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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.

pg 12 Governance: Keeping the target in sight

Bric-a-brac North Block adrift, Yechury takes the vote, BJP fetish for English, Kanishka vs Milind?

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Eyes wide shut: Falling back on generalities Narendra Modi is a great communicator. Yet he has failed to make senior civil servants share his dreams of a New India. There has been some cosmetic treatment in the day-to-day working of PLQLVWULHV DQG GHSDUWPHQWV EXW QR VLJQLĂ€FDQW FKDQJH KDV EHHQ brought about pg 10

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Statescan: Is it Tamil angst or separatism? As long as the Centre pays attention to Tamil sensitivities, secession will continue to be far from the minds of the people of Tamil Nadu. They have prospered and made Tamil Nadu a front line state as a part of India

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By the Way Vinod Rai back in spotlight?, DD in doldrums, Finally Jaishankar joins Tatas, Another year for Sinha pg 37

Governance: Replace paperless EVMs with VVPAT EVMs A representation to the Election Commission seeking measures to ensure integrity and fairness in the parliamentary election in 2019 by Tamil Nadu-based Forum for Electoral Integrity

India is certain to become a world beater as far as achieving United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are concerned. The answer lies in the sustained efforts of our governments that are laudable

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WOOSH! Another civil service day has just passed like an ephemeral shower 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 become a file,� the Prime Minister had said in 2015. He had said that teams of officers from various States should take up as case-studies and ensure that the best studies are adopted as best practices. He had also called upon the civil services to develop an institutional memory. To what extent have his directions been operationalised is not known. The next year, he seemed to be in his elements when he impressed upon the need for civil servants to redefine

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Known for his penchant for micro-managing the processes of governance, this time he (Modi) stuck to ceremonial sermonising for simplification of procedures and referred to the delays in dealing with files in the ministries

their role and move beyond controlling, regulating and managerial capabilities, and think of themselves as change agents. Further, he urged them to engage with the people, so that the government’s schemes and initiatives can be better implemented on ground. I think that it was an excellent reform agenda and should have been pursued in a systemic manner. If the process of defining the respective roles of the political executive and permanent civil servant had been initiated, we would have seen some progress towards a more

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constructive relationship between the two by now. Again in his address last year, the PM stressed upon indoctrinating a spirit of ownership of government policies and programmes. He sincerely believed that through this set up we could bring a positive change in people’s lives. He strappingly asserted that he did not lack the political will needed to carry out reforms as he asked the civil servants to break silos and work together as a team to perform and transform. Known for his penchant for micromanaging the processes of governance, this time he stuck to ceremonial sermonising for simplification of procedures and referred to the delays in dealing with files in the ministries. He mocked the movement of papers and said that even ‘moksha’ can be attained quicker than taking a decision on the file. He knows that mere sermonising on an appointed day in a year is not enough. It won’t serve any purpose. We expect much better from him. Narendra Modi is a great communicator. Yet he has failed to make senior civil servants share his dreams of a New India. Perhaps he is aware that his officers do not claim the ownership of Swachh Bharat or Digital India or Aspirational Young India. A lone crusader for an idea is generally not sufficient to move the giant official machinery. In the four years of the tenure of his government, we in the IC Centre for Governance have been closely watching his reform agenda for the civil services. There has been some cosmetic treatment in the day-to-day working of ministries and departments, which is welcome; but no significant change has been brought about either in the approach of officials or in the encouragement of innovative ideas in administration. Bureaucracy stands as devalued in the eyes of the citizen and the media as was never before. There is no effort at aggregating the good work

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being done by civil servants in various fields and regions. We had hoped that Modi government will bring the Civil Services Bill in a revamped shape and an effective Central Right to Delivery of Services Bill would be tabled in the Parliament. We had expected that the much awaited amendments in the Prevention of Corruption Act would be enacted to reassure the honest civil servants. Nothing happened.

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E had hoped that the consistent weakening of established institutions would be arrested and enabling provisions would be put in place to enhance their public integrity and trustworthiness. We had hoped that the scheme of long-term civil service reforms would be laid down for being pursued in his next term in office. Civil service reforms are not synonymous with sprucing up civil servants. That’s the least part of it. The reforms of the civil service should be seen as an integral component of governance reforms. Good administrative decisions should be evolved through a process of negotiations

We had hoped that Modi government will bring the Civil Services Bill in a revamped shape and an effective Central Right to Delivery of Services Bill would be tabled in Parliament. We had expected that the much awaited amendments in the Prevention of Corruption Act would be enacted to reassure the honest civil servants. Nothing happened

between the state and the recipients of the reforms. The wishes of the people could be expressed through organised groups in the society. The ‘next step’ civil service reforms in United Kingdom commenced in 1988 on the basis of the report of Sir Robin Ibbs. He had outlined the major issues to be addressed as the lack of innovation in the civil service; large size of the service with job duplications; and poor policy advice and poor policy implementation. Our current situation is no different. We had hoped that Modi government would progressively deal with these issues. Slow movement of files is a small impediment in the process of taking quality decisions. In the formative years of Indian democracy, when the two started working together, it was expected that the respective roles would be defined and further refined. Intensifying democratic processes should have been accompanied by role definition, which unfortunately did not happen. Merely saying that ‘the politicians take decisions and the babus advise and implement’ was not enough. It left room for arbitrariness and sloth. The vaguely defined rule of democratic supremacy of the political executive in decision-making unfortunately descended and permeated into the lower echelons of government, where the role of the civil servants was crucial to the implementation of the decisions taken upstairs. Everything is not lost, yet. The Prime Minister can still initiate the process of defining the relationship between the bureaucrat and the politician in government. In my view, one year is adequate to set the process rolling. Endpoint: When a journalist asked Sardar Patel whether he would remove his secretary for difference of opinion the Sardar replied, “No. But if he does not differ with me on any issue I will definitely remove him” g The writer is former Cabinet Secretary

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moksha: Modi his experience of an apparent reference to administrative delays in the decisionmaking process. The Prime Minister was addressing civil servants on the occasion of 12th Civil Services Day on April 21, 2018. The two-day annual Civil Services Day was organised to deliberate administrative issues and give away awards to performing civil servants. The first day of the function was inaugurated by Vice-President M Venkaiah

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Naidu. Naidu was very candid in his approach and cautioned civil servants that “business as usual” approach will not do. It is a shift from doing a ‘job’ to ‘serving the people’. The job has a higher objective, a different yardstick for success. It should have ‘people’ at the centre and it should be done with a “spirit of service”. Naidu said, “The civil service is the most visible ‘face’ of the government since citizens contact the civil servants

for various services. The government’s image depends to a large extent on the image of the civil service and the manner in which it responds to people’s needs and aspirations. Empathy and courtesy at the cutting edge level can really enhance customer satisfaction. In fact, the hallmark of a well-functioning civil service is the ability to ‘serve’ the citizens with respect and alacrity.” There was a major shift this time in the

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function. The proceedings were conducted in Hindi. DoPT Minister Dr Jitender Singh, who spoke in English in the inaugural function of Civil Services Day, delivered his lecture in Hindi in the presence of the Prime Minister. Even Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha spoke in Hindi. Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra and Additional Principal Secretary Dr PK Mishra were active during the awards function but the smiling face of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was missing. On the inaugural day, on April 20, a plenary session was held on ‘Evolving Strategies for Transforming Aspirational Districts’. The Minister of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Mines, Narendra Singh Tomar, chairing the session on Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin Kaushalya Yojana, said that of the total 60 per cent of county’s youth population, 28 per cent lives in rural areas and “we need to make them skilled to create employment for them.� NITI Aayog CEO Amitab Kant, while chairing the plenary session, said that central and all State governments, along with Prabhari (incharge) officers, are involved for transforming aspirational districts. In other breakaway sessions, Parshottam Rupala, Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, chaired the Session on Pradhan Mantri

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Fasal Bima Yojana; Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (Independent Change), Housing & Urban Affairs, chaired the session on Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana; and, Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary Telecom, presided over the session on Promoting Digital Payments. KV Eapen, Secretary Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), moderated the wrap-up of four breakaway sessions. Chairing the wrap-up session, Cabinet Secretary PK.Sinha brought out five points common to all the breakaway sessions. He said generating awareness, innovative approach, use of technology in implementing government’s schemes, convergence of various government programmes and need for a strong database

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 backward districts. Modi was candid when he said we have to search those districts that have not participated in this gigantic task. I am not in favour of punishment for non-participation, but I am eager to know their problems, Modi said. Speaking on the subject of Aspirational Districts, the Prime Minister said that these 115 districts could become growth engines for their entire States. He stressed on the importance of Jan Bhagidaari, or public participation, in development. Modi asserted that all available technology, including space technology, should be used for improving governance. He said it is important for civil servants to keep pace with emerging technologies worldwide. Modi’s focused on procedural delays of file movement when he said “I don’t want

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to use the word ‘shortcut’. I have read on railway lines where it written ‘Shortcut will cut you short’.� He asked the audience, “Don’t we feel there are many ways where we can think to simplify procedures.� He questioned, “Why it is necessary for a file to be stamped by everybody in the department. How long we can drag to make the file 100% foolproof.� Modi was so confident of getting reelected in 2019 parliamentary elections that he gave a clarion call to civil servants. He said “2022, the 75th anniversary of Independence, can become an inspiration

for working towards achieving the India of the dreams of our freedom fighters. Congratulations to all award winners.�

IMPLEMENTATION The idea of sharing these case studies and getting views of IAS officers was conceptualized and executed in 27 days through darpg.woogercom

PRIME MINISTER’S AWARDS 2018 A total of 643 Districts participated in the PM’s Awards Programme. Total of

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3,009 applications with 2010 applications from Districts/Implementing Units under the Priority Programmes category and 999 applications from Organizations of Central/State Government/Districts including Aspirational Districts were received under Innovation category.

