Whispers Forum

Extreme heat conditions have disrupted life all over the country and caused a water crisis in many parts of India. Climate change is a very big challenge facing the country today. But once the nation receives the monsoon showers and the weather becomes cool everyone including the government, politicians and the people forget everything and no one bothers about saving the environment and the nature. According to experts, the number and severity of droughts, floods and storms in India will continue to increase rapidly. So we have to save nature although monsoon showers will, hopefully, end our misery within a few weeks as Southwest Monsoon is predicted to strike Kerala coast on May 21, ten days before its scheduled arrival date.
Kamal Tripathi

A senior citizen of age 70 years. For last one month, I was visiting sub post office Mansarovar Jaipur to deposit 1.50 lac in my PPF a/c but to no avail. There is no separate counter for the senior citizens. There is always a long line of agents and touts and the young to jostle out the young. Finally after a month’s struggle I was forced to transfer my PPF account to the adjacent ICICI bank.
Dr G K Tiwari IAS (Retd)
Editor-in-chief should conclude comments
We read many viewpoints on various debates. I think the editor-in-chief should conclude his comments/ views on the debate after a week or so including the points published in the forum so that the final outcome of the debate should be known to all readers of the Whispers in the Corridors.
Pradeep Kumar

I request Banks to publish a list of working days instead of holidays which would be more convenient to public and also it will be easy to remember.
Raghavan
Rehabilitation of a ‘misguided youth’
Just curious whether the Central Govt would have been equally benevolent towards members of other services, in case the member is missing for years together and rises against the Political Establishment, had Faesal not been member of the biggest service union. Short of words on this generosity. Looks like rehabilitation of a ‘misguided youth’
Bosidini
Corrupt get highest priority
Yes. In this Government, all the corrupt get the highest priority in appointments and extensions.
Virat

Whoever may be CJI, if his lordship fails to ensure timely disposal of cases from trial courts to SC, like other Judges, it will have no difference.
M P Srivastava
Post of PrCCIT Mumbai most powerful post
Indeed, Principal CCIT, Mumbai, is the most powerful position considering the budget collection. However, it is to be noted that both Principal Chief Commissioner of Income-Tax and Member, Central Board of Direct Taxes are placed in the Apex scale. So technically, it is not an "elevation" as mentioned by you. However, had it been an elevation from the level of Chief Commissioner of Income-tax (HAG + scale) to Member, CBDT (Apex Scale) would qualify for an elevation in pure terms.
Sandeep Mishra

A very good and relevant case in which every CPIO, SPIO, FAA and everyone in contact with RTI should read. In most cases, the RTI reply is not specific and the reference would be made to the website. The websites are clumsy containing information dumped in a random manner from where retrieval is not possible. An applicant cannot be expected to keep searching for the information. If the reply contains specific reference to the page where the information is kept on the website, it would save a large number of unnecessary appeals.
Chudasama V

The news that election strategist Prashant Kishor i.e. P K joining the Congress may not be good news for many senior party leaders. The leaders are beginning to fear that now their chair could go. So far they have been successful in getting tickets despite failing to win in the election and they must now be worried about their future. Can party High Command give precedence to P K over established and senior leaders. Many of them must not be happy, especially G-23 members. Apart from this, some party leaders are also mobilizing against P K in the name of preserving the established party ideology. They argue that they cannot keep silent as the reins of the party are being handed over to an outsider in a jiffy, while they worked all their life for the party.
Harsh Saxena

Honor and respect to our senior citizens starting from Satya Yug to Treta to Dwapar Yug we have followed our culture/tradition and paid respect and regard to our elders or senior citizens. This has to continue in Kali Yug also. We are following the tradition even today to pay respect and regard to elders. Let us call senior citizens. There are various ways to pay respect and honor to our senior citizens. Senior citizens are being treated with respect in many spheres of life including society. They are being given preferential treatment. They deserve it also. Respecting our elders should be a courtesy ingrained in every one of us. Senior citizens have a lifetime of experience. Recently Air India now owned by TATA kept the tradition of giving 50% discount on base fare to senior citizens. Worth praising step by corporate entity.
Naveen