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CIVIL SERVICES DAY ‘File does not get moksha: Modi There was a big change in the 12th annual Civil Services Day, organised to deliberate administrative issues and give away awards to performing civil servants—the proceedings and speeches this time were in Hindi. Also, NSA Ajit Doval was missing from action this year. Sixteen high performers were awarded under seven priority central government schemes.

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Bric-a-brac Governance: Keeping the target in sight North Block adrift, Yechury takes the vote, India is certain to become a world beater as far as BJP fetish for English, Kanishka vs Milind? pg 7 achieving United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are concerned. The answer lies in the sustained Eyes wide shut: Falling back on generalities efforts of our governments that are laudable pg 46 Narendra Modi is a great communicator. Yet he has failed to make senior civil servants share his dreams of a New India. There Statescan: Is it Tamil angst or separatism? has been some cosmetic treatment in the day-to-day working of As long as the Centre pays attention to Tamil sensitivities, PLQLVWULHVDQGGHSDUWPHQWVEXWQRVLJQLÀFDQWFKDQJHKDVEHHQ secession will continue to be far from the minds of the brought about people of Tamil Nadu. They have prospered and made pg 10 Tamil Nadu a front line state as a part of India pg 51

Governance: Rise and take the bull by its horns By the Way Rule of Law is the pre-requisite for good governance to Vinod Rai back in spotlight?, DD in doldrums, ÁRZWRWKHSHRSOHLPSDUWLDOO\DQGXQLYHUVDOO\,IWKHFLYLO Finally Jaishankar joins Tatas, Another year for Sinha pg 61 administration gives up, no other agency can guarantee good governance pg 37 Plus... Governance: Replace paperless EVMs Birthdays of MPs, Civil Servants pg 54 with VVPAT EVMs A representation to the Election Commission seeking Tracking: Transfers & Postings pg 58 measures to ensure integrity and fairness in the parliamentary election in 2019 by Tamil Nadu-based Forum for Electoral Integrity pg 40

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North Block adrift jaitley’s ill health causes standstill

new grapevine has taken root in the Finance Ministry is full whenever the Minister is in his office. Now there are since the news of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley less public visitors. Business leaders are not seen though A kidney problems appeared in the media. Arun Jaitley their heads of corporate affairs are seen meeting civil himself tweeted about his health, “am beingng treated for servants for pushingpu their files. The really worrisome kidney related problems & certain infectionsons that I situation iiss the absence of babus. Though they have contracted. I am therefore currently reachreach oofficeff in time due to the biometric working from controlled environment at home.home. attendanceattenda system but most of the day, they are The future course of my treatment wouldd bebe not sitsittingt in their rooms. The jurnos who visit determined by the doctors treating me.” tthehe NorthNo Block after lunch find it difficult to Jaitley’s sickness has created a different locate anybody to get some inkling of what is scenario in North Avenue. North Block iss a hhappeningappen in the ministry. Importantly, busy zone and the scenario seems much nnobodyobody dares talk about a change of Finance the same. The same cannot be said of MMinisterinister as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the Finance Minister’s office. Generally, ununflinchingfl faith in the capacity and the visitor room of the Finance Minister ccapability of his minister. g

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Kanishka vs Milind? congress search for new treasurer

HE Congress Party is in search of a new Treasure for its cash-starved coffers albeit the tremendous trust in 89-year-old former Madhya Pradesh Chief TMinister Motilal Vora’s capabilities. The party is not able to find a successor to Vora. Vora is the one politician of the party who is available till late night most of the time to both the party leadership and workers in the All India Congress Committee office in New Delhi. The Congress Party run by the trio of Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra has to choose a loyal worker who may be groomed in a decade for greater responsibility. If one takes note of indications from Vora’s office, then Kanishka Singh, the son of a former Foreign Secretary SK Singh, is the front runner. Kanishka Singh has studied from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and ? then went to the USA to do M.S and MBA from Wharton. Some feel that since the companies over which Kanishka Singh had a good hold are facing investigations, he could land up in trouble. Another contender is Milind Deora. His father Murli Deora used to channelise funds for the party. After his death, Milind has been managing funds for the party in Mumbai. He is very close to Rahul and usually travels abroad with the Congress president. During his US tour too, he had accompanied Rahul. Businessmen and members of the US Congress reportedly told Rahul that Murli Deora was called the Senator of Manhattan! So, Milind is also a strong competitor for the treasurer post due to the legacy of his father, understanding of the business world, and proximity to Rahul. Still, If Priyanka Gandhi’s writ runs, in all probability Kanishka Singh may be the new treasurer of the Congress Party. g

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WOOSH! Another civil service day has just passed like an ephemeral Sshower of April. Nothing seems to have changed a bit in government. Lawrence Peter of Peter Principle fame once said that bureaucracy defends status quo long past when quo has lost its status. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made another catchy speech, as has become his routine practice, bringing out his close proximity with the civil servants. He gave comfort to the assembled civil servants by describing them as people with great capability and said that these capabilities can contribute in a big way towards building the nation. But by resorting to speak in generalities, he appeared a lot more distant from the bureaucrats on this occasion than before. In the first civil service day of his government, he had exhorted the civilians to inculcate the virtue of ‘sheelam’ (good conduct), urging them to maintain a positive outlook and spend quality time with their family as well. “Your life should not Known for his penchant their role and move beyond controlling, become a file,” the Prime Minister had regulating and managerial capabilities, said in 2015. He had said that teams of for micro-managing the and think of themselves as change agents. officers from various States should take processes of governance, Further, he urged them to engage with the up as case-studies and ensure that the best this time he (Modi) people, so that the government’s schemes studies are adopted as best practices. He stuck to ceremonial and initiatives can be better implemented had also called upon the civil services to on ground. I think that it was an excellent develop an institutional memory. To what sermonising for reform agenda and should have been extent have his directions been operation- simplification of pursued in a systemic manner. If the alised is not known. procedures and referred process of defining the respective roles The next year, he seemed to be in to the delays in dealing of the political executive and permanent his elements when he impressed upon civil servant had been initiated, we would the need for civil servants to redefine with files in the ministries have seen some progress towards a more

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He strap- that the much awaited amendments in He had outlined the major issues to be pingly asserted that he did not lack the the Prevention of Corruption Act would addressed as the lack of innovation in political will needed to carry out reforms be enacted to reassure the honest civil the civil service; large size of the service as he asked the civil servants to break silos servants. Nothing happened. with job duplications; and poor policy and work together as a team to perform advice and poor policy implementation. and transform. E had hoped that the consist- Our current situation is no different. We Known for his penchant for micro- ent weakening of established had hoped that Modi government would managing the processes of governance, Winstitutions would be arrested progressively deal with these issues. Slow this time he stuck to ceremonial sermon- and enabling provisions would be put in movement of files is a small impediment ising for simplification of procedures and place to enhance their public integrity and in the process of taking quality decisions. referred to the delays in dealing with files trustworthiness. We had hoped that the In the formative years of Indian in the ministries. He mocked the move- scheme of long-term civil service reforms democracy, when the two started working ment of papers and said that even ‘mok- would be laid down for being pursued in together, it was expected that the respec- sha’ can be attained quicker than taking a his next term in office. tive roles would be defined and further decision on the file. He knows that mere Civil service reforms are not synony- refined. Intensifying democratic process- sermonising on an appointed day in a year mous with sprucing up civil servants. es should have been accompanied by role is not enough. It won’t serve any purpose. That’s the least part of it. The reforms of definition, which unfortunately did not We expect much better from him. the civil service should be seen as an inte- happen. Merely saying that ‘the politicians Narendra Modi is a great communica- gral component of governance reforms. take decisions and the babus advise and tor. Yet he has failed to make senior civil Good administrative decisions should be implement’ was not enough. It left room servants share his dreams of a New India. evolved through a process of negotiations for arbitrariness and sloth. Perhaps he is aware that his officers do The vaguely defined rule of democratic not claim the ownership of Swachh Bharat We had hoped that Modi supremacy of the political executive in or Digital India or Aspirational Young decision-making unfortunately descend- India. A lone crusader for an idea is government will bring the ed and permeated into the lower echelons generally not sufficient to move the giant Civil Services Bill in a of government, where the role of the civil official machinery. revamped shape and an servants was crucial to the implementa- In the four years of the tenure of his effective Central Right to tion of the decisions taken upstairs. government, we in the IC Centre for Everything is not lost, yet. The Prime Governance have been closely watching Delivery of Services Bill Minister can still initiate the process of his reform agenda for the civil services. would be tabled in defining the relationship between the There has been some cosmetic treatment Parliament. We had bureaucrat and the politician in govern- in the day-to-day working of ministries expected that the much ment. In my view, one year is adequate to and departments, which is welcome; but set the process rolling. no significant change has been brought awaited amendments in Endpoint: When a journalist asked about either in the approach of officials or the Prevention of Sardar Patel whether he would remove his in the encouragement of innovative ideas Corruption Act would be secretary for difference of opinion the in administration. Bureaucracy stands enacted to reassure the Sardar replied, “No. But if he does not differ as devalued in the eyes of the citizen and with me on any issue I will definitely the media as was never before. There is honest civil servants. remove him” g no effort at aggregating the good work Nothing happened The writer is former Cabinet Secretary

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his experience of an apparent reference Naidu. Naidu was very candid in his for various services. The government’s to administrative delays in the decision- approach and cautioned civil servants that image depends to a large extent on the making process. The Prime Minister was “business as usual” approach will not do. image of the civil service and the manner addressing civil servants on the occasion It is a shift from doing a ‘job’ to ‘serving in which it responds to people’s needs and of 12th Civil Services Day on April 21, the people’. The job has a higher objective, aspirations. Empathy and courtesy at the 2018. The two-day annual Civil Services a different yardstick for success. It should cutting edge level can really enhance cus- Day was organised to deliberate admin- have ‘people’ at the centre and it should be tomer satisfaction. In fact, the hallmark istrative issues and give away awards to done with a “spirit of service”. of a well-functioning civil service is the performing civil servants. Naidu said, “The civil service is the ability to ‘serve’ the citizens with respect The first day of the function was inau- most visible ‘face’ of the government and alacrity.” gurated by Vice-President M Venkaiah since citizens contact the civil servants There was a major shift this time in the

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for implementing the programmes are some of the important focus areas in achieving the targets. Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration are presented to Districts/Implementing Units for implementation of priority programmes and innovation categories. With participation from a large number of districts across the country in the awards scheme, the scale of entire process was very large. The award function focussed on the priority programmes of the Prime Minister. Modi made a monotonous activity live and competitive. The programme also coined a new word “Aspirational Districts” for function. The proceedings were conduct- Fasal Bima Yojana; Hardeep Singh Puri, backward districts. Modi was candid ed in Hindi. DoPT Minister Dr Jitender Minister of State (Independent Change), when he said we have to search those Singh, who spoke in English in the inau- Housing & Urban Affairs, chaired the districts that have not participated in this gural function of Civil Services Day, session on Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana; gigantic task. I am not in favour of pun- delivered his lecture in Hindi in the pres- and, Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary ishment for non-participation, but I am ence of the Prime Minister. Even Cabinet Telecom, presided over the session on eager to know their problems, Modi said. Secretary PK Sinha spoke in Hindi. Promoting Digital Payments. Speaking on the subject of Aspirational Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra and KV Eapen, Secretary Department Districts, the Prime Minister said that Additional Principal Secretary Dr PK of Administrative Reforms and Public these 115 districts could become growth Mishra were active during the awards Grievances (DARPG), moderated the engines for their entire States. He stressed function but the smiling face of National wrap-up of four breakaway sessions. on the importance of Jan Bhagidaari, or Security Advisor Ajit Doval was missing. Chairing the wrap-up session, Cabinet public participation, in development. On the inaugural day, on April 20, a Secretary PK.Sinha brought out five Modi asserted that all available technolo- plenary session was held on ‘Evolving points common to all the breakaway gy, including space technology, should be Strategies for Transforming Aspirational sessions. He said generating awareness, used for improving governance. He said it Districts’. The Minister of Rural innovative approach, use of technology is important for civil servants to keep pace Development, Panchayati Raj and Mines, in implementing government’s schemes, with emerging technologies worldwide. Narendra Singh Tomar, chairing the ses- convergence of various government pro- Modi’s focused on procedural delays of sion on Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin grammes and need for a strong database file movement when he said “I don’t want Kaushalya Yojana, said that of the total 60 per cent of county’s youth population, 28 NUMBER OF CATEGORY per cent lives in rural areas and “we need APPLICATIONS to make them skilled to create employ- PRIORITY PROGRAMMES 2010 ment for them.” x'HHQ'D\DO8SDGK\D\D*UDPHHQ.DXVKDO\

gfiles inside the government 14 vol. 12, issue 2 | May 2018 KWWSVWZLWWHUFRPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH KWWSVZZZIDFHERRNF RPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH www.gfilesindia.com to use the word ‘shortcut’. I have read on for working towards achieving the India 3,009 applications with 2010 applica- railway lines where it written ‘Shortcut of the dreams of our freedom fighters. tions from Districts/Implementing Units will cut you short’.” He asked the audience, Congratulations to all award winners.” under the Priority Programmes category “Don’t we feel there are many ways where and 999 applications from Organizations we can think to simplify procedures.” He IMPLEMENTATION of Central/State Government/Districts questioned, “Why it is necessary for a file The idea of sharing these case studies and including Aspirational Districts were to be stamped by everybody in the depart- getting views of IAS officers was concep- received under Innovation category. ment. How long we can drag to make the tualized and executed in 27 days through file 100% foolproof.” darpg.woogercom THE JOURNEY 27 DAYS IDEA Modi was so confident of getting re- TO RESULTS elected in 2019 parliamentary elections PRIME MINISTER’S End-to-end process was conducted on that he gave a clarion call to civil servants. AWARDS 2018 the platform, darpg.wooqer.com. Idea He said “2022, the 75th anniversary of A total of 643 Districts participated in conceptualization and platform was made Independence, can become an inspiration the PM’s Awards Programme. Total of ready within a day. A unique user-id was created for all the users of the platform, i.e. PARTICIPATION SUMMARY 688 IAS officers of batches 2013 to 2016 & for the producers/ managers of the over- Overall 644 officers logged on to darpg.wooqer.com and 601 all process, i.e. DARPG officers for real submitted their responses time monitoring/tracking. These user-ids along with passwords were shared with the individual officers on their email-ids ,$62IILFHUEDWFK & mobile numbers. As many as 53 case studies/best ,$62IILFHUEDWFK practices across the selected Priority Programmes & Innovation were made available on the platform for all the 688 ,$62IILFHUEDWFK IAS officers of 2013 to 2016 batches, to impart learning to them. A comprehensive ,$62IILFHUEDWFK questionnaire was uploaded to gauge their understanding of these programmes and to seek their suggestions/feedback for the improvement in the implementation of these programmes for efficient public delivery. Enthusiastic participation has Maximum participation from 2016 batch been observed in this activity, wherein QUESTIONNAIRE SUBMISSION 644 officers (out of 688) logged-on to this platform to go through the content and 601 of them submitted their response on ,$62IILFHUEDWFK the Questionnaire. Completion of this end-to-end ,$62IILFHUEDWFK activity in 27 days, demonstrates the efficacy of technology tools in better and effective two-way communication ,$62IILFHUEDWFK amongst various stakeholders within an organisation, irrespective of their ,$62IILFHUEDWFK different geographical locations. Usage of such tools in a structured and formalised manner, saves a lot of time, energy and resources for an organisation.g

