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Hawkeye Chacha Modi Mandates Merit in Government
September09, 2014 (C) Ravinder Singh ravinderinvent@gmail.com
For India to progress and match developed countries in technology and
efficiency India must Empower Best in the business to Lead various
departments of Government of India in both axis Horizontal and
Vertical – Legislature, Executive, Judiciary from Joint Secretary and
above ranks in first two years and gradually for lower ranks.
Planning Process itself needs OVERHAUL – Government have ‘Income
Distribution Policy’ Wealth of India presently exceed $3.5Trillion
2014 but is not fairly distributed.
BJP government should define how wealth shall be distributed in 2019
as First Exercise of the government. Wealth Generation in 2019 shall
be around $5 Trillion or approximately Rs.300,00,000 crores in 2019.
It is like building a Site Plan for a building – everything is Fit into it.
Here in the short clipping – Minister of Power is ENTIRELY Promoting
Coal Based power neglecting Green Power sources – 200,000 MW Solar,
200,000 MW Multipurpose Hydro, 100,000 MW Nuclear Power and 100,000 MW
Wind Energy.
99.99% Indians have no Equity Holdings in 10 Companies which are being favored.
With these Green Energy program India can reduce 1500 million tones of
CO2 emissions by around 2024.
Ravinder Singh, Inventor & Consultant,
INNOVATIVE TECHNONLOGIES AND PROJECTS
Y-77, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. Ph; 091- 9718280435, 9650421857
Ravinder Singh* is a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power,
Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing,
Technologies and Projects.
Hawk-Eyed Modi Mandates Focus on Merit in Govt Appointments
Sep 08 2014 The Economic Times (Mumbai)
Asks ministries to list names to ACC in order of merit or preference
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told ministries in no uncertain terms
that he won't brook any kind of obfuscation in the way they recommend
candidates for specific roles as he looks to end the way in which such
appointments were said to be rigged in the previous United Progressive
Alliance administration in some departments.
This is part of a larger overhaul of the human resources management
strategy being driven by the Prime Minister's Office with a view to
getting the right team in place for implementing the government's
agenda over the next five years.
The diktat to focus on merit while proposing candidates was issued to
all departments on September05, after several instances in which
alternatives were recommended to the Appointments Committee of the
Cabinet (ACC) without being ranked in order s of merit or detailing
the choice of the selection panel appointed for the head-hunting
exercise.
Clamping Down on Ad Hoc-ism
What happened: Names were being sent to ACC without being ranked in
order of merit or detailing choice of selection panel
What PMO said: Ministries must indicate order of merit and preference
while forwarding names
What's the motive: Overhaul of HR management strategy to get right
team in place for implementing govt's agenda “In some of the cases
submitted by various ministries, the selection committees or the
search-cum-selection committees are not recommending the panel (of
candidates) in order of merit or preference,“ the personnel ministry
said in its September 5 memo sent to departments.
The ACC incidentally is restricted to Modi and Home Minister Rajnath
Singh. The minister under whose domain the vacancy arises is no longer
included as was done in the UPA's tenure. The PMO's move is being seen
by officials as an attempt to break with what was regarded as UPA's
ad-hoc and capricious method of selecting talent for top roles in
ministries, public sector enterprises, banks, financial institutions
and autonomous bodies. It wasn't uncommon to witness sparring and
sniping over appointments at the highest levels of the previous
government.
Traditionally, the prime minister has overseen all top appointments at
ministries, especially those of secretaries, as they are expected to
keep a check on ministers as part of their duties. But coalition
compulsions, often cited during the UPA era, meant that ministers had
a disproportionate say in deciding key appointments, allowing them to
get rid of officers they deemed inconvenient.
It is also said to have allowed former telecom minister A Raja to
virtually handpick all the officials in the department, allowing
wrongdoing to flourish and culminating in the cancellation of telecom
licences by the Supreme Court in 2012 after the 2G scam came to light.
Ministries have been told they “must” indicate the order of merit and
preference while forwarding names for a job, unless they are
statutorily required not to do so. “All ministries are requested to
ensure compliance of these instructions,” the personnel ministry memo
stressed.
Modi's predecessor Manmohan Singh had also identified the ministries'
casual approach to appointments as a problem and had asked them to
ensure that selection panels recommended candidates in order of merit.
But the process stayed opaque and marred by intrigue.
By contrast, the Modi PMO is not only asserting itself on all
important policy decisions, but also has the last word on
appointments, including those of ministers' personal staff.
No discord between coal, power mins P. Goyal
Sep 08 2014 The Times of India (Delhi)
Will Get Coal Cheap From CIL Mines
Nine private companies stand to make a killing of over Rs 6,000 crore
per year at the cost of existing generation stations if the government
clears the power ministry's proposal to give coal linkage -supply
allotment from Coal India Ltd's mines - to new and upcoming power
projects stranded in the absence of fuel supply arrangements.
