Gossips had always been good. Add that too on bureaucrats, it is juicier.
S. Bhargavan

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Like is being said by many Congress is trying its best to make Ramdev turn the fast venue into a Yoga camp......that would be the best scenario....... next best would be Ramdev going on a 'token fast' and then breaking it saying Government is working on his demands and Congress would even give him a letter to this effect!!! Maran is at present starting with aggression and threats..... very soon he'll be putting the blame on others..... he may say he did what NDA Ministers did....... Mahajan has retired to the happy hunting grounds so maybe Shourie will have some more defending to do!! On his 88th birthday Karuna has issued a warning to save face and also mislead his cadres..... bad friendships bring woes....... seems he got a touch of Confucius!! Congress could not agree more.... two friendships are costing Congress dear.... one with DMK and the other with NCP!! And Karuna has cleverly ignored WikiCable leak that Maran
had predicted DMK's downfall!! In good time he'll take it up...... now his priorities are to get Kani out, keep ahead of Jaya's plans to put him and his near and dear behind bars....... and try his level best that UPA does not break ties with DMK........UPA is now his lifeline!!

Now when you deny Kani making money in the 2 G scam Mr. Karuna take off your goggles and look us in the eye!!

Many used to wonder why Karuna wears goggles..... now they know why???

PC as MEA....... well even if he's made MEA his fixation with the Finance Ministry will not go!! He feels it is his birthright to be FM!!! If he becomes MEA Minister he will demand all external finance matters should come under MEA!!! If PC is made PM it'll be on the Nation a PJ or Poor Joke!!

And Sonia needs to realize Rahul's becoming PM would be in peril then because PC's a crafty bloke!!

If Anna wants the Lokpal Bill to become a reality he should propose that the Bill be renamed as Rajiv Gandhi Lokpal Bill!! Pranab Da has written to Allies, CMs and Opposition Parties requesting their inputs and opinions..... a delaying tactic!!! In the mean time Congress
Ministers on the Lokpal Drafting panel have already started taking pot-shots at the Civil Society nominees!! Also though in Public Congress keeps saying its pushing to ensure that the Bill makes the monsoon session deadline, but reality is Congress is trying to delay matters and is trying to conjure up 'not in our control' kind of excuse!!! Kapil Sibal is burning the mid night oil on this......Sibal could even reinvent/redefine 'force majeure'!!!

Seems by the time Lokpal Bill is passed its relevance would have been lost!!

The World by then would be paying for its 'reckless playing with Nature' the real cost!!

Bharat Kumar
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Chandrasekharan to be new Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs
The name of 1975 batch IRAS officer S Chandrasekharan, has been cleared for the post of Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs.Presently, he is Additional Member Finance Railway Board. Previously he was Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor with the Defence Ministry.
(We said this on May 31)

Darlong is next High Commissioner of India to Seychelles
T. Darlong, presently Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy of India, Thimpu has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Seychelles in succession to A.K. Nag.

U.K. Lal's central deputation on the anvil
The Government of India (GOI) in the offer list has retained the name of U.K. Lal ADG with the MP government. He is an IPS officer of 1985 batch who belongs to the MP cadre.

Raja Raja Varma is new PCCF Wildlife in Kerala
Raja Raja Varma is new PCCF Wildlife in Kerala. His order has been issued. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of 1978 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre.

First Major General from Manipur
Brig. Konsam Himalaya Singh has become the first army officer from Manipur to get the
rank of major general in the army.

IA&AS officer Rajdeep Singh transferred to Dehradun
Rajdeep Singh, Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn) in the office of Principal Accountant General (Audit), Haryana, Chandigarh has been transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn/AB) in the office of Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand, Dehradun against an existing vacancy.

Srivastava is new Dy Secretary, DEA
Piyush Kumar Srivastava has joined the Government of India as Deputy Secretary DEA. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer who belongs to the Andhra Pradesh cadre.

PMO to handle HAG appointments in Railways
The higher administrative grade (HAG) appointments in the Railways would now be handled by the PMO since the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is these days holding temporary charge of Railways after Mamata Banerjee's exit following the West Bengal assembly elections. This would include big-ticket projects, including the Rs 77,000- crore Dedicated Freight Corridor project, the high-speed rail link to Bangalore airport (Rs 6,900 crore) project, the Indo-Bangladesh rail link (Rs 251 crore) project and the Madhepura locomotive factory (Rs 1,290 crore) project.

