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It is nice and very informative Rajesh Kumar Contact-suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com> & <mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com>
Aaj Ki Aawaz There is an email doing the rounds that gives the new conversion rate!!! This is what the email does state!!!!
Rs. 100 crores is equal to 1 Yeddy and 100 Yeddis make 1 Kalmadi Games Waala! 100 Kalmadis make 1 Niira and 100 Niiras make 1 Karuna/Raja Spectrum waala!!
100 Karuna/ Rajas make 1 Sharad Pawar and 100 Pawars make 1 Sonia Gandhi!!! Sonia faces a 'negativity' ki aandhi!!!
That is why when Rahul said the Tax Haven Indian money belongs to the poor here, And should be brought back here .... many say a more hilarious joke nahi kiya hear!!!!!
Rahul also said Congress needs to get more youth Leaders at the grass root level!!! But by the time they work up the ladder all the 'go' ho jaye gi level!!
Because to work up the Congress ladder chamchagiri is mandatory!!! Even if High Command blunders to accept this without a whimper is obligatory!!
Rahul can keep sermonizing but till chamchagiri culture in Congress is ejected!!! And till only High Command stooges to the top posts in Congress are selected!!
Till then Congress will not be able to get Leaders in the true sense!!!! If status quo is maintained then very soon Congress will be referred to in past tense!
If merit is made the criteria then Rahul should not be 2nd in Command!!! Because without the Gandhi surname respect he will not be able to command!!
Madam and her son need to take a reality check!!!! Changes are needed in the Control Deck too and not only 'on deck'!!!
BJP on the other hand is not taking advantage of Congress's fall!!!! That is because today the shots Advani and Ghadkari karr rahe hai call!!!
Advani is stuck in the past and Ghadkari cannot think beyond food!! But sadly by others in BJP this is not being understood!!
Advani still gives his 'blobs of wisdom' via his blog!!! And Ghadkari takes every meeting to be a chance to hog!!
Karuna is coming the Dilli for a seat arrangement with Congress!! The one who takes himself to be the King of the TN Jungle is coming in a sheep's dress!
Congress wants more seats and Karuna knows he has to give in!!! Yes via 'loudmouth' Baalu he will create Media mein din!!
Baalu will mock roar and Karuna will 'bleat'!!! And after the given in a hasty retreat to TN Karuna and gang will beat!!!
Confucius says... in politics there is no permanent sher or bhed (sheep in Punjabi)!!!! One election a Leader is a bhed and the next election he's a sher!!!
Adds... that is why in Politics there are no permanent enemies of friends!!!! It is all about just power trends!!! Bharat Kumar Hassan Ali Khan and Congress Politics ? Ashok Gehlot puts Rajasthan on fast track
of development BUREAUCRACY
Mittal is new Secretary, Corporate Affairs In-situ promotion of 1977 batch still uncertain Ashok Chawla retires today Sanjay Kaul to go to Gujarat Shalini Prasad is Secretary of All India IAS
Association Behura is now Additional Director IB Butola to accompany Secretary Petroleum S.V. Narsimhan to head IOC A K Hazarika to head ONGC Desh Deepak Verma joins UP Government IA&AS officer to join MEA Deputation of Sanjay Singh in the Rajya Sabha
to end Barun Kumar Sahu to be CVO, GRSE-Kolkata V.N. Rajshekhar is also MD, DFC Srivastava is new Member-Secretary NMAI Man gets additional charge of CMD, MMTC Anil Kumar Sobti appointed as Director Ramesh Krishnamurthi appointed as Director,
DEA Kuluwant Kumar may return to Maharashtra Raj Deep Singh to be promoted as ADG DPC to be held for promotions in R & AW First time in the country IPS becomes Advisor
in State Planning Commission Promotion of Uttarakhand SPS to IPS on the
cards IA&AS officer Thomas transferred Chamber moves to Board of Revenue in UP Bhatnagar gets additional charge in UP Chauhan gets DG rank in Rajasthan Upadhyay joins Planning Commission IRS Officer predicts the result of Cricket
World Cup 2011 Geet Sethi launches Vipul Mittra's "Pyramid
of Virgin Dreams" Bureaucratic reshuffle in Rajasthan Bureaucratic reshuffle in Rajasthan Orders of D K Mittal issued Orders of D K Mittal for the post of Secretary Corporate Affairs have
been issued.He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. Rao appointed Additional Secretary Telecom S R Rao has been appointed Additional Secretary, Department of Telecommunication in place of Subodh Kumar . He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre. AP promotes M. Samuel as Special Secretary Service period of S. Bajpai IPS regularized
as compulsory wait Lokesh Kumar transferred as Mission Director
