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I have been watching your site for the last three four years. I am
really impressed and my thanks to you. There is no doubt that your efforts
are commendable. R S Pandey is new Petroleum Secretary
(UPDATED) CORPORATE Capt. KS Nair poised to be a Director in SCI Capt KS Nair is poised to become Director Bulk & Tankers(B & T) Division with the hipping Corporation of India(SCI). At present Capt Nair is Senior Vice President(VP) with SCI's International Safety Marine(ISM) & ISPS divisions. VP Bhardwaj is Director, Bank of Maharashtra VP Bhardwaj has been appointed as the Government nominee Director in the Bank of Maharashtra.He is Director Financial Service i.e Banking in Government of India (GOI). S Murali to be HPCL's Director Refineries S Murali is poised to be next Director Refineries with the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd(HPCL).At present he is Executive Director (ED) with the HPCL. Soni appointed CEO Suresh Soni has been appointed CEO of Deutsche Asset Management (India) Pvt Ltd.. Ravi Deshpande to head Contract Ravi Deshpande is the head of Contract, as chairman and chief creative officer(CCO). Jagdip Bakshi to join JWT Jagdip Bakshi is set to join as Global business Director with the JWT. Hitherto he was Chief Executive Officer(CEO),Contract. Sunil Rajshekhar is President, Times Internet Sunil Rajshekhar has assumed the charge as President, Times Internet Ltd (TIL) . Earlier he was to Bangalore based Director-South, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL). Kaustav Das is EVP, Ambience Publicis Publicis Ambience of which President and COO is Aniruddha Banerjee, has roped in Kaustav Das as Executive Vice President (EVP)for South. Earlier he was Managing Director, Orchard India. Regional GECs to be added in STAR's bouquet STAR India has plans to launch regional general entertainment channels (GECs) in Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi. Of this Bengali GEC will start beaming in September 2008. J.C.Giri is EVP, STAR India STAR India, in order to look after its soon to be launched regional general entertainment channels (GECs) has roped in J.C. Giri as Executive Vice President (EVP). Hitherto he was President, Ogilvy in Mumbai. FORUM Open letter from an IAS officer Dear Friends, Thanks for your kind words about Meher Chand. I attended the 11th day function on Friday at his home and conveyed your feelings to his family. Meanwhile, I have written to the Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and the Joint Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat to initiate a scheme for annual health check-up for all government employees and to conduct periodical campaigns in all government offices to create awareness on personal health care. I also urge you and your friends to use Whispers and similar platforms to generate such awareness at all levels. I firmly believe that it is a worthwhile cause. The Forum can also be used to encourage constructive ideas which will make their own contributions to a better world to live in. Space permitting, let me give some examples. (A) Yesterday I was talking to a doctor relative who has come to attend an interview in Delhi. We started talking about Meher Chand and he told me that one reason why septicemia occurs is the increasing ineffectiveness of antibiotics. Traditional medicine always believed in gradual stepping up of antibiotics so that there is always a "higher court of appeal" wherever necessary. But these days, thanks to the pressure of modern life, most people insist on immediate cure and the doctor, "to earn a good reputation," prescribes the highest antibiotic at the first instance. (I was reminded of Meher Chand's "reliable" doctor, "Jo strong dabai deti hey, par bilkul theek kar deti hey"). My relative says that at this rate, if a person keeps taking highest antibiotics, at some point of time no medicine will work on him because the virus would have developed resistance due to repeated mutations. I tended to believe the doctor and shuddered at the prospect. (B) Similarly let us think of the unmitigated disaster staring at us due to the uncontrolled use of polythene. We don't realize that unless we stop/reduce the use of polythene a time will come (may be in twenty years) when all natural regeneration will stop. Imagine we dig the earth and all that we find is discarded polythene. Water will not percolate, soil will lose its fertility and nothing will grow. The galloping economy will give us plenty of money, but money can't buy us food, because food production would have dwindled drastically. Can we, at an individual level, (i) carry our own cloth bags when we go for buying groceries and vegetables, (ii) convince our local shop keeper to use paper bags and (iii) patronize only those shops which dispense products in paper bags and avoid polythene. May be a small beginning somewhere will grow into a big movement against polythene. (C) All of us, by God's grace, have reached some level of financial stability where there is always a little extra bit to spare for a good cause. Have we ever thought of going back to our schools which educated us and made us what we are today? Why not adopt a section in a class and take care of some needs of the students there? Depending on how much we can spare, may be a computer, or