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Do people throw Parties when they have failed or flopped?????? That's why many are surprised at UPA 2 celebrating its second anniversary!!!! And then the Report Card too was hilarious..... this self assessment was indeed ludicrous!!! What was needed was an all India Survey to check out what India felt about UPA..... the failures.... shortcomings etc. And then a Chintan Baitak to ponder on what the survey throws up.......come up with ways to improve!! I guess if India was to mark UPA 2.... tackling inflation 0/100, Governance 2/100, tackling corruption 0/100, Subsidy/aid delivery 8/100, National Security 20/100, Vision 22/100, Overseas image 3/100!!!!! Failed...... but in this type of examination when one fails one does not repeat the class but one is thrown out! By the way in Besharmi UPA 2 has maxed the paper 100/100!!!

UPA will get the real Report Card post our casting votes in the next general election!!!!

As of today I predict ...... failed.......vide our rejection!!!

When the Tihar guard tried to awaken Kani she said 'not now... I'm sleeping late'!!!! The Lady lived in the lap of luxury and Tihar is like hell for her........ one thing the Indian style loo in her Tihar Cell will ensure that she will not suffer from any knee ailments in her old age (one of the reasons why in rural India knee related problems are way lesser than knee ailments suffered in urban India)!!!!!! Karuna knew everything....... and of course partly for self protection and partly out of love for his daughter he's saying Kani is innocent!!! Raja got his job because of Kani and Kani was able to do this because of her Dad!!!!! As I understand within the Karuna Pariwar 'money making areas' were distributed and Kani got indirect control of Communications Ministry!!!

Feel bad for Kani's son!!!!!

He's suffering though nothing wrong he's done!!!

Rahul did a great disservice to the villagers of Bhatta Parsaul!!!! His exaggerated allegations are being used by Maya , UP Officials and UP Cops to show that all the allegations are grossly politicised!! I do not understand why did he not sit on dharna near that 70 ft ash pit where he alleged Farmers were burnt alive, and demand an Inquiry????? In fact he should have got Congress's pally Media to collect the ash samples an got these samples analyzed from 3 recognized Labs...... would not take the Labs more than a few hours to give Reports on the samples!!!!! Now Congress has got NCW to get into the act.................... it's well known the Lady heading NCW is known for her love for the Gandhi family!!! I Gandhi had visited her home in Rajhastan and she considers I Gandhi as her political mentor...... in fact if she could she would print this on her visiting card and letterhead!!

Demands are getting shriller in Congress .......Priyanka lao!!!

And in the same breath those demanding the above shout 'Rahul ji kirpa karr ke aap chuttti pe jao'!!!

Guv Bhardwaj had done the groundwork for President's Rule in Karnataka!!! The Karnataka bye-election results proved to be the spoiler!!!! When a Guv makes such a recommendation and its rejected don't you feel the Guv should tender his resignation???? But then Sonia's grateful to Bhardwaj for letting Q off the hook....so Guv stays on and then there is the hope he'll get another opportunity to take on Yeddy.... Yeddy's love for his family permitting!!

In non Congress ruled States Congress Guvs go with 'License to sack'!!!!!

They start this by giving the non Congress CM flack!!!

Pakistan is under attack from within!!! The Taliban which Pakistan nurtured for years is' biting the hand that nurtured it'!!!! What will happen if the Taaliban takes over one of Pakistan's Nuclear facility's????? Though I do agree that now Taaliban's popularity is on the wane in Pakistan!!! But they are still a potent force and have infiltrated Paki Army and ISI!!!! There is another school of thought that says this attack was a 'controlled attack' and ISI behind this attack!!! Pakistan can then go to Washington and say ' we are under attack from Talibaan' and save face by showing 'we too are on Taaliban's hit list' .......post Osama's killing Pakistan's reputation is in the dumps....... and then this would also help Pakis in getting more dole from USA in the name of fighting Taaliban!!!

Attack on this base shows Taaliban can get hold of Paki Nukes.....cause for Global worry!!!!

Today Taaliban's two biggest enemies ...USA and India ..... both they want to bury!!!!

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BSP's vote share narrows down
If assembly polls were to be held in Uttar Pradesh now, then the BSP is likely to get 140 to 160 seats. Big climb-down from its 208 odd seats it bagged four years back. Likewise, the BJP which has 50 seats will get between 60 and 70 seats and the Samajwadi Party (SP) could get between 90 and 100 seats. The Congress could get about 70 to 75 seats as per the present mood in the state.

Sitaram Yechury may return to Rajya Sabha
The term of CPM Polit Bureau members Ms. Brinda Karat and Sitaram Yechury in the Rajya Sabha is expiring in August 2011. As the grapevine has it, the Party will extend the continuation of the membership of Yechury but not of Ms. Karat. It is because there are red glares from MAFTA against the husband and wife! It is being said that since the time that Ms. Brinda Karat and Prakash Karat came to centre stage the party has slipped down to a level never before in the last 34 years. However, in this trash tale Karat does not have a major role.

Kakoli Ghosh likely to get inducted as MoS Health
As the grapevine has it, Dr.( Ms.) Kakoli Ghosh Lok Sabha MP is likely to be made Minister of State (MoS) for Health & and Family Welfare Ministry in Government of India (GOI) in place of Dinesh Trivedi under TMC quota.

