I am happy that this website is bringing articles on corruption and other development related matters also. I would also like to add something in it. We all cry that corruption is eating our society like a termite but it is in our psyche. We all boast our nearness and position to higher authority and misuse contacts for the personal benefit. Nobody wants to be disciplined and work for the society. We have bad roads and who is responsible?

Madan Mani Dhakal

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Aaj Ki Aawaz

Did Rahul need to put his reputation at stake????
He did this by standing up for Omar is the ‘general take’!!
 
The majority opinion is Omar should go!!!
Rahul needs to elaborate why does he say ‘no’???
 
Omar has been a fiasco in the short time he’s been in CM’s chair!!!
No better in the long term he can fare!!!
 
And it would be prudent to undertake damage control nor or abhi!!!
Because it’ll be too late in the long term or tabhi!!
 
And not only sack him but keep him away from the Valley!!!
Behind a proven flop Rahul should not rally!!
 
Omar can then party in Delhi and also ‘wheel and deal’!!!
When he was a Mantri in the NDA Sarkaar he had a hand in many a deal!!
 
Robbing J&K was not enough…. Dill maange more!!!
Be it Delhi or Srinagar motive of Papa and Beta has been and is to fill up ‘apna apna store’!!!
 
In Gujarat Congress seems to be on a slide!!
With inflation basically Congress’s promises did collide!!!
 
Though Modi says Gujaratis have voted against his persecution!!!
Congress ordered it and via CBI was the persecution’s execution!!
 
By the way where is Pranab Da who too had prophesized inflation’s fall!!
Rather than fall ‘inflation is walking tall’!!
 
Mohna and Montek too had prophesized inflation tripping!!
Instead in a bigger way the Nation it’s gripping!!
 
With Obama coming in November Mohna has only his visit on his mind!!
Totally entrapped in this insiders say him you will find!!!
 
After all the President of the Nation he adores is coming!!!
Nowadays the US National anthem Mohna must be humming!!
 
Mohna is worried how he’ll explain the Nuclear Civil Liability Bill to Obama!!
After Advani did so there is a chance Obama too will call Mohna nikama!
 
Mohna will not raise the indirect outsourcing ban Obama is trying to enforce!!!
Mohna will say cannot do so because for Obama ‘Athithi Devo Bhava’ will be in force!!
 
M.S Gill says he knows all about Sports!!!!
Not true by recent reports!!
 
He pushed away a famous wrestler Satpal who is gold medallist Sushil’s coach!
Or in the ‘photo op’ he did not want the coach to encroach!!
 
M.S. Gill has proven he’s a clown!!
When in ‘CWG Debate’ in Parliament with his antics he tried to put Opposition MPs down!
 
Confucius says….when a CEC joins a political Party post his retirement,
Means as CEC for this Party he allowed rules to be bent!!
 
Adds….. a upright CEC would never get from any Political Party a ‘invite’!!!
They'd even abhor a retired upright CEC's sight!!

