7 candidates from J&K qualify IAS-2011
PDP MLC’s daughter cracks IAS after topping in MBBS, KAS
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Highlight of Civil Services Examination, 2011, Results
Ø The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2011 was conducted by UPSC on 12th June, 2011. A record number of 4,72,290 candidates applied for this examination, out of which 2,43,003 candidates have actually appeared.
Ø 11984 candidates were declared qualified for the Main written examination held in October-November, 2011 out of which 2417 candidates were selected for the Personality Test conducted in March-April, 2012. Finally, 910 candidates (715 male& 195 female) have been recommended for appointment to the IAS, IFS, IPS and other Central Services against 1001 reported vacancies. Vacancies unfilled presently are on account of 91 reserved community candidates qualifying on general standards. Depending on the options exercised by them finally, these vacancies will be filled by candidates recommended for the Reserve List that is maintained by the Commission.
Ø The First two positions have been taken by female candidates. The top 25 candidates include 19 male (including 01 visually challenged candidate) and 06 female candidates. In the top 100 candidates, there are 21 female candidates.
Ø Ms. Shena Aggarwal (Roll No. 233541) has topped the Examination. She has done MBBS from All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
Ø The 2nd ranker is Ms. Rukmani Riar (Roll No. 27895). She has done Master of Arts (Social Entrepreneurship) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. The is her 1stattempt.
Ø The 3rd position is bagged by Shri Prince Dhawan (Roll No. 1804). He has done M. Tech (Elect. Engg.) from IIT,
- The result also showcases the pan-Indian distribution of successful candidates of this Examination. Amongst the top 25 candidates, there are candidates claiming domicile from as many as 16 States, i.e., Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Uttarakhand & Uttar Pradesh.
- The top 25 candidates include alumni from some of the premier educational institutions of the country including AIIMS, IIM and IITs. An alumnus of London School of Economics also figures in the top 25.
- The family background of top 25 candidates show diverse representation from all walks of the life which include farmer, teacher, businessman, army personnel, low and middle level govt. servants, doctors, advocate, professor & civil servants
- Amongst top 25 candidates, 6 have made to the merit lift in their 1st attempt; 07 in 2nd attempt; 09 in 3rd attempt; and 01 each in 4th, 5th & 6thattempts. As many as 12 have already been recommended to services other than IAS on the basis of Civil Services Examinations of previous years.
- Of the top 25 candidates – 13 appeared from
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Friday, May 4, 2012
In the major shake up in litigation and prosecutions layers of J&K Government, expected next week, Sr Additional Advocate (AAG) in Jammu, Satish Chander Gupta, and AAG, Abdul Hamid Qazi, are being dropped despite their impressive track record. Mr Gupta has stopped appearing on behalf of State in J&K High Court. Mr Qazi has been asked to resign or else be prepared for getting clubbed among the non-performers lot. AAG Jagdish Parihar, and Govt Advocate Deepika Mahajan, according to sources, are being dropped for 'non-performance'.
AAG Gagan Basotra, known for his high political clout, is being elevated to the position of Sr AAG in place of Mr Gupta in Jammu. Prominent advocates, Inderjit Gupta, and Seema Shekhar (who has previously functioned as Govt Advocate and AAG in Jammu for 17 years out of 25 years of her career as lawyer) are likely to be inducted as AAGs.
In Srinagar, Tassaduq Hussain Khwaja, who is currently on panel of Advoate General, is likely to be appointed as AAG. However, two government attorneys are being sacked on complaints of corruption. Advocate Nisar Shah is likely to be appointed as a Govt Advocate for pleading PSC cases (currently with Sr AAG Ali Mohammad Magray and AAG Azharul Amin) in J&K High Court. In Jammu, PSC counsel Mr D C Raina (Sr Advocate and former AG) will continue even as his junior, Farooq Natnu, is being considered for appointment as a junior counsel with PSC.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Someone thunders, someone roars,someone barks, someone bites, someone gets bitten and cries---and someone dies due to wounds or infection. Dogs continue to swell in numbers, journalists write stories, Srinagar Municipality makes dog ponds, calls for dog keepers and and gears up for sterilization. The show goes on. Chief Justice Kalifullah asked a vital question: 'Will the dogs stop biting after being sterilized?' But nobody asks him the more vital question: 'If Chief Justice of High Court will pose to be helpless by being poetic and philosophical like all others, including the much tweeting Chief Minister, who will give the Kashmiris Azadi from this dog menace? Why dogs have better right to life than humans in Kashmir alone? Is this total helplessness and insensitivity of the authorities to basis safeguards of human life or a tool to keep the Kadhmiris engaged with non-political issues?' People fattening their necks with huge salaries coming to them from taxpayers' money should have a shame to stop this spree of rhetorical speeches and deliver. Enough is enough.
