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about what is happening in the corridors of power. Aaj Ki Aawaz Is Guv Bharadwaj Mr. Tenacious!!! Or is Sonia actually Ms. Tenacious and Guv Bhardwaj is Mr. Obedient???? Madam Sonia got him to get Q off the hook........ or maybe he did this to please Madam.... I think not........ it's actually Sonia who worked tenaciously to get Q off the hook and Bhardwaj as Law Minister obediently did the needful! As Karnataka Guv he seems to be trying his level best to get Yeddy sacked.....no..... no..... he's not trying to gift wrap this as a birthday gift for Madam! Seems Madam Sonia wants 'BJP's touted gateway to the South' to be closed in BJP's face!!!! And luckily for Guv Bhardwaj Yeddy is helping him in getting his job done!!!! On the other hand if corruption is such a big issue why not sack Sheila Aunty after the Shunglu Committee Report!! I'm sure Manish Tiwari will give you 101 reasons why 'Sheila ki corruption' is a figment of BJP's imagination and Yeddy's corruption is a blatant reality!!
Sonia kicketh and Sonia saveth!!!! It's clear that the 'sack Yeddy' order to Bhardwaj Sonia gaveth!!!
Sonia is at the wheel in Congress!!! But why is she not removing the 'bambino on board' sign that via her actions Congress displays???? Otherwise why should the Yuvraj of Congress be chaperoned during his political outings???? In Noida poor ole Diggy was given the job....... he's not from UP and is not even in charge of UP!!! Rahul has to step out on his own and stop being chaperoned by some senior Congressman! Or this is done so that if there is a fallout then this senior Congressman will take the blame!! Congress has its devious ways!!
Rahul age wise groweth but refuses to strike out on his own!!!! As clutching on to one's wet blanket this is known!!
The Abottabad attack's success lies in its secrecy!!!! US kept this mission under the wraps!!!! Whereas here you have the Indian COAS boasting that India can undertake such an attack!!! This was uncalled for!!!!! And when General Sahib is not elected by popular vote so what was he trying to do?????? India does not have the political will to undertake such a mission....... and I'm sure to undertake this mission India does not have US's permission.... WikiCables have made 'India's accountability to US' abs clear!!!
Joh hai garajthe woh nahi hai barasthe!! Aur joh hai barasthe woh nahi garajthe!!
Sonia congratulated Amma...... Somnath congratulated Didi!!! Though Sonia's call to Jaya has been hyped in the Media, we must not forget that behind the scenes our Netas are pretty pally or civil with each other!!!! Why arch enemy Laloo congratulated Nitish after Nitish won Bihar???? But it's a smart move to make this call and then leak it to the Press.......DMK will now think twice before reacting angrily to Kani's forthcoming arrest!! Just for your info Modi had been invited to attend Amma's swearing in and he was there at the swearing in......dmk and Congress were missing!!! Sonia's already bracing for a Migraine called Didi and if Jaya becomes an active UPA partner Sonia would be constantly in pain...... Didi or Jaya migraines!! But this I would say Sonia has displayed the ability to swallow her pride and land up at the doorstep of an adversary..... like she landed up at Maya's doorstep with flowers and chocolates! I would not be surprised if Sonia's gift to Maya lands up in Bhenji's collection if and when exhibited..... chocolate ka empty dabha and flowers duly preserved!!
In any pursuit one who does not let ego take over ultimately gains!!!!! Ego
is one of our biggest banes!!!
Bharat
Kumar
Contact-suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com> & <mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com> Prediction
of bureaucrats about Assembly polls comes true
West Bengal : TMC + Congress to form the government
Tamil Nadu : AIDMK to form government
Kerala : Congress backed government
Puducherry: Congress to form government
Assam : Congress to retain power.
And to the utter surprise of one and all, they
were almost 100 per cent correct.
