public Enterprises
(DPE), in New Delhi.
Mukherjee said the public sector has grown exponentially since
Independence in all metrics of measurement, be it in terms of numbers,
diversification, volume of investment
or global presence. These achievements become even more significant
when viewed in the backdrop of lack
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of capital and entrepreneurship skills

in early years of post-independent
India, reluctance of private players
to set up capital intensive industries
with a long gestation period and the
need for generating employment and
ensuring countrys balanced socioeconomic and regional development.
It is a truism that at most times, early
on, the profit motive was eschewed in
preference to the broader objective of
overall societal development.
The President said, as per available
data, during 2014-15 PSEs could register a growth of 7 per cent in paid-up
capital and capital employed, 10.5 per
cent in total investment and 20 per
cent in total market capitalisation as
compared to the previous year. On an

average, during the last three years
from 2012-13 to 2014-15operating
PSEs could earn an overall net profit
of `1,15,426 crore, generate gross
turnover/ revenue of `20,02,591 crore
and pay dividend of `57,115 crore. The
PSEs contribution in the nations
economy has, thus, continued to be
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significant year after year.

Referring to the Prime Minister
and the governments outlined vision
for the inclusive development of the
country, the President said, programmes like Make in India, Skill
Building, Digital India and Swachch
Bharat are the cornerstones for the
future development of India. He
expressed noted PSEs contributions
towards these national priority areas.
The President said the Budget
has drawn attention to the need for
unlocking the wealth of CPSEs for
greater economic activity. CPSEs need
to take immediate steps to identify
and unlock the surplus land available
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with them as the same can be used in

generating the much-needed public
investment to boost the economy and
increase employment opportunities.
There is a similar need for identifying and unlocking the free surplus
reserves available with the CPSEs so
that they may be utilised for undertaking enhanced capital expenditure.
He said, to face the challenges of
a globally integrated economy, it is
equally essential that our CPSEs collaborate and pool their resources to
face and overcome competition. The
financial, technical and manpower
resources of our CPSEs need to be
shared to enable better and more
optimal solutions in increasingly

customer-driven markets. The exceptional human capital available with
CPSEs should be harnessed to develop
suitable strategies and interventions,
which lead to improvement in performance and expansion of operations,
both in domestic and global markets.
A Luikham, Secretary, DPE, said
that government patronage was
available for every challenge, be it the
challenge of corporate governance or
achieving the target of booked orders;
challenge of increasing production and
productivity or timely up gradation of
technical and commercial aspects.
RG Rajan, Chairman, SCOPE, and
Dr UD Choubey, Director General,
SCOPE, highlighted the new initiative
of SCOPE to establish a Public Sector
Academy that would provide integrated training and capacity building
to the critical mass in PSEs, which,
in the long run, shall develop a cadre
of public sector professionals in line
with All India Services. g

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SCOPE AWARDS
Bharat Petroleum
Corporation Limited
PCL came into existence in January 1976 when
Burmah-Shell was taken over by the Government of
India. A Fortune Global 500 Company, BPCL is one of
the premier integrated refining and marketing companies
in India. BPCLs vision is to be the most admired global
energy company, leveraging talent and technology. In the
prestigious Fortune Global 500 list for 2015, BPCL stands
fifth among Indian companies, with a rank of 280. The
companys refineries at Mumbai and Kochi, subsidiary
Numaligarh Refinery Ltd at Assam and joint venture Bina
Refinery at Madhya Pradesh have a combined refining
capacity of over 30 MMT.
DK SARRAF
SCOPE
AWARD
Chairman & Managing Director,

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited
Recipient of SCOPE Excellence Awards 2013-14,
2011-12, 2010-11
Category: Institutional Category I

(Maharatna/ Navratna PSEs)
Dinesh K Sarraf, 57, took over as CMD of ONGC in March,
2014. He joined ONGC in 1991 and handled various key
assignments at corporate offices. In 2011, he became the
Managing Director of ONGC Videsh. He holds a postgraduate degree in commerce from Delhi University. He
has experience of over three-and-a-half decades in the
oil and gas industry, having started his oil and gas career
in Oil India Ltd.
Oil & Natural Gas

Corporation Limited
NGC was set up under the visionary leadership of
Jawahar Lal Nehru. Pandit Nehru reposed faith in
Keshav Dev Malviya, who laid the foundation of ONGC
in the form of Oil and Gas division, under the Geological
Survey of India, in 1955. A few months later, it was converted into an Oil and Natural Gas Directorate. Today, Oil
and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd is leader in Exploration
& Production (E&P) activities in India with a 70 per cent
contribution to Indias total hydrocarbon production.
ONGC has established more than 9 billion tonnes of inplace hydrocarbon reserves in the country. Six out of
seven producing basins in India have been discovered by
ONGC. ONGC produces more than 1_20 million Barrels
of Oil Equivalent (BOE) per day.
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S VARADARAJAN
SCOPE
AWARD

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Recipient of SCOPE Excellence Awards 2013-14
Category: Individual Leadership Category I

On October 1, 2013, S Varadarajan took over as the CMD
of BPCL. He has 32 years of experience in all aspects of
the oil and gas industry. After taking over, Varadarajans
primary goal was to revitalise the organisation and enlist
participative engagement of employees in building a
strong future. He spearheaded the Lets Talk initiative,
a pan-India exercise which captured employees
aspirations for the future of the company and led to the
development of vital long-term corporate strategy
blueprint. In 2013-14 and 2014-15, the company crossed
the `5000-crore profit after tax mark for the first time.
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SJVN Limited
JVN Limited, a Mini Ratna company, was incorporated
on May 24, 1988, as a joint venture of the Government
of India (GoI) and the Government of Himachal Pradesh.
SJVN is now a listed company having shareholders pattern
of 64.46 per cent with GoI, 25.51 per cent with Government
of Himachal Pradesh and rest 10.03 per cent with the public. The present net worth of the company is `10, 203.04
crore. Beginning with a single project and single State
operationIndias largest 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydro
Power Station in HPthe company is presently implementing hydroelectric projects in HP, Uttarakhand, and
Arunachal Pradesh in India besides neighbouring countries of Nepal and Bhutan. The present installed capacity
of SJVN is 1,959.6 MW, comprising of 1,912 MW Hydro
plus 47.6 MW wind power. The total income of the company for FY 2014-15 was `3,261.10 crore. During current
year, up to December 2015, SJVN turnover and net profit
are `2,570.78 crore. and `1,261 crore, respectively.
NISHI VASUDEVA
SCOPE
AWARD
Former Chairman & Managing Director,

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
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Category: Individual Leadership Category I

Ms Nishi Vasudeva, former CMD of Hindustan Petroleum
Corporation Ltd, is an MBA from Indian Institute of
Management, Kolkata. She holds the distinction of being
the first woman executive to be appointed as CMD of a
Navratna PSU. Under her visionary leadership, HPCL
achieved significant milestones despite natural disasters
of cyclone HudHud in Vizag and floods in Kashmir.
During her tenure, HPCL recorded the highest ever net
profit of `2733 crore during 2014-15.
Hindustan Petroleum
Corporation Limited
INDUSTAN Petroleum Corporation Limited is a
Navratna PSU, Fortune Global 500 Company ranked
at 327 and a Platts top 250 global energy company ranked
at 133, having a strong presence in downstream oil refining and marketing in India. The gross sales during 201415 was `2,17,061 crore. The company caters to about 21
per cent of Indias petroleum product demand. HPCL
owns and operates coastal refineries at Mumbai and
Visakhapatnam. It also owns the largest Lube Refinery in
the country having a capacity of 428 TMTPA, accounting
for 40 per cent of the countrys Lube Oil Base stock production. A 443-km long pipeline, from Rewari in Haryana
to Kanpur in UP, was commissioned in 2015-16 taking the
cross country pipeline network of HPCL to 3,015 km.
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RN MISRA
SCOPE
AWARD

SJVN Limited
Recipient of SCOPE Excellence Awards 2013-14, 2010-11
Category: Institutional Category II (Miniratna

I & II PSEs)
RN Misra is with the SJVN Limited since May 21, 2010,
when he joined as the Director (Civil). He has a MTech in
Water Resources Engineering from IIT Delhi, and a MBA
from IGNOU. With more than 35 years of experience in
the power sector, his most significant achievement is the
successful completion of 412 MW Rampur HEP.

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SCOPE AWARDS
WAPCOS Limited
APCOS Limited is a Mini Ratna company under the
aegis of the Ministry of Water Resources, Ganga
Rejuvenation and River Development. Incorporated on
June 26, 1969, WAPCOS has been providing consultancy
services in all areas of water resources, power and infrastructure sectors in India and abroad. In recent years,
WAPCOS achieved high profitability, secured business in
new areas/regions and received appreciation from clients
in India and abroad. Highlights of its key achievements
are: its gross income increased to `928.30 crore; profitability increased to `111.05 crore; new business worth
`1375.92 crore procured; turnover per employee reflecting productivity of the company grew to `130.65 lakh;
net-worth of the company increased to `309.31 crore; and,
paid dividend of `16.50 crore for the year 2014-2015, highest in the history of the company.
RST SAI
SCOPE
AWARD

THDC India Limited

I & II PSEs)
RST Sai took over as the CMD of THDCIL on March 8,
2007. An electrical engineering graduate, he is a fellow
of Institution of Engineers and has a Management
Diploma from IIM Bangalore. He has 35 years of
experience in banking, finance, commercial, EPC
contracting and contract management. He developed
transparent tender documentation for evaluation of
suppliers credit and introduced innovation of bonus for
early completion of project in Delhi Metro.
THDC India Limited

HDC India Limited, a Mini Ratna, is a joint venture
of the Government of India and Government of Uttar
Pradesh. The company was incorporated in July 1988 to
develop, operate and maintain the 2,400 MW Tehri Hydro
Power Complex and other hydro projects. The company
has an authorised share capital of `4000 crore. The total
installed capacity of THDCIL presently is 1400 MW and
has two generating stationsTehri Stage-I (4X250 MW)
and Koteshwar HEP (4X100 MW). The Tehri Power
Station was commissioned in 2006-07. It is a multipurpose project providing electricity to the northern region,
irrigation benefits to Uttar Pradesh and drinking water to
NCT of Delhi and UP. Due to regulated releases from the
Tehri storage reservoir, the existing downstream hydro
projects of the State are also benefiting by way of augmentation in generation at no additional cost to them.
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RK GUPTA
SCOPE
AWARD
Chairman & Managing Director, WAPCOS Limited

