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Hope in the 'Blue Sheet' that 'inflation tax' that we are paying has been recorded!

Hope it is mentioned that 'food grains' Sakaar hoarded!!!

As this inflation was created by Sarkaar,

And we faced inflation ki maar!

So Sarkaar should give us a tax rebate based on 'the inflation tax' we've paid!!!

After all because of inflation our budgets have been waylaid!!

CBDT has opined 'getting the Tax Haven moneys will be tedious and long drawn'!!

Hinting that plans for getting the moneys via some other mode need to be drawn!!

Mohna's amnesty had good inflows but at that time Tax Havens were safe!!

Now the response will be even better because Tax Havens have become unsafe!!

Especially businessmen who have money in tax havens will join the 'amnesty queue'!!

Problem is that major chunk of Tax Haven money is of a political hue!!

And this money will not and cannot return!!

The Amnesty owners of this kind of money will spurn!!

And if Pranab Da is thinking of a 'tax plus penalty' amnesty then this amnesty will fail!

Via 'Hawala' into India those wanting to close this chapter will 'mail'!!

Many businessmen would like to bring back money as Tax Havens end is in sight!!

In real estate even 90% black is blended with 10 % white and lo black blends with white!

Would Pranab Da like to convert inflows into white or increase the parallel economy here?

The parallel economy like tax haven moneys is putting our economy into reverse gear!

What worries is if tax haven moneys give a huge spurt to the parallel economy!!!

Inflation will go up , bubbles will be created and economic horizon will get very stormy!!

I feel Congress has hurt its image by taking on Baba Ram Dev!!!

In the Nation there is a pro Baba Ram Dev wave!!

Commies when they controlled UPA ordered UPA to dig up scum about him!!!!

And that was the time when UPA bowed to Commie's every whim!!!

But all efforts to corner him came to a naught!!!!

And with getting her facts wrong Brinda Karat was caught!!

If Ram Dev has some scum then seems this was a warning to him 'beware'!!!

And if he has scum he will take care!!!

The proof will be in his taking on Congress or becoming a tortoise!!!

As of now he is keeping up the pressure, maintaining his poise and making a lot of noise!

And BJP is tacitly supporting Congress on it taking on Ram Dev!!

Because his clear attention to enter siyaasat some time back Ram Dev gave!!

Gaddafi's army is deserting him but he importing mercenaries to kill!!!!

Mercenaries to quell the rebellion have been told to fire at will!!!

But seems his end is in sight and end will be sooner than later!!!!

As of now in various ponds (areas) in Libya he is no longer the alligator!!

King Abdullah has returned back to Saudi before his intended return!!

Project Appeasement ... its now Saudi Ruling family's turn!!

He has given Saudis a $ 35 Billion lollipop!!

Hoping that the urge for 'freedom' in its tracks will stop!

To prevent Democracy winds from gaining force everything Abdullah will do!!

Ultimately Democracy winds will gain in the Saudi Kingdom too!!!!

Confucius says.......it is only natural people not wanting to be ruled!!!

Rulers give false hopes of Democracy and there is a limit to people being fooled!

Flash.... they say Kalmadi's arrest is in sight!!

And its being said that arrest could place as early as tonight!!

Bharat Kumar

CWG Games village Scam, Rs 400 crore?
The winning bidder was awarded the contract at such a favourable rate that to siphon off the excess profit of more than 400 crores, entire work was subcontracted to a renowned contractor of India at a rate of Rs.4400 per square foot for more than 22 lakh square foot.Question is

1.What would be the cost of construction of Games village- at most Rs. 2000 per square foot. What happened to the excess money?

2. Why have the Income tax and CBI not touched this contractor so far?

3.Why was the contract of Games village awarded at such favourable term?

4. Why no action has been taken against the tender committee?

Will the Prime Minister, IT and CBI answer?

(This is the whisper received from a visitor of this site )

BUREAUCRACY

Many top level vacancies in Army
One would not believe but it is a fact that Army has vacancies for 90 lieutenant generals and 290 major generals. There is also a shortage of over 12,000 officers at the junior and the middle rung.

File moved for two months extension to Sudhir Chandra
File has reportedly been sent from the office of the Finance Minister for two months extension in service to CBDT Chairman Sudhir Chandra beyond March 31. Will the Prime Minister clear the file ?One can only wait and watch.