NRHM Ajai Singh DGP to retire today Karnataka still unable to finalise candidate
for DGPs post Prof Geeta Bali named president All India
Science Congress President refuses to open the 34th nationakl
games Tulsi appointed as Vice-Chairman, 19th Law
Commission 27 IRS officials promoted as Commissioner
of Customs and Central Excise S.T. Ramesh to be acting DGP, Karnataka DEBATE CAN RAHUL GANDHI BECOME
"MAHATMA GANDHI " IN THIS "KALYUG"? CORPORATE Who will succeed Sinha ? Teotia resigns ? Singhvi appointed Addl. Director and MD, EID
Parry India EID Parry Board accepts resignation of Raghunandan
as MD Mirchandani resigns as Director. Eurotex Industries HDFC Bank appoints Addl. directors Shahi is PR Manager, The Claridges , New Delhi Praiwan appointed Exec. Chef Courtyard By
Marriott Malla is Director (Sales & Mktg.), The
Westin Hyderabad Sharma appointed Addl. Director, Prime Securities Shah resigns as Director, Prime Securities Satish Babu elected President of CSI Ashok Soota is quitting Ramadorai is new Advisor to PM Ravindra S Singhvi is MD of EID Parry IPO of the ONGC on the anvil Purkayastha is new GM UCO Bank Orissa Indian Oil Officers Association delegation
meets new Petroleum Minister
FORUM
Rahul reminds us of Rajiv and Nehruji
Rahul Gandhiji reminds us of Rajiv Gandhi and Nehruji. He is the icon for the youth of this country. The old guard of various opposition parties do not like him and carry out propaganda against him but the propaganda is unlikely to succeed. The youth adore him for his humility, humaneness, good intentions, capability, integrity and soundness.
Arjun Mallik
Majority falls prey to mechanizations of politicians
There is a difference between personal honesty and professional integrity. Many bureaucrats, other than those who have a streak of corrupt gene in them, are personally honest, but due to their pliability and cowardice they fall prey to the mechanisations of politicians as well as their corrupt seniors. No one will ever say that CVC, Thomas is dishonest. But his pliability and incapacity to stand firm against machinations of his political master had landed him in the Palmoil case as an accused. Perhaps these qualities(or can I say character drawbacks) has made UPA bigwigs to select him first as Secretary in the controversial Telecom Ministry and then as CVC. He would have escaped public scrutiny if he was not appointed to the vital post of CVC. Many bureaucrats have taken this character drawback as a virtue an gained immensely, getting vital posts while many with personal honesty and professional integrity suffered never going beyond the rank of a Joint Secretary, harassed and shunted from post to post and place to place. In our present political system pit falls and hurdles for a bureaucrat with professional integrity are many. Many lack an iron will to withstand these hurdles. Many factors contribute to this, genetic reasons one of the many. I am not pointing out fingers at reservations since I believe integrity is not the privilege of any community or caste. In these days of corruption and materialistic temptations, it is a must that we tighten the process of selection to elite services like IAS. Due importance should be given to a psychological analysis of the candidate as to whether he or she has the gene to maintain personal honesty and professional integrity. Such analysis have already been recognised in institutions like defence forces. Aberrations will be there but this type of analysis will result in a general quality improvement. Perhaps due to the non-availability of such tests, British gave much value to parentage during the colonial days.
Navnith
Failure of accountability in Government
The embarrassment faced by Government in the selection of CVC Thomas is mainly due to non-placement of his vigilance records before the selection panel as admitted in court. However, this is not the first case when vigilance details have been innocently or deliberately not placed before the ACC or Selection panel. Another case is that of present Director General, CSO in Ministry of Statistics who was charge sheeted thrice in his career including for doubtful integrity and penalties imposed after charges were proved. Details of charge sheets and penalties were deliberately removed from the CR Dossier when it was sent to UPSC and ACC. He has survived so far and got all promotions, including the highest job in ISS, due to his links at high places. Government should act tough on such officers who cheat such important panels or even Cabinet Committees like ACC for ulterior gains, and fix responsibility for the lapse. Government Babus should be accountable for their actions. Like-wise, if a lapse has taken place, Government should mend it.
