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

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Some say wrongly the cash for vote scandal BJP ne kiya handle!!

Rather than taking on Mohna they should blame Sonia for this scandal!!

Because Mohna does not handle the political angle!!!!

So in this scandal Sonia BJP should try to entangle!!

The MPs who were offered bribes say they spoke to a Sonia aide!!!

They say the final offer and assurance by this aide was made!!

Yes Mohna did benefit from this scandal as he continues to live in 7 Race Course!!!

All know in Congress who is Orders ka source!!

Mohna was in the know..... of course he was in the know!!

Though when asked Mohna answers with a forceful 'no'!!!

On Sonia's orders in the House Mohna said.... no horse trading......Congress was abs honest!!

He said this and even the few who were saying he's honest must have shouted 'he's dishonest'!!

Wiki Cables provide corroborative evidence!!!!

Though Congress terms the Cables as 'Embassy nonsense'!!

Congress carefully does not term the Wiki Cables as 'lies' or figment of Assange's imagination!!

Because if it did so it would have to sue Assange for tarnishing the image of a great Nation!!

US has not sued Wiki Cables... it has charged Assange for treason!!!

And we all know the reason!!

The Cables are true and that is why US is conveniently not confirming or denying the Cables!

Only as treason the leakage of the Cables US labels!!

PC or Mr. Putridly Crafty tried to do what he does best..... mislead!!!

It was literally like in 1 Kg of salt a pinch full of aata to make dough he did knead!!

To cover up a lie one has to lie a thousand times and this is what Mohna and PC did!!!

And both did what Sonia from them did bid!!

PC says ' if you have the votes you cannot be charged for chori'!!!!!

Electorally have you heard anything more 'gory'????

Congress has shown if you have the votes you can get away with daylight robbery!!

Mr. PC our vote is not a licence for thuggery!!

By political Parties our vote is misused!!

And blatantly abused!!

Lies.... lies and more lies.......Jhoote Number One!!!

Mohna the imaandar jhoota is the new pun!!!

Congress subverting democracy ........ bought votes with cash!!!

And refusing to investigate the Wiki Cable leaks 'truth' ko karr rahi hai Congress bash!!!

And what is really funny is UPA Sarkaar damned Pakistan on terror citing Wiki Cables!!!!

But on Wiki Cables that expose UPA same UPA says these are Wiki Cables are unsubstantiated fables!!

Buying votes benefitted UPA......its future was at stake!!!

And at such desperate times desperate steps Congress does take!!

Even in the past Congress has used this mode!!!

In the past too a similar bomb did explode!!

And on the cash for vote scandal the 'jury is still out'!!!!

And the general perception is ' Congress's role nobody does doubt'!!

It's said Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel are worried!!!!
Because they say if Hasan Ali spills the beans they will be politically buried!!

It is said Hasan Ali routed their moolah into stocks via participatory notes!!!!

It's said Hassan only handled the moolah whereas in Pawar and Praful's hands were the remotes!

And in Hasan's client list some Congress Netas also do figure!!!!

And now his modus operandi many have been able to figure!!!

He was these Netas Hawala arranger..... and he was their 'Tax Haven Banker' too!!

As per their instructions investments and 'black to white' operations he used to do!!

Via Tax Haven accounts he handled, invested and laundered money!

The accounts were directly and indirectly owned by him or his honey (wife)!!

Confucius says.... the 'messenger' will be persecuted but the actual sources will get away!!

In the end the messenger will pay!!

Adds.... As Hassan Ali know too much and too much is at stake!!

Maybe Batcha kind of step he too will 'be made to take'!!

Flash...... Tehlka is known to be Congress's helper....... has a track record in this!!!!

This fact is 'very hard to miss'!!!

Depending on the version of a Journo Tehelka has built up its story!!!

The story has mori pe mori (holes)!!!

Fact is Congress used Amar Singh is buy votes and Mulayam Singh benefitted from this!!!

