What people say about us!

Covering neighbouring country's whispers is a good move. Now you may think of looking at the whispers in the corporate world.

Anand

Last day of electioneering in UP and then campaigners will take a break!
And will give us from their ludicrous statements a break!!

On March 6 they'll obey Voters mandate!!!!
As date approaches ' in palpitation mode' you will find every candidate!!

Rahul they say will be taking a short trip to land of The Bhai!!
In simple words ....Dubai!!

I too wonder why does he love Dubai so much???
So many rumours.... pataa nahi kya hai jhoot aur kyaa hai suchch!!

Sonia already gone for Health Check up!!!!
Loads of speculation... do not know what is truth and what is gupp!!

All I can say there cannot be smoke without fire!!!!
And some rumours are indeed very grim and dire!!

Chalo lets leave it to fate!!!
Like they say 'In HIS Court justice is always done ... could fast or late'!!!

Laloo and Mallya 'want trial by Media curtailed'!!!
Sub Judice cases by Media should not be tailed!!

Both are part of a Consultative Committee have asked PC to go the needful!!!
Law not being allowed to take its course is plain and simple 'cock and bull'!!!

In the past few years because of Media Justice has been done!!!!
Like take Manu Sharma's case but for Media role 'freedom he had won'!!

And I do not need to elaborate why Mallya and Laloo want this!!!
Sorry for this analogy... both are trying to catch fish in piss!!

Speaking of Mallya... he's sent letters to KF staff!!!
'We will pay your salaries' has made even the Staff laugh!!!

Mallya must be feeling KF Staff can use the letters to get loans or credit!!
Fact is Mallya and KF do not have any 'credit'!!!

'KF cannot be shut down because of passenger safety' says Ajit Singh!!
All of a sudden different tune he doth sing!!

Seems KF will be thrown a lifejacket post the UP poll!!!!
As you know Sonia's Government is known to give the 'stinking rich dole'!!

Ordinary Indians are hankered, persecuted and prosecuted to pay their dues!!!
Government trying to bail out stinking rich is now in India no longer news!!

Congress appointed Guvs are playing the role they were appointed to do!!!
Bills of non Congress Government's held up by Guvs and Centre too!!

Apart from finding ways to embarrass and sack these non Congress Sarkaars!
Even on work of the Governments Guvs put 'bars'!!

Then you have Sonia and Rahul going to the States and saying we do so much!!
'State Governments that do not act' they say shedding tears of magarmuch!!

Hopefully these 5 State elections will send a message to our Politicians!!
Electorate will say we've changed our priorities and its time you guys visited your 'opticians'!!

'Correct your near, middle and far sight vision'!!!!
'Your old caste and religion fixation and keeping electorate huddled and befuddled mindset needs urgent revision'!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Latest assessment of bureaucrats about UP elections
1 Samajwadi Party 135 to 145

2 Congress and LD 100 to 105

3 BJP 80 to 90

4 BSP 70 to 80

BUREAUCRACY

Five 1977 batch IAS officers yet to get posting as Secretary
Five 1977 batch IAS officers are still waiting in the wings to get posting as Secretary in the Government of India. They are Mssrs, A S Lamba (West Bengal), Ashok Thakur (Himachal Pradesh), O P Rawat (Madhya Pradesh), P K Deb (Rajasthan) and Ms Nita Chowdhury (Uttar Pradesh).

Amitabh Rajan to be ACS (Home), Maharashtra?
Additional Secretary Revenue Amitabh Rajan who is holding additional charge of Director Enforcement is now all set to go to Maharashtra as ACS (Home). He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Ashok Singhvi to be JS, Urban Development
Ashok Singhvi is being tipped to be Joint Secretary, Urban Development in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Rakesh Singh, Jt. Secry, MHA posted to Border Management desk
Rakesh Singh who has been appointed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, has been posted to Border Management desk. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Mishra is new JS, MSME
C K Mishra has been appointed Joint Secretary in the Department of MSME in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
(We said this on Feb 14, 2012)

Major changes in Income Tax only in May
Major changes in the Income Department are now expected to take place only in May.



