Whispers Forum

Gopal Singh CMD, Central Coalfield Limited, will also complete his 10 year as CMD at the time of his retirement in 2021. He became CCL CMD in 2011 and he gets the second tenure also.
Rishi Kishore
Boldness is a mark of character
Boldness is a mark of character, integrity and total dedication. Expecting civil servants to be bold is asking too much when Chief Ministers have no qualms of conscience in stealing money from the government treasury or demand quid pro for saving them from violent party workers about to beat them to death or thoroughbred corrupt top bureaucrats spoiling CRs/APRs for not doing their unlawful biddings. After the Emergency, spinal cords of such officers were surgically removed and their successors have not re-grown it. Brilliant, honest officers with more than 4 years were marginalized while the networked guys rose to occupy the Chief Secy/Cab Secy post and life was full of gay abundance subsequently. The bold ones spend all their time at the IIC/IIPA or similar other research centres for policy or such issues. You don’t raise crops of honest or bold officers in 5 or 10 years. Were it so easy to find honest and bold officers, posts in the central government would not have remained vacant or officers would not have shown such discouraging disinclination for central deputation.
M L Gupta

If Augean stable is cleaned up, everything will fall in place and people will have faith in democracy. But after booking highups there should be time bound trials in the courts so that Justice is not only done, but seen to be done.
S C Agrawal (DGP) MP Retd
Outstanding officer
Good that Anil Swarup (IAS UP 1981), Secretary School Education, has been given additional charge of Skill Development department. As Secretary Coal, Swarup did a great job. In all his earlier assignments, he has done outstandingly well. Intelligent, well intentioned, industrious and a go getter, Swarup (ranked fourth in the Civil Services Exam) is exceptionally meticulous and has great drive. The Skill Development department is bound to look up. In fact, government should seriously consider giving him full time charge of this flagship department. The story of this Department will be transformed.
Vijay Kumar

I am a senior bureaucrat and an IIM graduate. My brother is a small cloth merchant with turnover of 40 lakhs and profit of 30,000 per month. Like most cloth merchant of Bihar, he has to make purchases from Surat , Kanpur etc. He struggles to file his one Income Tax return on time. But in GST he is supposed to file 37 returns in a year. He can’t avail composition scheme since he has to do interstate trade. He cant afford a CA. Should he close down his business. This is the story of millions of small and medium size businesses. I don’t think any country in the world has put such compliance burden on small and medium size tax payer. I would request Hon FM, RS and PM to address this concern. Tax evasion can be checked on the basis of risk parameters. Transaction by transaction reporting is suicidal for business community. Hope the authorities wake up before the small and medium enterprise fold up resulting in loss of millions of job and electoral reverses for the ruling party.
Arvind
" Brazen Audacity "
A lady police officer, Shreshtha Thakur, of Bulandshahr was transferred to Bahraich for chiding a local BJP MLA.
Politics is considered more important than Polity by politicians.
Bureaucrats must never trust rogue politicians.
Why is UP Officers Association, speechless?
Existential Crisis.
" Qaida ye hai ki sarey - bazm rahein honth siley;
Huqm ye hai ki har ek baat zubaani kahiye ".
A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)
Making Uttar Pradesh crime free - Yogi Adityanath way !
Uttar Pradesh policewoman Shrestha Thakur, who stood up to BJP workers has been transferred to Bahraich district. “She has been transferred along with a few other deputy superintendents to keep the pride of party workers intact”, say BJP leaders. But what about the honour of the cops who are committed to do their duty ? Are the ruling party workers above the law ?
Rishi Bhatnagar

I have been just signing my lunch bill at India International Centre ( where I and the spouse spend our day in the library ) without check .Today I specially carried my specs to see what impact the GST has on my food bill. It was hilarious to find many members doing the same .What amused and confused us was the different rates of GST levied on different items of consumption. Nimbu Pani was taxed at 18% while nimbu soda was taxed at 28%. Is it because soft drinks and soda are within 28% bracket. Confusing ? Is it not ? As for my bill I found 9% under CGST and another 9% for SGST. Is it for establishments to divide the tax between Centre and States ? Then like many unreasonable institutions, IIC levies 10% service charge even though Consumer Ministry has termed the mandatory nature of it wrong. The waiters here expect the tip too even though you pay the service charge. What upset many of us today was levy of GST at 18% on the service charge. I think they are wrong to do so. Teething troubles ? Not withstanding that we welcomed what a friend termed as ushering in a United States of India.
Aarti Khosla

PM Modi's tour to the US has been hugely successful. President Trump regards both countries as “true friends “. Several deals have been inked. First, one-on-one meeting. More security, energy and economics- related benefits will follow,as we go along. An Israel daily has lauded Modi as the most powerful Prime Minister of the world.
India’s image in the comity of nations, has never been so high. All by virtue of Modi’s charismatic persona and uncanny capacity to build personal rapport with world leaders.
China and Pakistan have started showing signs of jealousy, fidgetiness,jitteriness, anger, helplessness. This could trigger monstrous reactions from the desperate countries ready to press the panic button. Syed Salahuddin is the latest to join the UN / US sanctions lists of global terrorists like Dawood Ibrahim, Anis Ibrahim, Chhota Shakee, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Aziz Moosa and Shafi Armar et al.
Now is the time to test the Indo-US camaraderie in their joint fight against Pakistan - sponsored terrorism and China’s expansionism in their war of attrition against India.
The country is sick of daily killings and stone-pelting in Kashmir. The political Opposition is expected to behave responsibly, refrain from politicking in the larger interests of the country.
China's audacity in blocking Kailash-Mansarovar yatra, instead, making regular incursions into Sikkim and AP, Non-stop air-space violations, issuing verbal threats, are grave provocations violating India's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Amarnath yatra, has already started under shadow of terror.
Indians looks forward to PM Modi for initiating concrete steps after taking into confidence the Armed Forces chiefs, HM, NSA,MEA ,MOD et al.
Following suggestions are also for considerations of GOI :--
(a)Enhance India's military presence at LC,LOC IB. Our Armed Forces will take care of the rest. Launching surgical strikes regularly, not once or twice , but many times over. We trust them.
(b)Accord diplomatic recognition to Nationalist China,open an office and post a regular diplomat at Taipeh. No more dual-charge consular arrangement.
(c) Indians must stop buying sub-standard Chinese products. GoI must stop procuring Chinese products at throw-away prices, by invoking anti- dumping laws.
(d) Expedite operationalisation of India-Afghan Air corridor as antidote to CPEC/OBOR.
(e) Keep Indian Ocean under constant surveillance.
(f) What has happened to India's support for freedom movements in Baluchistan, Sindh,POK and Gilgit-Baltistan ?
(g) Gwadar port in Baluchistan is being developed by Chinese engineers and labour. Unemployment among the locals leads to frequent clashes between Baluchi and the Chinese labour on the lines of Gilgit-Baltistan. Similar skirmishes will take place between the poor local Baluchis and Chinese labour, in case of CPEC, passing through several countries.
A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)