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Margoob Hussain

Aaj Ki Aawaz

If Congress is to be believed Sonia's coming back on Sept 02......prior to this they had said August 31....... she was supposed to be staying longer but turn of events back home are forcing her to return sooner!!! First it was said she's got skin cancer..... then they said it was cervical cancer and now it's being said she's got pancreatic cancer!!! Congress as of today is 'leaderless and rudderless'!!! The four she left in charge have flopped and in the end it was the one who deserved to be one of the four left in charge but was purposely ignored, who 'saved the day'!!!! Messrs. PC and Sibal wanted Anna and his lot to be hauled over coals!!!! Now when she returns will Sonia take stock????? Will she take the four she left in charge to task???? She cannot dump PC as he 'knows too much' (he's been the FM and is the HM).....so will Kapil Sibal aka Mr. Smug be the fall guy.....fall guy/s are the need of the hour for Congress?????? Congressmen abused Anna..... one called him corrupt and another called him a traitor!!!! How will Congress get out of this very deep pit in which Congressmen have dug the Party into???????

Madam will be back at the helm even if it is from her sick bed!!!!!

Today Congress is without a head!!!!!

MPs cannot hit out at Anna.... and believe me they are itching to do so!!!! He is seen as the one who is bent on making Politics drab and without selfish interests..... our Netas are fixated on fun and games and selfish motives!!!! So now the MPs are targeting Kiran Bedi!!!! Are our MP's holy that nothing can be said that is construed as insulting to them!!!! Bedi has said and done nothing that brings down the prestige of the Parliament!!!! And please just look at the track record of our Netas .... don't they bring down the prestige of Parliament.... do I need to cite examples??????

Those who stood with Anna are going to be attacked!!!!!

By 'the system' they've already been tacked!!

I think the birth date which was on the records when the current COAS was appointed should be the birth date for fixing his retirement!!!! He's just making a hullabaloo and bringing down the prestige on the high Office that he holds!!!! I feel this issue needs to be settled ASAP....... this sort of 'indiscipline' should not be tolerated..... what message does this send down to the ranks??????

Okay if he's hankering for Office.... make him an Ambassador or even a Guv!!!!

And mind you in this matter push has come to shove!!!!!

Rajiv's killers have spent 'a life sentence' on the death row.... so in fact now they'll be hanged after living out a life sentence!!!! In TN the feeling is that they were not even directly involved in Rajiv's assassination...... the rarest or rare yardstick in their case is not the motive or how Rajiv was killed but the fact that it was Rajiv who was killed!!! Subramaniam Swamy who boasts about his vegetarianism has no qualms about lives being snuffed out!!!!! Keep these guys in jail for the rest of their lives!!!!

Giving and taking of lives is HIS domain so do away with the death sentence!!!!!

Don't we say and eye for an eye does not make sense??????

PS...... PC's son questioned authenticity of Anna's 12 day fast........ after what he was able to do during his Dad's election in TN I'm sure PC's son has reason to doubt everything and anything..... they say our deeds guide our thoughts!! And Anna from his hospital bed has sent Mohna a get well card!!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Was Antony to take over as PM ?
Sonia Gandhi according to the original plan, insiders say, had thought of replacing Dr. Manmohan Singh with AK Antony but the plan had to be shelved due to her sudden illness.

Who mobilized the youth for Anti corruption campaign ?
Who mobilized the youth for Anti corruption campaign ? Believe it or not, it was none other than the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarathi Parishad (ABVP) which mobilised the youth in support of the anti corruption drive of Anna Hazare. And in doing so, it also had the forthcoming Students Union elections which take place at the start of each semester in various universities.

BUREAUCRACY

Health Secretary could not be decided
The Government of India (GOI) could not decide about new Health Secretary.

K.Chandramouli retires as Health Secretary
K. Chandramouli (IAS UP,1975 batch)has retired as Health Secretary to the Government of India (GOI) on August 31, 2011.

Anil Kumar gets additional charge of Health
Anil Kumar who on central deputation is Secretary Ayush has been given additional charge of Health in the Government of India (GOI) for three months.

Naini Jayaseelan is now Member-Secretary Urban Development
Ms. Naini Jayaseelan, presently Adviser - Planning Commission, has been appointed as Member Secretary, NCR Planning Board under the Ministry of Urban Development in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary. She is 1980 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

CIT posting orders this week end
Transfer and posting orders of Commissioners of Income Tax are expected this week end. About four dozen officers figure in the list.

