Yes, I agree you have no competitor in the country of 121 crores.
A G Kutty

Aaj Ki Aawaz

CBI had proof of Kanimozi 'laundering 2 G ghoos' via NGOs but chose to keep mum!!!!

There is also very damaging info about her Step Mom!!!!

As expected because of TN elections CBI did not include this in the 2 G Charge Sheet!!!

After all UPA's orders it had to meet!!!!

In TN there was literally 'nangaa naach' of money to buy the electorate!!!!

From as low as Rs. 100 to 1500 was the buying rate!!!

Jaya Amma's body language totally lacks confidence!!!

Is it because of DMK's cash tsunami that haar karr rahi hai Amma sense???

Though I still feel the TN Voter will take the money from DMK,

And go and vote for AIDMK!!

This phenomena has taken place in elections in Bihar!!!!!

When Laloo lost money he spent to buy votes and chance of a comeback.... double maar!!

Voter turnout on voting day in TN means people want Party in power to go!!!

DMKs banking on ' we distributed money to the voters so they cannot tell use via votes 'ille po'!

Radia has told CBI that Shri/Dr. Sharad Pawar , Doctorate in Chori is the real owner of DB Realty!!!

Pawar has 'benami' holdings in various Realty Companies in Maharashtra and this is a reality!!

I do not think now Manmohan Laundry can now wash Pawar's and DMK's stain or blot!!!!

This Laundry has run out of ' Credibility washing powder' or too weak this powder's got!!

Basically what comes out that in UPA's stint there has been nangaa naach of chori!!!

And then to get the chors off the hook UPA has indulged in 'jorra jorri'!!!!

The other day a elderly gentleman asked me ' Do you think Mohna's not getting a cut of this chori'????

' Why should he put his credibility on line and be a part of the cover up jorra jorri'?????

He cited an example of Mohna giving Raja the clean chit when the scandal broke out!!!

Just for being PM or staying in 7 Race Course Mohna would not 'help out'!

Okay they'll say Sonia ordered him to do so!!!!

Had Mohna not got some selfish interest viewing that his own honesty was at stake he's have said no!!

I think we've got it wrong if we think for Sonia he is like I.Gandhi's Zail Singh!!!

Her Majesty's Tune only to a limit he'll sing!!

Dekh Mohna tehri reputation ki haalath kya ho gayi..... perceived to be on chors side!!!

Standing solidly with those who have taken Nation for a ride!!

Yes off and on he issues statements that corruption will not be tolerated and guilty will be taken to task!

When .... Mohna ......when.......many like me would ask!!!

Now he's added to his Mohali foolishness..... cricket and hockey ties with Pakistan!!

And Pakis play a different game with Hindustan!!

Does he now know what happened to the Lanka Cricket team in Pakistan!!!

Why expose Indian players to attacks in Roguestan???

Like I said .... woh humme mare bullets aur bombs and we say aao khele cricket and hockey!

Why do you think the Terror lot get more and more cocky????

They must be saying ' we go into India and kill Indians and these people say let's play games'!

With such an attitude terror no one tames!!!

Anna better be careful because Netas have ganged up against him!!!

Advani 'PM Dream-waale' says painting all Netas with the same brush is grim!!!

Baba Ramdev also has distanced himself......he's come out as a Neta in a Yogic garb!!!

He had a political motive behind his 'nepotism in Drafting Committee' barb!!

The Barkhas and Sardesais are already on the job!!!!!!

They've been hired by Netas joh karte hai Nation ko rob!!

Now in the above statement I've said ' they've been hired by the section of Netas who rob the Nation'!!!!

But by Barkhas and Sardesais it'll be said that I've called all Netas chors......jhoot creation!!!!

Twisting and turning words is their art!!!!!

But they try to get under the skin of the person who they want to damn at the start!!

Their tried and tested way of doing this is first side with those protesting!!!!

And then slowly and surely bring out 'the gaps' and the protestors claims start contesting!!

