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THE EDITORIAL PAGE MEA REMINDS CHINA OF MOSCOW PACT ON DISENGAGEMENT

Harsimrat quits
PANDEMICLESSONS
FORFEDERALISM
BY SRINIVAS CHOKKAKULA China’swordsandactionsdon’tmatch,no Cabinet, says
powercanstoppatrollingatLAC:Rajnath
PAGE 10

WORLD can’t be party to

Says one can start a war but ending it is not in one’s hands; agrees to suggestion to brief party leaders
saidthegovernmentwantstoas-
anti-farmer laws
MANOJ C G &
SHUBHAJIT ROY
sure 130 crore people of the
country that it will not let India
After Shiv Sena, another old BJP ally
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 “bow down” its head. At the revolts; Lok Sabha passes Bills
same time, he said, it does not
UNDERLINING THAT there is a wanttobendanyoneelse’shead.
AS U.S. OFFICIAL mismatch between what China “Yudh ki shuruat toh hamari LIZ MATHEW
VISITS TAIWAN, says and does, Defence Minister haathmeinhotihai,lekinuskaant NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17
Rajnath Singh told Rajya Sabha nahinhotahai.Aurmujhekaibaar
CHINA WARNS OF ThursdaythatIndiawillnotback tajjub hota hai ki shanti ka yeh UNIONMINISTERHarsimratKaur Harsimrat
CONSEQUENCES down from taking “any big and sandesh jis dharti se poore vishwa Badal, an MP of the Shiromani Kaur Badal
PAK TO ELEVATE tough step” in its interest, and ko mila hai, us dharti ki shanti Akali Dal (SAD), one of the BJP's
that there will be no change in meinvighnadaalnekeprayaskiye oldest allies, resigned from the
GILGIT-BALTISTAN TO the “traditional and well- jaate hain (One can start a war Narendra Modi Cabinet on
PROVINCE: REPORT defined” patrolling pattern of but ending it is not in one’s Thursday, publicly criticising the EXPLAINED
PAGE 14 Indian soldiers along the Line of hands. Many a time, I am sur- farm policy of the government. SIMPLY PUT
Actual Control in Ladakh. prisedthatattemptsaremadeto The SAD made a dramatic
WHY IS SHIROMANI
EXPRESS NETWORK “No power in the world can disrupt peace in the very land announcement of her resigna-
AKALIDAL OPPOSED
stop Indian soldiers from which gave the world the mes- tion in Lok Sabha, protesting
DHAKA CONVEYS patrolling,” he said. sage of peace),” he said. against The Farmers' Produce TOTHE FARM BILLS?
Making a statement in the Citingoperationalreasonsfor Trade and Commerce PAGE 13
‘DEEP CONCERN’ HouseonthesituationinLadakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in the Rajya Sabha not giving detailed replies to (Promotion andFacilitation) Bill,
OVER INDIA’SONION two days after he made a similar on Thursday. ANI questionsfrommembers,Singh, 2020 and the Farmers'
EXPORT BAN statement in Lok Sabha, Singh CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 (Empowerment and Protection)
IN PARLIAMENT
PAGE 6 Agreement on Price Assurance
MINISTER: MSP
and Farm Services Bill 2020,
which have brought farmers in STAYS,FARMERS TO
Punjab and Haryana out on the HAVE FULL FREEDOM
Insurance regulator Rs 750 for burnt restaurant, Rs 8,500 for store: streets. The Opposition has ac-
cused the Centre of “destroying
the federal structure” by bring-
TOSELLPRODUCE
PAGE 5

wants pandemic risk Delhi Assembly panel flags gaps in riot relief ing the Bills in Parliament.
“I have resigned from Union
Cabinet in protest against anti-
in a four-page resignation letter
addressed to the Prime Minister.

pool for informal, SOURAV ROY BARMAN

NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17
husband Moshin Ali was killed.
Hischarredbodywasfoundme-
tresfromtheKhajuriKhaspolice
Shahnawaz, Mohsin's elder
brother, said.
Over six months after the ri-
farmer ordinances and legisla-
tion. Proud to stand with farm-
ers as their daughter & sister,”
“I am proud that today I am
able in my humble way to take
thatlegacyforward...Thatlegacy

low-income sectors
station. On Tuesday, she gave ots, the Delhi government faces Food Processing Industries willnotchange,comewhatmay.
AFTER HIS small restaurant in birth to a baby girl, who is in the charges of delays, mismatches Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal The trust in farmers placed in us
Gokulpuri was vandalised and ICU at a Hapur hospital. “The andfalserejectionsoveritscom- wrote on Twitter. “The SAD can- is sacred to us.”
looted during the Northeast compensationwaswithheld be- pensation disbursal to victims not be a party to anything anti- Harsimrattoldreportersout-
Delhi riots, Usman Ali sought cause we didn’t have Moshin’s and their families. farmer,” she said. sideParliamentthatherresigna-
GEORGE MATHEW Rs 3 lakh in damages from the death certificate… and that was On Wednesday, a Delhi “My decision symbolises my tion was not a “sacrifice”, only “a
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 17 state government. He was paid Usman Ali (right) sought delayed because of the lock- Assembly panel on welfare of party's vision, its glorious legacy natural and normal course for
Rs 750. Rs 3 lakh as compensation, down. Now, we have submitted minorities asked the state rev- and its commitment to go to any any proud Akali Dal member”.
AMID THE Covid outbreak, the Days into her pregnancy, on got Rs 750. Sourav Roy Barman all the documents, but we still enue department to review at extent to safeguard the interests Despite the resignation and
Insurance Regulatory and February 25, Gulzeb Parveen’s haven’t got any compensation," CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 of the farmers,” Harsimrat said CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) is considering a recom-
Extra cover
mendation by its working com- needed STAY ON TV SHOW

If you want guidelines,

mittee to set up a pandemic risk
pool to address losses and dis- TWO SIMILAR pools, to
placementcausedtotheinformal cover terrorism and nu-

regulate digital media

andlow-incomesectorsincaseof clear risks, are already in
anothersimilarcrisisinthefuture. place. For the pandemic
According to a report by the pool, though, the
committee,thepoolwouldcater
toaround4croreMSMEworkers
and lead to a capacity of
Rs 2,000 crore that in-
surance firms would be
able to chip in may not
first, Centre tells SC
Rs 75,000 crore initially, includ- be enough as a signifi- In an affidavit, the Ministry of
ing the provision of a govern- cant chunk of the 4 crore EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Information and Broadcasting
ment backstop. This could peak MSME employees NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 added that however “if” the
to Rs 1.23 lakh crore later, with would need this cover. “Court decides to undertake the
thebackstopbeingtriggeredonly THECENTREurgedtheSupreme exercise, it should first be under-
in the event of a pandemic and if CourtonThursdaytoconfinethe takenwithregardtodigitalmedia
the payouts exceed capacity. Under such pools, insurance matter regarding the Sudarshan as there already exist sufficient
While around Rs 2,000 crore firms — with or withoutsupport TVshowBindassBol,whosetele- framework and judicial pro-
could be expected from insurers from governments — come to- cast had earlier been stayed by nouncementswithregardtoelec-
andreinsurers,asubstantialpart gether to provide protection for the Court, to the channel alone, tronic media and print media”.
of the pool should come from payouts to people and compa- and not lay down “any further A three-judge Bench of the
the government in the form of nies in the wake of catastrophic guidelines” for the entire main- Court had on September 15
the backstop, the report said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 stream media. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

BUSINESS AS USUAL Court rejects CBI closure report, orders case

BY UNNY against Shourie for hotel sale by Atal Govt
HC said no proof... my name not in original CBI FIR: Shourie
DEEP MUKHERJEE Arun
JAIPUR, SEPTEMBER 17 Shourie; the
Laxmi Vilas
A SPECIAL CBI Court in Palace Hotel
Rajasthan's Jodhpur district has (far left). PTI
ordered the registration of a
criminal case against former
UnionministerArunShourie,re- findingoffencessuchascriminal sale of a luxury hotel in
tiredIASofficerPradipBaijaland conspiracy and cheating proved Rajasthan dating back to 2002.
three others, after prima facie against them in relation to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

A workshop in a lane cuts glass to stand

between Delhi power corridors, virus
PAGE 1 standing as barriers between
ANCHOR them and visitors. For want of a
better name, the sheets have
been dubbed “sneeze guards”.
ParliamentbeganitsMonsoon
AVISHEK G DASTIDAR Session this week armed with
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 similarsheets,thoughmadefrom
polycarbonateandselectedbythe
A COMPUTER-operated laser- CentralPublicWorksDepartment
cutting machine, the size of a keeping in mind the building’s
table-tennis board, is silently heritage furniture. “The idea was
embossing the State Emblem of to provide a partition between
India on a transparent acrylic MPs. The sheets are light-weight,
sheet in a corner of a workshop with minimum alteration to the
in the industrial neighbourhood furniture,”aseniorParliamentof-
of Delhi’s Paharganj. In the un- At the workshop in Paharganj, New Delhi, where the acrylic ficial says.
seasonal September afternoon shields are manufactured. Tashi Tobgyal At the Paharganj Om Sai
heat, five-six labourers, all in Plastic workshop, it’s one man’s
their 20s, are busy making sign- job and one hour’s work as a 5-
boards, glow signs and name on acrylic sheets. avirus, the desks of the high and mm-thick acrylic sheet is cut
plates — and, increasingly these As the work of the govern- mightyintheCapitalhavestarted into a 2 ft X 3 ft rectangle with
days,puttingtheAshokasymbol ment goes on amidst the coron- sportingthesetransparentsheets, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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Delhi riot relief rejected cases, they said it can- The Special CBI Court order in2002againstareservepriceof

‘China’s words, actions don’t match’

not be done in the absence of saysShourieandBaijal“criminally Rs 6.12 crore. The hotel had
least 30 cases of mismatch be- any government direction. conspiredwithBharatHotelsLtd, posted provisional losses of Rs
tween claims and amount sanc- “If all the cases are reopened Ashish Guha, Managing Director 1.07 crore in 2000-01.
tioned,and50casesof rejections. for review, we will effectively be ofM/sLzardIndiaLtd,andKantilal WritingforTheIndianExpress
So far, out of 3,200 claims, opening a Pandora’s box. That is responding to a query from He said while the Chinese said,“eveninGalwanValley,our External Affairs, recalling the KaramseyVikamseyofM/sKanti soon after the CBI filed the FIR in
over900havebeenrejected.The simply not practical. The panel Congress leader and former side has taken the position that soldiers are now not allowed to agreement reached at the Karamsey & Co to cause the 2014, Shourie had said, “to earn
government has cleared 1,526 should fix the criteria and some Defence Minister AK Antony, thesituationshouldbehandled patrol at the point which they Moscow meeting between Government of India a wrongful grossrevenueof Rs2croreayear,
claims and disbursed compen- cases can be reviewed accord- said there will be no change in in a responsible manner and usedtopatrolearlier.InPangong External Affairs Minister S loss of Rs 244,63,91,000 and also thehotelspentRs3crore—aloss
sation amounting to around Rs ingly. After all, the claims were the patrolling pattern of Indian peaceandtranquilityshouldbe area also, in more than 8 km of JaishankarandChineseForeign caused a wrongful gain to the of 51 per cent… Eleven parties
19 crore. However, gaps in sev- reviewed by teams of SDMs and soldiers. ensured as per bilateral agree- area,theyarenotallowingusto MinisterWangYionSeptember tune of the same amount to self expressed an initial interest in
eral cases between compensa- PWDofficials.Theentireexercise With all Opposition parties mentsandprotocol,itis“appar- patrol the area which we used 10, and also the September 4 or others”. It names Jyotsna Suri, bidding for the hotel. Five of
tion claimed and the amount cannot be doubted,” said a sen- backing the government, the ent from Chinese activities that topatrol.Previously,weusedto meetingbetweenRajnathSingh Director,BharatHotels,asamong them carried out thorough due
approvedpromptedthepanelto ior revenue department official. Congress, which had been de- their words don’t match their patroluptoFingerPoint8.Now, and Chinese Defence Minister the accused. diligence.Suchwasthecondition
take up the matter, sources said. manding a full-fledged discus- actions”. we are not allowed to patrol up Wei Fenghe, said: “There was The CBI had registered an FIR of the property that four of the
“CM aur deputy CM ke direc- Insurance panel sionontheissue,didnotregister “A case in point is that even to it. After these negotiations, I consensus between the on August 13, 2014, in relation to five dropped out.”
tions ke bavjood koi kaam hua hi events, such as floods, earth- any protest. when the discussions were go- would like to request the gov- Ministers of the two sides, dur- the 2002 sale of the hotel, then a The hotel is now among Raj-
nahi... (work on compensation quakes or a pandemic. Singh also agreed to ing on, the Chinese side again ernment that our Army and ingboththemeetings,thatthere heritage property of the ITDC asthan’s top heritage properties.
did not get done despite direc- “Indianreinsurer,GICRe,who Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu’s engagedinprovocativemilitary ITBP must be allowed to patrol should be quick and complete (Indian Tourism Development
tions from the CM and Deputy has experience of managing the suggestion that he consider manoeuvres on the night of up to the points which we used disengagement of troops from Corporation),toBharatHotelsfor A workshop
CM),” Haji Yunus, AAP’s Mus- IndianTerrorismPoolandIndian meetingsomeprominentlead- August 29-30 in an attempt to to patrol.” allfrictionareasalongthe LAC.” Rs7.52crore.TheFIRsaidthedeal the Ashok stambh embossed to-
tafabad MLA and a member of Nuclear pool in India, should be ers in his chamber and brief change the status quo in the Responding to these re- “Both sides should, there- hadresultedinalossofRs143.48 wardsthebase.Anothersheet,of
thepanel,toldtopofficialsof the an apt administrator for the pro- them on the ground situation. South Bank area of Pangong marks, Singh said “our former fore, focus on easing tensions croretothegovernment.Initsor- width 10 mm, is cut into a stand
districtandrevenuedepartment posedpandemicpool,”thepanel, “They are all our people. lake. But yet again, timely and Defence Minister who I respect in the friction areas by refrain- der, the court said the CBI probe to hold the rectangle, which can
during the meeting of the panel headed by IRDAI Executive Everybodyisinterestedincoun- firmactionsbyourarmedforces a lot, Antony Saab, has talked ing from any actions that may had found that the property was then be placed on a table.
Wednesday. Director, Suresh Mathur, said. try's unity, safety and security, along the LAC prevented such about the patrolling pattern. lead to an escalation in the sit- worthRs58.87croreandtheland “The client sends the design
AgroundcheckbyTheIndian “There are apprehensions irrespective of parties. They attemptsfromsucceeding.Asis And he has said that China is uation. This requires strict ad- on which it stood of the value of onWhatsApp.Wefeeditintothe
Express revealed some of these aboutCovid.It’strulyaglobalpan- shouldalsoknowtheactualpo- clear from these events, the stoppingIndiafrompatrolling.I herence to the bilateral agree- Rs193crore,amountingto“loss” machine,”saysAkshayRajput,25.
alleged discrepancies. Take, for demic,” said IRDAI chairman sition. So, in fitness of things, if Chinese actions reflect a disre- wanttomakeitclear:thatisthe ments and protocols and not of Rs 244 crore. Not really impressed at the link
example, the case of Usman Ali, Subhash Khuntia. the government briefs them gard of our various bilateral reason for the fight, the faceoff. making unilateral attempts to In the initial FIR, the CBI did that now connects him to the
whose eatery in Gokulpuri is on According to the panel, the also, taking them into confi- agreements,” he said. Asfarasthepatrollingpatternis change the status quo," MEA notincludeShourie,onlynaming power corridors of the country,
rentedspace.“WhenIvisitedthe first phase would cover income dence,thenthatwillbeanideal “Asof now,theChineseside concerned, the patrolling pat- spokesperson Anurag Baijal, Guha of New Delhi-based just 5 km away, he adds, “We are
SDM office, I was told the com- losses due to non-damage busi- situation,” Venkaiah Naidu told hasmobilizedalargenumberof tern is traditional as also well- Srivastava said. financial advisory firm Lzard not bothered about what the
pensation had been transferred ness interruption caused by a fu- Singh after his statement. troops and armaments along defined. No power in the world “As Defence Minister has India Ltd, asset valuer Vikamsey sheetsarecalledandwherethey
to my account. But my bank ture pandemic and subsequent Earlier,theDefenceMinister the LAC as well as in the depth canstopIndia’sjawansfrompa- stated categorically in the ofKantiKaramsey&Co.,andNew go.” The unit has so far delivered
statement showed that I had lockdownforupto10employees briefed the House on how and areas. There are several friction trolling.Oursoldiershavemade Parliament on15thSeptember Delhi-basedBharatHotels,apart 50 such sheets.
been given Rs 750,” he said. perenterprise—withmaximum when the present crisis began, areas in Eastern Ladakh includ- sacrificesforthis.Andtherewill as well as earlier today, we are from “other unknown govern- Fewlabourerswearmasksat
Pictures taken in the after- reimbursement of Rs 6,500 per andthediplomaticandmilitary ingGogra,KongkaLaandNorth be no change in the patrolling committed to a peaceful dia- mentofficers/officialsandprivate theworkshop,occupyingthefirst
mathof theviolenceonFebruary employee per month for three steps taken by India to resolve andSouthBanksofthePangong pattern.” loguewiththeChineseside,in- persons”, under Sections of the floorof athree-storeybuilding.A
24showAli’srestaurantstripped months or easing of a lockdown, the issue. Lake. In response to China’s ac- Referring to Singh’s state- cluding through diplomatic Prevention of Corruption Act. hand sanitiser dispenser hangs
bareoffurniture,ovensandother whichever is earlier. Singhsaidthe“situationthis tions,ourarmedforceshavealso ment that diplomatic and mili- andmilitarychannels,"hesaid. Later,initsfinalreport,theCBI on the wall but is hardly used.
items, and the floor strewn with As pandemic losses are cur- year is very different, both in made appropriate counter-de- tary engagements with the “The Chinese side should said it had not found enough ev- Covid-19, however, hangs
pieces of wood, plastic and pa- rently covered under health in- termsofscaleoftroopsinvolved ployments in these areas to en- Chinese are continuing, sincerely work with the Indian idence to launch prosecution in heavy in the air in this industrial
per. “Business is down to 40%. I surance products, a future out- and the number of friction surethatIndia’sbordersarefully Congress deputy leader Anand side for complete disengage- the disinvestment. However, it area, housing many small units
have not even been able to pay break may be covered under the points” but maintained that protected,” he said. Sharma said, “we hope that the ment at the earliest from all held that Kanti Karamsey & Co. like Om Sai Plastic, which have
rent to the landlord,” said Ali, pool in the second phase. In later India“remaincommittedtothe AntonyaskedSinghwhathe diplomaticchannelswillbeex- friction areas including hadfailedtodopropervaluation seen demand nosedive.
who stays with his wife, their phases, the coverage may be ex- peaceful resolution of the cur- meant when he promised the haustedfordisengagementand Pangong lake as well as de-es- and referred the matter to the “WearepitchingtoSecretary-
two children, and his mother. panded to the life insurance seg- rent situation”. House that the “government de-escalation”andasked“dowe calation in border areas in ac- Ministry of Finance. levelofficersatthemoment.They
Around 5 km away is Gamri ment.“Thepoolpremiumcollec- HesaidsinceApril,Indiahad willdoeverythingtoprotectthe understand that restoration of cordance with the bilateral Subsequently,theCBIhadnot aretheoneswithasteadystream
village, where Zarar Ali runs a tion is proposed to be invested in noticed a “build-up of troops sovereignty of the country”. the status quo ante will remain agreements and protocols on filedanychargesheetandinstead of visitors all day,” says Prashant
poultryshop.Theareawitnessed governmentsecuritiesorspecifi- andarmaments”bytheChinese “You have to clarify. non-negotiableandthefinalob- maintenance of peace and submitted a closure report, re- Shukla, the owner of Hybrid
violence through the day on cally designed bonds by the gov- sideintheborderareasadjacent Sovereignty means status quo jective for India.” tranquility in border areas. We questing the court to accept it. Proximity, which has given the
February 25. In a complaint to ernment,” the panel said. toEasternLadakh.InearlyMay, ante as in the middle of April. Singh replied that the posi- hope the Chinese side will Shouriesaid,“Itispertinentto contract for the sneeze guards to
New Usmanpur police station, The committee estimated hesaid,theChinesetookaction That is the meaning of protect- tiononstatusquohasbeenclar- strictlyrespectandobservethe notethatnoneof thesedecisions avendor,whointurngetsthejob
Zarar, who pays a monthly rent that the total payout will be Rs tohinderthenormal,traditional ing the sovereignty,” Antony ified in his statement and that Line of Actual Control and not of disinvestment were taken by done at Om Sai Plastic.
of Rs6,000fortheshop,listedhis 78,000crore,ifit'sassumedthat4 patrolling pattern of Indian said. he has taken “cognizance” of make further attempts to uni- me or by any officials personally Excited at his two-year-old
losses: two gates made of alu- croreemployeesandworkersget troopsintheGalwanValleyarea, Stating that Galwan Valley what Sharma said. laterallychangestatusquo,”he butbytheCabinetCommitteeon Delhi-based start-up that spe-
minium, one aluminium board, benefitsandthepayoutislimited which resulted in a faceoff. was never a disputed site, he Meanwhile, the Ministry of said. Disinvestment headed by then cialises in augmented reality
geyser,abugkillermachine,agas to a maximum of three months. PrimeMinisterShriABVajpayee productsgettingthisopportunity
cylinder, a steel sink, a wash Similar pandemic pool pro- and which comprised the then to“introduceourselvestopolicy-
basin, two weighing scales, 40
chickens, Rs 45,000 in cash and
anotherRs10,000inachild’sgul-
posalsacrosstheworld,including
intheUS,FranceandGermany,are
in various stages of approval and
Harsimrat Badal resigns over farm Bills Finance Minister among others.
Also,alothasbeenfloatedabout
thevaluationandthereseemsto
makers”,Shuklasayshehasbeen
fielding queries since the first
sheet was put up on the table of
lak. For all the damage, the shop hinge heavily on governmental protests, however, the two Bills ise to abolish the Agriculture not be part of the government Sukhbir said. beamisunderstanding.Thereisa CabinetSecretaryRajivGaubaon
ownerhasbeenpaidRs8,500by supportintheformofabackstop. —which seek to replace ProduceMarketingCommittees when we have decided to vote “As a state we have always difference when an establish- July 1, he says.
the government, records show. Ordinances passed in June– (APMCs) in its manifesto ahead against a Bill which was the de- focused on the farming sector. ment is evaluated when it has ApartfromGauba,thesneeze
AsifAli,whorunsarestaurant Media guidelines were passed in Lok Sabha by of the 2019 elections, the cision of the Cabinet. There is a We ushered in the Green closed and when it is running guards are being used by the
adjoining Zarar’s poultry shop, restrained Sudarshan TV from voice vote. Treasury benches applauded. collective responsibility for the Revolution and we fed the na- with all its losses and liabilities.” PrincipalSecretarytothePM,PK
said rioters looted valuables of airing the remaining episodes of Agriculture Minister When Agrawal tried to cut decisionsoftheUnionCabinet,” tion. Fifty per cent of the food- Questioning the arrest war- Mishra, Secretaries of Defence,
over Rs 3 lakh before setting the theshow,whichithadbeenpro- Narendra Singh Tomar assured Sukhbir short and called Gujral said. graincomesfromPunjabandit's rantagainsthim,Shouriesaid,“A Finance, Food, MSME, the NITI
eatery on fire. “The mob even moting with the hashtag the House that the proposed YSRCP's Lavu Krishna Harsimrat's resignation is a a state that is 100 per cent irri- Supreme Court judgment states Aayog CEO, and others. External
torchedmynewScootyworthRs UPSC_Jihad. While doing so, it legislation would “liberate” Devarayalu to speak, BJP MPs major setback for the BJP. It has gated,”hesaid.TheBills,hesaid, thattherehastobeasummons,a Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s
75,000. Yet, all that the govern- had hinted that it plans to set up farmers. He rejected the appre- pleaded with the Chair to give lostanothertraditionalallyafter would “spell doomsday” for bailable warrant and if both of deskalsohasone,thoughitisnot
ment paid me was Rs 70,000. I a panel to suggest guidelines for hension that the new laws him more time. theShivSena,whichbrokeaway Punjab's farmers. thesearedisregarded,thenanon- supplied by his firm.
got nothing for the Scooty as I electronic media. would lead to the dismantling As Sukhbir continued his lastyear.TheBJPfoughtaccusa- Gujral pointed out that the bailablearrestwarrantshouldbe Rajiv Khanna of Studio KIA, a
could not produce its remains. It In its affidavit, the Centre said of the minimum support price speech, Speaker Om Birla took tionsofbeinganti-farmerwhen SADcouldnotpossiblysupport issued in serious cases.” Gurgaon-based company, has
lies buried under heaps of scrap the issue of “balancing between (MSP) regime. theChair.Sukhbirspokeagainst it pushed the land acquisition these Bills. “Our cadre is farm- Baijal said he had no com- provided similar sheets to Rail
vehiclesatBhajanpurapolicesta- journalistfreedomandresponsi- “Contract will not lead to the Congress again, and then Bill; it will now have to counter ers.TheBillshavecreatedaper- mentstoofferasof now,andwas Bhavan, including the office of
tion,” he said. ble journalism is a field already takingoverofland.Ifthecorpo- said: “I would like to make an similar charges again. ceptionthattheyareagainstthe reviewing the documents. The Minister Piyush Goyal. “We are
Amongthecasestakenupby occupied either by the statutory ratesbuildsomeinfrastructure, announcement that Harsimrat The impression that the farmers. Ninety per cent of the Lalit’s communication officials actuallyanarchitecturefirm.But
the panel was that of one Vinod provisionsmadebyParliamentor itwillonlybenefitthefarmerin Kaurwouldresignfromthegov- party is a poor coalition man- farmers are on the streets, how did not take calls. thanks to the pandemic, we are
Joshi of Yamuna Vihar subdivi- by judgments” of the Court. the end... Licence, Inspector Raj ernment in protest.” Before the ager comes just ahead of the can we support the Bills?” he Rejecting the CBI’s closure designing these products. What
sion, who had sought Rs 30,000 Hence,thegovernmentsaid,“the will end, corruption will end, Treasury benches and Bihar election, which will be asked. report,theSpecialCBICourtsaid do you do when you don’t have
for damage to his commercial present petition be confined to and farmers and traders will be Opposition MPs realised what fought amid increasing unem- Meanwhile, in Punjab, the offences under Section 120 B of an office room large enough for
property and who, according to only one channel, namely freetobuyandsellanywherein washappening,Sukhbirwalked ployment, the crisis of mi- Congress MLA from Fatehgarh the IPC (criminal conspiracy) social distancing? That’s where
the list drawn up by the district Sudarshan TV, and this Hon'ble the country,” Tomar said. out of the House with grants,andtheeconomicslow- Sahib, Kuljit Singh Nagra, re- readwithSection420(cheating) thisproductcomesinhandy,”he
administration, had received Rs Court may not undertake the ex- Earlier,astheSADwaitedfor Harsimrat. He returned later to down. signed from the Vidhan Sabha aswellasSectionsof thePreven- says, adding that their clients in-
574 as relief. However, when erciseof layingdownanyfurther its chance to speak on the Bills, takepartinthedebatethatwas BothSukhbirandHarsmirat toprotestthepassageoftheBills tion of Corruption Act had been clude a multinational pharma-
contactedonthenumberagainst guidelines with or without ap- theBJP'sfloormanagersseemed still continuing. said she had tried her best to in Lok Sabha. proved against Shourie and the ceutical company and banks.
his name in the government list, pointmentofanAmicusoracom- to have no idea of what was TheSADhadissuedathree- persuadetheCabinettotakethe “Idonotwanttocontinueto others. “When the investigating Shukla says orders had come
Joshisaidhehadreceivedthefull mittee of persons as Amicus”. coming. line whip to its MPs in both actualstakeholders,thefarmers, beinVidhanSabhaasanelected officerhadacceptedintheprobe as a godsend, with Hybrid
compensation amount. Itfurtherargued,“(the)situa- Senior BJP leader Rajendra Houses to vote against the Bills, on board and allay their appre- representative on a day when that Laxmi Vilas Hotel was un- Proximitynotgettingmuchwork
The government had prom- tion in each case shall have to be AgrawalwasinthechairasSAD if there was voting. hensions. “The Minister ex- Lok Sabha passes Bills that dervalued, then he should have post- lockdown. It had also
ised up to Rs 5 lakh as compen- decided on a case-to-case basis president and Ferozpur MP “Its quite natural,” SAD's pressed her objections at every would ruin the farmers,” Nagra presented a chargesheet,” the pitchedtheconceptofaVR-based
sationincaseof damagetounin- and a broader exercise which is SukhbirSinghBadalstoodupto Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Gujral platform available to her. We told The Indian Express. court said. zoo to the National Zoological
sured commercial units, Rs 1 too general in nature is neither speak. As Sukhbir attacked the told The Indian Express, refer- havewrittenanumberofletters WITHKANCHANVASDEV, NotingthatShourieisassoci- Park,butthetendergotcancelled.
lakh in cases of “complete loot” warranted nor permissible”. Congress for including a prom- ringtotheresignation.“Wecan- to the concerned Minister,” CHANDIGARH atedwithjournalismandhasof- Shuklasaystheyhavegotqueries
of such units and Rs 50,000 in The government said that in tenspokenaboutthePrevention from the Army, the President’s
case of partial loot. theeventofthecourtproceeding of CorruptionAct,thejudgesaid, Guards and an order from the
However,duringthemeeting, withtheexercise,“thereisnojus- digital media has faster reach Bench led by Justice D Y that prima facie it had been Shouriesaidhewouldappeal “But despite that, he indulged in Vice-President’sSecretariat.
therevenuedepartmentofficials tification to confine this exercise fromwiderrangeof viewership/ Chandrachud had said the pur- proved that Shourie, during his againsttheorderintheRajasthan this activity, which shows his VivekShukla,the40-year-old
told the panel that the compen- only to mainstream electronic readership and has the potential poseoftheshowwasto“vilifythe tenureasDisinvestmentMinister High Court. Expressing surprise double personality.” owner of the Om Sai Plastic
sationpolicy“neededmoreclar- media”, and stressed the influ- tobecomeviralbecauseofseveral Muslimcommunity”,andadded in the Vajpayee government at over the charges being brought The court directed the workshop,sayspeoplearelearn-
ity, the absence of which is lead- ence of digital media. electronic applications”. Naming thatitmadestatements“inwan- the Centre, and Baijal, as the up after 18 years, he told The District Collector to ensure the ingtolivewiththevirus.“Someof
ing to a lot of confusion”. Media, it pointed out, “in- WhatsApp,TwitterandFacebook ton disregard of the truth”. Secretaryofthedepartment,had Indian Express, “The process of running of the hotel through an mylabourersleftfortheirvillages
“On the ground, a person cludes mainstream electronic among the apps, the Centre said, “abused their posts collectively disinvestmentwaschallengedin organisation of the government inthelockdown.Butnowallhave
claiming complete loot of say Rs media, mainstream print media “Considering the serious impact Hotel sale and independently” to cause a the Rajasthan High Court earlier of India with experience in the come back.”
3 lakh will get Rs 1 lakh. But if a aswellasaparallelmedianamely and the potential, it is desirable In an order dated September 15, loss Rs 244 crore to the govern- and the HC said there is no evi- same. Officialssayitisalittlediscon-
person says his shop was par- digital print media and digital that if this Hon'ble Court decides the court of Special CBI Judge ment of India in the sale. denceofanyundervaluation.The A five-star hotel, Laxmi Vilas certing but they are getting used
tially looted of Rs 6 lakh, he will web-based news portal and to undertake the exercise, it PooranKumarSharmarejecteda The court also directed the CBI too had closed the case say- wasoriginallyapalaceoftheerst- to the sneeze guards. “Some-
onlygetRs50,000.Thepolicyhas YouTubechannelsaswellas‘Over should first be undertaken with closure report filed by the CBI in DistrictCollector,Udaipur,totake ing there was no evidence of any while king of Udaipur Maharaja timesIpeekfromthesidestoget
been drafted in such a manner,” TheTop’(OTT)platforms…while regard to digital media…” the matter of the sale of Laxmi possession of the hotel, now wrongdoing. My name was not Fateh Singh, dating back to 1911. a good look at my visitors,” said
a senior official told the panel. in mainstream media [whether Initsorderstayingthetelecast Vilas Palace Hotel, Udaipur. known as The Lalit Laxmi Vilas there in the original FIR and we Finance Ministry records show an official.
When the panel asked offi- electronic or print], the publica- of the remaining episodes of Summoning all the accused via Palace, appointing the officer as have no idea how it has been the Central government sold FULLREPORTSON
cials if they had tried to review tion/telecastisaone-timeact,the Bindaas Bol, the Supreme Court arrest warrants, the court said the receiver of the property. added now.” 89.97%stakeinitforRs7.52crore www.indianexpress.com

