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Aaj Ki Aawaz

Imaginary first NAC (Political) Meeting...

All the selected Members troop into the living room in 10 Janpath. Sonia enters in and the first meeting for the NAC(Political) commences.

Sonia: Namaste....... I do not need to tell you what an honour this is for all of you. You have been selected over 'tried and trusted hands'........ and I must stress here that NAC (P) is the brainchild of Rahul and he has had the ultimate say in its constitution and will continue to have this authority! Now this meeting is to educate you on many important matters. For starters I had asked you to let me know of an Anthem for NAC (P).... this Anthem will be recited at the very start of the meeting. I've selected one........ Wafaadar humm se nahi is umbar ke neeche, aaghe hai High Command humaara aur humm peechche peechche (sung to the tune of Deewana mujh sa nahi from Teesri Manzil)! Now one of you has also mentioned that when the meeting comes to an end we all should stand up and recite ' Sonia Gandhi aaghe chalo humm aap ke peechche hai'.... accepted!! Okay now first please take the Oath of Membership of this Council! Please repeat after me: I 'so and so' do solemnly swear that I will bear true allegiance to Congress Party's High Command. That I will not reveal what transp`ires in the Council Meetings to anyone. In case directly or indirectly I benefit materially from my Membership of this Council I will deposit 15% of the benefit with the Party Treasurer. I 'so and so' have unquestionable loyalty to Congress's High Command and if need be I will not hesitate from being the fall guy to protect High Command!

The Members repeat the Oath after Sonia and then sign the Oath and hand it to Sonia. One of the Members has come wearing casual pant kameez and Sonia gives him a scornful look.

Sonia: Dress Code...... white kurta payjama and black/brown laced shoes worn with socks! Ensure that the attire is well ironed and please for God's sake change into it just prior to coming here! If you have to use a deodorant then please only use Rexona Active all day for men. No one will remove his shoes..... not while entering or during the meeting.......in fact would not be a bad idea if you spray your feet with Scholl's foot spray!!! Please do not carry with you any cancer sticks or paan masala packets! My Security has strict instructions to confiscate these and this means these will be taken away and not returned! Okay now one of you has queried as to what should Members carry with them for the meeting...... a non branded ballpoint pen, a couple of pencils, eraser and markers should be in your pencil box. And just a lined note book. You can bring documents but these have to be handed to my Staff and as and when required the Staff will produce these during the meeting!

The Members keep looking towards the door and Sonia gets the message.

Sonia: When you are seated my Staff will provide you with a bottle of mineral water. Mid way you will be served Coffee/Tea accompanied by cookies. In case the meeting is extended and it is lunch or dinner time you will be given Sagar Ratna take-away menus to order your meal. Please no eating with your hands and no slurping sounds...... no blowing into the coffee or tea before sipping and pouring the tea of coffee into the saucer is strictly banned! Post the meal if you have the urge to burp please excuse yourself and leave the room and go into the lawn to burp.... same mode should be followed in case you want to 'pass gas from the other end'!!! May I remind you it is not difficult to identify the offending source!!!!

One of the Member's mobile rings and Sonia gives him a look that makes him literally hide in the seat he's seated!

Sonia: Please leave your mobiles and all other electronic contraptions outside. A mobile ringing in this room will be considered as a grave Offence and you will be sent out for the rest of the meeting! I do not want any of you to get Amaritis...... this condition makes people record conversations clandestinely. Okay speaking of Amar..... what takes place in this room stays in this room. Not to be discussed outside this room.... why you cannot even discuss between yourselves what transpires in this room outside this room. Please do not fall prey to Pawar's 'third degree enticement' or Pranab's tantrums or PC's pressure tactics. Media should be kept away like the plague...... if they call you up your standard response should be no comments!!!! And they might play the oldest trick in the book and tell you that they just spoke to so and so Member and he told them 'this or that'!!! And as a precaution post the meetings you will go straight home and stay in for 2 hours..... cooling off period!!!

