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FIRST CASE STUDY OF ANY WEBSITE IN THE COUNTRY

Innovation Approaches of "whispersinthecorridors.com" in the field of Indian Bureaucracy : A case study. Manoj Kumar Dash and Ajay Singh of the ABV -Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (India), have done the case study (http://www.allbusiness.com/reports-reviews-sections/case-studies/16664420-1.html). This study describes the business model for the website whispersinthecorridors.com and find outs that the main reason for this popularity and success is targeting group of the website, i.e the top bureaucrats and corporate elites.

(Published in - International Journal of Management and Innovation)

Aaj Ki Aawaz

It is so very obvious that PC helped his onetime Client.... Home Secretary saying that PC had opined that 'MHA should follow Law Ministry's advice' should be taken as 'fibbing in line of Duty'!!! Courts had refused to quash FIRs and there was a purpose that the accused applied to MHA!!! The Delhi Government by rescinding its earlier order ' not to press for prosecution' has literally shown that PC managed matters for his client!!!! PC as it is facing some very serious allegations in the 2 G case!!!! Manish Tiwari tried to fib and fob..... PC was covering Counsel..... MHA was just clearing house!!!! Fact is it was MHA's responsibility to decide on the plea.....PC tried to make Ministry of Law a Party but seems Ministry of Law got wind of his game and put the ball back in MHA's Court!!!

Letting PC continue as HM is like letting Dracula run a Blood Bank!!!!

In fact PC's making Sonia's image tank!!!!

Ahmed Bhai has had a long run....seems a series of events have made Sonia realize Ahmed Patel is no longer fit to be her Man Friday!!! Rahul has never liked Ahmed!!!! It all started with Ahmed mishandling 'Cash for Votes'........ he blundered and Congress had to literally browbeat BJP (Kulkarni's arrest) to ward of BJP on this issue.... not that BJP's given up! I think Patel should meet Soni and find out from her about life after 10 Janpath!!! Of course Ahmed will land up with a Portfolio!!!! Sonia may have developed a dislike for Ahmed but then she knows he 'know too much'!!!!

From 10 Janpath it'll be like being thrown on the path!!

Life after being top most functionary in 10 Janpath!!

Team Anna should stop issuing statements 'left, right and centre'..... concentrate on only Lokpal Bill!!!! Learn from Anna.... when told that there was a chance Lokpal (not Jokepal) Bill would be passed he said that in such a case the 27 December rally would be converted into a thank you rally.... in Anna's words... we are demanding Lokpal for the people and if Lokpal Bill is passed we thank Congress on behalf of people!!! And once again... Team Anna's USP their being apolitical!!! Why do you think Congress is trying pain Team Anna in Bhagwa color????

Anna jaisa koyi nahi!!!!

That is because Anna mein siyaasat bilkul nahi!!!

In BJP Sushma and Jaitley have been taking pot shots at each other!! Sushma is convinced that she's the next PM!!!! Jaitley is more pragmatic...though he does not take it for granted that he'll be the next PM he's responding the Sushma's 'I am next PM'!!!! And we must not forget Sushma is prone to doing drama baazi!! Health is not on the side of both... Susham and Jaitley!!!! Modi they say is pretty amused at Sushma's antics!

Advani , Sushma and Jaitley will be ultimately be left high and dry!!!

Sushma will go into a sulk... Jailtey will pout and Advani's will cry!!

PS.....Bharat Ratna for Tendu... but didn't they already award him with Duty Exemption for his Ferrari???? Joke.... Tihar in need for a second hand PC.... Officials eyeing the one lying in MHA!!! Zardari's not going to go back to Pakistan.......he'll shift to London.... he and Mushraff will spend time playing 'teen patti'.... both have money to throw and have plenty of time to kill!!! Another conflict of interest matter coming up for PC... maybe soon they'll have to set up a special Court to try PC's cases!!!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Special cabinet meeting on FSB at the behest of Thomas
It is KV Thomas, Minister of State ( Independent Charge), in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution at whose behest a special cabinet will be held on Sunday to approve the Food Security Bill (FSB).

FSB to be moved in Lok Sabha on Wednesday
As the grapevine has it, the Food Security Bill (FSB) is going to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesay.

Civil Aviation Minister asked to pack up
Civil Aviation Minister Vylar Ravi has reportedly been asked to pack up. Ajit Singh is all set to become new Minister Civil Aviation.

