Unless I read Whisperinthe corridor, I do not feel the day is complete!
Dr K R Shyamsundar

Aaj Ki Aawaz

All of a sudden the Doctor who conducted Batcha's post mortem is bitten by the political bug!

On his medical service he pulls the plug!!!

And if prior to Batcha's post mortem kiya iss Doctor ne apna isteefa submit!!!

Then why to undertake this sensitive post mortem kiya iss Doctor ko permit????

Many would agree with me that Batcha was murdered and a cover up is being done!!!

That's how rotten matters have gone!!

Batcha's suicide note should have raised an alarm.... but TN Cops acted deaf and blind!!!

Anyone can see this ...... even one with half a mind!!

Batcha was on the verge of spilling the beans and seems someone panicked and Batcha 'was killed'!

Who panicked..... well the blanks can be easily filled!!!!!

People like Batcha who are rags to riches stories have strong hearts and skin that is like hide!!!

And they are prepared for the consequences for taking the 'system for a ride'!!

People like Batcha know going to jail is a possibility!!!!

That's why I say Batcha committing suicide is a impossibility!!

TMC raised Congress's seat share by one seat!!

Congress is projecting this as if this was a 'victorious feat'!!!

In WB there is a pro Didi swell!!

Seems Congress realized this though late and now in the TMC Congress alliance all is well!

Though some say Congress knew Didi would not give what Congress was asking for!!!

So Congress tried to get a few more seats and just mocked being sore!!!

Pronoy Roy of NDTV is known to be a Congressman in a Journo's garb!!!

Now on the Wiki Cables he's let out via an interview with Assange 'a barb'!!

Of course the Cables attributed to Hillary could have been sent by someone in her Office!!

I hope Pronoy Roy understands what it means in US 'being in Office'!!

As per Roy Americans have not shown an sympathy to Assange post his 'torture' in USA!!!!

But then any intelligent individual will understand what Roy is trying to say!!

The yardstick Assange used is 'if something is hidden there has to be a reason'!!!!

Could be hidden agendas, bribes and even treason!!

Indians should be indebted to Wiki Cables as it has brought 'our Netas subservience to USA'!!!!

From the leaked cables it is obvious that in every decision India makes US has a say!!

Assange has said rather than damning the Wiki Cables Mohna should get order an investigation!!

The leaks affect the prestige of this Nation!!

Cash for votes really damages India's credibility.... Republic de Banana....anything is possible!!!

When it comes to duping the Nation 'nothing is impossible'!!!

And India comes out like a 'colony' of Uncle Sam!!!

India's reputation the leaks damn!!

And I hope Assange now releases the really sensitive ones sooner than later!!!!!

It's said the coming leaks will literally 'create a crater'!!

Confucius says....Governments guilty of jiggery pokkery will damn Wiki Cables!!!

Call these Cables Assagne's created 'fables'!!!

Adds...... Fact is Wiki Cables show Governments how and where there has been erring!!!!
Like India's cash for votes and our Netas servility to Uncle Sam.....truth and not a red herring!!!

Bharat Kumar

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Why did Sudarshan and MP Governor meet ?
A long meeting between former RSS Chief K Sudarshan and Madhya Pradesh Governor Rameshwar Thakur is being discussed in the political circles. Thakur is known Ten Janpath man.

Bharat Vir Wanchoo may get a foreign assignment
Bharat Vir Wanchoo, Special Director, (SPG) Special Production Group (SPG) (equivalent to DG rank), is soon likely to be assigned a foreign assignment. There are talks in the corridors of power that the matter relating to Wanchoo was lingering on at 10, Janpath for a long time has ultimately been finalized in 7Race Course Road (RCR).He is an IPS officer of 1976 batch who belongs to the West Bengal cadre.

Performance related incentive scheme for babus soon
A committee of secretaries, chaired by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, has last fortnight approved a performance related incentive scheme (PRIS) that will allow babus performing well to avail of cash incentives from the next fiscal onwards.

Ghosh is number one for IOC's Director Refineries
As the grapevine has it, R.K. Ghosh - Executive Director( ED), Panipat Oil Refinery complex of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), is number one in panel for the post of Director Refineries.

Mittal to join GoI in April
Kamal Kant Mittal is likely to join in April the Government of India (GOI)as a Joint Secretary(JS) in the Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA). He is an IAS officer of the 1983 batch who belongs to Assam-Meghalaya (A-M) cadre).

