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true CORPORATE Prashant Saran is new Member of SEBI Prashant Saran has taken over as as Whole Time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India in Mumbai. Prior to this he was CGM RBI. Sunil Kishan to be ED Customer Services Air India Sunil Kishan is being tipped to be new ED Customer Services of the Air India. Jakhar re-elected Chairman of IFFCO Surinder Kumar Jakhar has been re-elected as Chairman of IFFCO Henkel India empanels Bipasha Basu as brand ambassador Henkel India empanels Bipasha Basu as its brand ambassador for its upcoming deodorant range, Fa Men Xtreme. Mudras will look after its creative part Raju Sarin appointed Director, OOH Media news OOH Media news has appointed Raju Sarin as Director, Sarin has two decades experience in marketing and media industry. Sarin is ex Times of India's marketing professional Hamik Talukder, appointed Business Head, OOH Media news Hamik Talukder has been appointed Business Head, OOH Media news. Earlier Talukder has worked with Sony Entertainment Television, Essel Group, Star TV and Radio Mirchi. Suresh Mahalingam appointed M. D. of Tata AIG Suresh Mahalingam has been appointed M. D. of Tata AIG Life Insurance Suresh Mahalingam earlier was C.O.O. of Tata AIG Life. Raman appointed CEO TVS Electronics S. S. Raman has been appointed as a whole-time director and CEO, TVS Electronics and Managing Director for the recently formed TVSE Services. Aaj Ki Aawaz Maya has offered outside support to UPA!!!! Self preservation and to some extent and getting moolah I'll say!!! Maya's seen anti incumbency hit BSP in this poll!!!! In BSP's 'socially engineered vote bank ' there's a huge gaping hole!!! Then don't forget the largesse that comes to UP means there will be more malai! And then she'll also get to boast 'Mayawathi UP ke liye paisa laaee'!!!! But Center should put its foot down and say 'no more statues'!!!! This should be one of the main statutes!! Congress must keep in mind the frivolity of Mamtha and Maya!!!! BJP ne dono se dhokaa khaya!!! Congress is basically spoilt for choices!!! It's getting to hear from all over India 'we want to support Congress' voices!! 275 figure should be the target!!!! And from other Parties outside support Congress should get!! Mohna asked SP for cooperation but SP's making it look as a request for support!!! With a letter of support for UPA kiya Amar at President's door kiya report!!! The fact that he went to President and not to Congress shows he's doing natak!!! As Congress has slammed in his face the faatak (gate or door)!! Rahul they say has decided not be become a Minister ….. not now is the take!!!! For Congressmen clamouring for Mantripad Rahul's set an example so they'll think before demands they make!!! But Rahul if you become a Minister what stops you from your Party upliftment plan!!! On your being a Minister and undertaking Party upliftment work there is no ban!!! So I hope in the next reshuffle you will become a Mantri…. sooner than later!!!! And in the meantime work on your debating skills to become a forceful debater!!!!! Good thing that in Mohna's Cabinet a lot of young faces will be found!!!! They say Arjun and Antulay are outbound!!! Arjun was one who was against youth being inducted!!! And by his diatribe after his son did not get a ticket literally 'himself he deducted'!!! The upcoming Budget in my opinion will be pro poor…. inclusive growth!!!! Industry is hopeful too but at present Government cannot please both!!! Disinvestment should be on the top of this Government's agenda many say!!!! With pro poor schemes deficit is going to go up and high it's going to stay!!! For Industry the best thing that Government can do is 'policy stability'!!!!! In Government's policy making there should be durability!! Government's impetus should be infrastructure and making demand spurt!!! And on reforms Government should not skirt!!! Impetus should be to make demand in villages and towns spurt!!!! And for this Government needs to make an all out effort!!! Creating more jobs should be a primary worry!!! And Sarkaar needs to create jobs in a tearing hurry!!! The Indian Voter this time has shown signs of getting priorities right!! Voter has realized vote ka might!!! Confucius says ....Build up on this new found realization and make the Indian Voter more shaana!!! Or if I may say more siyaana (intelligent)!!! Adds... help them to rise above caste and creed when they vote!!!! And realization will reduce in elections the power of The Note!!!! Bharat Kumar Forum Waiting for extension in retirement age The civil services who cheered and voted for Dr Manmohan Singh en bloc, are now waiting for retirement age to be extended to 65 years as proposed by Dr Manmohan Singh earlier but blocked by CPM. Now that the Congress is free of all shackles, they will complete all reforms like age extension, NREGA, etc immediately. Rita I want to be like Manmohan I respect Dr. Manmohan Singh and I want to be like him Ujjwal Sarkar Respect of serving a force is more important Responding to the story of IPS officers, my further submission is this that much beyond the issues like awarding medal or discs, which are otherwise also immaterial for a true worker, the issue is of having the respect of serving a force which the cadre officer choose as his best option. The migratory birds from IPS cadre who are neither well versed with the ethos of these forces nor have any dedication (obviously) just want to secure the cool postings away from their dusty districts or state capitals and earn as much as possible through the resources of CPOs. And not only this, to do this they have to ensure a resistance free environment, so they make sure that none of the cadre officers find prominence in the system. One has to really see to believe as to how these officers treat the cadre officers of even seniority much higher than theirs. They don't dare treat this way even a civilian babu of their state or the SHO back home but here they are the mylords. But why should we blame them alone? Once the government has made a system like this, why the beneficiary wont reap its fringe benefits? Frankly speaking, we don't have much against these IPS officers since many of them are already personnel of low morale, and suspicious integrity but its time for the government to think boldly and rationally that why a directly appointed Group A officer of the Government of India can not rise beyond a level in the system for which he has given his blood and sweat? We don't demand any charity...lets have an open competition on the professional aspects of the forces concerned before taking a decision and lets have a doodh ka doodh aur IPS ka pani................ Kittu First, Rahul should prove as a competent Minister First of all Rahul Gandhi has to prove himself as a competent Minister. Otherwise he should not be thrust upon the country just because of his lineage. This will be unjust. We wish him all well but he is stilled inexperienced. Bishan Sharma RG is an idol for young new voters & rural India needs him. He should go for some kind of 'mix' of HRD & Rural Development Ministry so that the energy of the young new energetic voters is channeled into rural development which has great potential to save Indian economy from depression effects. S Raswant Cong should work towards larger agenda RD is an excellent ministry for doing good work. Congress must keep HRD and Health with them and work towards larger agenda of making the difference. The rumour mill in Nirman Bhavan is that Baalu or one of the DMK satraps is eyeing Health to settle scores with Anbumani who has rattled bureaucrats and doctors. It will be an avoidable blame game or witch hunting. Dr Akash Pre-dating, dating & predating ---------------------- Election 2009 and other pieces appearing today sum up general perception on the issues relating to election 2009. There will be several such brilliant pieces that will emerge for some more time. I would like to add that the Congress party has an organisational set up which is manned by shrewd politicos, effective bureucrats, media units and other paraphernalia. So the wish lists on the website may not be useful at all, though sensible leadership ought to take every word appearing seriously. Ignored, these words acquire strength of unimaginable proportions. The losers must review their past responses to the issues raised on the whispersinthecorridors and see if they gained something or lost something. One satisfactory development is the crushing defeats of all those Members Of Parliament who had made their official letter pads available to undisciplined/corrupt officials to write most unparliamentary, undignified and baseless complaints against their superiors. This is a corrupt practice, which is damaging to good governance as per the law. This is a normal corrupt practice to squeeze public servants and also public sector companies including banks through blackmails. An MP's letter is termed "VIP Reference" and is registered as such in the minister's personal section, has to be replied within a week and progress reported to the minister. A corrupt boss at Secretary level, adds insult to injury caused to the "dignity of office of the officer complained against". Such corrupt and indecent secretary, in cahoots with the Private Secretary to the MOS, makes all attempts to fix his subordinate. Fortunately, in the GOI the intellectual and moral levels of Cabinet Ministers has so far been higher than these warts on the body beautiful of public administration. So the Cabinet Minister sees through the game, upholds the law which the secretary has shamelessly compromised and protects public interest. Only thing he is unable to do being a politician and a brother MP himself is to rein in the errant MP. People have punished all such MPs of the last Lok Sabha so decisively that they will shy away from seeing their face in the looking glass. Before exiting, let me elaborate on the title for this post. Well, before the previous government was appointed by the President it was pre-dating all shades of political elements for cobbling up a majority. Thereafter, upto middle of 2008 it was the phase of "political dating". However, the bonds did not last long for either party and soon rejection, dejection and separation began necessitating new selection ( can I translate it to Swayamvar?).Now is the last phase of pre-dating. The predator knows the prey and is stalking. It will suitably employ the political hounds and succeed in bringing the trophy home in less than 18 months, the time needed for doubling or even trebling the capacity of a chip. Watch out all political analysts and political economists. We should not allow any ex, including the sensex to pull the wool on us! M L Gupta SP, BSP fall over each other in a bid to 'support' UPA? In politics, they say every thing is justified like in war and love. The love offered by Lalu, Maya and Mulayam is to restrain CBI or fear of CBI. It is also not just for nothing that Congress gained Coup de Grace in UP. Was it CBI?? Your guess is as good as mine. Ratnam Using IES "The present crop cannot even understand papers published in, say, Journal of Development Economics. How can they judge whether the analysis produced by the consultant is robust?"" Whose fault is it if the present lot of IES does not understand trivial econometric language containing very little substance in some journals? The IES officers can very well evaluate the real weight of voluminous reports and research work done by the so called top graded private economists of professor and higher ranks even without any knowledge of econometrics. If IES officers can not understand econometrics language than how can officers from other services and politicians understand all that and what is its relevance and use except for theoretical and research purpose ? If econometrics is the only criteria than why Government does not arrange regular econometrics training sessions for all officers from IAS, IRS, IES and all others dealing in economic matters? I am fully confident that IES and all other officers can learn (if not already learnt) it if there is really a serious need and demand for it. But, perhaps, nobody want to be dragged into econometric language and perhaps want to avoid mathematical version of economics resulting in low opinion neglect and sidelining of IES. Some of the calculations and simple analysis may carry undue weights and can be very well done by those who do not want to share responsibilities in order to retain significant weights vis-a-vis