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Aaj Ki Aawaz

In the morning Congis were flashing V signs ... ala Mohna.....and when the SC verdict came out they looked crestfallen!!! Congis had pinned a lot of hopes on this verdict....if BJP beat them with the corruption stick they'd get to beat the BJP with the Secular stick!!! What irks me is that despite 'big tree' statement that literally signalled a 'go lynch Sikhs' and the involvement of the Cops in killing Sikhs and the cover up, which goes on to this day, those involved in the heinous crimes have not been brought to justice!!! Before pointing a finger at Modi Congress needs to look at its own past!!!! Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkah Dutt came 'all dressed up' to project SC's verdict as a 'CCN IBN' and NDTV affect respectively but after the verdict came out both were left in the lurch!!!!

Now what will Congress do??????

But this is for sure if it attacks Modi people will say 'after its role in 1984 genocide with what mooh (face)!!

I feel Civil Society should be focussed...... at present they seem they want to change 'everything'!!!! At present they need to concentrate on the Jan Lokpal Bill.....then election reforms!!!! Follow the principle 'slowly but surely'!!!!! Kejriwal's Commie connections have come to the fore..... and he's going to face flack for this connection.... not that he's scared or bothered!!! This is for sure the entire political establishment, even BJP, wants Civil Society to be beaten down!!!!

Okay agreed Jan Lokpal Bill will not be a cure for ghoos!!!

To fight corruption a potent weapon on corruption has been let loose!!

Is Madam really back..... or did she come and she's gone back?????? Maybe she's waiting for the side effects of chemotherapy to wear off!!!! Tweets about 'her coming back to be just a Media plant' or 'her coming back and then returning' have reached a feverish pitch!! Rahul in the meantime has again started maintaining arms length distance from UPA......he's still smarting from the boos he got at RML!!! I hear Rahul has taken cognizance of the fact that in every scam PC's name is to be found!!!

Seems reality still has not dawned on the Gandhis!!!

They still wrongly feel in UP and General Elections Congress ki hoyegi chandhi!!

Advani's heckling Congress to arrest him in cash for votes matter and the Rath Yatra he's announced is Advani's way of throwing his hat in the PM ring!!! This Yatra has further divided a already much divided BJP!!!! If Advani really walks the talk on his 'love for BJP' he'll undertake the Yatra and say he's now the Bheesham Pitta of BJP and no longer in the run for PM!! Problem is Advani's candidature as PM gets lesser cheers from BJP's hardcore vote bank as it gets boos from BJP baiters!!

Advani needs to hang up his 'I wanna be PM boots'!!!!!!

If he does not then actually for BJP he cares two damn hoots!!

PS.... After he got a room to himself in Tihar now Amar is complaining about loneliness..... he's a compulsive chatter box!! A bouquet of flowers was delivered to 10 Janpath from Amar... card read..... Abh merri baari... hinting to Sonia he's done what was expected from him and now it is his turn!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Ashok Chavan in a conundrum
These days Ashok Chavan is in a conundrum as he does not knows what he has to do further. Though he is trying hard to claw back, he is completely at sea, sources say.

Who financed Anna movement?
Sharad Pawar, it is said, funded the movement because he wanted to get even with the Congress party. The knives were out between the two with regards to the Lavasa project. This was Pawar's turn to settle score.

Maj. Gen B.C. Khanduri has very limited time
Maj.Gen B.C. Khanduri as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand has very limited time at his disposal because at the most assembly polls in Uttarakhand will take place any time after February 2012.

BUREAUCRACY

Gopalakrishnan to join National Innovation Council
R Gopalakrishnan is all set to join newly constituted National Innovation Council as Member-Secretary.1979 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Gopalakrishnan is presently Additional Secretary in the PMO. This Council comes under the Prime Minister.

All the six members of CBEC will be women next year
Talking of women power, the Central Board of Excise and Customs will achieve a rare feat next year. Women power will be in full view when all six Members in the Board will be women. It will definitely be a challenge for the male dominated bastion. Even after lip services regarding women equality and even with the country's leading politician being a women, government ministries and departments have only smaller representations. People of India will expect that there will speedy and purposeful decision making in the department of revenue.

