A deserving site:
Whispers in the corridors is no more a whispering site. It has gone beyond that and now is a forum where honest and bold citizens find a place to see them expressed as they want. Slowly but steadily, even IAS officers have now started understanding the importance of this site and are joining this forum. The way Dr. Misra has expressed his anguish at the plight of civil servants, deserves to be praised, at the same to be pondered about.

I feel it is time too for the Civil Servants (IAS) to form an Association/Federation of their own and protect themselves from the greedy politicians. The Federation could also lay down rules for their own members and boycott those dishonest socially.
C. Singh

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Aaj Ki Aawaz

All involved in 2 G ghotala used the delay to 'clear all sensitive material'!

The delayed raids are basically 'immaterial'!!!

CBI says Raja's diary has been recovered!!!

By same law as in Jain Hawala Diaries this Diary will also be covered!

Or for all you know Raja has just given CBI a red herring!!!

And in the end CBI will say on the case the Dairy seized from Raja has no bearing!!

Don't you think Karuna was dutifully informed by PMO?????

Tomorrow to 'so and so places' on raids CBI will go!!

No doubt Congress has encashed Mohna's honesty!!

And now another person with the honesty tag is being accused of dishonesty!!

Tata's were known to be politically neutral ......but no more!!!!!

Radia tapes bring a totally different image of Tata's to the fore!!

And Rattan Tata has done a 'Congress' on the letter written by Chandrashekar!

He says Chandrashekar is a BJP sponsored 'mover and shaker'!!!

They say CBI will question Raja!!!!

He'll be served badam milk and khaaja (cashews)!!

Yes for public consumption CBI will be questioning Raja soon!!!!

But in actuality CBI dare not question 'Karuna's Spoon'!!

Now Congress says the JPC demand is a RSS brainwave!!!

High time attention to the damage being done to Congress's image Sonia gave!!

Actually there are too many 'troublesome bucks' on Sonia's table!!!

And then now politically Congress is unstable!!

It's being said if a General Election is held today!!!

For misdeeds of UPA Congress will dearly pay!!

For the misdeeds of NCP and DMK Congress will bear the cost!!!!

In the end it'll be said 'ultimately Congress lost'!!!

Ghadkari has filed a defamation suit against Manish Tiwari!!!!

What about Bansal …. Congress ki doosri bimaari?????

Tiwari had alleged that in Adarsh Ghadkari had a benaami flat!!!

An allegation that on being challenged by Ghadkari 'fell flat'!!!

Tiwari had just been reprimanded by High Command for his ludicrous statement!

That towards Maoists Opposition, especially, BJP was bent!!

They say Rahul will claim PM's chair when UP will be under Congress's raaj!!!!

Not possible is the ground reality aaj!!!

Yes Congress may ally with SP or Maya after it's Bihar flop show!!!!

And its also in a tearing hurry to make Rahul glow!!!

Yes the Alliance but Rahul will be credited with the win!!!

Congress will create Rahul won UP for Congress din!!

I think now Rahul should look at 2019 as his take over date!!!

He'll be 50 by with or without a mate!!

Confucius says…. Always set realistic targets ….. more so in public!!!!

And more so when your target is to head a Republic!!!!

Flash.... Government says cannot stop publication of Radia tapes!!!!

In disbelief Rattan Tata gapes!!!

This is now private bedroom talk but talk that shows India's underbelly!!

Tapes should be published and shown on the Telly!!
Bharat Kumar

Chatterjee is new Secretary NACO
DG Sports Authority of India, Sayan Chatterjee has been appointed new Secretary NACO. He is an IAS officer of then 1976 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre.

Dr Sharmila is now Dy Secretary PMO
Dr Sharmila Mary Joseph K has been appointed Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office. She is 1997 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Empanelment of three batches of IRS
Empanelment of 1982,1983 and 1984 batch IRS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India is expected to take place soon. Three day meeting for empanelment will commence from Saturday.

Janardan to go on central deputation
The name of G. Janardan has been retained in the offer list of Government of India. He is an IPS officer of the1992 batch who belongs to the MP cadre.

Vanlalramsanga is Dy Secretary DEA
C Vanlalramsanga has been appointed as the Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs .He is 2001 batch IES officer.

