Feedback system is a good one. Keep it up!
K R Shyam Sundar

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Too many factors confirm/prove Congress indulged in vote buying!!!

By saying BJP indulged in entrapment Congress is lying!!

First...... Congress had everything at stake!!!

Prior to vote Congress was shaky was the 'general take'!!

In the run up to the Vote rumours abounded that 'ads' for buying votes had been put out!!!

And on the job was many a political tout!!

Post the vote CBI did a 'u turn' in Mulayam and family's DA case!!!

Experts say prior to this it was sure that a jail term at least Mulayam would face!!!

The Wiki Cables also indicate vote buying!!

At Satish Sharma's house 'money chests' for vote buying were lying!!

Prior to the day voting took place Mohna looked shaky but on the day of voting,

He flashed V signs...... this evidence too is worth noting!!

Madam Sonia's eyes twitched like a flickering light but on the day of voting!!!!

How come Madam's eye twitches were cured is what many like me must have been noting??

And then BJP knew Congress was trying to buy votes and knew who in Congress were handling this!

Seems this fact Congress chose to miss!!!

So there is nothing wrong in BJP MPs contacting 'those who were in the market to buy votes'!!!

And it was also well known who controlled these buyers via remotes!!

Amar Singh tries to use a technicality to get off the hook!!!!

'If cash was mine my finger prints should have been checked on the notes' he says with an innocent look!!

Fact is Netas do not keep this kind of money at home...... its kept with someone or is 'imported'!!

And then via a courier to the one to be bribed the money is sent or 'exported'!!

Fact is Congress outsourced the buying to Mulayam and Mulayam deputed Amar!!!

And Amar drove off contacting probable vote sellers from his Hummer!!

Seems the MPs who showed inclination to sell votes did not trust Amar Singh!!!!

And so into the picture an aide from 10 Janpath Amar was forced to bring!!

To clear the air on this CNN IBN must air the CD it's kept under the wraps!!!

IBN has a Congress bias and is not showing these CDs as 'Congress and its agent Amar the CD traps'!!

For TRP IBN decided to trap MPs being bought but then its love for Congress kicked in!!

And it decided not to air the crucial CD that Congress ko karti hai 'lock stock and barrel' pin!!

There is also another possibility that Mulayam and Amar did this on their own!!!

They were desperate to make SP a active part of UPA and this is well known!!

So without letting Congress know both decided to gift wrap 'votes' to please Sonia Gandhi!!!!

Hoping ' then ho jaye gi humaari chandi'!!

Karuna has again started to bait voters .... this time with laptops, grinders and free bus passes!!

He feels these will entice the common man or the masses!!

The TN exchequer will pay for these sops and ultimately the one's getting the sops will foot the bill!

This logic do not know why Public has not been able to understand still!!

I understand that Buffet was not too keen to meet any Neta during this trip to Delhi!!!

Seems he must have seen what happens in Indian Parliament on the Telly!!

Some say he saw a couple of Bollywood movies that show how our Netas sin!!

However pressure from Indian Netas via diplomatic channels made him 'give in'!

Mohna would have felt insulted if someone like Buffet came to Dilli,

And did not meet him..... would make him look silly!!

Mohna's image overseas has taken a huge fall!!!!

Average height Mohna no longer walks tall!!

Buffet will be meeting Rahul too and I'm sure he'll find Rahul below average.... so-so!!!

Buffet is a maverick at recognizing talent but to make his analysis Public he'll say no!!

Though if he comments about his analysis to someone from the US Embassy it'll make it to Wiki Cables!!

And the Embassy will let Washington know how India's future PM Buffet 'labels'!!

Buffet knows that 'real wealth' in India is with Netas and he knows Netas only know 'to take'!

That's why a plea to Netas to donate a major portion of their wealth to charity he did not make!!

Confucius says....... to expect a Neta to be charitable is like expecting milk from a bull!!! And one usually gives when one is satisfied and our Netas 'stomachs are never full'!!

Bharat Kumar

Contact-suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com> &

<mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com>

Ajit Lal to succeed Upadhyay ?
Ajit Lal Special Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB) is likely to be transferred as Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee in place of H. Upadhyay. Lal is an IPS officer of 1974 batch, who belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre.

