The new look of whispers is mind blowing.The 2G scam should be taken on priorty basis along with a 2.00 lac crores scam of wheat and paddy by Mulayam government from 2002 to 2007. SC order a few days back, which got suppressed in 2 G scam issue. Please also take it up.

Ajay Gupta

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Aaj Ki Aawaz

This shortage in onions was predictable!!

Post the rains was easily detectable!!

But Pawar chose to keep mum!!!!

Hoarders rubbed their hands in glee waiting for supplies to become 'kumm'!

Fact is hoarders, wholesalers, exporters and importers foresaw this shortfall coming!!!

And now to the bank all of them are humming!!

Of course they all will be paying 'Pawar cess'!!!

After all if Pawar reacted in time prices would be much less!!

Mohna has washed his hands off by writing officially to Pawar!!!!!

This is more of a tactical waar!!!

Pawar on his part gave an excuse that even a moron will term as extremely lame!!

And he knows for rising onion prices Congress gets the blame!!

Prices of onions will remain high till May!!!

In fact some say now on the higher side onion prices will stay!!

NCP in power is proving to be very costly for the Nation!!

Congress wants to last it out and Pawar is vital in the coalition equation!!

It is said his flunky Praful has made tonnes and tonnes!!!

It is also said for Mallya and Goyal the Aviation Ministry he runs!!

Sonia may indulge in some naatak baazi!!!!

And say Congressmen will not consume onions to try to bring down people's naarazi!!

Or get Mohna into the act too!!

News time will say Gursharan Kaur served Mohna an onion salad and he started to boo!

Public will see through this drama!!!!

Public knows Congress is expert in making Public ka 'maama'!!

Rahul should now change his takeover date!!!

Now minimum till 2019 he will have to wait!

That is if the next Government does not deliver!!!

At the prospect that the next Government could deliver Congressmen shiver!!

Now he has all the time in the World to do what he likes!!

Stay in Dalit homes , watch IPL and ride with his bro in law mobikes!!

And all because he simply could not make up his mind!!!

And despite his being so powerful he knows time he cannot rewind!!

BJP needs to rethink!!!

Yeddy is making it stink!!

Is it worth it letting Yeddy continue???

Against him everyday there is something new!!

Now it's a poster in which a farmer says BJP changed his life!!!

Well this farmer committed suicide and left behind debt and wailing kids and wife!

And to make matters worse the family has not got compensation!!

The compensation was Yeddy Government's creation!!

Seems it was lip service only and nothing more!!!

Sack Yeddy now even BJP leaders implore!!

BJP too has to say 'please retire' to Advani!!!!

Because again via his blog we get to hear Advani's vani!!

Confucius says......BJP has to realize 'real India is rural and not urban'!

Techie obsessed Naidu is now fasting for farmers and swapped his techie cap for a farmer's turban!

Response to Ms. Sharma's post:

Yes one of the reasons for Naxalism's rise is Sarkaari apathy!!

But I'm sorry Naxals do not have my sympathy!!

Killing innocent civilians is not a rule for the Indian Armed Forces!!!

However to kill civilians to their cadres Naxals give training courses!!!

Naxals are now being funded and equipped by Pakistan and Cheen (China)!!

Very rightly as 'Desh drohis' Naxals are seen!!

This is not war but treason!!!!

On innocent Indians it is like Naxals have declared 'open season'!

If for a better life killing is allowed!!!

Then every day millions in India would be with guns 'ploughed'!!

Sarkaar too needs to introspect and improve in the affected areas quality of life!!!!

Will be akin to performing a surgery without the usage of a knife!!

Bharat Kumar

Why this instruction to Union Ministers ?
All the members of the Cabinet in Manmohan Singh Government have been asked to remain in Delhi on December 27.Any significance ?.

BUREAUCRACY

Is Sanjeev Tripathi out ?
File pertaining to the appointment of Sanjeev Tripathi as new Chief of the R&AW is still lying with the Prime Minister. It is believed that on the basis of some old report, appointment of senior-most R&AW officer Tripathi has been stalled. If the file is not cleared in a couple of days, 1972 batch officer Sanjeev Tripathi would retire on December 31.

Will Mittal be Chairman of NHAI ?
Will 1977 batch IAS officer D K Mittal become Chairman of the prestigious NHAI on January 1.Though Mittal being an honest and upright officer is unwilling to join on the Secretary level post, one can only wait and watch.

