The only thing, which surprises me is that there are regular updates on Air India, which I have been patronising for more than 50 years, ever since my childhood, but in all such updates, invariably you mention the name of the CMD. Though, I have nothing personal, I do not even know him on a personal basis. At the same time, I find remarkable improvement in the services of the carrier, ever since, the present CMD is in chair.

BK Bhutiani

Contact-suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com> & <mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com>

IMAGINARY INTERVIEW WITH NAC CHAIRMAN-SONIA GANDHI

Recently my mobile has been giving me one shock after another. Yesterday I was shocked to get a call from Chairman NAC's Office:

Caller: Good morning… is that Mr. Bharat Kumar?

Me: Good morning….Yes
Caller: I'm Chairman NAC's Secretary and Madam would like to give you an interview. However, there are some rules by which you will have to abide. You will not badger her when she shows reluctance to answer a question, you will not reword the question she's refused to answer, you will not ask any personal questions and you will not ask any questions on Bofors!

Me: Isn't the last rule covered by the penultimate rule…… just joking… will try to abide by the rules!!

After a gap of a few minutes Sonia comes on the line:

Sonia: Good Morning

Me: Good morning Madam

Sonia: Please proceed with the interview

Me: Madam why during Obama's visit you kept yourself in the background?

Sonia: Moni….sorry Manmohan Ji was doing the needful and so I receded into the background!

Me: The perception is because US represents sheer capitalism and Obama heads a Nation that Muslims perceive as anti Muslim so you preferred not to link your name with this visit!

Sonia: But, Manmohan represents me!!

Me: Mohna Ji is going gaga over Obama's trip, doesn't this dent your majority minority and common man vote banks???

Sonia: Nothing of the sort!!

Me: I think this is where Diggy comes handy!! I asked Mohna ji this question too…… the timing of Chavan's and Kalmadi's sacking gives the wrong impression!!!

Sonia: It is not what it is being made out to be!!

Me: Kalmadi should have been sacked long time ago and Chavan should have been told to go when he offered to resign after this scandal broke out!!

Sonia: These are administrative matters and I'm sorry these comes under Manmohan Ji so please ask him. And I hope you abide by the rules my Secretary spelled out prior to this interview ….rule number one…. you will not badger me!

Me: Okay Madam. Now what about Raja?????

Sonia: What about him????

Me: It is very clear that he's caused a huge loss to the Nation!

Sonia: I'm not in the know of the details…. whatever I know is from the newspapers and one cannot react based on newspaper reports!

Me: Madam the perception is that Congress wants him to go but cannot because Raja is in Mohna's Cabinet not at Mohna's pleasure but at Karuna's pleasure!!

Sonia: Again I have to invoke rule 1…. no badgering!!

Me: Chalo…… isn't the Nation paying a huge price for coalition politics????
Sonia: Sorry please refer to rule 2 you cannot reword a question I've refused to answer!!

Me: What do you have to say about Sudarshan's statement????
Sonia: He should not let his love for detective novels impinge on his politics!! And no more questions on this issue… rule 2!!!

Me: Do you have any Congress leader who you can repose the same trust as you repose in Mohna???

Sonia: Frankly no!!

Me: Then shouldn't Rahul start the process of taking over????

Sonia: Here I am to blame…. when he was a kid I used to narrate the 'hare and tortoise' story to him practically every night!!! He identifies with the tortoise and that's why he believes in being slow and steady!!

Me: Though I'm flouting rule number 3 but 'steady' reminds me … is he following same story in his love life…. there were rumors that he was going steady!! When does he plan to get married???

Sonia: (in her Hintalian accent) Begani shaadhi mein Omar diwaana!!

Me: It is begaani shaadhi mein Abdullah diwana!!

Sonia: I'll give you leeway on this one…… I too want him to get married but he seems to have set some target before he ties the knot!!!

Me: Is the target that he will stay in 100 Dalit homes….. or he'll do a political Bharat Darshan …….. or he'll win UP…… before tying the knot???

