Dilip Cherian

Mar 31, 2010
DILIPC~1.JPG

Dilip Cherian

Law & the jungle

Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan’s crackdown on corrupt officials in the forest department has babu circles buzzing. Though barely two months old in the ministry, Ms Natarajan has already acted against three senior forest officials. The most recent instance is the transfer of an inspector general

Pressure tactics

It’s not surprising to learn that babus spare no efforts to wrangle a stint abroad. The chief attraction of course is the special allowance that can range from `70,000 to `1.15 lakh per month. But the ministry for external affairs (MEA) is clearly unhappy with the situation since it bears the brunt of the “pressure” from powerful babus and politicians.

Nitish’s clean-up

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar clearly is a man of his word. Some months ago he had threatened to confiscate properties of babus facing corruption charges and convert them into schools. It was no empty threat. The Bihar government

Dire straits

Filling up vacancies in the Indian Police Service (IPS) never seemed to be the government’s priority. According to its own figures, there is a shortage of 1,477 IPS officers. While the home ministry has been painfully slow in filling

Dilli Ka Babu

Collective shivers

Performance pain

Wonder how this will sit with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s renewed austerity drive. Mounting government expenditure has made Pranabda issue a circular on austerity to be observed by Central government ministries, a

Dilli ka babu

Babu scarcity

Babu scarcity

It is not only vacancies in the elite services that are worrying the government, but also dearth of officials in services such as forest management and data collection. There is a growing concern that the shortage of frontline staff for wildlife protection is taking a toll on conservation efforts.

Report card

Report card
The rating system introduced last year to assess the performance of senior babus will now be made public.

2G caution

The 2G scam’s aftermath may usher in certain changes in government policy that many babus may not have anticipated. The revelation of links of senior babus with the corporate sector has made the government rethink its policy on bureaucrats who join private companies after retirement from government

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.

Horoscope