You are doing a great job.
Ajay Kumar Trehan

The sailors who were held hostage by Somali Pirates have returned!!!! Our Sarkaar's total apathy has been revealed!! A wife of a sailor narrated her meeting PM and Krishna and she says both were like stones..... unmoved!!! This I do know that Mohna is hardnosed and his emotions are all caught up in red tape!!!!! She says she met Sushma Swaraj too who also turned her away...... this has not been verified if Sushma verbally expressed her inability to do something or did she dance and express her inability!!! Rahul Gandhi who is known to rush to gain brownie points too refrained from rushing to their side........ seems his think tank calculated at max the vote potential in this was 100-200 votes!!! Our human rights jhola waalas found the plight of these sailors families not worth taking up....... and we too are to blame.......we too were too caught up in our own lives!!! Ultimately it was a Pakistani Minister who is also a Human Rights activist and Pakis who made the return of the sailors possible.... kudos to them!! Our Netas should have shown magnanimity and thanked the Pakis profusely..... where credit is due it must be given!! As the sailors and their families must have been put on the 'watch list' because they have expressed their gratitude to Pakis and have expressed their disappointment at the Indian Sarkaar!!! Flash: I understand Sonia is contemplating calling the sailors and their families for tea..... salvage the situation....... now it's being calculated that this matter could have a considerable vote potential!!!!

Mohna they say towards us Indians is totally emotionless!!!

And Madam Humaneness's emotionless attitude towards us is Mohna se little less!!

Indians are not being able to swallow CBI's exclusion from the RTI!!!! The process of investigation of course should not come under the RTI but once the investigation is complete CBI should not be allowed to hide behind the curtain of secrecy!!! Also what about the cases that are pending with CBI....... there are so many cases that CBI keeps in the 'thandaa basta' for obvious reasons!! Like if an RTI application is filed in Laloo's DA Case I'm sure CBI would be in a fix!!!!What about Q's case....... CBI had marked him as CBI......Cannot Be Investigated????

What UPA gives it taketh!!

Via RTI UPA 1 brought in transparency and now this tr+ansparency into opaqueness UPA 2 maketh!

Senior Congressman who is now being called HMV or Her Majesty's Voice says 'Mohna is a fairly good PM and Rahul is fit too'........meaning Madam now agrees Mohna is okay okay and Rahul is ready to take over!!!!! The general impression is that HMV has been making statements on Sonia and Rahul's behalf..... in fact they vent their spleen via HMV!!!!! Common sense says ' the proof of the pudding is in its eating'........ we will only know what kind of PM Rahul will be is 'if and when' he becomes PM!!!! As of now the general perception seeing his track record is he does not have the qualities to become India's PM!!!!! Add to this the streak of decency that he has......... at least it's my perception that unlike his Dad he'll never make a statement like the ' big tree falling' statement...... Mohna will vouch for the fact that decency can be a big disadvantage !! And now I think most Indians do believe that 'cleanliness in Rahul's case is isolated to his having a bath twice a day'!!!!!

Rahul is known to play hide and seek!!!

When going is bad he hides and then for an opportunity to come out and score brownie points from his hideout he does peek!!

Imagine in Haryana a Grandmom 'slaughtered' her granddaughter by putting an onion in the kid's mouth and then threw the kid in a tandoor...... macabre!!! Imagine Ramdev promises a male child via his quackery!! Despite the fact that India is being run by a Lady...... the Leader of Opposition is a Lady........... so many States have Ladies as CMs......... but despite this the girl child especially in Punjab and Haryana remains a curse!!!! Even in Haryanvi families that do not resort to cruelty when the first girl child is born she's named Lakshmi..... the second is named Rajji (meaning satisfied) and the third one is named Akki (over full)!!!! Of course if boys are born in succession no one yearns for a girl child and names the boys similarly........ in male versions of course.... Ganesh, Rajya (filled) and Akkya (over full)!!!

