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Whisper denotes to speak very softly using one's breath rather than one's throat, especially for the sake of secrecy. However, whispersinthecorridors is a webpage for enlightening vigilant and alert persons about Indian bureaucracy, politics in a soft and confidential tone of voice. Thanks to Dr Mehrotra for providing such wonderful platform.

Vikram S. Meena, MMTC

Appointment of nine new Governors this week !
Appointment of nine new Governors is expected to take place this week only.

Modi's source of 'out of the box' ideas ?
What is the secret behind Narendra Modi's 'out of the box' ideas ? Those in the know of things say that he has best brains of the country with him.

Another Field Marshal emerges !
Over a period of time, another Field Marshal (one who never retires) has emerged. And he is none other than the former CBI Director, P C Sharma - presently Advisor to the Union Finance Minister. Till now, J&K Governor, NN Vora, was the only one who had earned the sobriquet of Field Marshal.

BUREAUCRACY

Change in CPOs on the card ?
There is going to be a reshuffle in some para military forces chief soon. At present RPF, BPR&D and NCB are headless. DG, CISF is also going to retire this month. Post of DG NSG will fall vacant in May.

Who is going to be changed ?
In the corridors of power, rumor is that a DG of a large Para Military force is being changed . One can only guess the name.

N R Wasan to be BPR&D Chief ?
N.R.Wasan is being tipped to be new DG of the BPR&D. An AP cadre 1980 batch IPS officer, Wason, is presently posted as Spl DG in NIA.

Tayal to be Chief of NCRB ?
In the event of R R Verma's movement to RPF, RC Tayal may be appointed new chief of NCRB. Tayal is presently Spl DG, CRPF. He is 1980 batch IPS officer of Assam- Meghalaya cadre.

Verma likely to be DG, RPF
If sources are to be believed a very senior IPS officer in GoI R R Verma is likely to be posted as new DG of RPF, which is vacant since February this year. Verma is a 1978 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer and holding the post of DG, NCRB and additional charge of DG, BPR&D.

Who will become DG, CISF?
Hectic lobbying has started for the post of DG, CISF. According to sources DGs of some CPOs are also weighing the option. Now tie is said to be between 1979 batch IPS officer of AP cadre Ashok Prasad and 1980 beatch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre Surender Singh.

Who will be DG, NSG ?
Who will succeed J N Choudhury as NSG Chief in May ?. Here also names of Ashok Prasad and Surender Singh are in circulation.

Tenure of Chandramouli as RG&CCI ends on April 8
The tenure of C Chandramouli as Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) is coming to an end on April 8, 2015. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Subrahmanyam to return to Chhattisgarh today
B V R Subrahmanyam is returning to the parent Chhattisgarh cadre on Monday from central deputation. He is 1987 batch IAS officer. He was earlier Joint Secretary in the PMO.
(We said this on March 16 )

Shapoo moves to IB
Sajid Farid Shapoo has moved from NIA to the IB as Deputy Director. He is 1998 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Six member Experts Committee formed
The Central Vigilance Commission ( CVC) has formed a committee of experts for scrutiny of prosecution sanctions. Six retired officers from civil service, PSU/Banks have been included in the committee. The tenure of such committee will be for two years from April 1, 2015.Earlier such panel was formed in June 2012 which expired in December last year.

Krishna is a member of expert committee
Sudhir Krishna has been included in the expert committee of CVC. He is a 1977 batch IAS officer who retired as Secretary, Union Urban Development.

Paliwal now a member of expert committee
CB Paliwal, a retired 1981 UP cadre IAS officer, has been made a member of the expert committee of CVC.

Retd IRS officer included in CVC panel
A retired IRS officer, Sada Shiv Vajpayee has been appointed a member of expert committee by the CVC.

Sushma Dabak in CVC committee
Sushma V, Dabak, a retired IA&AS officer has also joined the CVC's expert committee

Gupta finds place in CVC panel
P K Gupta, reted Spl DG, CPWD has also been included in the expert committee of CVC.

Ex-LIC Chief Shukla in expert committee
Atul Kumar Shukla, former CMD of LIC, has also been included in the expert committee of CVC.

Dipti Gaur Mukherjee to return this month
Joint Secretary in DPE in the Government of India, Ms Dipti Gaur Mukherjee, is returning to the parent Madhya Pradesh cadre in April after completion of central deputation tenure. She is 1993 batch IAS officer.

Dipankar Gupta re-nominated as Director, NABARD
Dipankar Gupta from Central Board of Reserve Bank of India has been re-nominated as Director on the Board of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for a period of three years.