Governments and Five Star Hotels in Delhi
People knowing the 5 Star Hotels and their owners are wondering if another scam is in offing, cutting across party lines. Le Meridian had a history with Congress. Ashok Yatri Niwas, Kanishka etc were dis-invested during NDA regime at throw away prices, to a small time owner of Park Royale etc. when acting MD was against it and he could save only Ashoka Hotel by showing unimaginable profits. But Atal Bihari Bajpayee by his personal noting removed him from his post. Metropolitan Hotel and some others in the vicinity were and are the hub for corruption of all types, being in isolated posh area. Bags and pleasures change hands everyday for politicians and bureaucrats. Let CBI verify but truthfully and Chidambram and likes should go home !

BUREAUCRACY

IRS officer seeks VRS
G D Balwa, Joint Commissioner, Income Tax, Range-1, Jamnagar (Gujarat) has availed of voluntary retirement from the service.

P K Kothari selected CMD, Richardson & Cruddas Ltd
P K Kothari, DGM, HPCL, has been selected for the post of Chairman and Managing Director of Richardson & Cruddas Limited at Public Enterprises Selection Board meeting held on Friday. Three persons were interviewed for the same.

79 Sec. officers of CSS promoted as Under Secretary
As many as 79 Section officers of Central Secretariat Services (CSS) have been promoted to grade-1 (Under Secretary) of CSS.

Five Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise shifted
As many as five Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise have been transferred to various places. Accordingly, Praveen Jain has been transferred to CX, Kanpur from CX, Ahmedabad-II (UOP) while Ms Seema Arora was shifted to Customs (Appeal), Mumbai zone-1 from CX (Appeal), Vapi and K K Kabirpanthi is being transferred to Commissioner (PAC) from NACEN, Kanpur. Similarly, S Kannan has been shifted to Audit, Chennai from Customs Port (Export), Chennai and Alok Shukla is transferred to Port (Export), Chennai from Customs, Port (Import), Chennai.

Fugging of figures!
Recently, Ministry of Railways have released comparative earning ending November'2011 vs 10, showing over 10% increase without giving any details of expenditures. This has been done under extreme pressure from the Top when Financial Commissioner is not yet appointed. The buzz is that Railway Minister and Board now want to paint rosy picture of finances whereas system and working is in doldrums. What an irony and if Audit will take up the matter for verification ?.

Yadav posted as Principal Director in CAG office
B P Yadav (IA&AS 1992), on repatriation to the Department, has been transferred and posted as Principal Director (Training & Research) in the CAG office.

New building of BPR&D and NCRB
Ministry of Home Affairs is considering 120 Cr.for setting up of joint Headquarters of National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB) & Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), in Mahipalpur New Delhi very soon.

ECI sets up moniteering committee
Election Commission of India (ECI) has set up Media Certification and Moniteering Committee to check insertion of "paid news" items in the print and electronic media by political parties and candidates during elections.

Two new posts of Secretary in Chandigarh Administration
The UT Administration is going to have two new secretaries soon, besides the two existing posts of secretary in the Chandigarh Administration.

24 officers of Karnataka state service awarded IAS cadre
As many as 24 Karnataka State Service officers have been awarded IAS cadre. M V Savithri, M V Veerabhadraiah, N Prakash, R R Jannu, Meer Anees Ahmed, V Srirama Reddy, M V Vedamurthy, V Shankar, S N Nagarau, V Yashwant, B F Patil and H S Ashokananda have been accorded IAS award against vacancies of 2008 while F R Jamadar, K R Sundar, Dr Ramegowda, Panduranaga Bommaiah Naik and Shivayogi C Kalasad of 2009 and S A Jeelani, Hemaji Naik, Mohd. Salauddin, N Jayaram, B S Shekharappa, S T Anjan Kumar and B A Meghannavar were appointed to the same against the vacancies of 2010.

1987 batch IAS to get PS rank in J & K
Two 1987 batch IAS officers P K Tripathi and Sudhanshu Pandey have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in J&K.

1987 batch IAS to get PS rank in Chhattisgarh
1987 batch IAS officers are being promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Chhattisgarh in a week or two.

Saha to get CS rank in Orissa
P K Saha is all set to get promotion to the rank of Chief Secretary in Orissa on January 1. He is 1978 batch IAS officer.

Mangu Singh to take charge on January 1
Mangu Singh will be taking over as Managing Director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on January 1.

1987 batch IAS to be PS in Orissa
Four 1987 batch IAS officers are being promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Orissa in a week or two.

Datta to succeed Sharma in Canberra
Surinder K Datta will replace Vinod Kumar Sharma in Canverra as First Secretary.Sharma will move to Durban.

BP Singh, IDBI's DMD to retire in 2012
BP Singh who is presently Deputy Managing Director (DMD) in the IDBI Bank Ltd is going to retire in first quarter of 2012.

