Following the arrest of Vijay Singla, the nephew of railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal while accepting a bribe, activists have demanded an enquiry of the promotion and transfer process of the Indian Railways
Following the arrest of Vijay Singla, the nephew of Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, activists have demanded an enquiry into the promotion of Mahesh Kumar as member of Railway Board as well as the role played by the minister.
Following the arrest of Vijay Singla, the nephew of Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, activists have demanded an enquiry into the promotion of Mahesh Kumar as member of Railway Board as well as the role played by the minister.
Mumbai-based activist Samir Zaveri has been sending letters to the prime minister and railway minister as well as Railway Board to dismiss Mahesh Kumar for failing to detect several frauds when he was heading the vigilance team at Western Railway in Mumbai.
Similarly, Lucknow-based social activist Dr Nutan Thakur has demanded that in the light of Pawan Bansal’s nephew episode, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should also enquire into railway officer Mahesh Kumar’s recent promotion to the post of Member, Staff.
In her letter written to director of CBI, prime minister and secretary, ministry of personnel, she has said that now there is an immediate and imminent need to look into Mahesh Kumar’s promotion process from general manager of Western Railways to Member of the Railway Board.
Suggesting to treat the entire episode in two distinct stages—promotion from GM to Member from Staff and attempted change to Member from Electrical, Dr Thakur has demanded to act against all those, including the railway minister, involved in the previous decision-making of promoting Kumar from GM to Member, Railway Board, in case circumvention of rules and foul play is found there.
On Friday, the CBI arrested Vijay Singla, nephew of railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, for allegedly accepting a portion of the Rs90 lakh bribe to ensure the appointment of a Railway Board member.
The agency also registered a case against three other people—including the accused member (staff) Mahesh Kumar who had taken up his position on the board only a day earlier—after conducting raids in several cities.
Singla, son of Bansal’s sister and one of the leading businessmen in the region, was picked up by a CBI team from New Delhi on Friday evening.
Singla is accused of accepting the money in return for ensuring that Kumar, a 1975 graduate from University of Roorkee who had been the general manager of Western Railway, would be appointed to the Railway Board, which the ministry announced on 2nd May.
According to Zaveri, Mahesh Kumar as chief of vigilance at Mumbai failed to detect and take any action on several frauds in his jurisdiction. “It is open secret that there is a price for getting selective transfers and promotiona anywhere in the Indian Railways from top to bottom. I had sent several requests through emails with supporting evidence to the President of India, the prime minister and others to investigate into the transfer and posting scams in Rail Protection Force at Central Railway as well. However, there is still no action,” he said.
Zaveri said, during Mahesh Kumar's tenure as head of vigilance at Western Railway, the CBI raided a divisional railway manager (DRM) from Ahmedabad and found Rs80 lakh in cash, one kg of gold and 30 wine bottles (prohibited in Gujarat) subsequently arresting him. Citing media reports, Zaveri claimed the CBI was more active in detecting frauds and arresting railway officials than the WR vigilance department headed by Mahesh Kumar.
Incidentally, Subhodh Jain, general manager of Central Railway, was also promoted recently as member of the Railway Board, Zaveri pointed out.
My Opinion
Many Bansal Titled Persons had been Picked Up For Various Key Posts during the tenure of Mr. Pawan Bansal in Finance and In Railway Ministry--This Happens In India Only---Promotion depends On Flattery AND Bribery to A Great Extent. If CBI dares initiate investigation into promotion process of all public sector banks , the startling scam in promotion will surface and many key bankers will be exposed. Let us see what happens in future.
At least one point is crystal clear that as long as Person like Manmohan Singh IS PM of the country, corruption cannot be checked, terrorism cannot be contained, price rise cannot be controlled , foreign enemy may fearlessly intrude into Indian territory and what not.In the age of flattery and bribery , persons like Lalu, Nitish , Thakre did not stop in putting crown of honesty on the head of Pawan Bansal even after the expose of Bribery in Railway General Manager's episode.