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 TOTAL CASES HOSPITAL BEDS 14,963 7,971
2,34,701 VENTILATORS 1,247 484

*Total active cases

Daily cases Recoveries Deaths Tests

CORONAVIRUS Sep 16
Sep 17
4,473
4,432
3,313
3,587
33
38
62,593
60,014
IN THE CAPITAL Total 31,721* 1,98,103 4,877 23,69,592

Court grants bail to Narwal: SEEK DIRECTIONS TO CENTRE TO SET UP INQUIRY BY SITTING OR RETD JUDGES

‘Not seen inciting violence’ InmeetingwithPresident,oppn

partiesraisedoubtsonriotsprobe
The court also said the ac-
ANAND MOHAN J cused was booked in the UAPA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 case, “however, that case is un-
derspecificlegislationandinves-
A DELHI court Thursday granted tigated separately and thus will
bail to Pinjra Tod member bedealt withaccordingly.Atthis
Natasha Narwal in connection stage, only bail is to be consid-
withtheriotsinJafrabad,observ- ered and not acquittal or convic- ingmobspeltingstones,orlook- gation had even begun into the
ing that there was no specific al- tion. Moreover, she is not a flight EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ing the other way when mobs riots. The FIR… regarding this
legation of threat to witnesses risk and the witnesses are police NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 were indulging in violence”. ‘conspiracy’ being investigated
and that the videos shown in officials only or protected wit- “The notable silence in the by the Special Cell, in which the
court do not show her indulging nesses.” LEADERSOFfiveoppositionpar- chargesheets on the role of lead- draconian Unlawful Activities
in or inciting violence. In this case, police had also ties, including the Congress and ers associated with the BJP, who (Prevention)Act(UAPA)hasbeen
Since Narwal has not been added sections of murder fol- theLeft,ThursdaymetPresident gave inflammatory speeches, invoked, is being used to carry
granted bail in a separate UAPA Natasha Narwal will not be lowing the death of 18-year-old RamNathKovindandaskedhim raises serious concern about the out a fishing and roving inquiry
case related to the riots, she will released from jail as she is Amaan, who was hit by a bullet to direct the government to set impartiality of the probe. Since against activists and young per-
not be released from jail. yet to get bail in a UAPA case which allegedly ricocheted off a up a probe by a sitting or retired December 2019, there are pub- sonswhowereinvolvedwiththe
Additional Sessions Judge related to the riots Metro pillar on February 25 at judge into the investigations by licly documented speeches by protests,” they said.
Amitabh Rawat granted bail on Jafrabad. the Delhi Police in the Northeast leaders of the ruling party insti- “The ongoing probe by Delhi
furnishing a personal bond of Rs A total of 11 persons were Delhiriotsin February. They told gating and provoking violence Police,therefore,doesnotinspire
30,000, with one surety of the nesses,whoare,inanycase, pro- chargesheeted in this case along thePresidentthatthepolice,un- (From left) Manoj Kumar Jha, Kanimozhi, Ahmed Patel, against those involved in the confidence. There are serious
same amount. She has been di- tected and their identity con- with Pinjra Tod members der “directions of the Union President Ram Nath Kovind, D Raja and Sitaram Yechury anti-CAAprotests,includingthat questions about the impartiality
rected not to get in touch with cealed.” Narwal, Kalita and Jamia Millia HomeMinister”,are“orchestrat- of a minister raising slogans to of theprobe,especiallygiventhe
any witnesses, tamper with evi- During the hearing, police Islamia student Gulfisha. ingascript”thatislinkingpeace- ‘shoot the traitors’,” the memo- recent order of the Special
denceor leave Delhiwithout the submitted to the court that the The Delhi High Court had ful anti-CAA-NPR-NRC protests tition to the President. lence”. randum said. Commissioner of Police (Crime)
court’s permission. accusedchoseJafrabadarea“cal- earlier granted bail to Kalita, to this violence. Theleaders–Congresstreas- “Such a manufactured con- AllegingthatDelhiPolicehas citing ‘degree of resentment
The court said videos played culatively” to start a communal noting that, “investigating “A credible and unbiased urer Ahmed Patel, CPM general spiracytheoryhasnowbegunto turned a blind eye towards the among the Hindu community’
by theinvestigatingofficershow clash. agency had failed to produce probe is crucial to restore public secretary Sitaram Yechury, his falselyimplicatepoliticalleaders. roleof itsownpersonnelandBJP regardingarrestsof ‘someHindu
she was part of an unlawful as- TheSpecialPublicProsecutor any material that she in her trust in the law and order ma- CPI counterpart D Raja, Rajya The name of Yechury… and also leaders in the violence, the lead- youth’ from riot-hit areas in
sembly, but“donotshowtheac- argued that from February 22 to speech instigated women of (a) chinery of the state. The investi- Sabha MP and RJD leader Manoj namesof well-knownintellectu- ers said police, at the same time, Northeast Delhi and directing
cused indulging or inciting vio- 26,4-5callsweremadebetween particular community or gave gation cannot be allowed to be- Kumar Jha and DMK’s als, academicians and activists appear to be “pursuing a line of that‘duecareandprecaution’be
lence”, while also accepting that Umar Khalid and the two Pinjra hatred speech due to which pre- come a fishing and roving Kanimozhi – told the President have now surfaced in material inquirycriminalisingtheprotests taken while making arrests,”
it was mindful of the fact that Tod members, Natasha and cious life of a young man has expedition aimed at causing a that there are “serious questions putoutinthepublicdomain.This against the CAA and portraying they added.
therewerestatementsmadeun- Devangana Kalita. been sacrificed and property chilling effect on dissent and abouttheroleplayedbytheDelhi is a disturbing trend that raises them as a conspiracy which re- Delhi Police had earlier said,
der CrPC Section 161 by wit- “All their mindsets are the damaged”. protestinthecountry.We…urge Police during the violence and serious questions over the man- sulted in the riots in Delhi”. “The police is doing its work in
nesses against her. same to disturb the place, create Narwal’s counsel Adit Pujari youtocallupontheGovernment also the manner in which police ner of such investigations,” they “The entire investigation ap- a professional, free and impar-
It observed, “Prosecution riots... I am not saying that the had said police have not placed of India to institute an inquiry is harassing and attempting to said. pears to be aimed at arriving at a tial manner... To suggest other-
can’t say that till witnesses are whole riots were scripted by any material before the court into this investigation under the falsely implicate activists and They claimed “there are sev- pre-meditated theory about a wise, is a deliberate attempt to
examined, accused can’t be re- thesetwogirls.Buttheyplayeda that Narwal would tamper with Commissionof InquiryAct,1952, young people who took part in eral publicly documented ac- conspiracy propounded by the malign Delhi Police’s image and
leased on bail. There is no spe- vital role to execute this script,” evidence or influence wit- headed by sitting/retired the anti-CAA/NRC/NPR move- countsandvideosof policebeing Home Minister in Lok Sabha in is totally biased and unsubstan-
cific allegation of threat to wit- the SPP argued. nesses. judge(s),”theleaderssaidinape- mentsastheperpetratorsof vio- complicit in the violence, direct- March 2020, before any investi- tiated.”

BRIEFLY
DDA reaches
Court takes cognizance of
outtoRWAs
NewDelhi: Inanonlineex-
riots chargesheet against 15
ercise,DelhiDevelopment lence”inSeelampurandJafrabad Donald Trump’s visit.
Authority Wednesday EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE areas. “We have several pieces of Initschargesheet,policelisted
reached out to RWAs of NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 technical evidence, including 747 witnesses and of them, 51
plotted colonies to seek WhatsApp chats of February 24 have recorded their statements
their opinion in the for- ADELHIcourtThursdaytookcog- when the violence was happen- before the magistrate under
mation of Master Plan for nizance of the chargesheet filed ing.Atthatpoint,keyconspirators Section164oftheCrPC.Policesaid
Delhi, 2041. The RWAs by Delhi Police under the strin- wereguidingtheirfootsoldiersin it has given a chronology of con-
gavesuggestionsonfixing gent UAPA and other legal provi- theareaandweredirectlyintouch spiracy and relevant events in its
the transport infrastruc- sionsagainst15personsina“con- withthem.Therewerearound25 chargesheet, which is likely to be
ture, clearing encroach- spiracy” case related to the protest sites, and around 25 taken up for consideration soon.
ments and ensuring no FebruaryriotsinNortheastDelhi. WhatsAppgroupswereespecially The court said sanction for
waterlogging in the city. Cognizance,however,wasnot created for each site. The impres- prosecution under Section 45 of
taken in matters related to sec- sion was given that they were the Unlawful Activities
3heldfor tions of sedition and promoting
enmitybetweendifferentgroups
anti-CAAprotestgroups,”asenior
police officer had claimed.
(Prevention)Act,1967,foroffences
underSections13/16/17/18ofthe
gangrape as sanction to prosecute is pend-
ing in the matter. Additional
The chargesheet includes
names of former AAP councillor
said Act is on record, along with
sections of murder of the IPC.
New Delhi: A 17-year-old Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat Tahir Hussain, and Pinjra Tod’s However, for offences under
girl was allegedly gan- directed Delhi Police to supply Devangana Kalita and Natasha section 124A (sedition), 153A
grapedbythreemen,who copiesof thechargesheetfiledon Narwal,asaccused.Butitdoesnot (promoting enmity between dif-
also attacked her with a Wednesday to the accused per- mention former JNU students, ferent groups on grounds of reli-
knife, in Northeast Delhi, sons. The court will take up the Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, gion,race,placeofbirth,residence,
police said Thursday. The
accused have been ar-
rested by local police.
OUTSTANDING matter on September 21.
The Delhi Police Special Cell
told the court that while collect-
who were arrested under the
UAPA in the case.
The Special Cell said Tahir
language, etc.), 109 (abetment if
act abetted is committed in con-
sequence and where no express
Police said the girl was re- People queue up outside Rajiv Chowk Metro station. Praveen Khanna ing evidence, it relied on call de- Hussain, Khalid Saifi and Umar provision is made for its punish-
turning home with her tail records and WhatsApp chats. Khalid had allegedly planned to ment), and 120-B (criminal con-
relative on Tuesday night It said WhatsApp groups were carry out massive violencein the spiracy) of the IPC, police is yet to

Delhi sees most Covid deaths in 60 days;

whentheaccusedtriedto used by conspirators for “vio- capital during US President procure the requisite sanction.
snatch her purse. When

Jain says new cases will rise with testing DU principals deny fund
the girl objected, the men
allegedly threatened her
withaknifeandrapedher.
“The victim and her rela-

misuse, Sisodia ups attack

tive were also attacked
withaknifeandsustained
injuries to their hands,” testing has been ramped up four suggests that around 33% of the
saidaseniorpoliceofficer. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE But we will be able to times. But we will then be able 17,000peoplesurveyedhavede-
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 contain the spread tocontainthespreadof infection veloped antibodies against the
ASI mowed DELHI RECORDED 4,432 fresh of infection in the
inthelong-runthrougheffective
isolation, as planned,” he said.
virus. The samples were
processed in 18 labs authorised SUKRITABARUAH
Singh, DUPA president and prin-
cipal of SGTB Khalsa College.
downbytruck cases of Covid-19 Thursday, tak-
ingthetotaltallyto2,34,701.The
long-run through The city performed 60,014
tests—9,564RT-PCRand50,450
by the state government.
Antibodies against Covid-19
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 Among the allegations that
Sisodiahadraisedwasthatoneof
New Delhi: A 49-year-old death toll mounted to 4,877,
effective isolation as rapid antigen tests — Thursday, infection were found in 29.1% of ADAYafterDeputyChiefMinister the colleges had spent Rs 25 lakh
Assistant Sub-Inspector with 38 more deaths reported in planned, said Jain with a positivity rate of 7.38%. people in the sero survey in Manish Sisodia accused six gov- on “donations”. Preliminary ob-
from Traffic Police, Radhe the last 24 hours – the highest in On the results of the sero- August, Jain had said last month ernment-fundedDelhiUniversity servations report of the special
Shyam, died after he was over 60 days. Of the total cases, prevalance survey conducted in whileannouncingitsresults.The (DU) colleges of misappropria- auditstated:“DuringFY2017-18,
allegedlymoweddownby 1,98,103 have recovered. The Covid-19 cases in the city will the first week of September, Jain results further suggestedthat 79 tionoffunds,principalsofseveral thecollegedonatedRs25lakhfor
a truck while on duty at number of active cases stands at rise in the next 10 days as testing said the report will first be of the 257 people, who recov- DUcollegescalledhisstatements ‘AtalIncubationCentre’outofthe
North Delhi’s Burari. The 31,721. capacity has quadrupled. “Cases placed before the Delhi High ered from Covid and were part “baseless”and“unsubstantiated”. student society fund account.”
incident took place on Delhi Health Minister of Covid-19 and active cases will Court. According to sources, ini- of the exercise, did not have an- On Wednesday, Sisodia had “Itisanextremelyirresponsi-
Wednesdayeveningatthe Satyendar Jain Thursday said rise in the next 10-15 days as tial findings of the third survey tibodies against the virus. accused the administrations of blestatementtorefertotheRs25
Ring Road. Shyam was Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Deen Manish Sisodia lakh as a ‘donation’. It has been

As focus shifts to e-vehicles, govt looks

posted at ITI Center in DayalUpadhyayCollege,Shaheed committed—andnotevenspent
Dheerpur area. Sukhdev College of Business — by the college as seed money
Studies and Bhagini Nivedita ment to deposit in the FD. Some forskilldevelopmentthroughan
Congcouncillor Collegeofhavingcroresofrupees colleges have FDs that have up to Atal Incubation Centre. It has

proposes at maximising charging stations in Delhi lying in college accounts while

saying they are unable to pay
their staff salaries due to fund
Rs 15 crore-Rs 30 crore. What
portion of this money has come
fromwhichsource? Howisitbe-
been done from the Student
Society Account for a student-
centric purpose,” said Manoj
namingstreet “Given these premises have high
shortage.Hehadsaidthiswasre-
vealed in a preliminary report of
ing used? This needs to be inves-
tigated by the audit team. I hope
Sinha, DUPA secretary and prin-
cipal of Aryabhatta College.
Charging
afterSushant EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 key to
capacitycommercialconnections,
itwasdiscussedthatsettingupof
a special audit initiated by the
government in the colleges.
theDUadministrationwillco-op-
erate... in investigating the possi-
According to a statement re-
leased by the association, the
New Delhi: Delhi Congress a large number of slow-charging On Thursday, the Delhi bility of corruption...” fund requirement from the gov-
vice-president and SDMC DELHI GOVERNMENT will focus
adoption pointsatthesefacilitieswouldbe UniversityPrincipals’Association Theprinicpals,however,held ernment in the current financial
councillor Abhishek Dutt oninstallingslowchargingpoints inexpensive and a quick way of held a press conference to con- that the money in college ac- year is Rs 270 crore across the 12
has proposed to name a to help mass adoption of electric AMONG THE biggest settingupthousandsofadditional demn Sisodia’s allegations. In at- counts,whichSisodiareferredto, colleges fully funded by it.
stretch of road in South two- and three-wheelers in the hurdles in quick adoption chargingpointsinthecityandre- tendance were principals of at was in the colleges’ student soci- “Ideally,75%oftherequiredgrant,
Delhi’sAndrewsGunjarea city. There will be fewer fast of electric vehicles is the ducing range anxiety,” it said. least 11 colleges — including ety accounts and cannot be used i.e. Rs 202.5 crore, should have
after late Bollywood actor charging stations as they cater lack of charging stations The working group was cre- Hindu,MirandaHouse,andSGTB to pay staff salaries. been released before July 2020,
SushantSinghRajput.Dutt primarily to premium four- in the city, officials be- Jasmine Shah ated avoid problems owing to Khalsa — apart from those col- “Wedenytheallegationsand whereas only Rs 37.5 crore has
hassenttheproposaltothe wheelers, a statement issued by lieve. The government’s multiplicity of agencies in Delhi. leges against which Sisodia had condemnthem.Suchstatements been released till date,” read
civic body’s road naming the Delhi government said. plan to get more people “Delhi government will soon be raised accusations. are not expected from the office DUPA’s statement.
andrenamingcommittee, The government has created to buy electric vehicles in Development Commission of rolling out financial incentives In response, Sisodia contin- of an education minister... These In the statement, they also
sayingthatthereisastrong a Charging Infrastructure future includes setting up Delhi, it was also decided that promisedundertheEVpolicy.By uedtoallegelackoftransparency funds are generated from stu- questioned the basis on which
demand from locals of the Working Group, with officials charging points at acces- land-owning agencies will look creatingaChargingInfrastructure in the colleges and questioned dents and are to be used for stu- collegeswereselectedforthespe-
areaaswell.Hesaidalarge from power discoms, municipal sible locations, in addi- for 200 locations for the stations. Working Group, Delhi govern- howtheyhaveraisedfundsincol- dent-centricpurposessuchasex- cialaudit.“Isitbecausethemem-
numberofpeoplelivingin corporations,DDAandDelhigov- tion to giving incentives A statement issued by the menthasbroughtonboardallthe lege fixed deposits. tra-curricular development, bers of their choice could not be
theareaabuttingroadno8 ernment, to oversee the work. In to people who are willing Delhi government said that in- different agencies and In a statement Thursday, he student activities, recruitment electedaschairpersoninthegov-
hail from Bihar. ENS its meeting on Thursday, chaired to switch to greener ve- stallingchargingfacilitiesatmalls, discoms...to initiate work on ac- said:“...moneyintheirFDsiscon- drives, festivals. Any diversion of erning body of these colleges? If
by Jasmine Shah, Vice hicles. officecomplexesandgrouphous- celerated rollout of charging in- sistently increasing. This money funds would amount to misap- that is so, it amounts to scuttling
Chairperson, Dialogue and ing societies will be a priority. frastructure,” said Shah. is not provided by Delhi govern- propriation,” said Jaswinder the democratic process,” it said.

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Swiggy’s 131 DENGUE CASES IN CAPITAL TILL SEPTEMBER 12, LOWEST SINCE 2016
JNU’s legal costs
delivery
executives on Amid pandemic, house visits to check up since 2016 as
strike again
SHIVAM PATEL
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17
mosquito breeding see a sharp drop cases against it rise
ARANYA SHANKAR
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17
As per the Delhi HC
website, from 2016-20,
ABHINAV RAJPUT
HUNDREDS OF delivery execu- & ASTHA SAXENA DECLINING CASELOAD JAWAHARLALNEHRUUniversity 183 cases were filed

15,867
tivesof onlinefooddeliveryplat- NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 ■ CasestillSep12 ■ Totalcases ■ Deaths has seen a drastic increase in its against the JNU
form Swiggy went on strike in legal expenses since 2016, with
Noida Thursday over a range of THE CAPITAL has been witness- thenumberof casesfiledagainst
administration
cuts in their earnings. This was ing a downward trend in the 60 10 10 4 2 thevarsityintheDelhiHighCourt
their third strike in a week, in numberof denguecasesoverthe having spiked compared to pre- According to the HC website,

4,726
which staff from different deliv- last five years, with the lowest till vious years. According to the the number of cases (disposed

4,431
ery zones did not accept and de- datereportedthisSeptember.But Delhi High Court website, from off and pending) filed against

2,798
liver orders for the day. this year, house visits to check 2016-20, 183 cases were filed JNU from 2016 to 2020 were 28,

2,036
1,872

Nearly 300 people partici- mosquito breeding and prosecu- 1,158 against the JNU administration, 24, 52, 59 and 20 respectively.

1,177
patedinthestrikenearSector16. tion against people (a maximum MCD workers undertake fumigation. Praveen Khanna averaging37casesperyear.Thisis From 2011to 15, the number of

243

171

131
131
Workerssaidtheyintendtocon- fine of Rs 500) in whose homes fourtimestheaveragefrom2011- cases filed against JNU were 7, 3,
tinue striking until their de- breedingoflarvaisfoundhasalso 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 15, when the total cases were 47, 12, 14 and 11 respectively.
mands are met. fallen sharply — primarily due to the initial months of the pan- Minute’ campaign, where peo- averaging 9 cases per year. The increase in legal ex-
Workerssaidcutswereintro- the pandemic. VITAL STATS ■ 2019 ■ 2020 demic, municipal staff was also ple are asked to clean out any Teachers and students have penses post 2016 is visible in
duced on August 9, which in- Delhi has seen 131 cases of askedtospraydisinfectant.“This stagnant water in their houses. been at loggerheads with the ad- JNU’s financial report. In 2016-
cludereductioninbasepayment the vector-borne disease till
Housevisitstocheckbreeding Housesfoundwithbreeding hasledtothecontrolof dengue,” Withdenguecasesincreasing ministration since 2016 over a 17, the university spent Rs 4.55
— fee to transport a food order September12,lowestsince2016. 2,41,89,302 1,40,69,524 1,19,852 59,366 said Narender Chawla, leader of slowly,doctorsarehavingatough hostofissues—includingdiscipli- lakh on legal expenses and in
from a restaurant to the cus- House visits, meanwhile, Prosecutionslaunched Housessprayed Legalnoticesissued the house, South MCD. timeduetosimilarlabparameters naryaction,recruitmentoffaculty, 2017-18 it spent a little more
tomer — given to an executive have dropped by over a crore as 10,321 3,359 5,95,861 5,80,026 99,448 45,849 Mostdenguecasesareusually andoverlappinginitialclinicalpre- and appointments of deans and than half of that — Rs 2.72 lakh.
per order from Rs 35 to Rs 15. A compared to the previous year. reported between mid-July and sentations such as fever, sore chairpersons,amongotherthings. However, in 2018-19, legal
target-based fixed monthly in- Last year, 2.4 crore house visits November-end. Depending on throat and body ache. Over the In the Executive Council (EC) expenses ballooned to Rs 17.72
centive of roughly Rs 3,000 for a were done till September 12 as thistimelastyear,5.80lakhhouses Delhi.“Amajorityoftheworkforce the weather, this may stretch to past few days, some cases where meeting on September 7, the lakh — almost 4 times of 2016-
full-time delivery executive and opposed to 1.4 crore this year. werecoveredtillthesecondweek fromthreeMCDswasdeployedto mid-December.TheDelhigovern- a patient has both Covid and university approved additional 17and6.5timesof 2017-18.Data
Rs 2,000 for a part-time execu- Prosecutionsagainstviolatorsfell ofSeptemberthisyeardespitesev- carryoutthermalscreening,door- ment begins its awareness pro- dengue have been observed. This funds of Rs 30 lakh, after it was for 2019-20 was not available.
tivehasbeenscrapped,theysaid. from10,321lastyearto3,359this eral workers being diverted to to-door survey and sanitisation grammes in March and recruits willcreatemorepressureonanal- reported that most of the origi- Sources said expenses were
Satendra Yadav (21), a deliv- yearinthecorrespondingperiod. carryoutCovid-controlexercises. amidCovid.Sincetherewascom- volunteers from the community ready overburdened health sys- nallyallocatedamountof Rs9.40 also rising as JNU had employed
ery executive in Noida, said he As per MCD data, between With rise in Covid cases, the plete lockdown, domestic breed- to ensure there is no breeding. tem,saiddoctors.“Treatmentwith lakh set aside for legal expenses ASGs (Additional Solicitor
would earn Rs 17-18,000 per January 1 and second week of entire staff from civic bodies and ing checkers and other staff were Afteramassiveoutbreakin2015- lowmolecularweightheparinfor had been spent and bills of Rs 18 General)inatleast50%casesand
month before the Covid out- September this year, the number statehealthdepartment—closely not allowed to enter homes to 2016,ithasbeenmorefocusedon Covidmanagementmayenhance lakh for this financial year were had to pay them accordingly.
breakbutwasearningaroundRs of houses sprayed with disinfec- linked to the anti-dengue pro- check mosquito breeding,” said a awarenesscampaignsasapartof bleeding in presence of dengue, yet to be cleared. JNU Teachers’ Association
6,000 per month after the cuts. tants saw only a marginal dip as gramme — has been diverted to- seniorMCDofficial. preventive measures. especiallywithlowplateletcount,” The agenda item for the EC secretarySurajitMazumdarsaid,
In a response to queries from compared to last year. While 5.95 wards prevention of the disease, According to officials, while The government recently said Dr Ashutosh Biswas, profes- read,“LegalCellof theUniversity “Theexplosioninlitigationisbe-
The Indian Express, a Swiggy lakh houses were disinfected by which has claimed 4,877 lives in carrying out sanitisation during started its ‘10 Hafte, 10 Baje, 10 sorof medicine,AIIMS. has been allocated Rs 9.40 lakh... cause of high level of irregulari-
spokesperson said, “Most deliv- to meet charges of University ties by the administration, and
ery partners in Noida make over Legal Counsels. Out of the above because mechanisms of griev-
Rs 43 per order, with highest
performing partners making
over Rs 100 per order. The Rs 15
IGI airport gets pvt jet terminal amount,Rs9.39lakhhasalready
been spent towards payment of
legal counsels.”
anceredressalhavebrokendown
as the administration doesn’t
wanttoengagewith…university
is only one of the many compo- “The newly developed apron lounges,foodanddrinkssection, “Large number of bills raised community... The university has
nents of their service fee. In the EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE is spread over an 8 lakh square 24x7 concierge service, and can by the empanelled University abudget.Whereisthisadditional
last four weeks, no active deliv- NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 feet area with 57 parking bays. handleover50passengersevery Legal Counsels during the cur- amountthat’sbeingallocatedgo-
erypartnersinNoidahavemade Thegeneralaviationterminalhas hour. Puri said, “India’s civil avi- rent financial year amounting ing to come from...?”
Rs15perorder.Weareconfident INDIRA GANDHI International been built to support movement ation sector is all set to emerge (around) Rs 18 lakh are pending Registrar Pramod Kumar
that through constant dialogue, airport is the first in the country andprocessingof passengersfly- strongerinapost-Covidworldas with Legal Cell. Additional funds said, “We have a miscellaneous
we will be able to address their to have a private jet terminal. ing through chartered flights more routes are opening up and of Rs 30 lakh may be allocated to fund, we are using money from
concerns.” Launched on Thursday by Union from IGI airport,” said a the number of passengers is clear pending bills and cater to there. We don’t need anybody’s
The All India Gig Workers’ MinisterofCivilAviationHardeep spokesperson of the Delhi growing. We expect a bulk of future requirements during this permission.Theincreaseincases
Union has sent a letter to Singh Puri, the general aviation InternationalAirportLimited.The pre-Covid domestic air passen- financial year,” it further read. is happening becausepeopleare
Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety terminal can cater to up to 150 project was planned in 2009. gers’ traffic to be back by Diwali. The minutes of the meeting going to court over small issues.
with 10 demands of delivery ex- The new private jet terminal at IGIA. Express private jet movements a day. It The spokesperson said the A general aviation terminal was confirmed the EC had approved We are not going (to court), so
ecutives. will be operational from Sunday. new terminal has passenger the need of the hour." Rs 30 lakh funds. what can we say?”

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Monsoon Session

House Diaries RS DISCUSSES COVID

THEPANDEMICEFFECT India’s mortality
■ “Mantriji, kripya mask laga dijiye
(Minister, kindly wear the mask),
rate lowest, govt
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah
Naidu told Defence Minister Rajnath
aims to bring it
Singh as he began speaking on the
developments in Ladakh. While
Singh was wearing it, one member
down to below
was heard telling him that mask was
for his own safety. Naidu promptly
1%: Vardhan
said it was for everyone. “For a
minute, he forgot to wear it. He was
reminded... toh acha ho gaya...isme EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
kya hain,” Naidu said. NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17

HEALTHMINISTERHarshVardhanonThurs-
■ MPs were spotted wearing masks daysaidthegovernmentaimstobringdown
of various designs in Rajya Sabha India’s Covid-19 mortality rate to less than 1
Thursday. While Deputy Chairman per cent from the current 1.64 per cent,
Harivansh wore a mask with which,hementioned,isstillthelowestinthe
colours from the tricolour — white world.
mask with orange and green Replying to a debate in Rajya Sabha,
borders — BJP MP Rajeev Vardhan said the country’s recovery rate of
Chandrashekhar wore a mask with 78-79 per cent is one of the highest in the
an Army combat fatigue print. world, and although total cases may have
Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan crossed 50 million, active cases are less than
wore a printed mask. 20 per cent.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha
NO QUESTION HOUR: Ghulam Nabi Azad, meanwhile, noted that
several countries have already secured
MY QUESTIONS favourable commitment for supply of a
Covid-19 vaccine, and India should be well
placed to get the vaccine at an “affordable
Congress MPs stage a protest against the farm Bills, at Parliament on Thursday. PTI price”andatan“earlystage”throughamech-
anism such as pooled procurement.