When Sardesai lies saliva appears in both corners of his lips!!!

And Barkah's eyes are a give away ......lie catching tips!!!

Confucius says...... Be it the Netas who rob the Nation or their justifiers and aider and abettors ko maaro joothe chaar!!!

Hopefully via their votes 2 G chors ko TN mein TN voters joothe already diye hai maar!!

Flash.... Pawar says what Radia has said is hearsay!!!

But then this Pawar was expected to say!

Of course he's covered his tracks..... he has years of experience in doing so!!!!

And the paper trail will be on a 'wild goose chase investigators will go'!!!

And as it is CBI would not be interested in probing Radia's allegation!!!

At most to 'have tea with Pawar in his Office they'll send a CBI delegation'!!!

A sting done by Harinder Baweja of Headlines Today shows why Rahul had confidently said,

'Those PROVEN GUILT for 1984 riots will be punished' ....to the Sikhs in Punjab this lie he fed!!!

PROVEN GUILTY....... that's the catch!!!

And now Congress's Hanspal trying to buy a 1984 riots witness on camera Headlines Today did catch!

That means in Punjab Rahul enacted a 'vote catching' drama!!!!

Sikhs can banaaya Mama (fool)!!

Sonia knows what took place and she knows Sajjan, Bhagat, Tytler and Kamalnath's role!!!

But Sonia prefers to feign ignorance ........ God save her soul!!

Mohna too knows what transpired but he prefers to look the other way!!!!

He has to do so if in 7 Race Course he wants to stay!!!

Mohna kuch toh karr sharam!!!!

Bechch diya apna zameer aur bechch diya pana Dharam!!

Bharat Kumar
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Ashok Lahiri gets one year extension
ED in the Asian Development Bank, Ashok Lahiri, is believed to have been given one year extension in his tenure. Tenure of noted Economist Lahiri is coming to an end in June.

T.K. Jose ahead in race for top slot of Coconut development Board
As the grapevine has it, T.K. Jose Managing Director (MD) Kerala Books & Publication Society (KB & PS) is poised to be new Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) Coconut development Board (CDB). Jose is an IAS officer of the 1988 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre.

K D Tripathi is new Secretary, CVC
Kapil Dev Tripathi has been appointed new Secretary of the CVC CVC. Tripathi is an IAS officer of 1980 who belongs to Assam-Meghalaya (A-M)cadre. He will succeed K S Ramasubban (IAS WB:1976) who retired on March 31, 2011.
( We said this on April 7 )

3 claimants for top slot of Spice Board
There are two IAS officers of 1991 batch who are claimants for top Chairmanship of Spice Board.They are:G.Ashok of Andhra Pradesh cadre and Jayatilak of the Kerala cadre. Besides, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Kerala cadre is in fray for the post.

Lapsing of GMs' panel in railways delays promotions
Promotion of five Railway officers of 1977 joining to the Higher Administrative grade (HAG) have been delayed due to lapsing of panel of senior railway officers who were supposed to be promoted as General Managers (GMs). They are: G.C. Agrawal, Vashisht Johari, P.K. Agrawal, Kabir Ahmed and P. K. Sinha. So far 14 officers of the 1977 joining year had already been elevated to the HAG.

Maharashtra CM's crucial for MPT chief's slot
As the grapevine has it Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan will have a say in deciding name of incumbent for the post of Chairman Mumbai Port Trust (MPT). It may be recalled that related committee had last month had short listed three candidates. They were: Rajeev Gupta Joint Secretary Shipping Ministry, Swadheen Khshatriya (1980, Maharashtra ), & Tom Jose (1984 ,Kerala).