Atul Tiwari goes to Dubai
Atul Tiwari has taken over as Prasar Bharti Correspondent in Dubai. He is 1993 batch Indian Information Service officer.

DG RNI Jairaj to retire in March
RNI T Jairaj is superannuating on March 31. He is 1981 batch Indian Information Service officer.

IAS reshuffle in J & K
There is IAS reshuffle in J & K. M Iqbal Khandey will be new Principal Secretary, Finance Department. Sudhanshu Pandey has been moved as Principal Secretary Power Development Department. Basharat Ahmad Dhar will be Managing Director, J&K State Power Development Corporation vice Shaleen Kabra.Kabra has been posted as Commissioner Secretary Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department .On return from central deputation Naveen Chowdhary has been posted as Commissioner Secretary, Agriculture Production Department .B D Sharma has been made Commissioner Secretary Public Health Engineering, Irrigation and Flood Control Department .Syed Fazalullah, Transport Commissioner has been posted as Registrar, J&K Cooperative Societies .Pradeep Gupta will now be Commissioner Secretary, Transport Department .Sarita Chauhan has been made Vice Chairman Jammu Development Authority (JDA) .Saurabh Bhagat has been posted as Chief Executive Officer, Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA). Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo will be new Transport Commissioner.Baseer Ahmad Khan, Deputy Commissioner Udhampur has been transferred as DC Srinagar.Pandurang Pole has been posted as Deputy Commissioner Udhampur.Sheetal Nanda has been posted as Deputy Commissioner Reasi .Vinod Sharma, Vice-Chairman, Jammu Development Authority (JDA) has been posted as Director Safeguards, Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA).

Patnaik is new ACS Pension in Orissa
Priyabrat Patnaik has been transferred from the post of chairman-cum-managing director of the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO. He will now be ACS pension and public grievances department. Pradeep Jena will hold additional charge of IDCO CMD.

G.P.Upadhayaya bereaved (UPDATED)
P R Upadhayaya father of G P Upadhyaya (IAS, 1987 batch Sikkim cadre) passed away in Balia(Utta Pradesh) at the age of 86 years. G P Upadhayaya is presently Commissioner & Secretary Mining, Minerals & Geology to the Sikkim Government.

Mathur is new Secretary Security in GoI (UPDATED)
A B Mathur has been appointed new Secretary Security in the Government of India. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

(DEBATE)
EMPANELMENT IN GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Whether administrative procedure for empanelment of Additional Secretary and Secretary in the Government of India is fair and legally sound?
Mail your views to suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com or mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com

CORPORATE

USIBC gala dinner was bitter towards India
At the Annual US- India business council fund raising gala dinner the mood was not in favor of India. Policy makers have fallen asleep and the country is in paralysis said a US based investor who attended the gala dinner. It was a bitter feeling with Indophile Ron Somers also the President of the US- India Business Council (USIBC), saying I just want to kind of start with getting rid of the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

Ambuja Cements reappoints Seksaria as Chairman
The board of Ambuja Cements has unanimously, approved the continuation of the appointment of Narotam Sekhsaria as non-executive Chairman of the Board.

Agrawal to head Cairn India
Navin Agarwal has been appointed as the chairman of the Cairn India Ltd.

M Viswanathan appointed as Company Secretary, Coal India Ltd
M viswanathan has been appointed Company Secretary of the Coal India Ltd (CIL).

Acharya resigns as Company Secy. Gillette India Ltd
Deepak Acharya has resigned as Company Secretary of Gillette India Ltd w.e.f. December 1, 2011.

Mittal appointed as MD, McCain Foods India Pvt Ltd
McCain Foods India Pvt Ltd---- the Indian subsidiary of McCain Foods Canada has appointed Vikas Mittal as Managing Director for India & Sub-continent region.

Gagrani appointed Head (Consumer Business), Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Ltd
Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt Ltd has appointed Nalin Gagrani as Head (Consumer Business).

Sethi appointed PR Manager, Wyndham Grand Agra Hotel & Resorts
Neharika Sethi has been appointed as Public Relations Manager, Wyndham Grand Agra Hotel & Resorts.

Dr Bakshi appointed CEO, Max Healthcare
Max Healthcare (MHC) has appointed Dr Ajay Bakshi as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Max Healthcare .

Dr Agarwal appointed COO, Max Healthcare
Dr Abha Agrawal has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Max Healthcare.

Bhandari appointed CSO, Max Healthcare
Ranvir Bhandari has been appointed as Chief Services Officer (CSO) of Max Healthcare.

Where is the privacy?

