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Whispers have been doing a commendable job. The in-depth info on
all government and corporate sectors is tremendous. Keep up the good
work. Aaj Ki Aawaz Sonia's returned from her 'undisclosed' surgery at an 'undisclosed' Hospital only to find Congress suffering from an undisclosed very serious illness!!! As per undisclosed sources Sonia is now getting reports!!! Undisclosed sources say too much of PC and Sibal have caused Congress Septicaemia!!!!! Mohna has kept mum and ignored the symptoms and Congress's condition has just got worse and worse!! Though Mohna says it was the duty of the 'gang of four' appointed by Sonia to have taken appropriate measures!!!!! So now Sonia's on her sick bed and she's trying to tend to a very seriously ill Congress!!!! Congis feel when Sonia steps out in Public view Congress will recover automatically!! Can Congress be cured by ' Sonia Darshan' .... if so she could have cured herself by looking into the mirror!!
Congress needs surgery...... delay will prove perilous!!!! And now you can expect Congress Bhonpoos to 'go delirious'!!!
Praful Patel who 'prafooled AI' went Channel hopping and ended up doing more damage to his case!!! His attempt to involve others in his alleged chori blew up in his face!! Prior to his taking over AI was not doing too badly!!! He took over and soon AI started stumbling!!! Moneymaking routes were gifted away.......than came the purchase of planes....freeloaders of the political kind enjoyed unlimited hospitality!!! And PC headed the GOM that decided on the quantity etc..... not surprised at all!!
Yes Mr. Patel everyone is wiser in hindsight! Only when power comes people tend to lose both hindsight and foresight!!
Seeing Congress dig itself deeper into the pit Advani has rekindled his PM dreams!!! He first challenged the Government to arrest him in the 'cash for votes' matter and then said he's going on a Yatra against corruption!! Why does he not realize that his PM dream is over!!!!! The minute he shows his intent to become PM BJP's fortunes fall!!! And I think BJP's biggest mistake is announcing that prior to the 2014 elections BJP will not have announce its 'PM in waiting'!!
BJP should retire Advani once and for all!!! And on 'PM in waiting' for the 2014 BJP should take a call!! PS......... The way Times Now has gone after corruption now CAG
stands for Call Arnab Gowswami!! Mukesh Ambani's ploy to get away in
the current problems he is in.... RIL generates huge employment......
should he get away because of this???? People now wonder how come PC's
name crops up in every 'wrongdoing'!! With Keralites in a clear majority
in PMO it is said Onam is the official festival of PMO!!! Prior to Sonia's
return there was a blast and an earthquake in Delhi.... ominous! Joke
maara..... Yonder Rajiv let out a guffaw. Indhra asked him 'Son why
are you guffawing'? Rajiv responded, ' Ma I married Sonia but Mohna
bhugat rahaa hai'!! Bharat
Kumar
Sangh is opposed to Rath Yatra of Advaniji RSS is said to be opposed to the Rath Yatra of L K Advani over Corruption issue. Certain BJP leaders are also not in favour of this yatra.
A film on Anna !!! How balance favoured Maj.Gen B.C. Khanduri?
BUREAUCRACY Dr Chaudhari to be Secretary Public Enterprises
or IPP?
Will Zohra Chatterji be Additional Secretary
Coal ?
Kalyan Chaudhary to be Ombudsman IT in Ahemdabad
Justice Dipak Mishra to be SC Judge in October
SP Vaid, IG BPR&D to return from GOI on
September 15
Lt Gen Singh to succeed Lt Gen Lamba
Malhotra front runner for the post of Special
Secretary (Law and Justice)
Stocks of certain IAS officers to go up
Rajiv Yaduvanshi to move to Delhi
Parimal Rai to join Goa Government
IRAS to join MEA on deputation
Bihar Chief Secretary to retire this month
end
Bhaskar Sharma to be Director Banking soon
Justice Sen to be CJ of Karnataka High Court
!
