What people say about us !

Sir, I usually see your site which is very informative. I like it too much and how you manage to get these very important information. I am surprised and like it too much.

I would like to meet you if you are in Delhi.
Thanks
Jaswinder Singh Syal

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Congress's image takes a beating with every passing day!!! Sonia must be concerned!!! The only hope for Congress is that some very damning info on BJP comes out and BJP then has to sit on the same 'bench of shame' that Congress is sitting on!!! Congress being blamed for.....inflation, corruption, fall in growth, lack of foresight and hindsight.... list goes on and on!!!

Now Sonia and Rahul can only pray!!!

That Lord smites BJP and it starts to stray!!!

As expected Rahul is flying down to meet the Sikkim earthquake victims!! Prior to his visit info was collected about the seismic activity ... simple words possibility of more tremors!!!! Then smarting after the booing Rahul got at RML local Congress in Sikkim has been mobilised to select victims who will not indulge in booing.... carrot and stick method will be used to keep booing in check!! Rahul plays this farce whenever there is a tragedy in India!! Imagine at a time when every hand is needed most hands will be diverted to Rahul's visit!!! I feel it would ahve been better if some of those affected who need Super Speciality care should ahve been flown to Delhi..... they would ahve got the care they need and Rahul would have got his photo ops!!

Tragedies are not opportunities to score brownie points!!

Rahul this 'knee jerk brownie point attitude of yours sure disappoints'!!

In an affidavit Planning Commission says Rs. 31 is good enough for rural poor for their food, education and health needs!!! There is a reason for this ..... let us take Montek.... for years he's been living on the house.... he does not need to spend a single paisa for living and that is why he feels Rs. 31 is enough!!! His ghar, paani bijli, khaana peena (always eating officially and unofficially out and partying), car and fuel , health, travel are all 'on the house'!!!! Why do you think he keeps harping that subsidies should be done away with... take away his perks... official and unofficial.....and he'll change his tune on subsidies!!! When was the last time Montek went into rural India..... he does not have the time as he spends more time overseas!!

Does his job require that he travel so extensively overseas????

If you want Planning Commission to be realistic then all perks to them should cease!!

Congress's dirty tricks department has been ordered to 'finish Modi'!!! Just seeing Modi orate gave Rahul 'the runs'!!! He knows he cannot match Modi in any department .... Modi has a tremendous record be it administration or delivering!! So the best way out for Congress is to paint Modi black!!!! Congress will do its best to ensure that Court gets Modi!!! And no doubt because of PM ambitions Congress will get tacit help from some BJP Leaders!! I would still advise Modi to assuage the feeling of the riot affected..... it is not a matter of majority or minority.... wiping tears is above this!!!

Desh ka PM kaisa ho.....not like Rahul Baba surely!!!!

And also not like Mohna who has in his second stint fared extremely poorly!!

PS.....CBI has said SC should ignore Swmay's plea... CBI says only lower Court can look into this plea..... well if Lower Court rejects Swamy's plea he'll go back to SC... so why not SC cut short this wastage of time and money???? Manpreet Badal now has switched from 100 days to 100 nights.... now he says Akali Dal will split in 100 nights.... as he is dreaming 100 nights is only natural!!! Joke maara....the Planning Commission calculation of Rs. 25 is Sibal maths!! Advani has changed his caller tune to ' abhi toh main jawaan hoo'!!! Rahul read IIPM Arindham Chowdhury's 'Give thorns to competition' and ordered for truckloads of Cacti!!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

What is happening in India?
(i)Why Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's charge against Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram has come that the 2-G Spectrum related scam happened with the
latter's knowledge?
(ii)Why has T.K. Nair been meeting Ahmed Patel twice in a day for the last two days?
(iii) Why have Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan & Indian Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Vilasrao Deshmukh met AICC chief Ms.Sonia Gandhi? Is it because a change of guards is on the anvil in Maharashtra again?
These questions are doing rounds in corridors of power.