B. L.Bagra as CMD of NALCO gets extension
B.L. Bagra as Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), NALCO has got further extension.

Bhagwan Shankar protects human rights in India
Believe it or not Human Rights are protected by the God in the country. And the protector is 1988 batch Sikkim cadre IAS officer
whose name is Bhagwan Shankar. Infact, Bhagwan Shankar is incharge of the Human Rights desk in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

1988 batch promoted to PS grade in TN
As many as eight IAS officers of 1988 batch belonging to Tamil Nadu cadre have been promoted to the Principal Secretary Grade of IAS and given various assignments. Accordingly, Dr. V Irai Anbu has been made Principal Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms while Vikram Kapur will be holding the charge of Principal Secretary, Post Tsunami Sustainable & Livelihood Programme, Chennai and Atulya Misra is Chairman, Chennai Port Trust, Chennai. Similarly, Jatindra Nath Swain has been assigned the charge of Principal Secretary, Tamil Nadu Khadi and Village Industries Board; P R Shampath is posted as Principal Secretary, Commissioner for the Welfare of Different Abled Persons; S S Jawahar is now Principal Secretary/ Commissioner, Museums; D Jothi Jagarajan has been posted as Principal Secretary/Director, Anna Institute of Management & Director General of Training, Chennai.

IAS officers to lose career benefits if they skive off MCTP
The IAS officers, who skive off mandatory Mid-Career Training Programme (MCTP), will face loss of career benefits like promotions and others.

Name of DTP, Moscow reaches ACC
The name of new incumbent to be appointed as Moscow based Director Tea Promotion (DTP); in the Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry has gone to the ACC. The post has been lying vacant for quite some time now.

Gujarat lacks DG in police
Gujarat does not have any DG. Presently, Chitranjan Singh who is additional DG is holding the charge as Gujarat's in charge DGP, ever since S S Khandwawala retired. Singh is an IPS officer of 1976 batch who belongs to the Gujarat cadre.

Durvasan to be CEO of Shriram City Union Finance Ltd
Durvasan who as CEO is presently heading operations of Shriram Life Insurance is soon going to be CEO of Shriram City Union Finance Ltd.

Search Committee forwards two names?
The Search Committee is reported to have forwarded two names instead of three for the post of Chairman UGC. They are Prof Seyed E Hasnain and Pankaj Chandra. Mystery shrouds as to why only two names have been forwarded?

A K Saxena posted as Principal Director, Rajbhasha
A K Saxena, on reversion to the Department, has been transferred and posted as Principal Director, Rajbhasha. He will relieve Karan Singh of this additional charge. Saxena is an IA & AS officer of 1995 batch.

Gautam Guha to join as DG, Commercial-I on March 1
Gautam Guha, Director General, Defence Services, New Delhi, who has been transferred and posted as Director General (Commercial-I), will join the post on March 1. However, he will continue to look after the charge of Director General, Defence Services till further orders.

Abhay Bakre soon to join as ED, PCRA
Abhay Bakre who is currently Joint Development Commissioner Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) is soon going to assume charge as Executive Director (ED), Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA). He is an IRSEE officer of 1988 batch.
(We said this on February 4, 2012)

Krishna Choudhary to be empanelled as Additional Secretary
Krishna Choudhary, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), BPA, is likely to be empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India .He is an IPS officer of 1979 batch who belongs to Bihar Cadre.

Prashant Nana Saheb Nikam to be Director, Home
Prashant Nana Saheb Nikam on central deputation is poised to be Director in Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). He is an IRAS officer of 1996 batch. Presently, he is posted as Dy FA&CAO at Bhopal in West Central Railway. He had completed full-time MBA from Cranfield University, UK. During his MBA he won as one of the finalists at the European Business Plan competition held in Belgium. He had also written a paper on Sub-Prime crisis.

