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Aaj Ki Aawaz

Old adage... those who live by the sword perish by it!!!!

In Rahul getting shoed ek dumm karta hai yeh adage fit!!

Team Anna was browbeaten with the shoe!!

We know who told the shoe thrower 'shoo' (throw)!!

Though some say this was a drama to get sympathy!!!

Rahul's saying 'please let him (shoe thrower) go' would evoke empathy!!

Congress is blaming Ramdev for this shoe attack!!!

Like Digvijay is giving Ramdev flack!!!

Congress got him inked sometime back!!!

And outside Congress's Delhi Office Sonia's pic some people did

similarly attack!!

In Punjab Congis followed Amrinder's 'qatal-e-aam' call!!!

On a TV Show site Congress and a Congress 'baghi' got into a vicious brawl!!

Surprisingly EC has not taken note of Amrinder's 'qatal-e-aam' call!!!

On him EC's 'axe' did not fall!!

He's also using abusive bhaasha!!!

Ex Raja in nashaa!!!

Rajwade challe gaye but old habits do not go!!!!!

It's this Amrinder's stupid behaviour that will get him from Sonia on his becoming CM a 'no'!

In Punjab Centres anti incumbency is causing Congress to trip!!!

And Akalis on electorate have tightened grip!!

Turncoat Manpreet Badal's sob story electorate nahi karr rahi hai buy!!

His Kite (PPP's symbol) simply refuses to fly!!

In Uttrakahnd BJP's clawing its way back!!!

Now all that Public want is assurance that after winning BJP will not give Khanduri the sack!

Here too Centre's anti incumbency is catching up with Congress!!!

Maybe Sonia will undertake spate of rallies in Uttrakhand and like locals she'll dress!!

Be her Mom in Law's daughter in law!!!!

Indhra followed ' be like Roman's in Rome' law!!!

In UP BJP seems to be trying to shoot itself in the foot!!!

And as per Maya's logic 'Dalit ki Beti's ghoos fest is sacred and cannot be construed as loot'!!!

His own speeches are now getting Rahul bored!!!!

Now another gaffe he simply cannot afford!!!

For safety sake stage for rallies is being set beyond shoe throwing distance!!!!

Between crowds and Rahul furthering the distance!!!

Please someone should tell Akhilesh to wear the SP topi correctly!!!

Looks like a 'qawal' when he wears it incorrectly!!!

And Congress says it's open to ally to BSP or SP in case of a Hung House!

CBI will do the negotiation, enforce alliance and both SP and BSP will report to it for any grouse!

This is up to 2014..... jiss ki laathi ussi ki CBI!!!!

And if NDA comes to power .... 'Congress Be Investigated' wil be new meaning of CBI!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Agrawal to be BJP candidate against Scindia
Minister, GAD in Madhya Pradesh Government is expected to contest from Guna-Shivpuri Lok Sabha constituency against Congress candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia.

BUREAUCRACY

Will Sangita Gairola be Secretary, Culture?
Ms Sangita Gairola is likely to succeed Jawahar Sircar as Secretary, Culture in the Government of India. She is 1977 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Will Khullar move to Brussels?
Will Secretary, Commerce Rahul Khullar move to Brussels? The Minister is keen that Khullar moves but the latter is reportedly unwilling.

Will Khullar succeed Sudha Pillai?
Grapevine has it that Secretary, Commerce Rahul Khullar is going to succeed Ms Sudha Pillai as Secretary, Planning Commission. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Will D K Mittal succeed Rahul Khullar?
There were strong reports that Secretary, Financial Services D K Mittal will succeed Rahul Khullar as Secretary, Commerce. His meeting with Commerce Minister Anand Sharma had fuelled speculations to this effect. But now it is a big question mark.

Will P K Chaudhary move to Commerce Ministry?
There are now whispers in the corridors of power that P K Chaudhary will move as Secretary, Commerce.1977 batch IAS officer of Haryana
cadre Chaudhary is presently Secretary, Industrial Policy and Promotion (IPP).

Will Ashok Thakur be Secretary, IPP?
If insiders are to be believed, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma is keen to have Ashok Thakur as Secretary Industrial Policy and Promotion (IPP). 1977 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre Thakur hails from the home state of Anand Sharma.

