I have been told by government officials - those papers not official/CBI at all- apparently from whispers in the corridors! BIZARRE!
Barkha Dutt in Twitters

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Vivek Sahai poised to be new Chairman Railway Board
As the grapevine has it, Vivek Sahai Member Traffic Railway Board is poised to be new Chairman Railway Board on June 1.
Cadre allotment of 2008 batch IPS officers
Cadre has been allotted to those Indian Police Service Officials who have qualified the Civil Services Examination, 2008. The details are as follows :
AGMUT
Jasmeet Singh, Ms Manusmriti, Ms. Monika Bhardwaj, K. Balaji, R. Sathiya Sundaram, A. Koan,
Ved Prakash Surya and Gaurav Sharma
Andhra Pradesh
Rama Rajeshwari R., Bhaskar Bhushan, Koya Praveen and Ambar Kishor Jha
Assam – Meghalaya
Shiladitya Chetia, Ms Amanjeet Kaur and Nimbalkar Vaibhav Chandrakant
Bihar
Naveen Chandra Jha, Ms. Harpreet Kaur, Narendra Kumar and Saurav Kumar Shah, Jayant Kant,
Babu Ram and Pushkar Anand
Chhatisgarh
Kamble Amit Tukaram
Gujarat
Vaghela Vishal Kumar Baldevbhai, Karthik Kashyap, Virendra Singh Yadav and Ms Vidhi Choudhary and Ms Baddipudi Vijaya Jyothsna.
Haryana
Rahul Sharma
Himachal Pradesh
Gaurav Singh
Jharkhand
Indrajeet Mahatha
Jammu & Kashmir
Imtiaz Ismail Parray, Shailendra Kumar Rajesh Mishra, Rahul Malik and Manavjit Singh Dhillon
Karnataka
S.D. Sharanappa, M.N. Anucheth, Shantanu Sinha, C.Vamsi Krishna, Borase Bhushan Gulabrao, Abhinav Khare, B. Ramesh, Iada Martin Marbaniang and Ravi D. Channannavar
Kerala
Thomson Jose, Srinivas A, Manjunath H, T.K. Shibu and Dipak Ranjan
Madhya Pradesh
Navneet Bhasin, Tarun Nayak, Amit Singh and Rudolf Alvares R.J.
Maharashtra
Anil Subhash Paraskar, Abhinav Diliprao Deshmukh, S Nirmala Devi and Prashant Vilasrao Holkar, M. Ram Kumar, Ms N. Ambika, Shashi Kumar Meena
Manipur-Tripura
P. Goulungmuon Singsit
Nagaland
Ms Priyanka, Vikas
Orissa
Brijesh Kumar Rai, Charan Singh Meena, Akhileshvar Singh
Punjab
Naveen Singla, Kuldeep Singh and Swapan Sharma
Rajasthan
Ms. Shaveta Dhankhar , Ms Preeti Jain, Ajay Singh, Yogesh Yadav, Pankaj Kumar Choudhary and Kuwar Rastradeep.
Sikkim
Ram Niwas Yadav
Tamil Nadu
Samant Rohan Rajendra, Ms. Bharati Hollikeri, Santhosh Kumar Meena, G. Dharmarajan, Sibichakravarthi M.R, J. Mahesh, Vijaya Kumar C, Durai M, P. Vijaya Kumar, Ms Vijayanta, Harish N., Ziaul Haque, Ms. Disha Mittal and Abhinav Kumar
Uttar Pradesh
Atul Sharma, Keshav Kumar Choudhary, Ms Neha Pandey, Rahul, Ajay Kumar Sahni, Pawan Kumar, Anees Ahmad Ansari, Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia, Shivasimpi Channappa, R. Venkatesh Kumar, P Dinesh Kumar, G Muniraj, Babloo Kumar, V. Ramparasath Manohar and Rohan P. Kanay.
Uttarakhand
Kundan Kumar
West Bengal
Ms Debasmita Das, Rupesh Kumar, Amit Kumar Singh, Nagendra Nath Tripathi, Akash Magharia Sumit Kumar, Rathod Amit Kumar Bharat, Awadhesh Pathak, Ms Anjali Ahuja, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Avvaru Ravindranath, Badana Varun Chandra Sekhar, Suresh Kumar Chadive, Nimbalkar Santosh Uttamrao, Sudeep Sarkar and P. Sridharan
Kapil Mohan’s name in Joint Secretary’s panel
As the grapevine has it, the name of Kapil Mohan reportedly figures in the panel for the slot of Joint Secretary in Defence Ministry. He is one of the empanelled IAS officers of 1990 batch & belongs to the Karnataka cadre.
T. Jacob to join GOI as Joint Secretary
As the grapevine has it, T. Jacob is set to join the GOI as Joint Secretary in the Department of Food later this month. Presently he is Principal Secretary (PS) Commercial Taxes & Registration with the Tamil Nadu government. He is an IAS officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to the Tamil Nadu cadre.
Taj Hasan is Joint C.P. (Security), Delhi Police
Taj Hasan has joined as Joint C.P. (Security), Delhi Police. He is an IPS officer of the1987 batch who belongs to the AGMU cadre.
Nityanandam transferred as Joint C.P. (Traffic), Delhi
Nityanandam, Joint C.P. (Security) has been transferred to the post of Joint C.P. (Traffic) Headquarter and Western Zone, Delhi Police. He will also look after the responsibility of VIP security route. He is an IPS officer of the 1986 batch who belongs to the AGMU cadre.
Vivek Kishor is DCP (Special Branch), Delhi
Vivek Kishor has joined as DCP (Special Branch), Delhi. He is an IPS officer of the 1999 batch who belongs to the AGMU cadre.
