Your website is excellent information provider. Keep it up and all the best for your future growth. Can we highlight some irregularities in PSUs through your website so that at least reader will understand what mess is going on in some so called PSUs. Please advise me and revert back. Rgds.

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'See we let the law take its course on Raja'!!!!

This is the sloganeering and self back patting being done by Congress's 'band baaja'!!

This Band Baaja ( Spokesmen) has no answer to Mohna defending Raja in Parliament!

Or 'fire fighters' Kapil and Montek who to blow out 'arrest Raja and JPC' fires were sent!

Fact of the matter is .....this arrest is because of Supreme Court!!

And as we know in Spectrum Ghotala matter to SC CBI does report!

Then Media pressure was also intense!!!

And Public's 'ire' on Sarkaar's ination on ghotalas Congress was able to sense!

Seems when Sonia met Karuna she mentioned Kanimozhi was under the scanner too!!

And when Karuna heard this he excused himself to go to the loo!!

Because if CBI were to question Kanimozhi DMK's stock in TN would fall!!!

So Karuna there and then had to take a call!!!

He went into the loo partly out of need and also to call Raja from this cell!!

'You have to go to Jail for your Leader' Raja ko Karuna did tell!!

Adding hastily ' Just for a month or two and then you will be out on bail'!!

'Remember we are in the same boat and together out of this storm we will sail'!!

Because without Karuna's blessings Raja could not have done what he did!!!!

Those in the know say he did what for him to do Karuna did bid!

And Raja will come out and head straight to meet Karuna!!

And settle account with Karuna .... both nayaa and puraana!!

Purana account is the ghotala and nayaa is going to jail!!!!

He says he resigned and went to jail for his Leader and did not let out 'but I'm not alone in this' wail!!

What about the other scamster who took India to the cleaners too????

Seems when it comes to him nothing CBI has been able to do!!!

His 3 sidekicks got bail as CBI could not file a charge sheet within the stipulated time!

Had CBI not been shackled by Congress Kalmadi by now would have been serving time!

Though Congressis say ' Madam is on the job'!!!

She's after all jinno ne kiya Desh ko rob!!

Hope she has Q in this list too!!

Ask Congressis this and they say ' Courts let him off so what can Madam do'????

On embarrassing questions Congress has found a way 'not to give any reply'!!!

They say 'Matter is sub judice and if you want an answer to the Court please do apply'!!

I wonder how does Abhishek Singhvi Congress's prominent Bhonpu sleep at night?????

Doesn't his conscience at night with him fight????

He spends all his time trying to derail the truth to get his Party off the hook!!!!

Wonder in the morning how in the mirror does he look???

Seems being able to lie is the basic need to qualify to be Congress Band Baaja ka member!

Truth ko Members of this Team karte hai dinn raat ruthlessly dismember!!

Confucius says…. But it is a thankless job as High Command's favour they do not win!!

Usually they are used and discarded in the dustbin!!!

Adds…. Like take Singhvi…. he's been lying for years and he's not made it to Mantri Grade!!!

I'm sure any day his Spokesman post with Mantripadh he's trade!!

More.... Manish Tiwari shamelessly bends the truth with his ludicorus arguments!!!

He hopes he'll make it from Spokeman to Minister because of these statements!!!

Flash….. Yeddy says to create problems for him is ding 'jadoo toona'!!!

But aren't his problems because State ko lagaa raha hai chhoona?????

Shobha who is a favourite of Yeddy says 'she fears they'll burn her'!!!!

Why…. because she's close to Yeddy Sir!!!

BJP needs to realize Yeddy not being sacked is an example of 'double speak'!!!!

Yeddy's resignation BJP should seek!!!

If Mohna stood up for Raja in Parliament on Yeddy BJP gang looked the other way!

Despite Ghadkari saying what Yeddy did was morally wrong in the House deaf BJP did play!

At the DMK meet it was decided to back Raja and say he's clean or innocent!!

Maybe to help DMK to TN Sibal and Montek will be sent!!

After all Sibal has said 'there was no loss' and Montek has agreed with what Sibal said!

So this twisted and deceptive yarn to TN electorate will be fed!!

