Your team is doing excellent work.
Mohan Lal

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Have you noticed the 'quality' of those taking on the Civil Society nominees!!!!

These Netas have literally brought propriety to its knees!!

Amar Singh's name is synonymous with scum!!!!

Why do you think even in 100 m of herself Sonia does not allow Amar to come????

That's because she does not want him to seen near her!!!!!!

For her Amar in the same photo frame as her would be for her like a slur!!!

The general perception about Amar amongst Public is ..... Thakur gone rotten!!!!!

Way too big for his boots Amar had gotten!!!

He's now in Singapore ...... our gain and Singapore's loss for a week!!!!!

At Singapore General Hospital where he is going for his check up psychiatric aid he should also seek!!!

The other detractor is Diggy...... and perception about him he's Sonia's OSD!!!!

Officer on Sensationalizing Duty or OSD!!

Speaking of Bhushans........ they are not that naive that they did not know Noida land allotment was unfair!

Not becoming for people who want things to be fair!!!

The Father and son duo are indispensible for Civil Society because they drafted the Lokpal Bill!

And they did a good job because Netas feel their Draft Bill is like a 'death pill'!!!

Now Congress High Command has reigned in Diggy and has also issued others a whip!!!!

From making 'personal comments' on Civil Society Draft Panel members please skip!!

This is nothing new....... Congress has a track record of this naatak!!!

First on High Commands orders her minions go ballistic and then Madam closes the 'faatak'!!!

Then her minions make veiled attacks!!!!!

And believe me these attacks High Command backs!!

A Cop in Gujarat has submitted an affidavit on Modi's role in the Gujarat riots and BJP ko Congress karr rahi hai blast!!!!

Apne heinous role in the 1984 genocide pe apni nazar nahi karr rahi hai cast!!!

Gujarat Cop's affidavit is being treated like 'gospel' and in the 1984 genocide,

Those who wanted to submit affidavits on Congress Leaders were hounded as Cops were on the murderers side!!!

CBI went hammer and tongs after those who submitted affidavits on the role of any Congress Leader!!

In Court CBI looked like the accused Congress Leaders ka pleader!!!!

Manish Tiwari say ' if BJP has slightest morality it'll make Modi resign'!!!!

Then toh Tiwari's Boss Madam Gandhi shows no morality ka sign!!

She knows firsthand about the role of Sajjan and Tylter in the 1984 genocide!!!!
And she still stand by their side!!

Now Maya says on the Lokpal Bill Drafting Panel there should be Backward Classes reps!!!!!

And by demanding more Members from majority minority you will find Mulayam following in her steps!!

Confucius says...... Netas are trying their best to delay the Lokpal Bill!!!!!!

Our Netas feel that coming to power means 'apni pockets karro fill'!

Bharat Kumar
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Why did they meet ?
There was a long meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ,Pranab Mukherjee and Ahmad Patel. Any significance ?.

IAS officer seeks VRS
Kapil Dev has applied for VRS. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. Dev was to retire in November this year

M Raman to retire
Secretary Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals M Raman is superannuating on April 30.He is 1976 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu Cadre.

M Sarangi to succeed Raman ?
Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat Dr Mrutyunjay Sarangi is likely to succeed M Raman as Secretary Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals.He is 1977 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre.

Meena to retire on April 30
Secretary Heavy Industries in the Government of India B S Meena is retiring on April 30.He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Shekhar Agrawal is ahead for the post of Secretary Heavy Industries ?
Shekhar Agrawal is said to be ahead in the race for the post of Secretary Heavy Industries in the Government of India.He is 1977 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

P.K. Gera in race for slot of DG, NIFT
As the grapevine has it P.K. Gera is in race for the post of Director General (DG) of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) under the Ministry of Textiles that has been lying vacant for a pretty long time. He is an IAS officer of the 1985 batch who belongs to Gujarat cadre.

Binod Kr. Piparsania's central deputation on the anvil
The Government of India (GOI) in the offer list has retained the name of Binod Kr. Piparsania. He is an IAS officer of the 1985 batch who belongs to the Assam cadre.

V. K. Badami to retire from NHB
V. K. Badami General Manager (GM) with the National Housing Bank (NHB) is going to retire later this year.