BUREAUCRACY
Sumit Bose to be Secretary Expenditure Sarangi
is new Chief Secretary of TamilNadu Malathi moves
to insignificant post M.
Sheela Priya is PS to Tamil Nadu, CM P. Ram
Mohan Rao is PS to Tamil Nadu, CM K.N. Venkatramanan
is Secretary to TN, CM Ramalingam
is Additional Secretary to TN, CM Sheela Rani Chunkath is
new PS Home and Excise Tripathy is new
Police Commissioner Chennai Trusted man of
Stalin shifted Desh Deepak Verma
is new DG SAI Ms.
Sushmita Ganguly to be India's envoy to Turkey Bureaucracy
in WB not to be touched
Sahai
PS Food in Maharashtra Ms.Radhika
Rastogi is MD, MSSDC Rajesh
Agarwal IT Secretary Maharashtra Vaidya
is Additional Commissioner Pune S.C. Sharma
gets additional charge in BSNL Postal service officer P. Thiaga Surendra
Kumar is PMG, Shillong Rajeev Agrawal is CGM
BSNL AP Bandopadhyay
to be Secy to West Bengal, CM Santanu
Basu to join CM Secretariat in Kolkata Samar
Ghosh to continue as West Bengal CS One thing is certain that present Chief Secretary to the West Bengal government Samar Ghosh will continue. This was amply clear as Trinamool Congress (TMC) founder president Ms. Mamata Banerjee who is also Railway Minister had stated recently "Dakshata ka koi rang nahin hota (that there is no colour of talent)". This 1977 batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre is famous for his integrity, probity and ability. Mamata Banerjee has reportedly spoken to Ghosh. MDI-
Gurgaon announces admission for Diploma in Public Policy & Management IAS
reshuffle in Andhra Pradesh Sanjay Agrawal IG-SOG gets additional
charge in Rajasthan (UPDATED) Pannerselvam
appointed OSD, Department of Special Programme Implementation (UPDATED) DEBATE CORPORATE Clouds
of uncertainty hover over new LIC chief Raj cadre IAS is JMD AP TRANSCO Goel
appointed CFO, Cambridge Solutions Ltd Fisher
to remain ED, Cambridge Solutions Ltd Kiran
appointed Company Secy. Sujana Universal Industries Sanyashi
resigns as Company Secy. JIK Industries Saraf re-appointed ED,
Energy Development Company Tauro resigns as
Independent Director, Jindal Saw Ltd Krishna appointed Additional
Director, Goldstone Infratech Ltd Gupta
appointed Addl. Director, VIP Industries Ltd Kumar nominated on Bal Pharma
Board Rao appointed Addl. Director,
Cronimet Alloys Ltd Bubber
ceases to be Director, Cronimet Alloys Ltd Sekhri
resigns as Director, Clutch Auto Ltd DJS Stocks &
Shares appoints Addl. Independent Directors
In a gentleman's agreement that dates back to the founding of the fund and its sister organisation, the World Bank, at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the Europeans have chosen the head of the fund while Washington has appointed the president of the bank. The crony deal is now going to be tested, since the financial dice is now loaded in favour of BRICS. Also, developing countries complained bitterly about this carve up and the next managing director of the fund should be chosen by an open and transparent process. There is already an attempt to project Gordon Brown as the next IMF chief. The Guardian-- "The fund's coffers were also replenished, in part due to the funding organised by Gordon Brown at the London G20 summit in April 2009 and in part by the sale of the IMF's gold reserves. There is now a war chest for the IMF to deploy in the event that the sovereign debt crisis affecting the peripheral countries of the Eurozone worsens. In theory, Brown would be the obvious European choice to continue Strauss-Kahn's work. Brown chaired the IMF's keep policy committee for almost a decade when he was chancellor and believes the fund should actively intervene to tackle poverty and make the global economy less unstable. Despite being handed around European countries on a "buggins's turn" basis since the second world war, a Briton has never run the IMF. To get the job, however, Brown would need the support of David Cameron, something the British PM has publicly stated would not be given. The chances, therefore, are that the fund's next boss will be from the developing world, although the candidate will still have to be acceptable to the major shareholders - the US and the big European countries." India, therefore has to get its act together if it were to push Ahluwalia's candidature. The logic of big European countries is no longer a valid proposition. Also, an European centric IMF has focused more on Eurozone crisis, be it Greece, Portugal, Ireland, etc. The world's poorest in Asia, Africa and South America have to be the focus of multilateral financing rather than IMF/World Bank being seen to be espousing the cause of profligate misadventures of populism which cause debt crisis in the first place.
