On his way out

TATTLE

A leading code-division multiple access (CDMA)-based services company hired a high-flying marketing executive from another CDMA-based services company not long ago.

It looked like the high flier would become managing director of the company he had joined and that the managing director would be put out to pasture.

But, alas, this was not to be. The marketing high flier, we learn, is slowly being put to pasture. Don't be surprised if he puts in his papers in another couple of months.

No time

Believe it or not, but the information and broadcasting ministry still hasn't gone through the Amit Mitra committee report on the FM radio industry which was submitted a month ago. Pray why?

Because, say information and broadcasting ministry officials, they haven't had the time to go through the report.And why haven't they had the time?

When parliament is in session, the ministry mobilises all its resources to prepare replies to Parliament questions. "In the two days of questioning, answers to nearly 60 queries need to be prepared. It consumes a lot of time," says a source.

Besides, in the last few months the ministry's staff strength has dwindled. Former I&B joint secretary Rakesh Mohan, who was thrown out of the ministry a few months back, has not been replaced.

Four directors also left recently, with at least two of them pursuing a management course overseas.