This granny who slaughtered her granddaughter should be 'for life thrown behind bars'!!!!!

Make her undergo such RI that everyday literally she see stars!!!

Bharat Kumar
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Is Gopinath munde forming a new party?
It is heard in the political circles that Gopinath Munde is likely to start his own political outfit. It is heard that Sundhanshu Mittal is going to back the party as he was a close ally of Pramod Mahajan and Munde is brother in law of Mahajan. The outfit is going to be based out of Maharashtra and will see the strength of the marathawada representation, say sources.

BUREAUCRACY

Gujral to be Secretary Revenue
Secretary Road Transport R S Gujral has been moved as Secretary Revenue. The Prime Minister has cleared the appointment of 1976 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre. He will succeed Sunil Mitra on July 1 who is retiring on June 30.

( We said this on June 14 )

K Jose Cyriac to be Secretary Petro-Chemicals
Special Secretary Revenue K Jose Cyriac has been appointed Secretary Chemicals and Petro-chemicals. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Naved Masood to succeed Gujral
Naved Masood is going to succeed R S Gujral as Secretary Road Transport. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Alok Rawat to be Secretary Coordination
Alok Rawat will be new Secretary Coordination in the Government of India.1977 batch IAS officer of Sikkim cadre Rawat is presently posted in the UPSC.

Haleem Khan is Secretary Disinvestment
Haleem Khan has been appointed Secretary Disinvestment in the Government of India. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Rakesh Kackar to be Secretary Food Processing Industries
Rakesh Kackar is being appointed new Secretary Food Processing Industries. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Sarraf to be MD ONGC Videsh Ltd
D K Sarraf is being tipped to be new MD of the ONGC Videsh ltd. He is presently Director Finance in the ONGC.

R K Singh takes over as OSD Home
Raj Kumar Singh on Friday has joined as Officer on Special Duty in the Union Home Ministry. He will succeed Gopal Krishna Pillai as Home Secretary, who demits office on June 30.

Big "B" tweets on Vipul Mittra's book
Amitabh Bachchan on June 24, 2011 on twitter wrote "The novel 'Pyramid of Virgin Dreams' by Vipul Mittra, breaking new ground bestseller. Life in bureaucracy, unique style humour !" Vipul Mittra is a Gujarat based IAS officer (of 1986 batch) and Principal Secretary Tourism and Civil Aviation with the Gujarat government.

Eight IPS officers allocated West Bengal cadre
As many as eight IPS officers who had qualified for the all India Police service during 2009 civil services examination have been allocated West Bengal cadre. They are Ms Joyeeta Bose, K Kannan, Shailesh, Ajoy Prasad, S Selvamurugan, Jeevan Babu K, S Arun Prasad, K Sabari Raj Kumar.

Mahur is new Director MHA
Dinesh Mahur has been appointed as Director in the Ministry of Home Affairs .He is 1992 batch ITS officer.

Minor bureaucratic reshuffle in MP (UPDATED)
In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle the Madhya Pradesh government has posted D.K. Samantaray (on return from central deputation )as Principal Secretary(PS) Health, Gas Relief and Rehabilitation.Others who were shifted are:Pankaj Agarwal CMD Eastern Power Commissioners, Distribution Company to Commissioner Treasury and Accounts, K.C. Gupta Managing Director (MD) of the State Civil Rewa Supply Corporation to Commissioner Rewa and Manish Rastogi Commissioner, Treasury and Accounts to CMD, Eastern Power Distribution Company, Jabalpur. Deepak Khandekar PS to Chief Minister was given additional charge of Information Technology (IT).

Atanu Purkayastha awarded Ph D
Atanu purkayastha an officer of WB Cadre 1983 batch has been awarded Phd from the prestigious IIT Kharagpur for his path breaking work on land reforms. Services of this excellent officer who is presently on central deputation have been urgently sought for by the new WB Govt.

