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WHAT OUR NETAS WISHED FROM SANTA !!!

Sonia: A magic wand and do something about my eye twitches...... these twitches let people know I'm in a tizzy!

Rahul: Magic wand for Mama and please change my squeaky voice tone to baritone!

Pranab Da: Add my name in Rahul's honest list and give him a bout of loose motions for not adding my name himself in the list!

Antony: All the goodies without having to compromise on my honesty!

PC: Make me the FM again ...... and change my 'duck waddle'!!

Pawar: Make me the PM...... and I want to surpass 'you know who' in hidden wealth!

Krishna: A Café Coffee Day in the White House! And a permanent suite in Taj without creating a hullabaloo!

Moily: Magically change my name ... my detractors call me Veerapan.....my name is Veerapa...... I would not mind if I exchange places with Harish Salve!

Virbhadra: May that CD and the land case matter disappear..... and may I be replaced with Dhumal in both controversies

Vilasrao: May my tag of Mr. Controversy disappear! Wave your wand and give me just 25% of Pawar's wealth!

Azad: Give me 'azaadi' from my chamcha image....make me a Leader on my own! And get Omar divorced and then get him and Mehbooba married!

Shinde: Make me the Maharshtra CM .......and make me more forceful!

Mamtha: Make Communists disappear from the face of this earth.... a magical cure for bad breath!

Farooq: May I bike around the World and in every Country may the local beauty ride pillion!

Praful: Give me Mallya's flare, Goyal's underworld connections and Pawar's 'minting' capabilities!

Ghadkari: Make my Radiia connection allegation disappear...... and I should be able to eat all I want and not put on weight!

Advani: PM banaa doh....... in second place I would not mind becoming President..... no not BJP's..... India's!

Amar Singh: Koi lauta deh merre beethe hooe din!

Yeddy: Give Bhardwaj a severe case of piles...... and may no more controversies involving me crop up in 2011!

Laloo: Rabdi ki bakk bakk se I'm tired...... make her deaf and dumb ....and a orphan...... I'm sick of her relatives!

Mulayam: Get me a replacement for Amar ' the supplier' not the Neta!!

Kalmadi: India hosts Olympics and I'm at the helm of affairs..... I'm not asking for the current problems I am facing to disappear... with Sonia in my corner I know I'm safe!

Radiia: A tap detector..... and how about getting me Sonia's PR account? I'll not take a penny from her!

Raja: I want to now enjoy my money!

Barkah Dutt: May I get my post Kargil image back....... I want a Bentley!!!

Vir Singhvi: HT restart my Counterpoint just as it used to be with no restrictions on my journalistic touting.....surrounded by food in a room in Burj Al Aarab I pen my column Counterpoint! (Guess who will footing the bill for the room and food in The Burj)!!

A Common Man or Aam Aadmi: Let me get Mr. India's prowess to become invisible! Let me catch these chors red handed.... I'll go into their homes , Offices and dens invisibly and record all the jiggery pokery! On second thoughts what's the use... they'll still deny everything and get away with their jiggery pokery! Just give me fortitude to bear them!

Santa Claus: A Society in which sinners have no remorse and look forward to sin more, and where the sinned ask for fortitude to bear the sinning, is in for bad times!!!!

Bharat Kumar

20 IFS vying for 10 posts of Ambassadors
It is learnt that 20 IFS officers are in the race for promotion as against 10 posts of Ambassadors to different countries.

Will Mittal join the Board of RBI ?
Sunil Bharti Mittal is likely to join in the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India.

Garg to be Director (HR ) BSNL !
A K Garg is being tipped to be new Director (HR) of the BSNL.

