Whispers Forum

Sad that non-serious games have become the political agenda of today: perhaps a sign of the disengagement which will beget systemic collapse with all-round big losses for everybody, so-called winners included. Leadership failure and circumstantial acknowledgement thereof, appears to be the final writing on the wall for 2018. Let us hope that 2019 will show light on a path to happier times for India and humanity. Best wishes for the new year unfolding.
Namit Verma
Public Sector Enterprises are commercial organizations
Public Sector Enterprises are a commercial organization. If you people do not work and put the PSUs into red, then how can you expect the government to come out with proposal so early which favour the non performers from out of the scarce resources of the tax payers. I am not saying that you are a black sheep. Thing will take time. There is no bar on the PSUs who are on their own feet to give Rs.20 lakhs as gratuity to its employees.
Anurag Srivastava

The present government is suffering from a management crisis. There is no mechanism for checking the ground reality. There is no coordination between the government and its well-wishers. As a result, there is no tangible relief to the middle and the lower class. Even BJP Cadre is not able to get justice from different ministries because BJP does not know how to deal with the Babus and get the work done. As at the implementation level, there is no change, all good works done by the government have failed to generate the necessary support to the NDA.
Ajay Kumar Verma, ISS(Retd.)
Boosting credit growth
Government of India, as proposed by representatives of NBFCs sector to the Prime Minister on 26th December, 2018, is considering lending by Banks to NBFCs Sector as Priority Sector Lending. This move is to give boost to credit growth to MSME Sector, especially IFCI, a Government of India Company as also ND-SI-NBFCs registered with Reserve Bank of India.
BMA

UPA’ tenure babu lobby is frustrated in NDA regime as they are unable to loot and they are sabotaging by giving internal inputs to UPA bosses. Classic example are implementation of enhancement of Rs 20 lakhs gratuity for retired CPSE employees w.e.f. March 29, 2018 instead of January 1, 2016 as recommended by cabinet committee in the month of September 2017, second, not implementing EPS 95 pension to all exempted CPSE's though SC and other High court issued orders. That is why many senior citizens ( around 80 lakhs) are annoyed with BJP govt, particularly against Modi & Arun Jaitely. This is ground level fact.
Rao
She is hard working, efficient and capable
I have known Seema since many decades when we worked in NTPC and subsequently as a project member of ADB. I think she is hard working, efficient and capable. Go for it my friend. Your well wisher.
Ajay Guha

There should be uniformity in timings of CGHS dispensaries to avoid any confusion - some close at 1.30 pm and most others at 2.00 pm. Registration timing in most of dispensaries is till 1.45 pm while in a few others, it is at 1.15 pm, but in actual practice, registration closes at 1.00 pm, like that at Kingsway Camp Dispensary, where computers are shut down exactly at 1.30 pm even when many registered patients, including senior citizens, wait for their turn. There should be a system that all registered patients are seen by the doctors. – Paul
They have had full 4 years plus and failed in putting out any stuff worthwhile. And they have 4 months to go! Good luck to this Government and yourselves. If removal is a solution to fight dissent, half the nation would be empty.
Srinivasan

Kamal Nath is an experienced campaigner and is aware of presence of Jyotiraditya Scindia in the state political scenario. He does not have an absolute mandate also.
Saumya
UPA’ tenure civil service officers frustrated
It seems that a band of civil service officers, who were in key positions during UPA rule, participated or aided/abetted in the loot, and feel frustrated that they are no more having the patronage they thought was their birthright, have been giving vent to their frustration by writing letters to the government, once in awhile, and publicising it. The idea is that if congress comes back to power , they will again get back their entitlements. The retired ones of course don’t matter, but there are still a large number of them who are occupying important positions, and sabotaging the efforts of government. NDA should find out and throw them out ruthlessly, else there may be more trouble
S Chatterjee