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Prime Minister’s Priority Programmes Award Category: Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)

ABOUT implementation of PMFBY, are listed below: RADHAN Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is a crop t *ODSFBTJOHOVNCFSPGJOTVSFEGBSNFST FTQFDJBMMZOPO insurance scheme which envisages an efficient insurance MPBOFFGBSNFST Psupport for farmers of the country. PMFBY aims at t *ODSFBTJOHDPWFSBHFPGJOTVSFEDSPQQFEBSFB supporting sustainable production in agriculture sector by t 4VCNJUUJOH$SPQ$VUUJOH&YQFSJNFOU $$& SFTVMUTPOMJOF t 1SPWJEJOHGJOBODJBMTVQQPSUUPGBSNFSTTVGGFSJOHDSPQ t (FOFSBUJOHBXBSFOFTTBCPVUQSPHSBNNF MPTTEBNBHF t $POTUJUVUJOH8BUFS6TFST"TTPDJBUJPOT8BUFSTIFE t 4UBCJMJ[JOHJODPNFPGGBSNFST $PNNJUUFFT t "EPQUJOOPWBUJWFBOENPEFSOBHSJDVMUVSBMQSBDUJDFT t 6TJOHJOOPWBUJWFNFUIPETGPSJNQMFNFOUBUJPOPG t &OTVSJOHGMPXPGDSFEJUUPUIFBHSJDVMUVSFTFDUPS QSPHSBNNF t &OTVSJOHBDDPVOUBCJMJUZBOEUSBOTQBSFODZJO The focus areas for Kharif and Rabi seasons, with regards to JNQMFNFOUBUJPOPGQSPHSBNNF

RESPONDENTS’ VIEWS VIEWS FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION

Simplifying the process of applying for and claiming the crop insurance

Conduct Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities to motivate farmers and enroll them to...

Convergence of geo-tagging of Crop Cutting Experiment (CCE)

PMFBY? with digitization of land records to shorten the...

Use of satellite imagery for assessing crop damage and Please give your views for views for your Please give effective implementation of of effective implementation disseminaton of information to farmers regularly

CHALLENGES FACED IN AVAILING SCHEMES

Lack of awareness amongst the non-loancee farmers Delay in disbursal of claims Non-availability of information related to crop Complicated process for claiming insurance Difficulty in conducting crop cutting experiments the scheme? Scheme does not cover damage from wildlife According to you, which of which of you, to According

faced by farmers in availing in availing farmers faced by High premium amount of cash crops the following challenges are are challenges the following

Lack of awareness amongst the non-loanee farmers seen as the biggest challenge

gfiles inside the government 16 vol. 12, issue 2 | May 2018 KWWSVWZLWWHUFRPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH KWWSVZZZIDFHERRNF RPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH www.gfilesindia.com North East & Hill States category Awarded District: West Tripura, Tripura Award Received by: Dr. Milind Ramteke,'LVWULFW0DJLVWUDWHDQG&ROOHFWRU:HVW7ULSXUD

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU8FTU5SJQVSB VOEFSUIF1SPHSBNNF ■ 109 publicity campaigns and farmers' awareness programmes have been conducted in 2016-17, and 140 have been conducted in 2017-18 at the District, Block, Sector, and Gram Panchayat levels. Publicity has been done through social and electronic media and m-Kisan State Portal. ■ Regular co-ordination and review meetings with all stakeholders were conducted along with intensive awareness campaigns by District Administration to incentivise newly insured farmers. ■ Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) operated at Common Service Centres (CSCs) for the increased participation of farmers. SHGs, Farmer's Club spread awareness about the Dr Milind Ramteke, DM and Collector, West Tripura Programme. ■ Both Village Level Workers (VLW) and Insurance Company *NQBDUJO%JTUSJDU8FTU5SJQVSB representatives were present during the processing of $OOVXEPLWWHGFODLPVZHUHVHWWOHGLQWKH\HDU applications and assessment of crop damage. Parameters Kharif Rabi ■ Information regarding insured farmers was uploaded timely on Crop Insurance Portal by various financial institutions. 2016 2017 2016 2017 ■ Geo-tagging and photo uploading during Crop Cutting 7RWDOQXPEHURI Experiments (CCE) were also done. Under electronic LQVXUHGIDUPHU submission of CCE, 63.2% of the target has been achieved for DSSOLFDWLRQV Kharif 2016 and 61.4% for Rabi 2016. 3HUFHQWDJHRILQVXUHG ■ Additionally, electronic transfer of compensation directly into QRQORDQHHIDUPHU bank accounts of farmers took place. DSSOLFDWLRQV 7RWDOFURSSHGDUHD 0UIFSJNQPSUBOUTVHHFTUJPOTGFFECBDLPO1.'#: KHFWDUHV t %JTTFNJOBUJPO PG DPNQMFUF BOE QSPQFS JOGPSNBUJPO UP 3HUFHQWDJHRILQVXUHG farmers in vernacular language is one of the most important FURSSHGDUHD aspects for the success of the program. t "HSJDVMUVSF %FQU BOE SFWFOVF BVUIPSJUJFT OFFE UP XPSL JO step ahead. Further training to field staff about CCE should tandem for the inclusive coverage of all farmers under be in field and not in halls the scheme. Correct assessment of crop damage also needs to t "TUSJDUDIFDLPOQSJWBUFJOTVSBODFDPNQBOJFTTPUIBUGBSNFST be supervised are not harassed. Capacity building of Govt insurance t "XBSFOFTTMFWFMTIPVMECFJODSFBTFEBOEBXBSFOFTTDBNQBJHOT companies should be monitored centrally t $SPQJOTVSBODFNVTUCFBUQFSTPOBMMFWFMOPUBUDPNNVOJUZ t $POEVDU*OGPSNBUJPO &EVDBUJPOBOE$PNNVOJDBUJPO *&$ level crop loss activities to motivate farmers and enrol them is important t (FPUBHHJOHPGDSPQTVSWFZCZ"HSJDVMUVSBMBOEWJMMBHFBENJO t $POWFSHJOH$$&XJUIEJHJUBMMBOESFDPSETXPVMECFBHSFBU officers using Bhuvan or similar apps

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Other States category Awarded District: Beed, Maharashtra Award Received by: M Devender Singh, Beed Collector

Exemplary Work Done in District Beed under the programme ■ District administration conducted special Gram Sabhas in all 1031 Gram Panchayats to educate the people about PMFBY. ■ 2,949 Common Service Centres (CSC) were established providing technical assistance to Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLE). ■ District level call centre, print media and electronic media was used such as All India Radio, local cable channels, published bulletins and posters. ■ Training was provided to RDD & Revenue Staff at Village Level and VLE for filling of crop insurance form through CSC centers. ■ Senior officers like Divisional Commissioner and Agriculture M Devender Singh, Beed Collector Commissioner were involved in District level discussion groups. ■ Applications were uploaded online via an online portal ■ Banks were opened on Sundays and public holidays for (http://agri-insurance.gov.in/login.aspx). CCE results were farmers to submit applications and Krishi Mitras participated submitted through mobile app (CCE Agri) and compulsory by assisting in filling application forms. usage of geo-tagged photo took place. ■ Farmers' producing organizations, ideal farmers in the ■ The scheme used compete Aadhaar authentication via usage District, Gat Sheti farmers, etc. assisted in the process. NGOs of Aadhaar number (de-duplication, etc.) and linkage to Jan like Global Parli, Manavlokand Chief Minister Rural Dhan Account. It also leveraged other schemes like Nanaji Development Fellows in villages also got involved in the Deshmukh Krishi Sanjivani Yojana, Gat Sheti Yojana, Magel programme implementation. Tyala Shet Tale and Magel Tyala Vihir.

Impact in District Beed 100% claims were settled of Kharif and Rabi 2016 within time (Rs. 232.84 crores and Rs. 4.05 crores, respectively). District was 1st in the state to get maximum number of applications in Kharif 2016, 2017 and Rabi 2016, 2017. Parameters Kharif Rabi

2016 2017 2016 2017

1. Total number of insured farmer applications 13,58,466 12,19,837 1,61,074 3,78,274

2. Percentage of insured non-loanee farmer applications 84.4% 92.8% 97.8% 98.6%

3. Total cropped area (hectares) 10,38,800

4. Percentage of insured cropped area 48.8% 53% 9.5% 19.7%

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ABOUT The focus areas, with regards to implementation of DDUGKY, HE Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announced are listed below. the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana t &OSPMMJOHDBOEJEBUFTGPSUSBJOJOHQSPHSBNNFTBOE T(DDU-GKY) Antyodaya Diwas, on 25th September 2014. FOTVSJOHDPNQMFUJPOPGUSBJOJOHBOESFDFJWJOH DDU-GKY is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission DFSUJGJDBUJPOGPSUIFTBNF (NRLM), tasked with the dual objectives of adding diversity to t $PWFSJOHEJWFSTFHSPVQPGDBOEJEBUFT JODMVEJOH4$45 the incomes of rural poor families and cater to the career XPNFOBOENJOPSJUZHSPVQT aspirations of rural youth. t &OTVSJOHUSBJOFEDBOEJEBUFT JODMVEJOH4$45 8PNFO DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youth between the BOE.JOPSJUZBSFBQQPJOUJOKPCTBOEQMBDFEGPSNPSFUIBO ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families. As a part of the Skill NPOUIT India campaign, it plays an instrumental role in supporting t 5SBDLJOHPGQMBDFEDBOEJEBUFTGPSBUMFBTUBZFBS the social and economic programs of the government like the t .PCJMJ[JOHDBOEJEBUFTBOEDBQUVSJOHJOGPSNBUJPOPG Make in India, Digital India, Smart Cities and Start-Up India, (SBN1BODIBZBUT (1T JOXIJDINPCJMJ[BUJPOTBUVSBUJPO Stand-Up India campaigns. Over 180 million or 69% of the IBTCFFOBDIJFWFE country's youth population between the ages of 18 and 34 years, t "EPQUJOHJOOPWBUJWFNFUIPETJOJNQMFNFOUBUJPOPGUIF live in its rural areas. Of these, the bottom of the pyramid youth QSPHSBNNF from poor families with no or marginal employment number t &OTVSJOHUSBOTQBSFODZBDDPVOUBCJMJUZJOJNQMFNFOUBUJPO about 55 million. PGUIFQSPHSBNNF

(DDU-GKY) North-East & Hill States Awarded District: Dhemaji, Assam Award Received by: Roshni Aparanji Korati, Deputy Commissioner

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU%IFNBKJVOEFS UIF1SPHSBNNF ■ Awareness was created through the circulation of leaflets, banners, and conducting meetings in the village and Gram Panchayat. ■ A youth database survey through Community Resource Persons (CRPs) was also conducted. Eligible school dropout youths are identified and registered by DDU-GKY officials from different villages and Panchayats so as to prepare them for sending them to training centers. ■ The CBOs and their sub committees are given orientation about the Yojana and accordingly they discuss it in their meetings so as to get good output from the Scheme. ■ DDUGKY stall was highlighted during NAMAMI Brahmaputra and Dhemaji Haat. ■ Organizations such as CBOs/SHG/VO/CLF were strengthened and were provided access to the training centres and Roshni Aparanji Korati

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encouraged to interact with the trainees. Regular meetings dropouts. The community was made aware about the reasons were conducted in the PlAs at Block and District level. of dropouts and the possible ways to combat them, and the ■ There was convergence with MGNREGA to create awareness parents are counselled for the same. about the DDUGKY scheme. ■ The sustainability and replicability of this programme ■ Use of technology was promoted at multiple levels by promo- stemmed from the positive impact that was created in Dhemaji tion of Kaushal Panjee for online registration of candidates, as deprived sections of the community gained access to a and the use of smart phones to relay information relating to career and develop their skills the scheme. ■ To ensure transparency, SHG and VO members were given *NQBDUJO%JTUSJDU%IFNBKJ access to the training centres to meet candidates from their ■ 0VUPGUIFBMMPDBUFE%JTUSJDUUBSHFUPGGPSUSBJOJOH region and interact with them. DBOEJEBUFTDPNQMFUFEUSBJOJOH'VSUIFS DBOEJEBUFTBSF ■ In addition, the candidates were counseled by District and QMBDFEGPSPSNPSFNPOUIT Block level officials through visits to the training centres. ■ 5IF OVNCFS PG DBOEJEBUFT JO 4&$$ IPVTFIPMET JO UIF ■ Before mobilization, regular meetings were conducted with %JTUSJDUXJUIBUMFBTUPOFEFQSJWBUJPOJT BOEBUPUBM PIAs and strategies were adopted to reduce the number of PGDBOEJEBUFTXFSFNPCJMJTFE

(DDU-GKY) Other States category Awarded District: Karimnagar, Telangana Award Received by: Sarfaraz Ahmed,'LVWULFW&ROOHFWRU

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU,BSJNOBHBS VOEFSUIF1SPHSBNNF ■ Awareness was created through campaigns at Panchayat level and wide publicity through various media mediums. ■ Visits to junior colleges were made where the young unemployed were briefed about the programme and resource persons interacted with the youth. ■ At every level of the process, community organizations like SHGs and Village Organizations (VOs) were involved at every level of the process, specifically in motivation and awareness generation, identification of skill gaps, identification of target skills, and registration of students. NGOs, public representatives, and alumni of the programme were also involved in motivation of candidates. Sarfaraz Ahmed ■ The use of the technology for this programme involved SMS alerts, interaction with employers through video call facility, Progress reports of candidates/trainees were prepared which and counselling with job role based videos. were shared with the parents, supplemented with monthly ■ Call centre support for registration, counselling, and griev- parent meetings at the training centres. ances redressal was also established, and success stories of ■ District Rural Development Authority staff carried out home candidates were shared on the website of the programme. visits for mobilization, counselling of dropped out youth and ■ To maintain transparency, candidates were selected through acquired feedback from stakeholders. screening camps at the village level. All training and place- ■ The courses offered in the training programmes were recog- ment details were provided on the programmer website. nized by the National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT),

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Award Category: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) – (PMAY)