The nine private power projects account for 10,580mw, and as
government documents indicate, would corner over 24 million tonnes of
domestic coal a year--enough to run a 5,000mw plant or feed Delhi's
demand. They would get this coal at a price of Rs 1,500 per tonne
notified by the government. Without government intervention, they
would have to source coal from the open market ¬either import or buy
in CIL's e-auction ¬ at roughly Rs 4,000 a tonne.
The price differential works out to a benefit of Rs 6,085 crore per
year. The total benefit over the 25-year life span of a power project
would be Rs 1.52 lakh crore -a tad lower than the Rs 1.86 lakh crore
windfall gains to private firms estimated in the CAG's Coalgate
report.
The ministry's proposal is aimed at preventing public and private
investments, made to create 18,580mw generation capacity, from turning
sour and triggering a nightmare for bankers. These are promoters whose
mines have been de-allocated on various counts or are stuck in the
CBI’s Coalgate probe. The rescue plan prepared by the power ministry
would also help three promoters who planned their projects on imported
coal but later sought domestic fuel.
But the timing of the move raises several questions since many power
stations are facing coal shortage. Some of them, including those run
by state run utility NTPC, have shut down a unit or two due to coal
shortage. Some 28 others have coal stocks for less than four days.
There are yet other projects that have been completed on the basis of
LoAs (letters of assurance) and are waiting to sign fuel supply
agreements (FSA) with CIL. FSAs are signed on the basis of LoAs.
In contrast, the nine projects do not have LoAs but would get firm
supply if the power ministry's proposal goes through. Sources said the
coal ministry had previously shot down the plan on the ground that it
would be legally untenable. There is an opinion in the coal ministry
that diversion of cheaper coal to private entities when central and
state generators, as well as projects with FSAs, are starving would be
hard to defend.
But power and coal minister Piyush Goyal denied any discord between
his two ministries. “I can tell you there is no difference. There were
some issues that were raised, which helped us make things clearer.
This is the beauty of this government. It works seamlessly”, he told
TOI on Sunday.
Earlier in a press conference, he said the government was working
towards fulfilling its Budget promise of providing adequate coal to
all projects that are already commissioned or would be commissioned by
March 2015.
September09, 2014 (C) Ravinder Singh ravinderinvent@gmail.com
For India to progress and match developed countries in technology and
efficiency India must Empower Best in the business to Lead various
departments of Government of India in both axis Horizontal and
Vertical – Legislature, Executive, Judiciary from Joint Secretary and
above ranks in first two years and gradually for lower ranks.
Planning Process itself needs OVERHAUL – Government have ‘Income
Distribution Policy’ Wealth of India presently exceed $3.5Trillion
2014 but is not fairly distributed.
BJP government should define how wealth shall be distributed in 2019
as First Exercise of the government. Wealth Generation in 2019 shall
be around $5 Trillion or approximately Rs.300,00,000 crores in 2019.
It is like building a Site Plan for a building – everything is Fit into it.
Here in the short clipping – Minister of Power is ENTIRELY Promoting
Coal Based power neglecting Green Power sources – 200,000 MW Solar,
200,000 MW Multipurpose Hydro, 100,000 MW Nuclear Power and 100,000 MW
Wind Energy.
99.99% Indians have no Equity Holdings in 10 Companies which are being favored.
With these Green Energy program India can reduce 1500 million tones of
CO2 emissions by around 2024.
Ravinder Singh, Inventor & Consultant,
INNOVATIVE TECHNONLOGIES AND PROJECTS
Y-77, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. Ph; 091- 9718280435, 9650421857
Ravinder Singh* is a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power,
Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing,
Technologies and Projects.
Hawk-Eyed Modi Mandates Focus on Merit in Govt Appointments
Sep 08 2014 The Economic Times (Mumbai)
Asks ministries to list names to ACC in order of merit or preference
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told ministries in no uncertain terms
that he won't brook any kind of obfuscation in the way they recommend
candidates for specific roles as he looks to end the way in which such
appointments were said to be rigged in the previous United Progressive
Alliance administration in some departments.
This is part of a larger overhaul of the human resources management
strategy being driven by the Prime Minister's Office with a view to
getting the right team in place for implementing the government's
agenda over the next five years.
The diktat to focus on merit while proposing candidates was issued to
all departments on September05, after several instances in which
alternatives were recommended to the Appointments Committee of the
Cabinet (ACC) without being ranked in order s of merit or detailing
the choice of the selection panel appointed for the head-hunting
exercise.
