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Aaj Ki Aawaz

‘Kashmir’s wellbeing is its staying with India’ PC says!!!
Kashmir will not become like POK as long as with India it stays!!
 
With Pakistan or on its own Kashmir is doomed!
Kashmir became a Tourist’s Paradise and as an Indian State it bloomed!
 
How do you reason with people swayed by religious sentiment????
And more so when for nefarious purposes religion has been bent!!
 
Why has Kashmir been made into a Jehad or a religious war????
Which religious tenet in Islam are they fighting for???
 
Youth are influenced into this so called Jehad with ‘in Janat book your place’!!
This is religion’s ugly face!!!
 
And where Kashmiris need to introspect!!!
Themselves internally the Security Forces in the Valley need to inspect!!
 
Lust and greed have crept in and most cases have been swept under the carpet!
Whereas what was required was putting the culprits into a boiling tar pit!!
 
Raping girls fit to be their daughters or killing boys just for money and fame!!
These acts have given the Indian Army a bad name!!
 
So before Kashmiris are told ‘ staying on with India is in your interest’!!
First lets restore some trust!!!
 
What Shanti Bushan has revealed about Judiciary is worrying!!
It should have had the Judiciary ‘scurrying’!!
 
But seems we underestimate the Holy Cow status our Judiciary enjoys!!
The Law it should uphold but seems ‘the law’ the Judiciary ‘employs’!!
 
Litmus test of SC being riddled with corruption is Laloo’s confidence in SC!!!
With SC Laloo is Supremely Confident or SC with SC!!
 
In Punjab the battle for the top slot in Akali Dal is on!!
On one side is Prakash Singh’s nephew and on the other side is his son!!
 
With anti incumbency having an excellent record in Punjab State!!
For some time the ‘winner’ will have to wait!!
 
Unless Prakash Singh Badal anoints his son during this term!!
And into the CM's chair his son is able to worm!!
 
Power has given Prakash Singh Badal a new lease of life!!
Sadly that does not go for his wife!!
 
Badal’s ‘beta noire’ will be hosting the Brit Royals in Patiala… who will be at his side?
Will Parneet Kaur be at his side or will it be Arusa or will they be side by side??
 
Royals do not have middleclass values … they invent their own!!
And for his numerous wives Amrinder’s Grandad was known!!
 
The US market is running out of steam!!
And other Indices ko in gains Sensex ne kiya hai cream!!
 
So in effect Sensex and Nifty have risen the most and will also fall the most!!
And ominous clouds are gathering on the coast!!
 
Confucius says……. in stupendous rises in the Markets physics comes into play!
Equal and Opposite reaction is what Newton’s Law does say!!