Two posts of Member Postal Services Board vacant
2 posts of Member( Postal Services Board) lying vacant for the last 2 months.

Surveillance for Law Enforcement course from 19
US Embassy, New Delhi has offered Indian Ministry of Home Affairs 20 (twenty ) slots in a course on Surveillance for Law Enforcement being held in India from Sept 19-30,2011 . Venue of the training is yet to be disclosed.

1997 batch IPS is DIG in J & K
IPS officers of 1997 batch Surinder Kumar Gupta, Ghulam Ahmad Dar ,Ashok Kumar Atri and Jhony William have been promoted to the rank of DIG in J &K.

150 Dty /Asstt Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise transferred
As many as 150 Deputy / Assistant Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise have been transferred. Accordingly, Abhinav Pancholi has been transferred from Meerut CX to Ahmedabad CX, Arun Richard From Ahmedabad CX (St) to Ahmedabad CX, C. V. Mohan Kumar from Chennai CX to Bangalore CX, L. N. Mahapatra from Kolkata CX to Bhubaneswar CX, Manoranjan Nanda from CEI Mumbai to Bhubaneswar CX, Nitin Wapa from CBN Gwalior to Chandigarh CX, K. Gaurav Dhawan from CBEC TRU Delhi to Chandigarh CX (Jalandhar), Varinder Kaur From Delhi CX to Chandigarh CX (Patiala), B. Senthil Valavan from Chennai CX Ltu Chennai, A. Manimaran from DRI Chennai to Chennai CUS, P. Manikkavel from CEI Chennai to Chennai CUS, T.G. Venkatesh from Systems Chennai to Chennai CUS, M. Tamizh Vendan from Chennai CUS to Chennai CUS (Prev), V. Chandra Sekharan from Chennai CUS (Prev) to Chennai CX, J. Karpagam from Systems Chennai to Chennai CX, Raja Asokan from Bangalore CUS to Chennai CX, A. F. M. Amal Raj from Dri Tuticorin to Chennai CX (Ltu), Cheriyan Koya from Coimbatore CX to Cochin CX, P.R. Nair from Mumbai CUS-Ii to Cochin CX, N. Prem Kumar from Bangalore CX to Cochin CX, G. Soundarajan from Bangalore CUS to Coimbatore CX, R. Rajendran from DGICCE Chennai to Coimbatore CX, Sharwan Kumar Mittal from Meerut CX to Delhi CUS, Jagmohan from Meerut CX to Delhi CUS, Amish Kumar Gupta from DGICCE Delhi toDelhi CUS, A. K. Bhatnagar from DRI Hq Delhi to Delhi CUS2, Ashok K. Aswal from Delhi CX to Delhi CUS, Rajesh Tomar from Delhi CX to Delhi CUS, S. K. Mishra from Delhi CX to Delhi CUS, Jagat Singh Tonk from Logistics Delhi to Delhi CUS (Prev), K. C. Sharma from Kolkata CUS to Delhi CUS (Prev) (Jaipur), Mahendra Singh from Vigilance Delhi to Delhi CX, Rohit Singhal from Vigilance Delhi to Delhi CX, Ali Mustafa from DGICCE Delhi to Delhi CX, O. P. Duhan from DPPR Delhi to Delhi CX (Rohtak), J. Raja Manohar from Vizag CX & CUS (UOP) to Hyderabad CX, S. P. Sharma from Delhi CUS to Jaipur CX, J.P. Meena from Vadodara CX to Jaipur CX, Hitesh Godara from Kolkata CX to Jaipur CX, Dinesh Basak Chowdhury from DRI Kolkata to Kolkata CUS, S. V. Srivatsa Kumar from Kolkata CX to Kolkata