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Will there be no NSA ?
If Home Minister P Chidambaram has any say then the post of National Security Advisor (NSA) will be  abolished. Instead ,there is going to be a new post of Advisor Foreign Affairs.
Who will be NSA or Advisor Foreign Affairs ?
As the grapevine has it, there are two incumbents who are contenders for the post of National Security Advisor (NSA). They are :Shiv Shankar Menon & Shyam Saran. Both are former Secretaries who had served in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The latter is Special Envoy in PMO
Heads of regional parties face turmoil of sorts
These days heads of nine different regional parties are facing problems. They are: Mulayam Singh Yadav – Amar Singh issue, Chandra Babu Naidu – Telangana issue Sharad Pawar – soaring prices of essential commodities, Chandra Shekhar Rao – statehood for Telangana, Laloo Prasad Yadav – crisis of surviving in politics, Ram Vilas Paswan – revival of his party, Bal Thakre – family feuds, Ms.Mamta Banerjee –ensuing Assembly elections in West Bengal  & Prakash Singh Badal – supported from the central government.
A breather for P. Chidambaram
In the wake of M.K. Narayanan National Security Advisor (NSA) having been appointed as Governor of West Bengal Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram has got a big breather. It’s an open secret that both were at loggerheads due to which the latter had taken direct command of internal security.
Neeraj Kumar poised to be GM, NFR

As the grapevine has it, Neeraj Kumar is poised to be General Manager  (GM), North Frontier Railway (NFR). He is an IRSME officer.
Yogesh Agrawal poised to head PFRDA
As the grapevine has it, appointment of IDBI chairman, Yogesh Agarwal,  as Chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is almost certain.
(We said this on January 7, 2010)
Mystery shrouds cancellation of extension to P.V. Bhide
Why the proposal for extension to Revenue Secretary P.V. Bhide was cancelled? This question is being hotly debated in corridors of power. Bhide is retiring on January 31.
Rajesh Verma quits CBEC
As the grapevine has it, Rajesh Verma Deputy Commissioner with Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC), who belongs to the category of jewellery appraiser, has sought voluntary retirement.
MR Nayak to be elevated as ED, Allahabad Bank soon
As the grapevine has it, MR Nayak General Manager with Corporation Bank is going to be elevated as Executive Director (ED) Allahabad Bank soon.
(We said this earlier & on December 5, 2009)
Union Bank of India to open four foreign branches
The Union Bank of India (UBI) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is M. V. Nair is going to open its branches in Canada, Belgium, England & Johannesberg. The said bank’s Sydney branch was opened in December 2009.
IAS changes in  Maharashtra
Ramesh Kumar will be new ACS Revenue. Satish Gavai has been made Secretary Social Welfare. Sanjay Sethi has been posted as Commissioner Industries .Dinesh Waghmare will be Divisional Commissioner Amravati.Rajgopal has been made Commissioner Cooperation.
Two new Judges of Allahabad High Court likely
Three senior Lawyers Mssrs Pareena Swarup, Rachna Srivastava and A Verma are likely to be appointed Judges of the Allahabad High Court.
Swaranjit Singh’s central deputation on the anvil
The name of Swaranjit Singh, ADGP/H.R. & Liti. (H) PKL Haryana has been retained by the Government of India (GOI) in the offer list. He is an IPS officer of the 1976 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre.
S Raman tipped to CMD of a bank
As the grapevine has it, S Raman, Executive Director (ED) of the Union Bank of India, is poised to be Chairman & Managing Directors (CMD) of one of the public sector banks.
ISS officer gets new posting on promotion
ISS officer Supriya Mukherjee, Director, NSSO (DPD), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Kolkata, has been posted as DDG, DGCI&S, Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Kolkata.
Deputy Director promoted
Alok Nath Das, Deputy Director (Ad-hoc) in the Branch office Bhilai of the office of Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Ranchi,  has been promoted and posted as Deputy Director in the same office.
PJ Thakkar is ED RGGVY, REC
PJ Thakkar GM, RGGVY in REC, has joined as ED RGGVY of REC, January 1,2010.
CBI scouting for officers
The CBI is searching for intelligent and dedicated officers for many posts vacant in organisation
Dr (Ms.) Alka Bhargava soon to join NDC course
As the grapevine has it Dr (Ms.) Alka Bhargava who is a Director in the Government of India (GOI) & is holding additional charge as Commissioner KVS is soon going to join one-year course in NDC, Delhi. She is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1987 batch who belongs to Assam-Meghalaya (A-M) cadre
Latest in BJP circles
There is a hot discussion in BJP circles, like Lal Krishan Advani who had used Govindacharya for coordination with Sangthan in the past, Nitin Gadkari; BJP President has deployed Sanjay Joshi and Bal Apte to coordinate with Sanghthan.
Arun Jaitley to shoulder dual responsibility
As the grapevine has it Arun Jaitley leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha may also become in charge of Bihar State. If this happens then, it will be a departure from the past that the leader of Opposition will shoulder dual responsibility.
2 claimants for the post of BJP chief in Delhi
As the grapevine has it there are two claimants to the post of president  Delhi Pradesh BJP committee. They are: Ms. Arti Mehra Mayor of Delhi & Vijay Goyal, ex-Minister of State in Government of India (GOI).
ISS officer gets new posting on promotion
ISS officer Debashish Guha, Director, NASA, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, New Delhi, on being promoted to SAG has been posted   as DDG, NSSO (DPC), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Bangalore
Former IAS Shekhar Dutt is new Governor of Chhattisgarh
Deputy NSA and former Secretary Defence Shekhar Dutt has been appointed new Governor of Chhattisgarh.He is retired 1969 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Former IPS Narsimhan moves to AP
Chhattisgarh Governor E S L Narsimhan has been moved as Governor Andhra Pradesh. He is 1968 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Former IPS Narayanan goes to West Bengal
NSA M K Narayanan has been appointed Governor of West Bengal. He is retired 1955 batch IPS officer.
Prabha Rau is now Governor of Rajasthan
Himachal Pradesh Governor Prabha Rau  has been moved as Governor Rajasthan  soon.
( We said this on December 14 )
Two Governors yet to be appointed
Governors in Madhya Pradesh and Goa are yet to be appointed