ABOUT address the housing requirement of urban poor including slum RADHAN Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) is a dwellers through the following programme verticals: social welfare flagship programme of Government of The focus areas, with regards to implementation of (PMAY-G), PIndia with a vision to provide pucca houses, with basic are listed below. amenities, to all homeless householders and those living in t 'JOBMJ[JOH 1SJPSJUZ 8BJU -JTU 18- WFSJGZJOH BOE kutcha and dilapidated houses by 2022. To ensure that assistance VQMPBEJOHPGQSJPSJUZMJTU is targeted at those who are genuinely deprived, PMAY-G select t 3FHJTUFSJOH XJUI WFSJGJFE "BEIBS OVNCFS GPS FMJHJCMF beneficiaries using housing deprivation parameters in the Socio CFOFGJDJBSJFTVOEFSUIFTDIFNF Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, which is to be verified t 6OEFSTUBOEJOH UIF TUBUVT PG TBODUJPOJOH PG IPVTFT BOE by the Gram Sabhas. Using this information, Permanent Wait DPNQMFUJPOPG1.":(IPVTFTBTBHBJOTUUIFUBSHFU List is generated to ensure that the States have a ready list of the t 6OEFSUBLJOH MPDBM DBQBDJUZ CVJMEJOH GPS VOJOUFSSVQUFE households to be covered under the scheme leading to better TVQQMZ PG DPOTUSVDUJPO NBUFSJBMT BOE TUFQT UBLFO GPS planning of implementation. The implementation and monitor- USBJOJOHPGSVSBMNBTPO ing of programme; carried out through an end to end e-govern- t "EPQUJOHIPVTJOHUZQPMPHJFTJODPOTUSVDUJPOPGIPVTFT ance model using AwaassSoft and Awaas App. t $POWFSHJOHXJUIPUIFSTDIFNFTTVDIBT.BIBUNB(BOEIJ Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana — Urban aims to provide /BUJPOBM 3VSBM &NQMPZNFOU (VBSBOUFF 4DIFNF affordable housing to urban poor, including Economically .(/3&(4 %FFO%BZBM6QBEIZBZB(SBN+ZPUJ:PKBOB Weaker Sections and Low Income Groups in urban areas by the %%6(+: 1SBEIBO.BOUSJ6KKXBMB:PKBOB 1.6: FUD year 2022. The programme will provide central assistance to JOUIFJNQMFNFOUBUJPOPGUIFTDIFNF implementing agencies through States and UTs for providing t 6OEFSUBLJOH *OGPSNBUJPO &EVDBUJPO $PNNVOJDBUJPO houses to all eligible families/beneficiaries. The mission seeks to *&$ BDUJWJUJFTGPSQSPNPUJPOPGTDIFNF

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RESPONDENTS’ VIEWS VIEWS FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION

Update of SECC beneficiary data annually at Gram Sabha/ District level

Effective grievance redressal mechanism to address the issues of beneficiaries

Capacity building for interrupted supply of construction material and training of rural masons, especially in hilly/difficult area PMAY (Gramin)? PMAY Setting up a mechanism for monitoring the implementation of Please give your views for views for your Please give effective implementation of of effective implementation scheme to avoid unnecessary delays

CHALLENGES FACED IN AVAILING SCHEMES

Inefficiencies in verification of beneficiaries (SECC 2011 data) Non availability or higher cost of construction/building materials, especially in LWE and hilly area Delay in building of houses and payments to beneficiaries Lack of transit shelter arrangements during construction of pucca houses Non availability of trained masons for construction of houses the scheme? Lack of coordination between State Departments and implementation of of implementation

the challenges faced in the challenges building contractors

According to you, what are are what you, to According Lack of awareness about the scheme

Inefficiencies in verification of beneficiaries seen as the biggest challenge.

(PMAY-G) Group – North East & Hill States Awarded District: Kangra, Himachal Pradesh Award Received by: Sandeep Kumar, 'HSXW\&RPPLVVLRQHU

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU,BOHSBVOEFS staff of Blocks. UIF1SPHSBNNF ■ The Awaas app was downloaded on the mobiles of those ■ Conducting sessions for creating earthquake resistant Officials who were assigned the houses for construction and structures for the seismically sensitive Kangra District. monitoring. ■ Officials and non-officials associated with the construction ■ The existing technological options were used i.e. mobiles with were trained and equipped with the guidelines of the scheme, officials and technical expertise of field level functionaries construction technologies and MIS part of the scheme. and trained masons. Briefing of these stakeholders was done from time to time. ■ Design and typology were the crucial requirements, which ■ Masons were provided training of construction techniques at were incorporated by engaging local masons and using local Government Polytechnic Sunder Nagar along with technical designs and earthquake proof structures.

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(PMAY-G) Group – Other States Awarded District: Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh Award Received by: Kaushlendra Vikram Singh'HSXW\&RPPLVVLRQHU

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU/FFNVDI VOEFSUIF1SPHSBNNF ■ Several initiatives were undertaken for creating awareness such as celebration of the completion of houses on Awas Diwas, programmes conducted on digital banking, Government insurance schemes and Mukhya Mantri Swarozgar Yojana. ■ Multiple hygiene and sanitation drives were conducted in the form of construction of twin-pit toilets, community level meetings to sustain use of household toilets and benefits of Open Defection Free (ODF) environment. ■ In addition, 3M Facilitation Model (Man, Mason, Material) was adopted by the District. Further, a PM Parivar card was issued by creating a family profile (based on standard of Kaushlendra Vikram Singh living, social indicators and economic indicators) and updating details on the portal. ■ Capacity building of officers was undertaken at different transformed from unskilled labourers into certified skilled levels on construction, monitoring, etc. The District provided 'Rajmistris' during 2016-18. Model houses were constructed 45 days training, comprising of both theory and practical, during training programmes. held at Block level to train masons as 'Rajmistris'. For this ■ The officers were trained to use technology mediums (such as purpose, 105 unskilled labourers, 35 from each block, were geo-tagging and software handling). selected and trained as 'Rajmistris'. A total of 732 people were ■ Use of only locally produced construction materials (such as

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Singoli stone for slab construction and Suvakheda stone for 0UIFSJNQPSUBOUTVHHFTUJPOTGFFECBDL flooring, bricks and cement, etc.) were promoted. PO1.":(SBNJO ■ District Administration ensured timely transfers of funds t *OWJMMBHFTXIJDIDPNFVOEFS6SCBO%FWFMPQNFOU"VUIPSJUJFT for purchase of materials and construction materials at plots can be allotted on a case to case basis affordable rates t *TTVFPGQFOEJOHCFOFGJDJBSJFTBTQFSPMEFMJHJCJMJUZMJTUPG": ■ Convergence was done with other schemes by way of gas remains. Many beneficiaries who were eligible to be granted connections provided through Ujjwala Yojana, electricity plots/aid as per old guidelines but were not sanctioned due to connections through Saubhagya Yojana and toilets constructed issues in the past remain uncovered and their demancs unmet through Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). Additionally, 12 t 5IF GJOBODJBM BTTJTUBODF TIPVME CF JODSFBTFE GPS IJMMZ BSFBT brick enterprises were set up under Mukya Mantri Swarozgar because of high transportation cost of building material in Yojana which have supplied construction materials.46 those areas which are not connected with roads. centering enterprises were set up under Mukya Mantri t 8BUFSIBSWFTUJOHQSPWJTJPOTIPVMECFNBEFNBOEBUPSZBOE Swarozgar Yojana which have provided services in budget for the same should be provided. construction of houses under PMAY (Gramin). 150 Self Help t $#3*PSPUIFSUFDIOJDBMBHFODJFTTIPVEDPOEVDUXPSLTIPQT Groups (SHGs), whose members are beneficiaries of the for bene-ficiaries on effective low cost building technologies. scheme were provided with bank linkages. t "VUPNBUFE QSPDFTT GMPX BOE TFMGWFSJGJDBUJPO PG TUBHF XJTF building for fund release is the way forward. This eliminates *NQBDUJO%JTUSJDU/FFNVDI corruption and delay created deliberately at the lower level. 4PGBS PVUPGTBODUJPOFEIPVTFTBHBJOTUUIFUBSHFU t $BQBDJUZ CVJMEJOH GPS JOUFSSVQUFE TVQQMZ PG DPOTUSVDUJPO IPVTFTIBWFCFFODPNQMFUFE material and training of rural masons is important t $POTUSVDUJPO DPTU JT IJHI 1PPS BSF IFTJUBOU EVF UP GFBS PG falling into debt trap. No funds to start construction.

Award Category: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – (PMAY Urban)

ABOUT The focus areas, with regards to implementation of PMAY - RADHAN Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) - Urban aims to Urban, are listed below. provide affordable housing to urban poor, including t $POEVDUJOHEFNBOETVSWFZBOEWBMJEBUJPOPGEFNBOEXSU PEconomically Weaker Sections and Low Income Groups UPUBMEFNBOE $4$ 0OMJOF BOE6-# in urban areas by the year 2022. The programme will provide t &OTVSJOH TBODUJPOJOH DPNQMFUJPO BOE PDDVQBUJPO PG central assistance to implementing agencies through States and IPVTFT UTs for providing houses to all eligible families/beneficiaries. t 3FEFWFMPQJOH BOE EFOPUJGZJOH TMVNT BOE SFIBCJMJUBUJOH The mission seeks to address the housing requirement of urban TMVNEXFMMFST poor including slum dwellers through the following programme t .POJUPSJOHUIFQSPHSFTTJOJNQMFNFOUBUJPOVTJOH.*4 verticals: t $POWFSHJOH XJUI PUIFS TDIFNFT TVDI BT 4XBDII #IBSBU t *OTJUV SFIBCJMJUBUJPO PG FYJTUJOH TMVN EXFMMFST XJUI QBS .JTTJPO ".365 /6-.BOE4NBSU$JUJFTFUD UJDJQBUJPOPGQSJWBUFEFWFMPQFSTVTJOHMBOEBTBSFTPVSDF t 6TJOH*OGPSNBUJPO&EVDBUJPO$PNNVOJDBUJPO *&$ t 1SPNPUJPO PG "GGPSEBCMF )PVTJOH GPS XFBLFS TFDUJPO BDUJWJUJFTGPSQSPNPUJPOPGTDIFNF UISPVHIDSFEJUMJOLFETVCTJEZ t 4FUUJOHVQPGBHSJFWBODFSFESFTTBMNFDIBOJTNUPBEESFTT t "GGPSEBCMF)PVTJOHJOQBSUOFSTIJQXJUI1VCMJD1SJWBUF RVFSJFTPGQFPQMF TFDUPST t "EPQUJOHJOOPWBUJWFBQQSPBDIFTBOEIPVTJOHUFDIOPMPHJFT t 4VCTJEZGPSCFOFGJDJBSZMFEJOEJWJEVBMIPVTFDPOTUSVDUJPO JOJNQMFNFOUBUJPOPGTDIFNF FOIBODFNFOU t &OTVSJOHUSBOTQBSFODZBDDPVOUBCJMJUZJOJNQMFNFOUBUJPO PGTDIFNF

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Use of innovative housing technologies to create a sustainable and equitable social environment with improved living standards

Effective grievance redressal mechanism to address the issues of beneficiaries Tie-ups with different banks to avail easy credit for beneficiaries Setting up a mechanism for monitoring the implementation of scheme to avoid unnecessary delays PMAY (Urban)? PMAY Availability of social infrastructure (such as good markets, schools, Please give your views for views for your Please give effective implementation of of effective implementation health centres, children play area, etc.) around the houses

CHALLENGES FACED IN AVAILING SCHEMES

Non availability of Government/Private land for construction of affordable houses for Beneficiaries Lack of provision of land to landless beneficiaries Untimely provision of physical infrastructure (such as adequate drinking water, road connectivity, efficient drainage and... Lack of arrangements of transit shelter during construction of pucca houses the scheme? Lack of awareness and application process and about the scheme implementation of of implementation

the challenges faced in the challenges Non availability of skilled manpower and adequate funds in According to you, what are are what you, to According Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)

No availability of Government / Private land for construction of affordable houses for beneficiaries seen as the biggest challenge

(PMAY-U) Group – Union Territories Awarded District: Puducherry ULB, Puducherry Award Received by: Satyendra Singh Dursawat,'LVWW&ROOHFWRU

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO1VEVDIFSSZ6-#VOEFS ownership of land. UIF1SPHSBNNF ■ The validation was undertaken by spot verification, including ■ Government of the Union Territory, with a vision to extend exclusion of duplicate beneficiaries. The list of the applicants the benefits of the PMAY scheme to all the section of society who were found to be the eligible for selection under the had given wide publicity about the scheme through print and Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC) vertical of PMAY were digital media. published for social scrutiny by displaying prominently in ■ Applications were invited from public to ascertain the different offices and respective implementation agency housing demand. The applications received were segregated offices. In addition the list was also uploaded in the based on the documentary proof submitted in respect of the Government web site for information.

