Indu ShekharJha appointedas a CMD ofPower Grid Cor-poration of IndiaLtd for a periodof five year.

Dr. N. Mohapa-tra has as-sumed the cha-rge of Director(Personnel), St-eel Authority ofIndia Limited.

DeependraSingh appointedas a Chairman-cum-ManagingDirector, of In-dian RareEarthsLtd (IREL).

Public Sector

Sanjeev KumarGupta has takenover the chargeas the DirectorTechnical atREC Limited .

B. S. Canth hasbeen appointedas the Director(Marketing) ofthe Indian OilCorporation Ltd.

M u k e s hSahay,IPS(84)appointed asthe DGP ofAssam Police.

ShatrughnaSingh,IAS(83)has been ap-pointed new Ch-ief Secretary ofUttarakhand.

Rahul Rash-gotra, IPS (89)Jt. Director,MHA likely to joinNDC,New Delhi.

Bureaucracy

Ya t e n d r aKumar,IAS (96)took over asChief VigilanceOfficer, AirportsAuthority of India.

Pankaj Sa-ran, IFS(82) willbe next Ambas-sador of India tothe RussianFederation.

December, 20152MIDNIGHT REPORTER

IASKhullar Prl. Sec to CM, Haryana

R K Khullar has been appointed as new Prin-cipal Secretary to Chief Minister, Haryana. He is a1988 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Sharma Prl. Sec to CM, UTOutgoing Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand

Rakesh Sharma has been appointed Chief Prin-cipal Secretary to the Chief Minister. He is 1981batch former IAS officer.

Anita Director,EPILAnita Chaudhary has been appointed Inde-

pendent Director of Engineering Project India Ltd.(EPIL). She is a former 1976 batch IAS officer ofHaryana cadre.

Raju Director,BHELKeshav Raju has been appointed Indepen-

dent Director of BHEL. He is a former 1978 batchIAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

Kishore Director,BHELRajesh Kishore Has been appointed Indepen-

dent Director of the BHEL. He is former 1980 batchIAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Ranka Chairman,RSSCLKuldeep Ranka has been given an additional

charge of Chairman, Rajasthan State Seeds Cor-poration Limited Jaipur in Rajasthan. He is a 1994batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

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VK Gupta DGP, UP!If UP government chooses to appoint 1982 batch IPS as

new DGP then chances of VK Gupta are bright. Presently he isposted as DG, Police Housing. His retirement is due in January2017 whereas assembly elections in UP are due in Feb 2017.This only point could go against him.

Rajiv Jt. Dir (SIB), NagalandRajiv Ranjan Verma IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh of 1990

batch who is presently posted as Joint Director, Ministry ofHome Affairs (MHA), GoI, has joined as Joint Director (SIB),Nagaland.

Bassi likely to be IC ?Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi is likely to be ap-

pointed Information Commissioner (IC) and not Chief Informa-tion Commissioner in the Central Information Commission.

41 RAS Officers GetIAS Tag

Jaipur: The Union government has promoted 41 senior officers of RajasthanAdministrative Service (RAS) cadre to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

A notification in this connection was issued by the ministry of personnel,public grievances and pensions.

The promoted officers are Vinita Bohra, Loknath Sony, ChandrasekharMutha, Purushottam Biyani, Shuchi Sharma, Mahavir Sharma, MaheshBhardwaj, Vimal Jain, Manoj Sharma, J K Purohit, Ashfaq Hussain, SomnathMishra, Laxminarayan Meena , Babu Lal Kothari, Ved Singh, Mohammad Hanif,Anil Gupta, Gyanaram, Surendra Kumar Solanki, Jagrup Singh, Naresh Sharma,Matadin Sharma, Suraj Bhan Jain, Narendra Kumar Gupta, Shyam SinghRajpurohit, Pradeep Bord, Bhanwar Lal Mehra, PC Berwal, Kailash Meena,Urmila Rajoria, Nnuml hills, Kailash Bairwa, Sube Singh Yadav, GajanandSharma, Modudan Detha, Suresh Gupta, Vinita Srivastava, Dinesh Yadav,Joshi include Durga.

The notification said that the officers would be on probation until furtherorders. These officers are likely to be given postings in the upcoming reshuffleof state IAS officers.

BSF To Induct More Women In ForceMore women will be recruited for various roles in the Border Security Force (BSF) which

guards the country’s frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh, its chief D K Pathak said.The women sub inspectors in a junior leadership role were first inducted in 2010 with the

recruitment of 15 such personnel. As on date, there are 42 sub inspectors and 3,280 con-stables, the BSF said in a release.

BSF in order to strengthen the security on the borders and to facilitate women workers inthe fields, initially recruited women constables in combat role, then sub-inspector and now firstbatch of women officers will be joining the force in February 2016, it said. With the recruitmentof 745 constables, women cadre in combat role was introduced in 2008. The tasks entrustedand performed by them are at par with men ‘praharis’ and as such they are performing alloperational, security and intelligence -related tasks, the release said. “To maintain physical,mental and emotional robustness of these women combatants, the BSF is taking requiredmeasures to provide adequate infrastructural support, gender sensitisation of all rank, sepa-rate transfer policy and constitution of complaint committee at all levels to look into sexualharassment cases,” it said. With induction of approximately 1,000 women personnel annually,

the BSF is moving in the right direction to achieve the target of five per cent strength of women force in the Central ArmedPolice Forces as directed by the central government, it said.

Lalu’s Trusted IAS OfficersPlaced In Sons’ Deptts

RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav’s two of the most trusted senior IASofficers have been moved into departments held by the party patron’s sons inthe Bihar cabinet. 1982-batch IAS officer Sudhir Kumar, who was with LaluPrasad during his tenure as Railway minister, has been made Principal Sec-retary Road Construction Department under charge of Deputy Chief MinisterTejaswi Yadav, a government notification issued. A 1987-batch IAS officer R KMahajan has been moved from Education department and made PrincipalSecretary of Health held by Lalu Prasad’s another son Tej Pratap Yadav.Mahajan had served as Executive Director, Public Grievances, Minister ofRailways when Lalu Prasad was in Rail Bhawan during UPA I. The NitishKumar government effected the changes in senior levels of the bureaucracylast night to further tone up administration.

Justice T S Thakur AppointedNew Chief Justice Of India

President Pranab Mukherjeeappointed Justice T S Thakur asthe new Chief Justice of India(CJI).

The senior-most judge of theapex court, Justice Thakur (63)will take over from incumbentJustice H L Dattu who retired inDecember.

Justice Thakur headed thebench which had delivered theverdict on reforming the BCCI inthe wake of the IPL betting andspot-fixing scandal.

The probe in the Saradhachit fund scam case is also be-

ing monitored by a Supreme Court bench headed by him. He isalso hearing the multi-crore rupee NRHM scam, in which ex-UPminister Babu Singh Kushwaha is also an accused besides otherpoliticians and bureaucrats.

Born on January 4, 1952, he would have a tenure as CJI fora little over one year and would retire on January 4, 2017.

Justice Thakur was designated as a senior advocate in 1990.On February 16, 1994, he was appointed as an additional judgeof the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and transferred as ajudge of the Karnataka High Court in March, 1994.

He was appointed as a permanent judge in September 1995and transferred to the Delhi High Court in July 2004.

Justice Thakur was appointed as acting Chief Justice of theDelhi High Court on April 9, 2008 and on August 11, 2008, hetook over as Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana HighCourt.

