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[magudi]

Lmao this Modi's a joker - goes to every other business summit and talks about gas subsidy and led bulbs as his greatest econ reforms , can't get more pathetic

 

[Darmashkian]

@Abingdonboy @SarthakGanguly @Nilgiri
I think you may find this interesting
http://www.firstpost.com/india/pm-m...he-bureaucracys-stalling-tactics-2602444.html


PM Modi is getting restless with the bureaucracy’s stalling tactics

At the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious multi-purpose and multi-modal platform for proactive governance and timely implementation (PRAGATI) on Wednesday, a stern and definite warning was communicated to those creating impediments in the roll out of the government’s scheme.

Short of reading the riot act to those attending the meeting, secretaries to government of India and chief secretaries connected through video conferencing, Modi took up 26 complaints registered against officials of the central customs and excise. Though the nature of the complaints was not deliberated upon, it seems that most of them pertained to conduct of customs and excise officials at the airport and sea-ports.


Narendra Modi in a file photo. PTI

A top official of the Customs tried a meek defence of his department “there are close circuit cameras in all these places”. But his position became untenable when not only the PM but his senior aides contradicted him by saying, “CCTV is not an answer to the problem. There are reports that officials of customs deliberately take people away from the camera to strike deals”. In the course of the discussion, Modi seemed to have conveyed his displeasure over the free rein that such officers enjoy even as complaints pile up against them.

“Yes we will take care of this and remove such officials,” was all that top most officials of the customs and excise could say to persistent queries. It was also agreed upon in the meeting to put up CCTVs in all areas in ports and airports and instruct officials to do business within the glare of the CCTVs not beyond them.

Apparently what began as dressing down of the central customs and excise department got extended to other government departments where Modi directed all secretaries of the government of India and chief secretaries of the states to devise a way to get rid of “bad apples” in the structure of governance. In unambiguous terms, the Prime Minister is learnt to have asked all secretaries to weed out those against whom public grievances have been piling up.

Those who attended the meeting admitted that though the meeting was a sequel to the PRAGATI series, the underlying message did indicate the government’s patience was wearing thin on the recalcitrant bureaucracy. In its internal assessment, the government has noted the tardy pace of implementation of its various social welfare schemes.

What appears to be particularly galling for the Modi regime is the impression gaining ground in the people’s perception that the government is not different from the Manmohan Singh government when it comes to dealing with public grievances. At the level of the ministry, there have been cases of bureaucrats merrily indulging themselves in pushing files without taking decisions.

Apparently the reason for reluctance on the part of top officials to take decisions is often attributed to them getting embroiled later in corruption cases. Sources in the government however point out that a section of lazy bureaucracy has been deliberately creating a smokescreen of “persecution” to justify its conduct. In their view, since the discretion of officials is seriously curtailed to minimise the scope of corruption, it caused deep resentment among a section of people. “There have been very few cases of officials being penalised for discharging their official duties,” sources point out.

In a series of PRAGATI meetings, Modi has emphaised that he would ensure that no official would be persecuted for doing duty for public good. There are enough straws in the wind to suggest that in public perception, the government’s implementation of its scheme has been falling far short of expectations. Hence the tough-talking in Wednesday’s meeting could be seen as precursor to initiating correctives to goad the bureaucracy into action. None other than Prime Minister Modi is acutely conscious of the fact that time is gradually slipping away.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...book.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=TOI

"The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), which reports to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), proposed this last week in a report prepared along with Nasscom and KPMG.
The move would be a vital element of India's push to improve its ranking of 119 out of 193 countries in the UN E-Government Index and breaking into the top 10, DARPG secretary Devendra Chaudhary said in the report.
"In order to achieve the vision of Digital India and ensure the delivery of government services to citizens, the mobile platform needs to be leveraged to its full potential," said the report's foreword by JS Deepak, secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, who was named on Friday as telecom secretary."

@Chanakya's_Chant

 

[ranjeet]

saala yeh konse mathematician ka kaam hai?

 

[SarthakGanguly]

@Abingdonboy @SarthakGanguly @Nilgiri
I think you may find this interesting
http://www.firstpost.com/india/pm-m...he-bureaucracys-stalling-tactics-2602444.html


PM Modi is getting restless with the bureaucracy’s stalling tactics

At the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious multi-purpose and multi-modal platform for proactive governance and timely implementation (PRAGATI) on Wednesday, a stern and definite warning was communicated to those creating impediments in the roll out of the government’s scheme.

Short of reading the riot act to those attending the meeting, secretaries to government of India and chief secretaries connected through video conferencing, Modi took up 26 complaints registered against officials of the central customs and excise. Though the nature of the complaints was not deliberated upon, it seems that most of them pertained to conduct of customs and excise officials at the airport and sea-ports.


Narendra Modi in a file photo. PTI

A top official of the Customs tried a meek defence of his department “there are close circuit cameras in all these places”. But his position became untenable when not only the PM but his senior aides contradicted him by saying, “CCTV is not an answer to the problem. There are reports that officials of customs deliberately take people away from the camera to strike deals”. In the course of the discussion, Modi seemed to have conveyed his displeasure over the free rein that such officers enjoy even as complaints pile up against them.

