Been watching the CNN IBN show on donating to causes. Of the three sets of aid receivers the Kashmiri, Sajjad Shaikh, seemed pretty whiny, so typical of this lot who have made a practise of keeping the country on the emotional backfoot to keep us on the run. He takes the figure of 1000 crores by Modi and claims the govt has deducted 650 cr for the army rescue effort and alleges the remaining 350 cr will be deducted on distribution of Diwali sweets so therefore all the Kashmiris have received from the central govt is 10 Kgs of rice ! This ofcourse is how the Kashmiri spin doctors reduce everything the country has ever done for them inspite of receiving the largest funding to any state over the decades. I'm not sure whether the appropriation of the 650 is correct but assuming that it is, does he not consider the lakhs of Kashmiri lives saved as a " received " in addition to rice ? The 350cr assumption is so typical of this lot, sadly the simple Kashmiri falls for it. The bottom line is all that you do for them will be reduced to zero simply because they find it convenient to play the whiny victim card on you... Some people never know when they have a good thing going.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
Degrading army ranks
Dear Sharad,
I had decided to terminate our conversation and have been egged to reply because I came across recently mails, while deleting piled up emails because of my frequent absences, reproducing your blogs about you referring to me as "A Lt Gen who was a PSO" who provided unsubstantiated information. To dispel your impression about the veracity of my information I reproduce information about the traditional Army/police equation reproduced from another authoritative blogger, Maj Navdeep Singh, which surprisingly, supports my contention, which was essentially based on personal experience and not what information the govt deigns to supply. Even Maj Navdeep is incorrect to an extent the change in badges in the police took place in early '70s as I was told by then AG, Lt Gen SN Sinha that Army HQ had protested against this change when I went for my debriefing to him on my return from France in 1978. The govt's answer in support of its decision was that the police stars are silver coloured and the Army's are gold coloured and so there will be no confusion!
I have nothing more to say.
Satish Bahri
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
First visible dent to status which was bound to happen : Direct 6th CPC fallout
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Before I come to the main issue, a brief background.
So I laughed when I saw in the 6th CPC report that there was an ‘established relativity’ between a DIG of Police and a Brigadier.
There had been none, relativity that is. There was nothing common between a DIG and a Brig except the rank badges. More so since in the late 1950s when the MHA had upgraded the rank badges of IPS officers, in a meeting between senior functionaries of the MoD and them, MHA representatives had promised that though they had granted an Ashoka and three stars to a DIG, the rank badges would have no bearing on the actual status of a Brig. Clearly there could be no comparison since 100% of IPS officers attain the rank of DIG in 14 years of service including training whereas less than 7% make it to Brig in the defence services and that too in 28 years of service excluding training.
If the 6th CPC had talked of relativity, here is what the actual relativity was till the 6th CPC :
At the time of independence, according to Governor General of India’s notification No F/49/9/35-Public (G), a Colonel was placed on Serial No 38 for status, a DIG on Number 45 and a Lt Col on Number 47. Hence a DIG was 7 steps lower than a Colonel and 2 steps higher than a Lt Col. At the most recent stage of 5th CPC scales, the starting pay of a DIG (Rs 16,400) was sandwiched between a Lt Col (Rs 15,100) and a Col (Rs 17,100).
The 6th CPC and subsequently the CoS however equated a DIG with a Brig (both granted a Grade Pay of Rs 8900). The 6th CPC and elements in the MoF also emphasized that they had not disturbed any status equation and even earlier a DIG was considered equal to a Brig.
How wrong they were. A recent example was of Scheduled Banks in India who have an appointment known as the Chief Security Officer (CSO) in Senior Management Grade Scale -5 (SMGS-V) the requirement for which was that the applicant should be either a Colonel or a DIG.
After the 6th CPC, the same advertisement has been issued with the requirement that the applicant should be either a Brigadier or a DIG.
And they said that the 6th CPC has merely maintained the existing relativities. Below is proof as to how on the contrary existing and established relativities have been blatantly disturbed only after the 6th CPC :
Here is a pre-CPC (2006) advertisement for the post of CSO of a Bank with a rank requirement of Colonel / DIG
Here is a post-CPC (2008) advertisement for the post of CSO of a Bank with a rank requirement of Brigadier / DIG
Isn’t the slide visible to the naked eye ?
Friday, October 14, 2016
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