THE JOURNEY 27 DAYS IDEA TO RESULTS End-to-end process was conducted on the platform, darpg.wooqer.com. Idea conceptualization and platform was made ready within a day. A unique user-id was created for all the users of the platform, i.e. 688 IAS officers of batches 2013 to 2016 & for the producers/ managers of the overall process, i.e. DARPG officers for real time monitoring/tracking. These user-ids along with passwords were shared with the individual officers on their email-ids & mobile numbers. As many as 53 case studies/best practices across the selected Priority Programmes & Innovation were made available on the platform for all the 688 IAS officers of 2013 to 2016 batches, to impart learning to them. A comprehensive 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 been observed in this activity, wherein 644 officers (out of 688) logged-on to this platform to go through the content and 601 of them submitted their response on the Questionnaire. Completion of this end-to-end activity in 27 days, demonstrates the efficacy of technology tools in better and effective two-way communication amongst various stakeholders within an organisation, irrespective of their 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

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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) with digitization of land records to shorten the... Use of satellite imagery for assessing crop damage and disseminaton of information to farmers regularly

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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

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Scheme does not cover damage from wildlife High premium amount of cash crops

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

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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 Commissioner were involved in District level discussion groups. ■ Banks were opened on Sundays and public holidays for farmers to submit applications and Krishi Mitras participated by assisting in filling application forms. ■ Farmers' producing organizations, ideal farmers in the District, Gat Sheti farmers, etc. assisted in the process. NGOs like Global Parli, Manavlokand Chief Minister Rural Development Fellows in villages also got involved in the programme implementation.

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■ Applications were uploaded online via an online portal (http://agri-insurance.gov.in/login.aspx). CCE results were submitted through mobile app (CCE Agri) and compulsory usage of geo-tagged photo took place. ■ The scheme used compete Aadhaar authentication via usage of Aadhaar number (de-duplication, etc.) and linkage to Jan Dhan Account. It also leveraged other schemes like Nanaji Deshmukh Krishi Sanjivani Yojana, Gat Sheti Yojana, Magel 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

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Award Category: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) ABOUT

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HE Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announced the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) Antyodaya Diwas, on 25th September 2014. DDU-GKY is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), tasked with the dual objectives of adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families and cater to the career aspirations of rural youth. DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families. As a part of the Skill India campaign, it plays an instrumental role in supporting the social and economic programs of the government like the Make in India, Digital India, Smart Cities and Start-Up India, Stand-Up India campaigns. Over 180 million or 69% of the country's youth population between the ages of 18 and 34 years, live in its rural areas. Of these, the bottom of the pyramid youth from poor families with no or marginal employment number about 55 million.

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

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encouraged to interact with the trainees. Regular meetings were conducted in the PlAs at Block and District level. There was convergence with MGNREGA to create awareness about the DDUGKY scheme. Use of technology was promoted at multiple levels by promotion of Kaushal Panjee for online registration of candidates, and the use of smart phones to relay information relating to the scheme. To ensure transparency, SHG and VO members were given access to the training centres to meet candidates from their region and interact with them. In addition, the candidates were counseled by District and Block level officials through visits to the training centres. Before mobilization, regular meetings were conducted with PIAs and strategies were adopted to reduce the number of

dropouts. The community was made aware about the reasons of dropouts and the possible ways to combat them, and the parents are counselled for the same. â– The sustainability and replicability of this programme stemmed from the positive impact that was created in Dhemaji as deprived sections of the community gained access to a career and develop their skills

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&YFNQMBSZ 8PSL %POF JO %JTUSJDU ,BSJNOBHBS VOEFS UIF 1SPHSBNNF â– Awareness was created through campaigns at Panchayat level and wide publicity through various media mediums. â– Visits to junior colleges were made where the young unemployed were briefed about the programme and resource persons interacted with the youth. â– 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. â– The use of the technology for this programme involved SMS alerts, interaction with employers through video call facility, and counselling with job role based videos. â– Call centre support for registration, counselling, and grievances redressal was also established, and success stories of candidates were shared on the website of the programme. â– To maintain transparency, candidates were selected through screening camps at the village level. All training and placement details were provided on the programmer website.

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Progress reports of candidates/trainees were prepared which were shared with the parents, supplemented with monthly parent meetings at the training centres. â– District Rural Development Authority staff carried out home visits for mobilization, counselling of dropped out youth and acquired feedback from stakeholders. â– The courses offered in the training programmes were recognized by the National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT),

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Sector Skill Council (SSC), or Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), with a minimum duration of 90 days with 75% assured placements, with mandatory coverage of 50% SC/ST, 15% minorities, 33% women and 3% people with disabilities.

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RADHAN Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) is a social welfare flagship programme of Government of India with a vision to provide pucca houses, with basic amenities, to all homeless householders and those living in kutcha and dilapidated houses by 2022. To ensure that assistance is targeted at those who are genuinely deprived, PMAY-G select beneficiaries using housing deprivation parameters in the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, which is to be verified by the Gram Sabhas. Using this information, Permanent Wait List is generated to ensure that the States have a ready list of the households to be covered under the scheme leading to better planning of implementation. The implementation and monitoring of programme; carried out through an end to end e-governance model using AwaassSoft and Awaas App. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana — Urban aims to provide affordable housing to urban poor, including Economically Weaker Sections and Low Income Groups in urban areas by the year 2022. The programme will provide central assistance to implementing agencies through States and UTs for providing houses to all eligible families/beneficiaries. The mission seeks to

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RESPONDENTS’ VIEWS

Please give your views for effective implementation of PMAY (Gramin)?

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

Setting up a mechanism for monitoring the implementation of scheme to avoid unnecessary delays

According to you, what are the challenges faced in implementation of the scheme?

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 Lack of coordination between State Departments and building contractors 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

&YFNQMBSZ 8PSL %POF JO %JTUSJDU ,BOHSB VOEFS UIF 1SPHSBNNF â– Conducting sessions for creating earthquake resistant structures for the seismically sensitive Kangra District. â– Officials and non-officials associated with the construction were trained and equipped with the guidelines of the scheme, construction technologies and MIS part of the scheme. Briefing of these stakeholders was done from time to time. â– Masons were provided training of construction techniques at Government Polytechnic Sunder Nagar along with technical

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staff of Blocks. â– The Awaas app was downloaded on the mobiles of those Officials who were assigned the houses for construction and monitoring. â– The existing technological options were used i.e. mobiles with officials and technical expertise of field level functionaries and trained masons. â– Design and typology were the crucial requirements, which were incorporated by engaging local masons and using local designs and earthquake proof structures.

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â– Houses were constructed as per the need of the beneficiary, cost effectiveness and maximum use of local materials. The basic requirement of the scheme i.e. 25 sq. mt. area along with kitchen and sanitary latrine was ensured in the construction of all houses. â– Due to spillover effect of urban areas, people in rural areas were opting for brick masonry and slab houses owing to the durability and ease of construction of such houses. â– Convergence was done with the MGNREGA by way of providing 95 DAYS u nskilled labor to the beneficiary whose house is under construction (556 cases). 232 Toilets were constructed in convergence mode under MGNREGA.

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&YFNQMBSZ 8PSL %POF JO %JTUSJDU /FFNVDI VOEFS UIF 1SPHSBNNF â– 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. â– 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. â– 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 living, social indicators and economic indicators) and updating details on the portal. â– Capacity building of officers was undertaken at different levels on construction, monitoring, etc. The District provided 45 days training, comprising of both theory and practical, held at Block level to train masons as 'Rajmistris'. For this purpose, 105 unskilled labourers, 35 from each block, were selected and trained as 'Rajmistris'. A total of 732 people were

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transformed from unskilled labourers into certified skilled 'Rajmistris' during 2016-18. Model houses were constructed during training programmes. â– The officers were trained to use technology mediums (such as geo-tagging and software handling). â– Use of only locally produced construction materials (such as

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Singoli stone for slab construction and Suvakheda stone for flooring, bricks and cement, etc.) were promoted. â– District Administration ensured timely transfers of funds for purchase of materials and construction materials at affordable rates â– Convergence was done with other schemes by way of gas connections provided through Ujjwala Yojana, electricity connections through Saubhagya Yojana and toilets constructed through Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). Additionally, 12 brick enterprises were set up under Mukya Mantri Swarozgar Yojana which have supplied construction materials.46 centering enterprises were set up under Mukya Mantri Swarozgar Yojana which have provided services in construction of houses under PMAY (Gramin). 150 Self Help Groups (SHGs), whose members are beneficiaries of the scheme were provided with bank linkages.

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RESPONDENTS’ VIEWS

Please give your views for effective implementation of PMAY (Urban)?

VIEWS FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION 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

Availability of social infrastructure (such as good markets, schools, health centres, children play area, etc.) around the houses

According to you, what are the challenges faced in implementation of the scheme?

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 Lack of awareness and application process and about the scheme Non availability of skilled manpower and adequate funds in 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

ownership of land. &YFNQMBSZ 8PSL %POF JO 1VEVDIFSSZ 6-# VOEFS â– The validation was undertaken by spot verification, including UIF 1SPHSBNNF â– Government of the Union Territory, with a vision to extend the benefits of the PMAY scheme to all the section of society had given wide publicity about the scheme through print and digital media. â– Applications were invited from public to ascertain the housing demand. The applications received were segregated based on the documentary proof submitted in respect of the

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exclusion of duplicate beneficiaries. The list of the applicants who were found to be the eligible for selection under the Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC) vertical of PMAY were published for social scrutiny by displaying prominently in different offices and respective implementation agency offices. In addition the list was also uploaded in 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. â– 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. â– In addition, there was convergence with other schemes like Swachh Bharat Mission IHHL and Smart Cities Mission was also done. Satyendra Singh Dursawat

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&YFNQMBSZ 8PSL %POF JO (SFBUFS )ZEFSBCBE .VOJDJQBM $PSQPSBUJPO VOEFS UIF 1SPHSBNNF â– 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. â– 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. G+3 (In situ); S+5 (In situ and Vacant) and C+S+9 (Vacant). â– Counselling and awareness were activities undertaken by Urban Community Wing (UCW) of GHMC and SRACO NGO. â– Adoption of Shear wall technology which enabled a production cycle of only 1-3 days because of higher precision and

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smoother finishes in production of walls and slab units. â– Precast concrete building construction model was also used which allowed reduction of in site labor and form work and in turn, increased the speed of construction with improved durability. Additionally, MIS was used for capturing online

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data of beneficiaries, details of funds released and geo-tagging of projects. â– Convergence with other Departments to reacquire unutilized land holding including coordination by Chief Secretary to Government and active coordination with District Collectors. â– Further, Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University (JNAFAU) was involved for the designs of 2BHK housing model. â– In addition, fly ash bricks and PPC cement was used in compliance with regulations by Ministry of Environment, Government of India.

