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PM MODI TO INAUGURATE SIX
MEGA PROJECTS IN U’KHAND
UNDER ‘NAMAMI GANGE’ P6
PRADHAN SLAMS CONG
OVER INDIA GATE INCIDENT
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR & AHMEDABAD
P5
New Delhi: A day after
President Ram Nath Ko-
vind gave assent to
three contentious farm
bills, Opposition par-
ties, including Con-
gress and Dravida Mun-
netra Kazhagam staged
wise spread protests in
Delhi, Punjab, Haryana
and Tamil Nadu.
Some unidentified 15-
20 Punjab Youth Con-
gress members set
ablaze a tractor near
India Gate in Delhi at
around 7.15 am on Mon-
day. While setting the
tractor on fire, the pro-
testers raised slogans
like ‘Shaheed-e-Azam
Bhagat Singh Amar
rahe’ and ‘Kisan Viro-
dhi, Narendra Modi’.
The alleged Punjab
Youth Congress also
raised slogans in favour
of Congress president
Sonia Gandhi and Ra-
hul Gandhi.
Deputy Commission-
er of Police (DCP), New
Delhi, Eish Singhal,
confirmed abut the inci-
dent and said that the
identity of the individu-
als is being ascertained.
Delhi Congress presi-
dent Anil Kumar and
other party workers
were detained by police
during a protest against
farm bills at Rajghat
Meanwhile in Uttar
Pradesh the police de-
tained Congress work-
ers, including state
party chief Ajay Kumar
Lallu, in Lucknow for
protesting Turn on P6
CONTENTIOUS FARM BILLS
PROTESTS
INTENSIFY
ACROSS INDIA
New Delhi: The 500
km-range Brahmos
cruise missile, 800 km-
range Nirbhay cruise
missiles along with
Akash surface-to-air
missile (SAM) with a
capability to target aer-
ial threats 40 km away
are at the core of India’s
stand-off weapon deter-
rence to PLA’s missile
deployment in Xinjiang
and Tibet regions.
While the PLA’s west-
ern theatre command
has deployed stand-off
weapons up to 2,000 km
range and long-range
SAMs in Tibet and Xin-
jiang after the Ladakh
stand-off started, peo-
ple familiar with the
development said that
supersonic Brahmos,
subsonic Nirbhay as
well as Akash have been
deployed to counter
them by India in the
worst-case scenario.
The Chinese deploy-
ment is not limited to
occupied Aksai Chin
but is located in depth
positions from Kashgar,
Hotan, Lhasa and Ny-
ingchi along the 3,488
km LAC.
India’s main stay in
the stand-off weapons
is the Brahmos air-to-
air and air-to-surface
cruise missile with its
300 kg warhead which
can take care of air-
strips in Tibet and Xin-
jiang, or a warship in
Indian Ocean.
The Brahmos missile
has been deployed in
sufficient numbers in
the Ladakh sector with
the option to deliver the
stand-off Turn on P6
Brahmos, Nirbhay & Akash to
counter Chinese threat in Ladakh
CEC, his team to
visit Bihar today
Sushant death
case:AIIMS
submits report
New Delhi: The de-
fence ministry on Mon-
day approved arms ac-
quisitions worth anoth-
er Rs 2,290 crore, includ-
ing the procurement of
72,000 more assault ri-
fles from the US, amid
the ongoing military
confrontation in east-
ern Ladakh with China
Rajnath Singh-led De-
fence Acquisitions
Council (DAC) cleared
the Rs 780 crore acquisi-
tion of the assault rifles
from US firm SiG Sauer.
The DAC on Monday
also gave the nod for the
indigenous procure-
ments of smart anti-
airfield Turn on P6
India to buy
72K more
rifles from US
RAHUL GANDHI
@RAHULGANDHI
The agriculture
laws are a
death sentence
to our farmers.
Their voice is
crushed in Parliament
and outside.
PRAKASH JAVADEKAR
@PRAKASHJAVDEKAR
Congress
workers
brought
tractors in
the truck and
set it on fire near India
Gate. This is the drama
of Congress. Therefore,
the Congress was evicted
from power by the people.
Override Farm Laws: Sonia to Cong-ruled states
New Delhi: Congress
president Sonia Gan-
dhi on Monday asked
states ruled by her
party to consider
bringing laws
to overrule
the cen-
t r e ’ s
f a r m
laws, which have pro-
voked massive farmer
protests in parts of the
country.
“Hon’ble Congress
President has asked
the Congress-ruled
states to explore the
possibilities to pass
laws in their states un-
der Article 254(2) of the
constitution which al-
lows the state legisla-
tures to pass a law to
override a Central law
which then comes for
PresidentAssent(sic),”
senior Congress leader
KC Venugopal tweeted.
State law that Sonia
has referenced says
that in a matter con-
cerning concurrent
subject, if a state legis-
lature passes a law
which is “repugnant to
the parliament law”, if
the state law gets the
assent of president it
will apply in the state.
Farmers keep the pot boiling across nation on Bhagat’s birth anniv, even as Centre trying to
convince them that bills would help deregulate agricultural markets & benefit them!
New Delhi: Union
Health Minister Dr
Harsh Vardhan on
Monday said that,
“An online portal
about COVID-19 vac-
cine has been
launched. Everyone
will be able to go on-
line to that portal
and look up all con-
temporary research-
development and
clinical trials related
information. It will
also provide informa-
tion about other vac-
cinations provided in
the country.” He said
first vaccine would
likely be available in
the first trimester of
the upcoming year. P6
ONLINE PORTAL
ABOUT COVID-19
VACCINE
LAUNCHED
Dr Anita
New Delhi: The Elec-
tion Commission of In-
dia led by CEC Sunil
Arora accompanied by
Election Commission-
ers Sushil Chandra and
Rajiv Kumar will be
reaching Patna on Tues-
day to review prepara-
tions for the upcoming
Bihar Assembly elec-
tion. They will reach
Patna in the evening by
the 4 pm Vistara flight
and are expected to re-
turn to Delhi on Octo-
ber 1 after the Press
Conference at Patna.
Turn on P6
LOAN MORATORIUM: SC GIVES CENTRE
ONE WEEK ON NEW PLAN
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Mon-
day adjourned to Oc-
tober 5 hearing on two
public interest litiga-
tions (PILs) seeking
an extension of the
moratorium period
and waive off interest
on the repayment of
the loan amount in
view the COVID-19
pandemic. A three-
judge bench, headed
by Justice Ashok
Bhushan, deferred the
matter for October 5,
after Solicitor General
Tushar sought more
time to place some rel-
evant Turn on P6
Gehlot lays 68 ‘strong’ foundations worth `1,332 cr
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot on Mon-
day inaugurated and
laid e-foundation stone
for 68 development
works worth Rs 1331.96
crore from the Chief
Minister’s residence
through video confer-
ence. Gehlot laid the
foundation stone of 47
projects worth Rs
1037.96 crore and 21 pro-
jects worth Rs 294.44
crore under the Smart
City Mission, Amrit Yo-
jana, RUIDP and Urban
Development Depart-
ment in Jaipur, Ajmer
and Udaipur divisions.
Addressing after the
inauguration and foun-
dation stone laying, Ge-
hlot said that despite
the challenges faced
due to Corona pandem-
ic, the state government
did not allow the pace
of urban development
to slow down and com-
pleted the incomplete
works as well as started
new projects.
He said that the work
being done under the
Smart City will im-
prove the standard of
living and tourism will
also get a boost with the
development of basic
facilities in important
cities from the tourism
point of view.
“There is a tradition
of starting any new
work with complete
rituals, but due to Co-
rona infection, the foun-
dation stone laying of
all the works is being
done at the moment vir-
tually while maintain-
ing social distancing
through video confer-
ence,” Gehlot said and
called upon Leader of
Opposition Gulab-
chand Kataria Turn on P6
CM Ashok Gehlot, Shanti Dhariwal, Govind S Dotsara, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Mahesh Joshi
among others during foundation stone laying of various development projects on Monday.
Foundation stone laying and
inauguration of 68 projects worth
`1332 crores done by CM
DEVELOPMENTAL BOOST
New Delhi: Government
on Monday appointed PD
Vaghela, a 1986-batch
Gujarat cadre IAS officer,
as chairman of Telecom
Regulatory Authority
of India, replacing RS
Sharma. Vaghela has been
serving as Secy in Dept
Pharmaceuticals. Centre
also appointed 16 Joint
Secretaries in various
Departments.
Guj IAS officer
PD Vaghela is
new TRAI chief
Punjab Youth Congress
activists set on fire a tractor
near India Gate during a
protest against the new
farm laws, in New Delhi on
Monday. —PHOTO BY PTI
JAIPUR l TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 114
New Delhi: In a major
development in Sushant
Singh death probe, AIIMS
on Monday, submitted its
report based on analys-
ing Mumbai police’s
post-mortem report
and autopsy along with
photographic evidences.
CBI which has stated that
‘conclusive findings’ have
been shared, will now
analyse the report along
with the evidence in the
case to conclude if it is
case of suicide or not.
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Deepak Lavania
Jaipur: A BJP commit-
tee set up by the state
president Satish Poonia
visited Cimmco factory
in Bharatpur and talked
to the workers about
their issues.
The three-member
committee comprising
Ajmer MP Bhagirath
Chaudhary, MLA Ram-
lal Sharma and state
secretary Jitendra
Gothwal reached the
factory premises and
assured the affected
workers all possible
help from the party. The
office bearers of Cim-
mco Sangharh Samiti,
which is leading the
agitation, apprised the
committee about the
present situation. After
meeting the workers,
the committee held a
press conference at cir-
cuit house and said that
demolishing school
building and residenc-
es in the factory prem-
ises is wrong. Ramlal
Sharma said that it ap-
pears that someone in-
fluential at the best of
the state government is
certainly involved in
the matter.
He said that BJP will
not let the objectives of
such persons fulfilled
and people of Bharat-
pur will get justice.
Gothwal said that if
needed, BJP will do an
agitation to stop the
conspiracy. The BJP
leaders also handed
over a representation to
divisional commission-
er Premchand Berwal
on the issue.
BJP panel visits Cimmco, talks to workers
PANEL WAS SET UP BY POONIA
PANCHAYAT POLLS: 84% VOTING HELD
DUNGARPURPEACEFUL;highwayopensfortraffic
More than 31 lakh registered voters voted in the first phase of Panchayat elections held on Monday
Dr Rituraj Sharma
Jaipur: Voting for 947
post of sarpanch was
held on Monday in the
state. There were more
than 31 lakh registered
voters for the first
phase of Panchayat
elections. Elections for
255 sarpanch posts
were deferred late on
Sunday night which in-
cluded Sarada and
Gogunda Panchayat
samities of Udaipur.
The last-minute can-
cellation of elections
happened due to uncon-
ducive situations for
free and fair election
arising out of violent
agitation in the Kher-
wara region of Udaipur
district. According to
the original program
elections to 1003 sar-
panch posts were to be
held. The Monday elec-
tions witnessed 84%
polling with some poll-
ing booths reporting er-
rors in the EVMs which
were either replaced or
repaired within the
stipulated time. There
were sufficient num-
bers of police forces de-
puted at all polling
booths to maintain law
& order. Polling was de-
layed in Majri village of
Neemrana, Alwar
where the EVM report-
ed an error. Polling
couldonlystartafterthe
error was done away.
Flouting of prescribed
social distancing norms
was a common sight
throughout the day de-
spite the fact that the
Election commission
had increased the poll-
ing time by 1 hour for
easy, smooth voting. The
voting speed was slow
wherever the corona
guidelines were fol-
lowed. Administration
hadmadearrangements
for sanitization, masks
along with social dis-
tancing markings.The
panchayat elections will
be held in four phases.