Two Directors vacancies in GOI's Commerce Ministry
Two director level posts in Ministry of Commerce, Government of India (GoI) will shortly be opened for the appointment.

Aruna Sharma is back to Madhya Pradesh
Outgoing DG Doordarshan Aruna Sharma after completion of deputation tenure is back to the parent Madhya Pradesh cadre on Tuesday. She is 1982 batch IAS officer.

Sanjay Singh is new Secretary (East) in MEA
Sanjay Singh (IFS : 1976 Batch) has assumed the office of Secretary (East). He was last posted as Ambassador of India in Tehran.

( We said this on December ,9,2010 )

V Ashok is new Ambassador to Czech Republic
V. Ashok, presently High Commissioner of India to Zimbabwe has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Czech Republic in succession to D.P. Srivastava.

Nivedita Shukla Verma is now JS
Nivedita Shukla Verma has been promoted to the rank of Joint Secretary .She is 1991 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Sandeep Saxena selected for PFM in IMF
Sandeep Saxena, ACO, DOP&T Government of India has been selected as the Advisor, PFM in International Monitoring Fund (IMF), Washington. He is an ICAS cadre officer, who belongs to the 1991 batch.

Ajay Mittal ahead for slot of PS to HP-CM
As the grapevine has it Ajay Mittal (1982 batch IAS,from Himachal Pradesh cadre) is ahead in the race for post of Principal Secretary (PS) to Himachal Pradesh(HP) Chief Minister Prof.P.K. Dhumal. Presently, he is PS Home and Non Conventional sources of Energy. It may be recalled here that Mittal who is rated as an ace & honest officer was principal secretary (PS) Prof.Dhumal while the latter had become Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh earlier. At that time Ajay Mittal was in the Election Commission where from he was brought to the CM's secretariat in Shimla.

MP Government's dilemma
The Madhya Pradesh government faces an uphill task as a number of bureaucrats on completion of their central deputation are returning to the state, whereas the state neither has that many vacancies nor space for accommodating them in the Secretariat. Problem has been confounded as there is hardlyany bureaucrat who is moving out of MP on deputation.

Why should anybody join BSNL, MTNL from pvt sector?
Why should anybody join BSNL, MTNL from private sector as CMD, BSNL or
CMD, MTNL? This question is hot topic of discussion in telecom circles. Reason is very simple: low salary coupled with so many restrictions in comparison to the private sector.

IAS lobby active for post of HP State Electricity Board
IAS lobby is also quite active regarding the post of Chairman Himachal Pradesh (HP) State Electricity Board.

R.P Meharde elevated as IG, CRPF
R.P Meharde, DIG, CRPF, New Delhi has been promoted as Inspector General (IG) in CRPF. He is an IPS officer of the1990 batch who belongs to the Rajasthan cadre.

Sonam Palwar posted as Senior Dy Accountant General (SRA/UT)
Sonam Palwar, Director, in the office of the Principal Director of Audit, Defence Services, Chandigarh, has been transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (SRA/UT), in the office of the Principal Accountant General (Audit), Punjab, Chandigarh.

16 IAS officers in Rajasthan get Senior Time Scale
As many as 16 IAS officers in Rajasthan have been appointed in the Senior Time Scale. They are Mrs. Manju Rajpal - Collector & District Magistrate, Ajmer, Debasish Prusty - Private Secretary to Minister of State (Expenditure and Financial Services), Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, Naveen Jain - Collector & District Magistrate, Baran, Dr. Krishna Kant Pathak - Secretary, Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer, AshutoshA.T. Pednekar - Collector & District Magistrate, Alwar, Dr. Prithvi Raj - Collector & District Magistrate, Bikaner, Dr. Pritam B.Yashvant - Collector & District Magistrate, Rajsamand, Krishna Kunal - Collector & District Magistrate, Bharatpur, Bhanu Prakash Yeturu - Collector & District Magistrate, Hanumangarh, Niraj Kutnar Pavan - Collector & District Magistrate, Pali, Siddharth Mahajan - Collector & District Magistrate, Jodhpur, Ravi Jain - Collector & District Magistrate, Chittorgarh, Dr. Samit Sharma - Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission Cum Deputy Secretary to Government, Rajasthan. Jaipur, Dr. Ravi Kumar Surpur - Collector & District Magistrate, Sawaimadhopur, Ambrish Kumar - Collector & District Magistrate, Jhunjhunu and Mrs. Puriam - State Project Director, Rajasthan Rural Livelihood Project, Jaipur.