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HE Digital India programme is a flagship programme of Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and a digital economy. Under this programme, Government targets to promote digital payment solutions for all sections of the society. As part of ‘Paperless, Cashless and Faceless’ services across the country, especially in rural and remote areas, various modes of digital payments are being provided such as t #BOLJOH DBSET .PCJMF 8BMMFUT t *OUFSOFU CBOLJOH t .PCJMF #BOLJOH t #BOL QSF QBJE DBSET t .JDSP "5.T t 1PJOU PG TBMF .BDIJOFT 104

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secured manner. Government is working on strengthening of digital payment infrastructure and creating awareness through promotions of digital payments with all the stakeholders to achieve Government's vision of making citizens of this country digitally empowered. Citizens

have been provided multiple options to make digital transactions. A dedicated 'Digi Dhan Mission' has been set up in MeitY for building strategies and approaches in collaboration with all stakeholders to promote digital payments and create awareness.

RESPONDENTS’ VIEWS

Please give your views to Promote Digital Payments?

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 without any physical touchpoint

According to you, what are the challenges faced in Promoting Digital Payments?

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

Lack of convenience in making digital transactions 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

&YFNQMBSZ 8PSL %POF JO %JTUSJDU #JTIOVQVS VOEFS UIF 1SPHSBNNF â– With the aim to create awareness about Digital Payments mission, local people were involved along with different civil societies regularly.

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â– Further, door-to-door campaign were organised for financial literacy and to educate people about the digital payments. Workshops were conducted along with competitions in schools and colleges. â– Karang Island was a remote and backward region which was

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and consumers to promote digital payments. An 'I Pledge' campaign was launched to contribute to the Government's vision of creating a cashless, and corruption free India by spreading information about digital financial transactions. â– Incentive scheme were provided to promote BHIM (i.e. 'Install BHIM and get INR/- 50'). Free POS machines were provided for merchants and fertilizer dealers who open current account. â– Digital Bishnupur - An online channel was launched to make people literate about digital payments and create awareness among the citizens. In addition, social media interventions were made for promoting digital payments.

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relatively cut-off from the District due to insurgency issue for a long time. In this regard, incentives were provided for training towards digital payments and 5 POS machines were provided on the island. Self Help Groups (SHGs) and youth clubs were involved for community mobilization and parallel activities were conducted on the island for Aadhaar enrolment and bank account opening. Additionally, shop-to-shop awareness was also provided coupled with set up of POS machines for fertilizer dealers. â– Campaigns were launched in market areas among merchants

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Promoting Digital Payments – Union Territories category Awarded District: Daman, Daman & Diu Award Received by: Sandeep Kumar Singh, &ROOHFWRU 'LVWULFW 0DJLVWUDWH

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hold does a digital transaction). â– A mega Cashless Daman campaign was launched where the District Administration officials addressed 3000 people on digital payments. It was made mandatory for industries to make payment only through bank accounts. â– Digital payments videos involving students, teachers, small vendors were made and circulated over WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter.

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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. ■ 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.

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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 autorickshaws in all towns of the District. ■ All Government schools spread the benefits of cashless payment to students during morning prayers. Further, private schools were instructed to give homework about digital payment methods which had to be completed by students with the help of their parents. ■ 'No Cash Hours' was introduced at Government to Citizen touch points in the District. ■ More than 1,90,000 digital transactions were facilitated by

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Saksham Yuva groups. ■ 1558 key employees were trained initially who, in turn, trained 8000 employees of various departments. ■ Training camps of traders, petrol pump owners, general public were held at Tehsil and subdivision level. In addition, train-

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Which of the following initiatives do you think should be replicated across the country?

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)

Honeybee rearing (Sirohi, Rajasthan)

Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator/Google Toilet Locator (Hoshiarpur, Punjab)

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Which of the following factor(s) help in encouraging innovation in governance at grass root level?

CHALLENGES FACED IN AVAILING SCHEMES Government process reengineering

Use of technology

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Award in Innovation Innovation Initiative: Unnayan Banka – Reinventing Education using Technology – District Administration, Banka, Bihar Award Received by: Kundan Kumar, &ROOHFWRU

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other students appearing for the same test on the platform. â– Unnayan Smart Class included interactive video lectures, class assessments, audio learning, etc. School on Wheels is an LCD mounted van that visits LWE affected remote areas and provides specially designed crash course for Board exams. â– Boot camp has been started which provides latest and in demand technological skills to students like mobile app development, web designing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, etc. â– Special Employability Bridge Programme is in place to facilitate placements.

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&YFNQMBSZ 8PSL %POF VOEFS UIF *OJUJBUJWF â– 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. â– GST has subsumed various indirect taxes thus the multiplicity of taxes is reduced. With GST, uniform rate of CGST/ SGST/IGST is applicable across all states. GST prevents cascading of taxes as Input Tax Credit is available across goods and services at every stage of supply. â– Final price of goods is expected to be lower due to seamless flow of input tax credit between the manufacturer, retailer and supplier of services. â– Simplified and automated procedures for various processes such as registration, returns, refunds, tax payments, etc in GST has introduced a transparent system â– A massive four-tier training programme has been conducted under the leadership of NACIN. This training project is aimed at imparting training on GST law and procedures to more than 60,000 officers of CBEC and Commercial Tax officers of State Governments. â– Officers of the office of CAG are also participating and getting trained in this training programme. More than 52000 officers (including around 20000 officers from States) have already been trained. Out of these 7000 officers have attended refresher training course also.

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and field visits to ground truth claimed reforms. â– Their vision and uncompromising attitude has helped in ensuring that reforms which look otherwise impossible have been implemented in record time.

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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 'LUHFWRU 0LQLVWU\ RI 'ULQNLQJ :DWHU 6DQLWDWLRQ *RYHUQPHQW RI ,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.

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construction and accelerate momentum for the programmes. â– Shri Joshi has also contributed at the policy level by spearheading the drafting and issue of the IEC Guidelines of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and changes in policy for expenditure of these funds by State governments that made IEC spends much easier and smoother for States and districts. â– He was also instrumental in the design and implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) mass media national campaign, Darwaza Band, in seven languages, which became a beacon for rallying forces of rural sanitation champions across the country.

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across the masses than Netaji in India. And his enigma has continued to haunt India’s consciousness to such an extent that no one ever believed the news of his death in the air crash on August 18, 1945. Transformed into the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after Independence, the Service has continued to be the spine of governance in India.Sardar Patel, who is credited with bringing together the fragmented units of the country in 1947, had envisioned that this Service would be the kingpin to strengthen national unity. The Indian bureaucracy has largely lived up to those expectations, odd aberrations notwithstanding. There are examples of splendid performance of officers who have often risked not only their career but even life in serving the people conscientiously, ensuring speedy

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execution of public welfare projects and enhancing public welfare and security even in the so-called ‘liberated zones’ in the insurgency affected States. In many cases such conscientious officers have won people’s confidence to such an extent that they were hailed as ‘heroes’ and became objects of envy for the local politicians and the naxal operatives. It is laudable that such conscientious officers of our Civil Services are honoured and awarded every year! In the recent decades, however, the aura of the Service has suffered a decline, great examples of exceptional performance notwithstanding. Over the last few decades, the bureaucracy has been increasingly dubbed as ‘babus’ and ‘babudom’. The very connotation of these terms has shifted the image of power and prestige to that of red-tape and arrogance. Perhaps this decline is in tune with the overall fall of moral standards in the society at large. Scams and scandals involving political parties, corporate houses, NGOs, Gurus/Godmen and even schools are no longer exception. Reading daily newspapers and listening to TV channels is depressing. What is even more demoralising for the masses is the fact that scams and crime cannot flourish unless there is official acquiescence, connivance or covert partnership in the exploits. A well-oiled system is found always at work to thwart official enquiries by muddling the incident of corruption or crime through irrelevant but emotive issues to deflect and derail investigations. Be it heinous crimes like rape and murder, accidents or nature’s catastrophe, incidents are quickly collated by the lobbyist media in caste-communal categories and coloured to rouse public passion along politically motivated lines. In times when politicians are smugly baking their bread by igniting disturbances and exploiting deaths and public losses, it has become more expedient than ever that bureau-

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crats must step out and assume their leadership role to contain public ire and disappointment, restore public confidence and foster harmony using their authority impartially and resolutely. It is disappointing that the executive power of the State—the bureaucracy—is seldom visible and never audible to people until there is chaos around. Why is the public not informed about government policies, plans and progress on projects that affect every citizen today and his progeny tomorrow? Why is no information disseminated to the people on issues of wider public concern viz, national security, agriculture, health, education, trade, manufacturing, import/export and

In the recent decades, however, the aura of the Service has suffered a decline, great examples of exceptional performance notwithstanding. Over the last few decades, the bureaucracy has been increasingly dubbed as ‘babus’ and ‘babudom’ so on? Why should any influential criminal need political clearance to be arrested? These are all indicators of apathy, indifference, inefficiency or collusion that seems to be afflicting our bureaucracy today. Agreed, there is political interference that hinders the fair and smooth run of civil administration. But these hazards of service have only multiplied over the years thanks to the pliable officers willing to yield to unfair demands and pressures. Loyalty of public servants has inarguably shifted from ‘public’ to the ‘boss’! No wonder people are increasingly turning to their MLA/MP or CM even for their routine entitlements and needs that the civil administration must provide. The state of

government schools, hospitals and civic amenities is pathetic in every State and town. In contrasts, there is an array of International schools and private hospitals with state-of-the-art diagnostic machines and facilities just across the road in all metro cities of India. Sheer apathy, arrogance and growing delinquency describe today’s temples of worship, health and education. There are certain ‘essential services’ that cannot— and should not—go on strike. There is a good reason why soldiers are denied their right to go on strike, no matter what their perceived grievance may be! Now, imagine doctors in a hospital abandoning patients waiting in the Emergency and Operation Theatres and proceeding on strike with impunity. Who is responsible for the deaths and health deterioration of patients in the hospital? What is the role of bureaucrats in health departments under whose jurisdiction such hospitals fall?

