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INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

The "Andaman & Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation"(ANIIDCO) Managing Director (MD) G.C.Joshi is making all possible efforts for development of residents of these Islands. Main thrust of ANIIDCO's activities is to have as much involvement of local people as possible, while maintaining ecological balance at Islands.
There are many plans for an integrated development of Andaman & Nicobar Islands said G.C.Joshi in an interview to <whispersinthecorridors.com>

For example it is proposed to have an eco friendly luxury resort at Radhanagar beach, Havelock with private sector participation,ANIIDCO's ,MD Joshi said adding Radhanagar Beach has been rated as Asia's best beach by 'Time' Magazine. Replying to question Joshi stated that the corporation owns about 10000 sq metres land at Port Blair. It is proposed to offer the land on 30 years' lease with two auto-renewable clause for setting up of a Shopping Complex-cum-Multiplex & bids for the same will be invited very shortly.

1/What are the main aims & objectives of the ANIIDCO?

A-The ANIIDCO was established by Andaman and Nicobar Administration under the decision of the Island Development Authority. The Corporation aims at creating a business environment in the Island so that the demand of the Islands is met and to provide assistance to the aspiring citizen of the Island those who want to venture the field of business.ANIIDCO undertakes all these development works, which require huge investment, and fewer profits, which private sector hesitates or does not undertake. It tries to promote essential commodities to the society at fair prices in view of development of the Islands.
Objectives
The Corporation's ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE is to develop, promote and commercially exploit the natural resources relating to industries, tourism, fisheries, supplies and finance of the Territory for the balanced and environmentally sound development of the Territory, operating on sound business principles.

2/How ANIIDCO contributed in efforts of the Andaman & Nicobar Administration provide relief to the people affected by the Tsunami of December 2004?

A- oCo-ordinated with A & N Administration in relief distribution work like water, milk powder distribution, vegetables and also in data collection work by involving our most of the employees.
oOperating outlets (Provision Stores/POL Units) for supply of essential commodities in Tsunami affected areas like Nicobar, Katchal, Teressa, Kamorta and Campbell Bay.
oWrite-off of loan given to Tsunami affected unit/people and also framed Special Interest free Loan Scheme for Tsunami affected people

3/ What are the main activities of ANIIDCO?

A-Running Hotel Megapode Nest 3 Star hotel with 30 rooms and Kitchen, Restaurant and Conference hall.Other ventures are Camping Resort at Goodwill Estate.- Vishranti Restaurant being managed by private sector participation..A luxury resort at has been at Radhanagar Beach, Havelock with private sector participation.Bids for same have been invited.ANIIDCO is also operating passenger sale agency for Indian Airlines and Jet Airways.
Fisheries
oPromoted Andaman Fisheries Ltd., (Wholly owned Subsidiary Co. of ANIIDCO), in processing in marketing of fish.
oConstruction of Cold Storage and Ice Plant at Havelock & Diglipur
Credit & Finance
oFunction as State Financial Corporation for providing loan to Industrial concerns as per the IDBI guidelines.
oExtended financial assistance to the units of entire islands units.
Trade & Supplies
oProcure and supplying Iron & Steel from primary producer like SAIL, TISCO, and ISCO.
oRunning various POL Unit and Liquor shop in entire Islands.
Milk Plant
oFresh milk purchases from villages of South Andaman
oProducing and marketing around 4000 Ltrs. Re-constituted milk everyday in and around Port Blair
oProducing Paneer (raw cheese).

4/Are any projects planned under Private Public Partnership (PPP) mode?