Bharat Kumar
 
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Kaun Banega CBI Chief (8) Ranjit Sinha
Name of RPF DG Ranjit Sinha is sure to be included in the panel.1974 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer Ranjit Sinha has served the CBI for several years.
Finally IAS loses to IRAS ?
Infact, name of P D Sudhakar was proposed for the post of Secretary Parliamentary Affairs earlier this month.1976 batch UP cadre IAS officer Sudhakar is presently Special Secretary Corporate Affairs. In the last minute he lost to IRAS officer Usha Mathur on the ground that Sudhakar is retiring in January only.
Chanda to join GoI
Former Chairman of the Kolkata Port Trust Dr A K Chanda is all set to join the Government of India as Secretary. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
Kaun Banega Coal India CMD ? (2) 4 internal candidates
As many as four top internal officials will vie for the post of Chairman, Coal India Ltd (CIL).
Rentala Chandrasekhar is new Secretary Telecom
Rentala Chandrasekhar who has been appointed as new Secretary Tele-Communications will relinquish his charge of Secretary IT on September 24, 2010. Andhra Pradesh cadre 1975 batch IAS officer Chandrasekhar is the man behind all the IT initiatives in the country. He has succeeded P J Thomas who is now CVC.
(We said this on 13 sep 2010 )
Shashikant Sharma to take charge as IT Secretary on Friday
Shashikant Sharma, who has been appointed new Secretary Information Technology (IT) in Government of India (GOI), will be assuming his charge on September 24, 2010 . He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre. He will succeed Rentala Chandrasekhar.
Anant Kumar Singh to be JS Universities
Anant Kumar Singh will be new Joint Secretary Universities in the Ministry of HRD. He is 1984 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.
Commodore Subramaniam to be CMD of Cochin Shipyard
In all probability, Commodore K Subramaniam will be new CMD of the Cochin Shipyard. He is presently Director Operation in the Shipyard.
IAS officer found dead in Daman
J Rajamurugan was found dead outside his house in Daman.26 year old Murugan was 2009 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Das joins MEA as Under Secretary
Mridu Pawan Das (IFS 2004) has joined MEA as Under Secretary in UNP Division in place of Vishwas Negi (IFS 2002) who is leaving on transfer to Rome.
Paul Antony’s central deputation on the anvil
The Government of India (GOI) has in the offer list retained the name of Paul Antony. He is an IAS officer of the1983 who belongs to the Kerala cadre.
New CBDT- CBEC members in October only
Selection of incumbents as Members of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Central Excise and Customs will happen sometime in October 2010.
Why delay in selection of IGs in MoEF?
Why selection of Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers as IG in MoEF has been delayed? This question is hot topic of discussion among IFS fraternity. Reason for the delay is that DoPT has said that selection will be done of the basis of empanelment of IFS officers. However, lists of IFS officers belonging to batches of 1985 and 1986 are yet to be notified.
Maindiratta promoted as GM in FCI
Rajesh Kumar Maindiratta, Deputy General Manager (Accounts) in Food Corporation of India (FCI), has been promoted as General Manager and posted in Hqrs.
CVC indicts 5 officers of Ministry of Railways
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has in July 2010 advised imposition of major penalty against 5 officers of Ministry of Railways,
2 GMs in run for ED , NHB
As the grapevine has it, there are two General Managers (GMs) of the National Housing Bank (NHB) who are in run for the slot of Executive
Director (ED) in NHB. The slot has fallen vacant in the wake of R.V. Verma having taken over elevation as Chairman & Managing Director
(CMD) of the National Housing Bank (NHB).
Bureaucratic reshuffle on the anvil in Orissa
A large scale shifting of IAS officers in Orissa is on the anvil. Many Secretary level changes are expected to take place.
Ranjan is no.2 in  panel for SAIL’s Director Commercial
As the grapevine has it, Ranjan is number one in panel for the post of SAIL’s Director Commercial. He an Executive Director (ED) Transport & Shipping with SAIL.
Bank of India to have 5 National GMs
Bank of India is going to have five national general managers (NGM)
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) .
Prashant Nikam after MBA is Dy FA&CAO at Bhopal
Prashant Nikam, IRAS - 96 batch, has been posted as Dy FA&CAO, Bhopal, in
West Central Railway. He has completed full-time MBA from Cranfield University, UK. During his MBA, he won as one of the finalists at the European Business Plan competition held in Belgium.
Dr. Sagar Preet Hooda gets cadre clearance
Name of Dr.Sagar Preet Hooda Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police has been cleared for posting on central deputation in the Government of India (GOI).
He is an IPS officer of the 1997 batch who belongs to the UT cadre.
CRPF Wives Association organizes photo exhibition
CRPF Wives' Welfare Association organised a Photo Exhibition of its activities at the India Habitat Center (IHC) in New Delhi.The exhibition was well appreciated by the IHC members.CWWA President Soni Shrivastav during the event.
Transfer list of CITs very soon
As many as 20 Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) will be transferred very soon.
DPC for promotion of Dy CITs going on
DPC for promotion of Deputy Commissioners of Income Tax as Joint Commissioners of Income Tax is currently going on. Altogether 385
officers fall in the zone of consideration.
153 officials promoted as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax
As many as 153 officials have been promoted as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax and given fresh postings. They are K. Sandhya Rani (SC) has been promoted and retained in AP Region, D. Rasadarao(SC) has been promoted and transferred from AP to Pune, V Jeevala Naik (ST) from AP to Chennai, G. V. Satyanarayana Murthy - retained in AP, Baij Nath Singh from Bihar to Mumbai, Tapan Kumar Biswas (SC) - Bihar to West Bengal, Vishnu Mahato (SC) - Bihar to MP & Cg, A.E.P. Dukuria (ST) from Bihar to West Bengal, Mritunjay Prasad Dwivedi - Bihar to UP(W), Nirmalya Chandra Roy - retained in Bihar, Jagveer Singhnagar - retained in Delhi, Sanjay Gossain - retained in Delhi, Shiv Nandan Kaul - retained in Delhi, Uma Kant(SC) from Delhi to UP(W), Anil Rumar Dang - retained in Delhi, S N Meena (ST) - Delhi to NWR, Raghubir Singh (SC) - retained in Delhi, Jitender Chand - retained in Delhi, Mahesh Kumar Shairwal (SC) - Delhi to UP(W), R K Topiwala, retained in Gujarat, K. C. Solomon – Gujarat to Pune, R. H. Sharma – Gujarat to Rajasthan, V.N. Trivedi - Gujarat to Rajasthan, A D Wadhwan - Gujarat to Rajasthan, S K Jain - Gujarat to Rajasthan, Y. R. Raval - Gujarat to Rajasthan, S M Josh - Gujarat to Rajasthan, R K Madanlal - Gujarat to Mumbai, N J Vyas - Gujarat to Rajasthan, P Ravindran – retained in Gujarat, BD Gupta – retained in Gujarat, G B Mehta - Gujarat to Pune, R B Gohil - Gujarat to Karnataka, Shibaji Simlai – retained in Gujarat, N C Desai – retained in Gujarat, G M Patel - retained in Gujarat, Dilip K Shah – Gujarat to Mumbai, Y S Meena (ST) retained in Gujarat, Mahesh Kumar B Patel (ST) - retained in Gujarat, Shambhulal Katara (ST) - retained in Gujarat, Ramesh Kumar-L Sadhu (SC) - retained in Gujarat, Umathy Venkatraman - retained in Karnataka, K Lakshmi - retained in Karnataka, H C Ganga Chikkaia (SC) - retained in Karnataka, Vasu Surendran – Karnataka to Tamil Nadu, R Nagarathna - retained in Karnataka, S Nataraj (Jr) – Karnataka to Kerala, Nirmala - retained in Karnataka, Vasanthi Ashokan (SC) - K. R. Somasundaram - retained in Kerala, Ramesh Shahdadpuri - retained in MP & Cg, R K Padgill(ST) - retained in MP & Cg, G C Nandanwar (ST) - retained in MP & Cg, N.Barwa (ST) - retained in MP & Cg, A. M, Jadhav (SC) – Mumbai to Nagpur, Brajabandhu Nahak (SC) - retained in Mumbai, Kamalakar Jayaram Sankhe (ST) - retained in Mumbai, Hoshang Boman Irani - retained in Mumbai, Rajashwari R Menon – Mumbai to Pune, Madhukarj Chordekar(ST) - retained in Mumbai, Mangeshkeshav Dalal - retained in Mumbai, Suhas J. Mistry (ST) – Mumbai to Nagpur, G J Ninawe (ST)- Mumbai to Nagpur, Kamalkar D Ayare (SC) – Mumbai to Nagpur, Jolly Rajinder Pal (SC) – Mumbai to NWR, Tarun Chandra Das (SC) - retained in NER, Devendra P Shrivastav – Nagpur to MP&Cg, M.N. Bhaskara Rao - retained in Nagpur, N.V. Kumbhare (ST) - retained in Nagpur, J.A Kadloor – Nagpur to NADT Nagpur, C.S. Pojge - Nagpur to NADT Nagpur, Farrukh Shehzad – Nagpur to MP & Cg, P D Tanwar(SC) – retained in NWR, Rajiv Kishan Gubgotra – retained in NWR, R.K. Jain – NWR to UP(W), Gurbachan Singh (SC) – NWR to Rajasthan, Vipual Kashyap – NWR to Rajasthan, Ved Pal Singh (SC) – NWR to Rajasthan, Vijay Kumar Kataria (SC) – NWR to UP(W), Sewa Singh – retained in NWR, Devinder Singh Rathi – NWR to Delhi, Jagdish Singh Dahiya – NWR to UP(W), G.P. Singh – NWR to Delhi, B.C.Bhoi – retained in Orissa, R.N. Nayak (ST) – retained in Orissa, Seva Ram Sharma – Pune to Nagpur, Dhananjay Keshav Mahajan - Pune to Nagpur, Deba Brata Dutta – Rajasthan to Gujarat, Subhashchandra Kharra – retained in Rajasthan, Rohit Asudani – Rajasthan to Mumbai, J M Jamuna Devi (SC) – retained in Tamil Nadu, R. Krishnamurthy (SC) – retained in Tamil Nadu, C Manickam (SC) – retained in Tamil Nadu, M. Perumal (ST) – retained in Tamil Nadu, D Venugopal (ST) – retained in Tamil Nadu, A. Vijaykumar (ST) - retained in Tamil Nadu, S. Chandrasekaran - retained in Tamil Nadu, Aruna Bhagawathy - retained in Tamil Nadu, M. Lakshmanan - retained in Tamil Nadu, V. Meganathan (SC) - retained in Tamil Nadu, R. Sivakumar (SC) - Tamil Nadu to Kerala, D A Premaraja (SC) - retained in Tamil Nadu, A. Harikrishnan - Tamil Nadu to Kerala, Chandrakishore Singh - UP East to Delhi, Arun Kumar (SC) - UP East to UP(W), A K Dubey - UP East to West Bengal, D K Srivastava - UP East to UP(W), K D Bhatt (ST) - UP East to UP (W), Kailashnath (SC) - retained in U P East, Laljee Prasad(SC) - U P East to UP(W), Sant Prakash(SC) - U P East to UP(W), Guman Singh Negi(ST) - UP West to NWR, U K Sonkar (SC) - U P West to NWR, Naresh Kumar Goyal - UP West to Gujarat, Mayank Kumar - retained in UP West, Satish Chandra - UP West to Bihar, Shankar Gupta - U P West to Delhi, Shambhu Dayal (SC) - UP West to NWR, Anil Kumar Lubana (SC) - UP West to NWR, Raja Ghosh - West Bengal to NER, Manoj Kumar Singh - West Bengal to NWR, Avij1t Mishra - West Bengal to NER, Pradip K. Biswas (SC) - West Bengal to Bihar, Panna Roy (SC) - retained in West Bengal, Rabindra Nath Ray (SC) - retained in West Bengal, Dr. Amal Krishna Mandal(SC) - West Bengal to Bihar, Ram Pyare Ram (SC) - West Bengal to Bihar, Kapil Mandal(SC) - West Bengal to Orrisa, Kushal Chandra Tudu (ST) - retained in West Bengal, Amitava Sen - retained in West Bengal, Abhij1t Adhikar1 - retained in West Bengal, S.K. Iusup Ali - West Bengal to Orissa, Swapan Kumar Bera - retained in West Bengal, Ayanta Khanra (SC) - West Bengal to Orissa, Madhumita Das (SC) - retained in West Bengal, Utpal Barai (SC) - West Bengal to Bihar, Pijush Kanti Kabasi - retained in West Bengal, Anil Kabiraj (SC) - West Bengal to NER, Jibanta Kumar Das - West Bengal to NER, Sankar N Askar (SC) - West Bengal to Rajasthan, Malay Kumar Biswas (SC)- retained in West Bengal, Perna Lhamo Dukpa (ST) - retained in West Bengal, Lhendup Dorjee Lepcha (ST) - retained in West Bengal, Debadatta Raut - West Bengal to NER, Phanus Sada(ST) - West Bengal to NER, Joseph Soren (ST) - retained in West Bengal, Nima Tshering Sherpa (ST) - West Bengal to NER, Norbu Bhutia (ST) - West Bengal to NER, Rani Lama (ST) - retained in West Bengal, Jnan Singh Basumata (ST) - retained in West Bengal, Udayan Sardar (ST) - retained in West Bengal, Gurudas Mondal (SC) - retained in West Bengal, Dinabandhu Pandey (SC) - West Bengal to Bihar.