Non-performing Govt advocates being shunt out
Sr AAG, AAG Jammu being clubbed with ‘dead wood’ for unknown reasons
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
If highly placed authoritative sources are to be believed, even a few of the well performing government advocates are also being disengaged. Those being dropped inspite of their track record of impressive performance include Senior Additional Advocate General (Sr AAG) Jammu
According to these sources, it was being conveyed to Mr Qazi that in case he failed to put in his papers of resignation, he could be clubbed with the “dead wood” and shown the door. Why the establishment had begun to dislike the Sr AAG Mr Gupta, was not known immediately. Sources said that services of AAG in Jammu, Mr Jagdish Parihar, and a junior Government Advocate, Deepika Mahajan, were also likely to be terminated on account of alleged non-performance.
According to sources, a major overhaul in the government’s litigation and prosecution wings had become inevitable in the wake of public criticism that most of the government advocates had been engaged merely on account of their political and bureaucratic clout. There was consensus on the assessment that the government had been losing most of the lawsuits and getting adverse orders from courts mainly due to the fact that a large number of its advocates were neither competent nor performing well for a host of reasons. Integrity of few others, according to sources, was being viewed as “doubtful”.
Minister incharge Law, Ali Mohammad Sagar, has taken over a dozen meetings to review performance of the government advocates and sensitize them on their duties in the last two years. However, the system of engaging advocates on account of their relationship to the ruling coalition politicians and bureaucrats is continuing unabated.
Currently, the state government has one Advocate General (Mohammad Ishaq Qadiri), three Sr AAGs (Ali Mohammad Magray in Srinagar , S C Gupta in Jammu and Gaurav Pachnanda in New Delhi ), eight AAGs (four each in Srinagar and Jammu ), eight Deputy Advocates General (four each in Srinagar and Jammu ) besides four Government Advocates in Srinagar and two in Jammu New Delhi
The State Government has also an army of nearly 100 standing counsels and legal advisors to contest its matters in subordinate judiciary. All are appointed by Department of Law.
While as Home Department has a separate army of prosecutors for contesting criminal matters in subordinate courts, Department of Law also engages about 30 Public Prosecutors to plead criminal cases in equal number of District and Sessions Courts in 22 districts.
Sources said that the process of refurbishing the activity and performance of government advocates was already underway and it could be completed in the current month. Performance of the lawyers was being examined by different officials in two or three departments, sources added.
Advocate General, Mohammad Ishaq Qadiri, declined to comment on the names available with Early Times but he confirmed that a number of government advocates were likely to be replaced in near future. He said that he had lately written a note to the higher authorities to underscore the need of replacing the non-performing lawyers by fresh, energetic, meritorious and competent incumbents. He, however, made it clear that he had not mentioned any names.
Mr Qadiri said that Government was now obtaining reports with respect to the performance of government advocates from various Heads of Departments and Administrative Secretaries as also some members of judiciary. He said that the offices of Advocate General and Director Litigation would finally make individual assessment of all the incumbents and also evaluate proposed incumbents on the basis of different criteria. “No final decision has been taken till date”, Mr Qadiri asserted. He said that the need of refurbishing the entire system had arisen out of certain adverse orders in some matters besides clamour of some legislators during recent session of legislature.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
J&K Bank to challenge SIC judgment in High Court
RTI order calls for making public names of major loan defaulters
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
Highly placed sources revealed to Early Times that JKB was not going to implement SIC’s order of providing information to applicants under RTI 2009. As reported in detail in today’s newspapers, SIC’s full bench judgment, as pronounced on April 24th, has declared the bank as “Public Authority” and thus made it bound by law to provide information to the applicants under RTI Act of 2009.
Sources said that after telephonic conversations with senior advocate Zaffar Ahmad Shah, who represented JKB in SIC, and top functionaries associated with legal department of the bank, Chairman Mushtaq Ahmad was strongly holding the opinion of contesting the SIC order in the appellate forum. According to these sources, issues could be discussed also with Directors on Board and a formal decision of challenging the SIC order was likely to be taken by Saturday next.