Postal staff miffed at the transfer policy
As the grapevine has it Postal staff is miffed at the new transfer policy. This policy which is based on similar policies in Income Tax and Customs Department is not relevant here since in other departments it is done to stop unethical dealings, the scope for which is very limited in Postal Service.Those who have framed this have very little understanding of the Indian Society and family values. At a time when families are breaking down and old parents are left to suffer without care, this will be the last nail.There seems absolutely no logic in this policy which apparently is designed to make the officer gain work experience in different place. Here too the nature of postal operations is similar and one doe snot gain anything by working in different places. Even if this the logic, why not confine the ceiling of 12 years to one state rather than neighbouring states grouped together?Why include the deputation outside the Department in this 12 year ceiling? Other than putting the officer to difficulties in what way it is going to serve the service? If this is implemented, it is going to make havoc as it will involve large scale transfers
immediately and put everyone to inconvenience. Department needs to look into this urgently.It was reportedly finalised without any consultations.

Desh Deepak Verma to join GoI again
The 1978 batch IAS officer Desh Deepak Verma who was denied the Chief Secretaryship of Uttar Pradesh is now returning to the Government of India. In fact Verma had been officially recalled two months ago from central deputation by the UP Government to make him the Chief Secretary. Now the UP Government has given NOC to Verma to go back to the Government of India.

14 NITs do not have Directors
As many as 14 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) falling under the HRD Ministry do not have full time Directors.

New Director DoPT to be decided soon
Dr. I.V\. Subba Rao Establishment Officer (EO) & Additional Secretary DoP&T in Government of India (GOI) has interviewed three officers for the position of Director; DoP&T. Selected candidate will replace Ms. Trishaljit, Director, DoP&T.

Amita Sharma is back to MP
The author of NERAGA scheme in the Government of India Ms Amita Sharma is back to the parent Madhya Pradesh cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. She is 1981 batch IAS officer.

Interviews for DG, NIFT cancelled
Interviews for the post of Director General (DG) of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) under the Ministry of Textiles that were supposed to take place last week were cancelled suddenly.

Army Chief asked to explain for not following promotion policy
The Defence ministry has reportedly asked the chief of army staff, General V.K. Singh, to explain why he struck off the promotion policy formulated by his predecessor, General (now retired) Deepak Kapoor and approved by defence minister A.K. Antony in January 2009.

Nilotpal Goswami is new AG Himachal Pradesh
Nilotpal Goswami, IA&AS-1992, on repatriation to the department, is transferred and posted as Accountant General (A&E), Himachal Pradesh, Shimla.

IAS officers to be shifted in Jharkhand
As the grapevine has it a bureaucratic reshuffle is on the anvil in Jharkhand. Collectors of at least five districts will mainly figure in the list.

Upadhyay empanelled in GoI
A K Upadhyay has been empanelled to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1985 batch IFS officer of Madhya [Pradesh cadre.

Swain elected president of IRS officers association
S.P. Swain has been elected unopposed as the President of the Indian Revenue Service officers Association while R.R. Prasad has been elected as the vice-president of the association. Swain belongs to 1976 batch IRS while Prasad hails from 1989 batch of IRS. This years elections have up the young guns who have come up in the mainstream. The other office bearers of the association are A.N. Mishra (1990 batch) - General Secretary, A.K. Bhardwaj (2003 batch) - Treasurer, Vimal Anand (2003 batch), Darsi Suman Ratnam (2005 batch) and K.M. Mahesh (2003) were elected joint general secretaries. Besides, Siddarth Pradhan (1977 batch), Ravi Agrawal (1988 batch), D.N. Kar (1988 batch), Saroj Kumar Dubey (2002 batch), Rajesh Kumar (2003 batch), Mohammad Rizwan (2004 batch), Kailash Dan Ratnoo (2004 batch), Rajesh Kumar (2005 batch) and P.S. Shivasankaran (2005 batch) have been elected as Members.

IFS is Chairman and IAS Members of MPSC
Dr. S Singsit, IFS (Retd) has been appointed as chairman of the Manipur Public Service Commission. Two retired IAS officers Muhammed Abdus Sattar and P Bharat Singh have been appointed Members.