The glaring facts how can anyone miss!

Congress outsourced 'cash for votes' to Mulayam and Mulayam put Amar on the job!!!

'I did it on Mulayam's order' karta hai Amar sob!!

It took Tehelka 3 years to come out with this story and the timing stinks!!

And in the end after turning the tables the Tehelka article terms all Parties as 'finks'!!

The Wiki Cables any day are more trustworthy!!! Tehelka is a 'politically blessed Weekly' and is totally untrustworthy!!

Bharat Kumar

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Now it's turn of Indian Journalists ?
Grapevine says that next Wikileaks will consist names of several top Indian Journalists who have shared secrets of the country. One can only wait and watch.

BUREAUCRACY

Ramachandran to succeed Wanchoo ?
If the insiders are to be believed, N Ramachandran will succeed B V Wanchoo as SPG Chief. He is 1978 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Saxena to be Director (Marketing) CIL
B K Saxena is being tipped to be new Director (Marketing) in the Coal India Ltd (CIL). The PESB is believed to have put his number one in the panel.

Will Bali go to Montreal ?
There is a buzz that former Special Director CISF M S Bali is moving to Montreal in the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).He is retired 1976 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Mishra being laterally shifted in Defence Ministry
P.K. Mishra who is presently Additional Financial Advisor at the Joint Secretary level is laterally being shifted in the Defence Ministry. He is an IA &AS officer of the 1984 batch.

Raj Vishwanathan to Joint Secretary & FA, Defence
Raj Vishwanathan is poised to be new Joint Secretary & Financial Advisor (FA) in the Defence Ministry. He is an IA &AS officer of the 1987 batch. Presently, he is Principal Director Scientific Departments.

Delhi has excess number of IT Commissioners
Delhi seems to be the favourite place for the IRS (IT) officers. There are currently 14 Income Tax Commissioners in excess in the national capital.

Kerala is short of IT Commissioners
It is said that Kerala is short of 14 Income Tax Commissioners. It means people are unwilling to go to Kerala.

H Upadhyay to retire
H. Upadhyay, Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee in Government of India (GOI) will be retiring soon. He is an IPS officer of 1973 batch, who belongs to the West Bengal cadre.

Meeting held for selecting CVOs
The selection committee of DoPT in Government of India (GOI) regarding recruitment of incumbents for the posts of chief vigilance officers (CVOs) in different PSUs has been held.

Performance rating of 70 per cent must for availing PRIS
The government departments will have to get a performance rating of 70 per cent or more on the results framework document (RFD) - to avail of the performance related incentive scheme (PRIS) that will allow babus performing well to avail of cash incentives. RFD is a performance evaluation mechanism implemented by 62 ministries and departments since last year.

Murugaraj transferred to Lucknow.
Vikram D. Murugaraj, Director (Personnel), in the office of the Comptroller & Auditor General Of India, New Delhi, has been transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (IDT), in the office of the Accountant General (C&RA), Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow.

U.K Bansal goes to England on a tour
U.K Bansal Secretary International Security the central government's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on an official tour has gone to England. He is an IPS officer of 1974 batch who belongs to the UP cadre.

Autonomy like Metro rail needed in BSNL, MTNL
As the grapevine has it, there is a general perception in telecom circles that in case the Government of India (GOI) is really keen on improving scenario in BSNL & MTNL then autonomy like Delhi Metro Rail was a must. The BSNL has two lakh out of three lakh such staff members who are either Class Eight pass or are less qualified.

Kamlesh Kumar Pant has bright chances for heading HPSEB
As the grapevine has it, Kamlesh Kumar Pant Secretary Finance with the Himachal Pradesh (HP) government has very bright chances of being appointed as new Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board (PSEB) if bureaucrats' lobby is able to prevail.