Ms. Prakash Niwetia to be a Director in DoPT
Ms. Prakash Niwetia has been appointed as Director, Establishment, DoP&T Government of India. She is a CSS cadre officer.

Juneja is Deputy DG, FAO
Manoj Juneja, an Indian has been appointed as one of FAO's two Deputy Directors-General. The appointment has been made by FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf. Juneja Junaeja has 24 years of UN experience, having served at the International Labour Organization (ILO) as well as in FAO's Office in different capacities.

CAT stays downgrading of ACR
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has stayed the downgrading of the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) of 1992 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre R K Rai.

2007 batch IAS to get district postings in Orissa
IAS officers of the 2007 batch are being given posting as Collectors in Orissa next onth.

P.K Thakur returns to his parent cadre
P.K Thakur who on central deputation was a Director in the Ministry of Women Child and Development has prematurely returned to his parent cadre. He is an IP&TA&FS officer of 1992 batch.

Four gets IPS in Meghalaya
Four Meghalaya Police Service (MPS) officers have been nominated for the IPS .They are Mssrs O Passi, Ricky Dkhar, Francis C Kharshiing, and GA Rymmai.

Resentment among medical officers over non-provision of DPAC benefits
Resentment prevails among the Doctors and Medical Officers in National Institute of Homeopathy, Kolkata - an autonomous organisation under the Dept. of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and F.W., Govt. of India. The benefits of DACP, as recommended by 5th and 6th Central Pay Commission, are not being provided to them despite the same being provided at several other places as also a Delhi High Court decision in this regards. Those employed with the institute are now looking at Union Health Minister who is the President of its Governing Body.

Lama and Mukherji nominated
Sikkim University's founding vice-chancellor Mahendra P. Lama and the additional secretary of the ministry of external affairs, Asoke Kumar Mukherji have been nominated by the Government of India as its representatives in the newly created South Asia Forum.

IAS changes in Uttarakhand (UPDATED)
PC Sharma has been given the additional charge of Revenue and Disaster Management.Om Prakash, has also been given additional charge of Rural Development. Manisha Panwar has been given additional charge of Higher Education. NK Jha, who has the charge of Information Technology, Higher Education, Sanskrit Education and Non-conventional Energy is no longer Director, ITDA.Atal Adarsh Gram Yojana, Ravinath Raman has been given additional charge of Home and Director ITDA.

IPS officer is Additional Secretary to Uttarakhand CM (UPDATED)
Abhinav Kumar has been appointed Additional Secretary to the UttarakhandChief Minister. He is 1996 batch IPS officer.

DEBATE
Does ACC system have its relevance for all posts?
Does the ACC system has its relevance as far as appointment of incumbents for all posts was concerned? It is time consuming. Under the system it is examined at each level and in every Ministry there are at least six levels. Broadly speaking it goes from concerning Ministry to DoPT Ministry, then to cabinet secretariat and then to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).Finally it goes to the PMO. It is extremely time consuming .In the wake of this please give your valuable views to us.
Mail us-mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Interviews for CMD ,PDIL next week
Interviews for selection of new Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the Projects & Development India Limited (PDIL) will be held next week. As many as 15 candidaes have been shor listed for the same.

Kumar resigns as Director, Jindal Drilling and Industries Ltd
Naresh Kumar has resigned as Director of Jindal Drilling and Industries Ltd.

Khaitan appointed Chairman, Electrosteel Steels Ltd
Electrosteel Steels Ltd has appointed Binod Khaitan as Additional Independent Director (Non Executive) cum Chairman of the Company .

Ganatra appointed Additional Director, Ashok Alco Chem Ltd
Manoj Ganatra has been appointed as an Additional Director of Ashok Alco Chem Ltd w.e.f. April 8, 2011.

Telecom Advisor to ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani resigns?
Telecom Advisor to Reliance ADA Group Chairman Anil Ambani, Arun Sur, has resigned from the company .

Two senior executives of Patni Computer resign?
Ajay Chamania and Deepak Khosla, who are responsible for Patni Computer's product engineering services and the Indian market units respectively have put in their papers in the company.

Mathur is GM, Four Points by Sheraton, Pune
Pankaj Mathur has been appointed as General Manager, Four Points by Sheraton Pune.