Dinesh Trivedi's elevation on the anvil
Dinesh Trivedi Minister of State (MoS) for Health & and Family Welfare Ministry in Government of India (GoI) is likely to be elevated as a Cabinet minister at the Centre to some other Ministry.

Who will replace MPCC Chief?
Who will replace Mumbai Pradesh Congress Committee chief Kripa Shankar Singh is a matter of debate in power circles of the state? Those incumbents whose names figure are: Bhai Jagtap (MLC North Mumbai), Milind Deora (MP South Mumbai) , Nirmala Sawant Prabhavalkar (Chairperson Mahila Aayog) or Rajhans Singh (MLA North Mumbai ) is a matter of guess.

CBI probing functioning of Pawar family
A special CBI team from Delhi is probing affairs of NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his family in the cities of Mumbai, Pune and Baramati amongst other cities in Maharashtra. There are alleged concerns over the family's money trail which can be seen recently in 2G spectrum scam, MSC Bank scam, amongst others, said a source in the intelligence

Political appointments in Rajasthan PSUs likely
As the grapevine has it Rajasthan Chief Minister is Ashok Gehlot is shortly going to appoint incumbents in different state government run PSUs.

BUREAUCRACY

Ajit Kumar Seth is new Cabinet Secretary
Ajit Kumar Seth who is Secretary Coordination in Government of India (GOI) has been named as new Cabinet Secretary. He is an IAS officer of the 1974 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh.
(We said this on March,16,2011)

Will Vivek Sahai be Chairman of NHAI?
Latest grapevine has it that Chairman of the Railway Board Vivek Sahai is being appointed Chairman of the NHAI. Sahai is scheduled to retire on June 30.

Hamid Ali Rao to be India's envoy to Saudi Arabia!
It is learnt that Hamid Ali Rao is poised to be India's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Presently, he is posted in Geneva.

Will Chandramauli succeed Suvrathan?
There is rumour that Secretary Health K. Chandramauli is going to succeed P.I. Suvrathan, chairperson, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India next month. Top sources however rule out this possibility.

Muruganandam is poised to be Joint Secretary, RD
N. Muruganandam is poised to be posted as Joint Secretary Rural Development (NREGA). He is an IAS officer of 1991 batch who belongs to Tamil Nadu cadre. At present he is Private Secretary (PS) to Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan.

PM has indicated nothing on Secretary, MEA
As the grapevine has it Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has not indicated anything as far as appointment of a Secretary in Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) was concerned.

P.H. Kurian tipped to join CM's office in Kerala
As the grapevine has it P.H. Kurian who on central deputation to the Mumbai based Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks under the Commerce Ministry is likely to be posted as principal secretary (PS) to Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. He is an IAS officer of 1986 batch from the Kerala cadre.

Ms Radha S Chauhan appointed Jt.Secretary, HRD
Ms Radha S. Chauhan has been appointed as Joint Secretary School Education and Literacy in the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry. She is an IAS officer of the 1988 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on April 25)

Sadakant returns to Uttar Pradesh
Sadakant is back to the parent Uttar Pradesh cadre from central deputation. The 1983 batch IAS officer, Sadakant, was Joint Secretary in the MHA.

B P Singh is Principal Secretary Higher Education in MP
B.P. Singh has been appointed new Principal Secretary Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh. He is 1984 batch IAS officer.

Mukherjee to join GoI ?
Naparajit Mukherjee is likely to go on deputation to the Government of India. He is a 1976 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.

170 AIS officers to be shifted in Tamil Nadu
As the grapevine has it altogether 170 officers belonging to All India Services (AIS) i.e. IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service (IFS) are going to be shiftted in Tamil Nadu. Some of the IAS and IPS officers have already been shifted, but IFS officers are yet to be touched. More lists will follow soon.

Samantaray is back to Madhya Pradesh
D.K. Samantaray is back to the parent Madhya Pradesh cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer who hails from the MP cadre.

First list of EDs in banks has 7 names
According to an unconfirmed report the names of seven General Managers (GMs) figure in first list of those people who will be elevated as Executive Directors (EDs) in PSU banks. They are: Atul Gautam-Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), C.G.Pinto- Corporation Bank, T.R. Chawla Dena Bank, S.K. Jain Bank of India, S.K. Widhani- Allahabad Bank, Deepak Narang -Allahabad Bank and S Chandrashekhar- Indian Overseas Bank (IOB).

5 figure in panel for LIC chief's slot
As many as five incumbents figure in panel or selection of new Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India.

Anoop Shrivastava, IG (Pers), RPF going a month's leave
Anoop Shrivastava, IG (Pers), RPF is going on a one-month's leave. He is an RPF cadre officer.

IES cadre Management
There is a whisper that IES cadre is contemplating to combine the DPC of 1992 batch officers with 1985 batch officers.

NHPC chiefs panel to scrapped
As the grapevine has it, the panel relating to appointment of new CMD of NHPC is going to be scrapped. Two candidates who were placed at number one and number two are yet to get vigilance clearance. They were : D.P. Bhargava Director (Technical) of NHPC & Sanjay Kumar Mittal Director & CEO of LANCO Infratech. It may be stated that interviews for this post were held on October 22, 2010. Presently, A.B.L. Shrivastava Director, Finance in NHPC holding the charge of CMD, NHPC.