2 farm Bills passed, minister says: MSP

However, Azad cautioned, the govern-
ment should be extra “cautious” about the
quality, safety and efficacy of a new vaccine,
asanylong-termside-effectswouldimpacta
country with a large and young population.

stays, farmers will be free to sell produce

InhisreplytotheUpperHouseonthesec-
ond day of discussion on the pandemic and
steps taken by the Centre, Vardhan said
deaths in India due to the pandemic are less
■ As per GST Act, the than many European countries and the gov-
Centre is supposed to ernment is determined to better the testing

Oppn tears into Bills:

rate of the US. He
pay compensation to said there are
states every 2 months. Tomar targets Oppn, says UPA, in its 10 years, chances that a

What is the logic behind didn't approve Swaminathan recommendations vaccine could

Draconian, send to panel

comeinthecoun-

E
asking states to borrow? tryearlynextyear
but until then it is
■ Did the Centre plan EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE necessaryforpeo-
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 pletofollowphys-
EXPLAINED

adequately before EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ical distancing

announcing lockdown? Despite passage of two farm Bills, the mini- NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 norms and wear
mum support price (MSP) mechanism will masks. Health Minister
K K RAGESH, CPM continue to remain in place, Union THE LOK Sabha on Thursday passed the two “We want to Harsh Vardhan
Agriculture Minister Narender Singh Tomar contentious farmer’s legislation amid strong bring it (mortality
reiterated on the floor of Lok Sabha on
Thursday.
protest from various parties, including NDA
ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), with main
● rate) to less than 1
percent.Wehave50lakhcasesrightnowbut
Govt: Childline Tomar said that the Congress-led UPA
government allocated Rs 12,000 crore for
Opposition Congress terming them “dracon-
ian”, and other opposition parties posing sev- Littlechanceof
out of these, only 10 lakh are active cases,”
Vardhan said.

received 2.39 cr agriculture ministry, and “now Prime

Minister Narendra Modi has allocated Rs
1,34,000 crore”.
eral questions to the government.
During the debate on Farmer’s Produce
Trade and Commerce (Promotion and
protestsspreading On development of a vaccine, he said the
Science and Technology Ministry, ICMR and
drugcompanieshavecometogetherforaso-
calls since 2018 He said: “That is the kind of priority this
government gives to farmers...the law is go-
Facilitation)Bill,andFarmers(Empowerment
andProtection)AgreementonPriceAssurance
SOFAR,protestsagainstthreefarmor-
dinances have centred in Punjab and
lution.Thismatter,headded,isbeingperson-
ally monitored by Prime Minister Narendra
ing to bring revolutionary changes in the life Union Agriculture Minister Narender and Farm Services Bill, Congress leader Adhir Haryana, where the arhatiya system Modi.“Vaccinescancomeinfuture.Extensive
of the farmer…until now, the farmer was Singh Tomar speaks in Lok Sabha. PTI Ranjan Chowdhury said, “No farmer in the (commission agents) is more power- planningisunderwaytoexecutehowtoman-
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE chained to the mandi to sell his produce. country has expressed happiness on this.... I ful than in other states. The likelihood age the scenario, “ Vardhan said.
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 Through the passage of this Bill, he will have appreciate Harsimran Kaur (Union minister oftheprotestsspreadingtootherstates Hesaidtherearethreevaccinecandidates
complete independence.” Tomar maintained that the licence to sell whoresigned),whodisplayedgutsbyoppos- isverylow,asthefarmer-arhatiyabond whichhavereachedphaseone,twoorphase
INAwrittenreplytoaquestioninRajyaSabha Tomar highlighted that 86 per cent of in any market will end the licence raj. ingthedraconianlegislation.Thesethreelaws isnotasstrongelsewhere.Infact,afew threelevel.“UnderthePrimeMinister,anex-
today, Union Minister for Women and Child small farmers will benefit from the law and “Competitionwillincreaseinthemarket.The areatoxictriangle.Youwanttoderegulatethe agrarian states, such as Bihar, have al- pertgroupisstudyingthis.Weexpectthatby
DevelopmentSmritiIranihassaidthegovern- will get better prices for their produce. “The farmer will reap the benefits. Licence raj, in- farmer market. (But) look at what has hap- readyabolishedAPMCmandisystem. thebeginningof nextyearwecanhaveavac-
ment’schildhelplineservicehasreceived2.39 creation of the law will result in a significant spector raj, and corruption will end, as farm- penedinBihar,whichisderegulated,andcom- cine in the country. In this regard we are also
crore calls from 2018 till August this year. increaseincompetition–privateinvestment ers can sell (their produce) in any part of the pare it with the regulated markets in Punjab coordinating with the World Health Orga-
Theministerpresenteddatawhichshows willreachvillages,theagricultureinfrastruc- country,” he said. and Haryana...”. again, this government is doing what it does nization and global organisations,” he said.
thatthechildhelplinereceived1.12crorecalls ture will be built and employment opportu- The minister said the proposed law will BijuJanataDalMPAnubhavMohantysaid best, which is arrogating to itself a constitu- Replying to Congress member Anand
in2018,78.64lakhcallsin2019and48.18lakh nities generated,” he said. ensure that money is transferred to the theBillsshouldgototheStandingCommittee tional authority it is not vested with.” Sharma’s question on Wednesday — on how
calls till August this year. Taking on the Congress for not imple- farmerwithinastipulatedthreedays.“Some for scrutiny and more clarity. Telangana TheLeftaskedwhytheBilldoesnotensure thegovernmenthaddeducedthatthenation-
“FromJanuary1,2018,CHILDLINEservices menting the Swaminathan committee rec- are protesting on the e-NAM platform. Like Rashtra Samithi MP Manne Srinivas Reddy that the price of agriculture produce is linked widelockdownpreventedapproximately14-
wereavailablein413districts.AsonSeptember ommendations on MSP, the minister said: the gas (LPG) subsidy, or the PM Kisan questioned the use of the e-NAM portal. withMSP.“ThisBillshouldnothavebeenkept 29 lakh Covid-19 cases and 37,000-78,000
15, 2020, the coverage has been enhanced to “The UPA, in its 10 years, didn't approve (scheme), there will be zero leakage,” Tomar Trinamool member Mahua Moitra said: outside the purview of the Essential Comm- deathsinthecountry—Vardhansaidthegov-
594 districts,” said Irani in her reply. Swaminathan recommendations. The Modi said. “This Bill is in direct violation of the federal odities Act and other Acts. The government ernment had derived the figures from the
Irani also said that a committee under the government ensured that MSP is increased “On this platform, 1,000 mandis were structure of the Constitution, namely Article shouldhaveensuredthatpricesofagricultural findingsof fivescientificbodies,includingthe
chairpersonship of the Minister of State for by 1.5 times, and purchase will continue to joined and Rs 35,000 crore (worth of farm 246(3)readwithScheduleVII,ListII,Items14, produceshouldhavebeenlinkedwithMSP.It BostonConsultingGroup,PHFIandtheMini-
Women and Child Development has been be based on MSP. Agriculture will prosper – produce)wastraded.Moreplatformswillbe 18,30and45.Itsquarelyputsagriculture,items should have ensured that farmers get at least stry of Statistics and Programme Impleme-
formedtolookintore-organisingthefunction- the law will not increase the income of cor- created for trading. The law will ensure that relatingtoagriculturalland,rents,revenueas- some remunerative price for their produce ntation. “These agencies did five studies and
ality of Childline. porates but will increase farm income.” thefarmergetshismoneywithinthreedays.” sessment,andcollectionontheStateList.Once above this MSP,” CPI(M)'s P R Natarajan said. basedonthatwepreparedthisdata,”hesaid.

Amid statement on China, GST With exit of traditional ally, BJP

protest, some cracks in Oppn camp faces setback ahead of Bihar polls
MANOJ C G LIZ MATHEW
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17

DAYS AFTER Opposition parties shied away AMIDTHEpandemic,theeconomicdownturn,

from pressing for a division of votes in the andChineseaggressionattheborder,theruling
DeputyChairmanelectioninRajyaSabha,fear- BJPonThursdaysufferedasetbackwithamin-
ingthatchinksintheirunitymightbeexposed, ister from one of its traditional allies resigning
three developments on Thursday indicated overanissuerelatedtothefarmsector.
cracks in the Opposition camp. Withthecentralgovernmenthavingcom-
TheCongress,whichhasbeendemanding pleted a year, and the BJP gearing up for elec-
a full-fledged discussion on the Chinese ag- tionsinakeystate,twoof itsoldestallieshave
gressioninParliament,founditself isolatedas now exited the government. While Shiv Sena
most Opposition parties expressed solidarity broke away from the BJP-led NDA soon after
with the government after Defence Minister the Maharashtra elections late last year, SAD
RajnathSingh’sstatementintheUpperHouse. leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal quit the PM
Sensing the mood, the Congress refrained Narendra Modi-led government while her
fromprotesting,butitsleaderssaidtheywere Opposition MPs demand payment of GST dues to states, in Parliament Thursday. PTI party continues to be part of the NDA.
far from satisfied with Singh’s statement and Harsmirat, daughter-in-law of SAD patri- BJP president and party MP J P Nadda at Parliament on Thursday. PTI
the government’s tackling of the Chinese ag- archParkashSinghBadal,resignedasMinister
gression. othertostrategise.TheCongresscannolonger CPM,CPI,RJDandDMKwenttoPresidentRam forFoodProcessingIndustries,sayingthather
Outside, the Trinamool Congress rallied a decide the subject and then the dosage of op- NathKovindtoconveytheirconcernsoverthe party cannot support anti-farmer legislation. These Bills are really going to empower the and they may vote against the Bill too. But it is
groupofeightregionalpartiesandprotestedin position strategy. They cannot do something DelhiPoliceinvestigationsof theriotsinDelhi An undeterred Prime Minister Modi termed farmers by giving them many more options.” fine. Even JD(U) – our Bihar ally – had a differ-
front of the Gandhi statue demanding pay- in the states and seek support in Parliament," in February. Other Opposition parties --- par- thethreeBillsas“historicagrarianreformBills”. However,theresignationonThursdaywo- entopiniononissueslikeabrogationof Article
ment of GST dues to states. The Congress was O'Brien said. The Left, too, was missing al- ticularly the Left’s rival in West Bengal TMC -- Withinanhourof theBillsbeingpassedby uld come as a setback to the BJP on multiple 370andCAA,”saidaseniorBJPleader.However,
notinvitedtotheprotest,whichwasattended though it is in government in Kerala. - were not part of the initiative. LokSabha,Moditweeted:“Thepassageofhist- counts.Amidtheintensifyingeconomicissues, theJD(U)isnotpartofthecentralgovernment.
byleadersfrom theTMC,TRS,RJD,AAP,DMK, The government had on Wednesday WhiletheCPMsaid“otherOppositionparty oricagrarianreformBillsintheLokSabhaisan joblessnessandtensionattheLACwithChina, Sourcesalsopointedtotheabsenceofavet-
SP, NCP and Shiv Sena. agreedtoholdadiscussiononpaymentofGST leaders who agree” with the memorandum importantmomentforthefarmersandagricul- SAD’sexitfromtheUniongovernmentwould eranleaderlikeArunJaitley,whoplayedakey
Speakingtoreportersaftertheprotest,TMC compensationonacallingattentionnoticeby submittedtothePresidentcouldnotbepartof ture sector of the country. These Bills will truly givetheOppositionafreshhandletomobilise roleinkeepingthePunjabpartnerwiththeBJP.
MP and its national spokesperson Derek O’Brien. When asked why the Congress was the delegation due to pandemic protocol, the free the farmers from middlemen and obsta- forces against the BJP in the Bihar elections. Justifyingitsmovesonthelegislationfront,
O'Brien said the Congress was not invited for not invited for the protest, some leaders said memorandumhadthesignaturesofonlylead- cles.” He added, “A lot of power is engaged in Until Thursday morning, BJP leaders were the BJP argued that “contract farming” is en-
theagitation."Itisincreasinglybecomingclear that parties like TRS and AAP were not com- ers from these five parties. However, all the confusing the farmers. I assure my farmer arguing that SAD's difference of opinion over couraged by many states.
to us that in Parliament, the regional parties fortable sharing space with it. Opposition parties have vowed to oppose the brothers and sisters that the system of MSP thefarmBillswouldnotaffectthegovernment FULL REPORT ON
are finding it easier to coordinate with each In a separate development, the Congress, threefarmBillsjointlyintheupperhouse. and government procurement will remain. orrulingalliance.“Wetriedtopersuadethem, www.indianexpress.com

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Form bench to track cases against Oppn misleading

legislators, SC tells High Courts farmers on Central
DELHI CONFIDENTIAL
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
Justices N V Ramana, Surya Kant
and Hrishikesh Roy ordered.
Court order asked High Court
Chief Justices“tolistforthwithall
granted,itshouldnotnormallybe
unconditionalorofindefinitedu-
ordinances, MSP to
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17

THE SUPREME Court on

The direction came in re-
sponsetosuggestionsbyAmicus
Curiae Senior Advocate Vijay
pendingcriminalcasesinvolving
sitting/former legislators (MPs
and MLAs), particularly those
ration”.Theapexcourtsaidthatif
astayisconsiderednecessary,the
court should hear the matter on
continue: Khattar
ThursdayaskedHighCourtChief Hansaria in a PIL by Advocate whereinastayhasbeengranted, aday-to-daybasisanddisposeof Haryana
Justices to constitute a special Ashwani Upadhyay, seeking a before an appropriate bench(es) itexpeditiously,preferablywithin EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Chief
benchtomonitortheprogressof ban on convicted politicians comprising of the learned Chief twomonths,withoutanyunnec- CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 17 Minister
trial of criminal cases against sit- from fighting elections. Justice and/or their designates”. essary adjournment. Manohar Lal
ting and former legislators and SC in 2017 had ordered the “Upon being listed, the Court The order underlined that ACCUSING THE opposition of
Khattar
to “forthwith” list all such cases setting up of special courts in must first decide whether the Covid-19 should not be an im- misleading farmers on the
which have been stayed and de- each state to try pending crimi- stay granted, if any, should con- pediment to the compliance of Centre’s farm ordinances,
cide whether the stay should nal cases against legislators. tinue, keeping in view the prin- the direction, as these matters Haryana Chief Minister state government at Minimum
continue or not. Accordingly,12suchcourtswere ciplesregarding the grant of stay can be heard virtually. Manohar Lal Khattar Thursday Support Price,” said the Chief
“The learned Chief Justices of set up across the country. enshrined in the judgment of On suggestions to increase said the state was committed to Minister.
BIRTHDAY WISHES the High Courtsshall...designate
a Special Bench, comprising
The report by Amicus Curiae
had said that one of the reasons
this Court in Asian Resurfacing
of Road Agency Private Limited
thenumberof specialcourtsand
rationalise the pending criminal
procuring every single grain of
crop at the Minimum Support
He claimed that these politi-
cal parties have nothing to do
ONPRIMEMinisterNarendraModi’s70thbirthday,Twitterwas themselves and their designate, forthependencyof caseswasthe v. CBI, (2018),” it said. cases,thecourtsaiditwouldfirst Price (MSP), adding that that with the interest of farmers.
full of greetings for him from politicians, global leaders, actors in order to monitor the progress stay granted by higher courts. The Supreme Court had in seek an action plan from the there will be no change in the Rather, he claimed, they are de-
and sportspersons. Russian President Vladimir Putin, British of these trials,” a bench of Addressingthis,theSupreme that case held that “if stay is High Court Chief Justices. functioning of mandis. ceiving the farmers so as to save
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Addressing a virtual press their political existence.

‘Deeplyconcerned’byonion
Merkel were among the world leaders who wished him and conference, he said that the in- However,thefarmers’ especially
lauded his personal contribution to strengthening of ties with troduction of these ordinances progressive farmers and farmer
their countries. The PM responded to several messages on does not mean that government organisations have now under-
Twitter, many of them personalised. One response caught the mandis would be closed. stood that the state government

exportban:BangladeshtoIndia
eye.MilindSomanhadwishedthePM“goodhealthandagood Procurement of crops at MSP is committed for the welfare of
andproactiveopposition,topushyoutodobetterforourgreat will continue and “by no chance farmers and procurement will
country”.Tonguefirmlyincheek,Modiresponded:“Thankyou willprocurementbedonebelow bedoneatMSPonly,heasserted.
for your birthday wishes and wishful thinking.” MSP”, he said. Khattar said the Haryana
Taking a dig at the Congress, government has consistently
Khattar said: “The so-called taken farmer-friendly deci-
FINGERS CROSSED ‘Had requested India to inform Dhaka of any such move beforehand’
farmer-friendly leaders are pro-
voking the farmers by misguid-
sions—beitgivingcompensation
orlaunchingnewfarmerwelfare
HARISHSALVE,India’scounselontheKulbhushanJadhavcase ing them. But the farmers are schemes like Bhavantar Bharpai
attheInternationalCourtof JusticeatTheHague,hasemerged now beginning to understand Yojana and Meri Fasal Mera
as New Delhi’s choice as Jadhav’s representative at the SHUBHAJIT ROY the benefits of these ordi- Byora.
IslamabadHighCourt.Giventheacrimonyhisnamegenerates NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 nances.” “Even now the government
in Pakistan, the Imran Khan government is unlikely to give a He said that if the opposition will not back down in taking any
go-ahead. But South Block is keeping its fingers crossed. IN THE latest strain in ties be- is so farmer-friendly, then it decision in the interest of farm-
tween New Delhi and Dhaka, should ask the Congress-led ers. If any farmer organisation or

CALL TO COLLABORATE
onions have taken centre stage. Rajasthan and Punjab govern- individual wishes to give any
Bangladesh has officially ments to start the procurement suggestion or has any query re-
conveyed its “deep concern” of millet and maize like Haryana garding these ordinances then
AT THE G20 meeting of Finance and Health Ministers on over India’s abrupt decision to is doing. they can come forward to share
Thursday,UnionHealthMinisterDrHarshVardhanpitchedfor ban the export of onions. This “This time we have decided the same and I assure that their
global equitablesharingof Covid-19diagnostics,vaccinesand has been communicated that Haryana will not be procur- suggestions and grievances will
technologies, saying that the world needs to come together through a note verbale by the ing a single grain coming from be considered by the govern-
and share information to battle the pandemic and capitalise Bangladesh Foreign Ministry to other states including Rajasthan ment. I appeal to the farmers to
on programmes like ‘Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator’. the Indian High Commission in andPunjab.Whereasgrainspro- remain vigilant about double -
The minister did not miss the opportunity to bat for ‘Make in Dhaka. duced by each farmer of standards of the Congress,” said
India’, adding that it also meant ‘Make for the World’. Bangladesh Foreign Haryana will be procured by the Khattar.
Minister A K Abdul Momen

EXTRA TIME
Thursday said the Indian

JUSTBEFOREtheSADminister’sresignationfromtheUniongov-
Ministry of External Affairs is
very “repentant” for not in-
forming Bangladesh before-
JDU looks to contest 115
ernmentover“anti-farmer”Bills,BJPMPswerewaxingeloquent
onthebenefitsoftheproposedlegislation.PartyMPJagdambika
hand while imposing a ban on
onion exports. seats, wants BJP to fight
128, accommodate LJP
Pal used the opportunity to applaud PM Narendra Modi for his “I heard that the Indian
gifttofarmers.“TodayisthePrimeMinister’sbirthdayandIthink Ministry of External Affairs is
infuture,thisday,whenwearepassingtheseBills,wouldbeob- very repentant. Because they Onion vendors at the Mahatma Phule market in Pune. Ashish Kale
served as ‘farmer empowerment day’.” Pal’s long speech, how- didn’t know about the sudden
ever, did not amuse many BJP MPs. As he went on speaking, re- ban,” he told reporters at his of-
jectingtheChair'sinstructionstoconclude,someBJPMPswere fice, soon after his return from that tookplace in 2019 and 2020
To tide over crisis, 40,000 SANTOSH SINGH
DECISION
2020
seenstandingandurginghimtofinish.AsPalconcluded,many Turkey. between the two friendly coun- PATNA, SEPTEMBER 17
party MPs were seen thumping the desk and thanking him. Bangladesh expects a posi- tries on the matter and the un-
tive outcome regarding its re-
quest to withdraw the ban on
derstanding shared, the
Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign
tonnes of onions offloaded THE JD(U) is looking to contest
115 seats in the Bihar Assembly BIHAR

Anger in Assam as RS is told

onion export soon, sources said.
Momen said that there was
an understanding between the
Affairs wrote to Indian High
Commission in Dhaka on
September 15.
in Mumbai, Pune markets polls while leaving 128 seats for
theBJP,whichshouldaccommo-
date the LJP from its quota, A BJP leader said:“Seat-shar-
state ‘studying’ Clause 6 report two countries that information
would be conveyed in advance
The letter said that the
Bangladesh side, during the PARTHA SARATHI
Aurangabad, Osmanabad and
Solapur districts. “Fifty FPCs had
sources said.
The JD(U) and BJP have been
ing talks have been going in
Delhi between top leaders of BJP
Arunachal Pradesh when it comes to such steps. It meeting, had requested India to BISWAS participated in the process and treadingcautiouslyonseat-shar- and JD(U). It is difficult to say
ABHISHEK SAHA Advocate-General Nilay Dutta, a would have been better had inform Dhaka “ahead of time” in PUNE, SEPTEMBER 17 procured onions from nearly ingamidaggressiveposturingby anything now about the num-
GUWAHATI, SEPTEMBER 17 member of the panel, tweeted: Bangladesh been informed case of any event necessitating 10,000farmers.Theproducewas the LJP. bers of seats. By conventional
“The clause 6 committee report about the abrupt decision be- such a restriction. MAHAFPC, THE umbrella body stored in village-level storage JD(U) sources told The Indian logic, we should contest as equal
THE RECOMMENDATIONS by a remains with the Govt of Assam forehand, he said. Bangladesh referred to the of farmer producer companies structures,” said Thorat. Express that the party had been partners as we did in the last Lok
high-level panel on implement- for consideration. Was it ever According to estimates, commercesecretary-levelmeet- (FPC) in the state, has started of- MahaFPC decided to offload pressing its claim to contest 115 Sabha polls. Our party had
ing Clause 6 of the Assam Accord sent to the Home Ministry GOI? Bangladesh’s monthly require- ing between the two countries floading40,000tonnesof onions the stock once prices started ris- seats. “In 2010, there was just shown a large heart during the
are “under examination of the The answer in Rajya Sabha is ment of onions is about 2 lakh on January 15-16, 2020, and it had procured earlier in the ing, and it is selling the produce JD(U) and BJP, hence we did not Lok Sabha polls by denying tick-
state government”, the Centre silent on this aspect. @sar- tonnes. The country has a stock VVIP visit to India in October last markets of Mumbai and Pune. inthesecondarymarketsof Pune havemanyissuesoverseat-shar- ets to five sitting MPs and giving
told the Rajya Sabha in a written banandsonwalIamshockedand of around 5.6 lakh tonnes of the year. MahaFPC has been offload- and Mumbai. “This way, we are ing. We were part of the Grand JD(U) equal seats (17 each) to
reply on Wednesday, sparking hurt.Atleasttoday,talktoAssam bulb and import of 11,000 Last October, Prime Minister ing the onions in markets which insulating the farmers’ incomes Alliance in 2015 Assembly polls contest.It isnowthe JD(U)’s turn
sharp criticism in Assam against from your heart.” tonnes is under process, author- Sheikh Hasina had lamented primarily cater to retail con- from a price drop while the ur- and contested 101 seats. Now to return the favour.”
theSarbanandaSonowaladmin- AASU general secretary ities in Dhaka said. India’s ban on onion exports. sumer centres to prevent any ef- banconsumergetsthebenefitof thatweareagainpartof theNDA HesaidtheBJP’scentrallead-
istrationforitsdelayinclearingit. Lurinjyoti Gogoi, also a member Bangladesh has reached out “I wish you had informed us fect in the primary markets, price correction,” he said. and the senior partner, we are ership had been also in touch
Clause 6 of the 1985 accord of thecommittee,said:“Itproves to Turkey to compensate for the before suddenly putting a halt where farmers directly sell their Meanwhile, the export ban pressing for 115seats. Let the BJP withtheLJPtoresolveseat-shar-
speaks about safeguards to pro- they are not committed to im- onion shortage that may be in export of onions. I had to tell produce, said managing director has continued to hit the price of accommodate LJP and we will ing issues.
tect Assamese culture. To insti- plement the recommendations caused by India’s ban. my cook I have no other option Yogesh Thorat. onions, with the average traded take care of Jitan Ram Manjhi's Admitting to hitches over
tute them, a 14-member com- of the committee’s report.” Earlier,Bangladeshsharedits but to have my food without Back in March, when onion priceof thebulbfallingbyRs600 Hindustani Awam Morcha some seats between the BJP and
mittee was constituted by the Sonowal told reporters “deep concern” with India at the onions. I would request India to priceshadplunged,MahaFPChad per quintal since it touched the (Secular) from our share,” said a JD(U), the leader said: “We want
Ministry of Home Affairs. The Wednesday: “The government sudden ban, which comes after please inform us beforehand started procuring onions at the year’s high of Rs 3,000 on JD(U) source. some of their sitting seats and
committee submitted its report will take steps to implement discussions in October last year while taking such an action. village level under the Price Monday. Following the export Atpresent,JD(U)has71MLAs JD(U) wants some of ours. A lot
to the Assam government in Clause 6 as per the recommen- and January this year. After all, we are neighbours,” the SupportFund forNAFED.Tilllast ban, which onion farmers have and BJP has 53 legislators. In the also depends on the number of
February. The report was to be dations of the committee.” The latest abrupt announce- Bangladesh Prime Minister week, it had procured 40,000 been protesting against, prices 2010 Assembly elections, the seats RJD will contest. The seat-
ratifiedbythestateAssemblybe- FULLREPORTON mentof theGovernmentof India Hasina had said in Hindi at a tonne of the bulb, mainly from dropped to Rs 2,401 per quintal JD(U) and BJP had contested on sharing could be announced
fore going to the Centre. www.indianexpress.com “undermines” the discussions programme in India. Ahmednagar, Pune, Nashik, by Wednesday. 141 and 102 seats, respectively. sometime in October.”

NEARLY 6 LAKH DEMANDS FOR WORK GENERATED IN AROUND A MONTH SINCE SYSTEM BEGAN

In first, Jharkhand gets social audit team to boost NREGA work demand
E
Illustrating how much more byMGNREGApersonnel,includ- a unique initiative of Jharkhand,
EXPLAINED

ABHISHEK ANGAD
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17
work demand has been gener-
ated, SAU state coordinator Work demand of ing Rozgar Sewaks, for over a
month since July-end.
the first in the country: We have
separated demand generation

INWHATtheJharkhandgovern-
Gurjeet Singh said during the
corresponding period in the last
●
essence But with many migrant
workers returning from other
and the implementing agency,
resulting in more accountabil-
ment says is the first such move three financial years, around 2 states during the pandemic and ity,” Patnaik said.
by any state, the Rural lakh person days of work was the nationwide lockdown, there Accordingtogovernmentfig-
Development Ministry has generated—under MGNREGA, a UNDER MGNREGA, work gets rolling only when a person was a lot of demand for work, ures, 17.11 lakh people have
started capturing work demand representativefromeachhouse- demands work for any asset creation. The worker then is li- she pointed out. worked under MGREGA in
under Mahatma Gandhi hold is eligible to get 100 days of able to be paid unemployment allowance in case the gov- “We were getting feedback Jharkhand until now in the on-
National Rural Employment work each year. “This has ernment fails to provide him/her work within 15 days. that workers want to work but going financial year, generating
Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) jumped to 5.2 lakh person days However, the culture of demanding work and getting a re- were not able to reach out to the 419.71 lakh person days of work.
through its social audit unit (this time) due to the pressure of ceipt—on the time by which work has to be sanctioned— system due to the strike, among “The team members of SAU
(SAU), generating nearly 6 lakh work demand and receipt, 17.11 lakh people have worked under MGREGA in Jharkhand from the authorities could never be streamlined in other reasons,” Patnaik said. started capturing demands and
demands for work in around a which this new system has so far this fiscal. File Jharkhand, as in other parts of the country, due to conflict “Earlier,thesamesystemwasre- sent them to a dedicated email
month since the system began evolved,” Singh said. of interest, as the same team of people was responsible for sponsible for demand genera- and WhatsApp number…. Until
in mid-August. Work demands were earlier work demand generation and sanction. tion as well as providing work – now, 5,86,000 workers have de-
According to officials, this is generated through ‘Rozgaar and finally make the payments. tation” of various programmes, through Rozgaar Sewaks. So we manded work in Jharkhand
a big shift in the work demand Sewaks’—there is one in each This was a long and tedious has now been made responsible innovated and started a system throughthisprocessandofficials
process—separating demand panchayat of the state—who process. for generating demands for dit of work already done and had to play. of gettingworkdemandthrough are facing the heat because fail-
generating and implementing would go village to village and The SAU, under the Rural work. those underway, and can get Aradhana Patnaik, the SAU.” ing to provide work will mean
agencies—and is likely to change raise awareness about the con- Development Department, cre- This,officialssay,iseasier,be- more people to demand work Jharkhand Rural Development Within 15-20 days, she said, payment of unemployment al-
the way MGNREGA functions in cept of MGNREGA, get demands ated to “promote transparency cause more SAU personnel are than Rozgar Sewaks were able Secretary, said work demands nearly 6 lakh people demanded lowance,” SAU state coordinator
the state. for work, sanction the schemes, andaccountabilityinimplemen- out on the field, doing social au- to, given the multiple roles they started to decline due to a strike work under MGNREGA. “This is Singh said.

