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Of course right through history, from the earlier times, reformers have risen in Hinduism who have tried to rid it of its abuses. Buddha and Shankaracharya are the examples.


Action against bureaucrats involved in betting?

If top sources are to be believed, the government is going to take action against those officers who have allegedly been named in betting. It is said that during secret investigation, names of some officers have surfaced. They are either investing money in betting, or as found during investigation, have allegedly taken money from those involved in betting. These officers are said to be from various intelligence wings. It is said that PMO had been receiving complaints against these officials for the last few months.


More trouble ahead for Mayawati?

According to sources more trouble is in store for BSP supremo Mayawati. The NRHM scam may put her political career at stake as the CBI has filed more than 50 charge sheets and 75 FIRs in this case and during investigation many accused have named her. Assembly elections in UP are due in 2017. The NRHM scam is just the tip of the iceberg; there are some other alleged corruption cases in which she could face serious consequences.


Punh? dh?v? ..runs away again

Encryption is an issue in every Nation!!
It is not Modi Government's creation!!

Whatsapp is misused by nefarious lot!!
By every Nation's Police this data is sought!

Brit PM wants encryption banned in Britain!!
Here it was only proposed... records karro maintain!!

Here the usual lot made into an opportunity to cry!!
Cried...into our lives Government wants to pry!

Misuse of any facility causes corrective measure!
Misuse forces Government to curtail 'a pleasure'!

Post his trip to a Mandir Rahul goes overseas!!
Wonders never cease!!

Post Kedarnath he went on a sojourn,
And this time to pack him off was Mathura's turn!!

Congress first said ..gone to London to meet Nani,
Then they gave US conclave waali kahani!

He is in Aspen and it's not a Conclave!!
Wrong nomenclature Congress gave!!

It's Ideas Exchange meet !!
If you buy a ticket they give you a seat!

And there you can buy claps and encores!
If they spend money reports will say Rahul floors!

Or could be trip sponsored by Laloo!!
Aise kaamo mein Laloo hai chaloo!

If Rupee shoots up in next few days ,
Would mean someone is mending their ways!!

Achche Dinno mein achche karam!!!
Achaayi ache acho ko banna detti hai naram !!

Hardcore Black Money hoarders know!!
As time passes bound to be huge info flow!!

Inevitable ko karr rahe hai postpone!!!
Akkal mandi..mauka hai karr lo prepone!



Disclaimer... All alleged ...its Satire ...read it and forget it

VJS

BUREAUCRACY

Search begins for DG, BPR & D
Search has started to select new DG, BPR & D. Name of a UP cadre IPS officer is doing rounds for the post.


Appointment of new Bank MDs and CEOs after Diwali
Appointment of four new Bank MDs and CEOs is expected to take place only after Diwali. Interviews have already taken place on September 16.


Ms Leena Nair continues as Chairman, Coffee Board
Ms Leena Nair will continue holding an additional charge of Chairman, Coffee Board, Bengaluru. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Singh joins as CMD of NHPC Ltd.
Union Ministry of Power has appointed K M Singh as Chairman and Managing Director of NHPC Ltd. w.e.f September 23, 2015. He has assumed the charge.


A K Srinivasan takes over as Director (Finance), ONGC
A K Srinivasan, 57, has taken over as Director (Finance) of ONGC today subsequent to his presidential appointment to the ONGC Board of Directors. Srinivasan, an IIM Bangalore alumnus, is an accomplished finance professional with experience of over 31 years in upstream oil and gas finance.


Rastogi promoted in ITBP
1995 batch Tripura cadre IPS officer Puneet Rastogi has been promoted to the rank of IG. He has been posted as Inspector General (IG) ITBP Eastern Frontier in Lucknow.


Ashok Kumar Singh moves to Patna
Ashok Kumar Singh has been moved to Patna as IG Frontier. He is a 1995 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.


Toppo is new DPR in Chhattisgarh
Rajesh SukumarToppo has been appointed new Director Public Relations in Chhattisgarh. He is 2005 batch IAS officer.

J L Singh yet to join as Director (Tech), NCL
The appointment of J L Singh, GM, CCL/CIL, as Director (Technical), Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) is getting delayed for want of orders. The post has been lying vacant since October 24, 2015.


Dayanand Kataria returns to parent cadre
Dayanand Kataria, Principal Commissioner (LM) in Delhi Development Authority has returned to his parent cadre on premature repatriation. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.


