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INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

For Rajesh Bhushan, Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of the Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) the field of tourism is a passion.Bhushan is striving hard to ensure that old & rich legacy of Bihar was harnessed to boost inbound tourists to Bihar. In an interview with <whispersnthecorridors.com>

An energetic & hard working, Rajesh Bhushan, unfolded his road map for promotion of tourism in Bihar. In reply to a question he said "we hope that tourism would become a major revenue earner for the state of Bihar by 2020." Bhushan also hoped to achieve this through active encouragement and facilitation of state government, participation of the private sector in fulfilling infrastructural gaps and getting full participation of local communities.According to him various private promoters have shown interest in setting up budget hotels through Public-Private Partnership mode in places like Patna, Rajgir, Nalanda and Bodhgaya.

Here goes his interview:

1/What new projects has Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) taken up for development?

Answer : Bihar the land of Lord Buddha's enlightenment is known for its Buddhist Circuit destinations such as Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Vaishali. In Bodhgaya an ambitious master plan addressing basic infrastructure, tourism infrastructure, eco-friendly transportation etc. has been developed and is being implemented.

Tourism focusing on the river Ganges in and around Patna is another focus area of development. This includes - development of Ganga Ghats, and attracting domestic and external tourists to evening "Artis" at various Ganga Ghats, a floating restaurant with two decks (one housing the restaurant and another housing viewing area), speed boats with outboard motors for weekend cruise/picnics/dining out on the river Ganges.

Development of Eco-tourism projects focussing on rivers and hot water springs at Valmikinagar in West Champaran district and Bhimbandh in Munger District.

2/What steps are being taken to woo domestic tourists?

Answer: For the last three years inflow of domestic tourists in Bihar has been in the range of 60 to 70 lakh/annum. To ensure a quantum jump in this no. & to provide necessary fillip to domestic tourists, Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) has started on-line booking of hotel rooms for it's hotels and booking of tour packages through it's Website: <bstdc.bih.nic.in> These bookings/reservations can be made by domestic tourists through ICICI payment window by using their credit cards. The Bihar Tourism facilitation offices at New Delhi, Varanasi and Kolkata are electronically linked with the BSTDC hotels throughout Bihar. Hence on-line booking/reservation of hotel rooms can be done through these Tourism facilitation offices also.

The Corporation also provides attractive seasonal packages (with special discounted rates) in its hotels.

3/These days there is a lot of stress on budget hotels. How do you propose to explore this opportunity?

Answer:The Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) presently runs 23 budget hotels with a total room capacity of 244 rooms at different tourist destinations like Patna, Bodghgaya, Rajgir, Vaishali, Mohania, Sasaram, Valmikinagar, Purnia, Saharsa etc. The Corporation also provides extremely cost effective dormitory accommodation with a total Dormitory capacity of 277 beds at various tourist destinations within the state. Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) also provides attractive discount packages to tourists travelling in groups and off-season tourists in these hotels and dormitories.

The state Govt. is proposing to actively encourage establishment of budget hotels through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. Various private promoters have shown interest in setting up budget hotels through Public-Private Partnership mode in places like Patna, Rajgir, Nalanda and Bodhgaya.

4/Do you think that the Buddhist circuit needs improvement and reorientation?

Answer:The traditional Buddhist circuit destinations are spread over UP (Sarnath and Kushinagar), Bihar (Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Vaishali), and Nepal (Kapilvastu and Lumbni). What is required is better connectivity between these destinations and marketing of integrated tour packages involving all these destinations. Within the state of Bihar Govt. is exploring the possibilities of Air-taxi service for connecting these destination and for reducing the journey time from one destination to another.

5/Are any projects in collaboration with private sector being taken up?

Answer:The Government is agreeable to taking the Public-Private Partnership route to encourage private sector participation in the developing tourism infrastructure in the state. This involves Public-Private Partnership for - (i) running of high-end luxury a/c coaches between various tourists† destinations (ii) Setting up of budget hotels (iii) Setting up of Air-taxi service etc.

6/Where do you see Bihar Tourism by the year 2020?