Veena Upadhyay gets additional charge
Secretary Official Languages Veena Upadhyay has been given additional charge of Secretary Inter-State Council Secretariat. She is 1976 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Naini Jayaseelan is now Member Secretary of NCRPB
Naini Jayaseelan is now Member Secretary, National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB). She is 1980 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

A. Giridhar to be laterally shifted
As the grapevine has it, A. Giridhar, Executive Director (ED) with the insurance regulator IRDA, is set to be laterally shifted in the Government of India (GoI) as a Joint Secretary. He is an IAS officer of 1988 batch who belongs to Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Pravin Rawal is Depuy Secretary Banking
Pravin Rawal an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of he 2000 batch on central deputation has joined as Deputy Secretary in Financial Services i.e. Banking.

Sanjay Kumar to be CSC, East Central Railway
As the grapevine has it, Sanjay Kumar is poised to join the Government of India (GoI) on deputation as Chief Security Commissioner (CSC), East Central Railway (ECR), Hajipur. He is an IPS officer.

Are differences between FM & WB CM erupting ?
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee wanted to have Birbhum District Magistrate, an IAS officer, West Bengal as his private secretary (PS) in place of Manoj Pant IAS, present PS. However, West Bengal Chief Minister, Ms. Mamta Banerjee did not permit the central deputation of Birbhum DM. To add to it, she mentioned that Central Government should provide more IAS officers to the West Bengal as there is a scarcity. Due to this denial
a questions is hot topic of discussion in the corridorsof power have some differences erupted between Ms.Mamta Banerjee and Pranab Mukherjee?

Manager Air India resigns ?
M Krishna Pawan Manager (Marketing) in the Air India is reported to have put in his papers.

Who called Maha CM for Industry secretary appointment ?
It is heard that ex Punjab CM Amarinder Singh called Prithvi Raj Chavan recommending the name of Iqbal Singh Chahal (IAS,1989 batch ,Mahrashtra)for the post of Industry Secretary.

Jyotirmoy Chakraborty promoted as Additional, DG in Assam
Jyotirmoy Chakraborty IG, Security has been promoted as Additional DG, Security in Assam Police. He is an IPS officer of 1986 batch who belongs to the Assam -Meghalaya cadre.

Makwana is PS to Shipping Minister
Hitesh Kumar Makwana has been appointed PS to Union Minister Shipping G K Vasan. He is 1995 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre.

Ms Yadav is PS to Mukul Roy
Ms Vandna Yadav has been appointed new PS to Union Minister of State Shipping Mukul Roy. She is 1998 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Union Home Minister and TamilNadu Collectors
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram may be very powerful person in India but not in his home state TamilNadu.The collectors of Pudukottai and Sivaganga districts on Monday did not attend a meeting presided by Chidambaram. They were attending meeting in Chennai.

Ms.Usha Chandrasekhar to be CVO, NMDC
Ms. Usha Chandrasekhar(IPoS-1983) on central deputation has been posted as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in the National Mineral Development Corporation(NMDC) under the Ministry of Steel.

Prannoy Sharma gets additional charge
Prannoy Sharma, Director(PO&I) will look after the charge of Director (Mail Business).

IA & AS officer Subramanian transferred
N Subramanian, Assistant Director, in the office of the Director General of Audit, Post and Telecommunications, New Delhi, Branch Mumbai on completion of orientation training course at NAAA, Shimla, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Works: Adhoc) in the office of the Accountant General (WF & RA), Kerala, Thiruvanathapuram Branch Thrissur.

30 IRS officers promoted as Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise
As many as 30 officers of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise), have been promoted as the Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise. They are J. P. Gregory, A. K. Misra, Kusum Satpathy, Sudipto Nandi, M. Suresh, P. S. Pruthi, Ruchira Pant, Arun Sahu, K. Srivastava, K. K. Jha, Amal Kanti Das, Deepak Kumar, Mala Srivastava, V. Ramu, S. C. Jana, Harjinder Singh, S. K. S. Somvanshi, Rasheeda Hussain, Joy Kumari Chander, Pushp K. Jain, D. S. Negi, Ajay Kumar Prasad, J. Chaturvedi, Karan K. Sharma, S. Panda, Shashi Bhushan Singh, Najib Shah, H. K. Jain, C. S. Prasad and K. K. Goyal.

