Tenure of Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Acharya is going to expire in the third week of this month.His successor is yet to be named.

Three retired major general ranked officers — M.S. Balhara, A. S. Grewal and Vinay Bhatnagar are being included in the nine-member unified command of Jharkhand.

HB Lal once again taken over as the chairman of the Jharkhand State Electricity Board chairman on Wednesday.

Star India Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Uday Shankar has been appointed as President of The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) for the year 2010-11.

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Property statements of Government Servants
The appellant sought copy of every secretary rank officer's declarations of assets and liabilities made to the department arguing that similar statements made by the MPs and MLAs who are also 'public servants', is in public domain. Relying on the Delhi High Court ruling in S. C. Agrawal v. Supreme Court of India WP No. 288/2009, the CIC held that the property statements are part of Government records. The disclosure of Property statements can amount to invasion of privacy under section 8(1)(j), unless the public interest in disclosure is
demonstrated. Therefore, disclosure can be made only after reference to the third party under section 11(1).

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The mere fact that a government servant has to furnish a property statement does not mean that the declaration is a part of public activity, or "interest". A public servant does not cease to enjoy fundamental rights upon assuming the office. A private citizen's privacy right is of the same nature and character as that of a public servant. A public servant acts for the public good in the course of discharge of his duties and is accountable for them. The degree of
protection to his right to privacy may differ from that of any other citizen depending on what is at stake. Hence, only when something of larger "public interest" in disclosing the personal information is demonstrated by way of objective material or evidence by the information seeker, the exemption under section 8(1)(j) may not be available. The onus of showing that disclosure should be made is upon the individual asserting it. If the PIO intends to disclose such
records, a notice may be issued to the concerned public official, as a "third party" and consider his views on why there should be no disclosure.  This order should put at rest the confusion about the property statements and personal information.
 
[ Shyam Lal Yadav v. Dep't of Personnel & Training, (DoPT) in Appeal No. CIC/WB/A/2009/000669 ]
 
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Unlucky Scientific community

How lucky are those birds and bees to have 10 member committee to take care of them. But the scientific community have no one to care. They have only to die under the Bureaucracy.

Jaipal Reddy

Role of IRS undermined

I read with interest the article by KS regarding IT department. It’s true that role of IRS is not recognised by political rulers. IAS will never recognise it for obvious reason of rivalry and to keep IAS above all. IRS is not represented at higher level of administration at JS level and NIL representation at secretary level due to deliberate effort by IAS to keep the department subjugated. IT department is ruled not by the CBDT but three extra cadre officer which are RS,JS Admin and Director(Ad-VI). These three officers always have nexus under the top boss RS and they ensure that IRS is not given its due in the matters of deputations, promotions and cadre advancement. Promotion files of all levels get kicked from one table to another for years under small pretexts. IRS has been demanding time bound promotion on lines of IAS, but nobody listens.
How can the country and its FM expect a demoralised lot to catch big tax evaders. How can the country expect tax administrators to perform if they themselves are not administered with equity and justice vis a vis other services.

Shantanu Ghosh

Unkind Railway Minister

The Railway Minister is not kind to ladies in the Railways. An SAG lady officer selected for a prestigious assignment in TRAI was not relieved by Ms Bannerjee despite Finance Commissioner and Chairman Railway Board agreeing to the same.

Parivartan

Irresponsible comments

Some Amit Agrarwal has written that it is Astonishing that there are 120 posts at JS level without any accountable work. Does he know where are all these officers are posted and what work they are doing. It is sad that without having any knowledge only on hearsay such comments are being made. Agarwal will gave to define the word accountability in the Government.

S Sharma

One Rank One Basic Pay

Recently 1467 Posts of UDCs have been upgraded to the Post of Assistants in CSS Cadre. Even after promotion as Assistant there is a large difference in Salaries of the Direct Recruit Assistants and promotee Assistants.
The Basic Salary of Direct Recruit Assistants is Rs. 18460/- [i.e. Rs. ( Pay Band ) 13680 + 4600 ( Grade Pay) ] and that of promotee is One increment ( in old Scale) + 4600 which is far less than. Promotee Assistants are more efficient in of Govt. working as they are already in Govt. Service more than 10 years or above. This is a serious injustice with promotee Assistant Inspite of these qualities the salary structure have such a large gap. This anomaly may be sorted out immediately considering One Rank, one designation one Basic Pay.