37 IPS officers of 1977 batch empanelled to DG rank in GoI
Altogether 37 IPS officers belonging to 1977 batch have been empanelled to the rank of DG in the Government of India. They are Ajay Chadha (AGMU), S S Dayal (MH), D S Manhas (HP), Abhay Anand (BH), Kanwaljit Deol (AGMU), Omendra Bhardwaj (RJ), Prakash Mishra (OR), Subhas Goswami (AM), A Sivasankar (AP), Bhim Sain Bassi (AGMU), Vageesh Mishra (WB), Brij Mohan Saraswat (UP), Anil Pradhan (AM), K R Shyam Sundar (TN), Umesh Kumar (AP), Shafi Alam (BH), K B Gokulchandran (MH), V K Gupta (GJ), Gouri Shankar Rath (JH), V Narayanan (BH), S Jayaraman (WB), Arun Choudhary (BH), V N Rai (HY), Arvind Ranjan (KL), Nawal Kishore Singh (WB), K Nityanandam (GJ), Shashi Kant (PB), J C Dabas (MT), S A Ibrahim (MP), P K Mehta (HY), P N Dixit (MH), S K Saikia (GJ), Brij Lal (UP), V K Panwar (MP), A S Khan (AGMU), V M Kanwar (MP) and Prem Singh (AM).

ICAS to go on deputation to CAG
Sudhir Bhandari, ICAS-1982, is going on deputation for two years as Principal Director (SAG level) in the Government Accounting Standard Advisory Board (GASAB) of the CAG office.

Tiwari to join FIUI
PK Tiwari (I), Executive Director, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, New Delhi, is joining the Government of India as Director, Financial Intelligence Unit-India, (Joint Secretary level), Department of Revenue. He is 1985 batch IA&AS officer.

52 IAS officers of 1991 batch empanelled for JS rank in GoI
As many as 52 IAS officers of 1991 batch have been empanelled for Joint Secretary rank in GoI. The official list of the officers empanelled is Amrendra P Singh (JH), Pramod Agarwal (MP), Seema S Jain (PB), Manoj Sharma (RJ), Premchandra Reddv (AP), Puneet K Goel (UT), Sudhansh Pant (RJ), Pratyaya Amrit (BH), Jagdish Chander (HP), Kamran Rizwi (UP), S Sidhartha (BH), G Sai Prasad (AP), Anil Malik (HY), Saurabh Garg (OR), Aravind Kumar (AP), Manish K Gupta (UT), Nivedita S Verma (UP), LK Atheeq (KN), A Jayathilak (KL), Ranbir Singh (UT), Ram Prakash Sisodia (AP), Manoj Pant (WB), Ishita Roy (KL), TK Ramchandra (TN), Rachna Shah (KL), Sumita Dawra (AP), Rena G Pillay (CG), Shailesh K Singh (JH), Jan-e-Alam (KL), Ajay Jain (AP), MP Muruganandam (TN), Rajit Punhani (BH), Anu Garg (OR), Abilakh Likhi (HY), Aariz Aftab (WB), Sudha Choudhary (MP), Apoorva K Singh (HY), Harpreet Singh (AP), Jayant S Ravi (GJ), V Thirupuggash (GJ), Mohan Jeet Singh (UT), Deepak Kapoor (MH), Vineet Garg (HY), Rajesh K Singh (UP), Arnab Roy (WB), G Ashok Kumar (AP), SK Mishra (MP), Ashok Khemka (HY), V Vidhyavati (KN), Supriya Sahu (TN), Manu Shrivastava (MP) and Shambhu Kalolikar (TN).

Kumar to join Ministry of Power as Director
Sanjeev Kumar is likely to join as Director in Ministry of Power. He is 1993 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

IES officer Sachdeva empanelled as JS
1986 batch India Economic Service officer A K Sachdeva has been empanelled in Government of India as JS or equivalent under CSS.

Tripathi is new R&AW Chief
Finally suspense is over. Sanjeev Tripathi has been appointed new R&AW Chief.1972 batch R&AW service officer Tripathi is senior-most officer in the organization. He will succeed K C Verma. Tripathi who was to retire on December 31 would get two years tenure.
(We said this on October 5,Nov 22 and December 1 )

Verma gets additional charge of I&B Ministry
Secretary MSME, Uday Verma, has been given additional charge of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. Secretary I & B Raghu Menon is going on leave next month.

Nitin Aggarwal promoted in ITBP
Nitin Aggarwal DIG ITBP has been promoted to IG (Special Frontier)ITBP, New Delhi in place of Pramod Asthana IPS.He is an IPS officer of the1989 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre.