File of P V Kumar cleared ?
If insiders are to be believed, P.V. Kumar's file has been cleared by the PM as Chairman of NTRO with 3 year term. Formal orders are to be issued soon.

Mathur to be Director (Technical) Northern Coalfields
A D Mathur is being tipped to be new Director (Technical) of the Northern Coalfields Ltd..

Arvind Kumar poised to be Joint Secretary Banking
Arvind kumar is poised to be Joint Secretary in the Department of inancial Services (Ministry of Finance).He is an IAS officer of the 1991 batch who belongs to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. Presently, he is working as Director, Policy in Department of Food & Public Distribution in GoI. He has earlier worked as District Collector Hyderabad and Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. He has done BA (hons) in Economics from St Stephens' Delhi and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He did
Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, USA in 2007 and a course on "Leadership and Globalization" from London school of Economics & Political Science more popular as LSE, London. He was here in LSE as Chevening Gurukul Scholar in 2010.

Ms. Anuradha Thakur is an Advisor, World Bank
Ms. Anuradha Thakur who on central deputation was a Director in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) is now going to be an Advisor the World Bank (WB) to Executive Director (ED) Pulok Chatterjee. She is an IAS officer of the 1994 batch who belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on December 9,2010)

ITBP to have nine new DIGs
Four new posts of DIG in the ITBP are believed to have been created.

Goel is now JS Heavy Industries
Shashank Goel Director, Department of Heavy Industries has been promoted to the rank of Joint Secretary. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

MHA to send 15 IPS officers to the US
The central government's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will be shortly sending 15 IPS officers to United States of America to for getting trained in to counter explosive major.

MHA rejects name of V P Singh
The MHA is believed to have rejected the proposal of the appointment of V P Singh for the post of Commissioner Chandigarh Municipal Corpotaion. He is 1996 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre. Earlier, the Punjab Government had sent a panel of names including Samir Kumar, Vivek Pratap Singh and SR Laddar also.

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

Mahim Swamy transferred to WR, Mumbai
Mahim Swamy, IG cum Chief Security Commissioner (CSC) of Western Central Railway (WCR) Jabalpur has been transferred to Western Railway (WR), Mumbai. He is an RPF cadre officer who belongs to the 1985 batch.

V.K Dhaka gets additional charge of WCR in RPF
V.K Dhaka DIG cum Additional Chief Security Commissioner (CSC) of Central Railway (CR) will look after the additional charge of CSC, WCR in place of Mahim Swamy. He is an RPF cadre officer who belongs to the 1986 batch.

Anil Sharma transferred to WR, Mumbai
Anil Sharma IG cum Chief Security Commissioner (CSC) of South Eastern Central Railway (SECR), Bilaspur has been transferred in the same capacity to Central Railway (CR) Mumbai. He is an RPF cadre officer who belongs to the 1982 batch.

S.C Padhi gets additional charge of SECR in RPF
S.C Padhi DIG cum Chief Security Commissioner (CSC), Bilaspur will look after additional charge of IG South Eastern Central Railway (SECR), in place of Anil Sharma. He is an RPF cadre officer.

Jayant Singh relieved to join LBSNAA, Mussourie
Jayant Singh who is presently Director Tourism and Catering in Ministry of Railway has been relieved to join the Mussourie located Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) as a Senior Deputy Director. He is an IRTS officer who belongs to 1993 batch. It may be stated that his wife Ms.Roli Singh (IAS officer of 1994 batch from Rajasthan cadre) had earlier this month joined as a Senior Deputy Director in the LBSNAA, Mussourie.

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

Mishra is new Director CCI
Shyamal Mishra has been appointed as Director, Competition Commission of India (CCI).He is 1996 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Now Lakha is Vice Chancellor
Former Chairman of the UP Public Service Commission S R Lakha will now be Vice Chancellor of the Gautam Buddha Nagar University.He is former 1979 batch IAS officer.

Bombay is short of IT Commissioners
Commercial capital of India, Mumbai is short of five Income-Tax Commissioners.