Anil Wadhwa Appointed NewAmbassador To Italy

New Delhi: Senior diplomat Anil Wadhwa, currently Secretary (East) in the Exter-nal Affairs Ministry, has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to Italy, with whichthe ties are still reeling under the strain of marines’ issue. A 1979-batch IFS officer,Wadhwa will replace Basant Kumar Gupta and is expected to take up his assign-ment shortly, MEA announced today. Wadhwa has served as the Indian Ambassa-dor to Poland (March 2004 to August 2007), to the Sultanate of Oman (August 2007to September 2011), and to the Kingdom of Thailand (November 2011 to Jan 2014).

His posting to Italy as the top envoy comes at a time when the two countries areembroiled in a long-drawn judicial case involving two Italian marines accused ofkilling as many Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast in 2012.

Ambassadors To Afghanistan,Vietnam AppointedSecretaries In MEA

Senior diplomatsAmar Sinha and PreetiSaran, India’s Ambassa-dors to Afghanistan andVietnam respectively,were appointed as sec-retaries in Ministry of Ex-ternal Affairs (MEA).

Besides them, SujataMehta, currently Secre-tary (Economic Rela-tions) in MEA, has beenappointed as Secretary(West), in place of NavtejSarna who takes up the

new assignment as India’s High Commissioner to the UK.Secretary (West) looks after affairs related to Europe andAfrica regions. Sinha, a 1982 batch IFS officer, has beenappointed as Secretary (ER), in place of Mehta, an orderissued by Department of Personnel and Training said.

Manpreet Vohra has been appointed in Sinha’s place inKabul, Afghanistan.

Sinha’s batchmate Saran will be Secretary (East), andwill be responsible for matters related to Arab region, NorthAfrica, South East Asia including Pacific island nations.

December, 20153MIDNIGHT REPORTER

Bureaucracy

December (MR) Putting full stop on all the discussions, speculations and pre-dictions, as after 18 months the versatile officer Anurag Sharma took over as thepermanent and first DGP of Telangana State. “ Ye tho hona hi tha” and “Ye kya hua,kaise hua” songs were heard in certain courtyards, but ‘Ye tho hona thi tha’ songwas in top ten.

The officer's performance and his system of working brought this day for himwhere every senior officer dream to sit.

The officer is holding the same charge successfully from last 18 months andinstead of asking or knowing about his priorities, it's better to wish him for thefurture tasks, as of now the tag line is ‘boss tussi great ho, kaisey har baazi jeet jateyho’….!

Boss continues as Boss

Huda in actionDecember(MR)The senior officer S.A.Huda, who is the

commissioner for inquiries for AP government is again inaction.Yes ! Now the officer is seen busy in hearings and theexamining departmental cases of the officers including civilservice officers in certain inquiries. He is the one officer whobelieves in working, which ever chair or post it might be.Kyabaat hai….! Keep your fingers crossed to watch a big bound-ary from the officer.

Hard & Too HardDecember (MR)The new GHMC Chief Dr.Janardhan

Reddy is working too hard from the day he took over thecharge. In just few days many initiatives were implementedand new plans have been announced. It was a talk that theofficer will take some time to set himself and understand theatmosphere of the corporation, but because of his vast expe-rience he is in news and making rounds in no time.The creditgoes to his hard work and commitment.In fact the officer isholding another crucial charge, but no issues from his side ashe is just wonderful & a workaholic officer.His posting in thecorporation is the right choice….!

Brand Babu making roundsDecember(MR)Soon after taking the charge the I&PR

Commissioner Navin Mittal is making rounds with his workingsystem.As all of us know how challenging it is to tackle themedia persons, we mean the issues of media, on which lot ofhome work has to be done and now the officer is doing hisbest to line up the pending issues.The national boom of thechildren’s film festival is an another endeavor from theofficer,which is still in discussion.

With CommitmentDecember(MR)The TSTDC,Managing Director

Dr.Christina Z.Chongthu is working with a zeal and off coursewith a commitment for the development of TelanganaTourism.During one of the National Conference the lady of-ficer applauded the students to focus on travel and tourismsector, which will help them to build their career, as today thesector has immense opportunities.Especially the youth cando wonders for taking the industry in their stride and the out-come will be terrific.Yes the lady officer is hitting in the rightdirection….!

4 December, 2015MIDNIGHT REPORTER

Sumita Dawra presents‘Economic Story of China’

The versatile lady officer Sumita Dawra is again onscreen with the her new book called “CHINA BEHINDTHE MIRACLE” launched recently at New Delhi duringTimes of India’s ‘Litfest Delhi’.The said book is a veryinteresting read on China’s amazing growth story.

‘China: Behind the Miracle’ is an easy-to-read, com-prehensive account of the economic story of China. Itexplains various aspects of the Chinese economy in tenchapters, using examples from a particular city or region.The book will walk the reader through the Chinese eco-nomic landscape, the economy’s strengths and weak-nesses, opportunities and threats. Most people world-

over have a single dimensionalunderstanding of China as acountry with cheap labour-driven manufacturing and ex-ports. This book will enable amulti-dimensional understand-ing of China as a country whichunleashed its economic growththrough a cleverly driven strat-egy of inviting foreign invest-ments to leverage on a supplyof cheap land and labour, whileencouraging domestic enter-prises to become big and ab-sorb foreign technologies. Acountry that is now transitioningfrom an old investment heavy,export driven growth model toone driven by higher value ad-

dition in manufacturing, services and a strong domestic demand.The book will help the readers understand what is happening in present day China, while realistically helping

them develop their own insights into the Chinese miracle and its future. Anyone reading this simple tale of China toldby an Indian civil servant will soon feel competent to answer seemingly complex questions on the Chineseeconomy, in an objective and simple manner. I can surely promise that on this journey for the readers!

Some of the questions the book addresses:How does Beijing drive extraordinary models of growth?How did infrastructure drive China to achieve dizzying heights of growth? Where is China today in terms of

financial liberalization?Why does the ‘factory of the world’ need reform today?What attracts multinational corporations to China? How do Chinese cities promote culture and tourism?How does strategic Chinese outbound investment push local Chinese business interests? What is the status

of health systems in China?What is China’s secret growth mantra? What are the country’s present economic vulnerabilities?How is China boosting its agriculture to support a billion plus population on limited arable land?Can China really look for growth opportunities while correcting its regional imbalances?Are big-ticket infrastructure projects and urbanization critical for China’s economic growth?What peculiar growth and development strategy helped China raise hundreds of millions above poverty line?

Two In Town

December(MR)Two senior IAS officers turn up to Hyderabad for im-portant meetings. The Coal India Chairman Suthirth Bhatta Charya andDepartment of Personnel and Training Secretary Sanjay Kothari met the TCM and other senior officers officially.As per the sources the meetingswere for a short period and no confidential issues were discussed.If it isconfidential, then the meeting pictures would not have been issued.Sosimple !

Boom Very SoonDecember (MR) Pr-

esently Andhra Pradeshis on screen for it's initia-tives, whereas TourismDepartment is workingon some new awesomeprojects and in comingdays that will lift up theimage of the state glo-bally. The visionary of-ficer Dr.R.P.Khajuria,Tourism Commissionerand his team are work-ing on the big projects,which will be announcedshortly. As tourism sec-tor is the image of any

state, that plays a role in attracting the investors. AP Tourism is going tobe the ideal face of the state to build its image successfully and effectivelythroughout the globe.

This is the all time record break picture of the month, whichshows that close relations does not have any conditions andbarriers.Check out the picture in which the T CM tightly hugs hisdriver Balaiah on the occasion of his daughters marriage inHakimpet.Wow what a picture, which is a live example for the peoplewho all the time maintain their status and will react according totheir power & post…!!! Kudos to the CM.