Bharat Kumar

1977 batch IAS officers get Secretary rank in GoI
All the empanelled 1977 batch IAS officers have been given in-situ promotion to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.They are Mssrs :- Shekhar Agrawal,Naved Masood,Mohammad Haleem Khan,Rakesh Kacker,Mrutyanjay Sarangi,Vilasini Ramachandran,R K Mathur,Shumsher K Sheriff,Loretta Mary Vas,P K Sinha,Sharad Gupta,Alok Rawat,K Jose Cyriac,Sudhir Krishna,Alok Perti,P K Chaudhury,A K Mathur,Girish B Pradhan,Ajay Bhattacharya,Vishwapati Trivedi,D R S Chaudhary,P K Pradhan,G C Chaturvedi ,A S Lamba,N C Vasudevan,Jayant M Mauskar,Sundaram Krishna,Sangita Gairola,Ashok Thakur and Chinmay Basu.
(We said this only yesterday )

K K Sharma to be Advisor to Chandigarh Administrator ?
Grapevine has it that K K Sharma is going to replace Pradip Mehra as Advisor to the Chandigarh Administrator.He is 1983 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Shailesh Kumar Singh to be JS Urban Development
Shailesh Kumar Singh is being tipped to be Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Urban Development. He is 1991 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Das poised to be NBCC's new chief
V. P. Das Director Projects NBCC who is looking after the charge CMD, NBCC is poised to be new full time CMD of the NBCC. He is number one in panel for Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the NBCC interviews for which were held on February 2, 2011.

Rajiv Kher is Additional Secretary Commerce
Rajiv Kher will be new Additional Secretary Commerce. Orders of 1980 batch UP cadre IAS officer Kher are being issued today.

Yugandhar tipped to be Advisor to Jharkhand CM
As the grapevine has it, B.N. Yugandhar, former member Planning Commission and retired I.A.S. officer is going to be Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda's Advisor Development.

Who will succeed U K Sinha ?
Who will succeed U K Sinha as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Unit Trust of India Asset Management Company (UTIAMC) ? Picture is so far not clear.

Ravinesh Kumar poised to be PS to Steel Minister
Ravinesh Kumar who is Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in the National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) is poised to be private secretary (PS) Indian Minister Steel with Independent charge Beni Prasad Verma. He is an officer of IRTS cadre and belongs to 1990 batch.

Mehra to continue in MCD !
K S Mehra is likely to continue as Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD). He is 1978 batch IAS officer.

Minor Bureaucratic changes likely in Delhi
Once VRS application of PS Finance J P Singh is accepted a minor bureaucratic reshuffle will take place in Delhi Government.1977 batch IAS officer Singh is likely to be appointed Member of the DERC.

IPS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh
Sarabjit Singh, OSD to Chief Minister, has been given the additional charge of DG (Jail), VK Pawar has been made ADG PHQ Reforms, Sudhir Shahi, IG Phq has been made IG (Selection) PHq and PK Runwal, IG PHq is now IG Narcotics.

D.K. Kotia is PS non conventional Energy in Uttarakhand
D.K. Kotia, who so far was Principal Secretary (PS) to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal, has now been posted as PS Non Conventional Sources of Energy. He is an IAS officer of the 1981 batch who belongs to the Uttarakhand cadre. Kotia who had sought a change for himself will also look after special projects.

Dr. Umakant Panwar heads CM's Secretariat in Uttarakhand
Dr. Umakant Panwar, who is Secretary to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal, will head the CM's secretariat besides holding the charge of Information department. He is an IAS officer of the 1991 batch who belongs to the Uttarakhand cadre.

Pankaj Agrawal poised to be PS to Venugopal
As the grapevine has it, Pankaj Agrawal, CMD, DISCOM Jabalpur, is poised to be private secretary (PS) to K.C. Venugopal newly inducted Indian Minister of State for Health. He is an IAS officer of the 1992 batch who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre.

CLIR in Mumbai triggers a row in Mumbai
A missive by a senior cop of Mumbai police on Caller Identification restriction(CLIR) has triggered a row. What does the letter shown here depict is for our readers to appreciate?

Promotion of Jharkhand SPS to IPS on the cards
Promotion of Jharkhand state police officers to the IPS officer grade is on the anvil. A meeting in this regard, after the names of such officers found eligible to be IPS were sent to the Union Home Ministry, has already been held and a final decision in this regards is likely to be taken soon.

IA&AS officer Chandramouli transferred
R Chandramouli, Assistant Director, in the office of PDCA & e.o. MAB, Bangalore on completion of orientation training course at NAAA, Shimla, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (IC-II: adhoc) in the office of PAG (CA), AP, Hyderabad against the vacancy arising on retirement of G L Suryanarayana on Jan 31, 2011.