CUS, Abyokta Kumar Sarma from CESTAT Kolkata to Kolkata CUS, Akashi Siddaharth B from Mumbai CUS to Kolkata CX, Ashish Shrivastava from Mumbai CUS to Kolkata CX, R. K. Chandan from Mumbai CUS to Kolkata CX, R. P. Singh on return from training from Faridabad to Kolkata CX, A.C.S. Reddy from Mumbai CUS-I to Kolkata CX, Madhab Chandra Mishra from CEI Kolkata to Kolkata CX, Pran Gopal Pal from VIG Kolkata to Kolkata CX (ST), Nilank Kumar from DRI Delhi to Lucknow CX, Ram Bharose Singh from Meerut CX to Lucknow CX, Narendra Singh from DRI Jammu to Lucknow CX, S. Raja Chennai CUS from Lucknow CX, Rohit Dwivedi from Delhi CUS (Prev) to Meerut CX, Pallabika Dutta from Lucknow CX (UOP) to Meerut CX (Noida), Ubhap Sengraj from Meerut CX (Noida) to Meerut CX (Ghaziabad), Aslam Hassan from Kolkata CX to Meerut CX (Ghaziabad), Nagraj Nathu Borase from Pune CX & CUS to Mumbai CUS, Md. Shamshad Alam from DRI Patna to Mumbai CUS, Shiv Pratap Singh from Mumbai-II CX to Mumbai CUS, Aarti Saxena from DRI Mumbai to Mumbai CUS, A. A. Bhosale from Ahmedabad CX to Mumbai CUS, Nayan Anand Borkar from Delhi CX to Mumbai CUS, O. P. N. Singh from Ahmedabad CX to Mumbai CUS, Pravin Chandra on return from deputation to Mumbai CUS, S. K. Mahanta from DRI Guwahati to Mumbai CUS, D. D. Kulkarni from Systems, RMD Mumbai to Mumbai CUS3, Kamala Prasad Dubey from Bhopal CX to Mumbai CUS, Rohit Singla from Ahmedabad CX to Mumbai CUS, Ajay Kumar from Ahmedabad CX to Mumbai CUS-I, Chetan Lama from DRI Mumbai to Mumbai CUS-II, R. K. Singh from Safeguard Delhi to Mumbai CUS-II, Lokesh K. Lihare from Nagpur CX to Mumbai CUS-II, Radhe Shaym Sharma from Mumbai CUS-I to Mumbai CX, Y. Sreenatha Reddy from Mumbai CUS-I to Mumbai CX, Pradeep K Bohra from Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX, Vijay R. Kulkarni from Mumbai CUS-I to Mumbai CX, M. Suresh Babu from Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX, Amit Singhal from Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX, Rahul Rajput from Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX, M. L. Sukhpal from Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX, Pawan Kumar from Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX, Vivek from Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX, Taruna Kumari from Systems, RMD Mumbai to Mumbai CX, U. V. Deshpande from Ahmedabad CX to Mumbai CX, K. Shivalingappa from Pune CX & CUS to Mysore CX, Sirajahmed M. Desai from Hyderabad CX to Mysore CX, Allure Tukaram Gundappa from Bangalore CUS to Mysore CX (Belgaum), Gulraj Chunilal Chhabria from Kolkata CX to Nagpur CX, Loni Yoginath S from Mysore CX to Pune (Kolhapur), Dolores M. Durando from Mumbai CX-I to (St) Pune CX, Badri Prasad from DRI Jaipur to Pune CX, Manish Thapliyal on return from deputation to Pune CX V. Mangaraju from Kolkata to CX Pune CX, Samir