“Yes we will take care of this and remove such officials,” was all that top most officials of the customs and excise could say to persistent queries. It was also agreed upon in the meeting to put up CCTVs in all areas in ports and airports and instruct officials to do business within the glare of the CCTVs not beyond them.

Apparently what began as dressing down of the central customs and excise department got extended to other government departments where Modi directed all secretaries of the government of India and chief secretaries of the states to devise a way to get rid of “bad apples” in the structure of governance. In unambiguous terms, the Prime Minister is learnt to have asked all secretaries to weed out those against whom public grievances have been piling up.

Those who attended the meeting admitted that though the meeting was a sequel to the PRAGATI series, the underlying message did indicate the government’s patience was wearing thin on the recalcitrant bureaucracy. In its internal assessment, the government has noted the tardy pace of implementation of its various social welfare schemes.

What appears to be particularly galling for the Modi regime is the impression gaining ground in the people’s perception that the government is not different from the Manmohan Singh government when it comes to dealing with public grievances. At the level of the ministry, there have been cases of bureaucrats merrily indulging themselves in pushing files without taking decisions.

Apparently the reason for reluctance on the part of top officials to take decisions is often attributed to them getting embroiled later in corruption cases. Sources in the government however point out that a section of lazy bureaucracy has been deliberately creating a smokescreen of “persecution” to justify its conduct. In their view, since the discretion of officials is seriously curtailed to minimise the scope of corruption, it caused deep resentment among a section of people. “There have been very few cases of officials being penalised for discharging their official duties,” sources point out.

In a series of PRAGATI meetings, Modi has emphaised that he would ensure that no official would be persecuted for doing duty for public good. There are enough straws in the wind to suggest that in public perception, the government’s implementation of its scheme has been falling far short of expectations. Hence the tough-talking in Wednesday’s meeting could be seen as precursor to initiating correctives to goad the bureaucracy into action. None other than Prime Minister Modi is acutely conscious of the fact that time is gradually slipping away.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...book.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=TOI

"The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), which reports to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), proposed this last week in a report prepared along with Nasscom and KPMG.
The move would be a vital element of India's push to improve its ranking of 119 out of 193 countries in the UN E-Government Index and breaking into the top 10, DARPG secretary Devendra Chaudhary said in the report.
"In order to achieve the vision of Digital India and ensure the delivery of government services to citizens, the mobile platform needs to be leveraged to its full potential," said the report's foreword by JS Deepak, secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, who was named on Friday as telecom secretary."

@Chanakya's_Chant

I stated this when he was elected. This babu generation will have to die off. No other hope.

 

[ranjeet]

https://twitter.com/x/status/689841300082810880

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/x/status/689841300082810880

RSS should fund a movie regarding first council of Nicaea....that will hit these lot back where it really hurts.

The sequel can be about the great Schism where roman catholic crusaders butchered Eastern (later orthodox) Christians of Constantinople because they were "infidels" declared by the Western pope.

Every attempt at fomenting religious strife by such known quarters should be met with cold, hard but factual attack on their very historical basis as a religion. Show which side is the unflinching dogmatic one....and then you have already won half the battle.

 

[jaunty]

'Apolitical' super bhakt Anupam is now scared to say openly that he's a Hindu

Also someone tweeted this, found it quite interesting,

"Replace 'Hindu' with 'Muslim' and 'Anupam Kher' with 'Aamir Khan' and imagine the outrage."

https://twitter.com/x/status/693113132563058689

 

[Sky lord]

RSS should fund a movie regarding first council of Nicaea....that will hit these lot back where it really hurts.

The sequel can be about the great Schism where roman catholic crusaders butchered Eastern (later orthodox) Christians of Constantinople because they were "infidels" declared by the Western pope.

Every attempt at fomenting religious strife by such known quarters should be met with cold, hard but factual attack on their very historical basis as a religion. Show which side is the unflinching dogmatic one....and then you have already won half the battle.

A wise Hindu once said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" ...and there is plenty off sh*t to throw around. Aren't a lot of your epics stories about Hindus fighting other Hindus? - usually for the most bizarre reasons?


About the first council of Nicea, I would have to agree, I think people should know about that, it would dampen this kind of stupid rampant fundamentalism that is being exported out of the American Bible Belt and which we can all do without.

 

[Marxist]

Kerala: CPM student activists assault former diplomat T P Sreenivasan
Leaving Kerala’s Opposition Left Democratic Front red-faced, former diplomat and vice-chairman of the state’s higher education council T P Sreenivasan was today assaulted by SFI activists during a protest.

As a group of policemen watched, Sreenivasan was targeted at the venue of the Global Education Summit, which the CPI(M)’s students wing had threatened to disrupt, claiming that it would “accelerate the commercialisation of higher education”. The SFI has been staging a sit-in in front of a hotel at Kovalam where the two-day summit is being held.