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BRIEFLY
Death numbers still low in India, but After Kerala focus
on expats, cases
no scope to relax in Covid-19 battle traced to three
Prahlad Patel
Nearly 1 lakh infections daily, increase in fatality rate can jeopardise move towards normalcy
Many scientists and experts That is because the epidemic
other states: study
AMITABH SINHA also believe that India’s death is still evolving, and those dying TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE tion of this cluster is estimated
MADHYA PRADESH
PUNE, SEPTEMBER 17 numbers are under-reported. on any given day are usually not LIZ MATHEW between Feb 12-May 16. The

199 CASES: RECOVERED: 40,25,079

But there is no reliable estimate from the group of people who NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 third major cluster (K3) encom-
PrahladPatel INDIA NOW accounts for 1 in
every 6 confirmed cases of coro-
on the extent of this suspected
under-reporting.
got infected the same day, but
rather from the group that got DAYS SINCE 51,18,253 DEATHS: 83,198 AFTER KERALA reported India’s
passes 25 genomes (22.1%) from
Kerala and shares 46 genomes
testspositive navirus infection in the world, Asof now,thecasefatalityra- infected two orthree weeks ear-
PANDEMIC
BEGAN TESTS: 6,05,65,728 | DOUBLING RATE: 36.60** first Covid infection on January from the state of Karnataka with
forCovid-19 which is roughly the same as
India’s share in the global popu-
tio (CFR), or the number of
deaths against the number of
lier. A better estimate of CFR
would therefore require a com-
30,inamedicalstudentwhohad
returned from China, the state
introduction around March 3-
May 27,” it says.
Bhopal: Union minister lation. The silver lining is that confirmed infections, is 1.63 per parison of the total number of focusedonexpatriatesandinter- Accordingtothestudy,ahap-
Prahlad Singh Patel on India is so far contributing only cent. A total of 83,198 coron- deaths with the number of con- national travellers but the sub- lotype analysis of the samples
Thursday said he has 1 in 12 coronavirus-related avirus-related deaths had been firmed infections two to three sequent outbreak originated suggests that the virus circulat-
tested positive for Covid- deaths in the world. reported in India until weeks previous to that. mainly from three other states, ing in Kerala is with the D614G
19. The BJP MP from This, of course, is likely to Wednesday.Thenumberof peo- However, in the absence of anewgenomesequencingstudy variant, which is considered to
Damoh Lok Sabha seat in change as more people get in- plewhohavebeeninfectedwith any uniform lag period between has suggested. confer high infectivity.
Madhya Pradesh said his fected; the daily numbers are the virus at some point is more infection anddeath, acorrect es-
KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING Most of the later cases could The study's findings indicate
testreportwasreceivedon now almost 1 lakh. With a lag of than 51.18 lakh. timate of CFR can be had only by
TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* TIME** be traced to Maharashtra, thatthestate'sstrategy,of focus-
Wednesday night. “I have two to three weeks, a propor- India’sCFRisabouthalf of the trackingtheinfectiontimelineof ■ Maharashtra 11,21,221 23,365 2.13% 33.78 Odisha and Karnataka, accord- ing mainly on testing, contact-
testedpositive.Thosewho tionate increase in the number global number, which currently every individual patient who ■ Andhra 5,92,760 8,835 1.68% 42.86 ing to the study conducted tracing and quarantining expa-
metmeonTuesdayshould of deaths can be expected. stands at 3.14 per cent, and has succumbed to the disease. jointly by the Government triates and international
■ Tamil Nadu 5,19,860 5,652 1.13% 63.70
take adequate precau- Already, more than 1,000 deaths been steadily declining. In fact, Alternatively, a correct CFR will Medical College in Kozhikode travellers, should have also cov-
tions,” the minister are being reported every day India’s position looks much bet- emerge only after the epidemic ■ Uttar Pradesh 3,30,265 6,229 2.13% 33.87 and two of India's premier sci- ered those returning from other
tweeted.Patel’sministerial from across the country. ter, relatively speaking, if deaths has ended. ■ Delhi 2,30,269 4,473 1.95% 36.95 ence institutes -- CSIR-Institute states.
colleagues Amit Shah, As normal activities resume per million population is taken In India, while Maharashtra of Genomics and Integrative “Genome analysis suggests
* Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7 days ** Calculated over 7-day growth
Nitin Gadkari, Shripad despite the rising number of in- into account.Globally, about121 accountsforthehighestnumber Biology, and Academy of limited inter-state introductions
Naik, Dharmendra fections, the biggest challenge is coronavirus-relateddeathshave of coronavirus-related deaths CASE FATALITY RATIO POSITIVITY RATE DAILY IN, DAILY OUT Scientific and Innovative followed by extensive local
Pradhan, Kailash to prevent the number of deaths happened per million popula- (more than 30,000), it is Punjab Research. spread contribute to the major-
7 DAYS EARLIER: 7 DAYS EARLIER: DETECTED TODAY
Choudhary, Arjun Ram from spiralling upward. A rise in tion, while in India, this number that has the highest CFR right A large number of non-resi- ity of the isolates in Kerala in
Meghwal, Gajendra the fatality rate can seriously is only about 60. now, almost 3 per cent. Punjab 1.68 8.44 97,894 dentKeraliteshadreturnedfrom contrast to spread from interna-
Shekhawat and Suresh jeopardise the move towards However, as scientists re- has reported more than 2,500 NOW: NOW: RECOVERED TODAY: Maharashtra and Karnataka af- tional travellers, suggesting the
Angadi were also diag- normalcy, and slow down the peatedly emphasise, calculating deaths till now, and has about 1.63 8.45 82,719 ter the pandemic broke out. So testing, tracing and quarantine
nosed with Covid-19 recovery process. That is why lo- CFR this way, by dividing the to- 87,000 people who have been Deaths as a ratio of Positives against Becoming sick vs far, Kerala has recorded 1,22,214 of internationaltravellerswasan
recently. PTI cal administrators and health- tal number of deaths by total detected positive. positive cases (in %); number tested recovering; more Covid cases, with 490 deaths. effective strategy,” it said.
care workers are being con- number of confirmed infections Gujarat, Maharashtra and indicator of progress (in %); indicator of recoveries for 14 days The study, published on The study also pointed out
in averting deaths the spread of disease may signal the peak
stantly instructed to make every on any given day, is likely to Delhi are the other states that September 10, covered 200 that the cluster architecture has
DataasonSeptember16,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbers
effort to prevent as many deaths present a somewhat misleading have CFRshigherthan2 per cent includedatafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive SARS-nCoV2 samples from a identified recent but not appar-
KARNATAKA as possible. picture. as of now. major tertiary care centre in entlyconnectedoutbreaksspan-

First-timeRajya north Kerala, where a significant

number of non-resident
ningmultipledistrictsinthestate.
Thestudydidnotidentifythe
SabhaMPdies MAHARASHTRA Keralites had returned from the centre from where the samples

ofcoronavirus As Covid toll Middle East, too.

“Themajorcluster(identified
were taken. “However, the cen-
tre caters to a large population

Bengaluru: A first-time soars, govt as K1) encompassed 40

genomes from Kerala (35.4%).
and region and has close prox-
imity to an international airport.
Rajya Sabha member of
the BJP from Karnataka
officials want The analysis suggests that the
cluster K1 was potentially gen-
Secondly, the sampling was lim-
ited to a short period of time,
died of Covid-19 at a pri-
vatehospitalinthecityon
100% attendance eratedfromanancestorfromthe
state of Maharashtra before ini-
thus enabling only a cross-sec-
tional view of the epidemic and
Thursday.AshokGasti,55,
hadbeenasurprisechoice
norm revoked tial dissemination in Kerala. The
timing of the introduction of the
precludinganaccurateandtem-
poral view of the dynamics of
foraRajyaSabhaseatear- cluster was estimated as be- the epidemic in the state.
lier this year but was not SANDEEP ASHAR tween May 11 and July 22,” the Nevertheless, this provides a
abletoattendanysession MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 17 study says. unique opportunity to create a
of Parliament on account “The second cluster (K2) en- snapshotof theepidemicintime
of the pandemic. He was WITH 16 people working at compasses 42 genomes (37.1%) and space,” the report said.
diagnosed with severe Mantralaya, the state secretariat from Kerala and shares 27 There are two international
Covid-19pneumonia,said building, succumbing to Covid- genomes from the state of airports in north Kerala, one in
a statement from 19 so far, government officials Odishasuggestingancestryfrom Kozhikode and the other in
Manipal Hospital. “He have threatened to stop work if thestate.Timingof theintroduc- Kannur.
was critically ill with the condition of 100 per cent at-
multi-organ failure and tendance is not withdrawn.
was on life support,” said
hospital director Dr
As part of its ‘Mission Begin
Again’ guidelines, the state has Karnataka: Data shows
fewer patients dying
Manish Rai. Gasti was an made 100 per cent attendance
OBC leader from north mandatoryforclassAandclassB
Karnataka’s Ballari ENS employees from September 1 in

MAHARASHTRA
government offices. Earlier, it
was only 15 per cent. soon after hospitalisation
Mandieshours In a representation to Chief
Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest
afterdetained Wednesday, the Maharashtra
State Gazetted Officers Devotees perform tarpan, a ritual to pay respect to ancestors, on Thursday on the occasion of Mahalaya at Jagannath ghat, on
JOHNSON TA
BENGALURU, SEPTEMBER 17
Diseases and a member of the
state death audit panel.
forinterrogation Federation (MSGOF) and the the Hooghly in Kolkata. Durga Puja, which usually starts after seven days of Mahalaya, begins a month later this time. Partha Paul A total of 2,068 patients died
Maharashtra Mantralaya THE INTERVAL between hospi- in Karnataka in July, 3,388 in
Mumbai: A 27-year-old Officers Association (MMOA) tal admissions and deaths in August and 1,106 till September

Won’t allow Covid to dampen Puja

man died on Wednesday has blamed the lack of precau- Covid-19 cases in Karnataka has 10, while 932 died in Bengaluru
morning, hours after the tionary measures and the viola- seen gradual improvement, in July, 936 in August and 342 till
local RCF police in tion of social distancing norms from an average of two days in September 10.
Chembur detained him for the surge in the number of July to around six days in early Statistical analysis of Covid-

spirit: Mamata takes Mahalaya pledge

for interrogation. The cases, while arguing that the de- September, according to data 19 deaths reported in Karnataka
family of Sohail Shaikh cision mandating 100 per cent provided by the state govern- between July 14 and September
alias Usman alleged that attendance of class A and class B mentinitsdailyhealthbulletins. 10 — carried out by a social me-
he was beaten up by the officials was ill-conceived. ThedetailsofCovid-19deaths diauser@shananallaandshared
police after they de- “Around 4,000 to 4,500 em- regards to one and all. Although defeated and good energy will ilies. They are our pride. They documented in the state health by epidemiologist Dr R Giridhar
manded money him. The ployeesreporttothe Mantralaya EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE #COVID19hasrestrictedhowwe win. As a part of this pledge, I work tirelessly for the develop- bulletin show that nearly 45 per Babu—alsosuggestsgradualim-
police have denied this buildingonadailybasis.Besides, KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 17 celebrate festivals, we shall not vow to ensure that this Durga ment of the society,” she added. cent of the total 6,462 deaths in provement of the interval of
and are waiting for the the number of visitors has also allow it to dampen the spirit of Puja no one is devoid of festivi- FollowingtheChief Minister’s Karnataka between July and time between hospitalisation
postmortemreporttode- gone up. No SOPs are in place to WISHING PEOPLE on the occa- this Durga Puja. To this end and ties. I urge everyone to come for- tweet, her party leaders also earlySeptemberoccurredwithin and deaths.
cide on the next course of regulate people’s movement in sion of Mahalaya, Chief Minister to lighten up every home, I un- ward, extend a helping hand to promptlypledgedtohelppeople two days of admission in a hos- According to the statistical
action.SeniorInspectorof and out of the building. Social Mamata Banerjee on Thursday dertake #MahalayaProtishruti those in need and spread joy in need, using the hashtag pital, while 7 per cent died at analysis of mortalities in
RCF police station S distancing is not possible,” said urged people to help those in [MahalayaPledge],”shetweeted. everywhere,” he tweeted. “#MahalayaProtishruti”. home or were already dead Karnataka, the average time
Nighot said: “The allega- Patil,allegingthatentrantstothe need during the current Covid- The Chief Minister’s nephew Mamata Banerjee, mean- Fifteen MLAs, including when taken to a hospital. spent in hospitals by patients
tions are baseless. His buildingwerenotevenscreened induced crisis. Though the pan- and Trinamool MP Abhishek while,alsowishedpeopleonthe ministers such as Chandrima The July-September data whohavediedhasbeen 5.2days
healthdeteriorateddueto for flu-like symptoms. demic had changed everyone’s Banerjee appealed to the party’s occasion of Vishwakarma Puja Bhattacharya, Laxmi Ratan shows gradual improvement in in September, 4.6 days in August
blood pressure. He is also Tohighlighttheirdemandfor lives, it should not dampen fes- young cadre to extend help to and Bhadu Utsab. She said, Shukla, Indranil Sen, Shashi the time spent by very ill Covid and2.7daysinJuly.InBengaluru,
addicted to drugs. We a roll back, the associations have tivities, she added. theneedyanddistressedpeople. “Vishwakarma Puja wishes to Panja, Sovandeb Chatterjee, patients in hospital through the average time in hospital for
have taken an accidental plannedprotestmeetingsacross “On the auspicious occasion “In this time of Durga Puja, I the brothers and sisters who and Gulam Rabbani made August and September in badly patients has been 6.2 days in the
deathreportinthematter the state on September 21. of Mahalaya, I extend my warm wish all the evil power will be workaslabourersandtheirfam- pledges. affected places like Bengaluru — September 1 to 10 period com-
and are waiting for the when compared to July, when pared to 6.1 in August and an av-
postmortem report.”ENS nearly 55 per cent of 932 deaths erage of two days in July.

WEST BENGAL Covid patient dies at Rajkot hospital, family says he died in July occurred within 24 hours
of hospital admissions and
The lengthening interval be-
tween admission and deaths for

Banglanationals nearly 10 per cent deaths oc- serious Covid cases in Karnataka

caughtafter due to ‘beating’ and not infection after video goes viral curred before patients reached a
hospital in Bengaluru.
The interval between hospi-
has been attributed to improve-
ments in care and handling of
patients since July.
crossingborder portedly of September 9, a para- istration to clarify that the staff ment, at the time the video was taladmissionandCovid-19mor- “With use of steroids and
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE medic is seen pinning Paatil to was merely “restraining” the pa- shot, he had a bout of hysteria tality in Bengaluru is seen from other means, patients are being
Kolkata: BSF personnel on RAJKOT, SEPTEMBER 17 the floor by placing his knee on tient. Hours later, Jayanti Ravi, and started running around, at- the data to have increased from managedbetteriftheyreachhos-
Thursday apprehended his chest even as others hold his principal secretary (Health and temptingtoremoveintravenous an average of one day in July to pitalintime.Withuseof steroids,
three Bangladeshis A VIDEO of paramedics pinning hand and security guards, one of Family Welfare) reached Rajkot tube... he was taking off his around six days in early thereisaspikeinsugarlevelsand
including two women down a Covid-19 patient to “re- them wielding a baton, look on. to address a press conference clothes and behaving in a man- September. if this is not treated then compli-
after they illegally crossed strain” him went viral on “Didn'tItellyounottodoit?,” and deny allegations by family. ner that he could harm himself “Earlier we were thinking of cations arise after a few days in
the international Thursday,fourdaysafterhedied, the paramedic wearing a white Ravi told The Indian Express, and other patients. When per- treatmentonly in terms of an in- hospital,” said a senior doctor at
boundaryinWestBengal’s leading his family members to PPE is heard telling the patient “He (Paatil) was in a very acute suading himdidn’t work,hewas fectious disease. Now there is St John's Medical College.
Nadia district. Acting on a allege that he died due to the even as Paatil pleads, “Wait, stage of delirium. He had no ori- restrained,” Dr Buch added. understanding of thromboem- Apart from better manage-
tip-off, the border guards beating and not the infection. please wait”. The paramedic is entation. He was running Ravi said, “Paatil had a men- bolicdevelopments(bloodclots) ment of patients at the early
werekeepingawatchnear Thepatientinthevideoiden- then heard saying that cops are around and had taken off his talillness... Inthevideo,youmust linked to the infection. Changes stages of hospital admission, an
Kumari village in the tified as Prabhashankar Paatil, coming and as the patient tries A video grab of the incident. clothes. He even tried to throttle have seen no one beat him.” have taken place after learning increase in ICU beds with oxy-
district. They found five 38, was shifted to the state gov- to escape, the security guard another patient...” Whenitwaspointedoutthatthe from many countries. We are gen supply after the state gov-
people crossing over from ernment-run PDU hospital on wielding the baton pushes him Dr Pankaj Buch, medical su- video showed otherwise, Ravi giving blood thinners to prevent ernment roped in private hospi-
Bangladesh to the Indian September 8 after undergoing a down again by placing his foot then heard telling the patient. perintendentof PDUHospitalis- said: “He was restrained. They thromboembolism after con- tals in late July has helped ease
side, BSF said in a kidney procedure at Giriraj on Paatil’s shoulder, while the Patil died on September 12. sued a video statement saying, tried to control him...” ducting D-Dimer tests. After the number of rapid deaths that
statement.Three of them MultispecialtyHospitalinRajkot paramedicslapshim.Heisheard The video went viral on so- the patient had ailments such as Paatil’s family rejected the starting Remdesivir and change occurred through July, experts
were nabbed while two where he was found to be in- crying, “corona....corona...!” cial media on Thursday and lo- diabetes and hypertension. hospital’s claim. “He never had of treatmentprotocol,thedeaths said.
managedtoflee. PTI fected with coronavirus. “Nothing will happen to you cal TV channels also aired it, “According to the opinion anymentalillness,”saidyounger have reduced in all hospitals,” FULLREPORTON
In the 55-second video, pur- due to corona,” a female staff is prompting the hospital admin- given by our psychiatry depart- brother Vilas Paatil. said Dr C Nagaraja, director of www.indianexpress.com

New Delhi
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Odisha seeks Rs 1,100 cr central aid for flood damage

about 2.25 lakh hectares of agri- a two-day visit to the state to as- mitigatesuchfloodsinthefuture,
TN: Not just PM-Kisan, fraudsters
may have targeted other schemes too
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE cultural land have suffered dam- sess the damage caused due to including strong embankments
BHUBANESWAR, age due to the floods in the last floods, agreed to consider sup- and power infrastructure. Our
SEPTEMBER 17 week of August. About 1,20,000 porting the state in terms of re- majorareasofconcernweredam-
houses,aswellasembankments, sponse as well as mitigation age to agricultural and horticul-
THE ODISHA government roads, and public infrastructure, measures such as strengthening ture crops apart from property nancial benefits from the state is alleged that they added ineli- andphotosof theirAadhaarcard
Thursday sought assistance of Rs have also been affected. of infrastructure and properties. damage,” a senior official said. ARUN JANARDHANAN and central governments. gible beneficiaries and non- andlanddocuments.“Theywere
1,100crorefromtheCentretodeal The floods hit nearly 14 lakh Theteam,ledbyPraveenVas- According to Special Relief CHENNAI, SEPTEMBER 17 “Attheseevents,landandAa- farmers under the scheme and told that they will be getting Rs
with the aftermath of the recent peoplefromover6,000villagesof hista, Joint Secretary in the Min- CommissionerPradeepJena,high dhaardocumentswerecollected. got the list approved. 2,000 every alternate month
floodsinthestate.Theaidamount 19 districts. These numbers were istryofHomeAffairs,visitedflood- floodstookplaceinfivemajorsys- THEFINDINGSof aCB-CIDprobe Not all such events reported One of the most backward from the Central government.
wascalculatedafterapreliminary presentedatahigh-levelmeeting hitareasofBhadrak,Kendrapada, tems of Subarnarekha, Baitarani, into the PM Kisan scheme scam scams, but at some places, we districts in the state with a size- Localpoliticiansplayedakeyrole
assessment of damage to crops, chaired by state Chief Secretary Jajpur and Puri. “In the meeting, Brahmani, Budhabalanga and in Tamil Nadu suggest that found that local leaders who or- able number of farm labourers in this,” the officer said.
houses and other properties. Asit Tripathy. wehaveemphasisedthatthereis Mahanadi, necessitating reloca- fraudulent elements, most of ganisedtheseeventscreatedbank and migrant workers, Villup- ChiefMinisterEdappadiKPal-
As per government numbers, A central team, which was on aneedforlong-termmeasuresto tion of over 1.73 lakh people. thembackedbylocalpoliticians, accountswithouttheknowledge uram accounted for 90,000 inel- aniswami has promised action
lootedmoneyfromseveralother ofpoorfarmersandcollectedben- igible people listed as benefici- against culprits and said it is the
welfare schemes too. efits directly. In some cases, they aries of the PM Kisan scheme. AIADMKgovernmentthatunear-
WINNER OF PRESIDENT’S MEDAL The investigators have also collected commission for the Out of these, 60,000 comprised thed the scam. He said the com-

Haryana ADGP’s
found that some listed benefici- amount farmers received from non-farmers and people who plete amount siphoned off from
aries,includingpoorfarmersand thegovernment,”theofficersaid. lived and had permanent ad- public funds — approximately Rs
farm labourers, did not receive Themodusoperandi,theoffi- dresses outside Villupuram. 110crore—willberecovered.

duties curbed on any money and had not even

heard about the scheme. The
cer said, differed from place to
place and it was not a centralised
The CB-CID officer said an
amount of Rs 8 crore has been
Three district collectors told
The Indian Express that the pro-

minister’s orders
fraudsters, the probe found, col- fraud. “Fraudsters were targeting recoveredfromnearly30,000in- cess to identify ineligible and
lected documents from them to acentralschemeindifferentways. eligible bank accounts in Villu- fake beneficiaries from the list
create bank accounts in their We have information about sim- puram alone. “In several cases, was proving to be a Herculean
nameswithouttheirknowledge. ilarfraudsinseveralothergovern- recovery is difficult as farmers task. “Right now, we are busy
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE During the lockdown, a sen- ment schemes,” the officer said. shown as beneficiaries have no with recovery from ineligible
CHANDIGARH, SEPTMBER 17 ior officer investigating the case On Sunday, CB-CID arrested clue about the bank accounts in beneficiaries,” said a collector.
said, “loan fests” were organised seven contract employees of the their names,” the official said. Earlier,DMKchief andLeader
ONTHEordersof HaryanaHomeMinisterAnilVij, by local leaders of political par- state agriculture department for In several cases, the officer of Opposition in Assembly M K
all works under ADGP A S Chawla — who had on ties, including BJP and the ruling their alleged role in the imple- said, the farmers said people Stalin had alleged the role of
theeveof IndependenceDaybeenselectedforthe AIADMK. At these events, peo- mentation of the PM-KISAN who had visited them or organ- AIADMKandBJPinthescamand
President's Police Medal for distinguished service ple were promised loans and fi- scheme in Villupuram district. It ised loan fests took their photos demanded a CBI probe.
— have been withdrawn.
Vij was not happy with
Chawla over the ‘Dial 112 DEMAND FIR AGAINST FOREST OFFICIALS

MP villagers protest ‘detention, beating’ of activists

Project’, a centralised police
helpline. “ADGP A S Chawla
has been assigned a task to
implement (Dial) 112 but for
the past one year, that proj- an FIR is registered against the JagritAdivasiDalitSangh,toldThe for which they were detained
ect is at a standstill. He does- A S Chawla IRAM SIDDIQUE forestofficialsforallegedkidnap- IndianExpress,“Therewerearound when spotted at the court.
n’t update me nor has the BHOPAL, SEPTEMBER 17 ping and wrongful confinement 10 people who took rounds at Burhanpur Collector Praveen
task been implemented. I is- of the activists. The villagers had beatingusup.Theyweredrunk.” Singh Adhayach said, “We re-
sued orders on Wednesday that all works from SEVERAL VILLAGERS have gath- earlierwrittentothedistrictcol- The next morning, according ceived a written complaint aga-
him be withdrawn,” Vij told the media persons. ered outside Nepanagar police lectorandsuperintendentof po- toJamre,theyweretakentoagov- insttheforestofficialsandordered
“Now, he will just come to the office, mark his station in Burhanpur district of lice demanding action against ernment hospital for a check-up a preliminary investigation.”
attendance and sit in the office but won’t do any MadhyaPradeshsinceTuesdayto the forest officials. butthedoctorwasaskedtomake Whiletheprotestingvillagers
work,” added Vij. protesttheallegeddetentionand Accordingtothevillagers,ac- asimplereport.Itwasafterhehad refused to leave until their de-
beating of tivists Kailash Jamre (46) and fallen unconscious on his way to mands were heeded,
two tribal ac- Pyar Singh Waskale (35) were thecourtthathewastakentohos- Subdivisional Magistrate Visha
tivistsbyforest detained when they had gone to pital and given treatment for six Madhwani,whorushedtopacify
officers. the district court of Burhanpur days, he said. them, said, "We are trying to ex-
The tribals on August 30 to secure the re- When contacted, district for- plain to the villagers that an in-
of Nepanagar, leaseof two othervillagers.They est officer for Burhanpur, Gaurav quiryhasbeenorderedanditwill
about 330 km wereallegedlytakentotherange Choudharydeniedtheallegations. take some time before any deci-
from Bhopal, office and beaten overnight by He said Jamre and Waskale had sion can be taken. They have as-
have refused forest officials. severaloffencesundertheIndian sembled in huge numbers with-
to leave until Jamre, who is affiliated with ForestActregisteredagainstthem, out social distancing."

NATIONAL AGRI-FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (NABI) Wanted Maoist held in MP

Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India
Knowledge City, Sector-81, Mohali-140306, Punjab, INDIA
Bhopal: A21-year-oldallegedMaoistwithbounties
Website: www.nabi.res.in, Tel: 0172-5221300
againsthiminthreestateswasarrestedbyBalaghat
e-Notice Inviting Tenders
police from Samnapur-Banda tola region on the
e-Tenders in Two parts (Technical Bid and Price Bid) are invited on MadhyaPradesh-ChhattisgarhborderonThursday.
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NABI-CIAB campus. ment of Maoists posing as villagers to buy supplies.
The complete details of these tenders will be available on the NABI Ateamwassenttothemarket,wheretheyfollowed
Website- www.nabi.res.in & CPPP Website- https:// two people whose movement seemed suspicious.
eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app. Any changes/amendments if According to police, the two started running. “One
made in the tender, will be available on NABI website and CPPP escapedandtheotherfellintoalakeandwasappre-
website. Bidders may kindly refer the above websites before hended,” IG, Balaghat, K P Venkateshwar Rao said.
submitting the bids. Manager-Admin While the police team was re-
turning with Badal, they were at-
tackedbyagroupof10-12Maoists,
they said. “There was retaliatory
firingfromourside.Wemanaged
to get Badal alive,” said Rao. ENS

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 EXPRESS NETWORK 9
HC seeks Centre’s
stand on actor’s plea
Celebs,parties:Bengaluru
on media reporting Policedependonolddrughauls
in Rhea drugs case EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
two African-origin dealers and a
former software sector em-
Ravishankar reportedly
named several people involved
Sanjjanaa, as well as Sanjjanaa.
Aditya Alva, the businessman
BENGALURU, SEPTEMBER 17 ployee,PrateekShetty,30,theal- in the supply and use of party son of former minister Jeevaraj
leged pointsman for peddling drugs. On September 4, the Alva and brother-in-law of actor
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE TWO MAJOR drug hauls – one in the drugs at parties. Crime Branch filed a fresh case Vivek Oberoi, who is not in the
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 November 2018 and another in The August 2020 haul in- naming 12 persons allegedly country, has been named in the
August 2020 – lie at the heart of volved the arrest of Anoop mentioned by him, including probe.Thepolicehavealsoques- The charges are to be nominal and will be applicable in
THE DELHI High Court on the rapidlyexpanding investiga- Mohammed, Rijesh Dwivedi. “In the course of the tionedactor-coupleDiganthand 10-15 per cent of the 7,000 railway stations. File
Thursday issued a notice to the tion by the Bengaluru Police Ravichandran from Kerala and probe, a search was conducted Aindrita Ray.
Centre and ordered the authori- Crime Branch into drug use in Anikha Dinesh from Bengaluru, at the home of actress Ragini “This is the first time in the
ties to take a decision on com-
plaintsraisedbyactorRakulPreet
Singhinherpetitionregardingal-
the city. It has so far led to the ar-
restof twohigh-profileactresses,
questioning of many from the
with allegedly 550 Ecstasy pills
and 180 LSD blots worth around
Rs 20 lakh in the drug market,by
Dwivedi. Preliminary investiga-
tions have shown involvement
in an international drug racket.
country that strong action has
been taken against drug use.
Drugs are causing harm to stu-
Rlys to include ‘user
leged defamatory and unsub-
stantiated reporting against her
inconnectionwiththedrugscase
Rakul Preet Singh film world, as well as several
whoseclaimtofameisthrowing
high-profile parties, and allega-
the south zone unit of the
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
The NCB had shared infor-
Efforts are on to find the missing
links,” the police said after her
arrest.
dents and the youth,” Karnataka
CM B S Yediyurappa has stated.
“We will get to the root of the
fee’ in train fares for
registered against actor Rhea
Chakraborty and others by the
Narcotics Control Bureau.
mentlaterbutthemediacontin-
ues to connect her to the case.
The court was also told that
tions of political links.
None of the arrested has
been granted bail so far. Amidst
mation with the Crime Branch
on the use of psychedelic drugs
at high-end parties. However, it
In the fortnight since, eight
others have been arrested, with
several, such as party organiser
drug trade in the city. All aspects
willbeknownwhenchargesheets
arefiledinthesecases,”Bengaluru
redeveloped stations
with high footfall
While passing the order, thereportsareleadingtocancel- allegations of rampant drug use is the investigations done in the Viren Khanna and bullion trader PoliceCommissionerKamalPant
Justice Navin Chawla also said lation of her endorsement con- roiling Bollywood and Mumbai, 2018 case -- especially the al- Vaibhav Jain, named in the has said.
the court hopes media houses tracts. In her petition, Singh has the Karnataka government has leged supply network of Shetty November 2018 case as well. However, with no seizures of
would show restraint and abide sought a direction to restrain the been citing the action as “un- – that have led the police to the The police alleged that an drugs from the accused, experts potential rise in prices of tickets
by the programme code and media from such reporting and precedented” and proof of itsre- recent arrests. analysisof themobilephoneand have raised doubts whether EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE with private entities being al-
otherguidelineswhilereporting alleged violation of the pro- solve to crack down on the drug The first person picked up by communicationsof Ravishankar cases against them will lead to NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 lowed to run trains. Yadav said
the matter with regard to Singh. gramme code and guidelines is- mafia. the Crime Branch, soon after the revealed he was in touch with a convictions.“Onthefaceof itthe that fares of Indian Railways are
The notice was issued to the sued by the Centre. However, the police have not NCB haul, was B K Ravishankar, Senegalese cocaine peddler cases may be sensational, but INDIAN RAILWAYS will soon highly subsidised and there is a
News Broadcasters Association The court earlier asked Singh managed to make any fresh 37, an employee of the state re- called Loom Pepper, right uptil without seizures or evidence of start levying a “user fee” as part plan to “rationalise” them.
(NBA), Prasar Bharati, and the whether any complaint has been seizures of drugs from any of the gional transport office who is April. consumption of drugs, these of train fares for stations that “I believe that competency
Press Council of India, seeking filed with the Ministry of accused. saidtobeaclosefriendof actress BasedonRavishankar’sinter- cases may not stand scrutiny in have been redeveloped and ma- will ensure that eventually the
theirresponsebyOctober15,the InformationandBroadcastingand In November 2018, 1.5 kg of Ragini Dwivedi. The police said rogation,the police also arrested an NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and jor stations with high footfall in prices of both passenger and
next date of hearing. askedNBAaboutthepunishment cocaineand1,930Ecstasytablets Ravishankar was a key interme- businessmen Prashant Ranka PsychotropicSubstances)court,” ordertogeneraterevenuetopro- freight fares will decrease in due
The court was hearing a pe- for erring news channels. The worthestimatedRs1.5crorehad diary in the supply of drugs at and Rahul Tonse, the latter said saidaseniorlawyerdealingwith vide better facilities for passen- course,” said NITI Aayog CEO
titionfiled bySinghin which she Centre,whilesubmittingthatthe been seized after the arrest of parties. to be an associate of actress such cases in Bengaluru courts. gers, Railway Board Chairman V Amitabh Kant.
has submitted that the media actorwasseekingablanketorder, K Yadav said on Thursday. Railways plans to redevelop
has started a campaign against submitted that an order of pre- Yadavsaidthechargeswould 50 stations, and monetise its
her, alleging that Chakraborty
namedherinthedrugscase.Her
counsel told the court that
censorship should not be passed.
However, the court stressed
on exercise of restraint by the
As NIA questions Jaleel and Kerala CM backs benominal,andapplicablein10-
15 per cent of the 7,000 railway
stations.
land. The redeveloped hubs will
be called ‘Railopolis’, according
to Railways. It will lease the land
Chakraborty retracted her state- media in reporting.
him, UDF walks tightrope over minority votes “We will keep a very small
amount for the user charge. We
will issue a notification for the
out for 60 years for commercial
purposes.
“We want Railways to drive
Magisterial probe ordered SHAJU PHILIP
trict – in a government vehicle.
Although Jaleel has admitted
to harp on the same point: “If
Panakkad Thangal says distribu-
user charge for all stations, in-
cludingthosebeingredeveloped
India’sgrowthstory.Incountries
like Japan and South Korea the

into Sopore ‘custody death’ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,

