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Friday, 24 May 2019

Prime Minister for Life ?

Narendra Modi may declare him as Prime Minister for Life and Member of Parliament for Varanasi for life. A Presidential ordinance for this may be issued soon after his swearing in as Prime Minister next week
S Gurumurthi
Thursday, 23 May 2019

Four IAS officers of 1986 batch still awaiting quick review

Out of 16 IAS officers of 1986 batch empanelled as secretary equivalent, only Ravi Capoor of Assam cadre has been upgraded as full Secretary. There are at least four officers in the list who have more than two years of service , who are awaiting quick review by new government.
Manas
Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Deconstruction Theorists Losers

The deconstruction theorists failed to deconstruct Modi or reconstruct Rahul. Every success story was torn into pieces- from transparency to demonetisation and from acche din to jobs. They trivialised the achievements and transposed imagined failures. When nothing worked, they hit at his family. Even women politicians having no experience of Grahastha Jivan went over the board. Building a narrative around Rafale fighter jet deal (Logocentrism/deconstruction theory) and (Nirav) Modi (phonocentrism) and illusions of a mahagathbandhan, the deconstruction theorist breached all bounds of decency and descended low to resort to deplorable abuses. They desperately tried to defeat Modi so as to capture power. For the deconstruction community “ power is entirely for its own sake…. We are not interested in the good of others… no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.” (George Orwell, 1984) Challenging “reality” is no child’s play but mentors at home and abroad have ruined the young men by instigating them to go vulgar on Modi in order to destroy his image built in the 5 years of his governance. The deconstructionists, the Left anarchists, the faith community failed to dent Modi’s image by any of their attempts to create illusion about their thoughts, ideas and promises. The Maoist doctrine of repeating a lie hundred times to make the masses take it as truth has failed in India. Because of their sustained attack personally on him, Narendra Modi has emerged victorious, more powerful and a stronger leader. Attempts to influence/steal the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 by foreign interests were most reprehensible for being too visible. The Time Magazine has published the most stupid cover page and story in its history. If the press is called ‘‘presstitute’’ today, it is due to such irresponsible journalists, writers, editors and publishers. Number of spurious surveys also failed to dent Modi’s image. Now their slogan is: anybody but Narendra Modi. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words” but it failed to achieve the results it was deployed for as the Congress Party has lost the election and all their efforts to construct a non-existent Rahul Gandhi have gone vain. For the Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi and the alliance called Mahagathbandhan, I leave them in their midsummer reverie in Lutyens Delhi till the 23rd when results will be declared: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Devindra
Monday, 20 May 2019

Bringing private institutions under RTI Act essential

Bringing private institutions under RTI Act is an urgent need of the day.Nothing justifies lack of transparency in pvt institutions.Bring it on!
N Singh
Saturday, 18 May 2019

All should be under RTI Act

I agree that Private Sector, Public Sector, Engineering and other commercial social federations all be under RTI Act. Also their profits be based on ABC (average business cost) social audit. There should be a mechanism too wherein all these are forced to spend C.S.R. funds are spent for the purpose these are earmarked and are not just donated to political parties. CSR should be under proper audit.
Harish Kumar
Friday, 17 May 2019

Why are PS not sent back to their cadre ?

IAS officers get posted as PS and OSD to Ministers when they are in the grade of Dy Secy and Director. IAS as Secretary, the head of the department and as the PS to the Minister -the power is retained and confirmed that Minister does not act against the interests of this service. Why are the PS not sent back to their cadre instead of being adjusted in Delhi.
Mrigank Puneet
Good suggestion
Very good suggestion by Naveen. Unfortunately neither the Politicians nor the vested interested Bureaucrats will allow such transparency. The crux of the problem is in the opaque process of selection/appointment of senior positions in Government/PSU/ Banks and other institutions. In addition there should be clearly laid down accountability at each level of bureaucracy. Strict monetary punishment for failure to do a task/causing unnecessary harassment to an individual should be made part of conduct rules.
S Gopal
Thursday, 16 May 2019