Recipient of SCOPE Excellence Awards 2013-14 &
2011-12
Category: Individual Leadership Category II

(Miniratna I & II PSEs), 2013-14 Institutional
Category II (Miniratna I & II PSEs), 2011-12
RK Gupta, CMD of WAPCOS Limited, has over 35 years of
experience in successfully accomplishing consultancy
projects in irrigation/water resources, power and
infrastructure sectors in India and abroad. He did his
post-graduation in Engineering (Structures, Civil) from
Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. He is an MBA
with specialisation in Human Resource Management.
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NTPC SAIL Power Company

Private Limited
ORMED on March 6, 2001, NTPC-SAIL Power Company
Private Ltd (NSPCL), a 50:50 joint venture of NTPC Ltd
and SAIL, is a success. The company is not only meeting
the electricity requirements of SAIL but also supplying
power to some Discoms to reduce the demand-supply gap
of the country. The initial objective of the company was to
takeover and reliably operates two captive power plants
of 120 MW (2x60 MW) each, located at Durgapur Steel
Plant and Rourkela Steel Plant of SAIL. NSPCL has been
continuously earning profit since its inception. Turnover
of the company has grown to `2,326 crore in FY 2014-15.
During the same period, PAT of the company has increased
to `227.41 crore at a CAGR of 17.98 per cent. To improve
system efficiency, NSPCL implemented ERP/SAP across
the organisation in July 2014.
KS POPLI
SCOPE
AWARD
Chairman & Managing Director, Indian Renewable

Energy Development Agency Limited
Recipient of SCOPE Excellence Awards 2013-14,
2011-12, 2010-11
Category: Institutional Category III (Other

Profit Making PSEs)
KS Popli, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of
IREDA (Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
Limited), was earlier Director (Technical) in IREDA. He is
an electrical engineer from the Birla Institute of
Technology, Mesra. He has worked for 32 years in the
power sector.
Indian Renewable Energy

Development Agency Ltd
REDA has been maintaining its leadership position in
renewable energy (RE) space and developing several innovative financial schemes/solutions for meeting the market
requirement. It has an excellent trackrecord of financing
more than 2,200 clean energy projects in the country with
cumulative loan sanctions of more than `38,000 crore and
disbursements over `20,900 crore. It has been a profitmaking company since its inception. The current installed
RE capacity in India has reached more than 39,500 MW,
contributing about 14 per cent in countrys installed capacity of 288 GW. Proactive efforts by IREDA have enabled
commercialisation of renewable energy sector in India,
resulting in active participation from domestic commercial
banks, international funding agencies and FDI, enabling
the sector to attain a critical mass.
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MANASH SARKAR
SCOPE
AWARD
Chief Executive Officer, NTPC-SAIL Power

Company Private Limited
Category: Institutional Category III (Other

Profit Making PSEs)
Manash Sarkar has been CEO at NTPC-SAIL Power
Company Pvt Ltd since October 2014. He has over 35
years of experience in NTPC in various capacities. He was
a Managing Director of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private
Limited and NTPC Ltds Executive Director. He serves as
a Director of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd. He is a
Mechanical Engineer from Jadavpur University.

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SCOPE AWARDS
Engineers India Limited

NGINEERS India Ltd (EIL) a Navratna PSU, is one of
the leading design and engineering organisations in
South Asia. Established in 1965, EIL provides engineering
consultancy and EPC services, principally focused on the
oil and gas and petrochemical industries. The company
has also diversified into sectors like infrastructure, water
and waste management, solar and nuclear power and fertilisers to leverage its strong technical competencies and
track record. Today, EIL is a Total Solutions engineering
consultancy company, providing design, engineering, procurement, construction and integrated project management services from Concept to Commissioning with highest quality and safety standards. EILs QMS, OHSMS and
EMS are certified to ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 and ISO
14001, respectively. It also provides specialist services like
heat and mass transfer equipment design, environmental
engineering and plant operations and safety.
P DWARKANATH
SCOPE
AWARD
Chairman & Managing Director, BEML Limited

Category: Special Institutional Category

(Turnaround)
P Dwarakanath assumed charge as CMD of BEML Limited
with effect from October 10, 2012. He joined the Board
of BEML Limited on March 1, 2008, as Director (Metro
& Rail Business). Dwarakanath is a Graduate in
Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of
Technology, Warangal. He joined the BEML in 1978 as
Management Trainee and served in all business verticals
of the companyRail and Metro, Defence and Mining
and Construction.
BEML Limited
EML Limited, incorporated in 1964, is a Mini-Ratna
PSU, under the Ministry of Defence engaged in the
design, development, manufacturing and after-sales service of a wide range of products for core sectors of economy such as coal, mining, steel, cement, power, irrigation,
construction, road building, defence, railway, metro transportation system and aerospace. It has four manufacturing complexes located at Bengaluru, Kolar Gold Fields
(KGF), Mysuru and Palakkad and a subsidiary steel foundryVignyan Industries Ltdin Tarikere, Chikmagalur
District. It registered sales with ED of `23120 crore, posting a growth of 4 per cent over the previous year. It was
conferred with Raksha Mantri Award in recognition of its
Design Effort for design and development of countrys
first Stainless Steel Electric Multiple Unit (SSEMU) for
Indian Railways, to be used for suburban commuting.
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VARTIKA SHUKLA
SCOPE
AWARD
Executive Director, Engineers India Limited

Category: Outstanding Woman Manager

in PSEs
Vartika Shukla leads the Engineers India Limiteds R&D
Division. She graduated in Chemical Engineering from
the IIT, Kanpur. She has more than 26 years of extensive
experience in oil and gas sector. She started as a
management trainee in EILs Process Division and rose
to head the division before her current assignment. In
2006-7, she became the first recipient of the Petrofed
Woman Executive of the Year in the Oil & Gas Industry.
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Neyveli Lignite Corporation

Limited
EYVELI Lignite Corporation Limited, a Navratna
Enterprise, has a history of achievements since its
inception in 1956. A pioneer among the PSUs in the energy sector, NLC operates three opencast lignite mines at
Neyveli and one opencast lignite mine at Barsingsar,
Rajasthan. It also operates three thermal power stations
with a total installed capacity of 2,490 MW at Neyveli and
one at Barsingsar with an installed capacity of 250 MW.
All the mines of NLC are ISO certified. NLC has been
earning profit right from 1976-77 and it has achieved a
profit (after tax) of `1411.33 crore in 2011-12. NLC paid
a dividend of 28 per cent on paid up capital for
2011-12. Its net worth, as on March 31, 2012, is `11989.57
crore and turnover, including other income, exceeds
`5600 crore.
T SUVARNA RAJU
SCOPE
AWARD

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Dr T Suvarna Raju serves as the CMD of Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited. He served as Chief of Projects for
Aircraft Division at HAL. Raju joined HAL on June 26,
1980, as Management Trainee XV Batch and has worked
in different capacities in HAL Aircraft Division and
Overhaul Division. He is an Engineering Graduate with an
MBA (Marketing), M Phil in Defence Strategies Studies
and post-graduate diploma in IPR Laws.
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd

INDUSTAN Aeronautics Limited, a Navratna category
Central PSU, is a premier Aerospace Company with 20
production/overhaul divisions and 11 co-located R&D centres across the country. HALs spectrum of expertise
encompasses design and development, manufacture,
upgrade and repair/ overhaul of aircraft (fighters, trainers
and transport), helicopters and associated aero-engines,
accessories and avionics for both military and civil applications. HAL has diversified into portfolios like manufacture of structures for Aerospace Launch Vehicles/Satellites
and Cryogenic Engines. It is also involved in the production and overhaul of marine and industrial gas turbine
engines. HAL has emerged as a globally competitive aerospace company, with supplies of major structural assembly packages and large volumes of machined components
to leading aerospace companies like Airbus and Boeing.
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SCOPE
AWARD
SARAT KUMAR ACHARYA

Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited

Sarat Kumar Acharya, CMD of Neyveli Lignite Corporation
Ltd (NLC), has served in NLC as Director (Human
Resource). He has a rich and varied experience of over 35
years, working in BHEL, NTPC, NTPC-SAIL Power
Company and now NLC.

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SCOPE AWARDS
Artificial Limbs
Manufacturing Corp. of India
NCORPORATED in 1972, ALIMCO, working under the
aegis of Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment, is a unique organisation in the world
engaged in the production and distribution of cost-effective asssistive devices/ artificial limbs for persons with
disabilities of all categoriesorthopedically, hearing, visually, leprosy and intellectually impaired. Better corporate governance at ALIMCO aims not only at maximising
surplus and become a cash cow, but it has linked its goals
to welfare of poor and needy. The financial performance
of the Corporation during 2014-15 resulted in a surplus of
`31.65 crore, as compared to `31.47 crore in the preceding
year. In 2014-15, ALIMCO covered more than 1,96,000
beneficiaries across the nation by conducting more than
1,500 camps under various government schemes.
VINOD KUMAR GAUR
SCOPE
AWARD

National Seeds Corporation Limited

(Turnaround)
Vinod Kumar Gaur is the CMD of the National Seeds
Corporation Limited (NSC) since June, 2013. Earlier,
since 2010, he was CMD, State Farms Corporation of
India Limited (SFCI). After his joining, SFCI was graded as
Excellent in the MoU during 2010-11 by the Department
of Public Enterprises and also paid its maiden dividend
to the Central Government. NSC got Excellent ratings in
MoU under his leadership during 2013-14.
National Seeds
Corporation Limited
ATIONAL Seeds Corporation Limited (NSC) is a
Government of India Undertaking under the Ministry
of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. It came into existence
in 1963 when India was facing acute shortage of foodgrains.
It became the harbinger of Green Revolution. As a result,
India became a foodgrain surplus country. Starting with
production of 30-40 tonnes of Maize Foundation Seed,
NSC today produces more than 1.6 lakh tons of certified/
quality seeds per year, covering 580 varieties of 60 crops
and hybrids of cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fodders,
fibers and vegetables. NSC acts as price stabiliser in the
market. After SFCI-NSC merger on 2014, NSC has 55,000
acres of land and 44 seed processing plants with a capacity
of 22 lakh quintal seeds.
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DR SARIN
SCOPE
AWARD

Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India

(Turnaround) Artificial Limbs Manufacturing
Corporation of India
DR Sarin joined ALIMCO in 2014. Earlier, he served as
General Manager, National Seeds Corporation. Under
his guidance, ALIMCO has taken major technology leap
by signing MoU with Ottobock, Germany. The MoU will
lead to transfer of technology for manufacturing new
generation lower limb prosthetic systems in India.
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Goa Shipyard Limited

OA Shipyard Limited (GSL), a public sector shipyard, has played a significant role in furthering the
self-reliance policy of the nation. With an unmatchable
track record of timely execution and fixed cost delivery of
over 215 ships and 125 Fast Interceptor Boats, GSL today
stands as the success story of the changing face of Indian
defence shipyards. The company has achieved nearly 40
per cent growth in the last two years with the bottomline
turning positive from a loss of `61 crore in 2013-14 to a net
profit of `77 crore in 2014-15. The yard designs and builds
amongst the best patrol vessels in the world in terms of
quality, aesthetics, and cost and delivery time. It is the
only shipyard in the country engaged in the entire design
spiral of ships, leading from concept design to basic design
to detailed Design. GSL has an export order book of over
`1,200 crore and has diversified product range, including
OPVs, FPVs, missile boats, survey vessels, LCUs, tugs, etc.
BC TRIPATHI
SCOPE
AWARD
Chairman & Managing Director, GAIL (India) Limited

Recipient of SCOPE Excellence Award 2010-11

BC Tripathi has been the CMD of GAIL (India) Limited
since August 1, 2009. He also serves as its Director.
Earlier, he was Director of Marketing at Gail India Ltd,
from July 6, 2007 to July 31, 2009. He has about 30 years
of experience in the domain of project planning,
management and execution, operations and maintenance
and marketing. He also serves as the Chairman of
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited and GAIL Gas
Limited. Tripathi graduated in Mechanical Engineering
from MNIT, Allahabad, in 1982.
GAIL (India) Limited

AIL (India) Limited was incorporated in 1984 as a
Central PSU under the Ministry of Petroleum and
Natural Gas, with the Mission of accelerating and optimising the effective and economic use of natural gas and
its fractions for the benefit of national economy. GAIL
has played a crucial role in the development of Indian gas
sector. Its the flagship natural gas company of India, having a presence across the entire gas value chain. This integrated gas major has over 11,000 km of natural gas trunk
pipelines across 16 States, two LPG pipelines 2,038 km
long, six gas processing plants across India with combined
Liquid Hydrocarbon production capacity of 1.3 MMTPA
and 810 KTPA gas-based petrochemical plant in Uttar
Pradesh. GAIL is co-promoter of two other petrochemical
projects, the 280 KTPA BCPL complexes in Assam and 1.1
MMTPA OPaL project in Gujarat.
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SCOPE
AWARD
RADM (RETD) SHEKHAR MITAL

NM Chairman & Managing Director,
Goa Shipyard Limited

I & II PSEs)
Veteran naval engineer, Rear Admiral (retd) Shekhar
Mittal, CMD of Goa Shipyard Limited, spent 11 years of
service at Defence Ministry headquarters in material
branches. Mital gained an insight into fleet maintenance,
weapon engineering and the intricacies of surface and
submarine design. An alumnus of the IIT, Kharagpur,
Mittal has held various senior positions in the Navy.

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SCOPE AWARDS
Cement Corporation of
India Limited
EMENT Corporation of India Limited (CCI) was
established in 1965 as a wholly-owned Government
of India Enterprise. Its principal objective was achieving
self-sufficiency in cement production. CCI was the first
cement company to establish cement plants in remote
localities all over the country. Over the years, it established
11 cement plants spread across the length and breadth of
the country and with 42.48 lakh MT capacity and an
authorised capital of `900 crore. CCI was the first
cement manufacturer to bring dry process precalcinator
technology in India in 1980s. The company recorded a
five-year high turnover of `449.54 crore and net profit of
`40.08 crore in 2014-15.
PRABHAT SINGH
SCOPE
AWARD
Managing Director & CEO, Petronet LNG Limited

Category: Institutional Category Ill

Prabhat Singh is an Engineering graduate from IIT,
Kanpur, and has around 35 years of relevant experience
in the hydrocarbon industry, both in an MNC (British
Gas) and Maharatna PSUs (GAIL, NTPC, EIL etc). He has
been Director of Marketing of GAIL (India) Limited and
has also served as Chairman of Ratnagiri Gas and Power
Private Limited (RGPPL), erstwhile Dabhol Power
Company, and Chairman of GAIL Global Singapore Pte
Ltd (GGSPL), a global trading arm of GAIL at Singapore,
which is currently managing Indias pioneering efforts
towards global LNG business.
Petronet LNG Limited

ETRONET LNG has emerged as one of the brightest
stars in the Indian hydrocarbon sector and is constantly
working towards fulfilling the energy requirement of the
nation. A joint venture company of three Maharatna and
one Navratana oil and gas companiesONGC, IOC, GAIL
(India) Ltd and BPCL, respectivelyit was incorporated
on April 2, 1998, to import LNG and set up LNG
terminals in the country. Petronet LNG has introduced an
innovative practice by supplying LNG through specialised
cryogenic tankers to such industries which are not directly
connected to the gas network. The company has been
constantly pursuing business opportunities in other areas
of LNG value chain so as to achieve synergy in its business
activities and create better value for its stakeholders.
The companys net profit as on March 31, 2015, stood at
`882 crore.
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MANOJ MISRA
SCOPE
AWARD

Cement Corporation of India Limited

(Turnaround)
Manoj Misra, CMD of Cement Corporation of India, brings
three decades of cross-functional experience in the field
of HR with a blend of corporate and plant-level experience
by working in companies ranging from NALCO to CCI. A
science graduate, he holds a Masters degree Labour and
Social Welfare, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in
Management from Xavier Institute of Management,
Bhubaneswar, majoring in HR and Marketing.
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GOVERNANCE
tamil nadu mg devasahayam
EC should use
Brahmastra
EC has the power to postpone or countermand election in any constituency
where result of the election is likely to be affected by inducement. The
Commission should exercise this power in Tamil Nadu
LECTION to the 15th Tamil

Nadu Legislative Assembly is
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over and the campaign has peaked.
Voting will take place on May 16 and
counting will be on May 19. There are
over 5.79 crore voters in the
electoral rolls and 65,616
polling stations in the State.
By May 22, the new government should be in place.
The question is whose government would this be? The misfortune of Indias democracy is that
the vast majority of voters do not
understand this most basic of all
questions. They consider the Government a supreme entity comprising
of people of great power and authority, little realising that it is they who
put them there by exercising their
basic right to vote. Even nearly seven
decades after Independence, people
at large have not understood that in
a democracy Government is of the
people, by the people and for the people, what Abraham Lincoln said 150
years ago and what is inscribed in the
Preamble of the Constitution of India
We, The People.
Indias and, therefore, Tamil
Nadus governance structure has two
kinds of leadershippolitical and
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administrative. While
the latter, comprising
of All India Services and State Civil
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and norms, the former, comprising
politicians, have none. Anyone with
money/muscle power can get a ticket
and become an MLA and minister by
openly bribing and inducing voters
by adopting dubious means. These
leaders then go their own way and all
that citizens can do is to either wail or
petition the high-ups with hardly

any response.
The best way is to stop this at the
threshold. The bottom-end solution
would prevent corrupt and criminal
elements from contesting elections
and, if they manage to get tickets and
enter the fray, defeat them. This is
possible only if the electoral contest
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and voting is done with ethics, and not
cash, as the principal consideration.
It is here that electoral integrity comes in. Integrity is described
as uncompromising adherence to
moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
If there is one area where this is almost totally absent in India, it is in
the electoral process through which
political leaders are elected to govern
the country/State. Ethics has near totally eroded from the voting process
and this has prevented honest, committed and competent people from
entering the electoral contest. The
result is an acute leadership crisis,
diminishing of democracy and decay
of democratic governance. Things
have come to such a pass that there
is a disturbingly growing practice of
voters demanding/accepting bribes
from candidates, saying that they
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are entitled to a share of loot money

during election time. Integrity is being driven out of the election process,
which is the life-blood of democracy.
During the 2011 Assembly election
in Tamil Nadu, the Election Commission of India (EC) responded to this
challenge by putting together a formidable expenditure monitoring and
enforcement mechanism (EMEM).
This mechanism comprised of general observers (IAS); police observers
(IPS); expenditure observers (IRS);
assistant
expenditure
observers
(ITOs); video surveillance teams; video viewing team; accounting teams;
expenditure monitoring control room
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and monitoring committee; expenditure monitoring cell; as well as mobile
and static surveillance teams. Working closely with civil society, EMEM
functioned effectively and seized `62
crore of unaccounted money, which
had some impact on elections.
This time also, since the
announcement of elections on March
4, the EC has been on high alert and
had pressed into service 702 mobile
and 712 static surveillance teams
resulting in the seizure of around
`47 crore in unaccounted cash till
April 25. Of the amount, a whopping
`11.32 crore was seized on April 22
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elections was issued. But, according
to activists, this is not even the tip of
the iceberg since massive quantum
of money has already been moved
and hoarded at various places
indicating clear failure of intelligence
agencies, income tax department
and Enforcement Directorate. This
money is being distributed to voters
in instalments by political parties
and candidates by exploiting the
loopholes of EMEM. In the event,
there is an all-pervading culture of
corruption and bribery dominating
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Tamil Nadus electoral scene.