Baljeet Singh's promotion in BSF on the anvil
Baljeet Singh, IG (HQ) Srinagar, Kashmir frontier is likely to be promoted as ADG; Logistics forces headquarter Delhi in place of P.K. Mishra. He is a BSF cadre officer.

S. R Panthi is DIG,(Adm) CRPF
S. R Panthi has joined as DIG,(Adm) CRPF,Directorate Delhi in place of Sanjiv Ranjan Ojha IPS. He is an CRPF cadre officer 1976 batch.

Postal service officer Nanda is PMG Coimbatore
Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) officer of the Indian Postal service A.N. Nanda (1982) has been posted as PMG Coimbatore, TN Circle.

Jalaj Shrivastava joins A&M Administration
Jalaj Shrivastava IAS officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to AGMU cadre has joined A&N Administration as Principal Secretary, Shipping, Planning, Industry and Transport besides MD, ANIIDCO. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Three former IPS officers charge-sheeted in Assam
The CBI has charge-sheeted 27 Assam Police officials, including three retired IPS officers.

Dr. M.Rajaram is Director Information in Tamil Nadu
Dr. M. Rajaram who so far was Transport Commissioner (TC) to the Tamil Nadu government has been posted as new Director Information & Public Relaions in Tamil Nadu. He will also be Special Secretary Tamil Nadu Religious Endowments & Information. He is an IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre.

IAS officers shifted in Tamil Nadu
Certain IAS officers have been transferred in Tamil Nadu. Those transferred are:S Thangasamy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise to Commissioner for disciplinary proceedings Coimbatore, Dr K S Palanisami Director of Information and Public relations and Ex-officio deputy secretary Tamil Development,religious endowments and information Dept to Deputy Secretary Adi dravidar and Tribal welfare R Sivakumar Secretary Tamil development, religious endowments and
information department Managing Director(MD) Tamil Nadu Magnesite imited(TANMAG),Salem.
V.K.Jeyakodi Principal Secretary (PS) Tourism and Culture Department, shall hold full additional charge of the post of PS Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department, Dr. S. Vijaykumar Project Director, Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project and ExOfficio, Special Secretary to Government, Health and Family Welfare Department shall hold full additional charge of the post of PS Health and Family Welfare Department vice V.K.Subburaj, IAS, transferred.Likewise, Ms. Sheela Balakrishnan Additinal Chief Secretary (ACS) Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme Department shall hold full additional charge of the post of Secretary to Government, Department for Welfare of Differently Abled Persons vice S.S. Jawahar.

Four IRS officers transferred
The CBDT has issued transfers of four IRS officers of the rank of Commissioner/Director of Income Tax. Those transferred include messrs K. Gyan Prakash CIT-4 Hyderabad to CIT (CO), Hyderabad, H. Srinivasulu CIT-6 Hyderabad to CIT-4, Hyderabad, Rameshwar Singh CIT (A)- 15 Delhi to CIT (Judicial) Delhi and Himalini Kashyap CIT (Judical), delhi to CIT (A) -15 Delhi.

IPS changes in Orissa
There is major IPS reshuffle in Orissa.Altogether 41 Officers have been affected.
New postings are Mssrs Sanjeev Marik Additional Director General PHQ. V Thyagrajan ADG Police Training, IG Abhaya ADG CB. Pradeep Kapoor ADG Police, Human Rights Protection Cell,M Nageswar Rao ADG Police SAP, SS Hansda ADG State Crime Record Bureau, However, BK Sharma who was promoted to the ADG rank, would continue to be the Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissionerate.Amrit Mohan Prasad IG Police Vigilance, Debasis Panigrahi Special Secretary Home,SM Narwane IG Police Railways, YB Khurania IG (Operation) , Jayadeep Nayak IG (Prison). Lalit Das IG ( Modernisation), SK Nath IG Police CID, RP Koche IG Northern Range ,Santosh Bala IG Police Northern range at Talcher,PS Ranpise DIG Personnel, Asit Panigrahi DIG police SAP, DS Kutte DIG Central Range on Promotion, Sanjaya Kumar DIG, Eastern Range at Balasore, Rehka Lohani on promotion Additional Commissioner of Police at Bhubaneswar.Twenty districts will have new SPs.Dayal Gangwar has been appointed as new SP Jharsuguda, Surya Thangpan is posted as SP, Mayurbhanj, Praveen Kumar has been posted as DCP, Cuttack, Amitendra Nath Sinha has been made the new SP of Puri, Kabita Jalan - SP Nayagarh, Himansu Lal has been transferred and posted as SP Bargarh, Nikhil Kanoria has been posted as new SP, Sambalpur, Abinash Kumar posted as SP Bolangir, Rajesh Pandit is the new SP of Ganjam, Arun Upadyaya has been made SP Without Duty, Sanjay Kausal is made SP Nuapada, Deep Kumar, has been posted as SP Jajpur, Nitinjit Singh is new DCP, Bhubaneswar in place of Himansu Lal, Sanjeev Arora is posted as SP Sundergarh. Jaya Narayan Pankaj is posted as SP, Kandhamal and D Nayak has been posted as SP Sonepur. Similarly, K Kawar OPS-I has been posted as SP -II, Crime Branch, C Panda has been posted as SP Bhadrak, Chittaranjan Das OPS -I has been posted as SP, Deogarh, and Ajaya Kumar Singh, OPS -I has been appointed as SP Security Wing.