Nagesh Pydah CMD, OBC retires
Chairman and Managing Director of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) Nagesh Pydah has retired on February 29, 2012.

Basant Seth CMD, Syndicate Bank retires
Chairman and Managing Director of Syndicate Bank Basant Seth has retired on February 29, 2012. He will become Information Commissioner (IC) in CIC from March 1, 2012.

Shreekant Singh to return to Maharashtra
As the grapevine has it Shreekant Singh has sought his premature return from the post of Deputy Chairman of Mumbai Port Trust (MPT) to his parent cadre of Maharashtra. He is an IAS officer of the 1986 batch. It may be stated that Singh in the past has served as Municipal Commissioner, Thane, joint MD City & Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra (CIDCO) & Additional Municipal Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM).He was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority of Maharashtra Government before joining the MPT.

S. L. Bansal is new CMD, Oriental Bank of Commerce
S.L. Bansal who so far was Executive Director (ED) of the United Bank of India assumed charge as the new Chairman and Managing Director of the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) from March 1, 2012 .Soon after assuming charge S.L. Bansal told <whispersinthecorridors.com> that his priority will be to stop slippages and mobilising funds for leveraging the Bank on a firmer ground. Replying to a question he said upgrading skills of the OBC's staff through training & motivation will also be part of his main agenda. He will be there till September 30, 2014.
(We said this on April 26, 2011)

M.G. Sanghvi is CMD, Syndicate Bank
M. G. Sanghvi who so far was Executive Director (ED) of the Bank of Maharashtra assumed charge as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Syndicate Bank from March 1, 2012. He will be there till June 30, 2013.
(We said this on April 26, 2011)

Deepak Narang is ED, United Bank of India
Deepak Narang who so far was General Manager Allahabad Bank had joined United Bank of India as Executive Director
(ED) on March 1, 2012 in place of S.L. Bansal who became Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) on March 1, 2012.

12 IAS officers get new postings in Rajasthan
As many as 12 senior officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been entrusted with new assignments in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Mrs. Asha Singh has been made CMD, Rajasthan Small Industries Corporation Limited (RAJSICO) while Pankaj will hold the charge as Principal Secretary, Science and Technology and Mrs. Malovika Panwar is now being appointed as Principal Secretary, Pilgrimage Places. Similarly, Dr. Govind Sharma has been made Principal Secretary, Finance; Dr. Subodh Agarwal is now Divisional Commissioner and ex-officio Commissioner, TAD, Udaypur; Sudhansh Pant is posted as Secretary Mining and Petroleum; Kunji Lal Meena as CMD, Jaipur Power Distribution Corporation Limited and Chairman of Power Distribution Corporation Limited, Ajmer, Jodhpur; Mrs. Anandhi was posted as MD, RAJFED, Jaipur; Dr. Rajesh Sharma will now be District Collector and District Magistrate, Jalor while Kunj Bihari Gupta is posted as District Collector and District Magistrate, Banswada and Banna Lal is made District Collector and District Magistrate, Sirohi.

Two National Tourism Awards to Ashwani Lohani
Ashwani Lohani, Divisional Railway Manager of Delhi received two National Tourism Awards at the hands of President of India on the 29th of February 2012. New Delhi Railway Station received the award for the most tourist friendly railway station of India for the second time in a row and the Rewari Heritage Steam Shed was judged as the most innovative tourism project of India. Ashwani Lohani has been earlier responsible for getting numerous National Tourism Awards for the state of Madhya Pradesh and also for two awards in the category of most innovative tourism projects of India, namely the Fairy Queen Express and Shan-E-Bhopal Rail Coach Restaurant and award for Rewari is the third such award.

Ten vacancies of DRM
There are going to be about ten vacancies of DRM in the country in a couple of months.

