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Truth Behind CBI Reshuffle

What irked the PMO for the unprecedented removal of or to be exact asked to go on leave the serving CBI Director Alok Verma? That too despite the law granting him a fixed tenure of not less than two years. Yes this is the pertinent question that every educated and knowledgeable citizen must ask. And you all seems to have missed this point as it has already been challenged in Supreme Court. What all CBI has always been suffering from is too much control of the Centre to influence and use the investigation agency as per their will. Therefore the appointments are also made to suit the government in power. When Alok Verma objected to the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as CBI Special Director Pramod Kumar Mishra in PMO had summoned the Central Vigilance Commissioner,  K.V. Chowdary, and directed him to ensure Asthana was appointed. Why the CBI not allowed to proceed with her investigation and FIR registered against the agency Number Two man Rakesh Asthana for alleged bribery, extortio

ECONOMIC REVIEW 2014-15 TO 2017-18

It is hard to arrive at an immediate comprehensive assessment of the performance of the economy due to lack of availability of relevant data. Some of or  many of important data will be available long after the government's tenure is completed, while some of the preliminary data currently available would also undergo revisions over time before it becomes final. The past governments must have also confronted this. Moreover the effort of pinpointed analysis of performance of the Modi led government has become all the more complicated due to -- t he introduction of new way to calculate GDP, the base year has been shifted to 2011-12 from 2004-05 earlier resulted insubstantial instability of the data on GDP and thereby overestimate of growth of the economy. -- the second factor which has been the demonetization announced by the government in November 2016 and its adverse effect largely on the 'informal' sector of the Indian economy. Hence what the government is claimin