Aa Gale Lag Jaa....

Masala Popcorn*In a sudden step Somesh Kumar is shifted from GHMC,

the officer is yet to believe the fact, that’s the reason he has notreturned the corporation vehicle yet.

*Because of the financial crunch the AP government is think-ing to remove the drivers, but still no decision has beentaken.Moreover the officers are directed to use the cars andtrains rather than flight journey for the meetings to save themoney.

*Senior babus of AP are unhappy as most of the non-IASofficers bagged the plum postings.They have a complaint thatthe government is going against norms and service rules.Thenwhat is next !

*From three ekkas Anurag Sharma appointed as T DGP,whereas AK.Khan name was also in discussion. Although hedeserves the post, which was just a miss.

*The T Tourism Secretary Burra Venkatesham and TourismDirector Sunita Bhagwat put all their efforts to give best presentation during their China visit. What Chinese said..!Wow & wonderful.

*Be alert someone is watching you ! The Hyderabad Police chief M.Mahendar Reddy is serious about theinstallation of CCTV to keep a watch for 23x7…! Bach ke rehna re baba…!

*The Cyberabad Police Chief CV.Anand believes in visible policing and that’s the reason most of the time heis seen in the field with the other officers.His presence is working as a ‘Glucon-D’ for the junior officers. ‘vo jaan meyjaan dal dey dikhtey hi….!

*The CEO Bhanwarlal was on screen during the Warangal LS by-election. The election was smooth, it seemsthat the officer has made a record in holding the elections for number of times during his present tenure.

SuddenShock

December (MR)Senior officer Vinod KumarAgarwal is suddenly shifted to MCR Chenna ReddyHRD Institute.Why ?.As per the sources the officerhas delayed one of the file sent by chief minister andthe angry king without any second thought shiftedthe officer from Prl. Sec. stamps and registration.Notonly the officer but many of the officers are in shockwith the move. Let’s wish that this kind of shocks willnot be repeated in future, least the government shouldthink twice before taking any action.

5 December, 2015MIDNIGHT REPORTER

Public Sector

Good news forPSU employees7th Pay Commission recommends 23.55% hike

In a big post Diwali bonanza, the sev-enth central pay commission on Novem-ber 19 recommended a 23.55 per centhike in the cumulative earnings of servingand retired central government employ-ees, saddling the Union government witha bill of Rs 1.02 lakh crore in the nextfinancial year. The figure of 23.55 per centcovers the increases in pay, allowancesand pension. However, the recommendedraise in basic pay is only 14.27 per cent -the lowest in 70 years. The basic pay de-termines various allowances. The previ-ous commission had recommended a 20per cent hike, which the governmentdoubled while implementing it in 2008. The

gratuity ceiling will be enhanced to Rs 20 lakh from Rs 10 lakh. It will be raised by 25 per cent whenever dearnessallowance goes up by 50 per cent. The recommendations of the pay commission will come into effect from January1, 2016. The pay commission, headed by Justice A.K. Mathur, submitted its 900-page report to Union financeminister Arun Jaitley at his residence. A secretariat headed by the expenditure secretary will study the report beforethe government takes the final decision. Normally, the government doesn’t reject the commission’s recommenda-tions. The Union budget will have to set aside Rs 73,650 crore and the railway budget Rs 28,450 crore to meet thepay increase if the government accepts the recommendations without any change.

RIP BRPSE: Finally, government decides towind up the unit

In a bid to bring the ailing PSUs back on track, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government has decided to wind upthe Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE) may be on its way out and a new panel mightbe tasked to revive the sick PSUs. The BRPSE has not been successful in its job assigned by the government. TheCentre has shut shop for the BRPSE as part of its new strategy to revive and disinvest sick public sector units.It was here we reported as early as March 17 that BRPSE was on its way out and to be replaced by a new panel.“The Government has decided to wind up BRPSE to streamline the multiple mechanisms for the revival of sickCentral Public Sector Enterprises,” said a notification by the Ministry of Heavy Industr ies.Reports say that a decision in this regard was taken by the Union Cabinet at its meeting on November 7.DPE had in October issued fresh guidelines for the revival and restructuring of sick PSUs.In the meantime, the finance ministry is finalising the contours of a strategy for disinvestment in sick PSUs.The Prime Minister’s Office had given its in-principle approval to the proposal of winding up BRPSE.It was set up in 2004 to sketch revival plans for sick state-owned companies. The move is expected to clear wayfor the government to sell stakes in most of the 65 sick central public sector companies or close down non-viableones. The heavy industry ministry has already floated a Cabinet note on the closure of six companies - HindustanPhoto Films, Tungabhadra Steel Products Ltd, Hindustan Cables Ltd, HMT Bearings Ltd, HMT Chinar Watches Ltdand HMT Watches Ltd. This government has identified six PSUs including Hindustan Photo Films, HMT Bearingsand HMT Watches for closure and five units including HMT Machine Tools, Heavy Engineering Corporation andNEPA for restructuring this fiscal.The new panel is likely to be smaller in size to expedite decisions in respect ofcompanies that have become a burden on tax-payers. The new panel may be headed by the cabinet secretary withrepresentation from the administrative ministry under which the respective PSU falls. BRPSE has not been able todeliver the desired results because of various external factors, which include political pressures. A new mechanismis required for faster disposal of such cases. Once the panel comes into being, a loss-making PSU will beconsidered for revival only if it is operational in a strategic area or if banks are willing to lend it money without agovernment guarantee. In case a PSU has a market share of at least 10 percent, then the government maycontinue its efforts to revive such a PSU.

Neyveli Lignite diversifiesinto coal mining

State-run miner Neyveli LigniteCorp (NLC) said on Friday it hasdiversified into coal mining for powergeneration and plans to become a19,000 MW power company by2025. “NLC Ltd has moved from anonly lignite mining and power gen-eration company to become an en-ergy company now by diversifyinginto coal based power generationand generation from renewable en-ergy sources like solar and wind,”NLC chairman Sarat KumarAcharya said. “We have set our-selves a high growth target to be a19,000 MW power company (by2025) with its own fuel security fromits lignite and coal mines,” he toldthe parliamentary consultative com-mittee on coal, according to a state-

ment here by the coal ministry. Acharya gave a detailed presentation high-lighting production and financial performance, capacity additions and ongo-ing and new projects of the company, the statement added. He informed thecommittee that under the Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan, NLC has constructed1,414 toilets in schools in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.

According to the ministry, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal as-sured the committee members that NLC is keen to set up solar powerplants wherever land is made available by the state governments. NLCoperates three opencast lignite mines of a total capacity of 28.5 million tonsper annum at Neyveli in Tamil Nadu and one open cast lignite mine ofcapacity 2.1 MTPA at Barsingsar, Rajasthan. It has five pithead thermalpower stations with an aggregate capacity of 3,240 MW.

The company has also installed nine wind turbine Generators of 1.5MW each, aggregating to 13.5 MW, as well as a 10 MW solar photo voltaicpower plant. NLC is implementing a coal based thermal power project atTuticorin, Tamil Nadu comprising two units of 500 MW capacity each throughNLC Tamil Nadu Power Ltd, a joint venture.

