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Aaj Ki Aawaz

Who controls Congress's Dirty Tricks Department????

Where truth is ruthlessly bent!!!

It comes under ? and he goes to Madam asking 'what to do'?

Today this Department's objective is to show 'BJP did the same too'!!!

Speaking of ? .... he too was in touch with Niira!!!

In Sonia's Court he is a Ratan but in recent times black spots have shown up in this heera!

Such black spots Madam ki image karte hai damage!!

Chalo Madam knows best and it is her image!!!

Dirty tricks Department has its sights on CWG and 2 G scams... top the list!!

And maybe Congress Sewa Dal and Youth Congress will be asked to assist!!

Congress is in a whirlpool and all 'hands have been called onto the deck'!!!

The whirlpool is huge and Congress could end up as a wreck!!

Muslims have seen the tricks Congress plays!!!

And for the price rise Congress ko Aam Aadmi flays!!

Public laughs at Sonia's statement ' we will not tolerate corruption'!!

Public now feels Congress comes to power and there is corruption ka eruption!!!

The much touted Rahul magic has failed!!!

As the savior of Congress if you recall he had been hailed!!!

Maybe now Priynaka will be pressed into action and as I Gandhi 2 she will be positioned!

By two senior Congress leaders this has already been propositioned!!

If BJP wants to gain then it has to look beyond Advani and Ghadkari!!

And to do so it should be in a tearing hurry!!

Ghadkari has a team of lawyers to browbeat those who are anti him in Public domain!!

He's got a survey done on his Presidency and uses it to say 'President I should remain'!

These two cannot lead BJP to grab the throne in Dilli!!!

Ghadkari is not leader material and to Advani majority of India is chilly!

Praful Patel is upset with NK Singh for speaking the 'truth'!!!

NK Singh has sms'd Praful apologizing and eulogizing to make up with 'untruth'!!

NK description of Praful was right and NK should not lie to make up!!!!

Abh toh all has been 'aired' (on TV ) ya gaya hai 'chaph' (printed)!!

Raja has put on weight in the past two days!!!

He lazes around and hog as long as in CBI's Office he stays!!

He's looted us and now we pay as CBI 'stuffs' with food!!!

And does all it can to keep him in a jovial mood!!

To ensure that CBI continues with this treatment!!!

A 'plea for another protective vaccination' by him to his Leader has been sent!

I think Kanimozi's analogy that her Mom is loony and her Dad is deaf is bang on!

In by the 'ones who rule DMK the Party has been done'!!

Kalmadi's red herring blackmail CD has sent CBI on a wild goose chase!!!

And then we know why he has a smile of his face???

He knows Madam is on his side!!!

In fact he is already planning tat if India gets Olympics how to take India for a ride!

After all such chori requires a lot of planning!!

And now that his henchmen are 'in' he also has to think of 'manning'!!

Confucius says... the delay in CBI's raids are proof of a 'cover up' being done!!

And Mohna's image has taken a beating and now blame buck is on tables of Sonia and her son!!!

Flash....now there are allegations that in the delay that CBI took Kalmadi did the needful!

Shipped out package that was CWG incriminating documents se full!

Papers and account books relating to the Great CWG chori were shipped to USA!!!

' We were waiting for go ahead to raid him' CBI in its defense does say!!

Mohna is itching to appear before PAC.....is Sonia behind this itch??????

She knows Congress is now on a fast turning pitch!!

Congress is desperate to save face...... maybe Radiia could help out!!!!

On her capabilites there should be no doubt!!!