The first phase conclud-
ed yesterday while the
second phase will be
held on October 4, third
phase will be on October
6andthefinalphasewill
be held on October 10.
Initially panchayat polls
were to be held in April
but due to corona they
were postponed till Oc-
tober 15 by the court.
Puneet Chaturvedi
Udaipur: The situation
normalised in Dungar-
pur on Monday where
violent protests erupted
on Thursday last week
which claimed two lives
and left many injured.
Normalcy has also re-
turned in Jhalod and
Rishabhdev areas of the
adjoining Udaipur dis-
trict where incidents of
stone pelting occurred
on Sunday evening. DG
crime M L Lather, who
along with other senior
officers is camping in
Dungarpur,saidthatthe
situation is normal and
peace has been restored.
The Udaipur-
Ahmedabad highway
which was blocked by
the agitators, who were
demanding filling up of
postslyingvacantunder
general quota with ST
candidates, was also
cleared for traffic on
Sunday night and the
things are normal at the
highway. However, de-
ployment of additional
forces continued to re-
main deployed in both
the district in order to
maintain law and order.
The police officials as-
sured shopkeepers and
traders for their safety
but the market re-
mained closed on Mon-
day. Meanwhile, bodies
of the two men who
were killed in police fir-
ing on Saturday, were
handed over to family
membersandcremation
was done. The senior po-
lice officials including
ADGDineshMN,Jaipur
Commissioner Anand
Srivastava, IG Udaipur
Binita Thakur, Udaipur
SP Kailashchandra
Vishnoi inspected all ar-
eas under the direction
of DG crime ML Lather
once again on Monday.
On the other hand, a
BJP panel set up by the
state president Satish
Poonia reached Dungar-
pur on Monday evening.
Thecommitteecompris-
ing general secretary
and MLA Madan Dila-
war, Chhittorgarh MP
CP Joshi, Udaipur MP
Arjun Singh visited the
areas on NH-8 which
were hit by the violence.
After that, the BJP lead-
ers met the Dungarpur
collector and held the
government’s negli-
gence responsible for
the violence.
THE SCHEDULE
An elderly voter in 1st phase of
Panchayat polls in Rajasthan.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, entry to voters only after thermal scanning during the ‘Panchayati
Raj Elections’ on the outskirts village of Ajmer on Monday. —PHOTOS BY HIMANSHU SHARMA
Enthusiastic voters on the way to polling station with the elderly.
An elderly voter shows his
inked finger after he voted.
Additional police forces continued to remain deployed in order to maintain law and order.
GargtakesonBJPonCimmco
First India Bureau
Jaipur: After BJP lead-
ers met with the agitat-
ing workers of Cimmco
factory in Bharatpur,
Rajasthan’s minister of
stateforhealthSubhash
Garg questioned what
thepartyhasdonesofar
to save the factory. He al-
leged that BJP wants to
disturb the industrial
atmosphere of Bharat-
pur. The minister said,
the factory, which was
once the lifeline of
Bharatpur, will restart.
Garg said that he is try-
ing best to create an in-
dustrial atmosphere in
the state and the efforts
are also fetching good
results with the support
of people but the BJP is
trying to disturb that.
On his visit to Bharat-
pur,theministerattend-
ed a corona warriors
facilitation ceremony
organised by Lupin
foundation. He said that
efforts are being made
in the state for the pre-
vention of coronavirus
but the participation of
common man and vol-
untary organisations is
needed to contain the
spread. Garg also dis-
tributedNeonatalRespi-
rator Machine to 8 Com-
munity Health Centers.
Rathore attacks Cong
for opposing farm bills
2 men killed as
a van hits their
bike near Bundi
Gurjar quota
talks:Govtforms
new panel
Cong should clarify what it did
for farmers in 55-yrs: Poonia
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: Deputy Leader
of Opposition Rajendra
Rathore on Monday ac-
cused Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot and Con-
gress party’s state presi-
dent Govind Dotasra of
misleading the farmers
by submitting a memo-
randum to the Gover-
nor on farm legislation
issue. Rathore said,
“Farmers have been
given the right to sell
his produce anywhere
in the country. The laws
have been made to
strengthen the farmers
and the Congress party
is misleading them on
the issue,” he said.
Rathore said that the
farmers of the state will
not come in Congress’s
trick and vicious circle
and will stand in sup-
port of the farmer
friendly policies of the
Modi Government.
First India Bureau
Bundi: Two bike borne
persons were killed af-
ter being hit by a van
coming from opposite
on Oven by-pass in
Basoli PS area. 108 am-
bulance tried rushing
both persons with seri-
ous head injuries to the
district hospital but
they were declared dead
on arrival. Two died
while one person riding
the van was also in-
jured, the police have
registered case against
the van driver while
seizing the van.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Rajasthan gov-
ernment has restruc-
tured a committee
which reviews the pro-
gress made in points of
agreement with Gurjar
Arakshan Sangharh
Samiti. Energy minis-
ter B D Kalla, health
minister Raghu Shar-
ma and sports minister
Ashok Chandna have
been included in com-
mittee to conduct pro-
gress made in points
pertaining to reserva-
tion and other issues
from time to time.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The war of
words between Con-
gress and BJP on the
recently passed agricul-
tural laws is not coming
to rest any soon. The
verbal spat series con-
tinued with BJP state
president Satish Poonia
taking a dig at CM Ge-
hlot and PCC chief Do-
tasra submitting a
memorandum to the
Governor as the pot
calling the kettle black.
Poonia said that Con-
gress should come for-
ward and clarify all it
has done for the farm-
ers in its 55-year rule.
He accused Congress of
being habitual of tak-
ing u turns on its words.
He reminded the Con-
gress promise of loan
waiver in 10 days made
while 2018 assembly
election campaign for
which the state farmers
were still waiting. He
said defending the agri-
cultural laws brought
in by the central gov-
ernment, that there will
not be any danger to the
ownership of the farm-
er’s land as the contract
with the corporates will
be based on the crop
produced on the land
and not the land itself
solely. BJP state presi-
dent said that the new
laws will give the farm-
er complete freedom to
sell his produce any-
where in the country.
He assured the farmers
that Modi govt was
working for the benefit.
PilottargetsCentre
over Farm Laws
Yogesh Sharma
Jaipur: Former dep-
uty chief minister
Sachin Pilot hit out
at the Centre over the
new farm laws on
Monday and accused
it of betraying farm-
ers in challenging
times. Pilot said the
bills were deliberate-
ly brought at a time
when the economy is
collapsing and farm-
ers are suffering loss-
es. “Farm bills are
being opposed in the
entire country. The
constituents of the
NDA are opposing
too. The Congress de-
cided to fight along-
side farmers from all
over the country.
Now, we will take it
further, but I believe
that the Centre has
betrayed the farmers
in a challenging
time,” Pilot told re-
porters in Jaipur.
Regarding the vio-
lent demonstration
in Udaipur division,
Pilot said that it is a
matter of relief that
violence stopped and
government has de-
cided that it will go to
the Supreme Court
with a special leave
petition. Replying to
a question on the
committee set up by
Congress high com-
mand on the issues
of Rajasthan, Pilot
said some meetings
of the panel have
been held. “I am con-
stantly in touch with
the committee, I
spoke to the mem-
bers and I am confi-
dent that appropriate
and satisfactory ac-
tion in time will be
taken on the points
we have put up.
Satish PooniaRajendra Rathore
IPL betting
racket busted
in Jodh, 3 held
Rajeev Gaur
Jodhpur: Jodhpur
police department
officials have busted
a gambling racket
by arresting three
persons in Maha-
mandir police sta-
tion area. The police
claimed that the ac-
cused were involved
in gambling (Rs. 85
lakh) on two teams
of IPL series. 20 mo-
bile phones, one
LED TV, one laptop
and other items
wererecoveredfrom
their possession.
Following a tip
off, a police team
raided the house of
one Janardan Vaid-
hya in Paota and
caught Janardan
with Vishal Manga-
ni and Manish Ma-
heshwari. Primary
investigation re-
vealed that the bat-
ting involved Rs. 85
lakh on the team.
The gambling may
run in crores of ru-
pees, police said.
Sachin Pilot
Subhash Garg
It appears that
someone influ-
ential at the
best of the state govern-
ment is certainly in-
volved in the matter.
People of Bharatpur
will get justice.
—Ramlal Sharma, BJP MLA
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First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Cabinet
Sub- Committee has de-
vised a formula to re-
solve the problems of
regularising contract
workers by taking up
the issue in the eight
meetings held so far, but
it might still take one or
two more meetings to
prepare the final report.
All the ministers pre-
sent in the meeting held
in secretariat on Mon-
day, arrived at consen-
sus regarding the regu-
larisation formula and
also have agreed to pre-
pare the final report in
next 1-2 meetings and
present it before the
Cabinet for approval.
It is being assumed
that the contract work-
ers might get a big Di-
wali gift.
The Chairman of
theSub-Committee, En-
ergy Minister Dr BD
Kalla said that the Sub-
Committee held meet-
ings despite the Corona
crisis and was soon to
achieve its goal while
the erstwhile BJP govt
couldn’t decide on the
matter during its 5 year
tenure.
Although Kalla didn’t
divulge the exact num-
ber of contract workers
to be regularised, but
informal sources place
the number between
75,000 to 1 lakh.
A few reliable sourc-
es while informing
about the meeting fur-
ther added that the
State Government
could also implement
the Supreme Court
sanctioned formula of
30% weightage.
The meeting was at-
tended by the State Edu-
cation Minister Govind
Singh Dotasara, Sports
Minister Ashok Chand-
na, WCD Minister Mam-
ta Bhupesh and PS
(DoPT) Roli Singh.
A ‘Bumper Diwali Bonanza’ for Contract workers
COVID-19 scare: Record 2,112
cases in a day in Raj; 15 more die
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The state
scaled a notch higher in
discovering single day
new Corona cases with
Monday reporting 2,112
new positive cases
along with 15 deaths re-
ported from across the
state.
Jaipur created a new
record by adding an un-
precedented 444 new
COVID-19 cases fol-
lowed by 361 from Jodh-
pur, 127 from Pali, 110
from Alwar, 106 from
Bikaner, 100 from
Bhilwara, 82 from
Ajmer, 80 from Udaipur,
74 from Jalore, 60 from
Kota, 53 from Nagaur, 40
from Dungarpur, 38
each from Jhunjhunu &
Sirohi, 37 from Churu,
33 from Ganganagar, 30
each from Dholpur &
Rajsamand, 24 from
Chittorgarh, 21 from
Tonk, 20 each from
Bharatpur & Karauli,
19 each from Barmer &
Hanumangarh, 17 each
from Jaisalmer & Jhala-
war, 16 from Bundi, 15
each from Banswara &
Sawai Madhopur, 14
from Baran, 9 from
Pratapgarh and 6 from
Sikar.
The state as of Mon-
day evening, officially
reported a total figure
of 1,30,971 infected from
the virus so far. Ajmer,
Alwar, Banswra, Baran,
Bharatpur, Bikaner,
Chittorgarh, Churu,
Jaipur, Jalore, Kota, Ra-
jsamand, Tonk and
Udaipur reported one
death each in past 24
hours, taking the toll to
1,456. In the past 24
hours, 1,754 patients re-
covered taking the total
recovery figure to
1,09,472. There are
20,043 active cases of
Corona in the state as
of Monday evening.