Bharat Kumar
 
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Kaun Banega CBI Chief (6) N Balachandran
Name of N Balachandran is likely to be included in the panel.1974 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer Balachandran has served the CBI for several years.
Usha Mathur to be new Secretary Parliamentary Affairs
Finally Usha Mathur is going to be new Secretary Parliamentary Affairs. She is 1974 batch IRAS officer.
( We said this on July 9 )
Sanyal to be Additional Secretary Food
N Sanyal will be new Additional Secretary Food. He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.
Rentala Chandrasekhar to be Secretary Communications
Rentala Chandrasekhar, IAS(Andhra Pradesh cadre, 1975 batch )is going to be appointed as new Secretary Communications.
(We said this on 13 sep 2010 )
Shashikant Sharma to be Secretary IT
Shashikant Sharma IAS( Bihar cadre, 1976 batch )is going to be appointed as new Secretary Information and Technology (IT) in Government of India (GOI).
Ms.Upma Chaudhary to be ED) Personnel, FCI
Ms.Upma Chaudhary is poised to be Executive Director (ED) Personnel with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) once deputation tenure of
present ED Personnel Ms. Anjali Shrivastava concludes in December 2010. Ms.Chaudhary at present is Joint Secretary Technology Mission on
Oil & Pulses (TMOP)& Seeds in the Agriculture Ministry.Ms.Upma Chaudhary is an IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre who belongs
to the 1983 batch.Ms. Anjali Shrivastava an Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IAAS) officer of the 1984 batch.
Mohan Kumar is new Ambassador to Bahrain
Mohan Kumar, presently Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India, Paris, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Bahrain in succession to Dr. George Joseph.
CITs transfer list on the anvil
A transfer list of over 15 Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) is on the anvil. Presently, the file is lying with Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Balachandran Thampi to return to Kerala
K. Balachandran Thampi IG in MoEF is going to return to Kerala early next month. Thampi will retire by the end of October 2010.
Chand appointed Director (Commercial) in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd
Central Coalfields Limited Director (Personnel)/ Director In-charge (Sales and Marketing), T K Chand has been appointed as the Director (Commercial) in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
Deepak Sinha promoted as GM in FCI
Deepak Sinha, Deputy General Manager (Accounts) in Food Corporation of India (FCI), has been promoted as General Manager and posted in Hqrs.
CVC indicts 15 officers of MCD
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has in July 2010 advised imposition of major penalty against 15 officers of MCD.
NIC to encourage all important sectors of economy
The National Innovation Council (NIC), while encouraging all important sectors of the economy to innovate, will take special efforts to facilitate innovation by micro, small and medium enterprises.
Alpana Sengupta is PSC Chairman in Tripura
Alpana Sengupta has been appointed new chairperson of Tripura Public Service Commission (TPSC).
Chinese companies to invest in India
Chinese companies are going to invest in highway projects in some sensitive areas in North-East.. India and China have agreed to work towards signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in highways.
A bureaucratic reshuffle on the anvil in MP
As the grapevine has it a bureaucratic reshuffle is on the anvil in Madhya Pradesh.
Ajay Pandey is Dean faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Ajay Pandey, Faculty (Finance and Accounting area) in Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, has been appointed as Dean Faculty for a period of three years with effect from August 10, 2010. Samir Barua is Director IIM, Ahmedabad .
MP Govt to move the Centre for Head of AIIMS, Bhopal
As the grapevine has it, Madhya Pradesh government being headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is going to urge to the Government of India (GOI) to post an IAS officer as Deputy Director of the AIIMS coming up in Bhopal.
Ms. Sushma Swaraj wants her dream project of AIIMS to do well
As the grapevine has it, leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Ms. Sushma Swaraj wants that at least two of the six AIIMS coming up in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh should do well. So she is quite keen that IAS officers were posted to head these institutes.
Ms. Pramila Sharan not to join WCD
Ms. Pramila Sharan, Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, Patna, who on central deputation was posted as a Deputy Secretary Women and Child Welfare (WCD), is now not joining WCD.
Tripathi takes over as Member-Staff Rly Board
V. N. Tripathi has taken over as new Member Staff, Railway Board and ex-officio Secretary to Government of India. Prior to joining as Member Staff, Railway Board, Tripathi has been holding the post of General Manager, Eastern Railway. In addition to his new assignment, he will continue to look after the work of General Manager, Eastern Railway for the time being.
(We said this on May 13, 2010)
Bharali is new Director in Oil India
Nripen Kumar Bharali has taken over as Director (Human Resources & Business Development) of Oil India Limited .
Tenure of Tripathi to end
Pradeep Kumar Tripathi's tenure of Central Deputation has come to an end. He is 1987 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.
JMM found saviour in BJP