Appointment of Ambassador's in the offing
The Ministry of External Affairs is likely to issue appointments of 10 Ambassadors. The MEA is likely to finalise the appointments by January second week.

New CMDs, EDs in banks to be finalized by February
As the grapevine has it, process to select new CMDs and Executive Directors (EDs) in public sector banks will be completed by February 2011.

Shashi Shekhar to join GoI
Shashi Shekhar is joining the Government of India next month as Joint Secretary Ministry of New and Renewable Energy .He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Goyal is new Minister in Tokyo
Arun Goyal has been appointed as Minister in the Embassy of India, Tokyo. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
(We said this on September 22 )

CBI to question all former Telecom Secretaries and TRAI Chairman
CBI has summoned all the former Telecom Secretaries and TRAI Chairmen beginning 2001 in connection with 2G spectrum issue.

Jha is OSD & DG designate, NIESBUD
As the grapevine has it, Arun Kumar Jha, Director in the central government's Ministry of Small Scale Industries (SSIs), is now OSD & DG designate of National Institute for Entrepreneurs & Small Business Development (NIESBUD), Noida. Jha is an Indian Economic Service (IES) officer of the 1985 batch.
(We said this on July 5, 2010)

Capt. Tripathi on his way out from DCI ?
As the grapevine has it, Capt. S.S. Tripathi, present Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI), is on his way out.

with Pujari's effort -seven ITS promoted
The best efforts done by Dr.Anup K.Pujari, Director-General,Foreign Trade(DGFT) made ITS officers happy. 7 officers of the Indian Trade Service (ITS) have been promoted to the post of Additional Director General (equivalent to Joint Secretary) after 24 years. Pujari is an IAS officer of the1980 batch who belongs to the Karnataka cadre.

SBI promotes six GMs as CGMs
The State Bank of India (SBI) has promoted six officers as Chief General Managers.

Gupta is CGM, CAG SBI
State Bank of India has promoted Achal Kumar Gupta GM Mutual Funds to CGM CAG, Corporate Centre, Mumbai.

Chatterjee is CGM, MFs
Deepak Kumar Chatterjee General Manager has been posted as Chief General Manager Mutual Funds, SBI.

Sriram is CGM Global Markets, SBI
The State Bank of India has posted P. Sriram as CGM, Global Markets.

Narayan is SBI, CGM, Patna
The State Bank of India has posted Jeevan Das Narayan as CGM Patna.

Belle posted as MD, SBI Gen Insurance
The State Bank of India has posted R.R. Belle as Managing Director of SBI General Insurance.

Anuradha Gupta posted CGM Finance Reporting
The State Bank of India has posted Anuradha Gupta as Chief General Manager Finance Reporting, Corporate Centre, Mumbai.

Ms. Mishra to do One year course in TERI
Ms. Nandita Mishra is going to join the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),
Delhi, in public policy programme. She is Indian Economic Service (IES) officer of the 1984 batch.

Mishra to be Ombudsman in Kolkata
Manoj Mishra is being appointed Income-Tax Ombudsman in Kolkata .He is 1975 batch IRS officer.

Three batches of IRS cleared
It is perhaps for the first time that the Government of India (GOI) had in one year completed process pertaining to empanelment of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers of three batches of the Income Tax (IT) department for empanelment as Joint Secretaries at the centre. These batches are: 1981, 1982 & 1983.

Ms Dixit unlikely to join SEZ
Ms.Pratima Dixit, Director, Ministry of HRD, Government of India who has been promoted as Development Commissioner (equivalent to Joint Secretary), SEZ, Sri City unlikely to join.She is an ITS officer of the1986 batch.

Will Shama join SEZ Kakinda ?
K.L. Shama, Joint Deputy Commissioner, Sterling, SEZ, Bharuch, Gujarat has been promoted as Development Commissioner (equivalent to Joint Secretary), SEZ, Kakinada. So fatr he has not given his willingness for new assignment.He is an ITS officer of the1986 batch.

Ved Prakash promoted as ADG Foreign Trade
Ved Prakash, Zonal Joint DGFT (HQ),New Delhi has been promoted as Additional Director General DGFT, Headquarter,New Delhi.He is an ITS officer of the1986 batch.

