was Sardar pro RSS?

http://epaper.asianage.com/ASIAN/AAGE/2009/12/15/ArticleHtmls/15_12_2009_014_022.shtml?Mode=1

voting is going to be compulsory in Gujarat?

Perhaps for the first time in the country the state government has plans to make voting compulsory in elections to all local self government bodies including seven municipal corporations, municipalities and district taluka and gram panchayats.

An amendment to this effect has been incorporated in the proposed Gujarat local authorities laws ( amendment ) bill which is to be introduced in the two day session of the state legislative assembly commencing from Thursday.

Reliable sources in the state government on Tuesday hinted that if the amendment is passed in the assembly 3.64 crores voetrs of Gujarat would have to vote compulsorily in the elections for the local slef government bodies. And if they did not vote they would be declared default voters and would have to face the consequences.

Though the state government would frame the rules for the default voters later on but the proposed amendment is likely to be approved by the majority in the state assembly when the bill would be taken up either on Thursday or next day during the short session which is also scheduled to clear the bill rpovding 50 per cent reservation for women in panchayats, muncipalities and municipal corporations.

The central government has already made necessary changes in the Constitution for this purpose and Gujarat would be perhaps first in the country to implement 50 per cent reservation for women.

With the proposed provision of the compulsory voting in local self government bodies the state is again adding one more feather in its cap and would go a long way in the democratic history of the state.It was Gujarat only which had taken a lead in implementation of the Panchayati Raj bill and was adjudged as one of the best module for the three tier panchayat set up in the country.

new appointments at the Centre.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following appointments, on in-situ elevation

(i) Shri Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi, IAS(UP.76), as DG, Civil Aviation, Ministry of Civil Aviation in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(ii) Shri Raminder Singh Gujral, IAS(HY.76), as DGFT, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(iii) Shri Ajoy Acharya, IAS(MP.76), as Special Secretary, Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence;

(iv) Shri Pradeep Kumar Misra, IAS(UP.76), as Establishment Officer and Special Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;

(v) Shri S. Sundareshan, IAS(KL.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas;

(vi) Shri Uday Kumar Varma, IAS(MP.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting;

(vii) Ms. Anita Chudhary, IAS(HY.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs;

(viii) Shri Sumit Bose, IAS(MP.76), as Secretary, 13^th Finance Commission in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(ix) Shri R. Gopalan, IAS(TN.76), as Special Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry;

(x) Shri Mathew C Kunnumkal, IAS(KL.76), as Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Department of Chemical & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers;

(xi) Shri Pramod Deepak Sudhakar, IAS(UP.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs;

(xii) Shri M. Raman, IAS(TN.76), as DGS&D, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xiii) Shri A. Didar Singh, IAS(PB.76), as Member (Finance), National Highways Authority of India, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xiv) Shri Subramanyam Vijay Kumar, IAS(HP.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Mines;

(xv) Shri Rajen Habib Khwaja, IAS(AP.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests;

(xvi) Shri Samirendra Chatterjee, IAS(AM.76), as Member Secretary, National Commission for Women in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xvii) Shri Sutanu Behuria, IAS(HP.76), as Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry;

(xviii) Shri Anil Kumar, IAS(NL.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Power;

(xix) Shri K.S. Money, IAS(RJ.76), as Member (Administration), National Highways Authority of India, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xx) Shri Shashi Kant Sharma, IAS(BH.76), as DG(Acquisition), Department of Defence, Ministry of Defence, in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xxi) Shri Dhruv Vijai Singh, IAS(MT.76), as Special Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions;

(xxii) Shri Anil Bhushan Prasad, IAS(BH.76), as Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Home Affairs in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xxiii) Shri V. Venkateshwara Bhat, IAS(UT.76), as Member (Finance), Atomic Energy Commission/ Space Commission/ Earth Commission in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xxiv) Shri P. Uma Shanker, IAS(UP.76), as Chairman and Managing Director, Rural Electrification Corporation, in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xxv) Shri Anwar Ehsan Ahmad, IAS(MT.76), as Special Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs;

(xxvi) Shri Prabeer Kumar Basu, IAS(BH.76), as Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture;

(xxvii) Shri Sayan Chatterjee, IAS(KL.76), as Director General, Sports Authority of India, Department of Sports, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xxviii) Shri Naba Kumar Das, IAS(AM.76), as Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture;

(xxix) Ms. Minnie Mathew, IAS(AP.76), as Chairman, Coconut Development Board, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xxx) Shri K.S. Ramasubban, IAS(WB.76), as Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission, in the rank and pay of Secretary;

(xxxi) Shri Bishnu Charan Khatua, IAS(MH.76), as Chairman, Forward Markets Commission, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, in the pay of Secretary;

(xxxii) Shri Shashi Prakash, IAS(MT.76), as Adviser, Inter State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs in the pay of Secretary.

Gujarat High Court Chief Justice S Mukhopadyay's assets.

Hon Justice Mukhopadhya declared his assets on Sept 3 2009

Please click the link below to find details about his assets.

http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/assets/sjmj.pdf

Chief Justice Gujarat High Court appointed

Justice S J Mukhopadhya acting chief justice of Madras High Court has been appointed Chief Justice of Gujarat. He is likely to be sworn this week, most probably on Wednesday, sources from Delhi have confirmed.

Justice Mukhopadhya has earlier been the acting chief justice of Jharkhand too and has served in Bihar, W Bengal and other States.

Justice Mukhopadhyay was one of the judges in the division bench in Patna High Court which dealt with fodder scam and allied issues pertaining to Laloo Prasad’s fodder scam.

Justice Mukhopadhya has disclosed his assets.

we are trying to attach copy of assets that he has declared on sept 3, 2009.