Kashmir Singh Joint Secretary (Naxal Management) goes abroad
Kashmir Singh, Joint Secretary (Naxal Management) has gone on a foreign tour for a period of one month. He is an IPS officer of the1978 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Ms. Kiran Dhingra, Secretary, HUPA goes abroad
Ms. Kiran Dhingra, Secretary, HUPA has gone on a 10 days official foreign tour .She is an IAS officer of the1975 batch who belongs to the AGMU cadre.
Issue about appointing CVC hots up
The issue pertaining to new Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) has hot up as tenure of existing incumbent Pratyush Sinha is to conclude in a couple of months.
One more post of Member falls vacant in UPSC
One more post of Member has fallen vacant in the UPSC with the retirement of Prof. Balguru Swamy whose tenure ended last week. Swamy is former vice chancellor of Anna University.
"CSI Selected ?
The Search Committee headed by Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia is believed to have selected Prof C K A Anantha,formerly of DSE and Ramesh Kolli ADG,CSO in the order of first and second for the post of CSI in MOSPI.
Rajkumar moves to Panama
Second Secretary in Pagos Rajkumar has been moved to Panama.
IA & AS officer S Prabhakar transferred
S Prabhakar, Assistant Director in the office of Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Chennai, is transferred and posted as Deputy Director (adhoc) in the branch office Visakhapatnam of the office of Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Hyderabad.  
Top-level secrecy over GM’s empanelment
Top secrecy is being maintained regarding empanelment of officers as
GMs in the Indian Railways.
DIG CRPF shifted to Tripura
DIG CRPF in Rampur, Mohammad Ahmad has reportedly been transferred to Tripura.
Mohanty is Information Commissioner Orissa
P K Mohanty has been sworn in as Information Commissioner in Orissa. He is 1991 batch retired IAS officer.
( We said this on April 16 )
Shailendra Sagar promoted as DG in UP
Shailendra Sagar has been promoted to the rank of DG in Uttar Pradesh.He is 1976 batch IPS officer.
(We said this on April 26, 2010)
1982 batch IPS get ADG rank
Three 1982 batch IPS officers, Mssrs Surya Kumar,V K Gupta and Ram Dev, have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Uttar Pradesh.
Virendra Kumar is back to UP
CVO Tehri Hydro Corporation Virendra Kumar is back to the parent UP cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. On return 1987 batch IPS officer Kumar has been posted as IG Public Grievances cell.
3 IAS officers to go on deputation to Jharkhand
As many as three IAS officers of different cadres have sought inter cadre deputation to Jharkhand. It may be stated that the Chief Secretary of Jharkhand & Secretary DoPT in Government of India (GOI) had separately sent missives to Chief Secretaries of different states seeking IAS officers for Jharkhand. Such letters were shot early this year.
Nitish Kumar’s “vishwas yatra” evokes a very good response in Bihar
The “Vishwas yatra” launched by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on
April 29, 2010 has evoked an overwhelming response. People are thronging to his meetings at different levels & at various places that he has been holding as part of his “vishwas yatra” .Nitish Kumar who will be spending a day & a night in each of the 38 districts as part of his "Vishwas Yatra”, has so far covered Eight districts . Districts that he has covered in two phases of his “Vishwas Yatra” are: West Champaran, Sitamarhi, East Champaran, Muzzaffarpur, Madhubani, Darnbhanga, and Sitamarhi & Begu Sarai.  Basically it is to ascertain how far he has been able repay the trust that was reposed by people of Bihar in the state Government that Nitish Kumar has been heading for more than four and a half years. Nitish Kumar who seems to be emulating Mahatma Gandhi. He is doing a vertical interaction at grassroots by talking commoners, teachers, students & anganwadi workers etc. He sets out in the morning after a breakfast of fruits & has “lauki ki sabzi”, roti. Dal & karele ki bhujia. Reports pouring in from Bihar have indicated that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar found out that the state was able to gain new heights in fields of health, Education, roads & bridges. However, public distribution system (PDS) in Bihar is still in doldrums while electricity needs an improvement.