Joginder Singh posted as Dy Director in Audit office Defence Services
Joginder Singh, Deputy Director, in the office of the Principal Director of Commercial Audit & ex-officio Member Audit Board-II, New Delhi, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Director, in the office of the Principal Director of Audit, Defence Services, Chandigarh.

ITBP to have four new IGs
Four new posts of IG in the ITBP are believed to have been created.

CSS cadre officers to be elevated as Dy.Secretaries
Those CSS cadre officers who are eligible for promotion from under secretaries to deputy secretaries in Government of India (GOI) will be promoted within a month.

Alphons not to contest election ?
Former 1979 batch IAS officer K J Alphons is unlikely to contest Vidhan Sabha elections this time.

Term of Sunkaria to expire next month
Term of Commissioner of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Dr Roshan Sunkaria is coming to an end in April.He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Railway's transfers and postings
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.

IAS on dharna since March 17
An IAS officer of the Principal Secretary rank in Haryana is on a dharna since March 17 outside Brahma Kumaris Vishwavidyalay demanding a thorough inquiry into the alleged financial and other irregularities. Raj Rup Fulia, PS (Archives), Haryana government, who has remained associated with it for the past 40 years claims, "I have been noticing financial and other irregularities in the organization for the past few years".

Union secretary upset with Karnataka bureaucrats
Union secretary, ministry of new and renewable energy, Deepak Gupta, was upset with the bureaucrats in Karnataka when he reached Bangalore from Delhi to discuss ways and means to tackle Karnataka's power crisis the chief secretary S V Ranganath chose to skip. Karnataka's Forest Minister C H Vijayashankar also showed no interest in either attending or participating in the national workshop on dedicated plantation-based biomass power and energy. Gupta even criticised the indifference saying, "I am disappointed that the secretaries are not present. If I can come from Delhi, then why can't they attend from Bangalore?".

Lt Gen. Jacob appointed Chairman, ceasefire monitoring group
The Centre is learnt to have appointed Lt Gen. Jacob as a new chairman of the ceasefire monitoring group. The term of the previous incumbent to the post Lt Gen. Mandhata ended in November last year. The new incumbent is slated to take charge by April 3.

NBCC gets appreciation shield for timely completion of NSEZ (UPDATED)
P.K. Chaudhery, Special Secretary, Union Ministry of Commerce and R.C. Panda, Development Commissioner, NSEZ, jointly presenting the Appreciation Shield to Vishnu P. Das, CMD, NBCC, for timely and quality completion of NSEZ Noida Project by NBCC which was under the charge of S.K. Soni, DGM, NBCC.

Mahajan gets three months extension (UPDATED)
Joint Secretary in the PMO Vini Mahajan has been granted a three month extension. She is 1987 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

1997 batch IFS promoted in Orissa (UPDATED)
The Indian Forest Service Officers upto 1997 batch have been promoted as Conservator of Forests in Orissa.

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

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CORPORATE

Deadline for MPT chief post ends soon
Deadline for submitting application for the post of Chairman Mumbai Port Trust
(MPT) will end this week.

Transfer and Postings in GAIL on April 1
Transfer postings at all the levels in GAIL India are expected to take place on April 1. Promotion of GMs to the ED level are also expected.

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.

Durgesh is new Director in BEML
C N Durgesh has taken over as Director (Mining & Construction) of BEML Limited, a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Defence.

S C Misra BSNL's acting CMD goes to the US
S C Misra who is acting CMD of loss making BSNL has gone on an official tour to the US.

Deepak Parekh now on the board of DP World Ltd
Deepak Parekh has been as a non-executive director on its board DP World Limited .

Moudgil appointed Director (Projects), EIL
Deepak Moudgil, Executive Director, Engineers India Ltd, has been appointed as Director (Projects), Engineers India Ltd, New Delhi for a period of five years. He assumed the charge of the post of Director (Projects) in EIL w.e.f. March 22, 2011.