Answer: We hope that tourism would become a major revenue earner for the state of Bihar by 2020. We hope to achieve this through active encouragement and facilitation of state government, participation of the private sector in fulfilling infrastructural gaps and full participation of local communities.

Bihar is the only State that has the privilege of having destinations directly associated with all the religions of the country namely Buddhism (Bodhgaya, Nalanda, Rajgir and Vaishali), Jainism (Rajgir and Pawapuri), Sikhism ( Patna Saheb), Hinduism ( Patna, Gaya, Mundeshwari, Sitamarhi etc.) and Islam (Patna, Manersharif, Biharsharif, Sasaram etc.). The Govt. would be actively promoting tourist facilities in specific tourists† circuits i.e. Buddhist Circuit, Jain Circuit, Ramayana Circuit and Sufi Circuit etc. to highlight these destination. This would enable the domestic tourists to include these destinations as - must see - in their itineraries.

Secretary level changes in a day or two

Secretary level changes are expected to take place in the Government of India on May 31 soon after the return of Cabinet Secretary B K Chaturvedi from Japan.

Who will be Secretary Revenue ?
Who will be new Secretary Revenue ? It is now certain that no 1971 batch IAS officer will be appointed on the post. Presently tie is said to be 1972 batch and 1973 batch IAS officers.

1973 batch IAS officer to be Secretary Petro-Chemicals !
A 1973 batch IAS officer is all set to join as Secretary Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals in the Government of India.

Will there be bifurcation ?
There are strong rumours that Department of Forests and Environment is being bifurcated. Will an IFS officer be made Secretary Forests ?.

Will Meena Gupta be Secretary Forests?
In case IFS officer is not appointed Secretary Forests, chances of 1971 batch Orissa cadre IAS officer Meena Gupta for the post are rated high. She has been Special Secretary Forests and Environment.

Yadav to be Joint Secretary Home
Arun Kumar Yadav is being appointed Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Sikkim cadre.

Rakesh Shrivastava is new JS (Ports)
Rakesh Shrivastava has joined the Ministry of Shipping as Joint Secretary (Ports). He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Samir Jha to join Cabinet Secretariat ?
CBI SP Samir Jha is likely to join Cabinet Secretariat soon. He is an IRS officer.

Ramasubban to join today
K S Ramasubban is joining as Member (Administration) NHAI under the Ministry of Surface Transport on Monday. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre. The post was vacant after the departure of P C Chaturvedi as DG ESIC.

Gopalan is Additional Secretary Commerce
R Gopalan has been appointed Additional Secretary Commerce. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
( We said this on May 1 and again on May 18)

Malhotra is back is Joint Secretary Law
P K Malhotra, an officer of Indian Legal Service has relinquished the post of Judicial Member, Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) and joined back as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of Legal Affairs. He held the post of Judicial Member, ITAT from Sept. 2003 to April, 2007.In between he was also on foreign assignment as Legal Adviser to the Government of Guyana (South America) from Jan. 2004 to Jan. 2006.

1982 batch Civil Services silver Jublee
Completion of 25 years will mark Silver Jubilee Celebrations of 1982 batch Civil Services in September. A dinner is being organized on September 1 at Surajkund in Faridabad district of Haryana. One can send e-mail to Dr Dalip Singh Haryana cadre officer at dalip9999@yahoo.com for confirmation or talk to him on mobile 09316121891 or D S Dhesi on mobile 09316121886.

Appointment of new Chhattisgarh DGP soon
Appointment of new DGP of Chhattisgarh is being made in a week or two. The post has fallen vacant following the demise of O P Rathore.

What happens if Miss Mayawati & Miss Bharati join hands?
What will happen is BSP & BJS party joins hands? This question is doing rounds in political circles, in the wake of poll outcome in recently concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) swept polls in UP.BSP supreme Miss Mayawati holds the mantle of UP Chief Minister. If former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Miss Uma Bharati who had, one year ago floated "Bhartiya Jana Shakti"(BJS) party & BSP supremo Miss Mayawati join hands then it could be a very lethal combination for other political parties not in UP alone, but even in MP where assembly polls are to be held in November 2008.