Two IAS officers get addl charge in Rajasthan
Alok Gupta, Director, Secondary Education and Ex-officio State Project Director Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA) Bikaner, has been given the additional charge of Commissioner, Irrigated Area Development, Bikaner while Guru Dayal Singh Sandhu Principal Secretary (PS) Urban Administration & Local Self Government has been given additional charge of Chairman City Improvement Trust, Biwadi (Alawar).

32 Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise transferred
As many as 32 Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in the grade of the Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise have been transferred. Accordingly Sandhya Baliga - Director General HRD, Delhi, has been made Director General Inspection, Delhi, J. Shanthisundaram - Chief Commissioner, Chennai Customs Preventive has been made Director General HRD, Delhi, Lipika M. Roychoudhuri - Chief Commissioner, Ahmedabad Customs, has been made Chief Commissioner, Ahmedabad CX, J. P. Gregory- Chief Commissioner, Bangalore CX has been made Chief Commissioner - Bangalore Customs, A. K. Misra - Chief Commissioner, Lucknow CX has been made Chief Commissioner, Lucknow CX, Kusum Satpathy - Chief Commissioner, Chennai CX has been made Chief Commissioner - Chennai Customs Preventive, Sudipto Nandi - Chief Commissioner, Jaipur CX has been made Chief Commissioner, Jaipur CX, M. Suresh - Chief Commissioner, Mumbai CX-I has been made Chief Commissioner, Mumbai CX-I, P. S. Pruthi has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner, Chandigarh CX, Ruchira Pant has been on promotion made Director General EP, Delhi, Arun Sahu has been on promotion made Director General Systems, Delhi, K. Srivastava has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Chennai CX, K. K. Jha has been on promotion made Director General Vigilance, Delhi, Amal Kanti Das has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner, Kolkata Customs, Deepak Kumar has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Vadodara CX, Mala Srivastava has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Chennai Customs, V. Ramu has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Mumbai-II CX, S. C. Jana has been on promotion made Chief CommissionerBhubaneswar CX, Harjinder Singh has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Nagpur CX, S. K. S. Somvanshi has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner, Bhopal CX, Rasheeda Hussain has been on promotion made Director General NACEN, Faridabad, Joy Kumari Chander has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Bangalore CX, Pushp K. Jain has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Vizag CX, D. S. Negi has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner TAR, Delhi, Ajay Kumar Prasad has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Mysore CX, J. Chaturvedi has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner, Pune CX, Karan K. Sharma has been on promotion made Director General Audit, Delhi, S. Panda has been on promotion made Director General Service Tax, Mumbai, Shashi Bhushan Singh has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Hyderabad CX, Najib Shah has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Delhi Customs, H. K. Jain has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Ahmedabad Customs and C. S. Prasad has been on promotion made Chief Commissioner Mumbai Cus-II.

Post of Chief Administrative Officer in CWPRS, Pune vacant
The post of Chief Administrative Officer in CWPRS, Pune, on promotion / deputation (including short term contract) / absorption basis is vacant. Those willing to be considered for the above post may apply to the Personnel department, (Services Branch - II) at the earliest. The post falls under the Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi.

Ram Subhag Singh is new JS Defence (UPDATED)
Ram Subhag Singh will be new Joint Secretary Defence. 1987 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre Ram Sughag Singh will be joining the defence Ministry for the second time.A product of Sainik School Singh has also been associated with the National Defence College. He is presently in the cadre.

Kotia is new Principal Secretary to Uttarakhand CM (UPDATED)
D K Kotia has been appointed new Principal Secretary to the Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri. 1981 batch IAS officer Kotia is considered to be an honest and upright officer.

IAS changes in Maharashtra (UPDATED)
Two IAS officers in Maharashtra have got new postings. They are: Sumit Mullick (1982 batch)Principal Secretary Protocol & P .Albangan -Joint CEO MIDC.

Change of name of Ambani residence? (UPDATED)
The name of Mukesh Ambani's residence has reportedly been changed from Antillia to 9 Altamount road.

R Krishnan to be Director (Human Resources ) BHEL (UPDATED)
R Krishnan is being tipped to be new Director (Human Resources) BHEL.He is presently ED in the Company.