IDAS officer appointed Dy Secretary MHA
Umashankar Prasad Kushwaha has been appointed as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is 1998 batch IDAS officer.

Veena Bhatia appointed Director in GoI
Veena Tamta Bhatia has been appointed as Director in the Department of Bio-Technology in the Ministry of Science & Technology. She is 1988 batch IOFS officer.

Khandey in race for new CS, J & K
As the grapevine has it, Mohammed Iqbal Khandey is one of the four IAS officers of Jammu & Kashmir cadre are in race for the post of Chief Secretary as S.S. Kapur Chief Secretary of Jammu & Kashmir will retire on January 31, 2011. Khande is an IAS officer of the 1978 batch who belongs to Jammu & Kashmir cadre.

Changes in Prasar Bharti
P N Jhingran Sr Director from DG:DD has been transferred to DDK Bhopal. D. Prasad Rao Director from DDK Bhopal will now move to DDK Vijaiwada.
(We said this only yesterday )

24 PCS inducted into IAS in UP
Twenty-four Provincial Civil Services officials of Uttar Pradesh have been inducted to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre.

Civil Aviation Security Advisory Council in the offing
Civil Aviation Srcurity Advisory Council is in the offing to strenthen the security apparatus of the sector.

Kohli gets extension
Minister in Indian Embassy Doha Sanjiv Kohli has been grantef extension till April 2012.

WAPCOS conferred with Mini Ratna-I status
WAPCOS has been awarded the status of a Mini Ratna -1 Public Sector Undertaking by the Ministry of Water Resources following its performance during the year. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs & Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal presented the Mini Ratna Category-I
Certificate to R.K. Gupta, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, WAPCOS Limited at a function organized in the Ministry of Water Resources New Delhi. Minister of State (Water Resources) Vincent H. Pala, D.V. Singh, Secretary (Water Resources); G. Mohan Kumar, Addl. Secretary
(Water Resources) and other senior officers from Ministry of Water Resources and WAPCOS were present on the occasion. During the year, the turnover of the Company has increased by 47.3%, Profit before Tax by 109.4%, New Business by 25%.

Kumar likely to return to J & K cadre
As the grapevine has it, Shailendra Kumar who is Director in Agriculture Ministry, on central deputation, is likely to return to Jammu & Kashmir. Kumar is an IAS officer of the 1995 batch who belongs to Jammu & Kashmir cadre.

Tenure of Ambresh Singh Director, Culture to conclude
Deputation tenure of Ambresh Singh, Director Culture in Government of India (GOI) is going to conclude later this month. He is an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer.

Posting of Ashok to be reviewed ?
Posting of CG in Indian High Commission in Melbourne is reportedly being reviewed.

SBI official Ganesh transferred
Lakshmanan Ganesh, Project Manager, Project Finance, SBU Corporate Banking Group, Mumbai has been posted as Deputy General Manager, Industrial Finance Branch, Mid Corporate Group, Chennai.

J.N. Saxena ex DGP passes away
J.N. Saxena former Director General of Police (DGP) passed away in Delhi. He was 74. J,N, Saxena a Padamshree award recipient had served
as the DGP of Jammu & Kashmir besides Madhya Pradesh.

Railway transfer and postings
Gitika Pandey of SG/IRAS has been on return from deputation transferred to CR in the cadre, Sanjeet of JAG/IRAS has been on return from deputation ransferred to NR against an existing vacancy, Ms. Radhika Bhir of SG/IRAS has been transferred from WR to NR and posted against an existing vacancy, TR Bhatt of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from NCR as CTM/IRPMU to NR and posted in the cadre, Subrato Mukherjee of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from ER to NFR and posted in the cadre, R. Manjhi of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from CR, as ADRM/BRKA to ER and posted in the cadre, G. Laxminarayan of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from CR to SCR and posted in the cadre, Dinesh Jain of JAG/IRSEE has been transferred from SR to WR against an existng vacancy, GS Tiwari of HAG/IRSE has been transferred from CR, as PCE and posted as CAO/C(South) on ECR itself, Manoj Kumar of HAG/IRSE has been transferred from NER to ECR and posted as CAO/C(South), GG Phupagar of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SCR to SECR and appointed in HAG as CCM and Rampyare of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from NR and appointed in HAG with efect from Dec 31, 2008.

