• Nikhilesh Jha, an IAS officer of 1984 batch, Manipur cadre, has been appointed as MD, National Water Mission.
• J R Krishna Rao, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed in the Department of Ex Serviceman Welfare, Ministry of Defence. Currently, he is posted as Joint Secretary, Defence Production.
• Arun Kumar, a 1983 batch IAS officer of Assam cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Social Justice and Employment, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. At present, he is Joint Secretary, Mines.
• Usha Sharma, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. Currently, he is ADG, Tourism.
• Surina Ranjan, another 1985 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Defence Production. Currently, she is Joint Secretary, Defence.
• Sunil Kumar Singh, a 1983 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor.
• Yogendra Tripathy, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director, Food Corporation of India. Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Human Resource and Development.
• Bhagwati P Pandey, a 1983 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Power.
• S K Krishna, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Assam cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
• Dr M M Kutty, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change. Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.
• Deepak Kumar, a 1984 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed as Director General, Employees State Insurance Dispensary.
• H L Samariya, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment.
• Sailesh, another 1985 batch IAS officer of Assam cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Currently, he is Joint Secretary there.
• Sanjeev Ranjan, another IAS officer of 1985 batch, Tripura cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence.
• J K Dadoo, a 1983 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce. Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.
• Sameer Sharma, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Urban Development. At present, he is Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.
• Arun Goel, another 1985 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre, has been appointed as Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority.
• Arvind Mehta, a 1984 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce. Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.
• P Subramanyam, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre, has been appointed as Development Commissioner (Handicrafts). Currently, he is posted as Joint Secretary, Textiles.
• Ajay Kumar, an IAS officer of Kerala cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, DeitY.
• Kavita Gupta, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy. Currently, he is ADG, Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Mumbai.
• Alka Panda, a 1983 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, has been appointed as Director General, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Currently, she is ADG, BIS.
• S N Tripathi, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.
• C Chandramauli, another 1985 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, RGCCI.
• B N Sharma, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Power. Prior to it, he was Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.
• K B Agarwal, another 1985 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. At present, he is Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.
• G C Murmu, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Expenditure. Currently, he is Joint Secretary, Expenditure.
• Madhukar Gupta, another 1985 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises (DPE). At present, he is posted as Joint Secretary, DPE.
• Kiran Soni, another 1985 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as Textile Commissioner (post Upgraded to AS).
• Anup Wadhawan, an IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services. Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the same department.
• Sudhir Tripathi, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre, has been appointed as Deputy Election Commissioner (post upgraded to Additional Secretary). Currently, he is Deputy Election Commissioner (CEC).
• R Subramanyam, an IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development. Currently, he is posted as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development.
• Upendra Singh, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. At present, he is posted as Joint Secretary in the same Ministry.

National Capital Territory Government Transport Secretary Parimal Rai, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, will take charge as Home Secretary of the Government of Delhi. He has been given the charge until Sanjeev Nandan Sahai, a 1986 batch IAS officer of the Union Territory cadre, returns in the month of November.

The post had been lying vacant, as no full-time appointment has been made to the post for long.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has transferred four IAS officers. Those transferred are as follows:

• Vijay Kumar, a 1992 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, has been transferred to Lakshadweep. Currently, he is serving as VAT Commissioner of Delhi.
• Padma Jaiswal, a 2003 batch IAS oficer of the same cadre, has been transferred to Goa. She is currently Deputy Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (North).
• B R Singh, Special Commissioner of Food and Supplies, has also been transferred to Goa.
• Kunal, a 2005 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, and Deputy Commissioner, East District, has been transferred to Goa as well.

Freshdesk Inc, which provides a SaaS-based customer support platform for enterprises, has named LinkedIn India MD Nishant Rao as chief operating officer.

“In his role, Rao handle non-R&D aspects of Freshdesk’s operations,” the company said in an official statement.

Rao was serving as LinkedIn’s India head since 2013. He has over 10 years of industry experience in leadership positions. He has worked with companies such as McKinsey and ARIBA Inc.

Alok Rawat, Former Water Resources Secretary, has been appointed as the first male member of the National Commission for Women (NCW), filling the fourth seat in the five-member panel.

Rawat, after the posting, said, “I feel that the presence of a male would provide a better understanding to the women’s issues.”

Rawat is a 1977 batch Sikkim cadre IAS officer and has served as Director/Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; Secretary (UPSC); Secretary (Coordination and Public Grievances) in the Cabinet Secretariat and Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

The Government of Punjab has appointed Suresh Arora as the new Director General of Police, who is a 1982 batch IPS officer.