One Member talks to another Member in sign language and Sonia catches him doing this.

Sonia: Whatever you have to say you have to do so loudly..... no whispering and sign language. Just raise your hand and I will give you the cue when you can speak. No shouting .....my staff will educate you on the decibel level you need to maintain!! In case you repeatedly flout this rules you'll be subjected to one hour of listening to shouting in Parliament recordings via earphones in a secluded area in the house! (addressing the Member she caught conversing in sign language) And now tell me what were you saying to each other????

Anand Sharma: Madam as we are the select few and as we will be overseeing the rest I'm sure we will become very unpopular! What protection do we have outside this room??????

Sonia: As long as you are a Member of this elite group no one in Congress will have the guts to touch you!!!

Anand Sharma: That's the worry because these guys will keep their feelings bottled up and one day when either this Committee is disbanded or one of us is 'honourably' or 'dishonourably' transferred out of this Committee they'll target us.... what protection will we have????

Sonia: Let's wind up...... what was the closing anthem we had decided on......

All the Members: Sonia Gandhi aaghe chalo humm tumhaare peeche hai'!!!!

Wasnik: (under his breath) Yeah.... we are behind her and the entire Congrerss humaari peechche padhe gi haath doh ke!!

Sonia: Mukul what are you muttering!!! I warned you all....... as a warning now all of you will write 'I will not mutter' 1000 times and bring it with you when we meet next!!

Bharat Kumar
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Who will be the next President of India ? (4) Gopal Krishna Gandhi
While the term of the present President is due to come to an end in 2012, discussions as to who would replace her have already started taking place. Name of former West Bengal Gopvernor Gopal Krishna Gandhi who is close associate of Gandhi family is also in circulation.

BUREAUCRACY

Ashok Lahiri's tenure extended in ADB
Ashok Lashiri Executive Director(ED) in Asian Development Bank (ADB) Manila has got one year extension. In terms of seniority he is contemporary of Dr Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Finance Ministry of the Government of India (GOI).

IAS to go on Inter-cadre deputation to AP
P Ramesh 2005 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre is going on deputation to Andhra Pradesh for a period of three years.

Zaidi is PS to E Ahamed
Zahur Haider Zaidi has been appointed as Private Secretary to the Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed. He is 1994 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Who is the Field Marshall of IPS ?
Who is the Field Marshall (who doesn't retires) in IPS ? At least two such officers have been identified in the IPS. They are MK Narayanan of 1955 batch and Trinath Mishra who belongs to 1965 batch.

MEA to set up 65 passport offices
Long queues will soon be a thing of past as far as passport applicants were concerned. They will fill up their E form and go to concerning passport office by indicating date and time of their choice.

SBI to switch to new things
The State Bank of India (SBI) being headed by Pratip Chaudhuri is going to switch to new things. For example Deputy General Managers (DGMs) will be in charge in modules. For each circle now there is going to be liability centre and processing cell.

Kaveri Bannerjee is CPMG Bihar
Kaveri Bannerjee has been posted as Chief Post Master General Bihar.

Most comprehensive study on Maoist violence by BPR&D
Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) has published the most comprehensive study done so far on Maoist violence and its handling. The study was sponsored by BPR&D and carried out by D. M. Mitra, IPS(MP/1983), whose expertise on left wing extremism is well known. Mitra, prior to joining his present position as Principal Adviser to MP Planning Commission, had taken sabbatical and joined Institute of Social Sciences for this purpose. The study report can be downloaded from BPR&D site by following the link http://bprd.nic.in/showfile.asp?lid=605 .

Post of Assistant Passport Officer in Srinagar vacant
Post of Assistant Passport Officer in Srinagar vacant. Comptroller & Auditor General of India and Ministry of External Affairs (CPV Division), New Delhi have invited applications for the same.