This is what provoked former
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)
of India, N Gopalaswami, to say at
an election awareness event: Tamil
Nadu is the only State in the country
where they (politicians) have made
voters corrupt. It has come to a
situation where voters now bargain
with parties as to how much (money)
they will get to vote for a particular
party. (The Hindu, April 4, 2016).
This sentiment was echoed by the
incumbent CEC Nasim Zaidi, when
Total inaction by
successive governments in
acting upon ECs
recommendations for
electoral reforms has
rendered the Commission
as helpless as the citizens.
EC is contented with
issuing showcause notices,
which no political party
takes seriously
he said money power is rampant in

Tamil Nadu elections.
What is the EC doing about it? Much
more of the same EMEM, if we look at
the huge mobilisation by EC from the
date nomination commenced. This includes one IAS, IPS and IRS observer
for two Assembly constituencies and,
in some cases, for one constituency.
The question is, whether this massive
machinery would bring about electoral integrity and prevent political parties from indulging in blatant corrupt
practices? Particularly so, when these
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are backed by vested interests loaded
with wads of black money! Answer
would be no, since these worthies
have found innovative ways of moving and delivering cash with the active
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who are their partners in corruption.
ONCERNED citizens in Tamil

Nadu are helplessly watching
as hundreds of crores of black
money are being thrown around by
various political parties and candidates in the election campaign. Obviously, the money has been gathered

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GOVERNANCE
tamil nadu mg devasahayam
during the last several months by

indulging in corrupt practices and
threats and coercion.
Total inaction by successive governments in acting upon ECs recommendations for electoral reforms has
rendered the Commission as helpless
as the citizens. EC is contented with
issuing showcause notices, which
no political party takes seriously. It
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has been done. The showcause notice
would be forgotten both by the EC and
political parties immediately after the
election and the politicians will have
the last laugh.
OES this mean that the EC is

helpless and the vulgar money
power cannot be countered and
D OHYHOSOD\LQJ HOG FUHDWHG" &HUtainly not, if the Commission takes
the psychological weapon in its hands
instead of entirely relying on physical
measures. Let us see how. Article 324
(1) of the Constitution of India vests
with the Election Commission the
superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of the electoral
rolls for, and the conduct of, all elections to Parliament and to the Legislature of every State The Supreme
Court, in a catena of cases, has held
that fair and free elections is a basic
feature of the Constitution and has
ruled that EC can exercise plenary
powers in areas where there is neither
legislation, nor prohibition under any
legislation. This is clear from Mohinder Singh Gill vs Chief Election Commissioner (1978. 2 SCR-272): When
Parliament or any State Legislature
made valid law relating to, or in connection with elections, the Commission, shall act in conformity with,
not in violation of, such provisions;,
but where such law is silent, Article
324 is a reservoir of power to act for
the avowed purpose of not divorced
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Instead of resorting to
a wild goose chase, this
important asset should
concentrate on collecting
and compiling credible
evidence of mass bribery
that would affect
election results and
provide the same
to the EC
from, pushing forward a free and
fair election with expedition
All corrupt practices listed under
Section 123 of the Representation of
Peoples Act, 1951, seriously impair
free and fair election, which is ECs
mandate. These include, any gift, offer or promise by a candidate or his
agent or by any other person with the
consent of a candidate or his elecWLRQDJHQWRIDQ\JUDWLFDWLRQWRDQ\
person whomsoever, with the object,
directly or indirectly, of inducing a
person to stand or not to stand as, or
to withdraw or not to withdraw from
being a candidate at an election, or an
elector to vote or refrain from voting
at an election. There are many other
forms of bribery described in this section. All these are being indulged in
as a matter of course by candidates
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Section 58A of the Representation
RI 3HRSOHV $FW VSHFLFDOO\ HPSRZers the EC to postpone/countermand
election in any constituency where

booth capturing takes place because
of which the result of the election is
likely to be affected. Since rampant
and proven pre-poll bribery and corrupt practices would also have the
same effect, it can be safely presumed
that this Section, read with Section
123, confers plenary powers on the
EC to invoke this strong psychological weapon to make the elections free
and fair.
Election observers are appointed
by the EC under Article 324(6) of the
Constitution and Section 20B of the
Representation of the People Act.
These observers, who are senior ofFLDOV RI $OO ,QGLD DQG &HQWUDO 6HUvices, act as the eyes and ears of the
Commission during the election and
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Instead of resorting to a wild goose
chase, this important asset should
concentrate on collecting and compiling credible evidence of mass bribery
that would affect election results and
provide the same to the EC.
Acting on this information, EC
should wield the brahmastra of
countermanding election in constituencies where there is convincing evidence of rampant and mass
bribery. Otherwise, democracy in
Tamil Nadu, which is in serious peril,
would become walking dead and that
could affect the very credibility of the
Election Commission! g
The writer is a former Army and IAS
officer. Email: deva1940@gmail.com
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STATE SCAN
kashmir mk kaw
Uneasy truce
HEN Amit Shah was

handpicked by Modi as the
party chief, many applauded
the move. Part of the credit for
Modis landslide win was vouchsafed
to Amits smart electoral strategy.
And rightly so. No one can deny
that the unprecedented victory of
the BJP was the handiwork of these
two individuals.
So when the duo descended on the
J&K scene, hopes ran high. The electorate had delivered a fractured verdict. So it was possible to have varying
combinations of coalitions, provided
the partners buried their individual
egos, indulged in a lot of give and take
and built a common minimum programme that satisfied their constituencies. Mufti was an old campaigner
and tried to drive a hard bargain. The
BJP saw this as a unique opportunity
to make inroads into the Kashmir
valley, as also a golden possibility to
subvert the PDP from within. The
PDP felt that becoming a partner in
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governance with the BJP, which had

secured an unbeatable mandate at the
Centre, would help the PDP to extract
concessions which would put it ahead
of the competing political factions in
the State.
While the partners were still
jockeying for a vantage position,
Mufti Sahib passed away and the
mantle fell quite predictably on the
young shoulders of Mehbooba. She
possibly miscalculated and instead
of gracefully seating herself in the
Chief Ministers chair, she decided to
lay down impossible conditions for a
continuance of the previous arrangement. This gap in the governance
structure of the sensitive State has not
enhanced Mehboobas political stature, with rivals such as Omar Abdullah
questioning her core strategy.
Now that the impasse has been
resolved and the government
installed, it is time to examine how
the political landscape of the State is
seen today by informed observers.
ARUNA
The Congress is in disarray all

over the country. Rahul Gandhi has
changed his strategy from being an
invisible inaudible non-leader who
sometimes surfaced for a monosyllabic comment to a brash belligerent
bugaboo who pays a visit to every spot
where there is the slightest possibility of political turmoil. Ghulam Nabi
Azad did not show his mettle even
when he had a brief stint as Chief
Minister of the State. Now he has
more or less migrated to the centre,
leaving the Congress to act like a bit
player on the political stage.
The National Conference is also
more or less leaderless, with Omar not
being able to chart a course of action
that would endear him equally to the
separatists and the nationalists, the
Pro-India and Pakistan lobbies, and
generally resolve the inner contradictions that bedevil this border state.
The BJP has slightly improved its
position, by strengthening its grip
on the Jammu region and making a
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humble start in the valley. Its generally soft policy has not really endear
ed it to the separatists, which see it
as a tool of the Hindutva brigade that
is busy flexing its muscles in the rest
of India. They look upon such sops as
the munificent Prime Ministers package as a forbidden fruit that will poison the consumer. They look upon the
blow-hot-blow-cold policy towards
Pakistan as a clever subterfuge which
ought not be taken at face value. They
keep on testing the waters to see how
far the Modi Government would go.
The PDP is currently poised at a
critical point where Mufti positioned
it, a sort of bridge between the malevolent Central Government that holds
Kashmir in its illegal, illegitimate grip
and the extremely weak separatist
lobby that rears its head now and then
to demonstrate that it is still alive. It
pretends loyalty to the Constitution of
India and at the same time promotes
the singing of the Pakistani national
anthem, waving of the Pakistani
national flag, shouting of anti-India
slogans that border on sedition, and
other populist activities.
The latest shenanigans at the NIT
Srinagar where some students waved
the Indian tricolour and shouted
Bharat Mata ki Jai and were beaten
up both by the separatist students
and the J&K police is a sad commentary on the working of the Mehbooba
Government. It has shown Mehbooba
in a rather poor light. She comes
across as a political innocent who
exposes her true intentions and is not
able to demonstrate the duplicity for
which her father was justly famous.
Although Ram Madhav has made
light of the whole chain of events,
it will not be long before there are
cracks in the alliance.
Kashmir is such a tangled web of
truths and half-truths that it is difficult to unscramble the knots. About
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the psychology of the Kashmiri

Muslim, there are several theories
held equally vehemently by different
observers:
Some people hold the view that the
Kashmiri Muslim is all for Pakistan.
There used to be a doggerel in the
1960s which summed up this sentiment. It went like this:
Zuh jaan vandaha hindostanas
Dil chhum Pakistanas kun
(I would have sacrificed my life, my
everything for India
But my heart is with Pakistan).
Others think that this is a canard
spread by the separatists who are in
the pay of the Pakistan army and the
ISI and spread the canards that they
are paid to circulate. Most Kashmiris
are aware what treatment the
Kashmiris of Pak-occupied Kashmir
The latest shenanigans at

the NIT Srinagar where
some students were beaten
up is a sad commentary on
the working of the
Mehbooba Government
have received at the hands of the
Pakistani establishment. They are also
aware of the pampering they receive
at the hands of the Government of
India. They are sore at the treatment
they received from the terrorists who
were smuggled into the valley by
the Pakistanis. Most of the younger
women were raped by these foreign
liberators and as many as 60,000
youth are supposed to have perished
in the anti-terrorist operations.
A third view is exemplified by the
story narrated by a Pakistani general
to General ML Chibber, then GOCin-C Northern Command. A Pakistani,
an Indian and a Kashmiri died on the
same day. When the Pakistanis soul
reached heaven, he was asked where
he would like to be sent. He asked, O

Gibrael, where have you lodged the
mother of my children? On being
told that she had been sent to Jannat,
the Pakistani opted for Dowzakh. The
Indian was a Lalaji who wanted Swarg
and Narak to be described. On being
told that Swarag was like Haridwar
and Narak like Lahore, he opted for
Narak. But the Kashmiri asked the
Angel Gibrael whether there could be
a third option, other than Heaven and
Hell, a sort of border area between
the two, so that one could play them
against each other and draw benefits
from both.
HATEVER may be the truth,

it is difficult to formulate a
Kashmir policy that would
be acceptable to all. If you try to
befriend the separatists, you will be
accused of trying to bribe a people
into submission. If you act tough,
you can be accused of unleashing a
reign of terror. If you are just in your
approach and modest in your dispensations, you might be reproached for
being unstatesmanlike.
Those who know Narendra Modi
from his past achievements can well
believe that there is more to his
Kashmir policy than meets the eye.
He is an astute politician who has
sorted out difficult problems with
consummate ease. He is also a master
of realpolitik and would not be easily
taken for a ride. They speculate that
under his direction, the BJP would be
able to extend its presence in this
supersensitive State. He might also
stoke the ambitions of leaders like
Beig who are seen to be abler and
more astute than Mehbooba Mufti.
We can only keep our fingers crossed
and wish him luck! g
MK Kaw is a former Secretary, Government
of India. (The views expressed are those of
the columnist.)