A-The corporation is working on following projects under Private Public Partnership (PPP):
A Beach Resort in Havelock
The Corporation owns about 45 acres of land at Radhanagar Beach at Havelock. Radhanagar Beach has been rated as Asia's best beach by 'Time' magazine. It is proposed to offer the land on 30 years' lease with two auto-renewable clauses.
The Corporation has already invited bids from private sector for setting up of eco-friendly luxury beach resort and some major hotel chains have shown interest in the project. The last date of submission of bids is in the month of September 2007 and we expect that very soon a world class eco-friendly resort will be set up in Havelock Island of Andaman district of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
B: Shopping Complex -cum-Multiplex at Port Blair
The Corporation owns about 10000 sq metres of land at Port Blair. It is proposed to offer the land on 30 years' lease with two auto-renewable clauses for setting up of a Shopping Complex-cum-Multiplex. The bids for the same shall be invited very shortly.

5/ Since nowadays Government of India (GOI) is emphasizing on the potential of fisheries sector in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, what type of avenues you see as MD,ANIIDCO?

A-There is lot of scope in fisheries sector, as we are not exploiting even 10% of total potential available in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The reason of non-exploiting is lack of Infrastructure. Once Infrastructure shall be developed other allied things like processing and marketing of Fish will be automatically developed.Exploiting of natural resources will help in social and economic growth of people of Andaman & Nicobar Islands in totality.It would create huge number of job for local people.We are running a Fish Processing Unit on a low key due to non-availability of raw fish in exportable quantity.As and when catch facility will be modernized and landing harbours will be constructed,the need of more such processing unit will be required.

Ministers often meeting US Ambassador?
Several Ministers in the Manmohan Singh government are these days often meeting the US Ambassador. What could be the motive?.

Kerala Chief Secretary resigns
Kerala Chief Secretary Lizzie Jacob has sought voluntary retirement from service. She will go on leave from Friday.Lizzie is 1971 batch IAS officer.

Krishna Rao moves to Delhi
ADG CRPF in Chandigarh M V Krishna Rao has been moved to CRPF Headquarters ,New Delhi. He is 1974 batch IPS officer of AP cadre.

IAS officer in West Bengal resigns
Debasis Som has resigned from the IAS to take up a private sector job. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Now the IPS empanelment list is based on merit !
The final list of 1975 batch IPS officers to the rank of ADG in the government of India has reached the MHA. This time the list consisting of 19 names is as per merit based on ACRs. Earlier the list used to be based on inter-se. Now the list begins with the Tamil Nadu cadre officer K Vijay Kumar and ends with Vijay Raman of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Sonia says UPA from being rendered as Archaeology
You need a bright stone alone to undo and mar all your edifice of toil and hard work.UPA discovered to its dismay some such stone to almost get rendered to a piece of archaeology in the annals of indian politics.by stupidly treading on the path where gods also would fear to wander around some asi brightstone displayed wanton lack of goodsense and lack of ordinary commensense grasp of Indian culturo-religious scene.Lord Rama is beyond the compass of mundane knowledge of such solemn themes as myth,faith and religion.Sonia Gandhi made a timely intervention to save UPA govt from getting transformed to a piece of stupid archaeology.

Congress High Command & the self goal
Congress High Command is in a tizzy over the self goal,it has guided by filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court,questioning the existence of Lord Rama.So grave is the damage to perception of voters that Congress High Command has put all its advisors on notice & intelligence agencies are searching for the origin of such an affidavit.

123 of Sethudsamadran faux paus
(i) Congresmen are squarely blaming Ms.Ambika Soni as Minister for Culture for filing such an objectionable affidavit in the Supreme Court regarding Sethusamudram project's row.
(ii) some clearly see this as a plant by somebody to snap Ambika's proximity to the High Command.
(iii) Whoever may price for this,unimiaginable damage to the party has been done.It is a party on a suicide mission.

Who is the black sheep?
A witch hunt has begun in the Congress to find a scape goat over the filing of controversial affidavit in the Supreme Court whereby existence of Lord Rama was questioned.It will be known in the due course:who is the black sheep.

Anti Sonia Gandhi campaign on
The litigation about the Sethusamudran project,in the Supreme Court has given enough ammunition to those who are opposed to Congress president & UPA Chairperson Mrs.Sonia Gandhi.They are going about stating that Mrs.Gandhi & her political secretary Ahmed Patel,both are non Hindus,that is why such a faux paus took place.