other services . The problem is perhaps not with the efficiency or competence of any body but rather with the monopolistic tendencies. Otherwise, even fools can achieve greatest targets if provided equal opportunities and facilities. IES is perhaps one of very few services created by Indians and other services are the creations of the erstwhile colonial aakas (lords). It is really shameful if domestic creations bring the worst kind of humiliation to their officers. R Mahaya JIPMER Guest House JIPMER Ponducherry is an autonomous institution under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It was a subordinate body till 2008. A Ramadoss àppointed Dr N K Ganguly former DG ICMR as President JIPMER . The institute is hiring a house in Defence Colony for 9 lac per month expenditure. The guest house is not needed as after 6th CPC government employees have good TA/DA. If such a guest house is considered necessary, no one should be allowed to occupy it for more than 10 days under any circumstances . Will the new Health Minister reign in the JIPMER authorities Dr Pandey All is in a mess What's new about it? CBEC always does this. The cadre management , adminsitration, promotion ,housing scenario etc. of this service is in mess. Its high time that government should focus on this service before its too late. VK Frustrating debates I often read inter service debates on your website and find them almost frustrating. It looks that within civil services everybody is fighting to get better of others. This is also vindicated by the fact that hardly any debate over improving quality of service being rendered by civil services is ever there on this site. From my personal experience after working for a short while in a state PSU has been tremendously disgusting. After finishing my MBA I had joined this PSU with a view of having 'sarkari' tag. However in a short span of time I realized the mistake I had committed and hence resigned to join private sector. The state PSU's are completely bereft of any semblance of Corporate Governance. The Corporation had no vision or mission. There was no strategic plan even for the namesake. The Board of the Company comprised of a couple of bureaucrats who worked on the principle of you scratch my back and I yours. Internal controls had no meaning with rampant corruption all around. For the MD it was a money spinning tenure with each MD capitalizing on transfer industry. The corporation boast of being headed by some of the best known officers of this country and after seeing its state of affairs I used to wonder if this is the best our country has? Truly if our best officers could not provide vision or mission to a small corporation whether they have the capability to provide vision to this great country? Raman It's funny comparison ! The comparison between IAS and Class IV is very funny and speaks about the mindset of the writer. Class IV can get only one promotion during the period of his service whereas it is only IAS who get maximum and faster promotions than any other service in the Indian system. They get appointment in many bodies like boards, CAT, Authorities, Commissions, even after retirement. What a ridiculous comparison? Neelkanth Is the System working against IAS officers? This topic has appeared on your web site many a times, obviously propped up by IAS lobby. Considering all aspects, it is childish and not in consonance with required IAS standards. The argument is faulty because: * Basic QR for all entries of Civil services is the same. No one has asked them to waste their time in Colleges. * The upper age limit for reservationists and general cadre is unnecessarily high. You can not eat the cake and have it too. * They enter at higher age due to their compulsions and not due to government fault. * They have outwitted and sabotaged the system formally and informally by giving themselves seniority and faster promotions as compared to the other services. As it is they gain over other by 10 to 12 years. * They start with fat salary and jump into PB-4 at 13 years of service including training. Their overall take-home is many thousands times more than a fourth class employee.(White one, not Swiss account type). It is a pity that so called elites would stoop down to extract favors to the level of comparing their conditions of Service with that of a peon and a khalasi. You want extension in retirement age? Make it for all. All are "Bharat Man Ke Lal." The only people who needs to be cared for on age aspect is "Armywalas" who compulsorily retire very young. Think of nation for which you are paid and made. Raja Is this sacrifice or continuing backseat driving ? It would be more apt to rephrase the news item(May 19)as: "Sonia Gandhi sacrificing 'de jure' power, a second time! "If this is sacrifice, then, I offer to do it, many times over, each day! This is, in fact, a case of 'de facto empowerment' of an extra-constitutional person, for exercising the powers of the 'Executive' without an iota of accountability! This is to remind the public, which suffers from 'short-term memory loss' A K Saxena ( A retired civil servant) TAIL-PIECE A man dies and goes to hell. There, he finds different hell for each country. He goes to the German hell and asks, "What do they do here?" He was told, "First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then The German devil comes in and beats you for the rest of the day." The man does not like the sound of that at all, so he moves on. He checks out the USA hell as well as the Russian hell and many more. He discovers that they are all more or less the same as the German hell. Then he comes to the Indian hell and finds that there is a long line of people waiting to get in. Amazed, he asks, "What do they do here?" He was told, "First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Indian devil comes in and beats you for the rest of the day." "But that is exactly the same as all the other hells - why are there so many people waiting to get in?" "Because maintenance there is so bad that the electric chair does not work, someone has stolen all the nails from the bed, and the devil is a former Government servant, who comes in, signs the register and then goes to the canteen !!!!! Pawan Kumar |
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