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SPOTLIGHT
The Union Minister for Defence, Manohar
Parrikar, in a group photograph with the
Naval Commanders, during the Naval
Commanders conference in New Delhi.
President Pranab Mukherjee attending the reception

organised on the occasion of Civil Services Day, at
Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.
The Minister of State for Textiles (Independent Charge),

Santosh Kumar Gangwar, visiting the Bamboo and Cane
Development Institute, at Lichubagan, in Agartala. The
Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Rashmi Verma, is also seen.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the Masmak Fortress

at Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia.
The German Ambassador to India, Dr. Martin Ney, meeting

the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal
and New and Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal, in New Delhi.
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PHOTOS: PIB
The Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Vinod Zutshi, at the

felicitation function of Mr. Patrick Farmer, Ultra Marathon
Runner and former Member of Australian Parliament
on successful completion of the 4,600 km Spirit of
India Run from Kanyakumari to Srinagar in a short span
of 64 days, in New Delhi.
The Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, RN Choubey, the

Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee, RN Ravi and other
dignitaries at the 29th Anniversary of the Bureau of Civil
Aviation Security, in New Delhi.
The Union Minister for Railways, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu,

at the flag-off ceremony of the Indias first semi-high speed
train christened as Gatimaan Express, between H.
Nizamuddin station and Agra Cantt. Station, at H.
Nizamuddin station, in New Delhi.
Railway Board Chairman AK Mittal and other
dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Mines and Steel, Narendra Singh

Tomar, receiving an interim dividend cheque of `260.72
crore from the CMD, NALCO, Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand, in New
Delhi. The Secretary, Balvinder Kumar, the Addl. Secretary,
R Sridharan and the Joint Secretary, NB Dhal of the Ministry
of Mines and the Director (Finance) NALCO, KC Samal, are
also seen.
The Minister of State for Planning (Independent Charge) and

Defence, Rao Inderjit Singh with the Air Force Commanders,
at the Air Force Commanders Conference, in New Delhi. The
Defence Secretary, G Mohan Kumar and the Secretary
(Defence Production), AK Gupta are also seen.
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PERSPECTIVE
idol worship sadhguru
he unfortunate fallout of the

colonial experience is the
attitude of scorn that persists
in certain minds towards the worship
of idols or forms. The view that this
is rudimentary and archaic overlooks
the deep psychological wisdom that
underlies the phenomenon. It also
overlooks the science of consecration
the unique contribution of this culture
to the world.
Merely proclaiming that the divine
is all-pervasive can become an exercise
in punditry rather than spirituality.
Until it is experiential for you, merely
parroting the words is meaningless.
But actually expressing your devotion
towards something or someone can
be deeply transformative. Contrary to
popular Western perception, the idol
was not considered synonymous with
god. It was seen, instead, as a yantra,
a device, a tool for transformation.
Human beings gradually started
seeing nature and the elements as
divine because they desperately
needed assurance and consolation in
a universe that seemed terrifyingly
vast and capricious. Besides consolation, the sacred form also addresses
the human need to express wonder
and gratitude. When feelings of love
and gratitude find full expression, you
become a full, radiantly alive human
being. Just the simple act of venerating a formeven if it is a rockcan
feel wonderful because it allows you
to express some of the deepest dimensions of yourself.
This culture has always recognised the equality of forms. It never
prescribed just one kind of idol.
Instead, it encouraged people to
express their need for the sacred in
an exuberantly imaginative variety
of ways. Everything could be considered sacred in this land because the
underlying premise was that there is
no piece of creation from which the
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Door to divinity
hand of the Divine is absent.
And so, you can put a garland
around a tree, smear vermilion on
a rock or a cow, and you will immediately find people stopping to offer
their salutations. In minutes, a wayside shrine can come to life.
Human perception is essentially
through form. Because you have an
individuated form, you perceive life
as forms. Emptiness is the biggest
presence around us, but relating to it
is another matter. When you look up
at the sky, you see the moon and stars,
but how many see emptinessthe
dimension that is so much bigger than
this sprinkling of celestial bodies?
So, to fulfil these varied needs at
different stages of ones spiritual
development, this culture manufactured idols. However, idols are not
mere lifeless dolls. Instead, this culture evolved a highly complex science
of idol-making. We decided what kind
of form would work best for a person,
not only in terms of psychological
consolation, but in terms of energy
support. Different forms were created
to address human needs ranging from
health, prosperity and material wellbeing to moksha or liberation.
This is the only culture in the world

with the technology to manufacture
gods. Everywhere else people believe
that God is the Creator and you are a
piece of creation. But in this culture,
we always knew that human beings
are capable of creating and embodying the Divine. We see god as an ultimate possibility attainable by every
human being. Implicit in this is a profound understanding of life.
We never believed the Divine
needed our devotion. But we knew
that we needed devotion. Devotion
enhances receptivity. In a state of
receptivity, if you sit before a consecrated form, your capacity to imbibe
its energies is augmented. This can
enhance the quality of your life in
unimaginable ways. If you know how
to employ it, the deity can become a
powerful possibility, an incredible
machine. In its presence, your very
body can become an instrument of
divinity, a doorway to the beyond. This
is the incredible intelligence that
underlies the much-maligned culture
of idol worship. g
Sadhguru, a yogi, is a visionary,
humanitarian and a prominent spiritual
leader (www.ishafoundation.org)
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STOCK DOCTOR
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Stay inspired
HE market has witnessed

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In a world where investment destinations are hard to find, India is in
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quality of growth viewed with 2-3 year
perspective in the backdrop of fiscal
consolidation has been quite inspiring. And, that has made global investors stay invested in India with a longterm perspective.
The global scenario has turned
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The prediction of a good monsoon

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also witness more stability.
However, slower global growth is
a drag on the economic activity and
has impacted both our imports and
exports with the latest concern being
its impact on services exports. The
Brexit issue too needs to be watched

closely. The impact of the Seventh
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it is likely to directly benefit domestic
consumption oriented companies.
The recent runup in the market
has turned valuations a bit pricy
and may make the market witness
a correction in the near term. But,
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very positive, any correction will
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on domestic consumption, infra,
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Stock Shop
BY
RAKESH BHARDWAJ
MBL Infrastructures
(CMP `145)
HE company is in the construction and

contracting business with a diversified order book in hand of more than
`6,900 crore from both government and
non-government agencies. It has diversified presence in segments such as infrastructure, construction, operations and
maintenance, roads and highways, housing and buildings, and railways including
metro across the country. The management with 20 years experience has an
excellent record of timely execution with
access to state-of-the-art technical knowhow. The company has strong financial
performance with revenues increasing at
a CAGR of 25.2 per cent for FY 2010-15 and
PAT increasing at a CAGR of 17.1 per cent.
Recently MBL won projects worth
`2,200 crore from NHAI on DBFOT

(Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer)
Hybrid Annuity basis. The other contracts
worth `3,150 crore won recently include
four laning of Gagalheri-SaharanpurYamunanagar (UP/Haryana) on NH-73,
four laning of Chutmalpur-Ganeshpur section on NH-72A and Roorkee-ChutmalpurGagalheri section on NH-73, rehabilitation
and upgradation of Goharganj to Bhopal
section of NH-12, including construction
of Obedullaganj bypass, rehabilitation
and upgradation of Jabalpur-Hiran River
section of NH-12 (MP), maintenance of
Guwahati Bypass on NH-37 from Jalukbari
to Koinadhara in Assam.
The stock appears to be a safe bet with
hardly any downside risk being available
at a PE of just 7 times as against the industry PE of around 24 and less than that of its
book value of `156 with an uninterrupted
dividend track record.
The author has no exposure in the stock recommended in this column. gfiles does not accept responsibility for investment decisions by
readers of this column. Investment-related queries may be sent to editor@gfilesindia.com with Bhardwajs name in the subject line.
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IAS officers birthdays May 16, 2016 June 15, 2016
IAS officers birthdays May 16, 2016 June 15, 2016
Selva Kumari J
Abu Imran
Nilam Sawhney
Ajay Yadav
CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH
CADRE: JHARKHAND
CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
selvakumari.ias@ias.nic.in
abuimran.ias2010@ias.nic.in
sawhneyn@ias.nic.in
ajayyadav.ias@ias.nic.in
Narendra Kumar Sinha
Sunil Kumar Singh
Veena Kumari Meena
Nandini Chakravorty
CADRE: BIHAR
CADRE: BIHAR
CADRE: WEST BENGAL
sinhank2@ias.nic.in
singhsk1@ias.nic.in
mveena@ias.nic.in
chakran@ias.nic.in
Jai Priye Prakash
Deepak Singhal
Anand Mohan Tiwari
Sudha Anchalia
CADRE: ASSAM-MEGHALAYA
CADRE: GUJARAT
CADRE: GUJARAT
jaipriye82@ias.nic.in
singhald@ias.nic.in
tiwariam@ias.nic.in
anchalia@ias.nic.in
I Samuel Anand Kumar
Neilenthang Telien
Mundhe Tukaram Haribhau
HS Patel
CADRE: MANIPUR
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
CADRE: GUJARAT
i.samuel@ias.nic.in
neilenthang.telien@ias.nic.in
mt.haribhau@ias.nic.in
h.s.patel@ias.nic.in
V Manjula
Hari Ranjan Rao
CR Prasanna
Aramane Giridhar
CADRE: KARNATAKA
CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH
CADRE: CHHATTISGARH
vmanjula@ias.nic.in
raohr@ias.nic.in
crprasanna.ias@ias.nic.in
giridha@ias.nic.in
Hemanta Narzary
John Kingsly A R
Neerabh Kumar Prasad
A Sri Devasena
CADRE : MADHYA PRADESH
CADRE: TELANGANA
narzaryh@ias.nic.in
johnkingsly@ias.nic.in
prasadn2@ias.nic.in
a.sridevasena@ias.nic.in
Ram Krishna Khandelwal
Walpeelter Roy Lyngdoh
Anshul Mishra
K Ramgopal
CADRE: BIHAR
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
kramk@ias.nic.in
meghahealhis@gmail.com
anshulmishra@ias.nic.in
ramgopal@ias.nic.in
Adesh Titarmare
N Gulzar
Bhavna Srivastava
Vikas Labroo
CADRE: BIHAR
CADRE: HIMACHAL PRADESH
adesh.ias@ias.nic.in
gulzarn@ias.nic.in
bhavna.srivastava@ias.nic.in
vikas.labroo@ias.nic.in
S Subramanya
A Ajith Kumar
Mast Ram Meena
Biju K
CADRE: KARNATAKA
CADRE: KERALA
CADRE: JHARKHAND
CADRE: KERALA
subras@ias.nic.in
kajith@ias.nic.in
meenamr@ias.nic.in
biju.ias@ias.nic.in
Pamu Sampath Kumar
Hans Raj Verma
Depinder Singh Dhesi
Pallavi Akurathi
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
CADRE: HARYANA
CADRE: KARNATAKA
pskumar.ias@assam.gov.in
vermahr@ias.nic.in
dhesids@ias.nic.in
pakurathi.ias09@ias.nic.in
Vivek Joshi
TO Sooraj
S Vijayakumar
ISN Prasad
CADRE: HARYANA
CADRE: KERALA
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
CADRE: KARNATAKA
joshiv3@ias.nic.in
soorajto@ias.nic.in
vijaykrs@ias.nic.in
prasadi@ias.nic.in
Jamjam Syamala Rao
Manju Rajpal
Mukta Arya
Asvini Kumar Yadav
CADRE: RAJASTHAN
CADRE: WEST BENGAL
CADRE: WEST BENGAL
raojs@ias.nic.in
rajpalm@ias.nic.in
mukta.arya@ias.nic.in
yasvinik@ias.nic.in
Indra Mallo Jain
P Mohandas Gandhi
M Veerashanmugha Moni
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
CADRE: WEST BENGAL
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
jainim@ias.nic.in
pmkcgandhi@ias.nic.in
monimv@ias.nic.in
16-05-1977
16-05-1958
17-05-1959
17-05-1961
18-05-1964
18-05-1959
19-05-1964
19-05-1983
20-05-1956
20-05-1970
21-05-1966
22-05-1967
23-05-1973
24-05-1983
25-05-1959
25-05-1959
26-05-1985
27-05-1969
27-05-1974
28-05-1959
29-05-1974
30-05-1958
30-05-1964
31-05-1958
01-06-1972
01-06-1978
02-06-1960
02-06-1967
03-06-1959
03-06-1975
04-06-1976
05-06-1964
05-06-1977
06-06-1962
06-06-1968
07-06-1959
07-06-1967
08-06-1981
10-06-1978
10-06-1969
11-06-1949
11-06-1956
12-06-1963
12-06-1970
13-06-1961
13-06-1962
14-06-1976
14-06-1981
15-06-1963
15-06-1971
09-06-1956
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MN Krishnamurthy
GS Darro
CADRE: CHHATTISGARH
16-05-1956
24-05-1960
krishnamurthy19@gmail.com
M Muthuraya
16-05-1956
CADRE: KARNATAKA
yadgir@karnataka.gov.in
Rajesh S
17-05-1984
rajesh.s11@ips.gov.in
Don K Jose
17-05-1980
CADRE: RAJASTHAN
Akbar A
18-05-1976
CADRE: KERALA
spcbcidaw.pol@kerala.gov.in
Rupinder Kumar
18-05-1962
CADRE: UNION TERRITORY
dcptwr-dtp@nic.in
PA Valsan
19-05-1957
CADRE: KERALA
SS Sarkar
19-05-1968
CADRE: WEST BENGAL
S Surendran
20-05-1961
CADRE: KERALA
DS Chavan
20-05-1966
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
Mrigendra Singh
21-05-1959
mrigendra.singh@ips.gov.in
Rajesh Sharma
22-05-1961
CADRE: TRIPURA
AV Asari
23-05-1971
CADRE : GUJARAT
Surinder Kumar
24-05-1955
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
surinderkumar@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
R Sekar
25-05-1956
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
rsekar@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
KL Harikumar
25-05-1956
CADRE: KERALA
KK Jayamohan
25-05-1958
IPS officers birthdays May 16, 2016 June 15, 2016