Mona K C Khandar going as Director, Fund-Bank?
Name of Mona K C Khandar (IAS, GJ, 1996) has reportedly been proposed for Director, Fund-Bank in DEA, Government of India. Whether Gujarat government will relieve her, is a million dollar question.

Dead PIB reactivated, thanks to Uday Verma
Non-existent Press Information Bureau has now been re-activated -thanks to new Secretary I & B Uday Verma. During his visit to a couple of state capitals, he found non-performing PIB offices. He reportedly pulled up senior PIB officials and the result is now visible the entire machinery has been geared up.

P.K. Gera poised to DG, NIFT
As the grapevine has it P.K. Gera is poised to be Director General (DG) of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) under the Ministry of Textiles that has been lying vacant for a pretty long time. He is an IAS officer of the 1985 batch who belongs to Gujarat cadre. Presently, he is in the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA, in connection with a course.

Pushp Kumar Joshi selected as Director (HR), HPCL
Pushp Kumar Joshi, Executive Director (HR), HPCL, has been selected for the post of Director (HR), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board meeting held on Tuesday. As many as 12 persons were interviewed for the same.

S K Srivastava selected as Director (Technical), UCIL
S K Srivastava, GM, UCIL, has been selected for the post of Director (Technical), Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) at a Public
Enterprises Selection Board meeting. As many as nine persons were interviewed for the same.

CBDT Placement Committee is yet to meet
Placement Committee of the CBDT is yet to meet. Seven posting of the CCIT's is yet to be decided. Posting of three CCITs in Mumbai is to be made.

Third phase of Gujarat tourism advt campaign commences
Gujarat's brand ambassador Amitabh Bachchan flying kite in white Rann Kutch with Principal Secretary (Tourism), Gujarat, Vipul Mittra during shoot of third phase of Gujarat tourism advertisement campaign. Bachchan will tour nook and corner of Gujarat for 13 days with Mittra. Mittra is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

3 elevated as CGMs in the SEBI
As many as 3 General Managers (GMs) of SEBI have been elevated a Chief General Managers (CGMs) interviews for which were held on January 24, 2012. They are: Anil Pradhan, Sujit Prasad and N Hariharan.

34 IES officers promoted to SAG level
As many as 34 Indian Economic Service (IES) officers of 1985 & 1986 batches have been promoted to the SAG level.

Pradhan accredited as Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe
Debraj Pradhan, presently Ambassador of India to Angola, has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, with residence in Luanda.

Anuradha Gupta to get in-situ promotion
Joint Secretary Health Anuradha Gupta is being elevated as Additional Secretary on an insitu promotion. She is 1980 batch IAS officer of
Haryana cadre.

Anil Kumar Khachi's induction as Joint Secretary MSME stalled
As the grapevine has it, induction of Anil Kumar Khachi, a 1986 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer as Joint Secretary Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) has been stalled. Presently, he is Deputy Director General (Headquarters) (Joint Secretary level) in the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) under the Planning Commission. Basically, Nandan M. Nilekani, Chairman of the UIDAI had requested Khachi to continue with him.

Anand Mishra promoted as AS in NTRO
Anand Misra Controller of Administration, National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) has been promoted as Additional Secretary. He is an IAS Officer of 1981 batch who belongs to UP Cadre.

1987 batch IPS is ADG in Punjab
Five 1987 batch IPS officers Mssrs Sita Rami Reddy, M K Tiwari, Gurdev Singh, Rajpal Meena and B K Bawra have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Punjab.

Empanelment case of 1986 batch IPS officer, G C Dutta as IG deferred
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has deferred the case of 1986 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre, Gourav Chandra Dutta for the empanelment as Inspector General (IG)/ equivalent post in Government of India.

Empanelment case of 1987 batch IPS officer, Arun Kumar Sharma as IG deferred
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has deferred the case of 1987 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, Arun Kumar Sharma for the empanelment as Inspector General (IG)/ equivalent post in Government of India.

