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What people say about us! One shop info center. A K Gupta POLITICS Biharis and Jharkhandis to decide poll results
in Delhi
BUREAUCRACY Singh appointed as Secretary to Vice President
of India Patnaik repatriated to parent cadre Chakrabarti repatriated to parent cadre Ms Amita Paul empanelled as Secretary in GoI Kapil Dev Tripathi empanelled as Secretary
in GoI Will Shaktikanta Das succeed R S Gujral ? One Secretary in GoI jobless
Subhash Goswami is new DG of ITBP COs meeting to select Members CBEC postponed One dozen 1983 batch IFS officers to be empanelled
? Aniruddhe Mukherjee appointed DDG of UIDAI Atal Dulloo appointed JS in Rural Development
Orders of R P Thakur as Director (Tech), SECL
issued H L Chaudhary to join as CMD, NPCC on Oct
24 K S Patro to join as Director (Pers), ECL
on Nov 1 Will post of JS be upgraded in Dept of Food
Processing?
Director level joining in various PSUs in
November Kashyap takes charge as Financial Commissioner,
Railway Board CSS officer allowed an additional tenure of
two years PESB seeks applications for Director (Pers),
STC Hectic effort on to grab post of Ex-officio Secretary, Culture ? Will Oraon get extension ? S S Dhada posted as Asst Director, DDK, Bhubaneswar Ms Abraham posted as Sr Dy Acc Gen in AG office,
Dehradun Three senior IFS officers shifted in AP Karnataka HC gets five Addl Judges Major reshuffle of senior IAS officers in
Andhra Pradesh Three IRTS officers shifted (UPDATED) S P Roy posted as Deputy Secretary, Ministry
of Commerce (UPDATED) Gazzanfar Hussain is also Commissioner, Food
Safety in J&K (UPDATED) CORPORATE Bishnoi appointed as non-official Director
on BoI board Engineer appointed Addl. Director, KPIT Technologies
Limited Gopalakrishnan resigns as Director, Parrys
Sugar Industries Limited Shiralkar resigns as Director, Abhishek Corporation
Limited Engineer appointed Addl. Independent Director,
The Federal Bank Limited Pandalai appointed Addl. Director, Heritage
Foods Limited
Muthiah resigns as Chairman , SPEL Semiconductor
Ltd Sugumaran resigns as Company Secretary, SPEL
Semiconductor Ltd Trivedi appointed Whole-time Director, Gujarat
Fluorochemicals Ltd Karwa appointed Addl. Director, Sinnar Bidi
Udyog Ltd FORUM (The views expressed in this column are of the contributors. We do not owe any responsibility, whatsoever, of the views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion. However, we would also request our contributors not to be personal, directly or indirectly, in presenting their views. Instead of countering the views which ‘X’ has already expressed, our contributors are advised to present their own views. Also be brief, say about 200 words at the most since any views longer than that if eliminated at our end would carry the risk of the contrbutor’s item losing its original essence) Ministers go by Secretary's advice Problem arises because Ministers are not getting good advice from their Secretary' s. The IAS Secretaries are more interested in finding a after retirement job. As a result they spend tenure in currying favors and bending rules for themselves, building contacts. they rule like autocrats they can send anyone packing off. They act like Nawabs and take advantage of loopholes in system. Poor Ministers initially liked and cultivated such officers in pre RTI Act period. But now after RTI Act 2005 all Ministers want honest, upright officers which has become scarce commodity. Therefore the Secretary's will continue not to give correct advice and keep Ministers muddled and take advantage. The large Political parties should start training classes in Secretarial practices, rules and regulations for their Ministers so that bureaucracy can be disciplined. This is possible if politicians are strong and awareness level high, weak politicians will get carried away by misinformation from their Secretaries. Lok Nath Mehra Coal grip Once upon a time Civil service is known as steel grip, but recent developments deplore the ethos! As many as 150 IAS officers in AP assembled yesterday not on division of state but how to protect Coal scam accused Parakh!! Shame for the nation's elite intellectuals!! Unfortunate that CBI is blackmailed in the guise of administrative immunity! The IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre, who arrested IAS officers of AP Cadre is not given posting by the muscle flexing of IAS Lobby. Let IAS have introspection - how much money is squandered? The Union FM scared of conducting expenditure audit and scrutiny !! whether there is any honest district collector other than henchmen to politicians in looting sovereign wealth. Where are the Constitutional ideals set by their IAS predecessors few decades back? Aama Admi get squeezed in iron grip!! K Chandhramouli Matter is sub judice; don't give clean chits in Coalgate WIC 's post on Oct 22: "Ministers go by Secretary's advice", is misleading. It squarely blames P C Parakh, the then coal secretary (March 2004 to December, 2005.) for allocating coal blocks to Hindalco. Based on CS Manual, the writer is being unfair and unjust in giving a clean chit to PM (the then coal minister) just because herelied on secretary. Dr Suresh Mehrotra Editor-in-chief, WIC, is urged to put the records straight. The minister, as 'Competent Authority', is free to agree or disagree with Secretary .And, he is now supposed to take full responsibility for his actions. This is not to absolve Parakh against whom the CBI claims to have "fool proof evidences", of his alleged meeting with the interested party leading to overturning Screening Committee's