President of Republic of India is pleased to make the following appointment/changes:-

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President's Secretariat
21-August, 2018 19:23 IST
PRESS COMMUNIQUE

The President is pleased to make the following appointment/changes:-



(i) Shri Lal Ji Tandon as the Governor of Bihar.

(ii) Shri Satyadev Narayan Arya as the Governor of Haryana.

(iii) Smt. Baby Rani Maurya as the Governor of Uttarakhand.

(iv) Shri Satya Pal Malik, Governor of Bihar is transferred and appointed as Governor of Jammu & Kashmir.

(v) Shri Ganga Prasad, Governor of Meghalaya is transferred and appointed as Governor of Sikkim.

(vi) Shri Tathagata Roy, Governor of Tripura is transferred and appointed as Governor of Meghalaya.

(vii) Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana is transferred and appointed as Governor of Tripura.



The above appointments will take effect from the dates the incumbents assume charge of their respective offices.



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https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...jk-governor/article24745791.ece?homepage=true
Bihar governor Satya Pal Malik was appointed the new Governor of Jammu and Kashmir by the President on Tuesday.

Mr. Malik replaces incumbent N.N. Vohra, who has occupied the J&K Raj Bhavan since 2008.

The appointment of a person from a socialist background and not from the uniformed forces, as was being speculated earlier, reflects the Centre’s willingness to continue dialogue and engagement in the State, currently under Governor’s rule.

Though there is no fixed tenure for the Governor, Mr. Vohra continued in office at the pleasure of the President of India. Mr. Vohra’s second six-year term (that equals the State Assembly’s term of six years) ended on June 25. He continued in office after the State was placed under Governor’s rule on June 20 and Centre needed an experienced administrator given the ongoing Amarnath Yatra that concludes on August 28.

Mr. Malik started out as a student leader in Meerut. In 1974 he joined Charan Singh’s Lok Dal and was elected an MLA to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. He was later elected twice to Rajya Sabha — in 1980 as a Lok Dal candidate and in 1986 from the Congress.

However, he was disqualified from Rajya Sabha as he started attending meetings of the rebel Congress leader V.P. Singh’s Jan Morcha. In 1990 he became the Union Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs and Tourism in Mr. Singh’s cabinet.

In 2004, he joined the BJP and contested the general election against his one-time mentor Charan Singh’s son Ajit Singh from Baghpat. He lost the elections.

A Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué said senior BJP leader Lalji Tandon was appointed as Governor of Bihar replacing Mr. Malik, and Satyadev Narayan Arya will be the new Governor of Haryana,

Mr. Tandon was the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Lucknow in 2009 that was represented by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee previously. Mr. Tandon remained a close confidant of Mr. Vajpayee.

According to the Rashtrapathi Bhavan release, Baby Rani Maurya will be the new Governor of Uttarakhand. She replaces K.K. Paul who was appointed by the UPA government. The only UPA era appointee currently is E.S.L. Narsimhan, who holds dual charge as Governor of Telengana and Andhra Pradesh.

Kaptan Singh Solanki, the Governor of Haryana, has been transferred to Tripura. Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy has been transferred to Meghalaya. Ganga Prasad, the Governor of Meghalaya, has been transferred to Sikkim.

 

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/malik-fits-pm-modis-plans-for-kashmir/article24754342.ece?homepage=true

NEW DELHI, August 22, 2018 22:30 IST
Updated: August 22, 2018 22:30 IST

Sources say the politician’s appointment as J&K Governor is a progression with the political process

The appointment of Satyapal Malik as J&K Governor on Tuesday, the first politician to hold that post since militancy hit the State in the 1980s, is a clear pointer to the government’s thinking.

According to senior sources in the Union government, the choice of Mr. Malik, a seasoned politician who has been a Socialist, a Congressman and joined the BJP in 2004 over the course of his career, hews to the road map Prime Minister Modi has for the State, especially the next six months which are crucial.

“In the late 1980s and early nineties, we had non-civilians as Governors. Then we had a career bureaucrat in Mr. N.N. Vohra. The next logical appointment was that of a politician to that post, a progression with the political process,” said a source.