Salaried class to loose their peace of mind

If Piyush Goel becomes Finance Minister, just like dynamic fare being under implementation in railways affecting the commuters, a special tax system like dynamic tax will be imposed on middle class especially on salaried class apart from the usual tax they are paying and force the middle class and salaried class to loose their peace of mind and keep them in tension.
Raghubir
Why people Abuse?
It is giving vent to uncontrolled anger caused by deep emotion of jealousy. It is the indication of frustration which can lead to brain attack unless released immediately. The frustrated guys feel weak and helpless against their enemy. They are deeply jealous of their enemy. Unable to harm him physically, they resort to abuse to destroy him emotionally and mentally. If the enemy turns out to be mentally stronger than them, the abusers go wild and resort to savagery. However, they are losers all the way since they only denigrate their own parents for poor brought up and poor education. Their mind is filled with uncontrolled negativity. It fouls their vocabulary. They hate to use positive expressions and take others as weak or coward for not responding to their provocation violently. They aim to provoke the target to fall down to the level of their street language, evil or “gunda” expressions. By nature, they are “khal” or malicious ones. Their target ignores their malicious words or speech the same way a graceful mountain bears the severity of the rain drops. When these khal grow into Dusta or demonic, they need to be punished. It is no use trying to persuade the dusta because they can only be vanquished. The entire justice delivery system is meant to punish the dusta. The vilification carried out by the political parties and their leaders in the past two months also betrays their feudal psyche. Before coming into force of the constitution of India, it used to be their normal day to day pattern of behavior. They would go about hitting, abusing or denigrating the poor. Even if they murdered a doctor in a hospital or public servant they would manage to escape the gallows. Feudal lords used to abuse, torture, terrorise, punish, burn alive or subject to various other atrocities the poor citizens whom they denied the idea of a citizen, not to talk of any rights. Till the ugly Emergency of 1975, the people were not fully conscious of their rights. The Emergency jolted them. And the first thing the feudal mind (rather “thought police” in Orwellian speak) thought of was citizens’ “obligations”, which were included in the constitution. Our Netas have no obligation to the voters! The abusers were made to realize the power of the Rule of Law over their feudal conduct after 1950. It created conflict, which though reduced, still continues. The abusers, the gang rapists, the chief ministers making fun of the constitution by proclaiming that they do not recognize Modi as the prime minister, the ministers who behave vulgar and indecent under the misconception that they are above the law, are warts on democracy and Rule of Law and need to be taught a few lessons in decent and civilized democratic behaviour. The Supreme Court of India has done a great service as well as a disservice by its judgement in the S.R.Bommai case and ought to review it on their own to tame such recalcitrant feudal elements, violating the law, and to put the fear of law into their swollen heads in the interest of Rule of Law and democracy. Every single abuser of Narendra Modi is guilty of that feudal mindset, which is currently posing the biggest Challenge to Rule of Law and Threat to Democracy. Every such person needs medication and psychiatric support beside heavy dose of law. None of these abusers is anywhere near the stature of Narendra Modi which he has earned by sheer dint of his hard work. Public service has been made a dhandha or commercial opportunity by these unscrupulous elements in politics, who have revived the culture of might is right by resorting to violence. Narendra Modi is the only hope of the people to retrieve public service from their clutches and put it on the high pedestal our freedom fighter leaders had placed on. They inspired the people to sacrifice their personal interest in the service of the people. Can any of Modi’s detractors claim to be so? Can they say they have not acquired illegally huge assets at the cost of public interest? Even one among the mahagathbandhan?
M L Gupta
Bring private organisations also under the ambit of the RTI Act
The private organisations should also be brought under the ambit of the RTI Act. When a government bank is answerable under RTI, why should a private bank be given the privilege of being out of it ? Are they not working in identical circumstances ? In fact, the PSUs have to face so many committees while the private sector has no such control. A Public Sector electricity distribution company is answerable under RTI, the same norm should be applicable to a private company too.
S Solanki
Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Are elections really a celebration of democracy ?