Shah appointed MD, Aaren Initiative
Hemanth Shah, President of OOH Initiatives, Lintas Media Group, has been appointed to the Board of Aaren Initiative as Managing Director with immediate effect.

Aasht appointed VP, PerceptH
PerceptH has appointed Sameer Aasht as Vice President and Planning Head. He will be based out of Mumbai but will handle the planning portfolio for the agency nationally.

Tripathi appointed Printer & Publisher (North). Mid-Day
Mid-Day has appointed Narendra Tripathi as Printer and Publisher (North).

Kalbag appointed Executive Editor, Mid-Day
Sachin Kalbag has been appointed as Executive Editor, Mid-Day Publications. Prior to this, Kalbag was working with the India Today Group.

TFCI appoints five additional directors
Tourism Finance Corporation of India Limited (TFCI) has appointed five additional directors on its Board . They are-- Arjun Sharma , Sachit Kumar Sahijpal, Dr. P.S. Rana, Sujit Banerjee and S.K.Misra.

Sharma appointed Special Director, Alps Industries
Alps Industries Limited has appointed M.L. Sharma as a Special Director of the Company w.e.f. February 18, 2011.

Seth resigns as CMD, Pearl Engineering Polymers Ltd
Chand Seth, Chairman and Managing Director, Pearl Engineering Polymers Ltd has resigned from the Board of Directors of the company w.e.f. February 24, 2011.

PM to visit Space Application centre, Ahmedabad
Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh is slated to visit the Ahmedabad located Space Application Centre on March 26, 2011.

UTV appoints Keith Alphonso as Biz Head for Bindass
UTV Broadcasting has appointed Keith Alphonso as Business Head for Bindass. Earlier he was in the ad sales function with Zoom for over two years and prior to that with MTV India.

Hemanth Shah is MD Aaren Initiative
Hemanth Shah, President of OOH Initiatives at Lintas Media Group, has been appointed to the Board of Aaren Initiative as its Managing Director.

Debashis Patnaik to lead HR at EMC India Center of Excellence
EMC India Center of Excellence (COE) has announced the appointment of Debashis Patnaik as the Head of the Human Resources division. Debashis will be taking over from R. Vidyasagar in this role who is moving on to the next phase of his career in human resources. Debashis will be responsible for overseeing talent acquisition, building a strong foundation in many of the key people management practices that can enable future growth, employee engagement and organizational development of the India COE with particular reference to developing industry leading talent within the COE.

Sameer Aasht appointed Planning Head at PerceptH
Sameer Aasht has been appointed as Vice President Planning Head of PerceptH.

Shah appointed MD of Aaren Initiative
Hemanth Shah, President of OOH Initiatives at Lintas Media Group, has been appointed to the Board of Aaren Initiative as its Managing Director.

Creative Abbys Jury Chairpersons announced
Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman and Creative Director, South Asia, Ogilvy India, will head the jury for the Integrated category. Prasoon Joshi, Executive Chairman and Regional Executive Creative Director APAC, McCann Erickson, will head the Film Jury. The OOH category will be chaired by KV Sridhar, NCD, Leo Burnett India while Ravi Deshpande, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Contract Advertising, will chair the Print category. Similarly, for Radio, Digital and Design categories, Josy Paul, Chairman & NCD, BBDO India; Senthil Kumar, ECD, JWT India; and Sujata Keshavan, Managing Director and Executive Creative Director will respectively be on the jury.

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.

FORUM

DEBATE (1) Corruption has not even spared our Defence services. Media reach out is very vast and even youth in village have access to television and newspapers. while the level of patriotism has gone down to the minimum level, people who have knowledge and the ability to weigh pros and cons just remain as mute spectators. NCC cadets generally aspire to join defense services. So, the Government should revamp the NCC and strengthen it. Moreover, there is a programme called National Service Scheme (NSS) Rashtriya Sewa Yojana just doing social service. This programme has been diluted over the years because of lack of interest by the Ministry officials of Youth Affairs. So, instead of expanding NSS Volunteer strength every year as is the common practice, the number of NCC Cadets should be enhanced. Reliance has been calling for applications from NCC Cadets for its Security purposes as security officers. We should learn a lot from private organistaions. When the pvt. companies offer attractive package, youth will tend to join those organisations only. But, Youth can be motivated to join armed forces. `Catch Them Young' holds good here too.