Avani Vaish to soon join as OSD in MP
Avani Vaish Managing Director (MD) of The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) will be joining as OSD with Madhya Pradesh Government in the last week of January 2010. Vaish is going to assume charge as Chief Secretary to MP Government from Rakesh Sahni who is retiring on January 31, 2010. Avani Vaish is an IAS officer of the 1975 batch who belongs to the MP cadre.
Haritash Gulshan  IAS is no more

Haritash Gulshan, IAS Officer of 2004 batch of Uttrakhand cadre met with a tragic end in a road accident. Haritash was well known known for his liveliness, friendliness and out of the box thinking .He had secured sixth rank in the civil services examinations. At the time of his death he was posted as Managing Director of the Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam in Uttarakhand. The entire batch has prayed to the Almighty for blessing his soul and rendering strength and courage to his family to withstand this painful situtation

RTI
Marks obtained in an examination
The Appellant asked for marks of the first and second year of MA of a student which was refused under section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act. The Commission observed that marks awarded to a person in any examination cannot be held as personal information since the process of examination is a public activity. Also disclosing marks of an individual cannot be considered as an invasion on the privacy of an individual, since the privacy connotes a certain attributes which are usually not displayed and have to do with the home or is information which is normally not shared publicly.
 
Comments
The view of benches has been varying on the issue of personal information. There is an urgent need for a Privacy Law which can define personal information.
 
[Mr. Sukh Dev Singh v. University of Delhi in Decision No.CIC/SG/A/2009/002907/6198]
 
Mrs . Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in)
Co-author of the book: RIGHT TO INFORMATION – LAW AND PRACTICE by Taxmann
(A new decision every Monday)
Singh to be Director (Personnel) SAIL
B B Singh is being tipped to be new Director (Personnel) Steel Authority of India Ltd.(SAIL).The PESB has reportedly put the name of Singh number one in the panel.