Clamping Down on Ad Hoc-ism
What happened: Names were being sent to ACC without being ranked in
order of merit or detailing choice of selection panel
What PMO said: Ministries must indicate order of merit and preference
while forwarding names
What's the motive: Overhaul of HR management strategy to get right
team in place for implementing govt's agenda “In some of the cases
submitted by various ministries, the selection committees or the
search-cum-selection committees are not recommending the panel (of
candidates) in order of merit or preference,“ the personnel ministry
said in its September 5 memo sent to departments.
The ACC incidentally is restricted to Modi and Home Minister Rajnath
Singh. The minister under whose domain the vacancy arises is no longer
included as was done in the UPA's tenure. The PMO's move is being seen
by officials as an attempt to break with what was regarded as UPA's
ad-hoc and capricious method of selecting talent for top roles in
ministries, public sector enterprises, banks, financial institutions
and autonomous bodies. It wasn't uncommon to witness sparring and
sniping over appointments at the highest levels of the previous
government.
Traditionally, the prime minister has overseen all top appointments at
ministries, especially those of secretaries, as they are expected to
keep a check on ministers as part of their duties. But coalition
compulsions, often cited during the UPA era, meant that ministers had
a disproportionate say in deciding key appointments, allowing them to
get rid of officers they deemed inconvenient.
It is also said to have allowed former telecom minister A Raja to
virtually handpick all the officials in the department, allowing
wrongdoing to flourish and culminating in the cancellation of telecom
licences by the Supreme Court in 2012 after the 2G scam came to light.
Ministries have been told they “must” indicate the order of merit and
preference while forwarding names for a job, unless they are
statutorily required not to do so. “All ministries are requested to
ensure compliance of these instructions,” the personnel ministry memo
stressed.
Modi's predecessor Manmohan Singh had also identified the ministries'
casual approach to appointments as a problem and had asked them to
ensure that selection panels recommended candidates in order of merit.
But the process stayed opaque and marred by intrigue.
By contrast, the Modi PMO is not only asserting itself on all
important policy decisions, but also has the last word on
appointments, including those of ministers' personal staff.
No discord between coal, power mins P. Goyal
Sep 08 2014 The Times of India (Delhi)
Will Get Coal Cheap From CIL Mines
Nine private companies stand to make a killing of over Rs 6,000 crore
per year at the cost of existing generation stations if the government
clears the power ministry's proposal to give coal linkage -supply
allotment from Coal India Ltd's mines - to new and upcoming power
projects stranded in the absence of fuel supply arrangements.
The nine private power projects account for 10,580mw, and as
government documents indicate, would corner over 24 million tonnes of
domestic coal a year--enough to run a 5,000mw plant or feed Delhi's
demand. They would get this coal at a price of Rs 1,500 per tonne
notified by the government. Without government intervention, they
would have to source coal from the open market ¬either import or buy
in CIL's e-auction ¬ at roughly Rs 4,000 a tonne.
The price differential works out to a benefit of Rs 6,085 crore per
year. The total benefit over the 25-year life span of a power project
would be Rs 1.52 lakh crore -a tad lower than the Rs 1.86 lakh crore
windfall gains to private firms estimated in the CAG's Coalgate
report.
The ministry's proposal is aimed at preventing public and private
investments, made to create 18,580mw generation capacity, from turning
sour and triggering a nightmare for bankers. These are promoters whose
mines have been de-allocated on various counts or are stuck in the
CBI’s Coalgate probe. The rescue plan prepared by the power ministry
would also help three promoters who planned their projects on imported
coal but later sought domestic fuel.
But the timing of the move raises several questions since many power
stations are facing coal shortage. Some of them, including those run
by state run utility NTPC, have shut down a unit or two due to coal
shortage. Some 28 others have coal stocks for less than four days.
There are yet other projects that have been completed on the basis of
LoAs (letters of assurance) and are waiting to sign fuel supply
agreements (FSA) with CIL. FSAs are signed on the basis of LoAs.
In contrast, the nine projects do not have LoAs but would get firm
supply if the power ministry's proposal goes through. Sources said the
coal ministry had previously shot down the plan on the ground that it
would be legally untenable. There is an opinion in the coal ministry
that diversion of cheaper coal to private entities when central and
state generators, as well as projects with FSAs, are starving would be
hard to defend.
But power and coal minister Piyush Goyal denied any discord between
his two ministries. “I can tell you there is no difference. There were
some issues that were raised, which helped us make things clearer.
This is the beauty of this government. It works seamlessly”, he told
TOI on Sunday.
Earlier in a press conference, he said the government was working
towards fulfilling its Budget promise of providing adequate coal to
all projects that are already commissioned or would be commissioned by
March 2015.
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