Jaipur has so far re-
corded the maximum
number of COVID-19
related deaths at 319. It
is followed by 142 in
Jodhpur, 110 in Bikaner,
103 in Ajmer, 99 in Kota,
80 in Bharatpur, 60 in
Pali, 46 in Nagaur, 49 in
Udaipur, 40 in Alwar.
First India Bureau
Jaipur. Rajasthan
High Court has issued
notice to the State
Government for many
important Covid-19 re-
lated issues such as
treatment of Corona
patients in various
government hospitals
across the state in-
cluding the SMS Hos-
pital, free Corona
tests and treatment
and taking over of
various private hospi-
tals and hotels across
the state.
CJ Indrajit Mohanty
and Justice Prakash
Gupta issued notices to
the CS, ACS (Health)
and Superintendent of
SMS Hospital on a peti-
tion filed by Mohan
Singh, which pleads
free Corona treatment
for BPL, poor and
needy people in the
state. Counsel for the
petitioner has pleaded
for free treatment of
Corona patients in
Covid -19 hospitals and
take over of private fa-
cilities at war footing
amid rising cases of
Corona in the state cit-
ing refusal by some
hospitals due to scar-
city of beds and facili-
ties. The court has
fixed October 12 as the
next date of hearing in
the case.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: A meeting of
the Departmental Pro-
motion Committee
(DPC) of commercial
tax, accounts and ex-
cise services will take
place on Tuesday in
Ajmer.
The decision on pro-
motion of nearly 200 of-
ficers of these services
is likely to be taken dur-
ing the meeting.
Around 125 officials
of sales tax are likely to
get promotions. ACTOs
will become CTOs and
CTOs will be promoted
to the post of Assistant
Commissioner. Assis-
tant Commissioners
will be promoted as
Deputy Commissioner
and DC will get the post
of Additional Commis-
sioner.
Decisions about pro-
motion in Rajasthan ac-
counts service and ex-
cise service will also be
taken in the meeting.
PIL on Corona filed
in Raj High Court
Commercial
tax DPC meet
in Ajmer today
‘Cops should motivate all
to follow Covid norms’
Sikar MP
Sumedhanand
Saraswati+ve
Co-ordinate for funds to
maintain Sambhar Lake: HC
Covid death in JNU Hosp, PIL
filed in HC for CBI enquiry
Jaipur has so far recorded the maximum number of Corona deaths at 319, followed by 142 in Jodhpur
Sikar: MP Swami
Sumedhanand Saras-
wati tested
C o r o n a
positive on
M o n d a y.
He has
q u a r a n -
tined him-
self in his ashram on
the instructions of doc-
tors. The Sikar MP had
returned to his constit-
uency on Saturday after
attending the recently
culminated parliament
session. He got himself
tested on Sunday.
A medic wearing a protective suit, uses a thermal screening on army personnel in Jodhpur. —FILE PHOTO
Best Raj Varsity to
be conferred with
‘Chancellor Medal’
Kashiram Choudhary
Jaipur: In first of
its kind initiative,
the best performing
State University in
Rajasthan will be
conferred with
Chancellor Medal
and citation every
year.
Governor Kalraj
Mishra took the ini-
tiative to create a
new and healthy
competitive environ-
ment in the state uni-
versities, a release
from the Raj Bhawan
stated. This move
will further benefit
the students and the
universities will de-
velop in a better way.
The Governor,
Kalraj Mishra’s sec-
retary on Monday,
forwarded letters to
the state universi-
ties seeking details
from these educa-
tional institutions
pertaining to gov-
ernance, financial
condition and activi-
ties like research,
student development
and innovations.
The universities
can apply till Octo-
ber 20. The Chancel-
lor’s assessment
will be based on the
aforementioned pa-
rameters.
State Govt to challenge HC order on fee deposition
Raj HC refuses to stay DPC for
CTO promotion, hearing on Oct 14
Jaipur: The State gov-
ernment has decided
to challenge the court
orders for deposition
of 70% of tuition fees
by the parents, in-
formed AAG Rajesh
Maharshi while the
matter was being
heard in the High
Court. The court has
fixed September 30 as
the next date for hear-
ing on the request of
the AAG.
The court also ac-
cepted the applica-
tions of Nisha Founda-
tion and 5 others for
making them a party
to the case. In an ear-
lier hearing , which
took place on Septem-
ber 16, the court had
issued notices to PS
(Education), Director
(Education) and Soci-
ety of Catholic Educa-
tion Institutions in
Rajasthan.
The single bench of
the court had permit-
ted the private schools
to recover 70% of the
tuition fees from the
parents, which was op-
posed by advocate
Sunil Samdariya
through an appeal
against the orders cit-
ing the State Govern-
ment’s orders of April
9 and July 7,2020 giv-
ing relief to the par-
ents.
Jaipur: Rajasthan High
Court has refused to
stay the DPC for promo-
tion of ACTO to CTO
scheduled for Septem-
ber 29. CJ Indrajit Mo-
hanty and Justice
Prakash Gupta gave the
judgement while hear-
ing a PIL by JCTO to
CTO promoted Jai Sin-
gh, Ritu Charan and
others, who had de-
manded the stay on the
DPC. The court also re-
jected their plea for an
early hearing. The peti-
tioners had pleaded for
fixing the seniority of
JCTO to CTO promoted
officers over direct JC-
TOs.
Appearing for the
State Government AG
MS Singhvi opposed the
stay by informing the
court about all the prep-
arations for the DPC
already in place as per
the laid rules.
The court, after hear-
ing both the sides, de-
cided to hear the matter
on October 14.
Advocate Saransh
Saini appeared for the
petitioners while advo-
cate Tanveer Ahmed
was the council for the
direct ACTOs.
Nizam Kantaliya
Jaipur. High Court has
ordered both the Cen-
tral & State Govern-
ments to co-ordinate for
the funds required for
the upkeep of Sambhar
Lake. The court also or-
dered immediate set-
ting up of a temporary
nursery at the Lake.
The division bench of
CJ Indrajit Mohanty
and Justice Prakash
Gupta also agreed to
make a person addition-
al party to the case on
the request of Curiae
Nitin Jain. The deci-
sions came while the
court was hearing peti-
tion related to death of
migrant birds at the
lake. HC has also consti-
tuted an 8-member ex-
pert committee consist-
ing of environmental-
ists, scientists and sen-
ior officers of the state.
State head of forest will
be the Chairman of the
committee while Ajit
Patnaik Satyajeet Sel-
vam, RN Mehrotra, will
be the panel members.
Jaipur: Nazima Khan-
am filed a PIL in the
High Court against
Principal Secretary
Government of Ra-
jasthan and Dr Sandeep
Bhakshi Chancellor
Jaipur National Univer-
sity for negligent death
of her husband, Saiyad
Akhtar Hussain of
Bundi on Sept 14. Her
husband was admitted
in Bakshi’s Hospital on
Aug 28, but no corona
treatment was given,
later he was forced to be
admitted in Covid ward
on Aug 29, but admitted
as COVID one onAug 30,
where there was no
qualified doctor to treat
him and the treatment
was not as per MCI Pro-
tocol and even oxygen
was not given to him,
the ventilator was not
working and even after
repeated requests, the
plasma therapy was not
done and finally the pa-
tient died. Bakshi is
well connected with
State Government and
got the approval of
COVID Hospital and the
other Government
Schemes without any
infrastructure and
qualified doctors. Most
important is the doctor
who is not qualified is
heading the team of
COVID doctors. A High
level Committee and
CBI enquiry be con-
ducted for mishappen-
ings, the PIL stated.
Shivendra Parmar
Jaipur: DGP Bhupen-
dra Singh called upon
the police personnel to
work with utmost vigi-
lance & alertness to pre-
vent the Coronavirus
spread. In a message
sent to the police per-
sonnel, he said that the
policemen should play
the role of responsible
citizens by encouraging
the common men to pro-
tect themselves. “They
should motivate citi-
zens to wear face masks,
& to strictly adhere to
social distancing norms
so that they can protect
themselves from Coro-
navirus,” he said.
IN THE COURTYARD
Avinash Pande
@avinashpandeinc
Tributes to revo-
lutionary freedom
fighter Shaheed-e-
azam #BhagatSingh
on his birth anniver-
sary. Salute Folded
hands
Jai Hind Flag of India
THE MOVE
Dr BD Kalla
Kalraj Mishra
Bhupendra Singh
—FILE PHOTO
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IS SAVING FAMILY’S
HONOUR THE DUTY OF
A WOMAN ALONE?
ducation and position are no guar-
antee that a man won’t treat his
wife like a doormat. From diplo-
mats to bureaucrats and senior
police officers have all indulged in
uncivilized acts of violence against their
wives. Some years ago Anil Verma, who was
ranked third in the Indian High Commission
in London, assaulted his wife Paromita over
a Christmas gift. Paromita ran out of the
house and into the street with blood dripping
from her face. British Foreign Office wanted
Verma’s diplomatic immunity to be with-
drawn but India recalled the officer. The Ex-
ternal Affairs Ministry had then stated that
“there is no question of condoning domestic
violence”. But for all the disgrace Verma
brought to the country, he was only reverted
to his cadre state, West Bengal, and the mat-
ter was given a quiet burial.
In an equally condemnable incident, Mad-
hya Pradesh Director-General of Police
(Prosecution) Purushottam Sharma was
caught on video brutally assaulting his wife
of 32 years. The video shows Sharma slap-
ping and pinning his wife who tries to defend
herself. As the video went viral, Sharma dis-
played a patriarchal mindset and remained
unapologetic. “My son should say why she
was taking money (from me) and going on
foreign trips. After enjoying so much comfort
in life, she has an obligation towards her fam-
ily to save its reputation,” Sharma told a jour-
nalist. He also said that it was not a crime but
a family dispute. To put it mildly, there can’t
be a more brazen argument. Because she was
taking money from Sharma to enjoy the life
she had no business to talk about her suffer-
ings. Sharma very conveniently shrugged off
his responsibility to save the family’s honour
as a responsible officer and husband. Is it for
a woman alone to protect her family’s reputa-
tion even after being physically abused?
The video was sent to Madhya Pradesh
Home Minister Narottam Mishra by the cou-
ple’s son Parth, who is a deputy commission-
er in the Income-tax Department, with the
request that a complaint is registered against
his IPS father. Narottam Mishra’s response
to journalists’ questions did not suggest that
he would take stern action against Purushot-
tam Sharma. For the time being Sharma has
been relieved of his duties. Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan has promised action.
Under the Protection of Women from Do-
mestic Violence Act-2005 any act that “harms,
injures or endangers the health, safety, life,
limb or well-being, whether mental or physi-
cal, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so
and includes causing physical abuse, sexual
abuse, verbal and emotional abuse, and eco-
nomic abuse” shall constitute domestic vio-
lence. To that extent, Purushottam Sharma’s
action falls within the Act’s ambit.
Now that his wife has moved the state
Women’s Commission and decided to forego
the figurative big diamonds, the MP govern-
ment should not dither from taking strong
action against the officer.
IN-DEPTH
E
rue to himself,
US President
Donald Trump
c o m p l e t e l y
failed to ad-
dress any of the issues con-
fronting the global commu-
nity in his keynote speech
to the 74th General Assem-
bly of the United Nations.
Instead, he used the plat-
form to criticize China, to
excoriate Iran, to boast of
how big and dangerous the
US military has become,
and to urge every nation to
close its borders to even
the most hungry or perse-
cuted migrants. He did,
however, think it appropri-
ate to support the right of
all Americans to own as
many guns as they want.
In the same speech,
Trump made headlines
with his words urging the
world to hold China ac-
countable for having “un-
leashed this plague on to
the world,” in reference to
the COVID-19 pandemic,
and for deliberately en-
couraging the coronavirus
to spread. The White House
cut these words from the
transcript posted on its
website. Perhaps even the
administration’s press of-
fice did not have the stom-
ach to publish such libel.