Salman Khursheed visits NBCC's IICA project at Manesar(Haryana)

Salman Khursheed, Indian Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, accompanied by Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD, NBCC, recently visited Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) Complex at Manesar (Haryana) being executed by the state owned NBCC. The prestigious institute being implemented at a cost of Rs.128 Crore for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, is coming up at a sprawling 14 acre land at Manesar (Haryana). The whole Institute Complex has been designed as a campus consisting of institutional building with basement and residential area with arboriculture & land scaping. Designed with a focus on integrated housing development providing all modern gadgets and facilities of a state-of-the-art building, the symbols of the upcoming institute shall represent human environment, technology as also design induced interactive spaces. The complex is scheduled to be completed by December 2010.

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Maheshwari to be President of GRASIM
K K Maheshwari going to succeed Shailendra Jain as President of Grasim industries in March.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Patil as Punjab ’s Guv and Chandigarh ’s Administrator …now that’s being mean!
As a total nincompoop Home Minister he was seen!!

Sonia should instruct Patil that he go to Chandigarh with a bare minimum wardrobe!
The real land scams he should probe!!
 
 
Soni will keep her trap shut!!!
In Punjabi they’ll say ‘hunn apna mooh khole gi ghutt’ (will open her gob less)!!!
 
Maybe now Chandigarh ’s future will not be marred by the local MP's games!!!
Patil should be  told ‘ please by the book apportion blames’!!!
 
Headlines say ‘ Patil’s exile over’….. wonder if its over or is he going into exile!!
Because he wanted to be in Delhi ‘in the thick of things’ all this while!!
 
There are rumors that he’s been given the ‘you could be the next President’ lollipop!!!
Then only I feel did his ronna dhona ‘ why me as Guv’ stop!!

With present incumbent from Maharshtra can they repeat with another one from the same State???
So Patil should have deduced that the present President  has sealed his Presidential fate!!

Narayanan as NSA proved to be both ineffective and also a hot aloo!!!
If I’m not right Sonia was thinking for some time ‘Naraynan ko kahaa mein daloo’!!
 
From ex Guv Gandhi Narayanan will be totally ulta!!!
And he’s going there with the orders ‘ Commies ko jaldi se sulta (deal with)’!!!
 
People like Mamtha have to be borne!!!
With a rebellious attitude they are born!!
 
Her pee-wee brain refuses to fathom that Mohna is the PM of this Nation!!!
And the Government in WB is ‘the people’s creation’!!!!
 
He cannot be childish like Mamtha and indulge in ‘katti and batti’!!
Seems with logic Mamtha ki perpetually hai katti!!

Madam Tantrum was born with a drum around her neck....but she's changed in one facet!
Now she'll not resign her Ministerial berth when in a tantrum state she does get!!

And by the way when will she realize that she's the Nation's Railway Minister!!!
At present she's behaving like she's WB Railway Minister cum every Bengalis Sister!!

Basically she has no National ambitions and her only concern is West Bengal State!!
As Railway Minister karr rahi hai to become WB's CM wait!!!
 
I agree with Balasahib on his call not to allow Aussies to play cricket in Maharashtra !
In fact this ban should be enforced in the entire Indian Rashtra!!
 
Though BCCI will not agree because BCCI’s only concern is the money it’ll rake in!!
As India cries at the Aussies BCCI will grin!!
 
This is the ideology of Pawar that BCCI religiously does follow!!!
For money pride and hurt one must swallow!!
 
Speaking of Pawar…. Inflation will soon reach double digits!!
And our Agri and Food and Civil Supplies Mantri just fidgets!!
 
Rumored rough estimates on the ghoos made on the food front!!
About Rs. 20,000 crores and fingers point at Pawar to be abs blunt!!
 
BJP after giving a call for Pawar’s ouster has gone chup or silent!!!
Only temporarily its voice to protest the inflation BJP lent!!!
 
And it’s only natural because within BJP there is turmoil!!
The ambitions of BJP’s top leaders are still on the boil!
 
Tharoor’s new controversy…. this one is ordering Missions overseas to buy his books!
This dolt has a ‘sugar Daddy’ or a ‘sugar Mummy’ in Congress it looks!!
 
Seems his ambition is to just tweet his was into the record books!!!
This is what it looks!!!
 
Confucius says….. India can do without this windbag who thinks on Foreign Affairs he’s ‘The One’!!
What would have happened to UN if the election in UN for the top job he’d have won??