38 SBI officials in consideration zone for CGM
As many as 38 senior officials in the State Bank of India are in zone of consideration for promnotion to the grade of Chief General Manager. They are Uday Shankar Sohoni, Sushil Kumar Mishra, S Sridharan, Sharad Sharma, Sanjay Wamanrao Tanksale, Shriram Bhaskar Bejahwar, B.S.R Prasad, Ronji Suchet Chaudhuri, Samir Kant Saran, Asim Kumar Banerjee, Rammohan Rao Belle, Ranjit Goswami, Mrs. Sasikala Varadachari, Mrs. Jyotsana Madhu Jamkhaildi, Surender Kumar Gagroo, Mrinal Shankar Devaprasad Mozumder, Vishvesh Ramamoorthy, Narender Kumar Gupta, Mrs. Anuradha Gupra, D. Chandrasekhara Rao, Supriyo Kumar Chaudhuri, Nihal Sudhir Kujur, Rajeev Krishnan, V. Murali, Bhaskar Niyogi, Vellurgopal Raghavan Kannan, Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman, Raman Chinnaiyan, N. Jambunathan, Deepak Kumar Chatterjee, Mrs. Sudha Malhotra, Rajeev Kumar Seth, Ashwini Mehra, Mrs. Usha R. Nair, Rakesh Sharma, Jeevandas Narayan and B Sriram.

RTI

Preferential allottment of shares of RIL

A copy of the action taken by SEBI from the time of the filing of the
complaint by S. Gurumurthy regarding the preferential allotment of
shares to the promoters of RIL through 34 Ambani companies along with
the file notings, a copy of the findings of SEBI, Justice Srikrishna
report etc. was sought. The CPIO informed that the information could
not be disclosed as, though the investigation was completed, the
process of prosecution might be impeded by parting of information at
this stage. Holding the claim that its disclosure would impede the
process of investigation as untenable, the CIC directed to disclose
the information.

Comments

The Delhi High Court judgement in the Bhagat Singh case which
delineated the application of Section 8(1)(h) of the RTI Act has made
it clear that mere pendency of prosecution cannot be a basis for
denial of information. For the share market to mature, information
about the scams - whether the Harshad Mehta scam or others, must be
put in the public domain.

Arun Kumar Agrawal v. SEBI in F.No.CIC/AT/A/2010/000694

- Weekly article by Dr. (Mrs.) Anuradha Verma
(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore and
Co-author of the book: RIGHT TO INFORMATION - LAW AND PRACTICE by
Taxmann. (The views are Personal)

CORPORATE
Nita Ambani to buy crockery from Sri Lanka
Nita Ambani is reportedly going to to buy 25,000 pieces of crockery from Sri Lanka.

Lulla's tenure as Joint MD, Cipla Ltd ending Dec 13
The tenure of Amar Lulla as Joint Managing Director , Cipla Ltd will end on December 13, 2010.

Dwivedi appointed Compliance Officer, Blue Coast Hotels
Yogendra Dwivedi Company Secretary of Blue Coast Hotels and Resorts Ltd has been appointed as the Compliance Officer of the Company with immediate effect in place of Suresh Gupta.

Gogia appointed Company Secy. STC
The State Trading Corporation Of India (STC) Limited has appointed Rakesh Kumar Gogia as Company Secretary in place of Achal Kumar Gupta, the present Company Secretary.

Goel ceases to be Company Secy. Corporation Bank
Satish Goel, Part time Non Offical Director of Corporation Bank has ceased to be a Director from December 7, 2010 on completion of his term.

Hiremath on VAT Advisory Committee, Karnataka Govt
M.C. Hiremath, President, Karnatak Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI), has been appointed member of Karnataka State Value Added Tax (VAT) Advisory Committee which has been recently reconstituted.

Patenkar appointed Event Ops. Manager, Goa Marriot
Vinayak Patnekar has been appointed as Event Operations Manager , Goa Marriott Resort.

Bahadur appointed Regional GM Starwood Hotels
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has appointed Rajan Bahadur as Regional General Manager(Sales & Marketing) and also Director (National Sales) India, Maldives and Bangladesh.

Kumar appointed Head (HR), Hilton Worldwide in India
Hilton Worldwide has appointed Sunil Kumar as Head (Human Resources), Hilton Worldwide in India.

