>
> 1) Arvind Kejrwal is still an IRS officer. The reasons why
> his resignation has not been accepted is very well known.
> Each and every year the govt (IT dept) updates the list of
> their employees (as required under section 4 of RTI Act).
> The URL is here and Arvind's name is on it
> [www.irsofficersonline.gov.in/content/Alphabetical_Index.pdf]
>
There are two issues here:
a) Administrative: If a resignation has been given, and it has
not been accepted for whatever reasons, the issue needs to be
dealt administratively, depending upon prevailing policies of
the Department. What has the IT Deptt doing for the last 5
years ? Why are they raking up this issue now ? And why are
departmental issues being placed as headlines ? Surely there
are some other ulterior motives ...
b) Financial: Tax is applicable if payment has been made. Has
the Govt been paying him regularly for all these years? If
yes, the IT claim is very much in order. But if not, no IT
accrues. There can be no taxes under situations where there is
no income.
Why mix the two things ?
>
> 2) My question is what steps has Arvind taken to get his
> name deleted from this list ? Let him place these facts into
> the public domain.
>
This is departmental administrative issue. Why should the aam-
janta be concerned, beyond what he has already put up in all
major newspapers and his TV interview ?
>
> 3) About his being a foreign financed inteligence agent,
> there have been many posts on this in the archives of this
> group and RTI_India where specifics have been given.. The
> Magsaysay awards are well known to be CIA sponsorship. The
> Ashoka awards are from MI6.
>
I would not make much credence on posts on general public
mailing lists. Magasaysay awards are from Phillipines. All
personal assets of President Ramon Magsaysay are with the
Rockfeller Foundation. The prize was established in April 1957
by the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation Fund based
in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine
government. This is official. I do not know any CIA
connections here. The citation I put reference to is from the
wikipedia.
>
> 4) Aruna Roy, Arvindf Kejriwal, Anna Hazare etc had hardly
> anything to do with RTI Act This is all their self generated
> media publicity which ill informed idiots like you keep
> repeating / circulating as the truth. The fact is that the
> RTI Act 2005 was drafted by Mr A.N. Tiwari and his team at
> DoPT with quite a bit of input from me and my co-mods like
> Mr Ashish Kumar - and was also based on the shortcomings of
> the HD Shourie draft and the FOI Act.
>
Please distinguish two things:
a) Public Action : Bringing public awareness/ and building
public pressures on the Govt to act.
b) Paper work : Drafting of the Act.
The contributions of those stated by me are for the former
action only. I can personally confirm the agitations taken by
Anna Hazare at Pune and Mumbai for the Maharashtra RTI Act,
last decade, having physically seen them. This public action
forced the Maharashtra Govt to Act. I would believe, this
action would be more difficult, and more important than
drafting the Act itself. In this regards their contributions
are minimal, restricted to a "wish-list" in layman's terms. I
would place less credits there. To the best of my knowledge,
the RTI Act 2005 is based on the preceding Maharashtra RTI
Act.
On a serious note: Requested, I may please be unsubscribed
from the "HumJanenge" mailing list. The kind of exchanges, and
language contained by some of the participants, (virtually
going onto personal vilification) does not gel with educated
gentry anywhere. I would like to leave.
Dr USM Bish
Bangalore
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