Good news for AGMU cadre IAS, IPS officers
There is good news for those IAS and IPS officers of AGMU cadre whose children are to appear for the board examinations as the central government's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided not to transfer them. There is a big role of Ms Sundari Nanda IG, Goa in framing of such a policy.

Indian Civil Servants averse to posting in Afghanistan
The Government of India which wants civil servants to serve for a year in strife-torn Kabul to train their Afghan counterparts, as part of a UN project, is faced with a piquant situation as even a luring offer of an annual income of more than half a crore in tax-free money has failed to attract them. The bureaucrats' reluctance is hurting New Delhi's efforts to keep itself relevant in a country where it finds itself increasingly outmanoeuvred by Pakistan. The GoI has signed a tripartite agreement last year with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Afghan government, committing to send Indian civil servants to Afghanistan under the National Institute Building Programme.

Chopper service by PHHL to be launched in Mizoram
The central government's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has accepted a proposal by the Mizoram government for starting helicopter service. As a result of this Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited (PHHL) being headed by R.K. Tyagi will soon start flying helicopters in the state. The MHA will be forwarding this proposal to the Finance Ministry in GOI for assistance.

Rakesh Gupta posted as Director in Commercial Audit office
Rakesh Gupta, Director in the office of the Director General of Audit, Defence Services, New Delhi, has been transferred and posted as Director, in the office of the Principal Director of Commercial Audit & ex-officio Member Audit Board-II, New Delhi.

1989 batch IDAS to get JS rank
IDAS is second only to IAS with regard to JS empanelment. 1989 batch of IDAS is being empanelled as JS in the Government of India.

PRIS - no addl burden on exchequer
The performance related incentive scheme (PRIS) that will allow babus performing well to avail of cash incentives, will not put additional burden on the exchequer as the incentives will be paid out of cost savings made by the department in that fiscal. The scheme will allow for up to 15% of the money saved to be distributed. Department of Expenditure has however been asked to work out guidelines for its implementation.

GOI to hold an exhibition of books
The sixth Civil Services Day is being organised on April 21, 2011 in Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. It will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh. As part of the programme the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances(DAPRG) will hold an exhibition of books written by civil servants of different services. Books for the display may not be more than three years old.Those who want to get their books displayed may send them to Ms. Ritika Bhatia Director , DARPG on her Email ID <ritika.bhatia@nic.in

Ranganadhan transferred to Allahabad
K V Ranganadhan, Deputy Accountant General (IDT), in the office of the Accountant General (C&RA), Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (SRA), in the office of the Accountant General (C&RA), Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, Branch office Allahabad.

7 retired IAS/IPS officers in West Bengal's poll arena
As many as seven retired IAS/IPS officers are going to contest West Bengal assembly elections on the ticket of Trina Mool Congress(TMC) being headed by Railway Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee. They are: Manish Gupta, IAS & former Chief Secretary to Government of WB ,Dipak Ghosh IAS, Abani Joardar, Rachpal Singh, Sultan Singh, Hyder Ali Safi & Upen Biswas (all retired IPS officers).

P. Sivakami & 6 others in fray from Tamil Nadu
Ms. P. Sivakami a retired IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre who had earlier joined the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)being headed by Ms. Mayawati Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister & BSP supremo and later on floated her party titled "Samuga Samutva Padai(SMP)" is contesting ensuing assembly polls in Tamil. She is in fray from assembly seat of Gangavalli. At the time of seeking voluntary retirement from service (VRS) Ms. Sivakami was Special Commissioner Printing & Stationery with Tamil Nadu Government. She is an IAS officer of the 1980 batch. While, in BSP Ms. P. Sivakami was Senior state level General Secretary in TamilNadu. Six other candidates have been fielded by her SMP.

Pakistan : Guest house for government employees touring Islamabad
Pakistan's federal minister for works and housing Makhdoom Shahabuddin has asked the PWD to start work on construction of a guest house in Islamabad to accommodate government employees who come to the capital for short stay in connection with official work. The minister also reviewed the performance of the PWD and wanted it to be reactivated as it could play a significant role in boosting the housing sector.