Petroleum Ministry seeks 3 months extension
for Raju
O.N. Singh poised to join GoI IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
3 posts of DIG vacant in ITBP
IA & AS officer Sunil Kumar transferred
Get-together of 1999 batch of Civil Services IPS changes in TamilNadu
David Petraeus is new CIA Chief Samir Kumar Sinha joins ADB in Manila R Chandra Nathan promoted as Additional, DG
in Assam T M Manoharan to head KSEB
Two IAS officers get addl charge in Rajasthan
(UPDATED) 30 IRS officers promoted as Chief Commissioner
of Customs and Central Excise (UPDATED) Veena Upadhyay gets additional charge (UPDATED) 32 Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central
Excise transferred (UPDATED) (DEBATE)
CORPORATE Mehra is new CGM SBI Bangalore Circle Chanda appointed Alternate Director, Birla
Ericsson Optical Ltd Rao appointed Whole-time Director, Eimco Elecon
(India) Ltd Venkat appointed Chairman, ASCI Sharma appointed Vice Chairman, ASCI Sakhuja appointed Hon. Treasurer, ASCI Savadi appointed MD, Foodlever India Dey appointed F&B Manager, Glow Studios
FORUM DEBATE (1)
LOKPAL BILL AND BUREAUCRACY
Fear of accountability in 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? I am afraid why we need another watchdog as there are so many already existing and still we suffer from terror attacks, this proves bad governance by Civil Servants. The only solution to this problem is those who do not deliver must go whether it is civil servant, policeman, politician. All black money in India and abroad should be seized and taken over by the Government. We need simple laws and "hire and fire policy" for all Government employees including State Government employees and it should be for all the levels.
Harish Kumar
DEBATE (2)
India at a critical juncture
India is at critical juncture of fight against corruption. people have to be united to make it happen other wise we destined to have a weak Lokpal which will serve no purpose. The selection process has to be very transparent as suggested by Jan Lokpal. Generally government prefer weak, subservient and compliant officials for such posts. No one should be in position to keep post of Lokpal other wise it may remained vacant for years as it happened in case of Lokayukta of Gujarat. There has to be strong provisions of confiscation of ill-gotten money. Corruption of bureaucracy and executives and MPs and MLAs be dealt with iron hand.
Savita
DEBATE (3)
It is a side show literally
All this brouhaha on Lokpal is a side show literally. Government servants were always under the dual discipline of their own departmental conduct rules and also the criminal courts. Lokpal has not changed this substantive position one bit. Except omitting the sanction procedure under the PC Act and the CrPC for both members of parliament and the government servants, Lokpal bill has not come out with anything new. The unnecessary lionizing of this institution of course would be a return to McCarthyism , when imaginary links to the Soviets led honest to god Americans cool off in state prisons. The way it is going with so much of hype about the institution, and sooner or later a maverick returning as the new Lokpal, the spectre of your peon or neighbor snooping on you for monetary rewards from Lokpal would be a reality. Welcome to Big Brother Watching You of 1984 - remember George Orwell
Gabriel
Follow USA
USA has not seen any major terrorist attack all these years after 9/11. Why? Why can't we insulate our country similarly? Who is encouraging Terrorist Activities in India? Police works hard to collect evidence, to nab the terrorists and charge sheet them for trial. Then works hard to secure their conviction and capital punishment. Then what happens? Our politicians enter the fray to encash the catch. They do not allow the hanging to materialise. In fact, they enter the fray right after the arrests of suspects start. They trade the terrorists for petty politics of votes. Despite confirmation of hanging by the highest court, they deliberately sit over the mercy petitions for years so that courts are forced to give them the benefit of delay. Terrorists Bhullar, Afzal Guru and Rajiv Gandhi's killers are the latest examples where the politicians are trying to gain mileage. The question arises as to why should the police work hard to solve cases? Only to enrich the politicians? Trading of terrorists for votes is the worst kind of corruption our politicians of all hues are adept at. And the perpetrators of terror are aware of this.
J.K.Khanna IPS, D.G.Police (Rtd)
Induction of defence personnel in IPS
There is large scope for rationalizing cadre strength in and among various services by assigning proper role & responsibility to incumbents at different levels. For example, some time back, WIC had reported about T.R. Mohanty, ISS, joining Department of Justice as Joint Secretary with special mandate of examining large pendency of cases from taluk level to the apex court. Status in this regard is not known. However, it is a welcome sign that persons recruited to perform specific/specialized functions are being actually assigned such role & responsibility at decision making level. There are various police and paramilitary organisations, which discharge exclusively administrative/secretarial/statistical functions, wherefrom and whereby police officers could be freed to perform their core policing function. One hopes the same logic will apply to many defence establishments as well. Security considerations within defence areas notwithstanding, operations of CSD appear to have been largely outsourced. Perhaps, it's time that impregnable fortresses and exclusive enclaves constructed and maintained out of tax payers' money are allowed to be democratically penetrated ( not infiltrated!) in the interest of the nation's development and citizens' welfare.