Successor to Ramasubban yet to be decided
Successor of K S Ramasubban in Water Resources Ministry is yet to be decided. Ramasubban who is 1976 IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre after his promotion as Additional Secretary had joined the Ministry of Surface Transport(MOST ) on May 28, 2007

Bureaucratic reshuffle in MP on June 4 or 5
Bureaucratic reshuffle is expected to take place in Madhya Pradesh either on June 4 or 5.

Theft in IRCTC office
It seems that all is not well in the Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).For last few days the Server of South Asia Pacific
largest E- commerce is down without any back up. Someone has reportedly stolen RAM of 35 computers from IRCTC corporate office at night on Friday stolen .It may be stated that MD of IRCTC Dr.P.K.Goyal , is on forced leave?.

Bureaucratic reshuffle in AP this week
Bureaucratic shake-up in Andhra Pradesh is expected to take place in a day or two.

IAS changes in Karnataka
G Ramachandra has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Kolar district. Anjum Parvez will now be Joint Managing Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation.

IPS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Prashant Kumar has been appointed DIG Meerut Range. Prabhat Kumar will now be DIG PHQ Allahabad. Sujeet Pandey has been made SSP Buland Shahar.

Ram Rattan gets extension
First Secretary in Kabul, Ram Rattan, has been granted extension till retirement in February 2009.

Who will succeed Rakesh Shrivastava
It is uncertain that who will be Secretary Administrative Reforms & Coordination in Rajasthan? The post fell vacant after Rakesh Shrivastava joined Indian Government as Joint Secretary in the Shipping Ministry recently.

Dr.Mahesh Shukla goes to Afghanistan
Dr.Mahesh Shukla has gone on a foreign assignment to Afghanistan. Hitherto he was Special Assistant to Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil.Dr.Shukla who belongs to the 1990 batch is an IAS officer of the Maharashtra cadre.

Transfer of a dead IT sleuth
How the CBDT functions can be gauged from the fact that a dead officer of Income Tax (IT) department was transferred, last week. IT official in question who died yet was transferred was G.V.Chinnadurai.In the transfer list of assistant commissioner & assistant commissioner (serial No 98) his transfer was done from Chennai to Mumbai.

A Pune based builder in a soup
Telephones of media houses did not stop ringing on Sunday as a request was being made to its members for killing a story regarding alleged arrest of a Pune based builder & owner of a five star hotel. He is also a stake holder in Navi Mumbai SEZ.Top politicians of Maharashtra used their clout to spike the story.

Amar Singh unwell
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh who had collapsed during the wedding of Abhishek & Aishwarya is reported to have lost his both kidneys. He is under intensive care and dialysis is being performed to keep his all parameters under check.

ULFA used mobiles of politicians
Army has sent a list of mobile numbers to higher ups that were allegedly used by ULFA in Assam. List contains those mobile numbers which were allotted in name of certain politicians belonging to the Congress party.

Regional parties for their pound of flesh
DMK chief buoyed over meeting between Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh & BSP supremo Miss Mayawati is arriving in Delhi with his set of demands today. The latter has walked away with a soft loan of Rs.1500 crore.As the grapevine has it regional political parties like BSP,RJD & DMK are demanding to have their nominee for the Vice President…s post in lieu of their support to Congress sponsored candidate for the forthcoming Presidential poll.

Jagjit Kohli may set up his business
Jagjit Singh Kohli who had quit as Managing Director(MD)of the Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL) is planning to set up his own operations in about four months time. He will be relieved from his job in next four days. It may be stated that WWIL belongs to Zee Group of which Chairman is Subhash Chandra. Jagjit Singh Kohli is considered to be a doyen in the cable industry.

FORUM
Large scale transfers in CBDT
Such a large scale transfer of people in CBDT is difficult to justify. It is going to improve whose performance? FM? CBDT? Parliament? or the others?.
Vijay Kumar

We need best of brains

I fully agree with the views expressed by Sanjeev. IAS was formed on the pattern of ICS which was aimed to suit the needs of Colonial rulers. At present we need the best of the brains to run the government. The selection done by UPSC is valid for only that period of time. It is very much possible that the people who could not get through at that time are much better suited for the job now, than the ones who are in. For the continuous development of any service it is imperative that the best possible man power is recruited at all levels. Clearing one examination should not be used as a certificate for availing comfort for the rest of the life. Performance should be the criteria. Whosoever is able to perform should be taken in to serve at all desired levels. NO UNDUE ADVANTAGE TO IAS AD INFINITUM PLEASE.

