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DRM postings delayed
Transfer and posting of Divisional Railway Managers has been delayed. Proposals are ready with the Chairman and the list is to be approved by the Railway Minister.

Kaun Banega DG Doordarshan ? (3) Tripurari Sharan
Name of Tripurari Sharan is in circulation for the post of DG Doordarshan. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Ms. Padmini Gopinath is Member Technology in India Post
Ms. Padmini Gopinath has joined as Member Technology in India Post

IPS officer is Chairman of UPPSC
Malkiat Singh has been appointed Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission.1977 batch IPS officer Singh was schefuled to retire on March 31.

Prasad joins DDA
H Rajesh Prasad has joined the DDA as Commissioner Land Management. He is 1995 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Gupta is Dy Secretary Higher Education
P V Gupta has joined the HRD Ministry as Deputy Secretary Higher Education.He is 2000 batch IRS (IT) officer.

Prof M.A. Siddiqui to be repatriated ?
Grapevine has it that Prof M.A. Siddiqui, Chairman, National Council For Teacher Education is being repatriated back to Jamia Millia University by Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Satya Gopal to be Chairman of CHB
Satya Gopal who has been moved from Daman, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli to Chandigarh is set to take over as chairman of Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB).He is 1988 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Mohanjeet Singh moves to Daman and Diu
Mohanjeet Singh has been transferred from Chandigarh to Daman and Diu. He is 1991 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Manisha Chandra is CVO EPIC
Manisha Chandra UT cadre IAS officer has been appointed CVO EPIC.

P S Negi empanelled in GoI
P S Negi has been empanelled to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1984 batch Indian Postal Service Officer.

Chabra is CCM ECZ
Indian Rail Traffic Service 1980 batch officer Dipak Chabra has been appointed as the chief commercial manager in East Central Zone.

Delhi ADRM moves to cadre
Amitabh, SAG/ IRSME/Northern Railway, on being relieved from the post of ADRM/ Delhi has been posted in the cadre on Northern Railway itself.

IFS officer no more
Indian Ambassador to Turkey Raminder Singh Jassal died of cancer early on Friday morning.He was 1976 batch IFS officer.

DEBATE

ARE PEOPLE LOSING INTEREST IN DEFENCE SERVICES THESE DAYS ?

What do you think? Why people are losing interest in Defence Services? Have they lost attraction because they are no more that lucrative as they have been earlier or there is a decline of 'nationalism' among the people of country these days. There is a shortage of over 12,000 officers at the junior and the middle rung alone in the Defence services in the country.

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CORPORATE

Adani's wealth increases by more than double
The wealth of Gautam Adani has increased by more than double in the last one year - from $4.8 billion (around Rs21,800 crore) in 2010 to $10 billion (around Rs45,000 crore) in 2011.

Chamola to be Director (HR) HAL
V M Chamola, Chief General Manager (CGM) HR in BEML, is being tipped to be new Director (HR) in the HAL. Interviews for the post were held recently.

Subramaniam is CFO, Titan Industries Ltd
Subbu Subramaniam has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Titan Industries Ltd with effect from March 4, 2011.

Lall to quit IRIS India?
Alok Lall, Managing Director of IRIS India, has decided to quit the agency. He co-founded the agency four years ago with Stewart Shanley, who is the agency's Global Chief Operating Officer.

Dhakan resigns as Company Secy. Ajmera Realty and Infra India
Hiresh Dhakan has resigned from the position of Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of Ajmera Realty & Infra India Ltd with effect from March 7, 2011.

A L Ramachandra to be CMD, Vijayeswari Textiles
The Board of Vijayeswari Textiles Limited decided to appoint A.L. Ramachandra, Managing Director of the Company, as Chairman & Managing Director of the Company with immediate effect.

Jayanthi Ramachandra to be MD, Vijayeswari Textiles
The Board of Vijayeswari Textiles Ltd has decided to appoint Ms Jayanthi Ramachandra, Joint Managing Director of the Company, as Managing Director of the Company with immediate effect.

Vijay Kumar is COO of Sun TV
Sun TV Networks Ltd has appointed K Vijay Kumar as the Chief Operating Officer of the company.

FORUM

DEBATE (1) People are not losing interest about joining the Armed Forces. Our Forces should do much more vigorous publicity and recruitment drive as people are not yet fully aware of its advantages vis-a-vis private sector.

R Ramaswamy

DEBATE (2)The defence force is tun like a slavery unit of the fuedal times. Unless the attitide changes, you will not get better brains in Defense.

Emmaarcee
PM trying to pass on the buck

Public assertion of Man Mohan Singh that the then MOS in DOPT, Prithviraj Chavan did not inform PM that there was a corruption case pending against Thomas seems to be an effort to shift blame and get benefit of doubt. It's a known fact that that Prithviraj Chavan is a Gandhi family loyalist and he would have not done anything to upset PM or 10 Janpath on his own volition. Its hard to believe that Prithviraj would have not shared information on corruption with people in power. Should it be construed that Prime Minister who has mishandled issues of national importance is trying to save his chair by shifting onus on 10 Janpath loyalists?
Scapegoats seems to be in great demand these days in PMO!