Large scale transfers of IPS officers in Maharashtra
There have been large scale transfers of IPS officers in Maharashtra.Those who have been transferred are:S P Gupta Additional Director General , Ashok Dhiwre Additional DG (CID) Pune, V D Mishra Additional DG (anti-Naxal operations) Nagpur ), PD Pawar Additional Director General Jails, R N Wagh Additional DG (Anti Corruption Bureau), V R Kamble Additional DG (Traffic), S B Savarkar Additional DG Railways, Prabhat Ranjan Additional DG (Anti orruption Bureau), Satyapal Singh Additional DG ( Law and Order ) , Uddhav Kamble Deputy DG(Home Guard and Civil Protection) Mumbai, Rajendra Singh Special IG Nagpur zone, V B Lokhande Nashik Police Commissioner , Ritesh Kumar Special IG (Aurangabad range),T A Chavan Special IG (Kolhapur range), Ms. Rashmi Shukla joint commissioner of State Intelligence), SN Pande Special Inspector General, Special Security , S K Singhal Joint CP Pune city, VM Koregaonkar Special IG Sales Tax Recovery Dalbir Bharati Director State Intelligence Academy Pune, Amitabh Gupta Special Inspector General (IG) Training and Special Squad, DD Kamlakar Special Inspector General Nashik city, Sanjay Saxena Special IG Nagpur city, Prashant Burde Special IG SRPF Nagpur, SM Rathod Special IG Amravati, Sanjay Kumar Po ice Commissioner of Aurangabad, D Kankaratnam Special IG Crime Detection cell Pune, Vishwas Nangre Patil Additional CP (West Zone Mumbai), Milind Bharamb Additional Commissioner Police Crime Thane city, Kaiser Khalid Additional commissioner Police Eastern region Mumbai
city, Suresh Mekhla Additional Commissioner of Police Pune city, Sunil Paraskar DIG SRPF, CS Ughade Additional Commissioner Police Nagpur city, RG Kadam Additional Commissioner of Police Crime Nagpur, SD Waghmare Additional Commisioner Police Thane City, Ashok Dongre
Additional Commissioner of Police Navi Mumbai, Rajvardhan Additional CP (Economic Offences)

Bassi is new Delhi Traffic Police Chief
Bhim Sain Bassi on return from Goa has been appointed new chief of Delhi Traffic Police. He is 1977 batch IPS officer.

Interviews for SBI's for DMDs on May 25, 2011
As many as nine Chief General Managers (CGMs) figure in panel for elevation as Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs) in the State Bank of India (SBI) inerviews for which will be held on May 25, 2011. They are: Mrs.Soundara Kumar CGM Bangalore, R. Nand Kumar CGM Gujarat Circle, R.K. Garg CGM North-East Guwahati, R.K.Saraf CGM of IT, P. Pradeep Kumar Managing Director (MD) of the State Bank of Travancore(SBT), Bhagwant Rao CGM Madhya Pradesh Circle, B. V,. Chaubal CGM Stressed Assets Management group (SAMG), Atanu Sen CGM Mumbai Circle and Achal Kumar Gupta CGM in SBI's CAG unit.

IAS changes in Maharashtra
There have been transfers of certain IAS officers in Maharashtra. Those who have been transferred are: Sanjay Deshmukh Labour Commisisoner, Arvind Kumar Member Secretary 4th Finance Commission Maharashtra and Philip D. Gabrial MD Cotton Federation Maharashtra

Murthy transferred as Dy Conservator Forests, Jodhpur
The Rajasthan government has transferred IFS officer, S.R. Venkateshwar Murthy DFO (Territorial), Alwar as Deputy Conservator of Forests and Technical Assistant to the Chief Conservator Forests, Jodhpur.

Dandapani to be new AG in Kerala
Senior High Court lawyer K.P. Dandapani will be new Advocate-General in Kerala.

BSF Kala Mela - 2011 from May 25 to 28
Ms.Anjali Srivastava, President BSF Wives Welfare Association(BWWA ) along with other members of BWWA addressing a press conference during curtain raising ceremony of BSF Kala Mela - 2011 on May 23, 2011 in New Delhi.Raman Srivastava, DG BSF was also present during the
session.The BSF Kala Mela 2011 is scheduled from May 25 to 28, 2011 at Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi, where the paintings and sculptures made by Bordermen will displayed during the exhibition. While addressing the media, he first of all thanked the journalists for attending the session and stated that their presence will augment BSF efforts in showcasing the creative talents of border men, who not only perform the pious duty of guarding the borders of the country, but also pursue unique talents of painting, sculpturing and many other forms of arts and crafts in an amateur way. A few family members of border men have also contributed to such creative activities. Srivastava added that the idea of holding this type of national level exhibition was conceived after BSF came across the creative talents during the interaction with the border men. He further stated that when border men perform their duties in the remote border areas of the country staying far away from their families for long periods, many of them nurture their creative talents during these times to beat the solitude, and come up with some masterpieces, which capture the vibrant colours of life in many forms.

