Centre appoints 7 joint secretaries; List includes 5 IAS, 1 IPoS, 1 IRS-IT

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) last week appointed seven joint secretaries. The joint secretary appointees include five IAS officers and two non-IAS —  1987 batch Indian Postal Service (IPoS) officer SC Barmma and 1992 batch IRS-IT officer Vikram Sahay. In case of two IAS officers, it's more of a shift of the departments rather than appointments afresh. Here is the full list of new officers:

22 joint secretaries appointed; an IPS officer finds berth in industries ministry and a railway officer in NITI Aayog

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Friday approved the appointment of 22 joint secretaries in various departments, the highlight being the return of 1989 batch IAS Govind Mohan to the department of economic affairs (DEA) after years, and the posting of an Indian Police Service officer — Anil Kumar Agarwal — in the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP). Here below is the full list of 23 appointments:

After 7 months of delay, govt chooses cabinet secretariat JS for key economic post at Indian embassy in US

Govind Mohan

IT TOOK the government seven long months to fill up a critical post, Minister (Economic) in Embassy of India, Washington DC, USA. Finally, 1989 batch Sikkim cadre IAS and joint secretary in Cabinet secretariat Govind Mohan was selected for the hot job, according to an ACC order dated June 14, 2012.
But what remained intriguing is the fact that…

4000 Indian government officers to be trained on PPP in German bank KfW-supported programme

ABOUT 4000 Indian government officials will be imparted special trainingns on public private partnership (PPP) as a part of the government's newly designed National PPP Capacity Building Programme with funding from German government's development bank KfW. Officials from state government and local bodies level will also be benefitted as the trainings will be delivered through state administrative training Institutes and central training institutes. The KfW and the India PPP Capacity Building Trust (I-Cap), signed an agreement on November 23, 2009 to develop the Programme, a government release said. The German government through KfW will provide a grant of Euro 700,000 (approx Rs 5 cr) to support the programme. The agreement was signed in the ministry of finance on Friday in the presence of Govind Mohan, joint secretary, department of economic affairs (DEA) under ministry of finance. The national PPP capacity development programme will be implemented in two phases and is expected to be completed at the end of 2012.

Action & Appointments Saroj Bala, a retired Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official and former Member (Revenue) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has joined Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) as a Member. The BIFR, which was set up in 1987, has K Cherian Varghese as chairman with five members including Ms Bala. Ms Bala had earlier served as the Director General of National Academy of Direct Taxes at Nagpur. During her tenure at Board in North Block, she was instrumental in initiating the process of making IPL (Indian Premier League), the 20:20 version of cricket, a money spinner for the department. Saroj Bala's Contact No: (91) 011-23701029