Empanelment cases of four 1990 batch IPS officers as IG deferred
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has deferred the cases of four 1990 batch IPS officers for the empanelment as Inspector General (IG)/ equivalent post in Government of India. The officers include: Anurag Gupta of Jharkhand cadre; Mrs. Seema Agarwal, A K Viswanathan of Tamil Nadu cadre and Satish Kumar Mathur of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Empanelment cases of three 1991 batch IPS officers as IG deferred
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has deferred the cases of three 1991 batch IPS officers for the empanelment as Inspector General (IG)/ equivalent post in Government of India. The officers include: Sanjeeb Kumar Pat Joshi of Kerala cadre; Brijinder Kumar Uppal of Punjab cadre and Dr. Kiran D Jadhav of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

CIC of MP, P P Tiwari to retire in March, 2012
Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Madhya Pradesh, PP Tiwari is retiring in March, 2012.

FBI to organise 'interview & interrogation' training programme from April 16
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is organising an 'Interview and Interrogation for major crime and counterterrorism investigators' training programme for the officials between April 16 and 20, 2012.

Tactical Commanders course at Indore from March 12
The US Embassy, New Delhi, has offered ATA-8223, Tactical Commander Course for paramilitary forces at Indore, Madhya Pradesh from March 12 to 30, 2012.

Prakash appointed Dy. Secy., Defence Ministry
Prem Prakash has been appointed as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. He is 1998 batch IoFS officer.

What happened to the order of MoS Personnel?
V Narayanswamy, Minister of State for Personnel, issued clear comprehensive instruction on 21.7.2011 for promotion of Under Secretaries to Deputy Secretaries. Inspite of his instructions the proposal has not moved an inch. There are about 250 posts of DS in the secretariat lying unmanned.

V S P Chinson promoted and posted as GM (ATM), NSCBI, Airport, Kolkata
V S P Chinson, Joint Secretary (ATM), CATC, Allahabad, has been promoted as General Manager (ATM) and shifted to NSCBI, Airport, Kolkata in Airport Authority of India (AAI).

Chairman, Members (CBDT) to address Commissioners, DGs on Jan 30
The Chairman and Members (CBDT) will hold a video conference with Chief Commissioners and Directors General of Income Tax on January 30.

IAS and IPS changes in U P
The election Commission has ordered transfer of seven IAS officials in Uttar Pradesh. Ms Roshan Jacob has been appointed as the DM Gonda replacing Ram Bahadur .Piyush Anand will be IG. K L Meena has been made ADG West and NCR region. Anuj Choudhury has een appointed as new SHO of Noida.

IAS postings in Tamil Nadu
Rajesh Lakhoni CMD state Industries promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd has been appointed Commissioner of Tourism and managing director, Tamil Nadu tourism development Corporation. Karunakaran will now be Collector, Coimbatore. T N Hariharan will be Dy. Secretary RD. Natrajan has been made Collector Tiruvarur. Ms D Sabitha has been appointed secretary to government school education department. T S Sridhar ACS School Education will now be ACS higher education department. The services of Santhosh K Mishra are placed at the disposal of the Tamil Nadu News print and papers limited for appointment as its Managing director.