This speech to the UN
was a moment when the
leader of the free world —
as a US president might
once have been seen —
could actually attempt to
lead. The speech was an
opportunity to inspire and
to set out a roadmap to a
better future. Trump chose
to do the reverse. The world
is facing a triple crisis of
an international pandem-
ic, economic collapse and
climate emergency. Trump
could only reach out for
people to blame: the Chi-
nese, Iranians or Venezue-
lans. He failed to mention
that the United States has
the biggest coronavirus
death toll of any country in
the world, with over 200,000
dead and counting.
Nor did Trump comment
on the millions out of work
or that America’s west is
burning at the same time
that its southeast is inun-
dated by hurricane after
hurricane. These are not
just America’s problems:
Trump did not address the
dire straits of billions of
non-Americansimpactedby
these dangers. Why would
he?Thisisthetruemeasure
of “America First.”
The American leader-
ship vacuum is a grave
danger to not just Ameri-
cans but to us all. Trump’s
failure to act early to stem
coronavirus infections — a
deliberate decision he
made to fatuously “avoid
panic” — will likely cost
the lives of tens of thou-
sands more Americans on
top of the current stagger-
ing death toll. The US with-
drawal from the World
Health Organization in the
middle of the pandemic
signaled that Trump want-
ed no part of the interna-
tional leadership out of the
health crisis. The resultant
deaths will be beyond im-
agination.
As for the climate emer-
gency, Trump has chosen
to deny it. More than that,
he has proceeded to undo
everything previous US
governments and the inter-
national community had
done to try to save the plan-
et from disaster. All of
these crises are going to
produce millions of refu-
gees across the world.
Trump couldn’t care less.
SOURCE: FAIR OBSERVER
TRUMP AT THE UN: A FAILURE TO LEAD
T
It is better to strive in one’s
own dharma than to succeed
in the dharma of another.
—Bhagavad Gita
Spiritual
SPEAK
Top
TWEET
Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
@DrRPNishank
Extremely happy to note that over
96% of students appeared in the
#JEE Advanced 2020 conducted
by @iitdelhi on Sunday. With
approx 3.4 lakh nodes, this is
among the largest no. of nodes
for any online exam in India.
Congratulations @ramgopal_rao
for overseeing the arrangements.
Adhir Chowdhury @adhirrcinc
The International day for
Universal access to information
is being celebrated today. I think
that the epoch-making legislation
of RIGHT TO INFORMATION act
conceived and passed during
UPA regime in India could be
recognised as a befitting tribute to
the essence of this day.
t was in 2017-18 when the unem-
ployment rate jumped to 6.1%
(45 years high) in India as per
the National Sample Survey.
With the COVID pandemic and
drastic contraction of about
24% in the economy, this has
become much worse. The re-
cent CMIE report shows about
21 million salaried jobs lost be-
tween April and August. And
the informal sector has suf-
fered even a steeper fall.
There are some worrying as-
pects of this scenario. First, the
loss of jobs among the youth has
been much higher than the job
lossessufferedbyadults.Second,
salaried jobs are very difficult to
comebackinthenearfuturedue
tobusinessuncertainties.Third,
though many of the informal
jobs may have come back there
is a sharp fall in their incomes
due to lower economic activity.
The impact on youth jobs has
been brought out succinctly in
a joint report published by
Asian Development Bank and
InternationalLabourOrganisa-
tion in August 2020. The report
‘Tackling the COVID-19 Youth
Employment Crisis in Asia and
the Pacific’ estimates that the
youth unemployment rate in
India would have stood at 29.5
percent (40.84 lakh) if contain-
ment was achieved in three
months (by June) and is esti-
mated to be at 32.5 percent (61.13
lakh)if containmentisachieved
within six months (by Septem-
ber). The report also finds that
the last-in-first-out process fol-
lowed by most enterprises re-
sults in younger workers losing
jobs faster than adults.
If one looks around, activi-
ties like cinemas, theatres, edu-
cational institutions are still
closed while some like hotels,
resorts, restaurants, transport,
aviation, exports, and other
services are partially open,
functioning with only about 15-
20% of their normal workforce.
BRINGING BACK JOBS
Due to prolonged slowdown,
low demand, and uncertain fu-
ture corporates are reluctant to
invest and hire, they tend to
adopt a wait and watch policy.
This leaves it upon the Govern-
ment to step up public invest-
ment in large infrastructure
projects to create jobs and re-
boottheeconomy.Ithelpstocre-
ate a conducive environment
for private investment also.
Thrust on Upskilling, Self-
Employment, Innovation,
and Entrepreneurship- in
fields like health, digital tech-
nology, e-commerce, logistics,
freelancing for the ‘gig econo-
my’. Added to this is the push
to agriculture and agro-indus-
tries. A large and complex
economy like India will need to
adopt a multi-pronged ap-
proach in this regard.
If we look around, each State
in India has numerous techni-
cal institutes providing courses
at various levels- certificate/
diploma graduate/ post gradu-
ate/ doctoral degrees. Very few
of the pass-outs are able to find
jobs. And a minuscule of them
turn into entrepreneurs. Lets
take Rajasthan - there are about
2200 Institutes comprising of 38
Universities, 140 Engineering
Colleges(33,000 seats), 151 Poly-
technic Colleges (28,000 seats),
1900 ITIs (about 4 lac capacity
for courses after 8th, 10th and
12th classes). Out of this huge
number very few are able to get
into some gainful employment
and most of them add to the al-
ready swelling numbers of job-
less persons.
Can we rejuvenate and re-
activate these Institutes as
Incubators to prepare the
entrepreneurs for tomor-
row? If we are able to trans-
form a few of these Institutes
into ‘Centres of Excellence’ (in
the real sense and not merely
on paper) and partly use them
as Incubators/Accelerators (by
upgrading infrastructure and
connecting them to industry) to
prepare some of the trained
persons as entrepreneurs, it
will make a big difference to the
job market. This can be done
with the help of reputed private
sector players/other estab-
lished Incubators in India.
Youth coming out of these Incu-
bators can play a significant
role in creating jobs particu-
larly if the ventures are scala-
ble. Even a few successes will
bring about a sea change in the
perception and thinking of the
youth and many more will feel
inspired to follow this path.
Even if some of these startups
fail, the ecosystem should act
as the support system to help
them recover and reboot.
Government’s handholding
role becomes critical in the ini-
tial period.
Firstly, while maintaining
an arms-length in managing
the Incubators it should ar-
range initial funding/ mobilise
CSR funds from the private sec-
tor. ( CSR funds of Rs 350-400
crores are generated annually
in Rajasthan) Secondly, after
the persons come out of the In-
cubator they must be provided
financial support with seed
money and marketing support.
Tie up with venture funds, pri-
vate equity and angel investor
groups is necessary for sus-
tained financial support
Detailed modalities can be
worked out jointly with the
mentors/private sector.
If other states too make sim-
ilar efforts one can imagine the
impact and the multiplier ef-
fect it will have on the national
economy. The central govern-
ment should play a leadership
role in this regard.
CONCLUSION
The job losses will persist post-
pandemic period for a long time
adversely affecting economic
growth. A a sensitive and pro-
active approach by the Central
and State Governments should
be adopted to invest in creating
local innovation and entrepre-
neurship ecosystem with avail-
able resources. Such ecosys-
tems would inspire confidence
in the youth to come forward
and be creators of jobs rather
than job seekers.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
NEED AN ARMY OF ENTREPRENEURS
TO UPLIFT ECONOMY
I
Due to
prolonged
slowdown, low
demand, and
uncertain
future
corporates are
reluctant to
invest and hire,
they tend to
adopt a wait
and watch
policy. This
leaves it upon
the government
to step up
public
investment in
large
infrastructure
projects to
create jobs and
reboot the
economy
DR GS
SANDHU
A A SENSITIVE AND
PROACTIVE APPROACH BY
THE CENTRAL AND STATE
GOVERNMENTS SHOULD
BE ADOPTED TO INVEST IN
CREATING LOCAL
INNOVATION AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ECOSYSTEM WITH
AVAILABLE RESOURCES
THE AUTHOR IS A RETIRED
IAS, RAJASTHAN
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PM MODI HOLDS VIRTUAL SUMMIT
WITH DANISH COUNTERPARTAn MoU in the field of intellectual property cooperation between the two
countries will be signed on the occasion, said Ministry of External Affairs
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
and his Danish counter-
part Mette Frederiksen
held a virtual summit
on Monday to strength-
en the bilateral rela-
tions between the two
countries.
Earlier, the external
affairsministryissueda
statement which said
that an MoU in the field
of intellectual property
cooperationbetweenthe
two countries will be
signed on the occasion.
As the virtual sum-
mit began, Prime Min-
ister Modi firstly
thanked Frederiksen
for taking out time for
this virutal interaction
and also congratulated
her on her wedding.
He also highlighted
that the events of the
past several months
have made it clear how
important it is for like-
minded countries like
India and Denmark,
which share a rules-
based, transparent, hu-
manitarian and demo-
cratic value-system, to
work together.
Modi mentioned that
the Covid-19 pandemic
showed that excessive
dependence of global
supply chains on a sin-
gle source can be risky.
He said that India is
working with Japan
and Australia towards
diversification and re-
silience of supply
chains adding that sev-
eral like-minded na-
tions can also be a part
of this effort.
Meanwhile, Danish
Prime Minister Fred-
eriksen began her ad-
dress by thanking
PMModi for his greet-
ings and added that she
and her family would
love to visit India once
again.
Frederiksen further
said,“ Today’s summit
marks for Denmark a
milestone on our bilat-
eral relations, and our
forward-looking agree-
ment on green strategic
partnership. We are
proud that India looks
at Denmark when it
comes to the climate
changes.” —ANI
Agri laws are
death sentence
for farmers: RaGa
New Delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
alleged that the agri-
culture-related laws
are a “death sentence”
for farmers whose
voice has been crushed
both inside and outside
Parliament. “The agri-
culture laws are a death
sentence to our farm-
ers. Their voice is
crushed in Parliament
and outside. Here is
proof that democracy
in India is dead,” he
said on Twitter.
Gandhi tagged a
news report along with
his tweet that claimed
that Opposition mem-
bers demanding a divi-
sion of votes were on
their seats when the
farm bills were passed
in the Rajya Sabha,
while the government
said they were not.
Gandhi & Congress
party have been demand-
ing that farm legislations
be withdrawn as they are
notbeneficialforfarmers,
who will be enslaved at
the hands of private play-
ers and big businesses.
Not possible to defer civil services exam: UPSC tells SC
New Delhi: The Union
Public Service Commis-
sion (UPSC) has in-
formed SC that the
civil services exam
(prelims) which is
scheduled to be con-
ducted on October 4
could not be postponed
any further. The apex
court will now hear the
plea on September 30
and asked UPSC to file
an affidavit by today
mentioning the reason
behind not postponing
the CSE exams.
The court was hear-
ing a plea regarding the
postponement of the
CSE prelims consider-
ing the COVID-19 situa-
tions.
The plea filed by Va-
sireddy Govardhana
Sai Prakash and others
on October 4 submitted
that decision of UPSC
to conduct the exam in
accordance with re-
vised calendar violates
the rights of the peti-
tioners and those simi-
larly situated, under
Article 19 (1) (g) of the
Constitution to practice
their chosen profession
of serving the public.