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N incident of the pre-Independence days highlights the significance of public servants’ loyalty towards the people. Sir Chhotu Ram, the revenue minister of Punjab in 1940, appointed three meritorious individuals as Tehsildars—one each from Ahir, Jat and Rajput castes, the main agrarian communities in Punjab those days. One of them wrote a letter of thanks to the Minister. In his reply to the newly appointed Tehsildar, Ram wrote on June 30, 1940: “Dear Harphul, Received your letter of the 24th June. I am very glad that you have after all been accommodated in a very decent job. The only return that I expect of you for what little I was able to do for you is strict honesty, sympathetic treatment of the poor and an ever present consciousness in your mind that as member of a poor class, you owe a duty to that class and to all poor people of other classes. – Yours Sincerely, Sd/- Chhotu Ram.”

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ODAY, there is no dearth of laws, rules and the administrative apparatus needed to deliver good governance to the people. Only the compassion preached by Sir Chhotu Ram has gone extinct. Honest leaders, sincere and daring officers are a diminishing breed we need to preserve and proliferate if unity and integrity of the country is to be preserved and strengthened. ‘Rule of Law’ is the pre-requisite for good governance to flow to the people impartially and universally. If the Civil Administration gives up, no other agency can guarantee good governance. There are live examples where the officers have stood up to enforce rule of law and refused to yield to unfair demands and coercive tactics of their political bosses. They faced all sorts of threats and hardships but ultimately came out victorious and glorified with added honours. When honest officers embark upon a mission to do good for the people, invisible powers unite to guard them. The case of Durga Shakti Nagpal, an SDM posted in Noida, in 2013 is a glaring example of an officer determined to face consequences of her actions done in right earnest. Earlier, her predecessors had either not dared to stir the mafia smuggling truckloads of sand

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illegally from the prohibited zone along the Yamuna, or may have connived to let the business go on! Durga refused to toe this line of coy acquiescence. She arrested the goons and impounded their trucks, inviting wrath not only from the mafia but also from their political lords who were in power then. Attempts were made to silence her, but no threats deterred her, no coercion worked on her. She was suspended on flimsy grounds, but all the evil forces ultimately ate the humble pie when the UP government was forced to

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give in to public pressure to reinstate the honest officer. 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. There is no dearth of vision, capability and capacity in these young top brains of the country selected for the elite national service. They will rise further in public esteem if they genuinely treat themselves as ‘servants of the people’ and refuse to remain minions of unscrupulous leaders.There are many examples of yeomen service for the young IAS officers to follow. Listing out names of all such heroes of the public is neither feasible nor expedient. It would, however, be of great value if their case studies are widely circulated and published within the Civil Services and in the media. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dictum—‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’—should inspire and embolden conscientious officers to take the lead—‘governance’ within their jurisdiction with a missionary’s zeal and commitment. g

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This communication is being addressed on behalf of the Forum for Electoral Integrity, a non-political, not-for-profit, civil society coalition, having its office at # 21, Adhimoolam Street, Ponnappanadar Nagar, Nagercoil-629004, Tamil Nadu of which I am the Convener. 1. As is universally known, democracy is founded on the dignity of the human being. Election and its integrity are the essence of democracy. Integrity is described as “uncompromising adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty�. If there is one area where this is badly absent in India, it is the electoral process through which political leaders are elected to govern the country. 2. The core of electoral process is the voting system. There are broadly 5 types of voting systems in use around the world. They are indicated below in the descending order of transparency, examinability, verifiability, accountability and robustness: (i) Paper Ballots that are hand counted. (ii) Machine-readable Paper Ballots that are scanned and electronically counted using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) technology. A certain percentage of the Paper Ballots are also hand counted. (iii) Direct Recording

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Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with what is called Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). The EVM does the machine counting and a certain percentage of the ‘paper slips’ are also hand counted. (iv) Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines (DRE) that also do the counting electronically. Recounting is not possible because it will yield the same total. (v) Internet-based Voting or Online Voting. This is most vulnerable to cyber-attacks and not suited for elections. India has so far tried out voting systems (i), (iv) and (iii) in that order. 3. In a democracy, elections have to necessarily adhere to certain democratic principles. These are: (1) All essential steps in the elections should be subject to public examinability; (2) Ordinary citizens should be able to check the essential steps in the election process without special expert knowledge and (3) There should be transparency in the counting of votes and ascertainment of the results reliably. Of the voting systems listed above only paper ballot satisfy these principles and EVMs do not. 4. Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in a landmark

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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

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judgment in March, 2009 held the use of EVMs in Germany unconstitutional. The Court ruled that in view of the “public rationale of elections”, the process should be transparent in a manner that the general public can be satisfied that their vote is correctly recorded. 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. In effect, the Court ruled that EVMs are unconstitutional so long as there was no provision for an additional verifiable physical record of every vote cast. In the event all advanced democracies have abandoned EVMs and have returned to paper ballot. In Civil Appeal No. 9093 of 2013 and WP (C) No. 406 of 2012 on 8.10.2013 Supreme Court of India passed an order mandating the use of voter verified paper audit trail along with EVMs and directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to implement the VVPAT system in a phased manner. The Supreme Court observed: “From the materials placed by both the sides, we are satisfied that the ‘paper trail’ is an indispensable requirement of free and fair elections. The confidence of the voters in the EVMs can be achieved only with the introduction of the “paper trail”. EVMs with VVPAT system ensure the accuracy of the voting system. With an intent to have fullest transparency in the system and to restore the confidence of the voters, it is necessary to

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set up EVMs with VVPAT system because vote is nothing but an act of expression which has immense importance in democratic system”. Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed that principles of democracy are a part of the basic structure of the Constitution of India. To this end, elections and the various different processes and mechanisms that undergird the universal adult franchise constitute a beacon of light. It is imperative, therefore, that every step be taken to preserve the integrity of the electoral process. Not only must elections be conducted fairly, but they must also be shown to be conducted fairly. In a republican democracy, such as ours, the rules that go towards the selection of the people’s representatives must partake the highest standards of fairness. Replacement of paperless EVMs with VVPAT EVMs is imperative for the following reasons: a) To impart confidence in citizens that their vote will be recorded and counted accurately. b) To allow for a recount. c) To provide a backup in cases of loss of votes due to malfunction. d) To test—through a sizable random selection of machines—whether the paper result is the same as the electronic result. It is our studied belief that the legitimacy of the electoral process in India, and, as a consequence, of democracy itself, today faces a grave threat. This is because the system of using EVMs has not only been repeatedly shown to be riddled with glitches, but also because insufficient steps have

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been taken thus far to allay these concerns. 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 EVMs are serviced by ‘authorised technicians’ from BEL and ECIL. 11. Our apprehension has been confirmed in a RTI response received recently wherein against the figures provided by the ECI on the number of EVMs received, BEL and ECIL have submitted data with huge differences in the numbers they have supplied, at times ranging from several thousands to lakhs of EVMs, raising questions on "where the excess number of EVMs are going, what is being done with them". This indicates that something very suspicious is going on between these organisations. It also reveals that EVM’s design and content are also being tampered with at will. The numbers revealed are stunning and shocking questioning the very integrity and credibility of the EVM based election. [See the Report at link: https://www.firstpost.com/ india/rti-reveals-contradictory-numbers-of-evms-fromelection-commission-suppliers-raise-question-mark-onpolls-4422967.html] 12. Although, pursuant to the 8.10.2013 order of the Supreme 9.

Court, your office has confirmed that all EVMs will be accompanied with VVPAT for the upcoming 2019 general elections, it is seen, as explained in your letter 13.2.2018 (published in ECI website) the chief electoral officers in all States and Union Territories have been directed to mandatorily verify VVPAT paper slips in only one randomly selected polling station in each assembly constituency. This defeats the very object of installing VVPATs in all EVMs which would be rendered nugatory tantamounting to nonimplementation of Supreme Court Order. 13. The main purpose behind the introduction of VVPATs is to bring in accuracy, verifiability and transparency in the casting and counting of votes. With the presence of VVPATs, voters can verify if their vote has been cast to the right candidate. Needless to say, it is only when the paper slips as verified by the voters are counted that the true purpose behind introduction of VVPATs is served. Without counting of VVPAT paper slips in a significant percentage of polling stations in each assembly constituency, the objectives of verifiability and transparency in the democratic process

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would remain unrealized. 14. The direction to hand-count VVPAT slips in just ‘one polling station per Assembly Constituency’ worked out to 0.4% of EVMs in Gujarat and 0.9% of EVMs in Himachal Pradesh. Same was done in the North East and is now being repeated in the forthcoming Karnataka election. This is nothing but an exercise in tokenism. This would defeat the very purpose of introducing VVPAT and, what’s more, would also be fraught with all the risks of conducting elections with paperless EVMs. In the rush to declare results and the winners, the Election Commission cannot turn a blind eye to the possibilities of wrong totalling due to EVM malfunction or EVM tampering. Surely, in something as important as ensuring the integrity of the election process, a delay of a few hours or even a couple of days shouldn’t matter at all, more so when the entire election process, from the date of announcement to the date of counting, lasts for 2-3 months. Cost and time, we submit, cannot be considerations when the integrity of the entire electoral process is at stake. 15. Moreover, the sample size of ‘one polling station per Assembly Constituency’ is statistically unsound not only in terms of its size but also because the various polling stations in the constituency are not similar and the sample drawn may not be truly representative of the constituency as a whole. There is an imperative need for stratified sampling with a random sample of one or more polling stations