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and the final list was placed for selection to the State level monitoring and selection committee of PMAY for facilitating the financial sanction. ■ The Puducherry Government, by converging the state level housing scheme of Perunthalivar Kamarajar Centenary Housing Scheme (PKCHS) extended Rs. 2 lakhs to each beneficiary of BLC- PMAY. Out of this, Rs. 1.5 lakhs was provided by Central Government for the PMAY scheme and Rs. 50,000 was given from the financial sanction made under the State Housing Scheme. ■ In addition, there was convergence with other schemes like Swachh Bharat Mission IHHL and Smart Cities Mission was also done. Satyendra Singh Dursawat *NQBDUJO1VEVDIFSSZ6-# ■ Public was informed through newspaper advertisements and 5IFUPUBMEFNBOESFDFJWFEXBT5IFOVNCFSPGWBMJEBUFE was given a limited time period for submission of their views EFNBOEXFSFBOEUIFUPUBMIPVTFTTBODUJPOFE CFUXFFO / objections / comments with regard to the list of beneficiaries. XFSF The submissions received from public were duly addressed

(PMAY-U) Group – Other States Awarded District: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad Award Received by: Dr. B. Janardhan Reddy, &RPPLVVLRQHURI*UHDWHU+\GHUDEDG0XQLFLSDO&RUSRUDWLRQ

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO(SFBUFS)ZEFSBCBE .VOJDJQBM$PSQPSBUJPOVOEFSUIF1SPHSBNNF ■ As part of the pre-construction strategy adopted to meet housing demand, several steps were undertaken such as area specific demand assessment, consultations with stakeholders, identifying free land for development of houses, preparation of layout, obtaining approvals, preparation of cost estimations and finally ensuring budget provisions. ■ The Government of Telangana brought in a novel concept and a flagship programme to enable 2BHK vertical development houses with inbuilt maintenance mechanism and social and physical infrastructure provision on par with the private sector. This was termed as the 'Dignity Housing' model. Under this model, 3 types of houses were planned to be constructed, i.e. Dr B Janardhan Reddy G+3 (In situ); S+5 (In situ and Vacant) and C+S+9 (Vacant). ■ Counselling and awareness were activities undertaken by smoother finishes in production of walls and slab units. Urban Community Wing (UCW) of GHMC and SRACO ■ Precast concrete building construction model was also used NGO. which allowed reduction of in site labor and form work and ■ Adoption of Shear wall technology which enabled a produc- in turn, increased the speed of construction with improved tion cycle of only 1-3 days because of higher precision and durability. Additionally, MIS was used for capturing online

gfiles inside the government 26 vol. 12, issue 2 | May 2018 KWWSVWZLWWHUFRPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH KWWSVZZZIDFHERRNF RPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH www.gfilesindia.com data of beneficiaries, details of funds released and geo-tagging slums in future. of projects. t #FIBWJPVSBMDIBOHFTBSFSFRVJSFE"TUIFQFPQMFJOTMVNTBSF ■ Convergence with other Departments to reacquire unutilized provided houses under the scheme, they may put the houses land holding including coordination by Chief Secretary to on rent or sell it to the third party at marginal rates living the Government and active coordination with District Collectors. same life of misery ■ Further, Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts t $POTUSVDUJPODPTUMBCPVSBOENBUFSJBMJTWFSZIJHIJOVSCBO University (JNAFAU) was involved for the designs of 2BHK areas. Ready houses may be given for a lease of 100 years to housing model. each family instead of land parcels. ■ In addition, fly ash bricks and PPC cement was used in t %VF UP UIF IBSETIJQ JO JEFOUJGZJOH BEFRVBUF MBOE JO VSCBO compliance with regulations by Ministry of Environment, villages, colony kind of constructions for beneficiaries shall be Government of India. promoted which also ease facilitating the necessary amenities t 'PDVTPOJOTJUVDPOTUSVDUJPOPGIPVTFTJOTMVNBSFBTTPBTUP *NQBDUJO(SFBUFS)ZEFSBCBE6-# avoid the issues of transit shelter and loss of livelihood for 5IFUPUBMEFNBOESFDFJWFEXBT 'VSUIFS UIFOVNCFS many people. PGWBMJEBUFEEFNBOEJT 0VUPGUIJT UIFUPUBMOVNCFS t (PWFSONFOUPG*OEJBhTPXO)PVTJOH$PSQPSBUJPOTEFEJDBUFE PG IPVTFT TBODUJPOFE CFUXFFO BSF only for affordable housing is the need of the hour to cater to states with poor Institutional Capacity in implementing housing programmes. 0UIFSJNQPSUBOUTVHHFTUJPOTGFFECBDLPO t -BOEJTBOJTTVFJOIJMMZ4UBUFPG)JNBDIBM1SBEFTI.PTUMBOE 1.":6SCBO is forest land which requires cumbersome diversion procedure t "U QSFTFOU DPOTUSVDUJPO JT CFJOH BQQSPWFE XJUIPVU UBLJOH under FCA and delays low cost housing projects. into consideration of the future basic infrastructure needs t /POBWBJMBCJMJUZPGVOEJTQVUFEMBOEJODJUJFT VOEPDVNFOUFE such as Sewage, Drinking Water and Roads in most of the property rights for many homes and therefore lack of tier 2 cities. It might lead to development of concrete eligibility, outdated SECC data.

Award Category: Promoting Digital Payments

HE Digital India programme is a flagship programme of are listed below: Government of India with a vision to transform India into t 4FFEJOHPG#BOLBDDPVOUTXJUI"TEIBBSBOE.PCJMF/VNCFST Ta digitally empowered society and a digital economy. t &OBCMJOH 1VCMJD 'JOBODJBMNBOBHFNFOU 4ZTUFN 1'.4 Under this programme, Government targets to promote digital facility in the Panchayats of the Districts. payment solutions for all sections of the society. As part of t "EPQUJOH EJHJUBM QBZNFOU GBDJMJUJFT BU SBUJPO TIPQT BOE ‘Paperless, Cashless and Faceless’ services across the country, fertilizer sho[s to enabled digital payments. especially in rural and remote areas, various modes of digital t &OBCMJOHEJHJUBMQBZNFOUGBDJMJUJFTBU3FWFOVF 5FITJM PGGJDFT payments are being provided such as t #BOLJOHDBSET .PCJMF8BMMFUT PDP The Digital India programme is a flagship programme of t *OUFSOFUCBOLJOH the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a t .PCJMF#BOLJOH digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. "Faceless, t #BOLQSFQBJEDBSET Paperless, Cashless" is one of the professed roles of Digital India. t .JDSP"5.T Promotion of digital payments has been accorded highest prior- t 1PJOUPGTBMF.BDIJOFT 104 ity by the Government of India to bring each and every segment t "BEIBBS&OBCMFE1BZNFOU4ZTUFN "&14 of the country under the formal fold of digital payment services. t 6OTUSVDUVSFE4VQQMFNFOUBSZ4FSWJDFT%BUB 644% The vision is to provide facility of seamless digital payment to all The focus areas, with regards to promote digital payments, citizens of India in a convenient, easy, affordable, quick and

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RESPONDENTS’ VIEWS VIEWS FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION

Augment and strengthen the infrastructure for digital transactions Enhance financial literacy by creating awareness about advantages of digital transactions Ensure cyber security and robustness of digital payments platforms Provide incentives or reduce cost of digital transactions for merchants and thereby for customers Modify policy frameworks to enable use of digital transactions Please give your views to your Please give

Promote Digital Payments? Digital Promote without any physical touchpoint

CHALLENGES FACED IN AVAILING SCHEMES

Low financial literacy about digital transactions

Poor internet connectivity & lack of digital infrastructure Lack of awareness & benefits of digital payments Apprehension related to digital payments security and risk of identity theft Payments?

Promoting Digital Digital Promoting Lack of convenience in making digital transactions the challenges faced in the challenges

According to you, what are are what you, to According Digital payment transaction is difficult & time taking to perform

Low literacy about financial digital transactions seen as the biggest challenge

Promoting Digital Payments – North East & Hill States Awarded District: Bishnupur, Manipur Award Received by: Pawan Yadav, 'HSXW\&RPPLVVLRQHU

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU#JTIOVQVS ■ Further, door-to-door campaign were organised for financial VOEFSUIF1SPHSBNNF literacy and to educate people about the digital payments. ■ With the aim to create awareness about Digital Payments Workshops were conducted along with competitions in mission, local people were involved along with different civil schools and colleges. societies regularly. ■ Karang Island was a remote and backward region which was

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*NQBDUJO%JTUSJDU#JTIOVQVS ■ ,BSBOH*TMBOEPGUIF%JTUSJDUCFDBNFGJSTUDBTIMFTTJTMBOEPG Pawan Yadav UIFDPVOUSZ ■ $BTI PVUGMPX QFS DBQJUB GSPN 4#* #JTIOVQVS CSBODI relatively cut-off from the District due to insurgency issue for SFEVDFECZBOE#JTIOVQVSEJTUSJDUHPUUIFOEQPTJ a long time. In this regard, incentives were provided for train- UJPO JO QBJOUJOH BOE TMPHBO XSJUJOH BU TUBUF %JHJ ing towards digital payments and 5 POS machines were pro- %IBO.FMB vided on the island. Self Help Groups (SHGs) and youth clubs ■ "MM(SBN1BODIBZBUT .VOJDJQBM$PVODJMTBSFFOBCMFE were involved for community mobilization and parallel activ- XJUI1VCMJD'JOBODJBM.BOBHFNFOU4ZTUFN 1'.4 GBDJMJUZ ities were conducted on the island for Aadhaar enrolment and Ǵ PG#BOLBDDPVOUTXFSFTFFEFEXJUI.PCJMFBOEPG bank account opening. Additionally, shop-to-shop awareness #BOLBDDPVOUTXFSFTFFEFEXJUI"BEIBBS was also provided coupled with set up of POS machines for ■ 'VSUIFS QFSDFOUBHFPGFMFDUSJDJUZCJMMTQBJEUISPVHIEJHJUBM fertilizer dealers. QBZNFOU NPEF JODSFBTFE GSPN UP JO UIF MBTU ■ Campaigns were launched in market areas among merchants NPOUIT

Promoting Digital Payments – Union Territories category Awarded District: Daman, Daman & Diu Award Received by: Sandeep Kumar Singh,&ROOHFWRU 'LVWULFW0DJLVWUDWH

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU%BNBOVOEFS hold does a digital transaction). UIF1SPHSBNNF ■ A mega Cashless Daman campaign was launched where the ■ Digital payments awareness was created by following 'Train District Administration officials addressed 3000 people on the Trainers' model in the District. Around 1000 people from digital payments. It was made mandatory for industries to various sectors and groups were provided extensive training. make payment only through bank accounts. ■ Promotions were done for the programme by leveraging ■ Digital payments videos involving students, teachers, small banners, hoardings, mass SMS and social media platforms. vendors were made and circulated over WhatsApp, Facebook ■ A special meeting was organized for more than 700 industri- and Twitter. alists where they were imparted training on various modes of cashless payments and urged to ensure that their employees *NQBDUJO%JTUSJDU%BNBO and workers also switch to cashless modes of payments. ■ *O BMM 1BODIBZBUT GVOET XFSF EJTCVSTFE UISPVHI ■ Further, 140 teams were formed to undertake door-to-door 1VCMJD 'JOBODJBM .BOBHFNFOU 4ZTUFN 1'.4 POMZ BOE campaigns (to ensure that at least 1 person from each house- DBTIMFTTGVOEDPMMFDUJPOGBDJMJUJFTXFSFBWBJMBCMFBU$JUJ[FO

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Services Centres. ■ POS machines and other digital payment facilities were provided in all 38 Fair Price Shops. All 10,000 fishermen purchased diesel through cashless methods only. ■ All industries moved to 100% cashless payment of salaries to workers. All distilleries, petrol pumps, restaurants and hotels have digital payment facilities. ■ Further, Cashless Citizens Services (i.e. G2C, B2C services) were provided at 37 Common Service Centres (CSCs). ■ Government to Government payments were 100% digital and a Government payment to beneficiaries was 100% via Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) only. All Government receipts above Rs. 1000 were accepted through digital payment only. Sandeep Kumar Singh ■ 92% of Bank accounts were seeded with Mobile and 83% of Bank accounts were seeded with Aadhaar. ■ The percentage of electricity bills paid through digital payment mode increased from 21% to 46% in the last 20 months.

Promoting Digital Payments – Other States Awarded District: Sonipat, Haryana Award Received by: Vinay Singh, Deputy Commissioner

Exemplary Work Done in District Sonipat under the Programme ■ Identification of stakeholders and establishments was done to identify areas with maximum footfalls. ■ Digi Dhan Mela was conducted where 170 stalls were set up and footfall was around 1,50,000 and 112 awards were given. ■ To augment the digital infrastructure, identification of gap between availability & requirement of Digi infrastructure was done. ■ 1100 medium size banners were put up 1,00,000 handbills were circulated. Additionally, banners were pasted on auto- rickshaws in all towns of the District. ■ All Government schools spread the benefits of cashless payment to students during morning prayers. Further, private Vinay Singh schools were instructed to give homework about digital payment methods which had to be completed by students with Saksham Yuva groups. the help of their parents. ■ 1558 key employees were trained initially who, in turn, trained ■ 'No Cash Hours' was introduced at Government to Citizen 8000 employees of various departments. touch points in the District. ■ Training camps of traders, petrol pump owners, general pub- ■ More than 1,90,000 digital transactions were facilitated by lic were held at Tehsil and subdivision level. In addition, train-

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Award Category: Innovation : Aspirational Districts

*OOPWBUJPOo"TQJSBUJPOBM%JTUSJDUT t &OFSHZ RGANIZATIONS from Central / State Governments t &EVDBUJPOIFBMUI including Districts have participated in the awards t 8PNFODIJMEDFOUSJDJOJUJBUJWFT Oprogram that facilitates innovations in the field of t &OWJSPONFOUDPOTFSWBUJPOT Case studies have been selected for an aspirational district who t %JTBTUFSNBOBHFNFOU has contributed to the projects of electrifications, forest preser- t 8BUFSDPOTFSWBUJPO vation, education for children, cleanliness programmes etc.

VIEWS FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION

Community Engagement for saving Daughters (Rajasthan)

Garbage Clinics (Ambikapur, Sarguja, Chhattisgarh) Lighting Abujhmad with Public Cooperation (Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh)

Conservation of Palash forests (Palamu, Jharkhand)

Uttar Pradesh State-wide Dial 100 (UP100) (Uttar Pradesh)

Project Utkarsh (Baran, Rajasthan)

Swachh Sangram (Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh)

replicated across the country? across replicated Honeybee rearing (Sirohi, Rajasthan) Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator/Google Toilet Locator (Hoshiarpur, Punjab)

Which of the following initiatives do you think should be think should do you initiatives the following of Which Unnayan Banka (Bihar)

CHALLENGES FACED IN AVAILING SCHEMES

Government process reengineering

Use of technology

Convergence of existing Government schemes level?

Strong monitoring mechanism

in governance at grass root grass root at in governance Robust policy frameworks help in encouraging innovation innovation in encouraging help Which of the following factor(s) factor(s) the following of Which Government process reengineering seen as the biggest challenge

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&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFJO%JTUSJDU#BOLBVOEFS UIF*OJUJBUJWF ■ Unnayan Banka is a multi-platform model in which students are getting modern day animated, contextualized and comprehensive videos on various technological platforms like LCD/LED TVs, projectors, laptops and mobile phones. ■ .FSB.PCJMF.FSB7JEZBMBZB Anytime, anywhere learning access is being provided on mobile phones. The app has the following major features: t 'PDVTFE $POUFOU 5-10 minutes of concept videos and contextualized content in the local language. t $PNQMFUF -FBSOJOH $ZDMF online assessments, digital report cards generation, round the clock doubt solving and real-time discussion groups by students from the remotest Kundan Kumar part of the District with expert teams scattered throughout India and abroad comprising of IIT graduates, corporate other students appearing for the same test on the platform. professionals and educators. ■ Unnayan Smart Class included interactive video lectures, ■ 1SFQBSBUJPOT GPS $PNQFUJUJWF &YBNT by integrating P0, class assessments, audio learning, etc. School on Wheels is an SSC, IITJEE, and UPSC Civil Services on the mobile platform LCD mounted van that visits LWE affected remote areas and and students benefit by using the course content as well as by provides specially designed crash course for Board exams. appearing in the mock tests on the platform, and getting feed- ■ Boot camp has been started which provides latest and in back of their performance and their relative ranking with the demand technological skills to students like mobile app development, web designing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, etc. ■ Special Employability Bridge Programme is in place to facilitate placements.