Seven hours long of-
fline exam will be taken
by approximately six
lakh aspirants at test
centres in 72 cities
across the country. —PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen during a virtual bilateral summit, in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
NARENDRA MODI@NARENDRAMODI
Spoke to respected Lata Didi and conveyed birthday
greetings to her. Praying for her long and healthy life.
Lata Didi is a household name across the nation. I
consider myself fortunate to have always received her
affection and blessings.
Pradhan slams Cong
over India Gate incident
New Delhi: Union Min-
ister Dharmendra Prad-
han slammed Congress
after party’s youth
workers allegedly
burned down a tractor
at India Gate in New
Delhi as a mark of pro-
test against the new ag-
riculture-related laws.
Condemning the inci-
dent, Pradhan alleged
that the Congress party
is misleading the farm-
ers on the issue and in
the name of farmers,
some anti-social ele-
ments are trying to
spread anarchy.
“Today, Congress
showed its true colours
in Delhi. In the name of
farmers, some anti-so-
cial elements are trying
to spread anarchy. The
incident is unfortunate.
They are trying to mis-
lead farmers. Words fall
short to condemn this
incident,” news agency
ANI quoted theUnion
Petroleum Minister as
saying.
His remarks came af-
ter five Punjab Con-
gress youth workers
were detained in con-
nection with the protest
and burning of a trac-
tor near India Gate.
Members of various
farmer organizations
block a railway track
during a protest against
the central government
over agriculture related
bills, at Nabha in Patia-
la, Thursday, Septem-
ber 24, 2020 Congress
MP to move SC on Mon-
day against contentious
farm bills
About 15-20 Punjab
Youth Congress work-
ers arrived at the India
Gate, New Delhi and
tried to set a tractor on
fire on Monday. —ANI
SC refuses to
entertain PIL
on TRAI’s
new orders
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court refused to
entertain a petition
filed against a new di-
rective of the Telecom
Regulatory Authority
of India (TRAI) related
to commercial SMSes
and calls.
A bench of the Apex
Court, headed by CJI
SA Bobde, refused to en-
tertain PIL filed by ad-
vocate Reepak Kansal
and asked him to ap-
proach Delhi HC for re-
lief. Senior lawyer Ji-
tendra Mohan Sharma,
appearing for the peti-
tioner, sought appropri-
ate directions against
the TRAI directives and
alleged that the new
rules are in violation of
citizens’ fundamental
right to privacy.
Senior lawyer Rake-
sh Dwivedi, appearing
for TRAI, submitted
that a similar matter
was also earlier heard
in the Delhi High Court.
After this, CJI Bobde
asked the petitioner to
approach the Delhi
High Court for relief.
—ANI
CONG ASHAMED ENTIRE
COUNTRY: JAVADEKAR
‘FARMERS WILL
BECOME SELF
SUFFICIENT’
New Delhi: Congress has ashamed the entire
country and it has now become clear that it is mis-
leading farmers to suit
its political agenda, said
Union Minister Prakash
Javadekar on Monday as
Punjab Youth Congress
workers had set a trac-
tor on fire near India
Gate earlier on Monday
morning. “Congress
has ashamed the entire
country. Till now people
have seen protests, but bringing a tractor on a
truck to India Gate and setting it on fire is drama,
we condemn it. Congress’ mask has come off
now, under the pretext of farmers’ protest it is try-
ing to suit its own political ends,” Javadekar said.
New Delhi: Union
Law Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad said
farmers will now be-
come self-sufficient
with new agriculture
laws. “With the new
agricultural laws,
every farmer will now
become self-suffi-
cient. The number of
crops purchased by
govt from farmers
has increased. For
example, government
did not buy moong
crop in 2013-14.
in 2019-20, 1.66L
MT of moong was
purchased by Modi
govt,” he tweeted.
Defence Min Rajnath Singh releases
New Defence Acquisition Procedure
New Delhi: Defence
Minister Rajnath Sin-
gh on Monday released
the New Defence Ac-
quisition Procedure
(DAP) at the Defence
Acquisition Council
(DAC) meeting at
South Block here.
“Raksha Mantri
Shri @rajnathsingh re-
leased the New De-
fence Acquisition Pro-
cedure (DAP) at the
Defence Acquisition
Council (DAC) meeting
in South Block today,”
read a tweet from the
Office of the Defence
Minister. It said, The
DAP 2020 has been
aligned with PM Nar-
endra Modi’s vision of
Atmanirbhar Bharat
and empowering the
Indian domestic indus-
try through Make in
India initiative.
“With the new FDI
policy announced, the
DAP 2020 has ade-
quately included pro-
visions to encourage
FDI to establish manu-
facturing hubs both for
import substitution
and exports while pro-
tecting the interests of
Indian domestic indus-
try,” it added. —ANI
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, Chief of
Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh and
Chief of the Indian Army MM Naravane during the unveiling of the new Defence Acquisitioon
Procedure (DAP)-2020 Document, in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
MP: WIFE BEATER DG RELIOEVED OF
DUTIES AFTER VIDEO GOES VIRAL
Bhopal: The Madhya
Pradesh government re-
lieved ADG Purushottam
Sharma of his duties after
a video of him purport-
edly beating his wife went
viral. In the video, Sharma
is seen purportedly beat-
ing his wife in his living
room, while two other
people are trying to con-
trol the situation. Defend-
ing himself and terming it
a family dispute, Sharma
accused his wife of
stalking him and putting
close circuit television
cameras in their house.
“If I’m abusive, then she
should’ve complained.
This is a family dispute,
not a crime. I am neither
a violent person nor a
criminal. It is unfortunate
that I have to go through
this,” Sharma said.
JIMEX-2020: NAVY, JMSDF SHIPS
UNDERTAKE WEAPON DRILLS
New Delhi: Indian Navy and Japanese Maritime
Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ships undertook
weapon drills, seamanship evolutions and
advanced exercises on second day of the fourth
edition of India-Japan maritime bilateral exercise
JIMEX between Indian Navy & JMSDF. It is being
held in North Arabian Sea from Sept 26 - 28.
JIMEX series of exercises commenced in January
2012 with a special focus on maritime security
cooperation. The last edition of JIMEX was con-
ducted in October 2018 in Visakhapatnam.
J&K: LET COMMANDER AMONG 2
TERRORISTS GUNNED DOWN
Pulwama: Two terror-
ists were neutralised in
a joint operation carried
out on Sunday night by
Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF), Jammu
and Kashmir Police and
Indian Army in Sam-
boora, Awantipora of
Pulwama, said Dilbag
Singh, Director General of
Police (DGP) of Jammu
and Kashmir on Monday.
Singh said that one of
the neutralised terrorists
was a commander of the
LeT. “Last night, dur-
ing a joint operation by
CRPF, Police and Army in
Samboora, terrorists fired
at us and attacked us with
grenades. Forces retali-
ated following which an
exchange of fire started.
The operation continued
throughout the night.
SENSEX SOARS 593 POINTS,
NIFTY CLOSES ABOVE 11,227
New Delhi: Markets ended on a positive note
on Monday led by gains in auto and banking
stocks. The BSE Sensex soared 592.97 points
or 1.59 percent to end at 37,981.63; Nifty rallies
177.30 points or 1.6 percent to 11,227.55.Major
gainers in the Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank,
Bajaj Finance, Axis Bank, Powergrid, ONGC, Sun
Pharma, ICICI Bank, M&M, NTPC, Maruti, Bajaj
Finserve and SBI, rising upto 7.85 percent. While
major gainers were HUL, Infosys and Nestle, fall-
ing upto 0.66 percent.
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Gehlot lays...
and other public repre-
sentatives to cooperate
in making the fight
with Corona, a public
movement with the co-
operation of all and to
make every person
aware to defend it.
Gehlot said that the
first priority is to save
the lives of people and
in this, everyone will
have to work together,
rising above politics.
“The role of sanitation
is important in prevent-
ing corona infection. In
view of this, the local
bodies should maintain
cleanliness. Loudspeak-
ers should be used to
create awareness about
Corona and health pro-
tocols. The Municipal
Corporation, Municipal
Council and other local
bodies should develop
their means of income.
In view of future needs,
the development of cit-
ies should be based on
town planning as work
done with good town
planning will enhance
the look of the cities,”
the chief minister
stressed as he instruct-
ed to recruit assistant
city planners in urban
development authori-
ties and urban bodies
soon. He said that the
Department of Autono-
mous Government
should provide proper
space and facilities for
street vendors so that
they can continue their
livelihood.
Minister of Urban
Development and Hous-
ing, Shanti Dhariwal
said that public utilities
under the Smart City
Mission will develop ba-
sic amenities in the cit-
ies and the common
man will benefit from
it. He informed that the
foundation stone of 10
projects worth Rs 632.35
crore has been inaugu-
rated in Jaipur divi-
sion, while 12 projects
worth Rs 245.40 crore
have been launched.
The foundation stone of
26 projects worth Rs
349.01 crore has been
inaugurated in Ajmer
division while 3 pro-
jects worth 43.43 crore
have been inaugurated.
In Udaipur division, the
foundation stone of 11
projects worth Rs 56.16
crore while 6 projects
worth 05.61 crore has
been inaugurated.
“Through urban bod-
ies, general public is be-
ingmadeawarethrough
loud speakers regard-
ing masking, social dis-
tancing and frequent
hand washing,” he said.
Protests intensify...
against the farm laws.
In an attempt to corner
the BJP-led govern-
ment at the Centre over
the contentious farm
bills Punjab Chief Min-
ister Captain Ama-
rinder Singh, party
MLAs staged a sit-in at
the ancestral village of
freedom fighter
Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
AICC general secre-
tary Harish Rawat,
state party chief Sunil
Jakhar and Cabinet
ministers participated
in the dharna against
the farm bills.
In another develop-
ment DMK also staged
protests against the
farm bills across Tamil
Nadu. The party is pro-
testing at around 3,500
locations. DMK presi-
dent MK Stalin also par-
ticipated in the protest.
He has threatened to
move court against the
contentious bills.
Congress MP TN
Prathapan on Monday
approached Supreme
Court against bills.
Brahmos, Nirbhay...
weapon from a Su-30
MKI fighter. While a
limited number of
Nirbhay subsonic mis-
siles have been pro-
duced and deployed, the
stand-off weapon sys-
tem has a range that
can reach up to 1,000
km, and has both sea
skimming and loitering
capability. —Agencies
India to...
weapons for Rs 970
crore and static HF
trans-receiver sets for
Rs 540 crore. The 13-
lakh strong Army has
already inducted 72,400
SiG Sauer rifles, which
are 7.62x51 mm caliber
guns with an effective
“kill” range of 500-me-
tre, under a Rs 647 crore
fast-track procurement
(FTP) deal inked in Feb-
ruary last year.
CEC, his...
The ECI team includes
Deputy Election Com-
missioners Sudeep Jain
and Chandrabhushan
Kumar.
The Election Com-
mission of India had
announced the dates for
the highly-anticipated
Bihar Assembly elec-
tions on September 25.
SC breather...
documents before it, as
asked by the apex court
earlier. Mehta, appear-
ing for the Union of In-
dia, submitted that the
Central government is
taking all kinds of steps
on the matter and it is a
serious concern for
them and that it is al-
most in the advanced
stage of taking a deci-
sion on the issue.