Six officers nominated for Staff College, Tamil Nadu
Six officers have been nominated for their selection in 67th Staff Course at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu commencing from 13th June'2011. They are Mssrs Radhakrishanan Nair, Dy. Comdt., Assam Rifles , Rakesh Ranjan, Dy. Comdt., BSF, Maheshwar Rai, Asstt. Comdt., CRPF, Dharmendra Kumar Jha, Asstt. Comdt., CRPF, Ajeet Mohan, Dy. Comdt, BSF and M.S. Malara, Dy. Comdt., Assam Rifles.

IAS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh
In a bureaucratic reshuffle five IAS officers have been shifted in Madhya Pradesh.They are:Pankaj Rag on his return from central deputation (he was Director of Film and Television Institute of India,Pune) to Commissioner State Archaeology & Archives, Ashok Shah
Commissioner State Archaeology to Commissioner Land Records (CLR) Gwalior, M.K. Varshney Commissioner Land Records (CLR) Gwalior to Member Board of Revenue Gwalior , Ms. Seema Sharma Controller Printing & Stationery to Home Secretary and Chandra Has Dube Home Secretary to Controller Printing & Stationery.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Sudhir Bobde will now be Divisional Commissioner Barelley.Amrit Abhijat has been promoted and made Divisional Commissioner Agra. Sanjiv Kumar would now have the charge of commissioner rural development, national employment guarantee scheme. Gyan Singh will be DM Kushinagar. Pranjal Yadav goes to food and drug administration as special secretary. Sarika Mohan has been moved to the department of appointment as special secretary. Sheetal Verma would be the new CDO of GB Nagar. Selva Kumari J has been made special secretary. Muthukumarswami B will be CDO Jhansi. Suhas LY joint commissioner Azamgarh has been transferred to Mathura as its CDO. Naveen Kumar GS would be the new CDO of Allahabad, while Hardoi would have Chaitra V as its new CDO.

Six HP state civil service officers promoted to IAS
As many as six members of the State Civil Service of Himachal Pradesh have been promoted to the Indian Administrative Service. They are Kamal Sharma, Sunil K Chaudhary, Akshay Sood, GK Srivastava, Jeet Ram Katwal (SC) and Dr. Ajay Kumar Sharma.

Mattoo declines post
Amitabh Mattoo has declined the appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the Jammu Central University.

A S Bal is no more
A S Bal has passed away in Delhi on Thursday night.He was retired 1963 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

More awards for Dhall Law Chambers
Dhall Law Chambers, the fledgling law firm set up by Vinod Dhall, former Secretary in Govt of India, continues to win distinctions in the field of legal practice. For the year 2010 it has received two distinguished and prestigious awards for professional and ethical excellence: the India Business Law Journal's 2010 Indian Law Firm awards: named as a Top Law firm in the "Competition & Antitrust Law" category; and DealMakers' Annual Awards 2010 as the Competition Law Firm of the Year. Earlier in 2009 too it had been given the India Business Law Journal's 2009 Indian Law Firm awards and named as a Top Law firm in the "Competition & Antitrust Law" category. Dhall Law Chambers is seen as the law firm of choice for professional services in competition and regulatory laws.

Rajiv Mishra is COO of India News
Rajiv Mishra has been appointed COO of the India News.

Orders of S K Sharma as Secretary Banking in a day or two
Orders of Shashikant Sharma for the prestigious post of Secretary Financial Services are likely to be issued in a day or two.He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.Sharma is presently Secretary IT.

Railway's transfers and postings
Neelabh Mahesh of JAG/IRSSE has been transferred from NER to SER, Vijay Serwal of SG/IRSSE has been transferred from SER to Metro Rly/Kolkata against an existing vacancy, PK Saxena of HAG/IRSE has been transferred from CR to look after the duties of the post of CAO(C)/CR in addition to his own for a period of 45 days or till a regular incumbent is posted, RP Vyas of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from SWR to ER and posted in the cadre, KU Ingale of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from ECOR to ECR and posted in the cadre, Gopal khairwar of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from SWR to ECR and posted in the cadre, KK Saxena, GM, has been transferred from DLW to look after the duties of the post of GM/RCF/Kapurthala, in addition to his own, for a period of three months or until further orders, AK Vohra, GM, has been transferred from ECOR to look after the duties of the post of GM/SECR, in addition to his own, for a period of three months or until further orders, and Kulbhushan, GM, has been transferred from CR to look after the duties of the post of GM/WR, in addition to his own, for a period of three months or until further orders.