a small library or deworming drugs or vitamins in the primary classes. Or may be institute some prizes for deserving students, or pick up the tuition fees or cost of textbooks of the BPL students in a class through the school administration? We may even use this forum to pool our contributions after identifying ourselves as the alumni of a school.. (D) Next vacation when we visit our home town, we can distribute saplings to a school and encourage students and teachers to plant them. A small gesture like washing their hands after lunch every day on the plants will ensure watering of those plants and each group of students can take pride in its own growing trees. Imagine taking your child to the school twenty years after you leave the school and point to a tree where a board would say "This tree was planted and nurtured by the Class VI of Year 2008". I am sure some of our readers are already doing exemplary acts of goodness and if we know such cases let us cite these examples. It will brighten our day and inspire us. Let us use this forum (Dr. Mehrotra permitting) to pool our ideas and give something back to the society. It is always easy to complain about what is wrong in our country, but it is even easier to generate ideas and hope that some of them will work. After all, one can sit in darkness for hours and keep complaining, but all it takes to light a candle is just thirty seconds! Mrutyunjay Sarangi mrutyunjays@gmail.com Has Sarangi's article done anything to our mindset ? While the write-up by Mritunjay Sarangi is well taken, it is sad that
such a senior officer could do little for a sincere subordinate. This
is what we are all accustomed to - a post-mortem at the end. Arun
What is the quality of these orders for the CIT's? So many eligible officers are not considered and as usual only favorites
of few lobbies are considered. Gopal Prasad Arushi murder-An Introspection By this time one thing would have moved everyone that the parents
of Arushi have suffered maximum. Firstly, the murder of their beloved
child and then character assassinations. The allegation of murdering
their own child is the most shocking allegation any parent can have.
God bless them to be innocent in future also. This murder case has moved
every family. The way things took their ugly turn and TRP interest of
media, though initially, I was not chasing the dynamics of investigation
of this case but later on due to inherent complexities and questions
posed by friends to know the truth from me being a police officer, I
started taking keen interest and making my own assessment and observations
about the case. Everyday my wife used to discuss this case with me and
as police officer I used to explore various theories of her murder.
With this automatically, various questions started creeping in my mind
about the possible factors that would have been the cause of her murder.
Before coming to that issue I would like to make my observations about
hasty and unprofessional investigations of UP police. The biggest problem
these days happen and that is very common in all sensational cases is
media hype and consequent building of pressure on police to work out
the case immediately. These days' police officers start feeling the
political or bureaucratic heat very much when such crimes are committed.
This pressure from all corners makes mockery of entire professionalism
of serious investigation process. The district police is the maximum
sufferer of such unprofessional pressures from every where. This is
why specialized units being little bit insulated from such pressures
do better. They do better also because they are officer oriented and
the broad contours of investigation line are continuously discussed
among senior officers on daily basis and that definitely gives clearer
sight to subordinates who being of routine kind investigator, do not
ponder on the complicated dimensions of the case, get clear and reasonable
line of action. The job of investigation is purely an intellectual job.
I think all the non-police background people should know that investigation
is like doing a research and it should be done with utmost professionalism
and rationality bit by bit. You can not get better result only by planting
theories and rationalizing the same. This is the biggest blunder. Some
one has rightly said the biggest deceptors of human beings are their
own perceptions. Once we become prejudiced with one theory, our horizon
gets blocked and then we do not do investigation but do rationalization
of our belief which might remain away from truth. Our job is to discover
truth and not proving our theories. Yes of course, theories give possible
insight but they are to be treated as indicatives only. This is the
biggest mistake NOIDA police did and due to that an aggrieved father
had to remain in Jail away from family with such grave allegation when
he needed maximum moral and emotional support of his family. I salute
Mrs. Nupur Talwar because the way this lady showed her cool and calm
under these circumstances to defend her husband who was attacked on
all fronts. God should compensate this family to come over their greatest
grief in all respects. Why I feel convinced with the latest breakthrough
of CBI? In fact two things I appreciate about CBI at this point of time.
They displayed their highest patience and did not do anything in haste.