Maharashtra to spend on security?
Maharashtra will spend close to Rs 20 Crores for securing the Vidhan Bhavan (Mantralaya). This expense will include making bullet proof bunkers, thicker walls around the area, patrolling stations etc.

BUREAUCRACY

Empanelment of 1978 batch IFS takes place
Empanelment of 1978 batch Indian Foreign Service officers to the rank of Secretary has taken place.

Latest about 1978 batch IAS
Over three dozen IAS officers belonging to 1978 batch IAS are being empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. Altogether 52 officers of this batch had been empanelled as Additional Secretary.

Ms. Manjula Prashar to be new Secretary (Posts)
Ms. Manjula Prashar (IPoS 1975 batch), who is presently Member (Operations), is poised to be new Secretary (Posts)

IAS officer seeks VRS in Madhya Pradesh
Principal Secretary Finance Madhya Pradesh Government G P Singal has sought VRS to join as Administrative Member CAT in Jabalpur.He is 1980 batch IAS officer.
(We said this in August)

Rakesh Kumar to be Director Neyveli Lignite Corporation
Rakesh Kumar is being tipped to be new Director (Finance) of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd.He is presently in BCPL.

Alok Tandon is new Joint Secretary Disinvestment
Alok Tandon has been appointed new Joint Secretary Disinvestment in the Government of India. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Kalpana Mittal is back to Punjab
Joint Secretary Disinvestment in the Government of India Ms Kalpana Mittal Baruah is back to the parent Punjab cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. She is 1985 batch IAS officer.

Will Nirmal Singh get extension ?
Member of the BIFR Nirmal Singh is likely to get an extension in his tenure. He is retired 1970 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Show us the face and we will show you the rules !
The DoPT believes in the maxim : ".This is how :- while the rule of a maximum Show us the face and we will show you the rules ".This is how:- While the rule of a maximum tenure on central IAS deputation is 7 years, several officers have been away from their parent cadres for much longer periods, as the DoPT looks the other way. B V R Subramanium (Chhattisgarh) and Barun Mitra (Manipur-Tripura) are just two examples. Neither has gone back to their states for ages. And ,there is no signs oftheir return either. Meanwhile the states are fuming, but who cares ?.

Meeting for selection process of 3 Insurance co.chiefs
A meeting will be held in the Government of India to evolve mechanism for selecting new hairman & Managing Directors(CMDs)of three public sector insurance companies on September 26, 2011. These companies are:General Insurance Corporation (GIC),Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) and Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited (AIC). Of these vacancies in GIC And AIC will arise in December while LIC at present has D.K. Mehrotra as its CMD.

Over 90 Additional CITs to become CITs
Over 90 Additional Commissioners of Income Tax (DCITs) belonging to the 1990 will soon be elevated as CITs.

No Secretary in NDMA
Several disasters are there but there is no Secretary in the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) after the retirement of 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre Noor Mohammad.

3 contenders for Registrar APTEL
There are three contenders for the post of Registrar Energy tribunal Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL).

Three permanent Judges of Madhya Pradesh High Court
Justice N K Gupta,Justice B K Dubey and Justice Gulab Singh Solanki have been appointed permanent Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

A Kharshing PCCF Manipur to retire
A.Kharshing, PCCF-HOF, Manipur, will be retiring on October 31, 2011. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of 1978 batch who belongs to the Manipur -Tripura (M-T) cadre.

S. K. Sehrawat's deputation to end soon
Central deputation of S.K. Sehrawat is 1982 IFS batch of orissa cadre and not Chhattisgarh based Regional Director in the GoI's Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) is concluding soon. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of 1986 batch who belongs to the Chhattisgarh cadre.

Ashish Srivastava going to LSE for 1 year course
Ashish Srivastava will be going to London to do a one year course in London School of Economics (LSE) UK for one year next week .He is an IAS officer of 1992 batch who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on September 2 )

IPS officer is PS to Rajeev Shukla
Gyaneshwar Singh has been appointed as Private Secretary to the Minister of State Parliamentary Affairs, Rajeev Shukla .He is 1999 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

IIS officer is Joint Secretary Culture
Arvind Manjit Singh appointed has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Culture. She is 1984 batch Indian Information Service officer.