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&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFVOEFSUIF*OJUJBUJWF ■ Introduction of Goods and Services Tax on 1st of July 2017 has been a very significant step in the field of indirect tax reforms in India. Introduction of GST would also make Indian products competitive in the domestic and international markets. Studies show that this would have a positive impact on economic growth. ■ GST has subsumed various indirect taxes thus the multiplic- ity of taxes is reduced. With GST, uniform rate of CGST/ SGST/IGST is applicable across all states. GST prevents cas- cading of taxes as Input Tax Credit is available across goods and services at every stage of supply. ■ Final price of goods is expected to be lower due to seamless flow of input tax credit between the manufacturer, retailer and Upendra Gupta with GST Team Members supplier of services. ■ Simplified and automated procedures for various processes *NQBDU such as registration, returns, refunds, tax payments, etc in ■ *UXJMMCPPTUFYQPSUBOENBOVGBDUVSJOHBDUJWJUZ HFOFSBUF GST has introduced a transparent system NPSF FNQMPZNFOU BOE UIVT JODSFBTF (%1 XJUI HBJOGVM ■ A massive four-tier training programme has been conducted FNQMPZNFOUMFBEJOHUPTVCTUBOUJWFFDPOPNJDHSPXUI under the leadership of NACIN. This training project is aimed ■ .PSFFGGJDJFOUOFVUSBMJ[BUJPOPGUBYFTFTQFDJBMMZGPSFYQPSUT at imparting training on GST law and procedures to more UIFSFCZ NBLJOH PVS QSPEVDUT NPSF DPNQFUJUJWF JO UIF than 60,000 officers of CBEC and Commercial Tax officers of JOUFSOBUJPOBMNBSLFUBOEHJWFCPPTUUP*OEJBO&YQPSUT State Governments. ■ *NQSPWFNFOU JO UIF PWFSBMM JOWFTUNFOU DMJNBUF JO UIF ■ Officers of the office of CAG are also participating and getting DPVOUSZ XIJDI XJMM OBUVSBMMZ CFOFGJU UIF EFWFMPQNFOU JO trained in this training programme. More than 52000 officers UIFTUBUFT (including around 20000 officers from States) have already ■ 3FEVDUJPOJODPNQMJBODFDPTUTo/PNVMUJQMFSFDPSELFFQ been trained. Out of these 7000 officers have attended refresh- JOHGPSBWBSJFUZPGUBYFToTPMFTTFSJOWFTUNFOUPGSFTPVSDFT er training course also. BOENBOQPXFSJONBJOUBJOJOHSFDPSET

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Award in Innovation Innovation Initiative: Information, Education and Communication (IEC) of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) Awarded Officer: Shri Yugal Kishore Joshi'LUHFWRU0LQLVWU\RI'ULQNLQJ:DWHU 6DQLWDWLRQ *RYHUQPHQWRI,QGLD

Information Education Communication (IEC) activities were undertaken for Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin), which is an integral part of the behaviour change communication efforts made under the mission. The focus on changing sanitation behaviours is one of the key aspects of the Swachh Bharat Mission that set it apart from previous sanitation programmes.

&YFNQMBSZ8PSL%POFVOEFSUIF*OJUJBUJWF ■ Shri Yugal Kishore Joshi focused on IEC (Information Education Communication) activities undertaken under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin). ■ Shri Joshi played a crucial role in the organization of several mass mobilization events such as 'Swachh Shakti Celebration', 'Swachh Sankalp se Swachh Siddhi', 'Swachhata Hi Seva' and Yugal Kishore Joshi 'Swachh Shakti 2017'. ■ He planned high powered media campaigns like Darwaza construction and accelerate momentum for the programmes. Bandh and Shaucha Singh series that were broadcasted ■ Shri Joshi has also contributed at the policy level by spear- through electronic and print media to promote adoption of heading the drafting and issue of the IEC Guidelines of sustainable sanitation behaviour. Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and changes in policy for ■ For busting myths and age-old traditions related to open expenditure of these funds by State governments that made defecation, he planned special radio campaign around a IEC spends much easier and smoother for States and districts. central character, salesman Shaucha Singh who educates, ■ He was also instrumental in the design and implementation informs and creates mass awareness for safe sanitation. of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) mass media national ■ He has spearheaded iconic national mega events and rolled campaign, Darwaza Band, in seven languages, which became out other national campaigns to mobilise support, toilets a beacon for rallying forces of rural sanitation champions across the country.

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E\ KARAN KHARB across the masses than Netaji in India. And his enigma has continued to haunt IVIL Services in India have com- India’s consciousness to such an extent manded an elite status ever since the that no one ever believed the news of his Cfirst Indian, Satyendranath Tagore, death in the air crash on August 18, 1945. was selected as an Indian Civil Services Transformed into the Indian Adminis- (ICS) officer in 1863. Paradoxically, the trative Service (IAS) after Independence, aura of the Service was heightened even the Service has continued to be the spine more when young Subhash Chandra Bose of governance in India.Sardar Patel, who quit the service in 1921 despite being one is credited with bringing together the of the top four in the competition, the fragmented units of the country in 1947, toughest in those days not only for the had envisioned that this Service would be Indians but also for the British aspirants. the kingpin to strengthen national unity. No other career for the youth was more The Indian bureaucracy has largely lived precious than being a member of the ICS. up to those expectations, odd aberrations And yet, young Subhash chose to sacri- notwithstanding. There are examples of fice his career impelled by his conscience splendid performance of officers who to serve the nation differently. No politi- have often risked not only their career but cian—not even Mahatma Gandhi—has even life in serving the people evoked more respect, love and awe conscientiously, ensuring speedy

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execution of public welfare projects and crats must step out and assume their lead- government schools, hospitals and civic enhancing public welfare and security ership role to contain public ire and disap- amenities is pathetic in every State and even in the so-called ‘liberated zones’ in pointment, restore public confidence and town. In contrasts, there is an array of the insurgency affected States. In many foster harmony using their authority International schools and private hospi- cases such conscientious officers have impartially and resolutely. tals with state-of-the-art diagnostic won people’s confidence to such an extent It is disappointing that the executive machines and facilities just across the that they were hailed as ‘heroes’ and power of the State—the bureaucracy—is road in all metro cities of India. became objects of envy for the local seldom visible and never audible to peo- Sheer apathy, arrogance and growing politicians and the naxal operatives. It is ple until there is chaos around. Why is the delinquency describe today’s temples of laudable that such conscientious officers public not informed about government worship, health and education. There are of our Civil Services are honoured and policies, plans and progress on projects certain ‘essential services’ that cannot— awarded every year! that affect every citizen today and his and should not—go on strike. There is a In the recent decades, however, the progeny tomorrow? Why is no informa- good reason why soldiers are denied their aura of the Service has suffered a decline, tion disseminated to the people on issues right to go on strike, no matter what their great examples of exceptional perfor- of wider public concern viz, national perceived grievance may be! Now, imag- mance notwithstanding. Over the last few security, agriculture, health, education, ine doctors in a hospital abandoning decades, the bureaucracy has been trade, manufacturing, import/export and patients waiting in the Emergency and increasingly dubbed as ‘babus’ and ‘babu- Operation Theatres and proceeding on dom’. The very connotation of these terms In the recent decades, strike with impunity. Who is responsible has shifted the image of power and pres- however, the aura of the for the deaths and health deterioration tige to that of red-tape and arrogance. Service has suffered a of patients in the hospital? What is Perhaps this decline is in tune with the the role of bureaucrats in health depart- overall fall of moral standards in the soci- decline, great examples of ments under whose jurisdiction such ety at large. Scams and scandals involving exceptional performance hospitals fall? political parties, corporate houses, NGOs, notwithstanding. Over the Gurus/Godmen and even schools are no last few decades, the N incident of the pre-Independ- longer exception. Reading daily newspa- ence days highlights the signifi- bureaucracy has been pers and listening to TV channels is Acance of public servants’ loyalty depressing. What is even more demoralis- increasingly dubbed as towards the people. Sir Chhotu Ram, ing for the masses is the fact that scams ‘babus’ and ‘babudom’ the revenue minister of Punjab in 1940, and crime cannot flourish unless there appointed three meritorious individu- is official acquiescence, connivance or so on? Why should any influential crimi- als as Tehsildars—one each from Ahir, covert partnership in the exploits. nal need political clearance to be arrested? Jat and Rajput castes, the main agrar- A well-oiled system is found always at These are all indicators of apathy, indiffer- ian communities in Punjab those days. work to thwart official enquiries by mud- ence, inefficiency or collusion that seems One of them wrote a letter of thanks to dling the incident of corruption or crime to be afflicting our bureaucracy today. the Minister. In his reply to the newly through irrelevant but emotive issues to Agreed, there is political interference appointed Tehsildar, Ram wrote on June deflect and derail investigations. Be it hei- that hinders the fair and smooth run of 30, 1940: “Dear Harphul, Received your nous crimes like rape and murder, acci- civil administration. But these hazards of letter of the 24th June. I am very glad that dents or nature’s catastrophe, incidents service have only multiplied over the you have after all been accommodated in are quickly collated by the lobbyist media years thanks to the pliable officers willing a very decent job. The only return that I in caste-communal categories and col- to yield to unfair demands and pressures. expect of you for what little I was able to oured to rouse public passion along Loyalty of public servants has inarguably do for you is strict honesty, sympathetic politically motivated lines. In times when shifted from ‘public’ to the ‘boss’! No treatment of the poor and an ever present politicians are smugly baking their bread wonder people are increasingly turning to consciousness in your mind that as mem- by igniting disturbances and exploiting their MLA/MP or CM even for their rou- ber of a poor class, you owe a duty to that deaths and public losses, it has become tine entitlements and needs that the civil class and to all poor people of other classes. more expedient than ever that bureau- administration must provide. The state of – Yours Sincerely, Sd/- Chhotu Ram.”

gfiles inside the government 38 vol. 12, issue 2 | May 2018 KWWSVWZLWWHUFRPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH KWWSVZZZIDFHERRNF RPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH www.gfilesindia.com There are many more examples of honest civil services officers whose honesty, dedication and sense of commitment to ‘serve the people’ is eloquently heard from time to time from different parts of the country. There is ample scope for innovation in every department of public service Subhash Chandra Bose quit Civil Services Sir Chhotu Ram, a compassionate leader

ODAY, there is no dearth of laws, illegally from the prohibited zone along give in to public pressure to reinstate the rules and the administrative appara- the Yamuna, or may have connived to let honest officer. Ttus needed to deliver good govern- the business go on! Durga refused to toe There are many more examples of hon- ance to the people. Only the compassion this line of coy acquiescence. She arrested est civil services officers whose honesty, preached by Sir Chhotu Ram has gone the goons and impounded their trucks, dedication and sense of commitment to extinct. Honest leaders, sincere and dar- inviting wrath not only from the mafia but ‘serve the people’ is eloquently heard from ing officers are a diminishing breed we also from their political lords who were in time to time from different parts of the need to preserve and proliferate if unity power then. Attempts were made to country. There is ample scope for innova- and integrity of the country is to be silence her, but no threats deterred her, no tion in every department of public ser- preserved and strengthened. coercion worked on her. She was vice. There is no dearth of vision, capabil- ‘Rule of Law’ is the pre-requisite for suspended on flimsy grounds, but all the ity and capacity in these young top brains good governance to flow to the people evil forces ultimately ate the humble pie of the country selected for the elite impartially and universally. If the Civil when the UP government was forced to national service. They will rise further in Administration gives up, no other agency public esteem if they genuinely treat can guarantee good governance. There themselves as ‘servants of the people’ and are live examples where the officers have refuse to remain minions of unscrupulous stood up to enforce rule of law and refused leaders.There are many examples of yeo- to yield to unfair demands and coercive men service for the young IAS officers to tactics of their political bosses. They faced follow. Listing out names of all such all sorts of threats and hardships but heroes of the public is neither feasible nor ultimately came out victorious and expedient. It would, however, be of great glorified with added honours. When value if their case studies are widely circu- honest officers embark upon a mission to lated and published within the Civil do good for the people, invisible powers Services and in the media. unite to guard them. The case of Durga Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Shakti Nagpal, an SDM posted in Noida, dictum—‘Minimum Government, Maxi- in 2013 is a glaring example of an officer mum Governance’—should inspire and determined to face consequences of her embolden conscientious officers to take actions done in right earnest. Earlier, her the lead—‘governance’ within their predecessors had either not dared to stir jurisdiction with a missionary’s zeal and the mafia smuggling truckloads of sand Durga Shakti Nagpal stood up to threats commitment. g

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To Mr OP. Rawat, Chief Election Commissioner, Mr Sunil Arora, Election Commissioner Mr Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner Election Commission of India, Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi - 110001

