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Aaj Ki Aawaz

If you thought middlemen are a strong lobby then you haven't seen the real strong one!
Wal-Mart .... what it says is done!!!

Why do you think Obama has been demanding opening up of India's retail sector??? Wal-Mart's pressure via Obama !!! And if Wal-Mart can pressurize US's President you can imagine what they'll do here!!! PM wanted to please Obama and so after his return from Bali he set the ball rolling on FDI..... though some would say it was out of his servility to Uncle Sam!!! Just see China.... US is its biggest importer and still China allowed Wal-Mart in only three Chinese Metros... Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen!! India too should have followed the Chinese Model!! And started with only 26%!!! But seems pressure from US was for 'majority stake'!!! No doubt Wal-Mart and likes will do away to some extent with the middleman.... but studies show that Wal-Mart and likes are Middleman, Wholesaler and Retailer all rolled into own... treble its profits.... fallacy to think Wal-Mart will pass over the 'middleman and wholesaler savings to the customers'!!! Yes initially there will be predatory pricing to drive out Mom and Pop Stores....once this objective is achieved they'll turn the tables on us!!! Walmart and likes have a track record of being 'slave shops'!!! Yes the front end of Big Ticket Retail looks good.... but the back end is a different story.... farmers are short changed and strong arm tactics are also used ....soon from friendly pricing for us it'll be 'demand' pricing! And we know how MRP is fiddled with and misused!!! On essentials , veggies and fruits ...why not cap their profit??

Farrouk Abdullah says reduce Democracy!!!!
Public demands reduce political autocracy!!!

Once our Netas come to power they are a law unto themselves!!! India is not suffering from an overdose of Democracy but from a watering down of Democracy!!! Farroukh's autocratic mindset was evident when he said post the NC Worker's alleged murder at J&K CM's house .... why is the opposition so worried as the man who dies was a NC worker.... meaning the NC worker was a bonded labourer of NC , which in effect is by the Abdullah's, of the Abdullah's and for the Abdullah's..... law stops at Abdullah households... official and private??? The only time our Netas recognize our presence is when they electioneer.... after getting elected we cease to exist!! Take Congress.... it's an autocracy running a namesake Democracy today!! Namesake because it is a watered down Democracy!!! Otherwise how could the PM of the Nation be reduced to a puppet??? How could Sonia run this Government by remote control??? In a flawed Democracy whistleblowers are murdered, beaten up and jailed and the culprits pull the ropes to 'erase' or browbeat the whistleblowers!!! In fact today PM is not called reformist but a 'deformist' ...... deformed every Institution on orders of his Boss!!! CBI which is the Nation's Premiere Investigation Agency has been made into a tool to cover up scum or create scum!!! Thankfully in the Judiciary there are 'islands of judiciousness'.... and one island is going to give a landmark Judgement on December 08!!

Wasn't Amar to go for lifesaving treatment overseas????
His name everyday in political related news one sees!!!

Amar Singh has a way with words!! He says he is pregnant with the cash for votes baby and if a DNA of the baby is done it'll create a storm!!! Fact is clinically the case was so obvious that we know what the DNA is like!!! QED is achieved by deducing who benefitted from cash for votes.... Congress!!!! And it is well known who handles such matters for Sonia and who heads Congress's Dirty Tricks Department!! And it's also obvious that Amar had nothing to gain from doing a hatchet job for BJP...... but had huge gains for doing it for Congress... that's another story that Congress uses him like 'toilet paper'.... I'm sure in his mind he must have thought 'this time I'll get my due'.... though another school of thought says ..... he's become shaana and takes his dues in cash and kind before execution of the job given to him!!