Two CBDT Members to retire on February 28
Latest information says that two CBDT Members Durgesh Shankar and C S Kahlon are superannuating on February 28. In view of the budget earlier there was a move to give one month extension to both the members.

S. C. Misra Member Services in DoT to head BSNL
As the grapevine has it, S.C. Misra - Member Services in the DoT is going To be appointed CMD, BSNL till a full time CMD was appointed. The present incumbent Gopal Das is due to retire on February 28, 2011. Das is also holding charge of acting CMD. Basically, Das is Director (HRD), BSNL.

Will Ms. Anita Soni be acting CMD, MTNL?
Will Ms. Anita Soni, who is presently Director Finance in MTNL, be acting CMD, MTNL? This question is hotly being debated in corridors of powers because a proposal has been mooted by the Ministry in this regard. Presently, Kuldip Singh who is Director Technical MTNL is holding charge as acting CMD, MTNL. The latest proposal has triggered a debate that at a time when MTNL's revenue not only went up, but even its losses declined in the last one year, then what is the reason for changing guards in MTNL a his juncture? Moreover, it is being said, if at all for ill financial health of MTNL its CMD is being held responsible then how could Ms. Anita Soni escape the onus who has been MTNL's Director Finance for the last six years, while Kuldip Singh has been Director Technical in MTNL for the last five years.

Minister to decide regarding new Chairman, CIL today
Sri Prakash Jaiswal Indian Minister for Coal will finally decide regarding new Chairman Coal India Ltd (CIL) on February 25, 2011. Chances of Alok Perti (1977 batch IAS officer from Assam cadre) Special Secretary and FA in the Coal Ministry being appointed as Chairman CIL are quite bright.The other option is to appoint N.C.Jha senior most Director of CIL to be appointed as CIL's Chairman.

MHA asked submit panel for Secretary (Security)
As the grapevine has it, Cabinet Secretariat has advised the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in Government of India (GOI) for submitting a panel of IPS officers for the post of Secretary Security may be panel soon since present incumbent B.K Dey is due to retire shortly.

4 internal candidates for UTI's top post in fray
There are four internal candidates who are in fray for the post of UTI chief. They are: Jaideep Bhattacharya Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), I Rahman- Chief Finance Officer (CFO), Anoop Bhaskar Head-equity and Amandeep Chopra Head-fixed income.

No Statistician in India
It is really strange that in a 50,000 or so strong Statistical Cadre in the country at both the Central and State Governments, the country could not find a single Statistician to head the post of Statistical System in India as a Chief Statistician & Secretary, Ministry of Statistics. While one Economist from Planning Commission Dr. Pronab Sen held the post for 3 years as the first Chief Statistician of India from Feb. 2007 to June 2010; another Economist Prof. T. C. A. Anant, in-fact an Economics Professor from Delhi University, took over the reins from July 2010. The Selection Committee headed by the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, himself a top Economist, with a few more Economists as members of the Committee, decided to vote in favor of their peer Economist as Chief Statistician of India, ignoring the claim of atleast 4-5 Top Statisticians from the "System", who were groomed for the post in the last 30-35 years. It is a simple case of "Andha Bantey Rebri phir phir apno koa day".

Manoj Joshi is new Secretary to Kerala Chief Minister
Manoj Joshi has joined as Secretary to Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan.
Manoj Joshi is already Secretary GAD & Ports in Kerala. He is an IAS officer of the 1989 batch who belongs to Kerala cadre.

Sanjay Kaul joins as MD, TGCL
Sanjay Kaul on inter cadre deputation has joined as the new Managing Director (MD) of Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd (TCGL) as well as Commissioner Tourism. He is an IAS officer of the 2001 batch who belongs to Kerala cadre. So far he was Collector Thiruvananthapuram

(We said this on Feb 1 & 17, 2011)

Dr.Dinesh Arora is new Collector Thiruvananthapuram
Dr.Dinesh Arora has joined as new Collector of Thiruvananthapuram. He will hold additional charge of Director Social Welfare as well. He is an IAS officer of the 2002 batch who belongs to Kerala cadre.

Who will be new Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh ?
Hectic lobbying is going on in Uttar Pradesh for the post of Chief Secretary .Logically Desh Deepak Verma should be appointed the Chief Secretary because he was recalled by the UP Government from central Government on the plea of making him the head of the state bureaucracy. In the meanwhile, names of Mohinder Singh, Anoop Mishra, Kapil Dev and Neeta Chaudhary have also started doing the round for the post.