Sharma couple bereaved
Prof Govind Chandra Pandey has passed away in Delhi.He was father of 1981 batch IAS officer Amita Sharma and Father-in-Law of 1975 batch IAS officer Jaimini Sharma.

13 GMs of PSU banks cleared for elevation as EDs
As the grapevine has it 13 General Managers (GMs) have been cleared who will be elevated as
Executive Directors (EDs) in PSU banks. They are: S.K. Widhani and Deepak Narang(both from Allahabad Bank, Raj Kumar-Andhra Bank, Usha Subramaniam-Bank of Baroda, S.K. Jain-Bank of India, K.K. Mishra Canara Bank, M. Mukherjee -Indian Bank, Atul Gautam-Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), T.S. Chawla Dena Bank, S.K. Subramaniam- Union Bank of India, K.K. Gupta Punjab National Bank, S Chandrashekhar- Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) and C.G.Pinto-Corporation Bank.

Vohra appointed Ambassador to Peru
Manpreet Vohra, presently Joint Secretary at headquarters has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Peru.

Vinod Kumar is High Commissioner to Kingdom of Tonga
Vinod Kumar, presently High Commissioner of India to Fiji has been concurrently accredited as the High Commissioner of India to the Kingdom of Tonga, with residence in Suva.

Venkatesan to be Member Secretary Chennai Metropolitan Authority
The Tamil Nadu government has placed the services of R. Venkatesan Project Director, School Education department at the disposal of Chennai Metropolitan Authority for posting as its Member, Secretary. He is an IAS officer of the 1996 batch who belongs to the TN cadre. Presently K. Phanindra Reddy was holding the additional charge of Member Secretary, Chennai Metropolitan Authority.

Karthik posted as Director, Town and Country Planning, TN
In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle the Tamil Nadu government has posted A. Karthik, Collector, Theni district on return from leave as Director, Town and Country Planning. He is an IAS officer of the 1996 batch who hails from

Rakesh Saxena to be MD of MRVC
Rakesh Saxena is being tipped to be new Managing Director of the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC).

DEBATE

Next Lok Sabha-Congress and BJP to get less than 100 seats ?
If today's political scenario is taken into account, both the Congress and the BJP will get less than 100 seats in the next Lok Sabha elections. In such a case, what could be the emerging scenario? Mail your valuable views to us at -

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

CORPORATE

Interview for MD, MRVC today
The PESB is going to hold interview for the post of MD Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation
on Tuesday.

Aditya Gahlaut is new Head HSBC
Aditya Gahlaut has been appointed by the HSBC India as Head of Business Banking for HSBC in India.

Motiwalla appointed Addl. Director, Siyaram Silk Mills
Siyaram Silk Mills Limited has appointed Harish N. Motiwalla as Additional Director w.e.f May 21, 2011.

Poddar re-appointed Joint MD, Siyaram Silk Mills
Siyaram Silk Mills Ltd has re-appointed Pawan D. Poddar as Joint Managing Director for a further period of five years.

Kalyanasundaram resigns as Director, Tata Communications
PV Kalyanasundaram has resigned as an Independent Director of Tata Communications Ltd with effect from May 20, 2011.

Desai resigns as Company Secy. Reliance Mediaworks
Ms. Kirti Desai, Company Secretary, Reliance Mediaworks Ltd has tendered her resignation from the Company to be effective from May 15, 2011.

Gupta resigns as Director, Tata Metaliks Ltd
Manish Gupta has resigned as the Independent Director of Tata Metaliks Ltd with immediate effect.

New directors on CONCOR Board
Container Corporation Of India Limited (CONCOR) has appointed the following directors on its Board-- Prof. A.K. Bandyopadhyay, Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Dr. Kaushik Gupta, Professor, Rabindra Bharati University,Lt. Gen. Arvind Mahajan (Retd.), Ex-Director General Corps of Electronics Engineering (EME) of the Indian Army.

Vora appointed Addl. Director, Halonix Ltd
P. P. Vora has been appointed as an Additional Director of Halonix Ltd w.e.f May 20, 2011.

Mishra appointed VP (Sales & Mktg. Development), DNA
Adarsh Mishra has been promoted as Vice President, (Sales and Marketing Development) (SMD), Daily News & Analysis (DNA) effective from April 1, 2011.

Sabharwal appointed President (Development), Accor
Accor has appointed Lokesh Sabharwal as the Vice President (Development) for India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Sud appointed Head (O&T), Citibank Asia-Pacific region
Citibank has appointed Vikram Sud as Head (Operations and Technology) (O&T) for the Asia-Pacific region.

Rajiv Kumar is Secretary General of FICCI
Economist Rajiv Kumar is new Secretary General of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) .

Kumar on the Board of BoM
Dr Naresh Kumar, a former Director, State Bank of India-Delhi Circle has been appointed on the board of directors of Bank of Maharashtra.