AAI Targets Overseas AirportDevelopment Projects

Airports Authority of India the largest Airport Operator of the countrysigned a MoU with IL & FS Global Financial Services (ME) Ltd a subsidiaryof Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (ILFS) in the presence ofSh. R.K.Srivastava, IAS, Chairman, AAI & Sh. MuruganSankaran, CEO,IL&FS Global Financial Services (ME) Ltd., Board Members and othersenior officials of AAIby Sh. Rajesh Bhandari, Executive Director(Finance),AAI &Ramesh C Bawa, Global Head, IL& FS Global Financial Services(ME) Ltd. Speaking on the occasion Chairman AAI envisaged that his visionis to make AAI from local to Global considering AAI’s expertise and capabili-ties in Airport development & Operation and Management. AAI over a pe-riod of time has developed more than 60 airports, in metro and non-metrocities in India. AAI now intends to leverage to expertise to other internationalmarkets at a bigger scale. By signing MoU with IL&FS AAI would be gettingan opportunity in identification of airport development opportunities, trans-action structure and financing facilities in Middle East, Africa regions as wellas in CIS countries.

CEO, IL & FS Global Financial Services (ME) Ltd reiterated and en-dorsed AAI Chairman’s views and assured that considering IL &FS net-work globally they are willing to mutually cooperate with AAI to take upairport development opportunities in MENA region and CIS countries, le-veraging on IL &FS ‘s network.

REC Total Income Increases by 17%Rural Electrification Corporation Lim-

ited (REC), a Navratna Public SectorCompany has declared its financial re-sults for the quarter and half year ended30th September, 2015. In a meeting heldon 09th Nov. 2015, the Board of Directorsof the company approved the limited re-

viewed financial results. Total Income of the company for the quarter endedon 30th September, 2015 has increased to Rs. 5,925 crores as against thecorresponding quarter ended on 30th September, 2014 of Rs. 5,066 crores,registering an increase of 17% for the quarter.

Profit after tax of the company for the quarter ended on 30th Septem-ber, 2015 has increased to Rs. 1,619 crores as against the correspondingquarter ended on 30th September, 2014 of Rs. 1,504 crores registering anincrease of 8% for the quarter.

EPS for the quarter ended 30th September, 2015 is Rs. 16.40. Networth of the company has increased to Rs. 27,906 crores. The Loan AssetBook of the company as on 30th September, 2015 has increased to Rs.1,94,648 crores and the outstanding borrowings is Rs. 1,62,673 crores.

PFC Received Dun &Bradstreet Infra Award 2015

Power Finance Corporation Ltd. has been conferredwith Dun & Bradstreet Infra Award 2015in the LeadingInfrastructure Finance Company category.

This award was received by Shri M.K.Goel, Chair-man & Managing Director, PFC in a function organizedby Dun & Bradstreeton at New Delhi.

This award was given in the presence of Shri PiyushGoyal, Hon’ble Union Minister of State (IndependentCharge) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy,Shri Arun Khanna, President-Asia, Dun & Bradstreet andShri A.V.Somani, Chairman, Everest Industries Limited.

Soon MTNL subscribers toget free roaming

Good news for MTNL subscribers! The state-ownedtelecom operator will soon launch free roaming scheme,allowing customers to receive calls at no extra costwhile traveling across the country. BSNL already hassuch a scheme in place. At present, MTNL customershave to pay roaming charges for incoming calls whenthey go outside of Delhi and Mumbai. MTNL chairmanand managing director NK Yadav told a news agencythat the scheme will be announced soon and they arefinalising the dates. The government under NationalTelecom Policy 2012 has set a goal to achieve freeroaming gradually. Earlier, telecom minister Ravi ShankarPrasad in a meeting of consultative committee attachedto the Ministry of Communication and IT informed Mem-bers of Parliament (MPs) that MTNL is planning to launchfree roaming soon. MTNL offers services in Delhi andMumbai, the state-run telecom firm MTNL has also in-creased minimum broadband speed to two mega bitper second (Mbps) and is offering free broadband forone month to its landline customers.

HUDCO Pays Dividend ofRs. 120 Crore

Dr. M Ravi Kanth, Chairman & Managing Director,HUDCO presented the dividend cheques for the finan-cial year 2014-15 to Shri M Venkaiah Naidu, Hon’bleMinister for Urban development, Housing & Urban Pov-erty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs in the pres-ence of Dr. Nandita Chatterjee, Secretary (HUPA), Shri.Madhusudan Prasad, Secretary (UD) and the Govern-ment Directors on HUDCO Board, Shri R R Mishra andSmt. Jhanja Tripathy. HUDCO has declared a total divi-dend of Rs. 120.50 crore (inclusive of dividend tax ofRs. 20.49 crore) for the financial year 2014-15 to theGovernment of India. Out of the total dividend, Rs. 69.20crore is paid to the Ministry of Housing & Urban PovertyAlleviation, Rs. 10.08 crore is paid to the Ministry ofUrban Development and Rs.20.73 crore is payable tothe Ministry of Rural Development, Government ofIndia.

Babul Supriyo visitedNBCC SMART HUB

Shri Babul Supriyo, Hon’ble Minister of the state forUrban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Al-leviation Govt. of India, visited NBCC SMART HUB atIndia International Trade Fair displayed in HAll No.4.NBCC SMART HUB in the International Trade Fair2015 is another milestone for the Corporation. ShriAnoop Kumar Mittal, CMD NBCC and other senior offi-cials are present there at pavilion.

6 December, 2015MIDNIGHT REPORTER

BankingMost powerful womanin Indian business

Arunshati Bhattacharya, chairperson of India’s largest bank SBI, is the most powerful woman in the Indianbusiness sector, according to Fortune India. Another PSU boss HPCL chairperson and MD Nishi Vasudeva isranked fourth. All the top-five rank holders retained their positions from the previous year. ICICI Bank’s ChandaKochhar and Shikha Sharma of Axis Bank follow Bhattacharya at the second and third place, respectively.

About SBI chief, Fortune India said: “SBI’s financials tell the story of her successful tenure, but it is Bhattacharya’sdrive that has strengthened her position at the top.”

“In her short career as first woman heading one of the oldest commercial banks in the region, Bhattacharyawas instrumental in pushing several reforms, including revision of terms for infrastructure loan,” Fortune Indianoted. These powerful women represent various sectors such as banking, finance, energy, healthcare, media,fashion and entertainment. These women are in the age group of 40 to 71. In October 2013, Bhattacharya, then 57,created history when she took charge as the first woman chairperson of the country’s largest lender, State Bankof India (SBI). She also became the youngest MD of SBI. Bhattacharya has rich experience across almost all majorbusiness segments ranging from retail and corporate finance, treasury and international operations. Her balancedapproach on handling issues will be crucial for her top job. She doesn’t hesitate to take tough decision.She joined SBI in 1977 as a probationary officer (PO) and has served in various positions, including head of SBICapital Markets Ltd, the bank’s investment banking unit. Bhattacharya had also served as a deputy managingdirector and corporate development officer at SBI. Bhattacharya also had a brief stint at the Bank’s office in NewYork. She played a pivotal role in creating three of the bank’s newest subsidiaries — in general insurance, custodialservices and the SBI Macquarie Infrastructure Fund. SBI and its five subsidiaries today control over one-fifth of thecountry’s banking assets. It is the 66th largest bank in the world. The bank traces its roots to the British era whenthe British set up Bank of Calcutta in 1806, to be followed by Bank of Bombay in 1840 and Bank of Madras in 1843.