Patnaik to replace Sanjeev Dayal ?
Grapevine has it that A M Patnaik is going to replace Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjeev Dayal.He is 1979 batch IPS officer.

D.K Pathak promoted as ADG (training) in CRPF -HQ
D.K Pathak IG (Pers) CRPF has been promoted to the rank of Additional Director General (ADG) Training and posted in CRPF - HQ Delhi. He is
an IPS officer of the 1979 batch, who belongs to the Assam -Meghalaya cadre.

R.K Vishwakarma posted as IG (Pers&Comu.), CRPF
R.K Vishwakarma IG (Adm) CRPF has been transferred as IG (Pers&Comu.)HQ Delhi. He is an IPS officer of the 1988 batch, who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Pawan Agarwal joins Planning Commission
Pawan Agarwal, IAS (1985), West Bengal has joined as Adviser (Education), Planning Commission. He is author of a book on higher education and has been on prestigious Fulbright and Endeavour fellowships on higher education in the United States and Australia.

Kulwant Kumar Sarangal to return to his parent cadre
Kulwant Kumar Sarangal Deputy Director Intelligence Bureau (IB) is returning to his parent cadre on his own request. He is an IPS officer of the 1990 batch, who belongs to the Maharashtra cadre.
(We said this 3 months ago)

IA&AS officer Verma transferred to Mumbai
RK Verma, Principal Accountant General (Audit), Jharkhand, Ranchi, has been transferred and posted as Principal Accountant General (A&E)-I, Maharashtra, Mumbai.

Thy name is PIB
Press Information Bureau (PIB) offices in various states have become almost defunct. Reason- less staff, no transport and other facilities & too much work load .Most of PIB offices are without staff cars, but they can't book taxi for their daily official work. Many officers are holding dual charge or additional responsibility. Staff crunch is too much. Almost every bureau is having 25 - 40 per cent staff .All PIB offices have been given responsibility to organize Public Information Campaigns (PIC). They have't been given additional staff for the purpose. They even can't book casual staff. Issuance of regular press releases & press notes have become erratic. Even central government offices at various places says that PIB is not use full to them, which seems correct. PIB is the only official news agency of GoI. It's better to close down such defunct offices. Though situation at the Hq. is not very healthy but out side delhi it is very bad.

Asstt Suptd and Head Constable sacked for providing extra facilities to Davis
Accordinfg to report published in the Pakistani news paper 'DAWN' Nawed Ashgar Assistant Superintendent of the high security Kotlakhpat jail where the US embassy staffer Raymond Davis is incarcerated and Hafiz Hussain Head Constable working in the sensitive IT department of the same jail have been dismissed from service for 'providing facilities to the US official'. Initial reports indicate that Nawed Ashgar tried to have a USB memory stick delivered to Davis through the Constable which was detected by special security guards posted outside Davis cell. During preliminary investigations conducted by the jail authorities the Constable named his Assistant Superintendent who denied the allegation asserting that the pendrive was actually given by him to the Constable for getting printouts of the data contained on it but Hussain on his own decided to deliver the same to Davis. The case is now being investigated by Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

Justice Trivedi to head Commission in Bihar
Former Allahabad High Court judge V K Trivedi will head a commission set up by the Bihar government to suggest measures for the uplift of poor among the upper castes.

IAS changes in Haryana
Ajit M Sharan will now be Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Technical Education Department in addition to his present assignments. Anand Mohan Sharan will also be Additional Resident Commissioner, Haryana Bhawan, New Delhi, and Administrator, TFAH.Sandeep Garg has been made Managing Director, Haryana Land Reclamation Development Corporation and Special Secretary, Agriculture. Pushp Raj Singh will be Special Secretary, Home-I. SK Goyal will be Special Secretary, Irrigation, and MD, Haryana State Minor Irrigation and Tubewell Corporation.RS Khara has been posted as MD, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation. Wazeer Singh will be Deputy Secretary, Public Health, Ashok Kumar Sangwan Deputy Secretary, Administrative Reforms, and Atul Kumar is ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Hisar.DK Behera has been made ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Palwal, and KM Pandurang ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Karnal.

Bhalla is DG of NCC (UPDATED)
Lt Gen Palvinder Singh Bhalla has taken over as the Director General of National Cadet Corps (NCC).

