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I would say Ratan Tata is the fittest choice if he decides to enter politics through the Rajya Sabha to one day become President of India.
Rajesh Mehta
DEBATE (2)
Industrialist Anil Ambani can be Donald Trump of India. He has also been a Rajya Sabha member. He was elected as an independent member in June 2004 with the support of the Samajwadi Party.
Surendra Kumar
“Big Boss Watching”
Civil services probationers do not normally take the Foundation course at LBSNAA seriously. All remain busy in search of life partners and romance. All are now under IB's scanner. And, thro them the PMO. Now, the job of Services allocation of probationers will be made by the cadre authorities based on overall assessment of performance in Foundation course and the UPSC merit list. Bahut Na-Insaafi hai.
A K Saxena ( A former civil servant)
Feudalistic mentality IAS officers still exist
There are still a number of feudalistic mentality IAS. They feel that they are the 'Rajas' and all others are 'prajas'. They cannot tolerate dissent and sporting arguments in office. They use words 'gardan kaat daalonga' , 'neeche fekh doonga', 'mujhse kuon nahin poocha' etc.
BBS

DEBATE (1)
Ratan Tata best choice for political innings if he desires. He carries the rich Tata legacy of India’s successful industrialisation and growth. A very suitable choice if he decides to play a decisive role in Indian politics.
Shekhar Ghosh
DEBATE (2)
RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani may not join politics but he can atleast be a Member of the Rajya Sabha and participate in governance.
Subhash Khatri
“The Great Top Bureaucracy of India : Self Before Country”
NN Vohra, the present Governor J&K, is the direct beneficiary of "loss" of his report on politico-bureaucratic-police-business having terror links.
Longest serving bureaucrat post-retirement, euphemistically called the " Field Marshal of bureaucracy " who had headed the committee as union home secy with inputs from CBI, IB, RAW.
Annexures, containing names of influential politicos, bureaucrats and their secret terror links, are more important than the main text carrying explosive details. Leakage of sensational details will destabilise all political parties across the board.
Criminalisation of politics and the nexus among criminals, bureaucrats and politicians. Their roles in Mumbai serial blasts of March 1993 and links with Dawood Ibrahim is proved beyond doubt.
Now, even, Nawaz Sharif ex-PM Pakistan has woken up from deep slumber to spill the beans about Pakistan ISI’s total involvement in Mumbai blasts. India did not need a certificate from him who maintained total silence all these 25 years.
For fear of getting caught, no attempt was made by successive political dispensations either to retrieve the " lost" report or hang those responsible for its safe custody. The infamously called Vohra committee report was submitted to the then political dispensation in October 1993 in the wake of March 12,1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
All former Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries to PM, Union Home Secretaries, Senior officers posted in MHA’s internal security wing must be privy to details. All acted at the behest of their political masters and were richly rewarded with political sinecures, Constitutional appointments, tribunals etc.
Hamamm mei sab...
Will PM Modi take the call in the national interest ? The country wants to know.
A K Saxena ( A former civil servant)

A Aporia
Anil Ambani can be more successful as politician like Trump. He has the background of his father Dhiru Bhai Ambani, the King Maker.
Rajesh Agrawal
We are oblivious about safety standards
The tragedy at Varanasi once again shows that we as a nation are oblivious about safety standards. Actually we are so casual in not following requirements of safety be it on roads, construction work ,crowd handling at railway stations or at different festivals in temples. Overloading buses and boats (other day in Andhra more than 30 people were drowned as the boat capsized due to overloading),riding on the roof of the train or hanging at the doorways are common sight in our country. Stampedes are regular affairs. At Varanasi, it was indeed criminal negligence to let the traffic flow underneath when the flyover was under construction. It could have been stopped at least when the girder was being lifted by crane to be placed above. If only those handling the work were safety conscious so many lives would not have been lost so tragically. Instead of admitting the failure of the Bridge Corporation, the Managing Director has termed the tragedy as natural disaster. It was not a natural disaster but a manmade disaster for which the U.P Bridge Corporation is responsible.
Aarti Khosla