Amar Lulla is no more
Amar Lulla, the former joint managing director of pharmaceutical firm Cipla has passed away. He was 63.

FORUM

Is Anna Hazare scared of President of Congress party? Why did he write to her? He should have written to Prime Minister,the CEO, instead.
R Santha (Retd IAS)

? Legalised corruption in GOI?
Ministry of DOPT &ARPG is the nodal agency mandated to formulate policies, frame rules and guidelines for conduct of government business particularly in Service matters. Consider the ground realities. There are inconsistencies galore in actual practice. Same set of guidelines are misinterpreted by different ministries to suit their specific requirements. This results in avoidable litigations in the Central Administrative Tribunals (CATs) causing substantial loss to public exchequer running into crores of rupees. No wonder, about 44,000 cases are pending adjudication in seventeen benches of CAT.There is no monitoring or regulatory mechanism in the DOP&T in place to ascertain whether its guidelines are being followed in letters and spirit by different ministries.
The private lawyers and government counsels are the natural beneficiaries of this organized activity. Worse, (in almost) all cases, the GOI on the tutored advice of government counsels and the mandarins of Law ministry, prefer appeals against the judgments of CATs / lower courts etc.The babus also benefit from these nexus with the government counsels. How? It is anybody?s guess . The appointment of thousand of government counsels by Min of Law has all the ingradients of a mega scam. It involves quid pro quo deals. The credentials and success rates of private lawyers are never verified by the Law ministry before appointing them as government counsels.The Law minister must reform his own ministry before advising others.
What to do?There is a felt need to have an effective monitoring/ regulatory agency under the PMO to oversee the ground realities. The DOP&T is headed by the PM as the cabinet minister-in-charge. For facilitating appropriate action, the joint paper needs to be discussed by the Committee of Secretaries (COS).The joint paper could be drafted by getting inputs from all ministries as the corruption is spread across the board. This will be a step towards Good governance.
A K SAXENA (A retired civil servant)

After learning about the affidavit filed by Sanjiv Bhatt an IPS officer of Gujrat cadre in the Supreme Court on electronic media today I want to salute him for his courage and truthfulness. Only if we had more officers like him , we would nether need any lokpal bill sarkari or Jan Lokpasl bill nor there would be any need for Anna Hazare to go on fast. What we need is officers with courage who can stand up to authorities and take the risk and not those can close their eyes to any type of wrong doing to earn promotion and post retirement employment. Salute to Mr sanjiv Bhatt .
Sudhir Chopra

Sudhir Chopra

There are examples of officers as Joint Secretary making recommendations in favour of consultancy organisations and then switching sides by joining the same organisation as head of a division. There is a consultancy organisation which regularly does this and has been favored many a times. Not only that ITDC has come out with tender document for selection of JV partner whose submission date is in a day or two and from the eligibility criteria and the haste with which things are being finalised, it is apparent that its a pre decided tender in favor of a particular consultancy organisation.

DVS

Great News Honest & hardworking men now with DD all the best Khan sir
Ranjan Rai

Mood Luck.

Kishore Dudani
Retd. Deputy Secretary(MEA)
&
Director, SABERO Organics Ltd.

Action taken report following an audit

The Appellant wanted to know about the disciplinary action taken in the matter of certain irregularities detected by the auditors during the audit of a particular Branch of the Bank. The denial of information without any reason by the CPIO was upheld by the First Appellate Authority. The CIC directed the CPIO to provide the photocopies of the relevant records and documents relating to any departmental action taken against officers and staff members of the Bank following the said audit. If no action had been taken against anyone in this matter, the same was to be informed. The CPIO was let
off without any penalty as the Respondent submitted that it was because of plain misunderstanding on his part.

Comments

All PIO's must note that no information can be denied merely at their discretion. Every decision to deny any information must be backed by very clear arguments and supported by specific provisions of Section 8 of the RTI Act. Otherwise, such decision could be interpreted as plain denial of information and penalised u/s 20(1) of the RTI Act.

[Shri Ashok Kumar Dwivedi v. Etawah Kshetriya Gramin Bank in CIC/SM/A/2010/000953]

- 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)