Sonia: I do not have a clue about what target he's set???

Me: Tell me if you were given another chance would you like to relive this life????

Sonia: Again a personal question but I'll answer it….. in bits and pieces… never in its entirety!!!

Me: And now I invoke your rule number 1 on myself.... bye.... namaste..... ciao!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Meeting to select new CBI Chief inconclusive
A meeting to prepare panel of new CBI director remained inconclusive.Meeting was held on Friday.
Rana is new JS Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Rajbir Singh Rana is new Joint Secretary Animal Husbandry and Dairying in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IDAS officer.
( We said this on October 13 )
Ashok Das is new PS Home in Madhya Pradesh
Ashok Das will be new Principal Secretary Home in Madhya Pradesh.He is 1978 batch IAS officer.
Ms. Binita Thakur promoted
Ms. Binita Thakur has been Promoted as DIG CBI Headquarter, New Delhi. She is an IPS officer of the 1996 batch who belongs to the Rajasthan cadre.
Reena Tandon is Director MHA
Ms Reena Tandon has joined as Director Ministry of Home Affairs in the Government of India. She is 1996 batch IDAS officer.
Ms. Trishaljit Sethi goes for training
Ms. Trishaljit Sethi, Director, DOP&T, has gone for an official training at Ghaziabad for a period of 15-20 days. She is an Indian Postal Service (IPS) cadre officer of the 1990 batch.
Verma is Director Textiles
Yogesh Kumar Verma has joined as Director Textiles in the Government of India. He is 1991 batch IRS (IT) officer.
Rupa Dutta is Director Child and Women Welfare
Rupa Dutta has joined as Director Child and Women Welfare in the Government of India. She is 1986 batch Indian Economic Service Officer.
Gayagi is Dy Secretary Science and Technology
Niraj Kumar Gayagi is new Deputy Secretary Science and Technology in the Government of India. He is 1997 batch IDAS officer.
IA&AS officer Sunil Raj transferred
IA&AS officer of 1996 batch, S Sunil Raj, on return from his leave, will be posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (LBA&A), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
Ms. Simmi Chowdhury's deputation to end
Ms. Simmi Chowdhury, Director, Ministry of HRD, Government of India, will be completing her deputation period by February, 2011. She will go back to her parent cadre. She is an Indian Economic Service (IES) officer of the 1996 batch.
Four DCPs to be transferred in Delhi Police
Four Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police are being transferred due to completion of the period of two years. They are :Sharad Aggarwal 1997 IPS, DCP (West District), H.G.S. Dhariwal 1997 IPS, DCP (South District), Jaspal Singh 1996 IPS, DCP (Central District) and Shankaran Das 1994 IPS, DCP (New Delhi District).
Meena to join GoI
Rajiv Kumar Meena is going on deputation to the Government of India. He is 1995 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Security of IAS Academy with ITBP
Now security of the IAS Academy Mussorie will be looked after by the ITBP.
Next vacancy of GM, WCR to arise by December end
Next vacancy of General Manager (GM) in Railways will arise that of GM, West Central Railway (WCR) in December 2010.
SBI official Sengupta transferred