Rajesh Kr/ New Delhi

Decisions should be treated as legal

I think all decisions taken by PJ Thomas during his tenure as CVC should be legal as the decisions are a collective responsibility of whole organization and are solely not his. These decisions are based on rules laid for the purpose.

Harish Kumar

What is the purpose ?

What is the purpose of publishing this news? Is to inform us that he is the only ICS officer living in the country? Even then, you should have added a line wishing him many more happy years ahead. The present news item does not appear to be in good taste.

Ajaya Kumar

Secretary DoPT not doing his homework properly

The then Secretary DoPT seems to be in habit of not doing his homework properly, again proven by the present job he is doing in some high level committee seems to be equally slip shot. His failure an embarrassment to all. He should be made answerable

Bhutia

CS - an upright officer

The present Cabinet Secretary is truly a great head of the civil service and a decisive and upright officer. His tenure should be made co-terminus with the UPA government. This is the general sentiment of all civil servants

Singh

Stop the poor's cry by arresting inflation, raise retirement age

In view of incurring heavy expenditure on the recent Commonwealth Games, inflation will not come down despite making announcements from time to time as had happened after 1982 Asian Games, as is clear from the fact that average consumer price index shot up from by 56 points (553-475) between 1982 and 1983 as against 35 points (475-440) between 1981 and 1982, representing increase of 60% price rise. Therefore, India needs another green revolution to overcome inflation so as to increase food grain production by making agriculture a more attractive investment option. It should first raise retirement age to 62 and then invest liberally the saved/postponed two years' retirement benefits in agriculture by subsidizing and distributing fertilizers and high yielding seeds to farmers as also households, subject, of course, to certain safeguards; and subsidizing purchase of agriculture-irrigation-equipments like tractors; introduce tax benefits to Corporates who adopt in-house/captive farming. Govt. should also ban forward trading, in coordination with WTO, if need be, in food grains, simultaneously raiding hoarders and putting them behind bars. Other measures are (a) extending/subsidising agriculture credit at low rates of interest, free-insurance of agricultural produce in case of natural calamities, (b) imposing tax on sale of farming land - whether to govt. agency or private builders, (c) further raising interest rates as incentive to save more to curb inflation and discourage hoarders to get cheap credit from banks, (d) educating people to refrain from buying high priced items, as was done by late Sh. Lal Bahadur Shastri by advising people to keep fast on Mondays at the time of food crises, Thus, if production of food grains increases, there will be less chance for hoarders and the principle of demand & supply will apply, thereby reducing prices of food grains. Food Corporation should be allowed to buy more and more food grains and release to the market from time to time, banning completely forward trading. By controlling inflation, PM can prove that he is a world-renowed economist.
By raising retirement age, corruption can also be curbed to some extent. There is a strong case to raise retirement age, as has been done by other countries due to late marriages, late entry into service, increase in average age, etc. Retirement age in the case of doctors, professors/teachers, judges, has already been raised. Youth will not be affected by this move because they can also serve for a longer period. Already, there is shortage of staff in every office and general public is feeling the pinch, as more and more raw hands are appointed on contract/re-employment basis due to the policy of filling up one vacancy against three vacancies. This practice is wrong inasmuch as contract-employees are not subject to Conduct Rules and they cannot be held responsible for wrong doings. If the above measures are not taken, inflation-rate will increase further and common man will be hit hard.

Dharam

Misuse of the Act

The appellant sought information regarding grant in aid given to DAV College etc. and was offered the opportunity to inspect all the records. He instead filed second appeal before the Commission. Respondents stated that the appellant was in the habit of filing RTI applications and had filed 250 RTI applications to date through which he sought voluminous and old information. Usually, the appellant does not appear before the First Appellate Authority when his appeal comes

live for receiving the information. They submitted that the appellant who is a former contractual employee of D.A.V. College has already been provided information under the present RTI application running into over 200 pages and have so far provided him thousands of pages of
information against his other RTI applications. The Commission ruled that such vexatious applications can be summarily dismissed at the level of the CPIO since it is obvious that these applications are not being preferred in public interest and are in fact adversely impacting
the functioning of the public authority instead of strengthening it, which is contrary to the letter and spirit of the RTI Act.

Comments

Cases where the appellant is misusing the RTI Act to settle personal scores with his former employer are not uncommon. This ruling provides a definitive way for summarily dismissing those applications at the level of the PIO which causes disruption in normal work and strain on
the financial resources.

Dr. Rajender K. Singla vs. O/o Director, Higher Education, Chandigarh in CIC/LS/C/2009/000770DS

- 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)