In what is described as a “crucial”
development towards upgrading the CBI’s intelligence arm, the director paid a
visit to LandMark bookshop and bought substantial quantities of yellow post-it
message pads.
The agency, which has never had
access to such messaging before, believes that the introduction of these pads
will dramatically improve the relaying of important messages across the
organisation and also improves the in-field officers communication back to the
department centres.
The director while speaking at the
press conference today in Delhi said that this purchase will also help the
sharing of the information to many premier news channels in an easy manner. It
was learnt that the agency had to deploy 3-4 data operators mainly to SMS
important messages to political parties and new agencies. Now with this
purchase, it has eased the agency by
downsizing these data operators and some field officers for non-performance
issues.
The director also expressed a
reaction similar to “intrigued” when he said that he had seen a device which
can record voice and store them and later transfer it directly into the
computer as MP3 data file. Also it came with free USB Web-cam. The director is
currently writing a letter to the PM for granting permission to procure this
device for the agencies betterment.
While the director is pronouncing
the trip to LandMark as a success story, many whistle-blowers revealed that
they had urged the agency to invest in these USB devices as early as in 2003.
One of the agency field officer quotes (in anonymity) “I then tried to write a
memo about this stick pads, but there were no pens or paper around in the
office. They were all locked up in the cup-board of the divisional head’s room.”
Now after this report the opposition is
demanding an internal CBI enquiry into the missing pens and paper from the
divisional officer’s cupboard. While this is not so serious complaint, the aam
admi is surely to believe this since the PMO has reported that it has lost
important files regarding the coal allocation. 