Bharat Kumar

AICC and Cabinet reshuffle after Makar Sankranti
Now reshuffle of the Manmohan Singh cabinet and the All India Congress Committee is expected to take place only in the third week of January.
Scindia to be MPCC President ?
Grapevine has it that Union Minister of State for Commerce Jyotiradiotya Scindia is being sent to Madhya Pradesh as PCC Chief.
Pilot to be Rajasthan PCC Chief ?
Union Minister of State for Tele-communications Sachin Pilot is being tipped to be President of the Rajasthan Congress Committee.
Jatin Prasad to be President of UPCC ?
Another member of the Rahul Gandhi Brigade Union Minister of State for Petroleum Jatin Prasad may be sent to Uttar Pradesh as PCC President.
Cabinet reshuffle in MP likely next month ?
Much awaited cabinet expansion cum reshuffle is likely to take place around Makar Sankranti. Induction of Anoop Mishra and son of former CM Kailash Joshi and nephew of former CM Sunder Lal Patwa is considered to be a certainty.
Murli Manohar Joshi to go Somnath Chatterjee way ?
Will Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi go the Som Nath Chatterjee way ?.His closeness with the Ten Janpath these days has fuelled speculations to this effect.

BUREAUCRACY
GMs postings in Railways soon
Postings of certain General Manager (GMs) have been finalized in Railways.

K.B.L. Mittal to be GM, NE
K.B.L. Mittal will be General Manager (GM) of the North Eastern (NE) Railways.
(We said this on November 5, 2010)

Ms. Vijaya Kanth to be GM, NF
Ms. Vijaya Kanth has been appointed General Manager (GM) construction of the North Frontier (NF) Railways.
(We said this on November 10, 2010)

R. C. Agrawal to be GM, NW
R. C. Agrawal has been appointed as General Manager (GM) of the North Western (NW) Railways .
(We said this on November11, 2010)

Vinay Mittal to be GM, SE
Vinay Mittal has been appointed as General Manager (GM) of the South Eastern (SE) Railways.
(We said this on November 5, 2010)

Why did Verma quit ahead of his term ?
R&AW Chief K C Verma was scheduled to retire on January 31.He however resigned to pave way for Sanjeev Tripathi to succeed him on December 31. Tripathi would have missed the bus if Verma had completed his two-year tenure. Now in the corridors of power it is being discussed as to why Verma quit ahead of his two year term.

Will Arni head ARC ?
Will Anand Arni succeed Sanjeev Tripathi as head of the Aviation Research Centre (ARC). 1974 batch R&AW service officer was also a contender for the post of R&AW Chief.

Will GMR join the Board of RBI ?
G M Rao is likely to join the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India.

Thakkar to be Director (Technical) REC
P J Thakkar is being tipped to be new Director (Technical) of the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC).

Proposal to appoint Mehrotra shelved
A proposal to appoint Rakesh Mehrotra as Member, Telephone Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reportedly been shelved.

Patankar to be ADG ASI
Juthika Patankar is being tipped to be Additional Director General Archeological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture. She is 1988 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Vachhani gets extension
Ashish Vachhani, Deputy Director, LBSNAA, Masoori, presently on study leave has been granted extension in Central Deputation period for 2 years upto 2012 .He Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer of the 1997 batch.

Gupta asks for more IPS officers
B.K. Gupta, Commissioner of Delhi Police, has requested the MHA to provide more officers of Additional CPs and DCPs rank to control the crime in Delhi effectively.

Asthana to return
Pramod Asthana, IG, Special Frontier, ITBP, after completion of his central deputation period will join his parent cadre on 1st January. He is Manipur-Tripura cadre IPS officer of 1986 batch.

Governor and Home Minister differ ?
There are reports of differences between Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan over the issue of providing more autonomy to Darjeeling.

Shrivastava to head NHPC
A.B.L. Shrivastava, Director Finance in NHPC, will assume charge as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) after S.K. Garg reigning CMD retires on December 31; 2010.Shrivastava is the senior most Director, after Garg, on the NHPC's Board.

Muhnot is ahead in race for SIDBI's top slot
As the grapevine has it, Sushil Muhnot is topping the list as far as new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the SIDBI was concerned. Presently he is an Executive Director (ED) in the IDBI.

An insider to be NBARD chief?
As the grapevine has it, an insider is tipped to be new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the NABARD. There were two Executive Directors (EDs) of the NABARD who had appeared for the interview of NABARD's CMD. They are: Dr.Prakash Bakshi & S.K.K. Mitra. 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre Amitabh Verma is also said to be a top contender.

