RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 MONEY 10 WORLD 12 Published From FACING UP INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS US STRUCK IRANIAN MILITARY DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR CHANDIGARH TO CHINA INITIATED AGAINST JET COMPUTERS THIS WEEK: SOURCE DEHRADUN HYDERABAD VIJAYWADA Late City Vol. 155 Issue 171 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LUCKNOW, MONDAY JUNE 24, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 KAREENA TO STAR WITH AAMIR KHAN 11} VIVACITY } www.dailypioneer.com Centre orders to fire dead wood Monsoon rain List public servants who need to be retired prematurely in public interest: DoPT to Mins, Depts 38% deficient n RAKESH K SINGH NEW DELHI * The DoPT has asked all administrative control. under the section for prema- 70.9 mm precipitation According to the Central the Ministries and Department of Public ture retirement in public inter- Water Commission (CWC) he Centre is all set to weed Departments to furnish a Enterprises will also compile est, number of employees against the normal of data, of the 91 major reservoirs Tout inefficient public ser- list of all such employees and countercheck with all reviewed and against whom FR in the country, 80 per cent have vants in a big way with the by 15th of every month Ministries/Departments con- 56(J) invoked/recommended 114.2 mm till June 23 storage below normal. Of these, Department of Personnel and beginning July 15 cerned," reads the Office Memo group-wise (A/B/C) and num- 11 have zero per cent storage, Training issuing an office (OM) issued on June 20. ber of employees retired pre- PNS n NEW DELHI making the water crisis acute. memorandum asking all * Recently the Government The OM titled maturely under FR 56(j). The Ministry of Agriculture’s Ministries/Departments to fur- had compulsorily retired "Strengthening of administra- The copy of the circular has he progress of monsoon data shows that sluggish mon- nish a list of such employees 12 officials of direct taxes tion — Periodic review of been marked to the Secretaries Tremains highly sluggish soon has impacted the kharif who need to be retired prema- and 15 from the indirect Central Government of all Ministries/ Departments despite rainfall in Maharashtra, sowing in many parts leading turely in public interest. taxes department Employees under Fundamental as also to the President's Telangana, Chhattisgarh, to 30 to 40 per cent drop in The DoPT has asked all the * The move to weed out Rule 56 (j)…" also directed the Secretariat, Vice President Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar sowing of major kharif crops, Ministries and Departments to inefficient babus on a Ministries to ensure that the Secretariat, PMO, Cabinet during the last week. including rice. furnish a list of all such employ- continuous basis is prescribed procedure like Secretariat, CAG, Secretary of As many as 84 per cent of The MeT department data ees in a prescribed format by expected to energise the forming of opinion to retire a UPSC and CVOs of all the meteorological subdivi- shows Odisha and 15th of every month beginning administrative machinery Government employee prema- Ministries/Departments sions have recorded deficient Lakshadweep subdivisions July 15. The periodic review of provided the checks turely in public interest is among others. rainfall. Of the 36 meteorolog- have recorded “normal” rain- the performance of employees provided by the SC in the strictly adhered to, and that the The move to weed out ical subdivisions, 25 per cent fall. While Jammu & Kashmir who have attained 50 years of case titled Union of India decision is not an arbitrary one, inefficient babus on a contin- have recorded “deficient” rain- and east Rajasthan recorded age will be undertaken under vs Col JN Sinha are strictly and is not based on collateral uous basis is expected to ener- fall, while six subdivisions “excess” rainfall, the Andaman Fundamental Rule 56(j) and followed by prematurely grounds. gise the administrative machin- recorded precipitation classi- and Nicobar Islands registered Rule 48 of CCS (Pension) retiring the such staff, The format of the submis- ery provided the checks pro- fied under the “large deficient” rainfall under the “large excess” Rules, 1972, for sources added sion of the reports for prema- vided by the Supreme Court in category. The overall monsoon category. The MeT depart- premature/compulsory retire- ture retirement will include the case titled Union of India deficiency is recorded 38 per ment has four divisions - east ment of inefficient employees. group-wise (Group A, B and C) vs Col JN Sinha are strictly fol- cent till June 23. and the north east, south Recently the Government from the indirect taxes depart- Departments are requested to public sector undertakings number of employees