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Digvijay is now going on like a broken record.... Anna is controlled by RSS!!! Fact of the matter is if BJP had been in power Anna would have banged BJP on corruption... though I feel BJP would not have responded so stupidly to Anna's banging!! The biggest mistake that Congress has made is not making this an all Party affair!!! And then targeting IAC Members is showing Congress in poor light.....now even Kejriwal's wife is being targeted!!! As Congress is Gandhis .....the general perception in India is Gandhis are against the fight against corruption!!!

Our actions and reactions show our stands, our principles and our choices!!!!

All our actions and reactions have voices!!!

It's a well know fact that Conman Rajat Gupta is very pally with both Mohna and Montek!!!! It is said whenever either of them visited US they met Rajat and when Rajat came to India he met both of them!!! In fact it is said both Rajat and Montek have been on touch via email and Rajat has off and on given his 'pearls of wisdom' on Indian economy to Montek.... which I'm sure Montek has used!!!! But of course Mohna and Montek can in no way be held responsible for Rajat's 'chori'.... however it is abs clear what type of company both kept!!

It is economics that bonded them... is that so?????

That's why without an appointment to PMO and Montek's Office Rajat could go!!!!

So everything is moving as planned!!! Omar knew High Court would not spare a serving Judge and then he would be at liberty to chose a 'friendly Judge' who would do a cover up!!!! Now it's said that Omar has written to Law Minister Salman Kursheed..... and I'm sure Farroukh will speak to Kursheed!!! For all you know Salman will propose the name of three friendly retired Judges!!!! The proof of the crime is in the attitude of the accused.... and Omar has given enough proof of his guilt!!

Omar should be sacked!!!!

So what if by Rahul he is backed!!

F1 is a joke that is being played on the Nation!!! Even the F 1 Drivers have expressed their 'worry about the dismal poverty'.... meaning politely .... can India afford F1 or should India be wasting money on F1????? They say Jamai Raja who is a 'speed freak' has been a huge source of 'encouragement' for F1!!! A Country where Farmers commit suicide..... children die because of malnutrition......is hosting F1!!!!

And Bhenji will present the trophy!!!!

Bhenji does not walk the talk on her pro poor talk.... the walk seems to be 'suffering from dystrophy'!

PS.... Amar Singh is out of hospital...... please give him a day or so and he's going to be back in action!!! Let us see what 'hatchet job' Congress gives him???? Joke maara.... the F1 Budh Circuit will be handed over to BJP for a PM Rath Race..... unfair... Advani's already practicing!!! Amar came out of AIMS with a Devdas look... why he even had a Paro tagging along!!! He wants to go to Singapore.....and he'll get permission to go... Hassan Ali is trying to ape Amar to get out of Tihar.....and mind you both have a very powerful pal....... his initials are AP and often he's respectfully addressed as Bhai!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Arunachal Pradesh CM, Jarbom Gamlin's fate to be decided on oct 31, 2011
As the grapevine has it, fate of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jarbom Gamlin - who is facing dissidence - will be decided at a meeting of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) scheduled to be held in Itanagar on October 31, 2011.Dissident MLAs are being led by Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) chief, Nabam Tuki who is also an MLA & Takam Sanjoy, MP from West Arunachal Pradesh. Interestingly, Gamlin and his dissidents have got 21 MLAs each on their side. A three member team led by the Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will be attending the CLP meeting. Other members are: Dhani Ram Shandil a senior Congress leader from Himachal Pradesh & ex DONER Minister B.K. Handique.

AICC yet to decide on Arunchal Pradesh CM
As the grapevine has it, the Congress high command is yet to decide regarding three month old political crisis that has been going in Arunachal Pradesh. The fate of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jarbom Gamlin who is facing dissidence will be decided at a meeting of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) scheduled to be held in Itanagar on October 31,2011.