Rajasthan govt cancels Detha's transfer
Transfer of Bhawani Singh Detha, (RJ : 1999), Deputy Secretary, Finance (Tax) Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur, as Additional Commissioner, Commercial Taxes Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur, has been cancelled. He will, however, continue to look after the charge of Additional Commissioner, Commercial Taxes Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur, additionally till further orders.

DEBATE

CAN RAHUL GANDHI BECOME "MAHATMA GANDHI " IN THIS "KALYUG"?
He is an icon for the Indian youth in more than one way who wants to build cadre of Congress at grassroots and striving hard to do a Mahatma Gandhi in today's " Kalyug "by injecting a whiff of fresh air. Yes, he is none other than AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi who has been going from place to place. Whispers has decided to conduct a debate on"Dos' " and "Don'ts" for Rahul Gandhi. Surfers are requested to mail their views to mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com.

CORPORATE
Allahabad Bank to open 2 foreign branches
Allahabad Bank is going to spread its wings by opening two foreign branches. A branch each will be opened in Dhaka and Kowloon (Hong Kong). This was disclosed to <whispersinthecorridors.com> by the bank's Executive Director (ED) M.R. Nayak. Later on the bank's representative office in China will be upgraded to a branch, he added. The Allahabad bank is also aiming to increase its turnover from over Rs. two lakh crore to Rs. four lakh crore by the year 2013. According Nayak, the bank will be opening up 500 new btranches as well by the year 2013.

Officers feel they need to catch hold of a Corporate
As the grapevine has it, the manner in which Corporates are holding a sway in governance, bureaucrats feel that they should catch hold of a corporate entity to save their skin.

Rohit Sawhney joins Ibibo as Head of Mobile
Ibibo which has a strong presence in the Internet space and has also branched out into the mobile space has appointed Rohit Sawhney as Head of Mobile services. Sawhney's role will be to identify key opportunities in this area and enable usage of Ibibo across multiple platforms. Prior to joining Ibibo, he was with Virgin Mobile India as Head of VAS. Sawhney has also worked with Envio Networks, Indiatimes and Airtel.

Rajiv Agarwal back in advertising, relaunches Nexus Equity
Rajiv Agarwal, one of the highest regarded names in Indian advertising, is making a comeback to the industry after a gap of seven years. Joining hands with his former business partner Arun Kale, the duo has relaunched Nexus Equity which began operations on January 3, 2011.

Chandran appointed Chairman, Precot Meridian Ltd
Precot Meridian Limited has appointed D Sarath Chandran as Chairman for a period of three years from April 01, 2011 .His present term as Chairman & Managing Director expires on March 31, 2011.

Precot Meridian appoints MD
Precot Meridian Ltd has appointed Ashwin Chandran as Managing Director, for a period of three years from April 1, 2011. His present term as Joint Managing Director expires on March 31, 2011.

Datta appointed Director NICCO Corporation
NICCO Corporation Limited has appointed Dr Dilip Kumar Datta as a Director on the Board of the Company with effect from January 31, 2011.

Giridhar designated President (Finance), Wockhardt Ltd
Wockhardt Limited has appointed S. Giridhar as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Company designated as President (Finance) w.e.f. November 24, 2010.

Karan appointed Addl. Director, Shilpa Medicare Ltd
Ajeet Singh Karan a Nominee of Baring India Private Equity Fund III Limited has been appointed as an Additional Director of Shilpa Medicare Ltd w.e.f January 28, 2011.

Sarma appointed Director, GATI Ltd
A.P.V.N Sarma has been appointed as an Independent Director on the Board of GATI Ltd from February 1, 2011.

IDBI nominates Director on Welspun India Board
IDBI Limited has nominated Shailendra G. Nadkarni on the Board of Welspun India Ltd as Nominee Director.

Agarwal is Director, Infinite Computer Solutions
Infinite Computer Solutions (India) Limited has appointed Satish Kumar Agarwal as an Independent Director of the Company.

Sawhney is Head (Mobile), Ibibo
Ibibo has appointed Rohit Sawhney Head (Mobile). He comes from Virgin Mobile India, where he was Head (VAS).