Brijesh Kumar Mishra returns to parent cadre
Brijesh Kumar Mishra, Commissioner(LM) in Delhi Development Authority (DDA), has returned to parent cadre on premature repatriation. He is a 1993 batch IRS(C) officer.


Raghvendra Narayan Dubey returns to parent cadre
Raghvendra Narayan Dubey, presently working as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, has been given a premature repatriation to parent cadre. He is a 1984 batch IES officer.


J Krishna Kishore joins Andhra Pradesh Government
J Krishna Kishore has joined as Andhra Pradesh Government on deputation and has been posted as Chief Executive Officer, Economic Development Board. He is a 1990 batch IRS-IT officer.


Rahul Chhabra appointed Ambassador to Bosnia, Herzegovina
Rahul Chhabra presently Ambassador of India to Hungary, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Bosnia and Herzegovina with residence in Budapest. He is 1987 batch IFS officer.

CBI registers case against JD, ED
The CBI has registered a case against a Joint Director (an IRS Officer) posted at Ahmedabad, and others on a complaint from Ministry of Finance. It has been alleged that certain officers of Enforcement Directorate while investigating the cases of money laundering in betting and other such activities have allegedly accepted huge illegal gratification from the accused and suspect persons in the said cases. Huge bribe amount was allegedly taken by these officers as quid pro quo for various acts of omission and commission.


S V Kher to take over as Director, SCI on Oct 1
S V Kher, Senior VP, SCI, will be joining as Director (Bulk Carriers & Tankers), Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI) on October 1, 2015.
(We said this on March 13, 2015)


NR Wasan to retire in November
NR Wasan, DG , BPR & D is schedule to retire in November this year. He is a 1980 batch AP cadre IPS officer.


Mrs G Vani Mohan appointed as Mission Director, NHRM in AP
Mrs G Vani Mohan, who was waiting for posting, has been appointed as Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) and Project Director, AP AIDS Control Society in Andhra Pradesh. She is a 1996 batch IAS officer.


Gopalkumar D Nair deputed as DGM, RVNL Pune
Gopalkumar D Nair has been deputed as DGM (Electrical), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited Pune. He is from Electrical Service.


Ajay Kumar Sinha deputed as DGM, RVNL, Varanasi
Ajay Kumar Sinha has been deputed as DGM (Electrical), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, Varanasi.


Anand Swaroop deputed as CPM, RVNL, Mumbai
Anand Swaroop has been deputed as Chief Project Manager, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, Mumbai. He is an IRSE officer.


Four IRSEE officers transferred to RDSO
Four IRSEE officers, Avinash Singh Kushwah, Suresh Kumar, Mohit Sonakiya and Kishore Vaibhav have been transferred to Research Design & Standards Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow.


Ajay Pratap Singh appointed as CCM, NER
Ajay Pratap Singh has been appointed as Chief Commercial Manager (CCM) in North Eastern Railway. He is an IRTS officer.


Who will be new President of Delhi Gymkhana Club ?
Election for the prestigious post of the President Delhi Gymkhana Club will take place on September 27. Tie is said to be between Brig.(Retd.) G S Uban and Lt Gen (Retd.) I J Singh.

Four IAS officers in run for Executive Committee Delhi Gymkhana Club
Four IAS officers Messrs Ajit Sharan (Haryana) Raghav Chandra (MP) S P Singh and Jaidev Sarangi (UT) are in the run for the post of Executive Committee Delhi Gymkhana Club.


Brijesh Sethi appointed Principal Secretary, Law in Delhi Govt
Brijesh Sethi, an officer of Delhi Higher Judicial Service, has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Law, Justice & Legislative Affairs in Government of Delhi on deputation.

NBCC pays Rs 59.40 cr Dividend to Govt
M Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Urban Development, Government of India, has received NBCC's dividend cheque of Rs.59.40 crore for FY 2014-15 from Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, CMD. The Dividend was presented to the Minister, at a function held on September 23, 2015 and was also graced by Madhusudhan Prasad, Secretary (UD), functional Directors of the Company S K Pal, Director (Finance); S K Chaudhary, Director (Projects); Rajendra Chaudhari, Director (Commercial), and other senior officers of the Ministry & NBCC. The dividend amount includes Rs 5.50/- per equity share of face value Rs 10/- each i.e. @ 55% (previous year Rs 54.00 crore @50%).