Arora’s appointment came after a meeting between Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal, Shiromani Akali Dal President and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at Badal’s residence.

Arora has played an important role in fighting terrorism. He was posted as SP and SSP when two important operations — Black Thunder I and II — were conducted. He is a post graduate in Law from the University of London and has won various gallantry medals and awards.

Arora replaces Sumedh Singh Saini, who has been transferred to the State Police Housing Corporation.

The Government of India has appointed five IAS officers as Secretary. Those appointed are as follows:

• Aruna Sunderarajan, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, has been appointed as Secretary in the Ministry of Steel. She has replaced Rakesh Singh, a 1978 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.
• Navin Verma, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed Secretary in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. He has replaced R Vijay Kumar, a 1978 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
• Naini Jaisheelan, a 1981 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, has been appointed as Secretary, Inter-state Council Secretariat in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He has replaced Praveer Kumar, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
• Vijay Shankar Pandey, a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Secretary in the Department of Chemical and Petrochemical with effect from January 1, 2016. He has replaced Surajit Choudhary, who is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
• Ramesh Abhishek, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed as Secretary, Performance Management, Cabinet Secretariat.

The Government of India has appointed 22 new Joint Secretaries. The new appointees are:

• Ravi Agrawal, a 1988 batch IAS officer, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Disinvestment. He has replaced Kumar Sanjay Krishna, who is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
• Sanjiv Kumar, a 1992 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Revenue replacing Arun Goel, who is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.
• Vandana Gurnani, a 1991 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Health & Family Welfare, replacing Nikunj Bihari Dhal, who is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.
• Manoj Joshi, a 1989 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSME). He has replaced S N Tripathi, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.
• U K S Chauhan, a 1986 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), replacing Rakesh Singh, who is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
• Satyendra Garg, a 1987 batch IPS officer of Union Territory cadre, has also been appointed as Joint Secretary in the MHA. He replaces Shambhu Singh, a 1986 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.
• Pradeep Gupta, a 1985 batch IOFS officer, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in MHA. He has replaced K K Pathak, who is a 1990 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
• T V S N Prasad, a 1988 batch IAS officer of Hyderabad cadre, has also been appointed Joint Secretary in MHA , replacing Bhagwan Shankar, who is a 1988 batch IAS officer of Sikkim cadre.
• Amrit Abhijat, a 1995 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Housing & Poverty Alleviation. He has replaced Sanjeev Kumar, a 1993 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
• Kalpana Awasthi, a 1990 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion. She has replaced Subhara Singh, a 1989 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
• I S Chahal, a 1989 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, replacing Neerja Shekhar, who is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Hyderabad cadre.
• Pankaj Jain, a 1990 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Financial Services. He has replaced Anup Wadhawan, a 1985 batch IAS officer.
• Abhay Damle, IRS (IT:1989), has been appointed as Joint Secreatry in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. He has replaced S Bandhopadhya, a 1988 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
• Pravir Krishna, a 1987 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping vice N Muruganandan, a 1991 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
• A J V Prasad, a 1986 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, has been posted as Joint Secretary in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
• Ashwani Kumar, IRS (IT: 1988), has been appointed as additional Financial Adviser and Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence (Finance), replacing Prem Kumar Kataria, IA&AS, 1985 batch.
• T C A Kalyani, a 1991 batch ICAS officer, has been appointed as Joint Secretary and Finacial Adviser in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowement, replacing Kiran Puri, a 1988 batch CSS officer.
• M C Luther, a 2000 batch CSS officer, has been appointed as Protectant General of Emigrants (JS level), Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, replacing Mohanish Verma, IRS (IT: 1987).
• Kiran Puri (CSS: 1998), has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, replacing Aditya Joshi (IRAS: 1995).
• Sandeep Saxena, a 1989 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, has been appointed as Deputy Election Commissioner (JS level), ECI. He has replaced R Balakrishanan, a 1984 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.
• Rachna Shah, a 1991 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Food & Public Distribution. She has replaced U K S Chauhan, who is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
• Anita Chauhan (CSS:1998), has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Science & Technology. She has replaced Sanjay Prasad, a 1995 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Anil Kumar Jha took the charge as the new Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), which is a subsidiary of Coal India Limited. He will continue to be the CMD till July 2018.

Prior to it, Jha has served as Director in Production and Planning, Manganese Ore India Limited (MOIL), since July 29, 2013.

Jha will replace A N Sahay, who supernnuated from the post on October 31, 2015.