PS.... from no roll back in FDI in retail now Anand Sharma says Congress united on FDI in retail.... joke doing the rounds is PC knows how united Congress is on FDI in retail!!! Poor Rahul Baba he's back in 'his shell' ...... and they say when Rahul wants to think he flies to Dubai... of course we mortals do not even get a whiff of this!!!! Highest number of Farmer suicides in Maharashtra.... and there is Congress-NCP Government in Maharashtra, Agri Minister is Sharad Pawar..... and Farmers Messiah Rahul holds sway over UPA..... and Rahul had the guts to say UPites got to Mumabi as beggars...no reports of UPites committing suicide in Mumbai!!!By the way his onetime mascot was from Maharashtra... Kalawati.... though she takes this now as a curse!! This winter Commies in Delhi will be enjoying Kinnow juice... Manpreet Badal will keep them stocked from his Kinnow Farm!!! He is going to meet Maya in a last ditch effort..... he knows with BSP Sanjha Morcha may get 3-5 seats... without BSP.... 2-3 seats!!!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

BUREAUCRACY

CCIT Mumbai P P Srivastva to join Settlement Commission
Chief Commissioner of Income Tax in Mumbai p p srivastava who has sought VRS is all set to join Settlement Commission in Mumbai. 1974 batch IRS (IT) officer Srivastava is expected to handover charge on December 8.

Shankar Narayan promoted as Addl CAG
Shankar Narayan (IA&AS-1978 ) has been promoted as Additional CAG. On promotion Shankar Narayan will take over as Additional Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Report States-II) in CAG office.

Three ONGC Directors retire
Three Independent Directors of the ONGC S Balachandran, S S Rajsekar and Santosh Nautiyal have retired after the three-year term.

Process for election of IOC officers' association is on
Process for election of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Officers' association is going on presently. New body will be in place by January 2012.

Race begins for IES Member in FMC
A race has begun for IES Member in Forward Markets Commission (FMC) .So far D S Kolamkar was an IES Member in the FMC who has now become Director General, Labour Bureau, Chandigarh. This post is meant for an officer of the Indian Economic Service (IES).

Prof Raghuram to join Board of HPCL
IIM-A Professor, G Raghuram is all set to join the board of HPCL as an independent director.

IPS reshuffle in West Bengal
There is major IPS reshuffle in West Bengal.Altogether 24 IPS officers have been affected. S.N. Gupta special IG and DIG of Presidency Range has been transferred as IG of the Counter Insurgency Force.Anil Kumar, DIG planning and welfare will now be the new DIG (Presidency Range). NR Babu will be IG (welfare) and Jag Mohan will be IG Traffic. Benoy Chakraborty has been made IG Telecom. Pankaj Dutta has been appointed new IG Railway and Sanjay Singh IG North Bengal region.Chanchal Kumar Dutta will be joint commissioner in Kolkata Police's STF. Mehboob Rehman has been made deputy commissioner (port) and Satyajit Bandopadhyay DC (eastern suburban division).

IPS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Jai Narain Singh has been transferred as DIG Saharanpur replacing B N Singh, who has been shifted to Allahabad police headquarters. V K Dohre will now be SP Ambedkar Nagar in the place of Beena Bhukesh, who has been made commandant 9 PAC. SP Fatehpur Ram Bharose has replaced SP Ballia, Ram Swaroop, who has been transferred as commandant 4 PAC.Shailendra Pati Tripathi has been moved as commandant 28 PAC. Ravi Shanker Chavvi will be new SP Bahraich.SP Basti Modak Rajesh D Rao has been appointed commandant 36 PAC. Vinod Kumar Singh will be SP Basti.Amit Pathak has been made new SP of Fatehpur district.

Thamaraikannan is new DIG Intelligence in TamilNadu
Thamaraikannan, presently the Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) of Greater Chennai City Police has been appointed new DIG Intelligence.A G Pon Manickavel will now be DIG Villupuram Range.

Stress & Time Mgt programme for IT officials from Dec 19
National Productivity Council residential programme on 'Stress & Time Management' is being organised for the officials of Income Tax department from December 19 to 23, 2011 in Goa.

Mervin Alexander Kerala Technopark's CEO to attend NDC, course
Merwin Alexander who so far was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Techno park will be attending the NDC course commencing on January 9, 2012.Merwin Alexander belongs to the 1987 Indian Postal Service batch and has held key roles in the Department of Posts in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and New Delhi. He had also worked as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in Cochin Shipyard Ltd, and Cochin Port Trust and served as consultant to the Asia Pacific Postal Training Centre, Bangkok in the past.