Mr. Malik was to be appointed last year itself, especially because he had excellent relations with the late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, having served in the V.P. Singh government between 1989-90. “For some reason that couldn’t happen,” said a source, “and while the relationship with the Muftis was important then, his reputation as a seasoned politician who has relationships across the political spectrum is helpful.”

There are, said a senior Home Ministry official, three basic things that are to be aimed for in the next six months. The first is to accelerate development projects. In this case, Mr. Vohra had stopped the use of the Constituency Development Fund of legislators once the Assembly was placed under suspended animation. Mr. Malik is expected to allow for its use again.

“The Assembly is in suspended animation. It hasn’t been dissolved, and legislators in order to engage in various aspects of political activity especially connected to development of their constituencies, require these funds,” said the source.

The second priority is internal security, where the Governor has a more supportive role, and his advisers a more hands-on one. “Here, the fact that he is a political appointee will help synergy,” said the source.

The third is to bridge the governance gap, in terms of appointments in key positions and cracking down on corruption. After that, the government will take a call again on how to take forward the political process, whether to announce polls, to continue with Govenor’s rule or explore options of government formation under the current legislative strength.

Sources said that ever since Mr. Vohra’s term came to an end last year (he has been on an extension), the question of who would be his replacement was being discussed at the highest level of government.

Five names were finally shortlisted, former Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao, former Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, Mr. Malik, Admiral Shekhar Sinha and BJP leader Avinash Rai Khanna. “Mr. Malik was picked, despite his own reservations, as he fit the bill perfectly,” said the source.

 

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President's Secretariat
23-August, 2018 08:50 IST
PRESS COMMUNIQUE

The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Shri Arun Jaitley.

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The outgoing Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Shri N.N. Vohra calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 22, 2018.

https://www.thehindu.com/business/E...harge-today/article24757918.ece?homepage=true
New Delhi, August 23, 2018 09:51 IST
Updated: August 23, 2018 12:36 IST

In Mr. Jaitley's absence, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was holding the additional charge of the Finance and Corporate Affairs portfolio.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley is back as the Finance Minister after a three month interval to recuperate from a kidney transplant surgery in May this year.

Announcing his return, a communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan read, “The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Shri Arun Jaitley.”

In Mr. Jaitley's absence, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was holding the additional charge of the Finance and Corporate Affairs portfolio.

However, with the economy facing some headwinds like a growing trade deficit the falling rupee — that touched 70 mark to a U.S. dollar for the first time ever — and higher crude prices, the government has come under some sharp attack from the Opposition, especially the Congress, over the handling of the economy.

A draft report on the back series data of GDP growth that claimed UPA years saw the highest ever decadal growth added to the government's problems

On August 19, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on took a dig at the Modi government by claiming that three Finance Ministers — a de-facto, a de-jure and an invisible one — handle the economy yet the management is not in very competent hands.

He said that every world renowned economist who had come to work under this government has left and “none with a worldwide reputation is willing serve under this government.”

Mr. Jaitley, in a blog the same day, hit back. “Post 2014, when the global economy was in slowdown mode, it was India and India alone which has been the fastest growing economy in the world for the last four years and has consistently overtaken China in the growth rate,” he said.

“The UPA government compromised on all macro fundamentals. It compromised on the fiscal deficit and the Current Account Deficit, it allowed inflation to spiral out of control and more so to create an illusory growth, it compromised India’s banking system through reckless lending,” Mr. Jaitley added.

 

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Patna, August 23, 2018 11:55 IST
Updated: August 23, 2018 12:21 IST
Senior BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh Lalji Tandon was sworn in as Bihar Governor on Thursday. He replaced Satya Pal Malik, who was appointed as new Governor of Jammu and Kashmir by the President on August 21.

Mr. Tandon was administered oath of office by Patna High Court Chief Justice Mukesh Rasik Bhai Shah.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, and other Ministers and leaders across party line were present during the swearing-in ceremony at the Raj Bhawan.

Mr. Tandon is famously known as political protégé of former Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee who passed away recently.

In May 2009, he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Lucknow seat defeating Congress party candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi.