Transfer of Additional CIT cancelled
Transfer of Mrs. Mamta Kochar, Additional CIT, Delhi, as OSD in CBDT has been cancelled.

Transfer of Additional CIT, Delhi, cancelled
Transfer of Sarabjeet Singh, Additional CIT, Delhi, as OSD in CBDT has been cancelled.

Garg posted as OSD in CBDT
Deepak Garg, Additional CIT, Delhi, has been posted as OSD in CBDT (ITCC Division).

Gaurav Kanaujia posted as OSD in CBDT
Gaurav Kanaujia, JCIT Jalpaiguri, has been posted as OSD in CBDT.

Banks in India need to adopt business process re-engineering system
Banks in India would now have to adopt a system of business process re-engineering to change their business processes, delivery models and also information processing systems. They would have to develop new process manuals and train personnel to use the new systems effectively. It would free staff for performing front-office functions.

Pakistan : 235 applicants for 6 posts of Vice Chancellors
The Department of higher education in Pakistan's Punjab has received 235 applications for six posts of Vice chancellors in different universities (including autonomous colleges) in Lahore, Sargodha, Peshawar, Multan and Rawalpindi. The search committee headed by Lahore university of management Sciences Pro VC Prof Syed Babar Ali has short listed 50 candidates whose interviews are commencing from 28 March.

Former IT commissioner sentenced to jail
A former Income Tax Commissioner and his wife in Mumbai has been sentenced to jail.

IPS changes in UP
SP (Ambedkarnagar) M. D. Karndhar has been moved to PAC Gaziabad. Beena Mukesh will now be SP of Ambedkar Nagar,

Singhal is back to UP
Deepak Singhal is back to the parent UP cadre .On return 1982 batch IAS officer Singhal has been made Member (Judicial) in the Board of Revenue,Lucknow.

AP govt tranfers Mutyalaraju Revu
The Andhra Pradesh government transferred Mutyalaraju Revu, Sub-Collector, Vikarabad to P.O., ITDA, Utnoor. He is an IAS officer of the 2007 batch who belongs to the AP cadre.

Two IAS from AP to visit Taipei for IFWLA Convention
Two IAS officers from Andhra Pradesh will attend the "IFWLA Convention-2011" in Taipei, Taiwan from April 10, 2011 to April 13, 2011. The two officers are K.Ratna Kishore Principal Secretary to Government, Agricultural Marketing & Co-operation Department and Chairman A.P State Ware Housing Corporation and S. Balasubrahmanyam, Managing Director, A.P State Ware Housing Corporation, Hyderabad.

GOG to have water treatment plants on the sea-coasts
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that state government will develop solar-based desalination water treatment plants on the sea-coasts of Gujarat. These plants will be developed on a big scale and in a cost-effective way, helping industries to get clean water for their operations. Chief Minister announced this while inaugurating a seminar on 'Water for inclusive growth', at Pandit Dindayal University on March 22, 2011. The seminar was organized by Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam on the World Water Day. Chief Minister said that government, with Narmada Canal pipeline, extended the drinking water facility to the village areas, that has freed the rural women form everyday troubles that they were facing due to unavailability of drinking water. Ten years back, some 4000 villages were receiving clean water through water-tankers but today, he said, Gujarat has become a 'tanker-free' state. Chief Minister insisted on the need of water recycling and water treatment and said he suggested prime minister to implement environment clean city project in 500 cities of India under JUNURM, emphasizing 'solid waste management' and 'water treatment management'. His suggestion got good response initially but the latest union budget has put a half-hearted focus on it, Modi said insisting that his government is determined to implement this project in as many as 50 cities of Gujarat during the Swarnim Jyanti year. The Chief Minister, on the occasion, released three research manuals on Sardar Sarovar project, prepared by R.Parthsarthi and Prof.Ravindra Dholakiya. Chief Secretary A.K.Joti, Sardar Sarovar Nigam's Managing Director S. Jagadeesan and experts of the water resources field were present on the occasion.

Delhi LG gets extension ? (UPDATED)
Grapevine has it that LG of Delhi Tejinder Khanna has been granted extension in his term till further orders .