TSCAB attended GlobalConference at Turkey

The President of Telangana State Co-operative Apex Bank Ltd., (TSCAB)Konduru Ravinder Rao had been to TURKEY to participate in the Global Confer-ence and General Assembly Seminar on Cooperatives Towards 2020at Antalia,Turkey. At the seminar, Ms. MONIQUE F. LEROUX was elected as the Chairpersonof the International Co-op Alliance (ICA). In the enclosed photo, President, TSCAB,Sri KonduruRavinder Rao (left), Sri B.Subrahmanyam, Managing Director,NAFSCOB, MUMBAI, the newly-elected Chairperson of Ms. Monique F.Leroux,ICA (International Coop Alliance) and Sri PinnamaneniVenkateswara Rao, Presi-dent, A.P State Co-op Bank (APCOB) are seen.

PNB Q2 net profit up 8% at Rs 621 croreNew Delhi: Punjab National Bank today reported 8 per cent rise in standalone net profit to Rs 621.03 crore for

the second quarter ended September 30, 2015-16.The bank had posted net profit of Rs 575.34 crore in the same quarter of the previous financial year.Interest earned was Rs 12,345 crore for the July- September quarter of the current fiscal, as against 11,462

crore in the year-ago period. The bank’s provisioning was higher at Rs 1,882 crore as opposed to Rs 1,768 crorea year ago. PNB’s total income has increased from Rs 13,020.46 crore in July-September quarter of 2014-15 toRs 13,701.93 crore for the same quarter of the current fiscal.

PNB Junior Hockey Team Wins Nehru Hockey TournamentUsha Ananthasubramanian, Managing Director & CEO of Punjab National Bank facilitated Junior Hockey

Team at its Head Office. PNB Junior Hockey Team has been declared Winner jointly with NCC Directorate Odissain Nehru Junior Hockey Tournament (Delhi) played at New Delhi.

UCO Bank Q2 net profit up by 50 percent State owned lender UCO Bank on Saturday said its net profit for the quarter ended

September 30 this year rose by 50 percent at Rs. 156 crore as against Rs.105 croreregistered during the corresponding quarter of 2014. The bank’s total income during thesecond quarter stood at Rs.5,308 crore as against Rs.5,257 crore in the similar timeframelast year and its net interest income during July-September this year stood at Rs.1,416crore as against Rs.1,383 crore in the corresponding quarter of the last fiscal. As onSeptember 30, the bank’s gross NPA ratio stood at 8.51 percent at Rs. 12,227 crore whilethe net NPA ratio stood at 5.15 percent at Rs.7,123 crore. “We have been focussing on

the small-medium and the rural segment and have curtailed large corporate advances,” bank’s managing directorand CEO, R.K. Takkar told media persons here while announcing the financial results. The bank has a network of3,036 branches and 2,250 ATMs.

IOB’s Rs 3,000 crore loanscleared in H1 under FinanceScanner

The finance ministryis looking into loans worthRs 3,000 crore that IndianOverseas Bank (IOB)paid out in the first half ofthis year. The bank’s ap-proval process is beingchecked to see if therewas any wrongdoing in-volved, said two seniorgovernment officials whodidn’t want to be named.”It is being discussed with the bank. There was a review meet and thebank is submitting its response,” said one of the officials. IOB is alreadyunder the Reserve Bank of India’s prompt corrective action (PCA) regimebecause of its poor performance. The framework is invoked by the centralbank when a lender crosses threshold limits on the capital to risk-weightedassets ratio (CRAR), net non-performing assets (NPAs) and return onassets (RoA). IOB’s CRAR at the end of June was 9.75 per cent and itposted a net loss of Rs 551 crore for the July-September quarter. Anothergovernment official said there had been procedural lapses on some loansthat seemed to have been made without the required committee approv-als. There was no response from the bank to a detailed email. Managingdirector and CEO R Koteeswaran said he wasn’t aware of the matter.

IOB is among six banks that need special focus to arrest bad loans,according to the finance ministry. The other four are Bank of India, IDBI,Bank of Maharashtra, UCO Bank and United Bank of India.Gross NPAs at IOB rose Rs 2,973 crore or 15 per cent to Rs 19,424 croreat the end of September from the preceding quarter, according to thefinancial results of the bank. The gross NPA ratio of the bank was 11 percent compared with 7.35 per cent a year ago.

India will be among top100 in ease of doing

India will be among top 100 coun-tries in the World Bank’s list of easeof doing business ranking next year,Minister of State for Finance JayantSinha said. “We are very hopeful thatnext year when ease of doing busi-ness ranking comes we will havemoved from 130 to being in top 100,”Sinha said at the Karur Vysya Bank -Dun & Bradstreet SME BusinessExcellence Awards 2015 functionhere. “We have moved up 12 ranksin the ease of doing business… Thisranking was based on may 2015 andmany of the important initiatives that

we have taken are only now starting to bear fruits. The World Bank in areport released last month ranked India 130 out of 189 countries in theease of doing business, moving up 12 places from last year. Speaking toreporters here earlier in the day, Sinha said a high-powered committee tosuggest a revenue-neutral rate for the proposed goods and services tax(GST) will submit its report in the first week of December. “We just had aconsultation with the chief economic advisor and his committee that hasbeen studying the question of revenue neutral rate. They have pulledtogether a lot of data from many different sources,” he said. “We havefinalised the parameters that will be necessary to establish the rates. Thatis now being looked at. We will have something by the first week of De-cember.” Sinha also said the government was in continuous talks with theopposition parties on the proposed GST Bill. The constitution amendmentbill for GST has been passed by Lok Sabha, and is pending in RajyaSabha where the ruling NDA does not have majority. “We are trying to talkwith them (opposition) about all the aspects of GST. We all recognise howimportant this is for the economy for all of India so we are in continuousdiscussion to see what we can do to get it passed in the winter session,”he said. The minister said the actual rate of GST is to be set not by aconstitution amendment but by the GST bill. “Of course we have hadsome input that there should be a rate that is fixed by the constitutionamendment itself. So that is an item under discussion but as of now ourview is that that should be in the GST bill and not in constitutional amend-ment,” he said. The Rajya Sabha Select Committee has suggested thatthe GST rate should not go beyond 20 percent as higher rates could fuelinflationary tendencies.

Union Bank ties up withMaharashtra for OTC tax collection

MUMBAI: State-run Union Bank of India tied up with Maharashtra forover-the-counter (OTC) collection of taxes and receipts. The bank hasintegrated its core banking with the Maharashtra virtual treasury, GRAS(Government Receipt Accounting System), to facilitate OTC tax collec-tion, which will provide one more mode of payment for convenience of taxpayers and the state. ”The facility of collecting taxes and dues will beprovided at all of our 500 branches across the state,” Union Bank of IndiaChairman and Managing Director Arun Tiwari told reporters. It will give taxpayers the convenience of payment at the branch through their accountor by cash with online generation of challans and real time updation ofrecords through GRAS. The state will also be benefited by having ahassle-free revenue collection, daily reconciliation, real-time update ofrecords and providing easy reach to the tax payers.

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CorporateShukriyaHyderabad

The International Photographer LonaLogan flown back to Australia after a longstay at Hyderabad.Though it’s a painfulaffair for the family to leave their lovedones, but with the promise of comingback the family left with a hearth touch-ing line - “ Shukriya Hyderbad” & We willcome back again….!!!

Before leaving to Australia Lona Lo-gan shared her feeling and experiencewith ‘Midnight Reporter’.

“It’s been an amazing journey in In-dia for ten years. Myself and my childrenare very cheerless to leave, but we haveto carry on. We will come back for visitsand holidays as Hyderabad is in ourhearts.I consider India as my mother thattaught many a lessons of life, peopleand myself. I'm going back to Australiaas a different person with a different per-spective on life.”