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

Ms. C.T. Manimekalai gets new posting in TN
Ms. C.T. Manimekalai, Managing Director (MD) of Tamil Nadu Adi-Dravidar
Housing and Development Corporation, has been transferred and posted as
State Commissioner for the Differently Abled.

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.
Dasgupta is new Director of IIST
K.S. Dasgupta has assumed office as Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) .

Alok Prasad appointed Ambassador to Japan (UPDATED)
Alok Prasad, presently Deputy National Security Advisor, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Japan, in succession to H.K. Singh. He is 1974 batch IFS officer.
( We said this on December 6 )

Pratip Chaudhuri billed for SBI Chairman's slot (UPDATED)
As the grapevine has it Pratip Chaudhuri is tipped to be new Chairman of the State Bank of India((SBI) interviews for which were held on December 16, 2010. Pratip Chaudhuri present is B.Sc. (Hons), MBA, joined State Bank of India as Probationary Officer in 1974. He took over charge as Dy Managing Director & Group Executive (International Banking), State Bank of India in April 2009.Immediately prior to the present assignment, he was posted as Chief General Manager (Foreign Offices) at Corporate Centre, Mumbai.During his illustrious career spanning over 35 years in State Bank of India, he held several important positions viz. :Managing Director, State Bank of Saurashtra,Chief General Manager Chennai Circle, General Manager Mid Corporate Group New Delhi Region, General Manager Commercial Banking Local Head Office New Delhi, Chief Investment Officer SBI Mutual Fund, Dy General Manager Merchant Banking International Banking Group, AGM & Relationship Manager, Corporate Accounts Group New Delhi & Vice President (Operations), SBI Canada, Toranto.

(We said this on December 8, 2010)

Shuman Mukherjee takes charge as Director (Commercial), SAIL (UPDATED)
Shuman Mukherjee has taken over charge as Director (Commercial) on the board of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) with effect from December 23, 2010. Mukherjee, an Economics (Hons) graduate from St. Stephens College, Delhi and a Chartered Accountant, has experience in the field of marketing of steel and has held several important positions during his over 33 years of service with SAIL. He was also a member of the Core Group that chalked out SAIL's Corporate Plan 2012. Earlier, Mukherjee was Executive Director (Marketing - Flat Products) at SAIL's Marketing headquarters at Kolkata. He has also served in the capacity of Regional Manager in Northern as well as in Western Region.

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
Interviews for Director (Enterprise) in BSNL on Dec 29
Interviews for the post of Director (Enterprise) in BSNL will be conducted on Dec 29 by the Public Enterprises selection Board (PESB).

Idea Cellular MD Aga to step down
Sanjeev Aga, Managing Director of Idea Cellular, will step down from office with effect from April 1. He will however, continue as a Director on the board of the company.

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.

Verma appointed Nominee Dir. on State Bank of Bikaner Board
Rajesh Verma, Regional Director, Reserve Bank Of India, Bhopal as RBI
Nominee Director on the Board of State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur in place of
Ramesh Chander, with effect from January 03, 2011

Abdulrahman appointed Group Exec. Officer, Jet Airways India
Jet Airways India Ltd has appointed Abdulrahman Albusaidy as Group
Executive Officer.

Trivedi to be Master Integrator for Air India-Indian merger
The Central Government has designated Joint Managing Director, Air
India, Vishwapati Trivedi, as Master Integrator who will carry the
process of integration of Indian with Air India.

Hiranandani resigns as Chairman, Hirco PLC.
Niranjan Hiranandani, Chairman , Hirco PLC, the London-listed company of
the Indian real estate group has resigned from the company.

Infosys Board to start process of looking for new Chairman
The Infosys Board will start the process of looking for a new Chairman and Chief Mentor from next month as its current Chairman and Chief Mentro NR Narayana Murthy has decided to retire in August 2011.

