IESM: Readers views

Date: Tuesday, 5 May, 2009, 9:54 AM
VIEWS OF PBOR ABOUT IESM ADVISORY
Dear Pandey Sahab,
I am delighted to read this extremely well written mail from you. A mail which has come out from the heart of a soldier. I have had the opportunity to meet you on a number of occasions at the Jantar Mantar site and the pleasure of interacting with you. Your willingness to always come out with very rational and well meaning thoughts has always motivated me to reach out and meet you. Without hesitation I say this, your thoughts in your mail are very justified and correct. I have no doubt we will succeed in our quest for OROP and later on other matters which we deliberately put on a back bench for a while. Most important all of us have to be together in it. We have to work hand in glove and move forward rubbing shoulders.
BJP it is. Jai Hind.
With warmest regards,
Maj General Balbir K Kataria

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:02 AM
CONGRESS DOES WHAT IT COMMITS
My dear Maj Rao,
I never had the opportunity to meet you nor I am fully aware of your political orientation. Your claim that congress does what it commits is incorrect. Congress too had committed to OROP: both the Chairperson and the President of India while addressing joint houses of Parliament. I was in touch with Mr Jaswant Singh when he was RM and FM. He too did nothing on the issue, though he held out some hope to me.

The truth is that the word of NO political party word can be taken for granted. Politics in India has touched that low. It has been the services demand that the Pay Commission should have a member from the defence services. The UPA did nothing as regards 6th CPC. Now after the horse has bolted, there is the TALK of locking the gate! This promise of a separate pay commission for the defence services is a 'pie in the sky.' " Jannat ke hiqiqat humme maloom hai leken dil behelanee to khial acha hai Ghalab"

How is it that when committee of secretaries was formed, consequent to the protests by the service chiefs against the anomalies introduced by the 6th CPC, no service officer was placed on the committee. Instead the IAS officer, who in the first place was the cause of all the mischief, was made a member of this committee. It became a case where the prosecutor also sat on the jury. The same lady, now as the expenditure secretary, is again on this new committee you have talked about.

There is much merit in what Nirad C chaudhury said and to quote him, " The political executive in India helplessly keep flapping it's wings against the bars of the cage in which the bureaucracy has placed it."

With regards and best wishes.
Harwant Singh
(Lt Gen Harwant Singh, Former DCOAS)
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