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ONE person Dr. Suresh Mehrotra started a project with ONE click on day ONE in 200 (ONE) with ONE computer and ONE employee in ONE room of his house named as www.whispersinthecorridor.com has reached 10 crore hits today .
Congratulations
Congratulations and Thank you for your commitment
Bhupender Kumar
Passenger Traffic in Indian Railways - a loosing proposition
Passenger Traffic in the Indian Railways is already a loosing proposition. Mr. Srinivasan who is already the privilege few of the country wants to have more benefit out of the scarce resource of the country. They are many who still need assistance from the government.
BBS
Govt not taking action ?
Why govt is not taking action against corrupted, falsified age affidavit holders who occupied top slots of govt, CPSE, PESB, UPSC, investigating agencies. These guys continued from UPA to NDA.Will PM take a note of It.. It is the need of hour. otherwise people will lose faith in Govt..
Rao
CGHS stops giving medicines from counter
CGHS has stopped giving medicines over their counter and all medicines have to be indented. The CGHS authorities do not have an idea as what trouble a pensioner has to go through if the medicines are not available in the Dispensary and they are indented everytime. This is nothing but harrasment to pensioners as they are required to go the dispensaries twice or thrice just to get their medicines which I am sure when the serving bureaucrats retire, will feel the pinch.Since now the shoe is on the other foot they just don't care. I hope better sense prevails at the earliest so that pensioners will feel relieved.
K S Palachandran

It is rather strange to note that there is shortage of IAS officers-a much sought after job by all youngsters. One possible reason could be that the State Government under reported the number of vacancies or people selected don't want to join Bihar Cadre.!!! To overcome the shortage of IAS, IPS and IFS officers, UPSC should hold special exam in the next five years for the existing group B officers working in central/state governments who are below 30 yrs of age.
S Gopal
Kudos to BEL
This is due to honest, sincere hardworking, highly qualified, and genuine age certificate holders.
Prasad

Govt. has taken many steps to simplify the tax rules. There are still gaps which need to be filled. As per one of the reports, 2017 (Oxfam), 1% population has 73% national wealth. This is really big concern for any country to have such divide. This may be due to either wrong implementation of policies or wrong policies itself. How to bridge this divide? It is big challenge for the Govt. Let everyone contribute in Nation Building. There are organisations and individuals not in tax net. Certain areas to be addressed on priority like Cryptocurrency which will be difficult to tackle in future if steps are not taken immediately. Few steps for consideration for improving revenue: 1. Govt. has no methodology or mechanism to assess the income of Professionals like doctors, lawyers, traders, contractors, film/TV actors, media houses etc. where tax compliance is not good. Govt. should work out methods to assess the correct income and numbers in this category. 2. Make NGOs and Party fund taxable thru an amendments in Income Tax Act 1961. Let them contribute something for the Nation. Such funds should be completely cashless (receipt and expenditure) and transparent, details to be available on their website. 3. Tax on cryptocurrency transactions. Govt. has very little information in this field. 4. Implement GST in more pragmatic way still lot of gaps exist. 5. Make low income group people i.e. upto 5 lakhs scrutiny free to develop trust and faith with tax department and people pay their due tax and file return. 6. Tax compliance is still very low specially in professional and business category. They are not in the Govt. monitoring system. It means non-filing monitoring system requires re-look. Monitoring system works when something is in system. Think how to identify such people or organisation?
Naveen
Wonderful achievement
Kudos to Dr Suresh Mehrotra for the feat of 10 crores. A wonderful achievement.
Prasad
Wrong suggestion
Jhansi hospital incident : why should the principal of the medical college resign if someone else had committed the mistake of putting the amputated leg as pillow for a patient ? This will not prevent the repetition of such things in future because the culprits will know that they can commit it and get away with the blame being attached to someone else. This is the bane of the current times. The erring minister gets away while an official of the department has to go to jail.
MSK

Over 10 crore hits!Whispers has certainly come a long way since it started. While its founder Dr Suresh Mehrotra deserves congratulations the credit goes to those who have been supplying information the corridors correspondents so as to say and many specially bureaucrats who regularly see this website. Some of us the regular contributors to the Forum though faceless have been with the website almost from its very beginning. When I sent my first post the number of hits was not even few lakhs. When WIC reached a milestone of 1 crore there was quite an excitement from the founders. How is it that everything is silent at 10 crore hits. Mehrotra should reach out to those who have contributed to give his website this milestone.
Aarti Khosla

