"IAS is NOT a pensionable service"- by K.J.S.Chatrath

It may come as a surprise to many that those joining the IAS after 2003 are NOT entitled to any pension on retirement.

Those who joined the service earlier than this year will continue getting the pension till they die.

Pre-2003 there was a compulsory Provident Fund Contribution that each IAS officer had to make every month. There was NO matching contribution to this by the government.

Now for Post 2003 entrants, there is NO pension on retirement.

A thoroughly misleading nomenclature "New Pension Scheme" has been introduced for every one, even non-service public.

It is NOT pension but joining a Provident Fund Scheme where you contribute. Government does NOT make any matching contribution.

I told you it would come as a surprise to you!

Kindly do correct me if I am wrong.

'I detest Kapil Sharma's brand of sick sexist humour' by K.J.S.Chatrath

 

I detest Kapil Sharma's brand of sick sexist humour. 

'Pappa, Pappu & Hunger Free India' by K.J.S.Chatrath

Pappu: Pappa, Pappa...

Pappa: Yes Pappu.

Pappu: I am so impressed by  government’s  list of innovative schemes: Swach Bharat, Swastha Bharat, Make in India, Innovate in India, Skill India & Smart Villages.

Pappa: Yes, yes...so?

Pappu: Would the next scheme be ‘Hunger Free India’?

Pappa: Quiet...Go and finish your school home work.

'Eid Mubarak' by K.J.S.Chatrath

Eid Mubarak

Photo source: http://goodtimes.ndtv.com/news/i-eid-mubarak-i-here-are-great8-tips-on-how-to-prepare-lip-smacking-i-biryani-i-1478

'Papa, Pappu & respected Dinanath Batra ji'- by K.J.S.Chatrath

Pappu: Pappa, Pappa.

Pappa: Yes Pappu.

Pappu: Do you know that respected Dinanath Batra ji is going to write text books for Haryana schools?

Pappa: कुछ न कहो, बस कुछ भी न कहो!

"FBs 'Dislike' button" - K.J.S.Chatrath

I am happily waiting for FBs 'Dislike' button to get operationalised.

It is going to be used  liberally by me on all the 'self improvement' posts & quotes by 'C' class, unknown intellectuals playing with words.....

Yes, I am aware that many of my mails too would invite the 'dislike' button, but that is fair.

Yes, yes, I am also aware that this may cost me a few FB friends, but that too is fair... ....

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'Some colorized photos of the last century'- by K.J.S.Chatrath

A friend sent me an email with a number of old B&W photos of the last century having been colorized. Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie.

Most of these images were relating to American interests. I have picked up just a few that I found captivating.

These were neither photographed nor colorized by me.

                                                            The stunning Marilyn Monroe.

                                             Alfred Hitchcock- the master of suspense movies

                        Sophia Loren (sitting) and Jayne Mansfield (standing). Need I say more?

                          The legendry Louis Armstrong trumpeting for his wife in Cairo, Egypt.

Ah, those were the days, my friend... ...