We arent very tech savvy so we are just trying to attach the documents. If we fail, God bless us!

the letter doing rounds.

You will be interested to know that all IAS & IPS officers have become totally against Rajgopalan and Kailashnathan. Majority of the officers are angry that Kailashnathan is playing dirty politics to become ACS or Chief Secretary. Kailashnathan is protecting his close friends and issuing chargesheet to his seniors to clear his way to become ACS. All officers are very angry against these two officers because of the manner in which these two officers have manipulated the posting of IAS & IPS officers and humiliated their colleagues. IAS & IPS officers are holding secret meetings everyday and planning total non-co-operation against Rajgopalan and Kailashnathan. Officers feel that these two South Indian Officers are favouring the South Indian officers and punishing all other officers. All the Collectors and DDos are very unhappy the way they have been transferred and posted. IAS Officer Wife and Husbands have been deliberately separated. Only South Indian Officers has been given good postings: Dr. Murlikrishna has been made Kheda Collector. Jagdeeshan has been made MD, SSNL, Srinivas has been made Jt. MD SSNNL, Pandian has been made Principal Secretary Energy & Petrochemicals. These South Indian Officers are all Good Friends o Kailashnathan. Efficient officers like Bhagyesh Jha, AS Patel, R K Tripathi, HK Dash, DK RAO, Vipul Mitra, Sujit Gulati has been transferred. An honest and brave officer Kuldeep Sharma IPS has been humiliated by posting him as MD, Sheep & Wool Corporation. Chandra Sekhar IAS will retire in one month and Rajgopalan has humiliated his senior batchmate by transferring him as DG, SPIPA.

IAS and IPS Officers are preparing a petition to Prime Minister of India not to give Rajgopalan any more extension and also they are preparing petition against Kailashnathan. Kailashnathan has made money in Water Supply, Urban Development & AUDA. And now he wants to make money in SSNNL that is why he has posted his close friend Jagdeeshan in SSNNL. IAS & IPS Officers will be petitioning to the CM to remove him from CM office.

North Versus South.

Ah we have heard this before. But once again the rumour mills are working over time.

the North Indian and South Indian lobby stuff.

North versus South divide has taken over the bureaucracy in Gujarat with allegations being made that the South Indian lobby is getting stronger and reportedly sidelining IAS officers who are not South Indians.

Anonymous letters are being circulated claiming how North Indians and non South Indians are given a raw deal in Gujarat bureaucracy just because two top positions are being occupied by South Indians.

Fingers are being pointed at Chief Secretary D Rajagopalan and K Kailasnathan, principal secretary in the Chief Minister's office for promoting South Indian lobby.

The North-South divide and lobby always existed but now after the recent bureaucratic transfers, the North Indian lobby says they have been discriminated and not given good postings because Rajagopalan and Kailasnathan, the key officers in the bureaucracy are both South Indians and they want to promote "their people "only. (how sick>>!)

Non south Indians Indians who have recently been transferred include: Atanu Chakrobarty, H K Dash, A S Patel, Sujit Gulati, Bhagyesh Jha, AS Patel, Vipuy Mitra, Mrs V L Joshi, Ravi Saxena, R K TRipathy and others. South Indians who have been transferred include D J Pandian, Jagdeesan, V Thiru and others.

A senior Non South Indian officer however said that this is not true and the transfers have been purely based on merit. “Some corrupt IAS officers who are not happy are spreading lies and rumours of this North South lobby”.

Another officer claimed that not only only North Indians but everyone except South Indians were being discriminated. “The south Indian lobby has got very strong and have become unprofessional”, he claimed. According to him, the Non South Indian lobby is planning to write to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Narendra Modi also in this regard.

Another officer says: this is not true. V S Gadhvi is not a south Indian and a gujarati and he heads Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation, Ditto with Tapan Ray who is not a south Indian but heads GSPC right now. Also Mr B K sinha is not a south Indian but has got ports after his deputation. Just like Shri J P Gupta also has got a good posting.

nb: we will try to post the anonymous letter on this blog soon as we scan it!!!!

and heres some more grapevine....

It is not only in Gujarat but the North Indian South Indian lobby issue is prevalent in Centre also. In delhi, at the moment, it is being talked about that only south Indians can get plum postings.

Also, some time back a North Indian IFS officer Mrs Veena Sikri had filed challenged why she was superceded and Nirupama Rao, a south Indian was made the foreign secretary.

Right now, even in Delhi, the top most posts are occupied by south Indians. For example, the main officer in the prime ministers office, is 63 batch officer T K A Nair. His deputy also is a south Indian, T K A Prasad, who is secretary to the prime minister. The Cabinet secretary of India is K M Chandrashekhar, a 70 btach officer who is again a south India. Home secretary G K PIllai, a 72 batch officer is also south Indian. Agriculture Secretary T Nand Kumar(72 batch) civil aviation secretary, M M Nambiar, coal secretary C Balakrishnan (both 74 batch), communication and information technology secretary P J Thomas, external affairs secretary Nirupama Rao(both 73 batch), health secretary K Sujatharao(batch 74), Information and broadcasting secretary Raghu Menon, Overseas India secretary K Mohandas, power secretary Harishankar Brahma are all south Indians. Even some important posts which are not IAS postings they say are dominated by south Indians only. For egample the ministry of science is headed by a scientist who is T Ramasami, agan a south Indian and similarly the unique identity project is headed by Nandan NIlekani, a Kannada from South India.

A senior IAS officer in Delhi said, “this issue is just being hyped up. There are over 63 crucial departments in Centre and there are people other than South Indians also heading it but because of vested interests and purpose of gossiping, this North and South lobby issue is being discsussed”.