RTI
Missing ACR
The applicant desired to know whether any action was taken to trace of his ACR for a particular period that was missing and whether any responsibility been fixed on the erring officials in DoPT. He also desired to know the remedy available to prevent damage to the career prospects on account of missing CRs of crucial period for no fault of the officer reported/ reviewed upon. The CIC learnt with dismay that not even a beginning has been made to  maintain the ACRs as per the mandate of the RTI Act. Section 4 (1) (a) calls upon every public authority to maintain all its records duly catalogued and indexed and ensure computerisation of records. The CIC observed that storing copies of these documents in chambers subject to frequent cut-off of electric supply constitute a sad and telling commentary on the functioning of a core area of India’s Department of Personnel, which concerns the career of all officers of what are sometimes described India’s elite civil services. Under Section 25 (5), a recommendation was made to the Secretary, DoPT to immediately initiate the process of computerisation of records in the ACR Division of the DoPT. The Cabinet Secretary was requested to reconsider the present policy, so that if ACRs are lost for a particular year, these will not be considered a mandatory requirement, for decisions as they are at present.

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While these orders were delivered in 2009, the state of affairs does not seem to have improved significantly. Perhaps, not a single person has been punished for delay in reporting/ reviewing of the ACR till date and the untold suffering continues.

[Shri Rakesh Bhartiya v. DoPT in Appeal No. CIC/WB/A/2008/00703 and
Appeal No. CIC/WB/A/2008/00379]
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Randhawa is new Ambassador to Tunisia
Parampreet Singh Randhawa, presently High Commissioner of India to Nairobi, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Republic of Tunisia in succession to  Basant K. Gupta.
Gauri Kumar to be AS & FA Forests and Environment
Ms Gauri Kumar is being appointed new Additional Secretary and FA in the Ministry of Forests and Environment.She is 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.
Anil Kumar to move Planning Commission
Special Secretary Power is not moving to the Department of Urban Development.1976 batch Nagaland cadre IAS officer Anil Kumar is all set to join the Planning Commission as Principal Advisor.

Tenure of CVO MECL,Nagpur extended
Deputation tenure of  Uday Borwankar, IRSME(90) as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL), Nagpur has been extended for a period of two years beyond June 4.

