…between the CPOs and the military over the SCPC.
Saikat Datta, in the Outlook magazine, scoops a a note dated September 1st (COSC/1940) from Admiral Sureesh Mehta, Chairman of the COSC where the Naval Chief claims that–
…the coast guard and the Central Police Organisations (CPOS) were inferior to the navy and should be treated as such.
…the [...]
It is not only the Indian Express that is adding the proverbial fuel to the fire on to the SCPC debate. Some other news outlets have also started weighing in with their contrarian opinions. Let us start with Rajdeep’s CNN-IBN:
It’s a battle that is turning uglier by the day. The Armed Forces continue to defy [...]
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau
From one of the news reports today:
It [the government] has decided to form 3-member committee headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The committee will also have Defence Minister AK Anthony and Finance Minister P Chidambaram as its members.
The proposed committee will [...]
[BeeCee, who had penned a few guest posts earlier (here, here, here, here and here), is back with some fresh insights on how the SCPC has indulged in duplicitious behaviour. Regular readers of the blog are aware of BeeCee's credentials and his eye for detail. A slightly different version of this blogpost is at Navdeep's [...]
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
The SCPC saga doesn’t stop. At least, this is what the mainstream media would like the general public to believe. [...]
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. ~Harry S Truman
This blogger considers itself to be no expert on the SCPC and had largely assumed, by popular perception, that the SCPC had handed a raw deal to the military officers. The commonly held view is that [...]
How can you trust the airplane maintenance when they can’t wipe the coffee stains off the flip trays?
One of the great consultants in the field of quality process improvement, Tom Peters, wrote a very famous book titled “In Search of Excellence.” One of the examples he gave in the book, related to improving quality, was of an [...]
Previous posts on the subject - God only knows! and God only knows! – 2.
The battle in the media between the demands of the three services and the finance ministry is getting hotter by the day. The mandarins from the Finance ministry are also countering the arguments put forth by the services through the media now.
A few [...]
Previous post on the subject – God only knows!
The TOI reports that-
Rattled by the stand of the armed forces that implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission for them be “withheld” till their parity with civilian and paramilitary counterparts is restored, the government has promised to look into the issue on “a fast-track basis”.
The more interesting [...]
Wow! The battle for more from the SCPC for the services is again being fought by the mainstream media. There is a report in the TOI, one at NDTV and there is also a front page story in the Indian Express. A look at the headlines for each of these stories:
TOI — Pay panel report: [...]
[BeeCee, who had penned a few guest posts earlier (here, here, here and here), is back with his latest insight into the final results achieved after the SCPC recommendations have been notified. As always, he provides, from his vast repertoire of experience with the earlier pay commissions, some gems on institutionalised thinking of the [...]
The French Association for Military Rights (Adefdromil) website has a report of May this year. The report states that nearly 100 spouses of French military persons stationed in Djibouti held public protests on 26 May 2008 outside the French military headquarters there–
…in order to show their discontent against the incessant decline in overseas residence allowance, [...]
The Chairman of the Chief of Staffs Committee has given his public approval to the award by the SCPC. After some initial rumblings, things will fall in the usual pattern. The customary plaintive exhortations will come from the top of the hierarchy – It is not that bad a financial package, the services really fought [...]
Notwithstanding the voluble protests by the veterans and myriad planted stories in the media, the coverage of the SCPC for the services has been given a silent burial. This is probably in accordance with the plan of the government, when it had set up an committee of secretaries to look into the grievances of all [...]
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