 

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Ministry of Finance
23-August, 2018 15:25 IST
The Union Minister Shri Arun Jaitely today resumes the charge of Ministries of Finance and Corporate Affairs

The Union Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley today resumed the charge of the Ministries of Finance and Corporate Affairs after a gap of more than three months. After resuming the charge, the Finance Minister Shri Jaitley held his First Meeting with the Finance Secretary, Dr.Hasmukh Adhia, Secretary (Expenditure), Shri A.N. Jha,Secretary (Financial Services) , Shri Rajiv Kumar, Secretary (Corporate Affairs), Shri Injeti Srinivas,Chairman CBDT, Shri Sushil Chandra and Chairman CBIC, Shri S. Ramesh among others.

Earlier, the President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Shri Arun Jaitley.


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The Union Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley on his way to his room in North Block to resume the charge of the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs, in New Delhi on August 23, 2018.

The Union Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley holding his first meeting with the Finance Secretary, Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, the Secretary (Expenditure), Shri A.N. Jha, the Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Shri Rajeev Kumar and the Chairman, CBDT, Shri Sushil Chandra, after assuming the charge of the Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs in North Block, New Delhi on August 23, 2018.

The Union Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley holding his first meeting with the Finance Secretary, Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, the Secretary (Expenditure), Shri A.N. Jha, the Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Shri Rajeev Kumar, the Chairman, CBDT, Shri Sushil Chandra and the Chairman, CBIC, Shri S. Ramesh, after assuming the charge of the Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs in North Block, New Delhi on August 23, 2018.

 

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The Governor of Kerala, Justice (Retd.) P. Sathasivam calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 25, 2018.

The Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Mines, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 25, 2018.

 

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The Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, Shri Satya Pal Malik calls on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on August 27, 2018.

The Governor of Bihar, Shri Lalji Tandon calling on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on August 27, 2018.

 

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The Governor of Uttarakhand, Smt. Baby Rani Maurya calling on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on August 28, 2018.

The Governor of Haryana, Shri Satyadev Narayan Arya calling on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on August 28, 2018.

The Governor of Bihar, Shri Lalji Tandon calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 28, 2018.

The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Shri Satya Pal Malik calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 28, 2018.

The Governor of Haryana, Shri Satyadev Narayan Arya calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 28, 2018.

The Governor of Haryana, Shri Satyadev Narayan Arya calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 28, 2018.

The Chief Minister of Puducherry, Shri V. Narayanasamy calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on August 28, 2018.

 

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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
10-September, 2018 19:19 IST
ACC appointments

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved 30 appointments of officers of Joint Secretary/Joint Secretary equivalent level.

For details, kindly click below:

http://164.100.117.97/WriteReadData/userfiles/JS%20level.pdf

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The Governor of Sikkim, Shri Ganga Prasad calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on September 12, 2018.

 

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The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh being welcomed by the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri H.D. Kumaraswamy at the 28th Meeting of the Southern Zonal Council, in Bengaluru on September 18, 2018.

The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh chairing the 28th Meeting of the Southern Zonal Council, in Bengaluru on September 18, 2018. The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri H.D. Kumaraswamy is also seen.

The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh addressing a press conference after the 28th Meeting of the Southern Zonal Council, in Bengaluru on September 18, 2018. The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri H.D. Kumaraswamy is also seen.

 

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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
19-September, 2018 10:55 IST
ACC appointments

1. The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shri Anindo Majumdar, IAS (AGMUT: 85), presently in the cadre, as Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission in the rank and pay of Secretary.
2. The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shri Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas, Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) as Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy and Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission for a period till he attains the age of 64 years i.e. upto 03.05.2021, or until further orders, whichever is earlier.

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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
20-September, 2018 18:25 IST
Appointment of Shri A. Gitesh Sarma, as Secretary (West) MEA.

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shri A. Gitesh

Sarma, (IFS:1986) as Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs.





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The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Brigadier (Retd.) (Dr.) B.D. Mishra meeting the Minister of State for Tourism (I/C), Shri Alphons Kannanthanam, in New Delhi on September 20, 2018.

The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Brigadier (Retd.) (Dr.) B.D. Mishra meeting the Minister of State for Tourism (I/C), Shri Alphons Kannanthanam, in New Delhi on September 20, 2018.

 

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The Chief Minister of Puducherry, Shri V. Narayanasamy calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on September 21, 2018.

The Chief Minister of Puducherry, Shri V. Narayanasamy calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on September 21, 2018.