BUREAUCRACY

Will Durga Prasad be new SPG Chief?
Now latest information says that K Durga Prasad is being appointed new SPG Chief. He is 1981 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Is GoI following new pattern?
Is Government of India (GoI) following a new pattern as far as empanelment of IAS officers to Secretary/Secretary equivalent posts was concerned? Answer to this question is simply "yes" if one goes by the number of IAS officers belonging to 1978 batch that have been empanelled for posting as Secretary/Secretary equivalent.

Will Coal India get an IAS as CMD?
There is a serious thinking to post a senior IAS officer as CMD of the Coal India Ltd. Will this proposal materialize ?.

Mehrotra to be new Chairman of LIC
Acting Chairman D K Mehrotra is being tipped to be new Chairman of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).

CSB not to meet on October 31, 2011
Next meeting of the CSB that was slated for October 31, 2011, has been deferred. It may now take place next Week.

Is the power sector living on borrowed time and money?
The non-viability of the power sector is a major threat to the banking system as banks account for Rs 2,73,000 crore of current loans to the power sector - 7.3 percent of their overall loan-book. Lending to the power sector has grown at a compound rate of 31 percent from 2006 to 2011. Market researcher Crisil estimates this to grow further at a rate of 23 percent over the next two years, taking the total indebtedness of the sector to Rs 7,30,000 crore by March 2013. Two-thirds of the money will be owed by state-owned DISCOMS but they are are in the red as the supplies to agriculture, and non commercial sector are highly subsidised. Power sector's borrowings are estimated at around Rs 6,50,000 crore as on 31 March 2011. Out of this, the banks and the financial sector account for Rs 4,80,000 crore, the rest coming from bonds, government loans and foreign currency borrowings.

No officer from nine states in empanelment list
In the list of empanelment of 1978 batch IAS officers, to the rank of Secretary, states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala,West Bengal, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Chhattisgarh and Sikkim will have no representation in the Government of India for the next five years.

Roy and Venkatachalam to be considered later for empanelment
Two 1978 batch IAS officers Ms Laxmi Venkatachalam (Karnataka) and Sudripto Roy were not considered for empanelment in the Government of India because of their foreign assignments. They will be considered for empanelment in early next year.

Ms Kackar will be the only woman Secretary in GoI
It seems Ms Stuti Narain Kackar will be lone woman Secretary in the Government of India for the next couple of years.1978 batch IAS officer of UP cadre Ms Kackar is the only woman officer who has been empanelled. She is going to retire on January1, 2015.

Sangma to be only Tribal Secretary in GoI
U K Sangma will be only Tribal Secretary in the Government for the next two years.1978 batch IAS officer of Jharkhnd cadre Sangma has been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.

Justice Sikri to continue till January?
There is no move to appoint new Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and according to grapevine, Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri will continue as acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court till January next.

Amar Nath, GM CLW to retire next month
Amar Nath, GM at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) is due to superannuate on November 30, 2011.

Goutam Sanyal may be re-employed
As the grapevine has it Goutam Sanyal Secretary to West Bengal Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee who
is due to retire on October 31, 2011 may be re employed as Secretary to West Bengal Chief Minister at least for one year. He is a CSS cadre officer of the 1978 batch.

M G V K Bhanu's order as Tea Board's Chairman issued
Order relating to appointment of Principal Resident Commissioner to the Assam Government in Delhi M.G.V.K. Bhanu new Chairman of the Tea Board has been issued. He is an IAS officer of the 1985 batch who belongs to the Assam-Meghalaya (AM) cadre. It may be stated that Bhanu was Principal Secretary (PS)
to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi from 2001 to 2004. And after that from August 2004 to October 2009 he was on inter cadre deputation as PS to the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy.
(We said this on August 22, 2010)

Aditya Mishra is IG(FHQ)BSF and posted in Jalandhar
Aditya Mishra IG(C-1)HQ Lucknow has joined as IG(FHQ) Border Security Force (BSF), New Delhi and has been posted IG-BSF, Jalandhar Frontier in place of Himmat Singh, IPS. He is an IPS officer of 1989 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Prit Pal Singh is now ADG, Economic Offences Wing
Prit Pal Singh who so far was ADG, Logistics Assam Police has been formally transferred as ADG, Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Assam Police. Initially this was not an official position but now it has been formalised. He is an IPS officer of 1984 batch who belongs to the Assam Meghalaya cadre.