S K Tewari
From frying pan to fire
Seeing the defence of Ms. Mayavati in the 'sandal flight' episode in your esteemed forum, I can not constrain myself from commenting. What we see in our country after the JP movement and post Mandal days is the continuous exploitation of the dalits by the dalits and OBCs by the OBCs themselves and the emergence of a bunch of scrupulous OBC and Dalit leaders who are exploiting the illiteracy, poverty and subjugation of the depressed communities and even the name of the great Ambedkar to meet their own nefarious ends. Many have made feudalistic circles around them, some have taken the much decried 'Manuwadis' as their advisors, many brought their progenies into politics to succeed them and some even discarded their caste wives to marry from higher castes. They use the vote bank, created for political horse trading. Crores were made by sheer corruption. When their own average community members are drowning in poverty, some are showing megalomaniac tendencies by constructing their own statues all over their states spending crores of tax payer's money, which otherwise could have been spent for the betterment of the downtrodden. They object tooth and nail reservation based on financial status and even the creamy layer classification since it will affect them badly and prevent them garnering all the benfits. If Dalits and OBCs are exploited by the upper castes in the past, one is now seeing the pathetic sight of Dalits exploiting Dalits and OBCs exploiting their own caste men. For an average Dalit or OBC, it is a jump from the frying pan to the fire and sixty years of independence have not made their lot better. For the nation sake and the progress of the down trodden major national parties should shun such caste parties and jointly fight against them. It is time also to have a rethink about this caste based reservations and put the reservation only based on economic grounds.
N Krishnan
Lack of accountability in PSUs
What we lack in the management of PSUs is a lack of accountability. Managements come and go without taking any responsibility for the decisions they made. The weak decision makers dither in their decisions and go away , some with selfish interests feathering their own personal nests. One can see this example every where. For example an earlier Marketing MD of the Navaratna company, IOC spent crores of the Company funds to start huge jubilee Pumps all over the country. In most of these pumps dealers employ only one or two attendants to take care of eight or ten dispensing units defeating the very purpose. The MD went on retirement though lots of allegations were made against him for getting his share in the purchase of land and constructing the outlet buildings. Also with the benevolence of successive weak managements the salary structure of this company has hit astronomical heights with some of the lowest level of employees (SSLCs) taking home more than one lakh home every month. Unlike Air India, the company is surviving only because of the product they handle. There are many other examples of sheer wastage, corruption, ineptitude and irresponsibility. Those who take wrong decisions should be called to order and there should be a commission to make them answer. Is any body answerable for Air India losing its market share from almost 50% to less than 15% after purchasing air-crafts worth more than 34000 Crores?
N Sriram
Congratulations
Congratulations, Laxman Das. I'm so happy for you. Best wishes. Your class fellow in AU. Thanks Whisper.
D N Gautam
Senior citizens deserve better!
More than 200 visitors were waiting in the queue to get passes to enter the premises at the Delhi High Court that fateful Wednesday the 7th August 2011.It also had "senior citizens". One was an 87 year old Nizamuddin Master, who braved the torture of standing in the queue in that uncomfortable and humid weather, but could not defy the terrorist attack and left behind a grieving family. Just imagine the torture of standing in a queue of 200 visitors in the humid weather of Delhi. How long does it take to get the entry pass? Are the legs so sturdy at 87? Insensitivity of the authorities needs to be noted--we the helpless people can't do anything. On paper and glossy brochures, our governments celebrate the senior citizens. But they don't even think for a moment the torture and trauma of these queues for the senior citizens. It takes a lot of determination on their part to take the journey to all these public places, arrange for money and escort, stand in the queue and remain without food or water or medicines for the whole day, which may or may not be worth it all. It would have been not worth mentioning if I had not witnessed the sad plight of the senior citizens at PF offices, banks, DDA, electricity offices, CGHS dispensaries, hospitals, bus stands etc (posted on this website more than 3 years ago). The authorities could have thought of providing a fairly tolerable waiting hall for all visitors, or at least for the senior citizens, where they could be comfortably seated, secure from the harsh weather or rains and wait for their turn. For litigants, the court may think of prescribing numbered file covers that may contain all the details along with a photo of the litigant , which could facilitate his entry and get rid of manually issuing passes in this manner. Can we start respecting and caring for seniority, at least in this respect, even as it has been destroyed in service matters by less than honest rulings.
M L Gupta
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