Anoop Krishna
V Satyanarayana
CADRE: ODISHA
31-05-1981
depsz@appolice.gov.in
Kanhu Charan Mahali

01-06-1960
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
kcmahali@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
Dahyabhai Ramabhai Patel

01-06-1957
CADRE: GUJARAT
drpatel@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
CADRE: KERALA
V Chandrasekhar
N Ramachandran
CADRE: GUJARAT
26-05-1958
vchandrasekhar@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
CADRE: KERALA
Balwan Singh
Milan Kanta Das

26-05-1957
CADRE: WEST BENGAL
AB Rokade
27-05-1960
02-06-1971
03-06-1962
CADRE: HARYANA
dcp.westggn@hry.nic.in
Buttula Gangadhar
03-06-1986
CADRE : ODISHA
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
spbdh.orpol@nic.in
N Manimohan Singh
K Annamalai
CADRE: MANIPUR
CADRE: KARNATAKA
27-05-1958
04-06-1984
spudp@ksp.gov.in
LV Antony Dev Kumar

28-05-1966
CADRE: UTTARAKHAND
Gurpreet Singh
28-05-1962
CADRE: PUNJAB
Anish Gupta
28-05-1981
CADRE: JHARKHAND
Vijayendra Bidari
29-05-1982
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
BP Nawanath
30-05-1984
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
Mohamed Iqbal
31-05-1958
Ch Shyamprasada Rao
05-06-1956
aigadm@appolice.gov.in
DA Gedam
05-06-1984
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
sp.jalna@mahapolice.gov.in
N Gnanasambandan
05-06-1976
Akhil Chaudhary
07-06-1984
CADRE: PUNJAB
akhilchaudhary28@yahoo.co.in
Yaram Nagi Reddy

09-06-1970
ynreddy@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
AR Srinivas
09-06-1964
CADRE: TELANGANA
dcp_shbad@cyb.tspolice.gov.in
V Sasimohan
10-06-1984
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
vsasi.man@gmail.com
RC Kudawla
10-06-1959
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
kudawla@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
KP Shanmuga Rajeswaran
10-06-1960
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
shanmuga@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
Laxmi Narayan Meena

10-06-1970
CADRE: WEST BENGAL
lnmeena@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
Ashish Bhengra
12-06-1959
CADRE: TAMIL NADU
ashish@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
Gopal Gupta
CADRE: AGMUT
12-06-1959
Chandra Prakash-II
gopal.gupta@ips.gov.in
05-06-1980
chandra.prakash04@ips.gov.in
Abhishek Goyal
05-06-1980
CADRE: KARNATAKA
CADRE: KERALA
dcpcarhqbcp@ksp.gov.in
SD Yenpure
Pooja Awana
CADRE: MAHARASHTRA
CADRE: RAJASTHAN
31-05-1968
06-06-1965
06-06-1987
cocity.bpr@gmail.com
Kalligotta Nagaraju
12-06-1983
CADRE: KERALA
JS Sansval
15-06-1954
CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH
jssansval@mail.svpnpa.gov.in
Alok Sharma
15-06-1966
alok.sharma66@ips.gov.in
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Sunil Kumar Mondal
Anupam Hazra
Sultan Ahmed
Harinder Singh Khalsa
AITC (West Bengal)
AITC (West Bengal)
AITC (West Bengal)
AAP (Punjab)
sunilk.mondal@sansad.nic.in
anupam.hazra@sansad.nic.in
sultan.ahmed@nic.in
harsinkha@gmail.com
HD Devegowda
Anandrao Adsul
Choudhury Mohan Jatua
Bandaru Dattatreya
JD(S) (Karnataka)
Shiv Sena (Maharashtra)
AITC (West Bengal)
BJP (Telangana)
haradanahalli@yahoo.co.in
av.adsul@sansad.nic.in
mj.choudhury@sansad.nic.in
bandaru@sansad.nic.in
Sudheer Gupta
Dharam Vira Gandhi
Uday Pratap Singh
Narendra Singh Tomar
BJP (Madhya Pradesh)
AAP (Punjab)
sudhirgupta.mp@sansad.nic.in
dvgandhi@yahoo.com
udaypratap_narsinghpur@yahoo.com
nstomaroffice@gmail.com
Shivkumar C Udasi
Suresh C Angadi
Ram Swaroop Sharma
Nagarajan P
BJP (Karnataka)
BJP (Karnataka)
BJP (Himachal Pradesh)
AIADMK (Tamil Nadu)
udasi.channabasappa@sansad.nic.in
suresh.angadimp@gmail.com
mpmandikullu@gmail.com
apnagarajan62@gmail.com
Anantkumar Hegde
Kamakhya Prasad Tasa
Sher Singh Ghubaya
RK Bharathimohan
BJP (Karnataka)
BJP (Assam)
SAD (Punjab)
AIADMK (Tamil Nadu)
anantkumarhegde@gmail.com
kamakhyatasa@gmail.com
ss.ghubaya@sansad.nic.in
rkbmp2014@gmail.com
CN Jayadevan
Savitri Thakur
Ashwini Kumar
Hari Babu Kambhampati
CPI (Kerala)
BJP (Haryana)
BJP (Andhra Pradesh)
cn.jayadevan@sansad.nic.in
smtsavitrithakur@gmail.com
ashwinikumar001@gmail.com
k.haribabu@gmail.com
NK Premachandran
Anant Gangaram Geete
RSP (Kerala)
SS (Maharashtra)
nkprem07@gmail.com
geete@sansad.nic.in
M Udhayakumar
T Radhakrishnan
Thaawar Chand Gehlot