Monga promoted as Development Commissioner SEZ
N.P.S. Monga, Zonal Joint DGFT, New Delhi has been promoted as Development Commissioner SEZ MADC Nagpur,.He is an ITS officer of the1986 batch.

Ms Shukla promoted as Development Commissioner SEZ
Ms.Lata Shukla, Zonal Joint DGFT,Mumbai has been promoted as Development Commissioner SEZ Mundra ,.She is an ITS officer of the1986 batch.

Three IAS officers in fray for the post of Chief Secretary, Maharashtra
As the grapevine has it, there are three IAS officers who are in fray for the post of Chief Secretary in Maharashtra. They are: Rajiv Agrawal, Ratnakar Gaikwad and Subodh Kumar.

Subu transferred to Karnataka
Subu R, Director (Hqrs),(2001 batch IAAS) in the office of Director General of Audit ,Post & Telecommunications ,Delhi, has been transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Sr DAG) in the Office of Principal Accountant General (A&E), Karnataka. He was the Nodal Officer for the CAG's Report on the Performance Audit of Issue of Licences & Allocation of 2G spectrum by Department of Telecommunications under Ministry of Communications & Information Technology and was also the Nodal officer for the Audit of the Verification of the Correctness of Revenue to the Government by Private Service Providers (PSPs).

IPS changes in Chhattisgarh
Ajay Yadav has been appointed new SP Bilaspur.Jayant Thorat will move to PHQ.Rahul bhagat will be new SP of Kanker.Abhishek Pathak has been made SP Correya.Mayank Srivastava will be new SP of Narainpur.

Pakistan's NAB looking into land deal
Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is looking into purchase of 3ooo kanals of land by the federal housing ministry on Islamabad's Simply dam Road. The land was purchased from a private firm Messrs Green Tree @ Rs 9 lakhsper kanal against the prevailing market value of Rs 4-5 lakhs per kanal. The deal was for executing a housing project under the Prime Minister's Housing Scheme (PMHS) but ironically no construction is permissible in the area as per regulations of Islamabad's Capital Development Authority. The controversy has heated up after the federal housing minister's resignation recently.

Singhvi to go on central deputation
Ashok Singhvi, PS - Administrative Reforms, is all set to go on central deputation. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Kumar to go on central deputation
Umesh Kumar, Administrator, Agriculture Marketing Board, is all set to go on central deputation. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Additional Judges of Madhya Pradesh High Court appointed (UPDATED)
Giriraj Das Saxena and Tarun Kumar Kaushal have been appointed Additional Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two years with effect from the date they assume charge of their respective offices.

Two Additional Judges appointed in Gauhati High Court (UPDATED)
Justice Arun Chandra Upadhyay and Justice Chitta Ranjan Sarma have been appointed Additional Judges of the Gauhati High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two year with effect from December 28, 2010.

Prof. Valiathan appointed National Research Professor for another Term (UPDATED)
Prof. M.S. Valiathan, an eminent cardiac surgeon, a teacher and researcher, has been appointed as a National Research Professor for another term of five years with effect from January 1, 2011. He has continued to work in the field of medicine and is currently engaged in developing the field of "Ayurvedic Biology". His work in synthesizing Ayurveda with modern medicine has been commended by the Scientific Advisory Committee.

Ulganathan to be CVO of Cochin Shipyard (UPDATED)
P. Ulganathan of the Central General Services has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in Cochin Shipyard Limited, Cochin

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
Umesh Grover joins SKIL group
Umesh Grover former Director Transport & Offshore (T & OS) Division of the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has joined the SKIL Infrastructure Ltd being headed by noted industrial tycoon Nikhil Gandhi.

Committee suggests outsourcing BSNL's networks
A committee constituted at the behest of the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to look into the BSNL affairs has suggested outsourcing BSNL's networks to global equipment firms. Headed by Sam Pitroda, it has also come up with several other suggestions to bring the BSNL out of the red. It has suffered a loss of Rs 1,822.65 crore in 2009-10.

Marar resigns as CEO MAA Television
Maa Television Network Director and CEO Sharrath Marar has put in his papers. He had been with Maa Television Network for close to four years.