A total lull in the Railway Ministry
There is a total lull in the Railway Ministry as far as senior level postings were concerned. Neither K K Shrivatava's file for Member Traffic nor any proposal regarding appointment of senior officers as GMs was mooted till Tuesday evening. Those who are to be elevated as GMs are: B.N. Rajshekhar, Arunendra Kumar, A K Verma, Kalishankar, Mahesh Kumar, A.K. Khanna, S.K. Jain, G.C. Agrawal, Indra Ghosh, S.V. Arya & N.C. Sinha.

Postings of 5 IRTS officers
As many as five IRTS officers have got new postings. They are:R.S.Meena SAG/IRTS/NCR to North Western Railway and posted in the cadre , V. Shankar SAG/IRTS/NCR presently working in IRPMU to Northern Railway and posted in the cadre,Surendra Kumar SAG/IRTS/NR to North Central Railway to North Central Railway & posted in IRPMU, Ashok Chaudhary SAG/IRTS/SECR to Northern Railway and posted in the cadre and K.V.Rao SAG/IRTS on return from deputation to Eastern Railway and posted in the cadre.

Ranjit Kumar Bhatia accorded a grand farewell
Ranjit Kumar Bhatia , Director General (DG) of the Indo Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) who is retiring on August 312, 2011 was given a warm send. This was also marked by a grand farewell parade was by ITBP's personnel.

Brara to be Director (Commercial ) Air India
G D Brara is being tipped to be new Director (Commercial) of the Air India. He is presently ED in the company.

IAS officer missing in Rajasthan
2001 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer Navin Jain has been missing since yesterday. An FIR has been lodged.

Navy Vice Admiral retires
Navy Vice Admiral, DK Dewan has retired after 38 years of service on Tuesday.

Former Chief Secretary is CIC in Rajasthan
Former Chief Secretary T Srinivasan is being tipped to be new Chief Information Commissioner in Rajasthan.

Karamvir Singh retires -Tiwari is acting DGP in UP
Finally Uttar Pradesh DGP Karamvir Singh has retired on Wednesday.DG PAC R K Tiwari has been appointed acting DGP of UP.He is 1976 batch IPS officer.

Two 1977 batch IPS officers get DG rank in UP
Two 1977 batch IPS officers V K Singh and A K Gupta have been promoted to the rank of DG in Uttar Pradesh.

Justice Balia to be Chairman HRC Rajasthan
Former Judge of the Patna High Court Justice Rajesh Balia is being appointed Chairman of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission.

G. Vijayaraghavan is on Kerala Plan panel
G. Vijayaraghavan, former chief executive officer, Techno park, and a management consultant has joined on the Kerala State Planning Board (KSPB).

Rajasthan facing shortage of IPS officers
The Rajasthan government has been facing a dearth of IPS officers.

Posting of Yadav in Sikkim
Raj Kumar Yadav, IAS, on completion of IAS Professional Courses (Phase-II)at LBSNAA, Mussoorie has been posted as Sub-Divisional Magistrate, South, Namchi vice Mrs. Annapurna Alley in Sikkim.

School Teacher is OSD to CM in Assam
Barnali Saikia Bora, a higher secondary school teacher from Jorhat has been appointed officer on special duty to the chief minister in Assam.

Two new Information Commissioners is Bihar
Journalist Farzand Ahmed and former IAS officer S. Vijay Raghvan have been appointed new Information Commissioners in Bihar.

IFS officer to retire today
I A Khan I F S ( J&K 1975) Pr. C C F and Project Chief I W D P is retiring on Aug,31,2011.

IA&AS officer Dattaprasad posted as Assistant Accountant General
Dattaprasad Suryakant (IA&AS 2009), on completion of training at Shimla, has been transferred and posted as Assistant Accountant General, in the office of the Pr Accountant General (A&E), AP, Hyderabad. He will be entrusted independent charge of DAG (Pension) against an existing vacancy.

IRS (C&CE) officer Vinod Kumar empanelled as JS in GoI
IRS (C&CE) officer M Vinod Kumar of 1984 batch has been empanelled as JS or equivalent in the GoI under CSS.

IRS officer Pandey empanelled as JS
IRS (IT) officer V K Pandey who belongs to 1984 batch has been empanelled to the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in the Government of India under the Central Staffing Scheme (CSS).

