Among the papers is a "top secret" and "confidential" document dated August 25, 2009, from the DGIT to a CBDT member. Annexed to this are internal evaluation reports for June and July 2009 and, interestingly, a comment providing context for a remark made on the whispersinthecorridors.com website.
This document has a flood of names of individuals and companies: Tatas, Ambani/ Reliance, Mittal/Bharti Telecom and others, including several politicians (prominently A. Raja). And then there's a claim that on Radia's and Kanimozhi's behalf, Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi were negotiating with the Congress for ministries for DMK members, particularly Raja.

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Aaj Ki Aawaz

Rather than hitting out at BJP Sonia should think!!!

The 2 G scam is now making Congress stink!!!

In fact now with this scam Congress Public does link!!!

Think Madam Sonia think!!!

It's the biggest scam to date!!!

And it requires a probe and not a debate!!

And it's not BJP but the CAG that has raised the alarm!!!

'To the Indian Exchequer Raja has done some very serious harm'!!

Now its said CBI too had wanted to sound the alarm some time back!!

But by it's Political Bosses it was held back!!

Madam BJP is not lecturing you on corruption but just wanting a probe!!!!

So that the accused ho jaye disrobe!!!

BJP cannot lecture because for this one has to be an expert!!!

And in this area UPA has the Phd.... BJP's just being alert!!!

Madam should realize Public is now smart or shaana!!!

They know whenever charged with corruption Congress will use the same bahaana!

Do BJP's misdeeds give Congress the License to ignore corruption charges on it?

In Congress's dictionary BJP's misdeeds make Congress's misdeeds 'legit'!!

Seems Sonia's only aim is to ensure UPA completes its present stint!!!!

Seems she's got the ' Congress will not win next General Election' hint!!

Down South now questions are being asked how much Karuna get for his Sun TV shares!

Just mention this and they say Karuna flares!!

He says he got 100 crores but Radiia tapes say it is six times this figure!!

So Karuna's worries get bigger and bigger!!!

Even if Karuna tries to save face by divorcing Rajati and disowns Kanimozi!

Still he will not be able to stop DMK's downturn and for AIADMK things getting rosy!

Diggy's job seems to take on all issues that involve Muslims a pro Muslim stance!!!

And this he does by doing against BJP and RSS a war dance!!

His recent statement has been refuted by Karakare's wife!!!

She threatened to move out of India if on her hubby's sacrifice there is political strife!

Now Diggy will say he got a email from her kid!!!

That 'Mom was under pressure from RSS to do what RSS does bid'!!

And if you ask him for a copy of the email he'll say he deleted it!!!

By the way in Karkare's in-coming call records no where doth Diggy's numbet 'sit'!

Confucius says.... Congress's vote bank politics is doing Congress in!!!

Congress refuses to abide by the new Mantra ' perform and win'!!!

Adds....and Public is now sick of our Neta's corrupt ways!!!

More so after they realized that ultimately the bill who pays?????
Bharat Kumar

Bharti to be BJP candidate from Lucknow
Now it is going to be a fight between Mayawati and Uma Bharti in Uttar Pradesh. In all probability Uma Bharti will be Lok Sabha candidate of the BJP from Lucknow.

BUREAUCRACY

Satyanand Mishra to be new CIC !
Satyanand Mishra is being tipped to be new Chief Information Commissioner of India.1973 batch retired Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Mishra is presently senior-most Commissoner.In all probability he will succeed A N Tiwari on December 20.

Sinha to be new SEBI Chief !
U K Sinha will be new Chairman of the SEBI. He is presently CMD of the UTI Asset Management Company.The selection committee which met in Delhi on Monday has put his name number one in the panel.
(We said this on November 11)

IAS officers and Whispersinthecorridors.com
For over a hundred IAS officers of the 1980, 1981 and 1982 batches undergoing a week long training programme in 'Global Perspectives in Governance', at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, USA, from 12-18 December, the first choice of news from back home is WHISPERS. The lobby area of the hotel where they have been housed was crowded with officers logging on to the net to check the latest whispers on Sunday evening. One participant remarked, 'You can take IAS officers out of India, but you can't take WHISPERS out of the IAS.

Lt Gen Thakur to be new DG Military Intelligence
Lieutenant General D.S. Thakur, who is currently heading the 9 Corps will be new Director-General of Military Intelligence (DGMI).He will succeed Lt. Gen. R.K. Loomba.