K. Jha from Kolkata CUS to Ranchi CX (Patna), Rajiv Kumar Agarwal from Mysore CX to Vadodara CX, J. Shanshanwal from Systems, RMD, Mumbai to Vadodara CX (Surat), L. V. Rao on return from deputation to Vizag CX, Vishwanath from Bhopal CX to oCBN, Gwalior, Rajendra Pal from NACEN, Faridabad to CBN, Kota Khemraj Verma from Jaipur CX to CBN, Gwalior, S R. Bhatti from Mumbai CUS-II to CESTAT, Mumbai, Priyesh K Bheda from Ahmedabad CX to Audit, Ahmedabad, S. Valambal from Chennai CUS to Audit, Chennai, D. P. Misra from Vadodara CX to CEI, Vapi, Santosh K. Misra from Ahmedabad CX to CEI, Pune, V. Shivakumar from Kolkata CX (St) to CEI, Chennai, P. Rama Prasad from Kolkata CUS to CEI, Kolkata, Birdu Ram Mahayach from Delhi CUS to HRD, Delhi4, Seema Chowdhary from Delhi CX to HRD, Delhi, M. L. Kathuria from Chandigarh CX to HRD, Delhi, Ramji Lal Meena from Lucknow CX to DGICCE Hq, Delhi, T. R. Gajalakshmi from Chennai CUS to DGICCE, Chennai, Padma Lochan Lenka from Kolkata CX to DGICCE, Kolkata, H.L. Wadhawani from Delhi CUS to Legal Affairs, Delhi, Tilak Raj from Delhi CUS (Prev) to Logistics, Delhi, Shaukat Ali from Delhi CUS to Logistics, Delhi, B. S. Suhag from Delhi CUS to DPPR, Delhi, C. L. Paul from Valuation Delhi to DRI Hq, Delhi, M.A. Andrade from Mumbai CX to DRI, Goa, Vidyut Vikas from Patna CUS (Prev) to DRI, Patna, Ashok Kumar from Vadodara CX to DRI, Jaipur, N. V. Aravindakshan from Mumbai CX to DRI, Calicut, Manoj Kumar from Mumbai CUS to DRI, Jammu, Yogender Singh from Kolkata CX to DRI, Kolkata, Manish Jaiswal from Kolkata CUS to DRI, Kolkata, Ashwini Kumar from Vigilance Mumbai to DRI, Mumbai, Sushil Chandra from Nagpur CX to DRI, Mumbai, Arvind Kumar from Ahmedabad CUS to DRI, Ahmedabad, M. Arun Kanth from Chennai CUS to DRI, Chennai, B. Batabyal from NACEN Kolkata to DRI, Hq Delhi, Ch. Venkaiah Chowdhary from Bangalore CX to DRI, Hyderabad, K. Kalimuthu from Chennai CUS to DRI, Tuticorin, S. B. Samant from Bangalore CUS to DG, Service Tax,
Mumbai, Surjit Singh Dhillon from Meerut CX to Systems DM, Delhi, Gopal K. Jha from Kolkata CUS to Systems, Delhi, Rewat Raja Bahl from Ahmedabad CUS to Systems, Delhi, Chandan K. Jain from Delhi CUS to Systems, Delhi, Rajendra Kumar from Delhi CUS to Systems, Delhi, Anand Kumar from Delhi CUS to Systems, Delhi, Ravikiran Edara from Chennai CUS to Systems, Chennai, Kamlesh Kumar Gupta from Pune CX & CUS to Systems, RMD Mumbai, N. C. Mishra from Lucknow CX to Systems, RMD Mumbai, Subhash Yadav from Ahmedabad CX to Valuation, Mumbai, Vivek Pandey from Kolkata CUS to Vigilance, Delhi, Rakesh Gupta from Delhi CX to Vigilance, Delhi, Sanjay Prasad from Kolkata CX (St) to Vigilance, Kolkata, Senthil Nathan S. from Mysore CX to NACEN, Bangalore, Avinash Mehta from Chandigarh CX to NACEN, Faridabad and A. C. Reddy from Chennai CUS to NACEN , Kolkata5.