PESB seeks applications for the post of Director (Personnel) in ECIL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking applications for the post of Director (Personnel) in Electronics Corporation of India (ECIL). Those willing to apply can send their applications to the PESB before April 24, 2012.

Ashish Kumar Heliwal posted as Under Secy., (APA-I) in CBDT
Ashish Kumar Heliwal has been posted as Under Secretary (APA-1) in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Department of Revenue, New Delhi.

Ms Mrinalini Kaur Sapra posted as Under Secy., (APA-II) in CBDT
Ms Mrinalini Kaur Sapra has been posted as Under Secretary (APA-II) in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Department of Revenue, New Delhi.

Three IRS officers posted as OSD to CCIT, Pune, Delhi
Three officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS), who had gone on child care leave or on deputation, have been posted as OSD to CCIT (CCA). Accordingly, Ms Suman Sharma has been made OSD to CCIT (CCA), Pune while Ms Pratima Kaushik is OSD to CCIT (CCA), Delhi and Kamlesh C Varshney will be OSD to CCIT (CCA), Delhi.

1988 batch IAS officer gets PS grade on penultimate day of retirement in TN
D Jothi Jagarajan Director, Anna Institute of Management & Director General of Training, Chennai, has been promoted to the grade of Principal Secretary on the penultimate day of his retirement. Dr. Jagarajan has retired on February 29, 2012. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu.

Former CGDA is no more
Former CGDA R Venkataraman has passed away in February 27.

IPS changes in Andhra Pradesh
Santosh Mehra has been appointed IG, Welfare department. Mohd Ahsan Reza will now be Additional Commissioner of Police (crime & SIT). Umesh Sharraf is back to CID as IG to head the economic offences wing .Lokendra Sharma has been posted as Additional Managing Director (vigilance and security) in AP Transco. Vinoy Kumar Singh will be IG (APSP battalions). T. Krishna Raju has been posted as legal metrology controller. Rajiv Trivedi has been posted as additional DG (sports). T.A. Tirpathi will be IG (organsiation). Ms A.R. Anuradha has been posted as IG (Administration). M. Gopikrishna will be new additional director AP Police Academy and N. Chandramouli is posted as IG CID (PCR cell).

Lt Gen Ahluwalia retires
Lt Gen VK Ahluwalia, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Central Command has retired on Wednesday.

M M Chockalingam selected as Director (Marketing), CCIL (UPDATED)
M M Chockalingam, ED, NTCL, has been selected for the post of Director (Marketing), Cotton Corporation of India Limited (CCIL) at Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on February 29. As many as 14 persons were interviewed for the same.

IRTS Day to be observed on March 4, 2012 (UPDATED)
IRTS Day will be observed on March 4, 2012 all over the Indian Railways. In New Delhi, the IRTS Officers Association will be felicitating all IRTS officers who have completed 25 and 50 years of joining service at a special function being organised at SP Marg Railway Club.

Bhagat appointed Ambassador to Togo (UPDATED)
Rajinder Bhagat , presently High Commissioner of India to Ghana has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the Repulic of Togo, with residence in Accra.

Pradeep Kumar Sinha takes over as Secretary, Shipping (UPDATED)
Pradeep Kumar Sinha has taken over as Secretary, Ministry of Shipping. Sinha is a 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He was earlier holding the charge as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
(We said this on Feb 22, 2012)

IRS officer Dr. Suman promoted as CIT (UPDATED)
Dr. Swetabh Suman, Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, Kolkata region, has been promoted as Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT). Dr. Suman will remain posted at his present place of posting as CIT(OSD).

Changes in IRTS cadre of Northern Railway (UPDATED)
There have been changes in IRTS cadre of Northern Railway. Accordingly Manish Tiwari (1994) joins head quarters as Deputy Chief Operations Manager, Vikram Singh (1996) joins Delhi Division as Sr.DCM, Sanjay Goel (1990) has been posted as Deputy Chief Operations Manager in Planning and Niraj Verma (1994) has been posted in Passenger Movement.