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This communication is being addressed on behalf of the Forum Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with what is called for Electoral Integrity, a non-political, not-for-profit, civil Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). The EVM does society coalition, having its office at # 21, Adhimoolam Street, the machine counting and a certain percentage of the ‘paper Ponnappanadar Nagar, Nagercoil-629004, Tamil Nadu of which slips’ are also hand counted. (iv) Direct Recording Electronic I am the Convener. Voting Machines (DRE) that also do the counting 1. As is universally known, democracy is founded on the electronically. Recounting is not possible because it will dignity of the human being. Election and its integrity are yield the same total. (v) Internet-based Voting or Online the essence of democracy. Integrity is described as Voting. This is most vulnerable to cyber-attacks and not “uncompromising adherence to moral and ethical suited for elections. principles; soundness of moral character; honesty”. If there is one area where this is badly absent in India, it is the India has so far tried out voting systems (i), (iv) and (iii) in that electoral process through which political leaders are elected order. to govern the country. 3. In a democracy, elections have to necessarily adhere to 2. The core of electoral process is the voting system. There are certain democratic principles. These are: (1) All essential broadly 5 types of voting systems in use around the world. steps in the elections should be subject to public They are indicated below in the descending order of examinability; (2) Ordinary citizens should be able to check transparency, examinability, verifiability, accountability the essential steps in the election process without special and robustness: (i) Paper Ballots that are hand counted. (ii) expert knowledge and (3) There should be transparency in Machine-readable Paper Ballots that are scanned and the counting of votes and ascertainment of the results electronically counted using Optical Mark Recognition reliably. Of the voting systems listed above only paper ballot (OMR) technology. A certain percentage of the Paper satisfy these principles and EVMs do not. Ballots are also hand counted. (iii) Direct Recording 4. Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in a landmark

gfiles inside the government 40 vol. 12, issue 2 | May 2018 KWWSVWZLWWHUFRPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH KWWSVZZZIDFHERRNF RPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH www.gfilesindia.com The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in a landmark judgment in March 2009 held the use of EVMs in Germany unconstitutional... The standard the Court set for this purpose was that there should be a provision whereby 'the votes are recorded in another way besides electronic storage' and there is 'retraceability' of the election result independently of the electronic count

judgment in March, 2009 held the use of EVMs in Germany set up EVMs with VVPAT system because vote is nothing unconstitutional. The Court ruled that in view of the but an act of expression which has immense importance in “public rationale of elections”, the process should be democratic system”. transparent in a manner that the general public can be 6. Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed that principles of satisfied that their vote is correctly recorded. The standard democracy are a part of the basic structure of the the Court set for this purpose was that there should be a Constitution of India. To this end, elections and the various provision whereby 'the votes are recorded in another way different processes and mechanisms that undergird the uni- besides electronic storage' and there is 'retraceability' of the versal adult franchise constitute a beacon of light. It is election result independently of the electronic count. In imperative, therefore, that every step be taken to preserve effect, the Court ruled that EVMs are unconstitutional so the integrity of the electoral process. Not only must elec- long as there was no provision for an additional verifiable tions be conducted fairly, but they must also be shown to be physical record of every vote cast. In the event all advanced conducted fairly. In a republican democracy, such as ours, democracies have abandoned EVMs and have returned to the rules that go towards the selection of the people’s repre- paper ballot. sentatives must partake the highest standards of fairness. 5. In Civil Appeal No. 9093 of 2013 and WP (C) No. 406 of 7. Replacement of paperless EVMs with VVPAT EVMs is 2012 on 8.10.2013 Supreme Court of India passed an order imperative for the following reasons: mandating the use of voter verified paper audit trail along a) To impart confidence in citizens that their vote will be with EVMs and directed the Election Commission of India recorded and counted accurately. b) To allow for a recount. (ECI) to implement the VVPAT system in a phased manner. c) To provide a backup in cases of loss of votes due to mal- The Supreme Court observed: “From the materials placed function. d) To test—through a sizable random selection of by both the sides, we are satisfied that the ‘paper trail’ is an machines—whether the paper result is the same as the elec- indispensable requirement of free and fair elections. The tronic result. confidence of the voters in the EVMs can be achieved only 8. It is our studied belief that the legitimacy of the electoral with the introduction of the “paper trail”. EVMs with process in India, and, as a consequence, of democracy itself, VVPAT system ensure the accuracy of the voting system. today faces a grave threat. This is because the system of With an intent to have fullest transparency in the system using EVMs has not only been repeatedly shown to be rid- and to restore the confidence of the voters, it is necessary to dled with glitches, but also because insufficient steps have

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been taken thus far to allay these concerns. 9. In fact, ECI has delegated a number of crucial functions regarding the conduct of elections—like manufacturing, checking and maintenance of EVMs—to the EVM manufacturers and other agencies over which it has little or no administrative control. The Commission lacks the technical capability necessary for exercising effective technical control. It seems to have reposed blind trust in these myriad players and has no means of verifying if they are playing foul. These personnel have also become ‘insiders’ along with the various election officials, and ECI’s lax control over them makes ‘insider frauds’ easier to commit and difficult to detect. ECI must assume greater administrative and technical control over the 2 EVMs manufacturers and related agencies in so far as the manufacturing, checking and maintenance of EVMs are concerned. 10. In our opinion, there is scope for ‘insider frauds’ at three stages: (i) At the EVMs manufacturing stage. (ii) At the district level, during the non-election period, when the EVMs are stored in archaic godowns in multiple locations with inadequate security systems. (iii) At the stage of ‘first level checks’ prior to an election when the Court, your office has confirmed that all EVMs will be EVMs are serviced by ‘authorised technicians’ from BEL accompanied with VVPAT for the upcoming 2019 general and ECIL. elections, it is seen, as explained in your letter 13.2.2018 11. Our apprehension has been confirmed in a RTI response (published in ECI website) the chief electoral officers in all received recently wherein against the figures provided by States and Union Territories have been directed to the ECI on the number of EVMs received, BEL and ECIL mandatorily verify VVPAT paper slips in only one randomly have submitted data with huge differences in the numbers selected polling station in each assembly constituency. This they have supplied, at times ranging from several thousands defeats the very object of installing VVPATs in all EVMs to lakhs of EVMs, raising questions on "where the excess which would be rendered nugatory tantamounting to non- number of EVMs are going, what is being done with them". implementation of Supreme Court Order. This indicates that something very suspicious is going on 13. The main purpose behind the introduction of VVPATs is to between these organisations. It also reveals that EVM’s bring in accuracy, verifiability and transparency in the cast- design and content are also being tampered with at will. The ing and counting of votes. With the presence of VVPATs, numbers revealed are stunning and shocking questioning voters can verify if their vote has been cast to the right can- the very integrity and credibility of the EVM based election. didate. Needless to say, it is only when the paper slips as [See the Report at link: https://www.firstpost.com/ verified by the voters are counted that the true purpose india/rti-reveals-contradictory-numbers-of-evms-from- behind introduction of VVPATs is served. Without count- election-commission-suppliers-raise-question-mark-on- ing of VVPAT paper slips in a significant percentage of poll- polls-4422967.html] ing stations in each assembly constituency, the objectives of 12. Although, pursuant to the 8.10.2013 order of the Supreme verifiability and transparency in the democratic process

ECI has delegated a number of crucial functions regarding the conduct of elections —like manufacturing, checking and maintenance of EVMs—to the EVM manufacturers and other agencies over which it has little or no administrative control

gfiles inside the government 42 vol. 12, issue 2 | May 2018 KWWSVWZLWWHUFRPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH KWWSVZZZIDFHERRNF RPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH www.gfilesindia.com drawn from each of the following ‘strata’: urban; semi- urban; rural; those in remote hilly/desert/forest areas; those with very heavy voter turnout (> 80%); those with moderate voter turnout (50% to 80%); those with low voter turnout (<50%); those about which a large number of complaints were received, and so on. 16. We, therefore, suggest that VVPAT slips must be simultaneously counted for a sample size of at least 25% of the polling stations in an Assembly Constituency with the samples drawn randomly from the different strata and verified with the electronic count. If any variation is found then the entire VVPAT slips in the constituency should be counted and tallied with the electronic count before declaring the result. We believe this is a direction that can be issued by your office for the upcoming 2019 general elections, in order to a greater standard of fairness and transparency in the electoral process. 17. Apart from this fundamental suggestion, which we think is imperative to implement we would add some more that would strengthen electoral integrity and facilitate free and fair election leading to enhancement of voter’s confidence would remain unrealized. in the electoral process. 14. The direction to hand-count VVPAT slips in just ‘one (a) ‘Trust but verify’ should be the Election Commission’s polling station per Assembly Constituency’ worked out to motto. It is our submission that the Election Commi- 0.4% of EVMs in Gujarat and 0.9% of EVMs in Himachal ssion must equip itself to exercise greater administrative Pradesh. Same was done in the North East and is now being and technical control over the two manufacturers and repeated in the forthcoming Karnataka election. This is related agencies in whom trust has been reposed nothing but an exercise in tokenism. This would defeat the manufacture, check and service the EVMs. This very purpose of introducing VVPAT and, what’s more, oversight should be immediately put in place. would also be fraught with all the risks of conducting (b) ECI must consider engaging the services of a top elections with paperless EVMs. In the rush to declare results electronic security firm of international standing and the winners, the Election Commission cannot turn a (bound by a confidentiality agreement) to conduct blind eye to the possibilities of wrong totalling due to EVM periodic ‘ethical hacking and other modes of attack’ on malfunction or EVM tampering. Surely, in something as its electoral systems and, in the processes, identify important as ensuring the integrity of the election process, loopholes if any, and certify the robustness of the a delay of a few hours or even a couple of days shouldn’t EVMs and the manner of their use. matter at all, more so when the entire election process, from (c) Just as counterfeit detector machines are imperative the date of announcement to the date of counting, lasts for for verifying the genuineness of currency notes, the 2-3 months. Cost and time, we submit, cannot be Election Commission must procure and supply one or considerations when the integrity of the entire electoral more ‘Authentication Units’ to each district to help process is at stake. election officials verify whether the EVMs being used 15. Moreover, the sample size of ‘one polling station per in their districts are genuine EVMs supplied by BEL/ Assembly Constituency’ is statistically unsound not only in ECIL or counterfeit EVMs. ‘Authentication Units’ can terms of its size but also because the various polling stations not only detect and weed out the counterfeit EVMs, if in the constituency are not similar and the sample drawn any, in circulation, but they will also act as a deterrent may not be truly representative of the constituency as a because the knowledge of their existence ought to whole. There is an imperative need for stratified sampling serve in driving away potential fraudsters. These with a random sample of one or more polling stations ‘Authentication Units’ should not be manufactured by

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We, therefore, suggest that VVPAT slips must be simultaneously counted for a sample size of at least 25% of the polling stations in an Assembly Constituency with the samples drawn randomly from the different strata and verified with the electronic count. If any variation is found then the entire VVPAT slips in the constituency should be counted and tallied with the electronic count before declaring the result

the present EVM manufacturers (BEL & ECIL) but by because they are the simplest to understand; they are an independent third-party manufacturer. These immune to all kinds of cyberattacks; there is no ‘authentication verifications’ should be arranged by malware that can steal paper votes; and they can the District Magistrate-cum-District Election Officer preserve the anonymity of the voter. (DM-DEO) in the presence of the contesting candidates after the ‘first level checks’ are over and 18. An accurate recording of the democratic will of the before the date of polling. This is a change that can be electorate, to the satisfaction of the electorate, is put in place forthwith. indispensable to the democratic process. The exercise of (d) Election Commission must completely overhaul the the right to vote must take place in a manner that is in present method of storing EVMs during the non- consonance with the highest principles of integrity and election period. Election Commission should move fairness as enshrined in the Constitution of India. Our towards a kind of “2-bin storage system” wherein the suggestions, if implemented, will help instil in the electoral long-term storage of the EVMs in between two process greater transparency and fairness. We believe it is elections shall be in a few large, high-security, regional imperative that the EC implements our suggestions in order warehouses and the short-term storage immediately to ensure the sustenance of the principles of republican before or during an election in the current district democracy that stand at the bedrock of the Constitution warehouses; the Commission must invest in building of India. two to five regional warehouses in each State depending on its size, which can serve as high security regional The Constitution of India (Article 324) mandates the ECI with warehouses; The ‘first level checks’ of the EVMs and the superintendence, direction, control and the conduct of all VVPATs that are carried out by the ‘authorised elections. What we are seeking is well within the powers of ECI technicians’ of BEL and EVM before an election must and therefore immediately doable. In the event, we urge the be done only in these regional warehouses under Commission to issue the directions requested for expeditiously CCTV and appropriate administrative safeguards in the interest of Electoral Integrity which is the bulwark of against tampering; and the EVMs should be transferred Democracy. Though at Para (16) the 25% counting of VVPAT from the regional warehouses to the district warehouses slips has been sought for the 2019 Parliament elections, ECI not earlier than 7 days before the date of polling. It is would be well advised to direct this for the impending Karnataka our considered belief that these suggestions can be state assembly election if they are really serious about abiding by implemented before the 2019 election. its constitutional mandate. (e) In the medium term, it is imperative that the EC switch over to Machine-readable Paper Ballots with OMR Thanking you, counting-cum-Hand counting of certain percentage Yours Truly, of Ballot Boxes in place of the existing EVMs. We make this suggestion for two reasons: one, this will Sd/- ensure that the abiding principle of the secrecy of the MG Devasahayam IAS (Retd) ballot is not compromised. And two, international Convenor, Forum for Electoral Integrity. practice shows a movement towards paper ballots Mobile: 9940174446 ; Email: [email protected]

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E\ ANIL RAJPUT certain to become a world beater as far creation and skill enhancement in 25 sec- as achieving SDGs are concerned. The tors of the economy by improving the qual- HE United Nations’ Sustainable answer lies in the sustained efforts of our ity standards and productivity, minimising Development Goals (SDGs) are a governments that are laudable and include the impact on the environment along with Tuniversal call to end poverty, protect landmark initiatives like the Food Security encouraging the companies to manufac- the planet and to ensure that all people Act, which aims to provide subsidised ture their products in India; Swacch Bharat enjoy peace and prosperity. There are 17 foodgrain to approximately two-thirds Abhiyan aimed at bringing change in the SDGs with 157 nations as signatories. In of our population and Mahatma Gandhi civic behaviour of the society through a India the governments have been correct- National Rural Employment Guarantee campaign to clean up the streets, roads ly focussing on each of these 17 parame- Act (MGNREGA), which provides legal and infrastructure of India’s cities, smaller ters and delivering positive results. While guarantee for 100 days of employment in 2030, the deadline to achieve these SDGs every financial year to adult members of seems a bit far, going by the diversity and any rural household willing to do public complexity of our country in all spheres, work-related unskilled manual work at time is indeed of the essence. the statutory minimum wage. Clearly, the India has to continue to push for the actions of the government are making the implementation of the SDG agenda concept of MGNREGA more sustainable. through close collaboration between the Then there are programmes like, Make national and State governments as well as in India, which has the objective of job the through the relevant participation of all stakeholders. It is also a fact that until India has to continue the financial, social and physical infra- to push for the structure is strengthened, India will find implementation of the it tough to accelerate and become sustain- SDG agenda through able. While India has slipped six places in the SDG Index and Dashboard Report, close collaboration 2017, there is every reason to believe that between the national this is a temporary glitch and our policies and State governments as and initiatives are bound to result posi- well as the through the tively in the years ahead. Let me elaborate on why I feel things relevant participation are bound to get better and why India is of all stakeholders

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have been contemplating a short arti- (CrPC ), Indian Evidence Act, Transfer of cle on the disquieting nature of gov- Property and similar laws enacted more I ernance for some time. This desire got than a century back and are standing like hastened after media reports sometime rocks even till now. Changes in them have back that the I&B Ministry had to with- been made, which were necessitated by draw its guidelines on ‘fake news’ at the needs of time and not because of any con- behest of the Prime Minister’s Officer ceptualisation or drafting deficiencies. A (PMO. Such reports made me recollect wholesale review of the IBC cannot be some worrying aspects concerning laws justified on the ground of problems com- relating to Income Tax, Companies Act ing into focus over time as the law was in and the recently enacted Insolvency and force for very little time. Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). I will initiate this discussion from the IBC because $PNQBOJFT"DU developments concerning this legislation The Companies Act is a legislation that are clearly indicative of the position that It is almost impossible to has not been able to achieve any degree of something is basically wrong with law- draft a new income-tax law stabilisation even after it was enacted as making in the country. in six months after Companies Act, 2013, after series of delib- considering nearly 800 erations spread over a decade. This Act *OTPMWFODZBOE too has not been made applicable from a #BOLSVQUDZ$PEF sections, enormous single date – an infection catching up fast This Code was enacted in 2016 and its CBDT’s circulars, for no explicable reason. Further, this Act provisions were to be implemented from notifications and case- too has undergone frequent changes from different dates – some from December 1, laws running into volumes April 1, 2014 – the date of its coming into 2016, some from April 1, 2017 and some force. Apart from small frequent amend- were still to be enforced, when the need (402 ITRs). Such approach ments after its enactment, a ‘Companies for an amendment was felt. Accordingly, has led to considerable (Amendment) Bill, 2017, was recently an ordinance to amend it was issued waste of time, energies moved, comprising of 93 clauses substan- in November 2017, which was later and public money during tially amending the Companies Act, 2013. converted into an Amendment Act in Such frequent changes do not indicate January 2018. Chidambaram’s time. It is good governance at all. While this process was on, the need for being repeated again an entire review of the IBC was realised *ODPNF5BY"DU and a 14-member committee, headed by for one year. This shows total inefficiency Attempts to amend the Income Tax law Secretary, Dept. of Corporate Affairs, was of the part of those who conceptualised and bring new short, simple, easy to constituted for the purpose. This com- the law and those who drafted it. This administer Income Tax provisions for the mittee has given its report on March 26, state of affairs needs to be contrasted country have been on since almost two 2018, suggesting a total revamp of the with those who drafted the Indian Penal decades and have not succeeded in enact- entire IBC, which was not in force even Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure ing a robust I-T law for the country.