Chairman, according to sources, was busy with holding the interviews for Vice Presidents on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday, he was expected to take a formal decision, possibly after taking Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, too into confidence. Both, according to sources, were averse to bringing JKB under purview of RTI Act and had accordingly advised both Houses of Legislature not to admit any questions, discussions, resolutions, calling attention motions or legislation on functioning of the bank.
On bank’s behalf, counsel Z A Shah had forcefully argued before SIC that bringing JKB under purview of RTI Act could lead to “exploiters” filing petitions to harass and blackmail the bank official and leadership. That argument, however, was not taken as tenable by the SIC full bench, headed by Chief Information Commissioner Ghulam Rasool Sufi. Mr Sufi believed that most of such apprehensions, though not completely unreal, had been addressed and necessary safeguards stood adequately provided in sections Nos 8, 10 and 11 of the RTI Act of 2009.
While as JKB’s Executive President (Law), Sahibzada Ghulam Mohiuddin, did not respond to phone calls, President (Law), Roop Krishen Shah, asserted that he could give the bank’s formal reaction to the SIC judgment on Saturday. “We have received authentic copy of the judgment today and begun to examine it in detail. Yes, we may challenge it but we can tell you only tomorrow or the day after”, Mr Shah said. Incharge of the bank’s public relations and media at Corporate Communications, Sajjad Bazaz, too maintained that a formal reaction would be available only on Saturday next.
Sources, nevertheless, disclosed that the bank leadership was particularly perturbed over the direction of providing details of the loan defaulters, who had outstanding of over Rs 50 Lakh against them, to the RTI activists. “Chairman Sahab wants to maintain customer-friendly ambience of the bank. He was among the officials who had resisted to the condemned practice of taking drum-beaters to the doorsteps of defaulters in the past. He is keen to ensure recoveries but also particular to see that the bank did not become source of embarrassment for many of the respected traders who had fallen under slump but had not the intention of grabbing the bank’s money”, said an official.
However, quite a number of functionaries, including those on middle ranks, believed that implementation of RTI Act would enhance transparency and accountability and thus lead to more of the customers’ faith in the working of the financial institution. “It’s a fundamentally strong bank. RTI or no RTI would not matter. We have completely come out the recession and our share price is about to reach back to the dream line of Rs 1000. Our business will be Rs 100,000 Crore and profit over Rs 1,000 by the end of this financial year”, said another senior executive.
After dismissing the bank’s arguments, SIC has directed the Chairman to provide to one of the complainants complete list of those defaulters who owed more than Rs 50 lakh to the bank. Yet another perturbing direction wanted delivery of complete list of the candidates who had appeared in last year’s competitive examination for selection of Banking Associates. While as one of the nine clubbed petitioners has sought copy of the marks sheet, another has demanded all particulars, including name, parentage, residence, qualification and marks obtained in the personality test by the selected candidates.
Admitting the arguments of advocate Vilakshana Singh, who was also one among the nine petitioners who had challenged the bank’s refusal of providing them information under RTI Act, SIC has directed Chairman JKB to implement the judgment within one month.
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Cabinet approves pending instalment of DA to employees, creation of staff for Trade Facilitation Centers, Grade promotion to Sunita Sharma (IAS), Shaukat Malik, Rauful Hassan (IPS)
The State Cabinet which met here this evening under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah, ordered payment of Dearness Allowance to State Government Employees and Pensioners-revised rates effective from Ist January 2012.
The Cabinet also approved construction of Convention Centre at Jammu and Optic Fiber Communication assigned to PGCIL for execution in J&K.
The Cabinet approved creation of staff for manning the Trade Facilitation Centers at Salamabad Uri and Chakan-da-Bagh Poonch and Constitution of State Planning Board (SPB).
Revision of the rates of Compensatory Allowance and Border Allowance was also approved by the Cabinet.
The Cabinet also gave its nod to release of Cost Living Allowance (COLA) for the period ending June 2010 in favour of State owned Public Sector Employees, creation of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for the International Trade Centre (ITC) at Pampore.
The Cabinet also approved the promotions of Mrs. Sunita Sharma, IAS to Super Time Scale of IAS, Mr. Showkat Ahmad Malik IPS to the selection grade of IPS, Mr. Rauf-ul-Hassan, IPS to the selection grade of IPS w.e.f. 1.1.2006 on regular basis and promotions of officers to the various scale of IPS.
The Cabinet accorded Administrative Approval for construction of residential flats for employees at Pampore.
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