As far as formation of the popularly elected government in Jharkhand was concerned, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has played the role of a saviour for Guruji’s i.e. Shibu Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
Why it was so pressing to have a CM in Jharkhand now?
It was so pressing to have an incumbent as Chief Minister of the Jharkhand government because the state had faced President’s rule for long & on expiry of its period, it wouldn’t have been possible to extend it further. Resultantly, state assembly would have been dissolved. However, if that were to happen then majority of MLAs of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), who are first timers, would have been deprived of even pension benefits. Thus, a coalition government
being headed by BJP’s Arjun Munda was formed in the Jharkhand.
BJP stands to gain due to its govt in Jharkhand
Political pundits feel that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) being headed by Nitin Gadkari stands to gain in neighbouring state of Bihar where multi phased assembly polls are to commence in October 2010, due to existence of a coalition government in Jharkhand now. However, it is difficult to predict that to what extent the BJP would be able to gain out of this situation.
Will Dandotia be Member of Information Commission in MP ?
Grapevine has it that head of Legal Cell of State Unit of the BJP Dandotia is being appointed Member of the Information Commission in Madhya Pradesh.
18 Sr. scale officers in Rlys promoted
As many as 18 Sr. scale officers/ IRMS have been appoited to officiate in JAG in Indian Railways. They are Harvinder Singh of NR, Seema Kumari of WCR,  D. Sitaram of SCR, Promod Kumar Singh of SEC, Joydip Mitra of CLW, Matangi Mishra (Jha) of NCR,  Joysima Gupta of E. Rly,  Dipendu De of E. Rly, Sarita Agarwal of NCR, S. Archana of SWR, Rafiqul Islam of C. Rly, Sanjeev Choudhary of E. Rly, Anindya Bera of SER, Deo Kumar of ECR, Tulu Sarkar of CLW, Anita Sharma of NER, Gopal Krishan Singh of WR and Brajesh Sahu of NFR.
Railway Transfer and Postings
Dr. Swaroop S. Rathaur of SAG/IRMS has been transferred from WR as CMD to ER in the same capacity and posted as CMD, Dr. N. Parashivamurthy of SAG/IRMS has been transferred from ER as CMD to SWR in the same capacity and posted as CMD against an existing vacancy, Dr. Celetina Dungdung of SS/IRMS has been transferred from NR to be appointed to officiate in JAG under DACP scheme with effect from 05.07. 09, Dr. PV Thanuja of SS/IRMS has been transferred from SR to be appointed to officiate in JAG under DACP scheme with effect from 07.05.08, P. Babu of ADMO has been transferred from WCR to SR in the same capacity, BN Mohapatra of SAG/IRAS has been transferred from RB to NFR and posted as DRM/Tinsukia, Ambrish Kumar of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from ER as COM(CHOD) to CCM on the Rly itself, Rakesh Saxena of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SCR, as COM to ER, appointed in HAG and posted as COM by utilizing the HAG element of the post of CCM/ER, Ajay Shukla of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SECR to be appointed in HAG as COM, GG Phulpagar of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SWR to SECR, AK Singhal of SAG/IRSEE has been transferred from NER to NR in the same capacity and posted in the cadre by making suitable adjustments, Arjun Kumar of SAG/IRSEE has been transferred from SER to CORE in the same capacity and posted in the cadre, BN Mishra of SAG/IRSEE has been transferred from ECOR to SER in the same capacity and posted in the cadre, RK Gupta of SAG/IRSEE has been transferred from ECOR to be posted as ASO on the Rly itself, CS Chauhan of SAG/IRTS, presently on deputation to RITES, has been recalled from deputation and posted to NCR as CCM (CHOD), GS Banerjee of HAG/IRTS has been transferred from NCR to WR and posted as CCM, NC Sinha of HAG/IRTS has been transferred from WR as CCM to SWR as COM, Sanjeeb Halder of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from SWR as CPTM to be posted as CCM on the Rly itself, SK Behera of HAG/IRTS has been transferred from SWR to SER and posted as CCM, A. Selvaraj of SAG/IRAS has been transferred from SWR to SR and posted in the cadre.
EC appoints IRS officers as ‘Expenditure Observer’ for Bihar polls
Election Commission has appointed IRS officers from CCsIT (CCA) Delhi/Mumbai/Chennai/ Kolkata.UP (E/W) as ‘Expenditure Observer’ for Bihar State Assembly Elections being held in 2010.

Minor IAS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh
There has been a minor IAS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh. While Arun Tiwari has been appointed as Secretary General Administration Department (GAD), Mohanlal Meena has been made Collector –of Raisen district, Dr. Manohar Agnani - Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission - has been assigned the additional responsibility of Director MP Aids Control Society and Kalpana Srivastavahas been appointed as Project Coordinator of Project Uday. She would, however, continue to discharge duties as the Managing Director of MP Textbook Corporation.
2 officers of IA&AS elevated to SAG
As many as two officers of the 1994 batch belonging to Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IA&AS) have been promoted to the Senior
Administrative Grade (SAG). They are: P.C. Majhi (posted in Raipur) and Ms. Varsha Tiwari (posted in Gwalior) .
V.K. Kapur Member CAT passes away
V.K. Kapur (IAS, Chhattisgarh cadre 1972 batch) Member Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) posted at Jodhur passed away in a train at Agra on September 18, 2010.