FORUM
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DEBATE

Joke of the month !

Ms Indira Iyengar's comparison of Rahul Ganddi with Mahatma Gandhi is the joke of the month. Here is a middle aged man whose qualifications are unknown, whose opinions on vital national issues are unknown, whose clandestine visits abroad are mired in mystery and whose visits to any area results in Congress debacle as what happened in Bihar. But I appreciate that such laughable letters do bring a breather from the serious issues being debated in your forum.

Navnith

A futile exercise

Rahul is already overburdened by the greatness thrust upon him owing to his lineage. Is it really required that you start a debate of dos and dont's and enhance his pre-existing burden?

Arvind Sharma

Painful story of all civil servants

This is meant for serious consideration of civil servants who run the government machinery honestly and with fear of loosing their bread (ROTI). Our beloved Pm is supposed to lead all the bureaucrats with utmost sympathy, the grievances and other problems and without using the whims and fancy of Powerful.

On enquiry, it is found that people need extension in the retirement age from 60 to 62 years. In other fields the raise is 65 years but here step motherly treatment is visible means they decide as per their wish.

While in France and China they are giving the raise even upto 65 years and in our case they keep mum.

K Ram Singh

Discrimination in vigilance clearance

PJ Thomas, in the Supreme Court, gave the names of charge-sheeted IAS officers who were given vigilance clearance for the posts of secretaries. Officers of other services are not given clearance even for the posts of Directors. Anybody can imagine the fairness of CVC by this example.

S Kumar

Solution for mitigating the disparity among civil servants

Time bound scale upto the level of Secretary to all Group-A officers will certainly mitigate the frustration and disparity among the Civil Servants and IAS officers should recommend it showing magnanimity and greatness as elder brothers in order to get the genuine regards from other services. IAS officers should also think that being superior in bureaucracy they should do the justice to others also otherwise they can not remove the feeling of hatred from the mind of other services.

S K Singh

Action must for every bribe taker

Following threefold action is a must for every bribe taker

1.Take administrative action like show him the door from the office he occupies for ever.

2.Take legal action against him like punishing him under suitable laws like IPC, Prevention of corruption act, Money laundering Acts etc. whichever is/are applicable and

3.Most importantly recover the amount of bribe (ghoos) from him and restore it to the government exchequer if it has been looted from the government resources/public resources or restore it to its rightful owner alongwith penal interest. This most important aspect is never resorted to with the result the corrupts still find it a worthwhile exercise, as say for instance if somebody makes 100 crores and he is in jail even for 100 days he makes a clean a crore a day which perhaps is not a bad bargain for the ghooskhor. Thus unless step 3 is invoked steps 1&2 are really not very effective deterrents.

BP

Promotions in the All India Services

Promotions to various levels in the All India Services are made as per the provisions of Guidelines issued by the GOI in 2000. Since 2007, however, amendments have been in the Pay Rules, to make it mandatory to follow the Guidelines AND notify BENCHMARKS for promotions in the States and empanelment in the Centre. We are aware of the perils of benchmarks adopted for both the promotions as well as empanelment in the recent past. Selections always lead to finger pointing. So why not tweak the Guidelines to ensure fair deal for all? Here goes the proposal to amend the offensive Para 6 of the Guidelines!

"Each Committee should decide its own method and procedure for "realistic assessment" of the candidate. While the candidate's "social connections" and his "ability to influence decisions" has to be recognised and rewarded, advancement in an officer's career on "merit alone" should not be regarded as a matter of course. It should be earned by dint of hard work, put in by him, in the service of "those who matter", good conduct as reflected by his public display of servility to "those who matter" result oriented performance as reflected by prompt compliance of orders given either verbally or in writing, by "those who matter, and based on a "liberal and humane" selection process. The misconception about "Average" performance also requires to be cleared. While "Average" may not be taken as an adverse remark in respect of an officer, he should be duly rewarded for showing progressive improvement in performance during the period under assessment, to be judged in a liberal and humane manner, taking in to consideration the remarks / recommendations of the "those who matter", serviced by him. Nothing short of average performance coupled with certificate of good conduct issued orally or in writing by "those who matter", should entitle an officer to recognition and suitable rewards in terms of career progression. It is reiterated that merit should not be considered as the basis for rewards in terms of career progression as it might have been earned by unfair means!

An AIS officer