Post of Assistant Passport Officer in Jammu vacant
Post of Assistant Passport Officer in Jammu vacant. Comptroller & Auditor General of India and Ministry of External Affairs (CPV Division), New Delhi have invited applications for the same.

Reddy is DGM SCR
Nilakanta Reddy IRSSE has been appointed DGM South Central Railway.

Justice Bhagawati is Chancellor of Sathya Sai University
Justice P N Bhagawati has been appointed as chancellor of the Sri Sathya Sai Deemed University .

Sharma new Transport Secretary Maharashtra
S.K. Sharma is the new Secretary Transport in the Maharashtra Government

Devara is Secretary Cooperative in Maharashtra
Rajgopal Devara has been made the new Secretary for Cooperation & Registrar, Cooperative Societies

Chaudri Commissioner Cooperative in Maharashtra
M.S. Chaudhri has been made the new Commissioner for Cooperation & Registrar, Cooperative Societies

Suresh Gupta (IRSE) is no more
Suresh Gupta ,IRSE 1980 batch, passed away at his residence in Rewa on May 6,2011.
He was suffering from cancer.His last posting was as Chief Project Manager -Construction, (WCR), Bhopal.

153 IRS probationers posted as Asstt Commissioners - Customs and Central Excise (UPDATED)
As many as 153 probationers of 61st Batch of Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise) Group 'A' have been posted as Assistant Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise in different zones. While Shankhesh Mehta, Jaspreet Singh Sukhija, Rajesh Kumar, Ms. Mukesh Kumari, Saurabh Kumar, Manish Godara, Abhay Gupta, Sandeep Jot Singh and Chavda Manishkumar S. have been posted at Ahmedabad Cus, Ms. Mansi Trivedi has been posted at Ahmedabad CX, Sujith kumar, P. Sompur and Ms. D. S. Sangeetha at Bangalore CX, Aakash Singhai, Ms. Pratima Singh, Shrawan Kumar Bansal and Virendra Kumar Jain at Bhopal CX, Sreekant Musuluru and Merugu Suresh at Bhubaneswar CX, Lakshay Kumar, Ms. Rachana Poddar, Sukhchain Singh, Harkirpal Khatana and Tuleshwar Prasad at Chandigarh CX, Prasanna V Pattanashetti, Ms. Vamshadhara V K, R Ananth, Ajitesh Radhakrishnan, S Sathianarayanan, A Sakthi and Ms. Sherin Angela at Chennai Cus, Biju Thomas, Parry Vallal T, D. Ranjithkumar, M.K. Parashivamurty and C Kannan at Chennai Cus-P, Ms. R. Gulzar Begum at Chennai CX, C Joannes George, S Sivaprasad and V Pazhaniyandi at Cochin Ramkumar N, V.S. Vengadashwaran, P. Saravana Perumal, Ms. T. Rajashree, R. Sri Balaji and Ms. N. Kavitha at Coimbatore, Ms. Minu Shukla, Ms. Mandeep Sangha, Ms. Mayusha Goyal, Harsh Vardhan, Abhinav Yadav and Praveen Kumar at Delhi Cus, Ms. Rachna, Ms. Ashima Batra, Rohan and Shankar Prasad Sarma at Delhi Cus-P Varikuti Rama Krishna, Arun Kumar, Vinayak Bhat and Ms. Deepa Srivastava at Hyderabad, Bijendra Kumar Meena at Jaipur CX, Vikram Chand Meka, R.A. Praveen Kumar, Shalabh Katiyar, Umesh Kumar, Arjun Lal Jat, R Jumle Pradnyasheel, Gaurav Chandel, Sunil N. Ranote, Saurabh Kant Shukla, Bhavan Lal Meena, Vikash Kumar and Mahipal Singh at Kolkata Cus, Ms. Susmita Bhattacharya, Ms. Bidyarani Konthoujam, Prabhat Dandotiyaa, Amit Kumar Mishra, Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Bhawani Shankar Meena, Sashi Wapang Lanu, Rameshwar Meena, Jitendra Singh and Neeraj Soi at Kolkata CX Rajendra Kumar, Mohit Tewari, Pradeep K S Sanger, Vybhav Dhar, Ms. Pallabika Dutta, Dinesh Singh Dewal and Ms. Arjit Sagar at Lucknow CX, Mahabir at Meerut CX, Siddalingesh, Parag Karunakar Singh, Sunil Kumar, Ravi Tiwari, Deepak Devrani, M Arjun Raghavendra, Pattan Imtiyaz Khan, Ms. Chander S B Chand, Shashank Dwivedi, Anish Gupta, Jomy Jacob, Rajiv Kumar Singh, Vishal Chowdhary, Vishal Malani, Ms. Binny Sharma, B. Vijay, Kohakade Sudhir S, Bhoskar Vilas Sandeepan, Piyush Kamal, M.J. Chethan, Kapil Raj, S. D Jambotkar, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Mukesh Meena, Kendre Rajkumar V and Yadav Sandeep G. M at Mumbai-I Cus, Ms. Sarika Shah and Ms. Jyoti Agrawal at Mumbai-I CX and Lokesh Kumar Jain and Manoj Kumar at Mumbai-II Cus, Ms. Nimbalkar Varsha D and Ms. Archana Nayak at Mumbai-II CX, Geelani Basha K. S. M. at Mysore, Kale Sushilkumar G, Chuna Ram and Pagare Vaibhav Kiran at Nagpur, Brijendra Chowdhary, Shiv Shankar, Ganesh Chander Yadav, M. U. R. Farooqui, Tariq Mabood, Saurabh Mishra, Rajendra Kumar Bheel and Vivekanand Rai at Patna Cus-P, Kazi Suhail Aneesahmed, Kalyanam R Rama Rao, Amit Kumar, Ms. Swati Shiwam, Kiran Reddy T and Ms. P. Santhi Sudha at Pune, Rahul Mahato, Md. Faizul Haque, Mahafoozur Rehman, Om Prakash Patel, Santosh Kumar and Pawan Kumar at Ranchi CX, Prakash Borgohain, Lalhmingmawia Ralte and Ashiquzzaman at Shillong, Patil Mukul Suresh, Ms. Puneeta, Ms. Reena, Ms. Nitina Nagori and Milan Kumar Singh at Vadodara, D Satish, Gandhi Donthi and Chanbasha M at Vizag.