When some of the property returns are being put on website, where is the privacy of this info for other category of officers? I think, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

R Kumar

Which Department has taken him as Direct Recruit?

R V Nathan asked "Technical Resignation' is preferred in Govt. only when the incumbent intends to join another Government post as a fresh recruit, for the purpose of continuity of service benefits. If that be so, Which Department has taken him as Direct Recruit ? All persons who get selected as Members of Commissions, special bodies, Directors of PSUs submit technical resignation with Govt. pension assured and full salary in new post; As a matter of fact, current problems in BSNL and MTNL are due to the fact that Deptt of Telecom is not accepting technical resignation of more than 1600 officers, due to reasons beyond the scope of discussion on this forum.

Ram Kumar

Kaaledhan Ki Mohtaaj Hai democracy

In all likelihood the Lokpal Bill is not going to be passed in this session of the parliament. The aggressive body language coupled with the harsh speech of all responsible quarters lays bare all the designs that politics is capable of weaving. Excuses are ready to be touted for not passing the Lokpal Bill. Targets have already been selected to blame for not passing the Bill. My anxiety emanates from the well meaning Anna Hazare, who is determined to launch the second phase of his movement at this advanced age. I would like to say that we are not facing the British Government (a foreign power) anymore, whose response to public opinion in India was restrained because of a civil society of a parliamentary democracy in England, which didn't hesitate to stand by the side of the suffering humanity. Do we have any such government? Can we expect our political establishment to be fair, objective and magnanimous? No party can run its political business without getting bagfuls of black money or kaalaadhan. Therefore, overtly or covertly every political party fears a really strong Lokpal. The people are being humoured only since all noise against corruption is sweet to the public ear! Beyond this, everyone is simply willing to strike the other but afraid to wound. After all they understand the compulsions. so we the people of India will go on suffering corruption for ever, Anna notwithstanding. Since it suits the political parties to keep some issues alive, like the 24x7 TV channels who desperately run such programme only to increase their TRP, corruption comes handy. We love it even as we pretend to hate it; we have grown to hear that wealth is Maya or illusion even as the preachers collect huge wealth to be stacked in tax havens. The only effective remedy to corruption is a government of true leaders of high moral integrity. Morality and democracy seem to have no love lost- there is nothing immoral but only against the law, which is visited by punishment. So we imagine that the Lokpal will be able to check corruption. Let us hope so, but he/she will remain obliged to the powers that help him/her wangle that appointment. Didn't MMS say that there are no free lunches. How true? And Anna hamare evokes the moral authority of Gandhi. There are people who are unable to even distinguish between The Gandhi & other Gandhis!!! How vulgar, how uncivilized, how violent they are in their criticism of Anna Hazare? They don't even show the slightest sign of being civil towards a Gandhian carrying a movement in public interest. Because they only fear those who can harm them, when they ask the question "tum kya kar loge?" Anna could devise his programme taking into consideration these facts. If the youth get inspired to go to jail when he gives the call, the revolution should not go waste, as happened to the JP movement. Limpets will stick to the Kursi, come what may. Internal, external, economic disturbance can be invoked as the best excuse to do so and they will not hesitate to do so again and again.

M L Gupta

Check the practice

Officers of NE, J&K etc in their 30 years of service have hardly served half (15Years) in their cadre (excluding Delhi postings like RC etc). This practice needs to be checked so that state gets benefit of All India Service officers.

T K Ghosh

Should the Property returns be disclosed?

The applicant sought the copies about the movable and immovable property returns of an IAS Officer for a particular period. The PIO consulted the officer in terms of the provisions of Section 11 of the RTI Act. The officer objected to giving the details stating that the property file returns is purely a personal matter and is not related with any public activity or interest. In line with the view taken by the CIC in numerous decisions in the past, the Commission upheld the decision of the PIO not to disclose such information. The CIC has consistently held that the immovable property returns filed by officers are their personal information and should not be ordinarily disclosed. Section 8 (1)(j) of the RTI Act exempts such information from disclosure. The CIC observed that in recent months, on their own several state governments have published the immovable property returns filed by the All India Service officers in their respective websites. Therefore, the Commission directed the CPIO to ascertain from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh about this and disclose the information to the Complainant provided such returns have already been published by the State Government.

Comments

Immovable Property Return (IPR) of a government servant is a personal information and is not liable for disclosure under the RTI Act.

[Shri M P Singh v. Staff Selection Commission in CIC/WB/C/2010/000026SM]

- Weekly article by Dr. (Mrs.) Anuradha Verma
(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore and Co-author of the book: RIGHT TO INFORMATION - LAW AND PRACTICE by Taxmann. (The views are Personal)