Partha Pratim Sengupta, Assistant General Manager, Regional Business Office, Malda, Region-I, Administrative Office, Siliguri has been posted as Deputy General Manager (Internet Banking), National Banking Group, Mumbai.
Second term to IIAS Director
Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla Professor Peter Ronald de Souza, has been given an extension for a second term.
IAS changes in Andhra Pradesh
D. Lakshmi Parthasarathy Bhaskar has been appointed principal secretary, Public Enterprises. Mohd Shafiquzzaman will now be DG Dr MCR Human Resources Institute.S. P. Singh has been made overall in-charge of the Transport and Roads & BuildingsMudavatu M. Nayak, waiting for posting, has been made commissioner, Guntur Municipal Corporation.
Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Tamil Nadu
In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle Ms. B. Maheswari, Joint Commissioner
of Municipal Administration has been shifted as Commissioner, Ambattur
Municipality and Ashish Kumar, Commissioner - Ambattur Municipality has been posted as Deputy Commissioner (Health) .
Justice Rao is acting CJ of AP High Court
Justice B. Prakash Rao has been appointed Acting Chief Justice of the A.P. High Court as the present Chief Justice, Justice Nisar Ahmed Kakru has gone on long leave.
CISF to recruit 15,000 personnel
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is going to recruit 15,000 more personnel next year.
Railways transfers and postings
RK Panda - Group`B' officer of Sigl./Telecom on return from Deputation, has been posted to ECOR, Vivek Acharya - SS/IRSME has been transferred from WPO/Patna to RCF/Rae Bareilly in the same capacity, Suneel kumar - JAG/IRSME has been transferred from ECR to Workshop projects Organisation, Patna, in the same capacity, Mrs. Pushpa Rani - JAG/IRAS has been transferred from ECR to NCR against an existing vacancy, Mrs. Aparna Garg - SAG/IRAS has been transferred from SWR to RSC and posted against an existing vacancy, D Ramaswamy - SAG/IRSEE has been transferred from IRIEEN to CR in the same capacity and posted in the cadre by making suitable local adjustments, Ashish Kumar - JAG/IRTS has been transferred from ECR to NFR and posted in the cadre, Bibhuti Bhushan Gupta - SG IRTS has been transferred from ECR to NFR and posted in the cadre, AK Shama - SAG/IRSME has been transferred from WR to DLW and posted in the cadre and AK Varshney - SAG/IRSS has been transferred from NR to NCR in the same capacity and posted in the cadre.
CCIT - I, Delhi gets additional charge
Milap Jain, CCIT - I, Delhi has been given the additional charge of CCIT - III, Delhi.
CCIT - I, Mumbai gets additional charge
PP Srivastava, CCIT - I, Mumbai has been given the additional charge of CCIT -V, Mumbai.
22 senior officers join Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management
Twenty two senior officers from 17 ministries of Govt. of India/State Govts of Maharashtra Rajasthan, Haryana, Pondicherry and three self-sponsored professionals have joined the fifth course of Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management that was inaugurated at School of Public Policy and Governance, MDI, Gurgaon, on Nov 11. Ms. Alka Sirohi, Secretary Department and Personnel and Training was the Chief Guest and Shri Ajay Sawhney, Jt. Secretary, DoPT was the Guest of Honour of this inaugural function. Dr. Arun Kiunar Rath, Dean and Professor of School of Public Policy' & Governance (former Secretary, MHRD, Govt. of India) is the Programme Director of this course.
Additional Judges of Andhra Pradesh High Court Appointed
Nadimpalli Rama Linga Nageswara Rao, Ponnuru Durga Prasad, Kallakuri Girija Shankar, Nyshadham Ravi Shankar and Vegi Suri Appa Rao have been appointed Additional Judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two years with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.
Railway's transfers and postings
AK Sinha of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from SR to ECR in the same capacity and posted in the cadre, S. Majumdar Group`B' officer of Signal and Tele has been on return from deputation transferred to SER, P. Balan of JAG/IRPS has been transferred from ICF to SECR and posted in the cadre, Rajeev Agarwal of SS/IRSE has been transferred from NER to NR, Anil Kumar of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from NWR to Workshop Project Organisation/Patna, Bal Kishan of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from Workshop Project Organisation/Patna to NR and posted in the cadre, A.B. Menhekar of SAG/IRSEE has been transferred from CR to IRIEEN in the same capacity and posted as Sr. professor, Pankaj Gupta of SAG/IRSEE has been transferred from IRIEEN to SER in the same capacity and posted in the cadre, Prem Chandra of SAG/IRSME has been transferred from IRIMEE to NFR and posted as CSO, SK Bose of SAG/IRSME has been transferred from SECR as CSO and posted in the cadre in the Rly. Itself, D. Kamilla of SAG/IRSME has been transferred from SER to SECR and posted as CSO, HR Sonawane of JAG/IRSME has been transferred from WR to CR in the same capacity, Saurish Mukherjee of SS has been transferred from ECR to SER to be kept in abeyance until further orders, A.S. Rao of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SWR and posted as CFTM on the Rly. Itself, U. Krishnamurthy of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SWR as CFTM and posted as SDGM on the Rly. Itself, S. Mohan of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SWR as SDGM and SR and posted as CSO.
Mallikarjun Kharge, opens ESIC's hospital in Karnataka
Mallikarjun Kharge Indian Minister for Labour & Employment had inaugurated a modernized ESIC Model Hospital (first phase) at Rajajinagar, Bangalore (Karnataka) on November 13, 2010. This Hospital is the first ESIC Hospital where work of odernization and upgradation (first phase) has been completed and which is now state-of-art Hospital comparable to international standard; to be opened for the ESI beneficiaries. As a part of the initiative for providing the best medical facilities in ESI Hospitals and to compete with private medical hospitals, ESI Corporation has started to upgrade and modernize its existing ESIC Hospitals, one of which is this state-of-the-art Hospital at Rajajinagar, Bangalore. This ISO certified ESIC Model Hospital will have a capacity of 500 beds. K.
Rahman Khan Deputy Chairman Rajya Sabha presided the function. The Chief Guest of the function was B.N. Bachegowda Minister for Labour with the Karnataka government. The inaugural ceremony had the presence of S. Suresh Kumar Minister for Law, Justice, Human Rights, Urban Development, to Government of Karnataka, Chandra Kant Khaire Member of Parliament and Member ESI Corporation Narendar Babu, Ms. Motamma Leader of Opposition Legislative Assembly, Karnataka, Prabhat C. Chaturvedi Secretary in Ministry of Labour & Employment to Government of India, Dr. C.S. Kedar Director General (DG) ESIC , Ramesh Zalki Secretary, Labour Government of Karnataka, S.K. Nataraj Mayor BBMP M. Nagaraj, Opposition leader BBMP. With the passage of time, Corporation now owns a huge infrastructure and provides benefit through 146 Hospitals, 42 hospitals Annexes, 1388 ESI Dispensaries, 1678 Panel Clinics, 797 branch/pay offices and 52 Regional/Sub-Regional/Divisional offices.