BJP quite jubilant
There is a lot of jubilation in the main opposition Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP) over the self goal by the Congress regarding the questioning of Lord Rama's existence in the Supreme Court.

BJP's stocks are up
The stocks of the main opposition Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP) has been "Chak De",now .A quick survey has indicated that as of now the BJP is bound to get more number of seats,if early Lok Sabha polls were held.

Ghanashyam appointed Ambassador to Angola
A R Ghanashyam (IFS : 1982), presently Deputy Consul General in Consulate General of India, New York, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Angola in succession to Mohammed Afzal.
( We said this on May 25)

Viswanathan appointed Ambassador to Argentina
R Viswanathan (IFS: 1977) presently Joint Secretary at headquarters, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Argentina in succession to P Rath.

Pandey joins Election Commission
R R Pandey has joined the Election Commission in the rank of Deputy Secretary. He is 1998 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Manoj Sahay is Dy Secretary Expenditure
IA &AS officer Manoj Sahay is new Deputy Secretary Expenditure in the Government of India.

Sehgal is Director Road Transport
Ajay Sehgal has joined the Government of India as Director Road Transport. He is Indian Forest Service officer.

Basu is Director HRD
Upmanyu Basu is new Director Higher Education in the Ministry of HRD. He is 1989 batch IRS (IT) officer.

Triveni channel would be Voice of India
Triveni group coming out with a news channel shortly has decided to name it 'Voice of India'.

IFS officer goes on deputation
BMS Rathore has gone on deputation in Winrock International (NGO). He is 1982 batch IFS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Gupta to be PS to Renuka Chowdhury
S C Gupta , IAS (SK-86), is expected to join as PS to Mrs Renuka Chowdhury , MOS (WCD) within a couple of days

Justice Panchal is CJ of Rajasthan High Court
Justice J M Panchal has been appointed new Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court.

Shishir Jha Media Co -ordinator CBDT
Shishir Jha on his promotion as Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) has been posted as CIT Media Co ordinator, CBDT, Delhi. To facilitate his posting the post of CIT(A)XXV Kolkata has been diverted.

New dimension to channel war
Channel war has now started getting reduced to cat fights. Recently, after reporters returned back to their organization after getting appointment letters ,the working head of the channel called up senior staff of Star News and abused them for retaining their employees. In fact they were threatened of ruling party connections.

CBI for global body to ensure cyber safety
Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has urged the Interpol member countries to set up an international organisation for cyber safety.

Brain drain to the US reverses
It is now official that the brain drain to the US from India has reversed. As many as 60000 couples have last year returned from USA to their homeland of India. Majority of them happen to be techies. It is now believed that salary of a techie in US & India is almost at par, while they are able to keep their children away from the influence of the Western Culture. Interestingly statistics show that more Indian students have sought admission in Educational Institutions of United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Five hotels of MPSTDC are three star now
The Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation (MPSTDC) of which Managing Director is Ashwani Lohani has got five hotels that have been given three star. It's a very rare distinction. Two hotels got three star recently .They are: Betwa Retreat, Orchcha & Tourist Village, Shivpuri. Three hotels already have three star. They are: Palash Residency-Bhopal, Tansen Residency-Gwalior & Kalchury Residency-Jabalpur. The MPSTDC is perhaps the only state tourism corporation in India to have so many hotels with three star. There are four more hotels of MPSTDC which are in queue of getting the three star.

Railway Ministry for better food to passengers
In a belated move, the Indian Railway Ministry has decided to give quality food to its passengers. For this purpose the Ministry has constituted a committee for fixing menu/tariff of standard meals served in Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains and other Mail/Express trains. The committee will consist of Chief Commercial Manager (Northern Railways), Chief Commercial Manager (Southern Railway), Chief Commercial Manager (Central Railway), FA&CAO (Central Railway), Director, Catering Service (IRCTC), Dr, Jayshree Rana, CSS (Northern Railway, Central Hospital, New Delhi) and Alok Shivpuri, Principal/IHM, Pusa Raod, New Delhi.