18-05-1948
Alok Tiwari
02-06-1955
AIADMK (Tamil Nadu)
AIADMK (Tamil Nadu)
SP (Uttar Pradesh)
m.udhayakumar@sansad.nic.in
mpvirudhunagar@gmail.com
tc.gehlot@sansad.nic.in
aloktiwari.mp@sansad.nic.in
Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo
Jyoti Dhurve
Naresh Gujral
19-05-1948
KP Ramalingam
02-06-1966
BJD (Odisha)
SAD (Punjab)
DMK (Tamil Nadu)
kalikesh.singhdeo@sansad.nic.in
jyoti.dhurve@sansad.nic.in
nareshgujral@sansad.nic.in
drkp.ramalingam@sansad.nic.in
Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Dinesh Trivedi
Sasikala Pushpa
22-05-1976
Vayalar Ravi
04-06-1950
BJP (Maharashtra)
AITC (West Bengal)
AIADMK (Tamil Nadu)
INC (Kerala)
nitin.gadkari@nic.in
dintriv@gmail.com
sasikala.pushpa@sansad.nic.in
vayalar@sansad.nic.in
Faizal PP Mohammed
Rakesh Singh
D Kupendra Reddy
27-05-1960
Prabhat Jha
04-06-1962
NCP (Lakshadweep)
JDS (Karnataka)
faizalpp786@gmail.com
mpjbp@yahoo.com
kupendra.reddy@sansad.nic.in
prabhat.jha@sansad.nic.in
Jose K Mani
Mohammad Salim
Rajeev Chandrasekhar
31-05-1964
CM Ramesh
05-06-1957
KC(M) (Kerala)
CPI(M) (West Bengal)
IND. (Karnataka)
TDP (Telangana)
josekmanimp@gmail.com
md.salim@sansad.nic.in
rajeev.c@sansad.nic.in
cm.ramesh@sansad.nic.in
Paresh Rawal
Yogi Adityanath
Mansukh L Mandaviya
01-06-1972
Piyush Goyal
05-06-1972
BJP (Gujarat)
BJP (Uttar Pradesh)
BJP (Gujarat)
BJP (Maharashtra)
mppareshrawal@gmail.com
yogiadityanath72@gmail.com
16-05-1958
18-05-1933
19-05-1959
20-05-1967
20-05-1968
24-05-1950
25-05-1960
25-05-1968
26-05-1974
27-05-1957
28-05-1975
29-05-1965
30-05-1955
30-05-1982
01-06-1947
01-06-1951
01-06-1955
01-06-1975
01-06-1978
02-06-1951
06-06-1953
09-06-1938
09-06-1964
10-06-1958
10-06-1962
11-06-1956
12-06-1947
12-06-1947
12-06-1957
12-06-1961
12-06-1967
15-06-1953
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01-06-1972
02-06-1954
04-06-1937
04-06-1957
12-06-1965
13-06-1964
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VIJAY SHANKAR PANDEY
The 1979-batch IAS officer of the Uttar
Pradesh cadre has been appointed
Secretary, Department of Fertilisers,
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, in
the Government of India.
ASHOK LAVASA
The 1980-batch IAS officer of the Haryana
cadre has been appointed Secretary,
Department of Expenditure, Ministry of
Finance, Government of India.
ANOOP KUMAR SRIVASTAVA

The 1981-batch IAS officer of the AssamMeghalaya cadre has been appointed
Secretary, Department of Official
Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, in
the Government of India.
ANUJ KUMAR BISHNOI

Secretary, Department of Chemicals and
Petrochemicals, Government of India.
DEVENDRA CHAUDHARY
Secretary, Department of Animal
Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, in the
Government of India.
CHIRRAVURI VISWANATH
The 1981-batch IAS officer of the Andhra
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Secretary, Department of Administrative

Reforms and Public Grievances, in the
SURESH MATHUR
The 1981-batch IPS officer of the
Maharashtra cadre has been appointed
DG ACB in Maharashtra.
JAI PRIYE PRAKASH

The 1982-batch IAS officer of
the Assam-Meghalaya has been
appointed Secretary, Department of
Pharmaceuticals, in the Government of
India.
HEM KUMAR PANDEY

The 1982-batch IAS officer of the
West Bengal cadre has been
Consumer Affairs, in the Government
of India.
AJAY MITTAL
Himachal Pradesh cadre has been
appointed Secretary, Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting, in the
SNEHLATA SHRIVASTAVA
Madhya Pradesh cadre has been
Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice,
AJAY NARAYAN JHA

The 1982-batch IAS officer of the Manipur
cadre has been appointed Secretary,
Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change, Government of India.
SUSHEEL KUMAR
Uttar Pradesh cadre has been appointed
Secretary, Border Management, Ministry
of Home Affairs, Government of India.
LEENA NAIR
Tamil Nadu cadre has been appointed
Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child
Development, with effect from June 1,
2016. Ms Nair will serve in this Ministry as
OSD before joining as Secretary.
RAJIV GAUBA
Jharkhand cadre has been appointed
Secretary, Urban Development, in the
SK BHAGAT
Uttarakhand cadre has been appointed
Director General, Railway Protection Force,
Railway Board.
SHEFALI SHAH
The IRS-IT officer has been appointed
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, in the
Moving On: IAS officers retiring in May 2016

ASSAM
J Lyngdoh (1995)
BIHAR
Afzal Amanullah (1979)

Krishna Mohan (1999)
CHHATTISGARH
Ram Singh Thakur (2000)
GUJARAT
Ashim Khurana (1983)
HIMACHAL PRADESH
Parthasarathi Mitra (1978)
HARYANA
Roshan Lal (1984)

Mohan Lal Kaushik (2001)
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JHARKHAND
Bina Srivastava (1999)

Fidelis Toppo (1999)
Sulse Baxla (2001)
KERALA
V Somasundaran (1979)
Alok Sheel (1982)
Thomas Mathew (1983)
M Nandakumar (2004)
NK Deshmukh (1996)
SM Sarkunde (1996)
DS Dhok Rajurkar (1998)
VJ Bhosale (1998)
SD Wardhane (2002)
Tukaram Govind Kasar (2003)
PUNJAB
TAMIL NADU
VK Subburaj (1980)
Braj Kishore Prasad (1983)
C Rajendran (2003)
UTTAR PRADESH
Rakesh Bahadur (1979)
Sujata Dass (1978)
UNION TERRITORY
KARNATAKA
RAJASTHAN
WEST BENGAL
V Umesh (1981)
MR Kamble (1986)
Mahaveer Prasad Swami

Chunni Lal Kayal
MAHARASHTRA
TELANGANA
TV Satre (1993)
PT Nalawade (1996)
Tajom Taloha (1992)

Malabika Jha (1999)
Rajiv Sharma (1982)

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President Pranab Mukherjee meeting the Probationers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) 2014 (II) batch and 2015
(I & II) batches from the National Academy of Defence Production Nagpur, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi
SM VIJYANAND
MUKESH KUMAR SURANA
NAVIN KUMAR CHOUDHARY
The 1981-batch IAS officer of the Kerala

cadre and Secretary, Panchayati Raj,
has been appointed Chief Secretary,
Government of Kerala.
The officer has been appointed CMD,

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Limited.
The 1994-batch IAS officer has been

appointed Principal Secretary to Jammu &
Kashmir Chief Minister.
SHEFALI DHINGRA
VIJAY PAUL SHARMA
NIDHI KHARE
The Professor, Centre for Management

in Agriculture, Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad, has been
appointed as Chairman, Commission for
Agricultural Costs and Prices.
The 1992-batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand

cadre has been promoted to Principal
Secretary grade and appointed as Principal
Secretary, Department of Personnel & AR,
Government of Jharkhand.
PERMOD KOHLI
B SUNDER
The Justice has been appointed Chairman,

Central Administrative Tribunal.
The 1998-batch IFS officer and Director,

MEE-SEVA, has been given an additional
charge as Managing Director, AP
Technology Services (APTS) in
Andhra Pradesh.
The 2004-batch IES officer has been

appointed Joint Director, Central
Electricity Authority.
MANOJ KUMAR TRIPATHI

The 2000-batch IFS officer of the
Karnataka cadre has been appointed
Private Secretary to Sudarshan Bhagat,
Minister of State for Rural Development,
SURESH KUMAR
The officer has been appointed Private
Secretary to Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Minister
of State for Food Processing Industries at
Deputy Secretary level.
YELLAPANTULA MALLIKARJUN
The officer has been appointed OSD to M
Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Parliamentary
Affairs, Government of India.
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KARAN K SHARMA
The Vice Chairman, Customs & Central
Excise Settlement Commission (C&CESC),
Kolkata has been appointed Chairman,
C&CESC.
VIJAY SINGH DAHIYA

cadre and Managing Director, Haryana
Agro Industries Corporation, has been
appointed Advisor and Special Secretary,
Civil Aviation, Goverment of Haryana.
RAJALAKSHMI DEVARAJ
The 1998-batch IDAS officer has been
appointed Director in the Ministry of Home
Affairs, Government of India.
DHIRJA KAKADIA
The 1993-IIS officer and Director,
DAVP, New Delhi, has been appointed
Commissioner, Entertainment Tax as well as
Director (Electronics Media) in the office of
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Commissioner of Information, Government
of Gujarat.
KS JAYACHANDRAN
The 2006-batch IFS officer of the Union
Territory cadre has been appointed
Deputy Secretary, Department of Justice,
Govt. of India.
CK DESHMUKH
The 1996-batch IAS officer of the Madhya
Pradesh cadre has been deputed as
Chief Vigilance Officer, Indian Oil
Corporation Limited.
SUBE SINGH
The officer has been appointed Assistant
Director, Commission for Agricultural
Costs and Prices.
BIDHISA CHAUDHRI
The 1992-batch IES officer has been
appointed Adviser, Department of
Economic Affairs, in the Government
of India.
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RAJESH MALIK
JUHI MUKHERJEE
The IRSME officer has been appointed

Director, Mechanical Engineering
(E&R), Railway
The 2007-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT

cadre has been appointed Inspector
General of Registration (Revenue
Department), in the Government of Delhi.
DEEPAK MISHRA
The 1984-batch IPS officer of the AGMUT
cadre and Special Commissioner of Police
(Admn), Delhi Police has been appointed
as ADG, CRPF.
M NAGANNA
The 2000-batch IPS officer has been
promoted to the grade of DIG Police in
Andhra Pradesh.
RENU P CHIBBER
CRPF RESHUFFLE
ANUPAMA KULSHRESTHA (IPS 1995
UP) has joined as IG, Provisioning,
CRPF HQ; PK SINGH has been posted
as IG, Intelligence, CRPF; SANJAY
LATKAR (IPS 1995 JH) will be new
IG, CRPF Jharkhand Sector Ranchi;
RAJ KUMAR (IPS 1995 UP) has been
appointed as IG, CRPF Western sector,
Mumbai; and PIYUSH ANAND (IPS
1991 UP) has been appointed as IG,
Works, CRPF HQ.
The DIG-cum-Additional CSC, North

Western Railway, has been appointed as
DIG (R&T), Railway Board.
SONIA NARANG
The 2002-batch IPS officer of the Karnataka
cadre has been appointed Superintendent
of Police in National Investigation Agency.
GK SATISH
The Executive Director, OICL, has been
appointed Director (Planning & Business
Development), IOCL.