Dr Masoodi promoted as DDG in Prasar Bharti
Station Director DDK Srinagar Dr Rafeeq Masoodi has been promoted to the post of Deputy Director General (DDG) Programmes.

Yudhvir Singh to be Member of Tribunal ?
Former IAS officer Yudhvir Singh is likely to be appointed as a member of the Tax tribunal in Haryana.

Dr Kumar named Scientist of the year
Chennai-based scientist Dr P Siva Kumar has been named the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO's) Scientist Of The Year 2010.

Chhattisgarh gets 4 new IAS officers
As many as four IAS officers of the 2010 batch have been allocated Chhattisgarh cadre. They are:Saransh Mittal, Prakash Murayya, Kartikaye Goyal and Ranu Sahu.With this the cadre strength of IAS officers in Chhattisgarh has risen to 116.

Amitabh Chaudhary IPS is Team India Manager to WI
Amitabh Chaudhary president of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) is manager of the team India that has gone to play matches in West Indies (WI). He is an IPS officer of 1985 batch who belongs to Jharkhand cadre. This IPS officer is ADG to the Jharkhand government.

CBEC transfers 121 officers of Addl/Jt Commissioner rank
The Central Board of Excise & Customs has transferred121 officers of the grade of Additional / Joint Commissioner of Customs andCentral Excise. Those transferred include messers A. K. Singh NACEN, Faridabad toDCEI, Delhi ZU, A.K. Goswami Nagpur CX to Mumbai CUS-II, Ajay Pandey Bhopal CX(RAIPUR) to Bhopal CX (Bhopal), Amand Shah NACEN, Faridabad to Mumbai CUS-II,Ashish Varma DRI, Lucknow to CBN Lucknow, Ashok M. Sarvi Bangalore CUS toBangalore CX, Ashok Mahida Bhopal CX to Bhubaneswar CX, Ataur Rehman MumbaiCUS-II to Vigilance, Mumbai, Atul Gupta Kolkata CUS to BhopalCX (Raipur), Azazuddin Mysore CX to DRI, Lucknow, B. B. Gupta Delhi CUS to NACEN, Faridabad, B. K. Kar CEI, Bangalore toBangalore CX, Babulal Rajak Kolkata CUS to Kolkata CX, Basistha Prasad DelhiCUS to Systems, Delhi, C. Dhanasekharan CESTAT, Chennai to Chennai CX, C.Rangaraju CESTAT, Chennai to Chennai CUS, G.P. Goel Delhi CUS(P) to Meerut CX,Chander Shekhar Meerut CX to Meerut CX (NOIDA), Chandrakant Raveji Valvi MumbaiCX-II to Pune CX, Chetan K Jain Bangalore CX (LTU) to Jaipur CX, D. AnilBangalore CUS to CEI, Bangalore, D. P. Naidu Chennai CX (LTU) to Chennai CUS(P) (Tuticorin), Dawa Doma Sherpa Kolkata CUS to Kolkata CX (Siliguri),Debjyoti Bhattacharya Bhopal CX to DRI, Kolkata, Deepak Garg Chandigarh CX toDRI, HQ (MAC), Deeptisri B. Arora Meerut CX to DGICCE, Delhi, Dharm Singh MeerutCX (NOIDA) to Meerut CX, Dinesh Gupta DelhiCUS to Systems Delhi, G.S. Karki Systems, Delhi to Delhi CUS, Gautam P.Chandolia CBN, Neemuch to Chennai CUS (P), H.B. Negi CESTAT, Mumbai to CoimbatoreCX, Hardeep Batra Delhi CUS (P) to Delhi CX, Imamuddin Ahmedabad CX to Ahmedabad CX (Bhavnagar),J. Kumaresh Hyderabad CX Chennai CUS (P), J. S. ChandrashekharCoimbatore CX to Vizag Zone (Guntur), Jagdish Singh CCF, Delhi to Mysore CX, JaneKaruna Nathaniel Vizag CX to CUS Chennai CUS, Jitesh Nagori Ahmedabad CUS to NACEN,Vadodara, K.M. Ravichandran Audit, Kolkata to Audit, Chennai, K.N. Raghavan onreturn from COIN posting to Cochin CX, K.S. Mishra Ahmedabad CUS to MumbaiCX-II, K.Venkat Ram Reddy Chennai CUS to DGICCE, Chennai, Kishori Lal CESTAT, Mumbaito Nagpur CX (Nasik), M. Subrahmanyam on return from COIN posting to DRI, Bangalore,M.G Thamizhvalavan DRI Bangalore to Chennai CUS, M.R. Mohanty Bhubaneswar CX(UOP) to Ahmedabad CX, Madur Sreedhar Reddy Hyderabad CX to Cochin CX, ManeeshGoyal Systems, Delhi to Delhi CUS, ManeeshKumar Ahmedabad CUS to DRI, Ahmedabad, Manish Mohan CESTAT, Mumbai to Pune CX(GOA).