Chacko is new ED of Federal Bank
Abraham Chacko has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Federal Bank.

Mishra joins Edelweiss Capital
Sanjiv Mishra has joined as Independent Director of the Diversified financial services company, Edelweiss Capital.

Mulani is now MD of Citec Engineering
Nasir Mulani has been promoted as Managing Director of the Citec Engineering India.

FORUM

Retirement age should not be increased

It is fully agreed. There is no technological logic in increasing retirement age from 60
to 62 years. It shall definitely block the new entrants, young ideas, synergy, from the
upcoming generation. This is completely opposite to UPA's commitment to give priority
to younger generation and youth. This shall lead to unending frustration in subordinates
with respect to promotions, opportunities and implementation of their ideas. Retirement
age should be maintained at 60 years, as at present.

Pradeep Kumar Khare

Good decision by GoI

A good decision has been taken by the committee of Secretaries.

Maran A.

Right Decision

S.R. Yadav

How can CCS decide on retirement age?

How can CCS be deciding on the retirement age issue? Isn't this an issue which needs
direction from the PM / FM himself or a GoM. Not raising the age may be good - but
clearly this is not the approach!

Amit
Doctors deserve increase in retirement age

This is regarding "increase in retirement age of doctors" and a comment by one Shanjay,
that the teaching sub cadre of doctors have little or no experience of treating patients!

Nothing could be farther from truth. Rather the teaching sub cadre has a better and
extensive experience of both treating and teaching. perhaps few would know the time
required for becoming a teaching faculty in medical and other streams. A Lecturer/Asst
Professor in medical stream takes a minimum of 11.5 years after class 12th to be eligible
for a teaching job. Whereas in humanities/commerce/science stream it takes only 5 years,
and in engineering it takes mere 6 years !!!!

Prakash Sinha

Sibal trying to stem the rot

Kindly refer to the letter of VM appeared in WIC on 22.05.2011 regarding New transfer
policy. I am unable to understand why these officers are blaming Kapil Sibal. Sibal has
merely introduced logic & accountability in chaotic ambiguous situation prevailing
earlier. So what is wrong in that? Sibal is Prime Minister's trusted lieutenant & rightly
so he is trying his best to clean up the system and therefore these officers whose vested
interests are affected are disgruntled and criticizing the transfer policy. There is nothing
wrong in the new tenure transfer policy just introduced by Sibal for the Indian Postal
Service. Now it has become essential that officers who have successfully evaded working
in the field positions will have to gain field exposure & learn the job & not merely stick
around in Delhi, doing insignificant work & passing adverse judgement & comments
on the working of officers in the field without themselves having any knowledge. The
senior officers have already left many loopholes in the Policy so that they can twist
it in favour of certain officers. For example tenure in PLI Directorate & Business
Development Directorate should be included in tenure of Headquarters but nothing has
been mentioned. Similarly to show Postal staff college in Uttar Pradesh Circle, is like
throwing dust in eyes of Minister. Only Postal Training Centres should be counted as part
of that circle where it is located and this should not apply to postal staff college located
in NCR because the Director of PSCI and the Chief PMG Uttar Pradesh Circle are of
equal rank and director PSCI reports directly to the Department Headquarter. Majority of
officers working as director PSCI have retained accommodation in Delhi & commuting
daily at government expense so they must be counted in Delhi station. The posting in past
was done based on favoritism & also reasons improper to mention in this forum. It is only
a strong Minister like Sibal who can force these truant officers to fall in line. Therefore
any criticism of Sibal is unjustified.

Yours truly
Sridhar Mohanty

New Chairman for CBDT

So much is being discussed and written about IRS, CBDT and its Chairman in your
column. It makes people wonder whether your column be renamed as IRS info.com.
First of all, IRS and CBDT doesn't figure anywhere in the Government's scheme of
things. Rarely one finds Chairman among the important Secretaries of GOI. Secondly,
the organisation itself is loosely held making it look like a bunch of playing cards ready

to collapse. Though the present Chairman addressed one issue of promotions within a
short period of time earning laurels from all quarters, the problems are far from over. The
organisation requires tinkering from Zero level. Foremost, is about making it truly public
friendly. Replace CPC with effective software to make processing the returns and issue of
refund completely electronic similar to railway reservations software. CPC is a burden on
the exchequer and public who have received demand notice instead of refunds will testify
sufficiently on the havoc caused by persons manning CPC.

Next reorganise the functioning levels. Remove the present lucrative system of having
company, business, LTU circles. As a result nobody is ready to work in Salary,
International taxation, CIB circles. Make the jurisdiction based on geographical units
upto range level. Commissioners and Chief commissioners can be posted based on
subjects similar to principal secretaries at State Govt level. For instance there could be
one CCIT for Income Tax, another for Corporate Tax, third for other taxes. One CCIT
for Appeals to maintain uniformity in decision making. The CCIT, CCA can be the
person functioning like Chief Secretary at State level. Tranfers into Delhi, Bombay be
controlled similar to IAS getting posted to central Government following first in first out.
Clamp more restrictions on functioning of Raids Section and Vigilance. Will the dream
Chairman of CBDT think Big or end up showing some favours to a few assisted him/her
during the field tenure. Any takers!

