Railway appoints 4 new General Managers

The Government has decided to fill up the vacancies lying vacant for months.

Rajiv Vishnoi  is the new General Manager (GM) of East Coast Railway Navin Tandon is the new General Manager GM of South east Central Railway. Hemant Kumar , has been appointed as GM of Western Railway P K Srivastava is the new GM of South Central Railway. A K Aggarwal who was in the Railway Organisation of Alternate Fuel has been moved to Integral Coach Factory in Chennai as its GM. Railways have recently filled up all vacant posts at the Board level by appointing A K Mittal as Member (Staff) and Alok Johri as Member (Mechanical).

Ms. Madhu Bhaduri 'quits' Aam Aadmi

Aam Aadmi ‘s founding member and former diplomat Ms. Madhu Bhaduri "distanced" quit herself from the party alleging that she was heckled at a meeting for introducing a resolution condemning Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti's role in a midnight raid, even as the outfit rubbished the charges.

The former diplomat said AAP  doesn't consider women as human beings

Ms. Bhaduri was a member of the party panel to chalk its foreign policy.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has, however, rubbished the allegations that she was heckled.

Harish Rawat sworn in as new Uttarakhand CM

Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat was sworn in as the eighth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
 
Mr.  Rawat was administered the oath of office by Governor Aziz Qureshi at Raj Bhawan lawns along with a 11-member Cabinet all of whom were ministers in the Bahuguna government.

Rawat's name was approved by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, senior party leader Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters here after a five-hour-long meeting of the Congress Legislature Party. Rawat was Union Cabinet Minister for Water Resources.

Nepal and India have amended a bilateral transit treaty

Nepal and India have amended a bilateral transit treaty to facilitate the export of goods from a third country through India.

only goods of Nepalese origin were allowed to be exported through India to third countries. The amendment to the "export procedure" in the Memorandum to the Protocol to the Treaty of Transit of 1999 will facilitate the transit of goods of third country origin exported from Nepal, said a statement issued on 31-01-2014 by the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu.

This restriction has now been removed and now goods of non-Nepalese origin would be allowed transit through India for export to third countries.

It will also allow the movement of diplomatic cargo exported from Nepal and transiting through India.

Harish Rawat sworn in as new Uttarakhand CM

Harish Rawat, a Union Minister, was on  01-Feb-2014 sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, succeeding Vijay Bahuguna who was asked by the Congress high command to step down in a bid to boost the party's prospects ahead of the April-May Lok Sabha polls.

India’s first monorail takes off in Mumbai

The Chief Mininster of Maharashtra , Mr. Prithviraj Chavan inaugurated country's first Monorail in Mumbai after years of delays and overcoming many a operational hiccups

  

commercial operations of the 8.9-km first phase connecting Wadala-Chembur stations on the northeastern fringe of the megalopolis will commence tomorrow with the first train leaving the Wadala station at 7 AM,", said Chavan after inaugurating the service.

He said the second phase will take a one more year for completion

The service will be open to public for regular commuting from tomorrow.

The central Government proposes 2-yr tenure for IAS, IPS, IFoS officers

According to new rules aimed at checking political interference, the central Government proposes minimum 2 year tenure for IAS,IPS and IFoS officers. However, they can be transferred by Civil Services Board to be constituted by states under the new rules circulated by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) of the central government.

 

Officers of the three premier services IAS, IPS and IFoS will now spend a minimum of two years in each posting,

States have now been mandated to constitute a Civil Services Board, which is to be headed by the chief secretary. However, the competent authority may reject the recommendation of the Civil Services Board by recording the reasons for the same. For transfer and postings of Indian Administrative Service officers, the board will have the senior-most Additional Chief Secretary or Chairman, Board of Revenue or Financial Commissioner, or an officer of equivalent rank and status as member, and Principal Secretary or Secretary of the Department of Personnel in the state government, as member secretary. For the posting and transfer of Indian Police Service officers, the board will have two more members Principal Secretary or Secretary, Home, and the Director General of Police. For Indian Forest Service officers as well, the board is to have two additional members Principal Secretary or Secretary, Forest, and the state's Principal Chief Conservator of Forest. "All appointments of cadre officers shall be made on the recommendation of the Civil Services Board," state the rules, which were notified by the DoPT