AM
Padma awards have become a joke
Over a period of time, Padma awards have really become a joke. The selection seems to be made by lobbying, recommendation ,knowing the right kind of persons, favouritism and may be (Sab chalta Hai) bribery. Many names included appear to be favourites of the Powers that be. Last year an Indian origin hotelier from USA got it and so many others who did not deserve. This time again some of the awardees do not deserve the same. One wonders why Brijesh Mishra, the Principal Secretary to Vajpeyi got the Padma Vibhushn. What has he done for the nation? He was the one who failed to prevent the hijacked plane flying from Amritsar to Kandhar. What have some of the filmstars current and from bygone era done to deserve Padma Awards. Why Montek Singh Ahluwalia? It seems the 'prasad 'of these awards is distributed in a way as they say 'andha bante rewari murh murh apno ke de,(A blind man distributes sweets, gives again and again to his own people). In the bargain, we have cheapened these Awards. Those who got it for their achievements in social service, literature, music, dance or excellence in some field must be embarrassed to find themselves in the company of not so deserving.
Aarti Khosla
Dalit Awaaz?
The MOS(Home) is not taking action despite several representations against Secretary (OL),who threatens everyone including dalit officers of spoiling their ACRs.May we request the Editor-in-chief to publish our grievances for the consideration of PM?
(Staff & Officers of OL deptartment) GoI
Whispersinthecorridors@paycommission.com must stop !
Of late, the views on pay parity , anomaly in pay scales between different organized Services arising out of 6th Pay commission's recommendations ,are getting undue prominence in this website. There is a mechanism and a forum in DoP&T and MoF in GoI to address their concerns for taking a holistic view on each issue. The trend of personalized attacks on browsers, is also being given the importance, it never deserves. These negativities must be discouraged. Will it not be more meaningful to focus attention on core issues of national importance. The Editor-in-chief WIC is requested to discourage inter-service rivalries between two services. All organized services, have their quota of talented officers and black sheeps. One should avoid making sweeping generalizations about any Service. This leads to avoidable acrimony between Services. I am sure that is not the intention of this website. One hopes these observations will be given due consideration by Dr Suresh Mehrotra, the Editor-in-Chief, to maintain the credibility of the site.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)
It's surprising
The moment a charge sheet is issued, everything is barred for an official-promotion, deputation, financial upgradation. It's really surprising that P.J. Thomas could get everything. Now this case has to set a precedent that issual of a chargesheet is no bar for promotions and deputations, if Thomas can get it why should others be denied.
Anita
Discontinue recruitment of Central Civil Services through common exam
It is high time that government should discontinue the recruitment of Central Civil Services through this common exam and continue this spread of discontentment and frustration in the officers by drawing odious comparison with IAS. I think now central services system should be disbanded completely and replaced with technocrats. Let there be only one service i.e IAS and nothing else as in any case government is not bothered about other services or their prospects.
Ruhan
Security of tenure is essential
This is with reference to the rumour appearing in WIC yesterday that Secretary Urban Development is being moved to Petroleum Ministry. I feel this is a very dangerous trend of Ministers choosing their Secretaries. It will be in the fitness of things if the new Petroleum Minister, Jaipal Reddy tries to adjust to the new work environment of his Ministry instead of carrying forward the old comforts of his previous posting. Such a trend needs to be discouraged as it is demoralizing for the officer working as Secretary & holding the post at present. On what basis has the Minister arrived at the conclusion that the present Secretary Petroleum is not good enough or that he will not get along with him? In fact bureaucrats should not fall head over heels to serve his master but should have respect for his fellow colleague's honesty, competence & integrity. S. Sundareshan, Secretary Petroleum will be retiring in October 2012 & Navin Kumar will be retiring in August 2012, thus both the officers have barely two years left for service & should be allowed unhindered tenure so that they can bring about an improvement in the working of their respective Ministries. Security of tenure is essential & continuance of officers should not be based on whims & fancies of Ministers.
Lok Nath Mehra
How does this pulverization take place?