Milind Gawai DRI, Ahmedabad to AhmedabadCUS, Minu Pramod DGHRD, Delhi to Vigilance, Delhi, Nagendra K. Mishra CEI, Kolkatato CEI, Jamshedpur, Nagesh Pathak

NACEN, Delhi to CESTAT, Delhi, NaveenKumar Jain DG, Vigilance to Delhi CUS, Navneet Vadodara CX to CESTAT, Mumbai, NeeravMallik DG, HRD, Delhi to Delhi CX (ST), Nitin Anand CESTAT, Delhi to Delhi CX(ST), Nitin Saini Chandigarh CX to DelhiCUS (P) (Ludhiana),P. Hemavathi DRI, Gandhidham to Mumbai CUS-II, P. K. Behera Chennai CUS to ChennaiCX (LTU), P. K. Katiyar Mumbai CX-II to Lucknow CX (KANPUR), P. T. Pongener CBEC(PAC), Delhi to Systems, Delhi (Data Management), P. V. N. Suresh Babu Pune CX& CUS to Mumbai CUS-I, P.K. Mishra On return from deputation to DRI, DelhiZU, Pankaj Bodhke Vigilance, Mumbai to Mumbai CUS-II, Pankaj Singh SystemsDelhi to Ahmedabad CUS (Kandla), Prachi Swarup CBEC, Delhi to Delhi CX (LTU), PramodKumar Chennai CUS to CESTAT, Chennai, Prem Chand Verma Systems, Delhi to DelhiCX, R. Jagannathan Chennai CUS(P) to Chennai CX, R. K. Raman DRI, Kolkata to KolkataCUS, R.K. Meena On return from deputation to DGHRD, Delhi, Radhey S. MaheshwariHyderabad CX-I to Hyderabad CX-II, Rajan Chaudhary Mumbai CUS-II to Pune CX, RajeevGupta Chandigarh CX to Bhubaneswar CX, Rajeev Jain Meerut CX to Delhi CX (Faridabad),Rajeev Ranjan Delhi CX to Patna CUS(P), Rajeev Yadav On return from deputationto Mumbai CX-II, Rajesh Puri Chandigarh CX to Kolkata CX, Raju Shakthivel MumbaiCUS-II to Coimbatore CX, Ram Pratap Chandigarh CX to Delhi CUS (P), Renu Jagdev On return from deputation to CESTAT, Delhi,Rimjhim Prasad CESTAT, Delhi to Delhi CUS, Riyaz Ahmed DRI, Delhi to DRI, DelhiHQ, S. Chandramohan Chennai CUS(P) to Chennai CX (LTU), S. Faheem AhmedCBN, Neemuch to Hyderabad CX, S. Ravi Selvan VizagCX & CUS to Coimbatore CX, S.J.S. Kahlon ChandigarhCX to Cochin CX, S.S. Katiyar CESTAT, Mumbaito Chandigarh CX, Sahi Ram Meena Mumbai CX-I to CBN,Neemuch, Sanjay Rathi Hyderabad CX to Mysore CX,Sanjay Sharan Chandigarh CX to Chandigarh CX (JAMMU), Sanjeev G.Dewalkar Mumbai CX-II to CESTAT, Mumbai, Sanjeev Gautam Jaipur CX to Delhi CX, SatyajitSingh DGICCE, Delhi to Ahmedabad CUS (Kandla), Shailesh Kumar Nagpur CX to DGHRD,Delhi, Shambhoo Dayal Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX-II, Sita Ram Sharma CBN, Gwaliorto CBN, Neemuch (Kota),Subir K. Chakraborty Kolkata CX to Shillong, Suman Bala Meerut CX to ChandigarhCX, Suresh Babu Bodduluri Chennai CX (LTU) to Chennai CUS, Surinder Kumar VirdiPune CX & CUS to CESTAT, Mumbai, Suvir Mishra Delhi CUS (P) to CESTAT, Kolkata,Talla Ravi Bangalore CX to Bangalore CUS, Upender Gupta Delhi CX to Delhi CX (Rohtak),Utkarsh Tiwari Lucknow CX to Ranchi CX, V.M. Jain Mumbai CUS-II to Mumbai CX-II, V. Sangeeta Hyderabad CX-II to HyderabadCX-I, Valte Vungzamuan Kolkata CX to Shillong, Venkat Reddy Nagpur CX to ChennaiCX, Vijay Rishi Ahmedabad CX to Vadodara CX (Surat), Vikas Kumar DGCEI, Delhi toDelhi CUS, Vimal N. Shakwar Vadodara CX to Jaipur CX, Vinay Kumar Ahmedabad CUSto CBN, Gwalior, Vinod Kumar Mehta Kolkata CUS to Chandigarh CX, Virender K.Chaudhry CESTAT, Delhi to Bhopal CX, Virendra Kumar Agrawal Vadodara CX to CESTAT,Mumbai, Vivek Chaturvedi On return from COIN posting to Systems, Delhi, Y.K.Agrawal Mumbai CX-II to CESTAT, Mumbai, Zubir Riaz Kamili Delhi CX to Delhi CUS(P).