AA
"ACC system is most corrupt system of appointment"
With reference to above post on 16th May,I would add that the posts of CMDs and Functional Directors in PSUs are sold in the PESB that has lost its glory. As a former CMD,I feel the PESB needs to be wound up
S K Malik
Yes many of the cases need not be within ACCs ambit e.g. posts in various autonomous organisation under central govt. departments. These organisations have their own governing council or appropriate body which are competent to make appointments as per its own rules and as such ACCs approval is wastage of time. These should be kept out of ACCs purview. Similarly only Secy. or Head of PSU/ Bank level appointment should be within ACCs purview. In other cases (Jt. Secy equivalent posts) the concerned Ministry and DoPT should approve the appointments. In case where UPSC has made recommendation, it should be approved by the concerned Ministry only. Further whenever the appointing authority differs from the recommendation of UPSC or PESB or any other authority it should record its reasons on file.
S Gopal
Debate on ACC appointment !
I posted my views recently on the WIC based on my personal experience as Joint Secretary in DOP&T. I have also been following the views of respected browsers. There is no doubt that the present practice of appointment of Officers at the level of JSs and above, is arbitrary, discretionary and based on pick and choose. No weightage is given to experience of candidates, his aptitude and potentials in matters of posting at the right job. Some extraneous considerations and the covert support of wheelers &dealers, corporate lobbyists etc facilitate the appointments of wrong persons in ATM ministries, backed by quid pro quo deals/Enough is enough. It is time to put a stop to this blatant misuse of Executive powers. All appointments to organized services are made by the UPSC, a Constitutional Authority through the civil services examinations. The UPSC's asset is its integrity and fairness of examination system. Having served as Joint Secretary (Confidential) in the UPSC, I say it with authority and confidence. All civil servants recruited through UPSC, will vouch for it. I suggest that the UPSC is associated by DOP&T with all posting matters at the level of JS and above in the GOI, after assessing the profiles of candidates in the presence of their performance appraisal reports, through interviews. In the UPSC with which Secretary (Personnel) must invariably be associated. The UPSC's recommendations must, no doubt, be put up to the ACC for approval. This will ensure credibility of the system without discretionary interference by the temporary Executive. This will be a step towards Good governance.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)
The IAS Cadre implemented the ACC scheme in the Department of Tourism in 1991. The following examples are cited. The Tourist Information Cadre in the Department of Tourism suffered a severe jolt when an IAS officer of the Orissa Cadre, R.N. Bohidar was posted secretly to New York directly as Regional Director from Bhubaneswar in 1991. This was followed by another IAS officer of the Gujarat Cadre B.K. Sinha who was posted in the Tokyo office as Regional Director too. Another officer on deputation from India Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. Rajiv Varma was posted in Sydney in 1992-93 as Director In 1995 another IAS Officer from the Kerala Cadre Mr. T. Balakrishnan was posted in New York. A Delhi Tourism Official Suman Sharma was posted to Frankfurt as Regional Director in 1998. A Rajasthan Civil Servant Khushwaha was posted in Frankfurt as Regional Director and a Railway Canteen Manager Vivek Angra was posted as Director in London. The intervention of ACC has meant that critical senior posts of the overseas offices in the Department of Tourism are left vacant for months and in many cases from two to three years with severe consequences to the tourism promotion of India in the overseas market. It simply abrogated its powers to the ACC for transfers of the level of Under Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries so that the Tourism Information Cadre remain stagnant and they have no career progression and overseas tourist offices face tremendous loss of face in tourism promotion of India. Overseas posts meant for the Tourism Cadre with professional acumen are given to others. The time lag between an officer relinquishing charge and another officer taking over is so long that the new officer has to start from scratch all over again. The tourism trade in the overseas market see this under very cynical eyes and there is no remedy to this situation.