Sailesh gets three months extension (UPDATED)
Joint Secretary Youth Welfare and Sports Sailesh has been given three months extension in central deputation tenure.He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

N.C. Jha will head the CIL (UPDATED)
Who will head the Coal India Ltd (CIL) once Partha S.Bhattacharyya retires as Chairman, CIL on February 28, 2011? Well answer to this question has been answered by Sri Prakash Jaiswal Indian Minister for Coal. It is senior most Directors i.e. N.C. Jha Director Technical in CIL
will be acting Chairman of CIL from March 1,2011. N.C.Jha is already holding charge of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of SECL.

Some alternative arrangement for CMD,SECL (UPDATED)
In wake of N.C. Jha being appointed as Chairman of Coal India Ltd. (CIL) some other arrangement will be worked for the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of SECL- the charge that Jha is holding concurrently.

CORPORATE

New guidelines for banks not yet final
New guidelines for selection of senior bankers for filling up the slots of Chairman and Managing Directors (CMDs) & Executive Directors (EDs) are yet to be cleared.

Gulati is new Chairman of CACP
Dr Ashok Gulati will join as as the Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) from March 1.

Das to be Director (Commercial ) NMDC !
S K Das is being tipped to be new Director (Commercial) of the NMDC. He is presently with the SAIL.

Manoj Kumar gets additional charge in ECGC
Manoj Kumar who as Branch Manager Bank Business Branch of ECGC has been given additional charge of National Marketing Head of ECGC. Kumar is posted in place of V Viswanathan who has resigned recently as General Manager Marketing of ECGC.

Parekh appointed Whole-time Director, Parekh Platinum
Rajnikant J. Parekh, Whole-time Director of Parekh Platinum Ltd has resigned from the Board of the Company w.e.f. February 4, 2011.

Tewari appointed Company Secy. Pan India Corp
Ms. Sunayana Tewari has been appointed as the Company Secretary of Pan India Corporation Limited in place of Ms. Preeti Mehra.

Preethi appointed Company Secy. Ramco Systems
Ms. M Preethi has been appointed as Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of Ramco Systems Ltd with effect from February 23, 2011.

BSIDC withdraws Kumar's nomination from Bihar Sponge Iron
Bihar State Industrial Development Corporation (BSIDC) Limited has withdrawn the nomination of S. Shiva Kumar and nominated Ms. Anshuli Arya in his place on the Board of directors of Bihar Sponge Iron Ltd
.

Mehta joins BBDO India as Sr. Creative Director (Spl. Projects)
Varun Mehta has joined BBDO India as Senior Creative Director (Special Projects).

Mukhopadhyay resigns as Director, Shelter Infra Projects
S. K. Mukhopadhyay has resigned from the Board of Directors of Shelter Infra Projects Ltd .

Mittal resigns as Director, Can Fin Homes Ltd
Dr. Ashok K. Mittal, Director , Can Fin Homes Ltd had tendered his resignation and the same has been accepted by the Board of Directors with effect from February 3, 2011.

Sundara Rajan resigns as Director, Axis Bank
M. S. Sundara Rajan, has resigned as a Director of Axis bank Ltd with effect from February 22, 2011.

FORUM

Retirement age in Maharatna PSUs

Government should allow Maharatna PSUs to decide on Retirement age in their respective organizations. As such they are well-managed organizations. They are allowed to make very large financial decisions without government intervention. They are also allowed to make their HR policies.

They should also be allowed to decide on their retirement age.

I feel retirement age of professionals at senior level must be increased. Professionals also join at a higher age than say a matriculate. Efficient people normally reach senior levels in commercial organizations.

Kumar

Will they ever be able to fearlessly expose corruption ?

Time will never come for honest bureaucrats/officers in government to fearlessly expose corruption. The moment they tried to expose corruption they will be victimised. This is going on a largescale in the various government departments and security agencies. wrongdoings.

Sundarigera

Growing disparity between the haves and have nots

While getting enormous self satisfaction on reports of India's growing economy, what one misses is the growing disparity in India between the haves and have nots. Last night when I was returning from Koramangala, Bangalore, the silicon valley of India at around midnight, I was appalled to see young women some of them appeared to be less than 18,with babies(to me some appeared to be Muslims) begging in the traffic junctions. Amidst the multistory Malls and software MNC buildings these were jarring sights. What type of economic growth are we talking about when such inequalities reman. For every billion rupees, the likes of Ambanis make by hook or crook ,for every billion tax payers money Sonia, Kalmadi and Karunanidhi loot and for every square feet of prime land our politicians and bureaucrats grab, there are lakhs of destitute begging in the streets of our God damn country with no place to rest their heads. Economics have become a jargon of the rich.