Shari

Website is being used to promote Chandra

Sir your website is being used to advocate the cause of a single officer Praksh Chandra
to be placed as Chairman Board of Direct Taxes. CBDT should immediately rein in
such advocacy which is inviting open ridicule. Such washing of dirty linen in public is
unbecoming of public officials. The hon'ble Finance Minister should take notice of the
sinister goings. We are not interested in letting this site be hijacked by vested interests in
CBDT. This is an unbiased site and care should be taken not to allow misuse.

S.K. Sharma

Minorities pampered in Kerala

Sri Navnith's comments on the Kerala elections are apt. There is a great damage to the
national polity by national secular parties aligning themselves with communal parties like
Muslim League. Congress has practically leased out certain districts totally to communal
outfits. In the process UDF has become a pseudo-secular communal front. In the present
UDF ministry Congress has given away vital portfolios like Finance, Agriculture,
education, urban development, forest and PWD. Muslim population is exploding every
where and as if as a gift, new constituencies are added to their benefit. Their population
which was around 12% at the time of partition has gone upto 27% now. One can see new
gigantic Mosques at every half a kilometer in Kerala. If one looks at the land registration
figures 82% of registration f properties during 2010-11 are done in their favour. They

use the black money flowing in Kerala to pay as black money for land purchase. Their
prosperity can be seen every where. They are pampered by both left and the Congress.
Mullahs and Moulavis with ten years experience are given pension of Rs 4000 pm where
as an agriculture worker who worked in the field whole life are paid a paltry sum of
Rs.250 pm. Madrassa examination has been equated with CBSE and SSLC and graduate
Muslims who goes to teach in Madrassas science subjects are paid Rs.6000 to Rs 18000
pm by Government. This is when post-graduates and doctorates roaming around teaching
in parallel colleges for a paltry sums of Rs.5000. Last year alone 18000 Muslim Children
and 12000 Christian children both from affluent communities were given educational
scholarsips of Rs.30000 each. Both the left and the UDF are busy bringing a campus of
Aligarh Muslim University into Kerala. Now body knows why this University which has
a dubious pre-partition background selected when there are more reputed universities
elsewhere. Last LDF Government has allotted Rs.100 crore for this. Naturally there is a
Hindu backlash. Normally if one looks at historical factors, UDF should have come out
with thumping majority in the last elections. The frustrated Hindus voted for LDF since
BJP in Kerala is rudderless with weak leadership.

N. Krishnan

For getting Officers promotion on seniority basis, they are first appointed ad-hoc
service which is followed by regularisation in CSSS, it is high time for DOP&T, its
Establishment Division and CS Division should moot a proposal to regularise the ad-hoc
services of the Officers from the date of their initial appointments on ad-hoc basis. The
reason for this being are:

The objective of ad-hoc appointments was to fill the gap till the regular incumbents joins
and which was a short-term measure. Now the ad-hoc appointments are made by DOP&T
against the existing vacancies/ substantive posts and continue for years together. It is
most pertinent in case of Stenographers Grade 'D' who were promoted by their parent
Ministry/Departments Stenographers Grade 'C' way back in 1993-94 on ad-hoc basis
and continued uninterrupted till they are covered in Select List formed by DOP&T (CS
Division) which is more than 16 years which cannot be treated short-term appointments.

To rectify this and to give relief to all affected officials, it would be fair for the DOP&T
(Establishment Division and CS Division) to take corrective steps for regularising the
service of ad-hoc tenure from the date of their initial appointments and take up this matter
suitable so that the benefit of restructuring should the actual effectees for whose benefit,
restructuring is done and required.

It is high time that the issue is resolved at once.

N.K. Luthra

Mohandas should be made Kerala CS

Mohandas he is one of the senior most and an excellent IAS officer who should be made
CS of Kerala.

Rajendra

Decision of CAT : Landmark or not a landmark?

The problem with Bimal Bahadur or A.K. Srivastava or S. Kant is that given the limited
space available to give feedback in WIC, they are unable to present full picture and
accordingly we are unable to buy their idea about CATS's judgement being landmark
or no landmark as also whether it is in furtherence to or within Prabha Devi case?
Regarding studying in Class 2 etc and getting seniority over those who are serving for
long, I think this is already settled issue.

DK

Change does occur, barriers notwithstanding !