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drawn from each of the following ‘strata’: urban; semiurban; 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 in the electoral process. (a) ‘Trust but verify’ should be the Election Commission’s motto. It is our submission that the Election Commission must equip itself to exercise greater administrative and technical control over the two manufacturers and related agencies in whom trust has been reposed manufacture, check and service the EVMs. This oversight should be immediately put in place. (b) ECI must consider engaging the services of a top electronic security firm of international standing (bound by a confidentiality agreement) to conduct periodic ‘ethical hacking and other modes of attack’ on its electoral systems and, in the processes, identify loopholes if any, and certify the robustness of the EVMs and the manner of their use. (c) Just as counterfeit detector machines are imperative for verifying the genuineness of currency notes, the Election Commission must procure and supply one or more ‘Authentication Units’ to each district to help election officials verify whether the EVMs being used in their districts are genuine EVMs supplied by BEL/ ECIL or counterfeit EVMs. ‘Authentication Units’ can not only detect and weed out the counterfeit EVMs, if any, in circulation, but they will also act as a deterrent because the knowledge of their existence ought to serve in driving away potential fraudsters. These ‘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 an independent third-party manufacturer. These ‘authentication verifications’ should be arranged by the District Magistrate-cum-District Election Officer (DM-DEO) in the presence of the contesting candidates after the ‘first level checks’ are over and before the date of polling. This is a change that can be put in place forthwith. (d) Election Commission must completely overhaul the present method of storing EVMs during the nonelection period. Election Commission should move towards a kind of “2-bin storage system” wherein the long-term storage of the EVMs in between two elections shall be in a few large, high-security, regional warehouses and the short-term storage immediately before or during an election in the current district warehouses; the Commission must invest in building two to five regional warehouses in each State depending on its size, which can serve as high security regional warehouses; The ‘first level checks’ of the EVMs and VVPATs that are carried out by the ‘authorised technicians’ of BEL and EVM before an election must be done only in these regional warehouses under CCTV and appropriate administrative safeguards against tampering; and the EVMs should be transferred from the regional warehouses to the district warehouses not earlier than 7 days before the date of polling. It is our considered belief that these suggestions can be implemented before the 2019 election. (e) In the medium term, it is imperative that the EC switch over to Machine-readable Paper Ballots with OMR counting-cum-Hand counting of certain percentage of Ballot Boxes in place of the existing EVMs. We make this suggestion for two reasons: one, this will ensure that the abiding principle of the secrecy of the ballot is not compromised. And two, international practice shows a movement towards paper ballots

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because they are the simplest to understand; they are immune to all kinds of cyberattacks; there is no malware that can steal paper votes; and they can preserve the anonymity of the voter. 18. An accurate recording of the democratic will of the electorate, to the satisfaction of the electorate, is indispensable to the democratic process. The exercise of the right to vote must take place in a manner that is in consonance with the highest principles of integrity and fairness as enshrined in the Constitution of India. Our suggestions, if implemented, will help instil in the electoral process greater transparency and fairness. We believe it is imperative that the EC implements our suggestions in order to ensure the sustenance of the principles of republican democracy that stand at the bedrock of the Constitution of India. The Constitution of India (Article 324) mandates the ECI with the superintendence, direction, control and the conduct of all elections. What we are seeking is well within the powers of ECI and therefore immediately doable. In the event, we urge the Commission to issue the directions requested for expeditiously in the interest of Electoral Integrity which is the bulwark of Democracy. Though at Para (16) the 25% counting of VVPAT slips has been sought for the 2019 Parliament elections, ECI would be well advised to direct this for the impending Karnataka state assembly election if they are really serious about abiding by its constitutional mandate. Thanking you, Yours Truly, Sd/MG Devasahayam IAS (Retd) Convenor, Forum for Electoral Integrity. Mobile: 9940174446 ; Email: deva1940@gmail.com

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HE United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet and to ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. There are 17 SDGs with 157 nations as signatories. In India the governments have been correctly focussing on each of these 17 parameters and delivering positive results. While 2030, the deadline to achieve these SDGs seems a bit far, going by the diversity and complexity of our country in all spheres, time is indeed of the essence. India has to continue to push for the implementation of the SDG agenda through close collaboration between the national and State governments as well as the through the relevant participation of all stakeholders. It is also a fact that until the financial, social and physical infrastructure is strengthened, India will find it tough to accelerate and become sustainable. While India has slipped six places in the SDG Index and Dashboard Report, 2017, there is every reason to believe that this is a temporary glitch and our policies and initiatives are bound to result positively in the years ahead. Let me elaborate on why I feel things are bound to get better and why India is

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certain to become a world beater as far as achieving SDGs are concerned. The answer lies in the sustained efforts of our governments that are laudable and include landmark initiatives like the Food Security Act, which aims to provide subsidised foodgrain to approximately two-thirds of our population and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which provides legal guarantee for 100 days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage. Clearly, the actions of the government are making the concept of MGNREGA more sustainable. Then there are programmes like, Make in India, which has the objective of job

creation and skill enhancement in 25 sectors of the economy by improving the quality standards and productivity, minimising the impact on the environment along with encouraging the companies to manufacture their products in India; Swacch Bharat Abhiyan aimed at bringing change in the civic behaviour of the society through a campaign to clean up the streets, roads and infrastructure of India’s cities, smaller

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towns and rural areas along with the creation of household-owned and communityowned toilets; Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, India’s national mission for financial inclusion to ensure access to financial services for the deprived and needy; and, Digital India has been launched to ensure that government services are made available to the citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and increasing internet connectivity.

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IMILARLY, Skill India aims to train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022, albeit a tall order, but for which the ministry is burning midnight oil to achieve this target. Right to Education Act provides for free and compulsory education to all children in India in the 6-14 age group. It also makes it clear that no child shall be held back, expelled or required to pass a board examination until the completion of elementary education. This to my mind is one of the most fundamental change made to make India a sustainable society

There is a consistent focus on rural India which, to my mind, is going to be the gamechanger for the Indian economy. To achieve these goals we need to ensure that there are measurable milestones which are regularly reviewed

in the years to come. The Clean Ganga Mission aims to clean the river Ganges and its tributaries in a comprehensive manner, without this water management and effluent along the Ganges due to the waste generated by various industries cannot be managed. Smart Cities Mission is an urban renewal and retrofitting programme by the government of India with the mission to develop 100 cities across the country and making them citizen friendly and sustainable. This will ensure redistribution of the work force thereby reducing the pressure on nearby metros and mini metros. The Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme aims to quickly and effectively transform India’s most backward districts by focusing on the micro needs of the community so that their income levels could be doubled by 2022. It is indeed heartening to see that there is a consistent focus on rural India which, to my mind, is going to be the game-changer for the Indian economy. To achieve these goals we need to ensure that there are measurable milestones which are regularly reviewed so that we don’t lose focus and continue to work assiduously in achieving them. I am certain that going by the innovative and out-of-thebox thinking, we will eventually catch up with the top nations of the world and get rid of the laggard tag. g The writer is Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, ITC Ltd. Views expressed are personal

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(CrPC ), Indian Evidence Act, Transfer of Property and similar laws enacted more than a century back and are standing like rocks even till now. Changes in them have been made, which were necessitated by needs of time and not because of any conceptualisation or drafting deficiencies. A wholesale review of the IBC cannot be justified on the ground of problems coming into focus over time as the law was in force for very little time.

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The Companies Act is a legislation that has not been able to achieve any degree of stabilisation even after it was enacted as Companies Act, 2013, after series of deliberations spread over a decade. This Act too has not been made applicable from a single date – an infection catching up fast for no explicable reason. Further, this Act too has undergone frequent changes from April 1, 2014 – the date of its coming into force. Apart from small frequent amendments after its enactment, a ‘Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2017, was recently moved, comprising of 93 clauses substantially amending the Companies Act, 2013. Such frequent changes do not indicate good governance at all.

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Another disheartening development regarding the I-T law has been obtaining experts’ views on subjects relating to income tax, keeping the same in cold storage and not releasing it for public debate though considerable public money has been spent on the bodies who prepared such reports. Some instances are: [i] The UPA Government entrusted the task of making studies and report on various aspects of money laundering, unaccounted income and wealth (black money), etc., to three premier Institutions of the country, namely National Institute of Public Finance & Policy (NIPFP), National Council for Applied Economic Research (NACER) and National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) in 2011. Their reports were received sometime at the end of 2013. The UPA did not act on these reports when it was in Government and thereafter, since May 2014, the present Government is just keeping these reports unpublished.

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Even as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 was being amended, a need was felt for an entire review of the legislation. The review committee has recommended a total revamp! [ii] The NDA Government constituted a 10-member tax committee, headed by a retired High Court Judge of Delhi HC, RV Eshwar. This committee gave its final report in December 2016 and the Government is yet to release this report for public debate. [iii] Regretfully, it is not only the Government keeping such reports on the back burner. Even the Supreme Court has not released any reports of the SIT looking into the pay allowances and perquisites

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admissible to working SC judges. The SIT is working under the close supervision of the Supreme Court for over four years now. This SIT is headed by two retired judges of the Supreme Court and 13 senior members from the Government such as CBI, DRI, CBDT, RAW, etc. Much hopes were pinned on the new NDA Government for coming up with a new simplified, redrafted I-T Act, but regretfully, it too has greatly disappointed, acting on the lines of the previous UPA Government.

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Y an Office Order dated November 22, 2017, the CBDT has constituted a Task Force with Arvind Modi, Member (Legislation), CBDT, as Convener [the third one during the threeand-a-half rule of the NDA) “….to review the existing Income Tax Act, 1961 and to draft a new Direct Tax Law in consonance with the economic needs of the country…”. This Task Force has no Chairman and has remained dormant for nearly four and half months. Since it was constituted, it has issued a questionnaire, seeking public opinion in the manner as UPSC or CAT conducts examinations to eliminate examinees by way of ‘Preliminary Exams’. I am giving below a sample of few questions as instances to support the view expressed earlier (see Table 1).

