Mantri ji, Today people may be afraid or just withdrawn – but they will not forget!
Does that mean the looking after Members are so greedy of post that they overlooked the basic principles?
Each deciding signature on the policies and procurements is by officers who do not hold that chair on their own merit or sit there following established process
Focus has shifted again to the vitiated process whereas no looking after Member given grade of Secy/GoI
Selling soap and toothpaste and making profit from them is different from what soldiering means!
Rush to do tenders by officers who have been picked and chosen has let off a whiff of bad odour – every purchase decision now stinks!
Questions were raised on transparency and fairness of 360 degree review process in our previous articles – read again by clicking these headlines –
“The team of Minister is manipulating 360 degrees and resulted in a round loss of morale“ and “There was another conflict of interest“.
In the following tweets, #RailWhispers exposed the team which did the 360 degree review.
@RAILWHISPERS on Twitter
#RailWhispers had raised important questions on transparency and integrity of process adopted to kill career prospects of 122 HAG officers – Report can be read here as: “рдЬреАрдПрдо рдкреИрдирд▓ рдФрд░ рдкреЛрд╕реНрдЯрд┐рдВрдЧ: рд╕рд┐рд╕реНрдЯрдо рдореЗрдВ рдЗрддрдирд╛ рдЕрд╡рд┐рд╢реНрд╡рд╛рд╕, рдЗрддрдиреА рддрд┐рдХрдбрд╝рдо, рдЗрддрдиреА рдЕрдкрд╛рд░рджрд░реНрд╢рд┐рддрд╛ рдХреНрдпреЛрдВ рд╣реИ?“. We also asked questions of probity and prudence.
Some of these questions are:
тАв Integrity of the process of selection of Canadian company for doing a test which has been done by specialised Indian Government Agencies. How does this selection meet the ‘Make in India’ criteria?
тАв What was the contribution of feedback gathered through 360 degree review panel and Emotional Intelligence Test in selections?
тАв Who did a selection of 360 degree review panel?
тАв What were achievements of selected officers versus those rejected?
тАв Who did review of the 360 degree review panel?
We also requested the Hon’ble Minister for Railways (MR) and Respected Chairman & CEO/Railway Board (CRB) for independent review on the issues we have raised. Some of the issues were silently reversed, indicating how Hon’ble MR and CRB were bluffed in the first place.
In the following particular cases, Khan Market Gang (#KMG) hastily reversed their decisions:
тАв How could the process be so manipulated that while making Amitabh Banerjee as MD/IRFC, his FIR by CBI was overlooked? Why then Member Finance (MF) was given an extension after making this selection?
тАв Bonhomie of then CRB, MF and PED Vigilance is well known. PED Vigilance and MD/IRFC had to be summarily sacked. CRB denied extension but how the MF got extension and elevation later?
тАв How could the system be so manipulated that Satish Agnihotri, like Advisor-MR brought back into the executive position long after retirement, that he had to be sacked summarily?
тАв How could the system be so manipulated that the very important post of Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at RDSO was given to an absconder? Why past practice of giving dual charge to CVO of other unit and relieving officer whose appointment was illegal not followed?
тАв How was the Accounts Department at the Railway Board waiting for our expose to transfer FA&CAO/Con from NFR?
Vitiated Process Continues..
The Empanelment of 1987 batch for L-16 and selection of Members and DG is now in process. Focus has shifted again to the vitiated process as highlighted above on grounds of probity, transparency, administrative clarity, integrity and prudence.
It is learnt that 360 degree review panel has been expanded to include again a retired Stores officer. One fails to understand how an officer can never be exposed to the pressures of train running and taking decisions from the front line in his career be considered for scrutiny of future Members and GMs?
If this is true, this betrays a total lack of understanding where apples and oranges are getting equated. As an officer mentioned, IIMs may be good, CAT exams may be good, but can they capture grit as done by NDA, IMA? Selling soap and toothpaste and making profit from them is different from what soldiering means!
However, Adviser saheb aka #TenderMan sees everything as a tender and there is no other attribute of leadership now left in eyes of these officers who have spent more than 50 years cumulatively in just one building – Rail Bhawan – please Read again – “Kalyug – Now Train Climbs Platform and Kills“.
Probity, Prudence, Transparency
We requested our esteemed readers to do a crowd sourced 360 degree review of the 360 degree panel we published here:
@RAILWHISPERS on Twitter
The followings is our feedback:
тАв Manoj Pandey/IRPS: Known as spineless but to be extremely docile, never known to have taken a stand. He is rumoured to have confided that he selected as told. This is in line with his past – fall in line with bosses.
тАв Arun Sharma/IRSME: Serious allegations of corruption against him.
тАв Sharad K Mallik/IRAS: Serious allegations of corruption which led to truncated tenure at Rail Bhawan. He allegedly got furnishing of Mr Lalu YadavтАЩs house.
тАв Satish Kumar/IRSE: He has served as secretary but was never considered to be a person who was exposed to decision making which a General Manager and a Member has to take. He was a Man of files only in his total service.
Clearly all these officers lack #OLQ (Officer Like Qualities).
Serious questions of probity and prudence:
In Government of India, looking after officers avoids taking decisions on tenders, policies, transfer & postings. Now look at the following two serious anomalies:
тАв No member in Railway Board has the grade of Secretary, Govt of India.
тАв Each member is a junior officer not considered fit to become a General Manager which is a position junior to what he is holding.
With the above two anomalies, this Board has decided on large tenders which kill options of their successors of any review. Please remember, that such a hasty decision of #TenderMan, who has never been a bystander, meant Indian Railways avoidably spending 30-40 thousand crores – purchase + maintenance of diesel locomotives from Marowra factory.
Surprisingly, this Lalu family constituency was given a mega project whereas Indian Railways started idling its own fleet of 5500 diesel locomotives!
Also, as ironically Lalu’s constituency gained at the cost of the PM’s constituency – why no one asked where the site survey committee reports before deciding the tender?
Why is there a lack of basic appreciation or looking after Members are so greedy of post that they overlooked this basic cardinal principle?
This immatured Board has immorally decided on contentious issues of SLTs, sleeper procurement, signaling technologies, rolling stock tenders etc.
Minister Saheb, CRB sir please Note-
Hon’ble Supreme Court even questioned decisions of Cabinet in 2G and CoalGate! Hearings on probity of selection of Election Commissioner began on 23rd November in Hon’ble Supreme Court.
Rush to do tenders by officers who have been picked and chosen has let off a whiff of bad odour – every purchase decision now stinks.
It is a matter of alarm that each deciding signature on these policies and procurements is by officers who do not hold that chair on their own merit or sit there following established processes. Now if some of these officers do get elevated on new norms, it would be seen as quid pro quo. Hastiness which was the hallmark of #Transformation Frankenstein, has vitiated each and every decision.
Pls Read Once Again: “рдЕрд╢реНрд╡рд┐рдиреА рд╡реИрд╖реНрдгрд╡ рдЬреА, рдЖрдк рдкрд╣рд▓реЗ рд░реЗрд▓рдордВрддреНрд░реА рдирд╣реАрдВ рд╣реИрдВ, рдЬреЛ ‘рдЦрд╛рди рдорд╛рд░реНрдХреЗрдЯ рдЧреИрдВрдЧ’ рд╕реЗ рдШрд┐рд░реЗ рд╣реИрдВ!“
We wish you all the best both of you sir with prayers on our lips as trains kill after climbing over platforms, as trains burn!
#AshwiniVaishnaw #RailMinister #CRB #CEORlyBd #PMOIndia #RailMinIndia #RailwayBoard #KhanMarketGang #KMG #Advisor