SEPTEMBER 17
thathehadacceptedthereligious
texts from the consulate, the in-
vestigatingagenciesaretryingto
tionof theQuranisnotrequired,I
am ready to send back the pack-
ets.AreIUMLleadersreadytotake
and those that are not. When re-
development of the stations is
completed, the money will go to
growth story was also driven by
railway infrastructure. We are
confident that going forward
up by Sopore police... Whereas EVENASKeralaHigherEducation ascertain whether any contra- up that challenge after placing theconcessionaires,tillthenthat Railways will contribute 1-2 per
BASHAARAT MASOOD to find out the truth, it has be- Minister K T Jaleel was ques- band was smuggled under the their hands on the Holy Quran? moneywill go to the railways for cent towards India’s growth,”
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 17 come expedient to Institute tionedbytheNIAonThursdayin guise of religious books. The Truth will eventually win.” improving facilities across sta- Kant said.
magisterial inquiry into the inci- connection with the probe into Opposition has questioned im- Addressing the media on tions. It will be an affordable The Indian Railway Station
THE JAMMU and Kashmir ad- dent,” the inquiry order read. the gold smuggling case and proprietyof aministertakingini- Thursday, Chief Minister Pinarayi amount, but it is important to RedevelopmentCorporationLtd
ministration has ordered a mag- Dar’s death had sparked OppositionCongressandBJPkept Kerala minister K T Jaleel tiative in distributing religious Vijayan repeated his support for levyif wewanttoprovideworld- (IRSDC), the implementing
isterial inquiry into the alleged protests in Kashmir, and politi- uptheirdemandsforhisresigna- textstohiscommunitymembers. Jaleel:“HeacceptedtheQuranasa class facilities similar to airports. agency of the station redevelop-
custodial death of a 23-year-old calpartieshaddemandedaction tion,theprotestslookssettobea Opposition protests against minister who handles the We want to upgrade all our ma- ment project, earlier handed
man in Sopore. in the matter. tightrope walk for the Congress- consulate, and other accused. the LDF government has inten- Minorities department. How can jor railway stations,” Yadav said. over two railway stations --
BaramullaDistrictMagistrate The police said that Dar, a ledUDF,whichhashighstakesin The NIA has invoked anti-terror sified after the ED had ques- people complain against accept- “We will not levy it across all Habibganj in Madhya Pradesh
G N Itoo appointed Baramulla militantovergroundworker,was the minority vote-bank. law UAPA in the smuggling case. tioned Jaleel last week. ing the Quran? We can under- our 7,000 stations, but all major andGandhinagarin Gujarat --to
Additional District Magistrate arrested on Tuesday afternoon Kerala is due for Assembly Multiple agencies are prob- But the minister looked to standCongressandBJPcomplain- stations where passenger foot- private parties for development
Mohd Ahsan Mir as the inquiry and two hand grenades were re- polls next year, and Jaleel has in- ing whether Jaleel, also the state turn the tables on Congress ally ing,butonwhatbasisisIUMLand fall is increasing over the next under public-private partner-
officer and asked him to submit coveredfromhim.Theysaidthat dicated that he is being hunted Minority Welfare Minister, vio- Indian Union Muslim League its leaders joining hands on the five years. It will be done in 10- ship plans to complete both by
the report within 20 days. heescapedfromcustodyandhis for having accepted religious latedprotocolwhiledealingwith (IUML),saying thatheisreadyto Quran issue and attacking Jaleel? 15 per cent of all our stations December 2020.
“Whereasallegationsarelev- body was found later. texts meant for distribution. a foreign mission. According to send back packets of the Quran Hehasnotcommittedanycrime.” where we expect footfall to in- While 94.05 per cent civil
elled against Sopore police for However, his family alleged The NIA questioned Jaleel for investigators, the minister had if IUML chief Panakkad Hyderali Thepro-CPI(M)SunniMuslim crease,” he added. workiscompleteatGandhina-gar
custodial killing of the subject it was “murder in custody”. The severalhoursinconnectionwith accepted packets of the Quran Shihab Thangal wants them not faction, led by Kanthapuram AP The statement comes in the station,theprojectatHabibganjis
(Irfan Ahmad Dar)... Whereas family also rejected the police the gold smuggling case and his and food kits directly from the to be distributed. The IUML, he Aboobaker Musliyar, has also ex- backdropof concernsraisedover 90 per cent complete.
there was huge outcry in Sopore claim that Dar was a militant allegedlinkswitharrestedprime consulate and ferried the con- asserted, should do justice tothe tended support to Jaleel.
and even it was reported in me- overground worker or that any- accused Swapna Suresh, a for- signment to his constituency – word “Muslim” in its name. FULLREPORTON
diathatthedeceasedwaspicked thing was recovered from him. mer executive secretary at UAE Thavannur, in Malappuram dis- OnThursday,Jaleelcontinued www.indianexpress.com DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SERVICES
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separatist leader Shabir Ahmed INDIAN INSTITUTE OF HANDLOOM Director (Medical Services)
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Ahmad Shah being held in the “crossfire” during the gunfight, identified as Kounsar Jan got se- The militants were identified Admission The admission will be based on the merit of rank obtained
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THE EDITORIAL PAGE

Our movements and feelings are constantly
monitored, because surveillance is the business
model of the digital age. — KATHARINE VINER

Pandemic and federalism

FOUNDED BY
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RAMNATH GOENKA
ResponsetoCovid-19showscarvingoutrolesthrough
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
consensuscanaddresschallengestofederalgovernance

DATA INSECURITY Srinivas Chokkakula

Committeetoexaminedigitalsurveillanceisawelcomefirststep. A
INDIA’S RESPONSE TO the COVID-19 pan- is in the federal domain and those with the timesof acutesub-nationalism,deepterrito-
robustpersonaldataprotection frameworkis needed demic — still a moving target having infected state-levelpublicservicespanareassignedto rialisation and competitive federalism? Will

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morethan5millionpeopleinthecountryand the states”. The debate seems to have settled the aspired cooperative federalism get the
OLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION by The Indian Express which revealed how a claimedinexcessof80,000lives—reflectsthe on at least three counts. statestoagreetocedingpowersandconced-
Shenzhen-based big data firm, with links to the Chinese government, was power, problems and potential of federalism One,thefederalorganisationofpowerscan ing space, particularly in their traditionally
systematically tracking over 10,000 prominent Indian citizens, the govern- inthecountry’spolity.Inspiteoftheratheruni- berevisitedandreframed.Two,theCSSsmust exclusivedomains?Thatseemsunlikely.Yet,
ment, on Wednesday, set up an expert committee under the National Cyber lateralresponseintermsofimposinganation- continue but they should be restructured. In themostcollectivethreatsandthechallenges
Security Coordinator to examine the revelations and the broader implications of digi- wide lockdown, the Centre eventually chose additiontotheschemes’rationaleofreducing of copingwithemergingrisksof sustainabil-
toworkcarefullywiththestates.And,themost thehorizontalandverticalimbalancesamong ity are linked to either the State List subjects
tal surveillance on the privacy and personal data of Indian citizens. Considering that the
cynicalof thechief ministersprofessedwork- states, the Centre is also obligated to address or the ones that rely on actions by states —
concerns over data security that lie at the heart of this investigation are also in line with ing with the Centre and other states to deal the externalities of the states’ developmental water,agriculture,biodiversity,pollution,cli-
apprehensions that led to the Indian government’s decision to ban Chinese apps, this is withavarietyof challengesposedbythepan- efforts under the subjects allocated to them. mate change. Some of these also require en-
a welcome development. These issues need to be addressed. However, this is not a specif- demic.Inthepastfewmonths,thecountryhas Three,thereisaneedforanappropriateforum suring sustainability of common pool re-
ically Indian concern. US President Donald Trump’s stance on TikTok underlines grow- witnessedaninterestingandremarkablycoor- to discuss the complex and contentious issue sources — water, for example.
ing concerns across the world, especially in the face of an increasingly aggressive China, dinated effort by the Centre and states in ad- of reviewing federal organisation of powers This extended role of ensuring security
dressing a collective challenge. This exigency and restructuring of central transfers. against threats to sustainability of resources
over personal data being compromised and finding its way into jurisdictions over which
response will help us a great deal in under- Shouldsuchareviewchopandchangethe forms a new layer of considerations. This
there is no control. standing Centre-state relations as well as in subjects in the Union, State and Concurrent should define the contours of a coordinated
At the core of these revelations is the worry that in an increasingly digital world, large improvingmechanismsoffederalgovernance. Lists? A perusal of the country’s response to response between the Centre and States — as
quantities of seemingly unrelated, innocuous data can be amassed, pieced together, and Theexperienceoffersanopportunitytore- the COVID-19 indicates that the exercise be ithappenedduringthepandemic.Infact,such
thendeployedforotherpurposes,withtheindividualconcernedhavinglittleornosayover visit the recent debate around the federal or- guided by a more nuanced perspective. threatsandchallengesrequirethestatestoplay
the flow of information. While some may raise questions over the usability of the data, the ganisationofpowersundertheConstitution’s Consider the manner and the content of a dominant role. At the same time, the Centre
chances of “actionable intelligence” rise manifold as the quantum of data collected multi- SeventhSchedule.Ithasbeenarguedthatsuch reconciliation and repositioning between the mustexpanditsrolebeyondthemitigationof
organisationofpowersisnotcastinstoneand Centreandstatesinthecourseoftheresponse inter-state externalities and address the chal-
plies. The sheer scale, both in terms of width and depth, at which the targeted tracking of
thearrangementrequiresareview.Suchanex- to the pandemic. The Centre’s efforts are now lenges of security and sustainability.
Indian citizens is being undertaken — from politicians, to bureaucrats, industrialists and erciseisindeednecessary,butwhatshouldbe primarily focused on achieving economies of TheGSTreformsisthemostrecentinstance
civilsociety—alludestothepossibilityof thisthreatmaterialising.Inaliberalopendemoc- its broad contours? The review should allow One, the federal organisation scaleinvaccineprocurement,knowledgepro- ofsuchreworkingoftheCentre-staterolesfor
racy,suchconcernsshouldbearticulatedandaddressedinatransparentmanner.Thenec- the carving out of the roles of the Centre and of powers can be revisited duction for setting standards and guidelines a greater and collective goal. It involved a tor-
essary regulation to protect individual rights can be framed after consulting all stakehold- states to address hitherto disregarded and and reframed. Two, the CSSs forthestates,andmitigatinginter-stateexter- tuous,butanewconsensusbuildingapproach
emerging concerns — a viral pandemic or cli- nalities. States continue to play the dominant to implement the reforms. Former Finance
ers and accountability must be assigned. must continue but they
mate change, for instance. role in the execution of the actual response to MinisterArunJaitley,whospearheadeditsim-
While the issue has been raised with Beijing, the government must frame a strategy to should be restructured. In
In one of his columns in this newspaper, thehealthcrisis.Inotherwords,thefundamen- plementation,suggestedasimilarconsensus-
dealwiththeissueof datasurveillanceatmultiplelevels.Tobeginwith,normsof cyberhy- BibekDebroyarguedfortheneedtore-exam- addition to the schemes’ tal principles of comparative advantage pre- building for sectors like health, rural develop-
giene — enforcing strict protocols on what information key government functionaries can ine the distribution of powers under the vailed,buttheywereorganisedonthebasisof mentandagriculture.Thecountry’sresponse
rationale of reducing the
share on social media platforms — could be enforced. Careful thought must go into build- Seventh Schedule so as to rationalise the certain functional roles and responses. to the pandemic has shown that carving out
Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs) under
horizontal and vertical So, here is the key takeaway. In spite of rolesthroughconsensuscanaddressnewchal-
ing the institutional capacity required to pre-empt disinformation campaigns which the
collected information could be deployed for. After all, the hybrid warfare strategy that in- which the Centre extends support in sectors imbalances among states, the health being a state subject, the response to lenges to federal governance.
corporates this data seeks to do just that, to create social discord, discredit leadership and
pertaining to the State List (‘Spending issues’, Centre is also obligated to collectivethreatslinkedtothesubjectrequired What should be an appropriate forum for
IE, September 12, 2019). Why should the address the externalities of somekindoforganisationoffederalresponsi- this purpose? The experience of the GST
undermineinstitutions.Equallyurgentisthetaskof puttinginplacearobustpersonaldata Centre spend, Debroy asked, on a state sub- bilities on a functional basis. Council may help here as well. The ongoing
protection framework with explicit provisions for seeking consent on data sharing and for ject like health and why couldn’t states con-
the states’ developmental How can such coordination be sustained frictionbetweentheCentreandthestatesover
examining and monitoring flow of information to third parties. tributetoaUnionsubjectlikedefence?Hisar- efforts under the subjects on a long-term basis? A typical response is to GST reforms tells us that consensus-building
gument sparked a debate. Also, in this allocated to them. Three, recommend shifting subjects to the is not a one-time exercise. It has to allow sus-
newspaper (‘Leaning on the states’, IE, there is a need for an ConcurrentListtoenableanactiveroleforthe tained dialogue and deliberation. Is there an
September 24, 2019), M Govinda Rao argued Centre.ThisishowtheHigh-LevelGroup,con- institutionalspacethatoffersthenecessaryre-

OUT AND EQUAL that defence is a “national public good” and appropriate forum to discuss stitutedbythe15thFinanceCommission,rec- silience and credibility? Perhaps it is time to
has to be a Union subject. “The constitutional the complex and contentious ommended shifting health from the State to revisit the proposal for an elevated and em-
assignments between the Centre and subna- issue of reviewing federal the Concurrent List. A similar recommenda- powered Inter-State Council.
tional governments in federations,” Rao organisation of powers and tion was made earlier by the Ashok Chawla
In a young democracy, to pit so-called eternal values against pointedout,“aredonebroadlyonthebasisof Committee for water. The writer is MoJS Research Chair — Water
individual liberties does disservice to both society and law theirrespectivecomparativeadvantage”.That restructuring of central But is such shifting of subjects from the Conflicts and Governance Centre for Policy

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iswhy“theprovisionof nationalpublicgoods transfers. StatetoConcurrentListreallyfeasibleinthese Research, Delhi. Views are personal
WO YEARS AGO, the Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law that had
madehomosexualityacriminaloffenceinIndia—thejudgmentexpandedthe
ideaofconstitutionalfreedomandequalityinasubstantialway.Itisdisappoint-
ing,then,thatthesolicitor-generalof Indiachosetoopposeapublicinterestlit-

A FRAGMENTED VOTE
igation in the Delhi High Court seeking the registration of same-sex marriages under the
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 in the name of “our law, legal system, society and values”.
Inayoungnationandaconstitutionaldemocracy,topitso-calledunchanging,eternal“val-
ues” against the liberties of a citizen does disservice to both society and law — both of which
arecapableof embracingchange.Oneneedsonlytolookbackatthedecades-longmobilisa-
tionofideas,experiencesandprotests—outsidethecourtroom—thatresultedinthedecrim-
DalitassertionandpoliticsisdependentondominantpartiesinBihar
inalisation of homosexuality to see this long journey. A vibrant civil rights movement, it suc-
ceededinpushingabigswatheofIndiansocietytowardsacceptanceofqueeridentities.Before Badri Narayan
theBritishhadimposedanarrowVictorianframeworkof sexualityonthesubcontinent,ho-
mosexualityhadexistedandbeenacknowledgedasamodeof being—asisevidentfromre- DALIT POLITICS in Bihar has mainly been a ology — they have effortlessly moved from cent of the state population and are 24 per
ligioustextsandsculptures—evenif itwasnotcelebratedinthemainstream.Overtheyears, politics of negotiation for a “good deal” from the NDA to UPA and vice versa to bargain for cent of the Dalits. Musahar, the largest polit-
a deepening of democracy and similar movements have pushed Indian laws towards such mainstreampoliticalparties.The“gooddeal” a better share of seats or ministerial berths. ically-mobilised Mahadalit caste, gained a
change,fromawoman’srighttoinheritpropertytotherighttoberecognisedasguardiansof meant a good bargain from the parties, ei- Never have these parties left an alliance or voice during the Lalu Prasad years. Other
ther in office or in the opposition, in terms joined one on matters of Dalit empower- Mahadalit castes are numerically small and
their children. The solicitor-general’s argument that the 2018 Supreme Court judgment
of seats in a pre-poll alliance, and share in ment or emancipation. yet to find visibility in electoral politics.
“merely”decriminaliseshomosexuallife—“nothingmore,nothingless”—isanarrowread- the government. In return, the transfer of Unlike in UP, Dalit politics in Bihar con- Most of the Dalit leaders of Bihar com-
ingofthatlandmarkdecision.Inoff-the-cuffremarks,healsoarguedthatstatutoryprovisions caste and community votes was promised. tinue to be dependent on mainstream par- mand support of only their caste and sub-
of the law cannot recognise a same-sex union, given that such a marriage makes traditional This politics of negotiation in Bihar pro- ties. The Ambedkarite radical consciousness caste members. Leaders such as Ram Vilas
rolesredundant.Incasesof domesticviolence,heasked,“Whowillbetreatedasawife?”But ceeded from the period that Kanshi Ram di- is weaker in the Dalit politics of Bihar and Paswan, Shyam Rajak and Jitan Ram Manjhi
agnosed as the chamcha age of Dalit politics.
Unlike in UP, Dalit politics Dalit assertion at the grass roots continues claim that they can transfer votes of their
lawssuchastheProtectionofWomenfromDomesticViolenceAct,2005accordprotectionto
In the post-Independence decades, Dalit in Bihar continue to be to be weak. The Naxalite movement, which caste. Recently, Rajak, industry minister in
live-inpartners,irrespectiveof theirmaritalstatus.Thereisnoreasontobelievethatgovern-
leaders in the Congress and Janata Party got dependent on mainstream attracted a large number of landless peas- theNitishKumargovernment,joinedtheRJD
ment,civilsocietyandthecourtscannotun-knotlegaltangles,if any. to share power as representatives of a caste ants,wasthevehicleof Dalitassertiontillthe whileManjhihasmovedawayfromtheUPA.
They must, in fact, do more and own up to the radical promise of the SC ruling: What is
parties. The Ambedkarite
or community. Dalit leaders such as Bhola 1980s, but the rise of caste and social justice Chirag Paswan is putting pressure on the
no longer criminal deserves the space to flower and shape its own destiny. Marriage is en- Paswan Shastri and Ram Sundar Das rose
radical consciousness is politics led to its marginalisation. The new NDAleadershipformoreseatsintheupcom-
twined with emotional as well as material realities. All individuals, straight or queer, being from the grass roots to become chief minis- weaker in the Dalit politics middle- and upper-class Dalits wedded the ing assembly election. However, previous
equalintheeyesoftheConstitution,itisonlynaturalthatthequeercommunitywilldemand ters in Bihar. Both Shastri and Das belonged of Bihar and Dalit assertion slogan of social justice with reservation and pollresultsindicatethattheseleaderscannot
to mainstream national parties. at the grass roots continues employment. This too weakened the transfermorethan40percentof castevotes.
such a legal recognition. To reach that eventual goal, a wider conversation is needed.
However, Dalit politicians, who were Naxalite and communist mobilisations, At his peak, Ram Vilas Paswan commanded
working in national parties, started to form to be weak. The Naxalite which were focussed on the issue of land. 50 per cent. If these leaders still command
caste-based parties after the 1980s. The movement, which attracted a Another feature of Dalit politics in Bihar political traction, it is because they help the

OPEN BOOK
phase of social justice politics in Bihar gave large number of landless is that only the numerically stronger groups alliance project the perception that it sup-
these leaders the capacity and space to float peasants, was the vehicle of among the 22 Dalit castes have become in- ports the social justice agenda.
their outfits and, thereby, negotiate better fluencers in politics. They alone managed to These leaders have also failed to dissem-
bargains with bigger parties. For instance, Dalit assertion till the 1980s, get representation in government. Dalits inatedemocraticidealswithintheircommu-
By holding up first-time writers, indie publishers, diverse voices, Ram Vilas Paswan, who was a leading figure but the rise of caste and constitute about 16 per cent of the state’s nities and behave like feudal leaders, almost
in the anti-Emergency movement and the social justice politics led to population. But only the Dusadh, Chamar, copies of leaders of dominant communities
Booker shortlist mirrors a moment of cultural change Janata, founded his own party — the Lok Dhobi,Mushaharcommunities are visible in and parties. Their failure in creating eman-

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its marginalisation. The new
HE SHORTLIST FOR this year’s Booker Prize takes off from where it signed Janshakti Party — in 2000. As Mahadalit pol- power politics. The Dusadhs account for 5- cipatory conditions for marginal communi-
itics found resonance in recent years, lead- middle- and upper-class 6 per cent of the total population of the state ties has led to the fragmentation of Dalit
off last year, when it awarded the Prize to two contenders for the first time
ers like Jitan Ram Manjhi, a member of the Dalits wedded the slogan of and make up 37 per cent of the Dalit popu- votes, which in turn has weakened Dalit as-
sinceitsinception in1969.Thisyear,onceagain,ithasthrownconvention out mostmarginalisedMusaharcaste,splitfrom lation. Chamars are around 6-7 per cent of sertion in Bihar.
social justice with
of the window and opened up Anglophone literature to a world of possibil- the Janata Dal (United) to form the the state population and form 39 per cent of
ities that thrive outside of the publishing industry’s most favoured combination of white, Hindustani Awam Morcha. However, these
reservation and the total Dalit population. The Mahadalit The writer is professor, Govind Ballabh Pant
male, middle-class heterosexual experiences. Of the six shortlisted books this year, as partieshavenotshownanyallegiancetoide- employment. castes(19castes)togetherarearound4-5per Social Science Institute, Allahabad
many as four — Burnt Sugar by Indian-origin writer Avni Doshi, The New Wilderness by
Diane Cook, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and Real Life by Brandon Taylor — are first
novels; four of the shortlisted writers are women; four are persons of colour. From racism
to climate change, from the unsung Ethiopian women soldiers of the 1935 Abyssinian SEPTEMBER 18, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO
crisis to a difficult mother-daughter relationship, further complicated by dementia, the
shortlist offers a unique glimpse into the interior, political and social lives of those often ASSAM TALKS BEGIN expressed the hope that these talks would KERALA WOOS INDUSTRY
under-represented in mainstream literature. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE Union gov- lead to a solution. THEMARXIST-LEDKERALAgovernmentisas-
ernment and the Assam leaders seem to siduouslywooingbigindustrialists.TheChief
Diversityinpublishingalsorestswiththosemakingcriticaldecisionsaboutwhotopub-
lishandwhattoaward.Thelastyearhasbeenoneof tentativehope.IntheUS,severallead-
have narrowed down somewhat following EXCISE OR SALES TAX? MinisterEKNayanarhadtalkswithrepresen-
two informal meetings in New Delhi be- VANASPATI AND LIFE-SAVING drugs are be- tatives of Birla firms. The CM and his col-
ingpublishinghouseshavemadeprogressivechangesinmanagement;intheUK,anorgan- tween Home Minister Giani Zail Singh and ing brought under additional excise duty. A leagues will attend a conference of industri-
isation called Black Writers’ Guild has been formed to monitor diversity in publishing. The leaders of the All Assam Students Union and committee of chief ministers will go into the alists in Bombay on September 29.
five-memberBookerjurythisyearisrepresentative,too.Itincludesaward-winningBritish the All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad. question of adding other items to the list of
poetandplaywrightofEthiopianorigin,LemnSissay,academicEmilyWilsonandthewriter There appeared to be agreement on both additional excise duty. The Centre will ask DEATH FOR DISSIDENT
andfirstblackwomanpublisherintheUK,MargaretBusby,whoisalsothechairof thejury. sides that the work on identifying foreign- the Law Commission to undertake the draft- A MILITARY COURT martial sentenced the
ers should begin. Deportation and its ing of a model sales tax law for being SouthKoreandissidentleaderKimDaeJungto
When she announced the longlist in July, Busby had remarked that it was represen-
modalities could be worked out later. While adopted by all states to bring about unifor- deathonchargesof plottingtooverthrowthe
tativeof “amomentof culturalchange”.Intakingtheonusuponitself to holdupfirst-time a Home Ministry source described the atti- mity in the laws. Union Finance Minister R government. The court also found 33 of his
writers, indie publishers and a diverse range of voices, the shortlist has taken another tude of student leaders as helpful, the stu- Venkataraman said a bill on the new levy followersguiltyandsentencedthemforterms
step towards an inclusive future for literature’s most popular form. dents and the Gana Sangram Parishad men will be introduced in Parliament. ranging from two to 30 years.

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THE IDEAS PAGE

WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
The judiciary plays a critical role and it too has a responsibility to reform its
own house that continues to be burdened with delays and many other
ailments. — DAWN

Faith in the machine Movement and

Thetemptationtolettechnologymonitorunacceptablespeechorwriting isgrowing.
Itspeaksof atransferof amoralfunction, andanabdication
the mask
If PrashantBhushanbelievesKejriwalandAnna
wereproppedupbyRSS,thenIbegtodiffer
waksinlargenumberwerepresentatJantar
Mantar and at Ramlila Ground. Many had
volunteered for the management of the
crowdandotherfunctions.Theyranlangars
tofeedthecrowdandcontributedmoney.A
Krishna Kumar few later joined the Aam Aadmi Party, be-
cameoffice-bearers,contestedelectionsand
becameMLAs.Theydidnotdisconnecttheir
TOEXPECTTHATasocialmediacompanywill relationship with the RSS; they continued
help societies to deal with the public expres- Ashutosh payingtheannualGuruDakshinawhichisa
sion of hate is remarkable for two reasons. sacred function for an RSS volunteer, to pay
First, the expectation outsources the re- obeisance to the organisation and ideology.
sponsibility of controlling the outbreak of THEPRESENTdoesnothavetheluxuryofthe Unlikeotherorganisations,theRSSdoes
a destructive emotion like hatred. It sug- future to dispassionately probe historical notdissociatefromitsmemberswhenthey
gests nothing less than the abdication of a facts and events, from a distance. One can join other organisations. In fact, at times,
role social institutions, including the ones ask: Is nine years long enough time to they encourage it. During the Janata gov-
run by the state, ought to play. Second, the analyse,fromahistoricalperspective,topass ernment, the membership of the RSS by
idea of letting a social media company deal judgementontheAnnaHazaremovement? old Jan Sangh leaders became a con-
with the problem implies an enhanced ThisquestionarisesatatimewhenPrashant tentious issue and one of the reasons for
sphere of its operations. Already, that Bhushan has revived an old debate in an in- the fall of the Morarji government.
sphere is believed to include canvassing for terview with Rajdeep Sardesai. So, I don’t deny the possibility that the
elections. To assign the reduction or re- Bhushan has said that the Anna move- AnnamovementwasinfiltratedbytheRSSto
moval of hateful expression to the owners mentwasproppedupbytheRSSandArvind exploit it to discredit the Manmohan Singh
of digital platforms implies letting them Kejriwalmighthaveknownaboutit.Thisal- Government and the Congress. It is similar
figure out, through digital tools, who har- legation—thattheRSSwasbehindtheAnna towhatBalasahebDeorasdidin1973when
bours what emotions and values. movement — is not new. It was a charge he instructed the Jan Sangh leaders to whip
This is, of course, not the first time that madebythethenCongressgovernment,left up sentiments against Indira Gandhi. But I
mature liberal democracies are posing a intellectuals and a section of liberals. What do not believe the Anna movement was
readiness to compromise with their com- isnewisthattheassertioncomesfromacore propped up by the RSS. If Bhushan believes
mitment to privacy. Erosion of the citizen’s member of the movement. that it was the RSS that coined the idea of a
right to privacy is no longer newsworthy. In The controversy was ignited by three movement against corruption, organised it
societies like America, and not just China, things.One,thepresenceoftwoRSSleaders and made it successful, and Kejriwal and
the citizenry has comfortably bargained on the stage at Jantar Mantar, on Day One of Anna were mere props, then with great hu-
several of its older freedoms for cheap con- the “anshan” (hunger strike); two, a picture mility, I beg to differ with him.
veniences. As a nation, we have been ahead of Mother India in the backdrop; and three, During the movement, I never felt that
of many others in establishing the right to C R Sasikumar raisingofsloganslike“BharatMatakijai”and Anna and Kejriwal were tilting towards the
freedom of all kinds of expression, irrespec- “VandeMataram”byleadersandvolunteers. RSS. Even later, in AAP, Kejriwal never dis-
tive of the medium used. In that sense, we exactly did this accident occur is not a rel- ents can check a few times how things are TheRSSleaderswereaskedtoleavethestage played any sympathy for the RSS and
have been more tolerant, and after each at- evant question. It is not as if there was a going for their child at school. but the picture of “Mother India” — used by Hindutva.Inconversationswithmehecan-
tempt to suppress freedom, there has been sudden flood of plagiarised dissertations This story is just one among a hundred the RSS and its affiliates in their functions — didly admitted that the RSS and Modi were
an adequate expression of outrage. But at some point, which forced the University wherein social spaces and functions are continued to be there. dangerousforthecountry.Ihaveneverfound
things are changing. The temptation to let Grants Commission to institute the system handed over to technology. In day-to-day Arundhati Roy, in an interview on CNN- himindulginginMuslimbashingoranti-mi-
technology monitor unacceptable speech of plagiary check before submission. What general governance, transparency tools IBN, said, “You first used a picture of Bharat norityism.ItistruethatpeoplelikeKiranBedi
or writing has been growing as part of the seems to have happened is that this tool have acquired routine roles. In academic Mata and then a picture of Gandhi. You had and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar were sympathetic
general dependence on digital devices. became available in the market and it cre- institutions, public disclosure of decisions people who were openly members of the to the BJP. But the leadership of the move-
Let us take an example from higher ed- ated the need it could fulfil. The implica- and plans, faculty profiles, financial details, Manuvadi agitation. So, you have a cocktail ment was firmly in the hands of Anna and
ucation. Education of the young is believed tions of using the tool were never contem- etc, has been going on for some time now. ofdangerousthings.”HistorianRamachandra his number two, Kejriwal. In fact, Kejriwal
to be a relevant sphere for the growth of plated. Turning to a mechanical device Educational institutions invest consid- Guha wrote, “The materials of history thus was the real architect of the movement. It
moral awareness. Institutional ethos and which promised to do a function that erable effort and resources to ensure that suggestthattheparallelbetweenJPandAnna washisidea—hegatheredtheteamandcon-
considerate pedagogic practices are known teachers were supposed to perform their websites have a competitive market islesscomfortingthanwesuppose.Thefront vincedAnnatositonadharnainDelhi.Anna
to nurture the kind of temperament and seemed like a good idea. Prevailing stereo- appeal. Regulation and accreditation now organisations of Jan Sangh’s successor, BJP, was reluctant to begin with.
values that civic life demands. In higher ed- types of teachers must have helped to ra- constitute the official diction of public pol- are now playing a much active role in ‘India A mass movement will always have
ucation, an important value everyone is tionalise the switch over. As one might ex- icy in higher education. The newly an- againstCorruption’.” many shades but what is important is the
supposed to learn is that the knowledge pect, the transfer of a moral function to nounced policy in education underlines the Attack from the Congress was more vi- leadership. I can firmly say the leadership
one has derived from the writings of some- technology marginalised the teacher’s hu- role of digital resources in these spheres. It cious, Digvijaya Singh leading the pack: wasnotinthehandsof theRSS;theymight
one else needs to be acknowledged. When man agency further. Regulation and accreditation says that the apex regulatory body in “Anna and Ramdev were the masks of the have tried to influence the decisions but
students write a thesis based on their own Something similar happened in now constitute the official higher education will “use technology to RSS”, he said. When asked in a press con- they were never the guiding light. I must
research, you expect that they have not schools, but there one can date the begin- diction of public policy in reduce human interface to ensure effi- ference if he was a front for the RSS, Anna alsoadmitthatAnna,Kejriwalandhisteam
stolen — that is, used without acknowl- ning. It was sometime during Sheila ciency and transparency”. As if this is not said “such people should be sent to a lu- neverhadabroadframework,therewasno
edgement — ideas or text from an existing Dikshit’s first term as Delhi’s chief minis- higher education. The newly clear enough, the next sentence says that natic asylum”. But what complicated the ideological foundation to take the move-
source. Until a few years ago, that trust was ter that an experimental programme to in- announced policy in the “underlying principle will be that of a matter for Anna and his team was the an- ment to its logical conclusion. They had no
cultivated and exercised by the teacher un- stall CCTV cameras in a few schools education underlines the role faceless and transparent regulatory inter- nouncement of support to the movement senseof history,onlyhazyideas.Theywere
der whose guidance the thesis was writ- started. By then, many private schools of digital resources in these vention using technology”. The human face by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, on the eve inspired by nationalistic fervour but were
ten. A software has now replaced the were already using them. It is not as if has apparently become the object of cele- of Anna’s August 15 indefinite hunger not communal. They believed in an inclu-
teacher. Under the rules in place now in all these private schools had any doubts about spheres. It says that the apex bration and suspicion in equal measure in strike at Ramlila Ground. sive movement and politics.
universities, all dissertations must submit their teachers’ devotion to work. The prin- regulatory body in higher our times. This controversy did damage the move- But they were conservative in their out-
to this software and get a clearance before cipals justified the cameras in the name of education will ‘use The hope that faceless exercise of reg- ment.ItcreateduneaseintheMuslimcom- lookandnotmodernistinthetruesense.Itis
the university will accept them for further pedagogic quality. I remember a principal ulatory authority will lend greater impar- munity.ShahiImamBukhariattackedAnna’s because of this weakness that the Anna
technology to reduce human
examination. This requirement is an affront joyfully claiming that he can see what tiality, and therefore more efficiency, to our anshan though the Imam of Fatehpuri movement could not consolidate the mass
not merely to the student but also to the teachers are writing on the blackboard. By interface to ensure efficiency higher education system is a precious gift Mosque, Mufti Mukarram, was supportive. sentimentitunleashed.Andintheend,itwas
supervisor. Among the 46 designated the time private schools started making and transparency’. As if this of the great faith that digital technology TheMuslimPersonalLawBoardalsodidnot instrumentalineasingthepathforNarendra
spaces where a supervisor is now required their classrooms “smart” with a range of is not clear enough, the next now wields. Perhaps we have entered a supportBukhaributdidnotopenlysidewith Modi. In that way, yes, they are responsible
to put his signature when a thesis is about equipment, government schools started to new era. It is no longer necessary to work theagitationeither.TheDeoband,too,main- forwhatIndiaiswitnessingtoday.Iamafraid
to be submitted, there already was one install more CCTV cameras on a large scale.
sentence says that the out why a certain value that has eluded us tainedadistance.AfewMuslimswereasked history will judge them harshly. The future
where the originality of the student’s ef- Transparency was the buzzword. It was ‘underlying principle will be so far will be attained. Once again, ethics tobepresentonstageinRamlilaGroundand will paint a grim picture of their moment.
fort was certified. That declaration by the supposed to deliver the moral value called that of a faceless and are believed to arise from faith. roza was also broken by them in full public
teacher will now be confirmed by the me- accountability. Easy demonisation of the transparent regulatory view. This symbolism was a farce. The writer is a journalist
chanical plagiary check. school teacher paved the way for surveil- Kumar is former director, NCERT ThereisnodenyingthatRSSswayamse- who was formerly with the AAP
The message is clear: The university lance technology to enter every classroom.
intervention using and author of The Child’s Language
does not trust the teacher any more. When It has now entered a new stage where par- technology’. and the Teacher