(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

Mishra is new Director (Personnel) CCL
R R Mishra has taken over as Director (Personnel) in the CCL.

Hilsa fish diplomacy between India & Bangladesh
Talks are going in corridors of power regarding Hilsa fish diplomacy between India & Bangladesh. While, in Bangladesh Indian Prime Dr.Man Mohan Singh during an interview to a prominent TV news channel had expressed that due to some health constraints he has become a vegetarian. However, if given a chance he would taste Hilsa fish. The same day, at the dinning table, our Prime Minister was served with umpteen dishes of Hilsa fish. Keeping his promise he relished those dishes. During his return, boxes of Hilsa fish were sent to India. As per the Hilsa fish- dinner- diplomacy, he sent Hilsa fish to various ministers and different party's Leaders as gifts.

Sanjaya Baru to join new assignment
Sanjaya Baru ex-media Advisor to Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh is on a tour to Geneva and New York. He will return on September 19, 2011. On November1, 2011 he will resign from his post of Consulting Editor and Editor designate Business Standard to join International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. However, he will be based in New Delhi so that he could render some advices to the PM when ever he needed them.

Parthiban appointed Exec. Creative Director, Dentsu Communications
The Dentsu India Group has appointed Ashwin Parthiban , Dentsu Communications, Bangalore as Executive Creative Director.

Bhargava appointed GM (Studio & Production), Dentsu Marcom
Rajesh Bhargava has been appointed as General Manager , Studio and Production of Dentsu Marcom.

Malhi appointed as GM, Expedia.co
Expedia.co. has appointed Vikram Malhi as the General Manager for its operations in India.

Batra appointed Manager (Mktg.), Malaysia Airlines
Malaysia Airlines has appointed Neetu Batra as Manager (Marketing) for South Asia region based in New Delhi.

Deb appointed Director, State Bank of Travancore
A. K. Deb, Chief General Manager (Associate & Subsidiaries), State Bank of India, A&S Group, Mumbai has been appointed as a Director of State Bank of Travancore with effect from September 5, 2011.

Bhattacharya is Editor, Business Standard
Managing Editor of Business Standard, A K Bhattacharya has been named the new Editor of Business Standard.

Lad appointed CFO, Astec Lifesciences Ltd
Ramakant Lad have been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Astec Lifesciences Ltd with effect from September 3, 2011.

Tulankar appointed Whole-time Director, Alembic Ltd
Alembic Limited has appointed Ashok Tulankar, Vice President ( Production) as Additional Director and Whole-Time Director on the Board of the Company w.e.f. August 30, 2011

Thakkar appointed CFO, Bhansali Engineering Polymers Ltd
Hasmukh Thakkar has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Bhansali Engineering Polymers Ltd w.e.f. September 10, 2011.

Rao retires as Director, IOB
B V Appa Rao retired as Director of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) w.e.f.August 28, 2011 .

Rao nominated as Part-time Non-official Director IOB
The Central Government has nominated B V Appa Rao as Part-time Non-official Director of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from August 29, 2008.

All services have their vested interests in ganging up for themselves. Whereas the IAS would have all the cake and the cherry on top, all others are not far behind. Thus you have the Ministry of Home being manned by 90% IAS ,whereas the IPS should have a larger share in there, considering their domain knowledge of law and order. But IPS is not far behind in safe guarding its own flock. Take CBI for instance. Its prize units the Anti Corruption and Economic Offences which deal with financial issues only- cheating, bribery, corruption has nil presence of Income Tax people. It is not in dispute that those in Income Tax are much better versed in detecting financial crimes than any other. As to why there is an allergy to associate persons from other services in authorities which have in course of time come to be associated with a single Service is hard to fathom except selfishness and personal aggrandisement. In end, by not utilizing the best brains , the country loses out. But, does any one care?

Syphian

We're unable to follow USA

This is apropos to comments of J. K. Khanna, DGP (Retd) about why can't we insulate our country similarly on the lines of the USA in the backdrop of 9/11 and long but unending pains of the Police in collecting evidence and bringing terrorists for trial. He vehemently commented at length about the prevailing system of mercy petitions and political clout surrounding in it. It is very surprising that a Retd. Police officer of the rank of DGP, out of agony, passed a vague comment that why the police shouldn't work hard to solve cases.