1984 batch IPS is now ADG in UP
Five 1984 batch IPS officers have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Uttar Pradesh.They are Mssrs S K Singh,A P Maheshwari,R K Mishra,Gurdarshan Singh and H C Singh .

Two IPS officers transferred in Rajasthan
Rajasthan Government has transferred two IPS officers on Saturday. Those transferred include Girdharilal Sharma DIG, Police Training Centre, Jodhpur to DIG CID, PHQ, Jaipur while Mrs. S. Parimala SP Intelligence, Jodhpur has been entrusted with the additional charge of Rajasthan State Police Training Centre, Jodhpur.

Minor IPS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh
There has been a minor IPS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh at IG level. While Purshottam Sharmahas been posted as IG (complaints), PHQ, Bhopal, Vijay Yadav is new IG - Gwalior Range, Arvind Kumar - IG (Recruitment), PHQ, Bhopal, Sanjay Kumar Jha - IG, SCRB, PHQ, Bhopal and Dr. SW Naqvi has been posted as IG - Chambal Range, Morena.

DEBATE

Next Lok Sabha-Congress and BJP to get less than 100 seats ?
If today's political scenario is taken into account, both the Congress and the BJP will get less than 100 seats in the next Lok Sabha elections. In such a case, what could be the emerging scenario? Mail your valuable views to us at -

mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Manwani is new COO Unilever
Harish Manwani has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer at the global FMCG of the Unilever.

Das is Regional Head of BoB in Orissa
Jitendra Kumar Das has taken over as the new regional head of the Bank of Baroda for Odisha region.

Jinnah is CGM NABARD in Karnataka
S.N.A. Jinnah is new Chief General Manager (CGM), National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Karnataka Regional Office.

Tagat moves to Mumbai
Chief General Manager (CGM), National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Karnataka Regional Office Venkatesh Tagat has been transferred to NABARD, Mumbai.

Prof. Munshi appointed as Non Exec. Independent Director, IFGL Refractories Ltd
IFGL Refractories Ltd has appointed Prof Surendra Munshi, Retired Professor of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata as the Non Executive Independent Director of the company.

Sachdeva appointed Addl. Director, Nahar Capital And Financial Services Ltd
Nahar Capital And Financial Services Limited has appointed Dr Yash Paul Sachdeva as Additional Director of the Company with effect from May 30,2011. He is the Head of Business Department of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.

Chakravarty appointed Addl. Director, Mastek Ltd
Mastek Limited has appointed Venkatesh N. Chakravarty as an Additional Director of the Company.

Khanna appointed Nominee Director, Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Ltd
Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Limited has appointed R W Khanna, Chief General Manager of EXIM Bank, as its Nominee Director on the Board of the Company.

Subramanian appointed National Director, Starcom MediaVest Group India
Raghav Subramanian has been appointed as the National Director (Insights and Research) at Starcom MediaVest Group India. He will take charge on July 1, 2011 and will be based in New Delhi.

Kundapur appointed Addl. Director, Murudeshwar Ceramics Ltd
Annappayya Kundapur has been appointed as an Additional Director on the Board of Murudeshwar Ceramics Ltd with immediate effect.

Sharma appointed Creative Director, IBD India
IBD India has appointed Akash Sharma as Creative Director for their Delhi office.

Mishra to join TOI Group as CEO (Publishing)?
Shreejit Mishra, who was formerly with Hindustan Unilever Ltd, may join The Times of India Group as CEO-Publishing.

Next Lok Sabha-Congress and BJP to get less than 100 seats ?

Third front to take lead

It seems a new third front comprising of Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare and some other Muslims and Sikh community leaders will take lead

SK

Extensions are the order of the day with UPA

With UPA, extensins after extensions are the order of the day. In any ministries one can tell in advance who is going to get extension, no matter what's his age or credentials, what matters his/her connections. God save this country with another scam going to get exposed very soon. Is PMO listening or keeping his ears and eyes closed .