to be lowed by prematurely retiring The country has received peninsula, Central India and had compulsorily retired 12 ment. undertake the periodic reviews (PSUs/banks and autonomous reviewed under Rule 56(j), the Government employees, 70.9 mm rainfall against the northwest India. officials of direct taxes and 15 "All Ministries and in letter and spirit, including in institutions) under their number of employees reviewed sources added. normal of 114.2 mm till date. Continued on Page 4 Post-Balakot, Navy hunted Elderly couple, for Pak sub for 21 days house help found AGENCIES n NEW DELHI oon after the Pulwama terror Sattack, India pulled out its killed in Delhi Navy from an exercise and deployed a major part of its fleet, STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI bergasted to find the couple including nuclear and conven- and their help laying dead. The tionalsubmarines, close to n yet another crime against bodies of Vishnu Mathur and Pakistani territorial waters. Isenior citizens in the nation- his wife Shashi were found on During the aggressive deploy- al Capital, an elderly couple, their beds, while Khushbu was ment of the naval assets by the who retired from Government found dead in the drawing Indian side, the Pakistanis were service, were found murdered room," a police official said. getting an impression that New in their house along with their Their neighbours said that Delhi might use its maritime domestic help in South Delhi, Vishnu Mathur had retired force to avenge the killing of its were positioned to help in the the Pakistani boat and satellites police said on Sunday. All from the office of the Central 40 CRPF personnel in the sui- hunt for the missing Pakistani were also used to locate it, three identified as Vishnu Government Health Scheme cide bombing by Jaish-e- submarine. meanwhile, the force was almost Mathur (78), Shashi Mathur (CGHS) and Shashi Mathur Muhammed (JeM). India was “All the areas where it could certain that the Pakistanis may (75) and Khushbu Nautiyal had retired from New Delhi continuously keeping an eye on have gone in the given time- have kept it hidden somewhere (24) were killed by slitting Municipal Council (NDMC). the movement of the Pakistani frame, extensive searches were else. After 21 days of extensive their throats. Mathurs lived in They had been living at Vasant military but after Indian Air carried out by the Indian Navy. search, the Indian Navy finally their first floor flat in Vasant Apartments for nearly 18 years. Force hit the Jaish terrorist P-8Is were pressed into service located the PNS Saad on the Apartments in Basant Gaon Khushbu Nautiyal, who Two men, caught unawares by a sudden shower, share an umbrella in Dharmsala on Sunday AP facility in Balakot, one of the to locate the submarine along western side of Pakistan. It was near Vasant Vihar. was their caretaker, stayed at most advanced Pakistani with the coastal areas of Gujarat sent there for hiding to ensure "Preliminary investigation their house and had been Agosta-class submarines - PNS followed by Maharashtra and a covert capability in case of has found that the killers had working with them for the last Saad - vanished from the other states,” the sources said. extension in hostilities in the gained entry into the flat as five-six months, neighbours Pakistani waters, a senior gov- All precautionary measures had aftermath of the Balakot they appeared to be familiar claimed. According to police, 14 dead in Barmer pandal cave-in ernment source said. been taken by the Navy to airstrikes. Sources said the Navy with the inmates of the house. they received two calls on the Having accounted for all ensure that even if the PNS Saad is maintaining complete sur- There was no sign of resistance Police Control Room (PCR) at PTI n BARMER/JAIPUR mortem,” said Ratan Lal who rushed to rescue the vic- other surface warships and all had entered Indian waters, all veillance of the Arabian Sea, indicating that the entry was 8.50 am and at 8.55 am. Bhargava, Additional tims felt current in the struc- the submarines, the vanishing necessary actions were to be especially Pakistani waters, and 'friendly' and they spent some "Police officials reached t least 14 people were killed Superintendent of Police of ture of the pandal. However, act done by the PNS Saad fitted taken to force it to come on the is aware of Pakistan’s naval time in the house. They then the spot and found Khushbu Aand about 50 injured after Balotara. they rescued those trapped with Air Independent surface, and if required take mil- activities in the area. Soon after murdered Mathurs and lying on the floor with stab a pandal fell on them due to Eyewitnesses claimed that inside and took them to hos- Propulsion (a technology which itary punitive action against it, the tensions spiked, the Navy Khushbu early on Sunday.