Direct Tax with good governance Direct Tax is major revenue for the Govt. to run various welfare schemes and to run the Government. Govt. has come up with a good motivational advertisement for the public to pay the tax and file the return with emphasis on less than 1% cases are scrutinised. There is only 5% liability for low income group to pay the income tax. People are not afraid of paying the tax but are afraid of fear of difficulties and harassment during scrutiny. Govt. has to find some other method so the people can pay tax and file return. Making the public aware of tax payment is paramount instead of other measures. To allay the fear of scrutiny, Govt. may consider for low income group i.e. people earning upto 5 lakhs, there will be no scrutiny. This will definitely increase the number of tax payers and return filers as people will come forward to pay the tax without hesitation and fear. It is always in the Govt. hand to withdraw whenever desired results are not achieved. Secondly the Govt. may consider to make party fund taxable thru an Amendment in Income Tax Act to increase the revenue to reduce the deficit . Thirdly it is expected that recovery from top 100 loan defaulters may reduce the NPA within reasonable amount. Fourth point to have gate keeping and monitoring of Foreign Exchange transactions through a single point may be RBI. Let us hope the Govt. consider the above points and take informed decisions for the Good Governance.
Naveen
Concession may be extended to Rajdhani/ Shatabdi/ Duranto trains
Following suggestions may be considered by Railway Ministry in the interest of the Gallant Heroes. It will be a befitting tribute to them. The concession may be extended to Rajdhani/ Shatabdi/ Duranto trains. The concession may be applicable to 1AC /Executive class travel on nominal or differential payment. The validity of pass can be for three years with renewal every three years instead of present one year. This will mitigate the inconvenience experienced by senior citizen Gallantry Medal Holders.
K Srinivasan

I agree with the above comments. Department of Expenditure has made it mandatory i.e. on line bid opening, posting of award of contract on CPP as well as Deptt website. Even e- procurement is mandatory. But there is no monitoring / check by DOE.
Krishna Kumar Marwaha
I wish many more crores
I remember the celebration hitting one crore mark of ‘whispersinthecorridors.com’. The site is liked by so much that it has taken a much shorter time in hitting ten crores mark. I wish many more crores.
K N Jaggi
Extend facility of 1AC travel on nominal payment
As far as Railway concessions for gallantry medal holders, following initiatives are suggested to Railway Ministry extend the facility of 1AC travel on nominal payment or difference. The above facility may be for all the trains including Shatabdi/Rajdhani/Duranto trains. Railway pass renewal can be for longer duration, say once in for three years instead of yearly basis. The Pass can be a smart card instead of present paper pass Railway Ministry may consider this as a tribute to the Gallant Heroes.
K Srinivasan

Jhansi’s incident involving amputation of leg of an accident victim at a government hospital is a national shame. Amputated leg is used as a pillow to rest victim’s head. Principal of medical college must be arrested forthwith. Any suggestion of her tendering an apology tantamount to an affront to the country. It is criminal negligence. A bio-hazard. Law of the land does not provide for escape routes like "apology" or holding inquiry by the perpetrators. And, suspension is not a punishment. Yogi's endless visits to temples is criminal waste of taxpayers funds. Extremely irritating. His prayers' cannot bring good governance. He must stop political lecturing and laying foundation stones. UP's happiness index is zero under present dispensation. The ambitious Modicare plan neither covers medical apathy nor provides for punishment for lack of empathy on part of political and administrative executive. What is the outcome of inquiry in mass murder of children in a Gorakhpur hospital due to lack of oxygen? Medico- bureaucratic negligence has gone unpunished, as always ?
A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)

It is mandatory for all the Government officers to file their Immovable Property Return (IPR). Despite repeated requests, they abstain from filing the same. Officers do not show interest in exposing their properties. This attitude can be seen as covering up corrupt practices of the officers while the Government claims to be transparent and pledges to weed out corruption from the systems. It all shows that the Government is taking a cavalier attitude to the problems of common man by not taking strict action against corrupt officers.
Sunil Kumar

The frightening proportion of bank frauds are so worrisome for small depositors who park their hard earned money only in Banks thinking these to be the safest place. The bankers who are supposed to safeguard our interest are merrily doling out huge sums of money to the likes of Mallaya, Nirav Modi, Choksi, Jiten Mehta the billionaires fraudsters who have run away with thousands of crores to foreign lands where they have parked their money and have comfortable houses to live. The latest robber of banks Nirav Modi, it has come out' has invested most of the loan money in buying assets abroad in several countries. How could he do so. Obviously the bank officials who issued Letters of Understanding to the overseas branches were in league with these people of course for a price. Ultimately it is corruption all the way. One is also bewildered at the Govt. policy for disbursement of loans. Why these famously rich people the diamond merchants ,the airlines owners be given loans by the banks. Could they not expand their business out of the money they make. Secondly why so many banks are disbursing loans to the same entity. For example Choksi the mama got nearly six thousand crore from 31 banks. Should not the banks have a system to check on the credibility of the applicant from the banks he has already taken loan. Why there was no action when these sharks defaulted on payment. Obviously in our scheme of things we harass a small loan taker like farmers and do not bother these wealthy 'gentlemen'. It is painful to find farmers committing suicide as they are unable to pay back a few thousands rupee loan while these people who took thousands of crores are safely ensconced in luxury in foreign lands and tax heavens.
Aarti Khosla

Reason for PSBs NPAs frauds the basic reasons for the PSB bank frauds and NPAs are due to retired and present top management nexus with fraudsters. For top post like GM, ED, CEO and CMD etc, there are price tags. These tags are borne by NPA account holders and Fraudsters. It is public money that both parties are enjoying. Parties take place at five star hotels. Foreign trips, all these cost are borne by fraudsters. It is deep rooted scams. The retired will get employment at fraudsters companies with huge salary for certain period so that the black will convert to white by both parties. Will PM investigate all these? If it is investigated, several top present and retired heads of PSB will roll.
Rao