K G Girish Babu is CEO of Techno park, Trivandrum
K G Girish Babu has taken over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Techno park, Trivandrum on December 1, 2011. Babu is the Managing Director of Kerala State IT Infrastructure Ltd. (KSITIL) and also holds the additional charge of the CEO of Cyberpark, Kozhikode. He was the founder CEO of Infopark Kochi.

Bureaucratic reshuffle in Rajasthan on the anvil
As the grapevine has it, a bureaucratic reshuffle is on the anvil in Rajasthan.

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

Bharat Bhushan posted in Kandahar
Bharat Bhushan has been posted in Kandahar as CGI .He was posted in Bamako.

HR & IT tools programme for IT officials from Jan 2
National Productivity Council Residential programme on 'HR & IT tools' for developing skills of Executive Secretaries is being held at Tirupati from January 2 to 6, 2012.

Desai is Chairman of KVIC
Devendra Kumar Desai has been appointed Chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission .

Chetan P S Rao posted as Dy. Director (Admn), PGIMER
Chetan P S Rao, DDIT (Inv.-1), Chandigarh, has been appointed as Deputy Director (Admn) of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER) under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi, for a period of four years.

Anoop K. Mittal is Director (Projects) of NBCC
Anoop Kumar Mittal has taken over as new Director (Projects) of NBCC under the Ministry of Urban Development. Mittal is a Civil Engineering Graduate and had been serving the Organisation in capacity as Executive Director, prior to this new assignment. Mittal's appointment as Director (Projects) of NBCC is considered in the company circle, a highly positive step forward as far as the interest of the Organisation is concerned since he has been serving the company for the last over 26 years in various capacities. The hope is high since he is a proven workaholic, has impacting exposure in civil engineering discipline and virtually grown with the company, successfully accomplishing diversified and intricate projects in key sectors such as Housing, Environment, Health, Hospitality, Institutions, Transport, Defence, Police & Para-military infrastructure etc. Among many important assignments in NBCC, Mittal's significant forte was, his direct association with Delhi Metro Works where he was responsible for aesthetic and quality execution of first metro station at Seelampur, inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India in 2002 and from where Phase-I of Delhi Metro began its memorable & maiden journey. Mittal is also presently holding the membership of prominent Professional Engineering bodies like Institution of Engineers (I) & Indian Concrete Institute.
(We said this on July 16, 2011)

Pakistan : No staff cars for grade 20-22 officers
Pakistan's federal government has banned use of staff cars by officers of Grade 20 - 22 'for any kind of duty' as part of economy measures. These officers will be covered by compulsory monetization of transport facility. Complete ban on purchase of new staff cars and recruitment of drivers has also been imposed. Officers of grade 20-22 may be allowed to use services of permanent drivers if surplus in an organisation but in lieu thereof Rs 10000/- per month will be deducted from the monetized value of their transport allowance. Finance division of the federal government expects these measures to result in savings to the tune of Rs 1.369 billion annually.

Pannu is now Special Principal Secretary to Punjab CM (UPDATED)
Kahan Singh Pannu has been appointed as Special Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal .

CSI's Bhopal chapter is best regional chapter (UPDATED)
The Bhopal chapter of the Computer Society of India (CSI) has received the best regional Chapter (Region III) Award for the year 2010-11 at the CSI national convention held last week in Ahmadabad. It was received by chapter's vice chairman Vivek Dhawan.Also present on the occasion was CSI regional vice president (RVP) Anil Srivastava, IAS & Principal Secretary (PS) to the Madhya Pradesh Government.

(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

Tilak Raj Seth appointed Sector Cluster Lead of South Asia Cluster, Siemens
Tilak Raj Seth has been appointed as the Sector Cluster Lead of the Infrastructure & Cities Sector, South Asia Cluster, Siemens. Seth has been with Siemens for the last 27 years and was till recently Head of the Mobility Division. Siemens started its fiscal 2012 on October 1, 2011 with a newly founded Infrastructure & Cities Sector. The operating businesses of Siemens are now organized into Industry, Infrastructure & Cities, Energy, and Healthcare Sectors. By forming the new Sector, the company plans to be a leading participant in the dynamic growth of cities and infrastructure investments.