The Government of Tamil Nadu has transferred several IPS officers. Those transferred are as follows:

• Shankar Jiwal, Inspector General of Police, has been promoted and posted as ADGP, Special Task Force at Sathyamangalam.
• A K Viswanathan, City Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore, has been posted as ADGP of Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC).
• Abhash Kumar, Inspector General of Police, has been promoted and posted as Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu Police Academy.
• T V Ravichandran, Joint Director of Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau, has been appointed as ADGP.
• Seema Agarwal, Inspector General of Police, has been posted as ADGP, State Crime Records replacing Ashish Bhengra, who has further been transferred as ADGP, Operations, Chennai.
• Ayush Mani Tiwari, Deputy Inspector General of Police, has been appointed as Inspector General of Police, Armed Police, Chennai.
• Maheswar Dayal, Deputy Inspector General of Police, has been appointed as Inspector General of Police, Economic Offences Wing-II, in Chennai.
• Sumit Charan, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Villupuram, succeeded A Amalraj as Commissioner of Police, Salem City. At present, he has been transferred and posted as Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore, succeeding A K Viswanathan.
• Abhin Dinesh Modak, Deputy Inspector General of Police, has been promoted as Inspector General of Police.
• Sanjay Kumar, Deputy Inspector General of Police at Thanjavur, has been promoted and posted as Inspector General of Police, State Crime Record Bureau.
• Periaiah, Deputy Inspector General of Police, has been promoted and appointed as Inspector General of Police, Home Guards, Chennai.
• A G Mourya, Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, has been promoted and posted as Inspector General of Prisons, Headquarters, Chennai.
• A Pari, Deputy Inspector General of Police, has been appointed as Inspector General of Police, Headquarters, Chennai.
• N K Senthamarai has been promoted and posted as Inspector General of Police, Central Zone, Tiruchirapalli. He has replaced M Ramasubramani, who will take over as Inspector General of Police, Railways.
• C Sridhar has been posted as Additional Commissioner of Police, Law and order, South, Greater Chennai Police.
• S Murugan will be Inspector General of Police, South Zone, Madurai in place of Abhay Kumar Singh, who will be Inspector General of Police, Enforcement, Chennai.
• V Varadharaju will be Additional Commissioner of Police, Intelligence Section, Greater Chennai Police.
• M C Sarangan has been appointed as Inspector General of Police, Technical Services, Chennai.
• A G Ponn Manickavel has been posted as Inspector General of Police, Idol Wing, in the Economic Offences Wing, Chennai.

Juniper Networks has appointed Kevin Walker as security Chief Technology Officer, who will be responsible for accelerating the company’s security product roadmap.

Walker will serve on the senior leadership team and report to Jonathan Davidson, who is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Juniper Development and Innovation (JDI).

Recently, Walker served as the Vice President and Assistant Chief Information Security Officer at Walmart.com. Prior to this, he also worked with security and networking companies like Intuit, Cisco Systems, Symantec and Veritas Software, including Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Security Strategist and Director of Information Security across technology.

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Government has issued transfer and posting orders of six IAS officers with immediate effect. Prasanta Kumar Mahapatra, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Jails, Criminal Investigation and Administration of Justice, has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Health, vice Roop Ram Jowel.

Dhanpat Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture, has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Science and Technology, relieving Sumita Misra of the said charge. Sanjeev Kaushal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning, and Additional Chief Secretary, Information, Public Relations and Languages, vice Pranab Kishore Das and R.K. Khullar, respectively.

Varinder Singh Kundu, Additional Chief Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Fisheries, has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture, in addition to his present duties, vice Dhanpat Singh.

Pranab Kishore Das, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning, has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Jails, Criminal Investigation and Administration of Justice, vice Prasanta Kumar Mahapatra.

R.K. Khullar, Special Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and Principal Secretary, Information, Public Relations and Languages, has been posted as Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, vice Sanjeev Kaushal.

Vijay Vishwas Pant, a 2004 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Personal Secretary to Kalraj Mishra, who is the Union Minister for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME).

The post fell vacant after Manoj Dwivedi, a 1997 batch IAS officer of Jammu & Kashmir cadre, was posted as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce.

Currently, V V Pant is serving in the State as Managing Director, Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited.