Rajesh Kumar Khullar to be Joint Secretary , DEA
As the grapevine has it, Rajesh Kumar Khullar, on central deputation, is poised to be a Joint Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA). Khullar is an IAS officer of 1988 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre.

75 IPS officers of 1990 batch empanelled for IG rank
As many as 75 IPS officers of 1990 batch have been empanelled for the post of IG or equivalent in the Government of India. They are Arun Pratap Singh, K Vaiphei, V K Maheshwari, Sajjad Wasi Naqvi, Anuradha Shankar, Ashok Awasthi, Syed Mohammed Afzal, B B Sharma, Vijay Katariya, S S Chaturvedi, Arun Kumar Sarangi and T P Sundaramurthy of MP cadre, Tanuja Srivastva, Rajiv Ranjan Verma, Subhash Chandra, Satya Narayan Sabat, Tilotma Verma, Prashant Kumar, S M Tarde, Avinash Chandra, B K Maurya, Daljit Singh Chaudhary, M K Bashal, Sandeep Salunke and Renuka Mishra of UP cadre, Gopal B Hosur, Mohammed Wazir Ahmed, S P Murthy, Bhaskar Rao and Kamal Pant of Karnataka cadre, Govind Singh, Anjana Sinha, Ravi Gupta and Anjani Kumar of AP cadre, Sanjay Singh, T S Luthra and Dependra Pathak of UT cadre, B R. Rana and Y K Gautam of Assam Meghalaya cadre, R S Bhatti, Shobha Ohatker and Neeraj Sinha of Bihar cadre, R C Patel, B S Maravi and R K Mishra of Chhattisgarh cadre, M D.Antani of Gujarat cadre, S B.Negi of Himachal Pradesh cadre, Ranbir Singh Sharma and S S Kapoor of Haryana cadre, Anil Palta of Jharkhand cadre, B Srinivasan of J&K cadre, S D Saheb and Hari Nath Mishra of Kerala cadre, Kulwant Kumar, A M Kulkarni, Jaijeet Singh, V V Lakshminnarayan, Bipin Kumar Singh, S V Date and Sanjay Kumar Verma of Maharashtra cadre, Y B Khurania and Sudhanshu Sarangi of Orissa cadre, Srinivas Rao Janga, R.P.Mehendra and Rajiv Kumar Sharma of Rajasthan cadre, A K Singh of Sikkim cadre, T V.Ravi Chandran, Abhash Kumar and Shankar Jiwal of Tamil Nadu cadre, D P. Lepcha, Rajesh Kumar, Debasish Roy and Ranveer Kumar of West Bengal cadre and V Vinay Kumar and Anju Gupta of Uttarakhand cadre.

Army Captains and Majors may become IPS if MHA has its way
Officers of the rank of Captains and Majors in the Army will become eligible to become Indian Police Service (IPS) officers if the home ministry's proposal for their limited recruitment into the IPS is cleared by the government. The MHA has proposed limited recruitment of young Army officers into the IPS through a special UPSC conducted examination. The proposal will soon be sent to the defence ministry for its comments.

Is it not media failure in GoI ?
There is general feeling that there is a big failure of the media managers in the Government of India. All achievments of the UPA Government led by Manmohan Sngh have gone behind the curtain and only scandals are visible in the print and electronic media. Someone commented that media managers should be hired from states.

Prasad in MEA transferred to Berne
T.V. Nagendra Prasad (1993), presently Director (PV) & Project, Director (PSP), MEA, is posted to Embassy of India, Berne.

Name of Goel also on circulation for NABARD
Name of Chand Goel is also in circulation for the post of CMD NABARD. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre. He holds experience in the subject had help related fields in Maharashtra and has more than 2 years of residual service

Sinha is new Additional Secretary CVC
Anil Kumar Sinha has joined as Additional Secretary (Joint Secretary level) in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). He is 1979 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.
(We said this on June 15 )

Sudesh Kumar tipped to be IG, BSF
As the grapevine has it, Sudesh Kumar who has come back to India from an assignment to the UN is poised to be IG, BSF. He is an IPS officer of the 1987 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre.

Rajender Pal Upadhyay is team leader to the UN
Rajender Pal Upadhyay, Additional Director, Enforcement, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, has been appointed as Team Leader at the U.N. Mission, Italy. He is an IPS officer of the 1991 batch who belongs to the AGMU cadre.

HK Dharmadarshi to hold additional charge
On relief from her present duties by HK Dharmadarshi, Principal Director of Audit, North Western Railway, Jaipur, who will hold additional charge of the post until further orders.