IAS reshuffle in Assam
ACS Jitesh Khosla has been given the additional charge of PWD, PHE and Water Resources. Anurag Goel has been posted as Secretary of Information Technology and Science and Technology and Commissioner-Secretary. Maninder Singh has been posted in GAD. Bhaskar Mushahary has been given the additional charge of Urban Area Development. Saraswati Prasad has been given the additional charge of Handloom and Textile, Commissioner-Secretary. KC Chamaria has been given the additional charge of Agriculture.

Lt Gen Kochhar is Indian Army's new Signal Officer-In-Chief
Lt Gen SP Kochhar has been appointed as the 23rd Signal Officer-in-Chief of the Indian Army. He will take over charge on Sept 1, 2011, from Lt Gen P Mohapatra. At the helm of the Army's Corps of Signals, the Arm responsible for engineering the Army's telecommunications requirements, Lt Gen Kochhar will have a critical role in overseeing the digitization of the Indian Army, as part of transformation.

Retired CIT Indra Kumar promoted
Retired Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) Indra Kumar has been promoted to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax w.e.f. the date of promotion of the officer junior to him. He retired from the service more than 15 months ago i.e. on May 31, 2010.

Another retired CIT promoted
Retired Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) Vijay Kumar Singhal has been promoted to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax w.e.f. the date of promotion of the officer junior to him. Singhal superannuated from the service about 13 months ago i.e. on August 2, 2010.

Dr. M. A. Ibrahimi promoted to CS's rank in Bihar (UPDATED)
Dr. M. A. Ibrahimi (IAS Bihar 1978) batch has been promoted in the rank of Chief Secretary

IPS Postings in Tamil Nadu (UPDATED)
Certain IPS officers were shifted in Tamil Nadu on late Tuesday evening. They are: K.Shankar JC WEST Chennai,P.Sakthivel - JC raffic South, Jayaram- JC Traffic North, Ponmanic- JC CCB Chennai, Ramasubramani- DIG VLR, Seshasai- JC ast,Karthikeyan- DC Pulianthope, S.baskaran- DC Mount.,T.K. Pugalenthi- DC Mylai, S.rajendran- DC Madhavaram, Santhosh Kumar- DC Traffic West & Anish Husain- DC Traffic East.

Robin Dhowan is new Vice Chief of Navy (UPDATED)
Vice Admiral Robin Dhowan has taken over as the Vice-Chief of Navy following retirement of Vice Admiral D K Deewan .

(DEBATE)
DEFENCE OFFICIALS AS IPS ?
The government intends to allow the entry of the Captain and the Major-rank defence officials if they qualify limited departmental examination to join the Indian Police Service, in all probability, from 2012 onwards. The step is being taken to bridge the shortage of IPS officers in the country. Is it a right step ? Mail your views to suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com or mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com

CORPORATE

Sanjay Sinha resigns ?
Chief Executive of India's L&T Mutual Fund, Sanjay Sinha is reported to have resigned from the Company.

Gopalakrishnan appointed MD, Bata India
The Board of Bata India has appointed Rajeev Gopalakrishnan as the Managing Director of the Company with effect from October 1, 2011.

Poddar resigns as Independent Director, JVL Agro Industries
Shyam Poddar, Independent Director of JVL Agro Industries Ltd has resigned from the board of directors of the company w.e.f. August 6, 2011.

Qutub appointed Part-time Director, Gail (India) Ltd
Gail (India) Limited has appointed Prof. Aliasgar Qutub Contractor, as Non-official Part-time (Independent) Director of the Company w.e.f. August 4, 2008.

Johnson appointed Company Secy. Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services Ltd
Liju K. Johnson has been appointed as the Company Secretary of Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services Ltd w.e.f. August 29, 2011.

Sahgal appointed President Ad Club of India
P K Sahgal, Branch Manager, Lowe Lintas ,has been elected President of the Ad Club of India for the year 2011-12.

Rai re-appointed Director, FCS Software Solutions Ltd
FCS Software Solutions Ltd has re-appointed Dhruwa Narain Rai as Director of the company.

Sahu appointed Director, FCS Software Solutions Ltd
Govinda Sahu has been appointed as Director of FCS Software Solutions Ltd.

Sooda appointed Business Director (Client Servicing), JWT, New Delhi
Nutan Sooda has been appointed as Business Director (Client Servicing), JWT, New Delhi.