Ravi

Self serving bunch of people

The so called civil society representatives busy in grabbing media footage are nothing but self serving bunch of people. Their thinking is based on the premise that one and all public servants and politician are corrupt. This perception has been created systemically and now it is being exploited by a group of people who themselves are not clean. Out side support like a former IPS officer is also busy in creating hysterical situation in the country by denouncing every authority, be it politicians or public servant. Anna can not be considered a visionary socialist who can lead the country in fight against corruption. India is democratic country and no institution which has potential to become autocrat by grabbing all powers of executive, judiciary and police can be allowed to see the light of the day. Everyone wants a strong anti corruption watch dog but not as strong as to create political instability and induce inertia in the government. The Anna group should first search their heart to what they have done to amass wealth. Anna's theory that stones are thrown on the tree that bore fruits is not going to deceive the people of India. See the reason and work towards making an anti corruption that is just, effective and constitutional. Abusing everybody and calling them by name do not augur well for Indian democracy. It does not matter who appoints the Lokpal the important questin is who is appointed? Media and people have now a days hawks eyes. if some body of bad reputation is appointed as Lokpal, he can not be concealed from the media. This has been seen in at least one case of a CVC's appointment. I wish better sense prevails on Anna and group in helping the government in making a strong Lokpal which may not be as autocrat as has been envisioned by Anna and his group.

Prakash

Hype about Lokpal Bill

There is a hype about Lokpal Bill. There are already so many Bills. The tussle is going between the government and the Anna Team. Swords have been drawn. In a democracy the government is of the people, by the people and for the people. Why not the public seek an answer about corruption, lawlessness and poverty from their respective elected representatives at all levels, starting from the Panchayats and local self bodies. The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant and active. Vigilant and active population can make the elected representatives' lives hell. Don't give them second or third chance if they are found wanting in the public service. Frankly, public encourage the system to be corrupt. So far everybody is saying that corruption is like cancer. No, it is like T.B. It is contagious, spreading from one to another. Cancer is not contagious. Let us keep a TB patient at bay.

Z S Nirwal

West Bengal Tenant Act

It is very funny that the tenants of West Bengal are a privileged class in view of the fact that they still pay the same rate of house rent to the landlord/landlady which his/her forefather was paying. As for instance in 19th century if one was paying Rs18/- as house rent, now too in the 21st century the grand son/great grand son pays the same rent being tenant to the house owner. We should really appreciate the law of the State and that should be implemented throughout the country, so that the landlord/landlady can take beggars bowl in their hand.

T K Banerjee

Singh is the best officer

Rk Singh is the best officer as home secretary. He is honest, hard-working, senior and effective. GOI will get benefit of his vast and credible experience in Bihar. Kudos to government for right decision.

S Sharma

Hope for the best

Nirupama Rao with her long experience, et us hope the ties would reach greater heights between India and the US and she gets the US to see reasonably our demand for permanent UNSC seat. HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS

M Raghu

Roongta is renowned name

SK Roongta is renowned name in India his contribution towards Indian steel industry is really great as CMD SAIL he will always be respected in the country. his resignation from the board of Axis Bank is not a good signal it seems the things r NOT moving in right direction in Axis Bank I m sure the mgmt of Axis Bank must explain..

Dr Akhilesh Das Gupta , MP

TAIL-PIECE

Mohan asked

"I am fully with Anna Team. Are you?"

No. I am not. He said that "Goonda Raj" Thakrey is right in reserving Mumbai for Maharashtrians. He will support Balkanisation of India. Should we revert back to Princely states. Those Maharajas were definitely less corrupt.

By A Contributor

Copy of application of wife

The applicant asked for the copy of application form his wife had supposedly sent to the RBI including her educational certificate. The CPIO refused to disclose the information claiming that it was personal information as she had not been selected for the job and is not an employee of the RBI. The CIC upheld the order of CPIO holding that there was no apparent larger public interest to be served by disclosure. The CIC noted that there was nothing on record to show that the lady has authorized the Appellant to access this information.

Comments

This order shows that the Public Authority is not bound to disclose information about a job-seeker who is not his employee, even to her spouse.

- 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)