IPS changes in UP
Ajay Kumar and Naveen Arora will be SSPs of Etwah and Agra respectively.Amit Chandra has been moved to CBCID as SP.Hariram Verma has been shifted to EOW.Vijay Kumar Garg will now be SSP of Firozabad.

FORUM
Why IAS officers taking up junior level posts ?

Why don't you bring out news on the IAS officers taking up junior level posts ...JS empanelled officers becoming PS/OSDs to ministers and also taking up DS level foreign posts..

V K Gupta

TV Channels and surveys
TV Channels go for surveys when they have no hot news to project. The objectivity of such surveys can be compared with the impressions given by four blind men who went to feel an elephant. One touched a foot and said it is round and tall, the other one felt the stomach and said it is like a big barrel, the third touched the trunk and said it is like a pipe and the fourth held tusk and said it is like a rod. One should not waste time discussing such surveys.

N Krishnan

It's amazing suggestion
Amazing suggestion.. CSS officers as Deputy Secretaries to get inducted into IAS with 9 years seniority. Why not post them directly as Joint Secretaries and give them some.. say 43 years of seniority?

Rajesh Dhiman

CSS should not be elevated to IAS
Its absurd to elevate CSS to IAS. CSS has always confined itself only within the 4 Bhavans, Vayu, Udyog, Nirman, North or South block etc..etc,..,unlike the IAS who right from their beginning have to tackle many law and order and other security issues including the land & development issues at the district and block levels. IAS being the cream selected from lakhs, it must have its own sanctity of identity. Any elevation of CSS to IAS would prove detrimental and would ruin the country as it has been happening in some states like UP, Karnataka, Orissa and Tamil Nadu.

BMR

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Pranab needs to clarify what he means by Chinese Education model???
Will this mean that syllabus on Commie mindset India will remodel????

Commies make students zombies of the State!!!
Such zombies does India also want to create???

And then religion has no place in Chinese education!!!
As per Commie mindset God is man's creation!!

Simply don't understand why Bengalis think on Commie lines!!!
But when it comes to food on pure Bengali cuisine a Bengali dines!!!

Or is this Congress's way of placating Commies!!!
Commies will be happy as then Indian kids will end up as Communism's Tommies (doggies)!!!

If it had been Muslims Sarkaar would have agreed and said there is no doubt whatsoever,
Then Sarkaar would have said Setu was there and would stay for ever!!!

Who is the Sarakar to question the existence of Ram???
Millions everyday take his naam!!!

Tomorrow will the Sarkaar or Court stop people from praying to Ram???
Religious belief mein kyaa hai Sarkaar ya Court ka kaam????

I feel Sarkaar has stepped out of its domain!!
In a certain maryada Sarkaar should remain!!!

Left to this Sarkaar Islam would be the only religion with historicity!!!
For Votes this Sarkaar is willing to damn Hindu's religious belief and this is a pity!!

Sarkaar should know there is an even higher Supreme Court!!
And one day to this Court all in the Sarkaar and SC will have to report!!

How will they show their faces in that Court!!!
And rest assured Uppar Waala karre ga inn ko sort!!!!

Yechury's article in HT shows Commie's muddled mindset!!
He makes a case for Thermal and Hydro energy and says no need to go Nuclear yet!!!

Someone should tell him that coal stocks are depleting,
And then don't forget the spiraling power requirements for both cooling and heating!

And Yechury should realize that this investment is not for today but for India 's tomorrow!!!
And if this Deal is binned tomorrow's India will look back with sorrow!!!

Russia and China have Nuclear Reactors and are even testing Nukes!!!
Why doesn't Yechury give them his Nuclear rebukes????

Problem is Commies bark at anything pro India and wag tails when it comes to interests of Russia and Cheen!!!
As totally anti India and pro Russia and Cheen they are seen!!!