R Singh
Secretary level posts should be from IAS only

I also agree that Secretary level posts in all ministries should be from IAS. Why ? Because having person from same service results in that man carrying on his prejudices/likes/dislikes to the top most post when he holds the post. If officer will be from IAS, he will have balanced view and will not be swayed by prejudice. Being an outsider, he will listen to the view point of all and then take decision. I f Secretary is also from same service he starts victimising his own former colleagues. Many times he is hand in glove with vested interests. He also closes vigilance cases of his favourites who had done him personal favours at one time or another in his service career. An IAS officer will be an outsider and thus not a part of the internal politics. He will have no baggage of history and will start with a clean slate. An IAS Secretary does not have to be expert in all fields , for that he will be having advisers from the specialised service to give him advice. Therefore it is very sound decision to have uniformly only IAS officers as Secretaries. It will bring a lot of improvement and uniformity in working of the Government of India.

Ritu

It is ridiculous

Views expressed by B Satwinder is completely out of place and arrogant lacking any logic expected from a learned man. He suppose us to believe that only those persons are incapable in IAS who have come through reservations. Such views are against our constitution and shows the intellect of the person concern. This person called Satwinder is against reservation but wants reservation of certain post for the IAS only. Why he is not advocating a fair competition amongst all civil servants for top position in governemt of India otherwise 'reserved' for IAS. It is ridiculous to say that just by getting into IAS person becomes intelligent.

D Bihari

I find it quite amazing
I find it quite amazing when IAS officers or their factotums aver that higher posts in the Central Government are meant exclusively for the IAS (read Secretary level posts). Actually, these are all open posts and the preserve of no service in particular. Anyone may be appointed to these posts. That is how Shahi a technocrat was Secretary Power was till recently. Kelkar (technocrat) was Secretary Petroleum and Finance some time back. Jung (Indian Audit and Accounts Service) was Civil Aviation Secretary some time back and Krishnamurthy (IRS) was Secretary Company Affairs before becoming Chief Election Commissioner.

A K Singh

Specialzation is the need of the hour
Specialization is the need of the hour. Any technical organisation headed by a person who doesn't knows the technicalities of the working there,is bound to suffer in terms of performance. It is true that most of the civil service aspirants opt for the IAS as their first choice ,but a difference of less than 1-2% marks ,that too only once, cannot categorise one to be superior for life time. Truh is that all civil servants, more or less, have equal level of intelligence .Rather than engaging into the controversy of generalists v/s specialists ,which has no relevance in this era of super specialisation it is advisable that IAS itself should be divided into various specialised sectors., After district administration they should work only in their specialised sector. This would be beneficial for the government as well as for the IAS.

Sameer

Why people opt for VRS ?
The pay packet in the private sector could be the luring factor. The trigger has been , of course the ill-conceived Transfer Policy.

Sanath

Such a rule should also be for other services
Such a rule i.e 6 (2) should be brought about even for the Central Services too.

Jagdish

Let the IAS prove to society and nation
I don't agree with the views expressed totally in favour of IAS officers. Myself being a retired IAS officer and during my time officers were known for their integrity and uprightness but today the officers are incompetent, inefficient and cannot compete with the intelligence of other services officers. A large number of IAS officers are adopting buttering and also money-cum muscle power to grab the important posts but prove to be a miserable failure causing irreparable damage to India and Indians. May be it is due to bad training or bad example set by seniors in service. Time has come when no preference should be given to IAS officers and let them compete with all other services- Why for joint secretary posts at centre 1987 batch of IAS officer are being considered vis-a vis 1980 batch of other services . WHY SUCH A PROTECTION? WHY SUCH ADVANTAGE? India is known for respecting the age and seniority. And that's why Principal secretary to PM is always a senior person. Let our system should follow that and seniors of other services should be respected. Let IAS officers should be allowed to compete openly . Let them prove them self to society and Nation. This will help in restoring the faith of Indian society in this service.