Sonawane's tragic murder was an assault on the honest civil servants as a class. Now it is being reported that this dhandaa was going on for 30 years. In the meantime some well meaning government officers had reported the matter to the governments of the time. No action was taken on their report, but surely some of them never got good postings in the rest of their career for the job of highlighting such criminal activities. Such is the governance in practice in the country! I have grown listening, reading, writing, agitating against corruption, alas it has not abated at all! In service, one can do only something within his administrative jurisdiction alone. Any individual officer can resist corruption within his administrative jurisdiction. But government never works in parts, it works as a whole. Here comes the problem. There is no dearth of the dishonest, who will block any plan/proposal/programme, unless their lust for something out of every file is not allowed to them. Since everyone knows the omnipresence of corruption, I would not dwell on the subject. However, I would like the causes for corruption to be pathologically examined. After all young persons, full of idealism to serve the nation & the people, join civil services. Those interested in money alone never had dearth of openings. In fact, many migrated to foreign lands for the love of the lucre, giving us the expression "brain drain". But those who chose civil services wanted to "serve". Unfortunately, they learnt soon that it was neither possible nor meant for them to "serve". Serve only meant serve the vested interests and also your own selfish ends. Transfers, postings, vigilance inquiries etc made the person understand the truth that his/her official status was dependent on several forces. Officers like Sonawane still refuse to compromise . For them criminal assault was devised as the effective treatment(?): so Sonawane was burnt alive, Krishnaiah was stoned to death, a police sub inspector cut into pieces under the watchful eyes of a minister and his security, a Manjunath killed and the whole list of officers and men subjected to criminal assaults will take too much space. What is worrying is not the acts of crime alone, but their abetment. In my Bharat Mahan, not even a chalk can be purchased without the politicians' explicit approval, what to talk of adulteration of diesel/petrol or pilferage of coal from government coal fields or food grains from the FCI godowns etc. It is so, because the politician has become the business magnet and he has given a free hand to his employees to do whatever they like, under the solemn assurance to protect them in all circumstances. There are three voices against corruption: those who advocate anti-corruption measures; those who advocate protection of the corrupt; and those who keep silent about corruption. In this melee, the aam aadmi suffers the consequences. Can the nation, in these circumstances, disqualify anyone having his/her own business from being appointed as a minister/CM/PM?
M L Gupta
Games CSS play
If one does not have any arguments to defend oneself, the famous tactic is to discredit the opponent. The ill-concealed umbrage of CSS is understandable. However, the fact remains that the distortions created by CSS in the Bhavans shows them in very poor light. The claim that CSS is the guardian-angels of all rules and regulations is a pure myth. Care to know how? Read on: First of all, let us look at the usurping role adopted by CSS: At the end of the first restructuring in 2003, a very large number of Under Secretary posts were created. At the US level, the CSSS were earlier permitted lateral entry and a few posts were earmarked for them. These posts at US-level were simply usurped by CSS by making the PSs ineligible for becoming Under Secretary. The funny part is that the noting in this file is being made by CSS officials themselves. Against this usurping, many CSSS officials have gone to Court. It is rumoured that whenever the matter comes up for hearing, only a handful of CSSS stenos are present whereas 150 to 200 Section Officers throng the court with bated breath. That is not the end of the story. At the end of the second restructuring in 2008, 50% of the DS and Director level posts have been usurped by the CSS. This usurping is not at the cost of CSSS. This time, the All India Service officers have been short-changed. Many of the posts which were earlier filled up by All India Service Officers have been diverted to CSS! In addition, the CSS made an abortive attempt to make the stenographers of CSSS ineligible to appear for the SO grade examination by amending the relevant rules. The Delhi High Court has set aside these orders. CSS beware ? the illegal orders making the CSSS ineligible for lateral entry into US-level will also meet with the same fate. Unheard-of in any professional institution, CSS officials themselves decide all service conditions of their own service! In other words, whatever benefits are to accrue to the CSS is decided by CSS themselves. There are absolutely no checks and balances! In addition, they stand in the way of all the other services by putting all kinds of spokes in the cadre restructuring proposals of other services. Very recently, the CSSS was being restructured. It is rumoured that one CSS official raised such queries in the file that the proposal started winding its way into the labyrinth of North and South Blocks and it took more than three months settle the queries raised. Such is the effect of the venom of CSS! The initial recruitment to CSS is done at the level of Assistant which is a Group B Non-Gazetted Post. Graduates are eligible to appear in this examination. If they cannot be called clerks, CSS may enlighten us about an appropriate epithet. There is a famous attorney joke that when a person is stuck in a pit with a snake and an attorney, and only two bullets are left in the gun, he should shoot the attorney twice. After sensitizing the readers about the machinations of the CSS, I leave it to the conscience of the readers as to what should be done to them.
RK Agrawal
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