Former Balaji Telefilms CEO joing HeadHonchos.com
Former CEO of Balaji Telefilms New Media Business, Uday Sodhi, has joined HeadHonchos.com as CEO.

NDTV Group CEO is NBA President
KVL Narayan Rao, Group CEO and Executive Director, NDTV, has been elected President of News Broadcasters Association (NBA). He is taking over from Sameer Manchanda, Chairman and Managing Director of DEN Networks Ltd.

Das elected Vice President NBA
Zee News Ltd CEO Barun Das has been elected as Vice President, News Broadcasters Association (NBA).

ITC Ltd appoints additional directors
ITC Ltd has appointed N. Anand and P. V. Dhobale as Additional Wholetime Directors of the Company with effect from January 3, 2011.

ING Vysya Bank appoints Additional Director
ING Vysya Bank Limited has informed appointed Vikram Talwar as an Additional Director effective December 20, 2010.

Arya ceases to be MD, Jaypee Infratech
O.P. Arya has ceased to be Managing Director-cum-Chief Executive Officer of Jaypee Infratech Ltd pursuant to his resignation due to personal reasons, with effect from December 20, 2010, which has been accepted by the Board of Directors of the Company.

Marar quits Maa Television Network
The Director and CEO of Maa Television Network Sharrath Marar, has put in his papers. He has been with the Network since January 2007. He has earlier been associated with Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd (ABCL) as GM - South before starting his company named South Parade.

Uday Sodhi is CEO HeadHonchos.com
Former CEO of Balaji Telefilms' New Media Business, Uday Sodhi, has joined HeadHonchos.com as CEO. It is a paid job search service. Sodhi has worked in various sectors in the last 20 years.

Rao elected NBA President
KVL Narayan Rao, Group CEO and Executive Director, NDTV, has been elected President of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA).

Das elected NBA VP
Zee News Ltd CEO Barun Das has been elected as Vice President of News Broadcasters Association (NBA).

Venkatramani is NBA Treasurer
Ashok Venkatramani, CEO, MCCS, is the new Treasurer of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA)

FORUM
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WHO ARE MORE CORRUPT-POLITCIANS,BUREAUCRATS OR JOURNALISTS ?

Corruption!

Instances/ stories are many and but the issue is one and only one. `Corruption' stems from dishonesty and greed, which are attributes ingrained from the stage of grooming of individuals from childhood and has direct linkage to the values cherished in its culture by the Society. It is called by different names at different points of time in the past. Statesmen arose from nowhere in this nation to raise the contemporary values and give a direction to the existence of people. Now, there is no Statesman and no godfather. Is there any moral instruction class in the primaries in schools where stories were told to children espousing ideal values! Unless you go to the toot cause you cannot eliminate any evil simply on the surface. Before we are shammed, a national awareness campaign outside Govt. is the need of the hour.

R V Nathan

Corruption, until and unless you punish the criminals, can not be uprooted. Whether they are rapist, extremist corrupt government official or corporate belonging to any caste creed or culture, we as a country are protecting criminals by not giving them severe punishment.

Deepak Saxena

CBDT Chairman Selection

Certain remarks on next CBDT Chairman being made for three months where as his illustrious predecessor who was having 11 months was not made! While both the senior officers are competent and well respected within the IRS hierarchy the need of the hour is to have a Chairman who will boost up the morale of the service quickly within a short time during the times when the image of the service is hitting new levels rock bottom. It is high time the IRS accepts the supremacy of political decision making like in any other service. Left to its own the IRS has a commendable history of applying all rules the way it is done in an Income Tax assessment bringing further misery . Transfer policy, delayed promotion, restructuring, shortage of ministerial staff etc are only examples. Incidentally Income Tax is a division under Department of Revenue not a department by itself. DTC is expected to rectify this basic anomaly for various benefits including according full secretary status to the Chairman. Lets wish best for the new Chairman though the tenure is short.

Shari

Give him addl charge only

SS Khan was not made Chairman even though he had 11 months service left. In all fairness , give only additional charge of chairman to Sudhir Chandra and do not promote him as a regular chairman.

Bhaskar

What was Khan's fault ?

If Sudhir Chandra can be made CBDT chairman for three months only, what wrong SS Khan did when he had 11 months of service and SSN Moorthy ,junior to him was made chairman CBDT.

Poonam

IRS empanelment - what a shame ?