As a matter of fact ,as long as a person is in power , majority of persons prefer worshiping and flattery to such powerful person and very few dare speaking bitter truth and negligibly few has courage to say spade a spade. Lalu was treated as Master in Management as long as he was in power despite his involvement in Chara Ghotala.
In Indian context, if a person or group or a company or an organisation has to get a work done from any government office or bank, he has to first develop 'SETTING' in that department.
Setting means to have good relation with a few staff of that department. Setting Staff may be a peon , a manager, an executive or departmental head or the officials of concerned ministry or a powerful politicians who has close relation with that department.
Relation is first initiated directly or indirectly through some middlemen through flattery and then developed by bribery. Flattery and bribery taken together forms the master key which can open any strong lock .
Bribery may be of three types depending on the nature and character of the person with whom setting has to be developed.These three powerful weapons are WINE, WEALTH and WOMAN called as WWW in public domain.And When www is applied on any minister or department head, indications of success in ill-motivated task are received through invisible signals emanating from lip movement, eye posture, facial expression and sometimes by verbal concurrence of the powerful persons .Bribe reaches the targeted person in several way and in ninety percent of the cases , bribe taker does not leave any evidence behind. Bribe game is played in a very clever way and for this one does not need any MBA degree. This is why person like Pawan Bansal and his blind followers and flatters boldly say that Pawan bansal is innocent.
Every common men knows very well that it is not easy to get his work done in any government department without having setting in that office with someone or the other. If setting is lacking, one may run from pillar to post for years together , but there is no guarantee that his or her work will be done.When the work is not done in lawful and proper manner , the common men develops frustration and become ready to use any improper or illegal ways to achieve success in his target work . Though there are many banners , quotations painted on walls of the office , hoardings, preachings, giving the message that honesty is the best policy , but the bitter truth is that dishonesty is the best policy in Indian context.
If a person has to take a loan of say a few lac of rupees from a bank he will first develop relation with and then motivate a field officer or loan officer . He has to development similar relation with Branch head if the loan sought is to the tune of a few crores of rupees. He has to develop good relation with Regional Head or Circle Head Or zonal Head if his requirement of loan in more than 10 or 20 crores and he has to have good rapport with a few General Manager, Deputy General Manager , Executive Director or CMD posted in Head Office, Minister, RBI Officials etc if the loan requirement is to the tune of hundreds of crores of rupees.
Similarly to get a Low Income Certificate a person has to buy a staff of Circle office and to get a pollution free certificate an industrialist has to buy a staff of Pollution department.One has to motivate a drug inspector if he has to start business in medicine. And so on....
Without SETTING , it is hard nut to crack. One has to be a good manager and a good manipulator than to be a good performer a perfect law abiding citizen
Many positive minded persons or who are supporter of corrupt culture will always try to blame the bribe giver.He never accepts the theory that a bribe giver offers bribe only under compulsion and never by choice. Bribe giver has very little options if he has to get his work done in legal and proper way. But bribe taker has the power and expertise in art of taking bribe and he forces the common men to succumb to his delaying tactics and become ready to blindly follow the bribe culture.When the head of any office corrupt , enitre team is tuned to that culture and very smoothly paper moves with the lubricant of bribe and flattery.
Pawan Bansal is not an isolated example of flattery and bribery , the bitter truth is that the culture is prevalent in all Ministries and in all departments.
CBI, CVC, Anti corruption Bureau etc all are follower of the same culture.
I however salute Mr. Ranjit sinha who has at least made an historic example in 65 years of fredom by forcing two ruling and powerful ministers to submit his resignation. But the real remedy does not lie in only resignation , but on real and severest punishment to such ministers so that message may enter into minds of every evil doers.
I have been writing for year together that if any government or any departmental head has to make his office corruption free, he has to and he must ensure by his action that flattery and bribery has go no value . Rules and laws are to be framed in such a way that it abolished all scope of discrimination.
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