Mishra appointed Company Secy. Vishal Retail Ltd
Vishal Retail Ltd has appointed Dheeraj Mishra as Company Secretary w.e.f. November 19, 2011

Patel resigns as Independent Director, Tirupati Sarjan Ltd
Brijesh J. Patel has resigned as the Independent Director of Tirupati Sarjan Ltd.

Patel appointed Director, Tirupati Sarjan Ltd
Sureshkumar Hiralal Patel has been appointed as Director of Tirupati Sarjan Ltd w.e.f. November 4, 2011.

Pansari appointed CEO, Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd
Bijoy Kumar Pansari has been appointed as the CEO and Whole-time Director of Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd w.e.f. December, 2011.

Datta appointed Director (Mktg & Sales), Sare Homes
Sare Homes has appointed Vikram O Datta as Director (Marketing & Sales) w.e.f from December 1, 2011.

Manocha appointed Company Secy. Brahmaputra Infraproject Ltd
Parimesh Manocha has been appointed as Company Secretary of Brahmaputra Infraproject Ltd w.e.f. December 1, 2011.

Sunder elevated as Manager (F&B), Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre
Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre and Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) has elevated V Shyam Sunder as Manager (Food & Beverages).

Philip appointed Director (Mktg. Communications), Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre
Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre and Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) has appointed Preeti Philip as Director (Marketing Communications).

Bresenham appointed President & CEO, GE India
GE India has appointed Terri Bresenham as the President and CEO to lead its healthcare business in India.

Ghadiok appointed ED, Nova Medical Centres
Nova Medical Centers has appointed Dr Rajen Ghadiok as Executive Director (Medical Strategy).

Khan appointed COO, Nova Medical Centers
Dr Sameer Khan has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Nova Medical Centres.

Kapur appointed Director ( Business Development), Nova Medical Centers
Sunil Kapur has been appointed as Director (Business Development), Nova Medical Centre.

Keeping Group C outside Lokpal

Keeping the group C employees outside the purview of Lokpal can provide an easy way out to corrupt public servants by accepting bribe money through Group C employees instead of taking it directly. It is common knowledge that extortion money/hafta collected by police constables is shared by their corrupt seniors in many cases. Further how a composite case having involvement of Group C and Group A will be investigated by Lokpal if group C employee was outside the purview of Lokpal. Architecture of corruption is structurally so strong that any half hearted approach will boomerang on those who may be lulled into making complaint in the hope that Lokpal will take effective action..

Sudhir Chopra

FDI needs to be understood

FDI needs to be understood before the furore for favour and against. FDI succeeds only when the host country already have well established 'BRAND" names. In India this is where we have failed, except for Tata in automobile, Reliance, Godrej and few more to some extend are hardly international brands. Thus, resultant like East India Company, India to provide raw material and labour and value added profits to go to FDI countries. Thus, before opening doors for FDI important to have Indian Brands. Not just that, the FDI will be flooded with quality branded goods of China, East and West and poor Indian cousin will be relegated.

Jaggu

Do not allow the publication to be misused

Khuswant Singh in HT described Dr. Manmohan Singh as ablest of able and honest Prime Minister India has ever had. I believe even Dr. Singh would not describe himself better than Late Indira Gandhi; Rajiv Gandhi; Nehru and Atal Behari Vajpayee etc. If this is the state of affairs in this country wherein no body is willing to address black money; Lokpal; inflation despite unearthing of various scams. High inflation; large unaccounted black money and spiralling price of property since the year 2004 coinciding with UPA Government under the ablest and honest PM, then it will be easily imagined as to what would have happened if this country is not being headed by ablest PM. This is common knowledge that property sector is safest and high return yield sector to hide and park ill-gotten money. There are lot of properties vacant in Delhi but the owners are not willing to sell because of strong withholding capacities. The time has come HT should come up with unbiased reporting and do not allow the publication to be misused under the disguise of 'the views of the author are personal'.

Adarsha Gupta

CBDT hardly provides any facilities

The CBDT hardly provides any facilities to Income Tax Ombudsman. He does not get the sanctioned staff. Not even copies of Circulars and Instructions are given to them even though he is supposed to pass awards as per Income Tax circulars and instructions.

Pramod

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)