CORPORATE
Asian Hotels appoints Non Exec. ED
Asian Hotels (North) Limited has appointed P.S.Dasgupta as Independent Non-executive Director of the company.
Rustagi appointed Company Secy.
Kanti Mohan Rustagi, Executive Vice President-Legal, has been appointed as Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of Hinduja
Global Solutions Ltd effect from November 12, 2010.
Natekar appointed Head (National Sales)
Times Television Network has appointed Mandar Natekar as Head (National Sales), Movies Now.
Sabharwal appointed Company Secy.
Ms. Nidhi Sabharwal has been appointed as the Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of Visesh Infotecnics Ltd from November 08, 2010.
Gabrani resigns from Tecpro Systems
Dr.Goldie Gabrani, Whole-time Director of Tecpro Systems Ltd has resigned with effect from November 10, 2010.
Tecpro Systems appoints Director
Aditya Gabrani has been appointed as Whole-time Director of Tecpro Systems Ltd with effect from November 10, 2010.
Garg appointed Additional Director
R. C. Garg has been appointed as Additional Director on the board of Chandni Textiles Engineering Industries Ltd .
Dwivedi appointed VP (Business Consulting)
Marketing and Advertising solution provider, Flytxt has appointed Arvind Dwivedi as Vice President (Business Consulting).