119 IT officers transferred
As many as 119 officers in the grade of Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax are hereby ordered with immediate effect and until further orders. The new postings are Sachindra Das - Guwahati, Bhaskara Reddy - Bangalore, M. Narasimhulu - Chennai, V.G. Irkal - Bangalore, Shankar Prasad K - Bangalore, S.P.G. Mudaliar -Nagpur, Prabal Chowdhury -Kolkata, Dranupbiswas -Kolkata, Nidhi Sharma -Kanpur, Rahul Dhawan -Chandigarh, Rakesh Kumar -Chandigarh, Amrik Chand -Chandigarh, Bhopal Singh Bist -Mumbai, Nilujaggi -Mumbai, Shivendra Kumar Gupta -Hyderabad, Rajeshwari N. Motwani - Mumbai, Rajeev S Kesarwani -Mumbai, G.Nantha Kumar -Chennai, subhrajyoti Bhattacharjee -Guwahati, A.N. Honavar -Pune, Mohan L. Naik -Pune, V B Sargar -Pune, K. Sadanandan -Chennai, Neil Philip -Mumbai, Balaga Kurmi Naidu -Hyderabad, Solgy Jose T. Kottaram -Bangalore, Esther Ninghauvung Hanghal -Bangalore, K. Mohandas -Mumbai, Praveena S -Pune, Nidhi Verma Singh -Lucknow, Rajesh Meena -Jaipur, D. K. Gon -Nagpur, Bhawani Shankar -Delhi, Vuay Kumar Jiwani -Delhi, Akhilesh Bidalia -Delhi, Arkenora Singh -Delhi, Ranu Biswas -Lucknow, Anita Suresh Hardasani -Mumbai, Ohule Kishor Sakharam -Mumbai, Om Prakash Meena -Ahmedabad, Neelima V Nadkarni -Mumbai, Sudha Ramachandran -Mumbai, Ms.Agnes Puthooran Thomas -Mumbai, Premsingh Bahadursingh Chouhan -Bhopal, Ashesh Rajesh Rewar -Ahmedabad, S.J. Koli - Mumbai, Suresh Lilaram Tekwani -Mumbai, Veo Prakash Mishra -Bhopal, Shailesh Thakur -Bangalore, Ashish V. Pophare -Mumbai, R.Mohan Kumar -Hyderabad, S.P Walimbe -Pune, R.R. Nagdeve -Mumbai, Ramu Kondu Dhadga -Pune, Mukesh Kumar Jha -Pune, A. R. Ninawe -Mumbai, R A Dhyani -Mumbai, K P R R Murty -Mumbai, V. Muralidharan -Mumbai, Ashok Kumar Koli -Bhopal, Gitesh Kumar -Bhopal, V. R Rao -Hyderabad, Dr. Mahesh Deoram Akhade -Pune, Antony Pariath -Ahmedabad, Sanyogita Nagpal -Ahmedabad, Suhas S Kularni -Pune, V J Boricha -Ahmedabad, Pradip Kumar Mondal -Kolkata, Dipak Kumar Mukherjee -Kolkata, Arvind Kumar -Jaipur, Anil Kumar Sharma -Kanpur, Praveen Kumar -Delhi, S P Gupta -Delhi, Mrinalini Kaur Sapra -Delhi, Vijay Choudhary -
Delhi, Munshi Ram -Delhi, Amrit Lal -Delhi, A L Prasao -Delhi, S M Sarfarazut Tadheed -Patna, Sapna Bhatia -Mumbai, Manjeet Singh -Chandigarh, Sanjeev Kumar Dev -Ahmedabad, Sukhjit Singh -Chandigarh, Sita Ram Meena -Mumbai, Sanjay Kumar -Delhi, V K Chakravarty -Ahmedabad, Shiv Nath Sharma -Chandigarh, O.P. Verma -Kanpur, Gl Banwari -Bhopai, Badicala Yadagiri -Hyderabad, N. Sukumar -Bangalore,
G.N. Bhat -Bangalore, Ajit V Thite -Bangalore, Milan Ruchal -Kolkata, H. Ananda -Bangalore, M P Ravindranatha Kumar -Cochin, V Swayam Prakash -Hyderabad, V Rammohan -Hyderabad, M. Jayaram -Cochin, M Naraya Rao -Hyderabad, Manhapara Lakshmi Bai -Cochin, K. Gireesha -Bangalore, P Suresh Rao -Bangalore, Sumit Kumar -Ahmedabad, Narinder Singh -Delhi, Laui Singhyadav -Kanpur, Yatender Singh -Delhi, Vachashpati Tripathi -Delhi, Anil Kumar Dhondial -Mumbai, M.K Jain -Delhi, Virender Kumar -Delhi, Rajeev Kumar -Delhi, N.D. Gupta -Delhi, Guru Bhashyam -Bangalore, Anil Dhaka -Jaipur, Chanchal Nag -Guwahati, Vrunda M Desai - Lucknow, A. N. V. Iyer -Delhi and Rajesh Damodar Menon -Delhi.