CORPORATE
Kumar is MD Quest Software Inc.
Quest Software, Inc. has announced the appointment of Shailender Kumar as Managing Director for its Indian operations. He will be taking over
from Krishnan Thyagarajan, who will be relocating to the company's head office at Aliso Viejo in California. Shailender has over 22 years
of rich and varied experience in the global software industry. He will be responsible for the company's business in India and the SAARC
region.
Aurigo Software sets up public sector practice
Aurigo Software Technologies Inc, a leading software product company providing solutions for Capital Project and Program Management (CPMS)
for Infrastructure Owners, Repeat Builders, General Contractors, PMC Firms and Ports worldwide, has announced that it has established a
separate public sector practice in India.
Bhardwaj is Director, Public Sector, Aurigo Software
Saurabh Bhardwaj has been appointed Director, Public Sector (India) at Aurigo will drive this practice and operate out of Aurigo's office at
New Delhi. Bharadwaj comes with over 10 years of experience in enterprise technology consulting across verticals such as Insurance,
Telecommunications, Railways and Public Sector. His prior engagements with CII, AIG and IBM give him the right mix of technology as well as
public sector relation skills to spearhead this new initiative at Aurigo within India.
Garg appointed VP Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Sarvdeep Garg as Vice President (Services) India. Based in Gurgaon, Sarvdeep will report to Vivek
Mohan, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s Services activities.
Singh is MD Ruckus Wireless
Ruckus Wireless has appointed Manjit Singh as the company’s new Managing Director (MD) for India & SAARC region.
Sanghai appointed MD (Global Banking), HSBC
HSBC India has appointed Sunil Sanghai as Managing Director and its Head of Global Banking in India.
Chaturvedi to quit Tata Asset Management?
Tata Asset Management Managing Director Ved Prakash Chaturvedi is quitting the company soon?
Fitch Ratings appoints Head (Asia-Pacific)
Fitch Ratings has appointed Brett Hemsley as its Head of Asia-Pacific.
ADAG picks stake in Trent Ltd
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group company Reliance Capital Trustee has bought 8.68% stake in the Trent Ltd for Rs 21.2 crore.
RBI approves appointment
The Reserve Bank of India has accorded its approval for the proposal by Karur Vysya Bank for the appointment of K P Kumar, as Part-time
Non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors for a period of 3 years with effect from September 24, 2010.
Sanghai is MD HSBC India
Sunil Sanghai has been appointed as Managing Director and its Head of HSBC Global Banking in India.

FORUM
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Over the last few weeks, I have read and watched a series of reports about corruption in the organizing of Commonwealth Games. It has pained me no end. Some of those things I have tried to explain but what has shocked me is the demand for my exit.
Each day there is a new disclosure and the chorus begins again. Therefore, I decided to confront the question head on. Yes, corruption has taken place in holding of the games. Trails of quite a few scandals lead right up to my door. So I will not deny it. But what is so surprising about it? What did I do that had not been done before? To see the outpourings of outrage everywhere, it would appear Indians are seeing corruption happen for the first time. Come on, let us shed that garb of innocence.
 Please come with me to the collectorate of any of our nearly 450 districts. Each one presided over by an IAS officer, the best and the brightest among us. Here you find people in their thousands waiting for such commonplace things as domicile and caste certificates. There are contractors waiting for permits to mine materials such as boulders and gravel.
My contractor friend tells me it takes 18 approvals to get one permit. Please try to get just one of them without giving a bribe or using a big name. The same goes for each certificate.
I could take you to the secretariat of each of our 30-odd states. Or to ministries in New Delhi where even bigger deals are made.
The story will be repeated on a progressively larger scale. Let us travel to any of the RTO offices.
I dare you to have a vehicle registered or transferred, or just pay your tax without going through a tout or paying someone.
Why, most of us have driving licences. I ask each one of you to keep your hand on your heart and ask whether you got it by honestly appearing for a test or gave a small fee to someone to get it for you. I also want you remember the last time you were booked for jumping a traffic signal or wrongly parking your car. Did you quietly pay your fine or tried to settle the matter with the cop for a lower amount? Please get me a birth certificate from your local municipal office in a straightforward manner.
I could say the same about courts but for the risk of being hauled up for contempt. I shall still suggest that you spend a day in the court complex of any district and check out the exemplary honesty and integrity with which everybody from peon to lawyers to judges work there. Let us then go to a PWD or an irrigation department office of your choice and try to find a road or a dam built with complete honesty. I could go on. But you get the drift, right? 
Somebody has thrown a CAG report on my face. Poor CAG has been writing such reports by the dozens about every department of every government at every level. I am yet to discover their utility other than providing particularly untalented reporters a means to live another day. The toilet paper in my bathroom finds better use than those reports.
It is the same with CVC.
And, ah, the media… How can I forget my friends there? Please ask them about the increasingly blurred line between advertising and commercials so that readers do not know what is paid for and what is not.
What editorial integrity do we see when interviews and features on movies appear sweetly timed with their release?
We had the scandal of paid political news during elections. I am yet to see an editor or an owner hauled over the coals for that or being asked to demit office.
No, my compatriots, it is not corruption in CWG that bothers you. If that were the case, you would have lynched every district collector and every RTO in the country by now. You have long made peace with corruption. You have become part of it when you could. It is brazenness and scale of my corruption that concerns you. That is the novelty element. If my team had kept itself limited to taking 10 or 20 per cent cut, you would be looking the other way.
The media would find it boring to report that.
What shocks you is that I paid Rs 9 lakh for hiring a treadmill that could be had for Rs 45,000. If I had done the deal at Rs 50,000 you would be OK with it. You do not mind people crossing the line. You mind them crossing it too openly. But you forget, friends, that once you allow crossing of lines you cannot set the rules for it. Also, I have only raised the bar here. Citius, Altius, Fortius.
Isn't that what having games is all about? Give me credit for at least that (though I'd prefer cash!).
 