Chandigarh : The Punjab Government has notified the reconstituted state advisory committees of 18 different departments to advise it in framing and executing policies for the Year 2015-16.
Chief Minister S. Parkash Singh Badal would be chairing the committee dealing with personnel, general administration, co-operation, science and technology, environment, vigilance, civil aviation and justice. The committee would have 10 MLAs as non-official members, five from the Akali Dal – Chattin singh, Iqbal Singh Jhundan, Harpreet Kaur Mukhmailpur, Vaninder Kaur Loomba and Joginder Pal Jain, three from the Congress Sunder Sham Arora, S. Tarlochan singh and Guriqbal Kaur, one from the Bhartiya Janta Party Seema Kumari and one independent Simarjit Singh Bains.
Deputy Chief Minister S. Sukhbir Badal would be chairing the advisory committee of the departments of home, governance reforms, housing and urban development, excise and taxation, investment promotion, sports and youth affairs and power. The committee would have 10 MLAs Bains as non-official members, five from the Akali Dal- Manpreet Singh Iyali, S.R.Kaler, Rajwinder Kaur, Maheshinder singh and Hari singh, three from the Congress Rana Gurjit singh, Navtej singh and Sangat singh, one from the Bhartiya Janta Party Manoranjan Kalia and one independent Balwinder singh and administrative secretary concerned as official members.

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Chandigarh : Haryana is working towards delivering effective e-governance at the grass root level and a number of initiatives have been launched by the government to achieve the purpose.
Haryana Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu, said that under the scheme to set up IT-enabled Village Secretariats, a target has been set to establish 2,294 Village Secretariats in Haryana by the year 2019 so that all government-related works of people could be done under one roof. Of these, 185 Village Secretariats have already been established. Apart from this, ‘e-Panchayat Samvad’ service has been started to ensure direct contact of panchayats with the government at all levels.
Capt. Abhimanyu said that CM Webportal has been created to establish coordination between the government and the people and to increase participation of people in the implementation of welfare policies. As of now, the people of the state can directly contact the Chief Minister online from any part of the State for redressal of their complaints without having to visit Chandigarh. For this purpose, CM Window has been started at each district headquarters.
Information regarding the status of complaint is being provided to the complainants online and through SMS. Further, the government has issued new policy directions to make Change of Land Use (CLU) transparent, uninterrupted and timely. The Single Window System is being strengthened to provide all approvals to entrepreneurs under one roof, he added.
The Minister said that in order to check corruption, online facility has been given for self certification and third party certification for inspection and registration of boilers in industries. Also, online facility for filing entrepreneur memorandum has been started to promote Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Apart from this, e-Registration, e-Payment and e-Return filing systems have been adopted to facilitate the businessmen. ‘C’ Form has been made available online. State Portal has been developed to ensure 150 e-citizen services by March 2016 and websites of all departments and boards etc have been linked with it. Electronic Tendering System has been started in all Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Municipalities of the state from December 1, 2014, he added.
He added that e-Disha services have been started in the State. These include registration of birth and death, issuance of birth and death certificates, linking of birth and death record and fixing of any errors in birth and death records, etc.

Chandigarh – Haryana government has issued transfer and posting orders of three IAS officers with immediate effect.
R. R. Jowel, awaiting order of posting, has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Industrial Training, vice Anil Kumar.
Anil Kumar, Principal Secretary, Industrial Training has been posted as Principal Secretary, Urban Local Bodies, vice Mahavir Singh.
Mahavir Singh, Principal Secretary, Urban Local Bodies, has been posted as Principal Secretary, Civil Aviation, relieving Sudeep Singh Dhillon of the charge.