R G Mathur
Only Anil Ambani has a practical approach. With his political experience he can manage the affairs of the country.
Dinesh Sethia
All services other than the heaven born IAS are very happy with the Modi government's well thought out policy to give some representation to the services other than the IAS in the central government. Though long overdue, no government could come out of the clutches of the IAS to do so. Now these services have to perform and come up to the expectations of the government.
Vijay Kumar
When information about corruption is received under the RTI Atc, we forward it to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) for taking necessary action. The most funniest part is that CVC considers the information as anonymous. They forward it to the concerned Ministries/Departments for taking appropriate action. CVC also writes to the person who has obtained RTI information to verify his/her identity. When something is black & white the CVC should become pro-active and not treat the information received under the RTI Act callously.
BBS

DEBATE (1)
Ravi Paliya
DEBATE (2)
Only Ratan Tata is a match to Trump because of his clean image. Honest people always get honour in Indian society.
Ganga Tiwari
Conscience call for Congresspersons : Rise above and beyond susceptibility to BJP control, Save Indian Democracy.
Our party has once again failed to guarantee probity during a State Assembly general election, viz, Karnataka Vidhan Sabha Elections. We have failed to protect the votes that our loyalists caste in our favour. How do we expect the people to trust our party to protect them, if we cannot even protect the votes that they cast in our favour.
Time after time, since the Lok Sabha elections in 2014, we have seen elections and election results being stolen. Strangely our party has always accepted these glaringly obvious stolen results with pronouncements from the highest levels; this despite the fact that these pronouncements do not find any echo amongst thinking Congresspersons across the country.
Voters representing the total Booth have in several cases contacted the Congress Party expressing their willingness to sign affidavits that they did not vote for the BJP as was registered during the EVM vote outcome, but our party failed to react. Instead, the highest functionaries of the Congress organisation formally conceded defeat after the 2014 election, and ever so many State elections amongst them Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, both states where expectation of our victory was writ large, even as the official results denied this reality.
Why does our party repeatedly keep throwing-in the towel? What insurmountable exigencies make the Congress leadership accept defeat at the last strategic moment, rather than fight for the truth?
We learn that the last Congress Chief Minister of Assam offered the EVM explanation during an Election Result review meeting with the Party High Command in 2014, but was dissuaded from pursuing that line; even more strangely, he agreed !
Inner party autocracy in the Congress Party has been serving the Autocratic System Takeover by the BJP in these last four years; no wonder this state of intra-party autocracy has the support of the government machinery and the Election Commission.
The big question before the nation is whether the BJP has overplayed its EVM hand in Karnataka?
In Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, the Outsider, who embraced Congressism and functioned so well in the interest of core Congress agendas and beliefs, one hopes to see the flame of traditional Congress commitment to fight to keep Democracy alive. Regardless of whether or not the High Command allows, the entire rank and file of the Congress Party is committed to supporting the leader who stands up to fight for Democracy.
Namit Verma

Robert
No businessman can win election in India. Elections are not won by money.
Vijay Tiwari
Irony of the Country
Banking industry is the backbone of economic growth of any country. We have witnessed in 2008 slow down due to sub-prime lending. In our country also NPA of banks is increasing particularly in PSU banks where Govt. stake is involved. Now banks employees are threatening to go on strike from May 30, 2018 for wage settlement and wants higher wages as per media report. This is irony of the country, banks are loosing money as their NPA is increasing for which banks employees are responsible starting from lower staff to management . Instead of reducing NPA and working for the betterment of banks, they are planning of strike. This happens only in our country where you do not produce positive results but ask for the higher salary. This is not only with banking sector but other public sectors also.
Naveen

Only Ratan Tata can be Trump of India because of his acceptability. No hanky-panky in this group .
R P Sharma, Former IPS
Mukesh Ambani can run this country.
In my view, Mukesh Ambani can run this country very well. He knows how to build an empire.
M P Singh
Check your facts
How can the IFS be more powerful than the IAS? Pl check your facts.
Vijay Kumar
RTI Act has become toothless
It is very common on the part of the public authorities to claim that they have not even received the application or have misplaced it. The RTI Act has become toothless to act against such persons. The intention may have been good, but the action on field shows that the implementation on field has been poor. It is apparent that stronger action needs to be taken against the erring officials. The training given to the staff is not proper and should be strengthened.
Sugandha
Why IPS officers not appointed ?
Why the IPS officers are not appointed on important posts in MHA ?
Parth