Our political parties talk about jargons like rights to every thing education to information .But is it not time to put a limit to certain rights like right to procreate. The Mahabalanovis economic growth, our socialist and secular visionary Nehru espoused did not include population control, which many consider is the root cause of such economic disparity. When Karnataka CM mooted the idea of two child norm, Congress leaders immediately charged him with communalism. Our Parliament and Assemblies have become mud slinging arenas, pots calling kettles black .As long as priority measures remain political scoring points, what ever the so called economic growth we achieve, India will remain as a poor nation.

Navnith

Malkangiri Collector should say sorry for his act:

I may appear wrongly placed here but have no hesitation to state that the Collector should be charged for dereliction of duty, carelessness and one responsible for letting the government down. He may be an honest officer, a hard working officer, a daring officer etc. etc. but he is supposed to behave responsibly. Had he been a simple policeman or a small time contractor or lower level employee, we can understand that they can loiter in beast (Maoist) inhabited areas, but from a Collector level officer it was not expected. Whatever his intentions of travelling alone in that area may be, because of him the government has not only to bend before the terrorist but the result of his act would only encourage these maoist to kidnap other such officers to fulfil their demands. Needless to say that his action would also discourage other similarly placed officers to lead the work for the tribal welfare. Had he taken little caution, i.e. travelled in the area not alone but under security, all the negatives would have turned into positives. Moreover, if he feels he is so daring, why did he never tell his family about it, which started pleading mercy for her husband/son at any cost. Suffice to say that the act of the officer was highly irresponsible and against public interest, considering the circumstances of the area. Therefore, while I have all the sympathies with the family and the officer and wish him to be released soon, he should definitely feel sorry not only for his irresponsible behavior but also on behalf of his family, whose pleas for mercy have discouraged all patriots.

C. Singh

Are you not aware of the rule no work no pay. If things are implemented in this country on retrospective basis then we will have a pleothra of cases. The national ex-chequer will get exhausted and we will have situation like Egypt and Libya in our country also.

A Srivastava

Restructuring of CSSS

The DOPT (CS.II Wing) has recently restructured the CSSS with a view to give promotions to the persons having stagnated to the same post for the last 25 to 30 years. In this context, I would like to bring to the notice of the concerned authorities that views expressed through whispersinthecorridors dt.24.2.2011 may please be considered on top priorities basis so that the persons suffered due to the CS-II Division's delay in promoting the Gr.D may not suffer further.

Deep

Feel sorry for commenting against MPs

Members of Parliament are respected persons. Such type of remarks for them are not fair. One should not see their salary only ,their responsibilities should also be seen. Tea , meal etc. are so small things. MP's should be given more and more facilities if we expect better results from them.

The commentor should be sorry for such comment.

V S Tomar

Ms. Vijayalakshmi Gupta deserves to be in Defence

We expect Madam Vijay Lakshmi Gupta, Member Finance Telecom Commission, to do Yeoman's service in department of telecom . So no transfer till then.

Veena Bhat Pandita

Prosecute him for interfering in and subverting the trial

With the deliverance of Godhra judgement absolutely proving the conspiracy theory, it is time to prosecute Justice (Retd.) U.C. Banerjee for interfering in and subverting the trial. It will be a future lesson to all those Retd. Judges who hover around the gates of ministers and then bring out tailored reports.

N Krishnan

Dharam

RTI

Prosecution record

Copies of certain documents were denied to the Applicant claiming that it consists of analysis of evidences by various decision taking authorities and their opinions thereon which has the potential to influence these evidences and to interfere with the proceedings of the court wherein prosecution of the Applicant is already under process. The Commission noted that copies of the relied upon documents submitted by the Respondents to the Court have already been provided
to the Applicant by the Court and that there is no order from the Court not to disclose any further information available with the Pubic Authority. The Commission directed to provide the documents after severing those portions that are exempt from disclosure under any of
the sub clauses of Section 8(1) of the RTI Act.

Comments

Public Authorities tend to avoid disclosure even after the filing of the charge-sheet, on various pretexts. With the filing of the charge-sheet which marks the end of the investigations, the documents should no longer be held as exempt.

Shri Vijai Singh Meena v. North Western Railway in File No: CIC/AD/A/2010/001543

- 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)