DEBATE
Does ACC system have its relevance for all posts?
Does the ACC system has its relevance as far as appointment of incumbents for all posts was concerned? It is time consuming. Under the system it is examined at each level and in every Ministry there are at least six levels. Broadly speaking it goes from concerning Ministry to DoPT Ministry, then to cabinet secretariat and then to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).Finally it goes to the PMO. It is extremely time consuming .In the wake of this please give your valuable views to us.
Mail us-mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Decks for SEZ at Hardware Park in AP's Ranga Reddy district cleared
Decks have been cleared for setting up of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at the Hardware Park developed by APIIC in Maheswaram mandal in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh. It would be known as Vittal Innovation City (VIC).Called Vittal Innovation City (VIC), the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) - at the Hardware Park developed by APIIC in Maheswaram mandal in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh - will have Infosys chairman emeritus N R Narayana Murthy, UID Project chairman Nandan Nilekani and former ICICI chairman Narayanan Vaghul as key advisors and A Gururaj as its managing director. It would be headed by by former central vigilance commissioner N Vittal.

Appointment of a new CIL in a limbo
Appointment of a new full time Chairman of the Coal India Ltd (CIL) has continued to be delayed due to a series of queries from the Chief Vigilance Commissioner. It may be stated that the PESB had placed T.K. Lahiri - Chief of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) and D.C. Garg chief of Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) on number one and two respectively for the slot of CIL's chief.