Presidential Award for 35 Customs and Excise Officers
Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for exceptionally meritorious service is being bestowed on 35 officers of the Customs & Central Excise Department. The recipient of these are M. Sathish Kumar Reddy, Director (International Customs Division), CBEC, New Delhi, Gudavalli Sreenivasa Rao, Additional Director, DRI, Zonal Unit, Mumbai, Gurusharan Singh, Additional Director, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Regional Unit, Ludhiana, Pashupati Nath Pandey, Consul (Economic), Additional Director, Consulate General of India, Hong Kong, Samir Subhash Bajaj, Joint Director, Directorate of Enforcement, Mumbai, Kurian P. Mathew, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Regional Unit, Trivandrum, Sunil Kumar Verma, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Regional Unit, Jaipur, Sridev Kumar Chitta, Superintendent, Commissionerate of Customs & Central Excise, Hyderabad, S. Subramanian, Appraiser (Systems), Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, South Zone, Chennai, Rakesh Rajani, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad, Ashok Kumar, Superintendent, Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House, Nhava Sheva, Raigad, Subir Kumar Jana, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Regional Unit, Siliguri, Sujit Roy, Superintendent, Central Bureau of Narcotics, Gwalior, V. Srinivas Nayak, Superintendent, Commissionerate of Customs, Mangalore, N.Uma Shanti, Superintendent, Central Excise, Large Tax Payers Unit, Bangalore, Dave Janardan, Superintendent, Commissionerate of Central Excise, Vadodara, Uttam Kumar, Administrative Officer, Commissionerate of Central Excise, Shillong, Kuntamukkula Srinivasa Subba Rao, Inspector, Commissionerate of Central Excise, Hyderabad-III, Hyderabad, Ramakrishnan K, Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Regional Unit, Mangalore, Brijender Singh Sodhi, Intelligence Officer, DRI, Zonal Unit, Lucknow, Kamal Kumar, Intelligence Officer, DRI, New Delhi, Mahesh Sharad Bhalerao, Intelligence Officer, DRI, Zonal Unit, Mumbai, Gajraj Singh Thakur, Intelligence Officer, DRI, Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad, Subhash Prasad Singh, Inspector, Commissionerate of Service Tax, Mumbai-I, Mumbai, Pankaj Kumar, Inspector, Commissionerate of Service Tax, Delhi, H.S. Hariprasad, Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Bangalore, Kajal Chaudhuri, Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Kolkata, Balaji K.P, Inspector, Central Excise, Large Taxpayers Unit, Chennai, Mahesh Krishna Parnerkar, Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Mumbai, M. Mallikarjuna, Inspector, Commissionerate of Central Excise, Belgaum, Abinash Kumar Sinha, Intelligence Officer, Central Economic Intelligence Bureau, New Delhi, Ranbir Singh, Inspector, Commissionerate of Central Excise, Delhi-IV, Faridabad, Manoj Kumar Mishra, Inspector, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Regional Unit, Indore, Hema Swaminathan, Private Secretary, Commissionerate of Customs (Export), Customs House, Chennai, Gopal Singh, Driver, Grade-II, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Delhi Zonal Unit, New Delhi.

PAKISTAN WHISPERS
40000 ghost employees in government departments in Sindh
A six member committee headed by Sindh's Secretary (services) Iqbal Hussain Durrani has detected that at least 40000 employees in different departments of the provincial government exist only on the pay rolls, at least 1000 employees have been drawing salary from more than one departments simultaneously and the salary of at least 300 employees who had dies years ago is still being drawn from the state treasury. The ghost employees and the 'moon lighting' employees are causing a loss of Rs 10 billion to the state exchequer. The committee with representatives of the GAD, Finance, Education, Local self department, AG office and Nadra has detected the gigantic fraud with the help of computerised data from the office of the AG and Nadra.

Mehdi Hasan Honoured
A park in Karachi's Nizamabad Block has been named after internationally acclaimed ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan. The inaugural ceremony presided over by the Governor of Sindh Dr. Ishrat Ul Ebad Khan was attended by the singer himself on Monday.

Good news for driving license seekers of ICT
Islamabad's IGP Bani Amin Khan in consultation with SSP (Traffic) Dr. Moeen Masood has started a 'single window clearance system' for granting driving licenses to applicants from the Islamabad capital territory (ICT). Under the new system the National database and registration authority (Nadra) staff will be available within the same premises for prompt verification of the ID proof and an extension counter of the NBP will also be available for depositing the necessary fee. The IGP also met some driving license seekers on Monday and aked for their suggestions to make the system more responsive and citizen friendly.

For Mansoor Ijaaz it is a hat-trick in backtracking before 'memo commission'
Mansoor Ijaaz the US businessman of Pakistani origin and central character in the 'memogate' failed to appear before the supreme court
appointed judicial commission probing the memo case for the third time on January 24 2012. He skipped appearance earlier on 9th and 16th January on the pretext of having not being granted visa for which he claimed he had visited the Pakistan embassy in Switzerland, a claim denied by Pakistan foreign office. He applied for visa in the Pakistan High Commission in London on 16th Jan and was granted visa almost instantaneously after which he promised to appear on 24th January. Now his lawyer Akram Sheikh has informed the commission that Ijaaz can't come to Pakistan unless he is provided security by 'an organization not under the interior minister Rehman Malik'. At the same time in a written statement filed on behalf of Ijaaz he has flatly refused to travel to Pakistan as apart from his own security concerns he also apprehends that the electronic equipments he has to carry as important evidence before the commission may be 'tampered with (by customs) during inspection and evaluation.