The bench fixed the
matter for further hear-
ing to October 5.—ANI
FROM PG 1
27 IAS OFFICERS RETIRING IN
SEPTEMBER
As many as 27 IAS officers of various cadres and
batches are retiring in September 2020. They in-
clude: D A Hawaldar of AGMUT cadre; Ajoy Kumar
of Bihar; Dr P D Vaghela, M R Kothari, J R Dodiya,
R B Rajyaguru of Gujarat; Keshni Anand Arora of
Haryana; Brajmohan Kumar, Anil Kumar Singh
of Jharkhand; Jaideep Govind, M Gopal Reddy,
Janak Kumar Jain, Mahesh C Chaudhary and Dr
Shrikant Pandey of Madhya Pradesh; Dr Kavita
Gupta of Maharashtra; Satish Chandra of Punjab;
Devendera Bhushan Gupta and Dr Madhukar
Gupta of Rajasthan; Dr C Chandramouli of Tamil
Nadu; Heera Lal Samariya of Telangana; Pankaj
Chakraborty of Tripura; Abarar Ahmad and Man
Mohan Chaudhary of Uttar Pradesh; Rajiv Sinha,
Dibakar Mukhopadhyay, Nitya Sundar Trivedi and
Madhumita Chaudhury of West Bengal cadre.
REVIEW OF 1988 BATCH IAS
OFFICERS IN NOVEMBER?
Review of 1988 batch IAS officers to the rank of
Secretary in the Government of India is expected
to take place in November. A couple of officers of
this batch are to be empanelled.
PURUSHOTTAM SHARMA REMOVED AS
DIRECTOR, PUBLIC PROSECUTION IN MP
Purushottam Sharma has been removed from the
post of Director, Directorate of Public Prosecution
in Madhya Pradesh. He is a 1986 batch IPS officer
of MP cadre.
MP HC CHIEF JUSTICE TO GET
FAREWELL OVATION THROUGH
VIDEO CONFERENCING
Ajay Kumar Mittal, Chief Justice of Madhya
Pradesh High Court, will be accorded farewell
ovation through video conferencing on his demit-
ting office on September 29, 2020.
NITIN GUPTA PROMOTED TO
PRINCIPAL CCIT GRADE
Nitin Gupta, DGIT (Inv.), Mumbai, has been pro-
moted to the grade of Principal CCIT on an in-situ
basis. He is an IRS-IT officer.
SHYAM BHAGAT NEGI APPOINTED
AS JOINT SECRETARY, COAL
Shyam Bhagat Negi has been appointed as Joint
Secretary, Ministry of Coal. He is a 1990 batch
IPS officer of HP cadre.
AMITABH KUMAR APPOINTED AS
JOINT SECRETARY, COMMERCE
Amitabh Kumar has been appointed as Joint
Secretary, Department of Commerce. He is a 1992
batch IRS-C&CE officer.
ANURAG BAJPAI APPOINTED AS
JOINT SECRETARY, DEFENCE
Anurag Bajpai has been appointed as Joint Secre-
tary, Department of Defence Production. He is a
1994 batch IFS officer of Manipur cadre.
SANJAY LOHIYA APPOINTED AS
JOINT SECRETARY, MINES
Sanjay Lohiya has been appointed as Joint Sec-
retary, Ministry of Mines. He is a 1994 batch IAS
officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
MS REKHA YADAV APPOINTED AS
JOINT SECRETARY, PANCHAYATI RAJ
Ms Rekha Yadav has been appointed as Joint Sec-
retary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj. She is a 1995
batch IRPS officer.
ASHEESH SHARMA APPOINTED AS
JOINT SECRETARY, DOPT
Asheesh Sharma has been appointed as Joint Sec-
retary, Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT).
1997 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
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New Delhi: Union
Health Minister Dr
Harsh Vardhan on Mon-
day said that an online
portalhasbeenlaunched
whichwillprovideinfor-
mation regarding COV-
ID-19 vaccine research,
launch date, among oth-
er information.
“An online portal
about COVID-19 vaccine
has been launched. Eve-
ryone will be able to go
online to that portal and
look up all contempo-
rary research-develop-
ment and clinical trials
related information. It
will also provide infor-
mation about other vac-
cinations provided in
the country,” Dr Harsh
Vardhan told ANI.
He also said that the
first vaccine would like-
ly be available in the
first trimester of the
upcoming year.
The Union Minister
also released the 100-
year timeline history of
the Indian Council of
Medical Research
(ICMR) at the premises
of the institution.
“Today’s a historic
day for ICMR. It’s an
honour for me to re-
lease the 100-year time-
line of the history of
ICMR within its prem-
ises today. The contri-
bution of scientists as-
sociated with it is com-
memorated and serves
as an inspiration to up-
coming scientists,” Dr
Harsh Vardhan said.
The Union Health
Minister said that it en-
lists contribution of the
institute and its wings
in promoting health
and nutrition in the
country.
Hailing ICMR the Un-
ion Minister said that it
has risen to the occas-
sion in view of the COV-
ID-19 crisis and added
that discussions were
also held on the upcom-
ing strategy.
India’s COVID-19 tal-
ly crossed the 60-lakh
mark with a spike of
82,170 new cases and
1,039 deaths reported in
the last 24 hours, ac-
cording to the Union
Health and Family Wel-
fare Ministry on Mon-
day.
As per the Ministry,
India’s tally stands at
60,74,703 including
9,62,640 active cases.
The number of cured
and discharged or mi-
grated patients is cur-
rently at 50,16,521, apart
from 95,542 deaths due
to the disease. —ANI
Covid-19vaccineportallaunched,
alldatalinkedtoresearch:Vardhan‘First vaccine would likely be available in the first trimester of the upcoming year,’ said Dr Harsh Vardhan
New Delhi: More accu-
rate than a rapid anti-
gen test and almost as
quick, India’s CRISPR
‘Feluda’ COVID-19 test
that changes colour on
detection of the SARS-
CoV-2 virus could be a
cheaper, faster and sim-
pler alternative to an
RT-PCR diagnosis, say
scientists.
Named after Satya-
jit Ray’s famed detec-
tive, the Feluda test,
which is priced at Rs
500 and can deliver a
result in 45 minutes,
is able to differentiate
SARS-CoV-2 from oth-
er coronaviruses even
if genetic variations
between them are
minute.
The Clustered Regu-
larly Interspaced Short
Palindromic Repeats
(CRISPR) Feluda test,
developed by the New
Delhi-based CSIR-Insti-
tute of Genomics and
Integrative Biology
(IGIB) and the TATA
Group, received regula-
tory approvals last
week from the Drug
Controller General of
India (DCGI) for com-
mercial launch.
It meets high quality
benchmarks with 96
per cent sensitivity
and 98 per cent speci-
ficity for detecting the
novel coronavirus, De-
bojyoti Chakraborty, a
senior scientist at
CSIR-IGIB and part of
the team that devel-
oped the test, told PTI.
‘Feluda better than
rapid Antigen Test’
New Delhi: Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi will inaugurate
six mega projects in
Uttarakhand under the
‘Namami Gange Mis-
sion’ on Tuesday
through a video con-
ference.
The Prime Minis-
ter’s Office said on
Monday that the pro-
jects include construc-
tion of a 68 MLD sew-
age treatment plant
(STP), upgradation of
the existing 27 MLD
STP at Jagjeetpur in
Haridwar and construc-
tion of an 18 MLD STP
at Sarai in Haridwar.
He will also inaugu-
rate ‘Ganga Avalo-
kan’, the first museum
on Ganga aimed at
showcasing the cul-
ture, biodiversity and
rejuvenation activi-
ties done in the river.
The museum is locat-
ed at Chandi Ghat,
Haridwar.
A book, ‘Rowing
down the Ganges’, co-
published by National
Mission for Clean Gan-
ga and Wildlife Insti-
tute of India will also
be launched at the
event, the PMO said.
The inauguration of
68 MLD Jagjeetpur pro-
ject also marks comple-
tion of the first sewer-
age project taken up on
hybrid annuity mode
of PPP. In Rishikesh, a
26 MLD STP at Lak-
kadghat will be inaugu-
rated, the PMO said.
PMModitoinauguratesix
megaprojectsinUttarakhand
Additional fees in
train fares for using
redeveloped stations
New Delhi: Home Min-
isterAmitShahonMon-
day held a review meet-
ing with senior officials
of the MHA. Several
important matters and
key issues were dis-
cussed in the meeting.
On Saturday, public rep-
resentatives from
Ladakh met Home Min-
ister Amit Shah and Un-
ion Ministers G Kishan
Reddy and Kiren Rijiju.
A three-member dele-
gation of Ladakhi vet-
eranleaderscomprising
former MPs Thiksay
Rinpoche, Thupstan
Chhewang and Chher-
ing Dorje Lakrook, for-
mer Minister in the
PDP-BJPgovernmentin
the erstwhile state of
JammuandKashmir,on
behalf of the people of
Leh, Ladakh, met with
theHomeMinisterAmit
Shah on Saturday.
Shah holds
review meeting
with senior
officials of MHA
Image for representational purpose only.
South-west monsoon starts withdrawing: IMD
New Delhi: With-
drawal of South-west
monsoon from parts
of west Rajasthan and
Punjab will likely re-
sult in dry weather
over most parts of
north-west India dur-
ing the next five days,
while there would be
scattered to fairly
widespread rainfall
over the southern pen-
insula, said IMD. Ac-
cording to the IMD,
conditions are becom-
ing favourable for fur-
therwithdrawalof the
South-west monsoon
from some more parts
of Rajasthan, Punjab,
Haryana,Chandigarh,
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh
and Madhya Pradesh
over the next two-
three days.
New Delhi: Railway
passengers may have to
shell out additional Rs
10-Rs 35 for their ticket
fares as user charges
for availing redevel-
oped stations with state
of the art amenities and
to help the national
transporter in raising
funds for redeveloping
more stations, sources
indicated.
This is part of a pro-
posal being finalised by
the Railways which will
soon be sent for Cabinet
nod, the sources said.
The user fee, the
sources said, will vary
according to the class --
it would range between
Rs 10 and Rs 35 with the
higher price for AC first
class passengers.
The Railways had
earlier clarified that
user fee would be levied
only across stations
which will be redevel-
oped and those that
have high footfalls.
Of the 7,000 total rail-
way stations in the
country, around 700-
1,000 fall in this catego-
ry, it had said.
This is the first time
that such a fee, which is
levied on air passen-
gers, will be charged
from rail users.
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Strong babus for
strong institutions!
Rajendra Chhabra
I
t is now being
claimed that the
new Chairman of
Rajasthan Public Ser-
vice Commission
(RPSC) will be current
Director General of Po-
lice Bhupendra Singh
Yadav and former Chief
Secretary and current
advisor to CM DB Gup-
ta will be CIC of the
State Information Com-
mission.
However, there are
several renowned indi-
viduals who are in the
foray for the post of
members in these insti-
tutions, of these there
is a vacancy of four
members in RPSC and
two in Information
Commission.
The names making
the round for these ap-
pointments are of re-
tired IAS and in-service
RAS namely Jagroop
Singh Yadav, Somnath
Mishra, Chetan Devra
and Tarachand Meena.
Jagroop Singh had re-
tired from the prestig-
ious post of Jaipur Col-
lector. Inspite of being a
promotee IAS and with
only a year left in his
retirement, he was still
made the Jaipur Collec-
tor, which clearly indi-
cates that he is close to
the top leadership of
the party in power.
Somnath Mishra is
currently the division-
al commissioner of
Jaipur division and
will retire after two
months, i.e in the
month of November.
Mishra is the choicest
bureaucrat of an influ-
ential Congress leader.
Meanwhile, Chetan
Devra, currently serv-
ing as Udaipur Collec-
tor, is a native of Jodh-
pur and has two years
left for his retirement.
He is known to be close
to Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot and his
loyal very much like
RAS Tarachand Mee-
na, who played an im-
portant role in election
campaign of Vaibhav
Gehlot from Jodhpur
Lok Sabha constituen-
cy. He is currently serv-
ing in the Agriculture
Marketing Board and
had stayed in the DLB
for a long time in the
previous Gehlot gov-
ernment. Although he
still has three and a
half years left for his
retirement, however, if
he becomes RPSC
member, he could get
five-year tenure and
then he could prove to
be more useful in the
RPSC.
