Kejriwal slams Delhi IAS for continuing strike; IAS AGMUT Association says there’s no strike, work is on with “written communications”

DELHI chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, deputy CM Manish Sisodia and two other cabinet ministers spent the Monday night at the waiting room of the Lt Governor’s residence, protesting against what they claimed the LG’s inaction to end the bureaucrats’ strike in Delhi. “In the history of independent India, this is the first time that IAS officers on strike for four months. Why?” — Kejriwal tweeted on Monday. IAS AGMUT Association strongly refuted the charges, saying that no officer…

Why Navi Mumbai residents turn angry with the transfer of 2005 batch IAS Mundhe Tukaram

NAVI MUMBAI Municipal Commissioner Mundhe Tukaram Haribhau’s transfer order has not gone well with its residents. The ordinary citizens adjoining the area have adopted a massive signature campaign to stall Mundhe’s transfer order as they feel, the removal of the 2005 batch IAS officer from that post was arbitrary in nature, and was possibly done at the behest of the builders’ lobby among others. Mundhe is considered honest, straightforward and highly popular, and has taken on the…

Govt cautions officers, clerks airing their grievances directly to PM, ministers

IN THIS age of protests, emboldened government employees have begun to junk prescribed norms and write directly to ministers and even the Prime Minister if they are unhappy with their promotions and other service matters. Finding this trend highly awkward and unacceptable, the DoPT has dug out a…

RIP “Nirbhaya”: Bureaucrats express solidarity, lend voices on policing, mentality change

Protests in Delhi (File photo)

FROM “quick and sensitive policing” to suggestions on “national flag flown at half mast” Indian bureaucrats have resorted to social media to lend their voices on Delhi gang-rape case. As the news of Delhi gang-rape victim Nirbhaya’s death in a Singapore hospital shocked the nation on Saturday early morning, here are some voices of Indian bureaucrats:

Topless Ukrainian women insulting Indian flag at ambassador Chander’s flat may get jail

Protestors outside Ambassador's residence

TOPLESS Ukrainian girls who last month staged protests outside the residence of Indian ambassador to Ukraine Rajiv K Chander and insulted the Indian flag could face criminal charges under Ukraine’s law. Four protestors may land up in jail for four to five years not because they stripped in public “for a cause”, but because they tore down the Indian flag, used it to bang the door and windows of Chander’s residence and threw it on the ground. Chander, a 1983 batch IFS officer with a previous stint in MEA as joint secretary, was not present when the incident took place.
The protestors from Femen had arrived in Indian dress and stripped to their waists before climbing up a ladder to reach the balcony of Chander’s residence. They were fiercely opposing to reported instructions by India’s external affairs ministry to carry out more checks of Ukrainian women aged 15 to 40 seeking Indian travel visa. The protestors showed placards that read “Ukraine is not brothel” and “I am not prostitute”. The temperature was minus 4 degree Celsius when the women stripped to stage their protests.

Rajiv Chander

There were reports in Indian media that many young women from Central Asian countries come to India, particularly the big metro cities, for prostitution. The trend supposedly reached the peak ahead of the Commonwealth Games hosted by New Delhi in October 2010. A few raids by Delhi police have confirmed such a suspicion.
Yet for Chander and other Indian diplomats, such protests could be challenging. After all, Indian diplomats are not trained to face anger from topless young women.

Babu Tweets

Vishnu Prakash, 1981 batch Indian Foreign Service officer and India’s ambassador to South Korea, was highly impressed by the innovation of Korean Railways. On Saturday, he posted a photograph in Twitter with a caption: “Seoul railway station even offers strollers for infants if needed by passengers”. Will Indian Railways take a cue?
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