On Friday, a group of SFI activists manhandled Sreenivasan as he came out of the hotel to receive guests. The 71-year-old fell down after SFI district joint secretary Sarath hit him on the face in the presence of policemen.

“(The) attack on me which many witnessed on TV was to get Global Education Meet cancelled at any cost. I was not badly hurt and meet is going well,” Sreenivasan said later in a tweet.

While Sreenivasan blamed police for failing to act, CPI(M) district secretary Kadakampally Surendran apologised for the incident and promised that action would be taken against those guilty. Surendran, however, alleged that there was a “conspiracy behind the police inaction”.

CPI(M) politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan, however, said the party did not consider Sreenivasan as an academic expert and alleged that the Congress-led UDF government had appointed him to “commercialise the education sector”.

While several political and cultural leaders deplored the attack, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said the incident was “an insult to the state”.

“The SFI should not have spoiled an international education event attended by several academicians. It is a disservice to the younger generation,” he said.

Sreenivasan, a 37-year foreign service veteran, was India’s ambassador to Austria and Slovenia, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (Vienna). Earlier, he had served as Deputy Chief of Mission at Washington, High Commissioner to Kenya, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (New York), and Ambassador to Fiji and south Pacific Island countries.

A speaker of Japanese and Russian, Sreenivasan also served as a member of the National Security Advisory Board.
http://indianexpress.com/article/in...at-t-p-sreenivasan-attacked-by-sfi-activists/

 

[Nilgiri]

A wise Hindu once said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" ...and there is plenty off sh*t to throw around. Aren't a lot of your epics stories about Hindus fighting other Hindus? - usually for the most bizarre reasons?

Was that extreme pacifist really that wise? He said he took inspiration from Gita, yet Gita was sermoned in the middle of a battlefield to a warrior who was leaning to pacifism and was shown why that was the cowardly unrighteous thing to do. That is the ultimate irony. But Gandhiji himself may have realised this deep down when he said the one thing he hates more than violence is cowardice. I see too many cowards in India....BOTH those that do nothing at all and those that easily get angered and resort to blatant bloodshed....rather people must think intelligently, keep their calm, and use facts to root out and isolate idiots on all sides. That must be the goal.

So therefore sometimes the right thing to do is indeed to use the same language that the enemy understands till they learn to stop their behaviour, or others in their crowd stop it for them....if they want the overall "pain" to stop. There must be a balance between turning the other cheek and slapping back....doing only one regardless of context is quite extremist and unproductive.

About the first council of Nicea, I would have to agree, I think people should know about that, it would dampen this kind of stupid rampant fundamentalism that is being exported out of the American Bible Belt and which we can all do without.

That is precisely the point. Every form of ignorance should be rooted out, even within religious dogma and thinking. This is not just for them, it must be done for all....but it must be done intelligently and in a civilised manner.

 

[Sky lord]

I see too many cowards in India....BOTH those that do nothing at all and those that easily get angered and resort to blatant bloodshed....rather people must think intelligently, keep their calm, and use facts to root out and isolate idiots on all sides. That must be the goal.

You want people to use their heads and behave rationally and fairly - no argument on that - directly correlated to education and exposure which comes with increasing income. Sounds good, provided that all citizens are treated the same, neither discriminated against or pandered to.

 

[Darmashkian]

Was that extreme pacifist really that wise? He said he took inspiration from Gita, yet Gita was sermoned in the middle of a battlefield to a warrior who was leaning to pacifism and was shown why that was the cowardly unrighteous thing to do. That is the ultimate irony. But Gandhiji himself may have realised this deep down when he said the one thing he hates more than violence is cowardice. I see too many cowards in India....BOTH those that do nothing at all and those that easily get angered and resort to blatant bloodshed....rather people must think intelligently, keep their calm, and use facts to root out and isolate idiots on all sides. That must be the goal.

So therefore sometimes the right thing to do is indeed to use the same language that the enemy understands till they learn to stop their behaviour, or others in their crowd stop it for them....if they want the overall "pain" to stop. There must be a balance between turning the other cheek and slapping back....doing only one regardless of context is quite extremist and unproductive.

There are too many cowards in India... agreed, Modi should take responsibility & resign.
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Since when have death anniversaries become interesting? What an Insensitive imbecile

 

[LaBong]

A wise Hindu once said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

That is actually a quote from movie, Gandhi never said that.

 

[ranjeet]

That is actually a quote from movie, Gandhi never said that.

what are your thoughts on this secular twat's tweet? We all remember how this quiz master got his undies in a bunch over Nun's rape, how come he spit venom when a Hindu Minor girl is raped, burned with acid and killed? This isn't the first time when he ridiculed a minor hindu girl being raped.

https://twitter.com/x/status/693781345168830464

@Guynextdoor2 your views are also welcomed.

 

[cloud_9]

I have read that the douchebag Mukherjee was saddened by demolition of Babri Majid but thought the action at Golden Temple was a necessity!

Quite a way to appreciate the contribution of Sikhs to the nation building.