“I want to thank the people ofHyderabad.Hyderabadies have wel-comed us from the beginning and on aprofessional note, has given us wonder-

ful opportunities and direction in the my field of photography and art. Professionally, it’s been amazing and I havebeen able to work with talented artists and personally taken pictures for some wonderful clients. I just got backfrom a trip to Varanasi, which has been on my list for many years. It’s truly a spiritual place and finished my stayhere in India perfectly. But will be back and plan to continue the work in photography and art with India, hopefullysetting up a cultural exchange between the two countries. India has a lot to offer in terms of photography and theamazing artists that make up this country. Yeh Mera Bharat ! Bahut Shukriya Hyderabad !”

CRISP India signs MOU with D-LinkCRISP join hands with Global Com-

pany D-Link & signed an MOU for es-tablishing CRISP D-Link academy atBhopal. This academy will be a centre ofexcellence. The CEO of CRISP, MrMukesh Sharma & GM (D-Link Acad-emy) Mr Sudhanshu Ojha signed theMOU. Mr Ojha said they will provide allnecessary equipments to CRISP free ofcost . D-Link will provide all necessarysupport services like course updation,equipment updation etc. The certificateto the successful candidate will be jointlygiven by D-Link & CRISP.

CRISP IT head Dr Rajesh Pachgadesaid that the establishment of D-Linkacademy in Bhopal will benefit the stu-dents, job seekers & professionals whowant to enhance their knowledge in net-working field.He also said this program

will help in enhancing the employability of students of Madhya Pradesh. CRISP COO (Dr Shrikant Bansal), CMO(Mr Rajesh Maheshwari) and Manager IT (Mr D.C Lal) were also present.

Presently following courses will run under the academy:D-Link Network Associate( DNA),D- Link Certified Specialist(DCS) & D- Link Certified Professional ( DCP).D-Link Academy will help users to learn the most about cutting-edge technology across Switch, Security,

Wireless, Storage, and IP Surveillance. Experienced instructors with extensive knowledge of networking technol-ogy, who will conduct informative training sessions that will thoroughly educate users about networking. Candi-dates will also have the opportunity to gain practical knowledge via. hands-on practice.

D-Link Academy is the center of D-Link’s networking knowledge. D-Link Academy is a global educationprogram designed specifically to provide training on topics such as, how to design, build, troubleshoot, andsecure computer networks. D-Link Academy will help educate employees, customers, channel partners, andstudents about networking solutions through its high-quality training courses. With this, D-Link Academy aims tohelp candidates to improve their job skills and give them a better understanding of complex technical topicspertaining to Networking.

Prof. M.K. Singh new president of ICARenowned and premiere institution of Indian Commerce, the Indian

Commerce Association (ICA) has unanimously chosen their PresidentProf. M.K. Singh, who is holding the post of Dean as well as Head of theDepartment of Commerce at Vinoba Bhave University. The decision wasmade at the 68th All India Commerce Conference, which was jointly orga-nized by Vinoba Bhave University and ICA. Prof. Singh, born in the year1958, was the Director of the MBA department at the Vinoba BhaveUniversity’s Department of Management, since August, 2009. He wasalso the registrar at NIT, Mizoram and the former Controller of Examina-tions at Vinoba Bhave University from April, 2005 to July, 2009. He hasmore than 33 years of experience in teaching and research at UG/PGLevels and specializes in Human Resource Management, Finance andBanking, Labor and Poverty Alleviation, and Social Accounting. Havingmore than 30 published papers in various international and reputed jour-nals. Additionally, he acted as the state coordinator for the ICA for con-ducting the ‘All India Commerce and Management Talent Search Examina-tion, 2010’. He is an obvious and excellent choice in heading the IndianCommerce Association, because of his immense contribution in his field.

ICA completed its 69th year and does not reap any financial assis-tance from the government. ICA is a professional and an academic team of professionals, researchers, andteachers who help in the cultivation of the knowledge domain of Commerce, Management, Economics, andBusiness. The association publishes a quarterly journal under the title of Indian Journal of Commerce. This journalcserves as a foundation for the publication of various research based articles and papers.

‘Abhishek Group’ set tolead the SHOW

The BNI Hyderabad is on screen forits ‘BNI GoNat Expo’, which will be held atHICC in the 4 th week of December-2015.Businessmen from 214 chapters willmeet under one roof at the Expo.‘AbhishekGroup’ is all set to lead this prestigiousbusiness meet as the main sponsor.

The Story of Abhishek Group beganmany years ago when a young man bythe name Tejnarayan Agarwal startedbusiness in the city of Hyderabad with aclear vision to grow and reach heights inhis business with only one motto "Build-ing trust among customers".

The early years saw company'ssteady growth under the guidance ofTejnarayan Agarwal. His strong sense ofdoing business and clean sighted vision was passed on to his sons AbhishekAgarwal and Nishant Agarwal.

Abhishek Agarwal and Nishant Agarwal are young dynamic entrepre-neurs who gave shape to Abhishek Group by diversifying in multiplebusiness,that made the business group well known in Hyderabad.

Maggi is BACK

Nestle India has begun the roll-out of Maggi noodles in 100 cities, termingthe five-month ban as “one of the biggest crises” it has faced in the 32-yearhistory of the brand in the country. It also announced a pact with Snapdeal foronline sales. “The return of Maggi Noodles on the auspicious eve of Deepawaliand on the day of Dhanteras is a moment of celebration for all of us,” NestleIndia chairman and managing director Suresh Narayanan said, announcingthe re-launch, after it was taken off the shelves on June 5. “The crisis wewent through is a big one for Nestle India. But we were always confidentabout the quality and safety of Maggi noodles. It is an important brand for thecompany,” Narayanan told a round-table with journalists to announce the re-launch. The first to hit the shelves will be the masala variant, which will beavailable in single, twin, four and six packs. Other variants will follow later, hesaid. “Maggi noodles has special relationships and strong emotional bondswith consumers across the country and I am confident our bonds will growstronger,” he said. “Separately, Nestle India is pleased to partner with Snapdealto roll-out online offers to mark this special occasion.”

Six South Korean cosmeticgiants debut in India

Six leading South Korean cosmetic companies have made their debut inIndia with an array of cosmetic and wellness products, entering into a jointventure with Indian firms to eventually make them in India, an official state-ment said. The six Korean companies entering the Indian market are PLKInternational, Coson Company Limited, Outin Futures Corporation, BCLCosmetics Company Limited, Kell Cosmetics Company Limited, and Es-thetic House Company. The companies signed a joint venture agreementwith an Indian firm for marketing their products first and will eventually makethem in India under the ‘Make in India’ campaign, the statement said onMonday. The agreement was signed by the South Korean companies withthe Indian firm Rajshree Empires Private Limited (RE) through their Koreanarm PLK International. A tripartite agreement was also signed by PLK withthe Uttar Pradesh government and RE for setting up a manufacturing facilityin India. The Uttar Pradesh government has allocated land for the purpose tothem, the statement said. Total Indian beauty and cosmetic and wellnessmarket size currently stands at about $950 million, according to statisticsfrom the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Pernod Ricard sees India becoming itsNo. 2 market on strong growth

French spirits group Pernod Ricard SA expects its operations in India tocontinue to post double-digit sales growth over the next five to 10 years andto soon replace China as its second-largest market by sales, top execu-tives said. Pernod Ricard, owner of Absolut vodka and Jameson whisky,also plans to perk up growth in its top two markets, the United States andChina, in the medium-term by launching new products and possibly by ac-quiring some brands.