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Leadership beyond charisma OPAQUE AND FALTERING

THIS REFERS TO the editorial, 'Question
andAnswer'(IE,September16).Thegov-
ernmenthasfalteredindealingwiththe
IDEAS
ONLINE
PMModihaschangedthediscourseandconnectedwiththepeople pandemic, reviving the economy and
pre-empting Chinese aggression. There ONLY IN THE EXPRESS
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe are a lot many questions which need to
be answered on the floor of the House. ● EMPLOYEE-FRIENDLY
However, asking uncomfortable ques- CORPORATISATION:
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU had some unique ad- inpowerforafullterm,cansuccessfullyrenew break this nexus. For the benefit of farmers, non-IAS personnel in government are exam- tions to the ministers has now become
RAJAN VERMA
vantages.ConsideredtobeMahatmaGandhi’s and improve on their popular mandate. He is hehasfreedthetradingof farmproducefrom ples of his balanced approach. akin to being anti-national.
politicalheir,hebecamethefirstPMandcon- known not just for his decisiveness but also a the iron grip of a handful of dalals. Thanks to Modi is also a great innovator. He intro- Vijai Pant, Hempur
● FATIGUE IN THE COVID FIGHT
tinuedfor17longyearswithoutanychallenge. strongpoliticalwillemergingfromhiscourage a strong network of vested interests, liberali- duced the crowd-sourcing of ideas and solu-
GROWS: FRANCIS JOE
AsthefirstPMofindependentIndia,hehadan
obviousheadstart.Besides,hisattractiveper-
of conviction.Drivenbyastrongsenseof pur-
pose, he has tried to restore the centrality of
sation of farm produce markets was ignored
by past governments.
tionsthroughtheaggressiveuseof socialme-
dia. Thanks to him, India is rapidly moving
EXPAND MGNREGA MATHEW AND SHUBRA JAIN
sonality and the perception that he will take being result-oriented, something the millen- Similarly, in Railways, where rivalries be- upwards on the global innovation index. THIS REFERS TO the article, 'Bend with
India to a modern world contributed to the nial generation values greatly. He reaches out tween different services were harming the Hackathonsarenowaroutineannualnational the wind'(IE, September 17). The www.indianexpress.com
charismathatwasgraduallybuiltaroundhim. totheelectorateeffectively,establishesastrong common interest, the government has now activity.HisideasliketheEkBharat-Shreshtha drought of jobs has led to increased
Hisdaughter,IndiraGandhi,alsohadcharisma, popularconnectandearnsamandate.Hethen dissolvedthemintoacommonservicecadre. Bharatprogrammetoensureemotionalinte- enrolment in MGNREGA. The govern-
a sizable part of which she inherited from her moves ahead, unwaveringly, taking decisions PMModi’s governmentisalsoactively work- gration, or Mann ki Baat for direct communi- ment needs to expand its scope, and existing investors as well.
father. Besides her decisive leadership, being in the national interest, without unduly wor- ingtowardsmergingtheRajyaSabhaandLok cation with the masses or introducing include agricultural activities in its Bal Govind, Noida
the first woman PM of India also contributed rying about their popularity. SabhaTVchannelsastwoindependentchan- Swachhta Ranking for cities and towns are a fold. It is pertinent to note that since
to her charisma. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the
other most charismatic PM. Besides his
To his credit are not just big economic re-
forms like GST and replacing the Planning
nels for one unified Parliament are a luxury.
His courage of conviction is evident in
fewexamplesof hisout-of-the-boxthinking.
Alsoremarkableishisdecisiontoconvertthe
non-farm income has been affected
due to COVID-19, MGNREGA employ-
INSIDIOUS SUGGESTION
achievements like Pokhran-2 and the Golden Commission with the Niti Aayog, or political manyofhisdecisions.Whenitcametogender NehruMemorialandLibraryatTeenMurtiin ment in agriculture and horticulture THIS REFERS TO the report, ‘SC stops
Quadrilateral, his inimitable oratory and po- reformsliketheabrogationof Article370and issues and atrocities on women, he minced Delhi into a museum for all prime ministers sectors must be given to mitigate hard- show on 'UPSC jihad': Bid to vilify
etrytoocontributedtohischarisma.However, theCAA,butalsoseveralseeminglysmallbut no words in asking parents to be mindful of — a decision in the spirit of democracy. ships of the home returnees, as it also Muslims with untruths’ (IE, September
post-Vajpayee,itcanbereasonablyarguedthat effective governance reforms. Advancing the the late-night outdoor activities of boys and At70,withpath-breakingreformsingov- help farmers. 16). In 2018, Minister of Minority Affairs
the era of charismatic leadership is over. The scheduleof theBudgetSessionof Parliament, not just put restrictions on girls. Again, a year ernance,ModihasshownhowIndiandemoc- Rajiv Boolchand Jain, Zirakpur Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi made this official
millennial voter of the 21st century is more he seamlessly ensured adequate time for the ago, he openly cautioned Indians about the racy can deliver. One of the most significant statement:“TheModiGovernment’spol-
business-like in her approach. This approach
demandsgoodintentcoupledwithhonestand
full utilisation of budgeted funds. Early this
year, his government created a new Union
increasing population, asking young couples
to think of the prospects of their kids before
contributionstohiscreditissnatchingrepre-
sentative democracy from the jaws of cyni-
FREE THE FUND icyofdevelopmentwithdignitywithout
anydiscriminationhasensuredthatthis
intelligent efforts. Prime Minister Narendra Territory merging Daman-Diu, Dadra and starting a family. Recently, while addressing cism.Rarelydoesoneseealeader,pilloriedby THIS REFERS TO the editorial, yearforthefirsttimeaftertheindepend-
Modi satisfies these criteria completely. Add NagarHaveli,anapparentlysmallstepthatfa- educationists,hebluntlyobservedthatinour previous regimes, assailed by the media and ‘Regulatory uncertainty’ (IE, September ence,record131minoritycommunities'
to this, his innovative ideas for good gover- cilitatedadministrativeconvenienceandhuge country, so far we were only taught about ignoredbyacademia—beingrewardedbythe 17). SEBI's decision was uncalled for. youths including 51 Muslims have been
nance and his mind-boggling ability to work financial savings. Similarly, converting bam- “whattothink”insteadof “howtothink”,and peopleforhisperformance.Thatistrulymov- Fund houses have different funds for selected in civil service,”. Is Sudarshan
extraordinarilyhard.Hehastakentheleader- boo from a notified forest produce to a farm the NEP is set to change this. Decisions like ing beyond charisma. all kinds of risk categories managed by Newssuggestingthattheso-calledUPSC
ship discourse in India beyond charisma. produce also had a huge impact as several emphasisoneducationinthemothertongue different fund managers. Reshuffling jihad is being aided and abetted by the
Since May 2014, PM Modi has established lakhs of farmers have benefited from this. withoutimposinganylanguageonanygroup, The writer is president, the Indian Council of them would not only mean curbing Narendra Modi government?
several things. He has shown that non- Vestedinterestsarethemostdreadeden- carving out a separate quota for the econom- Cultural Relations, and a Rajya Sabha MP their flexibility but adversely impact L R Murmu, Delhi
Congress governments, even after remaining emy of good governance and Modi is out to icallybackwardandallowinglateralentryfor of the BJP

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ROHINI-110086, changed my RAVINDRA SINGH TO RAVINDER contents, nor for any loss or
name to SARVESH, SINGH FOR ALL FUTURE damage incurred as a result of
PERSONAL permanently. 0040548985-1 PURPOSES. 0040548725-5 transactions with companies,
associations or individuals
My Son’s, daughter’s correct- I,MD.JAWED ANWAR,son I, Ram Kishan@Ramkumar advertising in its newspapers
names is Abhinav Pal,Tanvi Pal of,MD.AKHTAR HUSSAIN,H.NO- S/o.Madan Lal,R/o MCF-A- LOST & FOUND or Publications. We therefore
recommend that readers
instead of Sunny,Tanvi as R-280/2 FIRST-FLOOR, 442,Bhagat Singh Colony,Near-
Bohra Public-School, make necessary inquiries
wrongly-mentioned in my STREET.NO-6 JOGABAI- Lost my Original Transfer Letter before sending any monies or
service-record.Dharam Pal,S/o EXTN;JAMIA-NAGAR,ZAKIR- Ballabgarh,Faridabad(Haryan No.6325 Dated-18-11-2014, entering into any agreements
late.Ganga Dass,H.no.173, NAGAR,DELHI-110025.have a)-121004,have changed my Possession Memo, Sanction with advertisers or otherwise
Church Gali,Masjid- changed my minor son`s name to Ram Kumar Verma. Map by Authority of Plot-No.B- acting on an advertisement in
Road,South-Extension-II,New name,from MOHAMMAD 45 Sector-B-2, Trans Delhi PUBLIC NOTICE any manner whatsoever.
0040548987-1 Be it known to all that my
Delhi-49. 0040548985-7 AYAAN ANWAR to AYAAN Signature City, Loni, clients Sh. Dharamvir Singh S/o

It is,for general-information
ANWAR. 0040548988-5 I, Raj kumar S/o Sh Atma Ram Ghaziabad, U.P.-201103. Finder Sh. Rajvir Singh and his wife Government of Jammu & Kashmir
R/o 1/34, Ashok Nagar, New may Contact-Ankit Rustagi at Ramwati Devi, both residents of
that I,YASH GUPTA S/O-RAJEEV I,MANOJ KUMAR BHALOTIA S/O Delhi-110018, have changed my 25/132, Shakti Nagar, Delhi-
B-36/2, Gali No.1, B-Block,
Bhagirithi Vihar, Delhi-110094
J&K Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA)
KUMAR GUPTA residing-at RAM KRISHAN BHALOTIA R/O-
FLAT.NO.1002,SHIVALIK-TOWER A-1/701,PRINTERS
name to Raj kumar Gogia for all 110007 0040548935-1 debar and disown their daughter
namely Shashi Rani from their
Project Management Unit
future purposes.
KAUSHAMBI GHAZIABAD,UP APARTMENT,SECTOR- I,Ayush saxena,S/o JITENDRA movable and immovable Jhelum & Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP)
declare that that,name of 13,ROHINI,DELHI-110085. 0040548953-1 mohan saxena R/o-F.No-G-
properties including assets due to
her conduct, behavior which are
my,father has-been,wrongly- CHANGED MY NAME TO MANOJ 4/plot.no-C-85 Shalimar- No:JTFRP/PMU/Roads/Jammu/2020/9166
I, Raghbir Kaur W/o Gurmeet beyond their controls. Any person
dealing with her, my clients will Date: 15-09-2020
written,as RAJEEV GUPTA in,my BHALOTIA. 0040548969-9 Singh R/o Village Baddowal, garden ext2,Sahibabad.GZB not be responsible for the acts, Director Technical, PMU JTFRP invites tenders for work detailed below in the table through
educational-documents.The Gurdaspur, Punjab-143505, (UP),have lost my original- deeds conducted by her in future.
I,Jay Sunder Singh,W/o Yugal www.jktenders.gov.in. Interested bidders may obtain further information and download the bidding documents
actual,name of my,father is have changed my name to certificate class-10th year- Y.K. SHARMA (Advocate)
Kishore Singh R/o- Seat No.63, Near Gole Canteen, Civil from www.jktenders.gov.in
RAJEEV KUMAR GUPTA, Dalbir Kaur 0070714518-1 2019 Rollno-5399798 CBSE-
135,Gali.No.04, B-Block, Wing, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54
S. Name of Work Tender No. Bid Cost of
respectively-which may,be Dehradun. 0040548980-9
Siddharth Vihar, Vijay I, PARAMJIT ARORA R/o 3G/148, No. Security Document
amended-accordingly.
Nagar,Ghaziabad, have 1ST FLOOR, NEAR POLICE PUBLIC NOTICE (Rs.) (Rs.)
0040548985-4 changed my name to Jay Devi. CHOWKI, NIT, FARIDABAD- MY CLIENT LAKHWINDER PAL SHARMA 1 Upgradation of Chiralla Link Road 2020_jtfrp_104426_1 25 Lacs Nil
S/O LATE SH. MANGAL DASS R/O A/
I,hitherto known as Sanjeev Jay Sunder Singh & Jay 121001 have changed my minor 118, DDA FLATS, PUNJABI CAMP, 2 Upgradation of Malaini to Chakrabatti Road 2020_jtfrp_104421_1 25 Lacs Nil
Sharma,S/o Hari Ram Devi,both are the,same person. daughter name from PURVA to JAHANGIR PURI, DELHI-33 SEVERE
ALL RELATIONS AND DEBAR HIS SON
Sharma,R/o C-4/134,Mayur- 0040548959-2 PURVAA ARORA MANISH SHARMA FROM ENTIRE Bidding documents can be downloaded from www.jktenders.gov.in from 15-09-2020 to 15-10-2020. The last
Vihar-III,New-Delhi- 0070714526-1
ABOVE MENTIONED MOVEABLE / date for submission of bids is 15-10-2020, 1400 hours.
I,Jatin Kumar S/o Vijay Kumar IMMOVABLE PROPERTY DUE TO HIS
Sd/-
110096,have changed my name ARROGANT A CRUEL BEHAVIOUR. MY
Dabas R/o-519/2-A Block- I, Menaz Ali W/o Shahid Usmani CLIENT SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE (Er. Basharat J. Kawoosa)
and shall hereafter be known FOR HIS ANY ACTS, DEBTS AND
6,Vishwas Nagar,Shahdara R/o-60-174AB/5C, Milat Street, Director Technical
as Sanjeev Kumar Sharma. DEEDS IN FUTURE.
Delhi-110032,have changed my Khwaspura Sarai Khwaja, Sd/- DIPK-NB-2348 JTFRP
0040548987-10 name to Jatin Dabas,for all Agra-282001,have changed my
HARI OM
ADVOCATE
I,hitherto known as Nikhil purposes 0040548977-5 name to Menaz Usmani. CHAMBER NO. 719, 7th FLOOR,
LAWYERS CHAMBER BLOCK,
Maheshwari S/o Shri Anurudh I,Inderjeet Kaur W/o Late. 0040548985-3 ROHINI COURTS COMPLEX, DELHI
MOBILE NO.: 9811706228
Kumar Viyani residing at,H.No.- Gurvinder Singh R/o 23/90 AB
330, Gali.No.-8,Lalita Park, I, Manpreet Singh s/o late
GF Tilak Ngr Delhi-18 have
Park,Laxmi Nagar, Delhi- changed my name to Inderjeet
S.Tirlok Singh r/o G-19/12A, PUBLIC NOTICE
110092,have changed my name Third Floor, Rajouri Garden, Notice is hereby given that Share
Mahajan. 0040548944-1
and shall hereafter be known New Delhi-110027 have Certificate No. 363 dated

as Nikhil Kumar Viyani. I,Golu W/o-Sh.Aasha Ram changed my minor (DOB:04-07- 31/05/1996 Allotment Letter dated
Anurag,R/o-C-52,Block-C, 07.03.1998, Possession Letter
2005) son’s name from Divjot
0040548987-8 dated 10.02.2004 issued by Shree
Sector-25,Rohini, Singh to DIVJYOT SINGH. Balaji CGHS Ltd. Sector-6, Plot
I,Vijay S/o-Late. Balbir Singh Rithala,Delhi,inform that in my No. 37. Dwarka, New Delhi-
0040548945-1
Residence-A-02, N-15,Indra daughter Kranti Anuragi 110075 in the name of Dr.
school record my,name I,Amit S/o Ram Chander R/o Manpreet Gambhir for Flat No. C-
Vikas Colony,Dr. Mukherjee
Nagar,Model Town,North-West wrongly-written as Mamta H.No.-166,Garhi Panna, PROPERTY FOR RENT 304 has been reported lost vide
FIR No. LR No. 406961/ 2020
Delhi-09,declare that my,father Anuragi instead of Bakhtawarpur, Delhi-34,have
Office for rent @Vasant Kunj, dated 11.07.2020. We have been
name in Aadhar- correct,name Golu. changed my daughter’s name informed that Dr. Manpreet
3cabins, BoardRoom,
No.987894569881 is Balbir Singh Priyanshi to Khushi for all Gambhir expired on 16/04/2018
0040548977-1 12workstations, 2 toilets, ref. Death Certificate No. 46800
and,in school-certificate purposes. 0040548980-4
Pantry. 9953214911 Dated 18/04/2018. An application
Balbir, both name are referred I,GOWRI SIKARVAAR,D/O ASHOK
I, Madhu W/o Mukesh Nagpal 0050169368-1 for obtaining duplicate Share
to thesame person. SIKARWAR, H.NO.940, NEAR- Certificate, Allotment Letter and
R/o 5/1 2nd Floor, Front Side,
MOTHER DAIRY, SECTOR-15 Possession Letter has been made
0040548987-9 Ashok Nagar, Tilak Nagar,
PART-2 GURGAON, HARYANA PUBLIC NOTICE by his wife Dr. Neena Malhotra
Delhi-110018, have changed my THIS IS TO INFORM PUBLIC AT LARGE Gambhir considering Relinquish
I,Vijay Kumar@Vijay 122001, changed my NAME TO THAT MY CLIENT I 1. VINOD KUMAR MITTAL
name to Madhu Nagpal Deed dated 13/07/2018. The
Chaudhary,S/o Balbir Singh GOWRI SIKARWAR, S/O LATE SH. LAKHMAN PRASAD MITTAL 2.
LAKSHMI MITTAL W/O VINOD KUMAR Society hereby invites claims or
R/o-519/2-A,Block-6 Vishwas permanently. 0040548987-3 0070714522-1 MITTAL BOTH R/O H.NO.210, HARSH
objections (in writing) for issuance
VIHAR, PITAMPURA, DELHI-34 HAVE
Nagar, Shahdara,Delhi- SEVERED RELATION WITH THEIR SON of duplicate Share Certificate,
I,Deepak S/O Deshraj R/o-40/13, I, Manpreet Singh s/o late SAURABH MITTAL AND DAUGHTER IN LAW
Allotment Letter, Possession
110032,have changed my name Lal Quarter,Kidwai Nagar, S.Tirlok Singh r/o G-19/12A, KANIKA MITTAL R/O FD-34, PITAMPURA,
DELHI-88 FOR ALL THE PURPOSES DUE TO Letter within period of 15 (Fifteen)
to Vijay Kumar Dabas,for all New.Delhi-110023,have Third Floor, Rajouri Garden, THEIR DISRESPECTFUL BEHAVIOR
days from the publication of this
TOWARDS US AND FALSE IMPLICATIONS
purposes 0040548977-6 changed my name from New Delhi-110027 have IN SEVERAL CASES AND ALSO DISOWNED notice. If any Claims/ Objections
THEM FROM ALL MY MOVABLE AND
changed my minor (DOB:04-07- are not received during this period
I,Veena, am legally,w/o Rank & Deepak to Deepak Gupta IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES. WHOSOEVER
DEALS WITH THEM IN ANY MANNER, the society shall be free to issue
Name:Brig.Joginder permanently. 0040548987-6 2005) daughter’s name from SHALL DO SO AT HIS/HER OWN RISK &
the said duplicate documents.
CONSEQUENCES AND MY CLIENTS SHALL
Mohan(Retd.),Service.No.IC- Noorjot Kaur to NOORJYOT NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR THAT. Sd/-
I,DEBLINA NANDI W/O.AMITAVA
13634P, R/o 22,Paschimi- KAUR. 0040548945-2 Sd/- CHANDERKANT TYAGI
MOHIT BHARDWAJ
Marg,Vasant-Vihar,New Delhi-
NANDI, H.NO.FLAT.NO.574,
DELHI EPDP,CGHS LTD,SECTOR- I, Karuna D/O Rajkumar R/O
(Advocate)
SEAT NO. 42, CENTRAL HALL,
TIS HAZARI COURTS, DELHI-54
ADVOCATE
ENROLMENT NO: D/2597/18
e-NIT No. 01
110057,have changed my
name,from Veena to Veena
4,PL 19,DWARKA,N.DELHI-
110078,changed my name to
H.no.1466A/3, Gali no. 6, Rajiv
Nagar, Gurgaon 122001 declare PUBLIC NOTICE
Office. 18 Radhey shyam park
gali no. 1, parwana road,
DATED: 16.09.2020
Arora. 0040548969-2 near preet vihar,
DEBLINA AUDDY,permanently. that name of my Father and Online bids (e-tender) under two cover system Cover-l Technical bid and Cover-ll Financial bid are invited on
Be it know to all that my clients Sh. Raj DELHI-110051
I,Tarun K Sharma S/O.Vijay Mother has been wrongly Kumar S/O Sh. Ramji Lal and Smt.Heera
MOBILE NO 9899520069 behalf of Managing Director JKPDC Ltd. (A public sector enterprise of the Government of lndia), under secure
0040548988-2 Devi W/o Sh.Raj Kumar Both R/O 11804,
Sharma R/O.KCB0010007 written as Rajkumar Duggle Gali No.6 Main Road, Sindhi Hira Nand Ghori e-procurement procedure form eligible Domestic Chartered Accountancy registered with the lnstitute of
I,Bimlesh W/o Krishna Chauhan and Sarita Duggle Wala, Sat Nagar Karol Bagh, New Delhi- Chartered Accountants of India (lCAl) and possess the permanent account number (PAN) under lncome Tax
klassic, Jaypee Wish Town,
Sector-134,VTC:Noida,U.P- R/o.Khedi,Bhanauta, Gautam Chauhan respectively in my
110005 hereby debarr and disown Smt.
Anjali Rani W/O Late Sh. Rajesh Kumar D/o ´fd¶»fIY ³fûdMXÀf for "Hiring of Tax Consultant" on open tender basis.
Budh Nagar, U.P., Bimlesh & educational documents. The
Sh. Vinod Kumar, Ms.Divisha D/o Late Sh. ¸fZSe ¸fb½fd¢I »f Àfb»°ff³ff ´f°³fe ¸fûW¸¸fQ 1. The complete bid/quotation document can be viewed and downloaded from Public Procurement Portal
201301,have changed my name Rajesh Kumar & Ms.Sanvi D/o Late Sh.
AJ»ffI ´f°ff H.N. 30 JÀfSf ³fa¶fS https://www. jktenders.gov. in
to Tarun Sharma,for all Sushila are the same person,in actual name of my Father and Rajesh Kumar from our all movable and
277/176 ¸f`³f SûO Sf¸f §ffM ½fªfeSf¶ffQ
future shall be known as
immovable property as them are not obedient 2. The bid online is to be submitted on https://www.jktenders.gov.in up to bid submission closing date and
purposes. 0040548987-2 Mother is Rajkumar and Sarita towards my clients therefore they also
dQ»»fe-110084 ³fZ A´f³fZ ´fbÂf B¸fSf³f AüS
severed all relation with they Anybody deals time of tender. The brief details of the tender are tabulated as under:
Bimlesh. 0040548959-3 Devi respectively with them shall be at their/his/her own risks, CÀfI e ²f¸fÊ´f°³fe ÷ JÀffS ½f C³fIZ ´füÂf ³fd¶f¹ff
I,Surjan Singh Yadav R/o-C- costs and responsibility for which my clients AüS A»fe¬ff I û ¦f»f°f ½¹f½fWfS/ Af¨fS¯f IZ Sr. No. Item Description
I Sanjida Mistri W/o Abul Basar 0070714524-1 shall not be responsible. Now onwards Smt.
I fS¯f A´f³fe ¨f»f A¨f»f Àf¸´fdØf ÀfZ ¶fZQJ»f I) Publishing Date & Time 16.09.2020
13,Shanti Vihar,Colony Anjali Rani W/O Late Sh. Rajesh Kumar,
Morna,Sector-35, Mistri R/o Bademaheshpur, I, Himanshu Chaudhary, S/o Mis. Divisha D/o Late Sh.Rajesh Kumar & I S Àf·fe Àfa¶fa²f d½f¨LZ Q I S d»fE W`Ô Ü ·fd½f¿¹f
Ms. Sanvi D/o Late Sh. Rajesh Kumar Cease Il) Document Download Date & Time 16.09.2020
south 24 parganas, ¸fZÔ ¹fW I ûBÊ »fZ³f QZ³f I S°fZ W`Ô °fû CÀfIZ
Noida,confirm that in my sons Fakir Chand, H.No.B-109, Gali to be their legal heir for all purposes
III) Mode of tendering e-Procurement System https://www.jktenders.gov.in
kadipukur,west bengal 743355, whatsoever. dªf¸¸fZQfS ½fW JbQ Wûa¦fZÜ ¸fZSe ¸fb½fd¢I »f ½f
school-record his name has No.4, Village-Gokalpur, Delhi- Sd/- C³fI f ´fdS½ffS Qe½ff³fe AüS R üªfQfSe IZ d»fE
have changed my name to HITENDER SAKKARWAL IV) Online bid submission start date & Time 16.09.2020
been wrongly mentioned as 110094,have changed my name (Advocate) dªf¸¸fZQfS ³fWeÔ Wû¦ffÜ
Prashant Kumar,instead-of Shakuntla Devi Daughter of PARKASH CHAND V) Online Bid Closing date & Time 06.10.2020 at 1600 Hrs.
to Himanshu, for all purposes. Ch. No. 1130, Rohini Courts