IAS postings in Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh government has transferred few IAS officers. While Raipur commissioner Prasanna has been posted in the state secretariat, as a deputy secretary, Rajesh Kumar Toppo, Commissioner of Bilaspur Municipal Corporation, has been made the commissioner of Raipur. Yashwant Kumar, the Chief Executive Officer of Korea Zilla Parishad, will be the new commissioner of Bilaspur municipal corporation.

IAS officers transferred in Madhya Pradesh
The Madhya Pradesh government has transferred certain IAS officers.They are: Manish Kumar Shrivastava Collector Sagar to Secretary Transport, Shivanand Dube Director Skill Development Institute to Damoh Collector, E Ramesh Kumar Collector Chhatarpur to Sagar, Vivek Kumar Porwal Collector Narsinghpur to Collector Balaghat, S. P. S. Saluja Collector Damoh to Director Skill Development Institute, Navneet Kothari Collector Balaghat to Deputy Secretary, Rahul Jain CEO of Sheopur to Collector Chhatarpur and Sanjeev Singh Additional Commissioner of Commercial Taxes Indore to Collector Narsinghpur.

Mendiratta is Chief of Personnel Department in LIC
LIC India, Secretary Corporate Communication T R Mendiratta has been given a new role of Chief of Personnel Department of LIC India

Vipin Anand elevated as ED- Corporate Communication in LIC
Chief of Corporate Communication of LIC India Vipin Anand has been elevated as Executive Director - Corporate Communication Department of LIC India

Scarecrow appoints Banerjee
Scarecrow Communications has roped in Anindya Banerjee to head its creative function in Delhi.

Mudra Max appoints Bose
Mudra Max recently appointed Anwesh Bose as its Branch Head, North & East. Prior to this appointment, Bose was with the Dentsu India Group as Chief Growth Officer - Media.

Ketchum acquires stake in Sampark PR
Ketchum, one of the world's largest global public relations consultancies, has acquired a majority stake in Sampark PR. This move, which follows recent acquisitions in Greater China and Russia, further expands the agency's global reach. Sampark PR was founded in 1994 by Bela Rajan and NS Rajan, who, as Director and Managing Director, will continue to lead the India business and will retain a significant holding in the agency going forward. It will henceforth operate as Ketchum Sampark.

Gupta to be Director (Finance) CWC !
V R Gupta is being tipped to be new Director (Finance) of the Central Warehousing Corporation.Presently he is Director Finance with IRCTC.

MediaCom appoints Niti Kumar
MediaCom has appointed Niti Kumar as National Director - New Business and Insights based in Delhi.

South African Tourism appoints Hannel Slabberi
South African Tourism Board in India has announced the appointment of Hanneli Slabber as Country Manager, India for South African Tourism. Hanneli assumes responsibilities for all India operations for the tourism board from Evelyn Mahlaba, Acting Country Manager- India.

Adfactor appointed by Huawei
Much has been made about the entry of Chinese companies in Indian markets over security etc. Niira Radia episode notwithstanding Huawei the Chinese telecom company has appointed Adfactor PR to lobby its entry. The PR company will lobby with in Trade, and Telecom ministry, besides the PMO.

Ganapathy joins MHA in GoI
M A Ganapathy has joined the Government of India as Joint Secretary Naxal Management in the MHA on Friday . He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
( We said this on April 6 )

Himachal Day Celebrated
64th Himachal Day was celebrated on 15th April, with great enthusiasm through-out the State that came into being after merger of 30 princely states in 1948. To mark the occasion, people started assembling at State and District-level venues of celebrations in their traditional dresses since morning. Impressive march-past by contingents of Police, Home-guards and NCC and cultural programmes were main attractions of the celebrations. While the state-level function was held at Thanakalan in Una district where Chief Minister Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal unfurled the National Flag and took salute at an impressive march past presented by contingents of Police, Home-guards and NCC. Prof. Dhumal announced grant of 6 % Dearness Allowance to employees and Pensioners from 1st January, 2011. Reiterating his Government's resolve, he said that the pace of development would be accelerated in the State to make it a self-reliant, prosperous and developed State of the country.