J Virk
I saw your web site "whispersinthecorridors"
The retirement age must not be increased from present 60 to 62 years since it defies all logics. Their is no "technological logic' to postpone the retirement age to 62 years. This shall block the enthusiasm the upcoming younger generation as the old block of beaurocrates shall continue for next two years resulting in frustration of upcoming stream. The same problem shall again come after two years. To my mind, their is no logic in increasing this to 62 years. This is going to block all promotional opportunities and generation of new ideas from upcoming generation. If you ask people who are in age group of 59 to 60 years, I am sure most of them will opt for not to increase the retirement age. There is a physical limit to which a person can work, I feel that is maximum 60 years of age in service. Those who want to carry on further, can opt for another job in which they can serve beyond 60 years also.
Pradeep Kumar Khare
Age of retirement
I don't know that who is advocating this move of increasing Age of retirement and on who's behalf this move is has been raised. In our country there are millions of unemployed youths who are struggling for earning Bread & Butter on one side and inefficient & corrupt Government Machinery with aged employees on the other side, it is totally irrelevant, undesired proposal and should be scrapped in the first instance. Rather Age of retirement should be reduced to 55 years, to make our system more vibrant, efficient and result oriented. Jai Hind
Sunil
The NDA Government increased the age of retirement from 58 to 60 and lost the election. any govt who will increase the age has to lose the election as the youth will never vote for them. UPA Govt. please learn from the mistake of NDA.
P K Mishra
Retirement age should be 55.
Ranbir Singh
Hi everyone's Retiring age should be at 50 years so that all can start learning to play golf and improve and enrich the golf industry in India. Relax and also will live longer.
Beatrice Warjri
For those who think retirement age and unemployment are related.....
Population 120 cr. Working population 45 cr. Government employees 45 lakhs. i.e.... 1% of working population.
Average service period 35 years. With 62 years retirement, it becomes 37 years. Increase of 6% ........of 1%.... ...... i.e. 0.0006
Just an interesting thought...
If the retirement age is reduced to 40 years, Will the unemployment problem be solved?
Mani
The increase in the retirement age is being talked about keeping in view of the preference of the current Govt. for few senior most IAS officers working closely with the PM/Sonia Ji. Why spoil the system by bringing about changes aimed at individual benefits. Even in the present scenario the officers and staff stop working 2/3 years before retirement. By raising the retirement age, the public money will be wasted without corresponding benefits in the increased productivity.
Ranjana
When huge man power is available , it is better to retire after the age of 62 years. Who says that why a young can not perform. those who have retired after the age of 60 and if they are active, they are already doing the work and utilising his experience for the nation's economy , not in the same organisation but in other organisation. So in view of the huge man power, retirement age should not be increased.
Rajendra Kothari
This is certainly one of the positive initiative by GoI but not enough to retrieve the sagging morale of AIS officers. GOI should be more proactive and exercise powers granted to it under constitution of India , it can always issue executive instructions to state governments who are constitutionally obliged to follow it to avoid failure of constitutional machinery . what greater mockery can be there of constitutional service that a CM is first demanding an officer to be appointed as CS and after the officer is relieved , the CM dithers and GOI only watches whole drama as a silent spectator in the name of federalism forgetting gleefully and conveniently its constitutional obligation to protect the AIS . Now with change of government in four states after assembly election, more such development may take place and more such officers might be crucified in the name of federalism and GoI may meekly surrender to whims and fancies of CMs to its own peril ultimately .