Roli Singh to be relieved
The competent authority has requested to DOPT to relive Ms. Roli Singh, Deputy Director (Senior), LBSNAA, Massoori for a new assignment.She is an IAS officer of the1994 batch who belongs to the Rajasthan cadre.

Amresh Singh gets extension
Amresh Singh, Director, Culture, Ministry of Culture, Government of India has been granted 3 months extension.He is an IRS officer of the1994 batch.

Tewari joins as Additional CP Licensing
Madhup Tewari has joined as Additional C.P. (Licensing), Delhi Police. Earlier he was DIG at Arunachal Pradesh.He is an IPS officer of the1995 batch who belongs to the AGMU cadre.

Indevar Pandey is Secretary Personnel also in West Bengal
Indevar Pandey has taken over as Secretary Personnel and
Administrative Reforms to Government of west Bengal. He will continue
to hold additional charge of Secretary, Disaster Management.

IPS changes in Haryana
Sharad Kumar will now be ADGP (Crime) against Sri Niwas Vashist, who goes as ADGP, Vigilance, vice Parminder Rai, who will take the place of Sharad Kumar. Anil Dawra will go as ADGP, Training.Vivek Sharma will be SP Fatehabad and Parul Kush Jain DCP, Faridabad (Central).Palwal SP Sanjay Kumar has been made Rewari SP and Mitesh Jain has been posted as DCP, Gurgaon (Crime). Narnaul SP Jagdish Nagar will now be Commandant, 2nd India Reserve Battalion (IRB), Bhondsi, and Jagwant Singhgoes as Commandant, 3rd Battalion, HAP, Hisar.Maharaj Singh has been posted as SP, Narnaul, and Anil Dhawan, DCP, Gurgaon (Crime), has been posted as SP, Palwal.Randhir Singh will now be SP, RTC, Bhondsi.

IPS postings in UP
Deepak Kumar and Pritender Singh will now be SPs of Sonbhadra and Bagpat respectively. Mahesh Mishra will go as SP Bijnore and J Ravinder Gaur SP Siddharth Nagar. L R Kumar will be SP Balrampur.

Singh is now Additional Cabinet Secretary in UP
Ravindra Singh will also be Additional Cabinet Secretary in Uttar Pradesh. Netram will continue to be Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister.

Major bureaucratic reshuffle in Maharashtra this week
A major bureaucratic reshuffle is likely to take place in Maharashtra this week. Additional Secretary Telecom may return to take over as Commissioner of Mumbai Municipal Corporation.

Ms Chauhan to go RPF Academy
Mrs. Jaya Singh Chauhan IG RPF cum CSC of NC Rly Allahabad is reportedly going to be transferred to RPF Academy Lucknow as Director.Proposal is believed to have been cleared by CRB.

Madhya Pradesh government transfers 33 IPS officers
Madhya Pradesh government has transferred 33 IPS officers. They include six Additional DGs, 12 Inspectors General (IGs), six Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs) and nine Superintendents of Police (SPs).

Six ADG rank officials in MP transferred
Six ADG rank officials in MP have been transferred. Those transferred include Ramesh Sharma from Planning and Provision (PHQ) to Economic Offences Wing (EOW), RC Arora from CID to Selection (PHQ), DM Mitra who has returned from deputation to the State Planning Commission as Adviser, VK Singh from Adim Jati Kalyan (AJK) to Planning and Provision (PHQ), MR Krishna from Jabalpur to CID and Swarn Singh from Hoshangabad to AJK.

MP govt transfers 12 IG rank officials
MP government has transferred 12 IG rank officials. The new posting orders of IG rank officials include Shailesh Singh from PHQ to Home Guards Jabalpur, Vijay Kumar from PHQ to MPSIDC as Additional Manager, Pawan Jain from Ujjain to Planning Wing (PHQ), RP Singh from Homeguards to SAF Jabalpur, Rajesh Chawla from MPSEB Jabalpur to CID, K Baburao from PHQ to MPSEB Jabalpur as Chief Security Officer, Upendra Jain from Transport to Ujjain range, V Madhuklumar Babu from PHQ to Jabalpur range, RK Gupta from PHQ to Personnel Wing (PHQ), VN Pachouri from PHQ to Fire Service, Indore and Alok Ranjan from PHQ as Secretary Home.