Sudhir Chaturvedi to be Member of PESB ?
CMD of the Powergrid Sudhir Chaturvedi is likely to succeed V S Jain as Member of the PESB. Extended tenure of Jain is coming to an end in July.

Balachandran appointed Chairman of NPPA
G. Balachandran, presently Adviser - Inter State Council Secretariat, has been appointed as Chairman, National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary in the vacancy of S.M. Jharwal, IES. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Ashok Sarkar no.1 for BCCL's Director Technical
Ashok Sarkar is number one in panel for the post of Director Technical in Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL).

SBI to promote CGMs as DMDs

Process for promotion of Chief General Managers (CGMs) to Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs) in State Bank of India (SBI) is yet to start.

Allahabad Bank has highest no of GMs in race for EDs
This time the Allahabad Bank will see highest number of candidates facing interviews for elevation from General Managers(GMs) to Executive Directors (EDs) that are slated to be held on May 11 & 12,2011. There are seven out of 34 candidates from Allahabad who will be facing interviews. They are: S.K. Widhani, Anil Kumar, S.K. Srivastava, A.L. Daulatani, R.P. Singh, V.K. Chawla, D Chakravorty and Deepak Narang.

Madan Mohan to be Director (Finance) PMC
Madan Mohan is being tipped to be new Director (Finance) of the Printing and Minting Corporation in the GoI.

RBNL appoints Gargi Kaul as National Sales Head, Television
Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL), the multimedia entity with play across radio, television, out of home and live entertainment, has appointed Gargi Kaul as National Sales Head, Television,

RBNL appoints Soumen Datta as Regional Sales Head - West
Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL), the multimedia entity has appointed Soumen Datta as Regional Sales Head - West for television.

RBNL appoints Jayant Bhokare as Regional Head, BIG Connect - South
Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL), the multimedia entity has appointed Jayant Bhokare as Regional Head, BIG Connect - South.

Patel resigns as Whole-time Director,Themis Medicare Ltd
Ms Jayshree D. Patel, Whole-time Director, Themis Medicare Ltd has resigned from the Board on May 3, 2011.

Jain appointed Additional Director, Agarwal Holdings Ltd
Agarwal Holdings Ltd has appointed Vinod Jain, as Additional Director of the Company.

Lakhia re-appointed Alternate Director, Goodyear India Ltd
Brad Lakhia has been re-appointed as an Alternate Director to Pierre E. Cohade, Director, Goodyear India Ltd w.e.f May 3, 2011 .

Maydev resigns as ED, Sinnar Bidi Udyog Ltd
Vinayak Suryakant Maydev has resigned as Executive Director, Sinnar Bidi Udyog Ltd w.e.f. March 31, 2011.

Malhotra appointed Company Secy. Intec Capital Ltd
Ms. Kashvi Malhotra has been appointed as the Company Secretary of Intec Capital Ltd w.e.f April 25. 2011.

Subway Finance & Investment Company appoints Addl. Directors
Subway Finance & Investment Company Ltd appointed Jayesh Mehta and Amulakh Mehta as Additional Directors of the Company.

Mehta resigns as Company Secy. Speciality Papers Ltd
H. H. Mehta, Company Secretary of Speciality Papers Ltd has resigned with effect from March 14, 2011.

Kazim is Director HR Exide Industrie
Nadeem Kazim has been appointed as Director HR and Personnel by the Exide ndustries Ltd.

FORUM

Effect of retirement age on employment
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 0.06%

……..of 1%….

…… i.e. .0006%

Mani

Lost a brother and a friend.

I am sad and condoles the untimely death of Dorjee Khandu. Our Monpa feature film "Sonam" would not have been possible without Late Khandu's help. I on behalf of the unit of the ,"Sonam" hereby paying homage to the departed soul."

Ahsan Muzid,

Director of the film, "SONAM"

Air India needs a large scale surgery

Agreed that the Air India needs a large scale surgery right from the top to the bottom. But the people who have put the country to ransom, should not be allowed to go scot free. Ministry of Civil Aviation should call for the educational certificates of all the pilots and get it verified through the school level education boards and DGCA certificate for affirming their veracity. I am sure cloths will fall from the cupboard.