Pakistan : selection process of VCs runs into controversy
The selection process for filling six posts of vice chancellors in Pakistan has run into controversy even before the commencement of interviews scheduled from 28 March because of allegations that changes have been made in the selection criteria pertaining to the academic category 'to benefit some candidates and damage some others'. The search committee has after knowing who all the candidates are has decided to allot 10 additional marks to candidates having Ph.D degree from any of the top 500 universities of the world which some applicants allege is tailor made tobenifit certain favourites of the powers that be.

Former IAS joins BJP
The Independent MLA, who was supported by the Communists until today ,K J Alphons has now joined the BJP.He is former 1979 batch IAS officer.

Dr. Radha posted as Commissioner, Disaster Management, AP
Andhra Pradesh government has posted Dr. T. Radha, who was waiting for her posting, as Commissioner, Disaster Management and E.O. Principal Secretary to Government, Revenue (Disaster Management) Department, AP in place of N. Siva Sankar. Dr. Radha is an IAS officer of the 1983 batch who belongs to Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Siva Sankar is Commissioner, School Education AP
The AP government transferred N. Siva Sankar, Commissioner, Disaster Management as Commissioner and Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh. He is an IAS officer of the 1993 batch who hails from AP cadre.

AP relieves Peeyush Kumar for central deputation
The Andhra Pradesh Government has relieved Peeyush Kumar, Collector and District Magistrate, Krishna district and placed his services at the disposal of Government of India for appointment as Deputy Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, on Central Deputation. He is an IAS officer of the 1997 batch who belongs to AP cadre.

Dr Uppal given charge of Collector & DM Krishna district
The AP government has entrusted Dr. Gaurav Uppal, Joint Collector, Krishna District with the full additional charge of Collector & District Magistrate, Krishna District. He replaces Peeyush Kumar who has been relieved for central deputation. Dr. Uppal is an IAS officer of the 2005 batch who hails from Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Rajendran posted as Director, Treasuries and Accounts, TN
The Tamil Nadu government transferred C. Rajendran Collector Vellore district as Director of Treasuries and Accounts. He replaces V. Palanikumar. He is an IAS officer of the 2003 batch who hails from the TN cadre.

Soundaiah transferred as OSD, Revenue Administration, TN
T. Soundaiah Collector, Erode District has been transferred as Officer on Special Duty (Relief & Rehabilitation), Revenue Administration. He is an IAS officer of the 2001 batch who hails from Tamil Nadu cadre.

Muthuveeran to be appointed MD, New Tiruppur Area Development Corporation Limited
The Tamil Nadu government has placed the services of P. Muthuveeran Collector, Theni District at the disposal of the New Tiruppur Area Development Corporation Limited for appointment as its Managing Director. He is an IAS officer of the 2003 batch who hails from Tamil Nadu cadre.

Tripathi is Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe
J.K. Tripathi, presently Cousul General of India in Sao Paulo (Brazil) has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Zimbabwe in succession to V. Ashok.

All Punjabi Generals in Adarsh Scam ?
General Deepak Kapoor,General NC Vij,Lt General Gurubaksh Singh,Lt General Tejinder Singh,Major General RK hooda and Major General Tej Kishore Kaul- all are Punjabi and all are allegedly involved in Adarsh Scam is a surprising coincidence.

P. Mallana Goud returns to Manipur
P. Mallana Goud who till recently on central deputation headed CRPF's Mount Abu located training Academy is back to his parent cadre of Manipur. He is IPS officer of 1984 batch. He will get a posting as ADG.

Ajay Mittal to be posted as PS to HP-CM
Ajay Mittal (1982 batch IAS,from Himachal Pradesh cadre) is being posted as Principal
Secretary (PS) to Himachal Pradesh(HP) Chief Minister Prof.P.K. Dhumal. Presently, he is PS Home and Non Conventional sources of Energy. Besides,PS to CM he will hold charge of PS Customs & Excise 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.
(We said this on March 23 )

2 IAS officers get additional charge in Himachal Pradesh
Two IAS officers of Principal Secretary (PS) rank have got additional charge in Himachal Pradesh (HP). They are: Narendra Chauhan (1984 batch) got charge of PS Home in addition to his existing charge of PS Water Resources and Prem Kumar (1980 battch) got charge of PS Tribal Development in addition to PS Food & Civil Supplies.

