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Adarsh R. Goyal Director MMTC to retire
Adarsh R Goyal Director Marketing in MMTC is going to retire on December 31, 2009
Hemant Jain to be CEO, Leo Burnett
Come January 2010 and Hemant Anant Jain will be joining Leo Burnett for his second innings. But, in the New Year he will be joining as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) .He will be flying back to Mumbai from Wieden+Kennedy, London.

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Rahul has been named Politician of the Year and he deserves the award!!!!
He’s made a niche for himself and is no longer only ‘Sonia’s ward ’!!!
Many would agree ‘wish like him there are more’!!!!
I’m sure after this award on him adulations will literally pour!!!
Sonia’s going to beam!!!
But Rahul Baba take this award with a pinch of salt and neem!!!!!
When victorious Generals entered Rome on a Chariot!!!
A soldier stood behind saying ‘thou art only a man’ so that bigheaded the General would not get
And then Rahul you have miles and miles to go!!!
Rather than accept the award not a bad idea if you said a 'polite no'!!
Congress tried to firefight the Telengana fire and created fires in other States!
What is needed is 'non political debates'!!!! 
Once again….. small States mean better Administration!!!!
But then a lot of money is required for ‘State creation’!!!!
And criteria for creation of smaller States should not be ethnicity or bhaasha!!!
Only giving better ‘governance’ should be the real aasha!!!
If ethnicity and language are the criteria India will be broken into pieces!!!
Our social fabric has many ethnicity and language created very deep creases!!!!
And no State should be allowed to force language or prohibit what they call ‘outsiders’!!!
For 'central assistance'  this should be one of the main riders!
Why are our Nuclear Scientists bickering over how many H Bombs does India possess???
Kya kiya hai humaare Nuclear Scientists ko possess????
Isn't the Nuclear programme supposed to be top secret if I’m right?????
So what’s the Sarkaar doing as on India Nuclear Programme Nuclear Scientists fight?????
Please tell them to settle their personal bickering without bringing the Nuclear programme in!
Because PMO too would agree this is a ‘cardinal sin’!!!!
Armed Forces do not have to be given confidence about our Nuclear capability in Public domain!
Under the wraps our Nuclear capability for defense purposes should remain!!
Inflation is killing but UPA keeps saying ‘it will fall’!!!!
In the common man’s kitchen there is a gloom ka pall!!!
Even the staple dal roti is now out of reach of the common man!!!
As it is on veggies in the common man’s kitchen there was a ban!!!
This rampant inflation is a huge blot on UPA!!!!
And believe me for this rampant inflation a heavy price ultimately UPA will pay!!!
It’s been twice in a row ravaging inflation ....now and UPA's previous stint!
And Netas, Officials  and middlemen ne money kiya aur karr rahe hai mint!!!
And Mohna’s statement to the kids at 7 RCR that Sarkaar allowed prices to rise is shocking!!!!
Looked as if Common Man ko he was mocking after the ‘inflation socking’!!!
And for his info Netas, Officials and middlemen are making a killing at the Farmer’s expense!!!!
If Mohna’s behind this then all I can say ‘ how can a person like Mohna be so dense’????
Rather than increasing prices Sarkaar should have plugged the ‘farm to mandi’ leak!!!!
But then for this huge amount the Sarkaar would have to seek!!!
Confucius says...... how could an economist and experienced PM have been so naive!!
Many say it was Pawar's plan  but to this plan approval Mohna gave?????
Adds..... Pawar's nefarious plan could not have gone beyond the drawing board!
Unless and until he did not take PM aboard!
Flash.....Abu Dhabi has given Dubai a $ 10 billion credit line!!!
Inside info is that a 'pledge' Abu Dhabi made Dubai sign!!!
Maybe its asked Dubai to pledge it'll curb its biggest and highest fixation!
It’s this fixation that has led to Dubai's financial degradation!!

Bharat Kumar

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OPEN LETTER TO FM
Sir,
You are extremely [and rightly] worried about falling revenues in Direct taxes.
One of the main reason for this is a demoralised work force of officers who are not at all unhappy with their place of postings. Senior most Commissioners are posted to Class B/C cities because of retrospective application of transfer policy. Upright officers are given jobs like CIT Helpline, Audit, CIB, ITAT, Settlement Commission, and are kept away from jobs which can generate revenue.
To reach the full potential of revenue, the country deserves a motivated work force, and not demoralised squibs who keep begging for place of posting as they are away from their wives or children. Beggars can never be good administrators.
An IRS well-wisher