And now Russia has tested Father of all Nukes !!
Why against Russia for wasting money on such wasteful tests Yechury raise his dukes???

After all Russia could divert the money for much needed Social causes!!!
Why for the tests from Indian Commies Russia is getting applauses???

Can Yechury tell his 'Maee Baap' not to waste money on Nukes????
His Maee Baap won't even dignify his statement with rebukes!!!!

Justice is not revenge!!!
Justice does not avenge!!

Lynching incidents are on the rise … but are these because of revenge?????
What is the Public trying to avenge??

Seems Public feels Justice is being delayed and denied!!
And they take law into their hands ensuring that Justice is not defied!!!

Its time that both Police and Judiciary did some introspection!!!
And look into the Public's contention!!

Pawar says that wheat will be imported only to bridge current shortfall!!!
All of a sudden how come the tonnage ne kiya hai inta big fall???

Because Sarkaar was planning to import 8 lakh tonnes of wheat????
Seems Pawar felt the heat!!!

But insiders say Pawar has not given up and is just biding time,
They say he feels bypassing such a hay making opportunity is a crime!!!

Amrinder has applied to Court to go to Dubai to buy property!!!
As you know here he's facing charges of impropriety!!

It's rumored that prior to becoming CM he was neck deep in debt!!!
They say at one time his daily expenses with a lot of difficulty were being met!!!

So where has all the money to buy property and get treated in UK come from!!!
Maybe he got a huge piggy-bank gift from his Mom???

Now Virk's briefcase has revealed muck on Amrinder's cutlery!!!
As we all know there were quite a few who were doing his butlery!!

The papers show benami assets of those close to him and who held important posts!!
When news came out they say Amrinder turned pale as if he'd seen an army of ghosts!!

Diwali is around the corner and in Delhi nameplates of Mantris are being lighted!!!
One of the best outside Ambika Soni's house can be sighted!!

Maybe Soni will install a neon light to indicate if she's out or in!!!
Because of the Chacha Deepaks ( Diwali Santas) miss her house it'll be like a sin!!

Chacha Deepaks in Delhi are now preparing lists and packing of gifts will start soon!!
Like lovers some people who get work done from Mantris promise them the moon!!!

Promise kiya thaa ghar aur diya siraf ghar ka kuch saamaan!!
Promise kiya tha moon aur diya siraf telescope baimaan (liar)!!!

Bharat Kumar

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CORPORATE

Economic boom a far cry
Economic boom & over heating of the Indian Economy in real terms is appearing to be a far cry.Huge investments in mega & big projects coupled with inflow of forex has made people in power to sit elated with glee.However,actual consumers are still far from reaping crop of such a boom.What has happened,is that on instalments lower middle class or upper middle class people in India ,have bought goods,for which they are unable to eke out repayment,resulting in forefeiture or snatching of their assets.At the same time the other ilk is of those who buy second hand goods.The net result is that traders & businessmen are facing a slump.Indeed,some corrective measures are called for in this

Retirement age of Port workers raised
The retirement age of port and dock workers in the country has been raised to 60 years from October this year.

Rao joins Board of HPL
M V Rao has joined the board of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd..He is 1988 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Handa appointed President
Kewal Handa, Managing Director, Pfizer Ltd, has been appointed President of the All India Management Association (AIMA).

Rajeev Jain is CEO Bajaj Finance
Rajeev Jain has been appointed as CEO, Bajaj Auto Finance (Bajaj Finance).He succeeds Ravindran.

Sanjay Reddy to be CEO of ZEE Telugu
Sanjay Reddy is now head ZEE Telugu as its Chief Executive Officer(CEO)in Hyderabad.Hitherto he was CEO Pearlmedia.

Ronald D'mello is MD 00& CEO of Maya Entertainment
Ronald D'mello has been roped in by Maya Entertainment of which President is Niraj Bhukhanwala.The former is its Managing Director(MD)& CEO. Earlier D'mello was CEO of UTV's new media vertical.