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ONSTITUTION of task forces, committees and commissions is a responsible job to be performed with great care and caution, but is being rather casually undertaken without properly doing the requisite homework. It is almost impossible to draft a new income-tax law in six months after considering nearly 800 sections, enormous CBDT’s circulars, notifications and case-laws running into volumes (402 ITRs). Such approach has led to considerable waste of time, energies and public money during Chidambaram’s time. It is being repeated again. The instances given are merely the tip of the iceberg. There are many more, which have not been stated because of constraint of space. Such disquieting features in the governance of the country are extremely worrying. g

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HOUGH Uttarakhand had 21,966 protests, the highest number in the year 2016, it was Tamil Nadu with 20,450 protests—at the rate of 47 protests a day—that caught the national attention. The reason was simple: the protests in Tamil Nadu were massive, prolonged and in many cases spontaneous. Of course, one way of looking at it was as vibrant

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democracy in action, though the cynical public would laugh it off because political agitations and protests are the way we do things in this country. Major protests in Tamil Nadu were an expression of Tamil angst, against injustice meted out to the people. Spontaneous protests like the Jallikattu agitation in 2017 that paralysed the State for nearly a week were an outpouring of such an expression, which has not been fully understood by New Delhi

and rest of India. The people of Tamil Nadu, home to over six-and-a-half crore people, take great pride in their distinct identity, ancient language and culture. They are quick to take offense at any threat to their distinct language and identity. The public outrage against the imposition of Hindi in Tamil Nadu (then Madras State) in 1960s that had brought the State to halt is a telling example. It forced the

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Centre to rethink its policy of compulsory use of Hindi and include English as a functional option. The anti-Hindi agitation showed Tamils cannot be taken for granted. At the same time, it has also perpetuated the myth of Tamil separatism lurking behind every agitation. There are good reasons for it because Dravidian movement since its early days, even before Independence, had nurtured the idea of separatism. But the amorphous objective was for the creation of Dravida Nadu, an independent country of four southern states. But the creation of four separate southern States in the wake of the States Reorganisation Commission in 1953 saw the demand fading away. The Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (DMK), led by the younger leaders of the parent Dravidar

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The anti-Hindi agitation showed Tamils cannot be taken for granted. At the same time, it has also perpetuated the myth of Tamil separatism lurking behind every agitation Kazagham movement, entered the election fray in 1957 with a call for separate Dravida Nadu—in reality Tamil Nadu. But the DMK wisely shelved its separatist dogma after the Chinese aggression in 1962. A constitutional amendment made secession illegal in 1967; the same year DMK won a thumping victory and came to power in Tamil Nadu. Now the DMK and its breakaway cousin, the AIADMK,

after enjoying power in the State and at the Centre as coalition partners seem to be happy with the slogan “Maddhiyil kootatchi, Maanilathil suya-atchi” (Coalition government at the Centre and self-government at the State). This has led to the subsuming of the separatist creed.

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OWEVER, in times of threat to Tamil identity and culture ideas of secession would probably surface as it did when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency. A Wikileaks message in 2013 revealed that during the Emergency, Tamil Nadu’s DMK government minister K Rajaram asked a US diplomatic representative in Chennai whether the US would give assistance to the State if it decided to secede from India. The minister clarified that while no

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such move was in the offing, young people within the DMK were talking about separation. 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, said in an interview, “Tamil separatist ideology came to Sri Lanka through Tamil Nadu and Tamil separatism has a much longer history in India than it does in Sri Lanka.” Though the DMK extended tacit support to the LTTE fighting the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) from 1987 to 1990, it did not allow Tamil sentiments to turn it into demand for separate Tamil Nadu. Only two small breakaway groups of the naxalite movement in Tamil Nadu, the Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA) and Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT), supported the LTTE during the period of IPKF’s operations in Sri Lanka, linking it to the struggle for independent Tamil Nadu.

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OWEVER, LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran inspired a whole generation of young leaders in Tamil Nadu in almost all political parties, particularly of the Dravidian and Dalit hue. The idea of ‘independent’ Tamil Nadu continues to remain as a notion among some of the younger cadres of almost all Dravidian parties and their clones. Former Congress leader Nedumaran and MDMK leader Vaiko, who had been vocal support-

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The office of DMK, which shelved its separatist line after Chinese aggression in 1962

Vaiko was a vocal supportrer of LTTE

ers of the LTTE and Eelam separatism, do keep alive the idea of a vague notion of greater Tamil Nadu. Even as late as August 2011, MDMK leader Vaiko, showing an absolute lack of perspective, “warned” the Centre that Tamil Nadu would soon secede from the Union of India if Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, the three accused in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were executed. But they enjoy little popular support to make a dent in Tamil Nadu power play. A few other leaders, like the late Perunchitranar and Thanjai

Nalankilli, had focused on independent Tamil Nadu in their work. However, they appealed only to a small circle of people more active on the social media than on the ground. However, leaders like Seeman of Naam Thamilar party and Dalit leader Thol Thirumaavalavan of Viduthalai Chirruthaikal Katchi use Tamil nationalism as a rallying call to strengthen their parties. But their calls, like those of other fringe elements, get submerged in the loud chest-thumping of almost all Dravidian parties that claim to be the true guardians of Tamil identity and culture. As long as the Centre pays attention to Tamil sensitivities, secession will continue to be far from the minds of the people of Tamil Nadu. They have prospered and made Tamil Nadu a front line state as a part of India. So the notion of breaking away, though romantic, is less appealing. With the Tamil diaspora touching two million spread in all continents, the notion of Greater Tamil Nadu has become virtual reality. They will rally to support Tamils everywhere and this makes an independent Tamil Nadu less appealing. g

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Chandra Kishore Mishra

V Shashank Shekhar

N Sridhar

Depinder Singh Dhesi

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CADRE: HARYANA

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shekharv@ias.nic.in

sridharn@ias.nic.in

dhesids@ias.nic.in

Sudeep Jain

Kirthi Chekuri

Pradeep Yadav

Nantha Kumar K

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CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

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CADRE: TAMIL NADU

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nanthakumar@ias.nic.in

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Abu Imran

Md. Qaiser

Rahul Jain

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CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

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abuimran.ias2010@ias.nic.in

mq.abdulhaque@ias.nic.in

rahul.jain@ias.nic.in

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Deepak Singhal

Viswajeet Khanna

Manisha Verma

CADRE: UNION TERRITORY

CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH

CADRE: PUNJAB

CADRE: MAHARASHTRA

rodney.ralte@ias.nic.in

singhald@ias.nic.in

khannav@ias.nic.in

vermam@ias.nic.in

Alapan Bandopadhyay

Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra

Ram Mohan Mishra

Roopa Mishra

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: ODISHA

CADRE: PUNJAB

CADRE: ODISHA

alapanb@ias.nic.in

mpradipt@ias.nic.in

khannav@ias.nic.in

roopamishra@ias.nic.in

V Manjula

Injeti Srinivas

Rakesh Agrawal

Maneesh Garg

CADRE: KERALA

CADRE: ODISHA

CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

CADRE: HIMACHAL PRADESH

vmanjula@ias.nic.in

snivas8@ias.nic.in

agrawalr@ias.nic.in

gargm@ias.nic.in

Veena Ish

John Kingsly AR

Saravanan M

Adhar Sinha

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

CADRE: BIHAR

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

ishv@ias.nic.in

johnkingsly@ias.nic.in

saravanan.m@ias.nic.in

sinhaa1@ias.nic.in

Chakravarthi Mohan

Tirlok Chand Gupta

Nagargoje M

Anand Bardhan

CADRE: KARNATAKA

CADRE: HARYANA

CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

CADRE: UTTARAKHAND

chakravarthi.m@ias.nic.in

guptatc@ias.nic.in

nagargoje@ias.nic.in

abardhan@ias.nic.in

Anurag Srivastava

Dipti Aditya Kanade

VK Batham

Alaknanda Dayal

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: KARNATAKA

CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

CADRE: PUNJAB

anurag.s@ias.nic.in

dipti@ias.nic.in

bathamvk@ias.nic.in

dayala@ias.nic.in

Shamla Iqbal

Vijay Singhal

Neerabh Kumar

Arvind Singh

CADRE: KERALA

CADRE: MAHARASHTRA

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

CADRE: MAHARASHTRA

ashamla@ias.nic.in

singhalv@ias.nic.in

prasadn2@ias.nic.in

sarvind@ias.nic.in

Pamu Sampath Kumar

A Subbiah

Ram Mohan Mishra

Rakesh Kumar

CADRE: ASSAM-MEGHALAYA

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: ASSAM-MEGHALAYA

CADRE: UTTARAKHAND

kumar.sampath@ias.nic.in

subbiaha@ias.nic.in

mishrarm@ias.nic.in

kumarr13@ias.nic.in

P Raghavendra Rao

Vasireddi V Jyothsna

Maal Singh Bhaydiya

Sujata Saunik

CADRE: HARYANA

CADRE: KARNATAKA

CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

CADRE: MAHARASHTRA

raopr@ias.nic.in

bvjyothsna.ias2010@ias.nic.in

maalsingh.bhaydiya@ias.nic.in

sauniks@ias.nic.in

Jamjam Syamala Rao

MK Sreerangaiah

KC Devasenapathi

Brij Kumar Agarwal

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

CADRE: KARNATAKA

CADRE: CHHATTISGARH

CADRE: HIMACHAL PRADESH

raojs@ias.nic.in

mk.sreerangaiah@ias.nic.in

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Meenakshi Sharma

AB Venkateswara Rao

Naveen Arora

MK Chhabra

CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH

CADRE: ODISHA

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Raghavendra Suhasaa HG

Deepak Kumar

Durga Pada Tarenia

DB Vaghela

CADRE: RAJASTHAN

CADRE: JAMMU & KASHMIR

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: GUJARAT

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deepak@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