DEBATE (1)

A good proposition

It is a good proposition to have Army officers mix with civil office set up like in AFHQ, however with civilian boss. But considering the alarming deficiency in Army, it is not a reasonable proposition at this juncture. It is better all police personnel should first join ARMY and keeping the volunteer officers, the rest need to be released as IPS or Inspectors. This will kill both problem of shortage in army and fitness problem in police. Further ARMY would have younger profile officers and could also be a solution for post retirement problem currently faced by ARMY. Police should adopt only two level entry at the beginning and later move to a singly entry system. This will maintain motivational level and uniformity in approach. Further like ARMY, reservation policy should be banned from policing also, where only merit counts.

PS : ARMY means Armed Forces and POLICE means all paramilitary forces and civil police

M K Kumar

DEBATE (2)

Getting Army officers in IPS is an excellent idea

The army guys by virtue of their training and working environment will definitely add greatly to police services. However, their seniority needs to be retained to ensure that no injustice is done due to change of service. This step will go a long way in improving the functioning and ethos of Police force. Case in example are Late Ashok Kamte (ex army to IPS) and many Police officers who joined IPS after their short service commission in army. They have generally excelled, wherever they were posted. In USA this system has been in vogue since first world war with lot of success stories.

Vibhu Vashistha

IT dept harassing taxpayers

I fully agree with R K Mishra's view that the income tax department is wrongly harassing taxpayers for any lacunae in 26AS statement. In another instance, the state government treasury officer(Tax Deductor) was wrongly refusing to issue Form 16 certificate for TDS saying that the income tax dept does not require it, whereas the provision was only that form 16 need not be enclosed with the tax return. So the tax deductor refuses to issue form 16 due to his ignorance and arrogance and the assessing officer calls for the assesse to produce the form 16 to complete the assessment. This merry-go-around of harassment of the helpless assesse goes on.Is there no safeguard against such highhandedness of these petty officials against the citizen.

Leela

Representative Democracy and Civil Society

The air is resonant with fierce debates relating to philosophy and practical content of the hallowed concepts of democracy, citizens and participation/representation. Merits and demerits of first past the post system are too well known to be recounted here. However, in the prevailing atmosphere, since moralistic postures in the extreme are being adopted, egos seem to have been badly bruised and there is flurry of abuses and recriminations, it appears worthwhile to highlight and reiterate basic facts in this regard. A cursory glance at winning candidates' analysis in the General Elections, 2009, which has been put out by the Election Commission of India on its website, is instructive. In only 4 seats (out of 543),the winning candidates secured more than 50% of votes over total electors in the constituency! Also, 4 candidates won securing less than 10% votes over total electors in the constituency! While 448 (winning) candidates secured less than 50% of votes over total votes polled in the constituency, only 12 winners secured more than 60% votes!

S.K. Tewari

Kudos to whispers

You had good take on Rajdeep Sardesai in Aj ki Awaz today.

Shantanu Ghosh

Privilege notice !

Privilege notice against Kiran Bedi and Om puri has been admitted for their certain utterances from Ramlila ground against honble MPs. Both of them are celebreties in their own right and their utterances lowered their image in the eyes of their supporters (and not of honble MPs ) My worry is that if they are punished,electronic and print media will repeat what Kiran Bedi and Om Puri said from Ramlila ground . Our parliamentary democracy is robust and vibrant and can afford to ignore utterances made in the heat of the moment.

Sudhir Chopra

Tail-Piece

Height of Creativity

A Notice Board in Conference Hall "Pl keep your mobile on-Manmohan Singh mode ".

DPS is a Public Authority

Information related to admission made by the Delhi Public School (DPS), Rohini under the policy framework specified by the Department of Education (DoE) for the academic year 2010-2011 was denied claiming that since it is an Unaided Private Institution, the RTI Act is not applicable to the school. The CIC noted that 10,000 sq. mtrs. of land was allotted to the School by the DDA at a nominal rent of Rs. 10/- per annum while another 6000 sq. mtrs. have been allotted at concessional rate of Rs. 65 lacs per acre. The CIC observed that the terms and conditions of service of employees of DPS are as per the norms of DoE and the School enjoyed exemption from Income Tax on its earnings. The presence of two nominees from the DoE in the Managing Committee indicated the Government control in the running and administration of the DPS. The CIC held that the DPS, Rohini fulfills the essential elements of being called a 'Public Authority'.

Comments

Getting a child admitted in a good school has been very difficult for the residents of Delhi. Hopefully, this order would usher in transparency in the working of the educational institutes in the country who shall now be bound to designate PIOs.

- 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)