Whispers Forum

The media has reported leakage of Aircel Maxis status report much before the same was submitted to the Supreme Court on Jan 13,2018.The document was recovered during the raid at P Chidambaram’s residence by the CBI on Jan 3,2018 i.e. 10 days before submission to SC.
An officer of CBI allegedly leaked the report to P Chidambaram former finance minister. This confirms the existence of moles. Highly disturbing.
There must be hundreds of moles planted by the Congress-led UPA during its misrule. Open secret. Various sensitive organizations like the CBI, ED, IT,IB, RAW, NTRO and, last but not the least, the bureaucracy-at-large are infested with the “ caged parrots” of the erstwhile political dispensation.
Private detective agencies are professional enough to make easy inroads into government departments/agencies to access secret documents. These are, more often than not, manned by retired personnel of government agencies. This explains the drop in conviction/ success rates of anti- corruption and intelligence agencies
PM Modi is expected to take the leakage from CBI seriously. A thorough cleansing is needed across the board.
A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)

There are a lot of contracts like that of contractual labour which need to be modified in the light of the Right to Information Act. However, most of the government organisations are oblivious of it and as a result, the RTI Applicants are unable to get the information which is rightfully their due. In all the outsourcing work, the records must be owned by the public authority.
Samay
Govt should investigate
Govt should investigate the two years temporary transfers, promotions, foreign training since 2001 onwards in SAIL, where the price tag for these starts from Rs 2 lakhs on wards to few crores in this steel PSU.
A Visitor

Applicants for Vigilance Commissioner's post in the CVC are required to support their applications with a 300-word essay to prove their " hollowness or otherwise ".
Essays will be evaluated by the infamous dynasty of bureaucracy.
Innovative. Out-of-box thinking of DOP&T manned by babus. .
Writers , Journalists and Professors in great demand as proxy writers.
A K Saxena ( A retd civil servant)
Details be enclosed with bills
Since the payment of contract employees is required to be made only after receipt of attendance and details of deposit of EPF and ESI contribution, the details must be available with bills admitted for payment.
Mehar
No need to divulge parent cadre
There is no need to divulge the parent cadre of officers posted in Indian Missions Abroad from outside the MEA
Zile Singh

India must pre-empt China's possible wild card entry into the Maldives in order to restore democracy there and bolster India's maritime security in the Indian ocean.
It would be foolhardy for India to wait for a formal Maldivian invite in view of China's string of pearls woven around India. Ethics is China's anathema. Reigning President of the Maldives is out and out pro-China. China is waiting to pounce.
The present Maldivian regime has proved itself as illegitimate, undemocratic, hell bent on defying Supreme Court directive by refusing to release political leaders. It is ready to arrest top SC Judges and extend temporary emergency beyond 15 days.
Let us re-enact Operation Cactus to enhance India’s maritime primacy in Indian ocean by showing our capability to mount a successful operation at short notice
Let us not forget, there are some 22,000 Indian Diaspora in the small island nation. Hence, the need for swift commando action before the crisis reaches a flashpoint.
A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)
Apt analysis
Very apt analysis on the budget by Shri Kumar and Ms Aarthi Khosla. Hearty Congrats to o both the contributors.
K Srinivasa

Pakistan is waging a virtual war with us .What else are everyday serious incidents at Loc.By sending antitank guided missiles and heavy mortar shells across the Line of Control on our posts and habitated villages along the border they are killing our soldiers and civilians in several sectors in Jammu Region. Their latest belligerent act the other day took the lives of a young captain and three jawans. It seems the rogue army of Pakistan is having a field day with no worth the name civilian Government in Charge. As it is the military there is always over ruling the elected Government. Terrorists like Hafiz Syed and the army seem to be writing this agenda. Their aggressive posture is also an outcome of frustration on being condemned by the World Powers for promoting terrorism. Their next door neighbour Afghanistan is also their victim. What should India do to rein in this rogue elephant ? War is not the answer. Arrogant of being a nuclear power they will not hesitate to use it even if their own people suffer. Keeping quiet over these provocations, also resulting in heavy casualties, will not stop them from such nefarious acts. I am sure our armed forces, of which we are proud will give them a befitting reply. The tears of the family members of Captain Kapil Kundu and our other soldiers killed by these animals need to be wiped by a suitable response.
Aarti Khosla

If this NDA government continues for another five years, the salaried class will be at the receiving end of trader. The salaried class only will be paying tax without any relief. The trader be small or medium or big who are involved in rice, dal and other grocery item business, will be earning more but will be paying only meager tax to the satisfaction of this part.
Rahul
Medicare scheme will lead to massive scandal
Medicare scheme announced in the budget will give rise to a massive scandal by hospitals-false bills .admissions etc.
ARC Kumar

NDA govt has great political acumen. That is why he has completely ignored the middle class. They never vote nor are they united. If the rural folk were ignored they would have voted against. Good political exercise.
ARC Kumar
Unique Union Budget!
Notwithstanding the Naysayers calling it an election manifesto, the Union Budget is unique in many ways. It has really focussed on what needs to be done. The agriculture was in dire need of attention. Farmers were not getting adequate return for their produce .Debt-ridden they were ending their lives in desperation. The Budget promises them good MSP. Were the villages not in need of good infrastructure. By providing road connectivity, irrigation projects and better housing to the people in our villages the Budget aims at uplifting them from their present moribund status. The National Health Scheme dubbed as largest such health care scheme in the world will provide relief to crores of poor people who cannot afford such care today. Giving relief in tax to medium and small scale industries will encourage setting up of more such ventures boosting employment. This budget is indeed not a run of the mill exercise we have been seeing so far. The middle class left out of this budget for not being given any relief should not mind making this sacrifice for helping the kisans who feed them and for lifting the poor out of their present state so that India grows in the real sense and inequalities get reduced.
Aarti Khosla

It is disgusting to note that the political parties who claim to be the saviours of 125 crore people of the country have stooped to such a low that instead of having debate and discussion on how to provide relief to the people and work for their well being spat over silly things like dresses of the leaders. The BJP and the Congress tore into each other after the Meghalaya unit of the BJP, in an apparent bid to get even with Rahul Gandhi over his "suit-boot" jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claimed the Congress chief wore a jacket worth Rs 63,000 to a concert in Shillong on Tuesday. Is there nothing better left for these politicians to fight over ?
Mahendra Kaushik