20 IAS have resigned in Maharashtra
About 20 IAS officers have resigned from service in Maharashtra in the last six years to join private sector.

DoPT wants ministries' cooperation for implementation of RTP
The DoPT is learnt to be seeking ministries' cooperation for effective implementation of Rotational Transfer Policy (RTP) for officers of the Central Secretariat Services, in place since 2007. Several undersecretaries and section officers (SOs) are stuck up in one department for over 16 years despite their actual service cap being five and seven years, respectively.

Who will be new Lokayukta in Karnataka ?
Who will be new Lokayukta in Karnataka ? Names of former Karnataka high court chief justice N K Sodhi, Justice R V Ravindran and Justice S R Bannurmath are in circulation.

Naveen Kumar gets additional charge
Secretary Drinking water in the Government of India Naveen Kumar has been given additional charge of Department of Land Resources till October 7

A.G.Mathew empanelled for Jt.Secretary's post in GOI
A. G. Mathew (IA&AS-1988) officers has been empanelled in the Government of India(GoI).

IA & AS officer Murali transferred
N. Murali, Deputy Accountant General (Funds), in the office of the Principal Accountant General (A&E), Orissa, Bhubaneswar, on relief from his present duties by S Bhimgunda Patil, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Pens.), in the office of the Principal Accountant General (A&E), Tamil Nadu, Chennai.

Pakistan : Sarabjeet's plea for medical treatment and yoga rejected
The Lahore High Court has dismissed a petition for allowing medical check up and treatment in some good hospital to Sarabjeet Singh an Indian citizen on death row in Pakistan on charges of espionage. The petition was filed by Advocate Awaiis Sheikh Counsel for Sarabjeet Singh. Another prayer made in the petition to allow Sarabjeetsingh yoga in the prison has also been rejected as 'not being feasible'. According to the petition Srabjeet Singh being kept in solitary confinement is suffering from high BP, insomnia, migraine high cholesterol, depression and back ache due to lack of proper sunshine and inadequate physical exercise.

JS level post of CGPD and TM vacant
Joint Secretary level post of Controller General, Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPD and TM) under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion is vacant in Mumbai on deputation basis. Those willing to be considered for the same may apply to the Personnel Department (Services Branch - II) at the earliest.

Ms. Sreela Ghosh gets charge of Member (Service Tax & GST).
Consequent upon her appointment as Member, CBEC, Ms. Sreela Ghosh has been assigned the charge of Member (Service Tax & GST). The Zones and DGs under her supervision would include Chief Commissioner, CX; Customs & ST, Hyderabad; Chief Commissioner, CX & Customs, Vizag.; Chief Commissioner, CX & Customs, Bhopal and Chief Commissioner, CX, Customs & ST, Nagpur. . DG (Service Tax).

CBDT distributes work among members
There has been fresh allocation of work in the Central Board of Direct Taxes. While the Chairman MC Joshi will be Zonal Incharge - Mumbai, Mrs. Manjari Kacker - Member (P&V) will look after North (Delhi + NWR) and UP Zone, Dr. Poonam Kishore Saxena - Member (IT) will look after Rajasthan, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and MP, K Madhvan Nair - Member (L&C) look after Southern Zone, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, SC jaini - Member (A&J) look after Eastern Zone, Kolkata, Bihar, Jharklhand and North east and SS Rana will be Member (Investigation).

IAS changes in J & K
Farooq Ahmed Pir will now be Secretary Rural Development.Commissioner Secretary, Rural Development Department, Yedullah has been moved to Labour and Employment.

CAT stays transfer order in West Bengal
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has stayed the transfer order of 1993 batch IPS officer Gyanwant Singh in West Bengal.

Four IPS officers in Haryana shifted (UPDATED)
Haryana government has shifted four IPS officers. Accordingly, Anant Kumar Dhull, IGP, Hisar range, has been posted as the first IGP of the newly created Karnal range, RS Dalal, Director General of Police, Haryana, has been given the additional charge of MD, Haryana Police Housing Corporation, KK Sindhu, IGP/Ambala Range, Ambala, has been made the new Commissioner of Police, Ambala-Panchkula and Desh Raj Singh, awaiting postings orders, has been posted as IG, HAP.