Prashant Yadav. My,Son Balbir Singh and Saroj Devi DOB Delhi-85 (Advocate) Vl) Last date & time of submission of offline 06.10.2020 at 1600 Hrs.
0040548969-4 Enrl. no. D-9065/2019
Correct name is,Prashant 16/07/1984, I had the same supporting documents in sealed envelopes
name and other details before I, Harsh Mohan , R/o 1615, sector in the office General Manager Accounts
Yadav. 0040548959-1 PUBLIC NOTICE
marriage. 0040548957-1 37, Noida, Gautam Budh
GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED
PUBLIC NOTICE JKPDC Corporate Office Srinagar.
I,Shshank Mathur,S/o-late Nagar,u.p.-201301 have THAT MY CLIENT SHRI RAJ KUMAR
It is notified for knowledge of General
VII) Online Bid opening date & Time (Cover-l) 07.10.2020 at 1200 Hrs
Vivek Mathur,R/o-D-1001, I,Army.No-15387368F Public at large that my client Smt. Sarita
changed my name to Harsh DAWAR SON OF LATE SHRI OM PRAKASH
Yadav W/o Sh. Sachin Yadav R/o WZ
VIII) Price bid opening Date & Time (Cover-ll) To be intimated separately to the bidders whose Technical
Exotica Fresco,Sector-137, Hav.Ravindra Kumar Jha Unit- VERMA IS ONE OF THE CO-OWNERS/
212, Char Khamba Gali, Shakur Pur
Mohan Balooni 0070714517-1 OCCUPANTS OF PROPERTY NO. A-7,
Village, (North-West) Delhi-110034, has Bid shall be found responsive
Noida,G.B.Nagar,UP,have 1,Army HQ,SIG REGT SARASWATI GARDEN, NEW DELHI-110015
lost on 14.09.2020, the allotment letter
C/o.56,APO,New Delhi- I, Hari Om,S/o Ram Kumar WHICH IS SUBJECT MATTER OF SUIT dated 08.06.2019 and builder-buyer IX) Place of opening quotation General Manager Accounts JKPDC Corporate Office Srinagar
changed my name from FOR PARTITION AND DECLARATION agreement dated 12.06.2019 between
110010,inform that in my,Army Verma,R/o MCF-A-442, Bhagat BEARING NO. 20900/16 TITLED AS X) Bid Validity 180 days
Shashank Mathur to Shshank RAKESH KUMAR (DECEASED THROUGH
her and Pyramid Infractech. Pvt. Ltd.
Service record,my mother Singh-Colony, Near-Bohra H-38, G.F., M2K Wight Home Sector-57,
Mathur. 0040548987-4 LRS) VERSUS PRAKASHWATI Gurugram-122002 (Haryana) in respect
name and Date-Of-Birth Public-School,Ballabgarh, (DECEASED THROUGH LRS) AND of Flat No. 606, in Tower No. 4, Pyramid All other terms / conditions /eligibility can be seen in the office of General Manager Accounts JKPDC
OTHERS PRESENTLY PENDING BEFORE
I,Shashima Devi,W/o Mahanand wrongly-written as Malata Faridabad(Haryana)- THE COURT OF SHRI HEM RAJ ADJ-08
Fusion Homes Sect. 70-A, Gurugram,
(Har.) India, Pin-12210, and Police Report
Corporate Office Srinagar or from the website www.jktender.gov.in.
Singh R/o-H/No.2093/419,Gali Devi and Date-Of-Birth- 121004,have changed my name CENTRAL TIS HAZARI COURTS DELHI being L.R No. 570205/20 dated No. PDC/ACCTTS/1560-63 Sd/-
no.-15,Prem Nagar,Patel 01.07.1949 instead of correct to Hariom Verma.
AND THE RIGHTS OF THE PARTIES TO
THE SAID SUIT ARE SUBJECT TO FINAL
14.09.2020 has already the lodged with
SHO Crime Branch Delhi.
Dated: 16.09.2020 General Manager Accounts
Nagar,New.Delhi -110008,have OUTCOME OF THE CASE. THEREFORE, Sd/- B.S. YADAV DIPK-NB-2364 J&K Power Dev Corp. Srinagar.
name Janki Devi and Date-Of- 0040548977-4 ANY PERSON DEALING WITH THE (Advocate)
changed my Son’s name Prince Birth-01.01.1945. AFORESAID PROERTY SHALL BE DOING Ch. No. 108, Western Wing, Tis Hazari
SO AT HIS OWN RISKS AND COSTS AND Courts, Delhi-54
Kumar Singh to Prince Singh I, Amit s/o Ram Mehar r/o H.no.-
for,all purposes.
0040548977-2
6/A, H.no.-73/2, Gali no.-8B,
THAT MY CLIENT SHALL NOT BE BOUND
BY ANY SUCH DEAL IN ANY MANNER. HARYANA STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION
0040548980-3 I,Army No.10315835H Hav.Amit Swavtantar Nagar, Narela, Sd/-
PANKAJ MALHOTRA BAYS NO. 67-70, SECTOR-2, PANCHKULA-134154
Kumar Gupta,S/o Shankar Delhi-110040 have changed my
I,Sanjay Kumar,S/O name to AMIT KUAMR
ADVOCATE
(ENROLMENT NO. D/3033/2012 (www.hssc.gov.in)
Parsad Sah,R/o.P-187,Purani 495, LAWYERS’ CHAMBERS-II,
Late.Jagdish Planji-Village Sarojini- permanently. 0040548923-1 DELHI HIGH COURT,
NEW DELHI-110003
Notice to candidates for Interview Cor the post of TGT ENGLISH (Mewat) For School
Singh,R/O.H.No.RZ-37A,Bajaj- Nagar,New Delhi-110023,post- (TEL: 9999848981) Education Department, Haryana Against Advt. No. 09/2015, Cat No. 02.
I, ASHOK SIKARVAAR/ASHOK
Enclave Extn.Opposite office Sarojini-Nagar declare
NSIT,Dwarka, Delhi-110078,
KUMAR,S/O MEGH SINGH, Incontinuation of earlier notice dated 19.02.2017 and on the basis of Written Examination held and
that in my service-record my Scrutiny of Documents for the post of TGT English (Mewat), School Education Department, Haryana
H.NO.940, NEAR-MOTHER-
Changed my minor Daughter son’s name wrongly-
DAIRY, SECTOR-15,PART-
PUBLIC NOTICE Against Advt. No. 09/2015, Category No. 02, the candidates equal to twice the number of vacancies, bear-
name,from Samprit to Samprit mentioned as Ansuman Gupta I It is hereby informed to the public at large that
ing following Roll Nos. have been called for interview/viva-voce provisionally and further subject to the ful-
2,GURGAON, HARYANA- my client Smt Shila Aggarwal W/o Sh. Anil
Kriti. 0040548988-1 have changed my son’s fillment of their eligibility conditions as per respective advertisement and service rules. The marks secured
122001.changed my name to Aggarwal R/o A - 4/56, Cottage Enclave,
I,RAKESH GUPTA S/O Nathu name,from Ansuman Gupta to Paschim Vihar, Delhi - 63, has been purchasing by the last short listed candidate have been given in brackets:
ASHOK SIKARWAR,
Ram Gupta R/O HOUSE NO. Anshuman Gupta,
permanently. 0040548985-2
a property / Flat bearing no 56, CCIE Employee Advt. No. 09/2015, Cat. No. 02, TGT ENGLISH (MEWAT) (Total 341 Posts)
Co - Op, GHS Ltd, Paschim Vihar, New Delhi - General (87 + SBC earlier 34 = 121 Posts)
2418, SECTOR 16, FARIDABAD, permanently.
63 from its owner Sh. Amit Dhingra, S/o Sh. K.P.
I Rashmi Rani Jain W/O Neeraj 12150027 12150038 12150069 12150082 12150114 12150119 12150171
HARYANA.121002 have 0040548969-10 Dhingra, R/o 4032, B - 5&6, Vasant Kunj, Delhi
Jain R/O Be-194/1, Gali No-3, and if anybody has any interest / concern with 12150211 12150242 12150291 12150312 12150322 12150334 12150338
changed my name to RAKESH 12150411 12150471 12150501 12150552 12150579 12150617 12150632
I,Amit Uppal,S/o Late Hari Nagar, New Delhi-110064 regard to the said property then he or she may
KUMAR GUPTA contact my client at her mobile No. 9540859000. 12150665 12150666 12150682 12150684 12150687 12150744 12150755
Sh.R.C.Uppal,R/o-B-123 Anand- Have Changed My Name To 7982853643 within seven days from the date of
0070714516-1 Vihar,Delhi-110092,have Nisha Jain 0040548954-1 12150769 12150782 12150806 12150813 12150834 12150839 12150959
publishing the present article and later on any
12151013 12151028 12151093 12151095 12151120 12151129 12151192
I,Preety Chhonkar,D/O-Late Shri changed my minor son’s name objection or interest in the said property of any
I, AKHIL S/O NARESH KUMAR sort shall not be entertain. 12151223 12151256 12151313 12151337 12151403 12151478 12151520
Satish Kumar Chhonkar,R/O-A- from Krish Uppal to Kiaan 12151523 12151540 12151579 12151608 12151651 12151729 12151758
R/O-POCKET-B-7, HNO.160- Sd/- SACHIN KUMAR SINGHAL
11G,Vijeta Vihar,Sector- Uppal(DoB-12/11/2003),for all (ADVOCATE) 12151791 12151839 12151920 12151960 12151967 12151981 12152003
161,2nd-FLOOR,SECTOR-4,
13,Rohini,Delhi-110085,have purposes 0040548977-8 Chamber 485, Eastern Wing, 12152011 12152053 12152102 12152107 12152130 12152153 12152164
ROHINI,DELHI-110085. HAVE Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-110054
changed my name from Preeti I,Amit Uppal S/o Late CHANGED MY NAME TO AKHIL Office/Resi-BJ-9, Ground Floor, 12152189 12152239 12152295 12152395 12152418 12152446 12152476
Chhonkar to Preety Chhonkar. West, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi-88 12152488 12152510 12152553 12152578 12152649 12152667 12152674
Sh.R.C.Uppal,R/o-B-123,Anand- GARG. 0040548969-8
12152721 12152737 12152794 (80)
0040548987-5 Vihar,Delhi-110092,have I Ram Ashish Chaudhary S/o SC
changed my minor daughter Late Sita Ram Chaudhary R/o 12150032 12150146 12150278 12150532 12150838 12150857 12151543
I,Parveen Bhati S/o Rishi Pal, PUBLIC NOTICE
name,from Diya Uppal to H.No.Y-696, Gali No.7, Adarsh My Client, Sh. Hazari Lal @ Hazari, S/o 12151547 12151609 12151700 12151703 12151725 12151970 12152423
H.No.95, Ward No.12, Aaradhya Uppal(DoB- Late Sh. Risal Singh, R/o House No. 12152537 12152547 12152774 12152796
Sadullabad, Loni, Ghaziabad, Enclave, Prem Nagar-2, Kirari
27/07/2005),for all purposes 17/2, Jangpura Lane, Bhogal, New No other eligible candidates available in this category (48)
UP-201102,have changed my Suleman Nagar, Delhi-110086 Delhi-14, hereby disowns, debars and
BCA
name to Praveen,for all 0040548977-7 have changed my name to Jag divests his son Mr. Sunny @ Sonu and
his wife Mrs. Kiran Saini @ Kakul, from 12150023 12150331 12150582 12150611 12150940 12150984 12150999
purposes. 0040548969-5 Lal Chaudhary for all purposes.
I,Amit Kumar Vijayran S/o- claiming or inheriting his movable and 12151936 12152245 12152251 12152326 12152613
0040548951-1 immovable properties, and my client
No other eligible candidates available in this category (62)
I,Meenakshi Gugnani,D/o Shri Balraj Singh R/o- has no relations with them of any nature
H/no.179,Village Kirari, I Rabiya w/o Sadiq Hasan R/0 E- whatsoever. Anybody dealing with Mr. BCB
Kashmiri Lal Gugnani Sunny and/or Mrs. Kiran shall be doing 12150645 12151052 12151562 12151583 12151625 12151891 12151949
Suleman Nagar,C-Block, 11/71, 2nd Floor,Khirki
R/o.H.No.2/11,Nehru- so at their own risk and cost to which my 12152010 12152514 (78)
Sultanpuri,Delhi-86,have Extension, Malviya Nagar,New client or his property shall not be
Enclave,Kalkaji-Extn.New EBPGC
changed my daughter’s name Delhi-17, Have Changed My answerable or responsible to any extent
Delhi-110019,have changed my or in any manner whatsoever. 12150077 12150088 12150341 12150391 12150699 12150976 12151180
Vanshika Vijayran to Vanshika Minor Son Name Mohd Suhail 12151381 12152597
minor daughter’s name,from Sd/- Sadhvi Gaur (Advocate)
for,all purposes. Ansari TO ABDULLAH HASAN. Enrl. No. D/1524/15 B-203, (G.F.)
No other eligible candidates available in this category (56)
Tanya Arora (DOB:14/12/2004) Lajpat Nagar -1, New Delhi -110024
For All future purpose His ESM GEN
to Tanya Gugnani,for all 0040548980-5 correct D.O.B is 13/10/2010. 12150413 12152041 12152154
purposes. 0040548969-7
I,AFSANA BANO,D/o-Tahir 0040548942-1 No other eligible candidates available in this category (72)
I,Manjeet Kumar,S/O Avanesh Khan,w/o-ARUN KUMAR ESM BCB
Kumar R/O WZ-267,Shakurpur I Komal D/o-Prem Sagar R/o- 12150988 12151991
VERMA ,r/o-H.No.137,Street
Village,Delhi Changed my H.No.1048R, Mangolpuri, Delhi- No other eligible candidates available in this category (78)
no.11,Budh Vihar, Mandoli
minor daughter name,from 110083 have changed my name OSP Gen
Saboli,Delhi-93,have changed 12151571 12152390 (70)
Gaura Devi To Gauri. to Komal Sagar permanently.
my name from AFSANA BANO OH
0040548985-6 to KUSUM VERMA for future. 0040548969-1 12150336 12151136 12151508
0040548987-7 I B.Lohi Das,S/O Sh.B.Tarnia,R/O No other eligible candidates available in this category (38)
I,Manish Kumar Gupta, S/O-
WZ-164A,Gali No.2,Lajwanti NOTE:
Rakesh Kumar, Resi:1/2300-B, I, mahesh kumar solanki S/o 1. The interview of the above candidates will be held on 09.10.2020. The candidates are advised to
Street No.6,Ram Garden,New Delhi-110046,have
Ram chander Address-Rzg- download the Admit Card for interview from the website of the Commission on/after 02.10.2020 and
Nagar,Shahdara, Delhi- changed name of my daughter,
85,dev-kunj,palam village raj- report at 09.00 A.M. in the Commission Office Bays No. 67-70, Sector-2, Panchkula on due date. They
110032,have changed my Name from B.Sirisa to B.Sirisha,for all
nagar part-1,delhi-110045, are also directed to bring all original documents, set of attested copies of all documents.
to Manish Gupta, for all Future purposes. 0040548985-8 2. While every care has been taken in preparing and uploading the result, possibility of in advertent/tech-
changed my name to mahesh
Purposes. 0040548969-6
kumar. 0040548969-3 I, Dharminder Kumar,S/o nical errors cannot be ruled out The Commission reserves the right to rectify the same later on.
Sh.Beg Raj, R/o-B-35,-First- 3. The result is also available on the website of HSSC i.e, www.hssc.gov.in.
I, Usman S/o Mohd Hassain R/o- 4. SOP's & guidelines for prevention of spread of Covid-19 issued by Ministry of Health & Family welfare
I, Shiwani D/o Ashok Kumar R/o- Floor,Sector-1, Avantika,
E-13/6A, Hauz Rani, Malviya Government of India should be followed by candidates.
D-30,Amar Colony, Nangloi, Rohini,Delhi-110085,have
Nagar,Delhi-110017, have Sd/-
Delhi-110041,have changed my changed my name Dharminder
changed my name to Mohd (Secretary)
name to Shivani permanently. Kaushik.
Usman. Haryana Staff Selection Commission
0040548985-5 0040548988-3 0040548977-3 82845/HRY Dated: 17.09.2020

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Masks protect better than a

Should you invest in gold?
Prices rose steadily for over a year, and gold gave good returns. It is advisable to invest on a periodic basis
vaccine would: CDC director through gold bonds. Many experts feel gold will continue to be strong for some time now.
DESCRIBING IT as the “most power- Covid than when I take a Covid vac-
ful public health tool” against the cine,” Redfield said. won’t matter at what price you purchased it.
novelcoronavirus,RobertRedfield,di- While a coronavirus vaccine is People are investors but they think like
rector of the Centers for Disease likely to become available by early traders even when they are buying a long-
Control and Prevention (CDC) in the next year, if not towards the end of term asset,” said Amar Pandit, CFA and
US, has said face masks offered much this year itself, no one knows as of founder of Happiness Factory, a financial ad-
better protection against now how effective these visory platform.
coronavirus infection than vaccines are likely to be. A cut in interest rates by RBI has led to a
vaccines would. The CDC is Scientistsandvaccinedevel- decline in interest rates on small savings and
the US equivalent of the
Indian Council of Medical
opers have suggested that
the early vaccines might not Sandeep Singh termdepositratesofbanks.Manyanalystsar-
gue that gold buying can be initiated around
Research (ICMR). be the most effective ones, & Sunny Verma levels of Rs 50,000 per 10 g, which is near
Redfieldwasresponding and that we would be lucky $1,900perounceasthespotpricethatitisex-
to questions from US law- if they provide protection to NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 pected to hold. Some see gold climbing to Rs
makers at a Senate Sub-committee at least 75% of those inoculated. 65,000 per 10 g, or around $2,400 per ounce,
hearing. “We have clear scientific ev- Redfield urged people to continue THERELENTLESSriseinthepriceof goldover by December 2021.
idence they work, and they are our wearingmasksevenafteravaccinebe- the past year has left investors unsure. While
best defence. I might even go so far as comesavailable,andsaidthepandemic existing investors wonder whether they How should you invest in gold?
to say that this face mask is more couldbebroughtquicklyundercontrol should exit with significant capital gains on Almost everyone agrees that unless you
guaranteed to protect me against if masks were adopted universally. their investments, new investors are unsure are buying for jewellery consumption, the
whether they should invest at current levels. investment must be through sovereign gold
On Wednesday, the United States Federal bonds. They offer investors price apprecia-
INDIA ACTIVE CASES 1,009,976 Reservesignalleditwouldkeepinterestrates tion along with a fixed 2.5% coupon per year
near zero until 2023. If the dollar index re- in holding them; also, they are in the form of
mains weak and leads to higher inflation go- paper or demat and issued in the name of
1000,000 ing forward, many feel it would result in gold the investor, thus taking care of concerns
prices staying firm or even rising — until a around security.
1,009,976 Covid-19 vaccine is in sight and the global While the interest earned on gold bonds
economy shows signs of recovery. Expertssayunlessyouarebuying forjewelleryconsumption,theinvestmentshould isaddedtotheholders’incomeandtaxedac-
883,697 bethrough bonds,amoreattractiveoptionthan owingphysicalgold. Partha Paul cording to their slab rate, any capital gains at
How have gold prices moved? maturity is tax-free, making them far more
900,000 Prices started to move upward from May attractivecomparedtoowningphysicalgold.
2019,culminatinginanover50%jumpinalit- pushed central banks and big investors to- forCovid-19yet,andtheFed’sdecisiontokeep Goldbondshaveamaturityperiodofeight
tle over a year — from $1,250 per ounce to wards gold. rates near zero — are set to keep gold prices years but investors have the option to exit af-
$1,900-plus now. In India, gold prices went The weakness of the dollar, which has an firm. The selling pressure in gold will come ter the fifth year. To offer greater liquidity, the
LAST 10 DAYS from around Rs 32,000 per 10 g to nearly Rs inverse relationship with gold, has been the onceamedicalsolutionforCovid-19isfound,” bonds are listed on stock exchanges within a
Sept 7 Sept 16 52,000 during the same period, a nearly 62% other reason for the rise in prices. As central said Hareesh V Nair, head of commodity re- fortnight of being issued, and can be traded.
800,000 return.Sincegoldisanimportedcommodity, banksincludingtheFedcutratesandinjected search at Geojit Financial Services. However, trading volumes depend upon liq-
thedepreciationof therupeeaddedtothere- hugeamountsofliquiditytosupporttheecon- Someanalysts,however,feelgoldmaynot uidity in the secondary market.
Note: The Sept 16 figure in this graph is based on the government update on Sept 17 turns enjoyed by Indian investors. omy, the dollar weakened and gold rose. seemuchof anupsidefromitscurrentlevels.
In dollar terms, gold peaked around Traditionallyseenasanassetclassthatpre- Jamal Mecklai, CEO, Mecklai Financial What if gold prices crash?
$2,080anounceonAugust7;theIndianprice serves its value, investment demand for gold Services,saidtwomonthsago,peoplefeltthe Analysts caution that one should hedge
INDIA TOTAL CASES WORLD TOTAL CASES inmarkettouchedRs58,000per10gthatday, has been going up in line with rising uncer- dollarwasgoingtocollapse,whichledtogold against a crash as gold prices, like those of
5,118,253 29,960,718 as gold traded at a premium of nearly Rs tainty. Expansion in the paper currency typi- shooting up. “Now it has come down. There other commodities, tend to move in long cy-
2,000 compared to the price on commodity cally tends to push up gold prices, with the hastobeafundamentalcrisisindollarforgold cles. Whenever the recovery picks up (now
Source:MinistryofHealthandFamily Source:JohnsHopkinsUniversity, exchange MCX. higher prices being supported by major buy- torisefromcurrentlevels,andIdon’tseethat.” expectedonlyinlate2021),investorswillstart
Welfare,updatedat11pmonSept17 updatedat11pmonSept17 Since then, prices have eased around 7% ing by leading central banks of China and allocatingmorefundstoriskassetslikestocks,
in the international market, and around 10% Russia over the last two years. So is gold a good investment for you? real estate and bonds, and pull out from safe
in the Indian market. The fall has been Whilegolddoesnotbyitself produceeco- While trading in gold may not be a good havens such as gold, US dollar, government
sharper in India as the rupee appreciated by nomic value, it is an efficient tool to hedge idea because of the current high prices, ex- debt,andJapaneseyen.Historicaltrendsshow
Killing coronavirus with UV more than Rs 2 during this period. With the
cooling off in international prices from peak
againstinflationandeconomicuncertainties.
Itisalsomoreliquidwhencomparedwithreal
pertssayretailinvestorscanbuygoldperiod-
ically.Financialplannerssaygoldshouldcon-
thatwhenequityandriskassetsstartmoving
upward, gold typically falls, as was the case

light, without harming people levels,thepremiumonphysicalgoldhasnow

vanished. Demand is expected to pick up in
India closer to Diwali.
estate and many debt instruments.

Could prices rise even more?

tinue to be between 5% and 10% of an
investor’s overall asset allocation.
“Thestrategyforretailinvestorsshouldbe
from 2011-15.
“A investor should watch levels of $1,900
and$1,800(perounce)onshortandmedium
A STUDY has found that using a UVC lamp. A so- Thereisabroadsenseamongcommodity to invest on a periodic basis— monthly or term basis. A fall below $1,800 would indi-
using ultraviolet C light lution containing the Why have the prices risen? traders and experts that gold may remain quarterly. But one should avoid making a cate the start of a downtrend in gold prices.
withawavelengthof 222 virus was spread onto a Thebiggestreasonfortheriseoverthelast strong — this is due to factors including ris- lump-sum investment in gold at this time,” Those should be exit levels or stop-loss lev-
nanometres (1 nanome- plate.Theresearchersal- five months has been the pandemic, its im- ingCovid-19casenumbers,andtheFed’ssig- Nair said. els, depending upon the risk appetite, for in-
tre is a billionth part of 1 lowed it to dry before pactonbusinessesandeconomies,andgrow- nal on keeping interest rates low for the next Financial advisors say gold should not be vestors who enter at current prices,” said an
metre) effectively kills placing the UVC lamp 24 ing concern about the global recession. three years. seen as a short-term asset. “Gold is a genera- expert with over two decades experience in
SARS-CoV-2, the virus cm above the surface of Concerns around negative growth rates have “Both these factors— no medical solution tional asset, and after a couple of decades it gold trading.
that causes Covid-19. PAPER the plates.

CLIP
Can eyeglasses shield you against Covid-19?
Ultraviolet light of wave- A wavelength of 222
lengths between 200 nm UVC cannot pene-
and 280 nm is known as trate the outer layer of
ultraviolet C light, or NEW RESEARCH the human eye and skin,
UVC. Using 222 nm UVC soitwon’tharmthecells
light is safe around hu- beneath. But 254 nm glasses is associated with less susceptibility tions against inferring a causal relationship tialentrypointforSARS-CoV-2,thevirusthat
mans, said the researchers from UVC germicidal lamps harm exposed KABIR FIRAQUE to Covid-19 infection. from a single observational study. She notes causesCovid-19.However,studiessofarhave
Hiroshima University, who have pub- human tissues, and can only be used NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 17 that there may be an alternative explanation thrown up mixed results. One, posted on the
lished their study in the American to sanitise empty rooms. How significant is this conclusion? forthefindings,“if,forinstance,wearingeye- website of the US National Institutes of
Journal of Infection Control. The researchers suggest further CAN WEARING glasses protect you from the Theauthorsthemselvesnote limitations: glasses is associated with another unknown Health, has reported the expression of the
An in vitro experiment by the re- evaluation of the safety and effective- novelcoronavirus?Anewstudysuggeststhat ■ It was a single-centre study with a and unmeasured factor associated with the human protein ACE2 in parts of the eye (the
searchers showed that 99.7% of the ness of 222 nm UVC irradiation in itmay,butthefindingscomewithseverallim- small sample size. risk of Covid-19”. virus uses ACE2 to enter the human cell). On
SARS-CoV-2 viral culture was killed killing SARS-CoV-2 viruses in real- itations.Thestudy,fromChineseresearchers, ■ The proportion in the population of Also, the investigation took place very the other hand, a study in the Journal of
aftera30-secondexposureto222nm world surfaces. is published in JAMA Ophthalmology. people who wear glasses was based on pre- early in the pandemic, and the statistics do Medical Virology foundnosignificantexpres-
UVCirradiation.Testswereconducted Source: Hiroshima University vious data, not calculated from current local notincludedataonhandwashingorphysical sion of ACE2 in conjunctival samples.
How does the study make this populations. distancing. “This makes it difficult to assess In her commentary, Dr Maragakis notes
suggestion? ■ The myopia rate obtained in previous any incremental benefit of eye protection in thateyeprotection—goggles,faceshield—are
It is an observational study on a small studies included a small number of people publicsettingsoverandabovethesebasicin- an important part of PPE (personal protective
group — 276 patients of Covid-19 in Hubei, with myopia who did not wear glasses. terventions that are now the mainstay of equipment) used by healthcare workers. But
155 of them male and 121 female. The study JAMA invited an epidemiologist, Dr Lisa L Covid-19 prevention,” she writes. public health guidelines on Covid-19 do not
examined how many of them wore glasses Maragakis of Johns Hopkins University While she acknowledges that the ob- recommend glasses for the general public.
for more than 8 hours a day. The count was School of Medicine, to write a commentary served difference in wearing eyeglasses be- Dr Maragakis warns of unintended con-
16 (less than 6% of the patients) and all of on the research. She has advised caution be- tween the Covid-19 patients and the general sequences in concluding that people should
them had myopia. The study authors then fore concluding that people should wear population is unlikely to have occurred by wear glasses in public to prevent Covid-19.
compared this with the proportion of peo- glasses or other types of eye protection in chance alone. she stresses that it does not in- “Wearing goggles, a face shield, or even eye-
ple with myopia in Hubei province, which public to prevent Covid-19. dicate a causal relationship. glasses might pose an increased risk of
was 31.5% based on a previous study. Since touching one's eyes more frequently and po-
the proportion of myopia in the population What are the issues flagged in the Beyond the correlation shown, how can tentially contaminating them when remov-
was much higher than the proportion of commentary? eyeglasses be associated with Covid-19? ing, replacing, or adjusting the eye protec-
Covid-19 patients who had myopia, the re- Dr Maragakis expands on the limitations Since the pandemic began, it has often tion, especially if a person is not accustomed
searchers suggested that daily wear of acknowledgedbythestudyauthorsandcau- been speculated whether the eye is a poten- to wearing them,” she writes.

Why three agriculture Bills pushed Akali Dal to quit Union Cabinet
agitating against the ordinances/Bills. The warned theywillnotlet anyleaderwhosup- What are the stakes involved? used to charge on the procurement agency. Dalagainstitsownalliancegovernmentwill
MANRAJ GREWAL SHARMA party has decided to vote against the Bills. ports the ordinances enter their villages. Farmers fear they will no longer get paid “The ordinances that allow farmers to rile the BJP at the Centre. Ashutosh Kumar,
CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 17 Less than a month ago, the Akalis had The 100-year-old party, which had its at MSP, while commission agents fear they sell their produce in the open market deal a apoliticalscientistatPanjabUniversity,said,
been defending the ordinances. Just before poorest ever showing in the 2017 Assembly will lose their commission. According to a blow to the farmers, mainly Jats, the com- “Every Cabinet member is bound by the
UNIONMINISTERHarsimratBadal’sresigna- a one-day Punjab Assembly session on electionswithamere15seatsoutof117,can- Punjab Agricultural University study, there mission agents, who are largely urban Cabinetdecision.Harsimratresignationwas
tion from the Cabinet signals an unusually August28,SukhbirBadalhadreleasedalet- not risk alienating its core constituency. are over 12 lakh farming families in Punjab Hindus, and landless labourers,” said inevitable as a vote against the Bills would
strong stand taken by her party, Shiromani ter from Union Agriculture Minister Politicalanalystssayit’saquestionof survival and 28,000 registered commission agents. Parmod Kumar. have violated Art 75.”
Akali Dal, against a move taken by its long- Narender Singh Tomar saying the practice for the party that enjoyed two successive A large part of the state’s economy rests
time ally BJP. Her resignation was in protest of procuring grains at a minimum support terms from 2007 before the 2017 rout. The on funds infused by central procurement How does it impact the BJP and its ties Is it the first time the Akali Dal has
against three ordinances — The Farmers price(MSP)willremainunchanged.Hehad SAD-BJPalliancesecuredonly15%oftheseats agencies such as Food Corporation of India with the Akali Dal? distanced itself from an NDA decision?
Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion accused Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of while the Congress recorded its most em- (FCI).Thelion’sshareofwheatandricegrown It will strain their ties, already frayed of InJanuary,theAkalishadsupportedares-
and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020; The misleadingfarmers.Nowthetwoarespeak- phatic win since 1957. inPunjabisprocuredbyorforFCI.Inthe2019- lateamidspeculationthatBJPmaybeflirting olution in the Punjab Assembly against the
Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) ing in one voice against the ordinances. Dr Parmod Kumar from the Institute of 2020rabimarketingseason,Punjab supplied with a breakaway Akali group led by S S central Citizenship (Amendment) Act, after
Agreement;andTheEssentialCommodities DevelopmentCommunication,athinktank, 129.1 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of the 341.3 Dhindsa. Also, Sukhbir Badal hasn’t shown havingvotedinitsfavourinParliament.Later,
(Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 — promul- What explains the Akalis’ opposition? said the farmers’ agitation has come as god- LMT wheat procured for the central pool. In the persuasive powers of his father Parkash the party decided against fighting the Delhi
gated by the NDA government, which has Peasantry forms the backbone of the sendfortheAkalis.“Theywereinthewilder- 2018-19, it contributed 113.3 LMT of rice to S Badal, who had held the alliance together. Assembly elections over its differences with
nowtabledBillsinLokSabhatoreplacethese. Akali Dal vote-bank in Punjab. Earlier this nessandnoonethoughttheywouldeverop- the total 443.3 LMT in the central pool. But the Bills will also hurt BJP’s largely BJP on this issue.
AkaliDalpresidentSukhbirBadalhassaid week, Sukhbir Badal said, “Every Akali is a pose the BJP. This agitation has given them a Now,protestersfeartheFCIwillnolonger urban vote bank, which includes the com- Earlier this week in Parliament, Sukhbir
the party was never consulted on the ordi- farmer, and every farmer is an Akali.” new lease of life. Their outright support for be able to procure from the state mandis, mission agents. It will no longer be able to Badal objected to non-inclusion of Punjabi in
nances,andthat Harsimrat,hiswife,hadtold Farmersunionsacrossthestatehavesunk the farmers could also help them dilute the whichwillrobthemiddleman/commission defend its demand for a larger share of thenewlanguagesBillfortheUnionTerritory
thegovernmentaboutfarmers’reservations. theirpoliticaldifferencestounite againstthe angeragainstincidentsofsacrilegeduringthe agent/arhatiya of his 2.5% commission. The Assembly seats from the existing 23. ofJammu&Kashmir,sayingitwasalanguage
Farmers in Haryana and Punjab have been ordinances. Villagers in the Malwa belt have Akali tenure in 2015.” state itself will lose the 6% commission it Ontheotherhand,thewhipbytheAkali spokenbylocalsasfarbackastheKhalsaRaj.

