IN STEP with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal for austerity measures to reduce fuel consumption, Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil has decided not to use pilot vehicles in his convoy. Patil is learnt to have asked his office to convey to the states he is scheduled to visit not to arrange a pilot vehicle. On Tuesday, Patil travelled by road to Roorkee in Uttarakhand to participate in a meeting. He did not use a pilot during his three-hour journey, said a close aide of the minister. Protocol for Visitors Visitors arriving at the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) headquarters — Vanijya Bhawan — for official work seem to have irked some senior officers. It is learnt that the DGFT has issued a circular directing visitors to meet only officers of the rank of Additional Director General and above.…