CORPORATE
Mehan is CEO Coromandel International 
Kapil Mehan has joined Coromandel International Ltd  as Chief Executive Officer effective from September 20, 2010.
Nath is Addl. Director, Aksh Optifibre 
Amrit Nath has been appointed as Additional Independent Non-Executive Director of Aksh Optifibre Ltd. 
Kumar to be Part-time Chairman
The Board of  Karur Vysya Bank Limited has accorded its approval for 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. 
Chembond Chemicals appoints Alternate Director
Chembond Chemicals has appointed Sharad Mahadik as Alternate Director to Ashwin Nagarwadia.
Shipping Corporation of India delivers Havildar Abdul Hamid, PVC
Shipping Corporation of India has given physical delivery of its crude oil carrier M.T. Havildar Abdul Hamid, PVC to its buyer
Sodhi quits Balaji Telefilms as CEO
Uday Sodhi, Chief Executive Officer - New Media, of  Balaji Telefilms Ltd in the Internet and Mobile space, has resigned from the Company.
Sukumar quits Mangalore Refinery 
B. Sukumar has been relieved from the company as Company Secretary of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd
Jet Airways gets award
Jet Airways  has been awarded with 'Best Full Service Airline - International (Indian) and 'Best Full Service Airline - Domestic' Awards by The Air Passengers Association of India (APAI).
Tata Motors plans new Nano variant
Tata Motors is planning to offer its customers Nano Plus, a new variant in 2011.
Fortis Healthcare directors retire
Fortis Healthcare directors Ramesh L Adige and V M Bhutani have retired from their post.
ONGC releases ‘Assured’ Sustainability Report for FY’10
The first ‘Sustainability Report’ of ONGC, released by the Executive Committee of the Board, pertaining to the period from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010 coinciding with FY’10, covers ONGC’s domestic exploration and production operations at onshore and offshore (excluding joint ventures and subsidiaries). This Sustainability Report, released last week, is unique in terms of its comprehensive coverage and assurance standards while its validity against the best global standard gives the highest credibility to the report. There are over 750 organizations globally who have published their sustainability reports in 2010 of which five are Indian companies. With its first externally assured sustainability report, based on the reporting principles and methodology given in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2006, ONGC now enters this select group of organizations with voluntary and assured non-financial reporting.