Railway's transfers and postings (UPDATED)
Saurabh Gupta of SS/IRSE has been transferred from NCR to NFR, Sukhvir Singh of SS/IRSE has been transferred from NFR to ER, DK Garg of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from SWR to be posted as CBE on SWR itself, RS Dubey of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from SWR as CBE to be posted in the cadre on the SWR and MS Jayanth of GM, has been transferred from SCR to look after the duties of the post of GM/SWR, in addition to his own, for the period from March 22 to March 28 or till resumption of duties by Kuldeep Chaturvedi, GM/SWR, on leave.

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.

Mail your 'to the point' views in brief at

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

CORPORATE

TOP 11 EXECUTIVES OF HINDUJA GROUP

Besides the top three Hinduja brothers the key personnel in Hinduja group are :

1.R Sheshasayee Vice Chairman Ashok Leyland

2.Vinod Dasari COO Ashok Leyland

3.K Sreedharan CFO Ashok Leyland

4.SS Pramanik MD Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd

5.Partha De Sarcar CEO Hinduja Global Solutions

6.Ravi Mansukhani MD IndusInd Media and Communication Ltd

7.Ramesh Sobti CEO ,MD IndusInd Bank ltd

8. AK Das Chief Executive Hinduja Group of Companies

9.YM Kale Group President Corporate Governance

10.Sudhanshu Tripathi Group President Human Resource

11. Ashok Puri MD Hinduja National Power Corporation Ltd

Who will be CVO NTPC ?
Who will be new CVO of the NTPC ? Currently names of 1985 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer Sanjay Kumar and 1988 batch IPS officer of UP cadre Anand Kumar are in circulation.

Rajaram to join Airtel
Hindustan Unilever vice-president N Rajaram is going to join the Airtel to head its mobile business' marketing unit .

A. K. Garg appointed BSNL's Member, HR
A. K. Garg who presently is Chief General Manager Telecom (CGMT) Kolkata circle BSNL has been appointed as Director- Human Resources and Development (HRD) in BSNL. He is cadre of 1976 ITS (India Telecom Services) batch.
( We said this on December 27,2010)

A M K Sinha is IOC's Director Business Development
A. M .K. Sinha who hitherto was Executive Director (ED) Corporate Planning & Economic Studies (CPES) with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is now Director Business Development (BD) in IOC.
(We said this on November 3, 2011)

Katekar resigns as Director, Bliss Gys Pharma Ltd
Satej M. Katekar has resigned as an Independent Director of Bliss Gys Pharma Ltd with effect from March 21, 2011 due to other pre-occupation.

Vaidya to be ED, Network Advertising
After a five-year successful stint at Euro RSCG, Nilesh Vaidya has resigned . He is to take up Network Advertising as Executive Director shortly.

Kumar appointed CFO, PITTI Laminations
PITTI Laminations Limited has appointed G Vijay Kumar as Chief Financial Officer effective from March 16, 2011.

Temptation Foods Board accepts resignation of Harrington as Director
The Board of Temptation Foods Ltd has accepted the resignation of Ms. Elizabeth Harrington as a Director of the Company.

Thampy appointed Exec. Chef Courtyard by Marriott
Suresh Thampy has been appointed the new Executive Chef at Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai International Airport.

Alphonso appointed Business Head for UTV Bindass Channel
UTV Broadcasting has appointed Keith Alphonso as Business Head (UTV Bindass). He comes from Zoom, where he had spent over two years in the
ad sales function.

Madan resigns as Director, Adani Power Ltd
R. K. Madan has resigned as Director of Adani Power with effect from March 21, 2011 due to other pre-occupations.

Gupta resigns as Chairman of ISB
Former McKinsey chief Rajat Gupta has resigned as Chairman of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.

Second blow to Jindals
After IT raids in Mumbai now the Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Orissa Government to initiate action against a Jindal Steel and Power plant.

Nilesh Vaidya to join Network Advertising
Euro RSCG' Nilesh Vaidya has put in his papers and is now on his way to Network Advertising as Executive Director.

CBI raids NLC ED
The CBI has raided premises of an Executive Director of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation at Neyveli .

GMR Chairity
The GMR Group is creating an endowment worth US $ 340 million (Rs. 1,540 crore) in favour of the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation.

Mago is President of Bread Manufacturing Association
Ramesh Mago has been elected President of the All India Bread Manufactiring ssociation.