Flash.... Jyoti Basu is no more!!!
I'm sure he'd written his own epitaph had h known what was in store!!

Jaitley says he was staunch on his ideology,
He was a liberal Commie is Digvijay Singh's Basu ke liye eulogy!!

Mulayam has accepted Bhai Amar Singh's resignation!!!
As of now in SP Amar Singh is w/o any Party designation!!

He'll not resign from SP till he's made alternative arrangement or intejaam!!!
Till then ...Rajya Sabha MP from SP will continue to be written after his naam!!!

Bharat Kumar

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Appoint Mrs. Nirmala Buch also
Now that E.S.L.Narasimhan of the Andhra Pradesh IPS cadre has been sent to Andhra Pradesh as Governor and Shekhar Dutt of the Madhya Pradesh (and Chhatisgarh) cadre has been appointed as Governor of Chhatisgarh, Why should Mrs. Nirmala Buch, the first woman Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh, not be appointed as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh
-Nitin Mankad, Vadadora
Increase retirement age by five years
Retirement age of Central government employees should also be increased by 5 years to partly cover up for the rising fiscal deficit. If they have got benefits from pay commission let them serve more. Why should the common man suffer?.
Anupam Singh
150 ex-bureaucrats serving in corporate houses
There are about 150 ex-bureaucrats serving in corporate houses in Maharashtra. A clear case for increasing the retirement age to 65 as is being done for High Court judges.
Rita
It is sad to see  Army Chief defending himself
It is sad to see  Army Chief, head of the million strong Indian Army, defending himself in the recent Sukhna Army scandal in a recent press conference. Where are our defence minister and the defence Secretary. Perhaps this is the first time since early 1960s that army has been driven with faction fights. According to rumours, it all started with the army Chief and the Military Secretary investigating into the age controversy of Gen V K Singh,the current Eastern Command Chief and the next nominated army Chief. Gen VK Singh ordered a COI  with his own confidents as members. The land involved is not an army land and the impropriety is giving an NOC for a school. When there is a NH passing through the Sukhna cantonment where is the question of security breach. This is what will happen when a non assertive (as Keralites know him a nincompoop) is appointed as the defense minister. Rumours say that defence purchases are suffering since minister do not want to take any decision for the fear of losing his’clean’ image. Now with his lackluster leadership Army is also getting faction ridden.
N K Nair
Do we need similar exclusion for Australia ?
There was a time when Indian passports were not valid for the apartheid South Africa.  We should think if we need similar exclusion for Australia.
Vijay Kumar
Retirement age for HC Judges is 62 years
You do not know that the retirement age for High Court Judges at present is 62 years and not 60 years as stated in this whisper...
P V Hathi Advocate
Appointment of Governors or Lt.Governors be from bureaucratic background only
I may reiterate my stand that the appointment of Governors or Lt. Governors in any of the states, should, preferably be from bureaucratic background only. He should, preferable be a retired IAS  or IES Officer not below the rank of MOS during his tenure in Government or next should not be less than to the rank equivalent to that of a retired Senior Secretary to the Government of India. In the betterment of government's functioning, Politician belonging to any party should not be allowed to hold the post of Governor/Lt. Governor in any state. However, it is the prerogative of Prime Minister of India/Government under the influence of the Party in Power. But I expressed my  views because in the past several years bureaucratic Governor is successful everywhere.
H S Bhalla
A very good observation on Law Ministry
The view of 'A Visitor' posted on your website on 15-01-2010 was some extent correct as many senior officers are filing appeals to avoid any action on them at a later stage. If the Law Ministry follows its minister's ideas to avoid filing of appeals in the similar cases, the image of Government of India as the  largest litigant will change which will  indirectly help a common man to get justice in higher courts without any delay. At the same time, the Government of India will assure all the senior officers that no action will be initiated against those who didn't appeal in similar cases.
Sankar
It is journalistic sadism!
The journalists and cameramen who took pictures of the dieing Tamilnadu policeman should be arrested for culpable homicide not amounting to murder for not providing aid to a public servant dyeing on public duty. What kind of journalistic ethics is this that sensationalism overrides human compassion? This is journalistic sadism!
D Choudhury