A person of mean knowledge in political and strategic military affairs can tell you that India is not able to insulate (imitate) herself against terrorist activities in the lines of USA as it has clear cut geographical advantage in its favour. The USA is surrounded by Canada to its North and only Mexico to south and oceans to its east and west. USA has open border with Canada which is thinly populated and Canada is not bordered with any country other than USA. Come to the Mexico front, the USA gives more liberal concessions in monetary and military terms to Mexico in order to keep people of Mexicans friendly with Americans and moreover the USA has been liberal too to the Mexicans in issuing work visas. On the other hand, India is bordered by either hostile or neutral countries (Bhutan is exception), and it has thousands of miles of porous border with Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and Myanmar. It is easy walk over for terrorists to sneak into India from Nepal or from Bangladesh by air or on foot. In USA, it is easy and swift to segregate persons, whereas in India owing to our common Asian ethnic features we cannot segregate persons easily. So the epilogue is; we can only choose our friends but cannot our neighbors.

Police is part of the system and it cannot shun its responsibilities. It is very childish to comment that why should the police work hard to solve cases. We all know that very a few cases like Afzal Guru & Kasab are politicized and the rest are more than normal. It is not only the police every organ of government is working hard.

MVK Reddy

Why media is wasting time over Mayawati ?

You are right Rajesh. The TV Channels/newspapers/magazines/WIC devoted so much of time and space to discuss the Robert Cavalli glasses, Birkin's bag, Jimmy Choo sandals, South Sea pearls but Mayawati's clothes and jewellery are an eyesore for these upper castes. Are Dalits supposed to go around like half naked fakirs. Why even Madam Gandhi wears expensive Shatoosh and Pashmina shawls and she's not from an aristocratic family. Instead admiring a WOMAN from a humble caste and family who made it on her own mind you all she didnot inherit anything the upper caste biased Media is running her down. Why only now the media has woken to crimes against dalits that too only in UP. Wonderful when the Khairlanji massacre of a dalit family took place in Maharastra Yuvaraj never bothered to visit. Like Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule, Ambedkar, Kanshiram, Madam Maya is a icon of the bahujans, the media is wasting its time. Focus your attention on those Other Caste looters of this country's precious Natural Resources all over the country rather than wasting time on Maya.If Yuvaraj really empathises with dalits then let him marry a dalit girl from a humble dalit family from Amethi itself, all over the country the Bahujan Samaj will welcome this damaad with open arms.

G Nandi

Congratulations

Kindly convey my heartiest congratulations to my younger brother and senior batchmate on winning the case in Hon. CAT. I wish him the best for his new responsibilities. However I am astounded by the judgment of Hon. CAT which has dismissed my appeal while allowing the appeal of my brother on the same GOA in the same order and thereby Hon. CAT usurping the prerogative of Hon. COS to select the Members of Hon. CBDT. Moreover, Hon. CAT has foisted upon me a lawyer (Shri Jauhar) who was never my lawyer. I only hope he does not send me the bill for his (non)services to me . I could barely afford one lawyer and now I am saddled with one more. Notwithstanding my predicament , my best wishes to my brother Laxman Das on his grand success. Thanks and regards.

R Bharadwaj

Scoop of the week :

One of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies was faced with this problem. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty.

For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. The engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent huge amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral of the story: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) i.e. always look for simple solutions.

Ashok K Bhimani

Orders of specific type by the Supreme Court

The Appellant sought information regarding all the cases of section 17 B of the Industrial Disputes Act passed by the Supreme Court of India. The CPIO informed him that it was beyond the scope of his duties to provide any interpretation of the judgments passed by the Supreme Court. The Respondents submitted before the CIC that such information was not maintained in the form in which it was being sought and that the CPIO would have to undertake research through hundreds of orders. In view of the availability of the Supreme Court orders in computerized form since 1998, the CIC directed to make an effort to generate this data from the computer database. In case no such data can be generated, the appellant may be informed accordingly.

Comments
In some cases, the CIC has directed the PIO to provide information after compilation of data, if it does not require too much effort. Computerisation of data is making the supply of data in specific formats effortless and user friendly.

Shri Ish Kumar Pruthi v. Supreme Court of India in CIC/WB/A/2010/000834SM

- 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)