dpadat@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

dbvaghela@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Ashish Batra

Kotnis Ashwin Mukund

Manoj Abraham

Alikana S Murthy

CADRE: JHARKHAND

CADRE: TAMIL NADU

CADRE: KERALA

CADRE: KARNATAKA

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kotnis@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

manojabhraham@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

asmurthy@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Arvind Kumar

Rajiv Kumar Meena

R Rajasekaran

Raman Gupta

CADRE: MADHYA PRADESH

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: KARNATAKA

arvindkumar@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

rkmeena@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

rrajasekharan@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

rgupta@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

N Tamil Selvan

Arvind Digvijay Singh Negi

C Sylendra Babu

Kalligotta Nagaraju

CADRE: TAMIL NADU

CADRE: HIMACHAL PRADESH

CADRE: TAMIL NADU

CADRE: KERALA

tamilselvan@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

adsingh@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

sylendra@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

knagaraju@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Subhash Yadav

Alok Kumar Vashistha

Shalin

Gopal Gupta

CADRE: HARYANA

CADRE: RAJASTHAN

CADRE: BIHAR

CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH

syadav@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

vashistha@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

shalin@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

ggupta@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Sindhu Pillai A

SK Priyadarshi

Binita Thakur

Ashutosh Pandey

CADRE: AGMUT

CADRE: ODISHA

CADRE: RAJASTHAN

CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH

sindhu@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

skpriyadarshi@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

binitayadav@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

ashutoshpandey@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Praveen Sood

Supratim Sarkar

A Koan

Shiva Prakash Devaraju

CADRE: KARNATAKA

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: AGMUT

CADRE: KARNATAKA

psood@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

supratims@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Akoan@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

spdeveraju@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

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31-05-1967

Karat Sanjay Dnyanadeo

Arun Kumar - I

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: WEST BENGAL

CADRE: GUJARAT

CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH

chilumurivm@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

nrbabu@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

ksanjayd@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

arun_kumar@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

P Karunakaran

P Rama Krishna Naidu

Malini Agarwal

Alok Sharma

CADRE: AGMUT

CADRE: JHARKHAND

CADRE: RAJASTHAN

CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH

pk@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

prknaidu@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

malini@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

akumar@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Jitendra Singh Meena

Ram Prawesh Thakur

PV Sunil Kumar

Sanjay Pande

CADRE: CHHATTISGARH

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

CADRE: ANDHRA PRADESH

CADRE: MAHARASHTRA

jitendrasm@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

rpthakur@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

pvsunilkumar@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

spande@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

Wabang Jamir

Sujeet Pandey

NK Senthamarai Kannan

Dinendra Kashyap

CADRE: GUJARAT

CADRE: UTTAR PRADESH

CADRE: TAMIL NADU

CADRE: KERALA

wjamir@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

sujeet@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

nkskannan@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

dkashyap@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

B Sandhya

Smita Khare

Shobha Ohatker

KK Mishra

CADRE: KERALA

CADRE: RAJASTHAN

CADRE: BIHAR

CADRE: HARYANA

sandhyab@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

smithakhare@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

sohatker@mail.svpnpa.gov.in

dir.scrb@hry.nic.in

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

Shivkumar C Udasi

Anupam Hazra

Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav

Rakesh Singh

BJP (KARNATAKA)

AITC (WEST BENGAL)

SS (MAHARASHTRA)

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

udasi.channabasappa@sansad.nic.in

anupam.hazra@sansad.nic.in

jadhav.sanjay@sansad.nic.in

rakesh.singh@sansad.nic.in

Anantkumar Hegde

Anandrao Adsul

Bhagwanth Khuba

R Parthipan

BJP (KARNATAKA)

SS (MAHARASHTRA)

BJP (KARNATAKA)

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

anantkh@sansad.nic.in

av.adsul@sansad.nic.in

bhagwanth.khuba@sansad.nic.in

r.parthipan@sansad.nic.in

Bodhsingh Bhagat

Kunhalikutty PK

Raju alias Devappa A Shetti

Mohammad Salim

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

IUML (KERALA)

SWP (MAHARASHTRA)

CPI(M)(WEST BENGAL)

bodhsingh.bhagat@sansad.nic.in

pkk@indkerala.com

raju.shetty@sansad.nic.in

md.salim@sansad.nic.in

Bhawana Gawali (Patil)

Ramsinh Pataliyabhai Rathwa

Dharmendra Kumar

Kotha Prabhakar Reddy

SS (MAHARASHTRA)

BJP (GUJARAT)

BJP (UTTAR PRADESH)

TRS (TELANGANA)

gb.pundlikrao@sansad.nic.in

ramsinh.rathwa@sansad.nic.in

kumar.dharmendra@sansad.nic.in

kr.prabhakar@sansad.nic.in

CN Jayadevan

Parvatagouda C Gaddigoudar

Kamakhya Prasad Tasa

Rayapati Sambasiva Rao

CPI (KERALA)

BJP (KARNATAKA)

BJP (ASSAM)

TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH)

cn.jayadevan@sansad.nic.in

pcgaddigoudar@rediffmail.com

kamakhyap.tasa@sansad.nic.in

rayapatisambasiva.rao@sansad.nic.in

NK Premachandran

Dharam Vira Gandhi

Savitri Thakur

SP Muddahanumegowda

RSP (KERALA)

AAP (PUNJAB)

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

INC (KARNATAKA)

nk.premachandran@sansad.nic.in

dharamv.gandhi@sansad.nic.in

savitri.thakur@sansad.nic.in

muddahanumegowda@sansad.nic.in

M Udhayakumar

Dipsinh Shankarsinh Rathod

Anant Gangaram Geete

Choudhury Mohan Jatua

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

BJP (GUJARAT)

SS (MAHARASHTRA)

AITC (WEST BENGAL)

m.udhayakumar@sansad.nic.in

dipsinhrathod62@gmail.com

geete@sansad.nic.in

mj.choudhury@sansad.nic.in

Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo

Suresh Chanabasappa Angadi

T Radhakrishnan

Richard Hay

BJD (ODISHA)

BJP (KARNATAKA)

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

BJP (KERALA)

kalikesh.singhdeo@sansad.nic.in

suresh.angadi@sansad.nic.in

mpvirudhunagar@gmail.com

profhay@gmail.com

Nitin Jairam Gadkari

S Rajendran

Jyoti Dhurve

Uday Pratap Singh

BJP (MAHARASHTRA)

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

nitin.gadkari@nic.in

rajendran.s19@sansad.nic.in

jyoti.dhurve@sansad.nic.in

udaipratap-narsinghpur@sansad.nic.in

Faizal PP Mohammed

Mansukhbhai D Vasava

A Arunmozhithevan

R Radhakrishnan

NCP (LAKSHADWEEP)

BJP (GUJARAT)

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

AINRC(PUDUCHERRY)

mohammed.faizal@sansad.nic.in

md.vasava@sansad.nic.in

a.arunmozhithevan@sansad.nic.in

Jose K Mani

Chandu Lal Sahu

Dinesh Trivedi

KC(M) (KERALA)

BJP (CHHATTISGARH)

AITC (WEST BENGAL)

mani.josek@sansad.nic.in

chandulal.sahu@sansad.nic.in

dintriv@gmail.com

Jayakumar Jayavardhan

Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande

SPY Reddy

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

SS (MAHARASHTRA)

YSR CONGRESS PARTY (ANDHRA PRADESH)

j.jayavardhan@sansad.nic.in

sk.lokhande@sansad.nic.in

spy.reddy@sansad.nic.in

Paresh Rawal

Krupal Balaji Tumane

Suresh Kodikunnil

BJP (GUJARAT)

SS (MAHARASHTRA)

INC (KERALA)

paresh.rawal@sansad.nic.in

kb.tumane@sansad.nic.in

kodikunnil.suresh@sansad.nic.in

20-05-67

20-05-68

21-05-55

23-05-73

24-05-50

25-05-60

25-05-68

26-05-74

27-05-57

28-05-75

29-05-65

29-05-87

30-05-55

30-05-82

01-06-47

01-06-1951

01-06-51

01-06-51

01-06-51

01-06-52

01-06-55

01-06-56

01-06-57

01-06-59

01-06-62

01-06-65

01-06-67

01-06-67

01-06-67

01-06-68

01-06-75

01-06-78

02-06-51

02-06-55

02-06-66

02-06-68

04-06-50

04-06-50

04-06-62

04-06-62

04-06-63

05-06-57

06-06-66

07-06-43

08-06-54

09-06-38

09-06-52

09-06-64

09-06-71

Ram Swaroop Sharma 10-06-58

BJP (HIMACHAL PRADESH)

r.swaroop@sansad.nic.in

V Panneer Selvam 10-06-59

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

v.pannerselvam@sansad.nic.in

Sher Singh Ghubaya 10-06-62

SAD (PUNJAB)

ss.ghubaya@sansad.nic.in

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Lok Sabha Members May 16, 2018 — June 15, 2018 Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy 11-06-44

Narendra Singh Tomar 12-06-57

YSR CONGRESS PARTY (ANDHRA PRADESH)

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

rajamohan.reddy@sansad.nic.in

nstomaroffice@gmail.com

Ashwini Kumar

Nagarajan P

11-06-56

12-06-61

BJP (HARYANA)

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

ashwanikumar.mp@sansad.nic.in

nagarajan.p19@sansad.nic.in

Vijaysinh Mohite Patil

RK Bharathimohan

12-06-44

12-06-67

NCP (MAHARASHTRA)

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

mpv.shankarrao@sansad.nic.in

rkm.bharathi@sansad.nic.in

Bandaru Dattatreya

Muthamsetti S Rao (Avanthi)

12-06-47

12-06-67

BJP (TELANGANA)

TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH)

bandaru@sansad.nic.in

ms.rao19@sansad.nic.in

Harinder Singh Khalsa

Jhina Hikaka

12-06-47

12-06-75

AAP (PUNJAB)

BJD (ODISHA)

harinders.khalsa@sansad.nic.in

jhina.hikaka@sansad.nic.in

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

D Kupendra Reddy

16-05-1950

27-05-1960

TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH)