Sivakumar

DEBATE (2) Defence forces offer tough and hazardous life with high risk to life or limb, higher level of mental and physical stress, longer periods of separation from family, friends and relatives, slower and fewer career growth opportunities, constant degradation of their rank and status vis-a-vis other premier civil Govt services and to top it all inadequate compensation for suffering all of the above. We Indians are first Marathis, Gujratis, Tamils, Jats, OBCs, Dalits etc but we are hardly ever Indians first! So we lack a feeling of Nationalism/Patriotism. So naturally youngsters want easy, cushy, well paying job with first class perks and privileges. So that explains why

Armed Forces as a career have gone down in priority. One stark example of how badly Armed Forces are being treated in terms of career is this: A spirited and strapping young lad gets commissioned in Army as a 2/ Lt in the year 1990 (at 22 yrs of age) and gets posted in CI operational Area in J&K. Hunts down and kills militants and also gets injured. His 10 yr younger cousin who is yet in School, studies hard and clears Civil Services exam later and becomes an IAS at 25 yrs (in the yr 2003). Elder cousin (a battle causality) has now risen to Lt Col's rank in the Army. 18 years down the line the younger one rises to a Joint Secy (so-called Maj Gen's equivalent) and elder one keeps languishing at the rank of Col (Time Scale) and is preparing to be sent home at the age of 54. (BTW, here people are clamoring for retirement age to be enhanced from 60 to 65 or even 70!) Somebody said there is corruption in Armed Forces so people don't want to go. If it were true, this in itself would attract people by hordes because everybody wants to make easy money. Then vacancies are in Junior ranks because their No is disproportionately higher as compared to Senior ranks. Finally one bitter truth, an IAS cadre of less than 5000 officers has close to 250 Secy level posts and Armed Forces cadre of more than 55,000 commissioned officers have just about 20 (yes Sir, just 20 only) Apex grade posts! Now you decide why should any sensible young man join Armed Forces?

Harry

Army is killing us !

Most of the Indians are not aware that army suppresses and demoralises the civilians wherever possible. Normally it is said that army is running short of 11000 officers yet they are working in civil departments like MES,BRO,DRDO and others leaving their combatant duty. Only reason behind it is to make money.In MES and BRO the strength of officers is equal to civilian officers and these departments are headed by army. What an irony. In addition, they ensure that the civilians are not promoted and the example for that is 1987 batch officers selected through Engineering Services Exam are at Deputy Secretary level whereas in other departments they have reached Joint Sec level some 3-4 years back. This is the amount of suppression by army. There is extreme depression in the families of civilian officers. The reason behind this is that the head of departments are uniformed people. The civilians of these departments were better off when there was British Rule. MoD is also hand in glove with them. There is no one to save us. We now give an ultimatum to GoI to make the departments fully civilian or there is an Egypt or Libya in making. I request the countrymen to help us. We are in deep pain. Jai Hind.

Bala

Increase in the retirement age

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 in educating wards of government servants (iii) retired government servants should be available for guidance through e-mail or 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

Shame on Railways

It is shame that the Indian Railways is not trying to complying with the 'Guidelines of Government of India Websites' issued by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievance on 17.06.2009. It seems that the Railway Board wants to hide something. They are also not accepting the recommendations of the 2nd Administrative Reforms Commission in the 4th Report titled 'Ethics in Governance'.