Mizoram Chief Secretary gets six months extension (UPDATED)
Finally Mizoram Chief Secretary Vanhela Pachuau has been granted six months extension in service.1976 batch UT cadre IAS officer was scheduled to retire on February29.Infact,Mizoram Chief Minister had recommended extension in service to his Chief Secretary on the ground of implementing programmes and policies of the Congress.

K D Diwan selected as CMD, HCL (UPDATED)
K D Diwan, Director (Operations), HCL, has been selected for the post of Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on March 1, 2012. As many as eight persons were interviewed for the same.

UPSC announces result of Civil Services (Main) Exam-2011 (UPDATED)
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) have announced the result of Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2011 and the candidates who have qualified for Personality Test for selection to the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and other Central Services. Personality Tests of these candidates will commence from March 19, 2012, at UPSC.

Eight officers of Indian Forest Service shifted in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
As many as eight officers of Indian Forest Service (IFS) have been transferred and posted at different places. Accordingly, M K Kuril has been posted as CCF, NTFP, Jaipur while J B Reddy is being appointed as CCF, Wildlife, Bharatpur and Mrs. Shruti Sharma is now CCF, Silviculture, Jaipur. Similarly, Mohan Lal Meena has been made CCF, Kota; Indraj Singh as CCF, Wildlife, Jodhpur; P K Upadhaya was appointed as Additional Project Director (Administration), RF & PB, Jaipur; B Pravin is posted as Conservator of Forest, Jaipur and Mrs. Shailja Deol will now be Deputy Conservator of Forest, Department Affairs Mandal, Udayapur.

Rajinder Singh takes over Command of Training Command (UPDATED)
Air Marshal Rajinder Singh, AVSM VM, has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command in Bangalore on March 1, 2012. He was commissioned in the Indian Air Force in December 1974 in the Fighter Stream.

Mrs Indira Shah appointed as Addl. Judge, Gauhati HC (UPDATED)
Justice Mrs. Indira Shah has been appointed as Additional Judge of Gauhati High Court for a period of two years.

PAKISTAN WHISPERS
Tahir Rafiq Butt to be Pakistan's next Air Chief
Air Marshal Tahir Rafiq Butt presently vice chief of air staff is to take over as the next air chief in place of Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleiman who is due to retire on March 18, 2012. Butt joined PAF as a GD Pilot in 1977 and was posted Vice Chief in October 2010. A highly decorated soldier he has been awarded Hilal I Imtiaz (Military), Sitara I Imtiaz (Military) and Tamgha I Basalat.

Negative list for trade with India to be removed w.e.f December 31, 2012
Pakistan's federal cabinet met on 29 February and approved the proposal of the commerce ministry that negative list for trade with India shall be removed completely with effect from 31 December 2012. The alternative view presented by the industries ministry that process of phasing out the negative list should start after three years and be completed in five years has apparently not been approved by the cabinet.

Was Shuja Pasha's extension discussed at Gilani - Kayani meet on Tuesday?
Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and the Army Chief Gen Kayani met on Tuesday with the stated purpose of 'discussing security situation on the Af-Pak border and army operations in the tribal areas and in Baluchistan'. Insiders however reveal that the COAS also touched upon the question of granting extension to DG ISI Shuja Pasha 'in the interest of continuity in the present security scenario'. The second extension granted to Shuja Pasha is ending on 18th March and government has reportedly made up its mind not to grant any further extension to him in view of some recent controversies surrounding him particularly in the 'memogate'.

ISI, MI give a slip to Standing Committee on Defence
Absence of the ISI and MI chiefs from a meeting of national Assembly's Standing Committee on defence on 29 February angered the chairman and members of the committee. The committee met in Islamabad to discuss the situation in Baluchistan and both the spy agencies of the army were required to attend. Director of Intelligence Bureau Aftab Sultan who was present advised the committee in his briefing that talks should be held with the Baluch separatists to improve the situation as dialogue was the only solution.

