-ThePrint.in Of the 18 Gujarat IAS officers in the Central government, 4 serve in the PMO, 4 in the finance ministry and 2 in the home ministry. New Delhi: Ever since Narendra Modi led the BJP to victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and moved from being Gujarat chief minister to India’s prime minister, there has been much speculation about the civil servants from his home state in the central government. Who...
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Estimates panel quizzes PMO on Rajan's report
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The Estimates Committee of Parliament has asked the PMO, Coal Ministry and various banks to respond to queries on NPAs emanating from former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s report. The committee is headed by veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi. Sources in the committee told BusinessLine that the PMO, ministry and lenders have been asked how the NPAs — estimated at ?9 lakh crore — piled up...
More »Maneka Gandhi bypassed; nutrition norms cleared -Jagriti Chandra
-The Hindu After PMO intervention, NITI Aayog approves guidelines New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has approved the supplementary nutrition guidelines, prepared by the Ministry for Women and Child Development, bypassing Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi following intervention by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), according to a person familiar with the development. The PMO had stepped in to end a more than yearlong stand-off between Ms. Gandhi and the Ministry’s officials...
More »The People of India Have Protected Their Right to Information Once Again -M Sridhar Acharyulu
-TheWire.in The Centre's decision to defer the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill 2018 – after protests from the public and the opposition – is temporary good news. Sub-section (5) of Section 13 of the Right to Information Act provided that the salaries and allowance and other terms and conditions of service of the chief information commissioner and information commissioners shall be same as that of the chief election commissioner and election commissioners,...
More »The MSP Illusion -Ajay Vir Jakhar
-The Indian Express Raising procurement prices of kharif crops will only give false hope to farmers. Has the winter of farmers’ discontent turned into a glorious summer by the significant hike in minimum support price (MSP) for kharif crops announced two weeks ago? The hike is unlikely to stem the rural unrest that is gnawing into the ruling alliance’s votebank. The PM has had to personally defend the government’s programmes that have...
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