DMF pools in `605 cr
in fight against corona
Nirmal Tiwari
Jaipur: A provision of
Rs 605 crore has been
made from District Min-
eral Founda-
tion (DMF)
Fund purchas-
ing life saving
e q u i p m e n t s
like PPE kits,
hospital beds,
and ventilators
in Rajasthan.
Mines minister
Pramod Jain Bhaya said
that 30 percent of the to-
tal available amount in
thefundwillbespentfor
thearrangementsof pre-
ventionforCovid-19.Dis-
trictcollectorshavebeen
authorised to use the
said amount for
the expansion of
health facilities
and work, he
said. The minis-
ter informed
that the district
collector will
hold meeting of
the District Level Gov-
erning Council of the
fund under the chair-
manship of the Minis-
ter in-charge and sanc-
tion will be given as per
the available amount.
Additional Chief Sec-
retary Mines and Petro-
leum Dr Subodh Agar-
wal said that a sum of
Rs 2018.59 cr is available
in the fund in various
d i s - tricts of the
state, out
of which
30 percent
will be used
for the pur-
pose of cov-
id-19 pre-
vention.
Mumbai: Maharash-
tra Home Minister
Anil Deshmukh on
Monday said that he
is eagerly waiting for
the findings of the
Central Bureau of In-
vestigation (CBI) in
the Sushant Singh Ra-
jput death case.
“Sushant Singh Ra-
jput case was being
professionally probed
by the Mumbai Police
but it was suddenly
handed over to the
CBI. We too are ea-
gerly waiting to see
their finding. People
ask did he die by sui-
cide or was he mur-
dered. We are await-
ing the probe’s re-
sult,” Deshmukh told
ANI.
After the investiga-
tion in the death case
was handed over to
the CBI, Deshmukh
had said that the
Mumbai Police is ex-
tending full coopera-
tion to the CBI in the
case.
Meanwhile, the late
actor’s friends --
Ganesh Hiwaker and
Ankit Acharya -- to-
day announced that
they are going on a
hunger strike from
October 2 to demand
justice for Sushant
Singh Rajput. They
claimed that there
have been no updates
from the CBI in the
case.
Notably, the Nar-
cotics Control Bureau
(NCB) and the En-
forcement Directo-
rate (ED) are also
probing the drugs
case and alleged mon-
ey laundering angle
related to the actor’s
death. -ANI
Eagerly awaiting for
CBI findings in death
of Sushant: Deshmukh
CM Gehlot, PCC chief Dotasra submit memo to
guv on withdrawal of amendment in farm laws
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) AB de Villiers plays a shot. RCB (201/3) with the help of
blistering knocks by de Villiers (55 of 24) and Aaron Finch (52 of 35) defeat Mumbai Indians
(MI) in Super over after Ishan Kishan’s (99) heroics went in vain, during IPL 2020 in Dubai.
FRIENDS TO HOLD HUNGER
STRIKE FROM OCTOBER 2
Mumbai: Claiming that there have been
no updates from CBI in the Sushant
death case, the late actor’s friends --
Ganesh Hiwaker and Ankit Acharya -- on
Monday announced that they are going
on a hunger strike from October 2 to
demand justice in the matter.Hiwaker and
Acharya, in a video message, said that
they will be going on a three-day hunger
strike to demand justice in the case. -ANI
Shivendra Parmar
Jaipur: Rajasthan
Housing Board Com-
missioner Pawan Aro-
ra on Monday started
the work of demolish-
ing the structures of
vacant MLA houses
built at Jyoti Nagar
West.
It is noteworthy that
21 vacant MLA resi-
dences havebeentrans-
ferred by the Public
Works Department for
the removal of the pre-
viously constructed
MLA houses and other
structures located on
the land of Vidhayak
Nagar West. The work
of demolishing these
vacant dwellings and
land development has
been started. Along
with this, the construc-
tion of flats will be
completed within the
stipulated period only
once the remaining 33
houses, in which the
MLAsarestillresiding,
are vacated by them.
“In view of the good-
will and current pro-
gress of the Rajasthan
Housing Board, Chief
Minister Ashok Gehlot
appointed RHB, in
place of JDA, as the
nodal agency for con-
structing multi-sto-
reyed flats for MLAs.
The Board took imme-
diate action in compli-
ance with the instruc-
tions of the Chief Min-
ister and started plan-
ning on it. In this re-
gard, the Speaker of
the Legislative Assem-
bly CP Joshi chaired a
meeting of the cabinet
subcommittee and it
was decided in the
meeting that 160 multi-
storeyed 4 BHK flats
will be built on 24 thou-
sand square meter land
of Vidhayak Nagar for
which 28 meter high G-
Plus towers will be
built,” Arora said.
He informed that the
built-up area of each
flat will be 3200 square
feet. “Many facilities
including a central
lawn, clubhouse, swim-
ming pool, meeting and
conference hall will be
created. A central lawn
will be constructed in
an area of 36 thousand
square feet. Along with
this, a 12-room guest
house will also be built
here. A total of Rs 250
crore will be spent on
the construction of
these flats, whose ad-
ministrative and finan-
cial approval has also
been issued by the state
government on 7 Sep-
tember 2020. The
amount spent on the
project will be received
by Rajasthan Housing
Board from the auction
of the land of MLA Na-
gar East and MLA resi-
dences at Jalupura,”
Arora said.
WORK FOR MLA FLATS FINALLY BEGINS!
Rajasthan Housing Board Commissioner Pawan Arora
RHB TO DISTRIBUTE 1 LAKH
MASKS FREE OF COST FOR
PUBLIC AWARENESS
Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has
decided to start a public awareness
campaign on sensitizing people about the
safety provided by wearing masks and to
start a mask distribution drive. Taking this
initiative, the RHB, during a meeting held at
the Chief Minister’s residence under the
chairmanship of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
on Monday, decided to distribute 1 lakh
masks free of cost. Notably, the Housing
Board has made ‘No Mask-No Entry’
welcome gates at all its offices to guard
against global pandemic corona. Along
with this, sanitation stations have also
been established in their offices and
residential schemes.
RHB COMMISSIONER HIMSELF GETS INVOLVED
IN THE PROCESS ON SITE AS DEMOLITION OF
STANDING INFRASTRUCTURE BEGINS
Maha HM Anil Deshmukh Pramod Jain Bhaya
RCB
SPELL
SUPER
OVER
MAGIC
Yogesh Sharma
Jaipur: The Rajasthan
Pradesh Congress Com-
mittee on Monday sub-
mitted a memorandum
in the name of the Presi-
dent to Governor Kalraj
Mishra regarding with-
drawalof amendmentin
farm laws.
On behalf of the Con-
gress Committee, State
President Govind Singh
Dotasra and Chief Min-
ister Ashok Gehlot sub-
mitted a memorandum
to Governor Mishra at
Raj Bhavan.
Inthe4-pagerepresen-
tation, the party de-
manded withdrawal of
the legislation. They
said that a large number
of workersinMandiwill
becomeworklessandthe
laws will lead to the end
of MSP.
Theysaidthatthecen-
trehasconspiredagainst
farmers and the Con-
gress will continue to
raise voice against it in
favour of farmers.
Thepartyhasbeenop-
posing three Farmer’s
ProduceTradeandCom-
merce (Promotion and
Facilitation) Bill, 2020,
the Farmers (Empower-
ment and Protection)
Agreement of Price As-
surance and Farm Ser-
vices Bill, 2020 and the
Essential Commodities
(Amendment) Bill, 2020
whichwerepassedinthe
parliament recently and
now have become Acts
after President Ram
Nath Kovind gave his as-
sent on Sunday.
CM Ashok Gehlot and PCC chief Dotasra submit memo to
governor Kalraj Mishra.
BANTERING AWAY!
The joyful banter and
camaraderie of Congress
leaders, who otherwise appear
to be extremely serious towards
their routine affair and towards
the functioning of the state
government, came out in the
open on Monday when PCC
Chief and MoS Education
Govind Singh Dotasara fired a
few ‘salvos’, in lighter vain,
at UDH Minister and senior
leader Shanti Dhariwal during
the function at CMR. Known to
be a an orator with a sarcastic
flair, Dotasara quipped at his
senior colleague saying that
he has two complaints with
Dhariwal. “There is issue of bad
and murky water in Laxmangarh
but the ten crore rupee budget
has not been approved till now.
If Dhariwal ji can give just one
percent of the budget allotted
to Kota to this matter, the work
will be done,” Dotasar said,
and again took another jibe at
Dhariwal saying, “Dhariwal ji
has put a machine on his ears.
But I am hopeful my words have
reached him.”—Naresh Sharma
Bhupendra Singh Yadav DB Gupta
Jagroop Singh Yadav Somnath Mishra
Chetan Devra Tarachand Meena
9. If you want to lead, first lead
yourself. Pay attention to your
daily thoughts and actions, what
do you do lead yourself and have a better
day than yesterday?
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Abhishek Srivastav/
Shivendra Pramar
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot on Mon-
day inaugurated Ra-
jasthanHousingBoard’s
(RHB) namely ‘Apni
Shop-Apna Vyapar’
through video confer-
encing from his resi-
dence while the RHB
launched its ambitious
‘AIS Residency for All In-
dia Service Officers’ as
well.
Giving information
about these schemes,
RHB Commissioner
PawanArorasaidthatin
the wake of Corona pan-
demic, the employment
of the people was
snatched, people have
been laid off and the
salaries of the people
who are doing jobs are
being cut. “At a time
whenthereisabigcrisis
of employment, RHB
haslaunched‘ApniShop-
Apna Vyapar’ scheme to
promote self-employ-
ment. Under this
scheme, 1681 shops and
commercial plots will be
available for sale in 13
cities of the state. If
someone starts their
business there, their in-
come will start from day
one,” Arora said.
The minimum selling
price of these shops
starts from only Rs 2.88
lakh.
Arora informed that
the new housing scheme
‘AIS Residency’ has been
started in Pratap Nagar
Sector 17 for All India
Service Officers.
“Fortheofficersof All
IndiaServices,self-fund-
ed housing scheme has
beenbroughtbythestate
government taking com-
mendable steps. The
scheme will be devel-
oped in Pratap Nagar
Sector 17 of Jaipur
which is near NRI Colo-
ny and is a well devel-
oped area,” Arora said,
further adding, “192
multi-storey flats will be
built under this scheme
and the built-up area of
a flat will be 3,211 sq ft.
The flat will be 3 BHK,
withadrawingroomand
a servant room. The esti-
mated cost of a flat will
bearoundRs91.58lakh.”
CM inaugurates RHB’s ‘Apni Shop-Apna Vyapar’; ‘AIS Residency’ launched
‘Exploitation of mineral wealth for development’
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot has said
that the state govern-
ment is always striving
to give more momentum
to the development of
the state by exploiting
the valuable mineral
wealth in Rajasthan
with scientific methods.
“At the same time, the
focus is also on the use
of latest technology in
research and explora-
tion of various mineral
deposits, research and
skill development to
make local residents
employable for these
works,” Gehlot said
while addressing an in-
ternational webinar or-
ganized by Hindustan
Zinc Limited regarding
the discovery and pro-
duction of silver min-
eraldepositsinthestate.
He said that the Ra-
jasthan State Mineral
Exploration Trust has
been formed in the past
for better operation and
monitoring of mining
activities with the aim
of technology, research,
skill development and
revenue enhancement
in mineral exploration.