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TOPOFTHE
WORLD As US official visits
Taiwan, China warns
Donald Trump
of consequences
AMY QIN
AUSTRIA TAIPEI, SEPTEMBER 17

GovttoTrump: A SENIOR US envoy arrived in

No,wedonot Taiwan on Thursday to attend a

memorial service for former
liveinforests President Lee Teng-hui, in the
Donlad Trump administration's
Berlin: The Austrian gov- latestmovetobolsteritssupport
ernment has spoken up of the island in defiance of
to correct US President threats from Beijing.
Donald Trump's claim The Taiwanese foreign min-
that people in its coun- istry said that the envoy, Keith
try live in “forest cities”. Krach, under secretary for eco-
Trump recently cited nomicgrowth,energyandtheen-
Austria and other vironment,wasthehighest-level US Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach arrives

WILDFIRES SCORCH US WEST COAST

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European countries as officialfromtheStateDepartment at Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday. Reuters
models of good forest to visit the island in decades.
management that US China,whichclaimsself-gov-
states should learn from. Afirefighterin theCascadelWoodsneighbourhoodof MaderaCounty, California.Morethan30peoplehavediedduetowildfires erned Taiwan as its territory and

EXPLAINED
He said that “you look at
countries, Austria... They
intheWesternUSoverthepasttwomonths,with hundredsof homesdestroyedandthousandsof peopleevacuated. AP opposesformalexchangesof any
kind, responded to the news of Anotherattempt
live in the forest, they're
considered forest
Mr Krach’s visit on Wednesday
by sending two anti-submarine byTrumpto
cities...” In an article
Thursday for
Independent, Austria's
the Pak to elevate Gilgit-Baltistan aircraft into the island's air de-
fence identification zone, ac-
cording to the Taiwanese de-
●
isolateChina
agriculture minister
sought to set the record
straight”. “In reality,
to full-fledged province: Report fence ministry. The planes were
warned off by the Taiwanese air
force, the ministry said.
CHINA VIEWS Taiwan’s president as a dangerous sepa-
ratist. The US, like most countries, has official relations
Austria is a country situ- tus of a full-fledged province AffairssaidinMaywhileprotest- The State Department said with Beijing, not Taiwan. However, Keith Krach’s visit re-
ated in the heart of SAJJAD HUSSAIN with all constitutional rights. ing Islamabad's efforts to bring that the focus of Mr. Krach's visit flects a growing effort by the Donald Trump administra-
Europe, where people do ISLAMABAD, SEPTEMBER 17 GandapursaidGilgit-Baltistan material change in Pakistan oc- wasthememorialserviceforMr. tion to counter China's attempts in recent years to isolate
not live in the forest, but would be given adequate repre- cupied territories. Lee, who led Taiwan from dicta- Taiwan on the global stage.
rather with the forest PAKISTAN HAS decided to ele- sentation on all constitutional Gandapuralsosaidthatwork torship to democracy, though For Taiwan, the trip is an opportunity to demonstrate
and in a close, sustain- vate Gilgit-Baltistan's status to bodies, including the National on the Moqpondass Special Imran Khan the Taiwanese government said stronger ties with Washington as relations with Beijing be-
able relationship with that of a full-fledged province, a Assembly and the Senate. EconomicZonewouldbeginun- that the American envoy would come increasingly tense. China has recently stepped up
the natural environ- Pakistani media report on “After consultation with all dertheChinaPakistanEconomic alsodiscusseconomicissues.Mr. military activities in the narrow strait that separates the
ment,” Elisabeth Thursday quotedaseniorminis- stakeholders,thefederalgovern- Corridor (CPEC). Pak to introduce Krach will meet with President mainland from the island and has also become more belli-
Koestinger wrote. AP ter as saying. ment has decided in principle to The CPEC, which connects Tsai Ing-wen on Friday. cose in its rhetoric.
India has clearly conveyed to give constitutional rights to Gwadar Port in Pakistan's legislation to Tsai Shih-ying, a legislator
Pakistan that the entire union Gilgit-Baltistan,” the minister Balochistan with China's from the governing Democratic

NEPAL
territories of Jammu and told reporters. Xinjiang province,is theflagship curb cases of Progressive Party of Taiwan who On Wednesday, Reuters re- nothing but decorations.”
Kashmir and Ladakh, including India has said the project of Beijing's ambitious is on the foreign affairs and na- ported that the US government Since the beginning of the
6.0magnitude the areas of Gilgit and Baltistan, Governmentof Pakistanoritsju- multi-billion-dollar Belt and rape, child abuse tional defense committee, said, planned to sell as many as seven year, China has stepped up its
are an integral part of the coun- diciary has no locus standi on Road Initiative (BRI). “Right now, the focus is to let major weapon systems, includ- military activities around the is-
quakeshakes try by virtue of its fully legal and territories illegally and forcibly The CPEC is a collection of in- China know that Taiwan will not ing mines, cruise missiles and land. Chinese fighter jets have
SAJJAD HUSSAIN
Kathmandu irrevocable accession.
According to a report in the
occupied by it.
Indiacompletelyrejectssuch
frastructure and other projects
under construction throughout ISLAMABAD, SEPTEMBER 17
bow to the threat of force.”
“The second priority is to let
drones, to Taiwan. The island’s
defence ministry called the re-
crossed the median line in the
Taiwan Strait and flown into the
Express Tribune, Minister for actions and continued attempts Pakistan since 2013. Originally China know that not only will port a “media assumption”. island’sairdefenseidentification
Kathmandu: A strong Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan to bring material changes in valued at USD 46 billion, the PAKISTANPRIMEMinisterImran Taiwan not bow, it has many China has reacted angrily. On zone with increasing frequency.
earthquake of 6 magni- Affairs, Ali Amin Gandapur, on Pakistan occupied areas of the projectswereworthoverUSD60 Khan has said that his govern- powerful allies that will not let Thursday, a Chinese Foreign The Chinesemilitary has also re-
tudeshookNepal’scapital Wednesday said that Prime Indian territory of Jammu and billion as of 2017. ment will soon introduce a China just act blindly without Ministry official in Beijing said cently conducted a spate of anti-
Kathmandu and sur- Minister Imran Khan would Kashmir. Instead, Pakistan India has protested to China three-tier legislation providing thinking,” he added. that Mr. Krach's visit under- ship ballistic missile tests, which
rounding areas on soon visit the region and make should immediately vacate all over the CPEC as it is being laid for registration of sex offenders, Lastmonth,theUnitedStates minedrelationsbetweenBeijing expertssaidwereintendedasan
Wednesday, forcing peo- the formal announcement to el- areas under its illegal occupa- through Pakistan-occupied exemplary punishment for rape announcedthatitwasestablish- and Washington and warned explicit warning to the US.
ple to rush out of their evate Gilgit-Baltistan to the sta- tion, the Ministry of External Kashmir. PTI and child abuse and effective ing a new economic dialogue that China would respond "as TheUS,too,hasalsoincreased
houses. According to the policing. withTaiwanfocusedontechnol- necessary". In an editorial about thetransitof Americanwarships
National Seismological Khan made the announce- ogy, health care, energy and the report of the new arms sale, through the Taiwan Strait. But
Center, the 6 magnitude
quake occurred in the
country’s Sindhupal-
UK defends planned Brexit deal ment while addressing a joint
sitting of parliament after pas-
sage of a number of Financial
othersectors.Taiwanhopestalks
will result in a free-trade agree-
ment with the United States.
GlobalTimes,anationalisttabloid
owned by the Chinese
Communist Party, said, “Once
Washington has so far stopped
short of saying clearly that it
would defend the island if the
chowk district near Tibet
borderat5.19am.Theepi-
centre of the earthquake
breach as Biden slams move ActionTaskForce-relatedbillson
Wednesday.
“Such incidents ruin the lives
The Trump administration
hasalsosteppedupmilitarysup-
port for Taiwan in recent years
thePeople’sLiberationArmydis-
patches troops to reunify the is-
land of Taiwan, the military
People’s Liberation Army staged
aninvasionorablockade,despite
pressure from some administra-
wasRamchevillageinthe Britain and the EU jointly of victims and their families also through increased arms sales. equipment from the US will be tion officials to do so. NYT
district, 120 km east of JILL LAWLESS promised in the Brexit agree- have to suffer,” he was quoted as
Kathmandu. A tremor of LONDON, SEPTEMBER 17 ment to ensure there are no cus- saying by the Dawn newspaper.
3.8 magnitude was also
felt at the same place at THE BRITISH government strug-
toms posts or other obstacles on
the Northern Ireland-Ireland
Khan was referring to the
gangrape of a French-Pakistani Australia regulator dares
6.10 am, it said.

PAKISTAN
PTI gled Thursday to overcome
American opposition to its plans
to breach the Brexit withdrawal
border.Theopenborderiskeyto
the stability that underpins the
peace settlement.
womaninfrontof herthreechil-
dren near a highway in Lahore
on September 9 which sparked
Facebook to block news
Psychexamfor agreement with the European
Union, after Democratic presi-
British Foreign Secretary
Dominic Raab is in Washington
widespread outrage.
One of the suspects wanted
Sydney: Facebook Inc will be
“weakened”ifitstopsAustralians
Commission (ACCC) are still ne-
gotiating before the regulator
Pakdoccharged dential candidate Joe Biden be-
came the latest US politician to Joe Biden
thisweek,andhasbeentryingto
assuageAmericanconcernsthat
in the case was arrested on
Monday arrested and confessed
from sharing news so the com-
panycanavoidpayingforcontent
makes a formal recommenda-
tion to the government.
withterrorism express alarm. apendinggovernmentbillwould to his crime. Noting that the under proposed laws, Australia’s “It would be a shame for
PrimeMinisterBorisJohnson's undermine Northern Ireland main suspect in the gang-rape top antitrust regulator said on Australian democracy (and) it
Minneapolis:Apsycholog- move to break parts of the EU di- Friday Agreement that brought peace, if passed by lawmakers. case was a history-sheeter, Khan Thursday. would be a shame for Facebook Alexei Navalny
ical exam has been or- vorce deal relating to Northern peace to Northern Ireland to be- He is meeting US politicians said that global data indicated Facebook said this month it users if they took that course of
dered for a Pakistani doc- Irelandhastriggeredfearsitcould comea casualty of Brexit,” Biden including House Speaker Nancy that such criminals were repeat would stop Australians from action,”ACCCChairRodSimssaid.
tor and former Mayo underminethe1998GoodFriday tweeted. “Any trade deal be- Pelosi, who has warned that offenders and therefore main- sharing local and international “It would also weaken Facebook, Novichok-tinged
Clinic researcher accused peaceaccordthatendeddecades tween the U.S. and U.K. must be Britain won't secure a much tainingtheirdatawasimportant. news on its website if the pro- soit’stheircall...Ifpeoplecan’tget
of telling paid FBI inform- of violencebetweenIrishnation- contingent upon respect for the sought-after trade deal with the He saidthe legislationwould posal becomes law. The com- their news from Facebook then bottle found in
ants that he pledged alle- alists and British unionists. Agreement and preventing the United States, if it undermines also contain provisions for reg- pany and the Australian they’ll go elsewhere to get their
giancetotheIslamicState “We can't allow the Good return of a hard border. Period.” the peace accord. AP istration of sex offenders. PTI Competition and Consumer news.” REUTERS Navalny’s room,
groupandwantedtocarry
out lone wolf attacks in say colleagues
the US. Muhammad
Masoodhasbeenindicted
on one count of attempt- TRADITIONAL GATHERINGS TO BE MUTED, SYNAGOGUE PRAYERS LIMITED TO SMALL GROUPS VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 17

Under lockdown, Israel faces bitter start of Jewish New Year

ing to provide material
supporttoaforeignterror-
ist organisation. He has COLLEAGUES OF Russian oppo-
been in custody since his sition leader Alexei Navalny said
March 19 arrest at the cent weeks, climbing to more mandinghisresignationoverhis publicsquaresandstreetcorners Thursday that a bottle of water
Minneapolis-St. Paul ILAN BEN ZION than5,000onWednesday--one handling of the virus, the pan- worldwide. with a trace of the Novichok
International Airport. PTI JERUSALEM, SEPTEMBER 17 of the highest per capita infec- demic's fallout and his corrup- “The unique circumstances nerve agent was found in his ho-
tion rates in the world. Since the tion trials. that leave millions outside the tel room after his poisoning.
SRI LANKA EATINGAPPLESdippedinhoney pandemic began this year, it has Thelockdownruleshavealso synagogue doors this year con- Navalnyfellillonaflightfrom

Courtsummons on Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish

tradition to symbolise a sweet
recorded more than 169,000
cases, including 1,163 deaths, as
deepened the rift between sec-
ular and religious Jews in Israel.
tain also the silver lining of help-
ing them rediscover, reintegrate
Siberia to Moscow on August 20
and was flown to Germany,
captainoftanker start of the New Year. But in
Israel, bitterness prevails on the
of Wednesday, according to
Health Ministry figures.
A proposal to lock down only on
communities with high out-
and celebrate the holiness of the
true center of Jewish life - the
wherehewaskeptinaninduced
coma for more than two weeks
thatcaughtfire eve of the holiday as the country Religious and secular Israelis breaks - mainly ultra-Orthodox Jewish home,” said Rabbi as he was treated with an anti-
faces a second nationwide lock- alike mark Rosh Hashanah with areas where initial restrictions Zalman Shmotkin, spokesman dote. Members of his team ac-
Colombo: A Sri Lankan down to stem a raging coron- festive holiday feasts with fam- were ignored, allowing infec- for Chabad-Lubavitch. cused the Kremlin of involve-
court on Thursday issued avirus outbreak. ily and friends. They pack syna- tionstosurge-wasscrapped,ap- An Israeli online application ment in the poisoning, charges
a notice to the captain of Israeli Prime Minister gogues, often spending hours in parentlyfollowingpressurefrom is helping pair shofar blowers that Russian officials have vehe-
the oil tanker that caught Benjamin Netanyahu's govern- prayer, especially during the fast ultra-Orthodox leaders, before withthosewhowanttohearthe mently denied.
fire off the country's east- ment has imposed a three-week of Yom Kippur, the Day of An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays ahead of the Jewish Netanyahu announced the na- horn in their neighborhoods. The Kremlin has bristled at
ern coast to appear before lockdown, beginning on Friday Atonement,which falls later this new year at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's old city. AP tionwide lockdown. IntheUS,moreliberalJewish calls from German Chancellor
it on September 28. The afternoon - just hours before month. Many Jewish worshippers streams have produced alterna- Angela Merkel and other leaders
Colombo chief magistrate Rosh Hashanah starts. Israel's Butthisyear,traditionalfam- elsewhere in the worldwill have tives for congregants who use to answer questions about the
court's order comes a day first lockdown, in March and ilygatheringswillbemuted,syn- within500metres(yards)ofone's since the gains made with the to forgo synagogue services due Zoom, Facebook and other digi- poisoning, urging Germany to
after Attorney General April, put a damper on Passover, agogueprayerswillbelimitedto home. Gatherings are limited to first lockdown - when the virus to social distancing rules, hold tal platforms during the High provideevidenceofhispoisoning.
DappuladeLiverastakeda the Jewish spring holiday mark- small groups and travel restric- 10peopleindoors,and20outside, seemed to have been brought prayers and hear the traditional Holidays. OnTuesday,Navalnyposteda
claimof$1.8millionforthe ingthedeliveranceof theancient tions will leave many roads de- restricting the number of faithful under control - were erased sounding of the shofar - a cere- The Union for Reform pictureof himself fromhisbedin
costs incurred on dousing Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. serted. Some of the liberal who can attend synagogue serv- within weeks, with authorities monial ram's horn - on street Judaism, North America's Berlin's Charite Hospital, hugged
the fire on board the Now, the Jewish High streams of Judaism, particularly ices.Bars,restaurants,andcultural unabletostemthespikethatfol- corners or at home. biggestJewishgroup,createdthe by his wife and children. "I still
Panama-registeredtanker Holidays look to be similarly in the US, are turning to technol- venueswillbeshut,butmanyrit- lowed. Weekly protests have The Chabad-Lubavitch Reflection Project, a virtual ex- can't do almost anything on my
that went up in flames on subdued. ogy to help connect people. ualbathsandotherreligiousfacil- drawn thousands to movement of Hasidic Judaism perience designed to help peo- own, but yesterday I managed to
September 3. PTI Israel has seen new daily In Israel, movement during ities will remain open. Netanyahu's Jerusalem resi- has recruited thousands of vol- ple connect with spirituality breatheonmyownfortheentire
casesof Covid-19skyrocketinre- thelockdownwillberestrictedto Israelis have been frustrated dence, with demonstrators de- unteers to blow the shofar at through a series of activities. AP day,” he added in the post. AP

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1.48 LAKH COVID CLAIMS WORTH `1,430 CRORE SETTLED BY INSURERS Over 50% equipment in BSNL
Irdai working on 2 insurance schemes mobile networks Chinese: Govt
for MSMEs, another for dwelling units
of 4G. A reworked tender, to be
ENSECONOMICBUREAU Meanwhile, 10% of floatedlater,waslikelytocontain
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER17 mobile network provisionsspellingoutthebanon
Chinese telecom gear vendors.
MORE THAN 50 per cent of mo- equipment used by Thetender,however,hasnotbeen
byinsurance.Indiahas6.33crore homes,” Khuntia said at the CII since its launch on July 10, 2020. bile network equipment used by MTNL is supplied by floated till date.
GEORGEMATHEW MSMEs,majorityofwhicharemi- EXTENDINGTENURE Insurance and Pensions Summit. “We will consider extending state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam
Chinese vendors Among the private telcos,
MUMBAI,SEPTEMBER17 cro-enterprises. “Another stan-
dardproductisbeingworkedout OFCOVIDPOLICIES According to Irdaidata,insur-
ancecompaniesshelledoutanav-
thetenureforCovidpoliciesfrom
March 2021,” Khuntia said.
Limited (BSNL) comes from two
Chinese companies, namely
while Reliance Jio Infocomm has
notdeployed“anytelecomequip-
AFTER BRINGING out specialised for dwelling units,” he said. erage of Rs 96,621 per person on Irdai said standard products HuaweiandZTE,while10percent for Communications Sanjay ment from ZTE and Huawei in its
insurance cover for the Covid-19 InIndia,only0.9percentofthe ■IrdaiChairman claimsmadebyinsuredCovid-19 are launched by the regulator to ofthemobilenetworkequipment Dhotre said in his reply. network”, Bharti Airtel and
pandemic, the Insurance dwelling units are insured SubhashCKhuntiasaid patients. Khuntia said that 2.38 furtherincreasepenetrationofin- used by Mahanagar Telephone State-runBSNLandMTNLonly Vodafone Idea (Vi) follow a
Regulatory and Development whereas in the US,itis around 90 theregulatorwill lakh claims for coronavirus have suranceinIndia,whichisjust3.76 Nigam Limited (MTNL) is sup- have 2G and 3G networks as of “multi-vendor”strategywhichin-
Authority of India (Irdai) is plan- per cent. People suffer huge eco- considerextendingthe beenfiledbythepolicyholdersas per cent of the gross domestic pliedbyChinesevendors,thegov- date.Afteraborderskirmishwith cludesprocuringequipmentfrom
ning to come out with standard- nomic losses when some catas- tenureforCovidpolicies of now. Of these, 1.48 lakh claims products (GDP) compared to the ernment informed the Rajya ChinesesoldiersintheGalwanval- Chinese vendors as well, Dhotre
ised insurance schemes for trophe happens. This risk can be fromMarch2021 amountingtoRs1,430crorehave world average of around 7 per Sabha on Thursday. leyregionof Ladakh,whichkilled saidinhisreplytotheRajyaSabha.
dwelling units and Covid-hit mi- coveredbyinsuringtheproperty, ■Hesaidthat2.38lakh been settled by the insurers. cent.Theregulatorisalsolooking “Bharat Sanchar Nigam 20Indiansoldiers,thegovernment Though the government has
cro,smallandmediumenterprise as per the insurance regulator. claimsforcoronavirus The insurance watchdog had to introduce risk-based solvency Limited (BSNL), has 44.4 per cent movedtocanceltheparticipation not banned telecom service
(MSME) segment. “Irdai is keen on a standard havebeenfiledbythe come out with standard health for insurance companies in the of itsmobilenetworkequipment of Chinese companies from ten- providersfrompurchasinggears
IrdaiChairmanSubhashCKh- product for dwelling units as the policyholdersasof now productscalledArogyaSanjeevani nextthreeyearsandallowvideo- from ZTE and 9.0 per cent from dersandprojectsinIndia. from Chinese telecom equip-
untia said two standard schemes same product will be sold by all andCovid-19specificproducts— based KYC process. Irdai also Huawei. Mahanagar Telephone As part of the same strategy, ment vendors, it has in place
arebeingworkedoutforMSMEs. the companies. It will become Corona Rakshak and Corona wants insurers to improve the NigamLimited(MTNL),has10per the Department of Telecomm- “comprehensive security condi-
Oneisformicrounitsandanother easier for policyholders to pick documents to find out terms and Kavach—twomonthsago.Under persistency ratio — or continua- centof itsmobilenetworkequip- unications (DoT) had on June 17 tions”forsuchvendors aspartof
oneforsmallunits.Asofnow,only such products as they don’t have conditions. Hopefully, more and the Corona Kavach plan, around tion of policies — for the 13th ment from Chinese equipment askedboththestate-runtelcosto their licensing norms, Dhotre
5 per cent of MSMEs are covered to go through voluminous policy more people will protect their 28 lakh lives have been covered month and five years. manufacturers,”MinisterofState canceltheirtenderfortheroll-out said in his reply.

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India (SBI) in Australia has investors noting that the current hands with potential investors gather information on system it cannot replicate in the human cine in India, following which it was safe, the relatively smaller the phase 3 trial here “shortly”, as
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MAXWELL, CAREY TO THE RESCUE
Glenn Maxwell and Alex Carey struck centuries in a 212-run
stand to help Australia reach a record target of 303 at Old
Trafford with two balls remaining and secure a one-day
international series win over England.

IPL 2020 S H O RT STO R I E S I A J I N KYA R A H A N E Quarantine

period cut down
Waiting for the second inningsRahane has had a forgettable time of late. Can the upcoming IPL help him get back into the groove?
for Australia,
England players
SHAMIK CHAKRABARTY
tobeapartof theWorldCupteam,especially KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 17
VISHAL MENON &
DEVENDRA PANDEY
MEN FOR ALL SEASONS whenyouknowyouhaveworkedreallyhard,
and your record in the past was really good.” ENGLAND AND Australia cricketers are ex-
SEPTEMBER 17 After a dozen uninterrupted pectedtobeavailablefortheirrespectiveIndian
appearances at the IPL, these Fresh start a good start? PremierLeague(IPL)franchisesrightfromthe
FORAplayeronceconsideredIndia’sbestall- regulars boast cent percent Ahead of this IPL, Rahane’s career is at a startofthetournament.Thisfollowsareduced
formatbatsmanafterViratKohli,thelastfew attendance and the eternal crossroads. He would like to remind selec- 36-hourquarantineperiod,insteadofsixdays,
years have been less than stellar for Ajinkya promise of a plucky 13th year of tors about his white-ball prowess, especially for the 21 cricketers who are coming to the
Rahane. He is holding on to a place in the reinventions. Featuring IPL’s with the two T20 World Cups and a 50-over United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the United
middleorderintheTestteam,butlastplayed most prominent mainstays, an World Cup scheduled over the next three Kingdom(UK)attheconclusionofthelimited-
white-ballcricketforthecountryinFebruary Express countdown to India’s big years. It will be a reboot for him with a new overs series between England and Australia.
2018. To make matters worse, the 32-year- sports reopening Saturday night. franchise. Interestingly, it was Sourav A franchise CEO, however, informed that
old has experienced diminishing returns in Ganguly — the current BCCI president and playersgoingtoAbuDhabiwillhavetoundergo
the longest format as well. the franchise's mentor till last year — who a six-day quarantine period. It means that
His last assignment before the world the fast bowlers,” Kohli had said after the se- was instrumental in getting Rahane on Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) Eoin Morgan, Pat
went into lockdown produced a mere 91 ries win. board. Ganguly’s endorsement may restore Cummins and Tom Banton will have to be in
runs from four innings in New Zealand. Someone who has helped him with his much-needed confidence in him. isolationforsixdays. Fortheplayerstobebased
However, it seemed a case more of a clut- game over time thinks Rahane probably is The long break due to the pandemic may inDubai,anofficialofafranchisetoldTheIndian
tered mindset than any apparent technical too nice a guy to question his omission from workinhisfavourtoo.Inhisfirstvirtualpress Express: “They (England and Australia crick-
discrepancy. the playing XI. conference for the Delhi Capitals, Rahane eters)willbeavailableforthefirstmatchifthey
Fear of failure and losing his Test spot “It’s a mystery why he doesn’t play ODIs said he had not picked up a cricket bat in five test negative in the tests to be done tomorrow
seemed to be weighing heavily on Rahane’s despite him performing whenever given months. Visualisation exercises, meditation (Friday) and remain in isolation from the time
mind. He seems a shadow of the batsman chances. Sometimes, I feel he needs to speak and spending time with daughter Arya they land in Dubai till the 19th morning.”
who scored more overseas Test hundreds in up. He is a reserved guy who doesn’t like to helped him through the period in isolation. According to BCCI sources, as the players
his first 10 Tests than managed by Sachin Ajinkya Rahane last played ODIs for India in February 2018. File argue with anyone but a time comes when The key would be to shed the baggage of the are coming from one bio-bubble to another,
Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid. one has to start asking questions. He is the past, and enjoy his batting again. theyhavebeenallowedareducedquarantine
As he gears up for the Indian Premier vice-captain of the (Test) team and needs to ButitremainstobeseenwhetherRahane period.TheplayershadtoundergoCovidtests
League – now in Delhi Capitals after a dozen As he gears up for the Indian fromhome.Butlastseason,Ifelthewasplay- show that in the dressing room by talking,” manages to book a permanent spot for him before boarding the flight in England, while
years with Rajasthan Royals – Rahane will ing his shots too early. Probably, somewhere one of his mentors told The Indian Express. in the Delhi Capitals playing XI. Prithvi Shaw another round of RT-PCR tests would be done
hope the enforced break will have given him Premier League – now in Delhi he was in two minds.” “He was about to get dropped for a Test and Shikhar Dhawan are likely to be the upon their arrival in Dubai.
a chance to reassess his game and recharge Capitals after a dozen years with match against Sri Lanka in Delhi despite be- opening pair and with skipper Shreyas Iyer CSKhaveAustraliaseamerJoshHazlewood
his batteries. Rajasthan Royals – Rahane will Left in the lurch ing the vice-captain. He was fine with it un- and the dynamic Rishabh Pant in the set-up and England allrounder Sam Curran. Delhi
Maybe, all the talk about his scoring rate tiloneof hisMumbaiteammatesquestioned – not to mention overseas players like Alex Capitals have Australia allrounder Marcus
Taking too much responsibility hope the enforced break will – by former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni the team management about his exclusion. Carey, Shimron Hetmyer and Marcus Stoinis Stoinis and his compatriot, ‘keeper-batsman
Sometimes,beingtootightly strungasan have given him a chance to – and getting dropped after a solid one-day He(Rahane)hasgivenanimpressionthat – the veteran may have to warm the dugout Alex Carey and allrounder Daniel Sams.
individual and wanting to succeed too badly series in South Africa in 2018 is still taking a if the team management wants, they can in at least a few games. Australia’sGlennMaxwellprovidesthex-fac-
reassess his game and recharge
gets in the way of success. toll on Rahane’s mindset. That was after he drophimandhewilltakeithappily.It’s good Even though he has expressed his will- tor for Kings XI Punjab, while England’s Chris
Former Mumbai coach and Rahane’s his batteries. was constantly in and out of the side, and to say ‘I’m ready to make a sacrifice for the ingness to bat in the middle order, batting Jordan is one of their death-bowling options.
one-time room-mate Vinayak Samant is shuttledaroundasanopener,one-downand team’butonehastounderstandhardreality. down theorderin the20-over formatcomes KKRhaveEngland’sEoinMorganandTom
someone who has seen Rahane develop as a then in the middle order. His T20I career has Public memory is short. He should have with its own set of challenges. In the past, Banton, and the team’s most expensive buy,
player,evenbefore hecameintothe national and didn’t take too much tension, he started seen just 20 games, the last of which came been in the World Cup team. But Rahane Rahane has had his best time as an opener Australia fast-bowling allrounder Pat
side. “Sometimes, he has a habit of thinking to score runs again,” the former wicket- four years ago against the West Indies. never questioned his omission.” in T20 cricket. Cummins. Rajasthan Royals have Australia’s
toomuch.Irememberwhenhemadehisde- keeper told The Indian Express. None other than captain Kohli had It took him more than a year to articulate The team management may consider SteveSmithastheirskipper,andEngland’sJos
but for Mumbai more than a decade ago, he Samant vouches for the seriousness with heaped praise on Rahane after that South hisdisappointmentaboutmissingtheWorld him surplus to requirements later in the or- Buttler, Jofra Archer and Tom Curran as their
was putting too much pressure on himself. which Rahane takes his cricket. “He is one Africa tour, and it looked like India had ze- Cup.“IwasactuallythinkingIwillbetherein der, and the innings, when batsmen are re- keyplayers.RoyalChallengersBangalorehave
His thinking was on the lines that ‘I have to who likes to sleep by 9 pm and wake up by 5 roed in on their No.4 batsman for the 2019 the World Cup batting at No. 4, but it is gone quired to find the boundary and stands on a Australia’s Aaron Finch, Adam Zampa, Kane
takeresponsibilityonmyshouldersandtake am. His work ethic is tremendous. When it World Cup in England. “Very happy for Jinks now. I don’t think too much about it (the regular basis. If that happens, it will be inter- Richardson and Josh Philippe, and England’s
theteamtovictory.’Sometimes, thesethings comes to batting, his class is comparable to (Rahane). Jinks is a top-class player. We un- World Cup), but yes, especially when I was estingtoobservewhetherRahanetakesiton MoeenAli.SunrisersHyderabadhavetheirtal-
backfire and he was a complete flop in his Kohli’s. His stats provethat,look at his scores derstood fast bowling was going to be a big playing county cricket when the World Cup the chin, ‘for the team’, or speaks up about isman and captain, Australia’s David Warner
first five matches. Once he started to relax abroad. Most of his runs have come away factor in this tour. He was superb; he took on washappening…asaplayereveryonewants the disappointment. and England’s Jonny Bairstow.

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