Six DIG rank officials in MP transferred
Six DIG rank officials in MP have been transferred. They are Pankaj Shrivastava from PHQ to Gwalior range, Sonali Mishra from Home department to Jabalpur range, Anil Kumar from PHQ as Secretary in Home department, Asha Mathur from Rajgarh to APTC Indore, KP Vyankeshwaran Rao from Guna to PHQ and Mayank Jain from Ratlam to Ujjain range.

Nine Police Superintendants in MP transferred
Nine Police Superintendants in MP have been transferred. They are RK Chaudhary from SAF to Transport as Deputy Commissioner, KC Jain from SAF Bhind to Guna, Sanjay Kumar from Balaghat to Morena, Ruchi Shrivastava from Hoshanagabd to Ratlam, Sachin Atulkar (Addl SP) from Bhopal to Balaghat, KB Sharma from Panna to Rajgarh, Anil Maheshwari from PHQ to Panna, Deepak Verma from Railways to Hoshanagabad and Gaurav Rajput from Morena to 7th Battalion of SAF.

Ninan is new President of Editors Guild of India
T.N. Ninan, editor and publisher of Business Standard, has been elected president of the Editors Guild of India,Coomi Kapoor of Indian Express was re-elected general secretary while Suresh Bafna of Nai Duniya was chosen as the new treasurer.

IAS Officers' Wives' Association Bihar holds free medical camp
A free health check up camp was organised by IAS officers Wives' Association and IAS officers Assocaition of Bihar in IAS Bhavan at Patna on December 26, 2010.It was opened by Bihar Governm ent's Chief
Secretary Anup Mukherjee (IAS, 1974 batch).As many as 1000 people benefitted from the camp which for the first time had presence of experts from the field of alternative medicines i.e.Ayurvedic, Unani & Homoepathy.
Interviews for Director (Enterprise) in BSNL on Dec 29 (UPDATED)
Interviews for the post of Director (Enterprise) in BSNL will be conoducuted on Dec 29 by the Public Enterprises selection Board (PESB).

Ramasundaram joins Nagar Juna Oil Corporation as MD and CEO
Ramasundaram, retired 1979 batch IAS officer has joined as MD and CEO, Nagar Juna Oil Corporation, in Chennai.
94 BSNL officials promoted as DGM
As many as 94 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) officials of the rank of DE have been promoted as DGM. They are G Suresh reddy, Ramit Maurya, Rajesh Kumar Gupta, Rahul Singh, Pranab Kumar Roy, Vijay Singh Nemiwal, Vinod Kumar dwivedi, Bhoomika Gupta, Sanjay Kumar, manish Gupta, Arvind Sharma, Ms. Anu Shrivastava, Yogesh Kumar Bhaskar, Pankaj Kumar Salodia, Rakshpal Giri, Jagraj Singh,. Manish Lodha, Ms. Bala Chandra Sena, Atulu Wakhle, Narendra B naktode, Puneet Kumar Rajput, Pawan Kumar Gupta, Khagesh Garg, Amit Ghosal, Vijay Krishna Murthy, Bhuwendra Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Ram Pratap Singh, Ram Narayan Yadav, Rajeev Ranjan, Anil Kumar, Sanjay Kumar - Ii, Ram Raj Yadava, Ashish Kumar, Rakesh Kumar I, Chandrashekhar P Singh, Arvind Kumar, Vivek Vishvakarma, Saket Kumar Verma, V1jay Kumar Maurya, Sunil Kumar Rana, Beeran Prajapati, Manoj Kumar Bhakta, Anil Kumar, Devinder Yadav, Bishwa Mohan Patel, Ramraj Meena, Ganesh Chandra, Om Prakash Khatri, N Janardhan, Shashi Kumar, MV Ramnaiah, Jagdish Prasad Meena, Mahesh Chand Meena, Mukesh Kumar, M Bhadru, Dwarka Karol, A Srinivasa Rao, Sushil Kumar, B Muruganantham, Pradeep Kumar, Amit Garg, Bhavesh Rajnikant Trivedi, Ms. Arpita Lakhera, Mukesh Kumar, Ashish Kumar Sanghi, Brahmanand Shrivastava, Sandeep K Gupta, Ram Chandra Sharma, Ashi Kapoor, Pankaj Shrivastava, Vijay Dixit, Arun Gupta, Mayank Tripathi, Vivek Asthana, Ashwani kumar, Ravinder Kumar - I, Ramesh Raj S N, gulab Chand Jeengar, Shanker Lal Meghvanshi, Mahendra Prakash Gupta, Ms. Madhu Patre, Hariom Solanki, Mihir Kumbhakar, Om Prakash Jangir, Manish Kumar, Rajkumar Chhanena, Madan Lal, Ram Kailash Meena, Vinay Kumar Kokade, Ajay M Mhetre, Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Ashish Kushwaha and Dhananjay Kumar Ranjan.
Ms. C.T. Manimekalai gets new posting in TN
Ms. C.T. Manimekalai Managing Director (MD) Tamil Nadu Adi-Dravidar Housing and Development Corporation has been transferred and posted as State Commissioner for the Differently Abled .