Devendra Kumar Pathak is ADG Training,CRPF
Devendra Kumar Pathak, ADG(Pers&Training)CRPF,FHQ, New Delhi has been transferred to RK Puram, as ADG Training. He is an IPS officer of 1979 batch who belongs to the MT cadre.

Ravi Chaturvedi promoted as Director, Vigilance, Traffic
Ravi Chaturvedi, Joint Director, Vigilance Traffic in the Ministry of Railways has been promoted as Director, Vigilance, Traffic. He is an IRTS officer of 1998 batch.

Pathapu Ravi, CVO ,MDNIY gets 6 months extension
Pathapu Ravi, CVO Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) in the Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India has been given an extension of six months. He is an IPS officer of 1988 batch who belongs to the West Bengal cadre.

Eight IPS officers retiring october 31, 2011
As many as eight IPS officers are retiring in October 2011. They are Debemdra Nath Hazarka of Assam & Meghalay cadre, Kuchanna Srinivasan of Karnataka cadre,Y S Dadwal (UT), Raman Srivastava and M. Sugathan of Kerala cadre, A.C. Negi of Sikkiim cadre, Abhimnyu Tripathi of Uttar Pradesh cadre and Bharat Vir Wanchoo of West Bengal cadre

11 IAS officers retiring october 31, 2011
As many as 11 IAS officers are retiring in October 2011. They are: K.S. Singh of AGMUT cadre, Rajinder Pal Singh of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Jayant M Mauskar of Assam Meghalaya cadre, B.R. Jayaramaraja Urs, B.P. Kaniram and B. Shivappa of Karnataka cadre, T. Balakrishnan and Johnson K. George of Kerala cadre, Sailan Kumar Das of Manipur- Tripura cadre, Mukul Joshi and Surjit Singh Rajpal of Punjab cadre.

Post of CEO in Price Stabilization Fund Trust vacant
The post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), on deputation basis, in Price Stabilization Fund Trust, under the Department of Commerce, New Delhi is vacant. Those willing to apply for the above post may send their applications to the Department of personnel, Government of India.

Vice -Admiral Chopra to take over october 31, 2011
Vice Admiral Anil Chopra is taking over as the commander of Indian Navy's Vishakhapatanam-based Eastern Command october 31, 2011 succeeding Vice Admiral Anup Singh who is retiring.

IPS reshuffle in Punjab
There is an IPS reshuffle in Punjab. New postings are :- Mssrs Rajan Gupta, DGP Law and Order, Mohammad Mustafa, ADG Railways, Sham Lal Gokhar, IG Patiala Zone, C S R Reddy, IG Security, A K Asthana, IG Vigilance, Shashi Prabha Dwivedi, IG Crime, Kartar Singh, IG Training, Arpit Shukla, IG SCRB, Lok Nath DIG Firozpur Range, Pramod Ban, DIG Administration, L K Yadav DIG Patiala.

300 IPS officers trained
300 IPS officers of the rank DIG and IG have been trained under the mid-career training programme in strategic management at the Cambridge University, United Kingdom. The programme was organised in collaboration with the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonepat.

1984 batch IPS officers are now ADG in Bihar
Four 1984 batch IPS officers Mssrs A K Upadhyay, Rajesh Ranjan, Ravindra Kumar and Dr K S Dwivedi have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Bihar.

Former DGP gets clean chit
Punjab Government has given clean chit to former DGP during the Congress regime Mohammad Izhar Alam.

Sharma re-appointed Secretary General of Commonwealth
Kamalesh Sharma has been reappointed for another four-year term as General Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Who will be new Police Commissioner Ahemdabad?
Who will succeed Ahemedabad city Commissioner of Police Sudhir Sinha, whose tenure is coming to an end on October 31? Tie is said to be between Mohan Jha and Shivanand Jha.