FORUM
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Whisper has provided Forum
Thanks for your unique efforts. Whisper has provided us a Forum for highlighting corruption, mismanagement and other public issues for which we have no other legitimate forum. Therefore, it becomes our responsibility to maintain high standard, fairness and balance in our submission. In many cases, your coverage ends up in creating whispers only. To convert the Forum into a weapon against corruption and mismanagement, it has to approach the competent authority for their views and action plan on the issues raised. For example, when the issue of mismanagement at National Academy of Statistical Administration (NASA) was raised by Sanjeevan on 16.09.2010, the views of the NASA head or the head of the Ministry controlling NASA, i.e., (MOS&PI) should also have been taken and published on the same day or the next day. Alternatively, whisper can forward a copy of the cases to concerned ministries for necessary feedback and action. In a democracy, every public authority too should get fair chance and no public authority should be allowed to be unaccountable for the lapses.
 (A.K. Verma) Secretary, ISS Association EZ,Kolkata

It is horrifying
It is not only the infra structure and core ministries that are faced with corruption. Most horrifying is the level of corruption in the social sector, such as the Ministry of Health and FW.
Sanjay

Unilateral transfers
I am working as a Grade D Stenographer in Ministry of Agriculture. I am eagerly waiting for the unilateral transfer to my Home State i.e. Andhra Pradesh. Now a Grapevine in the corridors in the Ministry of Finance is about lifting the ban on unilateral transfer in the Department of Revenue (CBDT). Please look in this also. Because from the last one decade thousands of families are dispersed with this ban on unilateral transfer.
G V Pawan Kumar