Ms. Sharada Subramaniam to join Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Ms. Sharada Subramaniam (IA&AS-1991), Principal Director, Regional Training Institute, Jaipur is joining as Director (Finance) in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi on deputation.

Veenu Bansal to join in Arunachal Pradesh
Veenu Bansal is poised to join in Arunachal Pradesh. Presently he is posted in Goa. He is an IPS officer of the 2004 batch who belongs to the AGMUT cadre.

Mid-career training for IAS officers witnesses lower attendance
The mid-career training programme for IAS officers has witnessed lower attendance this year perhaps because the Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) has ended its partnership with a US-based public policy institute - Maxwell School of Public Policy. Of the 100 odd-Indian Administrative Service officers of 1991-1995 batches, only 60 turned up for the eight-week programme.

Mid-career training for IAS officers now with IIM- Ahmedabad
Having parted ways with US-based public policy institute - Maxwell School of Public Policy, for mid-career training for IAS officers, now the Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) is managing the same with the help of institutions like the IIM-Ahmedabad.

Ashok Juneja to join UN in Italy
Ashok Juneja, Director Security in the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games, has been appointed as Gender Affairs officer, U.N. Mission at Bindis, Italy. He is an IPS officer of the 1989 batch who belongs to the Chhattisagrh cadre.

Praveer Ranjan to go on study leave
DIG CBI Praveer Ranjan is going on study leave from Jan 3 to Jan 7,2012 for pursuing Master in Public Management, National University of Singapore. He is 1993 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Krishna is new CVO of Hindustan Shipyard
B. Suresh Krishna has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam. He is 1989 batch ITS officer.

Five in run for DGP, Meghalaya
As per the new Meghalaya Act, a race is on among five IPS officers for the slot of DGP, Meghalaya. A panel about them will be sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in accordance with the new Meghalaya Act.

Capt Pavan Kumar Kaul to be Director, NFL
As the grapevine has it, Capt Pavan Kumar Kaul is being tipped to be new Director of the National Fertlizers Limited (NFL). Presently he is Executive Director (Customer Relations & Business Development) in the CONCOR.

Promotions on the anvil in RPF
Railway Protection Force (RPF) has started the process of making DIG level officer from the cadre of Senior Commandant Officer.

Panchayat polls in Jharkhand after 32 years
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda is going to create a history as he is getting conducted five phased Panchayat polls in the state which are being held after a gap of 32 years. Three phases are already over. People of Jharkhand will be electing 50000 delegates to Panchayats including 20000 women.

IAS reshuffle in Bihar
In the first major shuffle after formation of the new government in Bihar, the state government hast effected transfer of 10 IAS officers.Subhakirti Mazumdar will now be the new principal secretary of forest and environment department. C.K. Mishra, who was holding the post of principal secretary of health department with additional charge of resident commissioner in Delhi, has been given the charge of industry department. Amarjit Sinha has been made the principal secretary of health department. Manoj Srivastava will be principal secretary of panchayati raj department.Raajit Punhani will be new secretary of commercial taxes department. E.L.S.N. Bala Prasad, has been made DG Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development. C.K. Anil has been posted as secretary of agriculture department.

IPS changes in Bihar
Gupteshwar Pandey will be new IG Muzaffarpur zone and he would hold the additional charge of Darbhanga zone.Parveen Vashishth has been posted as IG (economic offence wing) .

Alok Kumar Roy posted as DIG, BPR & D
Alok Kumar Roy DIG on central deputation has been appointed as Director (DIG); BPR&D.He is an IPS officer of the1991 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre.

Ms.Alka Sirohi is away to Paris on a tour
Ms.Alka Sirohi is Secretary in the central government's Department of Personnel Training is on an official tour to Paris till December 19, 2010.She is an IAS officer of the 1974 batch who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Chawla and Sinha get new assignment
Prabhu Chawla, Editor (Languages) at the India Today Group, is leaving the Group to join The New Indian Express in place of Aditya Sinha, who is joining DNA as Editor-in-Chief.

Rajasthan Govt promotes IFS officer Sakarwal
The Rajasthan government on Monday promoted Kailash Chandra Sakarwal, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Dungarpur, to the Selection grade with effect from January 1, 1998. Shkarwal is an IFS officer of the 1985 batch.

Raajendran transferred as Addl. CEO, TN
D. Raajendran, IAS, Director of Town Panchayats, Tamil Nadu, has been transferred as Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Public (Elections) Department. He is an IAS officer of the 1995 batch.