A.K. Rana is PCCF-HOF,Manipur (UPDATED)
A.K. Rana, who till recently on central deputation was Bhopal based Regional CCF in the GOI's Ministry
of Environment & Forests (MoEF), has joined as PCCF-HOF to Manipur Government on October 31, 2011. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of 1979 batch who belongs to the Manipur -Tripura (M-T)
cadre.

Pradeep Kumar Chaudhery appointed Secretary, Industrial Policy and Promotion (UPDATED)
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Pradeep Kumar Chaudhery, IAS (HY:77), presently Special Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
(We said this on September 12 )

Ms. Manjula Prashar to be new Secretary (Posts) (UPDATED)
Ms. Manjula Prashar (IPoS 1975 batch)who is presently is Member (Operations) will be taking over as Secretary Posts on November 1,2011.Ms.Parashar will be succeeding Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy (IPoS..74) who retired as Secretary Posts on October 31,2011.

(We said this on September 22, 2011)

A Bhattacharya to be Secretary Fertilisers (UPDATED)
Latest information says that A Bhattacharya is being appointed Secretary Fertilisers. Infact,Minister Fertilisers who hails from TamilNadu was keen to have R Bhattacharya as his Secretary. Bhattacharya is also from the 1977 batch IAS officer fromTamilNadu cadre.

(DEBATE)
LOKPAL BILL AND BUREAUCRACY
The debate on Lokpal Bill and the subsequent anger and protests across the country led by veteran Gandhian Anna Hazare has instilled a fear of accountability among the bureaucracy. How should the bureaucrats react to the situation?
Mail your views to suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com or mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com

CORPORATE

Nirmal Singh gets extension
The tenure of member of the BIFR, Nirmal Singh has been an extended. He is retired 1970 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
(We said this on September 22, 2011)

R K Singh joins Bajaj Power
R K Singh has left Hindujas in Bombay to join Bajaj Power in Delhi. He is a retired ED of the BHEL.

Post of CMD at MECL vacant
The Post of Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) at Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL) is vacant. The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking qualified candidates for the same. The last date of filing the applications is November 8, 2011.

Pahilajani appointed MD & CEO, Greaves Cotton
Greaves Cotton has appointed Sunil Pahilajani as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company.

Asher appointed CEO, Direct Marketing Association
Direct Marketing Association, India, has appointed Vatsal Asher as Chief Executive Officer.

Moschler appointed Senior VP, Kouni Destination Management India
Kuoni Destination Management India has appointed Oliver Möschler as Senior Vice President Sales Asia Pacific & USA.

Dhingra joins JWT Kolkata as VP (Servicing)
Ashwini Dhingra, Vice President (Servicing) and Head (Business Development - 24x7), Euro RSCG has joined JWT Kolkata as Vice President ( Servicing).

Eichenberger to be CEO, Mercator Asia
Rolf Eichenberger will soon take over as Chief Executive Officer of Mercator Asia.

Bahl appointed Chief Content Officer , Turner International, Mumbai
Turner International has appointed Vivek Bahl as Chief Content Officer, based in its Mumbai office. He will join on November 1, 2011.

Chakraborthy appointed CEO, TV Today Network
TV Today Network (TVTN) has appointed Joy Chakraborthy as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. He will assume charge on December 1, 2011.

Miscarriage of justice

The decision of the Government to shift the reference date for empanelment of 1978 batch from Jan 1, 2011 to Jan 1, 2012 is resulting in gross miscarriage of justice to those who are retiring in 2013 as these officers are getting empanelled as Secretary Equivalent instead of Secretary. More devastating and unjust this decision is to those who are retiring between now and 31/12/2011 as these officers would not be even considered for empanelment in either list. Strange are the ways of the Government. Don't such decisions remind us of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq?

Girish P

No need to feel sorry

There is no need to feel sorry for those who have not figured in the panel for Secretary to GoI. They are in no way second grade. They will have the good fortune to serve the states to which they have been allocated. What is Center's loss is states' gain.

Satya Singal

Compulsory clauses in Lokpal Bill

The following two clauses should compulsorily be there in the Lokpal Bill:-

(i) Urgent issue of inquiry and thereafter issue of prosecution in case an Information received under RTI Act-2005 Act-2005 clearly indicating impropriety.

