Is something cooking up in Congress ?

Has something started cooking up in the Congress party ?.Well,answer to this question lies with the key player former Prime Minister P V Narsimha Rao.If the rumours are to be believed other players of this game will be Mssrs Sharad Pawar,J B Patnaik, V C Shukla, S B Chavan, A R Antule, K Karunakaran,N K P Salve, Vasant Sathe,Jagdish Tytler,Jafar Sharif,Bhajan Lal and M S Bitta. Other so called loyalists of Sonia Gandhi will be behind the scene.Really a warning signal for Sonia Gandhi.

Singh to be DG Akashvani

Brijeshwar Singh is being appointed Director General of Akashvani. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Cairae gets extension in tenure

Commissioner Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan H M Cairae is not returning to the parent Assam-Meghalaya cadre after completion of his deputation tenure.Deputation tenure of 1978 batch IAS officer Cairae has been extended till March 31.

Padamvir Singh is back

Padamvir Singh is back to Madhya Pradesh after completion of his central deputation tenure. He is 1977 batch IAS officer. He is yet to get new posting.

Mittal is APC UP

Vinod Kumar Mittal has been appointed new Agriculture Production Commissioner in Uttar Pradesh. He is 1968 batch IAS officer.

Chhattisgarh wants 10 IAS officers from MP

Chhattisgarh Government is believed to have asked for the services of ten IAS officers from Madhya Pradesh.

Gill not joining SSB

P S Gill is learnt to have decided not to join the SSB in Government of India. He is 1974 batch IPS officer of J & K cadre.

IAS officer who led in Syracuse University

A group of 30 civil services officers currently undergoing one year training in Public Policy at IIM Bangalore, have come back after an eight weeks academic training at Syracuse University, USA. They were exposed to interesting developmental issues from various developing countries. The session on IT in governance & development and resulting transparency for them was taken by another civil services officer currently doing research there in this area.

Popularity of Baijendra Kumar

Baijendra Kumar 1985 batch IAS officer of Chattisgarh cadre presently serving as Deputy Director - Administration in AIIMS is praised by all for his amicability and hospitality so much so that officers and political bosses known to him from his state even wish that if they have to be inflicted by a disease- it should be during his tenure as Deputy Director of AIIMS and not later.

George in much demand

The heat is surely on within the army circles nowadays. With senior army commmanders now in full steam trying to balance equations at their end, it's getting hotter day by day.Rumour mill has it very strongly that a very senior army officer has been speaking to Jaya Jaitley and bureaucrats close to Defence Minister George Faernandes for a prized posting.

Deep Chand is back to Delhi

IG Mizoram Deep Chand is back to Delhi. On his return 1979 batch UT cadre IPS officer has been made Joint Commissioner Police .

Who is more corrupt- politician or bureucrat ?

By Narad in Bhopal
Sunday, 21 December , 2003, 15:28

It is not the politicians who alone are responsible for increasing corruption but the bureaucrats are far ahead in promoting the trend, says a survey conducted, by whispersinthecorridors.com, to elicit the views on "whether bureaucrats are more corrupt or the politicians?" "If we look at both professional as well as financial corruption, the bureaucracy as a whole beats the political system hollow as far as corruption is concerned. In fact on both the counts seperately as well, the bureaucrats would be far ahead of the politicians. Professional corruption is however far more dangerous than financial corruption for it directly hampers the economic growth as well as the forward march of the country," says Ashwani Lohani one of the respondents. Like Lohani, 50 per cent of the respondents - beyond expectations - blamed it on the bureaucracy while only 10 percent thought that the politicians were more responsible for rise in corruption. Among the remaining 40 percent, while 20 per cent thought that both were equally accountable - rather hand in gloves, the other 20 percent were not clear as to whom to blame it on. Take for instance the case of S K Malhotra who says that politicians ride on the back of bureaucrat. "It is bureaucrat who helps the politician to become corrupt. If bureaucrats decide to be honest, then the politicians dare not become corrupt. Who are the people involved in Taj Corridor case? The bureaucrats. Politicians ride on the back of bureaucrats. The unfortunate thing for our country is that now both bureaucrats and politicians are hand in glove in all scandals and are jointly looting this country. The number of honest bureaucrats is on decline and shortly they will be a rare commodity. Good governance in India will always remain a dream" he says. But Uday Pant, yet another respondent, feels that it is difficult to say who is more corrupt! "Corruption of any type should be deplored, he says, adding that inspite of the populist belief that 'everyone is corrupt or can be corrupt,' the truth lies in between. There are all types of people everywhere. There are good politicians and good bureaucrats. The fundamental thing is the social unacceptance of the corruption." There are others in whose opinion corruption is these days accepted as an opportunity granted to individuals by the comman man in the mad rush of being rich overnight. They even justify corruption and corrupt means, having experienced it at all stages - from birth till death. In good old days, corrupt people were looked down upon by the people at large but things are not the same these days. "This is the trend that will be dangerous for the moral health of the society, particularly with the 'I don't care' generation next," many say.

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State Bank of Indore is run by acting MD

State Bank of Indore is being run by the acting Managing Director R Gopalan for the last several months. How long ?

Nageshwar Rao IDBI Bank CEO

G V Nageshwar Rao has been appointed as MD and CEO of IDBI Bank for a three- year term.