DAILY G.A UPDATE : 06-12-2016
1. Panneerselvam sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for third time
Amidst a pall of gloom following Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s death, senior AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam was elected the leader of the Legislature Party shortly and sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
2. Jayalalithaa passes away
J JAYALALITHAA, the iconic Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, who scorched a lonely, often controversial, road from cinema to an almost mythic political status among her followers, who mastered the art of the comeback despite setbacks electoral and legal, passed away.
Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa introduced a number of pro-poor schemes in various fields, including education, food security, provision of safe drinking water, the girl child etc. Her life was dedicated to the socio-economic transformation of Tamil Nadu and its people.
3. Exim Bank chief named Addl Secretary Niti Aayog
Yaduvendra Mathur, Chairman and Managing Director of Export-Import Bank of India (Exim), has been appointed as Additional Secretary in Niti Aayog.
The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved appointment of Mathur, a 1986 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, to the new post. "The officer would assume charge of the post on completion of his tenure as CMD, Exim Bank," an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training said.
Besides him, nine other bureaucrats have been appointed to various ministries. Of these officers, seven are from Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and rest from other services.
Another senior IAS officer Malini Shankar has been appointed as Director General of Shipping, trusted with implementation of shipping policy and legislation so as to ensure the safety of life and ships at sea. She is at present working in her cadre state--Maharashtra.
P V Ramesh Babu will be chief of Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC), a listed Navratna public sector enterprise mandated to finance and promote power sector projects all over the country.
Babu, a 1985 batch IAS officer, is working in his cadre state-- Andhra Pradesh.
Sanjiv Mittal, an officer of Indian Defence Accounts Service, has been appointed as Additional Secretary in Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. Mittal is Secretary, Oil Industries Development Board.
Rabindra Panwar and Anshu Prakash have been appointed as Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser in Home and Rural Development ministries respectively.
Nagesh Singh, an officer of Indian Economic Service, has been also appointed as Additional Secretary in Department of Rural Development.
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Madhu Mahajan has been appointed as Member Secretary, National Commission for Women.
The post of Financial Adviser BSF in the Ministry of Home Affairs held by V Venugopal has been upgraded as Additional Secretary level post.
Senior IAS officer R K Vats will be Additional Secretary in Health Ministry.
4. BS Bhullar appointed aviation regulator
Senior bureaucrat B S Bhullar was appointed chief of aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
He is presently working as Additional Secretary in Civil Aviation Ministry.
The post has been lying vacant for past over four months after M Sathiyavathy, first woman chief of the aviation regulator, was named as new Union Labour Secretary in July this year.
Sathiyavathi, a 1982-batch IAS officer of the union territories cadre, was in September last year appointed as the Director General of Civil Aviation.
5. Bernard Cazeneuve appointed French PM after Manuel Valls' resignation
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was appointed as the new prime minister after Manuel Valls resigned to seek the Socialist nomination in the presidential election, the presidency said.
Cazeneuve, who has overseen the security forces' reaction to a string of jihadist attacks that have killed more than 230 people in France over the past two years, will take control of the Socialist government until legislative elections in June.
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