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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Yet to start work, Natgrid CEO highest paid babu

Yet to start work, Natgrid CEO highest paid babu

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published Published on Aug 23, 2012   modified Modified on Aug 23, 2012
-The Times of India

The CEO of Natgrid, the government's ambitious project to make a single hub for all data gathered by more than a dozen security agencies, draws a salary of Rs 10 lakh per month -- more than any bureaucrat in the country. And this is besides the other entitlements that he gets at par with top officers in the government.

Minister of state for home Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the consolidated monthly remuneration of Natgrid CEO Raghu Raman was Rs 10 lakh besides a host of other facilities.

Importantly, Natgrid is still not operational despite being set up as an attached office of the home ministry in December 2010 and a sanction of over Rs 1,000 crore in 2012.

The nearest a bureaucrat's salary comes to that of the Natgrid CEO is the Rs 1.30 lakh drawn by communication adviser to the prime minister Pankaj Pachauri. Adviser to the prime minister T K A Nair, national security adviser Shivshankar Menon and special envoy S K Lambah draw a salary of Rs 1.13 lakh each per month apart from a pension of Rs 50,000 each per month.

Principal secretary to the PM Pulok Chatterji gets a salary of Rs 1.08 lakh apart from Rs 40,000 as pension per month. The cabinet secretary draws a salary of Rs 90,000 while top secretaries of the government of India draw Rs 80,000 per month.

Giving details of Raman's package, Singh said in a written reply that the CEO was given a car as per the highest entitlement for officers in government of India.

The CEO is given travel, accommodation and TA/DA as per the highest entitled class for officers in the government and medical policy for self and family whose annual premium is capped at Rs 15,000.

Apart from this, "(he is) entitled to deliver lectures not pertaining to his official domain and receive remuneration for the same. With prior approval of competent authority (Union home secretary), he can be a member of corporate boards which are not in conflict with his official position," Singh's reply said.

To deal with functional requirements, the Natgrid CEO is also provided with a BlackBerry phone with actual connectivity charges (capped at Rs 8,000 per month). The CEO will be given a laptop with aircard (capped at Rs 1.25 lakh) and Rs 2,000 per month as internet charges.

Raman was appointed CEO on December 1, 2009 on a contractual basis. The contract was extended on June 1, 2011 for three years. He is a retired military officer who was working as CEO of Mahindra Defence Land System and his appointment and salary were approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by the prime minister. 

The Times of India, 23 August, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Yet-to-start-work-Natgrid-CEO-highest-paid-babu/articleshow/15610191.cms


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