(ii) If a government functionary is availing benefits of office, staff and transport more than his/her entitlement, which is unjustifiable, filing of criminal case and immediate prosecution.

B B Srivastava

A relevant issue

A very timely and relevant issue. Unless the aakar (size) of government establishment is reduced, the government cannot deliver the results efficiently and in time. Get rid of atleast the floating numbers.

Deepak Dave

How great are our IAS officers ?

An MBA from Harvard has always been a dream for bright executives from all over the world. More than 100 IAS officers have tried to get admission for fulltime MBA at Harvard in the last two decades. But only two of them could get it. The 1994 batch IAS topper, Srivatsa Krishna was the first IAS officer to get MBA Harvard. And the other one is Rita Singh of 1997 batch. Normally one should have top grade and not less than 4 years degree from one of the top 50 Universities of the World, 4 to 6 years top class job experience in a very reputed world class organisation, excellent easy writing ability, GMAT score not less than 730 out of 800 and excellent interview performance to admission for MBA at Harvard. And two IAS officers so far could satisfy such standard and get MBA Harvard seat. Yet anyone who gets into IAS thinks he is great and that nobody is equal to him. Is such arrogance justified ?

J Sarkar

Why is PMO silent ?

Why no unhappiness or reaction is not given by PMO when Armed Forces promotion board results are out with empanelment rate of 25 % only ?

Yogesh Bharadwaj

Gratuity @ 80% of entitlement

Presently senior officers retiring are not getting their due in Gratuity because of ceiling of Rs. 10 lakh.

For example a Director level officer retiring in 2013 would draw a salary of Rs. 67000 Basic + 8700 GP + DA say 70%

= Rs. 125000 pm.

His gratuity entitlement would be (125000 x 33 x 15) ¸ 26

= About Rs. 24 lakh

But he gets only Rs. 10 lakh

Therefore, Gratuity rules should ensure that a retiring officer gets at least 80% of his entitlement as gratuity. It may noted that only PB-4 officers are affected adversely by the present ceiling & hence require relief.

Also till 31.12.95 right from year 1947, all officer including Cabinet Secretary were getting their full entitlement of gratuity.

Limit of reckoning of 33 years of service (in case actual service being more than 33 years) also should be removed.

Financial implication will be very low as only PB-4 officers are affected. PB-4 officers comprise only 0.5% of Govt. employees. Out of that also, only retiring officers are affected.

Mani

BSP losing Vidhan Sabha election 2012 ?

The coming Vidhan.Sabha elections are of rising of Congress in UP. There is no adverse effect of Congress in UP. The local public will vote against directly BSP/SP due to there last government's experience. The name of cast they develop anti incumbency in there work . Both BSP /SP are against national feeling in working system. Both parties divided bureaucracy on caste basis and developed there own gang in administration..

The brake up of poll seat in UP in 2012 would be :

BSP - less than 50

SP - more than 100

BJP - more than 60

Congress - more than 150

Lok Dal - less than 15

Independents - more than 30

And government headed by Congress CM. In Vidan Sabha. in 2012 election

dalit voter not going to cast vote for BSP / Mayawati. They would remain in there house on voting day or cast in favour of Congress. This is the real story of Vidhan Sabha election 2012.

Satya

The defence taken by Kejriwal that Kiran Bedi has not done any thing wrong by charging more than actually spent during her tours reveals his concept of corruption. Going by this his bill be no more than Jokpal and should be supported by all corrupt people. God save us from such core teams against corruption. God save India. They have wasted the public uprise against corruption like Mayawati has wasted the Dalit movement created by Kansi Ram.

Prakash

Dear Editor,

What is really happening on Team Anna ?

