Dilip Cherian

Mar 31, 2010
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Dilip Cherian

Wake up call

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is still chipping away at Right to Information (RTI) they hint, but the Central Information Commission continues to bat for transparency despite the many obstacles it has faced since its inception. Concerned over increased reports of delays in redressal of public grievances, the commission has now

Promoting fair play

The government is keen to rectify an action which had resulted in several babus losing their chance for promotion.

Emergency ward

The only thing surprising about the arrest of Ketan Desai, the supra-babu type president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) really was why the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took so long to arrest this man. Over the

Babus before specialists

Specialists have always gotten the raw end of the stick as far as their importance goes. So engineers in the ministry for roads are currently unhappy with babus taking over and sidelining them.

Second thought

May 02 : Union Human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal apparently has abandoned his rather reasoned opposition to the appointment of career babus to top positions in education. Until last year, the HRD minister was convinced that he preferred educationists in

Power outage

April 25 : The challenges of the Indian power sector need little explanation.

Staffing issues

April 18 : The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has set a ceiling for the number of years officials can work on the personal staff of ministers. According to the new rule, a ceiling of 10 years has been prescribed beyond which an official may not be permitted to be appointed in the personal

Dilli ka babu

Agents of insurance 

April.04 : Delhi and specially Congresswallahs know that behind every successful man is a woman. This saying now holds true especially in the case of babus from Madhya Pradesh who were nabbed by income-tax sleuths recently. In many cases, the sleuths discovered, the wives of the babus were working as insurance agents, a useful occupation for investing “surplus” wealth of their husbands. 

Babu exodus

March 21 : If the Left parties believe in omens, then perhaps they should pay heed to the message emanating from the babus in West Bengal and Kerala. As reported in this column earlier, the number of senior babus in West Bengal desperate for a transfer out of the state has turned from a

Dilli ka babu

Babus prepare to clam up
March.14 : Even as transparency and accountability make inroads into babudom, thanks to activists armed with the Right to Information Act (RTI), senior babus are preparing to batten down the hatches to protect themselves from “frivolous” complaints. Apparently, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar has set up a screening committee to look at all complaints against secretary-level babus to decide whether they are worthy of the government’s time and energy.

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