After the discovery of
oil and natural gas in
Rajasthan a few years
ago, if the mining of sil-
ver mineral starts now,
the state will be able to
move ahead on the path
of development.
The Chief Minister,
while inviting the man-
agers and investors of
mining companies pre-
sent in the webinar ti-
tled ‘The path of silver
India’s cultural pride
and unique opportuni-
ties’, said that 87 percent
of the country’s silver
reserves is in Udaipur
and Rajsamand dis-
tricts. “Along with this,
Rajasthan also has huge
deposits of minerals
like potash, zinc, petro-
leum, copper, gypsum,
limestone, etc., which
have huge opportunities
for investment in min-
ing operations. The
State Government is
ready to give full coop-
eration to the investors
with transparency to
work in these areas. Ra-
jasthan is no longer just
a desert state.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot has de-
cided to provide 10 kg
of wheat per person
and one kg of pulses
per family free of cost
to the 4 lakh 14 thou-
sand needy families
facing economic crisis
due to Covid-19 pan-
demic. Gehlot has ap-
proved a proposal to
provide Rs 37.74 crore
from the Chief Minis-
ter’s Assistance Fund
in this regard.
It is noteworthy that
the Chief Minister had
given instructions to
provide food security
to such destitute and
needy people who are
facing livelihood crisis
and who need food se-
curity due to Corona
pandemic and are de-
prived of previous sur-
vey due to any reasons.
On this instruction of
the Chief Minister,
over 15 lakh people of 4
lakh 14 thousand 303
families registered in
the re-survey conduct-
ed during July 22 to Au-
gust 15 through the
Food and Civil Supplies
Department.
Meanwhile, CM Ge-
hlot has also approved
the proposal to allocate
120 bighas of land on
token money for the es-
tablishment of addi-
tional Krishi Vigyan
Kendra in Pali district.
Gehlot has given ap-
proval to allot 82.18
bighasof landinRaipur
village and 37.02 bighas
in Lucky Talab village
for establishment of
this center affiliated to
Agricultural Universi-
ty, Jodhpur. With the
decision of the CM, ad-
ditional Krishi Vigyan
Kendra will be estab-
lished in Pali district,
through which farmers
of this region will be
able to adopt modern
and beneficial farming
techniques.
Bhawar S Charan
Kota: Lok Sabha Speak-
er Om Birla, who is on
visit to Kota-Bundi, con-
ducted a public hearing
at the camp office in
Shakti Nagar on Mon-
day and heard the griev-
ances of people.
Whilefollowingsocial
distancing and other
protocols,theLokSabha
Speaker listened care-
fully to problems and
complaints and gave in-
structions to concerned
officials from the spot.
Birla also took feed-
back from the people
about corona situation,
status of crops, pest out-
breaks, availability of
drinking water etc.
People from rural ar-
eas said that due to in-
sufficient rainfall, crops
have suffered damage.
Birla asked the local
workers to do an assess-
ment in the area.
He also asked the
workers to spread
awareness about covid
guidelines and to en-
courage villagers to fol-
low them to prevent the
spread of coronavirus.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Father of the
Nation Mahatma Gan-
dhiwastheharbingerof
several civilian move-
mentsstartedforthebet-
terment of the people. It
would thus be prudent
that, yet again when the
safety of people is on the
line due to Corona, a
mass movement is start-
ed to protect the people
of Corona virus from
infectingthemselvesand
others. Chief Minister
AshokGehlothasdirect-
ed that in Rajasthan, the
massmovementtosensi-
tizepeopleonhealthpro-
tocolswillbeginonOcto-
ber 2,birth anniversary
of Mahatma Gandhi.
Under the leadership
of Chief MinisterAshok
Gehlot,amessagewillbe
given to the common
people to follow the rule
of wearing masks, keep-
ing proper distance and
avoiding crowded areas.
Gehlottookthisdecision
atahighlevelmeetingat
the CMR on Monday.
“Department of Local
Self Government will be
the nodal department of
this awareness cam-
paign,butitincludesthe
departments of Medical
and Health, Education,
Youth Affairs, Police,
MP, MLAs etc. as well as
youth, volunteers The
movement will be con-
ducted in Gandhian
way,” Gehlot said.
Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: FICCI, Aditya
Birla group CSR centre
for excellence along
with Plan India gave
7000 PPE kits for distri-
bution in Ajmer,
Udaipur and Jaipur dis-
tricts to the health min-
ister Dr Raghu Sharma
at his residence on
Monday.
Health minister
Sharma thanked the
private organisations
for their contribution
during the epidemic
and appealed to other
private organisations to
also come forward to
help the govt initiative
against coronavirus. He
said, help contributed
by the private organisa-
tions will help the state
government to reduce
the impact of corona.
2,500 PPE kits have
been given to CMHO
(Jaipur I) while the rest
will be sent to Ajmer
and Udaipur. Naresh
Joshi (FICCI), Bharat
Singh) Aditya Birla
group) and Fateh Singh
(Plan India) along with
health department offi-
cials were present on
the occasion.
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: Former CM
Vasundhara raje re-
turned to the city for
the first time after
being re-appointed
the National Vice
President of BJP. She
was ceremoniously
welcomed by the
BJYM office bearers
and workers at her
13, civil lines resi-
dence while congrat-
ulating her on the
re-appointment. Raje
had been on Delhi
visit for last few days.
Former minister
Yunus Khan also re-
turned to the city af-
ter his Delhi visit on
Monday. Khan had
been in Delhi to cel-
ebrate his son’s
birthday along with
his family. Yunus
Khan came along
with the former CM.
Birla holds public hearing,lends
an ear to grievances of people
4.14 lakh families in need will
get free food grains, courtesy CM
Health Min thanks pvt orgs
for donating 7,000 PPE kits
Raje gets grand welcome
on return to Jaipur
Civil movement can stop Corona
spread, says Chief Minister
Gehlot to review ACB today!
CM Ashok Gehlot, Shanti Dhariwal, Govind Singh Dotasara, Mahesh Joshi, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Rajeeva Swarup, Bhaskar A
Sawant, Pawan Arora, Kuldeep Ranka, Gaurav Goyal, during the inaugration of RHB’s ‘Apni Shop-Apna Vyapar’ scheme.
Major opportunities in mining of potash, zinc,
petroleum, gypsum, limestone in the state
Naveen Sharma
Jaipur: A day before
retirement of DG
(ACB) Dr Alok Trip-
athi, the Chief Minis-
ter will be holding a
review meeting of the
performance of ACB
at his 8 Civil Lines
residence this noon,
in the presence of
Chief Secretary Ra-
jeeva Swarup, Princi-
pal secretary (Home)
Abhay Kumar and DG
ACB Dr. Alok Tripathi
himself.
Looking to a out-
standing perfor-
mance of Dr Tripathi
during his more than
four year long ten-
ure, a generous and
motivating Gehlot is
likely to publicly ap-
preciate the perfor-
mance of Dr Tripathi
to implement the
chief minister’s anti
corruption agenda.
After CM’s VC, Dr
Tripathi is likely to ad-
dress a state level ACB
review of the entire
field staff posted at
district and divisional
headquarters.
477 PENDING
PROMOTIONS GET
RAGHU’S NOD
Health minister Dr Raghu
Sharma approved the
pending promotions of
477 doctors. He approved
the DACP process re-
quired for promotion after
disposing of many matters
related to DACP of doc-
tors. The doctors had been
demanding DACP. He gave
instructions for remaining
cases, still due for DACP.
CM Ashok Gehlot
Om Birla
Dr Alok Tripathi
Dr Raghu Sharma with the representatives of the pvt organisations.
1681 shops and plots will be available for
sale in 13 cities of the state
For Raj cadre IAS, IPS and IFS officers,
RHB’s AIS Residency to be constructed in
Sector-17 of Pratap Nagar, Jaipur
CM Ashok Gehlot during the webinar
CM LAUDS RHB COMMISSIONER ARORA
WEBINAR ON THE TOPIC OF SILVER MINING
COVID-19
UPDATE
RAJASTHAN
1,456
DEATHS
1,30,971
CONFIRMED CASES
GUJARAT
3,431 DEATHS 1,34,623 CASES
DELHI
5,272 DEATHS 2,73,098 CASES
WORLD
10,04,613
DEATHS
3,34,66,682
CONFIRMED CASES
INDIA
61,37,952
CONFIRMED CASES
96,276
DEATHS
MAHARASHTRA
35,751 DEATHS 13,51,153 CASES
TAMIL NADU
9,383 DEATHS 5,86,397 CASES
KARNATAKA
8,641 DEATHS 5,82,458 CASES
10. JAIPUR, TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
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remember my first visit
to a snow-clad moun-
tain in Jammu Kash-
mir, it was somewhere
in Gulmarg and I was
barely 12 years when I
insisted on tumbling
down the snowy hill screaming
YAHOO! The mountains have
always attracted our movie pro-
ducers and many a hummable
song has been shot amid the
pristine white snow as a back-
drop for the hot romance of the
couple to date. There are many
‘snowy songs’, today we will
touch upon a few that remain
my all-time favourites.
Shammi Kapoor going YAHOO
is naturally an all-time favourite
with Kapoor bringing his sheer
physical energy to the song ably
joined by the petite Saira Banu.
Tujhe Dekha Tujhe Chaha is a
song I liked because of Vijyanthi-
mala she looked beautiful in the
saree, Uttam Kumar does his bit
and I liked it that she dresses
warmly for like Rajshree when
Shammi sings Meri mohabbat
Jawan Rahegi, in a much soft-
er romantic mood than Ya-
hoo!
Gun Guna Rahein Hain
Bhanvrein with Rajesh
Khanna and Sharmila
Tagore is another most hum-
mable song, with Rafi and Asha
along with S D Bur-
man and Anand Bakshi- things
cant better and Khanna was at
his nuance best. Though frankly,
in a lovely chiffon saree Sharmi-
la looked a tad underdressed! I
adored the flowers in Palkon Ke
Peeche Se Kya Tumne Keh Dala
Ahain with Sharmila and Rajen-
dra Kumar which ends among
snowy slopes.
I was always rather amazed, as
a child that the heroines did not
feel the cold prancing about in
sarees/westerns without the
merest hint of a woollen clothing
but with age came the wisdom of
the saleability of the female
form and hushed my queries.
Ye Kahan Aa Gaye Hum
smoulders with reel and
real-life chemistry as
we move through
snow, tulips,
lakes and different rich locales
but one has eyes only for Am-
itabh and Rekha.
Zara Sa Jhoom Lun Mein is
cute. I loved the inebriated Kajol
jumping in the snow and run-
ning helter-skelter, trying to
smooch Shahrukh. The Khan
aces his romantic look with
Aishwarya in Humko Hamin Se
Chura Lo but there is something
about him Gerua that is unfor-
gettable. Maybe it’s his chemis-
try with Kajol, the mind-bog-
gling colours or locales of the
song and then a lot of credit goes
to Arijit. In recent years, nobody
does romantic songs quite like
Arijit. Whatever, Gerua does it
right!
Ishq Wala Love stays with me
for the bare tree with pink flow-
ers and a boat full of sunflowers
with Alia Bhatt amid the snow-
flakes.
Get YOUR song ready and
come winters, let’s hope corona
eases off and we get a chance to
tumble down a
snowy slope
shouting
YAHOO!
YEH HASEEN
VAADIYAAN!
I
Winters are coming and we hope that the
Corona pandemic will slow down by the end
of the year and we can think of a vacation
amid the mountains, in preparation...
City First drifts down the slope of songs
shot amid the snow-clad mountains!
ANITA HADA
anita.hada@firstindianews.com