The appellant sought information regarding the name and address of the Employee’s Insurance Court. The PIO did not provided reply timely leading to issue of the show cause notice why maximum penalty should not be imposed against him for not furnishing the information within prescribed timelines. After going through the explanation of the PIO, the CIC noted that the RTI application was transferred after 16 days delay excluding the five days mandate as specified under the RTI Act. The CIC noted that information was provided by PIO after 67 days from the date of receiving the RTI application. The CIC imposed a penalty of Rs. 16,750/- on the PIO and directed to recover the amount from the salary payable to the PIO.
Comments
There is a prescribed timeline of 5 days for the transfer of RTI application which should be adhered to by the PIO.
Citation: : Shambhu Prasad v. PIO, ESIC in CIC/ESICO/A/2017/130089, Date of Decision - 2.5.2018
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/

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In US Businessmen are respected not in India .People look at them with suspicion.
V K Negi
DEBATE (1)
Running the Government is quite different from running the business house.
L D Ram
DEBATE (2)
Kumarmangalam Birla can give clean Government.
Rajendra Mittal
Collector more powerful than SSP/SP in UP
The colonial mindset is still on. Police has been made subservient not only to the politicians but the IAS (who used be be Brits only). This slave mentality needs a complete overhaul.
Parth

DEBATE (1)
No businessman can become Trump in India because US is a strange society .
L S Hardenia
DEBATE (2)
Only Ratan Tata because of his long political experience about Indian atmosphere.
R K Teotia.
Can Somebody Stop This MISCHIEF?
Can the judiciary be held to ransom by a group of lawyers, on their own or in collusion with some judge/s? How come they choose the Bench of a judge of their choice, dictate their petition be heard on priority depriving citizens of justice guaranteed by the Constitution? Is it how the Constitution should be interpreted? Is the whole justice delivery system a kind of feudal privilege of a few or every citizen? Can these habitual nuisance makers be allowed to go on gaily to indulge in mischief with impunity? It happens only because the law about mischief remains clouded in the media hype of the damaging bits of the petition filed by them. It is time to draw civil society attention towards the legal definition of mischief so that they stop a group of politically motivated lawyers from exploiting the administration of justice by intimidating judges, as they have done to civil administration. The crime graph in the country has been rising because the civil/police administration stands totally crippled by these politicians. The essential ingredients of mischief are as follows— (1) Intention or knowledge of the likelihood to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person. (2) Causing the destruction of some property or any change in it or in its situation; and (3) Such destruction or change must destroy or diminish its value.
M L Gupta
IFS is more powerful than the IAS in four states ?
This observation is not true in case of Odisha.
Sanjeeb Shankar Patel

DEBATE (2)
“PM Modi is his own substitute as PM after 2019 General elections”. But, Rahul Gandhi has already declared himself as PM after 2019 General elections.
Right to “ Day dreaming ” is his Fundamental Right.
Unhain Mongerilal ke haseen sapney dekhney dijiye
A K Saxena ( A former civil servant)
DEBATE (2)
I feel two candidates against each other in 2019 is the best approach. Opposition must unite so that votes are not divided. Leader might emerge or may be Modi will lead with fractured mandate with a healthy opposition. Opposition must be have in the interest of democracy.
Harish Kumar
2019 general elections will spring surprises
Neither good oratory nor boasting of past contributions will pay. People will critically analyse four years governance/achievements on the ground vis_a_vis pictures painted on television shows. Lack of trust, between executive, legislature and judiciary will definitely be in the minds of public at the time of voting.
Raj
Dr Kumar is a Gem in Indian Bureaucracy
Dr Prabhat Kumar is a Gem in Indian Bureaucracy......touching newer heights of glory with dedication.
Krishna