Amudha transferred as Addl. CEO, TN
P. Amudha, IAS, Project Officer / Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society, has been transferred as Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Public (Elections) Department. She will look after the work related to Planning, Implementation and Coordination of all the Programmes / activities related to Voters Education and Electoral Participation. She is an IAS officer of the 1994 batch who hails from the Tamil Nadu cadre.

Pakistan FIA looks into funds bungling in Drinking water project
Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency is looking into possible embazzlement of funds to the tune of Rs 700 million in the popular Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) project. The money was drawn as mobilisation advance by a contractor for installation of filtration plants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and Gilgit Baltistan areas against fake bank guarantees purportedly provided by Pakistan's Bank of Punjab. FIA is also looking at possible collusion of the Bank's personnel as well. Most curious aspect of the case is that while the actual contract was to a firm Ideal Hydrotech Systems Ltd, some payments have been made by the concerned secretary of the Local Self Department to a similar sounding but different firm called Ideal Hydrotech Systems Pakistan Ltd
The project launched in 2004 has been a non starter. Out of 6638 filtration plants planned for the country only 1173 have been installed so far. The implementation of the project started as a central government initiative has now gone to the Provincial governments under the now devolved Ministry of Special Initiatives and the provinces are reluctant to carry on unless funded 100% by the federal government.
Regards

Two AAI GMs promoted as ED
Two General Managers in the Airports Authority of India (AAI) have been promoted as Executive Directors. They are JMS Negi, GM (ATM) who has been promoted as ED (ATM) and NG Chikkathimaiah, GM (ATM) who has been promoted as ED (Airport Licencing).

6 HPSAS officers selected for induction in IAS cadre
As many as six Himachal Pradesh State Administrative Service (HPSAS) officers have been selected for induction in the IAS cadre.Those who have been selected are:Dhruv Vahistha, Kamal Sharma, Akshai Sood, J.R. Katwal, G.K. Shrivastava and Sunil Chaudhary.

RTI

"DATE WITH RTI" COMPLETES TWO YEARS

Joint penalty on PIO & Deemed PIO

Information regarding the rent fixation and related issues were refused to the appellant. Mr. S. K. Nigam, PIO, stated that the assistance of Mr. A. K. Pasi, was sought under Section 5(4) of the RTI Act for providing the information. Mr. Pasi, the deemed PIO, provided the information "As the matter is subjudice in the court of law the information cannot be supplied at this point of time." The CIC noted that this was a denial of information without giving any reasons as per Section 8(1) of the RTI Act. While accepting that the denial of information was made by the deemed PIO, the CIC held that when a completely frivolous denial of information is made, the PIO must also share the blame. For a delay in providing the information of over 100 days, the CIC imposed the maximum penalty of Rs. 25,000/- jointly on the PIO & Deemed PIO.

Comments

The CIC has held that the RTI law holds the PIOs responsible for all decision on matters of law and officers whose assistance is sought under Section 5(4) basically share the administrative responsibility of providing the information. Most PIO's tend to act like
Post-offices, collecting information from the deemed PIO and transmitting them to the appellant. This order would be a wake-up call.

Mr. Alok Mehrotra v. Delhi Labour Welfare Board, GNCTD in Decision No. CIC/DS/A/2009/000011/SG/9083Penalty

- 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
CAG criticizes Jute Corporation of India
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has condemned the Jute Corporation of India (JCI) for having failed in stabilizing prices. According to the report of the CAG, which has said that the agency's present price support operations were ineffective, the JCI procured only 0.99 per cent to 10.4 per cent of the available jute in the country.

Now national vocational educational qualification framework for automobile sector
The human resources development (HRD) ministry has formed a committee to prepare national vocational educational qualification framework for the automobile sector. The five-member committee, headed by Dr R Seshasayee (managing director, Ashok Leyland Limited), will submit its recommendations to the ministry in three months.

Padgett's tenure as Director ends at ING Vysya Bank
Ryan Padgett, Director of ING Vysya Bank has relinquished office effective December 10, 2010 on completion of his tenure.

Joshi appointed Additional Dir. Emmbi Polyarns
Emmbi Polyarns Limited has appointed Venkateh Joshi, as an Additional and Independent Director of the company, w.e.f. December 11, 2010

Garg appointed CEO, Emmbi Polyarns
Ashesh Garg has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Emmbi Polyarns Ltd w.e.f. December 13, 2010.