The root cause of PM Modi's recent electoral reverses was his total inability to be a good listener of people's grievances and a genuine implementer of the same.
Endless rhetorics through monthly monologues like Man-ki-baat, was a flop show due to lack of people's participation.
Terribly stereotyped speeches with heavy dose of statistics, that no one is bothered about. The ground realities are totally at variance with boring statistics.
Being Out- of - sync with the ground realities resulted in arrogance of power, over-confidence and " I- am- the- custodian-of- all -wisdom - syndrome ". Consultative mechanism wiped out.
All signs of totalitarianism.
Regrettably, PM Modi’s failure in reining in his loose-cannons, goons and chaatukaars, led to his political waterloo ?
Public is angry, frustrated, disillusioned, disenchanted and in retaliatory mood.
A K Saxena ( A former civil servant)

Modi needs to come out of the web of the IAS cadre people and interact with the other cadre officials in order to understand the actual ground level situation and initiate remedial measure. He needs to ensure that central Ministries/Departments are on e-Office platform on e-Office by Jan 31, 2019. All websites are GIGW compliant by March 31, 2019. All Ministries/Departments should update their manuals clearly defining the financial and administrative powers of officials positively by March 31, 2019. Revise and update the Central Secretariat Manual by Jan 31, 2019. Automatically the Governance will improve and the citizens will start reaping benefits from government in a speedy manner. The Department of Administrative Reforms is sleeping since long over these matters. Cabinet Secretariat needs to jump and hold the drivers seat on all the aforesaid facts.
BBS
BJP lost due to its arrogance
It is due to Arrogant attitude/behaviour of BJP/RSS leaders coupled with Goondaism let out by party workers due to which they lost the Elections. They need to reign in their workers otherwise people will forget some of the good work done by the Government.
S Gopal

The CBDT conveyed to the CIC that the online application filed by the Complainant had not been attended to properly by the then PIO and that it was admitted that on receipt of the notice for hearing before the CIC, they learnt about the lapses on their part. The First Appeal that was filed online had also not been attended to about which the Respondent feigned ignorance. The CIC expressed its displeasure on the casual and callous approach adopted by the respondent in responding to the RTI application. With regards to the imposition of penalty u/s 20(1) of the RTI, Act it was stated that the RTI Application was received on the portal, which may not have been accessible to the then CPIO for reasons better known to him. After taking over the charge, the current CPIO had obtained the user ID and password to operationalize the access to the online applications. Penalty was not imposed and the CIC cautioned the PIO to exercise due care in future to ensure that information is furnished timely to the RTI applicant.
Comments
Online filing of RTI Applications was launched with the expectations that it would make the process easy and convenient. In this case, the Respondent admitted that there were a large number of issues in handling the online RTI applications due to technical problems and unskilled manpower. It appears that the whole system of online filing of RTI Applications needs a review.
Citation: Mr. Shiv Kirti Singh v. CPIO M/o. Finance in Complaint No. CIC/BS/C/2015/000189-BJ, Dept. of Revenue CBDT, Date of Decision: 17.04.2017, 29.11.2018
Dr. Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in) is the co-author of the books: RIGHT TO INFORMATION – LAW AND PRACTICE and PIO’s guide to RTI. Her other articles can be read at the website of RTI Foundation of India at http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/

Bharat needs PM Narendra Modi for 10 years, then only this country develops. After PV Narasimha Rao, He is only bold PM. May God Bless him with enough strength.
Rao
Real test of Congress came in Vidhan Sabha elections
The Congress, which had split between certain and uncertain political future and been political exile for 15 years after a string of defeats one after another and teetering on the edge of total political wipeout, proved its mettle in Madhya Pradesh. The results will augur well for Congress and seen as the catalyst for the new political developments in the State. However, the BJP did not suffer a humiliating defeat. But the BJP was clearly on the ropes. The Congress, which is riding the crest of a wave of win by the lowest margin, has to face Lok Sabha elections in 2019. The vote percent of BJP in MP is more than Congress and it can be realized by BJP in the same. The fight of Lok Sabha is likely to be neck and neck between Congress and BJP.
Sunil Salve