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With scams galore, it's raining jobs for retired judges and babus.
The Civil Aviation Ministry's plans to set up a three-member panel headed by a retired judge to look into the entire issue of merger of Air India and Indian Airlines is in line with a long string of such appointments in recent months.
The high-profile ones who landed such assignments in the last few months include retired Supreme Court (SC) judge, Justice Shivraj V. Patil, who was roped in by the Department of Telecommunication to probe the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
Prior to that, former Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr V.K. Shunglu, was appointed by the Government to prepare a report on the Commonwealth Games mess, assisted by Mr Shantanu Consul, an IAS officer of the 1974 batch (Karnataka cadre), who retired on October 31 last year as Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training.
Illegal mining
On the issue of illegal mining, the Government has already constituted a one-man inquiry commission under retired SC judge, Justice M.B. Shah. There's the promise of more post-retirement jobs, with the proposed Broadcasting Council slated to have a retired judge at the helm.
The draft proposal for having in place a 13-member Broadcasting Content Complaint Council, which is being set up to deal with complaints from people over television content, indicates that it too will be headed by a retired judge of the SC or High Court.
Retired judges are also much in demand for adjudicating in inter-State disputes as well.
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