At least Elections 2019 cannot be termed as celebration. The word "celebration "is akin to something joyful. You celebrate when you are happy and in festive spirit. What we are going through is not a festival but street fights where abuses of the worst kind are hurled at each other. Truth is a victim of blatant shameless lies as part of strategy to win votes. Even those long dead are not spared. If naming them hurts your rival. Your whole khandan is being invoked with real or imaginary wrongs done by them. The noise is getting on one's nerves and what a prolonged torture it is. One waits for !9th May when one is spared of this onslaught on one's finer senses and this abusive language would stop and we return to decent social behaviour.
Aarti Khosla
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Monday, 13 May 2019

Debate

DEBATE (1)
Huge no. of retd defence personnel eligible for Jt. Secy level post
Ex-servicemen should be given first priority in government re-employment as huge number of officers from all three services qualify for the post of joint secretaries. Isn’t it?
An Ex-serviceman
Transparency and honesty: Need of the hour (contd.)
Transparency and honesty are two main pillars in democratic system. Any working which is not transparent gives rise to suspicion and wrong doing with some exception. We are observing in many areas where public interest is involved but working is neither transparent nor honest. In financial working it is still more important. Banks NPA is rising due to non-transparent working. Lenders are not aware the exposure of other lenders in same project or organisation. Had it been transparent then cases like Kingfisher would not have happened. Still we can adopt of transparent working with honesty. The case of IL&FS has not been fully understood unless forensic audit is done. The exposure of different banks in other NBFC is not known due to non-transparent working. Let all the stressed assets/funds are brought in public domain to know the real situation or exposure of different banks. Power and Telecom are other sectors waiting to unearth stressed assets apart from real estates. The situation is not comfortable as many things are happening behind the curtain and are kept out of public domain in the name of secrecy and confidentiality. We should follow transparency and honesty in our working as far as possible without covering it under clause of confidentiality. Long term effect will always be good if it is followed. Now a days accountability is to be followed in our working. This is to be integrated into the working system so that the persons responsible can be brought to the book. Please integrate the transparency and honesty in the system.
Naveen
Saturday, 11 May 2019

Limited lateral entry good

DEBATE (1)
Limited lateral entry will prove to be a boon to control All India Service officers. It is said to have been brought in to make AIS officials efficient.
Arun Gurtu, Former DG Police
"Padharo Mhare Desh"
World’s largest democracy in action. Chaos, more chaos, perfect chaos. We live in the Animal farm. Accusations, counter-accusations, expletives by the political class. In absence of Parliament, all jibes, rhetoric are unparliamentarily. TV channel debates are one-sided. An air of despondency
PM Modi cites derogatory remarks uttered against him by the Opposition for invoking public sympathy. And, vice versa. Battle of wits continues in the name of Freedom of Speech and Expression.
All political parties are confident of winning majority. Battle of nerves .
PM Modi banking on pro-incumbency wave. His cheerleaders, blind followers are busy conducting their own opinion and exit polls. Ram Madhav of RSS claims he knows more than others, talking of receiving support from other parties.
" Thug-Bandhan " hopes for anti-incumbency tsunami, has its eyes set on anointing Mayawati as Prime Minister. Mamata didi usually behaves like head of a Republic.
The Congis are getting desperate with each passing day. Scared of ultimate liquidation of its dynastic monarchy. Diggy Raja trying to prove, he is a hindu , performing yagnas under camera glare to woo hindu voters.
PM Modi reveals Rajiv Gandhi's hypocrytic life-styles ,picnicking aboard the warship INS-Virat in Lakshdweep, accompanied by his Italian in-laws, sorry ,out-laws, jeopardising national security. But, Modi’s claim of Italian participation in picnics, is ruled out by former Naval chief Admiral Doss.
Judiciary is under attack. CJI faces sexual harassment charges, gets clean chit by the truncated panel of three SC Judges. Deeper conspiracy. People's faith in institutional integrity of Judiciary, is shaken. Corruption in the Bench and the Bar continues. Total trust deficit.
Recall George Orwell’s seven commandments in Animal Farm:
"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.”
A K Saxena (A former civil servant)
Friday, 10 May 2019

Whispers Forum — 10 May 2019

DEBATE (1)
Lateral entry a good concept but ...
Lateral entry is a good concept but much willl depend upon the fair selection of competent persons.
A K Agrawal former Secretary DoPT
Sinha deserves it
Amarjeet Sinha really deserves this place for posting. He ie very hardworking, sincere and systematic officer.
I K Chaudhary
Ridiculous !
Your comments on Digvijay Singh clearly sound ridiculous! How can 10000 Sadhus come to campaign for someone who is an established Hindu-baiter ? Please verify such items to retain your credibility.
Ashok Gupta