Two IAS officers get additional charges in CG
Rajesh Kumar has been assigned additional charges of Director, Public Relations and CEO, Chhattisgarh Samvad while Alok Awasthi was given charge of Managing Director, Chhattisgarh Handicraft Development Board in Chhattisgarh.

Sudhir Chandra Kumar posted as Director, Railway Board (UPDATED)
Sudhir Chandra Kumar presently in West Central Railway has been transferred to Railway Board and posted as Director, E&R (Traffic), Railway Board. He is an IRTS officer.

Tomar appointed as Ambala Municipal Commissioner in Haryana (UPATED)
Ajay Singh Tomar has been appointed as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Ambala in Haryana. He is a 2012 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Two ISS officers get postings (UPDATED)
Sunil Chakrabarti has been transferred to Computer Centre, CSO, MOSPI, New Delhi while Mrs Rajnesh Jain was posted to RGI, New Delhi.

Tenure of N Ramesh as Director, MPEDA, Kochi extended (UPDATED)
The tenure of N Ramesh as Director (Marketing) in Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA), Kochi has been extended uptoFebruary 15, 2016. He is a 1999 batch ITS officer.

Two IPS officers join Delhi Police (UPDATED)
Two 2005 batch IPS officers of UT cadre have joined Delhi Police. Dhiraj Singh has been transferred from Arunachal Pradesh while B. K. Mishra has come from Mizoram. Their posting orders are yet to issued.

Steel industry to witness good growth in coming years (UPDATED)
Addressing the 43rd Annual General Meeting held here today, Secretary (Steel) with Additional Charge, Chairman SAIL, Rakesh Singh said that, "Even while Vision-2025 for the Company is being given final shape, action on some of the key projects in this road map have been initiated. Work on installation of a state of the art 3.0 MTPA Hot Strip Mill at Rourkela Steel Plant has started." He also added that, this mill will enable production of high quality HR coils including high strength API grades (upto API X 100), auto body grades and other special value added steels. Expressing optimism over SAIL's relentless drive to fast-track its Modernization & Expansion Plan (MEP) he said that, "projects worth Rs 10,200 Crore were commissioned in 2014-15, which is the highest for any year since inception." He also mentioned that during FY 14-15, capital expenditure of Rs 6,840 Crore has been incurred and for FY 15-16 capex of Rs 7,500 Crore is planned. Touching upon the steel industry's global scenario, he said the world's finished steel consumption rose marginally in 2014 to 1537 MT, recording 0.6% growth over 2013. China registered a negative steel demand for the first time since 1995 and its exports registered an increase of 51% over 2013. The domestic sector was largely affected by these developments. Outlining the stress experienced by domestic steel industry due to various reasons, Singh said, "Indian steel prices had to be adjusted in line with international markets resulting in a steep decline in realisations since Aug'14. This has impacted performance of the domestic steel producers." Clarifying that SAIL was also no exception to this, he mentioned, "the Company's net profit was down largely due to the lower net sales realization resulting from a subdued market in the second half of the last fiscal." However, he added that, "Indian economy has been on the recovery path. Government's focus on infrastructure augurs well for the Indian steel industry. We are confident that good growth would be witnessed in domestic steel consumption in the coming years, bringing an end to the stagnant demand scenario." Speaking about the Company's production, he said, 15.4 million tonnes (MT) of hot metal was produced in FY 14-15, registering an increase of 7% over FY 13-14 and saleable production was 13.5 MT which was 3% higher than the previous financial year. The Company achieved the highest ever Labour Productivity (LP) of 302 TCS/Man/Year in 2014-15. Shareholder's approved a further dividend of 2.5% for the current fiscal taking the total to 20% of the paid up share capital.