By Priya Yadav
Chandigarh : In a major e-initiative, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal launched CM e-Dashboard for monitoring key parameters of various departments and online services to ensure effective delivery of services and provide effective mechanism for bringing transparency.
To begin with, 134 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of 13 online departments and 83 offline KPIs of 14 departments have been incorporated in the dashboard. 14 other departments have submitted their reports which would soon by incorporated in the dashboard. The KPIs could be any Government to Consumer (G2C), Government to Government (G2G), Government to Employee (G2E) or Government to Business (G2B) services delivered by the organization.
Speaking on this occasion, Manohar Lal said that the main purpose of the CM e-Dashboard is to improve the efficiency of the departments and to remove the delays in service delivery through monitoring at highest level with an aim to benefit the citizens. The dashboard is accessible to Chief Minister’s office and the government organization whose KPIs were being monitored. It was informed that Nodal officers have already been provided the password whereas; the Administrative Secretaries of the concerned department would soon be provided the same to access the application. He appreciated the efforts of IT Department and National Informatics Centre (NIC) for in house development of CM Dashboard application.
The 13 online departments or services whose KPIs have been incorporated in the dashboard are Revenue (land records, citizen certificates, court cases), centralized file movement system, CM announcements monitoring system, Health, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), Public Health and Engineering, Social Justice and Empowerment, Transport, Finance and Education (Secondary). The e-Dashboard application is fully automated and integrated with departments which have electronic database and applications. In case of departments which do not have computerized backend database of services, they are required to manually feed data into the e-dashboard at regular intervals till they computerize their data base and services. He further directed the departments to develop online application in a phased manner in next three to six months.
Chief Minister said that CM e-Dashboard would not only plug the loopholes in the system which leads to corruption but also keep a check on the exercise of discretion. He said that with maximum automation and reduced human interface we could weed out corruption from all levels. The e-Dashboard pulls data from various departmental database and online applications and calculates performance based on pre defined formula for each KPI. A composite score for each of these KPIs is then calculated and indicated on the dashboard. Average composite score for all KPIs of an organization, which is calculated on a 0 to 100 scale, shows the overall efficiency of the organization. The dashboard has a color coding scheme, which shows various departments in Green, Blue, Orange and Red based on their respective composite score.
Chief Minister said that delivery of services should be prompt. He said that officers who shouldered the responsibility to run the system should ensure the time bound completion of targets of their respective departments. Directing that preference should be given to Government to Consumer (G2C) services, he said that the main aim of the government is ensure the delivery of various citizen centric services at citizen’s doorstep. People’s satisfaction should be the key for all the departments, he added. Quoting example he said that after the launch of CM Window, a call centre has been established which sends SMS to the complainant informing him or her about the status of complaint to instill a sense of satisfaction among them.
The Chief Minister directed to develop Standard Operating Procedure for the effective functioning of CM e-Dashboard. He said that the departments should align their functioning with the new system in terms of setting up of infrastructure like the availability of hardware and software. Besides, the departments should also link their website with the Dashboard for effective sharing of information. He said that the offline departments should also make efforts to identify data which could be made available online as the online data is more accurate and authentic than the offline data. He also directed to evolve a system to check the duration of pendency of a file.
He said that he would again review the CM e-Dashboard with all the Administrative Secretaries on December 15, 2015.

Davinder Singh Brar, Independent Director of leading IT services and solutions provider Mphasis, has been elected as the Chairman of the company. He replaces Dr Friedrich Froeschl, who resigned owing to health reasons from the Board.

Brar has been involved with the Life Sciences industry for nearly four decades. Post his tenure at Ranbaxy, he promoted Contract Research and Manufacturing Services companies GVK Biosciences and Inogent Labs. He has also served on the boards of Maruti Suzuki India Limited, Wockhardt Limited, Gland Pharma Limited and Mountain Trail Foods Private Limited, apart from being a Special Advisor to Bain Consulting, according to a company press release.

Mphasis has also appointed on their Board Jan Kathleen Hier (Jan Hier-King) as an Independent Director and Jeff Thomas Ricci as a non-executive Additional Director.

Hier-King is currently a partner with a start-up named Bicycle Financial. Formerly, she was the Executive Vice President at Charles Schwab responsible for centralized support services, including Schwab Technology Services, Operational Services, Corporate Project Management, Operational Risk Management and Offshore Services.

Ricci, currently Senior Vice President and Controller for Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise, is responsible for all accounting and external financial reporting activities for HP Enterprise.

Mphasis, an HP company, enables chosen customers to meet the demands of an evolving market place.

C H Sudheer Kumar Reddy, a 2010 batch IPS officer, has assumed charge as the Superintendent of Police.

Reddy is a graduate in B. Tech from Pondicherry Engineering College and is a native of Narsaraopet in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.

He has served as Additional Superintendent of Police at the communally sensitive Bhatkal in Dakshina Kannada district, and later as Superintendent of Police in the Criminal Investigation Department (Cyber Crime).

Renowned telecom guru and inventor Sam Pitroda has been appointed as Technical Advisor to the Government of Odisha. The man who has contributed immensely in India’s telecom revolution from late 1980s onwards, is now expected to play a key role in making Odisha a front-runner, as the State turns 100 years in 2036. Currently, it is lagging behind in the IT and telecom sector.

As per the press statement issued by the State Chief Minister’s office, Pitroda is expected to anchor the preparation of the State’s Vision 2036. However, keeping Pitroda’s earlier innings in mind, it can safely be assumed that he won’t bank on bureaucrats much, but will cobble together a team of technocrats comprising foreign educated men and women who have earlier worked with him.

Despite being in US for many years, he kept in touch with the State all throughout. “He will be given the rank of a cabinet minister”, the statement further said.

In UPA-I, Pitroda headed the National Knowledge Commission. He had also launched the Center for the Development of Telematics (C-DOT), and served as advisor to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In addition, he was the first Chairman of India’s Telecom Commission.