Sanjay Kumar

What is Congress lead govt upto ?

It seems the present congress led Government is in the same apologetic mood of the Congress Government of 50s as far as China is concerned. Even Pakistan expressed their misgivings when China annexed Tibet, though they changed their track later. When Ayub Khan offered a Joint Defence Agreement with India , Nehru thundered in the Lok sabha on 4 May 1959 “Who is the joint defence aimed at”. He was apologetic to every Chinese demeanor whether it is aggression in Tibet or incursion into our own territory. Two years later when Chinese over ran our territory there was none from his Non-aligned friends (except Bhutan) or from his commie friends to condemn the Chinese. He died friendless, disillusioned and his non-alignment went for a sixer.
All the missiles Pakistanis are brandishing whether it is Shahin or Babar, are all of Chinese design or make. Pakistan’s nuclear technology is all of China’s. Pakistan has already admitted that their Gwadar Port will be used to station Chinese Navy as a counter to India. China is also arming them with fighters, paragliders and weapons. Now they have ceded a part of Kashmir to China. And still not a word from our Government. Our government should know that those who forget the past is bound to lose the future. We should develop defence and nuclear ties with countries like Vietnam, Taiwan and Philippines. A rootless PM, a tired out forlorn FM assisted by a Secretary who it appears spends more time in things other than planning counter diplomatic strategy, our only hope is Gen. V.K. Singh and his men.

N Sriram

Usmani is not first Muslim topper

Javed Usmani is not the first Muslim topper. Naved Masood of 1977 batch is brilliant officer and has unmatched record and has worked in more ministries than Mr Usman. And Pulak will prefer be Cab Sec for 4 years

Geeta Chaudhary

Usmani lacks leadership quality !

By being a topper does not imbibe leadership and administrative capability of the person. These are inborn. I do not much about Usmani, but I have only heard that he lacks leadership quality. These things do matter when one aspires to be Cabinet Secretary.

Harish Kumar

Pre mature step

There is no doubt that Rahul baba is able to hold any post in organization but in my view this step will be pre mature. He must wait for some more time and without holding the post of president he must try to infuse more youngsters in party ranks so that high energy youngsters may construct new developed India in his leadership.

Man Singh

Congress get fevicoled once more!

It is Sonia on all TV channels today. Tomorrow again it will be the same when the result is formally announced. We will witness the high drama of competitive displays of paying obeisance and tributes by whosoever would like to steal a photo opportunity. Such opportunities come once in a life time. People bequeath these to their progenies for use at opportune times in future! It is a different matter that photos of Sanjay Gandhi have been hidden for the time being. But the compliments of the media (Sonia kaa kad aur bhi badh jayegaa) make one wonder whether the kad means height or stature! So far as height is concerned, I doubt Sonia can add even one more centimeter. So far as stature is concerned, it is already high--so high that the dramebaaz can not even garland her properly and therefore leave the garlands at her feet and smile from side to side!
However, Sonia's contribution is admirable. She has provided glue to the party, at a time when most ministers have started singing their individual tunes, giving a funny interpretation to personal and official views. This is specially so considering the urbane etiquettes of our Prime Minister, who is not leader of either house! Ambitions are burning. So the news , which began with the Proposer ManMohan Singh and Seconder Rahul Gandhi in the forenoon, started gathering additional name(s) by the evening! Does it really matter to make news of who proposed her name, unless the idea is to encash the news suitably at the right time? Had Sonia withdrawn from the ring, we would have witnessed some really gory duels. So it is good that election of the President of the GOP has passed off peacefully, upholding our faith in non-violence and also Sonia Gandhi! Jab tak sooraj chand rahega, Sonia ke sar par taj rahega. Congratulations ,Ma'm

M L Gupta

Congrats to Mrs.Iyer

Mrs. V.R Iyer is the right person to be appointed as ED, Central Bank of India.

Kishore Dudani

Better choice for FC!

Samar Jha has less than four months to retire and has not worked as GM so how can he be made FC? Mrs. Usha Mathur has 8-9 months left for retirement so maybe she is better choice for FC!

Kumaran

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