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

5 shortlisted for top slot of POWERGRID
As many as 15 candidates have been shortlisted for top slot of POWERGRID i.e. Chairman and Managing Director(CMD). Main among them are: I S Jha POWERGRID'sDirector (Projects), R. N. Nayak POWERGRID's Director (Operations) &Rajeev Sharma Director (Projects) of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).

Retired IAS is now MD of Housing company.
Retired 1978 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre V. Madhu has joined Provident Housing Ltd as the company's Managing Director in Bangalore.

Interviews for MPT chief's post on March 30
Interviews for the post of Chairman Mumbai Port Trust (MPT) will be held on March 30,2011.

Mishra is Addl. Director, Neyveli Lignite Corporation
R.K.Mishra has been inducted in to the Board of Directors of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd as an Additional Director with effect from March 24, 2011.

Consultant to be appointed for RINL
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd has appointed a consultant for the next phase of its plan to augment capacity to 11 MTPA .

Das is new IOC head in Orissa
Pranab Kumar Das has taken over as new head of the IndianOil in Orissa.

Katyal is Mktg. Head (India) , Lenovo
Computer manufacturer Lenovo has appointed Shailendra Katyal as the Marketing Head for its India operations.

Mohta appointed Director, Aroni Commercials Ltd
Ashish Mohta is appointed as an Independent Director of Aroni Commercials Ltd

Khalpada resigns as Director, Aroni Commercials Ltd
Rajnikant M. Khalpada an independent Director of the Aroni Commrcials Ltd has resigned from the Company.

Rotam Commercials Board accepts resignation of four directors
The Board of Rotam Commercials Ltd has decided to accept the resignation letters from directors-- Jagdish Malani, Hasmukh Malani, Chandrakant Malani, and . Mukesh Malani.

Swaminathan ceases to be Director, Mcleod Russel India
Balaji Swaminathan has ceased to be a Director of Mcleod Russel India Ltd with effect from March 23, 2011.

Lorenzo resigns as Director, California Software Company
Jerome Lazatin Lorenzo has resigned as Director of California Software Company with effect March 3, 2011.

Ministry of Mines appoints part-time directors for NALCO
Ved Kumar Jain and P.C. Sharma have been appointed as Part-time Non-official Directors of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) with effect from March 21, 2011 by Ministry of Mines, Government of India.

Nisha Singhania quits Rediffusion Y&R
Nisha Singhania, Executive Vice-President, Rediffusion Y&R, has put in her papers .

John Furtado passes away
John Furtado, Vice-President - Media, Emami Ltd, passed away on March 21, 2011, due to pneumonia-related complications.

Dr Joshi re-nominated as Member in karnataka
Dr G.V. Joshi, professor of economics at the Nitte-based Justice K.S. Hegde Institute of Management, has been re-nominated as a member to the Karnataka State Planning Board.

FORUM

DEBATE (1)It is not true that young people loosing interest in Armed force. You have to only recall the news regarding crowed which gathered out side each recruitment centre of the Armed forces. It is only because of physical standards that many of them do not get selected. As far as respect to our armed forces is concerned, it is only figment of imagination of certain people that civil society do not respect them. One has to only peep in to the hearts of the people to know how much they respect you. How do you know that your wife and children love you? I do not think any where in the world people hate their armed forces. Basically Indians are shy, they do not show (display) their love like westerners. Young people kiss each other to show their love and affection. In other developed countries, people send greeting cards to their near and dear but in India we don't show our love and affection by greeting cards. Whenever a soldier or officer is felled by enemy bullet, every Indian feels the sorrow and grief but how can he display it? Is there any mechanism available ? OK let us think of a mechanism. Let Army welfare organisation open a register (on web site) and let individuals file their views on it. Is it possible. Please do it. Seeing is believing. Just see the response from the people.

K C Rathore

DEBATE (2)Some people offer instinctive and subconscious comments in the forum. For example - two three gentlemen saying that since there is Corruption in defence Forces, no one wants to join!

Had there been corruption in the defense Forces, there should have been a stiff competition to get in. More the job is corruption ridden more the people want to join.