"Pakistan's Establishment Secretary faces CJ's ire for obeying the political masters?"
Oh God, what a coincidence? The mindset of Pakistani bureaucracy is as perverted as that of their Sub-continental cousin, the Indian bureaucracy. There is so much commonality in the degree of their pliability, flexibility and high sense of obedience to their political Masters. May the God save the two Sub-continental cousins from their corrupt politicians!!!
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Pitiable condition of LDC/UDC
I would like to raise our voice in your esteem website and want to draw the attention of Ministry of Finance and Dop&T about the pitiable condition of LDC/UDC. Over the years, the scale of pay of various posts have been upgraded from time-to-time but the scale of LDC/UDc have not been revised/upgraded since 1959.Even though the minimum recruitment qualifications for the post is not 10+2 with computer typing. In the present day context, the candidates with minimum qualification of Graduation compete the examination. It was expected that the 6th CPC will upgrade their salary. However, no improvement has been made. we urge to competent authority to consider the matter of GP for LDC/UDC as earliest.
Prabhakar Mishra

Quotation of the Day:
"I am not supposed to take dictation. I am...gazetted officer i.e. US/DS/Dir. I am to attend telephones only and give instruction to admin if my officer(JS or AsS level) wants something. Real work is the work of Steno D/PA and to some extent PS. Because we are PPS/Sr.PPS/PSO. DOPT has no business to interfere in our freedom.
Rajiv PPS
V K Kapoor

Shocked
I am shocked to learn of the sudden demise of V K Kapoor. I remember him as a lovable and considerate person.

I recall that I attended his wedding at Shivpuri when he was posted there as District Collector. I was his Commissioner at Gwalior.
How he danced at his own wedding is one of my fond and vivid memories!
I pray that his soul rests in peace and God gives strength to his family memebers to bear this irreparable loss.
P K Lahiri

Adhocism in IRS (C&CE) is manmade
The adhocism in IRS(C&CE) due to non finalisation of seniority list of group 'A' is wholly manmade. No where else does one find seniority being given from the date of UPSC results as is being given for Customs Appraisers (directly appointed by UPSC). also no where else will one find Direct Recruits (here directly recruited Customs Appraisers) being given slots more than their quota than the promotees. No where else will one find the whole administrative set up of a department or ministry [starting from Under Secretary(Admin), Deputy Secretary(Legal), Joint Secretary(Admin) and Member(Personnel)] engaged in perpetuating the mischief like in the case of Customs Appraisers. So the end result is non finalisation of seniority list of Customs Appraisers since 1961!!!!!! So accordingly non finalisation of IRS(C&CE) for which Customs Appraisers is one of the feeder cadres. Reasons are too well known. There have been numerous court judgements which go unimplemented. Perhaps Indian judiciary and Customs Administration finds the issue of seniority of Customs Appraisers more vexing than even the Ayodhya case!!!!!! The last IRS(C&CE) seniority list of 2002 was tinkered mischievously and promotions to all levels in the IRS(C&CE) goes on in adhoc fashion.
S N Prasad

We need a leader like Indira Gandhi
There is a lot of commonalities in the on going strife in Kashmir and the Maoist problem being faced elsewhere. Both point out to an unjust governance. In the latter case Maoists are exploiting the sense of frustration amidst the tribals and in the former, paid Pakistani agents are utilizing the frustration caused in Kashmiris due to the lack of Governance by Omar Abdullah and company. That is why they direct the agitations against the Army. Being a border state Kashmir requires immediately a two pronged policy. For better governance and instill confidence in Kashmiris, Omar should be replaced with a more experienced, acceptable and able leader(not his father Faroukh).Tough measures should be taken against Paki paid organizations like Hurriet. Their leaders like Jilani and Miwaiz should be arrested and sent to jails in South India .No where in any other country that an anti-national minority is allowed to brow beat an elected Government as we see in Kashmir. But for taking such action we need a leader like Indira Gandhi. Fact is that we lack it.
Naveen K