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E\ COL R HARIHARAN democracy in action, though the cynical and rest of India. public would laugh it off because political The people of Tamil Nadu, home to HOUGH Uttarakhand had 21,966 agitations and protests are the way we do over six-and-a-half crore people, take protests, the highest number in the things in this country. Major protests in great pride in their distinct identity, Tyear 2016, it was Tamil Nadu with Tamil Nadu were an expression of Tamil ancient language and culture. They are 20,450 protests—at the rate of 47 protests angst, against injustice meted out to the quick to take offense at any threat to a day—that caught the national attention. people. Spontaneous protests like the their distinct language and identity. The The reason was simple: the protests in Jallikattu agitation in 2017 that paralysed public outrage against the imposition Tamil Nadu were massive, prolonged and the State for nearly a week were an out- of Hindi in Tamil Nadu (then Madras in many cases spontaneous. Of course, pouring of such an expression, which has State) in 1960s that had brought the State one way of looking at it was as vibrant not been fully understood by New Delhi to halt is a telling example. It forced the

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Jallikattu agitation was spontaneous in 2017 OHIW The LTTE-led war in Sri Lanka was the high point of Tamil separatism

Centre to rethink its policy of compulsory The anti-Hindi agitation after enjoying power in the State and at use of Hindi and include English as a showed Tamils cannot be the Centre as coalition partners seem functional option. to be happy with the slogan “Maddhiyil The anti-Hindi agitation showed taken for granted. At the kootatchi, Maanilathil suya-atchi” Tamils cannot be taken for granted. At same time, it has also (Coalition government at the Centre and the same time, it has also perpetuated perpetuated the myth of self-government at the State). This has led the myth of Tamil separatism lurking Tamil separatism lurking to the subsuming of the separatist creed. behind every agitation. There are good reasons for it because Dravidian move- behind every agitation OWEVER, in times of threat to ment since its early days, even before Tamil identity and culture ideas Independence, had nurtured the idea of Kazagham movement, entered the elec- Hof secession would probably sur- separatism. But the amorphous objective tion fray in 1957 with a call for separate face as it did when Prime Minister Indira was for the creation of Dravida Nadu, an Dravida Nadu—in reality Tamil Nadu. Gandhi imposed Emergency. A Wikileaks independent country of four southern But the DMK wisely shelved its separatist message in 2013 revealed that during the states. But the creation of four separate dogma after the Chinese aggression in Emergency, Tamil Nadu’s DMK govern- southern States in the wake of the States 1962. A constitutional amendment made ment minister K Rajaram asked a US Reorganisation Commission in 1953 saw secession illegal in 1967; the same year diplomatic representative in Chennai the demand fading away. The Dravida DMK won a thumping victory and came whether the US would give assistance Munnetra Kazagham (DMK), led by the to power in Tamil Nadu. Now the DMK to the State if it decided to secede from younger leaders of the parent Dravidar and its breakaway cousin, the AIADMK, India. The minister clarified that while no

gfiles inside the government 52 vol. 12, issue 2 | May 2018 KWWSVWZLWWHUFRPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH KWWSVZZZIDFHERRNF RPJ¿OHVPDJD]LQH www.gfilesindia.com such move was in the offing, young people within the DMK were talking about sepa- ration. Of course, the US representative reiterated his government’s support only for unified India. The two-and-a-half decade-long war for an independent Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka led by the Tamil Tigers was perhaps the high point of Tamil separatism. Did the Eelam struggle trigger secession movements in Tamil Nadu or even Greater Tamil Nadu? This was the worst case scenario for New Delhi in 1987 when it sent troops to Sri Lanka. It still forms the theme of media analysts, who see embers of separatism in periodic mass upsurges. But as former Sri Lanka defence secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who masterminded Sri Lanka’s decisive victory over the LTTE, The office of DMK, which shelved its separatist line after Chinese aggression in 1962 said in an interview, “Tamil separatist ide- ology came to Sri Lanka through Tamil Nalankilli, had focused on independent Nadu and Tamil separatism has a much Tamil Nadu in their work. However, they longer history in India than it does in Sri appealed only to a small circle of people Lanka.” Though the DMK extended tacit more active on the social media than on support to the LTTE fighting the Indian the ground. However, leaders like Seeman Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) from 1987 of Naam Thamilar party and Dalit leader to 1990, it did not allow Tamil sentiments Thol Thirumaavalavan of Viduthalai to turn it into demand for separate Tamil Chirruthaikal Katchi use Tamil national- Nadu. Only two small breakaway groups ism as a rallying call to strengthen their of the naxalite movement in Tamil Nadu, parties. But their calls, like those of other the Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA) fringe elements, get submerged in the loud and Tamil National Retrieval Troops chest-thumping of almost all Dravidian (TNRT), supported the LTTE during the parties that claim to be the true guardians period of IPKF’s operations in Sri Lanka, Vaiko was a vocal supportrer of LTTE of Tamil identity and culture. linking it to the struggle for independent As long as the Centre pays attention Tamil Nadu. ers of the LTTE and Eelam separatism, do to Tamil sensitivities, secession will keep alive the idea of a vague notion of continue to be far from the minds of OWEVER, LTTE leader Velupillai greater Tamil Nadu. Even as late as August the people of Tamil Nadu. They have Prabhakaran inspired a whole gen- 2011, MDMK leader Vaiko, showing an prospered and made Tamil Nadu a front Heration of young leaders in Tamil absolute lack of perspective, “warned” line state as a part of India. So the notion Nadu in almost all political parties, par- the Centre that Tamil Nadu would soon of breaking away, though romantic, is ticularly of the Dravidian and Dalit hue. secede from the Union of India if Santhan, less appealing. With the Tamil diaspora The idea of ‘independent’ Tamil Nadu Murugan and Perarivalan, the three touching two million spread in all continues to remain as a notion among accused in Rajiv Gandhi assassination continents, the notion of Greater Tamil some of the younger cadres of almost all case, were executed. But they enjoy little Nadu has become virtual reality. They will Dravidian parties and their clones. Former popular support to make a dent in Tamil rally to support Tamils everywhere and Congress leader Nedumaran and MDMK Nadu power play. A few other leaders, this makes an independent Tamil Nadu leader Vaiko, who had been vocal support- like the late Perunchitranar and Thanjai less appealing. g

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Chandra Kishore Mishra V Shashank Shekhar N Sridhar Depinder Singh Dhesi 16-05-1960 24-05-1973 01-06-1971 07-06-1959 CADRE: BIHAR CADRE: NAGALAND CADRE: TELANGANA CADRE: HARYANA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Sudeep Jain Kirthi Chekuri Pradeep Yadav Nantha Kumar K 16-05-1969 24-05-1990 01-06-1967 07-06-1981 CADRE: TAMIL NADU CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: TAMIL NADU CADRE: TAMIL NADU [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Jai Priye Prakash Abu Imran Md. Qaiser Rahul Jain 17-05-1959 24-05-1983 02-06-1977 08-05-1980 CADRE: ASSAM-MEGHALAYA CADRE: JHARKHAND CADRE: CHHATTISGARH CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Rodney L Ralte Deepak Singhal Viswajeet Khanna Manisha Verma 17-05-1960 25-05-1959 02-06-1961 08-06-1967 CADRE: UNION TERRITORY CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH CADRE: PUNJAB CADRE: MAHARASHTRA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Alapan Bandopadhyay Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra Ram Mohan Mishra Roopa Mishra 17-05-1961 25-05-1964 02-06-1961 09-05-1977 CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: ODISHA CADRE: PUNJAB CADRE: ODISHA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

V Manjula Injeti Srinivas Rakesh Agrawal Maneesh Garg 18-05-1964 26-05-1960 02-06-1956 10-06-1972 CADRE: KERALA CADRE: ODISHA CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH CADRE: HIMACHAL PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Veena Ish John Kingsly AR Saravanan M Adhar Sinha 18-05-1959 27-05-1974 03-06-1971 11-05-1962 CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH CADRE: BIHAR CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Chakravarthi Mohan Tirlok Chand Gupta Nagargoje M Anand Bardhan 19-05-1959 28-05-1961 04-06-1983 12-06-1967 CADRE: KARNATAKA CADRE: HARYANA CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH CADRE: UTTARAKHAND [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Anurag Srivastava Dipti Aditya Kanade VK Batham Alaknanda Dayal 19-05-1983 29-05-1983 05-06-1957 13-06-1975 CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: KARNATAKA CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH CADRE: PUNJAB [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Shamla Iqbal Vijay Singhal Neerabh Kumar Arvind Singh 20-05-1973 30-05-1971 05-06-1964 14-05-1963 CADRE: KERALA CADRE: MAHARASHTRA CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: MAHARASHTRA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Pamu Sampath Kumar A Subbiah Ram Mohan Mishra Rakesh Kumar 20-05-1970 30-05-1963 05-06-1961 15-06-1964 CADRE: ASSAM-MEGHALAYA CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: ASSAM-MEGHALAYA CADRE: UTTARAKHAND [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

P Raghavendra Rao Vasireddi V Jyothsna Maal Singh Bhaydiya Sujata Saunik 21-05-1960 01-06-1979 06-06-1966 15-06-1965 CADRE: HARYANA CADRE: KARNATAKA CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH CADRE: MAHARASHTRA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Jamjam Syamala Rao MK Sreerangaiah KC Devasenapathi Brij Kumar Agarwal 22-05-1967 01-06-1960 07-06-1981 15-06-1961 CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: KARNATAKA CADRE: CHHATTISGARH CADRE: HIMACHAL PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Meenakshi Sharma AB Venkateswara Rao Naveen Arora MK Chhabra 16-05-1970 25-05-1964 02-06-1971 10-06-1963 CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH CADRE: ODISHA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Raghavendra Suhasaa HG Deepak Kumar Durga Pada Tarenia DB Vaghela 17-05-1972 26-05-1969 03-06-1959 10-06-1960 CADRE: RAJASTHAN CADRE: JAMMU & KASHMIR CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: GUJARAT [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Ashish Batra Kotnis Ashwin Mukund Manoj Abraham Alikana S Murthy 18-05-1972 26-05-1976 03-06-1971 10-06-1962 CADRE: JHARKHAND CADRE: TAMIL NADU CADRE: KERALA CADRE: KARNATAKA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Arvind Kumar Rajiv Kumar Meena R Rajasekaran Raman Gupta 19-05-1965 27-05-1968 04-06-1967 11-06-1980 CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: KARNATAKA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

N Tamil Selvan Arvind Digvijay Singh Negi C Sylendra Babu Kalligotta Nagaraju 19-05-1961 28-05-1972 05-06-1962 12-06-1983 CADRE: TAMIL NADU CADRE: HIMACHAL PRADESH CADRE: TAMIL NADU CADRE: KERALA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Subhash Yadav Alok Kumar Vashistha Shalin Gopal Gupta 20-05-1960 29-05-1975 05-06-1974 12-06-1959 CADRE: HARYANA CADRE: RAJASTHAN CADRE: BIHAR CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Sindhu Pillai A SK Priyadarshi Binita Thakur Ashutosh Pandey 21-05-1974 29-05-1969 06-06-1969 12-06-1967 CADRE: AGMUT CADRE: ODISHA CADRE: RAJASTHAN CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Praveen Sood Supratim Sarkar A Koan Shiva Prakash Devaraju 22-05-1964 30-05-1971 06-06-1980 13-06-1985 CADRE: KARNATAKA CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: AGMUT CADRE: KARNATAKA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Chilumuri Venkata Muralidhar Natarajan Ramesh Babu Karat Sanjay Dnyanadeo Arun Kumar - I 23-05-1960 31-05-1967 07-06-1989 14-06-1961 CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: WEST BENGAL CADRE: GUJARAT CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

P Karunakaran P Rama Krishna Naidu Malini Agarwal Alok Sharma 24-05-1971 01-06-1960 07-06-1970 15-06-1966 CADRE: AGMUT CADRE: JHARKHAND CADRE: RAJASTHAN CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Jitendra Singh Meena Ram Prawesh Thakur PV Sunil Kumar Sanjay Pande 24-05-1980 01-06-1961 08-06-1966 15-06-1962 CADRE: CHHATTISGARH CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH CADRE: MAHARASHTRA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Wabang Jamir Sujeet Pandey NK Senthamarai Kannan Dinendra Kashyap 24-05-1971 01-06-1968 09-06-1962 15-06-1971 CADRE: GUJARAT CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH CADRE: TAMIL NADU CADRE: KERALA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

B Sandhya Smita Khare Shobha Ohatker KK Mishra 25-05-1963 02-06-1970 10-06-1966 16-06-1960 CADRE: KERALA CADRE: RAJASTHAN CADRE: BIHAR CADRE: HARYANA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Shivkumar C Udasi Anupam Hazra Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav Rakesh Singh 20-05-67 30-05-82 01-06-67 04-06-62 BJP (KARNATAKA) AITC (WEST BENGAL) SS (MAHARASHTRA) BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Anantkumar Hegde Anandrao Adsul Bhagwanth Khuba R Parthipan 20-05-68 01-06-47 01-06-67 04-06-63 BJP (KARNATAKA) SS (MAHARASHTRA) BJP (KARNATAKA) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Bodhsingh Bhagat Kunhalikutty PK Raju alias Devappa A Shetti Mohammad Salim 21-05-55 01-06-1951 01-06-67 05-06-57 BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) IUML (KERALA) SWP (MAHARASHTRA) CPI(M)(WEST BENGAL) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Bhawana Gawali (Patil) Ramsinh Pataliyabhai Rathwa Dharmendra Kumar Kotha Prabhakar Reddy 23-05-73 01-06-51 01-06-68 06-06-66 SS (MAHARASHTRA) BJP (GUJARAT) BJP (UTTAR PRADESH) TRS (TELANGANA) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