Thank the Generals
IAS and Foreign Service officers retire at the level of Secretary to GoI whereas central service officers retire at the level of Additional Secretary in the same pay band as Directors. Efforts by central service associations failed to get a separate pay scale for this rank (old 22,400-24,500) and the GoI put it on its website that the representation has been refused. The Lieutenant Generals in this pay  band made it clear that they cannot remain in the same pay band as Colonels and insisted that they either be equated with DGPs/PCCFs or a new pay scale be created. the government inspite of opposition from Defence Secretary and Secretary Expenditure, succumbed to their demand - one third were upgraded to DGP rank and the remaining had to be given a separate scale. Central service associations failed because instead of focussing on the pay scale they wanted full parity with the IAS. Army officers being more intelligent focussed on the pay scale. Once it was decided that 22400-24500 is equivalent to 67000-79000, in terms of numbers the main benificiaries were the central service officers as also the SC/ST officers of IAS/IFS who join at a higher age and do not reach the apex scale. Class I officers need to recognise the incompetence of their associations and be grateful to the generals.
M. P. Bauer

Vague aspersions
The comments entitled "Army’s increasing clout in the Ministry of Defence" appearing on the 14th of December, make for sad reading. In the first place, the writer casts some vague aspersions as to "coups" and use of BSF and CRPF. These are the classic hallmarks of the lower level officials who want desperately to seek some sort of parity with commissioned superior defence service officers (they dont dare try this with superior civil service officers, knowing that they will be "fixed" at the first instant). The goal of such persons is to attempt to create trouble between superior civil and defence services, so that they can fish in troubled waters afterwards. The BSF and CRP have their own tasks and they are good at them. The tasks do not include "balancing of power". Finally, there is the laughable canard regarding some fictitious "downgradation" of the defence secretary vis a vis certain other officers. There is no question that this libel is also floated by the poster to try and back his own cause while firing from the shoulders of persons who are his betters. There are absolutely no signs of any downgradation of the secretary in the ministry of defence, and all interactions are as per well established protocol. Would-be "Mir Jaffar"'s attempting to spread discord in the MoD for personal reasons should introspect as to what their behaviour means for the nation, and Whispers should refrain from giving vent to their frustrated views! God help our nation if such individuals persist in government.
-A concerned citizen

This forum is not like any other general forum
This forum is not like any other general forum to comprehensively discuss the burning issues but is a forum concerning staff issues. I am bringing only administrative angles and a simple wisdom that is required for the people at the power and for the public at large. Sarkar created tremors on Telangana without giving much thought and the administrative machinery (central para military forces and bureaucracy) would soon be expected to tackle the aftershocks, a gigantic task that could not be tackled by executive machinery alone.

This Telangana issue requires application of “Desi Dimak” instead of applying “Videshi Khopdi”. My country brother Shankar has misapprehension that I am against Telangana. The Sarkar announced initiation of the process on the eve of Her Majesty’s (Sonia) birthday. Is the creation of Telangana and sacrifices of students/ peasants reduced to this much cheap that can be created by whims and fancies of individuals? Any way some people forgot the word “self-respect” and its meaning, it is different issue. Here the topic is diverted. Today I actually wanted to comment on “Naya Tughlaqs”.

As I said above, the desi problems requires application of desi dimak. Sardar Patel applied this desi dimak and succeeded in merging more than 500 princely states into Indian Union. But Nehru, instead, applied his Videshi Khopdi for a single desi problem (Kashmir) and we have been suffering for more than two generations. At present, the PM (studied in UK), Chidambaram (studied in USA) and Sonia (everybody knows) applied their videshi khopdi hastily to this present mess without applying a simple logic and simple wisdom. The simple logic is until now states are carved with territories far away from their capitals. This is a special case but the Naya Tughlaqs applied the same “dawai” like “har dard ka Jinda Tilismat” but it backfired. Hyderabad is like a cow being a capital and the rest of the territory is its calf. If you drag the cow, the calf follows. Then what is the solution! The simple wisdom is give some ample ghas-dana to "bichda" and take away from "gai". The Naya Tughlaqs instead of announcing Telangana should have announced the rest of the territory naming some XYZ as a new state and announce some hefty package. Reason! when an employee is transferred on a request transfer no Transfer Allowance is allowed. But Sarkar gives transfer allowance to an employee who is transferred in normal course. So until now, states are carved out on demands, like request transfers, that is why no package. But the original Tughlaq has the ordinary wisdom to undo his wrongdoings. Let us wait what these Naya Tughlaqs would do. There is one silver lining. Until now the AP, a multi-pillared society with different castes, has become bi-polored on this issue and it is not far away to become unipolar.
Madduri VKR