CORPORATE

Who is wiser of Ambani brothers?
Who is wiser of Ambani brothers? This question has been doing rounds ever since the Cricket World Cup 2011 got over. It was the Anil Ambani's group that was one of the corporate sponsors for the event. However, it was his elder brother Mukhesh Ambani along with his wife Ms.Neeta Ambani with his wife who got maximum visibility out of the event. As they were present at many places during the tournament, while Anil Ambani was not present anywhere. Thus, in terms of visual publicity Mukesh Ambani chief of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) scored maximum runs.

Coal blocks of defaulters to de-allocated
As the grapevine has it, the Coal Ministry is contemplating to de-allocate blocks of those entrepreneurs who had failed to submit their mining plans regarding coal blocks that were allocated to them .

PESB invites applications for Bharat Dynamics Limited CMD
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), Bharat Dynamics Limited. It has sought a seniority-wise list of the names of candidates alongwith their up-to-date bio-data (in the prescribed form) by May 31, 2011.

Behuria is now Group President of K K Modi Group
Former Chairman of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Sarthak Behuria has been ppointed Group President of the K.K. Modi group

Gammon Infrastructure Projects appoints additional directors
Gammon Infrastructure Projects Ltd has appointed Kishor Kumar Mohanty and Kunal Shroff as Additional Directors of the company.

Mohanty to be soon designated as MD, Gammon Infrastructure Projects
Kishor Kumar Mohanty will soon be designated as the Managing Director of Gammon Infrastructure Projects Ltd .

Nimbus Food Industries Board approves resignation of MD
The Board of Nimbus Foods Industries Ltd has approved resignation of Vishnu Sharma from the office of Managing Director as well as Director of the Company.

Stevens appointed VP (HR) , Minor Hotel Group
Minor Hotel Group has appointed Caroline Stevens as Vice President (Human Resources).

Agadi inducted as Independent Director on Board of Orient Express
North American luxury hotel chain operator Orient Express has brought in Harsha V Agadi as an Independent Director on its Board of Directors.

Verma appointed Director (HR & Talent Development), Crowne Plaza, Rohini, New Delhi
Avinash Kumar Verma has been appointed as the Director (Human Resources and Talent Development) at Crowne Plaza, Rohini, New Delhi.

Kumar appointed Director (Rooms), Jaipur Marriott
Davesh Kumar has been appointed as Director ( Rooms) at Jaipur Marriott.

Scarecrow appoints Anindya Banerjee as ECD
Scarecrow Communications has appointed Anindya Banerjee to head its creative function in Delhi. Banerjee who was in Law & Kenneth has nearly 14 years' experience in leading agencies like Ogilvy, Contract and Publicis.

Bhaskar Das made Prez at BCCL
Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd (BCCL) has elevated Dr Bhaskar Das as the President of the company. He was Executive President till now.

Arunava Das Sharma appointed as Exec Prez at BCCL
Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd (BCCL) has appointed Arunava Das Sharma as its Executive President. Earlier he was with Whirlpool US.

MCCS promotes Neeraj Sanan
MCCS has promoted Neeraj Sanan Vice President as Executive Vice President - Marketing and Distribution.

MCCS promotes Avinash Pandey
MCCS has promoted Avinash Pandey as its Executive Vice President - Sales.

Kapoor is CEO of Reckitt Benckiser
Rakesh Kapoor has been appointed CEO of the health and personal-care company Reckitt Benckiser.