20 senior IFS officers transferred in MP (UPDATED)
As many as 20 IFS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, L K Chaudhary has been posted as APCCF, Work Plan, Bhopal while J K Mohanty was made APCCF, Vigilance and Grievances and Dr Atul Kumar Shrivastava is APCCF, Green India Mission. Similarly, Rajesh Shrivastava has been appointed as APCCF, Finance and Budget; Anand Kumar as CCF, Shivpuri circle; R R Okhandiar as CCF, Urban Forestry, Bhopal; S S Gaud as CCF, Conservation, Bhopal; Kamlesh Chaturvedi as CCF, Sagar circle; Dr Dharmendra Verma as CCF, Capital Project on deputation; K Raman as CCF/Regional Director, Bandhavgarh National Park Umaria; Ramesh Kumar Shrivastava as Secretary, Forest Department; Dr Dilip Kumar as Director, Sanjay National Sanctuary, Sidhi; Charanjit Singh Man as CCF, Coordination, Bhopal; Sudip Singh as CCF, Administration-2, Bhopal; Purushottam Dhiman as CCF Indore circle; Shashi Malik as CCF and Director, Madhav National Park, Shivpuri; A K Nagar as CF and Director, National Park Satpura, Hoshangabad; Atul Kheda as CF, Work Plan, Jabalpur;Ashok Kumar Joshi as CF, Work Plan, Chhindwara and A K S Chauhan was made Deputy Conservator of Forest, Bhopal.

21 IFS officers promoted to APCCF grade in MP (UPDATED)
As many as 21 IFS officers belonging to 1984, 85 and 86 have been transferred and posted at different places after promotion to the grade of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (APCCF) in Madhya Pradesh. The officers are: S K Singh, B K Mishra, Arun Kuamr, Bhanu Prakash Gupta, Anil Kumar Upadhayay, R P Singh, C H Murlikrishnan, B P S Parihar, Prashant Kumar, Sharad Tiwari, Ajad Singh Dabas, Bharat Kumar Sharma, Girdhar Rao, N S Dungariyan, Akhilesh Argal, Ramesh Kumar Gupta, Mrs Hemvati Burman, Abhay Kumar Patil, Anurag Shrivastava, Rakesh Bhushan Sinha and Anil Shrivastava.

Maharashtra attracts maximum number of foreign tourists in India- says Paraag Jaiin Nainduttia, MD MTDC
Paraag Jaiin Nainuttia, an IAS officer of 1996 batch Maharashtra cadre. Presently Paraag Jaiin Nainuttia is Managing Director of Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC). He is an ex-CEO of Maharashtra Maritime Board, Jaiin is with more than 19 years of experience in responsible roles in spheres of management and administration, Jaiin brings in expertise in team, project leadership, administration and management. Paraag Jaiin Nainuttia talked in length about his mission, vision and the pattern of its executive in an interview withwhispersinthecorridors.com Corporate Editor and Vice President Abul Hasan

1. What is your USP?
Ans. : Maharashtra has beautiful coastline, pristine beaches, maximum number of forts, caves, wildlife, adventure sports, night life, floatel, segway, etc.

2. MTDC has been involved in the development and maintenance of the various tourist locations of Maharashtra also MTDC owns and maintains resorts at all key tourist centres and having more resorts is on the plan. Your comments?

Ans. : We are in the process of upgrading infrastructure and resorts and improving the quality of service. We have tied up with Make My Trip for selling inventory and we are tying up with Club Mahindra for providing additional activities at our resorts.

3. You were the part of Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis team which recently visited Japan wherein you did a road show in Osaka. Can you elaborate about your experience and future prospective of this visit taking tourism promotions in Maharashtra is concerned.

Ans. : Our road show received a overwhelming response. Various stakeholders, tour operators, people from industry and locals participated in various activities. The people are approachable. There is a curiosity for exploring Maharashtra amongst Japanese. For the road show the India Tourism Office at Tokyo have offered strong support. About delegates from the travel trade attended the event. This would definitely help us in attracting maximum tourists to our State.

4. What are your priorities? List few of them.
Ans. : Exploitation of beautiful water front of Maharashtra. Tie up with private players for mutual beneficial relationship providing seamless experience to tourists.

5. What is your vision?
Ans. : To have peaceful seamless travel to tourists.

6. Its general belief that Maharashtra is not realising its full potential as a tourist destination? As other State like Rajasthan, Kerala, Goa, etc.

Ans. : Maharashtra has natural and manmade attractions in abundance. We attract maximum number of foreign tourists in India, approx. 24 percent. Tourists are happy to see the diversity of Maharashtra and hidden germs unexplored. We have beautiful hills, pristine beaches, rich wildlife, glamorous city life of Mumbai, rustic landscape of Vidarbha, cultural heritage of Ajanta-Ellora, maximum number of forts, ancient and modern structures, history and a lot. We have aggressive publicity plans to promote tourism across global. This year our major focus is to draw attention towards marketing of new concepts in tourism like eco-tourism, agri-tourism, social tourism, etc. Maharashtra is the third largest State of India both in area and population. Our State is one of the most developed, socially, economically and culturally developed States in India. With five world heritage sites in its cap, Maharashtra frontlines the tourist attractions in the country. Maharashtra has 720 km. long coastline along the lush green Konkan region. The Vidarbha region of Maharashtra offer considerable tourism potential.