Ask Police ? Do people join Police for Seva ?

Ranjan

Places of liking and disliking

Places of liking and disliking in IT/Excise/Customs: Delhi, Mumbai, Banglore, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahemadabad, Surat are the most preferred places in these departmens and Kerala, Tamil Nadu (excluding Chennai and Coimbatore), West Bengal, UP, Bihar, North Eastern States are the least preferred places in which nobody wants to go.

P Kumar

Why can't they be shifted ?

Why the 14 Commissioners in excess in Delhi can't be sent to Kerala. Why can't they be shifted out? Or it is for different obvious reasons. How their salary is being drawn when there are no sanctioned posts and what the ZAO is doing

Poonam

Appeal to FM

Nearly eight months have passed after submitting income tax returns, still refunds have not been issued to many tax payers. May we request if ITR's are complete in ITR1 & ITR2, the refunds can be issued before 31.3.2011 so tax payers believe in the system other wise no use of having e-filing, 26AS, computerisation etc. Refunds were much faster in earlier system. The use of computer is not known if refunds or settlements are delayed. Now we are entering in new financial year still the refunds for 2009-10 is pending. Will FM take a call on this issue.

R K Mishra

What is meant by Truth in Satyamev?

What a spirited debate on where lies the Truth of the Wikileaks cablegate! The Truth remained shrouded even as speaker after speaker succeeded in exposing the lie the other was resorting to. In the end the seeker of the truth--the aam aadmi--remained as uneducated as earlier. What actually is this Truth? The Political or Diplomatic dictionaries didn't prove of much help. But the Devil's dictionary gave an interesting definition, worthy to be quoted on the WIC: Truth=an ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupations of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time".

In democracies, where legitimate battles are fought by at least two sides, the exact definition of Truth is yet to be finalized by the editors of the Political and Diplomatic dictionaries!

M L Gupta

IAS officers on inter cadre deputation?

Can the DoPT take a head count of the number of IAS officers who are or have been on inter cadre deputation? It will reveal a lot. Officers from certain cadres like Kerala, Manipur, Nagaland, Orissa, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Assam etc will be found on inter cadre deputation to Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal, UP etc. Most often, such officers land plum postings due to their connections. The lack of fondness of these officers for their home cadres translates into crowding in the cadre for officers who actually belong to a particular cadre. This problem is most acute in Uttaranchal, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh.

Arjun Mallik

Why Karnataka secretaries should listen to Gupta?

Why Karnataka secretaries should listen to Union Secretary Deepak Gupta? what is his expertise? He is just senior. That's all. Karnataka has gone much ahead in power scenario without the help of union government. Have the Secretaries in Delhi forgotten of what biases they did when the state was in need for power in 1980's. Now Karnataka has got better policies and sound system in its place and it has nothing to learn from Delhi Secretary , other than moolahs and racketing.

Jain

Shame

A 1993 UDC is a regular Assistant from 1993 onwards; whereas a poor Grade D of 1984 is still an adhoc Steno C and is expected if DOPT thinks to be a regular Steno C from 2010 onwards only. In short, Steno D & C belong to four legged animal's service and not CSSS.

Raju

Right choice

Ajay Mittal's perhaps the right choice. Good luck to all concerned for the betterment of Himachal.

Kuldeep Singh Dhatwalia

"Kapil Sibal on VSNL disinvestment!!!"

Kapil Sibal is merely trying to cover up the corruption scams perpetrated by his predecessor A Raja right under the nose of the Prime Minister, who though personally incorrupt, is dishonest with the hidden agenda of clinging to power, come what may ! Kapil is a loose cannon who speaks anything without verifying the factual position. The issue of demerger of 773 acres of surplus land of VSNL is the case in point. One wonders whether the lawyers, are qualified liars ?

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Reach of touts to the Railways' website is all-pervasive

The reach of touts to the Railways' website is all-pervasive. If you want to book a ticket through Internet under tatkal scheme from Chennai or Bangalore you will never succeed because you find only a 'hung' website upto about 11 AM daily by which time all tickets must have been sold out/booked. Definitely this is the handiwork of touts with the collusion of railway officials. Buck up Railways.

N K Pushpakaran

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)