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KA DAVID
The Station Director, Bharatiya Nabhikiya
Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI), has
been appointed Director (Operations),
BHAVINI.
PP KHANDEKAR
The Air Marshal has been appointed
Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance, Air
Hqrs, Delhi.
MM SHARMA, ANOOP SHUKLA

AND DB ANDE
The IFS officers have been promoted to
the grade of Additional Principal Chief
Conservators of Forests (APCCF) in
Gujarat.
MUKTASH CHANDER
AGMUT cadre has been appointed DGP,
Government of Goa.
IPS OFFICERS OF AGMUT CADRE PROMOTED

AMULYA KUMAR PATNAIK, AJAY KASHYAP, SS YADAV, KISHAN KUMAR, PRABHAT
SINGH and SACHIDANAND SRIVASTAVA have been promoted to the Director
General of Police (DGP) grade.
SANDEEP GOEL, SANJAY BAINIWAL, RANVIR SINGH KRISHNIA, MUKESH KUMAR
MEENA, SUNIL KUMAR GAUTAM, PRANAB NANDA and MANOJ KUMAR LAL have
been promoted the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) grade.
NARENDRA SINGH BUNDELA, AK OJHA and LH SHANLIANA have been promoted to
Inspector General of Police (IGP) grade.
ASHISH SHRIVASTAVA
ARMY OFFICERS PROMOTED TO THE
RANK OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL
SK SAINI, AS BEDI, A CHAUHAN, JS
NEGI, IS GHUMAN, PM BALI, VIJAY
SINGH, SK UPADHAYAY, SARNAJEET
SINGH, YVK MOHAN, AK BHATTA,
DUSYANT SINGH, RK JAGGA and
R GOPAL.
The 1992-batch IAS officer of the Madhya

Pradesh cadre has been appointed Resident
Commissioner of MP, in New Delhi.
KARNAL SINGH
The 1984-batch IPS officer of the AGMUT
cadre and Enforcement Director has
been given additional charge of Financial
Investigation Unit.
AK FULZELE
SM MANI
The IRS-IT officer has been appointed

Director, Central Board of Direct Taxes.

Himachal Pradesh cadre has been
appointed DIG CBI, ACB Mumbai.
AJAY TYAGI
VINIT BRIJ LAL
The 1988-batch IRS-C&CE officer and

Additional Commissioner, Customs,
Chennai, has been appointed Additional
Director in Financial Intelligence Unit-India.
The 1991-batch IoFS officer has been

appointed Deputy Financial Adviser at
Director level in Border Security Force.
The 2001-batch IPS officer of the Andhra

Pradesh cadre has been posted as DIG,
BSFC, CBI in Delhi.
MEENAKSHI J GOSWAMI
ANURAG SAHAI BHATNAGAR
The IRS officer has been appointed as

CIT (Media & Technical Policy/ Official
Spokesperson), CBDT.
The 1990-batch IoFS officer has been

appointed Deputy Financial Adviser at
director level in BSF.
DINESH KUMAR UPADHYAY
APOORVA KUMAR SINGH
The officer has been appointed IG, Jammu

Frontier, Border Security Force.

cadre has been appointed as Inquiry
Officer, Vigilance, in Haryana
DEEPAK TIWARI
GYANENDRA KUMAR
Sikkim Cadre has been appointed DIG
(Administration) in CBI.
UNDER SECRETARIES
T NANDAN KUMAR has been
appointed as Under Secretary, Skill
Development & Entrepreneurship,
SATYAWAN was posted to Woman &
Child Development in the same
capacity and PRAMOD KUMAR
JAISWAL is Under Secretary, Personnel
& Training.
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DEVASHISH DEO
The 2013-batch IPS office of the
Rajasthan cadre and ASP, Bhiwadi, has
been transferred and posted as ASP,
Kota.
DEBRAJ PRADHAN
The 1981-batch IFS officer and Ambassador
of India to Chile, has been appointed as the
next Ambassador of India to Norway.
BISHWADIP DEY
The 2001-batch IFS officer and presently
Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy of
India, Thimphu, has been appointed High
Commissioner of India to the Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago.
SULKHAN SINGH
The officer has been appointed President of
the Uttar Pradesh IPS Association.
DEVENDRA SINGH CHAUHAN

The officer has been appointed Vice
President of Uttar Pradesh IPS Association.
DAMOR DEEPAK MOTI BHAI
ANUP KUMAR THAKUR
The 2001-batch IPS officer has been

moved to CBI in Mumbai as DIG, SU.
The officer has been appointed Member

(non-judicial) in the National Consumer
Disputes Redressal.
TARUN GAUBA
The 2001-batch IPS officer of the Uttar
Pradesh cadre has been moved to
Chandigarh Zone as DIG.
AMIT SARAN
The IRSME officer has been appointed
Director, Mobility (Mechanical Engineering),
Railway Board.
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Rules to leave
T
Doordarshan episode
he Doordarshan saga seems unending. Now a

Member of Parliament has complained against
Jawhar Sircar, CEO Prasar Bharati, for treating the
Standing Committee of Parliament on IT not only
lightly, but with a preconceived aim to humiliate the
august body by deputing someone who had no idea of
media. In a strong worded letter to the I&B Minister,
DK Suresh, MP, has blamed Sircar for sending Ms
Inderjeet Kaur, an officer on deputation to the
organisation and not conversant with media, thereby
downgrading the importance of the Standing
Committee. The letter alleges that the CEO demeaned
the status of the parliamentary committee by sending
an ignorant officer, who failed to answer queries put
by MPs. The meeting was held at Port Blair from
February 11-13, 2016. The MP wondered why the
incompetent officer was imposed at the last minute
when the entire arrangements were made for Dr
Mahesh Joshi, Additional DGSouth, and a known
media professional. The letter blames Sircar by name
and holds him responsible for taking an improper step.
It is learnt that during the next meeting of the
Standing Committee on IT, the CEO along with Ms
Kaur and Dr Joshi would be asked to appear. Ministry
sources also confirm that Sircar has failed to deliver
and one often finds him embroiled in controversies.
Ms Kaur, it should be recalled, was inducted
fraudulently by this CEO for a term ending in 2018.
The moment this matter became public, sources
confirmed that a shaken Ms Kaur got herself relieved
from Prasar Bharati and joined her parent cadre in a
hurry. Why do most CEOs in Prasar Bharati get
mauled in ignominy and shame? Is it really a jinxed
assignment or do conceited bureaucrats fall flat after
getting exposed to the realities of performance and
accountability? g
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he Centre believes that a officer, though good,

may not be efficient all the time, thereby forcing
the government to adopt rules of compulsory
retirement. In a DoPT-convened meeting of state
principal secretaries in-charge of general
administration, the Centre wants a freewheeling
discussion on compulsory retirement and the rules
therein. In the agenda paper circulated to all state
chief secretaries, the DoPT says, the order of
compulsory retirement shall not be passed as a short
cut to avoid departmental enquiry. There are
instances where officers facing departmental
inquiries escape stringent punishment by managing
voluntary retirement. If the officer was given a
promotion despite adverse entries made in the
confidential record,
that is a fact in favour
of the officer, the
paper adds. It goes on
to state, There may be
some officers who may
possess a better
initiative and higher
standard of efficiency
and if given a chance,
the work of the
government might
show marked
improvement. The rule
merely seeks to strike a
just balance between
maintenance of efficacy in the diverse activities of
State administration and cessation of the completed
career of an officer whose integrity is doubtful and
his services are no longer useful to the
administration and public. The rule being talked
about here is 16(3) of the All India Services (Deathcum Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958, under which
service records of All India Services officers are
maintained. The government has, however, made it
clear that the order of premature retirement can be
passed only after taking into account the entire
service record of the officer. What action the
DoPT has formulated, will be known soon. Wait
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...by the way

Celebrating the service
His Majestys floor
n atmosphere of change prevaded the two-day

celebration of the 10th Civil Services Day. This year,
rather than calling for nominations to give away the
Prime Ministers Excellence Awards, the government
chose the districts which had performed excellently in
implementing the Prime Ministers flagship priority
programmes. The event was well attended. Nripendra
Misra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, PK
Mishra, Additional Principal Secretary to Prime
Minister, PK Sinha, Cabinet Secretary, VK Duggal,
former Home Secretary, Prabhat Kumar and AK Seth,
both former Cabinet Secretaries, were seen mingling
with the audience in the front row. Amitabh Kant, CEO
Niti Ayog, and Ashok Lavasa, Secretary Expenditure,
were involved in an intense discussion. Kant made a
wonderful presentation on the Status of
Repo of Group
Implementation of Reports
of Secretaries. Nripendra Misra was
dressed in a crisp white shirt
s
and khaki
trousers,
trou
ousers, looking fresh and
an young.
Sanjay Kothari, Secretary DoPT, was
seen congratulating and
an meeting his
fellow colleag
colleagues.
gues. There
Ther was,
however, somee mismatch
mismat in the
seating arra
arrangement
this time.
angement thi
Secretaries and
d former Secretaries
S
were seen sitting in the same
rows.
s
The media did not have a proper place
to sit and journalists were
we standing
and wandering in the back
rows. Also a point
po of interest
was the fact that
th Cabinet
Secretary PK
P Sinha spoke
in Hindi. The
Th absence of
Ajit Doval, National
N
Security
Advisor
Secu
to the Prime
Minister,
was
M
also
als noticed by
everybody.
ev
g
hen Manohar Lal Khattar took over as Chief

Minister of Haryana in October 2014, he knew
nothing about the civil servants of the State. He used
to confuse faces and names. The complex task before
Khattar was to select the best civil servants amongst
the so-called loyalists of his predecessors. There was
little choice as almost all civil servants have worked in
top posts with his predecessors in the last 20 years.
Finally, Khattar managed to create a team. The system
was geared up for the new dispensation and was
working fine. But, within a year, it started
fragmenting. The fourth floor in the Haryana
Secretariat has a reputation. It is called the the floor of
his majesty. All directions are issued from there. The
problem is that what the fourth floor proposes, the
eighth floor disposes. Not only this, files moving from
different offices to the Haryana Secretariat are either
not noticed or delayed. There is no time-bound
delivery mechanism to clear the files. Many senior
officers are loaded with additional charge of core
departments, which makes it humanly impossible to
do justice to all departments. Many officers never even
visit the other offices. Though Khattar claims a
corruption free government, most of the files dont
move without
houtt greasing the
th
he palms of
the middle-ranking
le-ranking officers. On
the Civil Services Day recently,
Narendra
a Modi gave a
clarion call
all to officers
to interact
ct with
civil society,
ety, but
in Haryana
na most
of the civil
il
servants are
miles away
ay from
the civil society
of the State.
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