Two IPS officers in Haryana redesignated (UPDATED)
Madhuban.Maneesh Chaudhary, SP Panchkula, has been designated as DCP, Panchkula, while Shashank Anand, SP, Ambala, will now be DCP, Ambala.


IAS officers in Haryana given addl charge (UPDATED)
HS Malik, Special Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management-II Department; Director, Consolidation of Holdings; Director, Land Records; Special Collector (HQ); and Special LAO, has been given additional charge as Director and Special Secretary, Women and Child Development and MD, Women Development Corporation, Pushp Raj Singh, Special Secretary, Home-I, has been given additional charge as Special Secretary, Home-II; Commissioner, Gurdwara Elections; and Special Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Satyaprakash TL, Director and Joint Secretary, Industries and Commerce and Mines and Geology, MD, Haryana State Small Scale Industries and Export Corporation, Haryana State Handloom and Handicrafts Corporation and Haryana Tanneries, Jind, has been given additional charge of Director, Supplies and Disposal, Samir Pal Srow, DC, Ambala, Estate Officer for Management of Government Land in Excised Area, Ambala Cantt. and Commissioner, MC, Ambala, has been given additional charge of DC, Yamunanagar, and Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Yamunanagar.

Goa Government is unsparingly acting against illegal mining (UPDATED)
Goa Government being headed by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has been unsparingly taking action against illegal mining. Sources in the know of it say that in such cases either notices were being issued or operations were being suspended. Chief Minister Digambar
Kamat is all out to check illegal mining, the source said

R.Gopalakrishnan appointed Member-Secretary NIC (UPDATED)
R.Gopalakrishnan Additional Secretary, in the Prime Minister's Office has been appointed as Member Secretary, National Innovation Council, in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary, for a period of two years, on relinquishing his charge in the Prime Minister's Office after completion of his tenure on 23.9.2011. He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on Sepember 13)

SAIL poised for a big leap : Chairman (UPDATED)
SAIL will continue to place maximum thrust on capacity addition in a bid to to maintain its market dominance both in the short and long term, said Chairman of Maharatna Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), C.S. Verma, at the company's 39th Annual General Meeting in New Delhi. "For this capital expenditure will be made with positive and upbeat sentiments", Verma disclosed adding, "Cumulative orders worth about Rs. 54,000 crore have already been placed under SAIL's ongoing modernisation & expansion (M&E) plan to realise hot metal production capacity of 23.5 million tonnes by FY '13".
Verma informed the shareholders that while the capital expenditure of Rs. 11,280 crore was incurred during 2010-11, an outlay of Rs. 14,337 crore has been planned for the current year. "After having completed Salem Steel Plant's modernisation & expansion, several projects in all the five integrated steel plants of SAIL are under various stages of
completion", he said. Verma also apprised the shareholders that the company is determined to meet its enhanced requirement of iron ore from captive sources, by augmenting production from existing mines and by developing new mines at Rowghat in Chhattisgarh and Chiria in Jharkhand. Speaking about the company's performance in the recent past, the SAIL Chairman informed that "Fiscal 2010-11 represented relentless improvements in production, product-mix and efficiency parameters" with respect to the previous year. "The company's sales turnover of Rs. 47,041 crore in 2010-11 was the second highest in its history and higher by 7% over the previous year," he pointed out.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh (UPDATED)
There is IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh.New postings are Mssrs Sachhidanand Dube DM Farquabad,Y R Bhaskar DM Deoria,Kapil Dev Tripathi Special Secretary Rural Development,Ms Chaitra B DM Siddharth Nagar,Dr Kajal Additional Commissioner Meerut Division and Kumar Ravi Kant Singh CDO Meerut.