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Suman Gehlot promoted as GM in Taj Group
Suman Gehlot has been promoted as General Manager in the Taj Group. Duman has been posted as GM Hotel Ambassador in New Delhi.
Robmason IS new GM Oberoi Heritage Hotel Simla
Robmason has been posted as General Manager of Wildflower Mashobra of the Oberoi Groups Heritage Hotel, Simla.
Steven Kalczynski is new GM of Oberoi,Mumbai
Steven Kalczynski has taken over as General Manager of The Oberoi, Mumbai.
Discovery Networks promotes Rajeev Bakhshi as VP
Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has promoted Rajeev Bakhshi as Vice
President – Marketing for India region.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
No cheap gas for Anil Ambani!!!!
SC order will force Anil to reword his Gas kahaani!!!
 
As cheap gas is no longer available his power generation cost goes significantly up!
Over-floweth his woes cup!!!!
 
He had great dreams of trading in gas!!!
Because of SC’s verdict his dreams have disappeared or ‘gone up in gas’!!
 
Amar Singh in the olden days would have come onto the streets!!!
But Amar is in no position to repeat his feat’s!!!
 
Orange Caps (Samajwadi Party goons) are no longer at his beck and call!!
Barely he supports his own political entity which threatens to fall!!
 
Now the only recourse left to Anil is to take his fariyaad to Mama Kokila’s Court!!
Mama’s already thrown up her hands as per an inside report!!
 
Though there is another school of thought that says Anil's loss is notional!!
And Market is getting a bit too emotional!!
 
Its being said Anil has lost nothing as he himself was not fighting for $ 2.34!!!
He has to go back to the drawing board ... so there is more!!
Price, volume and term have to be renegotiated amongst a host of issues!
And as this was a fight of Lawyers too... Salve should send Ram a box of tissues!
 
After holding up the House on account of personal barbs today it was a walk out!
Opposition walked out …. shame shame they did shout!!
 
Congress is not bothered about reality!!
And so in the end Nation is the causality!!
 
I hear even Sonia agrees that Nuclear Civil Liability Bill is an unfair Bill!!!
But our dear Mohna is adamant still!!!
 
Seems in Mohna’s book ‘brown skin is way less valuable than white’!!!!
For him seems ‘white is might’ and ‘white is always right’!!!
 
As per BJP’s calculation as per the Nuclear Liability Bill an Indian life is dirt cheap!
American life in comparison is steep!!!
 
Indian life is valued 1/23 of an American life!!!!!
What happens if you are a Desi and you have a white or gora husband or wife????
 
Does this add some value to a Indian's life????
After all the poor Indian should get some weightage for a gora husband or wife!!
 
Sardesai of IBN tweets he's disappointed with BBC's coverage of UK elections!
BBC has not done what IBN does to 'trick viewers into making selections'!!
 
BBC has not been biased like IBN always is!!!
Shows one Party like a turtle and its favored one like a rabbit does whiz!!
 
He's disappointed with BBC's coverage and with IBN's coverage BBC must be shocked!!!
I feel with his tweet himself and IBN he's mocked!!
 
Confucius says.... when Media takes sides!!!
Lies it highlights and the truth it hides!!!
Flash..... Raja will soon become runk!!!
With every passing day he's becoming for UPA a skunk!!
His deeds stink to heaven high!!
And now all of a sudden in the evening to Chennai he did fly!!
Maybe now Karuna will take the high moral ground and say 'I asked him to resign'!!
Add 'And till he's not cleared Party work to him I will assign'!!!
The phone tap tapes have been the final nail!!!
Tapes prove this is one unique case where ' a Raja was on sale'!!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Constitutional safeguards available to bureaucrats have failed
While it is correct that bureaucratic corruption is rising and common perception about it, is not too wrong but one of the major reasons is that most of the constitutional safeguards available to the bureaucrats have either failed or these have become very weak...as a result self seeking bureaucrats and politicians are having a ball...
Suresh Kumar
Lack of qualified investigators in NSSO data collection
Due to opening up of new opportunities & avenues after liberation era very few people with good academic background join as Investigators in NSSO. Further those who join the service through SSC exam leave it after coming to know that future is blick & liability of All India Transfer. They have to spend 20 days in a month on tour especially in rural areas with small DA.
Data processing part is done by other set of people. They have no transfers and recruited by DPD itself with unfair means. Therefore these employees take this job as secondary economic activity and start their primary activity elsewhere. There should have only one cadre of Investigators for FOD, DPD data collection & scrutiny jobs.
As a result of this NSSO has become a top heavy organisation with no concern for reliable data collection personnel. Dr Pranab Sen gave the idea to collect some data through Post Office Peons. That has not been taken off but he is leaving the organisation.
While officers are put up in five star hotels for All India Conferences poor Investigators are trained without even lunch packets.
MoS&PI is the only Ministry of GOI of only Rs 20 Crore annual budget and not able to spend that money.
Unless there is mixture of Administrator & Statistician at the helm of affairs of this Ministry the dream of P. C. Mahalanobis will fade away.
RD