Legal niceties are OK but we can't shut our eyes to terrorists, says ISI showing its thumb to the Apex Court
Two days ahead of the scheduled hearing of the 11 missing persons case (of whom four have already died in detention) counsel for ISI and MI Raja Mohammad Irshad submitted a three page statement in the Apex Court that while they respect the court and its order 'they can't shut their eyes to rebellious acts of internal and external elements involved in serious acts of terrorism'. A bench of the Supreme Court headed by CJ Iftekhar Chowdhary had fixing the case for 1st March had asked the ISI to explain why the persons were kept in custody for so long without trial and without being produced before a magistrate, why they were not produced before the apex court twice earlier despite clear direction and the circumstances under which four of the detainees had died. ISI's statement says delay in starting the trial took place as collection of evidence is slow the area being highly disturbed. Prolonged detention is explained by recourse to Aid (to civil power) regulations 2011 (even though earlier the arrest was claimed to be under the army act). Failure to produce before the Apex Court on earlier occasions is blamed on bad weather due to which choppers couldn't fly from the detention centre. On the most important aspect of death of the four detainees the statement seems silent. It is now to be seen whether CJ Iftekhar Chowdhary applies the same exacting standards of scrutiny to the ISI which he has been applying for the civilian government in some other cases.

Do you really need Wikileaks to tell you that the ISI knew of Osama's Abbottabad hideout?
This time Julian Assange and his team seem to be grossly overstating by calling it a 'disclosure' that some mid to senior level officers of the ISI, MI and at least one retired general of the Pakistan army were aware of Osama Bin Laden's safe house in Abbottabad. After all Abbottabad apart from being an overwhelmingly army dominated township is also home to a premier training institution of the army. One doesn't need a Wikileak to know for sure that a character as globally well known as OBL could not set up home with his three wives and also add as many children to his family within breathing distance of the defence establishment without the establishment ever knowing the truth for five long years. To think otherwise would be doing gross injustice to ISI's professional competence.

DEBATE - Should bureaucrats alone be held accountable for policy decisions ?

Bureaucrats now feel that Ministers and Politicians also be held responsible for 'policy decisions' taken by the government. They also want that entire cabinet should be held accountable for policy decisions. How far they are correct in their thinking ?

Mail your to the point views to suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com or mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com

CORPORATE

Is US going to lobby with India against Iran oil?
Latest statement from American President Barack Obama blaming India for consumption of Iranian oil is an indication
that a lobby will be working towards curbing Iranian oil consumption in the near future and moving to other sources. Much to Obama administration's delight is the visit by RPN Singh to Saudi Arabia which has promised more oil. But there is a huge peril in shifting consumption, Iran is a haven of Al-Qaeda, there will always be a covert threat of those operatives to be used from
neighboring country's soil. What will India do next?

Three appointed on the board of NTPC
Ms. Homai A. Daruwalla, Ex-CMD, Central Bank of India, Anol Nath Chatterji, Ex-Deputy, C&AG, Professor Sushil Khanna, Professor of Economics and Strategic Management at IIM-Kolkata have been appointed as independent directors of National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd.

Kaira appointed nominee director of Jindal Steel and Power
Inderpal Singh Kaira has been appointed nominee director of Jindal Steel & Power.

Two additional directors appointed on the board of Narmada Agro Industries
Manthan Bhavsar and Mahesh Raval, have been appointed additional directors of Narmada Agro Industries.

Jain appointed Additional Director of Bacil Pharma
Lalit Jain has been appointed Additional Director of Bacil Pharma.

Hingorani has been appointed director of Bacil Pharma
Lal H Hingorani has resigned from the directorship of Bacil Pharma.

Bagchi appointed Chairman, MindTree
MindTree Ltd has appointed Subroto Bagchi as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company.