(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

Naveen Jain resigns as Company Secy. K S Oils Ltd
Naveen Jain, Company Secretary of K S Oils Ltd has resigned from the Company w.e.f. September 13, 2011

Ritesh Jain appointed Company Secy. K S Oils Ltd
Ritesh Jain has been appointed as a Company Secretary of K S Oils Ltd w.e.f. September 15, 2011

Cama elected Chairman , MRUC
The board of directors of Media Research Users Council (MRUC), unanimously elected Hormusji N Cama as the new Chairman. He is the Director of Bombay Samachar.

Iyer promoted as Country Head (SAARC), Donjin Communication Tech
Donjin Communication Tech has elevated Hariharan Iyer to the post of Country Head SAARC Region.

Shah re-appointed Director Dolat Investments Ltd
Dolat Investments Ltd has re-appointed Rajendra D. Shah, as Director of the Company.

Sharma appointed Regional Director (Sales), Lebua Hotels & Resorts
Lebua Hotels & Resorts has appointed Rachna Sharma as the Regional Director (Sales), India.

Anil Ambani to Head a team for India-China Trade Forum
ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani is to head a team for India-China Trade Forum.

Kashyap ceases to be Director, Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd
Rajan Kashyap, Director of Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd has ceased to be Director on the Board of the company .

Agarwal re-appointed Director, Himalchuli Food Products Ltd
Omprakash Agarwal has been re-appointed as Director of Himalchuli Food Products Ltd .

Kuchhal appointed Addl. Director, Thinksoft Global Services Ltd
Thinksoft Global Services Ltd has on September 21, 2011 appointed Rajiv Kuchhal as Additional Director of the Company.

Madhusudan ceases to be Independent Director, Thinksoft Global Services Ltd
C. N. Madhusudan has ceased to be Independent Director of Thinksoft Global Services Ltd.

Jha re-appointed Director, Blue Circle Services Ltd
Blue Circle Services Ltd has re-appointed Dhruva Narayan Jha as Director of the Company.

Modi should have applied Tilak to Maulana

Apropos to Modi's refusal to wear a fez cap and the derisive comments from the Congress supported paid media, many may not be aware that the 'secular' partner of Congress in the centre as well as in Kerala, Muslim League refuses to light lamp in any function. What Modi should have done was to offer tilak to the Maulana and the 'secular' cat would have been out then.

N Krishnan

Opposed to setting up of nuclear plants

Now that Ms Jayalalita and Mamta Bannerji are opposed to setting up of nuclear plants in states ruled by them, what about shifting the location to Delhi on some flyover, Safdarjung Airport lying vacant or Ramlila ground ( so as to prevent any agitation by types of Baba Ramdev or Anna Hazare).

Sudhir Chopra

Give details of all officers retiring from all Central Services

Why not the details of all Officers Retiring from all Central Services are given on Whispers because it is a very useful informative website about the bureaucracy therefore you are requested to update the retirement details of all Central Services Officees not only IAS, IPS

Madanpal Singh

Remarks on "Whispers" uncalled for

Let K C Sivaraman and P C Verma, authors of uncharitable remarks against WIC , understand that such negativities and thoughts could wreck havoc on their physical and mental health. One wonders, how could retired civil servants be so uncouth and uncivil while exercising their Right to Freedom of Speech? Is this a case of old age ennui?.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Copy of agreement

The appellant sought detailed information about the installation of a cellular tower in the building of which he is a resident. The CPIO informed that the consent of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Association was taken before installation of the cellular tower in question but refused to provide information about (i) the rent being paid to the apartment owner on whose apartment the cellular tower has been set up and (ii) copy of the agreement between BSNL and the said apartment owner. The CIC rejected the arguement that the disclosure of this information would adversely affect the competitive position of BSNL. The CIC observed that the appellant has stakes in the building and its environment and the electro magnetic radiations emitted by the tower may affect him and directed to disclose the information.

Comments

This case opens up the numerous possibilities of the use of the RTI Act in the environmental protection. The PSUs are left in a position of disadvantage vis-à-vis their private sector counterparts.

Shri R Rajagopalan v. BSNL in CIC/LS/A/2011/001221

- 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)