CN Jayadevan Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar Kamakhya Prasad Tasa Rayapati Sambasiva Rao 24-05-50 01-06-51 01-06-75 07-06-43 CPI (KERALA) BJP (KARNATAKA) BJP (ASSAM) TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

NK Premachandran Dharam Vira Gandhi Savitri Thakur SP Muddahanumegowda 25-05-60 01-06-51 01-06-78 08-06-54 RSP (KERALA) AAP (PUNJAB) BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) INC (KARNATAKA) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

M Udhayakumar Dipsinh Shankarsinh Rathod Anant Gangaram Geete Choudhury Mohan Jatua 25-05-68 01-06-52 02-06-51 09-06-38 AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) BJP (GUJARAT) SS (MAHARASHTRA) AITC (WEST BENGAL) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi T Radhakrishnan Richard Hay 26-05-74 01-06-55 02-06-55 09-06-52 BJD (ODISHA) BJP (KARNATAKA) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) BJP (KERALA) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Nitin Jairam Gadkari S Rajendran Jyoti Dhurve Uday Pratap Singh 27-05-57 01-06-56 02-06-66 09-06-64 BJP (MAHARASHTRA) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Faizal PP Mohammed Mansukhbhai D Vasava A Arunmozhithevan R Radhakrishnan 28-05-75 01-06-57 02-06-68 09-06-71 NCP (LAKSHADWEEP) BJP (GUJARAT) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) AINRC(PUDUCHERRY) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ram Swaroop Sharma Jose K Mani Chandu Lal Sahu Dinesh Trivedi 10-06-58 29-05-65 01-06-59 04-06-50 BJP (HIMACHAL PRADESH) KC(M) (KERALA) BJP (CHHATTISGARH) AITC (WEST BENGAL) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] V Panneer Selvam Jayakumar Jayavardhan Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande SPY Reddy 10-06-59 29-05-87 01-06-62 04-06-50 AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) SS (MAHARASHTRA) YSR CONGRESS PARTY (ANDHRA PRADESH) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sher Singh Ghubaya Paresh Rawal Krupal Balaji Tumane Suresh Kodikunnil 10-06-62 30-05-55 01-06-65 04-06-62 SAD (PUNJAB) BJP (GUJARAT) SS (MAHARASHTRA) INC (KERALA) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy Narendra Singh Tomar Gokaraju Ganga Raju Kirit Premjibhai Solanki 11-06-44 12-06-57 14-06-48 17-06-1950 YSR CONGRESS PARTY (ANDHRA PRADESH) BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) BJP (ANDHRA PRADESH) BJP (GUJARAT) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Ashwini Kumar Nagarajan P Prabhatsinh P Chauhan Santokh Singh Chaudhary 11-06-56 12-06-61 15-06-41 18-06-1946 BJP (HARYANA) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) BJP (GUJARAT) INC (PUNJAB) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Vijaysinh Mohite Patil RK Bharathimohan Hari Babu Kambhampati Bishnu Pada Ray 12-06-44 12-06-67 15-06-53 19-06-1950 NCP (MAHARASHTRA) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) BJP (ANDHRA PRADESH) BJP (ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS) [email protected] [email protected] k.haribabu @sansad.nic.in [email protected]

Bandaru Dattatreya Muthamsetti S Rao (Avanthi) Lakhan Lal Sahu Sunil Baliram Gaikwad 12-06-47 12-06-67 16-06-1971 19-06-1970 BJP (TELANGANA) TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH) BJP (CHHATTISGARH) BJP (MAHARASHTRA) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Harinder Singh Khalsa Jhina Hikaka Bhagat Singh Koshyari Rahul Gandhi 12-06-47 12-06-75 17-06-1942 19-06-1970 AAP (PUNJAB) BJD (ODISHA) BJP (UTTARAKHAND) INC (UTTAR PRADESH) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Rajya Sabha Members May 16, 2018 — June 15, 2018 Rajya Sabha Members May 16, 2018 — June 15, 2018

TG Venkatesh D Kupendra Reddy K Keshava Rao KC Ramamurthy 16-05-1950 27-05-1960 04-06-1939 12-06-1952 TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH) JD(S) (KARNATAKA) TRS (ANDHRA PRADESH) INC (KARNATAKA) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Thaawar Chand Gehlot Narendra Jadhav Prabhat Jha CM Ramesh 18-05-1948 28-05-1953 04-06-1957 12-06-1965 BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) NOMINATED BJP (MADHYA PRADESH) TDP (TELANGANA) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

A Navaneethakrishnan Rajeev Chandrasekhar KR Arjunan Piyush Goyal 18-05-1956 31-05-1964 04-06-1961 13-06-1964 AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) IND. (KARNATAKA) AIADMK (TAMIL NADU) BJP (MAHARASHTRA) [email protected] [email protected] Naresh Gujral Mansukh L Mandaviya Pradeep Tamta 19-05-1948 Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur 16-06-1958 SAD (PUNJAB) 01-06-1972 06-06-1956 INC (UTTARAKHAND) BJP (GUJARAT) [email protected] BJP (RAJASTHAN) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Chunibhai Kanjibhai Gohel 19-05-1955 YS Chowdary K Somaprasad BJP (GUJARAT) 02-06-1961 10-06-1957 TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH) [email protected] CPI(M)KERALA [email protected] [email protected] Misha Bharti 22-05-1976 D Raja RJD (BIHAR) 03-06-1949 [email protected] CPI (TAMIL NADU)

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PRADEEP KUMAR SINHA cadre has been appointed Principal VITUL KUMAR The 1977-batch IAS officer of the UP cadre Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment The 1993-batch IPS officer of the Uttar has been approved an extension as Cabinet Department in Haryana. Pradesh cadre has been appointed Secretary for one year by ACC. Inspector General in Central Reserve Police RAJIV RAUTELA Force (CRPF). BP SHARMA The 2002-batch IAS officer has been The former 1981-batch IAS officer of the appointed Commissioner, Kumaun Division RAJIV RANJAN BHAGAT Bihar cadre has been appointed Chairman of in Uttarakhand. The 1998-batch IPS officer of the Gujarat the Banks Board Bureau. cadre has been appointed Deputy Inspector NIHARIKA RAI General in Special Protection Group (SPG). SV IYER The 2005-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cad- The 1981-batch IAS officer of the Madhya re has been appointed Private Secretary to UPENDRA NATH VERMA Pradesh cadre has been appointed Vice Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Water Resources, The 2013-batch IPS officer of the Bihar President of the World Bank Group. River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. cadre has been appointed Senior Superintendent of Police, Muzaffarpur M SATHIYAVATHY SELVA KUMARI JAYARAJAN in Bihar. The 1982-batch IAS officer of the Union The 2006-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Territory cadre has been appointed Member, Pradesh cadre has been appointed Executive P MALLIKARJUNA RAO Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Director, Handloom Export Promotion The 1985-batch IFS officer of the Andhra Council (HEPC), Chennai under the Ministry Pradesh cadre has been appointed Principal DINESH KUMAR JAIN of Textiles. Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) (Head The 1983-batch IAS officer has been of Forests) in Andhra Pradesh. appointed Chief Secretary of Maharashtra. SANKET S BHONDVE The 2007-batch IAS officer of the Madhya PRAVIN LAXMINARAYAN AGGARWAL DB GUPTA Pradesh cadre has been appointed Deputy The 1994-batch IFS officer of the Tripura The 1983-batch IAS officer has been Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport cadre has been appointed Joint Secretary, appointed Chief Secretary of Rajasthan. and Highways. Department of Heavy Industry.

VIVEK KUMAR SINGH RAJESH RANJAN RAVI THAPAR The 1989-batch IAS officer has been The 1984-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre The 1983-batch IFS officer has been appointed Principal Secretary to the Bihar has been appointed DG of the CISF. appointed Ambassador of India to Governor. Nicaragua. APARNA SINHA NEERJA SEKHAR The 1990-batch IPS officer of the Telangana KRISHAN KUMAR The 1993-batch IAS officer of the Haryana cadre has been appointed IG, CISF. The 1984-batch IFS officer has been appointed Ambassador of India to the Moving On: IAS officers retiring in May 2018 Kingdom of Norway.

ASSAM – MEGHALAYA MAHARASHTRA NARINDER CHAUHAN Mukti Gogoi (2000) Mahesh R Zagade (1993) The 1985-batch IFS officer has been RR Chavan (1997) appointed Ambassador of India to the BIHAR Czech Republic. Narendra Kumar Sinha (1980) TAMIL NADU Narendra Kumar Singh (2006) T Jacob (1984) SUBRATA BHATTACHARJEE Sunil Kumar (2006) Ashok Ranjan Mohanty (1985) The 1989-batch IFS officer has been R Vasuki (1999) appointed Ambassador of India to Republic GUJARAT of Serbia. SB Raval (1999) UTTARAKHAND KB Upadhyaya (2006) Chandra Shekhar Bhatt (2002) SRIPRIYA RANGANATHAN The 1994-batch IFS officer has been KARNATAKA UTTAR PRADESH appointed Ambassador of India to the G Latha Krishna Rau (1982) Devendra Chaudhary (1981) Republic of Korea. HS Ashokanand (2003) UNION TERRITORY BHUSHAN KUMAR SINHAL KERALA M Sathiyavathy (1982) The 1993-batch IES officer has been A Ajith Kumar (1994) Tahang Taggu (1999) appointed Economic Adviser, Department of TO Sooraj (1994) Financial Services.

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Questionable actions of Vinod Rai! DD in doldrums ecall Vinod Rai, former Comptroller and Auditor hen Prime Minister Modi started ‘Man ki RGeneral of India (CAG) and Secretary Banking. He WBaat’ on AIR, the officials presumed that the opened the Pandora box of the 2G scam as CAG of India. condition of Prasar Bharati would improve. But the When the CAG report on granting 2G spectrum licenses was PMO has restricted itself to broadcast and telecast of first leaked in 2010, the entire country had hailed Vinod Rai ‘Man ki Baat’. Both Doordarshan and All India as a crusader against corruption. The verdict in the multi- Radio are actually in a precarious situation. Prasar crore 2G scam has shocked the nation. After all, how come Bharti Chairman, A Surya Prakash, an old RSS the special CBI court acquitted 19 accused of all charges in a associate, does not know how to move in a scam where notional losses to the tune of `1.76 lakh crore no-money syndrome organisation. The once were made?made? Was Rai acting at the glowing Doordarshan office at Mandi House used to instance oof Airtel’s Sunil Bharti be flooded with visitors but now Mittal,Mittal, TKA Nair or P it’s deserted. There are no Chidambaram?Chidam Vinod Rai new programmes doesn’tdoesn’t have any answers. being sanctioned as AndAnd hihis clout is intact as the there is no budget; SupremeSuprem Court has appointed even salaries are Rai as tthe interim president paid out of the of thethe BoardBo of Control for interest of fixed Cricket in India (BCCI). deposits. The day Meanwhile,Meanwhile, Finance Minister one retires from Arun Jaitley, who reportedly Doordarshan or AIR, poses faith in the the very next day, one capability of Rai, had joins as an ad hoc employee. to go and dig out There have been no permanent new recruitments in the file of the any category of staff in Prasar Bharati for the last 25 bankrupt Dabhol years. Most of the staff is working on contractual Power Project basis. It has become den of retired people and Company. IDBI had the maximum exposure of `1,900 crore nepotism is at its peak. The mess has percolated so (`19 billion) in the Dabhol project, followed by State Bank deep that most of the time DD is repeating one of India `1,700 crore (`17 billion), ICICI Bank `1,300 crore programme many times in a day. The situation is so (`13 billion), IFCI `600 crore (`6 billion) and Canara Bank pathetic that the contractor of the parking lot `350 crore (`3.5 billion). If the file is investigated thoroughly, outside DD is desperate to run away from the one will be surprised to know how Vinod Rai reportedly tried contract as it is perpetually deserted. g to convince banks to write off the huge outstandings. Good sense prevailed, and fortunately, the power ministry turned down the proposal. This is Vinod Rai! g

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Finally Jaishankar joins Tatas Another year for Sinha verybody in the government is bemused about S he term of Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, a 1977-batch EJaishankar, former Foreign Secretary who had also TIAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been served as India’s Ambassador to China and then USA, extended for one year more. This news was almost being roped in by Tata Sons as its new President, Global confirmed at the celebrations of Civil Services Day. Most Corporate Affairs. Jaishankar, a 1977 batch Indian of the civil servants were whispering that Sinha will get Foreign Service officer, will report to N Chandrasekaran, another year as a cabinet secretary; they also observed the executive chairman of Tata Sons. His remunerations and confidence of PK Sinha at the function. It was quite associated perks are not known as yet, but as the former indicative that the he is sure to get an extension. For over IFS has not completed a year of his retirement — he a decade, the practice has been to appoint a Cab Sec for a retired ono January 28 this year — fixed two-year term. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hhee nneedede to take special appears to be a believer of continuity in governance. ppermissione from the When he took over as Prime Minister in May 2014, AK ggovernment to join a Seth was serving as Cab Sec and there was strong opinion pprivate entity. Generally, that a new Cab Sec will be appointed in June 2014 but a retired civil servant can Modi surprised everybody when he ordered an extension jjoin outside the for Seth. Insiders inform that Seth who had an gogovernment only two years impeccable track record made Modi comfortable at aafterfte retirement. Given the crucial time of transition of power from Congress to clcloutou Jaishankar enjoys in BJP. 2019 will be the election year and in the given SoutSouthh Block, getting scenario a new face in the Cabinet Secretariat would have permisspermissioni would not have been taken time to acclimatise as the Cab Sec has to deal with a an iissue.s One, why was the new subject every 15 minutes and different ministries. rruleu waived off. Two, why Sinha’s track record indicates that he is a fast-paced iiss Jaishankar so desperate performer and he has synchronised Cab Sec office with tto join the Tatas. Insiders the working style of the Prime Minister. The Cab Sec and reveal that Jaishanker was PM relationship is a very delicate and indispensable bond certain after observing the between two individuals and institutions. Even present setup in the Prime Minister’s Office that he will Manmohan Singh did not change his Cab Secs, KM not be awarded any post retirement plump posting. Tata Chandrasekhar and BK ChaturvediChaturvedi.. g Sons Executive Chairman Chandrasekaran said that Jaishankar’s extensive experience and knowledge on international affairs would be highly valuable to the group as “we work to reinforce our brand and leadership globally”, according to a statement issued by the salt-to- software conglomerate. Here is what Jaishankar had to say: “The Tata group is an iconic institution known for its value-based leadership as well as India’s most respected brand globally. I look forward to being part of the Tata group and working with key stakeholders to make an impact.” The former Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar has also joined the Tatas as Director. g

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