Forget the Kalmadis, think of Sridharans

Let us forget the Kalmadis of India and think of Sridharans. The sad part is while we may find the first category everywhere, people like Sridharan are hard to find. The way Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has delivered is remarkable. DMRC works like a highly professional and motivated body with its Managing Director providing exemplary leadership. But then there are bad fish in all the organisations. Sexual harassment case of a lady officer by his senior as recently reported is a blot on the fair name of the corporation. The officer guilty of this should not go unpunished. This brings us to the general question of sexual harassment at workplace which continues to take place inspite of the Supreme Court's guidelines in the judgement in Vishakha's case in the year 1997.Supreme Court had held that the incident of sexual harassment at work is violative of the fundamental rights of gender equality and the right to life and liberty and is an attack on women's right to dignity. It has been noticed that the committee appointed to look into any complaint, even when the woman member is also there, tries to shield the culprit (since mostly in such cases he is the senior boss) and is not very sympathetic to the complainant. I know of a case from the Railways where the woman officer who complained against sexual harassment was victimised, was not given a posting for a long time as the accused was a senior person who went on to get higher and higher positions. The lady had to knock at the doors of Central Administrative Tribunal where her case is still pending. I hope the lady officer in DMRC does not meet the same fate.
Aarti Khosla
Understanding "Service"
At one time in my life, I thought I understood the meaning of the word "SERVICE" i.e. the act of doing things for other people. Then I heard the terms: Revenue Service, Postal Service, Civil Service, Service Stations, Customer Service, City Public Service, and I became confused about the word "SERVICE." This was not what I thought "Service" meant. Then one day, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them mentioned that he was having a bull "Service" a few of his cows.
WHAM! It all came into perspective! Now I understand what all those "SERVICE" agencies are doing to us.
Pawan Kumar

Can we not have clean cities in India?
When politicians, Secretaries and senior officers visit foreign countries they feel happy about the cleanliness of the city/ roads /building etc. If each politician, Secretaries and senior officers take only one measure to make the city clean, by now out country would have been like any other beautiful country. People may say population growth is the cause of dirty cities but see China. Our population is not so much. How clean is China? If all money meant for urban development could be used in an innovative manner, we may expect good result. Friends who are piling wealth by not caring for the environment should think that the money will be of no use to them as they are making their lives insecure. My prayer to political and administrative bosses please implement at-least one good practice of any foreign country you have visited during your life time. If each one does so we would have a beautiful India.
U Mishra

What more an IAS will do?
This is in relation to the news in this channel. “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". What more an IAS will do? There are many who have ranked better in Civil services exam but opted for IPS/IRS etc. May be through Bhaichara the IAS will oblige the political boss.
P K Mishra

Hats off Narayan Murthy
Great analysis UPA 1 AND UPA 2 PM . Sir a humble please keep this info up for a few days so more of your readers can benefit from it.
David

CBEC adhocism
Some of the brightest officers joined the Customs and C Ex ( between 1985-1994). Mostly were eligible for IPS, and all of them for IRS (IT) or IAAS. Today , these officers are perhaps the most disillusioned, as they have lagged behind in promotions at every level. It is a moot point how this has adversely impacted on the revenue collection of the national government. The seniority issue is a dispute among the promotee cadres, and the matter has gone to Supreme Court , which settled the same. Unfortunately, vested interests did not allow the SC judgement to be implemented. It is hardly a legal issue and DOPT can easily resolve it. Why it does not happen? Why is it so difficult to appoint a few consultants ( retired people from UPSC and DOPT) to sit down and finalize the seniority of the promotee cadres in Customs and C EX. Further , if that is going to take time, atleast go ahead and fill up the senior positions ( from the direct recruit officers on ad-hoc basis)
Sanjay

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We will miss his mischievous smile

We will miss his mischievous smile and penetrating questions on "SEEDHI BAAT" I wish him a healthy and happy post retirement life. I hope he will continue to share his thoughts with his admirers by contributing to periodicals.

S P Ingal