Strengthening of internal security of India
As per the constitutional arrangement, State Governments are responsible for maintaining law and order. Needless to mention here that due to political reasons and conflict among Central and State/UT Governments there have been occasions when central agencies like CBI, ED, etc were helpless to perform their lawful actions. After having bitter experience in Mumbai terror attacks, Rajiv Gandhi's assassination in Tamil Nadu conflicts with CBI Vs State Govts, it has become extremely necessary to reduce over dependency on State Police instead, in the interest of internal security of the nation, declare and notify all other metro cities (like Delhi) and every State Capital as Union Territories under Central Govt control so that central govt agencies should be able to work independently smoothly and have better penetration and governance to identify and red-flag any risks factors in a much better manner to deal with such risks effectively. Internal Security matters should not be left to the discretion of State Governments alone. Also, the said arrangement shall be useful for Central Govt to establish its regional base within the State for the purpose of effective monitoring and supervision for the implementation of many Central Govt Welfare Schemes in every State also.
S Bhatnagar
Homage to Dr. V.Krishnamurthy
I join thousands of past and present employees of BHEL,Maruty and SAIL in paying homage and tributes to our leader Dr.V.Krishnamurthy who passed away in Chennai yesterday. This event, among other things, brings out a cultural difference in the functioning of Public and Private Sector. While Maruti has promptly released a half page homage in all national newspapers the PSUs are yet to react. Yesterday being Sunday nobody would have been in the office. Today they may hold condolence meeting and the PR man will be instructed to issue a press release. He will the get busy to prepare a note for for approval for the size, text and the number of papers in which to release. The note will then be moved to Finance for concurrence after which it will be put up to the approving authority. This will take the whole of today and hopefully tomorrow something will appear.
Raghavan