7. What fresh avenues of growth do you see in tourism promotion in Maharashtra? How would you be going about it?
Ans. : Maharashtra offers versatile tourism attractions ranging from natural sites like lakes, beaches, hill stations, wild life sanctuaries alongwith manmade attractions like forts, caves, palaces, etc. We have a unique position in the realm of rock cut architecture, because of its peculiar rock characteristics of Satpuda and Western Ghat. Maharashtra has a score of pilgrimage destinations, several hill stations and water reservoirs with semi evergreen and deciduous forests are found in Western Ghats and the Sahyadri mountain range. The Vidarbha region, northern part of Maharashtra, features dense forest. It is home to several wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. The State abounds in natural and cultural attractions ranging from unspoiled beaches, forest, wildlife, unique hill stations, ancient cave temples, forts, temples and rich tradition of fairs and festivals. We also provide a perfect platform for fresh private investments in development of tourism in the State.

8. What are the different projects that you would like to start in order to generate more revenue for the State in tourism sector?

Ans. : MTDC has been on the international radar due to the marketing initiatives and participation in the international market. We are developing projects of oceanarium and scuba diving in Sindhudurg. Last year we supported projects of hot air balloons in Panchgani, opened world class information centres in Ajanta and Ellora and many more projects are underway and at proposal stages including "Sudarshan Chakra"on the lines of London Eye at Gorai and seaplane services from Mumbai to Lonavala and Mumbai to Shirdi. With Kumbh Mela in Nasik this year, we have also broken all the records boost tourism in State, which was not the part of projected growth targets.

9. There are many beaches, forts, historical caves in Maharashtra, what are the steps being taken to preserve them ? and then market them?
Ans. : We have created a beautiful infrastructure in Ajanta-Ellora caves which attracts the maximum number of tourists in India. There are about 200 to 225 ASI protected monuments in Maharashtra but due to protection, MTDC is not allowed to do certain activities that promote tourism facilities in their premises. Now we have entered into an agreement with ASI to work together not only in Maharashtra but also the rest of India. On Elephanta Island, we are upgrading infrastructure including the jetty, shopping area, with a proposed helipad and ropeway from the jetty to the caves.

10. If you have to market few hotspots as value for money tourist destination in Maharashtra? Then according to what will be those places?
Ans. : Maharashtra is the capital of dreams and the State's diversity stands proud and strong. MTDC ensures a true experience to its tourists by promoting vibrant and beautiful land. Maharashtra offers adventure tourism in the State. We are blessed with striking Sahyadris with steep cliffs sprightly waterfalls snaking their way through ridges, mist shrouded forests, the frothy Arabian Sea along its western coast. We have ensured best infrastructure in some remote areas and even handed contracts to private parties to boost adventure tourism. Options like rock-climbing and trekking programmes at Karla, near Lonavala, water sports at various lakes, aqua sports near Panshet and many more activities are offered in many parts of Maharashtra.

11. Infrastructure is cited as one of the limitations in Maharashtra that hinders tourism. How do you plan to combat with situation?
Ans. : It is a proven fact that Maharashtra is widely considered as safe State for tourists to move around. We attract lakhs of tourists from across the world every year. There are three international and five domestic airports in Maharashtra and they are well connected. Major destinations have excellent accessibility by roads, rail, water and air. We provide excellent world class amenities to our tourist by ensuring they get high quality services while they are exploring our destination. We have range of accommodation facilities from star category to budget hotels which are easily accessible for tourists.

12. What challenges you had faced initially internally and outside and how did you managed those challenges in this journey to success?
Ans. : I strongly believe in win win philosophy rather than zero. There are challenges and I have seen with proper explanation and persuasion, all challenges can be sort out.

13. Who is your role model and why?
Ans. : "Mahaveer" as he taught us philosophy of Anekantavada and Parigraha.

14. What pro-employees & officers initiatives have you taken to form a result oriented team.
Ans. : Given explosion through seminars and training.