FORUM
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To be honest or not to be is no question!

A non stop debate has been going on for a long time surrounding the incumbent CVC. Most comments are coming from persons who have no access to the case file! However, those who have the case material before them, have sought critical clarifications, which have raised legitimate doubts in public mind and hence very sharp reactions for & against the appointment of Thomas as the CVC. I am limiting myself to only one point: is a secretary(Principal Secretary included but Chief Secretary not excluded)appointed merely to sign the orders handed down to him/her by the minister or the cabinet? No. The Secretary is appointed to discharge his duties in accordance with the statute and the rules made. These rules lay down in black and white as to who will do what and when. In common parlance it is known as the "power". And the rules do not lay anywhere that the Secretary shall blindly execute the orders of the minister. The transaction of business in government has to be carried out in accordance with the law and not the "desire or wish or arbitrary or whimsical orders" of any superior authority. The rules lay down that no government servant is bound to carry out the "unlawful" orders of his superior and for doing so he can not be punished by way of transfer, blocked promotion or any form of punitive action. If some swollen head indulges in any such activity, the CAT is there to show him the light! So, we do not yet know the considered advice tendered by Thomas on file to the Kerala government and whether he was overruled. If he did resist the orders of the minister or the cabinet on the ground of hitting any policy or laws, he can not be hauled. But if he gave a note facilitating imports otherwise not permissible, he owes an explanation. What is surprising is the fact of the orders coming directly from the cabinet! That is not normal. Decisions are not taken that way! The cabinet need to consider the proposal in its entirety. At least the Chief Secretary is part of any such deliberations. Since these points are not clear, questions on integrity of one or another are being raised. For me, it is just a case study. If the Secretary simply carries out orders of the superior authority he is not doing his "duty" for which he is getting paid. A Secretary is not simply a post office! If he carries out an honest examination of the proposal and then tenders his advice, he is acting lawful. A government servant does no favour to the government or the people by being "honest". It is his "duty" to be honest all the time(Every government servant shall maintain absolute integrity all the time). One can not sacrifice honesty because it is a hazardous enterprise! So there should be no wavering whether to be or not to be honest. But at the same time, the ground realities can not be wished away. The arrogance, arbitrariness, autocracy of the politician has reached such a level where the slightest resistance to the will of the political power can endanger not only one's career prospects but even life & property & security of the family. Basically, Indian democracy has already turned into an ugly oligarchy of the rascals, who operate from behind a mask of one "honest" face! In that situation, upright government servants may not fall for the seduction of a post retirement sinecure, as the politician will suck all his values out and turn him into an apparition of his integrated self. If Thomas thinks he is absolutely honest, he should not suffer this continuing ignominy another moment and relieve himself of the burden of the current post.

M L Gupta

Senior citizens need Empathy, not Sympathy !

Looking after the welfare of senior citizens, deserted by their near and dear ones, is the responsibility of the State. Delhi Government has miserably failed in discharging this mandate. I have surveyed various old age homes run by the NDMC and MCD in Delhi. Their conditions are woefully inadequate with no human touch. The senior citizens are being treated as mentally challenged, packed like sardines. The corrupt bureaucracy of local bodies is insensitive. There is rampant corruption in the old age homes maintained by the NDMC and MCD.I have written extensively about the deficiencies in these State-run old age Homes and sent complaints about lack of human touch. One of my audio-visual story also appeared on India TV. But, the authorities remained unfazed. Delhi's Chief Minister, the LG ,the PM, Sonia Gandhi, Ministers and MPs etc - all senior citizens, have been enjoying perks for decades at the cost of public exchequer.

In these circumstances, the media report of the Indian Express dt Dec 09, 2010 highlighting the initiative of NRIs to build old age homes in Ludhiana, Punjab, is the best step forward. Let other NRIs take a cue from Punjab and cover other States. What next?

The India Inc must also be pro-active and contribute generously to such welfare activities for the old and the infirm as part of their "Corporate Social Responsibility". These rooms could be allotted to the genuinely needy persons at subsidized rents.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Is somebody listening ?

It is indeed wonderful and shall set an example for others like Delhi Transco Limited where a lady is running from pillar to post to seek justice for sexual harassment for last six months as senior officers are protecting the offender.

Rahul