Sakshi Shankar
Immediate action required
If a case of irregularity is obtained under the RTI Act-2005 and proved, then action should be taken immediately. We should not do dilly dallying in passing on the information from one Department to the other Department, Central Vigilance Commission and Prime Minister's Office.
B B Srivastava
Selection by PSEB
Regarding selection by PSEB many alternatives had been followed in past such as recommending only one name, second was putting two names parallely not at no.1 or 2 and normally giving a panel of two and sometimes it had three. Suggesting two names are fine but to avoid controversies of changing of first and second positions of panel let the two names be put parallely in alphabetic order in the panel. The detail marking positioning is the prerogative of selection board. But in any selection process its very difficult at times to assess out of two equal candidates who is better. However if there is an outstanding candidate who is far superior than all others in that case only one name could be suggested. As far as ministry's preference is concerned its represented in PSEB by the Secretary. Its very rare that Secretary's recommendations are not taken in consideration and given due weightage. Most of the cases selection process is on consensus. It is for consideration to avoid misgivings in the mind of public the names of selected panelists be put in alphabetical order or only a single name be suggested if there is total unanimity in the selection board. My comments are only on systems and procedure, and past practices.
Ishan Shankar
Treated shabbily
Desh Deepak Varma was indeed shabbily treated by the UP bureaucracy but this is the trademark of the Mayawati government functioning. She loves to keep people guessing and one never knows who is the intended beneficiary till the very last moment. there is no professionalism in the UP IAS anymore and every person is forced to toe the line, It will be fruitless for the present incumbent to retain his seat for any period of time too. he has undoubtedly served the state very well but it is not known how soon he will find himself out of favour. In Mayawati's government there are two kinds of bureaucracy even in the administrative services, the permanent and the expendables. it is the few officers in her inner coterie which form the unchanging bureaucracy and is the real power behind the throne.
Bharrdwaj S
Forum column
Please do not allow forum column to become a convenient space for chamchas to show their chamchagiri as well as disgruntled persons to spit venom against some officers.
POO
TAIL-PIECE
An Indian tourist walks into a curio shop in San Francisco.
Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very lifelike,
Life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It has no price tag...
But is so striking he decides he must have it.
He takes it to the owner: "How much for the bronze rat?"
"Twelve dollars for the rat, one hundred dollars for the
Story,"says the owner.
The tourist gives the man twelve dollars.
"I'll just take the rat,you can keep the story."
As he walks down the street carrying his bronze rat,
He notices that a few real rats crawl out of the alleys
And sewers and begin following him down the street.
This is disconcerting; he begins walking faster.
But within a couple blocks, the herd of rats behind
Him grows to hundreds, and they begin squealing.
He begins to trot toward the Bay, looking around to see
That the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and are still
Squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.
Concerned, even scared, he runs to the edge of the Bay
And throws the bronze rat as far out into the Bay as he
Can. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jump into the Bay
After it, and are all drowned.
The man walks back to the curio shop.
"Ah ha," says the owner, "You have come back for the
Story?"
"No," says the man, "I came back to see if you have a
a statue of an Indian politician in bronze!!
Contributed by - A nita Saxena RTI Audit Paras of C&AG Request
for disclosure of information which went into the making of an Audit Report such
as audit observations, marginal notes, audit notes and audit memos, etc. was denied
claiming that these intermediary Comments The Article 151 of the
Constitution provides that the reports of the C&AG shall be laid before the
Legislature. However, it is silent about the draft report, half margins or draft
audit notes. Therefore, the [Full bench decision in CIC/AT/A/2007/00274, CIC/AT/A/2008/00726, & CIC/AT/A/2009/000732 in Shri Manohar Parrikar and others vs Accountant General, Goa and others]. - Weekly article by
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