G K Dwivedi posted as Addl. DRM, Hubli (UPDATED)
GK Dwivedi, IRSSE, has been transferred from South Central Railway, Secunderabad and posted as Addl. DRM Hubli vice R Baskaran, who has been transferred to cadre in South Western Railway itself.

Transfers and posting in Railways (UPDATED)
There have been transfers and postings in Railways. Accordingly, A S Garud, PCE NCR, Allahabad has been transferred and posted as CAO(C)-I NFR, Gauhati while Satish Kumar ED(Track ModernizationI Railway Board is posted as CE(CHOD) NCR Allahabad and R K Agarwar, CSO, WCR, Jabalpur, will now be CE(CHOD SER, Kolkata. Similarly, Dani Thomos, PCE NWR, Jaipur, is posted as CAO(C) SR Trivendram; Y P Singh, CTE, NR, New Delhi is posted as CE(CHOD NWR, Jaipur; Vedpal, CGM, Concor, New Delhi is being appointed as CE(CHOD SECR, Bilaspur and M Satish, SAG IRSE SR as CE(CHOD SR, Chennai.

Jiji Thomson poised to be MD,TRIFED (UPDATED)
Jiji Thomson is tipped to be Managing Director(MD) of the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED). He is an IAS officer of the 1980 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre.

President's Police and Correctional Medals announced (UPDATED)
As many as 817 personnel have been awarded police medals on the occasion of the Republic Day this year. President's Police Medals for Gallantry to 07, Police Medals for Gallantry to 87 personnel, President's Police Medals for Distinguished Service have been awarded to 93 and Police Medals for Meritorious Service have been awarded to 630 personnel. Besides, 38 personnel have been awarded correctional Service Medals. President's Correctional Service Medals for Distinguished Service to one personnel and Correctional Service Medals for Meritorious Service have been awarded to 37 personnel. Organization wise/State wise list of medal awardees and details are given at below: lnk
http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2012/jan/d2012012503.pdf

NSIC launches Mobile Medicare unit with HelpAge India (UPDATED)
National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (NSIC) has provided fully equipped Mobile Medicare Unit (MMU) to be operated by HelpAge India for providing medical facilities for the needy elderly persons. In a launch ceremony held at the premises of the Panchvati Dementia Day Care Centre, Tughlakabad Extension, New Delhi, NSIC CMD Dr. H P Kumar handed over the keys of the vehicle to Mathew Cherian, Chief Executive, HelpAge India. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. H P Kumar said that NSIC is privileged to be a part of the invaluable services rendered by HelpAge India for the needy and destitute elderly, and further added that NSIC would continue to keep up its commitment towards the welfare and upliftment of the underprivileged. Through this MMU, needy elderly residing in twelve different localities of North and East Delhi will receive essential primary medical treatment and free medicines. Cherian expressed his gratitude in the following words "There are so many destitute elderly within the city who cannot even afford basic medicines. I would like to thank NSIC Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Dr. H P Kumar for contributing towards HelpAge India's Mobile Healthcare project, thereby helping us reach to those elders who urgently need medical care but cannot afford or access it."

President Medals announced for RPF/RPSF officers/personnel (UPDATED)
As many as 19 RPF/RPSF officers/personnel have been chosen for President Medals for their exemplary services to be given away on the occasion of Republic Day, 2012. The awards include Police Medal for gallantry given to S S Ramachandra, Constables/South Western Railway and Mohan Lal Khichi, Sub Inspector/North Central Railway in recognition of exemplary and courageous acts in helping passengers risking of their own lives; two President Police Medals for Distinguished Service given to D N Chaturvedi, Assistant Commandant, 10 BN/RPSF and 15 Indian Police Medal (IPM) for Meritorious Service. The
list of medal awardees and details is given at below link:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=79887

NERAMAC stall inaugurated at New Delhi (UPDATED)
Three Central Ministers namely Ms. Sailaja, Minister of Culture; Paban Singh Ghatwar, Minister of DoNER and Vincent Pala, Minister Minorities & Water Resources visited NERAMAC stall covering the naturally organic fresh & processed products of North East during the inauguration of the Centre for North Eastern Culture at the Centre for Cultural Resources & Training, Dwaraka, New Delhi being organised by NEC and Ministry of DoNER from January 24 to 28, 2012.

DEBATE

Is it appropriate or inappropriate for an elected representative to address a bureaucrat as "Sir"?

Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik has asked Cabinet Ministers to maintain dignity of the office. Patnaik conveyed his mind when a Minister addressed "Sir" to an IAS officer in his presence. "You are Cabinet Minister and should maintain your dignity" the Chief Minister said. How far it is appropriate or inappropriate for an elected representative to address a bureaucrat as "Sir".

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CORPORATE

Securities market going through a change globally, says Ashish Chauhan Dy CEO BSE
Securities market are going through a change in India as well as internationally. Traditional regulatory roles are being reinforced, enhanced and rapidly changing to meet with newer emerging realities.

At the same time, service roles of exchanges, hitherto hidden in the background are coming to the fore. BSE has been also changing. Some of you might have observed those changes. Some of you have also appreciated those changes. In any process of change, iteration and feed back is very important. We need your feedback. We need to iterate our tactics and operations to meet the standards you expect
from us now and in future.

BSE is consistently trying to put in place best in class processes, technologies and products along with training of its own people to
provide you the best in class services.

When sentiments are down, one is always looking for the silver lining in the cloud. In the past few months, the positive development has
been the growth in volumes in the BSE Derivatives segment. It has reached a daily volume of more than Rs. 3,000 crores per day in last
week.

In the past two years, during every meeting with the market community, there has been a consistent message to BSE management to build the market in Sensex derivatives.

A key driver for this has been the liquidity enhancement incentive programme scheme, or LEIPS, launched by the exchange. SEBI allowed
schemes for enhancing liquidity and providing incentives to liquidity providers in the middle of 2011.

LEIPS 1 was the beta version, and was enthusiastically supported by our members. LEIPS 2 is in effect now and has attracted support and
participation from a wider group of members from around the country, and even internationally.

Many of you might be aware that similar programmes are deployed in large global exchanges to help attract core levels of liquidity. Our
challenge has been to design a programme which helps attracts participation from both liquidity providers and order flow providers,
is transparent in the laying out the benefits or incentives to market participants, and their obligations, and most important, will help
sustain liquidity for the long term.

Accordingly, LEIPS 2 has well-defined incentives and obligations for market makers or liquidity providers. This has helped light up the
screens all through the trading day. We now have both tight spreads and growing depth for SENSEX derivatives. Recently, LEIPS 3 has also been announced which will become operational from February, 2012.

Overall, in the LEIPS programmes, BSE has announced a budget in excess of Rs. 100 crores which is significant. We believe that more is better when it comes to educating our members, their staff, and investors - not just retail, but institutions too. We have launched a series of initiatives to help increase the awareness among market participants of various recent developments.

The calendar year 2011 was a trying year for the industry, investors, trading members and stock exchanges. Given India's youthful demographics, its vibrancy, vitality and the energy of its entrepreneurs, one is tempted to be tremendously hopeful of its future.

BSE and its members have contributed in this noble work of nation building for more than 136 years. I am sure, BSE will continue to work
with even more zeal and enthusiasm in times to come.

Has RBI finally started listening to industry demands?
The move to cut rates is a clear signal that the RBI has recognized the challenges to growth owing to a weakening demand condition and has begun to address that after successive increases in the headline interest rate. The move by the RBI will help ease the liquidity
situation in the banking system which has remained tight since November 2011.

Bank of Maharashtra changes its business strategy?
Is the Bank of Maharashtra's management focusing on reduction of dependence on bulk deposits?

Is HCC facing bleak outlook in future?
Deteriorating business environment due to problems in infrastructure sector with no signs of reversal in sight paints a bleak outlook for
the HCC in the medium term says a banker close to the company.

Will Axis bank benefit from interest rates cooling down?
With the interest rate cycle peaked out the bank will benefit more once interest rates start coming off says an insider.

Will new Pulsar help Bajaj Auto?
Launch of the new Pulsar is expected to help Bajaj Auto in retaining its strong volume momentum. The company has witnessed slight moderation in demand in the domestic market recently due to increased competitive activity and slowdown in industry demand.

Nazareth resigns as Director Fortis Malar Hospitals
Llyod Nazareth has resigned as Director of Fortis Malar Hospitals.


Bhatia is Non Executive Director Fortis Malar Hospitals
Ashish Bhatia has been inducted as Non-Executive Director on the board of Fortis Malar Hospitals.