PIA doing better than other national carriers
At a time when most national carriers world over are looking for state funding to offset losses or to just remain in business, Pakistan's PIA seems to be doing better. Capt Aizaz Haroon, MD of Pakistan International Airlines announced on Dec 24 that the airlines' revenue earnings upto the end of Dec 2010 are likely to be 100 billion rupees, a 25% increase over last year's Rs 80 billion. Also PIA has realised 76% seat factor on the domestic and international routes. These achievements according to Capt Haroon are purely as a result of the commitment of the staff of PIA which hasn't asked for or got any financial support from the government. Even in the days to come all that the airlines need from their government is approval of their proposed business plans and not any budgetary support.

Ms Kumar is new CGM SBI Bangalore Circle
Mrs Soundara Kumar has taken over as the Chief General Manager of State Bank of India, Bangalore Circle.

FORUM
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WHO ARE MORE CORRUPT-POLITCIANS,BUREAUCRATS or JOURNALISTS ?
It is the politicians who start the chain. They need money to contest election; They approach businessmen who oblige them for favours at a later stage. The politicians then start collecting money for transfers, promotion etc. This makes the bureaucrats corrupt. Thus the chain continues.
S Gopal

Was PM not aware of the loot ?

It has been a very good PR on the part of PM and Congress to deflect all the blame of Telecom scam on Raja and DMK. Can we say confidently that PM was not aware of these loot and he was not party to it? Is it just alliance pressure? What an image building of a 'bechara honest PM' hold by alliances. A PM who can put his Government to risk on Nuclear deal with US can not be so bechara (unless connived with the looters). Why not PM stood firm (as in nuclear deal)if really he is so honest and Mr. Clean. Don't make fool of the public.
SK

Reason for delayed promotions for non-IAS services
Many people have expressed the concern for pathetically slow promotions to all services other than IAS. Mainly the reason is that IAS get time scale at various levels. On 1st January of every year the batch completing 16years is given Secretary scale in states (equivalent to JS of GOI) by organising a sham DPC where CS of the state is chairman whose interest is to promote all officers who number hardly 5 to 6 in each state. Other services have to go through the process of detailed DPC where UPSC member who is again IAS who ensures deliberate delays. Secondly these service have also to be blamed. The senior gives ACR comments miserly and a candidate not empanelled due to bad ACR. having no department recourse, has no option but to approach CAT and get stay on the DPC. This delays the promotions by several years.
Rakesh Tewari

AIR and DD run unprofessionally
I fully agree with ML Gupta. AIR and Doordarshan are the organizations run in a more un-professional way. If it is run correctly, it can be a profit mine
Harish Kumar

IS PM not a Neta ?
Aaj Ki Aawaz (27th Dec,10) WHAT OUR NETAS WISHED FROM SANTA !!!?
Why have you overlooked the wishes of Dr Manmohan Singh? Is he not a neta? Perhaps, not!
Does he not wish to remain as the de jure and figurehead PM for life and continue to take orders from Sonia Gandhi ji, the de facto PM?

Does he not wish to retain his perceived image of personal probity sans leadership?
What about his pre-emptive offer(Read as wish) to appear before the PAC ( by stonewalling JPC) to salvage the Congress party and its Supremo from the morass of corruption?
Does he not wish to remain as a mute witness to the growing corruption and inflation that has irretrievably hit the Aam aadmi where it hurts?

My wish is that none of the above wishes are granted by Santa Claus. Amen.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

How can such acts of vandalism be allowed ?
Gurjars blocking Railway traffic, sitting and burning fire right in the middle of the track to keep themselves warm. How can such acts of vandalism be allowed in a civilized country? Is this the way to agitate? Destroying public property, blocking public transport, putting people to inconvenience, brandishing axes, lathis and sundry other intimidating weapons. The sight of these people sitting with their smug faces puffing at hukkas and bidis is so revolting. But what is more revolting is the response of the authorities. Why cannot they make such acts as crime against the country and deal with them firmly? Why do they succumb before such pressure tactics? Why no punishment is meted out to these hordes of vandals? Since they got away last time after causing huge damage to railway property they are at it again. The Railways must ask the state Government to compensate them for the losses they have incurred as a result of Gurjars' agitation. It is high time that such rowdy and violent acts are given the definition of sedition and punished with life in prison rather than the activism of one person to propound the cause of human rights even of a category we think are enemies of the state.
Aarti Khosla