Automotive Stampings directors resign
Francisco Jose Riberas Mera and Alberto Moreno have resigned from the Directorship of Automotive Stampings And Assemblies Ltd with effect from December 10, 2010.

Bhattacharya resigns as Director, HCL Infosystems
Subroto Bhattacharya, Director, HCL Infosystems Ltd has resigned from the company.

Shekar appointed COO, Maa Television
J Shekar has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Maa Television Network Ltd.

Ajmera appointed ED, Networth Stock Broking
Networth Stock Broking Ltd has appointed Manish Ajmera, CFO of the
Company as the Executive Director.

Bazmi Husain to join ABB
Bazmi Husain is joining ABB India as country manager and managing director.

Chopra is new MD of Philips
Rajeev Chopra has been appointed as Managing Director designate of Philips Electronics India Ltd, effective January 1.He will succeed Murali Sivaraman, who is moving to a global role at Philips to head the Domestic Appliances Business Group.

Shekar joins Maa TV Network as COO
J Shekar has been appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Maa Television Network Ltd. Shekhar, who will be based in Hyderabad, was earlier Business Head of Zee Kannada.

FORUM
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Congress(I)'s new Manifesto

BJP state Governments are corrupt, why should they blame Congress for corruption ! Heard today at parliamentary party meeting in Congress president's speech. Yes and nothing new, our Attorney General has already explained this in the Supreme Court of India, the sarkari definition of integrity.

CPM Leader

Mohana's government's antipathy towards a JPC is suspicious. More suspicious is their decision to form a one retd. judge committee to go into the 2G mega scam. Justice (retd.) Shivaraj Patil heads only a limited enquiry committee. It is not set up under the Commission of Enquiries Act 1952. It is not empowered to examine witnesses or evidence. It can go through whatever is available in the department of Telcom (left knowingly or unknowingly by Raja and his trusted men). It is asked only to give shape to a report with in 4 weeks, a raw material on which Kabil Sibal can go on chanting his usual stuff. Is the trusted Mihana trying to cover up a bigger fish that has whisked away a major share of the loot?

Navnith K

Scrap empanellment process in GoI

Do away with empanellment process in the Govt. of India and bring in place a merit based transparent system where in the civil society can also have some role in appointment of the most suited and trusted person. The appointment process in developed countries and UN, World Bank can be taken for an example. After all, it is a matter of tax payers money.

Mohan

No charismatic leader in Punjab politics

For many a years here is no technocrat or a true charismatic leader in the politics of Punjab and there is no chance for the learned man in the politics of Punjab through Deras.

Anil Bansa

State govt not forwarding names

Many willing officers' names are not being forwarded by state government. Central government is not in a position to select willing officers and to take them on central deputation by itself.

Narayanan V

UPA Government takes a leaf out of Yeddi Government !

UPA Government, it appears to have taken a leaf out of Yeddi Government in constituting an one Judge Committee. A dacoit following the foot steps of a thief. There are so many judges waiting like beggars at the doors of politicians to get some post-retirement tidbits. We have seen such a luminary appointed by that fraudster Lalloo coming out with a report that concluded what happened in the train massacre in Godhra was really a mass suicide! The only opposition to the present corrupt UPA is BJP. It is time for them to clean their stables and kick out people like Yediurappa, his cronies, Sushma Swarajs and Rajnaths and try to get a clean image. Otherwise people will lose confidence in our democracy.

N Krishnan

"DOP&T must remove the anomaly"

According to DOP&T's Order No 21011/1/2010-Estt-A dt 21-4-10, representations can be submitted by the aggrieved officers in case, they are given below bench-marked ACRs/APARs by their seniors. This is a landmark order of DOP&T in the interest of transparency and Good governance. These orders also envisage that while deciding such representations from the aggrieved officers ,the Competent authorities must take into account the views of the Reporting /Reviewing Officers, if they are still in service. Fair enough!

The earlier regime by not following the principles of Equity &Natural Justice gave a free hand to the reporting and reviewing officers to screw their subordinates based on his/her whims.

It is understood that some departments/ministries of GOI are wrongly applying DOP&T's instructions for promoting their favourite officers by getting their ACRs /APARs secondarily reviewed by such Officers who had never supervised the performance of the representatives during the period under review. This practice is patently illogical and legally untenable besides promoting corruption in administration.

May I request the DOP&T? through this forum to issue clear guidelines to save government officers from injustice in their career progression ?

May I urge upon Dr Suresh Mehrotra ,the Editor-in-chief , to highlight this issue on WIC so that it gets focussed and urgent attention?

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)