B B Srivastava

Highly illogical

It is highly illogical to speculate regarding reversion of RC Agarwal as the appointment to GM is done by ACC under with approval of PM. If the appointment of Agarwal was wrong why PM appointed him at first instance.

Ramesh

"India remains a land of contradictions, anomalies?"

Consider these statistics. India is a country where:-

(a) the bottom line and the top line of companies grows by more than 25%;

(b)the GDP grows by 8.98%;

(c)the stock market shoots up by 50% in a year;

(d)the Food inflation as per latest GOI statistics , is 8.76%;

(e)70% of our population still lives below the poverty line( BPL).The BPL category still remains undefined in the books of GOI.

(f)Despite this, we are more inclined to let food grains rot in the open due to shortage of silos;

(g) Our part- time Agriculture minister (he is ICC's President too) takes sadistic pleasure in not complying with the orders of Supreme court regarding distribution of food grains free of cost to those who need it. Worse, he was supported by the economist PM of India justifying the indefensible.

(h) While the wholesale prices of pulses declined by 7.39 per cent on a year-on-year basis, However, all other commodities witnessed a rise in prices.

(i)Cereals became dearer by 4.42 per cent year-on-year, with rice and wheat becoming more expensive by 2.08 per cent and 0.06 per cent, respectively.

(k)Vegetables prices were overall up by 3.44 per cent. Potatoes became dearer by 0.27 per cent on an annual basis and onions were up by 16.09 per cent.

(l) Fruits and protein-based items continued to become more costly.

Fruits became dearer by 32.69 per cent year-on-year, while milk was up by 5.16 per cent and eggs, meat and fish by 5.13 per cent.

What is the panacea for these anomalies and aberrations? First and foremost, the political will which is sadly missing. can route black money from the tax havens like the Swiss banks, Mauritius, Dubai and Cyprus in the guise of FDI/FII, why shouldn't we sip of some money in CWG, 2G Spectrum allotment and Adarsh Society? The NAC headed by Sonia Gandhi runs a parallel government to deflect public attention from the core issue of corruption in all departments of GOI by recommending "One-Dish-Menu" at wedding functions without assessing the ground realities. Not a word , has she uttered recommending the cost-cutting measures that are required to be taken by her Ministers by jettisoning government freebies, foreign travels,publication of government ads in newspapers costing crores worth of public money along with the ubiquitous and familiar photographs of Sonia Gandhi. Let her not forget that too much of familiarity breeds contempt.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

TAIL-PIECE

No one is safe in Pakistan, not even Osama, and anyone is safe in India, even Kasab.

Contributed by-Anish

Constitution of bench by the SC

The CIC observed that the information whether the Registry of the Supreme Court (SC) has placed certain papers before the Chief Justice of India for constitution of a Bench as directed in the SC Order in the SLP No. 32855/2009 is plainly administrative in nature. It is difficult to imagine how the disclosure of such information could cause any abrogation of the independence of the judiciary. The CIC directed to provide information on action taken by the SC Registry and also provide copy of the order, if any, for constituting a Bench of appropriate strength for further hearing on the SLP. The CIC further directed to provide a copy of the document, if any, confirming the news about the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India advising Karnataka Chief Justice Hon'ble Mr. Justice PD Dinakaran to go on leave.

Comments

While the CIC deserves applause for the interpretation of the RTI Act, is it not surprising that the CPIO of the mighty Supreme Court of India cannot decipher one of the simplest Acts of the independent India? Even earlier, the CPIO of SC has received a rap on the knuckles for similar aberrations.

Shri Subhash Chandra Agrawal vs. CPIO, Supreme Court of India in File No. CIC/WB/A/2010/000316 & CIC/SM/A/2011/001078

- 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)