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I had registered my Aadhar Card with my Mobile as was mandated by the government. I naturally assumed that my mobile would have been automatically registered with Aadhar. However, I find that this has not been done. I have tried to communicate with UIDAI but to no avail as there is no response over telephone and there is no way I am able to connect with them over mail. I fail to understand the system. Could anybody please help me in this regard. In fact, when the UIDAI persons had come to the colony for registration and I asked them to help me out, they were clueless.
K S Palachandran

The appellant sought information regarding reasons for non-delivery and returning of his two letters, name & address of the postman who was supposed to deliver the aforesaid letters etc.. The PIO informed that since the addressee was not available, those letters could not be delivered and there was no investigation was conducted in this regard. The Central Information Commission observed that name of the postman who was supposed to deliver appellant’s letters had not been provided by the Department of Posts. Therefore, the Commission directed the to provide name of the postman who was demarcated to deliver the articles in that particular zone/circle/area, within 15 days from the date of receipt of this Order.
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The RTI Act has been innovatively used by citizens for grievance redressal and improving the quality of service.
Citation: Navaratan Mal Jain v. PIO, Department of Posts in CIC/POSTS/A/2017/194596, Date of Decision – 16.03.2018
Dr. Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in) is the co-author of the books: RIGHT TO INFORMATION – LAW AND PRACTICand PIO’s guide to RTI. Her other articles can be read at the website of RTI Foundation of India at - http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/

What I see that in the last 4 years of NDA, businessmen, working class and daily wagers are feeling pinch of demonetization and GST. I could not know why but this is talk of everyone. All want subsidies, freebies, debts waived, free power, free education and free health treatment but do not want to pay taxes. Our politicians and political parties have made all greedy that whenever election comes they announce and people hope that they will get all above. The system is going from worst to disaster and our economy will collapse if not today than tomorrow. Caste related jobs, promotions and facilities, the other factor taking India to the downgrade. But no political party nor politician are ready to understand its long time effects of appeasement by offering reservations. May God save us and this country as this is the only phrase most of Hindu chants.
Ram Garg

Ministers may come and go but IAS officers remain in service and are expected to execute orders as per the rules or policy. If the Minister gives instructions with which you do not agree, you should have the courage to express it in writing. Otherwise you are equally responsible for the fraud or scam. In PNB scam, it is apparent that from top to bottom officers in the Banks, Reserve Bank, and Ministry of finance were aware of the scam. But no whistle blower! It is indeed shameful for all IAS.
Shashichandra Desai
UPSC should recruit more
If there is a shortage of IAS officers, UPSC should be requested to recruit more.
Vijay Kumar

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