B B Srivastava

Glaring lapse

Can one imagine that Classified List of Gazetted Establishment of the Indian Railways on their web portal shows the position as on 01.01.2005 i.e. almost six (!) years old? It is surprising that no one on the Indian Railways has noticed such glaring lapse on the part of their web managers?

Ram Sevak

Congress in Kerala in a dilemma

Indian National Congress in Kerala is in a dilemma. By aligning and seat sharing with communal outfits like Christian, Kerala congress (with the blessings of Sonia Gandhi) and Muslim League, they will not be able to give enough seats to true secular Christian and Muslim Congressmen. And if they do give minorities enough Congress tickets it will result in minorities along with their cousins in the communal parties garnering majority of seats in UPA, resulting in a backlash from Hindu majority. It is a lesson that national parties should not align with communal outfits.

Navnith

It is Monocracy

In a true democracy, freedom of one ends when the freedom of another begins. Going by this, the present agitation by Jats and the earlier one by Gujjars are symptoms of monocracy which unless putdown by a stern hand will destroy our democracy. Fundamental reason for this type of agitation is the caste(sugar coated as class) based reservations.Sooner we do away with this type of reservation and base it on economic grounds the better.

N K Nair

Interesting thing about corruption

Interesting thing about corruption is: the political class wants to transfer blame to the IAS for corruption. The IAS wants to portray the political class as corrupt. If it does not succeed in doing so, it mentions the IPS and IRS as being corrupt and brushes cases of IAS officers under the carpet. The judiciary wants to blame the political class and the Services for being corrupt. Its own cases are given a quiet burial. The media wishes to blame the judiciary, the bureaucracy, the army and the political class for being corrupt, ignoring its own cases and quietly burying them. The corporate world does most of the corrupting that there is to do, and yet seeks to portray itself as the guardian of good governance and values. Strange are the hypocritical ways of Indian society. The first thing to understand that the existence of black sheep is in all realms of national life and all institutions- the army, the civil services, the political class, the judiciary, the media and the corporate world. The next step is to expose it. The third step is to punish it.

AK Singh

Govt officers punished for non-performance?

Are the government officers being punished for non-performance? Are they being punished for looting the 85% that Rajiv Gadhi referred to? Nowhere else in the world the babus are as inefficient and corrupt as in India- nor are they offered such ill-deserved incentives anywhere else in the world. They need nothing extra. They are being paid far more than they deserve. Such incentives will only formalise corruption and reward inefficiency. If such a proposal is accepted government can easily expect reports of over-blown false performance which exists only on paper and has nothing to do with reality.

ARC

Congratulations

One of the Good Officer who is going to manage HUDCO. We must appreciate and congratulate him for extending his best services

Swaminathan Pitchaimani

Reveal names

When it comes to news which disgraces the Group A officers or creamy layer of governance your website always says " One IT commissioner is sent to Jail" or "CBI raids NLC ED". Do you think their names should not be revealed. But these kind of news make the people to look all the IT Commisioners or all NLC ED's with a suspicion. Don't hesitate to reveal their names.

Vijayaraghavan

Bihar's promotee officers

Have all the promotee IAS officers in Bihar gone in hiding.

S K Shah

Incentive scheme will create neopotism

The incentive scheme will create only neopotism and favouritism. Babu's will not only collect speed money (illegal gratification) but also garner the incentive. It deserves to be scrapped in the infant stage.

K R Shyamsundar

Why should the private sector join MTNL and BSNL?

Anybody desirous of joining would lose crores of rupees in salary which he/ she would otherwise get at equivalent levels in the private sector, which would have to be made up by dubious decisions to defraud the exchequer. And as is well known, taking dubious decisions lands the CBI on the tail of those who take such decisions!

Arjun Mallik

He is a gentleman

I had an opportunity to work with Shashi Ranjan Kumar in Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion. Based on my experience while working with him, I am of the view that he is not only thorough gentleman but also an upright, devoted and fine officer and his services will always be in the interest of the nation wherever he would be.

Brij Mohan

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)