India, which brings in 9 per cent of group sales, is however seen emerg-ing as a key growth driver, as an expanding class of wealthy consumersprefer premium spirits. Alcohol was frowned on until recently in India forreligious and cultural reasons, but the country is now a hotly contestedmarket for global drinks makers, as the likes of Pernod Ricard and rivalsincluding Diageo look to offset sluggish growth in the developed world.

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One of the reputed CorporateHouse CEO Sarah Suman Abrahamjoined with us to wish the festival ofjoy Christmas. “ As you relish thegoodies, decorate every nook and cor-ner of your home and enjoy the get-togethers.May the joy and festivitiescontinue to radiate in all your lives,longafter Christmas is gone. Merry Christ-mas & Happy New Year !!!”

“Christmas brings lot of joypeace and good happenings in ourlives” said the Chief Nutritionist ofMaxcure Hospital Sujatha Stephen.“We celebrate by sharing love andgifts with all our friends and neigh-bors. Especially we enjoy decorat-ing Christmas tree and home.It'stime to include fruits and dry fruitswith the special dishes to abundantsources of minerals & vitamins.Iwish all a very happy Chritmas. "

‘B’ for Blast: Occa-sion-Neetika Singh's birthday party where divas ofthe town gathered for aBlast.Red carpet, clicks,music, jazz & masti is whatwent on, soon after theblast all left with murmur-ing the song ‘bar bar dinye aaye’…..!!!

On The Screen: The JCI Hyd.Deccan Installation nite is in discus-sion followed by the announcementof its new lady President RenuGoverdhan Agarwal & JCRT wingChairperson Anita Rathi with theother team members.JCI is a wellknown organization, committed tonoble cause.Best wishes to all themembers…!!!

Dream ‘DIVINE’: The four square has announcedtheir new venture ‘DIVINE’ coming up at Rd No. 12Banjara Hills.The launch party held at a star hotel suc-cessfully with a elite gathering.Director (from left)Mahender Agarwal, Yogesh Agarwal, Naveen Goyal &Puneet Agarwal welcomed all the guests, who left theparty with a tagline ‘Dream Divine for a Dream Home’.

Band, Baja & Baraat : SoniaMajumdar is stepping to wedlock entrepreneur AbhishekSengupta from USA thismonth. The Bengali weddingrituals have already began fol-lowed by the ‘bridal shower’ gettogether, where many of thedivas had full too fun…!!! Ex-cited to have Bengali sweets.

Celebrating & Celebrating: ‘Holding Hands Foundation’ cel-ebrated its first anniversary. President of the NGO Danish Khan(in center) has won two reputed awards as ‘best social activist’lastyear, that shows the work & the commitment of the foundation.Guest MLC Farooq Hussain,Mohammed Khaleequr Rahman &Actress Suchitra graced the occasion.Member Kabeer Khan,LalitKrishnani & Sohel Mateen are seen in the picture.

Season of GoodLooks: The Celebritymakeup artist n hairstyl-ist Neeru Mohan is mak-ing rounds with herbrush by giving up newlooks to the divas.Everyone wants to be gor-geous and most of themprefer NM’s tune-up.Check out the actionpicture with BhavnaBagga.

Wedding Soon: Sai Sunaina got engaged withUjjwal, who is a MS software tools developer fromNew zealand.The engagement ceremony held re-cently and the wedding bells will ring soon.Bestwishes…!!!

Sizzling In The Town: ‘Sparks nSizzles’ is really sizzling in the town withits second store opened @ Banjara HillsRd. No. 1 recently with the charming ce-lebrities. Couple Raja & Vinny Singh wel-comed the guests. ‘S n S’ known for theircomplete & exclusive fashion accesso-ries from head to toe and off course forthe designer jewelry from Vinny. Justvisit once n you will surly say wow….!

CorporateCelebrations

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Yellow Gold

Trushna Tiberewala Sushmita Lahoti Totla Pooja Chawla

Bobita Saikia Nedungadi Shruti Gupta Agarwal Veni La Samita Pandya

Swasti Semwal

Swati Rao Kirti Gupta Anshum Kothari JainMegha Dinesh

‘Yellow’ color relates toacquired knowledge. It is thecolor which resonates withthe left or logic side of thebrain stimulating our mentalfaculties and creating men-tal agility and perception.Being the lightest hue of thespectrum, the color psychol-ogy of yellow is uplifting andilluminating, offering hope,happiness, cheerfulness andfun.In the meaning of colors,yellow inspires originalthought and inquisitiveness.

‘Midnight Reporter’comes out with an exclusivecoverage to boom up the im-portance of the most lov-ingly color Yellow.We thankthe beautiful divas who as-sociated with us with themost popular theme ‘coloryour life’.

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Punjab to develop rural tourism in the stateThe Punjab government has decided to execute rural and farm tourism in the state to attract

tourists especially the foreign tourists. A spokesperson of Punjab tourism department informedon Thursday that a workshop in this regard would be held at Amritsar in association with UnitedNations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). He said the project was aimed at providingexclusive opportunity to the urban population as well as the Indian diaspora to relish the richrural environment of Punjab by living in rustic homes witnessing green healthy environment offarms. The spokesperson said that the visitors would also get an opportunity to have wood-firecooked delicious Punjabi dishes under rural and farm tourism plan. He said that it will involvefarmers as successful tourism operators and they will get their guests online, through touroperators, service providers and with the active involvement of community members.

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West Bengal to unveil new tourismpolicy in January

Official West Bengal gov-ernment will unveil a new tour-ism policy in early January, asenior official said. The policywill be announced during the ‘Ben-gal Global Business Summit2016’ to be held in Kolkata fromJanuary 7 to 9, Amitava Ghosh,Deputy General Manager (Res-ervation & IT), West Bengal Tour-ism Development Corporation(WBTDC), told reporters duringa road show organised byWBTDC. To attract more travel-

lers and position West Bengal as a top destination for holiday-makers, the government hasincreased budget allocation for tourism to Rs 257 crore in the current financial year, Ghoshsaid. This budget was just Rs 11.57 crore in 2010-11, he said. To get more sightseers fromMadhya Pradesh, WBTDC is holding discussions with tour operators of Madhya Pradesh andinforming them about different travel packages, Ghosh said.

Narendra Modi biggest tourismambassador: Mahesh Sharma

Union Culture and Tourism MinisterMahesh Sharma said that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is the “biggest tourism am-bassador” of the country.

“The biggest tourism ambassador of ourcountry today is our Prime Minister. Some-times the members of the opposition ac-cuse him of being an NRI PM, but it is truethat after Independence, Modiji has takenIndia’s image to new heights,” Sharma saidwhile speaking at a session on tourism onday one of the Resurgent Rajasthan Sum-mit here Thursday.

He also said that if he makes a com-parison between Rajasthan, his state of birth,and UP, from where he is an MP, Rajasthanfares better. “Everybody has got emotionalattachment to their homeland. This is notonly my birthplace but I studied here till ClassX and moved to UP. When I compareRajasthan with UP, I see a change, and not

for the positive side, when I look towards UP. I feel proud to be born in Rajasthan,” he said.Sharma is an MP from Gautam Buddh Nagar in UP.

T Tourism road show kickedoff in Beijing

As part of Promotion of Tourism destinations of Telangana State, the Tourism Depart-ment, Government of Telangana is participated in the “China International Travel Mart” held inChina International Travel Mart (CITM) in Kunming( Yunnan Province).