I can say with certitude that criminals require lot of time to be broken
and when they foresee the death punishment of their crime, they behave
tougher and here comes the biggest challenge before investigators. With
due apology, even third degree methods do not become fruitful, if they
are done in haste what so ever torturous they are. Each and every criminal
has a critical mass of breaking timings and we investigators should
not or can not advance it what so ever hard methods we have used. At
the outset criminal remains determined not to disclose anything to investigators
come what may. Here the time tested principle of sustained and scientific
interrogation and investigation helps. Once a criminal remains for a
longer time in the custody of police, it starts working. He becomes
broken day by day. And then one fine peace of circumstantial evidence
achieved and confronted to him, makes him broken and entire job becomes
easier. Blind interrogation is useless. It needs very relevant questioning
and meticulous verification along with emotional and psychological pressure
to break the criminal. Those people who out of simple revenge or sexual
desire dare to commit murders are basically hardcore criminals. A criminal
can be hardcore at the outset and it is not necessary that he has a
history of crime. The gravity and cruelty of crime decide the hardcore
ness of criminals. To my mind the murderers in this case are very hardcore
and deeply criminal in their psychology. M N TIWARI Take care of other services It is high time the DOPT takes cognizance of the depilating conditions of many of the subordinate services in the Central Secretariat. There are no promotions for some in 20 years and there are promotions for some in 8 years. There can be a disparity depending upon the superiority of the service but not to this level. Govt. should step in soon and form a Committee to look into the service issues, cadre management issues of the subordinate services. There should be time bound promotions in all services whether it is the elite IAS or the CSCS. The only difference should be in the number of years between the promotions and the maximum level that one could reach. There could be no other solution on this earth for proper cadre management in the Central Govt. of India. Hope the Govt. and DOPT realise this fact and put their acts together before people start treating Govt. service as shit. Days are not far when the so called elite service would also be treated as shit by the public and private sector if the Govt. do not step in fast. Elites will end up only dealing with donkeys and there will be no horses in the GoI. Sad but true. Ravi CGHS affair Consider a situation. A man falls severly ill, went to a CGHS Dispensary,
the doctor asks for some tests. The man went to the polyclinic but the
staff there told that they have closed the day for sample collection,
come next morning. When the man goes next morning, after a wait of one
hr he was told that they can't perform all the tests as they don't have
reagents(Chemicals), so ask the doc which are most required. Doctor
was absent that day and other doctors have a different opinion. The
man suffered the recourse for almost a week. After that he went to some
private clinic get everything done at his own expenses. This is just
an example which I think is very common in government machinery. VS I really appreciate this site for releasing even somewhat flamboyant subject. My comments are on the pathetic situation of beneficiaries of CGHS these days. I am residing in Janak Puri. My father is chronic psychiatric patient. Every month I have to visit the CGHS Dispensary located in B-1 Janak Puri for getting the medicines indented and after clear 5 days for gettingthe same. My experience is such that a day before I have to go on both occasions, I prepare myself in the night so that I can reach dispensary at 6.30 a.m. (note again 6.30 a.m.) whereas the normal time of opening of dispensary is 7.30 a.m. which normally starts operating only at around 7.50a.m. so that I can get the medicines indented by 9.00 a.m. and reach office only an hour late. But even by reaching at 6.30 a.m. does not solve purpose sometime. The doctors have been made computer operators who instead of prescribing medicines or thinking of medicines, search for keys on the key board, every time and again the net goes off and all the work comes to standstill. At that time, I was just thinking what will happen on some day if I get ill, and I have to pass this procedure, the health problem will only worsen instead of getting treatment by the time number comes. Thinking of ghost, here he came. Last wee, I suffered from high fever, however, instead of going to that dispensary I bought PCM from market and when by Saturday morning I could not get well, I have sent my wife to MCD dispensary located in C-4 Janak Puri, if this viral fever requires some other medicines. She has gone there and brought medicines within 15-20 minutes. I was thinking, why I am paying Rs.100/- p.m. as CGHS contribution when I cannot expect medicines in emergent conditions. What this Goverrnemnt can do to improve this situation. This system cannot improve, until the attitude of their staff does not improve. Increasing the age of retirement will further dampen the steps. Ashok Kumar Bhimani Speaker and Sanjiva Reddy If memory serves me right, when N.Sanjiva Reddy as Speaker decided to contest Presidential election he left his resignation letter on his office table. The new Speaker was elected after he became President. K K Sharma Whether steno 'D' gets promotion or not; but some PPS who call them as under secretaries are enjoying and that too in the Department of RT&H, out of 3 PPS, one has been left scot-free to enjoy life and claim even reimbursement of telephone bills even when that PPS has been on long long leave. The other two PPS; poor fellows they sit late and get the rubbing. What we steno 'D' wish is we should also be given the freedom of that PPS who is enjoying left and right; i.e. PPS pay, computer facility for personal work; reimbursement of telephone bill whether it is official or not and status(i.e. I am under secretary). Exposed employee to work TAIL-PIECE Globally yours |
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