recommendations. The fact that Parakh was dubbed a "whistle blower" by CAG or has the support of angry officers of IAS, IPS and IFoS or that he pressured coal ministry's Section officers for recording tutored notes , does not constitute extenuating circumstances . The court will rely on CBI's evidences, not insinuations. Let us have faith on Supreme Court and the CBI investigations monitored by it, if not on the ruling dispensation. A K Saxena (A retired civil servant) Wrong Policies and poor Governance After 66 years of Independence, we are having basic problems of food, primary health and education, good sanitation, drinking water, power supply, shelter to live in etc. This is all due to very wrong policies and poor governance. It does not require any proof. Even a single thing, India does not have the required Electricity which is essential for many things for the growth of the country. Every Minister is praising himself and questions other authorities if anything is not according to his desire. How a country can progress when there is no enabling manufacturing and export policies? Both are showing decline. FM has questioned in Washington thru a committee when IMF has given GDP growth as 3.8%. Till now only Indian organizations like CAG, RBI being questioned, now it is term of foreign organizations IMF, World Bank. manufacturing units like ITI, state government undertakings all are either being closed or running in loss. Service sector is not meant for government. See what happened to Air India and other sectors. Compare the balance sheet of 2004-05 to 2012-13.The facts will be known. It does not require any other agency to do it. This can be done by respective administrative ministry. We have made India as country of reservations and subsidies. Unless these are removed, it will be difficult to progress. Can some one help to make country free from reservations and subsidies for sustained growth. The fruits of growth can be enjoyed by everyone. N Prakash There was no reason In the Coalgate scam, there was no reason to accept K.M Birla's late application for allotment except that he was a Birla and a major funder of the Congress party. The then coal secretary should have put his foot down and refused to entertain his application one month after the final allotments had been made by the screening committee. Was he an IAS officer or a glorified clerk? The coal minister too should not have entertained late applications. Why have a screening committee if its selections are not sacro sanct? Since Gandhis time the Birlas have funded the Congress. This is why for five decades we had to suffer the Ambassador car, a Birla product on which the Birlas had a monopoly. The Birlas have been one of the biggest funders of the Congress. Therefore K.M. Birla is allowed to walk into any government office and get what he wants. The TV channels are unusually quiet about this because they themselves are owned by big industrial houses. T.S.R. Subramanium , the former cabinet secretary in Devi Gowdas time is seen on T.V. channels frothing at the mouth about immunity from prosecution of IAS officers long after retirement because he is afraid that skeletons may come tumbling out of the cupboard pertaining to his period. Well, aiding and abetting corruption is as good as being corrupt oneself. It is hardly surprising that only those IAS officers are made secretaries to the GoI who are either themselves hopelessly corrupt ( so they can be blackmailed into submission) or those officers who aid and abet corruption by bending rules to accommodate their ministers whims and fancies. These are no idle whims and fancies but whims and fancies which they have been paid for in cash, in lakhs , or in crores or in lakhs of crores of rupees of black money. The honest IAS officers who do end up as secretaries to GoI are dumped in marginal postings like secretary Hindi or secretary labour or women welfare. It is a well thought out strategy by the politicians with corrupt motive. D Choudhury Lalu Yadav's prisoner number auspicious Lalu Yadav's prisoner number is 3312 which adds upto 9. In south it is an auspicious number. May be something good will happen to Lalu in political field. Raghavan Disbanding CGHS It is true that CGHS needs drastic improvement as disbanding is not a solution? We are all aware of the treatment in the private hospitals. They not only over treat but make you scare of all medical problems and you will be totally confused. They will do heart surgery when you need only stutting and so on? CGHS dispensaries are too crowded and store will issue substitute medicine of its own? Medical specialist will only indent medicine and at times direct you to consult a particular Dr. in the private hospital and will talk to th doctor in front of you or give a slip in his name and his mobile no.. etc... the issue is too complex. We have to resolve these issues rather than to disband for private hospitals and simplify procedure. How a heart patient of 85 years or a physically handicapped patient can run from pillar to post for treatment. We need to believe the patient , specially senior citizen and if they are found guilty of any wrong doing then facility should be withdrawn. Ravinder Kumar Congratulations ! Dear, Rath Babu, I congratulate You as Independent Director of Ennore Port Limited. It was an excellent Programme, which I attended in Bangalore. Your programme in NOIDA will definitely attract more participants and the Independent Directors will enlighten with their Roles in PSUs Er. Akula R Rao
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