CORPORATE

Sai ceases to be CMD of NHPC Ltd.
R S T Sai has ceased to be Chairman and Managing Director of NHPC Ltd. with immediate effect.


Biswas appointed Director (Engineering, Research & Development) of BHEL
Union Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises has appointed Subrata Biswas as Director (Engineering, Research & Development) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Godrej resigns as Independent Director of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd.
Nadir Godrej has resigned as Independent Director of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited

Goho appointed Joint MD of IFB Agro Industries Ltd.
IFB Agro Industries Limited has appointed Indranil Goho as Joint Managing Director of the company.

Drolia appointed CFO of Todays Writing Instruments Limited.
Todays Writing Instruments Limited has appointed Rajiv Drolia as the Chief Financial Officer of the company.

D'Silva appointed Addl. Director of Hinduja Ventures Limited.
Hinduja Ventures Limited has appointed Anthony D' Silva as an Additional Director of the company.

Raghavan resigns as Independent Director of Indowind Energy Ltd.
T S Raghavan has resigned as Independent Director of Indowind Energy Ltd.

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Med facilities for common man in Delhi

Medical facilities for an aam admi in Delhi are totally unacceptable. All the money allocated is spent in purchase of expensive machines on huge payment of commission. Once purchased, these machines work only during the warranty period. All the money is spent in new purchases and no proper allocation of funds is made for maintenance and purchase of consumables. The poor patient has to again rely on the various diagnostic centres operating in front of the government hospitals. If only supervisory authorities do their job diligently, there can be improvement in the services provided to the common man.

P C Tripathi


"Reverse Gear : Maximum Government , Minimum Governance "

I fully agree with the views of AK Saxena published in whispers on 19.09.2015: The officials of an organised Group A services always aspire to reach the highest level available in the Government. While the aspirations are justified, however, any reasonable cadre structure can only be pyramidal having lesser number of posts at the apex level. Accordingly, it needs to be appreciated that not everyone can rise to the top position even after joining the Organized Central Services. Presently, the member of organised Group A services are trying to reach at higher position almost every service organization had desired creation or up-gradation of additional posts in the higher grades by curtailing lower level posts.

J. Dash



Scams in appointments

I fully agree with AK Saxena regarding scam in appointment of Consultants in the Departments/Ministries after retirement. Most of these are chums/khabris of the officers or have some political clout. Honest officers normally do not get any reward for their sincerity. This practice need be stopped with immediate effect.

Harish Kumar



Double standards

When Saudi diplomats rape, sodomise and torture women the Government of India is so coy about it! Even the TV channels are suddenly quiet. Instead they should publish the Saudi diplomats' pictures all across the country and abroad too to name and shame him. We have not seen a single photo of the Saudi rapist. Instead the rape victims are paraded before the TV cameras. Is this justice? In Saudi Arabia if an Indian diplomat had committed such heinous crimes he would have been castrated in public before being beheaded. And the Saudis would have cited Sharia law not the Vienna Convention. Even now it is not too late. Indian police should arrest Saudi diplomats not covered by diplomatic immunity and subject them to sexual torture the way Devyani Khobragade was in New York by the New York police. Have we no national shame or national pride? Will we allow foreigners to rape, sodomise and torture our women forever?

D Choudhary



No fresh air but stink remains

What great fresh air is brought into central ministries by elected Ministers but the stench of corruption? It is a joke to say that Chidambaram, Pranab Mukerjee etc. brought in fresh air into central ministries...they have left behind a stink which is getting worse by the day because of the skeletons left behind by them in locked cupboards. Unfortunately the investigative agencies have become so heavily politicised that they dare not investigate unless they get the nod at every stage of investigation. So the Shashi Tharoors and Robert Vadras of this world continue to pontificate while their crimes get buried under a mountain of files.

D Choudhury


Shame on IAS domination

Imagine just for a small state of Haryana, there are 20 officers of the IAS in 80,000 apex scale whereas for the other services like the IRS the countrywide sanctioned posts are only 13. Worse, not a single officer has been promoted from the IRS to this grade. These same IAS officers sit in the DOPT and devise every conceivable trick on the Earth to stall promotions and deputations of other services. Will the PM ever take note of this and disband this all dominating selfish cadre?

Sunil


Congrats

Congratulations to MJ Joseph on his empanelment as Secretary. He richly deserves this coveted post and would do justice to the Ministry to which he is posted.

H G Upreti

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