Kumar resigns as Director, PTC India Financial Services Ltd
Sudhir Kumar has resigned as a Director of PTC India Financial Services Ltd.

Singh appointed GM, Taj Banjara, Hyderabad
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces has appointed Ranju Singh as General Manager of Taj Banjara, Hyderabad.

Rangan appointed Addl. Director, Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Ltd
Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Limited has appointed V. Srinivasa Rangan as an Additional Director on the Board of the Company.

Khaitan appointed Addl. Director, Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited has appointed Haigreve khaitan as Additional Director on the Board of the company w.e.f. January 23, 2012.

Parikh re-appointed Joint MD, 20 Microns Ltd
20 Microns Ltd has re-appointed Atil C. Parikh as the Joint Managing Director of the company.

Nandigama appointed Whole-time Director, Vintage Cards & Creations Ltd
Vintage Cards & Creations Ltd has appointed Satish Nandigama as Whole-time Director of the company for a period of five years.

Shankar resigns as Director, Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd
Uday Shankar has resigned as a Director of Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd w.e.f. January 23, 2012.

Soma resigns as ED and Company Secy. Avon Organics Ltd
V. S. Soma, Executive Director and Company Secretary of Avon Organics Ltd has resigned from his capacity as a Member of the Board of Directors and as Company Secretary w.e.f. January 17, 2012. Ghosh appointed Company Secy. Avon Organics Ltd Ms. Sunipa Ghosh has been appointed as the Company Secretary of Avon Organics Ltd w.e.f. January 17, 2012.

Patwardhan resigns as CFO, Welspun Projects Ltd
Prasad Patwardhan, Chief Financial Officer of Welspun Projects Ltd has resigned from the company w.e.f. January 21, 2012.

Arora appointed Director (Sales), JW Marriott, Mumbai
JW Marriott Mumbai has appointed Ravneet Arora Director (Sales).

Good job by WIC

A new breed of bureaucrats is now very much in evidence;arrogant,conceited, unscrupulous,covetous,manipulative,and
dishonest.They threaten their subordinates into submission by spoiling their ACRs and blackmail those ministers who stand against them by planting defamatory allegations in the media. This breed cultivates the corrupt politicians in the states to elicit maximum benefits and then goes to the centre to grab plum posts and multiple posts so as to expand the avenues for amassing.The politicians have been encouraging and appeasing this species of babus for mutual gain.These babus also extend their tentacles to the print media through their henchmen reporters so as to plant favourable news and to defame those who are honest and upright. This column also witnesses some pseudonymous and anonymous entries by these unscrupulous elements at self-aggrandisement and attempts to muzzle criticism by saying that only inputs from office emails should be accepted.But WIC has been doing a great job in keeping an open forum in the highest traditions of a free press.

C K Najib

It is surprising that a candidate selected for NDA is not aware of his correct date of birth. An issue which is personal to COAS is made to look as if it is of national importance.Officers of Indian Army talks of dignity , intregity , moral of Army just to get personal benefits. The issue is all about mismanagement within Army. It needs to be seen as to where AGs Branch managed to record 1951 as the years of birth . What are the original documents which were been looked into. Army jawans may not get motivated with the change in the date of birth of COAS.

RK

Using RTI to get a CGHS claim cleared

In respect of a CGHS claim, an appellant sought the details of items of theclaim which weredisallowed by CGHS along with the reasons and the copies ofcirculars on the basis ofwhich the items were disallowed, and whether thecirculars were available onthe CGHS site. The PIO demanded Rs. 8/- for the 4 pagesof information whichwere duly deposited by the appellant. He was not satisfiedwith the replysupplied by the PIO and filed an appeal before the FAA who askedthe appellantto visit the office of FAA on any working day by appointment fordiscussing theRTI of Appellant. After a perusal of the papers, the Commissionobserved thatthe information has not been supplied to the Appellant despitepayment of theadditional fee. The Commission directed to provide theinformation to theAppellant before 05 February 2012 and issued a notice to thePIO why penalty shouldnot be levied on him.

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The case discussed above shows how the RTI Act can be used to solve some of theproblems which the government servants encounter on day-today basis.

Citation : Mr. A.L. Makhijani v. CGHS in Decision No.CIC/SG/A/2011/003275/16955

- 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)