FORUM
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Congratulations to Prithiviraj Chavan

The Indian Forest Service Association ( Maharashtra ) congratulates and extends a warm welcome to Prithviraj Chavan, on his appointment as the 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra State. The Hon' Chief Minister brings with him as enormous administrative experience of working at important levels of Government in the Centre. The Association hopes that his arrival at the helm of State Administration would usher in an era of clean, green, responsive and equitable governance in the State. Giving precedence to the concerns of urban and industrial development in the State has not been without a cost. The State's rural landscape and environment have suffered thereby stressing the already receding forest and water resources in the State. With only about 595 cubic meter availability of water per capita, the State is severely water stressed. It is about time to think "out of the box" and accord highest priority to concerns about rural landscapes and environment. Administration of Land, Forest, Water and Environment requires urgent attention at the highest level.
The Association assures the Hon' Chief Minister of its full cooperation in this endeavour.

IFS Association Maharashtra

Pak asked to reduce sugar consumption

Pakistanis have been asked to reduce consumption of sugar citing example from India which reduced consumption from 24 kg per person per year to 16 kg per person per year and Bangladesh which has about 12 kg per person per year

S Mandan

GCL to bring few modules of MDP in 2010-11

We wish to inform MDI and various participants/trainees from different walk of life that GCL (global college of law ) is going to bring about a few modules of MDP in 2010-11 inviting senior officers from various Govt Deptts/PSBs/PSUs focussing on need of hour during correction phase aftermath global melt down as to how to keep smiling despite unbound pressures vis a vis to reach the heights of glory of the organisation concerned.

After all the achievements only can open doors for vertical career. Pessimists say ," don't take tension and work only to limited extent-- promotion is not required. What a silly approach !

GCL has a distinguished vision and intends to motivate working executives thro' MDPs (03 days programme) to work and enjoy working with a systematic and aesthetic mindset.

GCL

Foreign Jaunts of ISS Officers

The Central Statistics Organization in the Ministry of Statistics has found another way sending officers on foreign locations for excursion. After all, they also need much needed rejuvenation from the excellent job done by them at work, notwithstanding the fiasco of National Income Estimates and Index of Industrial Production.

Peter De'souza

It is ridiculous

Every successive Government knows that it hardly matters whether Government servant votes or not? To say that Congress will lose the support of Central Government Servant if it does not increase the retirement age to 60 is something ridiculous and fool-hardy. What is the contribution of Babus in Nation Building?
I request the Editor to stop publishing such useless messages in the columns of whisperinthecorridors.com.

Radhikai

Let politicians not create a Constitutional crisis

M Karunanidhi the DMK supremo's sole raison d' etre for seeking exemption for A Raja ( 2G Bhrashtachaar ka Raja & DOT Minister) from dismissal just because he belongs to a depressed section of society, is indeed shocking. This seemingly innocuous statement has loud overtones that threatens the basic fabric of the Rule of Law in the country. No civil society or right thinking person will endorse this divisive approach.
This is the acid test for UPA-II. The Aam aadmi is looking forward to know whether the Congress party will compromise with a corrupt coalition partner in order to remain in power or will it jettison DMK's support and uphold the principle of "Equality before the Law", irrespective of caste, creed and religion. The Congress party's flippant response that the case is subjudiced and within the prerogative of the PM, is hardly satisfying. The Court has not stayed Minister's sacking. The CAG report submitted to PM is enough evidence. If no action is taken, the UPA-II will get badly exposed in the process. Apparently, means are not important for them; but, ends are !
Raja's assertion that the PM was always kept in the loop while deciding the 2G Spectrum allocation, raises more suspicions in the public mind than dispel it. Karunanidhi is adamant and so is his protégé. Does the absence of requisite action by the principle coalition partner mean that the Aam aadmi will be forced to say good bye to Good governance and learn to live with corruption in the times to come. After having suffered huge losses in serial scams due to DOT,CWG, Adarsh Bhrashtachaar of Mumbai and Pune land scams etc in quick succession, India cannot afford a mid-term poll, at present, due to massive expenditure involved and the security scenario prevailing within and from outside the country. It is high time that a viable solution is found jointly by the ruling coalition and the Opposition, keeping the national interest above local politics. Let India's eggheads unite and instill some wisdom into these opportunistic political alliances. Earlier it is, the better. Let nobody take the public for a ride by creating a crisis of confidence.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)