Pritam B. Yashwant IAS Rajasthan on leave till Jan 7
Dr. Pritam B. Yashwant, Deputy Secretary Health Government of Rajasthan and Mission Director National Rural Health Mission, Rajasthan will be on leave till January 7, 2011. He is an IAS officer of the 2003 batch who hails from the Rajasthan cadre.

Gupta gets additional charge of Mission Director, Rural Health Mission, Rajasthan

Praveen Gupta, Project Director, Rajasthan Health System Development Project, Jaipur has been entrusted with the additional charge of Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission, Rajasthan till January 7, 2011. He is an IAS officer of the 1995 batch who hails from the Rajasthan cadre.

IPS officer Sahu posted as SP Tonk, Rajasthan
Rajasthan government transferred Bhupendra Sahu Commandant 7th Bn, RAC Bharatpur as Superintendent of Police, Tonk. Sahu is an IPS officer of the 1999 batch who hails from Rajasthan cadre.

RTI

Audit report and CCTV recordings of Bank
The audit reports of a branch of a bank and the action on those audit reports were refused claiming exemption under Section 8(1)(d). The CIC upheld the refusal holding that the Audit Reports of a Branch of a bank contained all information about that Branch, such as its internal functioning, its customers / accountholders, its commercial activities, turnover, etc., which is commercially sensitive. The CIC further ruled that information relating to the recordings of surveillance cameras and videos installed in Bank Branches are held confidentially by the public authority under Section 11(1) of the RTI Act disclosure of which can be detrimental to the interests of the Bank and its security and expose it to serious risks. This disclosure can be authorized only if there is public interest.

Comments

It has been pointed out through this column that videography is a part of 'Information' under the RTI Act. Nationalized banks are covered by the definition of "State" in Article 12 of the Constitution of India and the security of a Bank Branch would attract Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act. When any public authority holds an information confidentially, disclosure should be authorized only after consultation with that public authority.

- 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
S.K. Garg CMD NHPC to retire
S.K. Garg Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the NHPC will retire
on December 31, 2010.

Brara appointed Air India's Head ( ATISL)
Air India has appointed Executive Director (Ground Handling) Deepak Brara as Chief of the Air Transport Services Limited (AITSL) while replacing Captain Ashwini Kumar Sharma.

Jacob elected as President of ISPC
Dr James Jacob, Director, Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), has been elected President of Indian Society for Plantation Crops (ISPC) at its 10th general body meeting held at RRII.

Prism Informatics includes promoters on Board
The Board of Prism Informatics Ltd has included Alok Pathak, Mohan Natarajan and Dr. Ramesh Subramaniam Iyer as 'Promoters' of the company.