With all sincerity (or what is left of it amongst us),
Suresh Kalmadi
Now, if only I could get Kalmadi to sign it…
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PS : I think what cheeses off people more is that even after all the ( huge ) backhanders is that such a shoddy job
has and is being done ; corruption aside the world is getting to see what a pitiful state of readiness we are in .
 
As someone told me many years ago in Bombay in disgust and frustration " Saab aisa hai , paisa tho sab khate hain.
Farakh yehi hai ki Bombay mein paisa khaake kaam bhi karvathe hain, lekin yaha pe paisa leke kaam nahin karvate hain ! " 
Same holds true for CWG and the world is watching - what a shame that scores of Delhites are fleeing the city fearing the chaos that will prevail. Compare that with the enthusiam & pride citizens in South Africa showed when they staged the recent FIFA WC !
 
No I am afraid Mr. Kalmadi , like many of our athletes , has failed the "Dope" test !!
  
Parvat Nanda

Indian Sports Minister M S Gill has shown in his conduct towards Satpal Ji what the world already knows and Indians must honestly accept that we are not a sporting nation. Moreover his misconduct has also confirmed the hipocracy of our culture of Atithi Devo Bavo. Hard realities but still Realities, HUM CHAHE APNA KITNA BHI GUNGAAN KAR LE.

Manoj Kumar

“India needs a Statesman-cum-Leader like Indira Gandhi !”

The news from the media reinforce the impression that things are not hunky dory 'in the Congress party as made out by their spokespersons. A war of succession is brewing within .At least, so it seems. Manmohn Singh’s sudden outbursts prove there is something more than meets the eye . Whenever Rahul Gandhi is projected as the future PM ,Dr Manmohan's knee-jerk reactions are usually vitriolic. His detractors (Read as Sonia's 'chaatukaars') raise the bogey of 'young Cabinet’. Dr Manmohan Singh takes no time to take a pot shot at them.He praises Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal and Sharad Pawar who are condemned by some Congressman. He publicly acclaims his retired aides without realizing its adverse implications on serving bureaucrats. In his own words, the present Cabinet is “more cohesive than that of Nehruvian era”.
Rahul Gandhi, the Congress General Secretary lacks grass-root experience, that renders him unfit, at present, to be PM, or even Deputy PM .I still maintain that he needs intensive grooming to restrain him from making impulsive and politically incorrect statement like the one made in Kolkatta that “the Prime Minister ship is not the only job for him”. This statement is borne out of frustrations. Our worthy PM is every inch a politician, despite his innocent look, which is deceptive. Dr Manmohan Singh has proved to be the most ineffective PM.
Perpetuation of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is bad; but what is the alternative? I do not see any Statesman-cum-Leader who is anywhere near the stature of Madam Indira Gandhi. May God save the country?
A K SAXENA (A retired civil servant )
CPMFs are neglected lot
CPMFs are really almost neglected lot. Firstly, they are deprived the perks and privileges of the normal state police and to top it up the Law and problems when worsen due to their deeds, it is the CPMFs which bear brunt and loose lives.
Yet another aspect is the leaders. At field levels these are officered by their own cadre officers who have the stake in the welfare of their men, but unfortunately at higher levels these are commanded by incompetent leisure loving IPS officers, who in their civvies reach the spots of action and segregate and isolate areas to show to the public and rebuild the sequence as if it was normal crime. Have you ever seen any IPS officer dying in any action or for that matter any DM/DC etc in performing their duties.
CPMFs must be officered by CPMF officers right up the ladder and then only will they get their due.
Ramesh
I am a bit amazed
I am a bit amazed at some of the standard of comments found worthy of publication in your portal. I refer to the comments on our PM that after Congress loses election,he should" lead the world as Secretary United Nations. Singh is King !".Are you publishing such frivilous letters as a dversion from the serious subjects being discussed?
N Krishna