Ram

IAS as Secretary Posts
I am an engineer and not from the Postal Services. But I had joined the erstwhile P&T Services and seen the functioning and performance of the Postal services for 40 long years. They are excellent managers. Postal Services in our country is far superior to several developed countries. I find the officers are more committed. Their constraint has been in financial resources. For anything and everything they have to get the approval from the finance Ministry. They are excellent operations managers and Human resources managers. Whenever they have been on deputation to other ministries they have fared better than IAS officers. I can quote a number of illustrious officers in this regard. They are quite impartial and sticklers to rules. The person who wants an IAS officer doesn't really want a change but should be settling scores with a coming future incumbent. Please don't meddle with a system which is running fine.

C.V.Gopinath

INDIAN POLICE ......
All the police organizations in the world are called to meet at a common place to evaluate the best organization. Only major organizations like the New York Police, the Melbourne Police, Scotland Yard, the Dutch Police and the Mumbai Police pass the eliminations round.
Now the task is to select the best one among them. Surprisingly, all the 5 groups do equally well in all the events so the judges put in a last (tiebreak) event to select the best team. They set a tiger free into a nearby forest and the team that catches the tiger in the least amount of time is to be declared the winner.
First the Dutch Police go into the jungle and catch the tiger in 30minutes. Next the Melbourne Police go and return in 20 min. with the tiger. After this the New York police go and catch the tiger in 15 min. Next Scotland Yard detectives go in and catch the tiger in a mere 10 min.
The Mumbai Police have the the last slot. The tiger is released and the Mumbai Police start chasing it. 10min go by.......20 min go by......30 min go by....1 hour passes by....3 hours pass by. The judges get vexed and decide to go into the jungle in search of the Mumbai Police. In a short time after getting into the jungle, they are amazed to find a big BEAR tied to a tree trunk, being beaten left and right by the Mumbai Police, who are shouting,
"BOL TU SHER HAI .......... SALA BOL ! TU HI SHER HAI !!"
.Contributed by=Col. Satish Dewan

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Be frugal……India Inc. has not taken too kindly to Manmohan's request!!!
Though some have taken this more as a jest!!

Some even say Manmohan is at a loose end!!!
What other message does his request send!!!

Some say he should have made this statement standing in front of Marx's bust,
When Commies make a statement standing in front of Marx's bust is a must!!

But why did Manmohan crack this joke???
When Manmohan is known not to be a humorous bloke!!!

Maya's basking in her success…. and enjoying the attention!!!
And now her eyes don't even turn red when Mulayam's name you mention!!!

Seems she's now got a working relationship with UPA…. mutual back scratching!!!
A favour for a favour or matching-matching!!!

In the Taj Corridor matter CBI will now work to getting Maya off the hook,
As you will recall some time back on her they'd thrown the book!!!

She's asked for Rs. 15,000 crores for infrastructure….hawai adda, bijli and sadak!!
As she spelled out her demands Manmohan's heart did that extra dhadak dhadak!!

Congress would have only one rider…money would be given with Congress's tag!!
Goodwill in UP Congress wants to bag!!

Send a message... sadhe naal rahoge toh aish karroge or you'll enjoy if you stay with us,
We'll spoil you .....over you we'll fuss!!!

For free and fair elections Maya thanked EC.... Excellent Commission,
For putting Mulayam's dirty tricks department's tricks into remission!!!

Next President could be India's present HM whose known for his butter fingers!!!
History of mishandling......his butter fingers in memory lingers!!!!

Okay he's a natty dresser…….cover should not be the criteria to judge any book!!!
As HM he's been bungling while giving a natty look!!!

Maya would be more in favour of N.D. Tiwari… and he's a Brahmin too!!!
In her new Social Engineering nowadays Brahmins are BSP's new mooh (face)!!!

Just a couple of weeks back NDT would not have even dreamed of this!!!
Yes High Office ki trappings karr raha tha NDT miss!!!

People want Kalam and Politicians want one of their own!!!
Seeds for a debate have been sown!!

President should be of the non political variety,
Politicians should not get to nominate one of their own Sorority!!!