Pandey appointed Additional Director, Raghunath Tobacco
Raghunath Tobacco Company Ltd has appointed Manoj Kumar Pandey as Additional Director of the Company, w.e.f. November 22, 2010.

Rao appointed Additional Director, Saven Technologies
Saven Technologies Ltd has appointed. Nrupender Rao as an Additional
Director of the Company with effect from December 22, 2010.

Goenka to be MD, Golden Securities
The Board of Golden Securities Ltd has approved the appointment of Vivek Goenka as the Managing Director of the Company.

Pak President's bonanza for PIA staff
Pakistan's President Asif Zardari on Sunday inaugurated a housing project for the staff of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in Karachi. The project named Shaheed Motarma Benazir Bhutto Apnaghar Scheme comprises of 1900 dwelling units for staff in pay group I to IV of PIA. President Zardari also announced that 3000 daily wagers in PIA will be given permanent status, 15% salary increase for staff in pay group I to IV w.e.f 1-1-2011, restoration of allownces of cabin crew, increase in insurance cover from Rs 300000 to 60000 for cabin crew in Pay Group I to IV and from Rs 600000 to 1200000 for cabin crew in Pay Group V and above.

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WHO ARE MORE CORRUPT-POLITCIANS,BUREAUCRATS or JOURNALISTS ?

No doubt politicians are 9 in a scale of 10.Bureaucrats 5 and journos 3.The quantum also differs. Bureaucrats with so many paraphernalia who are corrupt also nibble to suit the occasion. Journos take loans from bankers and even fees for covering bank functions and for projecting the chairmen and top brass. Politicians bend rules and policy of course under advice from Bureaucrats who do all the spade work in the process get some benefits.

Venkat

It is not a question of who is more corrupt - bureaucrats, politicians or anybody else for that matter. Nobody is going to get an award for telling who is more corrupt.

We humans, particularly we Indians, tend to follow the fellow human beings who set a trend be it in fashion, corruption, etc. I feel today the majority of Indians have no love for the country and its prosperity. We have forgotten that we would exist only when Bharat is strong and prosperous. The goals of our freedom fighters like Subhash chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, Gandhiji, Nehru, etc. have been lost or forgotten. We need another Swami Vivekananda to tell us what we are, who we are. Our little children should be taught in schools what Bhagavat Gita preaches, how a human being should lead his life and contribute to the welfare and progress of the country. I remember even now when you turn the first page of the NCERT text book, you will find on the left hand side of the book "Gandhi's Talisman" in which the great human being mentions that in whatever we do, we should remember the face of the poorest of the poor and think whether the same would help him in any way.

Narasimha Sastry

All are corrupt. There appears to be competition in the corruption amongst all.

RC

It is a shame that we are debating on this matter. Why don't we start new for the country?

Durga

Is anyone listening to Sonia's appeal ?

One of the message which Mrs. Sonia Gandhi communicates at every Congress Session is to display simplicity in public life. What does her ministers do? Find out in Haryana! They went and bought themselves expensive SUV's at state expense at a time when the state is facing a financial crunch. So much between preaches and practices. Any one listening please ?

Ruhan

Sonia emulating Mughal style of appointments

It is very funny to see Congress President Mrs. Sonia Gandhi emulating Mughal style of appointing Governors. Presidents of Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat PCCs are all appointed by her and not selected by the concerned PCCs.

N Sriram

Ponder on what you did in 2010

Dear Civil Servant colleagues, Aswe say good bye to 2010 and welcome 2011, I would like to urge upon all my civil servant colleagues in all the services to ponder on what they did in 2010 to make India proud and what is it that they would like to do in 2011? While there could be many measures to evaluate growth and development, the critical pieces that we perhaps need to focus on would be creation of wealth/jobs in an equitable manner and focus on Primary health care and primary education. we are placed 119th in Human Development Index ( more than 30 places below China at 89 and more than 40 places from Russia ( 65)/Brazil ( 73). We therefore need to do more at each level. As Prime Minister works towards his reshuffle, he should give the brightest and most honest officers/ministers to take the lead in achieving progress in these sectors... that's my 2011 Wish.