JD(S) (KARNATAKA)

tg.venkatesh@sansad.nic.in

kupendra.reddy@sansad.nic.in

Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Narendra Jadhav

18-05-1948

28-05-1953

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

NOMINATED

tc.gehlot@sansad.nic.in

drnarendra.jadhav@sansad.nic.in

A Navaneethakrishnan

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

18-05-1956

31-05-1964

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

IND. (KARNATAKA)

rajeev.c@sansad.nic.in

Naresh Gujral

Mansukh L Mandaviya

19-05-1948

01-06-1972

SAD (PUNJAB)

BJP (GUJARAT)

nareshgujral@sansad.nic.in

mansukh.mandaviya@sansad.nic.in

Chunibhai Kanjibhai Gohel 19-05-1955

YS Chowdary 02-06-1961

BJP (GUJARAT)

TDP (ANDHRA PRADESH)

chuni.gohel@sansad.nic.in

ys.chowdary@sansad.nic.in

Misha Bharti

Lok Sabha Members May 16, 2018 — June 15, 2018 Gokaraju Ganga Raju

Kirit Premjibhai Solanki

BJP (ANDHRA PRADESH)

BJP (GUJARAT)

goka.raju@sansad.nic.in

kirit.solanki@sansad.nic.in

Prabhatsinh P Chauhan

Santokh Singh Chaudhary

BJP (GUJARAT)

INC (PUNJAB)

mp.panchmahal@prabhatsinh.com

ss.chaudhary@sansad.nic.in

Hari Babu Kambhampati

Bishnu Pada Ray

BJP (ANDHRA PRADESH)

BJP (ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS)

k.haribabu @sansad.nic.in

andaman.mp@sansad.nic.in

Lakhan Lal Sahu

Sunil Baliram Gaikwad

BJP (CHHATTISGARH)

BJP (MAHARASHTRA)

lakhanl.sahu@sansad.nic.in

dr.sunilbgaikwad@sansad.nic.in

Bhagat Singh Koshyari

Rahul Gandhi

BJP (UTTARAKHAND)

INC (UTTAR PRADESH)

bbhagat.koshyari@sansad.nic.in

office@rahulgandhi.in

14-06-48

15-06-41

15-06-53

16-06-1971

17-06-1942

17-06-1950

18-06-1946

19-06-1950

19-06-1970

19-06-1970

Rajya Sabha Members May 16, 2018 — June 15, 2018 K Keshava Rao

KC Ramamurthy

TRS (ANDHRA PRADESH)

INC (KARNATAKA)

keshava.rao@sansad.nic.in

kc.ramamurthy@sansad.nic.in

Prabhat Jha

CM Ramesh

BJP (MADHYA PRADESH)

TDP (TELANGANA)

prabhat.jha@sansad.nic.in

cm.ramesh@sansad.nic.in

KR Arjunan

Piyush Goyal

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

BJP (MAHARASHTRA)

04-06-1939

04-06-1957

04-06-1961

12-06-1952

12-06-1965

13-06-1964

kr.arjunan@sansad.nic.in

Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur 06-06-1956

BJP (RAJASTHAN)

harshvardhan.sd@sansad.nic.in

Pradeep Tamta 16-06-1958

INC (UTTARAKHAND)

pradeep.tamta@sansad.nic.in

K Somaprasad 10-06-1957 CPI(M)KERALA

k.somaprasad@sansad.nic.in

D Raja

22-05-1976

03-06-1949

RJD (BIHAR)

misha.bharti@sansad.nic.in

CPI (TAMIL NADU)

Sasikala Pushpa

Vayalar Ravi

AIADMK (TAMIL NADU)

INC (KERALA)

sasikala.pushpa@sansad.nic.in

vayalar@sansad.nic.in

22-05-1976

04-06-1937

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Tracking PRADEEP KUMAR SINHA The 1977-batch IAS officer of the UP cadre has been approved an extension as Cabinet Secretary for one year by ACC.

BP SHARMA The former 1981-batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre has been appointed Chairman of the Banks Board Bureau.

SV IYER

cadre has been appointed Principal Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment Department in Haryana.

RAJIV RAUTELA The 2002-batch IAS officer has been appointed Commissioner, Kumaun Division in Uttarakhand.

NIHARIKA RAI

The 1981-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre has been appointed Vice President of the World Bank Group.

The 2005-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre has been appointed Private Secretary to Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

M SATHIYAVATHY

SELVA KUMARI JAYARAJAN

The 1982-batch IAS officer of the Union Territory cadre has been appointed Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

DINESH KUMAR JAIN

The 2006-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre has been appointed Executive Director, Handloom Export Promotion Council (HEPC), Chennai under the Ministry of Textiles.

The 1983-batch IAS officer has been appointed Chief Secretary of Maharashtra.

SANKET S BHONDVE

VITUL KUMAR The 1993-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre has been appointed Inspector General in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

RAJIV RANJAN BHAGAT The 1998-batch IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre has been appointed Deputy Inspector General in Special Protection Group (SPG).

UPENDRA NATH VERMA The 2013-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre has been appointed Senior Superintendent of Police, Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

P MALLIKARJUNA RAO The 1985-batch IFS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre has been appointed Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) (Head of Forests) in Andhra Pradesh.

PRAVIN LAXMINARAYAN AGGARWAL

The 1983-batch IAS officer has been appointed Chief Secretary of Rajasthan.

The 2007-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre has been appointed Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

VIVEK KUMAR SINGH

RAJESH RANJAN

RAVI THAPAR

The 1989-batch IAS officer has been appointed Principal Secretary to the Bihar Governor.

The 1984-batch IPS officer of the Bihar cadre has been appointed DG of the CISF.

The 1983-batch IFS officer has been appointed Ambassador of India to Nicaragua.

NEERJA SEKHAR

The 1990-batch IPS officer of the Telangana cadre has been appointed IG, CISF.

DB GUPTA

The 1993-batch IAS officer of the Haryana

APARNA SINHA

Moving On: IAS officers retiring in May 2018 ASSAM – MEGHALAYA Mukti Gogoi (2000)

BIHAR

Narendra Kumar Sinha (1980) Narendra Kumar Singh (2006) Sunil Kumar (2006)

GUJARAT

MAHARASHTRA

Mahesh R Zagade (1993) RR Chavan (1997)

TAMIL NADU

T Jacob (1984) Ashok Ranjan Mohanty (1985) R Vasuki (1999)

The 1994-batch IFS officer of the Tripura cadre has been appointed Joint Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry.

KRISHAN KUMAR The 1984-batch IFS officer has been appointed Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Norway.

NARINDER CHAUHAN The 1985-batch IFS officer has been appointed Ambassador of India to the Czech Republic.

SUBRATA BHATTACHARJEE The 1989-batch IFS officer has been appointed Ambassador of India to Republic of Serbia.

SB Raval (1999) KB Upadhyaya (2006)

UTTARAKHAND

KARNATAKA

UTTAR PRADESH

Devendra Chaudhary (1981)

The 1994-batch IFS officer has been appointed Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea.

UNION TERRITORY

BHUSHAN KUMAR SINHAL

G Latha Krishna Rau (1982) HS Ashokanand (2003)

KERALA

A Ajith Kumar (1994) TO Sooraj (1994)

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Chandra Shekhar Bhatt (2002)

M Sathiyavathy (1982) Tahang Taggu (1999)

SRIPRIYA RANGANATHAN

The 1993-batch IES officer has been appointed Economic Adviser, Department of Financial Services.

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JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL

The 1997-batch IRSEE officer has been appointed Director, Department of Higher Education.

The 1992-batch IRS-IT officer has been appointed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture.

The Justice has been appointed Chairman of Haryana Human Rights Commission

SHEFALI JUNEJA

INDU MALHOTRA

The 1992-batch IRS-IT officer has been appointed Director in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

The Senior Supreme Court Counsel has been appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court.

The Justice has been appointed as Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court.

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Questionable actions of Vinod Rai!

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

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...by the way Finally Jaishankar joins Tatas

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verybody in the government is bemused about S Jaishankar, former Foreign Secretary who had also served as India’s Ambassador to China and then USA, being roped in by Tata Sons as its new President, Global Corporate Affairs. Jaishankar, a 1977 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, will report to N Chandrasekaran, executive chairman of Tata Sons. His remunerations and associated perks are not known as yet, but as the former IFS has not completed a year of his retirement — he retired on o January 28 this year — he ne needed to take special pe permission from the ggovernment to join a p private entity. Generally, a retired civil servant can jjoin outside the go government only two years afte after retirement. Given the clout Jaishankar enjoys in clou South Block, getting permissi permission would not have been issue. One, why was the an is rule waived off. Two, why ru is Jaishankar so desperate tto join the Tatas. Insiders reveal that Jaishanker was certain after observing the present setup in the Prime Minister’s Office that he will not be awarded any post retirement plump posting. Tata 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-tosoftware 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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he term of Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, a 1977-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been extended for one year more. This news was almost confirmed at the celebrations of Civil Services Day. Most of the civil servants were whispering that Sinha will get another year as a cabinet secretary; they also observed the confidence of PK Sinha at the function. It was quite indicative that the he is sure to get an extension. For over a decade, the practice has been to appoint a Cab Sec for a fixed two-year term. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be a believer of continuity in governance. When he took over as Prime Minister in May 2014, AK Seth was serving as Cab Sec and there was strong opinion that a new Cab Sec will be appointed in June 2014 but Modi surprised everybody when he ordered an extension for Seth. Insiders inform that Seth who had an impeccable track record made Modi comfortable at crucial time of transition of power from Congress to BJP. 2019 will be the election year and in the given scenario a new face in the Cabinet Secretariat would have taken time to acclimatise as the Cab Sec has to deal with a new subject every 15 minutes and different ministries. Sinha’s track record indicates that he is a fast-paced performer and he has synchronised Cab Sec office with the working style of the Prime Minister. The Cab Sec and PM relationship is a very delicate and indispensable bond between two individuals and institutions. Even Manmohan Singh did not change his Cab Secs, KM Chandrasekhar and BK Chaturvedi. g

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