Mr. B. Venkatesham, IAS., Secretary of Youth Affairs, Tourism & Culture Department leadthe delegation from Government of Telangana. The Telangana Tourism Road Show and Inter-action Meet is organized to bring its rich Tourism & Cultural resources to Chinese touroperators, renowned Travel & MICE organizers and operators. Smt Sunita M.Bhagwat, IFS.,Director of Tourism and Mr. Harikrishna Mamidi, Director of Culture was also the part of thedelegation.

India-China Yoga college begins classes inKunming city

BEIJING: The China-India Yoga College hasformally started classes in China’s Kunmingcity and will open a “new window” in promotingcultural exchange and bilateral ties, officials saidtoday. The college, which is the first Yoga insti-tute established by India outside the country,was set up during Prime Minister NarendraModi’s visit in May.

12 December, 2015MIDNIGHT REPORTER

Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau targeting Indianmovie business

Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau has invited 15 Bollywood actors to take part in a photoshoot atfamous scenic spots in Taiwan for a calendar that will be used to help attract Bollywoodfilmmakers to the country, a bureau official said Tuesday. The Bollywood celebrities invited tothe photoshoot include Sukirti Kandpal, India’s representative in the 2011 Miss India World-wide Pageant; famous model and television actress Sara Khan; actress Rubina Dilaik; andVrushika Mehta, dancer and Indian television actress, said Hsieh Chang-ming, director ofthe Tourism Bureau’s Singapore office. Hsieh was responsible for extending the invitations tothe celebrities, who are due to start arriving in Taiwan. They will be photographed at pictur-esque areas and popular tourist sites such as Yangmingshan National Park, Shimen in NewTaipei City, Leofoo Village Theme Park, Summit Resort in Taichung, Sun Moon Lake inNantou, and Taroko National Park in Hualien, Hsieh said.

Bulgarian Tourism delegation visits IndiaA delegation of tourism officials from Bulgaria visited In-

dia this week, with the aim of improving bilateral relations.The Eastern European country’s Minister of Tourism,

Nikolina Angelkova, met with her Indian counterpart, DrMahesh Sharma, in Delhi, where they discussed the promo-tion of tourism in both countries.

According to India’s Ministry of Tourism, Dr Sharma as-sured Ms Angelkova of “the cooperation of his ministry instrengthening bilateral relations between the two countries”,and said that all avenues would be explored for the promo-tion of tourism. The visit follows India’s hosting of a seminarfor travel agents in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, in November2014. This event was attended by 69 Bulgarian agents andoffered insights into the Indian tourism market, its destina-tions, products and attractions.

Tourism between Bulgaria and India is hindered how-ever, by a lack of direct air connectivity between the twocountries. Bulgaria wants to attract tourists from India Formermember of the Eastern Bloc Bulgaria, which is located on theBalkans in Europe, attempts to draw tourists from India. At present Indian tourists to Bulgarianumber only some 9,000 per year. A visit of a Bulgarian Minister of Tourism to India started for thefirst time on November 23. Minister Nikolina Angelkova met with representatives of the industryand Indian counterpart Mahesh Sharma. Ms Angelkova delivered a presentation to travellingbusinesspeople and the media at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FICCI). She imparted information about lots of attraction sites in Bulgaria, including culture, spaservices, water sports, and wine

Naidu Wants Gandikota to beTurned into Tourist Hub

Chief minister N ChandrababuNaidu has directed the officialsconcerned to initiate steps for de-veloping Gandikota in Kadapa dis-trict as an international tourist des-tination and set a six-month dead-line for the first phase of the project.

Addressing a review meetingwith officials here, the chief minis-ter, who had recently visitedRayalaseema districts for fourdays, said Gandikota is a vital partof the state history and culture andwanted the officials to take mea-sures for preserving and promot-

ing cultural heritage and history of that place by making it an international tourist destination.Gandikota is not just an ancient fort, but also has a picturesque view of deep gorge made

by River Penna. Naidu wants a geological survey conducted of the river, rocks and reser-voirs at that place. He also wanted to have a glass platform that of Grand Canyon. He wantedthe place to be made adventure tourists’ paradise by providing facilities for rock climbing,ropeway and boating.

He said the place should also have an amusement park, a shopping area, resorts andother such facilities. The chief minister asked the officials to expedite measures workspertaining to approach road to Gandikota taken up at the cost of ‘17 crore and another roadfrom Mylavaram to Ropeway point taken up at the cost of ‘1 crore. He emphasised on carewhile landscaping and providing transportation facility to Gandikota.

NITHM organized National ConferenceThe National Institute

of Tourism & HospitalityManagement (NITHM)organized a NationalConference on Strategicdevelopment opportuni-ties Tourism & Hospital-ity industry at their cam-pus, in Gachibowli -Hyderabad. ‘AlternativeTourism: A New Directionof Managing Mass Tour-ism’ and ‘Opportunities &Challenges in Tourism &Hospitality Industry’ wasthe topics.

Session chaired by Neethu Butt and Co-chaired by Dr. Y. Subrahmanyam ICFAI. Anothersession chaired by Prof. K Vijaya Babu Kakatiya University and Dr. A Raghu. Whereas S.S.Ahmed, Manging Director, V. Narendra Kumar, Group major, training, Green Park, K.RangaRao Managing Diretcor ACTS and Neetu Butt were the sessions coordinators.

Chief Guest Pervaram Ramulu Ex-DGP., Chairman, T.S.T.D.C,Guests of honor:Dr.Christina Z. Chongthu I.A.S., Director, NITHM & Managing Diretor, T.S.T.D.C were the ondais during the valedictory function. S.S Ahmed Managing Director of Travel Log with thePrincipal Mr.K.Vasudevan and the conference chairman Assoc.Prof. Anand Bethapudi werealso present on the occasion.

The Principal gave the Welcome Address, after which the Mr.SS Ahmed spoke on thenumerous opportunities in the Travel & Tourism Sector for the student’s today. Dr. Christina Z.Chongthu said that such conferences held at NITHM will surely help the students to widentheir perspective’s and knowledge for their careers’. The Chief Guest in his message saidthat today we innovate and learn so much in the Travel & Tourism Sector. The Industry isreferred to a traveler as Adventure, Sports and Wild Life Tourism is on the rise, he statedexamples of Christopher Columbus and Armstrong. He congratulated the students andparticipants of the conference and said that we should be ambitious.He he also encouragedstudents to join the Telangana State Tourism Development Cooperation TSTDC., as thecooperation needs to-days youngsters to take tourism forward.

Georgia witnesses 81% growth in Indiantourists during first nine months of 2015

Georgia has witnessed81% growth in Indian touristsvisiting the country during thefirst nine months of 2015 (Janu-ary-September) as comparedto the same period last year,said a top official of the Geor-gian National Tourism Admin-istration. A country in theCaucasus region of Eurasia,

Georgia is home to Caucasus Mountain villages and Black Sea beaches. ”Georgia is still lesserknown in the Indian market and we are creating awareness about the destination and its offer-ings through roadshows and by meeting travel trade in the country,” said George Chogovadze,head of Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA). GNTA is now focusing on its offer-ings such as ski resorts, wine events and wellness and spa resorts to attract Indian travellers,especially the Meetings Incentives Conference & Exhibitions (MICE) business. ”India is a verybig market and its outbound travel is also growing at a fast pace which makes it important for us,”said Chogovadze adding that India is one of the top three growth markets for Georgia (in termsof percentage). Georgia is targeting 6.5 million international tourist arrivals in 2016, up from the6 million expected in 2015. Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan are the top three countries in termsof tourist arrivals to Georgia.