FORUM

DoPT should issue Guidelines on Communication of Downgraded ACRs

The officers who had been graded below the Bench Mark without assigning any logic and reason should be protected. The Supreme Court of India in Dev Dutt' case held that overall grading should be communicated but within a "reasonable time". After the Judgment of Dev Dutt, the DoPT vide OM dated 14.5.2009 has issued instructions to communicate the overall grading after the Report is complete with the remarks of the Reviewing officer and the Accepting Authority. Thus the communication is to be done within 6-8 months. The DoPT order is effective from 2009-10 onwards. But what about the cases which are old by 10-15 years. In such cases there is no meaning of communication after such a long time. It willl not serve the basic objective of communication. The basic aim of communication of adverse and downgraded ACRs is give opportunity to the officer to represent and most important to provide opportunity to improve the performance in future. That is the reason Hon'ble Supreme Court of India after the case of Dev Dutt, in the cases of Abhijit Ghosh Dastidar, R.K.Anand, J.S.Garg and Ranjana Kale ordered for promotion ignoring the downgraded ACRs. There was no communication of ACRs which were below the Bench Mark. DoPT should issue guidelines accordingly.

Meenakshi Roy

ACR Business

The Economic Times conducted a Poll on: "Is the Performance Appraisal System in your Organisation Fair?" The outcome of the Poll was- (i) Yes-22%, (ii) No-73% and (iii) can't say-5%. This is true to a great extent in respect of all government departments. The targets or parameters for ACR are never fixed in the beginning of the financial year or the ACR period. So writing ACR becomes very subjective, where face value and other factors matters a lot. In most of the cases, it is seen that the Reporting officers award grading below the bench-mark where their subordinates come on their way or their interests are clashed. In most of the promotions, the bench-mark is Very-Good, so such Reporting officers normally give Good grading because 'Good' is a positive entry and was not communicated till Dev Dutt's case. But it badly affected the promotion of the concerned officers. The ACRs are the assets of the employee and are linked with the promotional and the extensional stage of his service career. So one should not play with anybody's career. Here it is also required that the Civil Servants should be given proper role playing field and they should be made more responsible and more accountable by providing proper delegation of administrative and financial powers, giving additional responsibilities, reviewing their performance by calling weekly or fortnightly meetings. This would be the great service in the interest of the country.
Y. Mishra

Evolve better system to check corruption

Through this site I would like to mention that recently GoI have issued a circular binding IAS Officers to submit their Property Statements on 31st of January but i would like to mention that officers who use unfair means to build their empires normally purchase property or other assets in the name of their spouses and near relations and even benami also. A better system needs to be evolved to check that type of investments and contain the menace of corruption. I would rather like to mention that GOI should ensure placing the first and current copy of property statement of the officer on it's website so that the assets made during the period is generally known to the public and public can come forward with the evidences ,if some officer makes property and other assets disproportionate to their known source of income. It will give more transparency and open the assets and living style of the IAS officers to the general public for scrutiny.

Ravinder Gupta

Retirement Age

Can you throw some light into the retirement age increase to 62 for government employees and post it on your site because, your information is 100% reliable.

V S T Raju

Increasing retirement age will not help

Increasing retirement age has not helped on earlier instances nor ever will. I think, it was a mistake to enhance the retirement age form 58 to 60. These issues are raised by person for their vested interest. It should again be reversed to 58 years.

VR

Stop debate on extension of retirement age

Let us stop this debate on extension of retirement age of government servants to 62 years. Given a choice, these people shall continue to serve(!) the nation well past their seventies or even eighties.

Ram Sevak

Cleansing Mahayagna

Corruption in government tends to corrupt every citizen and this cancer keeps spreading overtly and covertly. The corrupt practices take various shapes and designs. In India the corruption has taken deep roots because our fabric of democracy was allowed to be deliberately get weakened. Present rampant corruption calls for hard measures and Anna deserves full credit in highlighting it. The civil society has done a fabulous job in overwhelmingly supporting it .Cleansing of our stables is going to be difficult because power is with those who have tasted the scent of corruption and ingenious ways have been evolved to twist and turn the issues through ethical and non ethical means. Anna needs huge support from every sensible citizen of this country. Let us join him in this Cleansing Mahayagna.

Bajwa.