Observing the controversy on Anna Hazare's team who is crusading against Corruption, reminds me of a joke, I might have read in Reader Digest in seventies. It goes like this:-

Jack who normally comes home around 7 PM , comes home at 4 PM . He found his wife in bed with his neighbour. He shouts "Jane what's going on, I am surprised". Jane shouts back on her husband "Bill how many times I have to tell you to use correct English, in fact in this case I am surprised of your bunking the office and you should have said that you are astonished". Never the less the argument heated up on use of word. Surprise or astonished, neighbor escaped, others collected on hearing heated arguments and started taking sides on use of correct words in English without knowing what is the real matter.

This is what is really happening on team who has at least taken up cause "Fight Against Corruption".

I hope you will find it useful to give space in your whisper forum.

K L Jain

What Anna thinks ?

Now that Anna and his team has fallen from high moral ground, people of this country are bound to take them lightly henceforth. In any case does Anna really think that his JanLokpal will be able to control crooks like Raja, Maran etc or smooth fund collectors like Pranab Mukherjee, Sharad Pawar etc.

S Dutta Howrah

Fuedal civil service

What was strange if K M Chandrashekhar was in the queue to pick up a plate during lunch? The unfortunate part is that serving senior officers expect a loaded plate to be delivered to them while others are in the queue, not only after meetings but also during social occasions like marriages. The 'permanent' civil service in India claims to be modeled after the UK. The current Cabinet Secretary there Sir Gus O'Donnel (called GOD due to his initials) exercises his powers ruthlessly. Recently, he got the Defence Minister fired from the cabinet because the Minister used to frequently meet a wheeler dealer in his office in the ministry when no ministry official was present. Yet GOD expects no precedence on social occasions. The relevant question is: When shall we grow up?

M P Bauer

I appreciate Chandreshkhar

I aprreciate that Chandreshkhar stood in a que. Actually all bureaucrats should behave in a similar manner. One day everybody has to come to down. There is nothing wrong in it. After all, people at the helm of affairs have to be pastured. There is nothing wrong in it. In fact everybody should learn from it.

B B Srivastava

Mamatha has taken Rlys to lowest ranks ever

Mamatha Benarji has taken Rlys to lowest ranks ever. Who will tell her ? Her only intention is to dest

the Rly Sysyem and close down other wise why should she behave like this ?

D Venketeshara Rao

Railway Ministry is responsible

Railway Ministry is solely responsible for this situation. They are arbitrary all the time. No wonder Cabinet Secretariat does not approve of their proposals. They change the rules after looking at the face. Whole mess has started stinking now. The delay has finished whatever little enthusiasm was left.

Babu Ram

How does that fit into the policy ?

Must see CBDT order no 176. Commissioner spending all his life in Delhi brought back to Delhi within 2 months. How does that fit into the policy ? The only policy that CBDT follows is this : all those who have been there since 15 years or more or there in Delhi on account of so called administrative requirement etc should be given field postings. All those who confirm to the policy and well within their 8 year term would be OSD and given no work. Even a blind man can see the deviations in CBDT orders. And then the government says there is no corruption and no need for Anna to intervene. Anna should start the purge from CBDT itself .It is a cesspool of corruption and nepotism

FB

Application seeking indiscriminate information

The appellant had sought 08 paras of information regarding generation of power in various States and related information. The CIC quoted the Supreme Court judgment in Civil Appeal No. 6454 of 2011 (CBSE & Anrs Vs Aditya Bandopadhaya & Ors) while disposing the appeal. The Commission observed that the Right to Information is a cherished right but it has to be exercised with restraint. The requested information should be useful to the information seeker either personally or it should be useful socially or nationally. Wanton demand for information without any meaningful purpose behind it can not be countenanced as it puts undue strain on the limited resources of the public authority. Besides, collection, collation and transmission of information entails costs to the public authority.

Comments

In regard to information other than those enumerated in subsection (b) and (c) of section 4(1) of the RTI Act, equal importance and emphasis should be given to other public interests like confidentiality of sensitive information, fiduciary relationships, efficient operation of governments, etc.. The RTI Act should not be allowed to be misused in a manner where indiscriminate demands are made in the name of seeking information.

Ashok Kumar v. Ministry of Power in CIC/LS/A/2011/002230

- 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)