Encourage such Officers
Have read about Nitish Kumar's core team. We should encourage such Officers & their efforts. It is only due to this government in Bihar, positive image of state is flourishing.
Mihir Kumar
Well done SHAH Faisal!
Your stupendous success in the face of all odds is heart-warming. This reinforces the fact that given the chance our Kashmiri youth can do wonders. Militancy has been the bane in this jewel of india and the people there have suffered a lot. The success of one of their sons in topping the Civil Services Exam this year has brought some cheer to them as it has gladdened the heart of many of us who have lived and served there. I hope Faisal is able to fulfill his dreams about his state and not get disillusioned with a bureaucratic career which he has chosen over that of a doctor.
Aarti Khosla
Can someone pl define "Indian" ?
The Constitution says that "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states". Since the constitution has been amended so many times, I propose that some kindhearted(kind to India) Member Of Parliament moves an amendment to this definition of India as follows: India, that is Mahabharat, shall be a union of...(blanks could be filled up by appropriate expressions like states/lobbies/denominations/interests etc etc). While India is defined, perhaps Indian has not been defined. May be purposely! I have come across expressions like "citizen of India" "people of Indian Origin" etc in the Indian Citizenship Act. Generally each word is defined with illustrations in law eg a horse is an animal, which has 4 legs and used for...etc. Why the citizenship act left out the definition of "Indian" is little bewildering. May be I have missed out on the definition. In that case, I shall be thankful if someone please enlightens me. It has become necessary in a situation when India has been pushed back to the pre-Constitution times, specifically the post II- WW rule of the British Government on their Colony called India. We shall soon forget a young man in a hurry, who wanted to take India into the 21st Century even before its arrival! We shall also remember that it is none other than his dear & respectable wife, who presided over the Congress when this shift to the post WW-II was taking place. Her Darbaris (courtiers) will not allow her to think independently, but the fact remains that she alone will be blamed for this shift after bulls in the china shop have had their full run. Historians, especially the embedded type, will not hesitate to draw attention to her European lineage and blame her for devastating India once more. Can someone else take charge of the Congress Party and own the responsibility of the current decisions, which shall put India back to WW-II times? Or can she take on board some kind of a "working President" or an "Executive President"? The repercussions of certain decisions are not being realized fully presently, but that does not alleviate the consequences. India has now entered an era of not only the Haves & Have-nots but also the Armed & the Disarmed. Interestingly it will affect the world as never before, necessitating drawl of newer definitions of words like religion, creed etc, which in turn will give birth to newer political thoughts and forms of government. Unfortunately it is countries like India that always pay the price for such upheavals and specifically its poor citizens. Huntington might have visualized some kind of a clash of civilizations, but it will, in fact, be a reorganization of civilizations .
M L Gupta
Good gesture !
My, individual views are very favourable on the proactive aptitude which touches the bone of the Administration in Government of India. The interaction of of Home Secretary G.K. Pillai with the Under Secretaries and Section Officers of his Ministry is fabulously taken by majority of well thoughtful people, as a good gesture and proactiveness of the Home Secretary to revamp the administration if Home Ministry, especially, for the reasons that this Ministry has been looking after total security of the government in particular and masses at large.
I wish that all Under Secretaries to the Government of India and Section Officers under them may desired to have very cordial relations between them and their staff for effectively doing/discharging public duties with sincerity and devotion without harassment is felt the public dealing department from anyone. Rather, guiding spirit may evolve within the officers and staff when dealing with people for any jobs entrusted to them.
But, however, I, personally, feel, that most of the public dealing departments of the MHA are very efficient and cooperative in dealing with public with exceptions everywhere.
Best wishes to Home Minister and all present officers/staff working within the Ministry. They are lucky to have Home Secretary like G.K. Pillai.
H S Bhalla