The story about the recent assembly elections in West Bengal makes not only an
interesting but very significant case study. It is that dogmas simply don't work.
Indoctrination fails automatically after its expiry date, be it Osama or communism.
Budhadeb, I once told a visitor from Gyanpeeth publications, had all the PM material.
That was some 5 years ago. He had to fail in a party dominated by a different ideological
frame of mind represented by Karat. But that is only a part of the story. The result was
only waiting to be delivered--only the right ignition was awaited. A vibrant community
of Indians, the Bengalis were forced to suffer, decay, decadence and putrefaction: all in
the name of communism. Added to it was organized violence and the continuing threat
of violence against those resisting the dictates of the local party cadre--not different from
the local goon. Life, liberty and property--everything was at the mercy of the cadres.
Corruption, like all over India, reigned even under communist rule, which disillusioned
the elite of all professions of ideology. The last nail was the live-in relationship with the
Congress which the communists have been projecting as corrupt, dynastic, capitalist etc
for decades. People of 21st Century in Bengal, as in Tamil Nadu are better informed than
they were in the last century. They have now easy access to information and capability
to process it without politicians interpreting it for them. The politician , like the preacher,
can fool him or her no more. The ostentatious life style, power, pelf, privilege and groups
within the party, all have led to the debacle. The politics of strikes, gheraos, pen down,
work to rule or other scientific and technological inventions of the left have angered
people no ends. When communism died in the world long ago, our communists were
continuing to keep it on life support system unnecessarily. It is the death of communism,
not mere loss of power in west Bengal. Fortunately, leftists enjoy a good reputation on
integrity scale and they must redefine policy for prosperous India, instead of Lording
over poverty. They stand rejected all over India, if the defeat of those who considered
themselves the natural allies of the left is counted. The leftist rhetoric had misled the
youth up to the time of the imposition of the black Emergency. They have done the
gravest harm to the nation by imposing the misrule of the UPA in 2004: a government

without any mandate from the people, resulting in scams of historic magnitude.West
Bengal has been itching for long to free itself from the shackles holding it from marching
on the path of recovery, regeneration and growth. If team Mamata succeeds in doing
that, it would have fulfilled its manifesto. But revival of communism is out of question,
even as neo-colonialism is marching ahead stealthily if our economic policies impelling
disaster to the average Indian are any sign.

M.L.Gupta

"Appointment of Board level executives in PSUs !"

The WIC suggestions in forum dated May 22, 2011 for expediting PESB's
recommendations are too simplistic to follow besides being out of sync with the ground
realities. Such a cut and dry approach will lead to corruption and irreversibly wrong
decisions causing embarrassment to ACC that is serviced by Cabinet Secretary as its
Secretary .

Let us face facts. As a former Secretary of PESB, I feel that relying on aspiring
candidates in vigilance matters is fraught with serious repercussions. Basic delay occurs
in PESB and its belated release of recommendations, differences of opinions between
the temporary and permanent Executives, delay in receiving Ministers' agenda from the
Party's HQ, consultation with wheelers &dealers, the corporate lobbysts and overcoming
difficulties in finalizing views on considerations other than merit.

The PESB needs to be pro-active. The PSU executives are baffled by the unprecedented
delay in PESB Sectt in releasing its recommendations. DeLay leads to corruption.
The time lag between dates of interviews by PESB and formal release of its
recommendations to ministries is incredibly large . A case study by DOP&T will bring
out the truth. This belated response is contrary to PM's oft-repeated emphasis on Good
governance. Incidentally, he happens to be the Cabinet Minister-in-charge of DOP&T
and the PESB.

Against this background, I suggest the following course of action for GOI's
consideration:-

(a) The PESB Sectt must initiate the selection process for board level vacancies one
year in advance of dates of vacancies. Hundreds of board level vacancies are unfilled
for lack of timely action. No wonder,hundreds of board level vacancies are remaining
unfilled as on date.
(b) Agencies like PESB, Ministries, CVC, DOP&T, Cabinet Secretary etc must meet
their assigned targets within the pre-determined time frames. These are being violated
with impunity, at present.

(c) The PESB must declare its results on its web site www.pesb.gov.in immediately
after the interviews. Formal recommendations must be sent to ministries ,the next day.In
this age of super scams, directions must be given by ACC on the basis of documents

available on files rather than as collective decision communicated through "non-
speaking" directions. The illegal appointment of P J Thomas as CVC, later nullified by
the SC , must act as a constant reminder to GOI

(d) The Search Committee mechanism has become a common practice in GOI. This
smacks of a hidden agenda to favour someone or for planting Non-professionals to
board level positions in PSUs. This must be stopped forthwith..

. Let the GOI consider these suggestions dispassionately in the interest of Good
governance.

A.K. Saxena (A retired civil serant)
aksaxena@nic.in

CCTV Footage of Station

A copy of CCTV footage for 5 days of Andheri Railway Station, Mumbai was denied u/s 8 (1) (a) claiming that it would be detrimental to the Nation's security. The appellant argued that the location is not a prohibited area and is available on commercial charges for films, TV serials etc.. He also claimed that the CCTV will provide instances of RPF personnel taking bribes from illegal hawkers against which he has lodged a complaint. The contention of the appellant that any individual with a small camera/mobile phone can capture footage of any train or any corner of the platform was accepted by the CIC. The Commission made a distinction between those CCTV cameras which are in full public view and which are hidden. It was held that the footage of CCTV cameras kept at secret locations cannot be shared as it would indeed reveal the location of these cameras. The CIC directed to allow the Appellant to watch the footage of only those CCTV cameras which have been placed in full view of the public in the presence of PIO for the period of 5 days and if the Appellant's allegation against RPF personnel taking bribes from illegal hawkers is found true from this footage, to give a copy of that visual.

Comments

CCTVs are used in many areas including possible soft targets for a terrorist attacks. This order opens up the access to all such recorded data in public interest even when it is perceived as security risk.

(Mr.Samir Vijay Zaveri v. Western Railway, Mumbai in CIC/AD/A/2011/000439)

- 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)