30 Dy.SPs elevated as SPs in Punjab
As many as 30 Dy.SPs have been elevated as SPs in Punjab.

200 Inspectors to be made Dy.SPs in punjab
As many as 200 Inspectors of police will shortly be elevated as Dy.SPs.

Mahajan gets additional charge of Jaipur Divisional Commissioner
Naveen Mahajan, District Magistrate and Collector of Jaipur has been given the dditional charge of Jaipur Divisional Commissioner. 1997 batch IAS officer Mahajan, who belongs to Rajasthan cadre, will continue to look after the additional charge till further orders.

5 IRS officers posted as Under Secretaries
As many as five Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers have been posted as Under Secretaries by the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT). They are: Nikhil Verma OSD Delhi to INV-I, Sanjay Naraindra Bhatia OSD Delhi to A & PAC-I, Ms. Meenakshi Vohra OSD Delhi to A & PAC-II, R.K. Gupta OSD Delhi to ITA-II and Ashis C. Mohanty OSD Delhi to TPL-IV.

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

Boopathi is now MD, MTC
Boopathi, who was heading the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) based at Tirunelveli has been made the new Managing Director(MD) of Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) in Chennai

Ms.Ramya K. roped in Celebrity Fashions as Co.Secretary
Celebrity Fashions Limited has appointed Ms. Ramya K as Company Secretary of the Company.

Mohan nominated as Director, Indian Bank
The Central Government has nominated Dr. N. Krishna Mohan, Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India, Department of Currency Management, Mumbai as a Director on the Board of Indian Bank in place of S Karuppasamy with immediate effect.

Demortier is MD & CEO, Crompton Greaves Ltd
Laurent Demortier has been appointed as an Additional Director of Crompton Greaves Ltd as well as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of the company for a period of five years from June 2, 2011 to June 1, 2016.

Trehan MD, Crompton Greaves retires
Sudhir Mohan Trehan had retired as the Managing Director(MD) of Crompton Greaves Ltd on June 1, 2011.

Trehan will be Executive Vice Chairman, Crompton Greaves
Sudhir Mohan will continue as Vice Chairman of the board of Crompton Greaves Ltd in a non Executive capacity.