Unconstitutional Government

The Election Commission of India has seized more than 65 crores of rupees in cash, gold, silver, gadgets and clothes in the states that went in for general elections this month. That explains why gold and silver have touched the peak in prices in more than 30 years. It seems gold and silver coins are being traded freely. What choice has the voter? One of the two or three are the only choices before them. It is not corruption, but unconstitutional government. The elected government simply looks the other way as each single government service delivered to the voter comes with a price. It is well organized business of the unconstitutional government, with exact data on investments & return and the rate of return. The payback period is not full 5 years but lesser. All data is maintained in digital form. It is time any government laying claim to honesty orders a special income tax scrutiny of all politicians worth more than 1 crore rupees. Had they all paid their taxes honestly, our tax burden could have come down drastically. Until then, anybody raising even the feeblest voice against unconstitutional activities would be a marked person, who will be delivered the deadliest blows by the unconstitutional government(I am sick of the word corruption being talked about for more than 63 years!).I would prefer to call it unconstitutional government v/s the constitutional government. Since the constitutional government fails to deliver, compelling people to seek the unconstitutional government, there is loud outcry against corruption by the people, who number more than 121 crores!

M L Gupta

Concern not well founded

I see that few people are saying that NGOs, private sector etc. should also be included in the Jan Lokpal Bill. I appreciate the concern but it is not well founded.

My dear friend, if politicians and bureaucrats are not able to make money do you think they will allow others to make money. It is the weakness of them that others also indulge in fraudulent practices. Let Lokpal Bill pass, which i still doubt because of some planted divisive forces, rest will be taken care of. An honest king always have honest people. Keep it simple stupid.

Mohan

Congress spokes persons do harm to party

Congress should understand that the moment Manish Tiwari or Kapil Sibal open their mouth, Congress is bound to lose lakhs of votes. The difference between these insufferable spokes persons is that Tiwari does it with a straight face and Sibal does it with an arrogant smile.

Navnith

All the best

I wish all the thirteen IAS Officers the very best. They should not hanker after jobs by joining Reliance/Airtel/Essar and other tainted firms after superannuation. Rather they should write their memoirs or engage in some useful social work.The best way would be to adopt some village and teach the poor students.

Radhikai

Accomplishments of NRAA

A visit to the site of NRAA [NRAA.nic.in] shows that the accomplishments of NRAA are silent about the dates / years of achievements since inception of NRAA; Governing board of NRAA is also to be reconstituted after its transfer to Planning Commission & thus updated; recent workshop / seminar on Rights of Foresters under the control of Technical Expert (Forestry) was organised beyond mandate of NRAA just to gain access to MOS(MOEF)/DG(Forests) & thus a waste of money since this matter falls under the mandate of MOEF. Dy. Chairman Planning Commission & Finance Minister may review this workshop / seminar held on 30.3.2011 at NASC complex for future releases of funds which are used to gain personal favours by Technical Expert (Forestry) than in national interest and as per mandate of NRAA.

Kamal Malhotra

Application fee in the name of Accounts Officer
The RTI application was returned by the CPIO citing the reason that the application fee of Rs. 10/- was not in favour of "Pay & Accounts Officer" of the Ministry. The Complainant stated that the IPO was in favour of "Accounts Officer" as per the DoPT circular F.10/9/2008-IR, dated 05/12/2008 and 02/09/2009. The CIC noted that the CPIO, in his reply, had not indicated the name and address of the First Appellate Authority before whom the first appeal could be filed by the complainant. While directing the CPIO to clarify the reasons for the same, the CIC also issued a show cause notice for imposition of penalty for not providing the information within the stipulated time frame.

Comments
Lack of awareness of the RTI Act makes the CPIO commit these kinds of follies. The CPIO should invariably indicate to the complainant the name and address of the First Appellate Authority, before whom an appeal can be filed. All payments in the name of the 'Accounts Officer' should be accepted.

[Shri Subhash Chandra Agrawal vs. Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in CIC/DS/C/2010/000933].

- 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)