Women Chief Ministers do not impress at all !

Demand for more reservation to women in politics notwithstanding, today's women politicians have not been able to impress upon the people as has been done by their predecessors. Examples of Mrs Thatcher, Mrs Bhandarnaike, Mrs Golda Meir and our own Mrs Gandhi who have proved to be tremendous administrators are noteworthy. But that is not the case with today's fair sex politicians, not at least the present Chief Ministers.
Response to our question : Who is the best Women chief Minister - Rabri Devi, Jayalalitha or Mayawati ? - has something been unthought of. Some of the respondents have even gone to the suggestion of changing the question to - Who is the worst? Others have termed the question itself as futile.
If one respondent says, "I rate Rabri Devi the best by default, since by her relative inaction she has caused least damage to the Indian economy", the another one feels "it is really a very sorry state of affairs if we have to compare Jayalalitha, Mayawati and Rabri Devi. All the three can be compared only on one yard stick i.e. who is the worst ? Together they have been disaster to the state run by them. God give some sense to the voters who have voted them to power".
Yet another respondent goes on to say, "no doubt all the three have their own importance in proving how defunct is our democracy. Rabri by her total ignorance, Maya by her successful effort at fooling such a large number of people with her one-point 'dalit' cause and Jayalalitha by her brazenness".
However, the silver lining has been the sympathies of, at least, one respondent with Rabri devi. He describes Rabri, a complete Indian woman, as the best Chief Minister with Simple living and high thinking. "She has the support of people of the state against the Central Government which has caused decay in Bihar by not supporting any of its cause. This is a partiality. Andhra Pradesh got thousands of crores from Central Government but Bihar has nothing", he says surprisingly enough adding that, "Under Rabri's rule 80 per cent people of Bihar were living gracefully with good education".
But by and large, the people do not seem to be happy with the way the three have been performing or else why would one suggest : "Now could you modify this question and ask 'which is the most incompetent, indifferent, corrupt and arrogant' of the three (the law-making, law-interpreting and law-enforcing) organs of our Constitution?" .

A V Singh to be Secretary Surface Transport

Secretary Non-conventionel Energy A V Singh is being appointed Secretary Surface Transport in Government of India. 1967 batch Uttaranchal cadre IAS officer Singh would succeed Ashoke Joshi who is superannuating on September 30.

Prodipto Ghosh is new Secretary Environment

Prodipto Ghosh has been appointed new Secretary Forests and Environment in Government of India. 1969 batch IAS officer of UT cadre Ghosh would replace K C Mishra who has been removed in the Taj corridor scam.

Mishra is Special Secretary Economic Affairs

B P Mishra who is joining the IMF as ED next month has been promoted to the rank of Secretary in Government of India. On promotion 1969 batch IAS officer of UT cadre Mishra has been made Special Secretary Economic Affairs.

Chawla to be Secretary Consumer Affairs

Additional Secretary Forests and Environment Naveen Chawla will now be Secretary Consumer Affairs in Government of India. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Neena Ranjan is Secretary Rajbhasha

Neena Ranjan will be new Secretary Rajbhasha in Government of India. She is 1969 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

IAS changes in UP

Anil Kumar will be new Principal Secretary Home in UP. Pradeep Kumar has been moved to Programme Implementation as Principal Secretary. Arun Singhal has been made Staff Officer to Chief Secretary.A K Bit has refused to work under his junior as Commissioner Excise.Hemant Rao is yet to get new posting. Vasudev Yadav has been appointed Secretary Board of Secondary Education in place of Achla khanna .

Menon to be Special Secretary Commerce

S N Menon is being appointed Special Secretary Commerce in Government of India. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

PM unlikely to clear Zaidi's appointment

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is unlikely to clear the appoitment of Naseem Ahmad Zadi as Officiating Chairman of the Airport Authority of India (AAI).1976 batch UP cadre IAS officer Zaidi is currently Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Lamba is new CMD Kolkata STC

Amarjeet Singh Lamba on his return from the US assignment has been appointed CMD of Kolkata State Transport Corporation. He is 1977 batch IAS officer.

Mathur is back to Rajasthan

Yaduvendra Mathur(IAS:1986), who was on UN deputation, in African Development Bank has returned, and has joined his cadre, rajasthan.

Rajpal is Dy Secretary Expenditure

Sudhir Rajpal has joined the Ministry of Finance as Deputy Secretary. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Bhatia is Advocate General of UP

Virendra Bhatia has been appointed new Advocate General in Uttar Pradesh.

Justice Ahmadi is Chancellor of AMU

Former Chief Justice of India Justice A M Ahmadi has been appointed Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University.

(We said this on September 12)

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