Patel is Director, AIA Engineering
Yashwant M. Patel, Additional Director of AIA Engineering Ltd has been appointed as a Whole-time Director of the Company with effect from April 1, 2011

Dr. Ganesh Director, AIA Engineering quits
Dr. S.R. Ganesh, Independent Director of AIA Engineering Ltd has resigned with immediate effect.

Dr. (Ms.) H K Bal resigns from Shreyans Industries
Dr. (Ms.) H K Bal has resigned from the office of Director of Shreyans Industries Ltd on health grounds.

FORUM

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

congress & BJP are two sides of same cion

K T Khandekar

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

Sir, In my opinion the question of getting less than 100 seats by Congres or BJP is too early. There is good another 3 years left for UPA and keeping in viw the mood of Indian Voters in the next 3 years, I think we should not raise this question now. Regards

Ashok Kr Bakshi

CBDT
New Chairman CBDT is going to have videoconferencing with CCIT, DGIT etc. on 8.6.2011 to discuss variuos issues. It is very good way to keep departement motivated and to get the various scheme implemented. Can the Chairman take a call when tax payer's services are discussed to include the query of tax payers "to know the assessment status of particular AY " by giving PAN number.

R K Mishra

Will the goverment take action against the high profile buisnessman? RTI act has certainly put pressure on the government through bringing such cases into light. Good work done by you.

Sameer Chitkara

The government should extend the children education allowance for college going students also. Further the hostel allowance of Rs. 30,000/- per year allowable to children studying in 12th standers and below should also be extended to college going students also. fees and other expenses are more than the school going children. Further the govt. should encourage the employees to send their children for higher education.

Aman

selection of Executive Direcitors for Public sector Bank [recent news item of selection of 13 General Managers for the post of EDs in public sector Banks]. Money, power and push or Exposure to different fields, Knowledge, Clean hand, sincerety and hard work? Every time this question appears in my mind when ever I see the results.

Usha Natrajan

The arm pit exposing vulgar looking Guru with a criminal face appears to be a plant by the Congress party to neutralise Anna Hazare's agitation.An Ex-CBDT Chairman(who knows well about the financial empire of the Guru) along woth that dubious Swami Agnivesh are reportedly in touch with the Guru for the past two months.Agnivesh was miffed since he was not made a panel member.If it were during British days, such Gurus would have been sent to Andamans.
Four ministers going and recieving this Guru shows how jittery,the corruption immersed UPA is. It also once again shows the lack of leadership quality in our economist PM.

Navnith

After Raja ,and Kanimozhi , now Maran. Politics in India is reaching the next level - double or bust. Bust it is for many .Many others will follow. A thought on this. Should any Insurance Company offer cover against loss of office of profit(?) -( to hell with reputation !)

Brety

Three cheers to our out going Cabsec for atlast showing his spine though at this late stage and insisting that Secretaries will be in future allocated to ministries as per their seniority and not as per the requests of ministers.If he has shown this spine earlier Bahuria and others would not have been cooling their heels in Tihar jail.

N Krishnan

Charge-sheet in Reliance Call Re-routing case

The reasons for non-inclusion of the names of Mr. Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani in the charge sheet filed by CBI in the Call Re-routing case were denied u/s 8(1)(h) claiming that disclosing the information would impede the process of prosecution. The PIO informed the CIC that the said reasons were available on record but disclosing such information would provide clues to others by which they would be able to argue why they should also not be charged. Holding that the PIO has failed to produce any cogent evidence to establish that disclosure of information would impede the prosecution of offenders, the CIC directed to disclose the information.

Comments

The Delhi HC in Bhagat Singh v. CIC W.P. (C) No. 3114/2007 has observed that the mere existence of an investigation process cannot be a ground for refusal of the information; the authority withholding information must show satisfactory reasons as to why the release of such information would hamper the investigation process. As pointed in this column earlier, such reasons should be germane, and the opinion of the process being hampered should be reasonable and based on some material.

[Mr. P. C Srivastava vs. CBI in CIC/SM/A/2011/000309/SG/12557]

- 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)