FORUM

DEBATE (1) I know that there are thousands of candidates, due to their mental and physical deficiencies rejected for Army commission every year by SSBs. From some of the letters I see in this forum, I feel that these rejects and frustrated elements are using this forum for spewing venom on Defence officers.

N Krishnan

DEBATE (2) I have worked in Defence Ministry. Artificially, shortage of officers is maintained. Enough aspirants are there, only to be denied. It may be curious to find out how many Defence officers children make it, compared to poor "Civilians"

P S Singh

DEBATE (3) Selection criteria for commissioned officers are decided by DIPR, an institution under DRDO and not Armed Forces. One of the qualified psychologist of DIPR is generally posted with Selection Center. He is a civilian scientist.

It is not uncommon to come across so many senior officers, the IAS and IPS who have this grouse that they were not selected for Defence forces but made it to IAS / IPS etc.

That mind set emenates due to lack of realisation that SSB is meant to select officers for the Armed Forces and not Civil Servants leave aside for CPOs.

Putting blame for shortage of officers on the Services is ridiculous.

Rajiv

Only three years posting be allowed

To curb corruption , none should be allowed in same post for more than three years if there is a scope for corruption .

Kalpana

This is regarding increase in the retirement age of Government servants. I feel it should not be increased at all, more you grow old more your contribution is slow. The best would be to arrange (i) housing within the reach of Government servants (ii) help is educating wards of government servants (iii) retired government servants should be available for guidance through e-mail of telephone which can keep them busy and a social service to young generation too. (iv) There should be a think tank like place where they can share their experience and contribute to the improvement of un-civil steel frame system prevailing at this time. If these steps are taken it can bring lot of changes and may be corruption can be crushed in the long run.

Harish Kumar

Indian Railways website not updated

Though Indian Railways has claimed to improved its web and so called services to passengers, still their website display a list having 2005 data, where most of the officers have by now RETIRED.

See link

http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?id=0,1,304,366,390,391

Bose

Stop the Jat agitation

Will somebody stop these jats from squatting on the Railway track and blocking all traffic resulting in heavy losses to the Railways. The helplessness of the law-enforcing authorities in dealing with this lawlessness is amazing. The current agitation started on 5th of March. For 12 days no one moved to take action or even to talk to them. While these jats-men and women set up house on the Railway tracks putting up shamiana canopy above them ,cooking and sleeping there, hundreds of trains were cancelled putting lakhs of passengers to inconvenience. Railways had to refund crores of rupees due to cancellation of tickets. Coal, foodgrains and fertilizers movement suffered leading to disruption which caused one power plant to shut down. Railways suffered an overall loss of 100 crores in two weeks. The travails are yet not over. Though through the intervention of Allahabad High court the tracks were cleared from Kafurpur Railway station, the Jats have threatened to block the rail and road traffic again. Even today Northern Railway had to cancel so many trains on certain routes. This is happening again and again. The Jats from Rajasthan created that ruckus last year, U.P jats did now. The Jats from Haryana are threatening today. As we do not take any action against those who destroy public property and cause inconvenience to public and huge loss to public exchequer the menace continues. I wonder why the state authorities are indifferent to this nuisance. Why cannot the Railways use their own RPF or GRP to first prevent this criminality and if the protestors do occupy Railway tracks remove them by force. If these two forces do not have powers, give them the powers. Railways will also do well in seeking compensation from state governments who in turn should make the agitators pay for these losses. We have to act and instill some discipline in public. Democracy gives the right to speak and demand for what one perceives to be one's due but by no definition it means going on the rampage and destroying public property and putting fellow citizens to harassment and inconvenience. It is high time a stringent law is made to take care of such goondagardi.

Aarti Khosla

Unnecessary transfer of application

The Commission noted that the RTI application has been unnecessarily sent to various BDOs who have all replied that the information is not held by them. Twenty officers of Delhi government had to attend a hearing before the CIC most of whom were unrelated to the information sought by the Appellant. This has also lead to a delay in providing
the information since it appears that there was not clarity as to who has the information.

Comments

It is frequently seen that transfer of the application is the first thing that the PIO does without careful scrutiny as to whether the deemed PIO to whom the application is transferred holds the information. Hopefully, the Government would find some method of ensuring that RTI application are sent to the people who have the information and not to every one since this wastes public resources and money.

[Mr. Chattar Sing Rachhoya vs Irrigation and Flood Control Department in CIC/SG/A/2010/003594/11503]

- 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)

axmann. (The views are Personal)