Anand resigns as Non Exec. Director, Assam Company India Ltd
Bharat Anand, Non-Executive Independent Director of Assam Company India Ltd has resigned from the Board of Directors of the Company.

Two Alternate Directors re-appointed on Board of Berger Paints (I) Ltd
Ms. Rishma Kaur and Kanwardip Singh Dhingra have been re-appointed as Alternate Directors to Kuldip Singh Dhingra and Gurbachan Singh Dhingra on the Board of Berger Paints (I) Ltd respectively w.e.f. February 1, 2012.

IDBI Bank nominates Director on Board of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd
IDBI Bank Ltd. has nominated Inderpal Singh Kalra as Nominee Director on the Board of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd w.e.f. February 28, 2012.

Sirdeshmukh to quit Reliance Trends?
Arun Sirdeshmukh the Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Trends is quitting the company to start his own venture.

Ramkumar appointed Company Secy. Megasoft Ltd
Megasoft Ltd has appointed S. V. Ramkumar as Company Secretary of the company.

Sabharwal resigns as Company Secy. Visesh Infotechnics Ltd
Ms. Nidhi Sabharwal has resigned as Company Secretary of Visesh Infotechnics Ltd

Dedhwal appointed Company Secy. Visesh Infotechnics Ltd
Ms. Rita Dedhwal has been appointed as a Company Secretary of Visesh Infotechnics Ltd.

Bajpai appointed CEO (Steel Hypermart), Essar Retail
Essar Retail has appointed Ashok Bajpai as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (Steel Hypermart).

J & K Bank promotes 4 Vice Presidents
J&K Bank has promoted 4 Vice-Presidents to the posts of President. They are Mssrs, Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Syed Wani, Surender Krishan Bhat and Nayeemullah.

Varun Berry resigns
PepsiCo India Foods, CEO; Varun Berry has resigned from the company.

DEBATE (1)

Why should they not be made to answer for their deeds? In fact all the scams are lead by them.

Radheshyam

DEBATE (2)

Bureaucrats are great. Actually they are running the government, not politicians I love bureaucrats

Sunil Sharma

CVC should obtain monthly status reports

In the name of transparency and curbing misuse of official position, it is high time CVC obtained monthly status reports from individual ministries about deployment of staff cars.

S Singh

MOSPI's selective amnesia

The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation recently issued orders to transfer several DDGs but, the names of two DDGs are missing even though they have completed about a decade each in FOD holding sensitive jobs.

Vijay Kaushik,

NSC's extravagance

The National Statistics Commission under Min. of Statistics has been holding its monthly review meeting at famous tourist spots in India to enjoy 5-Star comforts . All participants (numbering ten or so) are located in Delhi. Will the Minister for this department look into the matter and stop wastage of expenditure running into crores of rupees. It will also be useful to compile details of frequent tours made by senior officers.

A former DG, NSSO

Reasons for not granting an appointment with the Commissioner of Police (CP)

The appellant sought to know the reasons why an appointment with the Commissioner of Police was denied to him despite his written request for appointment. He also sought to know whether he was busy; how many persons sought appointment with the CP in writing and how many were given appointment; and how many refused during the period 17.2.2011 to 8.3.2011. The PIO informed that any person can meet the Commissioner of Police, Delhi with a complaint on any working days between 12.00 noon to 1.30 p.m. for which no appointment is required. The CIC held that the respondent can only provide that information to the appellant which is held by them in material form and are not expected to create information simply to answer the request of the RTI petitioners. The CIC directed the PIO to provide the information about the action taken on the appellant's request for an appointment with the CP, Delhi; and information of persons whom the CP met in his office regarding public grievances.

Comments

With the increase in the use of RTI, every letter coming to a government office has the potential of being followed by a RTI application even on matters such as seeking an appointment. Therefore, there is a need for re-drawing the norms of working in the offices.

Citation: Shri J.K. Mittal v. Delhi Police in file no.CIC/SS/A/2011/001527

- 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)