As with time things get fine tuned an apolitical President is the need of the day!!
Politically equidistant Rashtrapathi Bhavan should stay!!!

Then only can the President be objective,
With political affiliation try as much as he may but chances are he'll be subjective!!

Sharad Pawar is on a milk diet and is planing to shuffle NCP Ministers in Maha Cabinet!!
Plans to take out some new faces from NCP's cabinet!!!

He's putting up next to the Array Milk Plant and sips milk while contemplating,
Milk is also served to NCP Leaders who to meet him are waiting!!

This is as close he's going to get to reshuffling a Cabinet…. in the past he did so as CM!!
But one thing is for sure he'll never do this as PM!!!

Manmohan is sending advisories to Punjab Government on Law and Order!!
Why doesn't he send one to Punjab Congress not to instigate disorder????

Junior Badal is back ….. seems he spoke to investors abroad one to one!!!
Because if he had Public meetings there would have been reports and there are none!!!

Amrinder demands reciprocity…. and seems very soon demand will be granted!!!
And behind bars he's going to be planted!!!

First the ramp then the kiss and now a halo…. Raje morphed to look holy!!!
And they've even morphed her Cabinet waali tolli (gang)!!!

Jaswant's wife has filed a complaint against this effort to make Raje and her tolli holy!!
Jaswant's wife says this is murder of religion…. Dharam ke seene pe golli!!

But Raje seems to be pleased …… she's amused!!
Fact is to please her religion has been abused!!!

Can't Party Leaders drum some sense into her… stop her Royal kinks????
And this divinity one really stinks!!

Bangladesh though it beat us in the WC is just a C grade team!!!
So after hitting 600 there is not cause for Indian Team to beam!!

If they'd done it against Aussies, Kiwis, Proteas, WI or Brit teams,
Then there was reason to emit beams!!

This was more like India beating a College Team,
Arre bachon ko karra hai cream!!!

Pawar hatao,
Indian Cricket bachao!!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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CORPORATE

5 Banks to see new CMDs this week

Decks have been cleared for appointments of new CMDs in five banks. They are T.S.Narayansami CMD Indian Overseas Bank(IOB) to CMD Bank of India, Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty CMD Indian Bank to Punjab National Bank(PNB) ,M S Sundara Rajan ED in Indian Bank to CMD Indian Bank, Alok Kumar Misra ED in Canara Bank to CMD Oriental Bank of Commerce(OBC) and S.A.Bhat in ED in UCO Bank to CMD Indian Overseas Bank(IOB).Their formal orders are expected to be issued this week.

A K Verma is Functional Director AI
A K Verma is reported to have been appointed Functional Director of the Air India.

OVL exploring for re bid
OVL under the instructions of Ministry of Petroleum, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) & PMO is now exploring the possibility of re bidding lost Azerbaijani projects. Bid for them was made under signatures of Naresh Nayyar, CEO of the Mittal Energy. OVL has reportedly been now asked to be extremely careful while bidding as a joint venture for oilfields abroad and should keep India…s interest above all business conditions.

Pawan Hans fleet being expanded
Pawan Hans is acquiring two new Dauphin N3 helicopters .Their delivery is expected by October 2007.Since inception the company has operated a number of helicopters and offered a wide range of services through its fleet of 34 helicopters consisting of Bell 206L4, Bell 407, Dauphin SA 365N, Dauphin AS 365N3 and Mi-172.

Jagjit Kohli may set up his business
Jagjit Singh Kohli who had quit as Managing Director(MD)of the Wire & Wireless India Ltd (WWIL) is planning to set up his own operations in about four months time. He will be relieved from his job in next four days. It may be stated that WWIL belongs to Zee Group of which Chairman is Subhash Chandra. Jagjit Singh Kohli is considered to be a doyen in the cable industry.

Midtech spreading wings
Midtech of which CEO is Nikhil Alva is going to spread its wings. As the grapevine has it the company is in talks with Malaysia-based Astro for partnerships in that region. Astro also has operations in Indonesia. Alva is reportedly in touch with other players too.

Balagopal elected Executive Chairman
N Balagopal has been elected Executive Chairman of the Confederation of Non Governmental Organisations of Rural India (CNRI).