See the year of batches being considered for JS level empanelment and you tilt your head with shame. 1992 batch of the IFS and 1981 batch of the IRS. Why don't they consider the 1960 batch of the IRS for the post of section officers ? A postal service officer, a railway service officer, an audit service officer can become a Secretary but not an IRS. What injustice, what a shame of these cadres.

Sunil Kumar

A dangerous path less traversed

The Ministry of Urban Development is a Ministry which has a history of corruption scams and it adopts the standard practice of shooting down the messenger. This is ingrained in the Vision & Mission Statement as well as SOP (Standardized Operating Procedure) of that Ministry in invisible ink, which they alone can read. Please recall the famous Government quarters allotment scam during Sheila Kauls time or the recent DDA housing allotment scam. The CWG investigations in CPWD works & DDA are still to be taken up, but if a sincere investigation is done the people in the saddle in that Ministry will have a lot of explaining to do. To get best results the investigation should be entrusted to Scotland Yard as our CBI has lost credibility.

Lok Nath Mehra

Rahul and RSS

Rajesh missed out the names of the benificaries of the 1999 tirade against RSS by Communalism Combat. Let me educate your viewers. The close aides of Mrs Gandhi was Ahmed Patel and Kapil Sibal. The two MPS nominated are Dilip Kumar and Javed Akhtar. UPSC member was Purushuttom Agarwal and Padam shree awardee was Teesta Setalwad.

Zoya Alvi

Radia tapes: Narendra Modi and Ahmed Patel

An interesting aspect of Radia tapes according to latest Outlook Magazine is that it has mention of Ahmed Patel and Narendra Modi. Who says Congress and BJP don't have an alliance. Is this the reason why PAC headed by close friend of Modi, Dr Murli Manahor Joshi, is being supported by the Congress party to inquire into the 2G scam. And is this the reason, there are no demands by the BJP to investigate the references to other leaders of the Congress in the tapes.

Tariq Khan

Will anyone enlighten me ?

Will anyone enlighten me by giving me the case mark of this decision by CAT.I have won a case for retrospective promotion and the same has been confirmed by High Court of Delhi and Supreme Court of India.

C V Gopinath

Reg New ruling of the CAT

Kindly provide the reference of the CAT decision regarding 'wrongly denied promotions in service can claim its benefit after retirement'.

Siri

Who is bothered about Aam Aadmi ?

Onions are selling at Rs.80 to 100 per kg. Garlic is Rs.300 to 400 per kg. Mind-boggling. One of the excuses given is that excessive rain spoilt the crop. Then why export? They say Indian onions are cheaper in London than here. Who is responsible for this mess? The problem is we do not have a Government in place. What we have is a bunch of robbers who are bothered about making the maximum out of the job they hold. Our Agriculture Minister says that we have to bear with this till March. It does not pinch them. That is why our young man-in waiting who calls himself a sipahi of the Aam Aadmi is perhaps not aware that the Aam Admi takes his roti with onion and salt since he can not afford cooked vegetables because for that he needs to have oil and fire. As for opposition they are wasting all their energy on JPC. The obduracy on both sides have resulted in the entire Parliament session having gone waste. JPC or PAC, the fight against corruption is not going to help the poor man sleep with his stomach full. Fight corruption by all means but do take up the fight for the galloping, irrational prices of the basic needs of common man. The Government which swears by Aam Admi is actually a Government for the Amir (rich) Admi.

Aarti Khosla

Maoist Sympathizer

This is in response what has been overheard by Ritu Sharma. Who is this Maoist Ritu Sharma ? Definitely Maoist Sympathizer possessed with dead Mao's Ghost taking about bad administration from the bed room. Fighting bad governance is one thing, but murdering innocent people, murdering policemen, raping, burning police stations, blowing bridges, burning trains and railway stations extorting money from innocent people etc. is another thing. Why is this person only overhearing the Maoist and not any of those thousands of people who are suffering due to Maoist violence?

Rajeeva

How can govt decide CMD of UTI AMC ?

How government can decided CMD of UTI AMC (U.K. Sinha). UTIAMC is presently owned by LIC, PNB, SBI, BoB and one FII (with 26% stake). When UTI AMC is not a public authority under RTI and also does not come under the purview of CVC then how can government decide its CMD.

Kanchan