Prasad

All are innocent till proved guilty !

Now, Kalmadi says I am innocent till proved guilty. Media may laugh it out but this is what the Caesar's wife (read Manmohan Singh) said when questions were raised regarding "his inclusion of Corrupt Lalu in his cabinet in 2004".

Samaalochak

We require separate service !

We require a separate service like IAS for Telecom sector and info tech sector. That can be named as Indian Info Tech Services or Indian telecom services to train officers for telecom sector.

Venkat

Increase employment

Huge money is spent by both State Govt. and Central Govt. Unless the money is actually spent, we can't expect generation of employment. There is a tendency on the part of many departments to park the fund in the PSUs under them thereby earning interest for their employee who see their organisation growing at the cost of poor. The money spending is blocked there. We are noticing corruption in public. The corrupt people instead if actually spending the money meant for the purpose mismanage and save the ill got amount. Hence money spending is blocked from all angles. How can we think of employment generation? Where the unemployed will go? Will not they be a threat to those who are amassing money? So time has come to think of a society where everybody would have the basic minimum to live.

Kalpana Mishra

'Vegetables' alone make millionaires in India !

What is the aam aadmi under the UPA, headed by an Economist? Vegetables ! They have no voice. Had they any voice, prices of all essential items would not have seen such astronomical rise at regular intervals! No doubt the Minister for Food & Agriculture could have effectively intervened, had he chosen to do so. If he failed to do so he could have resigned. But, more than the Food & Agri Minister, it is the Prime Minister, who should have effectively & timely intervened. He has simply kept quiet like a Muni observing maun vrata (no speaking fast). However, it is largely the policies of the UPA that are responsible for price rise rather than all kinds of elaborate but specious excuses advanced for the price rise. Why on Earth speculation was allowed in agricultural commodities? The farmer has got nothing, whereas many speculators have become millionaires. Will they ever bother for the aam aadmi, without whom they would never have earned so much money? Worse than that, companies clocking turnovers in excess of 100000 crores per annum were allowed to sell grain, flour, vegetables & fruits. They thrive only on high priced marketing in the name of quality etc. It is these companies, who have been exporting essentials like fresh vegetables, leading to price rise. The common man is being deprived of milk, vegetables, grains, edible oils, sugar, tea, medicines, education and even salt. But for salt being associated with the freedom movement, the country would have seen salt selling for more than 50/ kg(for the same reason of excessive rains, falling production, shortages, storage in the open etc.)(High prices of salt can be observed in the NE, and the bordering foreign countries etc during the monsoon). It is these big industrial houses that have ruined the agriculture based Indian economy, which alone is the mainstay of the aam aadmi, for whom all economists, resident as well as non resident, shed profuse tears and hold out promises of a better tomorrow under the bewildering 8.5% annual growth rate! For whom is this growth rate? For those big businesses who move to the list of the first 10 to the first 5 billionaires of the world? Is it honestly their 'CSR'(corporate social responsibility)? Agreed that the Indian masses have no further strength to launch any more freedom movement or revolution of any kind, for they have been turned into vegetables, by corruption and rule of the corrupt, but this should not make the perpetrators smug for long. The same vegetables are watching and may express their anger in ways that these perpetrators imagine not. If the government of the Economist Prime Minister is even a bit sincere in serving the masses, it should put a blanket ban on all exports of essential commodities, increase supply to the masses, save them from malnutrition, hunger, disease, poverty, illiteracy & backwardness. No more Commissions or Committees for that. The Government is there, As By Law Elected!!!

M L Gupta

TAIL-PIECE

CBI grills Spectrum Raja

The first day grilled chicken.

Second day grilled mutton

Third day demands, gets seekh kabab

Fourth day grilled ...CBI thinking ... rohu?

Fifth day grilled ... CBI Director chips in ... Mughlai style? Will KFC be fine for the next day - planning in progress!

Sixth day grilled and accompaniments

Seventh day holiday - grilled at home

Eighth day - ideas welcome.

By-A Contributor