Dr Arvind Sharma nominated as Director, UCO bank
Dr Arvind Sharma, CGM, RBI, has been nominated as Director on the Board of UCO Bank.

Abhay Kuamr appointed as Director, Nehru Centre, London
Indian Foreign Service officer, Abhay Kumar has been appointed to Director, the Nehru Centre, London (A) in place of Mrs Sangeeta Bahadur.

Post of MD, NBCFDC lying vacant
The post of Managing Director, National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation (NBCFDC) has been lying vacant since November, 2014.

Vacancy of Director (Pers), SAIL arises
A vacancy of Director (Personnel), Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has arisen with the retirement of incumbent Himanshu Sekhar Pati on March 31, 2015. However, Atul Srivatava, ED, SAIL, who was selected for this post, has not received orders for joining.

Orders of UT cadre officers likely today? (UPDATED)
UT cadre IAS/IPS postings orders are likely to be issued by today evening. Big reshuffle is expected. Transfer committee meeting was held on April 30,2015.

Posting orders of Manish Srivastava as Under Secretary, Culture cancelled (UPDATED)
The posting orders of Manish Kumar Srivastava as Under Secretary, Culture in Government of India have been cancelled after promotion to Under Secretary level. Srivastav, who belongs to CSS cadre, refused to repatriate to avail promotion.

Ms Nilam Sawhney deputed as Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission (UPDATED)
Ms Nilam Sawhney, who is presently in the cadre, has been appointed as Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in the rank of Additional Secretary. She is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Ajay Bhalla appointed as Additional Secretary, Commerce (UPDATED)
Ajay Kumar Bhalla has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Ms Nutan Biswas deputed as Additional Secretary, Women & Child Development (UPDATED)
Ms Nutan Guha Biswas, who is presently in the cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development. She is a 1983 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Jalaj Shrivastava deputed as Additional Secretary, Agriculture & Cooperation (UPDATED)
Jalaj Shrivastava, who is presently in the cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Ashok Dalawai appointed as Additional Secretary, Agriculture & Cooperation (UPDATED)
Ashok M R Dalawai has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

R Buhril appointed as Adviser, Inter-State Council Secretariat (UPDATED)
R Buhril has been appointed as Adviser, Inter-State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs in the rank of Additional Secretary. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Ms Anuradha Mitra appointed as Additional Secretary, Defence (UPDATED)
Ms Anuradha Mitra has been appointed as Financial Adviser (Acquisition) & Member (Defence Procurement Board) and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Defence. She is a 1982 batch IP&T A&FS officer.

Amarjeet Sinha appointed as Additional Secretary, Rural Development (UPDATED)
Amarjeet Sinha has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Alok Kumar appointed as Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog (UPDATED)
Alok Kumar has been appointed as Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Posting orders of T Vijayakumar as Additional Secretary, Women & Child Dev cancelled (UPDATED)
The posting orders of T Vijayakumar as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development have been cancelled. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

DEBATE

Debate - Future of AAP after internal bickerings ?

Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP's) recent mammoth victory in Delhi was a super-landslide (the winning party securing 90 percent or more seats). Even the Congress which had the natural advantage of leading the freedom struggle successfully and had stalwarts like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi could never achieve it in any general election despite dominating the political scene in the country post independence. The rise of the Aam Aadmi Party indicated that people once again saw politics as an act of faith and hope but given the bickerings among its leaders in too a short span, the question that now arises is that What is the future of AAP ?

Mail your views to mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com and suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

(NB : Please be precise and specific as too long comments lose the gravity of discussion)

CORPORATE

Coal India misses target !
This time the Coal India has missed the production target for the financial year 2014-15 by 3 per cent despite recording an output of 494.23 million tonnes.

Two Independent Directors appointed on Board of Simbhaoli Power Private Ltd
Simbhaoli Power Private Limited (SPPL) has appointed Samir Chandra Kumar and Umesh Kumar Sehdev as Independent Directors of the company.

Two Non Exec. Independent Directors appointed on Board of Tata Sons Ltd
Ronen Sen and Farida Khambata have been appointed as Non Executive Independent Directors of Tata Sons Ltd.

Dwivedi resigns as Whole-time Director, Flexituff International Limited
Manoj Kumar Dwivedi has resigned as Whole-time Director of Flexituff International Limited w.e.f. March 31, 2015.

Ms. Gupta appointed Woman Director, Flexituff International Limited
Ms Alka Gupta has been appointed as Woman Director of Flexituff International Limited

Tripathi to be appointed CFO, Jaybharat Textiles and Real Estate Ltd?
The Board of Jaybharat Textiles and Real Estate Ltd is to appoint Santosh Kumar Tripathi as Chief Financial Officer of the company.

Ms. Jhunjhunwala appointed Non Independent Director, Sarla Performance Fibers Ltd
Sarla Performance Fibers Ltd has appointed Ms Neha Jhunjhunwala as Non Executive, Non-Independent Director of the company

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DEBATE (1)

The future of AAP is bright, the issue of bickering is a creation of media. The media including whispers which we're ignoring AAP are now reporting minute to seconds proceedings of the party affairs at the behest of ruling powers. Cam there media say with impunity there is no bickering in BJP and all cabinet ministers of MPs have no grudge against any office bearer or within the rss Parivar: similar situations exists in SP, BSP, Congress, TMC, DMK and for that matter even every listed corporate of the country. There is a tall and respected individual in every party, in others every party has its own repeated and referred NAMO and a fair share of detractors as well. We gave faith on our NAMO and let them do their job. Even Suresh Mehrotra is a hero in Whispers but may have many detractors in the field. This does that makes Whispers a subject matter of mutiny? The future is bright and we are glad to be part of today.

Pushpa Gupta

This is neither good politics nor good economics

There is an unholy and unwarranted race for social spending among governments irrespective of the political party which is running it. The Union government as well as the State governments are spending trillions of rupees from the State Chequer on various schemes for the supposed benefit of the poor where the real purpose behind such frivolity is to endear their party flag amongst those who do not understand the A.B.C. of the manifesto of any political party. They are very happy to receive freebies as largesse without owing permanent loyalty to any party or government. It has been seen after every General elections that there is loyalty to the last Congress government for the scores of schemes over which a considerable amount of the Union Budget was thrown down the drain . Now if the present ruling party also does the same what guarantee is there that the Voter will always remain loyal to it. Even if the voter remains loyal, has anybody ever thought that freebies and such largesse is making a whole generation of beggars who will not earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, but will gloat over ever increasing daily wages accompanied by rations at Re. 1 per kg., free education for their children, free bicycles for the girls, free deliveries in nursing homes and liberal grants on the eve of the marriage of their daughters. This is neither good politics nor good economics. No country in the Western liberal democracies has ever given free lunches and freebies to the populace as in our country, for the political party does it from tax payers" money. Better would have been to teach and impress upon the populace to work hard for a living and provide them free basic education and develop their skills. Is it not better to teach a man fishing rather than give him a fish and forget about his future. First the foremost thing is to impress upon the poor that they must work hard to be useful citizens of the country and earn a living.

S C Agrawal DGP (Retd)


Harrassment of honest bureaucrats

It is extremely disturbing to note about the 45th(or 46th) sudden transfer given to a Haryana officer who is known to be honest with high integrity.

Fingers are being pointed at the politicians in power as it is normally they who try to ensure by transfers and other means that inconvenient officers are taken out of the way.

There is another strong reason for such transfers which is not talked about openly often. It is the pressure brought about by corrupt officers working with an honest officer who does not agree to be party to their dishonest ways. In many cases, the subordinate officers or colleagues manipulate the system in such a way that the ministers in charge are unable to resist their pressures and eventually transfer the inconvenient officers.

The entire system is rotten and it is sad that the IAS cadre has become the den of corrupt and self-seeking officers. More sad is the fact that even the Chief Secretaries are either morally weak or conniving in such malpractices and do not protect but in fact hound honest officers.

Ashwini K Singh


Will decision making be put on fast track ?

With Suresh Prabhu taking over, it was expected decision making will be put on fast track. Sadly postings of General Managers are getting delayed. It is hoped orders will be issued early.

S Kanakasabapathy


Why are trains running late ?

It is reported in one of the newspaper that on the basis of complaints received by them the PMO has asked the Railway Board to explain as to why trains are running late when during emergency these moved on time. The Railway Ministry is now dusting the files of emergency era to know the answer. Laughable. It is true that discipline out of fear was the flavor of emergency but that was not a major reason for the punctuality of trains. The number of trains four decades ago were not even one-third of what the Railways operate today. During the last forty years since emergency, successive Railway ministers added to that number without commensurate addition or strengthening of the infrastructure. Today some routes are so saturated that there is hardly any leeway left between the two trains to maintain the track ,signaling or Rolling stock leaving all assets and equipments in a bad shape. Breakdown of one train has a cascading effect on an entire chain on a particular route. The failure to attend to maintenance is one big cause. The whole system is stressed beyond its capability and culpability for this state of affairs does not lie with traffic department alone but every other department of the Railways and most certainly with the political bosses who milked this cow badly without giving it proper fodder and nutrients.

Aarti Khosla

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