State governments still harbouring a legacy of the control and licence raj will have some tough questions to answer now.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is set to scrutinise the liquor and passenger transport polices of state governments to see if there are any practices that blunt free market competition.

Sources told ET, the commission is also looking at sectors such as pharmaceuticals, telecom, transport in western India, retail food and food grains for anti-competition practices.

Vijay Kelkar, advisor to former FM Jaswant Singh, has been appointed to oversee this analyses outsourced to professional institutes like the Delhi School of Economics and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

The commission, empowered to penalise a corporate or government body for anti-competition practices, will, however, restrict its action to ‘competition advocacy’ till it gets fully operational. At present, the commission is not adjudicating any matter as the issue of appointing a chairman is entangled in litigation at the Supreme Court.

“Many state governments exercise strict controls on liquor and passenger transport business through permits, while controls remain minimum for setting up bigger industries. We are going to look into such practices adversely impacting competition,” said sources.

The challenge now facing the commission is to get fully operational. The appointment of a chairman has been embroiled in a tussle between the executive and the judiciary.

While the government believes adjudication in cases involving complex economic analyses requires an economics expert, the judiciary feels arbitration in such matters is its domain.

The commission in the meanwhile is doing preparatory work. Sources said CCI is also contemplating to establish a ‘Centre for Competition Law and Policy’.

It has set up taskforces in areas like competition advocacy, predatory pricing and determination of costs and research projects.

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Wey of Needham, Mass., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan M. Wey, to William Colyer Crum, son of Prof. and Mrs. Colyer Crum of Weston, Mass., and Sunapee, N.H.

A September wedding is planned in Needham. Miss Wey, an engineer at Honeywell Electro-Optics Operations in Lexington, Mass., was graduated cum laude from Wellesley College and next month expects to receive an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.

Her father is with the trust department of Hale & Dorr in Boston.

Mr. Crum, who is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, is a third-year student in the joint J.D.-M.B.A. degree program at the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. His father is James R. Williston Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

T. Justice Meena Kumari, a judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, preferably privatization of electrical distribution was to be done, as in the case of electricity generation.

“This may be another reform,” she said recalling that some countries were already familiar with the concept a try. She said that if countries are experimenting with the concept has been a great success, has been replicated by others for a competitive and efficient distribution system.

The judge was the conclusion of providing the service of God sends to the two-day UGC-sponsored national seminar on “Power reforms: challenges and strategies” in the SV-university, under the auspices of the Department of Management Studies .

She described the transmission and distribution (T & D) as the worst defeats in spite of staggering Indian power scene, as it does about 22 per cent, against the world qualifying standard of around 7 per cent.

She said the problem was compounded by the use of “primitive” and voltage transformers tension which is obsolete waste and damage accessories. The judge felt in this context, over the medium-Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore, had a very decisive role in resolving the problem by providing high-voltage direct current (HGÜ). T. Siddaiah, Head, Department of Management Studies, CSR presidency. V.R.C. Krishnaiah, Department of Law, welcomed guests at the seminar director, p. Durga Rao, a proposal for a vote of thanks.

New Delhi: A post-graduate of the London School of Economics dismissal of several young and more pay, as RS 2 lakh for the plum job of the United Kingdom - Computers for professionals British Railways.

The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police has arrested Maharukh Javat, LSE holds a diploma in computer science. A case of fraud, breach of criminal law and trust was a criminal conspiracy, a few days back on the complaint of several persons who claimed they were misled by a Mumbai company, Mazda Information & Systems Technologies, which also took place at a branch Civil Lines, New Delhi.

The complaint, the company had declared an advertisement in the newspaper in November 2003, which seeks professionals 40-45 British Railways. The company, by Javat with Rakesh Grover argued that it had signed a contract with the British Railways may computers professionals a monthly salary of £ 3,000 (about Rs 2.4 lakh) with accommodation and meals free of charge.

The selected candidates were then trained in computer operations for about four months in New Delhi. During training””, they were available in different forms. Each candidate was asked to pay RS 2 lakh for training, tickets for the United Kingdom, visa and job placement.

They were later told British Railway staff would be given specialized training. After training, it was said, they wait until their employment policy a letter that companies would mail home. Many candidates have also resigned jobs in call centers and sales organizations so that they can operate in the United Kingdom. Most of them came from New Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.

After a few months, when the letter was nowhere in sight, candidates began to put pressure on companies officials said their accession appointment had only been postponed. In April 2004, the company has stopped his Civil Lines. Surveys Brit Rail was a subsidiary of ACP Marketing Ltd, Canada based on a sale of railway, which had nothing to do, Javat. If candidates have made them, some have received cheques to be returned.

Javat, lives in Mumbai, has landed on the network of police, as they have come to New Delhi a business venture. A student of Sophia University, she also had a master’s degree in management from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences.