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HC lifts stay,
80% ICU beds
in 33 Delhi
hospitals
for Covid
SOFI AHSAN
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
WITH COVID-19 surging in the
national capital, the Delhi High
Court Thursday permitted the
Delhi government to enforce its
order asking 33 major private
hospitalstoreserve80%ICUbeds
for coronavirus patients. It va-
cated a stay order on the matter
passed by a single bench last
month, on a petition filed by a
group of healthcare providers,
notingthatthegroundrealityhad
“radically changed” since then.
Calling the situation dy-
namic, the division bench of
Justices Hima Kohli and
Subramonium Prasad pulled up
the state government, saying it
should remain “much more
alive” to the situation, and “the
whole city can see for itself”
what is happening.
The court was hearing an ap-
peal filed by the government
against the stay given by a single
benchonitsSeptember12order,
which asked the 33 hospitals to
reserve 80% of their ICU capacity
for Covid-19 patients. The
Association of Healthcare
Providers (India) (AHPI) had
gonetocourtagainstthegovern-
ment order.
The state government told
the High Courtthat the Covid-19
situation in Delhi had become
"critical" in recent days and it
wasessentialthatitsorderforre-
serving ICU beds be enforced. It
saidthe33hospitalshadontheir
own reserved 1,238 ICU beds,
which would go up to 1,742 if
this was done. Additional
Solicitor General Sanjay Jain said
it wanted the measure to be in
place for at least 15 days, after
which it could be reviewed.
Asperthedatapresentedbe-
forethecourt,89%of 1,238Covid
ICU beds in the 33 hospitals re-
mained occupied as on
Wednesday morning. In the 115
total private hospitals in Delhi,
86.96% of the 1,831 Covid ICU
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IPL player questioned
at Mumbai airport
over luxury watches
KHUSHBOO NARAYAN
MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 12
TWO DAYS after his IPL team,
Mumbai Indians, retained the
high-profile Twenty20 league's
title in the UAE, allrounder
Krunal Pandya was stopped and
questioned at the Mumbai air-
portThursdaybytheDirectorate
of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for
allegedly trying to bring in un-
declared diamond-studded and
other luxury watches.
Sources told The Indian
Express that Pandya, 29, was
stopped on the basis of a tip-off
and found to allegedly have in
possession two diamond-stud-
ded Audemars Piguet and two
Rolex models that were not de-
clared to Customs. The total
valueof thewatchesisestimated
to be about Rs 1 crore, they said.
Pandya was questioned for
aboutthreehours,aftertheteam
arrived around 4.30 pm on a
chartered flight, and allowed to
leave after the watches were
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THAN INDIA GATE’
STRUCTURE
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Narrow margin seats: Tejashwi
wants postal ballot recount
SANTOSH SINGH
PATNA, NOVEMBER 12
TEJASHWIYADAVThursdaysaid
the RJD might move court if the
Election Commission is not able
to satisfactorily answer queries
of 20 Mahagathbandhan candi-
dates who lost by very narrow
margins,anddemandedthatthe
postal ballots in
these constituen-
cies be recounted
and a detailed
break-up of valid
DECISION and invalid votes
2020
BIHAR provided.
However,hedidn't
specify which 20 seats he was
talking about.
Addressing a joint press con-
ference, also attended by
Congress campaign committtee
chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh,
Tejashwi said: "We firmly be-
lieve that we (the Mahagath-
Krunal Pandya was
questioned by DRI
confiscated, sources said.
“The case and the watches
have been handed over to the
CustomsunitattheMumbaiair-
port. The player will have to pay
thedutyandafineif hewishesto
take possession of the watches,”
sources said.
Imported luxury watches
can attract duty of up to 38.5 per
cent of value that is in excess of
the duty free allowance of Rs
35,000, in this case.
Krunal Pandya is the elder
brother of India allrounder
Hardik Pandya. He has played 18
T20 Internationals for India.
PAGE 1
ANCHOR Booted out over kiss, cadet alleges bias: He got away lightly
MAN AMAN SINGH CHHINA
CHANDIGARH, NOVEMBER 12
A WOMAN trainee officer cadet
(pilot),withdrawnfromtheIndian
Naval Academy in Ezhimala in
Kerala after being charged with
physical intimacy with a fellow
cadet, has gone to the Armed
ForcesTribunal(AFT),allegingdis-
criminatory treatment since the
male cadet has been handed a
lighter punishment.
She says there are past in-
stancesof lesserpunishmentbe-
ingawardedforasimilaroffence.
AFT proceedings note that a
show-cause notice (SCN) was is-
Tejashwi Yadav addressing party MLAs in Patna Thursday. ANI
bandhan) won not 110 but 130
seats. The EC did not abide by its
own rule on counting the postal
ballots first. There were at least
20 seats where our candidates
lost by slender margins. We are
asked to provide evidence (on
AG nod for Russia warns: India-China
contempt case faceoff may be misused
against Kamra
over tweets
SHUBHAJIT ROY
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
ATTORNEY GENERAL K K
Venugopal granted his consent
Thursday for initiation of crimi-
nal contempt of court proceed-
ings against stand-up comedian
KunalKamraoverhis“highlyob-
jectionable” tweets on the
Supreme Court and a judge.
Venugopal said the tweets
“are not only in bad taste but
clearly cross the line between
humour and contempt of the
court”. Kamra posted the tweets
Wednesday, the day a vacation
bench of the Supreme Court
granted interim bail to Republic
TV editor-in-chief Arnab
Goswamiinanallegedabetment
to suicide case.
TheAttorneyGeneral’soffice,
itislearned,receivedmultiplelet-
tersofrequest,seekinghisnodfor
criminal contempt proceedings
against Kamra over the tweets.
Those who wrote to the AG
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sued to the woman cadet in May
2020 on why she should not be
withdrawnfromtraininganddis-
charged from naval service. “The
final approval/decision on the
sameispendingatthelevelofthe
first respondent (Government of
India/MoD),” it notes.
The cadet was undergoing
training at the naval academy in
2019-20. She was relegated dur-
ing the third term (2020) on dis-
ciplinary grounds for “indulging
in physical intimacy with an-
other trainee”. Since she had
beenrelegatedin2019aswellon
disciplinary grounds, she was
considered unworthy of reten-
tion in naval service and was
SINCE 1932
the charges). But it is the EC that
has to give evidence... the com-
plete video-recording of count-
ing of postal ballots. We also
wonder how 500 to 700 to 900
postal ballots were declared
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and the friction can be “misused
by other players in their geopo-
litical purpose”.
At an online media briefing,
IN WHAT is being seen as a
veiledreferencetotheUS,Russia
said Thursday that any escala-
tion in the border tension be-
tween India and China amid
global turbulence and unpre-
dictability would further trigger
regional instability in Eurasia,
Govt notifies new rules,
makes it tougher for
NGOs to get foreign funds
DEEPTIMAN TIWARY
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
THE CENTRE has further tight-
ened rules for organisations
seeking foreign funding. The
new rules, notified on
Wednesday, state that any or-
ganisation seeking registration
under the Foreign Contribution
(Regulation) Act (FCRA) must
have operated for at least three
withdrawn from the academy.
This action was taken be-
cause the woman cadet was cu-
mulativelyrelegatedtwiceinone
term on disciplinary grounds.
The counsel for the cadet
contended that the order was
harsh and discriminatory: “In
that the male cadet, who came
to the applicant’s cabin in the
early hours of March 29, 2020,
who kissed the applicant, was
only given relatively minor pun-
ishment, not amounting to rele-
gation, whereas the applicant is
being relegated/withdrawn”.
Seeking her reinstatement in
the Indian Naval Academy with a
lesser punishment for the “kiss-
EC counters:
norms followed,
recount in 1 seat
as per process
RITIKA CHOPRA &
HARIKISHAN SHARMA
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
WHILERJDleaderTejashwiYadav
claimed on Thursday that re-
jected postal ballots might have
madethedifferencebetweenvic-
tory and defeat for the
Mahagathbandhan, Election
Commissionrecordsshowthatin
only one Assembly constituency
in Bihar, Hilsa, the winning mar-
gin was less than the number of
invalidpostalballots.And,follow-
ing the RJD candidate's request,
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Roman Babushkin, Deputy Chief
ofMissionintheRussianEmbassy,
said that his country is “naturally
concerned” over tensions be-
tweenIndiaandChina,andthatit
is "very important" for the two
Asianneighbourstoengagemore
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years and spent “a minimum
amount of Rs 15 lakh on its core
activities for the benefit of soci-
ety during the last three finan-
cial years”.
Any organisation seeking
prior permission for receiving a
“specific amount from a specific
donor for carrying out specific
activities or projects” shall “sub-
mit a specific commitment let-
terfromthedonorindicatingthe
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The woman cadet was undergoing training at the Indian
Naval Academy in Ezhimala, Kerala, in 2019-20
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SITHARAMAN UNVEILS ATMANIRBHAR 3.0
Incentivesforhiring,
real-estate;morecredit
forstressedsectors
Fresh stimulus worth Rs 1.2 lakh cr; Rs 10,000 crore
extra for PM Garib Kalyan to boost job creation
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
TO SUPPORT the economic re-
covery process, the government
Thursday announced a fresh set
of measures, worth around
Rs 1.2 lakh crore, to boost job
creation, provide liquidity sup-
port to stressed sectors and en-
courage economic activity in
housing and infrastructure ar-
eas. An additional outlay of
Rs 65,000 crore is being pro-
vided as a fertiliser subsidy to
support increasing demand on
the back of a good monsoon and
sharp increase in the crop-sown
area.
Announcing the new set of
measuresaheadof Diwali,Union
Finance Minister Nirmala
SitharamansaidtheIndianecon-
omyiswitnessingastrongrecov-
ery, aided by the government’s
“unrelenting reform pitch”.
The latest measures include
extendingthe EmergencyCredit
Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS)
to 26 stressed sectors, additional
funding for housing and infra-
structure sector, a new scheme
to promote job creation and ad-
ditional outlay for rural employ-
ment. Changes are being made
in tax laws to help clear unsold
inventory of residential housing
units up to Rs 2 crore.
While the government re-
frained from providing any di-
rect fiscal support to stressed
sectors such as aviation and
tourism, these are being given
access to the government-guar-
anteed, collateral-free Rs 3 lakh
crore loan scheme that was
opened for MSMEs. Companies
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
BY UNNY
Rs 65,000 cr booster for fertiliser
industry, to help clear subsidy dues
HARISH DAMODARAN
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
THE FERTILISER industry has
landed an unexpected pre-
Diwali bonanza, with the
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman, on Thursday, an-
nouncing an additional Rs
65,000 crore subsidy, over and
above the Rs 71,309 crore al-
ready provided in the Union
Budget for 2020-21.
Fertiliser companies were
owed around Rs 48,000 crore
subsidy dues at the start of the
New Delhi
Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi Thursday. Anil Sharma
Last push before Budget?
Key theme: spur demand
rather than cash in hand
P VAIDYANATHAN IYER
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT 3.0
may well be Finance Minister
NirmalaSitharaman’slastCovid-
E
19 relief package ahead
of Budget 2021-22, but
EXPLAINED
there is a discernible
patterntothefourmajor
announcements made
over the last seven
months.It reinforces the
‘fiscal conservatism’ ideology of
the government under Prime
Minister Narendra Modi —
rather than large cash transfers,
the growth philosophy centres
around creating an ecosystem
that aids domestic demand, in-
centivises companies to gener-
ate jobs and boost production,
CENTRE’S FISCAL COST(in Rs crore)
Pre-PM announcement
Atmanirbhar 1.0
Atmanirbhar 2.0
Atmanirbhar 3.0
TOTAL
* includes PM Garib Kalyan Yojana, Rs 15,000 crore towards anti-Covid
health and Rs 7,800 crore loss of revenue
current fiscal. The subsidy re-
quirement for 2020-21 alone —
based on the expected con-
sumption of individual fertilis-
ers, cost of imported urea and
feedstock (natural gas), rupee-
dollar exchange rate, etc — was
pegged at Rs 80,000-85,000
crore. The two added up to Rs
1,28,000-1,33,000 crore.
Given the subsidy provision
of just Rs 71,309 crore, it would
have meant a further increase in
arrears to Rs 56,000-62,000
crore, to be carried forward to
2021-22. “The Rs 65,000 crore
extra allocation announced by
ing” offence, the counsel said she
shouldbeallowedtograduatebe-
cause she has qualified as out-
standing in academics, physical
trainingtestsandswimmingtests.
The counsel cited cases of
"similarly placed lady cadets" of
Observer Branch and Naval
Armament Inspection Branch
who were “dealt with leniently
in cases involving male cadets;
the former was notawarded any
punishmentwhilethelatterwas
awarded 21 restrictions”.
The AFT noted that the gov-
ernment counsel referred to the
fact that the applicant (woman
cadet) had been repeatedly
found guilty of disciplinary of-
and simultaneously extends
benefits to those in severe dis-
tress, be it firms or individuals.
The headline numbers —
stimulus of Rs 29,87,641 crore or
15 per cent of GDP till date — are
more for optics. For instance,
Sitharaman Thursday
said the government’s
contributiontothestim-
ulus imparted so far was
● 9 per cent of GDP, the
balance 6 per cent being
attributedtotheReserve
Bank of India (RBI). She put the
size of Thursday’s Atmanirbhar
Bharat 3.0 at Rs 2,65,080 crore.
Even if one takes an optimistic
account of the extra spend this
year, it will add up to just Rs
1,18,200 crore, not even half of
what she said. The Rs 1,45,980
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1,08,495*
1,08,600
37,000
1,18,200
3,72,295
(1.9% of GDP)
the Finance Minister will wipe
out all outstandings due to the
industry. The additional expen-
diture will be approved as part
of the supplementary demands
for grants in the upcoming win-
ter session of Parliament or
when the revised estimates for
this fiscal are placed along with
the Budget for 2021-22,” a fer-
tiliser department official told
The Indian Express.
“We couldn’t have asked for
more.Thisislikestartingoff with
a clean slate,” said Satish
Chander, director-general of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
fences, for which she had been
relegated twice.
“In the first instance, she ac-
cepted that she had used unfair
means during a written exami-
nation and, in the second, the
malecadetinvolvedhadcometo
her cabin at 0130 hours and left
at 0400 hours. Thus, the action
to withdraw the cadet from
training and sending her back
homewasappropriatetothecir-
cumstances and in keeping with
the high standards of discipline
expected from officer cadets,"
the AFT noted the government
counsel as stating.
TheAFTbenchsaidthatupon
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FROM PAGE ONE
In 3 packages
crore expenditure in the form of
production-linked incentives
(PLIs) to 10 new sectors will be
over five years, and likely kick in April,May,June.“Giventheuncer-
onlynextfinancialyear.
ButeventheRs1,18,200crore
extra spending this year, by no
means,isinsignificant:itaccounts
for 0.6 per cent of GDP. The first months… Now, after unlocking,
package on March 27, the high-
light of which was the Pradhan
Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, to-
talled Rs 1.08 lakh crore; the sec- now,” an economist, who works
ond set of announcements made
overfivedaysinMayaddedupan-
other Rs 1.08 lakh crore to the
Centre’sfiscalcost;thethirdpack-
age in October had a capital ex-
penditure component of just Rs
37,000 crore. Put together, all
Covid-19 relief measures would
increase the Centre’s actual fiscal cultureandlabourlawsimplifica-
outgo by under 2 per cent of GDP
in2020-21.
Giventherecoverychartedby
the economy over the last two
months and the trajectory of the
pandemic,intermsof additionto
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been Prem Nath Pandey.
The error is regretted.
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activeCovid-19cases,andthelow
fatalitynumbers,notmanyecon-
omists are advocating large cash
transferstothepoortoday.Ifatall,
therighttimeforbigtransferswas
taintiesoftheCovid-19pandemic
then, the government then de-
cided to assess the distress, and
also save the firepower for later
economicrecoveryhasbeenbet-
ter than expected. How much
sensedoesitmaketodoleoutcash
closelywiththegovernment,said.
So, what the government has
done over the last seven months
through its many relief packages
andreformmeasuresiscreateav-
enues or open up opportunities
forprimaryandsecondarysectors
— dismantling of mandis in agri-
tion for manufacturing — to im-
proveincomes.
Simultaneously,byofferingto
foot the bill for provident fund
contributions,ithasnudgedcom-
panies, big and small, to hire. The
PLI scheme, now extended to
10 sunrise sectors including
auto and tech, is also as much
about self-reliance or cutting
downimports,asitisaboutof-
feringcashincentivestoboost
domesticproduction,whichis
expected to create employ-
In the initial months, the
blepeoplethroughdirectben-
efit transfers, and also offered
higher quantity of food grains
forbasicsustenance.Andnow,
for the front line sectors most
hit by the pandemic, it has ex-
tended the credit guarantee
scheme,whichoffersoneyear
moratorium, and extends the
period of repayment to four
years compared with three
years as fixed for MSMEs, the
original beneficiaries of the
scheme. It is not there are no
flipsidestothisstrategy.Asthe
RBI noted in its ‘State of the
Economy’ report on
Wednesday,whileitispossible
thatthethirdquarter(October-
December)maynotseeacon-
traction in GDP growth, there
are significant risks — relent-
less pressure of inflation, poor
globalgrowthfollowingasec-
ond wave of Covid-19, and in-
tensifyingstressamonghouse-
holdsandfirmsboth.
FormerChiefStatisticianof
India, Pronab Sen, pointed out
thatfinancialsavingsofhouse-
holds increased to almost 21
per cent of GDP in April-June
this year (compared with 10
per cent of GDP in correspon-
ding period last year) because
individualscouldn’tspendbe-
causeofacompletelockdown.
“Over the next two quar-
ters, families dipped into their
savings, and the financial sav-
ings has likely dropped. This
hasalsocoincidedwiththefes-
tive season. High frequency
economic indicators appear
brightbecausetheyreflectthis
pent-up demand and festive
purchases,”SentoldTheIndian
Express. The worry, according
tohim,isincomelevelshaven’t
risenandthethirdquartermay
notbeasrosy.“Thelastquarter
andfurthermorethefirstquar-
ter of 2021-22 will certainly
showpositivegrowthbecause
ofthehugebaseeffect,”hesaid.
Butnotallaresoworried.A
policyanalyst,whoalsoworks
closely with the government
said the top 10 per cent rich in
the country consume more
than the people in the bottom
50 per cent of income levels.
“And for the bottom 50 per
cent, spending cannot reduce
beyond a point. Discretionary
spendingforthemwillbelow,
but their expenditure on es-
sentials is unlikely to fall from
what it is now. The rich have,
however, started spending.
Salaries have been restored
acrosssectors,”theanalystsaid.
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which have loan dues up to 30
days(SpecialMentionAccounts
or SMA 0) as on February 29,
2020willbeprovidedadditional
creditof20percentoutstanding
underthescheme.
Entitiesin26stressedsectors
identified by the Kamath com-
mittee,aswellasthehealthcare
sector, with credit outstanding
ofaboveRs50croreanduptoRs
500croreasonFebruary29,are
eligible to avail funding under
thescheme.
Stressed sectors including
construction, trade, hotels and
transport contributed nearly
83.4 per cent to the contraction
in the services sector in the
April-June quarter. The ECLGS
scheme, which has been ex-
tended till November 30, has
made disbursals of Rs 1.48 lakh
crore against sanctions of Rs
2.03lakhcroreto60.67lakhbor-
rowers,aspergovernmentdata.
The new scheme for stressed
sectorswillasof nowutilisethe
unused funds available within
theRs3lakhcrorelimit,evenas
officialsindicatedthatthiscould
be enhanced depending upon
the requirements.
Afive-memberexpertcom-
mittee, headed by K V Kamath,
former chairman of ICICI Bank,
whichwassetuptorecommend
financialparametersrequiredfor
a one-time loan restructuring
window for corporate borrow-
ers,saidinitsreportthatcompa-
niesinsectorssuchasretailtrade,
wholesale trade, roads and tex-
Delhi hospitals
beds were filled, while the figure
stood at 78.6% of 1,145 beds for
government hospitals and 72.2%
of 342 beds for central govern-
menthospitals.
Thestategovernmentalsoar-
guedthatnodalofficershavebeen
deputed in the 33 hospitals, and
the data revealed reported that
even if only 20% ICU beds were
keptasidefornon-Covidcases,the
demandwasmuchlower.
Thecourtnotedthatthenodal
officers ought to be empowered
torelaxthenormof 80%blocking
ofICU bedsinthecaseofeachhos-
pital so as to deal with any emer-
gentsituationin relationtoanon-
CovidpatientneedinganICUbed.
“...attheendoftheday,noperson
sufferingfromahealthemergency
shouldbemadetorunfrompillar
topost,”thecourtsaid.
Senior Advocate Maninder
Singh, who represented the
AHPI, submitted that the hospi-
talshadalreadysetaside67-70%
of ICU beds for Covidcases,even
without the government order,
and that at any time, more than
50-55% of the beds were re-
quiredfornon-Covidemergency
patients.Singhsaidthehospitals
did not want to be in a position
where they had to deny admis-
siontoanemergencynon-Covid
patient evenif a coronavirus-re-
served bed was vacant.
TheAHPIalsocontradictedthe
data submitted by the govern-
ment, saying the order seeking
80% reservation in the 33 private
hospitalswasonlyoptics.
AHPI Director General Dr
Girdhar Gyani told The Indian
Expressthatthelistof33included
some super-speciality hospitals
handlingliver,kidneytransplants,
bypasssurgeryandneurosurgery,
andsaidtheseshouldbekeptout.
Gyani also said the Delhi govern-
ment should have spoken to the
hospitals instead of getting the
courtinvolved.
Whileadjourningthecasebe-
forethesinglebenchtoNovember
26,theHighCourtsaid,“TheDelhi
governmentmustkeepafingeron
the pulse of the city to be able to
cope...giventhattherehasbeena
sea change in the ground reality
(from)whentheimpugnedorder
waspassed."
Navy cadet
carefulconsiderationof theargu-
ments,ithasfoundsomemeritin
thecontentionsofthecounselfor
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New stimulus
tilesarefacingstress.Sectorsthat
have been under stress pre-
Covid include NBFCs, power,
steel,realestate,construction.
The committee noted that
corporate sector debt worth Rs
15.52 lakh crore had come un-
derstressafterCovid-19hitIndia,
while another Rs 22.20 lakh
crore was already under stress
beforethepandemic.Thiseffec-
tively means that Rs 37.72 lakh
crore(72percentofthebanking
sectordebttoindustry)remains
under stress. This is almost 37
per cent of the total non-food
bank credit. The tenor of addi-
tional credit availed under the
schemewillbefiveyearsinclud-
ing one year of moratorium on
principal repayment. The
scheme will be available until
March31,2021.Industrysources
saidthesemeasureswillprovide
significant relief to companies
that are expected to recover in
line with the pick-up in eco-
nomicactivity,butfaceimmedi-
ateshortageof funds.
Sitharaman announced a
newAtmanirbharBharatRozgar
Yojana, under which it will pro-
vide subsidy for provident fund
contributionforaddingnewem-
ployeestoestablishmentsregis-
tered with the Employees'
Provident Fund Organisation
(EPFO).Thisschemeisestimated
to cover over 99 per cent of the
establishments and 65 per cent
theapplicant.
“Thus,interimreliefsoughton
behalf of theapplicantispartially
accepted. Whereas we do not
agree,atthisstage,thattheappli-
cantshouldbereinstatedinserv-
ice,wedirectthattheorderof the
respondentstowithdrawtheap-
plicant from training and dis-
charge her from Naval service, if
any,beheldinabeyancetillafinal
decision is taken in this case,” the
benchsaid,adjourningthematter
toJanuary2021.
The woman cadet moved a
fresh application on November 6
before the AFT, stating that if she
is not permitted to participate in
the training scheduled in
November2020,shemaybecome
overageforthetrainingtobeheld
in April 2021. The bench noted
that since the applicant has al-
ready been granted interim pro-
tection, the question of overage
will not come in her way in case
sheisfoundeligiblefortraining.
Russia warns
in “constructive dialogue”.
Noting that India and China
are members of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
and BRICS groupings, Babushkin
said “respectful dialogue” is the
“main tool” when it comes to co-
operation within the framework
of multilateral platforms.
“Itisclearthatamidglobaltur-
bulence and unpredictability, es-
calationbetweenIndiaandChina
would further affect regional in-
stability in our common home,
Eurasia. The escalation we are
witnessing can be misused by
other players in their geo-politi-
cal purposes,” he said.
The US, under President
Donald Trump, has been ex-
tremelycriticalofChina’saggres-
sive behaviour in the region, and
Moscowhasbeenscepticalofthe
Quad mechanism, which com-
prises the US, India, Japan and
Australia.
Asked whether the SCO and
BRICSgroupscanplayaroleinde-
fusing tensions between two
member nations, the Russian
diplomatsaidthegroupingshave
developedmechanismsforposi-
tive engagements.
Foreign funds
amount of foreign contribution
and the purpose for which it is
proposedtobegiven”.
The Centre has said that if the
value of foreign contribution is
ENTERTAINMENT
of all employees in the formal
sectors,shesaid.
Thecentralgovernmentwill
provide the subsidy for two
years for workers who lost jobs
between March 1 and
September 30 and for new
workers employed on or after
October 1. Under the scheme,
thegovernmentwillpayPFcon-
tribution for workers with
wagesuptoRs15,000.Thecon-
tributionof 24percentforboth
employers and employees for
establishmentswithupto1,000
employees will be borne by the
government and for establish-
ments employing more than
1,000employees,12percentof
the employees' share will be
contributedbythegovernment.
Theadditionaleligibilitycondi-
tion for the scheme specifies
that the subsidy will be pro-
vided for employment of two
newemployeesiftheestablish-
ment has 50 or less employees,
andwillbepaidforfivenewem-
ployees if establishments have
more than 50 employees.
The subsidy amount under
thescheme,whichwillbeoper-
ational until June 30, 2021, will
be credited upfront only in
Aadhaar-seededEPFOaccounts
(UAN)of newemployees.
For the housing and infra-
structure sectors, the govern-
mentwill provide an additional
outlay of Rs 18,000 crore for
over Rs 1 crore, it may be given in
instalments “provided that the
second and subsequent instal-
ment shall be released after sub-
mission of proof of utilisation of
75 per cent of the foreign contri-
butionreceivedinthepreviousin-
stalmentandafterfieldinquiryof
theutilisationofforeigncontribu-
tion.”
However, the rulesfor declar-
ing an organisation as a “political
organisation” have been relaxed,
withstudent,farmer,workerand
youth organisations being ex-
emptedunlesstheyparticipatein
“active politics or party politics”.
Politicalorganisationscan’treceive
foreignfunds.
Thenewrulesareafollow-up
on the amendments to the FCRA
thattheCentrepushedthroughin
thelastsessionofParliament.The
amendments have made the
FCRA, 2010 more stringent, with
prohibition of transfer of funds
from one NGO to another, de-
creaseofadministrativeexpenses
throughforeignfundsfrom50per
cent to 20 per cent, making
Aadhaar mandatory for registra-
tion, and giving the government
powers to stop utilisation of for-
eign funds through a “summary
enquiry”.
Inthenewlynotifiedrules,the
Centre has made an insertion in
Rule9–whichdealswithobtain-
ing registration or prior permis-
sion to receive foreign funds –
which makes the process more
cumbersomeforNGOs.
Rs 65k cr booster
Fertiliser Association of India, an
industrybody.
Itremainstobeseenifthiswill
alsosetthestageforreformsinthe
existingsubsidyregime.Thenext
BudgetisdueonFebruary1.While
theBiharpollsareover,Assembly
elections are also scheduled in
West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu
andKeralainMay.
Currently,farmersbuyfertilis-
ers at MRPs (maximum retail
prices)belowwhatitcoststopro-
duce or import them. The differ-
enceisfootedbytheCentreassub-
sidy payable to the
manufacturers/importers.
Inurea,theMRPisfixedbythe
government at Rs 5,922.22 per
tonne, while the subsidy is vari-
abledependingontheproduction
andimportcost.That,inturn,now
ranges from an average of 17,000
to Rs 23,000 per tonne, respec-
tively.
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KBC 12 WINNER
NAZIA NASIM
‘It was a Slumdog
Millionaire moment
for me’
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
(PMAY)–Urban,whichwillhelp
12 lakh houses to be grounded
and18lakhtobecompleted.
Forcontractorsparticipating
ingovernmentprojects,thegov-
ernment announced to bring
down the earnest money de-
posit and performance deposit
on government tenders.
Performancesecuritydepositon
contractshasbeenreducedto3
per cent from around 5-10 per
cent, while EMD will not be re-
quired.Therelaxationsprovided
till December 31, 2021, will be a
major relief to the construction
sector as it will free up the capi-
talofthecontractorsandwillen-
hance their financial ability to
carry out the project, industry
sourcessaid.
To help clearance of unsold
inventory in the housing sector,
developershavebeenallowedto
selltheirhousingunitsat20per
centlowerthanthecirclerateby
increasing the permissible dif-
ferential from 10 per cent to 20
per cent. The benefit will, how-
ever, be available only on pri-
mary sale of residential units
withpricevalueuptoRs2crore
until June 30, 2021. This will ef-
fectivelyallowthedevelopersto
reducetheirpricebelowthecir-
cle rate. The government also
announced to provide Rs 6,000
crore of equity in the National
Investment and Infrastructure
Fund (NIIF) to support debt fi-
nancingtotallingRs1.1 lakhcrore
by2025.
Inotherfertilisers,thesubsidy
isfixed,whiletheMRPsaredecon-
trolled.Theper-tonnesubsidy,for
instance, is a flat Rs 10,231 for di-
ammonium phosphate (DAP), Rs
6,070formuriateofpotash(MOP)
and Rs 8,380 for the popular
‘10:26:26’ complex fertiliser,
whereas their corresponding
MRPs (which vary from time to
time and company to company)
average Rs 24,000, Rs 17,500 and
Rs23,500,respectively.
The reform that the industry
wants – which the government
alsowouldliketoimplement,sub-
ject to political feasibility -- is to
bring urea on par with other fer-
tilisers. In other words, decontrol
itsMRPandpayafixedper-tonne
nutrient-basedsubsidysimilarto
thatonDAP,MOPor’10:26:26’.
That isn’t politically easy,
though,giventhatureaaccounted
for 33.69 lakh tonnes (lt) of the
country’stotalretailfertilisersales
of 61.71 lt in 2019-20. Also, out of
the budgeted Rs 71,309 crore fer-
tiliser subsidy for 2020-21, Rs
47,805 crore was towards urea.
The basic MRP of urea (excluding
taxesandneem-coatingcost)has
beenraisedbyhardly11%,fromRs
4,830 to Rs 5,360 per tonne since
April2010.Thesameperiod,when
otherfertilisersweredecontrolled,
has seen the per-tonne MRP of
DAP shoot up from Rs 9,350 to Rs
24,000 and from Rs 4,455 to
17,500forMOP.
Butthisstateofaffairsmaynot
be fiscally sustainable, especially
with the commissioning of new
publicsectorureaplants.
Tejashwi
invalid."Headdedthatpostalbal-
lotsarecastmainlybyprofession-
als,"whoknowhowtousethem".
"The EC has to satisfy queries of
our candidates or else we might
move court."
The RJD leader, who was the
Mahagathbandhan's CM candi-
date, said there was a difference
of "a little over 12,000votes" be-
tween the alliance and the NDA.
"How did these 12,000 votes re-
sult in defeat for us?" said
Tejashwi, alleging use of "chhal
aur bal (deceit and force)". The
RJD tweeted that while the
Mahagathbandhan had got
1,56,88,458 votes, the NDA's
count was 1,57,00,728 votes.
Separately,Tejashwi,whomet
hisnewlyelectedMLAsThursday,
advised JD(U) leader Nitish
Kumar "not to accept the chief
New Delhi
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results of the Bihar
elections
NEWEPISODEEVERYDAY
In today’s episode of the ‘3 Things’ podcast,
we look at the results of the Bihar Assembly
elections and what it means for politics in
the state
ministerialpositionifthereisany
moralityleftinhim".Askedif the
RJDhadreachedouttoNDAallies
Vikassheel Insaan Party and
Hindustan Awami Morcha (S) in
an attempt to put together num-
bers, Tejashwi said the two par-
ties should also realise that the
mandatewasfor"change"."They
have to take a decision."
He added that while Nitish
claimedtohavecarriedtheRJDto
power in 2015, he had now fin-
ished a poor third, with 43 seats.
"Despite all the odds, the RJD is
still the single-largest party...
Nitish Kumar must not attempt
tograbpowerfromthebackdoor.
If he has any morality left in him,
heshouldnotaccepttheCMchair
and must respect the mandate,
which is for change."
Dipankar Bhattacharya, the
generalsecretaryoftheCPI(M-L),
which is a part of the
Mahagathbandhan, said they
would take a call on legal reme-
dies based on evidence sought
fromreturningofficers.DRaja,the
general secretary of the CPI, an-
otherMahagathbandhanally,said
there were "defects" in EVMs,
while certificates were handed
over late.
Tejashwi played down the
AIMIMfactorandthepoorshow-
ingbytheCongressasreasonsfor
missingoutonformingagovern-
ment.
Poll officer
all the postal ballots in this seat,
and not just the rejected ones,
were recounted and found to be
in order, Bihar's Chief Electoral
Officer (CEO) told The Indian
Express.
The RJD's Atri Muni lost the
Hilsa seat to the JD(U) by 12
votes. Of the total 551 postal
votes received for this seat, 182
weredeclaredinvalid."Thetrail-
ing candidate (Muni) asked for
a recount of EVM votes as well
as the postal ballots. The
Returning Officer (RO) rejected
thefirstdemandsincehiscount-
ing agents were present at the
timeof EVM resultsandseemed
satisfiedwiththeprocess.Tosat-
isfy the candidate, the RO per-
mitted recounting of all 551
postal votes, including the in-
valid ones. The result remained
unchanged," Bihar CEO H R
Srinivas said.
Tejashwi asked on Thursday
whymanypostalballotshadbeen
declaredinvalid,claimingthiswas
done without justification, espe-
cially in seats where
Mahagathbandhan candidates
lostbyverynarrowmargins.
According to the data shared
bytheBiharCEO,of thetotal243
seats, only 11 -- Hilsa, Barbigha,
Ramgarh, Matihani, Bhorey,
Dehri, Bachhwara, Chakai,
Kurhani, Bakhri and Parbatta --
saw a winning margin of less
than 1,000 votes. Of these seats,
four were won by the JD(U),
three by the RJD, and one each
by the BJP, CPI, LJP and an
Independentcandidate.Inother
words, the RJD lost in only two
constituencies decided by less
than 1,000 votes.
Except for Hilsa, the winning
margin in the 10 other seats was
less than the rejected postal bal-
lots(seebox).Whilecandidatesof
Ramgarh,Matihani,Bhorey,Dehri
and Parbatta seats also sought a
recount,theirrequestwasturned
down by the RO since the victory
margin was more than the re-
jectedpostalvotes.Areasonedor-
der was given by the RO in each
case,theCEOsaid.
OnTejashwi'sallegationofin-
ordinate delay in handing over
certificates to the winning candi-
dates, Srinivas said, "At the end of
EVMcounting,fivepollingstations
are randomly chosen and their
VVPAT slips are verified with the
EVM count. Counting of VVPAT
slips is a tedious job and takes
time.Thatapart,insomecases,the
VVPAT slips had to also be tallied
whentheControlUnitdidnotdis-
play the result and where the
pollingofficerforgotto deletethe
mockpollvotes.Sowhileaccord-
ing to the candidate the EVM
rounds are over, the actual result
declarationcannothappentillthe
VVPATslipsaretallied,anddataof
all polling stations is entered into
the EC's software. These reasons
contribute to the time taken in
handing over certificates to the
winningcandidates."
At a press conference held
Thursday evening, the CEO said,
"We conformed to all the stan-
dards prescribed by us. The elec-
tions were free, fair, transparent
andwevideo-graphedtheproce-
dureof counting."
In Delhi, Chief Election
CommissionerSunilAroraalsoad-
dressed the allegations of irregu-
larities, saying the Bihar CEO had
responded to all the charges. He
said the EC had held four press
conferences on counting day
alone to respond to various as-
pectsof theprocess.
"We do not respond to com-
ments made by political entities.
Itistheirdecision,whattheysaid,
whytheysaid.Theultimatedeci-
sionlieswiththepeople,"hesaid.
Responding to a query on the
"slowpaceofcounting",Arorasaid
itwasdueto33,000morepolling
stationsduetoCovid-19,resulting
in63%additionalEVMs.
Kunal Kamra
included Shrirang
Katneshwarkar, a law student
from Aurangabad; Rizwan
Siddiquee, an advocate; and two
Pune-based lawyers, Amey
Abhay Sirsikar and Abhishek
Sharad Raskar.
“Ihavegonethrougheachone
of thetweetswhichyouhavean-
nexed for consent to proceed by
wayofcriminalcontemptagainst
Sh. Kunal Kamra. The tweets
which I am extracting below are
not only in bad taste but clearly
cross the line between humour
and contempt of the court,” the
AGsaidinhisreplytolettersseek-
ing his consent.
“I find that today people be-
lieve that they can boldly and
brazenly condemn the Supreme
CourtofIndiaanditsjudgesbyex-
ercisingwhattheybelieveistheir
freedomofspeech.Butunderthe
Constitution, the freedom of
speechissubjecttothelawofcon-
tempt and I believe that it is time
that people understand that at-
tacking the Supreme Court of
India unjustifiedly and brazenly
willattractpunishmentunderthe
Contempt of Courts Act, 1972,"
Venugopal wrote.
His letter referred to two of
Kamra’s tweets posted
Wednesday:“Honourhasleftthe
building (Supreme Court) long
back”and“TheSupremeCourtof
thisCountryisthemostSupreme
joke of this Country”.
Venugopal wrote that Kamra
had also posted “a picture of the
Supreme Court building dressed
insaffroncolourswithaflagofthe
ruling political party, namely the
BJP having replaced the
Tricolour”.
“This is a gross insinuation
against the entirety of the
Supreme Court of India that the
Supreme Court of India is not an
independent and impartial in-
stitution and so too its judges,
but on the other hand is a Court
of the ruling party, the BJP, exist-
ing only for the BJP's benefit. All
this in my opinion constitutes
criminal contempt of court,” his
letter stated.
Those who wrote to the AG
sought to draw his attention to
four tweets by Kamra including
one naming Justice D Y
Chandrachud. The bench of
JusticesChandrachudandIndira
Banerjee had on Wednesday
granted interim bail to
Goswami.
On the other two tweets,
Venugopal said, they “also are
highlyobjectionable,anditwould
perhapsbefortheCourttodecide
the question as to whether these
tweets also would constitute
criminal contempt of the
Supreme Court of India”.
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WILL REQUEST L-G FOR MEET WITH DDMA, GOVT TELLS HC
Capitalbreaksrecordas104
dieofCovid,7,053newcases
MALLICA JOSHI &
SOFI AHSAN
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
DELHI GOVERNMENT told the
DelhiHighCourtThursdaythatit
will request the Lieutenant
Governor for a meeting of the
DisasterManagementAuthority
(DMA) to discuss the Covid-19
situation in the city, including
unlock norms.
On Thursday, 104 Covid
deaths,thehighestsofar,werere-
ported. The city saw 7,053 new
cases,outof60,229peopletested
— a positivity rate of almost 12%.
Whiletherehasbeenareduction
in the number of cases — 8,593
wererecordedWednesday—the
numberofdeathshasbeenrising
consistently.
The Delhi government has
sinceMaymaintainedthatalock-
down was not the solution and
that people would have to learn
tolivewiththevirusandgovern-
ments would have to strengthen
the healthcare system.
According to Delhi govern-
ment officials, though, locking
down again was much easier
said than done.
“Some states were averse to
unlocking but it did not slow
down the spread of the disease
as they had hoped it would. One
of the biggest reasons Delhi is
seeing such high cases is that it
is testing the most in the coun-
try. Even today, we did over
60,000 tests. Anyone can come
Free e-ambulance service for
patients under home isolation
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12I
Covid-19patientsinDelhicanac-
cessfreeambulanceservice,with
the Delhi government launching
theJeevanSevaapp.Thesewillbe
usedtotransfernon-criticalcases
to healthcare facilities within the
city.Themobileappcanbedown-
loadedbyCovidpatients,whowill
get the download link through
SMSorQRCode.Thegovernment
haslaunchedtheappwithEVERA,
an electric cab service.
The ambulances, which will
have electric engines, can be
bookedusingtheappafterregis-
tering via an OTP and entering
the pick-up and drop location.
The nearest cab will automati-
cally be dispatched. The service
LSR student’s death
prompts college protest
SUKRITA BARUAH
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
Calling for institutional account-
ability following the death of
second-year student Aishwarya
Reddy by suicide at her
Telangana home on November
2, a group of students of Lady
Shri Ram College for Women
Thursday burnt a copy of the
hostel manual during a protest
at the gate. The group, which
was joined by student activists
from Delhi University and
Ambedkar University, also
pointed at apathy towards stu-
dents struggling with the digital
divide and the hostel policy.
The 19-year-old's family
couldn't afford a laptop for her
online classes. Her family also
said she had been worried since
she — along with all other sec-
ond-year students — had been
called from their hometowns to
vacate their hostel rooms, with
authorities citing the policy that
the hostel is only for first-year
students.
Among the LSR students at
the protest was a second-year
studentwhohaddriven11hours
from Jammu the previous day to
vacate her hostel room. "I had
planned to come by November
10 to vacate my room but trains
and buses had gotten cancelled
because of the farmers' protests.
Iappliedforanextensionandmy
father has driven me down from
Jammu.Weleftyesterdaymorn-
ing and reached at night... There
was so much pressure for us to
The crowd at Sadar Bazar for pre-Diwali shopping, Thursday.
Abhinav Saha
will be available 24 hours, a
statement issued by the Delhi
government said.
“We are launching the Jeevan
SevaapptofacilitateDelhicitizens
in home isolation in case of need.
From health check-ups, ambu-
lance requirements to admission
in hospitals, health amenities are
now just a click away. With this
app,youwillgetaccesstoane-ve-
hiclewhichwillprovidefreepick-
up and drop services. Each vehi-
clewillbeproperlysanitisedafter
every ride," Health Minister
Satyendar Jain said.
Atleast1,700callsfromCovid
patients are being dispatched to
ambulancesinthecityeveryday
for the past week as the number
of cases in the city has shot up.
"The Jeevan Seva app is the
first initiative to help Covid pa-
Students protest at the college gate Thursday
empty the rooms and I had to do
itmyself becauseIhadleftallmy
documents there. It was com-
pletely unreasonable to put this
kind of pressure during a pan-
demic," she said.
On Thursday, principal
Suman Sharma wrote an e-mail
to the student body stating that
the college was working to-
wards reviewing its hostel pol-
icy. "Hostel policy is being re-
viewed to help second-year
students on need-basis subject
to availability of hostel rooms.
The situation is rendered very
difficult due to Covid-19 pan-
demic since rooms can no
longer be shared by students.
This is a dynamic situation and
college administration, in con-
sultation, would review the sit-
uation as necessary," it read,
also going on to state that the
college will remove its clause,
asking students to not agitate
over the first-year hostel policy.
tients reach healthcare facilities
in EV cabs... Patients can down-
load the app through the link
which will be sent through SMS
and QR code to every patient
who tests positive for Covid in
thecity,"saidNimishTrivedi,Co-
Founder & CEO, Prakriti E-
Mobility Private Limited, which
operates EVERA.
A total of 200 such cabs will
be available during the day and
100 at night. Of these 200, 100
willbeavailablethroughtheapp
while the remaining 100 will be
diverted to the regular call serv-
icewhichcanbeaccessedat102.
Patients will be told the pick-
uptimeandcancontactthedriver
onlythroughtheapp.Driverswill
bewearingPPEkits,thecabinwill
be insulated and the cabs will be
sanitised after each use.
It also stated that the college
administration and manage-
ment is actively considering
helping needy students with
laptops and data packs if edu-
cation institutes continue to re-
main closed, and that the ad-
ministration will urge that
some fee waiver be considered
in an upcoming Governing
Body meeting.
A notification in October
asked residents to vacate the
hostel stating that maintenance
work had to be carried.
In a statement
Aishwarya's death, the LSR ad-
ministration said: "...it was stip-
ulated that hostel stay was re-
stricted for one year only...This
policy decision was meant for
freshers only and not imple-
mented retrospectively, i.e., the
current second-year students
would continue to have the hos-
tel facilities for their third and fi-
nal year as well."
0-50 Good
forth and get tested in Delhi;
there are no restrictions, unlike
in some other states,” said a sen-
ior Delhi government official.
Sources said a message re-
questing a Delhi DMA meeting
willbesenttotheL-GofficeFriday.
“Schools in Delhi are shut in-
definitelyanditisaclearcallthat
they should not reopen any time
soon because of the city’s Covid
situation. As for markets and
other businesses, several people
lostjobsbecauseofthelockdown.
Peoplehadtoreturntovillages.If
we unlockdown again, the citi-
zens who returned to Delhi will
losetheirfaithinthegovernment.
Many of them were on the verge
of starvation and have seen im-
provementonlynow.Wehaveto
weigh in these consequences as
well.Maybetherecanbeastricter
limitonthenumberof peopleal-
lowed in gatherings (200 people
are allowed at present). We have
onlyallowedwhattheCentrehas
allowed in other states,” the offi-
cial said.
According to the unlock
guidelines passed by the Centre,
states are not allowed to impose
lockdown without consulting it.
Another official said several
optionsarestillopen.“Wehaven’t
ruled anything out but any deci-
sioncanbetakenonlyaftermeet-
ing the stakeholders. It is a situa-
tion that requires reassessment
but experts have said that the
third wave is expected to start
abating soon,” the official said.
on
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51-100 Satisfactory
Former Facebook employee
deposes before House panel
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
ANEX-FACEBOOKstrategicpart-
ner manager for global influ-
encers, who had quit in 2018 af-
ter accusing it of “failing its Black
employees”, Thursday deposed
before a Delhi Assembly panel,
whichisconductingahearingon
the social media platform’s al-
legedroleinfanningtheFebruary
Northeast Delhi riots. Appearing
via video conferencing, Mark S
Luckie alleged the platform’s
communitystandardshavebeen
compromised due to “repeated
interference” by top executives,
includingpolicyheads,atthebe-
hest of political parties.
To a query on Facebook’s role
in abetting violence, Luckie said:
“Facebook will tell you, they are
just like the telephone... it's not
telephone or email. It actively in-
terferes in what people see and
what they don’t. It changes its al-
gorithm,allowscertaincontentto
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stay up and… be taken down. So
Facebookdoesinfluence,aidalot
of this violence and misinforma-
tion to continue. Unfortunately,
people are dying because of it,
that... needs to be stopped.”
Facebook did not respond to
requests seeking a comment. In
September, Facebook had ap-
proachedtheSCafteritsIndiavice
president Ajit Mohan was sum-
monedtodeposebeforethecom-
mittee. Facebook had argued the
panel has no jurisdiction, a stand
backed by the Centre. The case is
now listed to be heard next on
December 2.
Responding to a query by
committee chairman Raghav
Chadha on whether Facebook
could have taken down hateful
contentmoreproactivelyduring
the Delhi riots, Luckie said such
posts are flagged to supervisors
depending on the number of
people reporting them, and in-
volvementof higherlevelexecu-
tives go up depending on the
scaleandmagnitudeof anevent.
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LuckiealsoallegedFacebook’s
public policy heads across coun-
tries usually “come from govern-
ment or lobbying positions”.
Askedifthereisbiasintherecruit-
ment process for pro-establish-
cheating
New Delhi: The Delhi
Police Crime Branch has
arrested a retired princi-
pal of a Sarvodaya Bal
ment figures, he said, “It is more Vidyalaya in East Delhi,
oftentherulethantheexception. identified as Aditya
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believe it is politically agnostic to of cheating a job aspirant
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Facebook’spolicydirectorfor her a teacher’s position in
India, South and Central Asia a government school.
Ankhi Das quit the company last
month amid a controversy over
thecompany’sregulationof hate School
speech, political content and ap-
plication of community stan-
inaugurated
dards. Das’s resignation came New Delhi: Tamil Nadu
four days after she appeared be- CM Edappadi K.
fore a Parliamentary panel Palaniswami virtually in-
which questioned her on auguratedtheDelhiTamil
Facebook’s advertisement Education Association's
model,itstargetingof audiences, 8th school branch at
earnings and taxes and its mod- Mayur Vihar Phase 3
els for data storage and transfer. Thursday. ENS
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 6 THE CITY
‘Taller than India Gate’: Entries open for new
Central Vista structure on Yamuna bank
AVISHEK G DASTIDAR
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
FORCLOSEto90years,IndiaGate
has symbolised New Delhi. After
2022, the government wants a
brandnewiconicstructurewhich
could be much taller than India
Gate — meant to “withstand the
vagaries of nature and remain as
such for millennia to represent
the current age” — to come up in
the Capital’s proposed new
Central Vista that would be syn-
onymouswiththecityandcoun-
try.Anopencompetitionwillde-
cide what that structure should
look like, and it will be designed
byanIndian,thegovernmentan-
nounced Thursday. The prize
money is Rs 5 lakh.
As part of the new heart of
Lutyen’s Delhi, the Central Vista
willextendtothewesternbankof
GOVERNMENT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER PMGSY (JKRRDA) JAMMU
NOTICE INVITING E-TENDERS
E-NIT NO: CEJ/PMGSY/608 OF 2020-21 DATED: 04.11.2020
Chief Engineer PMGSY (JKRRDA) Jammu on behalf of The Government of Jammu &
Kashmir, invites e-tenders on %age Above/Excess (+) OR %age Below/ Less (-)
basis (i.e. on Percentage-Rate Basis) from approved and eligible Contractors regis-
tered with J&K State Govt, CPWD, Railways or equivalent and other State Govts up
to 5.00 P.M. on 19.11.2020 for each of the following works including Defect Liability &
Maintenance Period of three years for Stage-I and five years for Stage-II and
Bridge after construction.
Sr. Name of Work/Package No.
No.
1 2
1 Construction of 30.00 Mtr Long
Single Lane through type steel
truss Girder Motorable Bridge on
Palali to Machail road Km 21st
RD(100-150) over Chisoti Nallah,
Package No. JK04-420 A, Regular
PMGSY Batch (2018-19), Block:
Paddar, District Kishtwar.
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
138.30 Lacs
2 Construction of 72.00 Mtr Long
Single Lane through type steel
truss girder Motorable Bridge on
Palali to Machail road in Km 29th
RD(325-400) over Hangoo Nallah,
Package No. JK04-420 B, Regular
PMGSY Batch (2018-19), Block:
Paddar, District Kishtwar.
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
357.26 Lacs
3 Construction of 75.00 Mtr Long
Single Lane thorugh type steel
truss girder Motorable Bridge on
Palali to Machail road Km 31st
RD(775-840) over Losani Nallah,
Package No. JK04-420 C, Regular
PMGSY Batch (2018-19), Block:
Paddar, District Kishtwar.
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
352.05 Lacs
4 Construction of road from L022
Sohal to Kaban under PMGSY
Phase-X, Stage-I, Package No.
JK04-331, Block Paddar, District
Kishtwar, (Length: 21.00 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
2044.95 Lacs
5 Construction of 40 .00 Mtr Long
Single Lane through type steel
truss girder Motorable Bridge on
Bharath to Bagla road Km Ist RD
(325-365), Package No. JK04-318,
Phase-X, Block-Doda, District
Doda.
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
173.52 Lacs
6 Construction of 55.00 Mtr Long
Single Lane through type steel
truss girder Motorable Bridge on
Bhargran to Bayota road Part "A" in
Km 12th RD (375-45), Package No.
JK04-319, Phase-X, Block-Assar,
District Doda.
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
194.37 Lacs
7 Construction and Maintenance of
road from Chakri to Kalihand, Block
Doda, Package No. JK04-174,
Phase-VIII, Stage II, District Doda
(Length = 10.820Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
378.21 Lacs
8 Construction of 35 Mtr. long
Through Type Steel Truss Girder
Motorable Bridge over Kiar Nallah
in Km 4th RD 100-150 on Sirshi to
Chicha Dachhan Road, Package
No:-JK04-487A, Regular PMGSY
(Batch-I, 2018-19), Block Marwah,
District Kishtwar
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST =
Rs.154.98 Lacs
9 Construction of 46 mtr long through
type steel truss girder motorable
bridge in Km 25th on Angralla to
Gulabgarh Road Package No.
JK14-12A, Phase-VIII, Block
Mahore, District Reasi.
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
125.72 Lacs
10 Construction of road from L026
Arnas to Chilad under PMGSY
Phase-X, Stage-I, Package No.
JK14-455, Block Arnas, District
Reasi. (Length = 13.55 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
992.77 Lacs
11 Construction and Maintenance of
road from L042 SUMAL TO
SARAIL CHOWA, Stage-II,
Regular PMGSY (Batch-I,2018-19)
Package No. JK14-682, Block
Majalta Distt Udhampur,
(Length:3.23 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST =
Rs.137.50 Lacs
12 Construction of 50 mtr long through
type steel truss girder Motorable
Bridge in km 1st road RD 325-400
of road from km 7th of T01 to
Behramgalah Package No.JK11-
162, Phase - X, Block Surankote,
Distt Poonch,
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
174.50 Lacs
13. Construction of Balance work of
road from Manjakote to Kalali,
Package No:-JK12-116, Block
Manjakote, Stage-I, Phase-VIII,
District Rajouri,
(Length = 6.000 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding mainte-
nance but inclusive of GST = Rs.
177.66 Lacs
14 Construction of road from L024
Malhar to Marhoon, Stage-I,
Package No. JK07-136, Block
Lohai Malhar, District Kathua,
Phase-X,
Length= 18.433 Kms
Advertised Cost inclusive of
GST = Rs. 1268.05 Lacs
1.(a) The Bidding documents can be downloaded from the website http://pmgsyten-
dersjk.gov.in from 06.55 P.M. on 09.11.2020 to 19.11.2020 (5.00 P.M.).
No: CEJ/PMGSY/ 9481-9551
Dated:- 04-11 -2020
DIPJ-7030
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MODI UNVEILS VIVEKANANDA STATUE
PMatJNU:Ideologynot
date for submitting entries is
December11andwinnerswillbe
announcedinthelastweekofthe
month by a jury of eminent per-
sons.Thestructureismeanttobe
BuildingCodeofIndia,2016.Only
indigenousmaterialistobeused
as part of Atmanirbhar Bharat.
However,constraintsarethat
being on the banks of river, the
abovenationalinterest
unveiled on August 15, 2022, the foundation will be on sandy soil
75th year of Independence. with high water table. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
The government intends the As for design elements, the NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
structuretobe“timeless”andre- structure should signify “New
quires such material and tech- India”. “... clean and free from PRIME MINISTER Narendra
nologytobeusedthatit“lastsfor poverty, corruption, terrorism, Modi Thursday said ideology
eras like Ashoka’s edicts, Iron communalism, casteism. It may should never be above national
Pillar in Qutub Minar complex further symbolise new develop- interest, and that doing so had
An open competition will decide what it should look like. etc,”thecompetitionannounce- ments like digital India, skilled done "great harm" to the coun-
ment from Central Public Works India, fit India, etc coupled with try's democratic system. He was
Department said. energy, dynamism and transfor- speaking via video conferenc-
Yamuna and will house the Nav minate at the Yamuna’s western Thesizecanbethreetimesthe mational ethos,” CPWD said. ing at Jawaharlal Nehru
Bharat Udyan, or the New India bank. The structure has to come height of India Gate as the maxi- The competition will include University.
Garden. Under the Master Plan, up on this axis. “This will restore mum height permissible there is architects,architecturalfirms,stu- Unveiling a life-size statue of
the Central Vista axis — currently theoriginaldesignenvisionedfor 134metresfromgroundlevel,the dents, student groups, architec- Swami Vivekananda at the ad-
fromRashtrapatiBhavan,follow- Central Vista,” a release from the announcement said. Design turalorplanningschools/colleges min block, Modi cited examples
ingRajpath,uptoIndiaGate—will Ministry of Housing and Urban should take into account factors andotherinstitutionsacrossIndia, of the freedom movement un-
beextendedfromthepresent2.9 Affairssaid,whichwillbeholding like soil stability, wind velocity, or any combination of the above. der Mahatma Gandhi, and the PM addresses the event through video conferencing
km to 6.3 km from ridge to river. awebinaronNovember17toex- seismicforcesandvulnerabilityto FivecommendationprizesofRs1 Emergency, as occasions when Thursday. Tashi Tobgyal
Ontheeasternside,itwillcul- plainthesalientfeatures.Thelast flooding etc. as per National lakh each will also be given. people of all political ideologies
had come together in national
Driver dies after arrest,
interest. against the Emergency. There identity of India in the 21st
"One thing that has done were also RSS volunteers and Century… Our country is the
great harm to the democratic Jan Sangh people… socialists land where seeds of different
system of our country is to give and communists. intellectual ideas have
kin allege negligence
priority to ideology over na- "No one had to compromise sprouted, thrived. It is necessary
tional interest. Because my ide- their ideology even in this fight. for the youth to strengthen this
ology says this, that is why in The only purpose was national tradition. Due to this tradition,
matters of national interest, I interest. Therefore, when there India is the most vibrant
will think within this frame- is a question of unity, integrity democracy in the world."
ANANYA TIWARI work… work within these pa- and interest of the nation, by Education Minister Ramesh
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12 Police said rameters; this is wrong," he taking decisions under the bur- Pokhriyal, who also joined the
Mesar Ali was said. den of your ideology, the coun- event virtually, said he hopes
A 24-YEAR-OLD cab driver arrested on beaten up by "Today everyone is proud of try only suffers," Modi said. JNU students would take inspi-
charges of theft in Northeast Delhi early locals after he their ideology. It is also natural. He congratulated JNU for in- ration from the statue. V-C M
Wednesday morning died at a govern- was caught But still, our ideology should be stalling a statue of Vivekananda Jagadesh Kumar said JNU had
ment hospital later that night, after his trying to steal a seen as one with the nation, not and said he wished it would "in- been in the news for the last few
Opening of Tenders
vehicle
Cost of Documents
Name of the PIU
condition deteriorated in judicial cus- against…, in matters of national spire everyone and give years for being among top-
Time Allowed for
Time and Date of
Earnest Money
(Rs. in Lacs)
Call of Tender
Consttt. Part
(Rs. in Lacs)
(Rs. in Lacs)
(Rs. in Lacs)
Completion
Maintt. Part
(Rs. in Lacs)
Contractor
tody. While Mesar Ali's family suspects interest," he said. courage": "May this statue ranking among universities,
Class of
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he was beaten up in police custody dur- Modi said that "whenever a teach us immense dedication… naming the library after B R
ingtheday,DCP(Northeast)VedPrakash been beaten up. He mentioned he had difficult time has come in front intense love for our country Ambedkar and "tightening
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Surya said "he was beaten up by locals injuries...Hedidn'tsaywhobeathimup," of the country, people of every which is the highest message of rules and regulations" to make
138.30 - 138.30 0.06 2.77 09 1st
when caught red-handed trying to steal allegedhisyoungerbrotherDanish(21). ideology have come together in Swamiji's life." them "more efficient" among
Months a vehicle". On receiving the call, Danish went to national interest". Addressing students, he also other reasons, and that the
FollowingMesar'sarrest,policefiled the Welcome police station where he "People of every ideology said the youth were brand am- statue was "another good rea-
anFIRagainsthimundersectionsof theft claimed he was not allowed to meet his came together under the lead- bassadors of Brand India world- son" to make news.
atWelcomepolicestation.OnThursday, brother. He alleged that at 8 pm ership of Mahatma Gandhi in wide and they represented As Modi was speaking, the
anotherFIRunderIPCsectionof murder Wednesday,hewas toldhisbrotherhad the freedom struggle. They India's culture and traditions: JNU Students' Union protested
ANY REGISTERED CONTRACTOR WITH STATE PWD/CPWD/ RAILWAYS OR EQUIVALENT QUALIFYING ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AS PROVIDED IN THE STANDARD BIDDING DOCUMENTS CAN TENDER FOR THE WORKS
wasfiledatWelcomepolicestation,said been transferred to Mandoli Jail. fought together for the country. "The expectation from you is at the North Gate, citing the
357.26 - 357.26 0.06 7.15 12 1st DCP Surya. DCP Surya said, "By the time his The country saw the same unity not just to be proud of India's government's "open support"
Months "At2.49amWednesday,wereceived brotherreached,Mesarhadalreadybeen during the Emergency. Ex- identity, which has been going for violence on university cam-
a PCR call that a vehicle thief had been produced in front of Metropolitan Congress leaders and activists on for thousands of years. puses as well as against the New
caughtatKabirNagar.Thecomplainant, MagistrateMayankMittalandsenttoju- were also in that movement Rather, it is also to create a new Education Policy.
Hiralal Kamra, produced the accused, dicial custody. He was transferred to
claiminghewastryingtostealhistempo. Hedgewar hospital from Mandoli jail,
This Diwali, pollution may be
Kamra said the accused was beaten up where he died around midnight… He
Kishtwar
352.05 - 352.05 0.06 7.04 12 1st bythepublic.Noarrestshavebeenmade wasbeatenupbylocalswhocaughthim
Months so far, we are investigating the matter," stealing, and police rushed him to the
lower if cracker ban followed
said Surya. He said Mesar was taken to hospital from the spot."
Jag Parvesh Chander hospital as he had Dr Banarsi Das, Chief Casualty
sustained injuries and was arrested af- Medical Officer of Hedgewar hospital,
ter preparing the MLC. told The Indian Express they tried to re- endofseverecategory.SAFARhas
Mesar,whohailedfromUP'sBadaun suscitateMesarbuthesuccumbedtoin- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE IN THE CAPITAL also forecast that concentration
2044.95 - 2044.95 0.06 40.90 25 2nd and lived in South Delhi's Tughlakabad, juries at 9.38 pm. NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12 of PM 2.5 would be around 250
Months
is survived by his wife and two children. Danishalleged:"EarlyThursday,Igot PM10 µg/m3 on Saturday and would
Mesar's wife Rubi Parveen (22) told acallfrompolicetovisitGTBhospitaland THE AIR pollution level in the Thursday 276 riseto300µg/m3 onSunday,be-
The Indian Express he called her on found my brother was dead. I saw his days before and after Diwali will fore reducing again.
Tuesdaynightandpromisedtobehome body… he seemed to have suffered a be lower than the previous four Friday 428 On the day after Diwali in
173.52 - 173.52 0.06 3.47 09 1st
by midnight. "I kept calling him till headinjury,brokenarms,bruisesonthe years in Delhi, if the firecracker Saturday 475 2016, PM 2.5 level rose close to
Months Wednesdayafternoonbutcouldn'treach face and injuries to the chest." banisstrictlyfollowed,according 700µg/m3.In2017,itwasaround
him. Then I got a call from Welcome po- Mesar's family denied the theft to a forecast from the Centre's PM2.5 350 µg/m3 and in 2018 close to
lice station that my husband was ar- charge: "He was on duty, driving the System of Air Quality and 600 µg/m3. Last year, the PM2.5
10.00 A.M.
Thursday 153
restedinatheftcase,"sheclaimedatGTB rented Ertiga... Earlier, he was a truck Weather Forecasting and levelsafterDiwalidaywasaround
Friday 237
Hospital, where she was awaiting his driver and started driving a cab a few Research (SAFAR). 300 µg/m3, as per SAFAR data.
post-mortem. weeks ago," said Danish. DCP Surya said Inthepreviousyears,thecon- Saturday 263 Winddirectionoverthecityis
194.37 - 194.37 0.06 3.89 09 1st
"When police called to inform of the police have not recovered the car from centration of PM 2.5 - fine, inhal- Source: SAFAR forecasttobefromthenorthwest
Doda
Months
arrest,Mesarspoketousandsaidhehad the spot. ableparticlessuspendedintheair on Friday and Saturday, which
-hasreachedcloseto700micro- would cause intrusion of pollu-
grams per cubic metre air senceofanyadditionalemissions tantsfromstubbleburningstates,
Rs 4.39 cr financial aid to
20.11.2020
(µg/m3) - 11 times higher than due to fireworks during the but from Sunday the wind direc-
the exposure limit of 60 µg/m3. Diwali period… Under zero fire- tion would change to easterly,
However, this year, the Delhi crackers scenario, the level of with moderate speed, which
sportspersons in capital
378.21 22.69 400.90 0.06 8.20 12 1st
Months
government has imposed a ban PM2.5islikelytobelowestinthe would improve the AQI unless
on the sale and use of all types of past four years, as not-so-calm firecrackers are burned, the SA-
firecrackers,includingthe"green" surface winds in Delhi will help FAR forecast said.
variants. in dispersion of pollutants." Isolated rainfall is also ex-
154.98 154.98 0.06 3.10 09 1st
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE The SAFAR forecast said, "The The average air quality index pected on Monday under the in-
Months NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12 overall air quality of Delhi was in (AQI) of Delhi on Thursday was fluenceofaWesternDisturbance,
the very poor category on 314 in the very poor range. On which will further help in im-
Marwah
THE DELHI government Thursday pro- Thursday. It is forecast to deteri- Diwali night, November 14, SA- proving the AQI to lower end of
vided financial assistance of Rs 4.39 orate and remain in the higher FAR has forecast it to be between 'verypoor',aspertheSAFARfore-
crore to 77 active sportspersons in the end of very poor levels in the ab- the high end of very poor to low cast.
city under a special scheme to support
their training.
Gambhir unveils 12-ft-tall air purifier
125.72 - 125.72 0.06 2.51 09 1st
Months A total of 708 persons had applied
for assistance under the 'Mission
Excellence' scheme launched in 2018.
Amongthoseselectedaresportsper- CM felicitates a para athlete at the New Delhi: East Delhi MP statement from his office. pletely but something has to be
Mahore
sons in athletics (25, including para ath- event. Amit Mehra Gautam Gambhir inaugurated Delhi BJP president Adesh done.Theseairpurifierswillhave
992.77 - 992.77 0.06 19.86 18 2nd letes), badminton (1), basketball (1), a first-of-its-kind giant air puri- Guptawasalsopresentatthein- a major impact on people living
Months
boxing(3),judo(10),karate(4),kayaking fier in Gandhi Nagar market auguration event. nearby," Gambhir said. "Why
and canoeing (1), pencak silat (1), sepak moremedalsthanChinaininternational Thursday. The air purifier is 12- Anotherairpurifierwillbein- don't they ban crackers
takraw (4), shooting (7), soft tennis (1), games. We have made several plans, in- foot-tall, covering an area of stalled next week and another throughout the year when they
swimming(1),tennis(1),wrestling(10), cluding building a Delhi Sports 1,000 square metres and deliv- onelater,saidamemberfromhis know the air quality of the city
137.50 11.00 148.50 0.06 2.97 09 1st and wushu (7). University, to fulfill this dream," said ers 2 lakh cubic metre of clean team. "I know these air purifiers is so bad. Why ban them only
Months “Our dream is that India will bring Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. air every day, according to a will not solve the problem com- before festivals," he said. ENS
Ramnagar
DU PROF LEADS STUDY
174.50 - 174.50 0.06 3.49 09 1st
In Andamans, scientists hit upon new frog genus
Months
Poonch
titled‘New insights on the sys- ternal morphology of adults linesoneithersideofthebody,
177.66 - 177.66 0.06 3.55 09 1st ARANYASHANKAR tematics and reproductive be- andtadpoles,phylogeny,calls, minute brown speckles scat-
Months
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12 haviour in tree frogs of the and breeding biology of sev- tered throughout the upper
genusFeihyla,withdescription eral treefrog species widely body, light green-coloured
Rajouri
A STUDY led by Prof S D Biju of a new related genus from distributed across South, eggs laid in arboreal bubble-
ofDelhiUniversity,alongwith Asia (Anura, Rhacophoridae)’ Southeast, and East Asia” to nests, and several unique be-
researchers from India, in the current issue of confirmthatitisanewgenus. haviouraltraitsincludingma-
1268.05 - 1268.05 0.06 25.36 20
Months
3rd Indonesia and China, has re- Zootaxa, an international ResearcherssaidRohanix- ternal egg attendance”.
portedanewgenusoftheOld journalofanimalsystematics. alus is the “20th recognised Besides DU, the team had
Billawar
World treefrog family “Our discovery of a genus of the family researchers from Zoological
Rhacophoridae—thefirstre- treefrog member from Rhacopho-ridae and cur- Survey of India – Andaman
port of a tree frog species Andaman Islands is unex- rently comprises eight out of and Nicobar Regional Centre,
(Striped Bubble-nest frog) pected and once again high- The new genus ‘Rohanixalus’ is named after Sri Lankan the 422 known Old World and National Centre for Cell
from the Andaman Islands. lightstheimportanceof ded- taxonomist Rohan Pethiyagoda treefrogspeciesfoundinAsia Science, in addition to re-
Sd/- The new genus icated faunal surveys and and Africa”. searchers from Indonesian
Chief Engineer ‘Rohanixalus’ is named after explorationsforproperdocu- They are characterised by InstituteofSciences,Chengdu
PMGSY (JKRRDA) Jammu, SriLankantaxonomistRohan mentation of biodiversity in esting new distribution pat- between Andamans and the a “rather small and slender Institute of Biology (China)
Government of Jammu & Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir
Pethiyagoda. The findings a... country like India. This ternoftreefrogsthatprovides Indo-Burmaregion,”saidBiju. body (2-3 cm long), a pair of andChulalongkornUniversity
were published in an article findingalsouncoversaninter- evidence for faunal exchange Thescientistsstudied“ex- contrastingly coloured lateral (Thailand).
New Delhi
GOVT & POLITICS 7
Cohesive,responsiveASEANmust
forsecurity,growthinregion:PM
SHUBHAJIT ROY
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
AGAINSTTHEbackdropofaggres-
sivemovesbyChinaintheregion,
including the Ladakh standoff,
PrimeMinisterNarendraModion
Thursday placed the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) at the centre of India’s
ActEastpolicyandsaidthata“co-
hesive and responsive ASEAN” is
essentialfor“securityandgrowth
for all in the region”.
“TheStrategicPartnershipbe-
tween India and ASEAN is based
on our shared historical, geo-
graphical and cultural heritage.
Since the beginning, the ASEAN
Group has been at the centre of
our Act East policy,” Modi said in
hisopeningremarksatthevirtual
summit between India and the
10-nation ASEAN as its co-chair.
“There are many similarities
betweenIndia'sIndo-PacificOce-
ans Initiative and ASEAN's Outl-
ook on Indo-Pacific. We believe
that a cohesive and responsive
ASEANisessentialforsecurityand
growth for all in the region....
Cementing the connect between
India and ASEAN on all fronts, in-
cluding economic, social, digital,
financial, maritime, is an impor-
India rejects
Pak list of 26/11
terrorists: Omits
mastermind, key
conspirators
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
INDIAONThursdayrejectedPaki-
stan’s latest list of terrorists invo-
lvedinthe26/11Mumbaiattacks,
saying it “glaringly omits” the
mastermindandkeyconspirators.
Ministry of External Affairs
spokesperson Anurag Srivastava
saidIndiahasrepeatedlycalledon
Pakistan to give up “obfuscation
and dilatory tactics” in discharg-
ingitsinternationalobligationsin
thetrialofMumbaiterrorattacks.
“We have seen media reports
in Pakistan about Pakistan’s
FederalInvestigativeAgency(FIA)
releasing an updated ‘book on
most wanted/high profile terror-
ists’, listing several Pakistani na-
tionals involved in the 26/11
Mumbai terror attacks,” he said.
“Whilethelistincludesaselect
few members of the Lashkar-e-
Tayyiba, a UN designated terror
entitybasedinPakistan,including
the crew members of the boats
usedtoexecutethe26/11attack,it
glaringly omits the mastermind
and key conspirators of the hein-
ousterrorattack,”Srivastavasaid.
Accordingtoreports,atotalof
19terroristswerenamedasthose
involved in the attack.
“It is a fact that the 26/11 ter-
ror attack was planned, executed
andlaunchedfromPakistan’ster-
ritory. The list makes it clear that
Pakistan possesses all the neces-
saryinformationandevidenceon
theconspiratorsandfacilitatorsof
theMumbaiterrorattackbasedin
Pakistan,” Srivastava said.
“Thegovernmentof Indiahas
repeatedly called on the govern-
mentofPakistantogiveupitsob-
fuscation and dilatory tactics in
dischargingitsinternationalobli-
gations in the Mumbai terror at-
tacks trial,” he said.
Srivastava said several other
countries have also called upon
Pakistan to expeditiously bring
the perpetrators of the terror at-
tackstojustice.“Itisamatterofse-
riousconcernthatdespiteitsown
publicacknowledgementaswell
as the availability of all necessary
evidence,includingthatsharedby
India, Pakistan is yet to show sin-
cerity in delivering justice to the
families of 166 victims from 15
countries across the globe, even
as we near the 12th anniversary
of 26/11 attacks,” he said.
Chhattisgarh govt disburses J&K admin extends ban on
Rs 7.33 cr for duped investors high-speed internet in UT
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
RAIPUR, NOVEMBER 12
THE CHHATTISGARH govern-
ment on Thursday disbursed Rs
7.33 crore for 16,796 investors
who were duped by a chit fund
companybasedinChhattisgarh's
Rajnandgaondistrict,astategov-
ernment official said. With this,
investors cheated by Yalsco Real
Estate and Agro Farming Ltd will
receive 30 per cent of their de-
posited amount, he said.
Chief Minister Bhupesh
PM Modi at virtual ASEAN-
India summit Thursday. ANI
tant priority area for us,” he said.
“We have moved closer in all
these areas in the last few years. I
believe that our conversation to-
day, even if it is happening
through virtual medium, will be
beneficial to further reduce the
gap,” Modi said.
The India-ASEAN summit fo-
cuses on measures to recover
from the economic turmoil trig-
gered by the coronavirus pan-
demicandwaystofurtherbroad-
base strategic ties.
Officials said the Prime
Ministerunderscoredtheimpor-
tance of strengthening conver-
gence between India's Indo-
Pacific Oceans Initiative and
ASEANOutlookonIndo-Pacificto
ensure a free, open, inclusive and
rules-based Indo-Pacific region.
STEALTH MACHINE
INS Vagir, the Navy’s fifth Scorpene-class submarine, at its launch at Mazagon Dock, Mumbai.
The submarine was launched by MoS, Defence, Shripad Naik through video conferencing. ANI
PROTEST AGAINST FARM LAWS
Punjab farmer outfits,
barring one, agree to
talks with Centre today
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, NOVEMBER 12
BARRINGONE,allfarmers’outfits
in Punjab that are protesting
against the Centre’s three farm
laws have decided to attend the
meetingwithatwo-membermi-
nisterial delegation in Delhi on
Fridaybuthaveassertedthatthey
won’tacceptanydecisionshortof
scrappingof thethreelaws.
Union Agriculture secretary
Sudhansu Pandey on November
10 invited the farmers’ outfits for
ameetingwithUnionAgriculture
Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
and Railways Minister Piyush
Goyal. It was the third time the
Centreextendedtotheprotesting
farmers an invitation for talks.
“We have unanimously de-
cidedthatwewillgoandholdtal-
ks.Wewilldemandthattheseth-
ree laws be repealed. We will tell
themwhytheselawsarewrong,"
Bharatiya Kisan Union (Kadiyan)
president Harmeet Singh Kadian
said. The decision was taken by
representatives of the farmers'
outfitsatameetinghere.Theyalso
deputed three leaders — Kranti-
kari Kisan Union president Dr
Darshan Pal, Bharatiya Kisan
Baghel transferred the sum to
the bank accounts of investors
from the state and from neigh-
boring states of Odisha, Madhya
Pradesh and Maharashtra dur-
ing a programme at his official
residence here, the official from
the public relations department
said. The CM reiterated that FIRs
on fake chit fund companies are
not sufficient and that the state
government will work towards
returning the investors' money
by selling the assets of the com-
pany,aspromisedintheelection
manifesto of the Congress.
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He invited ASEAN countries to
take the lead on various pillars of
our Oceans Initiative.
OnCovid-19,Modistressedon
leveraging strong ASEAN-India
ties in the fight against the pan-
demic.HewelcomedASEAN'sini-
tiativestofightthepandemicand
announced a contribution of $1
milliontoCovid-19ASEANRespo-
nseFund.Heunderlinedtheimpo-
rtanceof cooperationandregular
exchangesinthefieldoftraditional
medicines as a source of healthy
andholisticliving,officialssaid.
On trade and investment, the
review of ASEAN-India Trade in
Goods Agreement (AITIGA) is
pending for long. Modi called for
anearlyreviewoftheagreement.
He underlined the importance of
diversification and resilience of
supplychainsforpost-Covideco-
nomic recovery.
The ASEAN leaders spoke of
Indiaasalong-termfriendanddy-
namicpartner,andacknowledged
India’s contribution in the region
towardspromotingpeaceandsta-
bility.India'scapacity-buildingini-
tiatives, including the PhD
FellowshipProgrammeatIITsand
setting up of Centres for
Excellence in Software Develo-
pment and Training in CLMV
countries, were also appreciated.
Union (Rajewal) president Balbir
SinghRajewalandJamhooriKisna
Sabha general secretary Kulwant
SinghSandhu—toholdtalkswith
theUnionministers.
Addressingthemediaafterthe
meeting, Kadian said, “Farmers
have never shied away from dia-
logue. We are ready. But we have
been agitating against the farm
laws for the last 49 days. Hence,
we will not accept anything less
than withdrawal of these laws.”
Meanwhile, Kisan Mazdoor
Sangharsh Committee presi-
dent Satnam Singh Pannu said
they would not participate in
any meeting with the Centre un-
less the rail traffic was restored
in Punjab.
Kadiantoosaidthatthefarm-
ers had lifted their blockades
fromrailtracksandvacatedplat-
formsandquestionedtheCentre
for not allowing freight train
movement.
Asked about Punjab Chief
Minister Amarinder Singh’s ap-
peal to allow passenger trains as
well, Kadiyan asked who would
fightthebattleiftheagitationwas
continuously relaxed. “We went
one step back so that the govern-
ment takes one step forward, but
it did not do so,” he said.
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, NOVEMBER 12
THE JAMMU and Kashmir ad-
ministration on Thursday ex-
tendedthebanonhighspeedin-
ternet data across the UT except
Ganderbal and Udhampur
districts.
The order shall remain in
force till November 26, said an
order issued by Principal
Secretary Home Shaleen Kabra.
Pointing out that elections to
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Company Ltd. submitted their Business Plan Petition for Control Period FY2020- (B) Consumers getting supply as per “Rural Schedule”
The consumers under this category shall be entitled to a rebate of
21 to FY2024-25 before Hon’ble U.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission. Further
7.5% on RATE (Excluding the TOD rates as applicable to the hour of
in compliance to the direction by Hon’ble Commission, above named licensees operation)’ as given for ‘Consumers getting supply other than Rural
submitted their Petitions for Truing-Up for FY 2018-19, Annual Performance Schedule’. Further, no “TOD RATE” shall be applicable for this category.
Review for FY 2019-20 and Aggregate Revenue Requirement for FY 2020-21. LMV-7 PUBLIC WATER WORKS:
Subsequently as per order of Hon’ble Commission consumer category/sub- (a) Consumers getting supply other than “Rural Schedule”
category/slab simplification proposal for different categories of consumers has Fixed Charge Rs. 375 / kW / Month
been published in newspaper. Energy Charge Rs. 8.60 / kWh
The ASEAN leaders also un- (b) Consumers getting supply as per “Rural Schedule”
Hon’ble U.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission has issued order on Business Plan
derlined the convergence be- for control Period FY2020-21 to FY2024-25 and on Truing-Up for FY 2018-19,
The consumers under this category shall be entitled to a Rebate of
7.5% on RATE as given for ‘Consumer getting supply other than rural
tween ASEAN Outlook on Indo- Annual Performance Review for FY 2019-20 and Aggregate Revenue Requirement schedule’.
Pacific and India’s Indo-Pacific & Tariff for FY 2020-21 vide its Order dated 27.10.2020 and 11.11.2020 respectively. LMV-8 STW, PANCHAYTI RAJ TUBE WELL & PUMPED CANALS:
OceansInitiative.Theywelcomed Tariff/Rate Schedule, as approved by Hon’ble Commission for FY 2020-21 is (i) Metered
Fixed Charge Rs. 330 / BHP / Month
adoptionofthenewASEAN-India informed as under:-
Energy Charge Rs. 8.50 / kWh
Plan of Action for 2021-2025. CONSUMER (ii) Un-Metered
The Ministry of External Approved Tariff FY 2020-21
CATEGORY / SUB-CATEGORY Fixed Charge Rs. 3300 / BHP / Month
Affairs’ Secretary (East) Riva LMV-1 DOMESTIC LIGHT, FAN & POWER: LMV-9 TEMPORARY SUPPLY:
Ganguly Das said: “The discus- (a) Consumers getting supply as per “Rural Schedule” :
(i) Un-Metered
sionsalsocoveredregionalandin- Fixed Charges for Illumination / Public
Life Line Consumers: With contracted load of 1 kW, Energy Address / ceremonies for loads upto 20
ternationalissuesof commonin- (i) Rs. 4750 per day
consumption upto 100 kWh/ Month kW / connection plus Rs.100/ kW / day
terest and concern, including Fixed Charge Rs. 50 / kW / month for each additional kW
South China Sea and terrorism. Fixed charges for temporary shops set-up
Energy Charge ( 0-100 Units) Rs. 3.00 / kWh (a)
during festivals / melas or otherwise and Rs. 560 per day / shop
Both sides noted the importance (ii) Un-Metered: having load up to 2 KW
of promotingarules-basedorder PTW consumers of Bundelkhand Area
Fixed Charge:
in the region, including through having requirement of electricity only
Rs. 500/BHP/month
All Load Rs. 500 / kW / month for the Rabi Crop i.e. period between
upholding adherence to interna-
(iii) Metered: November to February in any year.
tional law, especially UNCLOS. (i) Metered
“The leaders affirmed theim- Fixed Charge: Rs. 90 / kW / month
(i) Individual Residential Construction
portanceofmaintainingandpro- Energy Charge: Fixed Charge Rs 200/kW/Month
motingpeace,stability,safetyand For first 100 kWh / Month Rs. 3.35 / kWh Rs. 8.00/kWh
From 3rd year onwards:
securityinSouthChinaSea,inpar- For next 101-150 kWh /
Rs. 3.85 / kWh Base Tariff applicable for
Month Energy Charge
ticularfreedomofnavigationand current year plus additional
overflight.” For next 151-300 kWh /
Rs. 5.00 / kWh
10% of the applicable
Month Energy Charge.
Overall, Ganguly Das said, “it (B)
was a fruitful exchange with For next 301-500 kWh /
Rs. 5.50 / kWh (ii) Others
Month
ASEAN leaders, and the Summit Fixed Charge Rs 300/kW/Month
For above 500 kWh /Month
wassuccessfulinbringingoutthe (Starting from 501st unit)
Rs.6.00 / kWh Rs 9.00/kWh
From 3rd year onwards:
convergence between the two
Base Tariff applicable for
sides. ASEAN-India Strategic (b) Supply at single point for bulk loads: 50kW and above, Supplied Energy Charge
current year plus additional
at any voltage
Partnership stands on a strong 10% of the applicable
foundation of shared geographi- Fixed Charge Rs. 110 / kW / month Energy Charge.
Minimum Charge: Rs. 450 / kW /week
cal,historicalandcivilisationalties. Energy Charge Rs. 7.00 / kWh
LMV-
The Summit will further (c) Other Metered Domestic Consumers: DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONERS
10
strengthen this relationship.” (i) Life Line Consumers: With contracted load of 1 kW, Energy For all such consumers LMV-1 rate schedule will be applicable.
consumption upto 100 kWh/ Month LMV-
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
Fixed Charge Rs. 50 / kW / month 11
Energy Charge
(0-100 Units)
Rs. 3.00 / kWh
1. Domestic Consumers
All the metered domestic consumers covered under the LMV-1 category
will be allowed to charge their Electric Vehicle at their residence,
(ii) Other Metered Domestic Consumers: (For All loads) provided the load of Electric Vehicle does not exceed the connected /
contracted load.
Fixed Charge Rs.110 / kW / month
Energy Charge
2.Multi Storey Buildings (covered under LMV-1b & HV-1b of the Rate Schedule)
LMV-1b Demand charge - Nil,
For first 150 kWh / Rs. 5.50 / kWh Energy charge- Rs 6.20/
Month kWh
HV-1b Demand charge - Nil,
For next 151-300
kWh / Month
Rs. 6.00 / kWh
Energy charge- Rs 5.90/
kWh
For next 301-500 Rs. 6.50 / kWh 3. Public Charging Stations
kWh / Month Public charging station (LT) Demand charge - Nil,
Energy charge- Rs 7.70/
For above 500 kWh
/ Month
Rs. 7.00 / kWh
kWh with TOD
(Starting from 501st Public charging station (HT) Demand charge - Nil,
unit) Energy charge- Rs 7.30/
kWh with TOD
LMV-2 NON-DOMESTIC LIGHT, FAN & POWER:
4. Other Consumers
(a) Consumers getting supply as per “Rural Schedule” The consumers of other categories (any metered consumers of LMV-2(a),
(i) Un-Metered LMV2(c), LMV-4, LMV-6, LMV-7, LMV-8 (Metered), LMV-9 (Metered),
Fixed Charge Rs. 1000 / KW / month
HV-1 (excluding Multi Storey Buildings covered under LMV-1b & HV-1b
of the Rate Schedule), HV-2, HV-3 and HV-4), will be charged as per the
(ii) Metered Tariff applicable for their respective category, provided the load of EV
does not exceed the connected / contracted load.
Fixed Charge Rs. 110 / kW / month
HV-1 NON-INDUSTRIAL BULK LOAD
Energy Charge Rs. 5.50 / kWh Commercial Loads / Private Institutions / Non-Domestic Bulk
(b) Private Advertising/Sign Post/Sign Board/Glow Signs/Flex (a) Power with contracted Load 75 kW & above and getting supply at
single point on 11 kV & above voltage level.
Metered
Demand Charges for Supply at 11 Kv Rs. 430 / kVA / month
Fixed Charge - Energy Charge for Supply at 11 Kv
Energy Charge Rs. 18.00 / kWh First 2500 kVAh/month Rs.8.32 / kVAh
Above 2500 kVAh/month Rs. 8.68 / kVAh
Minimum Charges Rs. 1800 / kW / month
Demand Charges for Supply above
(c) Other Metered Consumers: 11 Kv
Rs. 400 / kVA / month
Fixed Charge Energy Charge for Supply above 11 Kv
Load upto 2 kW Rs. 330 / kW / month
First 2500 kVAh/month Rs. 8.12 / kVAh
Above 2500 kVAh/month Rs. 8.48 / kVAh
Above 2 kW to 4 kW
above 4 kW
Rs. 390 / kW / month
Rs. 450 / kW / month
Public Institutions, Registered Societies, Residential Colonies
/ Townships, Residential Multi-Storied Buildings including
(b) Residential Multi-Storied Buildings with contracted load 75 kW &
Energy Charge
Haryana farmers For First 300 kWh / Rs. 7.50 / kWh
above and getting supply at Single Point on 11 kV & above voltage
levels
Month
to gather on
Demand Charges for Supply at 11 Kv Rs. 380 / kVA / month
For next 301 – 1000 Rs. 8.40 / kWh Energy Charge for Supply at 11 kV
First 2500 kVAh/month Rs. 7.70 / kVAh
national highways
kWh / month
For above 1000 kWh Rs. 8.75 / kWh
Above 2500 kVAh/month Rs. 7.90 / kVAh
Demand Charges for Supply above
on November 26
/ month (Starting
Rs. 360 / kVA / month
11 Kv
from 1001stunit)
Energy Charge for Supply above 11 Kv
Minimum Charge Rs. 600/kW/Month (Apr to Sept) First 2500 kVAh/month Rs. 7.50 / kVAh
Rs. 475/kW/Month (Oct to March) Above 2500 kVAh/month Rs. 7.70 / kVAh
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE LMV-3 PUBLIC LAMPS: HV-2 LARGE AND HEAVY POWER
CHANDIGARH, NOVEMBER 12 Un-Metered Supply:
(A) Urban Schedule
1. For supply up to 11 kV
Gram Panchayat Rs. 2100 / kW or part thereof / month Demand Charges Rs. 300 / kVA / month
FARMERS in Haryana agitating Nagar Palika and Rs. 3200 / kW or part thereof / month Energy Charge Rs. 7.10/ kVAh
against the Centre’s farm laws Nagar Panchayat 2. For supply above 11 kV and upto 66 kV
haveannouncedthattheyplanto Nagar Nigam Rs. 4200 / kW or part thereof / month BASE RATE:
gather on Delhi-Ambala and Demand Charges Rs. 290 / kVA / month
Metered Supply: Energy Charge Rs. 6.80 / kVAh
Delhi-Hisarnationalhighwayson
Fixed Charge 3. For supply above 66 kV and upto 132 kV
November 26. Gram Panchayat Rs. 200 / kW / month RATE:
Bharatiya Kisan Union's Nagar Palika and Nagar Panchayat Rs. 250 / kW / month Demand Charges Rs.270 / kVA / month
(BKU) Haryana president Nagar Nigam Rs. 250 / kW / month Energy Charge Rs. 6.40/ kVAh
Gurnam Singh Chaduni said Energy Charge 4. For supply above 132 kV
Gram Panchayat Rs. 7.50/ kWh RATE:
farmers will gather on Delhi-
Nagar Palika and Nagar Panchayat Rs. 8.00 / kWh Demand Charges Rs. 270 / kVA / month
AmbalahighwaynearEducation Nagar Nigam Rs. 8.50 / kWh Energy Charge Rs. 6.10 / kVAh
City in Sonipat and on Delhi- TOD Rates % Energy Charge 18:00 Hrs - 6:00 Hrs @ 0% ToD Structure
HisarhighwaynearBahadurgarh 6:00 Hrs - 18:00 Hrs @ Summer Months (April to September)
TOD Rates % Energy Charge
at 10 am on November 26 to +20% 05:00 hrs-11:00 hrs (-) 15%
LMV-4 LIGHT, FAN & POWER FOR PUBLIC & PRIVATE INSTITUTION: 11:00 hrs-17:00 hrs 0%
‘gherao’ the national capital in
4 (A) For Public Institutions: 17:00 hrs-23:00 hrs (+)15%
protest against the farm laws. Fixed Charge Rs. 300 / kW / Month 23:00 hrs-05:00 hrs 0%
Chaduniwastalkingtotheme- Energy Charge Winter Months (October to March)
diaafterameetingofBKUleaders For first 1000 kWh / month Rs. 8.25/ kWh 05:00 hrs-11:00 hrs 0%
in Kurukshetra on Thursday. For next 1001 – 2000 kWh / month Rs. 8.50/ kWh 11:00 hrs-17:00 hrs 0%
Representativesof about10other For above 2000 kWh / month (Starting 17:00 hrs-23:00 hrs (+)15%
Rs. 8.75/ kWh
from 2001st unit) 23:00 hrs-05:00 hrs (-)15%
outfitsattendedthemeeting. 4 (B) For Private Institutions: (B) Rural Schedule:
Chadunisaid,“Wehavemade Fixed Charge This Schedule shall be applicable only to consumers getting supply
aprogrammetobreakall(police) Up to 3 kW Rs. 350 / kW / month upto 11 kV as per “Rural Schedule”. The consumers under this category
barriers this time if they are in- Above 3 kW Rs. 400 / kW / month shall be entitled to a rebate of 7.5% on Base Rate as given for 11kV
Energy Charge consumers under urban schedule. Further, no “TOD RATE” shall be
stalledtostoptheagitatingfarm- applicable for this category.
For first 1000 kWh / month Rs. 9.00 / kWh
ers.Butfarmerswon’tattackpo- For above 1000 kWh / month (Starting HV-3 RAILWAY TRACTION & METRO RAIL
licemen or won’t indulge in any Rs. 9.30 / kWh RAILWAY TRACTION
from 1001st unit)
scuffle with anybody. We won’t LMV-5
SMALL POWER FOR PRIVATE TUBE WELL/ PUMPING SETS FOR
(a) Demand Charges
courtarresttoo.If anybodyforci- IRRIGATION PURPOSES:
Demand Charges for Supply at,
(A) Consumers getting supply as per “Rural Schedule” Rs. 400 / kVA / month
blyarrestsus,thatistheirchoice. (i) Un-Metered Supply
below and above 132 kV
We will face lathis or bullets if Fixed Charge Rs.170 / BHP / Month
(b) Energy Charge
they are used by police.” Supply at & above 132 kV Rs. 8.50 / kVAh
(ii) Metered Supply
Fixed Charge Rs. 70 / BHP / Month Supply below 132 kV Rs. 8.80/ kVAh
Energy Charge Rs. 2.00 / kWh (c) Minimum Charge Rs. 950/ kVA / month
Minimum Charge Rs. 160 / BHP / Month METRO RAIL
(iii) Energy Efficient Pumps (a) Demand Charges Rs. 300 / kVA / month
Fixed Charge Rs. 70 / BHP / Month (b) Energy Charge Rs. 7.30 / kVAh
Energy Charge
Minimum Charge
Rs. 1.65 / kWh
Rs. 140 / BHP / Month
(c) Minimum Charge Rs. 900 / kVA / month
Penalty @ Rs. 540/kVA/month will be charged on excess demand, if
Consumers getting supply as per “Urban Schedule (Metered maximum demand exceeds contracted load.
(B)
Supply)” HV-4 LIFT IRRIGATION WORKS
Councils Constituencies and by- (i) Metered Supply (a) Demand Charges
electionstomorethan13,400va- Fixed Charge Rs. 130 / BHP / Month For Supply at 11 kV Rs. 350 / kVA / month
cancies in panchayati raj institu- Energy Charge Rs. 6.00 / kWh For Supply above 11 kV upto 66 kV Rs. 340 / kVA / month
tions/urban local bodies across Minimum Charge Rs. 215 / BHP / Month For Supply above 66 kV upto 132 kV Rs. 330 / kVA / month
J&K are witnessing “high level of For PTW consumers of Bundelkhand Area located in Gram Sabha, the (b) Energy Charge
minimum amount payable by a consumer shall be Rs. 170 per BHP
interest’’ among people, the or- per month, till the installation of the meter. Regulatory Surcharge, Duty,
For Supply at 11 kV Rs. 8.50 / kVAh
For Supply above 11 kV upto 66 kV Rs. 8.40/ kVAh
der read that “in the interest of Taxes etc. will be payable extra.
For Supply above 66 kV upto 132 kV Rs. 8.25 / kVAh
the sovereignty and integrity of LMV-6 SMALL AND MEDIUM POWER:
(A) Consumers getting supply other than “Rural Schedule” (c) Minimum Charge Rs. 1125/ kVA / month
India,thesecurityoftheStateand The Above Rate and Charges as approved by U.P. Electricity Regulatory
Fixed Charge Rs. 290 / kW / Month
formaintainingpublicorder’’,the Energy Charge Commission shall be in force after 7 days from this publication in
“highspeedmobiledataservices Rs. 7.30/kWh on entire all state owned Distribution licensees. The approved Tariff/Rate
Upto 1000 kWh/month
in the districts of Ganderbal and consumption Schedule are also available at the website of all Distribution licensees
Udhampur shall continue to be Rs. 7.40/kWh on entire (www.mvvnl.in, www.dvvnl.org, www.puvvnl.up.nic.in, www.pvvnl.org &
Upto 2000 kWh/month
consumption www.kesco.co.in) and U.P. Power Corporation Ltd. at www.uppcl.org.
made available, while in rest of
Above 2000 kWh/ month
Rs. 7.90/kWh Chairman
thedistrictstheinternetspeedbe on entire consumption (MVVNL, PVVNL, DVVNL, PuVVNL, KESCO)
restricted to 2G only’’. TOD Structure “ Save electricity in the interest of Nation”
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Shah: Oppn’s crooked vision CWCRumblings in Cong:

member says
DELHI CONFIDENTIAL
finds fault but people with PM party’s poor show
GOPALKATESHIYA
DHORDO(KUTCH),NOVEMBER12
ACCUSING THE Opposition of
having a “crooked vision
(vakradrashti)” by finding faults
in the management of Covid-19
andbordersecurity,UnionHome
Minister Amit Shah on Thursday
said they have created an atmos-
phere to suggest “there was un-
CRITICALLY ASSESSED restinthecountry”buttherecent
elections have proved that “135
IN HIS 768-page memoir, former US President Barack Obama crorepeopleof thecountrystood
has said that former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has “a like a rock with Prime Minister
nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student Narendra Modi”.
who’d done the coursework and was eager to impress the The minis-
teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the pas- ter,whowason
sion to master the subject.” The book, ‘A Promised Land’, is set a visit to the
to be released on November 17. The New York Times published border village
a review with excerpts on Friday. of Dhordo in
Kutch, to
DECISION launch the
INTENSE SCRUTINY 2020
BIHAR
SimantKshetra
Vikasotsava
AFTER HEARING the views of various stakeholders, the Joint (Border Area
Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Development Programme -
Bill has begun clause by clause reading of the Bill. In other BADP),appealedforamoreproac-
words, the committee is deliberating on each clause, taking tive role for village leaders and
into consideration suggestions given by stakeholders and elected representatives in “secur-
amendments moved by the members. Since the panel has ing our borders”, emphasising
many reputed lawyers as members, including chairperson how guarding the borders was
Meenakshi Lekhi, the deliberations are turning out to be de- “theprimarydutyofeverycitizen”.
tailed and intense. The lawyers in the panel include the likes The BADP is a 1993 initiative
of P P Chaudhary, Manish Tewari and Vivek Tankha. In fact, in of the Central government to im-
the last two days, the members have been deliberating on the
intention of the Bill and whether its scope should be confined
provelivesofpeoplelivinginbor-
der areas and secure the borders.
to digitalised data or all forms of data, including those col-
lected and stored manually.
Up to BJP to
Amit Shah with local artisans in Dhordo, Kutch, Gujarat. PTI
Shah addressed a gathering of
sarpanches and leaders of 158
border villages.
Addressing some 1,500 dele-
gates from the districts of Kutch,
Patan and Banaskantha, which
shareborderswithPakistan,Shah
said,“Somepoliticalparties,some
political leaders, who have a
crooked vision, see everything
with suspicion, it is their habit, to
find fault in anything good... they
probably think that if they lie a
1000times,itbecomesthetruth...
however, people have awakened
becauseschemesarenolongeron
paper,inthesecretariat,orinfiles,
buttheyhavereachedhomes,vil-
lages, and individuals.”
“We saw elections in Bihar,
Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar
Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana,
Manipur,Leh,Ladakh…peoplere-
jected leaders and parties with a
crookedvisionandmadetheBJP’s
lotus bloom... sending a message...
135crorepeoplearewithNarendra
Modi like a rock and they support
hiseverymove,”Shahsaid.
The minister said when infil-
trationandattackstookplaceear-
lier, “India wouldn’t retaliate and
merely issue a diplomatic state-
ment”. But now even the
youngest BSF personnel could
“look in the eye of the strongest
force in the world and fight them
head on,” he said.
Shah said, “Whoever did mis-
chief,beitontheborderofKashmir
orinPulwama,thePrimeMinister
gave them befitting replies not by
diplomaticstatementsbutbysurgi-
calstrikeandairstrike...”
The home minister claimed
that the Modi government had
done more for border develop-
ment in six years than what was
done in 50 years before it.
“The objective of the Simant
Kshetra Vikasotasav is to ensure
that people living in border areas
getsimilarfacilitiesascitizensliv-
ing in Ahmedabad, Mumbai or
Delhi...Themainobjectiveistoen-
sure that good governance and
developmentreachthevillagesin
border areas,” said Shah, adding
that “migration should not hap-
pen from the either the hills of
Uttarakhand, or the borders on
Jammufrontiers, inNortheast,or
villages of Bhuj taluka…”
Another objective, Shah said,
was to raise awareness about na-
tionalsecurityamongvillagelead-
ers, sarpanches, local MLAs and
MPs as they are the ones who
man the 15,000-km border
whereas majority of 135 crore
peopleofthiscountryarelivingin
interior areas.
pulled down MGB
MANOJCG
NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER12
THECHURNintheCongressover
its poor performance in Bihar
Assembly elections continued,
with Congress Working
Committee(CWC)memberTariq
Anwar on Thursday admitting
that the party’s weak show pre-
vented the Opposition alliance —
Mahagathbandhan (MGB) —
from reaching the halfway mark.
Breakingthesilenceonitsper-
formance, the party on Thursday
saiditwas“disappointed”andas-
serted that the CWC will review
the results.
AnwartoldTheIndianExpress:
“Thereshouldbeintrospection,as
it is a fact that we had contested
41 seats in 2015 and won 27 of
them. We should find out why
thistimewecouldonlywin19de-
spite contesting on 70 seats. We
need to identify the shortcom-
ings...where we went wrong....
Ourstrikeratethistimeisdismal.”
Anwar also said it is a “fact”
thatagovernmentundertheRJD-
ledMGBcouldnotbeformed“be-
4 injured, mosque vandalised
during BJP victory march: cops
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
cause of the Congress”. He said,
“Had our strike been better, we
couldhaveeasilyformedthegov-
ernment. We have to accept this
truth.”
Asked what went wrong,
Anwar said, “It is a matter for de-
tailed introspection. We will
speak to all our candidates who
lost...districtCongresscommittee
presidents...(and) identify the
weaknesses and then come to a
conclusion.”
Asked about complaints by
state Congress leaders that the
partywasgivendifficultseats,and
that the selection of candidates
was also not up to the mark, he
said,“Itcanbeanything,butitwill
notbefairtocometoanimmedi-
ate conclusion. We have to take
everyone (along and seek their
opinion on the performance).”
Meanwhile, addressing the
mediainthenationalcapital,sen-
ior leader P Chidambaram said,
“We are disappointed with the
performance in Bihar, and I am
sure the Congress Working
Committeewillreviewthesitua-
tioninBiharandcomeupwithan
officialstatementofourposition.”
where the mosque is located. “A

POLITICS IN SCIENCE
heatedexchangebrokeoutwhen
decide if LJP PATNA,NOVEMBER12 the procession was asked not to
raise slogans on loudspeakers
THE INDIA International Science Festival, organised by the
Ministry of Science and Technology annually, will be held this should remain FOUR PEOPLE were injured in
Jamua village of East
during maghrib time. A scuffle
tookplaceand peopleinthepro-

in NDA at
year between December 22 and December 25 — not only to Champaran district when a cession who were large in num-
mark the birth anniversary of great mathematician Srinivasa group leading a victory proces- ber started pelting stones.”
RamanujanbutalsoformerPrimeMinisterAtalBihariVajpayee. sion in favour of a BJP MLA al- “Theprocessionof500people
This is the first time that the festival will celebrate a former
Prime Minister along with a scientist. Science and Technology
Centre: Nitish legedly vandalised a mosque
and pelted stones after a scuffle
pelted stones and raised slogans
like Jai Shri Ram and abused the
Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan also pointed out the fact that the as local residents objected to community... They broke the
eventwilltakeplaceforthefirsttimeentirelyvirtuallyhasgiven SANTOSH SINGH raising of slogans during mosquegate,smashedwindows,
CSIR, which is hosting it this year, a larger canvas to conduct it PATNA, NOVEMBER 12 evening prayers, police said. and properties inside,” alleged
with a record number of international participants. SHO Abhay Kumar said BJP Mazhar Alam, a villager.
JD(U) PRESIDENT Nitish Kumar workers took out a procession The SHO said 31 people have
on Thursday said NDA would sit soon after the results were an- been booked and two have been
together soon to complete the nounced in favour of Pawan arrestedundervarioussectionsof

CM Chouhan unveils processof choosingitsleader.He

said the date of the swearing-in
Kumar Jaiswal, who won the
Dhaka seat by defeating RJD’s
the IPC, including promoting en-
mity between different groups

three-year roadmap
ceremony was yet to be decided. Faisal Rahman. Jaiswal was not and attempt to murder.
Reacting to the election re- part of the procession. Police said additional forces
sults, in which the JD(U) won 43 JD(U) president Nitish Kumar greets supporters at the party office, in Patna. ANI Kumar said there are around have been deployed in the area

for Aatmanirbhar MP
seats, he reiterated that “people 20 Muslim families in the area and the situation is stable now.
are masters in democracy”.

More women voters step out: NDA 80% seats

Nitish interacted with the
newly-electedpartyMLAsatthe
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE JD(U)office.Later,speakingtore-
BHOPAL,NOVEMBER12 porters, he said in response to a

in constituencies with higher women turnout

Shivraj query that it was up to the BJP to
TWO DAYS after the ruling BJP Singh decide if the LJP should be part

E
won19ofthe28seatsthatwentto Chouhan of NDA at the Centre.
bypolls, ensuring stability to his Asked if the LJP, which dam-
government, Madhya Pradesh aged JD(U) prospects on many
EXPLAINED

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh

ChouhanonThursdayunveileda
three-year roadmap to make the
state Aatmanirbhar -- meaning
self-reliant.
Theplan,whichwasconceptu-
alisedinAugust,seekstomakethe
stateself-reliantthroughimprove-
mentininfrastructure,governance,
healthandeducation,besidesgiv-
ing a boost to the economy and
employmentopportunities.
The plan was unveiled by
Chief Minister Chouhan in the
presenceofstateBJPpresidentVD
Sharma and Niti Aayog CEO
Amitabh Kant, who joined via
video conference.
Accordingtoagovernmentre-
lease,theplanhasbeenprepared
Cong: FM announcements
another bid to manage
after consulting about 635 dele-
gates and 70 institutions.
Underphysicalinfrastructure,
the plan aims to fastrack flagship
projects like Chambal Progress
Way and Narmada Expressway
besides developing transporta-
tion,water,energyandtourismin-
frastructure. In governance, the
plan aims to bring transparency
and haveadashboardto monitor
the progress of various schemes.
Theroadmapseekstosetupa
skill development centre to facil-
itate employment for the youth,
and for the farmers, it seeks to ef-
fectively implement the reforms
ofMandiAct,setupatleast10pri-
vate markets and revamp its
APMC.
seats, should continue to be part
of NDA,Nitishsaid,“ItisuptoBJP
to take a call on whether LJP
should continue to be part of
NDA at the Centre or not.”
Without naming LJP chief
ChiragPaswan,hesaidtherehad
beenanattempttocreateconfu-
sion between JD (U) and BJP.
Asked when he would stake
claim to form the government,
Nitish said, “The present govern-
ment has its term till November
29. Before that, there will be a JD
(U)legislaturepartymeeting.Later,
NDAwouldchooseitsleader.”
Healsosoughttoclarifyhisre-
cent “aakhiri chunaav” (last poll)
remark. “You guys did not get it
right. I say the same thing at the
last rally in every election: all is
wellthatendswell.Listentowhat
I said before and after it and you
will understand the context,”
Nitish said. WITH PTI INPUTS
HARIKISHANSHARMA
NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER12
OUTOF125seatstheNDAwonin
Bihar Assembly elections, 99
came from constituencies that
saw higher voting percentage of
women than men, according to
election data.
Analysis of the results shows
that turnout of women was
higher than men in 166 of total
243 constituencies.
Of these 166 constituencies,
BJP bagged the most — 55; the
party’s overall tally was 74.
Women voters seemed to have
come to the help of NDA partner
Janata Dal (United), too, as 37 of
the party’s 43 wins came from
these constituencies.
Two other NDA constituents
—HAM(S)andVIPwonthreeand
four seats, respectively, in these
166 constituencies.
Watershed PARTY-WISE PERFORMANCE
●
electionsin2015 ■ Constituencieswithhigher ■ Constituencieswithhigher
womenturnoutin% turnoutofmenin%
ALTHOUGH BIHAR saw a very high turnout of women vot-
ers in this month's Vidhan Sabha polls – 59.69 per cent –
AllIndiaMajlis-E-IttehadulMuslimeen 5
this was still nearly a percentage point lower than the stats
five years ago. Over the last four Assembly elections in BahujanSamajParty 1
Bihar, voting by women has seen a steady rise. In 2015, BharatiyaJanataParty 55 19
they overtook their male counterparts by a huge margin, CommunistPartyofIndia(Marxist) 2
with 60.48% women turning out to vote against 53.32% CommunistPartyofIndia 4 8
men. Turnout among women in 2015 was the highest in (Marxist-Leninist)(Liberation)
Bihar going as far back as 1962. Overall turnout that year
was 56.66%. Bihar's sex ratio is 918, below the national av-
CommunistPartyofIndia 2
erage of 940, as per census 2011. HindustaniAwamMorcha(Secular) 3 1
Independent 1
IndianNationalCongress 8 11
In contrast, the opposition overall 57 per cent polling, with JanataDal(United) 37 6
Mahagathbandhan (MGB) won voting by women registering a
only 60 in these constituencies, markedly higher percentage –
LokJanShaktiParty 1
led by RJD with 44. The alliance 59.69 – against 54.68 per cent RashtriyaJanataDal 44 31
won 110 seats.
The three-phase Bihar
polling by men.
FULL REPORT ON
VikassheelInsaanParty
TOTAL
4
166 77
Assembly election recorded an www.indianexpress.com

headlines about economy

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
LAUNCHING A scathing attack
on the BJP government in the
wake of the RBI report suggest-
ingthatIndiahasenteredatech-
nical recession, the Congress on
Thursday said the Centre does
not have a plan to revive the
economy which continues to be
in“direstraits”.Thepartyargued
that the announcements made
by Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman is another attempt
to deflect the attention of the
people and manage headlines
about the economy.
“Indiahasenteredintoreces-
sion for the first time in history.
Mr Modi’s actions have turned
India’s strength into its weak-
ness,” senior Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi tweeted.
Addressing a press confer-
ence, senior Congress leaders P
‘Don’t be
carried
away by
these grand
numbers’
Chidambaram and Jairam
Rameshsaidtheannouncements
made by the Finance Minister
with“muchfanfare”isanattempt
tohideandburythehardfactthat
the economy is in recession.
“None of these allocations
announced today will be spent
before March 31. I think the FM
knows that, the Expenditure
Secretary knows that and yet
they go ahead and announce al-
locations which money will not
be spent before March 31,”
Chidambaram said. “So, don’t be
carried away by these grand
numbers that are being an-
nounced as extra expenditure,”
he added.
After ABVP complaint, TN varsity Amid BJP push for Vel
withdraws Roy book from syllabus Yatra, TN extends curbs
ARUN JANARDHANAN
CHENNAI, NOVEMBER 12
THE MANONMANIAM
Sundaranar University in
Tirunelveli on Wednesday de-
cided to withdraw a book au-
thored by Arundhati Roy from
their syllabus following a com-
plaint from ABVP.
Walking with the Comrades, a
decade-old work of the Booker
Prize winner, captures the face-
off in the forests of central India
betweentheIndianstateandthe
Maoists.
Thebookwasbeingtaughtin
the university from 2017 under
the Commonwealth Literature
categoryforBAEnglishlanguage
and literature students in their
Arundhati
Roy’s book
was being
taught
since 2017
third semester.
Confirmingthereports,Vice-
Chancellor K Pitchumani said
they formed a committee after
they received a complaint from
ABVP supporters last week. The
complaint said the book had
controversialcontentsregarding
theauthor’svisittoMaoistareas.
“Acommitteecomprisingac-
ademicdeansandboardof stud-
iesmembershadconsideredthe
complaint and decided to with-
draw the book as it may be inap-
propriate to teach a controver-
sial book for students. We have
replaced it with M Krishnan’s
My Native Land: Essays on
Nature,” he said.
Opposition parties strongly
condemned the university’s de-
cision. DMKdeputygeneralsec-
retary and former Union minis-
ter A Raja said the decision was
an attempt to “saffronise” the
higher education sector.
DMK MP Kanimozhi said if
politicians and the powerful are
going to dictate what is art, liter-
ature,cultureandcurriculum,“it
wouldbedangerous for aplural-
istic society”.
Prominent writer and
Madurai’s CPM MP Su
Venkatesan demanded that the
universitywithdrawthedecision.
ARUN JANARDHANAN
CHENNAI, NOVEMBER 12
The AIADMK-led Tamil Nadu
government on Thursday ex-
tended the restrictions on social,
political, cultural and academic
events even after November 16,
until further orders.
Earlier, a government order
on October 30 stated that public
events with maximum partici-
pation of 100 people will be al-
lowed November 16 onwards.
The move comes at a time
when the BJP has been pushing
hard to get police permission for
the month-long Vel Yatra. The
yatra, slated to cover six abodes
of Lord Muruga, was scheduled
to begin November 6 from
Tiruttani temple in the north of
Tamil Nadu and culminate at
Tiruchendurtempleinthesouth.
Citing the pandemic, the
state government has been rais-
ing objections against BJP in the
Madras High Court during the
hearing of petitions for and
against taking out the yatra.
Referringtoa secondwaveof
Covid-19outbreakabroad,agov-
ernment release on Thursday
saidtheadministrationhastoin-
tensify preventive measures.
With the court agreeing to
the government stand, BJP lead-
ers led by state unit chief L
Muruganhaverepeatedlydefied
the ban and were arrested.
Senior BJP leader and national
president of the party’s Mahila
Morcha, Vanathi Srinivasan, said
theywillfacecasesif thegovern-
ment continues to book leaders.
Gujjar quota
stir ends
HAMZA KHAN
JAIPUR, NOVEMBER 12
GUJJAR LEADERS here called off
their protest for reservation and
otherdemandsThursdayfollow-
ingameetingwithaCabinetsub-
committeeandalatenightmeet-
ing with Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot in Jaipur on Wednesday.
Protesters had occupied rail-
waytracksontheDelhi-Mumbai
line in Bharatpur district for 11
days before Thursday's decision
to end the stir.
On Wednesday, the Gurjar
AarakshanSangharshSamiti,led
byconvenorKiroriSinghBainsla,
held talks with ministers B D
Kalla, Tikaram Jullyand Subhash
Garg, among others, and signed
a six-point agreement.

New Delhi
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER
13, 2020 9
Actor Asif
Basra found
hanging at
Dharamshala
residence
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
SHIMLA,MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 12

ACTOR ASIF Basra, last seen in the

web series Paatal Lok, was
Thursdayfoundhangingathisres-
idence in Dharamshala after what
appeared to be a case of suicide,
the Himachal Pradesh Police said.
He was 53.
Basra's body was found on the
first floor of the two-storey house
near McLeodganj in Upper
Dharamshala at around noon, the
police said. He had been living in
thehouseforthelast5-6years,ac-
cording to residents of the area.
“Prima facie,
he hanged him-
self anditisa case
of suicide,” said
Kangra
Superintendent
of Police Vimukt
Asif Basra Ranjan. He said
the body has
been sent for a
post-mortem examination and
that a forensics team has exam-
ined the spot.
Ranjan added that Basra was
using the property under a lease
agreement. The actor would stay
there on and off owing to the na-
ture of his work.
No note was found and there
was no sign of foul play, an official
said.
Some residents said they last
saw Basra earlier in the day when
he took his dog out for a walk.
Thepolicehavestartedinquest
proceedings under Section 174 of
theCriminalProcedureCodeatthe
McLeodganj police station.
Born in Maharashtra in 1967,
Basra had dabbled with acting
since his school days.
He acted in several talked-
aboutplaysincludingFerozKhan’s
Mahatma vs Gandhi, Manav Kaul’s
Mumtaz Bhai Patangwale and
Vikram Kapadia’s Tuglak.
Basra has also acted in a range
of mainstream and independent
films including Black Friday,
Parzania, Outsourced, Jab We Met,
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, Kai
Po Che, Krrish 3, Ek Villain,
Kaalakaandi and Hichki. This year,
he appeared in significant roles in
web shows Paatal Lok and
Hostages Season 2.
Shocked by his demise, Sachin
Krishn, the director of Hostages
Season2,saidhehadtriedcontact-
ing Asif several times since
September after the show went
live, but never got a response.
Several celebrities mourned
Basra’s death on social media.

Spl court rejects

bail plea by
Deepak Kochhar
Mumbai: A special court rejected
the bail application of Deepak
Kochhar—the husband of ICICI
Bank former managing director
andchief executiveofficer Chanda
Kocchar—arrested in connection
to the ICICI Bank-Videocon loan
case.
Deepak, who controlled
NupowerRenewablesPvtLtd,was
arrested in September. He sought
default bail claiming that ED had
not filed the chargesheet within
the stipulated time. The
chargesheet or prosecution com-
plaint as referred to by ED, was
filed before the court last Tuesday
against Deepak, Chanda and
Videocon chief Venugopal Dhoot
among others. ENS

Black flags shown,

stones hurled at
Bengal BJP chief's
convoy
Kolkata:WestBengalBJPpresident
Dilip Ghosh’s convoy came under
attackinJaigaonareaof Alipurduar
district on Thursday where he had
gonetoattendapartyprogramme.
Stones were hurled and black
flags were shown at the convoy.
Several people carrying flags and
banner of Gorkha Janmukti
Morcha (GJM) were seen raising
slogans againstGhosh, asking him
to leave. Ghosh’s vehicle was par-
tially damaged in the attack.
A team of police officers
brought the situation under con-
trolafterforcingtheprotestersand
BJP supporters to disperse.
The GJM, led by Bimal Gurung,
hadrecentlyjoinedhandswiththe
TMC.
While the BJP accused the
Trinamool of being behind the at-
tack, the ruling party said their
cadreswerenot involvedinthe in-
cident. ENS

New Delhi
10 EXPRESS NETWORK
BRIEFLY
IPS officer suspended
over Vikas Dubey ‘link’
SurendraSinghJeena
haddiabeticcondition
UTTARAKHAND
BJP MLAdies
duetoCovid
complications
Dehradun/New Delhi:
Three-termBJPMLAfrom
Salt in Almora district,
SurendraSinghJeena,who
wasundergoingtreatment
for Covid at a private facil-
ityinNewDelhi,diedearly
Thursday,hospitalauthor-
itiessaid.Jeena,51,wasad-
mitted to Sir Gangaram
Hospital nearly a week
ago,PradeshBJPvicepres-
ident Devendra Bhasin
said. “He was admitted to
thehospitalonNovember
2andhadadiabeticcondi-
tion... (he) passed away at
6.30 am due to complica-
tions,”aseniorofficialatSir
Ganga Ram Hospital said.
Uttarakhand Chief
Minister Trivendra Singh
Rawat said the state has
lost an energetic and far-
sighted leader. ENS
MAHARASHTRA
3heldforbidto
lobdrug-filled
tennisballsinjail
Pune: Three persons
were arrested while
they were allegedly
planning to lob tennis
balls filled with mari-
juana in Kalamba jail in
Kolhapur for an associate
lodged there, an official
said. During patrolling
on Wednesday, some po-
lice constables found
three men roaming
around a wall with balls
in their hands. “The cops
on duty got suspicious
about their presence in
the prohibited area,” the
official said. The police
seized three tennis balls
with insulated adhesive
tape over it from their
possession, he said. “On
cutting open, marijuana
was found inside the
balls,”theofficialsaid. PTI
TELANGANA
Tribalkilledin
suspected
tigerattack
Hyderabad: A21-year-old
tribal man was mauled
to death by an animal,
suspected to be a tiger in
a forest area in Kumram
Bheem Asifabad
district,Forest officials
said on Thursday. The in-
cident happenedin
Kaghaznagar forest divi-
sion on Wednesday
when the victim had
gone to the forest area
withhisfriends,theysaid.
The man was allegedly
attacked b ythe feline,
which dragged him into
thebushesforalmost150
meters. The man’s par-
tially devoured body was
found. Forest officials col-
lected pugmarks and in-
vestigation was on to as-
certain if they were of a
tiger. PTI
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, NOVEMBER 12
THE UTTAR Pradesh govern-
ment Thursday suspended IPS
officer and former Kanpur SSP
Anant Deo after a report by the
Special Investigation Team into
the rise of Vikas Dubey indicted
his “nexus” with the gangster.
Deo was transferred from
Kanpur and made DIG, Special
Task Force (STF) on June 15.
Three weeks later—on the night
of July 2—eight policemen were
killed in an ambush by Dubey
and his henchmen when they
had gone to arrest him at his vil-
lage Bikru in Kanpur. Dubey was
later killed in an alleged en-
counter while he was being
broughttoKanpurfromMadhya
Pradesh.
“In its report, the SIT found
Anant Deo guilty on various
counts. On the basis of inquiry
report, the government took the
decision of suspending Deo,"
Additional Chief Secretary
TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE
255 CASES: RECOVERED: 80,66,501
86,83,916 DEATHS: 1,28,121
DAYS SINCE
PANDEMIC
BEGAN TESTS: 1,21,962,509 | DOUBLING RATE: 133.95**
KEYSTATES
TOWATCH
TOTAL
CASES
■ Maharashtra 17,31,833
■ Kerala 502,719
■ Delhi 459,975
■ West Bengal 416,984
■ Karnataka 853,796
* Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7 days
CASE FATALITY RATIO
7 DAYS EARLIER:
1.49
NOW:
1.48
Deaths as a ratio of
positive cases (in %);
indicator of progress
in averting deaths
DataasonNovember11,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbers
includedatafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive
Tripura sero survey finds
34% with Covid antibodies
DEBRAJ DEB
AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 12
ACOMMUNITY-BASEDsero-sur-
veyconductedacrossalleightdis-
tricts of Tripura has found that
33.98 per cent of surveyed indi-
viduals had Covid-19 antibodies.
Tripura Education Minister
and Cabinet spokesperson Ratan
Lal Nath said 4,776 individuals
participated in the sero survey.
According to the report, West
Tripura had a 41.76 per cent anti-
bodypositivityrate,thehighestin
the state. About 25.36 per cent
people were found to have anti-
bodies in Dhalai district. And
39.53 per cent in Khowai district,
41.40 per cent in Sepahijala dis-
UP govt plans slew of projects for ‘Navya Ayodhya’
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, NOVEMBER 12
ON THE eve of a grand
Deepotsava celebration which
will be attended by Chief
Minister Yogi Adityanath, the
Uttar Pradesh government
Thursday said it will develop
(Home) Awanish Kumar
Awasthi said.
The three-member SIT,
headed by Additional Chief
Secretary Sanjay Bhoosreddy,
hadsubmitted its 3000-page re-
port to the government on
November 4.
Sources said that the inquiry
report also indicted police offi-
cialspostedatKanpurwhenDeo
was SSP. The SIT found that rules
were not followed when it came
to issuing arms licences to
Dubey’sassociates,asourcesaid.
Anant Deo, a 2006-batch IPS
officer, was currently posted as
DIG (PAC) Moradabad sector. He
was moved out of the STF after
the July 2 ambush.
Following the killing of the
eight policemen, an audio clip of
a purported conversation be-
tween then Deputy
Superintendent of Police
Devendra Kumar Mishra and
Kanpur SP (Rural) Brijesh
Srivastava just before the police
raid at Dubey's house had come
to light in which Mishra, then
SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING
24HOURS GROWTH* TIME**
4,907 0.28% 256.62
7,007 1.29% 55.91
8,593 1.66% 43.40
3,872 0.98% 73.77
2,584 0.31% 235.87
** Calculated over 7-day growth
POSITIVITY RATE DAILY IN, DAILY OUT
7 DAYS EARLIER: DETECTED TODAY
7.32 47,905
NOW: RECOVERED TODAY:
7.12 52,718
Positives against Becoming sick vs
number tested recovering; more
(in %); indicator of recoveries for 14 days
the spread of disease may signal the peak
trict,40.50percentinGomatidis-
trict, 22.09 per cent in North
Tripura,37.06percentinUnakoti
district and 19.70 per cent of sur-
veyed respondents in South
Tripuradistrictwerefoundtohave
Covid-19 antibodies.
The minister said the Centre
hasinstructedallstatestobepre-
pared since the Covid vaccine
might be available at any time.
“We are prepared at the state
and district level to manage the
situation. If vaccine arrives, the
frontline workers would be pro-
vided with it first. We have com-
pleted compiling 99.45 per cent
of database of frontline employ-
ees.Incaseofprivatehospitalsand
nursinghomes,theworkis98.73
percent complete, he said.
“Navya Ayodhya” (new
Ayodhya)asamodeltown,com-
bining “vedic” elements with
modernity.
The government said large-
scaleinfraworkisbeingplanned
forthetempletown—fromanin-
ternational airport to doubling
of railway line, laying of four-
lane by-pass for Ayodhya dham
postedasCircleOfficerBihor,can
be heard making allegations
against “former SSP Tiwari" (in
an apparent reference to Anant
Deo Tiwari), saying that he took
Rs5lakhfromthe SO(stationof-
ficer of Chaubeypur police sta-
tion Vinay Tiwari) to drop all in-
quiries against the SO.
Mishra was among the eight
policemen killed in the botched
raid.
A photograph of Deo with
Vikas Dubey's business associ-
ate Jaikant Bajpai was also circu-
lated on social media following
the incident. Bajpai was arrested
for conspiracy in the murder of
eight policemen.
Meanwhile,athree-member
judicial commission formed to
probe all the incidents linked to
Vikas Dubey – beginning with
the July 2 ambush, and killing of
Dubey and his five associates in
separate “encounters”-- is still
underway. Last month, Kanpur
policefiledachargesheetagainst
36 people, including two police-
men, in the Bikru ambush case.
SHOPPING SEASON
People line up for temperature scanning before entering Ahmedabad’s Bhadra market for
Dhanteras shopping on Thursday. Express
Almost 50% in Karnataka were
infected by August: sero study
ANURADHA
MASCARENHAS
PUNE, NOVEMBER 12
ALMOST HALF of Karnataka’s
population may have been in-
fected by Covid-19 by August,
nearly 100 times more than the
officially reportedfiguresduring
that time, a seroprevalence
study has estimated.
Thesurvey,carriedoutbythe
Mumbai-based IDFC Institute,
found that at least 44.1 per cent
of the population in rural areas
of Karnataka and 53.8 per cent
in urban areas was exposed to
the coronavirus, and, as a result,
developed antibodies to the in-
fection.
The seroprevalence survey
used data collected from a rep-
resentative sample of house-
and a sewage treatment plant.
At least 300 artistes will per-
form at the Deepotsava event,
adhering to Covid protocol.
Governor Anandiben Patel will
alsoattend.Thegovernment has
invited artistes from Gujarat,
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh,
Rajasthan and Uttarakhand be-
sides those from the state.
HATHRAS WOMAN’S DEATH
Court reserves order
Surrender of ULFA’s
No. 2 a big win, came
on bail plea by two
members of CFI
after nine months of
pursuit, says Centre
MANISH SAHU
LUCKNOW, NOVEMBER 12
A SESSIONS court in Mathura on
Thursday reserved its order after
arguments on bail applications
filedbytwomembersofCampus
FrontofIndia(CFI)andtheirdriver,
who were arrested along with a
journalist while on their way to
Hathras to meet the family of a
Dalit woman who was allegedly
gangraped and murdered.
The CFI is the students’ wing
of the Popular Front of India.
The bail applications of Atiq-
ur-Rahman (25), Masood
Ahmed (26) and driver Alam
(26)arepending.Theyarefacing
several charges, including
Unlawful Activities (Prevention)
Act (UAPA), sedition, promoting
enmity between different
groupsongroundof religionand
deliberate and malicious acts in-
tended to outrage religious feel-
ings, said police.
holds in 20 districts of the state
from mid-June through August.
The state has a population of
roughly 6.4 crore.
Adjusted seroprevalence
across Karnataka implies—based
on the government’s mid-year
population estimates—that ap-
proximately 3.15 crore residents
have been infected. This is 96.4
times the 327,076 publicly re-
ported cases as of August 29.
Sero studies conducted in a
randompopulationareessential
for measuring the spread of the
Covid-19pandemic.Researchers
from the IDFC Institute carried
out the Karnataka study in col-
laboration with the Centre for
MonitoringIndianEconomy.The
study, funded by ACT Grants
(India), was led by Professor
Manoj Mohanan from Duke
University, Professor Anup
Nirvani Akhara chief says Ram Temple
Trust ‘illegal’, sends legal notice to MHA
AVANEESH MISHRA
LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 12
THE HEAD of Nirvani Akhara in
Ayodhya, Mahant Dharam Das,
Thursday sent a legal notice to
the Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) demanding formation
and regulation of Shri
Ramjanmabhoomi Teerth
Kshetra Trust “as per the
Supreme Court's verdict” in the
title suit case.
Alleging that the existing
Trust—formed to facilitate the
construction of the Ram
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020
“Afterhearingthearguments
from both sides, Additional
District and Sessions Judge
MayurJaintodayreservedits or-
der on bail applications of those
threearrestedpersons.Thecourt
is likely to pronounce its order
tomorrow,”saidShivRamSingh,
government counsel, Mathura.
The bail applications of
Rahman, Masood and Alam
weremovedtosessionscourtaf-
ter their bail pleas were rejected
in lower court of Mathura.
“In the bail applications, we
toldcourtthatnocrimecouldbe
made out against these three
youths,” said defence counsel
Madhuban Dutt Dwivedi.
He added, “The bail applica-
tion of journalist Siddique
Kappan (41), who was arrested
along with them, has not been
moved to the local court of
Mathura yet. Kappan's habeas
corpus is pending in the apex
court and its next hearing is on
November 16.”
Malani from Chicago University,
and Anu Acharya from
Mapmygenome along with
Kaushik Krishnan from the
Center for Monitoring Indian
Economy.
Thepresenceof antibodiesin
the blood typically suggests that
people infected with a virus
would gain immunity for some
period of time. The new study,
Prevalence of COVID-19 In Rural
Versus Urban Areas in a Low-
Income Country: Findings from a
State-Wide Study in Karnataka,
India was published recently as
a preprint in medRxiv.
The researcherssaidthatone
of thereasonsforthespreadwas
the fact that rurtal areas experi-
enced fewer restrictions on mo-
bility.Also,themigrationof daily
labourers to rural parts was an-
other factor.
Temple in Ayodhya—was “ille-
gal, arbitrary and against the
Supreme Court's order given in
November last year, Mahant
Das, through the legal notice,
threatened to take legal re-
course if the Central govern-
ment failed to do so “within
two months of receipt of the
notice”.
Mahant Das contended that
the Trust was “illegal” because
of “non-compliance of legal,
statutory and customary pro-
cedures of law on several dif-
ferent points”.
They include “declining the
New Delhi
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ABHISHEK SAHA
RANGIA (ASSAM), NOV 12
THE SURRENDER of Drishti
Rajkhowa, ‘deputy commander-
in-chief’ of the banned United
Liberation Front of Assam-
Independent(ULFA-I),hasdealta
blow to insurgency in the region
andisamajorsteptowardspeace
in Assam and the Northeast, sen-
iorAssampoliceandIndianArmy
officers said on Thursday.
“His[Rajkhowa’s]surrenderis
amajorblowtotheunderground
organisation and heralds a new
dawn,usheringinpeaceinthere-
gion,” the Defence Ministry said
in a statement.
Rajkhowa, 50, surrendered to
Army’s intelligence agencies on
Wednesday, the ministry said.
Addressing a Unified
Command press conference in
Rangia on Thursday, Hiren Nath,
IGP,SpecialBranch,AssamPolice,
said, “The surrender is a very im-
portantstepagainstinsurgencyin
AssamandtheNortheasttowards
bringing longstanding peace.”
Armyofficerssaideffortswere
made by various agencies to nab
Rajkhowa over the last several
years. Rajkhowa has been an ac-
tive member of ULFA and led the
outfitinthewesternAssamregion
forover30yearsnow—heissaid
to lead its ‘709 Batallion’. Said to
be a close confidant of ULFA chief
Paresh Baruah, Rajkhowa is
known to have been operating in
Bangladeshandalongtheborder
with Bangladesh in Meghalaya,
especiallyinanareainSouthGaro
Hills district.
BesidesRajkhowa,hisaccom-
plices Vedanta, Yasin Asom,
Assam journalist dies
after accident in front of
house, CM orders probe
ABHISHEK SAHA
GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 12
A JOURNALIST working for an
Assamese news channel died on
Thursdaymorning,adayafterhe
was knocked down by a vehicle
in front of his house in Tinsukia
district. Chief Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal has or-
dered a CID inquiry into the
death after the channel alleged
foul play.
Parag Bhuyan was a corre-
spondent for Pratidin Time in
Kakopathar area of Tinsukia dis-
trict. On Wednesday night, he
wasmoweddownbyaspeeding
vehiclein front of his house, suc-
cumbing to his injuries the next
morning.
PratidinTimeEditor-in-Chief
Nitumoni Saikia said in a state-
ment that Bhuyan had received
threatsduetohisreporting.“The
initial... approach of the police
gave us a reason to be suspicious
aboutthewholeincidentandwe
suspect that the brave journalist
was murdered as he has been
doing series of reporting expos-
ing illegalities and corruption
around Kakopathar,” he said.
value of Deity Ramlalla by not
handing over the money re-
ceived to the deity during the
period when it was under the
custody of receiver”, and “non-
fulfilment of the direction of
the Supreme Court with regard
to the inclusion of the Trust's
property while setting up the
Trust, the notice stated.
Mahant Das also contended
that people who were litigating
the title suit cases since 1949
were not given due considera-
tion in the formation of the
Trust, while those who got in-
volved after 1989 were given
Rajasthan: Pilot among
2,176 new Covid patients
Jaipur: Former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot,
CooperativesMinisterUdayLalAnjanaandBJPleg-
islatorKalicharanSaraf testedpositiveforCovid-19
on Thursday.
The same day, the fatalities toll due to the in-
fection went up by 13 deaths to reach 2,032 in the
state, said its Health Department bulletin.
The total number of people testing positive for
the infection in the state stood at 2,176 on the day
with the tally of total infected persons reaching
2,19,327.
Drishti Rajkhowa
RopjyotiAsom,andMithunAsom
alsosurrendered.Alargecacheof
arms and ammunition were
sezied from them.
The Defence statement said
that it was a “swift and well-
planned operation executed by
the Indian Army Intelligence
Agencies at Meghalaya-Assam-
BangladeshBorder.Theoperation
was based on confirmed inputs,
which was a result of relentless
pursuitoverthelastninemonths.”
A senior officer of Meghalaya
PolicetoldTheIndianExpressthat
for months now the police have
been mounting pressure to nab
Rajkhowa. Operations in March
and October were launched to
catch him but Rajkhowa escaped
onbothoccasions,theofficersaid.
“He has been on the run due
to our constant operations, so he
wanted to surrender and con-
tacted his family in Assam. The
family contacted the Army," the
police officer said.
A security source said that an
operationwascarriedoutagainst
Rajkhowa and his accomplices in
Bangladesh, near the interna-
tional border, on November 7.
“TheoperationsinMeghalayaand
BangladeshmadeRajkhowawant
to surrender because he was
scaredforhislife,”thesourcesaid.
On Thursday, the official
Twitter account of the Chief
Minister’sOffice posted: “Taking
note of various allegations re-
garding the death of senior jour-
nalist Parag Bhuyan, CM Shri
@sarbanandsonwalhas directed
a CID inquiry into the matter.”
Police have seized the vehi-
cle that hit Bhuyan and arrested
the driver and handyman.
Tinsukia SP Shiladitya Chetia
told The Indian Express: “As per
our investigation till now and
based on the admissions of the
driverandthehandyman,prima
facie it is a case of accident. We
will investigate further.”
Asked if Bhuyan’s reporting
had any connection with his
death, Chetia said that the jour-
nalist used to report on multiple
local issues from Kakopathar.
“Till now, we have not found any
connection between his death
and any particular story,” the SP
said.
Bhuyan was the brother of
Jagdish Bhuyan, a former BJP
leader who quit the party over
the Citizenship Amendment Act
andisnowthecoordinatorof the
regionalist party Assam Jatiya
Parishad (AJP).
weightage—“which shows that
the persons who have political
approach with the government
were given key roles in the
Trust”.
The notice stated that Baba
Abhiram Das who was the
priest and shebait of Ramlalla
since 1949 was guru of Mahant
Das.
In the notice, Mahant Das
also accused the Home
Ministry of “dividing Hindus”
by making a Scheduled Caste
member as all-time Trustee,
which according to it, seems to
achieve a political agenda.
PTI
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12 THE WORLD
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020
TOPOFTHE
WORLD
Volodymyr Zelenskiy
UKRAINE
President
hospitalised
duetoCovid
Kyiv: Ukraine’s President
VolodymyrZelenskiywas
hospitalised after he con-
tractedcoronavirusearlier
this week, a presidential
official said on Thursday.
“He first went home, but
decided to move to
Feofania (hospital). To ac-
curately isolate and not
expose anyone,” a presi-
dential spokeswoman
told Reuters. “There are
better conditions for pa-
tients. Zelenskiy said on
Mondayhetestedpositive
for coronavirus. Three
other top officials, includ-
ing the finance minister,
the defence minister and
Zelenskiy’s top aide were
also reported to be in-
fected. REUTERS
RUSSIA
Govt:Navalny
mayhavebeen
poisonedin
Germany
Moscow: Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov on
Thursday said Kremlin
criticAlexeiNavalny,who
fell ill on a flight in Siberia
onAugust20andwasair-
lifted to Berlin for treat-
ment, could have been
poisoned in Germany or
ontheplanetoBerlin.The
poisoning has worsened
relations between Russia
and the West. "We have
allgroundstobelievethat
everything, which had
happened to
(Navalny) from the point
him
of view of warfare agent's
entering into his body,
could have happened in
Germany or on the plane
where he was loaded and
sent to the Charite clinic,"
Lavrov said. REUTERS
CHINA
Pakreleases
firstfilmin
Chinain45yrs
Beijing: Pakistan has re-
leased its first movie in
Chinainoverfourdecades,
amilitaryactionfilmhigh-
lighting the joint venture
of a fourth-generation
fighterjetJF-17withrefer-
ences to comparison with
French-made Mirage
2000.Themovie,Parwaaz
Hai Junoon, is a 2018 mili-
tary action film and fea-
turesmilitarycooperation,
the mainstay of the all-
weather friendship be-
tweenthe“ironbrothers”.
Themovietellsthestoryof
a group of young patriotic
cadets who become the
best fighter pilots in
Pakistanafterovercoming
a number of challenges
and hardships. PTI
ISRAEL
7peacekeepers
killedinSinai
helicoptercrash
Jerusalem: Israeli and
Egyptianofficialssayahel-
icopterbelongingtoanin-
ternational peacekeeping
forcehascrashedinEgypt's
Sinai Peninsula, killing at
least seven people. The
Israeli official said that five
Americans were among
the dead in the crash on
Thursday in Sinai. The
Egyptian official said the
crash appeared to be
caused by a technical fail-
ure. The helicopter be-
longedtothemultinational
force MFO that monitors
the Israeli-Egyptian peace
accord. AP
Trump endorses McDaniel to remain
RNC chair, ponders run in 2024
REUTERS
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 12
USPRESIDENTDonaldTrumpon
Wednesday endorsed
Republican National Committee
chair Ronna McDaniel to stay on
in her position, in what one
source said could be a prelude to
Trump’s announcing plans to
run for president in 2024.
Normally, a president who
loses an election does not influ-
ence who the RNC picks as its
next leader. Trump is contesting
the results of the November 3
election that was won by
Democrat Joe Biden.
“I am pleased to announce
that I have given my full support
and endorsement to Ronna
McDaniel to continue heading
the Republican National
Committee (RNC). With 72 MIL-
LION votes, we received more
votes than any sitting President
inU.S.history-andwewillwin!”
Trump said in a tweet.
Biden won the race with
more than 77 million votes.
Trump backed McDaniel for
RNC chair in 2017 after she
helped deliver her home state of
Michigan in the 2016 presiden-
tialelectioninwhichhedefeated
Democrat Hillary Clinton.
A source familiar with inter-
nal discussions said Trump was
telling allies he planned to run
for president in 2024 and could
announce it by the end of the
year.
The US Constitution allows
presidentstoservetwofour-year
terms and they do not have to be
consecutive.
A long list of Republicans are
said to be considering a run for
the 2024 presidential election,
including Trump’s own vice
president, Mike Pence.
Day after attack at
Saudi WWI ceremony,
IS takes responsibility
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT, NOVEMBER 12
THE ISLAMIC State group
claimed responsibility on
Thursday for the explosion the
previous day at a cemetery in
Saudi Arabia where American
and European officials were
commemorating the end of
World War I. The blast wounded
three people.
IS said in a post on its online
Telegram channel on Thursday
that its fighters were able to
plant the explosive device at the
Non-Muslims Cemetery in the
kingdom's coastal city of Jiddah.
In a statement posted on one
of its Telegram channels, IS said
a group of its militants were able
to plant the explosive devise at
the in the city of Jiddah. It pro-
vided no evidence but said the
device went off when diplomats
from “the Crusader countries”
had gathered there.
OneUKnationalsufferedmi-
nor wounds, according to the
British government. Greece's
ForeignMinistrysaidaGreekpo-
liceman serving in the country's
consulate in Jiddah was
wounded. A Saudi security offi-
cer was also lightly wounded,
Saudi state media quoted a local
THE TREE WAS TO BE CUT TO MAKE WAY FOR A CHINESE-FUNDED HIGHWAY
In Kenya, 100-yr-old cherished fig tree slated for removal gets a reprieve
THE NEW YORK TIMES
CAIRO, NOVEMBER 12
ABELOVEDfigtreeintheKenyan
capital, Nairobi, will live to see
another day — and, possibly, an-
other century.
On Wednesday, the head of
the Nairobi metropolitan area
said the 100-year-old fig tree
that was slated for removal to
make way for a new express-
way would not only be saved
but also preserved as a national
symbol of environmental con-
servation.
The announcement was a
victory for both environmental-
istsandculturalleadersinKenya
who denounced the efforts to
cutorrelocatethe figtree,which
Donald Trump’s supporters in Pheonix, Arizona on Wednesday. Reuters
Biden ignores Trump to build team
REUTERS
WASHINGTON, WILMINGTON,
NOVEMBER 12
US PRESIDENT-ELECT Joe Biden
will press on with building his
governing team on Thursday, ig-
noring President Donald
Trump’s refusal to concede..
The Democratic former vice
president has shrugged off the
Republican incumbent’s long-
shot challenge to his victory,
naming longtime adviser Ron
Klain on Wednesday as White
House chief of staff, his first ma-
jor appointment.
New records for daily coron-
avirus infections and hospital-
izations in the United States en-
sured that the presidential
transition will be dominated by
the response to the pandemic,
which has accelerated since the
SAUDI EMBASSY IN
HAGUE FIRED UPON
Amsterdam: A gunman
openedfireoutsidetheSaudi
Embassy in The Hague on
Thursday, local police offi-
cials said, a day after a World
War I commemoration at-
tendedbyEuropeanofficials
wasattackedinSaudiArabia.
No one was injured in
what was an extremely rare
attack onembassies or other
diplomatic missions in the
Netherlands, and it was not
immediately clear whether
the shooting was related to
the violence in Saudi Arabia
a day earlier. NYT
official as saying.
Some 20 people of different
nationalities were attending the
ceremony.
Wednesday marked the
102nd anniversary of the
armistice ending World War I, a
day that was also commemo-
rated in several European coun-
tries. The bombing followed a
stabbing attack last month that
lightly wounded a guard at the
French Consulate, also in Jiddah.
many communities consider sa-
cred. Some experts had doubted
that the ancient tree, which is
four stories high, would have
survived being uprooted and
moved.
“Whatever development
that is going to happen here will
not touch this tree,” Maj. Gen.
Mohammed Badi, the director
general of the Nairobi
Metropolitan Services, said dur-
ing a visit to the fig tree in the
bustling commercial district of
Westlands.
Mr. Badi said he had in-
structed city officials to fence off
the tree and beautify the area so
thatthecity’sresidentscoulden-
joy the space. He also signed a
declarationthatadoptedthetree
“as a beacon of Kenya’s cultural
Ron Klain has been named
Joe Biden’s chief of staff
November 3 election. Trump re-
mains in office until Biden’s in-
auguration on January 20.
Foreign allies have congratu-
lated Biden. A group of promi-
nent former world leaders
known as The Elders, chaired by
former Irish President Mary
Robinson, urged Trump to ac-
cept defeat, fearing he was “put-
ting at risk the functioning of
TURKMENISTAN UNVEILS DOG MONUMENT
A huge gilded statue of a dog has been unveiled on a busy traffic circle in Turkmenistan’s
capital Ashgabat by longtime leader President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. He has also
written an ode to the local breed called Alabai and gifted one to Russian President Vladimir
Putin. Dogs and horses are sources of national pride in the isolated desert nation. Reuters
Ethiopia says west Tigray ‘liberated’
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia’s military
has defeated local forces in the
west of Tigray state, Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed said on
Thursday, accusing his foes of
atrocities during a weekof fight-
ing that threatens to destabilise
the Horn of Africa.
Air strikes and ground com-
bat have killed hundreds, sent
refugees flooding into Sudan,
Authorities had planned to uproot the tree to make way for
the construction of the Nairobi Expressway. Reuters File
and ecological heritage” and as a
symbol of “Nairobi’s commit-
ment to environmental conser-
American democracy.”
Attention is now expected to
shift to Biden’s picks for Cabinet
posts, though aides have so far
given few clues about when an-
nouncements will be made.
On foreign policy, diplomat
and longtime confidant Antony
Blinken is seen as a possible
choice for secretary of state or
national security adviser.
Whoever is chosen for treas-
ury secretary will have to cope
witharecessionandjoblessness,
as well as serving as the fulcrum
to address wealth inequality, cli-
mate change and other issues.
Klain, who served as
Democratic President Barack
Obama’s“Ebolaczar”in2014dur-
ing an outbreak of that virus in
West Africa, is expected to take a
leadingroleintheincomingBiden
administration’s response to the
nationwidespikeinCovid-19cases.
stirred Ethiopia’s ethnic divi-
sions and raised questions over
the credentials of Abiy, Africa’s
youngest leader who won a
Nobel Peace Prize in 2019.
“Thewesternregionof Tigray
has been liberated,” tweeted
Abiy, 44, who comes from the
largest ethnic group the Oromo
and once fought with the
Tigrayans against neighbouring
vation.”
Theauthoritiesannouncedin
Octoberthattheyplannedtoup-
Trump campaign
law firm under
fire over
lawsuits against
mail-in ballots
REUTERS
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 12
JONESDAY,thego-tolawfirmfor
US President Donald Trump’s
election campaign, is under fire
forrepresentingRepublicansina
lawsuit over Pennsylvania’s ex-
tended deadline to receive mail-
in ballots, with law students
threatening to boycott the firm
and a prominent anti-Trump
group targeting it online.
The firm defended its repre-
sentation Tuesday, saying the
case raises important constitu-
tional questions, pushing back
on critic’s claims that its main
goal is to sow distrust in the re-
sultsof theelection. Arequestby
Republicans for the Supreme
Courttohearthecaseispending.
But Jones Day distanced itself
from legal challenges filed by
Republicans,sayingitisnot“repre-
senting any entity in any litigation
challenging or contesting the re-
sultsofthe2020generalelection.”
Despite its statement, Jones
Day has faced criticism, which
some attorneyshave spoken out
against, arguing that a tenet of
law firm business and the US le-
gal system is that even contro-
versial clients deserve counsel.
Jones Day did not respond to
requests for comment on
whetheritsworkforRepublicans
andtheTrumpcampaignhasim-
pacteditsabilitytorecruitlawyers
and retain clients.
Eritrea.
“The army is now providing
humanitarian assistance and
services. It is also feeding the
people,” he added.
Abiy accuses the TPLF of
starting the conflict by attacking
a federal military base and defy-
ing his authority, while the
Tigrayans say his two-year rule
has persecuted them. REUTERS
root the tree to make way for the
construction of the Nairobi
Expressway,afour-lanehighway
funded and built by China. The
17-milehighway,whichissetfor
completion in 2022, is aimed at
reducing traffic in the heart of
Nairobi and is expected to create
thousands of jobs.
But from the outset, the
project drew criticism from en-
vironmental groups who said
the effects on air quality and
green spaces had not been
taken into account. Even
though Nairobi is popularly
known as the “Green City in the
Sun,” parks, forests and gardens
have been dwindling in the city
in recent years because of com-
mercial and infrastructural de-
velopment.
New Delhi
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London. Reuters
Disquiet within
10, Downing Street
as Boris Johnson’s
top aide resigns
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON, NOVEMBER 12
THERE ARE widespread reports
of a power struggle at the heart
of the UK government as one of
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s
closest aides announced his res-
ignation as the Director of
Communications at 10,
Downing Street in London.
Lee Cain announced he
would step down as Johnson’s
top media aide on Wednesday
night after ministers and advis-
ers, including Johnson’s fiancee
Carrie Symonds, are said to have
protested over his planned pro-
motion to Chief of Staff.
Cain is also a close aide of fel-
low Brexiteer and Downing
Street Chief Strategy Adviser
Dominic Cummings, another
oneof Johnson’smostinfluential
andhigh-profiletopteammem-
bers.
“After careful consideration I
havethiseveningresignedasNo.
10 Director of Communications
andwillleavethepostattheend
of theyear,”readsCain’sresigna-
tion letter.
“I would like to thank the
prime minister for his loyalty
and leadership. I have no doubt
that under his premiership the
country will deliver on the
promises made in the 2019 elec-
Pakistan court jails JuD
spokesperson for 32 years
in terror financing cases
M ZULQERNAIN
LAHORE, NOVEMBER 12
A PAKISTAN Anti-Terrorism
Court(ATC)hashandeddown32
years of imprisonment to Yahya
Mujahid, the spokesperson of
the Jammat-ud-Dawah (JuD)
terror group, in two terror fi-
nancing cases.
The ATC Lahore on
Wednesday also convicted two
other JuD leaders, including JuD
Hafiz Saeed's brother-in-law in
terror financing cases.
"ATC Judge Ijaz Ahmad
Buttar handed down 32 years
imprisonmenttoJuDspokesper-
son Yahya Mujahid in two FIRs.
Prof Zafar Iqbal and Prof Hafiz
Abdul Rehman Makki (Saeed's
brother-in-law) were awarded
16andone-yearjailtermsintwo
cases," a court official said. He
said that the two other JuD lead-
ers -- Abdul Salam bin
Muhammad and Luqman Shah
-- were indicted in more terror
financing cases.
Activists also lamented the
felling of dozens of trees along
the highway’s route and filed a
case against the environmental
regulatorfor approvingtheproj-
ect. Kenyan law would normally
require the suspension of the
projectpendingacourtdecision,
but construction has continued.
Environmentalists on
Wednesdaywelcomedthedeci-
siontosavethefigtreebutcalled
for more action to save green
spaces across the capital.
“The move by the National
Metropolitan Services is very
welcome and a good starting
point for us to converse around
ethical developmentand invest-
ments in Kenya,” George
Mwangala, the East Africa lead
for Purpose Climate Lab, a social
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tion campaign and build back
betterfromthecoronaviruspan-
demic,” he said.
In response, the UK Prime
Minister thanked Cain for his
“extraordinary service” to him,
both in No. 10 and previously
when he was Foreign Secretary.
“He has been a true ally and
friend and I am very glad that he
will remain Director of
Communications until the New
Year and to help restructure the
operation. He will be much
missed,” Johnson said.
Thelettercameamidabrew-
ing storm within 10, Downing
Street after media reports sug-
gested the elevation of former
BBCjournalistAllegraStrattonas
the face of new daily televised
pressbriefingsplannedfromthe
New Year caused a considerable
shake-up.
It was reportedthat Cain was
to be offered a promotion to re-
balance the power shift, but that
appointment came under fire
from across the Conservative
Party ranks as well as Symonds,
the mother of Johnson’s baby
Wilfred, born in April.
Dominic Cummings, on the
other hand, was said to be furi-
ous over his close aide Cain los-
ing out on the promotion and
therewas somespeculationthat
he may also follow him out of
Downing Street.
Two other JuD leaders,
including Hafiz Saeed's
brother-in-law, also
convicted
The court directed the prose-
cution to present its witnesses
on November 16.
Thesuspects were presented
in the court in high security and
media was not allowed to enter
the court premises during the
case proceedings.
The JuD is the front organisa-
tion for the Lashkar-e-Taiba,
whichisresponsibleforcarrying
out the 2008 Mumbai attacks
that killed 166 people. The US
named Saeed as a Specially
Designated Global Terrorist, and
the US, since 2012, has offered a
$10-million reward for informa-
tion that brings Saeed to justice.
He was listed as a terrorist
under the UN Security Council
Resolution 1267 in December
2008. PTI
impact agency that has opposed
the expressway’s construction,
said in a statement.
But, he added, “we have to
ensure nature and our lived en-
vironmentscoexistandcomple-
ment infrastructure develop-
ment at all levels.”
Wanjira Mathai, whose
mother was the environmental-
ist and Nobel Peace Prize laure-
ateWangariMaathai,welcomed
the decision to save the tree.
“With what we now know
about the role of green spaces
and trees in keeping cities liv-
able, we should work to ensure
that Nairobi’s development is
greenandinclusive,”Ms.Mathai,
chairwoman of the Wangari
Maathai Foundation, said in an
interview.
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HC directs NIA, Taloja jail to arrange video Never used, sold drugs: Rampal’s partner tells NCB
Mumbai: Actor Arjun dayonThursdayaspartof Thursday, denied having
consultation of Varavara by Nanavati docs Rampal's partner and its probe into the alleged ever used or sold drugs,
model Gabriella drug use in Bollywood. said an NCB officer.
Mumbai: The Bombay “In the event, if doctors Rao's wife Pendyala Demetriades appeared Gabriella, who was Rampal has been issued
High Court on Thursday di- are of view that assess- Hemalatha, seeking his re- beforeNCBinMumbaifor questioned for over six summons to appear be-
rected NIA and Taloja jail ment is not possible on lease from Taloja jail. The the second consecutive hours on Wednesday and fore NCB Friday. ENS
authorities to permit the video call, it is open to doc- plea raised grievances that
medical examination of tors to visit Taloja jail at prison authorities are not
Telugu poet-writer their earliest convenience. providing him appropriate
Varavara Rao, an accused The report shall be submit- medical attention since
in the Elgaar Parishad case, ted by November 16," the 2018. Bihar State University Service Commission
through video on Thursday High Court said. On October 29, the 8th Floor, Bihar School Examination Board, Academic Building, Buddha Marg, Patna-01
or latest by Friday, prefer- A vacation bench of Supreme Court asked the Important Notice Regarding Regular Appointment
ably by doctors at Nanavati Justice A K Menon and HC to decide the plea in an on the post of Assistant Professor.
Hospital who have treated Justice S P Tavade was expedited manner.
him earlier. hearing a writ plea by ENS CORRIGENDUM
GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI In the advertisement for regular appointment on the post of Assistant Professor in different
Court DIRECTORATE OF GURDWARA ELECTIONS
universities of Bihar, published on the Web portal of the commission on 21-09-2020 and in
different Hindi Newspapers [PR. No. 07385 (Education) 2020-2021] and in English Newspapers [PR.

dismisses F BLOCK, VIKAS BHAWAN, IP ESTATE,

No. 07390 (Education) 2020-21], published on 23-09-2020, the last date for receipt of application
on Commission's Web portal is fixed 02-11-2020 upto 5:00 PM, which is extended upto
NEW DELHI - 110002. 02.12.2020, 5:00 PM. Furthermore, the last date for receipt of downloaded hard copy of Online
Religare PUBLIC NOTICE
application along with photocopies of all the required Documents/Certificate/Degree, duly self-
attested, in the Commission's office, only by Registered/Speed Post, is extended upto 24.12.2020,
ex-chief’s CORRIGENDUM
5:00 PM. In the detailed advertisement for the Post of Assistant Professor, in Para 8.3.9 Schedule-2
(Form-1) may be read as Schedule-1(Form-1).

bail plea In partial modification of this office ‘Public Notice’ dated Secretary
Bihar State University Service Commission,
21.10.2020 published in the leading Dailies of the area, PR. No. 008320 (Education) 2020-21 Patna
NewDelhi:ADelhi the Location of Zonal office of Ward-6 (Shakti Nagar)
court Thursday falling under Zone-4 (Shakti Nagar) may be read as
dismissed the bail “Gurudwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha (Regd.), Malka Ganj,
application of for-
Delhi-110007 instead of ‘Gurudwara Guru Nanak
mer CEO of
Religare Satsang Sabha, Basti Pujabian, Opp. Community
Enterprises Ltd Centre, Subji Mandi, Delhi-07’. Rest of the contents
(REL) Maninder from Public Notice dated 21.10.2020 shall remain
Singh in a case re- same.
lated to alleged si- Sd/-
phoning of DIP/Shabdarth/0425/20-21 (NARINDER SINGH)
moneytothetune DIRECTOR (GURUDWARA ELECTIONS)
of Rs 2,397 crore.
AdditionalSes-
sions Judge Sand-
eepYadavdismiss-
ed Singh’s plea
considering the
severity and seri-
ousness of the
crime allegedly
committedbyhim.
“Considering
the overwhelm-
ing evidence
available on
record... and
severity...of crime,
applicant/accused
is not entitled to
bail,” the court
said in its order.
It said an in-
vestigation has al-
legedly revealed
that Singh turned
a blind eye to cor-
porate loan books
and kept on si-
phoning money
to the promoter's
companies. ENS
Regional office, Mauryalok Complex, Patna-1
GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL POSSESSION NOTICE [UNDeR RUle 8 (1) oF SeCURiTy iNTeReST (eNFoRCeMeNT) RUleS, 2002]
Notice is hereby given under the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of (Security) Interest Act. 2002 (54 of
CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHI 2002), and in exercise of the power conferred under sub-section (12) of section 13 read with [rule 3] of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rule
2002. The Authorized Officer issued a Demand Notice on the dates noted against account as mentioned herein after, calling them to repay the
amount within 60 days from the date of receipt of the said Notice. The borrower/guarantor having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE to the under noted borrower/guarantor and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the property described herein below
in exercise of powers conferred on him under Sec. 13(4) of Section 13 of Act read with Rule 8 of the said Rules on the date mentioned against

GLNS Complex, Delhi Gate,

account. The borrower/guarantor in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal with the property and any dealing with the
property will be subject to the charge of Central Bank of India for the amount and interest thereon mentioned against account herein below.
The borrower's attention is invited to provisions of sub-section (8) of section (13) of the Act, in respect of time available to redeem the

New Delhi-110002
secured assets.
Name Name of the Name of the owner & Description of Date of Date of Amount Amount
of the Accounts/ the property mortgaged Demand Possession outstanding outstanding
Branch Borrowers Notice Notice as on date as on date of
Inviting applications/nominations for State Award for Exceptional Affixed of Demand Possession
Notice Notice
Achieves among Persons with Disabilities for being honored on Masaurhi Borrower: Mr. Vinay Name of the Mortgagor: Mrs. Kumari Panna 17.02.2020 09.11.2020 `10,57,795/- `10,57,795/-
Kumar Sinha S/o Sinha W/o Madheshwar Sinha, Address of (Rupees Ten (Rupees Ten
International Day for Persons with Disabilities on Madheshwar Sinha, the Mortgagors: Vill-Bajitpur, Post-Okari, Dist- lac fifty seven lac fifty seven
Co-Borrower/ Jahanabad. Full particulars of Property: Sale thousand seven thousand
3rd December, 2020 Mortgagor: Mrs. Kumari Deed No.3480 dated 12.08.1994, Area-15 Dhur,
Panna Sinha W/o Mr. Location: Mauza-Masaurhi, Thana-Masaurhi,
hundred ninety seven
five only) with hundred
The Department of Social Welfare, GNCT of Delhi invites Madheshwar Sinha,
Guarantors: (1) Mr.
Dist.-Patna, Property details: Thana No.-144,
Tauzi No.493/6352, Khata No.7/141, Khesara
future Interest
and incidental
ninety five
only) and
Madheshwar Sinha S/o No.932/933, Boundary: North-Jay Prasad, charges and interest
applications/nominations for exceptional achieves among persons Late Chowa Singh South-4' Rasta Badhu Nanhki Devi, East-Nanhki cost w.e.f thereon.
(2) Mr. Surendra Kumar Devi, West-Dayanand Prasad. 17.02.2020
with disabilities being residents of Delhi for honouring them on S/o Bisundev Prasad
Birla Borrower: Mr. Name of the Mortgagor: Mr. Ranbir Kumar S/o 17.02.2020 07.11.2020 `12,54,263/- `12,54,263/-
International Day for Persons with Disabilities on 3rd December, Mandir Ranbir Kumar S/o
Raghunandan Prasad
Raghunandan Prasad Alias Late Raghunandan
Prasad Sinha, Address of the Mortgagors:
(Rupees (Rupees
Twelve lac fifty Twelve lac
2020. The categories under which the awards would be given are as Munna Chak, Kankarbagh, Patna-800020. Full
particulars of Property: Land and Building, Sale
four thousand fifty four
two hundred thousand two
mentioned below: Deed No.10166 dated 20.09.2004, Area-5 Dhur,
Location: Mauza-Sadikpur Yogi, Moh-Munna
sixty three
only) with
hundred sixty
three only)
Chak, Thana-Patrakar Nagar, Dist.-Patna, Property future Interest and interest
(a) Best Employee/Self Employed/Entrepreneur (One details: Thana No.-9, Khata No.343, Ward No.32,
Khesara Survey Plot No.339(P), Boundary: North-
and incidental
charges and
thereon.

male/female) Shri Naumi Ram, South-Shri Sita Ram Tiwari, East-

Rasta Badhu Shri Sitaram, West-Shri Mahavir Ram.
cost w.e.f
17.02.2020
Rajbanshi Borrower: 1. Mr. Amit Land and Building, Equitable Mortgage of following 04.02.2020 10.11.2020 `10,39,907/- `10,39,907/-
(b) Best Sports Person (One male/female) Nagar Keshri S/o Late Gopal property: Deed No.1444 dated 14.02.2003, (Rupees Ten (Rupees Ten
Keshri and 2. Smt. Baby Area-10 Dhur or 680.50 sq.ft. Indluding house lac thirty nine lac thirty nine
(c) Best Creative Person in the field of dance, drama, music, Devi W/o Late Gopal building with all improvements thereon, Location:
Keshri, both are residing Mauza-Muharampur, Mohalla-Salimpur Ahara,
thousand nine thousand
hundred seven nine hundred

painting and writing (One male/female) at Keshri Nandan P.S.-Gandhi Maidan, Dist.-Patna, Registration
Bhawan, Gali No.02/03, Dist.-Patna, Property details: Thana No.-137,
only) and
Interest, cost
seven only)
and interest
Mohalla-Salimpur Ahra, Municipal Survey Plot No.1114, Ward No.2/10 and charges thereon.
(d) Best Individual working in the field of social work Initiative P.O-Kadamkuan, P.S- Old 18 New, Circle No.9, Sheet No.45, Boundary:
Gandhi Maidan, Patna- North-Nimbu Lal Rajak, South-Vijendra Paswan,
thereon w.e.f
04.02.2020
(One male/female) 800003,
Guarantors: Mr.
East-Ramnandan Singh, West-Gali. The property
belongs to borrower Smt. Baby Devi W/o Late
Pramod Kumar S/o Gopal Keshri residing at Keshri Nandan Bhawan,
Application/nomination format for each of the above mentioned Shri Bishwanath Sao,
residing at Mohalla-
Gali No.02/03, Mohalla-Salimpur Ahra, P.O-
Kadamkuan, P.S-Gandhi Maidan, Patna- 800003.
categories can be downloaded from the department website i.e. Salimpur Ahra, Near
Rajkiya Madhya Vidyalay

www.socialwelfare.delhigovt.nic.in Patna-800003
T.P.S. Borrower: Mr. Uday Name of the Mortgagor: Mr. Uday Prakash S/o 18.06.2019 11.11.2020 `5,21,820.00 & `5,21,820.00
College Prakash S/o Late Aditya Late Aditya Narayan & Smt. Sumitra Devi W/o & `3,94,221.89, &
Individuals who had received any of the above mentioned State Narayan, Mrs. Sumitra Mr. Uday Prakash, Address of the Mortgagors: 16.01.2020
Devi W/o Mr. Uday Road No.1F, Ashok Nagar, In front of Chandwati
Total
`9,16,041.89
`3,94,221.89,
Total
Awards in the past years are not eligible to apply. Prakash & M/s Jai Maa Mukhlal Balajee Complex, Kankarbagh, Patna-20.
Kali Furniture House Full particulars of Property: Sale Deed No.23657
(Rupees Nine `9,16,041.89
lac sixteen (Rupees Nine
Prop: Mr. Uday Prakash dated 21.09.2013, Area 10 Dhur, 1.5625 Decimal thousand lac sixteen
The individual may apply on his own or may be nominated by an (680.625 Sq.Ft). Thana No.07, Thana Code-
330, Ward No.-22, Tauzi No.205, Khata No.-12,
forty one and thousand
paise eighty forty one and
eminent person working in the field of welfare of persons with Survey Plot-Khesra No.119, Location of the
Property: Mauza-Navratnpur, Thana-Kankarbagh,
nine only) with paise eighty
future Interest nine only)
disabilities. Complete application/Nomination should be submitted to District-Patna. Boundary: North-Sahayak Rasta,
South-Sri Indradev Sahay, East-Sahayak Rasta,
and incidental and interest
charges and thereon.

the concerned District Social Welfare Officer (DSWO) by 25/11/2020 West-Mosmat Vachan Devi W/o Late Rameshwar
Prasad Rao.
cost w.e.f
18.06.2019 &
16.01.2020
by 5:00 PM. List of addresses of concerned District Social Welfare Moradpur Borrower: Mr. Ravi Name of the Mortgagor: Mrs. Tara Devi, Address 20.04.2017 11.11.2020 `24,17,194/- `24,17,194/-
Ranjan Kumar of the Mortgagors: Vill-Sirpatpur (Sampatchak), (Rupees (Rupees
Officer (DSWO) can be seen on the departmental website. Co-Borrower: Mrs. Tara P.O.-Bairiya, Gopalpur, Patna. Full particulars of
Devi W/o Shri Shyam Property: Deed No.-2224, Area-1 Katha, Mauza-
Twenty four Twenty four
lac seventeen lac seventeen
Applications/Nominations will not be accepted after the due date. Dev Ray and
Guarantor: Mr. Pawan
Sona Gopalpur, Distt.-Patna, Thana-Gopalpur,
Khata No.292, Plot No.-1415, 1416 & 1417.
thousand one thousand
hundred ninety one hundred
Incomplete application/nomination would be summarily rejected. Kumar Boundary: North-Niz Lekhari Smt. Anju Devi,
South-Niz Lekhari, East-Purchaser Digar, West-4
four only) with
future Interest
ninety four
only) and
fit Wide Rasta. and incidental interest
Director charges and
cost w.e.f
thereon.

DIP/Shabdarth/0426/20-21 Social Welfare Department Date : 12.11.2020

20.04.2017
Authorised officer
Place : Patna CeNTRAl BANK oF iNDiA

New Delhi
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THE EDITORIAL PAGE

WORDLY WISE
The less you are, the more you have.
— KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS

FOUNDED BY Healer-in-Chief
§

§
RAMNATH GOENKA
JoeBideninheritsadividednation,government, party.
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
Economy,foreignrelations alsoneedimmediatehealing

THE THIRD PACKAGE Bhaskar Chakravorti

FM’s announcements focus on job creation, easing credit flow, JOE BIDEN, THE US president-elect inherits a wing.VP-elect,KamalaHarris—whohasbeen economy to signal to the public that the re-
soberingreality:Anincompetent,megaloma- somewhat of a Chameleon Harris with her sponse strategy balances concerns for both
but actual spending remains limited. More support is needed niacal,corrupt,racist,misogynist,unprincipled abilitytoadoptbothprogressiveandmoderate lives and livelihoods.

O
andpathologicalliarisstillfavouredby71mil-
N THURSDAY, FINANCE Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled the third in- lion Americans. Another way of interpreting
stalment of the Atmanirbhar Bharat package aimed at addressing the eco- theUSelectionsisthatyoucanputupafolksy,
nomic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The measures follow a multi- grandfatherly,whiteguy—a“healer-in-chief”
pronged approach, aimed at generating employment and encouraging —againsttheaforementionedunmentionable
formalisationoftheworkforceinurbanareas,expandingthescopeofdistressemployment and you still end up with a nail-biter. Here is a
thirdtake:2,30,000Americanlivesand1.2mil-
providedinruralareas,easingtheflowofcredittostressedpartsoftheeconomy,expanding
lion worldwide had to be sacrificed to shove
the incentives offered to boost domestic manufacturing, and kickstarting the real estate cy- DonaldTrumpoutofoffice;withamarginthis
cle,amongothers.TheministryhaspeggedthetotalfiscaloutgoduetothesemeasuresatRs close, it is hard to see how Trump wouldn’t
2.65 lakh crore, though the actual and immediate outgo is likely to be only a fraction of this havecomeroaringbackwithoutCOVIDanda
amount. collapsed economy. To make matters worse,
Thefocusoftheannouncementsthistimehasbeenonincentivisingjobcreation.Providing Trump refuses to be shoved out.
Nonetheless,awinisawin.Boston,where
incentivestoEPFO-registeredfirmstohiremoreemployeescouldleadtojobcreationandfor-
Ilive,isaDemocraticstrongholdandthistime
malisationoftheexistinginformalworkforceinurbanareas.Inruralareas,giventhatdemand of the year, the trees are on fire with autumn
for work under MGNREGA continues to remain well above last year, and what is being pro- colours. The streets around Boston Common
vided so far, the additional allocation of Rs 10,000 crore to the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan were on fire on November 7 with young peo-
RozgarYojanaiswelcome,thoughitmayhavetobeaugmentedfurther.Similarly,thefocus pleofallcoloursdancing,chantingandclimb-
on the real estate sector, one of the biggest non-farm avenues of employment, is also a step ing streetlights. But Boston isn’t America. Joe
Biden will need healing superpowers to get
in the right direction. The steps announced could help stressed developers liquidate inven-
throughhisfirsthundreddays.Herearesome
tory,andgiventhesector’sstrongbackwardlinkages,couldhelpkick-startbroadereconomic wounds in need of urgent care and what the
activity. Similarly, expanding the production-linked incentive scheme to cover 10 sectors healer-in-chief might do.
could,overtime,helpcreateanefficientdomesticmanufacturingecosystem,thoughitssuc- Biden will have to stick a band-aid across
cess depends on how creatively the scheme is designed. Extending the Emergency Credit thedividedgovernmentthatreflectsadivided
nation. If the Senate remains in Republican
LineGuaranteeSchemetillMarchisagoodstep,asistheinclusionof26stressedsectors(in-
cluding health) identified by the Kamath committee — though ensuring credit off-take of hands,itwilldoeverythingtounderminehim.
Gettinganythingdonewillrequirehorse-trad-
previouslyannouncedschemesamongstthepoorestsectionsmustbeapriority.Considering
ing, manipulation and shoulder-massaging.
that central government capital expenditure in the first six months of the year was actually Having spent 36 years in the Senate, Biden is
lower than last year, to what extent the proposed increase in spending is absorbed this year ideallycastforthisrole.Italsohelpsthathehas
is debatable. gotthatshoulder-massagingthingdowntoan
Thefinanceministry’sviewof thestateof theeconomysuggeststhatitbelievesastrong art form. Okay, he may not be doing much of
anddurablerecoveryistakinghold.Thisispartlyinlinewiththeresultsofastudycarriedout that anymore, but Biden’s past is an asset. He
shouldconsidernamingaRepublicanortwoto
by economists at the RBI, who now expect the economy to contract at a slower pace in the
his cabinet to win some bipartisan love.
second quarter than what was expected before. Yet whether the better than expected per- Biden’s band-aids will be needed within
formanceof theeconomyinrecentmonthsissustainedbeyondthefestivalseasonremains his own fractured coalition. The progressive
to be seen. The RBI study mentions several risks to growth, principal among them a second wingoftheDemocraticparty,particularlythe
younger activists, led by the electrifying
globalCOVID-19wavewhichcouldimpactglobalgrowth,and,asaconsequence,India’sex-
ports, and the intensifying stress amongst households and corporates in India. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have held their
noseswhileBidengetspastElectionDay.They
don’tseeeye-to-eyewithhiscentristpolicies.
Giventhecloseelection,itislikelythatthepro-
WHAT NITISH NEEDS gressives will have less clout, but it will be a
mistake to sideline the party’s high-energy
As far as India goes, it is
clear that walking arm-in-
arm with Modi in packed
stadiums will not be on the
cards, for now. Given her ties
to India, Kamala Harris will
wield influence. She will
charm India, but may be less
charmed by Modi policies,
particularly regarding
Kashmir; so, expect some
blunt Kamalaspeak leavened
with genuine affection for
her mother’s homeland. That
said, this is an
administration likely to take
a geopolitically aware and
strategic view of its India
relationship.
positions — could help in bridging the two
sides. More substantially, Biden should name
a cabinet modeled on the “Biden-Sanders
unitytaskforces”setupearlierthisyeartoco-
alesce on a progressive-centrist compromise
platform.
Biden’shealingwillbeindemandafterthe
summerofprotestsoverthewretchedstateof
racial justice in America. The black vote may
have been critical in putting him over the top
in the battleground states and black America
will be eager for tangible action and payback.
Sadly, racism is systemic and Joe Biden is not
the man to overturn a system. Having a
woman of colour as VP is his boldest play, but
he must go further. Kamala Harris’s presence
on the stage and the lingering shadow of
Biden’s former boss, the first black president,
willonlyheightentheexpectations.Influential
black leaders, such as Stacey Abrams, who
workedtirelesslyforthevoteintheRepublican
strongholdof Georgia,oughttobeelevatedto
key roles.
Bidenwillhavetohealabatteredeconomy.
A potential solution will involve boosting ag-
gregate demand, which means reaching for
that bitter pill of tax-and-spend, dreaded by
politicians.Here,thedividedgovernmentwill
stand in the way. Biden must cajole Senate
Republicans to come along and permit fiscal
spending; otherwise, we can expect to see
morefinancialinstabilityinUSandglobalmar-
kets. He must also develop a coherent stance
on Big Tech, but will need to be schooled in
technologyissuesfirst;sofar,Bidenhasshown
onlysuperficialinterestinthissector,keytoUS
competitiveness.
Biden’smostimmediatehealingactwould
betofixAmerica’sshoddyresponsetothepan-
demic. He has appointed a task force, but the
devillurksinthedetails.In2021,thelogisticsof
vaccinationwillbringfreshchallenges.Biden’s
designated medical experts must engage not
just with details, logic and data, but with em-
pathyandwinoverascepticalandpandemic-
fatigued citizenry. It would even help if they
appearedonstagealongsidetheexpertsonthe
On foreign policy, Biden will, no doubt,
send out curative smoke signals. A commit-
ted committee-man, he’ll abandon the
“America First” stance and will let the world
know that America is back on committee
projects,fromthe Parisclimateaccordor the
World Health Organisation to coalitions
against adversaries. But such messaging will
eventuallyneedrealfollow-up.Forexample,
Biden must start cajoling Republican sena-
torstofundalternativeenergyprojectstode-
liver on the Paris accord. With adversaries,
Bidenhasbeenblunt(OnPutin:“Iamlooking
into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a
soul.” On Xi: “This is a guy, who is a thug.”).
As a potential one-term president, I think —
and fear — he will be speaking his mind of-
ten. The Biden team had better get the
teleprompters geared up to balance scripted
messaging with plain Bidenspeak to
America’s strategic advantage.
As far as India goes, it is clear that walking
arm-in-arm with Modi in packed stadiums
willnotbeonthecards,fornow.Givenherties
to India, Kamala Harris will wield influence.
ShewillcharmIndia,butmaybelesscharmed
by Modi policies, particularly regarding
Kashmir;so,expectsomebluntKamalaspeak
leavened with genuine affection for her
mother’s homeland. That said, this is an ad-
ministration likely to take a geopolitically
aware and strategic view of its India relation-
ship.
ThesearenotjustAmericanconcerns,they
mattertotheworld,becauseAmericastillmat-
ters.Whileweexhaletoday,planonsomedeep
breaths in the months ahead. If Biden-Harris
runthegauntletofthefirsthundreddayssuc-
cessfully, we can all breathe a bit more easily
and begin a process of genuine healing from
the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and Donald
Trump.
The writer is Dean of Global Business at The
Fletcher School at Tufts University, and
founding executive director of Fletcher’s
Institute for Business in the Global Context

He scraped through, voices against him cannot be unheard —

he has to refresh to do justice to his mandate

W THE NEXT ECONOMY

RAPPED IN THE NDA victory in Bihar is a sobering message for Nitish
Kumar.Thechiefministerisreturningforafourthterm—onthiscount,
PrimeMinisterNarendraModi’svictoryspeechattheBJPheadquarters
inDelhionThursdaysoughttosetthespeculationthathasbesettheal-
liancethroughoutthecampaigntorest.YetthereisnopaperingoverthefactthattheNDA’s India can become self-reliant and competitive if it cashes in on demographic dividend
winwaspoweredbytheBJP’ssurgeanditcannotmasktheJD(U)’sdecline.Throughoutthis
election,voicesofpeople’sdiscontentwiththeNitishregimemadethemselvesheard.Those
voicescannotbeunheard,thenewgovernmentcannotturnawayfromthequestioning.Both
Pravakar Sahoo
the letter and spirit of the verdict — the JD(U) has shrunk to 43 seats in the House of 243,
THE PRIME Minister pledged to make a self- butalsoincome,employmentanddemand. domestic market and factor endowments.
making it the junior partner in the NDAand only the third largest party in the state after the reliant India or Atmanirbhar Bharat in May Atmanirbhar Bharat depends on improv- However, we need to create a competitive
RJDandBJP—demandthat,acrossarangeof issues,therecannotbebusinessasusual.Inhis whileannouncingacomprehensiveeconomic ing the income and productivity of a majority labour-intensivemanufacturingsectorwhich
fourth term as chief minister, Nitish Kumar must pause, and listen. package to arrest the economic slowdown. of the labour force. There are two ways to do will cater to both domestic demand and the
All too often, anti-incumbency is portrayed as a law of nature or a statistical fell blow. It Since then, the government has passed some this.First,incentivisethefarmingcommunity export market.
is,however,madeof realvotergrievances,andpeople’sconcerns.InBihar,itincludes,inthe key labour and farm reforms, among others. toshiftfromgrain-basedfarmingtocashcrops, We need Indian firms to be part of the
immediateterm,angeragainstthegovernment’shandlingof thepandemicandthereturn- ButmuchmoreisrequiredtomakeIndiaaself- horticulture and livestock products. The globalvaluechainbyattractingmultinational
reliant and competitive economy in the Atmanirbhar Bharat Chineseexperienceshowsthatreformsinagri- enterprisesandforeigninvestorsinlabour-in-
ing migrants, who were often forced to walk long distances home. The public health emer-
medium to long term. culture in the late 1970s increased rural in- tensive manufacturing, which will facilitate
gency has also served to frame the state’s chronic unemployment problem in stark ways, Theseveredisruptionstothesupplychain
depends upon improving the come,leadingtodemandforlabour-intensive R&D, branding, exports, etc. There is a need to
highlighting,intheprocess,thefailuresofthegovernmentonjobcreation,andmorebroadly, duetonationalandlocalisedlockdownsledto income and productivity of industrialgoods,whichwasthestartofChina’s aggressivelyreducebothtariffsandnon-tariff
theshortcomingsofadevelopmentmodelthatdoesnotfocusenoughoncreatingeconomic supplysideanddemandsideshrinkingby22.9 the majority of the labour manufacturing success. Second, shift the barriers on imports of inputs and intermedi-
opportunities for citizens. There was loud grumbling on the ground, also, about the declin- per cent and 23.9 per cent respectively in Q1, force. There are two ways to labour force from agriculture to manufactur- ate products so that we create a competitive
2020-21. It is estimated that India’s GDP will ing.Indiacanonlybecomeself-reliantifituses manufacturing sector for Make in India, and
ingqualityofeducation,corruptioninthelowerlevelsofgovernment,andexcessivebureau-
shrinkintherangeof 7to10percent,andwill
do it. First, incentivising its best endowment — 900 million people in “AssemblyinIndia”.Apartfromtradereforms,
cratisation. A prohibition policy that has assured “home delivery” for the rich and spurious farming community to shift
possiblyreachthe2019-20outputlevelbythe the working-age population with an average further factor market reforms are required,
alcohol for the poor has become the emblem of a state authority that is being undermined end of FY 2021. The developmental implica- from grain-based farming to ageof 27—andappropriatesitsdemographic suchasrationalisingpunitivelandacquisition
all over again — remember, one of Nitish’s great successes, in his first term, was the visible tions on poverty, inequality and standard of dividendasChinadid.Thatispossibleiflabour- clauses and rationalising labour laws, both at
cash crops, horticulture and
restoring of the rule of law. living are humongous. intensive manufacturing takes place in a big the Centre and state level. Passing the three
The bigger medium-term problem is the livestock products which are way, creating employment opportunities for labour codes is a welcome step but we also
Nitish3.0isseenasagovernmentthat,havingpluckedthelowhangingfruitingovernance,
hasrunoutofboththepoliticalwillandimaginationtotaketheturnaroundstoryitinitiated slowdown of aggregate demand — private fi- in demand in urban India. labour force with low or little skills, generat- have to go for large-scale vocational training
into the next phase. In the next five years, the Nitish Kumar government will need to find
nal consumption expenditure (PFCE), invest- The Chinese experience ing income and demand. India is in a unique fromthesecondary-schoollevel,likeChinaand
ment and exports. The largest component of shows that reforms in positionatatimewhenallothermanufactur- other east and south-east Asian countries.
waysofincreasingstatecapacityandexpandingthemarkettodispelthatimpressioninBihar. GDP, PFCE, has not only declined as a share of inggiantsareageingsequentially—Japan,EU, Though measures have been taken to boost
GDP—68percentin1990to56percentofGDP agriculture in the late 1970s theUS,andevenSouthKoreaandChina.Most thebusinessclimateatthecentrallevel,doing
in2019—butalsointermsofgrowthratesinre- increased rural income, ofthesecountrieshavemovedoutoflow-end businessontheground,atthestatelevel,isstill

THE LEISURE THEORY

cent years. The consumption of the top socio-
economic deciles has stagnated and the con-
sumption demand of the rest of the
demography --- mostly in agriculture, small-
Why Shenzhen can serve as an example in the era scale manufacturing and self-employed -- is
notincreasingduetolowincomegrowth.The
of work-from-home investmentslowdownismostlyduetoafallin
leading to demand for labour-intensive manufacturing, and that
space is being taken by countries like
labour-intensive industrial
Bangladesh, Vietnam, Mexico, etc.
goods, which was the Chinaisnotthemostfavoureddestination
starting of China’s anymore for labour-intensive manufacturing
manufacturing success. duetoariseinwages,strictenvironmentalreg-
ulationsandanincreaseinthecostofproduc-
Second, shifting labour force
difficult.
The COVID-triggered economic crisis
shouldleadustocreateadevelopmentmodel
thatleadstoopportunitiesforthepeopleatthe
bottom of the pyramid. A competitive and
open economy can ensure Atmanirbhar
Bharat.

I
householdinvestmentintheconstructionsec- tionalongwiththeuncertaintiesduetoChina’s
N COMMUNIST SOCIETY,” wrote Karl Marx, “it is possible for me to do one thing today tor(almost5percentofGDP),affectingnotonly from agriculture to the frictionwiththeUSandothercountries.India The writer is professor, Institute of Economic
and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the major industries like steel, cement and power manufacturing sector. offers the best opportunity in terms of a huge Growth, Delhi
evening, criticise after dinner.” In the ostensibly communist society of the People's
RepublicofChina,theutopiaoflabouringforpleasure,wheretasksarecarriedoutpurely
as a matter of taste, has not come to pass. In fact, such has been the hegemony (in the sense
defined by another Marxist, Antonio Gramsci) of state-driven capitalism in China, that citi-
zenshave“voluntarily”beenworkingthemselvestothepointof burningout.So,inorderto NOVEMBER 13, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO
ensure the continued generation of surplus value, the party-state has stepped in.
InShenzheninsouthernChina—basicallythecountry’sSiliconValley—ithasbeenmade NIC ON ASSAM tion which, she said, was not a mere phrase office-bearer in Kerala, reportedly under ar-
mandatory for workers to taketheir earned leave.Those with “aheavy mental and physical THE CONSENSUS AT the meeting of the but “an awareness of the burden and task rest. The Kerala CM said the ABVP workers
workloadcanavoidexcessiveburnout”bymakingsuretheygetsomeR&R.IntheChinesetech National Integration Council (NIC) was that that history has placed on our shoulders”. had a written assurance from him that their
the Assam talks should be resumed at the The NIC decided to set up a standing com- worker in Kerala would be released imme-
sectorinparticular,working72-80hoursaweekisthenorm,andacultureof (oftenself-im-
earliest and that the venue should not be mittee to keep a “constant watch” on the ac- diately.
posed) over-work has become embedded. The policy of compulsory paid leave will “serve made an issue. The meeting, inaugurated by tivitiesof communalandotherdivisiveforces
as an example” to the rest of the country, according to Shenzhen city officials. the Prime Minister, continued till late in the posing a threat to the country’s unity. VOYAGER TO SATURN
Itismorethanlikelythatself-interestandtheprofitmotive,notMarxistprinciples,arethe evening with many speakers expressing di- VOYAGER 1, EXTENDING man's eyes over
causeofthisenforcedbenevolenceinChina’stechcapital—ITworkersandprogrammersare ametrically opposite views on important is- KERALA CM GHERAO nearly two billion kilometres of space, offi-
a valuable asset and need to be protected. But Shenzhen can indeed “serve as an example” sues like presidential form of government, KERALA CHIEF MINISTER E K Nayanar was cially entered the exotic realm of Saturn as it
in the era of work-from-home. For many around the world, the home is office, the office re-writing of history and, of course,commu- gheraoed in his room in Kerala Hourse in pierced the boundary of the golden giant's
nalism and communal organisations. New Delhi by workers of the Akhil Bharatiya magnetic field. The ship has already de-
home,andeachcarriesthefaultsoftheother.Andthe“mentalworkload”duringthepandemic
However, the trend of the speeches was set Vidyarthu Parishad. ABVP workers, who lighted scientists with new mysteries about
hascertainlyincreased.Perhaps,alittleenforcedpaidleave,howeverun-Marxianinitsmo- by the Prime Minister who made an ardent were over30innumber,lockedNayanarand the planet's rings and 15 known moons.
tivations, isn’t a bad idea. Hunting and fishing for leisure is unlikely either in Shenzhen or appeal for the involvement of everyone in his cabinet colleague, P C Chacko in his room Voyager is battered but healthy after travel-
Siliguri — but there’s always Netflix. the task of bringing about national integra- to press their demand for release of an ABVP lingfor38monthsandover1.24billionmiles.

New Delhi

15 THE IDEAS PAGE
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020
A year of being afraid
The pandemic has accentuated a profusion of shadowy, indeterminate fears, which keep us in check,
produce an obedient citizenry
Manas Ray
THROUGHMYBOYHOODdaysandevenlater,
my mother made life miserable for me. She
had a long list of possible, mostly intangible,
sourcesofdangerforhersonandneverlacked
the energy to warn against those till she was
no more and I was past 50. If she ever found
mereadingabooklyingdown,shewouldbe-
gin:“Boikholaraikhaghumaitenai,bhuteaisha
poira loibo (Don’t sleep with your book open,
ghosts will come and read it)”. When did the
ghostsbecomesuchavidknowledge-hunters,
I wondered. But the prospect of a whole bat-
tery of ghosts tromping on the open pages of
my book, Mickey Mouse-style, and having a
merrytimemusthaveprovidedrichfodderfor
my dreams that night.
AsIgrewup,schooltextbooksassuredme
that science explains irrational fears, exposes
their groundlessness and thus puts them to
rest.Alas,themoreIenteredintoadultlife,the
more I seemed to notice a strange bonhomie
between the mushrooming of fears and a sci-
entificworldviewthatanaverageeducatedcit-
izen is expected to have. Of late, with the ar-
rivalofthecoronaviruspandemic,whatweare
experiencing is nothing short of a festival of
fears — indeterminate, omnipresent fears,
threateningfromeverycorner,beggingexpla-
nations which are coming in plenty but of
whichnooneseemstobesure.“Fearisapoor
advisor” says the Italian philosopher Giorgio
Agamben, “but it causes many things to ap-
pear that one pretended not to see.”
The outpouring of instructions increases
anxietyandanelongationoftheriskspectrum,
causing a generic form of insecurity. The indi-
vidual is thus placed in a loop of self-referen-
tiality,wheretheonlylogicalthingtodoistofo-
cusonone’sownsecurity.Wearecaughtinthe
thickets of our fears. Fears reside no farther
than our minds, where they take as many
formsandcoloursonecanimagine.Fearwith-
out a specific object is an all-embracing fear,
taking hold of everything we see and do. We
startfearingthesurfaceof ourbodiesasitsig-
nals our finitude. In a world characterised by
massindividualism,ourbodiesbecomethefi-
nal rampart.
The present crisis finds its own physiog-
nomyindifferentiatingitselffromsimilarmed-
ical crises of the past. Past and present tele-
scope into one another. The result is an
imbroglio that makes fear the master key to
existence. The estimated 50 million people
whoperishedtoinfluenzaepidemicacentury
earlier (1918–1920) and even the countless
wholosttheirlivesinEuropeandNorthAfrica
back in the 14th century to the surge of pesti-
lence come together in a ballet of death and
dying. What counts as real are death and its
numbers, the rest is ephemeral.
Withneoliberalism,humanityhasentered
a“newgovernmentofsocialinsecurity”,when
governanceisamatterofchurningoutfearsof
illusory enemies to create an obedient biopo-
liticalpopulace.Sovereignty’sfunctionincreas-
ingly is not to create order but guide the citi-
zensthroughdisorder.Hence,evenasairtraffic
resumes service haltingly, crowds start gath-
ering at the beaches, markets tentatively re-
open,adeepsenseof futilitydoesnotseemto
leave us. A lurking sense of doom seems to
Arvind Gupta and Biplav Srivastava
THE TERM “state of the art (SOTA)” is often
used to rate performance results in technol-
ogy fields like algorithms and artificial intel-
ligence. It is also an apt term to describe
processes and technology used to perform
activities at unprecedented scale, like hold-
ing the largest election in history in India in
2019, in which over 610 million people from
anearly910millioneligiblevoterpopulation
voted. The Indian festival of democracy re-
peats itself nationally every five years, and is
a great study of people, process and technol-
ogy integrity. When seen in the context of
the ongoing presidential election in the US,
where a 150 million electorate participated
in 50 states with diverse processes and tech-
nologies, and the slow results that are still
being contested, the contrast could not be
more stark. The just concluded Bihar 2020
assembly elections further reinforce the ro-
bustness of the Indian election model.
The 2019 elections in India were not only
large in scale but also fair. Its results were re-
spected by all important stakeholders — the
citizens,winnersandmostlosers,mediaand
the international community.
Elections have many things in common
to artificial intelligence (AI), which seeks to
build intelligent systems and high value
SOTA techniques — for instance, scale, speed
and, above all, trust. There is nothing more
importantthat acountrycan dotosafeguard
its future than to hold fair and free elections
havepermanentlysettledin.Humanity’ssense
of reality in the new geological epoch of the
Anthropoceneisallabouttheprospectsofliv-
inginathoroughlydamagedplanet.Couldthis
be the root cause of the jouissance that took
overwithindaysofliftingthelockdown,astoic
desperation albeit fuelled by consumerism?
The more difficult it becomes to read the fu-
ture, the more blurred seems the past. The
more instantaneous became information,
more synchronised were human emotions,
producing an unprecedented spiritual dread.
Politically speaking, this is the era of
techno-scientificdominationandpropaganda
wherespeedisofpivotalimportance.“Terror,”
says Hannah Arendt, “is the realisation of the
law of movement.” In today’s world, the im-
portofscienceandtechnology,especiallycom-
municationtechnology,hastakenspeedtoan
altogether different stratosphere. Fear attains
a new life in the acceleration of speed.
Acceleration makes reality virtual. If fear was
the master metaphor in the so-called state of
nature, so it is now in the era of hyper-ad-
vanced technologies.
Media creates its own time, one that is
cyclicalandrepetitive.Attacksonthetwintow-
ers in New York on September 11, 2001, and
the bomb attack in London metro on July 7,
2007, came with repeated viewings of the
same images — in the case of World Trade
Centre,thegushingoutofahugepileofsmoke
from the first tower as a plane was about to
smash into the second tower, and in the
Londonattack,amiddle-agedwomanemerg-
ingfromahospital,herheadbandagedandan
arm in sling. The images were repeated so of-
ten that they took allegorical dimensions, al-
legoriesof Westvs.East.Imperialism,aswent
the popular quip during the students’ move-
A vote of confidence
Bihar 2020 poll further reinforces robustness of Indian election model
that are trusted by everyone. Putting money
in defence, health, education and infrastruc-
ture, skills etc. makes a country strong, but
nothing surpasses people trusting their gov-
ernment. Just as technology like AI needs to
be trusted or it will fall short of its potential,
so do governments.
India takes its elections seriously. The
election process in India is governed by uni-
form election laws and the Election
Commission of India (ECI), an autonomous
statutorybody,issingularlytaskedwithcon-
ducting all national and state elections.
During the election period, the ECI wields
enormous power over government machin-
ery and is tasked with ensuring election in-
tegrity. The election process in India is not a
one-time activity. Electoral lists are updated
annually in January with minor updates be-
fore state and national elections, with iden-
tityandcommunitychecks. Proposals to de-
duplicate the voter lists with Aadhaar
identity have been under consideration. The
ECIsetstheelectionprocessinmotionbyan-
nouncing a timetable, with which the model
code of conduct come into force. The code
appliestocandidates,parties,mediaandgov-
ernment. Simultaneously, government offi-
cials are trained and posted as observers and
polling officers. The candidates themselves
assignboothlevelagents(BLA),whocanalso
be trained by the ECI on fair electoral prac-
tices and the checks and balances in the
The present crisis finds its
own physiognomy in
differentiating itself from
similar medical crises of the
past. Past and present
telescope into one another.
The result is an imbroglio
that makes fear the master
key to existence. The
estimated 50 million people
who perished to influenza
epidemic a century earlier
(1918–1920) and even the
countless who lost their lives
in Europe and North Africa
back in the 14th century to
the surge of pestilence come
together in a ballet of death
and dying. What counts as
real are death and its
numbers, the rest is
ephemeral.
system.
Attheendof thecampaigningperiodand
the day before the voting day, each candi-
date’s BLA signs off on the mock election as
well as the final sealed voting kits, including
the Electronic Voting machine (EVM), Voter
Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) ma-
chines and their respective backup ma-
chines. In 2019 elections, India had 1.03 mil-
lion voting booths, with 3.96 million EVMs
and 1.74 million VVPAT machines deployed.
The checks and balances in the process is
suchthatallEVMshaveuniquenumbersand
the list of deployed EVMs per voting booth
is with each candidate as per their con-
stituency.EVMsare sealedandsigned by the
concerned officials as well BLAs, with even
seals having an identifier.
Further, as per best security practices,
EVMs are never in a network of any sort.
There are no Bluetooth or WiFi signals the
machines are connected to. To create trans-
parency, on similar lines as the Netflix mil-
lion-dollar challenge to improve its recom-
mendation algorithm, the ECI, in 2017, also
offered a “white collar” hackathon to im-
prove the technical integrity of EVMs and
suggest any possible backdoors. None of the
high-decibel activists or political parties
could point any issues or suggest improve-
ments to the existing EVM system.
After the election, the equipment is
moved to a secured location and stored un-
WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
‘‘Now it is up to the rest of us to do our part. If this (Pfizer) vaccine becomes
available from the end of the year, as now looks likely, and others soon follow, the
deployment will matter as much as its discovery.’’
C R Sasikumar
ment in the 1970s, does not need any propa-
ganda; its ideology is sealed in bottles of
Coca-Cola.
Inapandemic,megasanitaryandsecurity
fears combined with small personal fears to
create panic across the population.
Medicalisation of fear is not new in modern
history. Plague and syphilis not only created
hugepanicbutalteredmedicalscienceaswell
as urban space planning and how humans
livedtheirlivesinrenaissanceEurope.Closerto
ourtimes,afterSpanishinfluenzaatthebegin-
ning of last century, the mid-1980s was wit-
nessofamajorpanicintheformofAIDS,while
the turn of the millennium focus was on the
birdflu,SARSandEbola.Thecurrentpreoccu-
pationis,of course,COVID-19.Everyaspectof
life seems to have become “a workstation in
the mass production line of fear” (Brian
Massumi).
Consequently,ourdailylivesbecomeacriss-
crossoffearspreventingwhichbecomesanat-
tractivemarketproposition.Intoday’slife,fear
isnofearifitremainsmerelyempiricalandnot
transformedintothevirtual.Asmassmurders
andpolicekillings,gang-rapesandstealthburn-
ingofcorpsesblurintoaseries,everydaytrans-
actions acquire strange forebodings, a queasy
feeling that anything can happen at any mo-
ment.Withourrealityprinciplebecomingsuf-
fusedwithfear,commoditiesbecometheonly
signposts of hope. Modern humanity needs
cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), one and
all. If nothing else, it would at least free those
unfortunate lives caught in the insidious dis-
courseof psychiatry.
The writer is former professor in cultural
studies at the Centre for Studies in Social
Sciences, Kolkata
der tight security until the counting day. On
the counting day, votes are tabulated and
real-time results are announced on the ECI
website,withobserversfromallpartiespres-
ent and cross-certifying the results. The final
results are certified by ECI and presented to
thePresident,whothenfollowstheconstitu-
tional process of inviting the appropriate
party/alliance to form the new government.
The2019nationalelectionsdeployed1.74
million VVPATs and over 1 per cent random
samples around 20,625 EVMs count was
physically matched with VVPAT contained
paper receipts. There wasn’t a single mis-
match. Statistically, this sample was large
enoughtoverifytheconfidenceinEVMsand
removeanydoubts abouttheintegrityof the
Indian electoral system.
Politicians,pollstersmakingbogusclaims
aboutEVMscanstillbeexplainedbythesore
losers’ syndrome. But so-called influencers
and journalists calling for a return to the old
paper-basedelectionslackbasicunderstand-
ing of India’s election system. Perhaps, they
should themselves type their thoughts on a
manual typewriter, cyclostyle 10,000 copies
and mail the same to their followers instead
of tweeting.
Gupta is a technology entrepreneur and
currently heads Digital India Foundation.
Srivastava teaches computer science and is
an AI researcher
The love jihad
spectre
It has now crept into judicial discourse,
to the detriment of a woman’s
freedom and autonomy
Teesta Setalvad
ON OCTOBER 6, 1998, two years and five
months before the Taliban blew up the 6th-
century Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, I
interviewed the then Director-General of
Police, Gujarat, C P Singh, after the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal had
launched a series of vicious attacks on mi-
norities falsely alleging that inter-religious
marriageshadhappenedthroughabduction
and use of force. The DGP told me that the
“allegations of forced inter–religious mar-
riages and conversions are entirely baseless
in most cases”. He also explained that
women often exercised their autonomous
choice to marry and associate of their own
free will. While the DGP was candid and
forthright, in the following years (1998-
2000),thestatepolicesetupaspecialcellto
“investigate”inter-communitymarriages,an
action directly violative of the fundamental
rightsofequality(Article14),righttolifewith
dignity (Article 21) and right to freedom of
faith (Article 25).
On March 2, 2001, the orders of Mullah
Mohammed Omar to demolish the ancient
Bamiyan Buddhas, great symbols of
GandharaartandBuddhistfaithcondemned
bytheTalibangovernmentas“idols”,inaugu-
rated the weaponised use of the term jihad.
Giftedbyproponentsof aviolentandpoliti-
calIslamtoothersupremacistsonpaper,no
amountofexplainingwhatthisArabicterm
jehadreallymeans(amonumentalandmer-
itorious struggle or effort) could thereafter
make a difference.
In Gujarat, the state machinery targeted
couples who broke caste and community
barriers and used the constitutional vision
encompassed in the Special Marriages Act,
1954 to marry and co-habit. Babu Bajrangi,
today convicted as core conspirator in the
cold-blooded and pre-planned massacre at
NarodaPatiyain2002,alsoranatrustcalled
Navchetantrust,whichasperhisownclaims
“saved” 700 girls who had left their homes
to marry outside their community. Many of
these were girls from the Patel community,
who married Hindu boys from other castes.
AreportinFrontlineclaimedthattheorgan-
isation used intimidation and violence to
forciblyendthe marriagesdoneoutside the
community.Policedidnotactivelyintervene
to stop these criminal acts. Bhim Rao
Ambedkarsawininter-castemarriageasig-
nificantsteptoreducecasteprejudice,abol-
ish untouchability and spread the values of
liberty, equality and fraternity in society.
“Love jihad” is now entrenched in the
publiclandscape.Thetermistodaywielded
byanaggressivemajoritarianism,woveninto
adominantcasteHindunarrativeofreligious
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
ALLAY FEARS
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Centre
and state’ (IE, November 12). The RBI’s
assessment of states’ finances reveals
they were already hurting from the
slowing economy. The pandemic and
the lockdowns have made things
worse. Last year, this Finance panel had
tabled an interim report for 2020-21
by saying a five-year forecast is tough
when the economy is slowing down
due to the effects of reforms like de-
monetisation and GST. Its final report
comes at an even more uncertain time.
The Centre can allay States’ fears fur-
ther by tabling the report soon.
Sanjay Chopra, Mohali
TEJASHWI RISES
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘A spark of
hope'(IE, November 11). One of the
bright sides of the Bihar election has
been the emergence of Tejashwi Yadav
as the new hope of change. He led an
effective, issue-based campaign, and
jolted the state out of “nothing changes
in Bihar” complacency. Had the
Congress proved a strong partner, the
state would have perhaps witnessed a
renaissance.
R D Singh, Ambala
MALATI’S SORROW
THIS REFERS TO the article, 'A digital
sisterhood' (IE, November 12). Reading
the article, I recalled Roj by renowned
Hindi writer S H Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya',
where protagonist Malati's loneliness
showed the link between women and
loneliness through the ages. With a
mundane life, people even now live as
New Delhi
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extremism, Islamophobia, and communal
hatred that has crept into Indian courtroom
discourse as well. We have had cases com-
ing out of Kerala (Sahan Sha A vs State of
Kerala, 2009) that referred to the “function-
ing of radical organisations pursuing activi-
ties of converting young girls of Hindu reli-
gion to Islam on the pretext of love”. More
recently,therewasthecaseinvolvingHadiya
alias Akhila, who converted to Islam and
married Shafeen Jahan against her family’s
wishes. In many of these cases, we see a
woman’s independence, her choices, her
freedomsbeingpittedagainstfamilyorcom-
munity honour.
A recent Allahabad High Court order
(Pooja@ZoyavsStateofUttarPradeshandOrs,
October8)hasonceagainsparkedafuse.The
order is brief and to the point. Unlike what
has happened in scores of cases in Gujarat,
the court asked the woman seven pointed
questionsandwhenitwasdeterminedthat
she was a major (Pooja alias Zoya, 19 years)
who wished to stay with her husband,
Shahwej,thecourtdismissedthematterand
ruled that as an adult, she was free to stay
with whom she chose. However, the court
passed this remark: “Though, under the
Constitution, a citizen has the right to pro-
fess, practise or propagate the religion of
his/her choice but it is disconcerting that in
matrimonial matters one party should
changehis/herfaithtotheother’sjustforthe
sake of matrimony and nothing more.” The
single bench drew a distinction between
marriage and religion and said, “Marriage is
one thing and religion quite another. If two
citizensofIndiaprofessingdifferentreligions
wishtomarry,itisopentothemtodosoun-
der the Special Marriage Act, 1954, which is
oneoftheearliestendeavourstowardsauni-
form civil code.”
Itisthisorderthathasledtoassertionsby
the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and
Haryana that they would enact laws to pre-
vent “love jihad”. Both CMs symbolise a pol-
itics that is the epitome of violent suprema-
cism where rights of minorities are
suppressed.Wecanseebeforeusanother“le-
gal” threat to trample over constitutional
foundationsofliberty,dignity,autonomyand
freedom.Therestofusneedtothinkhardand
deepabouthowweshouldfightthebattle.
Take the recent Tanishq advertisement
thatsentimentalisedinter-communitymar-
riages in a distant aesthetic. It was removed
whenHinduright-wingtrollslaunchedtheir
tirade. In the past, Mani Ratnam’s Bombay
(1995)had,inasimilarvein,romanticisedan
inter-community union in the backdrop of
the violence post-Babri Masjid demolition.
The imagery in the film reinforced a stereo-
type, which has become the reality in India
today — images of the burqa and ghunghat
hover,ghost-like,inpublicminds,evenwhile
we barely recognise gender autonomy and
other freedoms.
To reclaim the narrative, Indians need to
reflectonwhatAmbedkarsaidaboutacaste-
less, communal prejudice-free society.
The writer is editor, CommunalismCombat
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Malati used to. The article rightly ad-
dressed these issues and finds a solu-
tion in sharing emotions, which can be
online and then in the more humane
offline mode.
H Upadhyay, via email
PIPE DREAM
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘Not ready
for smog battle’ (IE, November 11). The
article rightly brings before the public
the difficulties being faced by the state
pollution control boards due to inade-
quate staff and lack of resources. A sim-
ilar story was shared by officials of
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
with me, which made it impossible for
them to discharge their statutory du-
ties resulting in polluting of the Ulhas
river and Khemani (nalla) rain water
drain. Without resources, controlling
pollution is just a pipe dream.
Subrat Birla, Delhi

16 ECONOMY
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020
JOB INCENTIVE SCHEME: FOR WORKERS WITH PAY UP TO `15,000
Govttobear2years’shareof creation,
How the stressed sectors, job
real estate will benefit
PFforlaid-off,newworkers
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER12
THEGOVERNMENTonThursday
announced an employment in-
centive scheme, Atmanirbhar
Bharat Rozgar Yojana, under
which it will provide subsidy for
provident fund contribution for
addingnewemployeestoestabli-
shmentsregisteredwiththeEmp-
loyees’ Provident Fund
Organisation (EPFO). The Centre
will provide the subsidy for two
years for workers who lost jobs
betweenMarch1andSeptember
30, and for new workers em-
ployed on or after October 1.
Underthescheme,thecentral
governmentwillpayPFcontribu-
tionforworkerswithwagesupto
Rs 15,000. The contribution of 24
per cent for both employers and
employees for establishments
employingupto1,000employees
willbebornebytheCentre.Fores-
tablishments employing more
than1,000employees,12percent
of the employees’ share will be
contributed by the government.
The additional eligibility con-
dition for the scheme specifies
that the subsidy will be provided
for employment of two new em-
ployees if the establishment has
50 or less employees and will be
paidforfivenewemployeesif es-
tablishments have more than 50
employees.Thereferencebasefor
employees would be September
2020.Thesubsidyamountunder
thescheme,whichwillbeopera-
Oct retail inflation at
77-mth high; factory
output flat in Sept
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
RETAIL INFLATION surged to a
77-month high of 7.61 per cent
inOctober,complicatingthetask
of the Reserve Bank at a time
when Covid-induced risks to
economic growth still remain
too high for comfort.
Meanwhile, despite higher
output in the sectors of mining
andpowergeneration,industrial
production remained flat at 0.2
per cent growth in September,
official data showed on
Thursday.
According to the Index of
Industrial Production (IIP) data,
manufacturing sector output
BRIEFLY
Nextcoalmine
auctioninJan
New Delhi: Coal Minister
Pralhad Joshi on Thursday
said the Centre is planning
to go for next round of auc-
tion of blocks in January.
ComMinseeks
viewsonFTP
New Delhi: The Commerce
Ministry on Thursday
sought suggestions from
stakeholders fortheformu-
lation of next foreign trade
policy(FTP),whichprovides
guidelinesforenhancingex-
ports to push growth. PTI
Europeanaward
forTurkishCargo
NewDelhi:Theaircargounit
ofTurkishAirlines,Istanbul-
based Turkish Cargo, has
been chosen the best cargo
brand of Europe and re-
ceivedthe‘BestCargoAirline
–Europe’awardatAirCargo
News Awards 2020. ENS
Sept:UKGDP
lagsfurther
London: Britain’s economy
grew by a slower than ex-
pected 1.1 per cent in
September from August,
laggingotherrichnationsas
it struggled to recover from
the Covid shock. REUTERS
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FinanceMinisterNirmalaSitharamanalongwithMoSFinance
AnuragSinghThakurinNewDelhi,onThursday. PTI
tional till June 30, 2021, will be
creditedupfrontonlyinAadhaar-
seeded EPFO accounts (UAN) of
new employees.
“99.1percentoftheestablish-
ments will be covered under this
schemeand65percentofallem-
ployeesintheformalsectorarees-
timated to be covered in the first
category, wherein EPF contribu-
tions will begivenby the govern-
mentbywayofsubsidysupport,”
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman said.
Expertssaidtheimpactofthis
scheme will be positive but lim-
itedasitisnotdirectwagesupport
but through the EPF route. “The
EPFsubsidyannouncedtodaywill
be distortionary in some senses.
Theemploymentcreationcondi-
tion in the package is inequitable
as the establishments are classi-
fied into simple two categories,
<50 and > 50 and the number of
jobs required to be created is a
posted a decline of 0.6 per cent.
Productioninminingandpower
segments grew at 1.4 per cent
and 4.9 per cent, respectively.In
September2019,theIIPhadcon-
tracted by 4.6 per cent.
For policymakers, the stub-
bornness of retail inflation adds
totheirwoes.Ithasstayedabove
thetolerancebandof 4(+/-2)per
cent of the Reserve Bank’s
Monetary Policy Committee for
10 of the last 11 months, despite
purported Covid-induced de-
mand compression in the econ-
omy. Food inflation spiked to
11.07per centinOctober,against
10.68 per cent in the previous
month, remaining the biggest
driver of the consumer price in-
dex (CPI). FE,WITHPTI
SII: 40 million doses of
Covishield in stock, to
ensure early availability
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
IN AN effort to ensure sufficient
supply and “early availability” of
its Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield,
in India, Serum Institute of India
(SII)hasalreadymadeandstock-
piled40milliondosesof thecan-
didate‘at-risk’,thecompanysaid
Thursday. The Pune-headquar-
teredfirm,whichhasalsotiedup
with American vaccine maker
Novavax for a separate Covid-19
vaccine,planstoapplytoregula-
toryauthoritiesinIndia“soon”to
conduct late-stage human trials.
As on Thursday, SII had man-
aged to enroll the 1,600 partici-
pantsitwastargetingformid-to
late-stagetrials(phase2/3)trials
of Covishield, the vaccine candi-
date developed using a “master
seed”fromthevaccinecandidate
developed by the University of
Oxford in collaboration with
Swedish-British drug giant
AstraZeneca.
The trials in India are cur-
rently in the third phase and SII
has partnered with the Indian
Council of Medical Research
(ICMR) to conduct these trials.
The Oxford University-
AstraZeneca candidate is cur-
rentlybeingtestedinefficacytri-
als in the UK, Brazil, South Africa
and the US. In late October, the
vaccinewasshowntopromptan
immune response not only in
minimumof2and5,respectively.
The>50categoryoffershugevari-
ation — for example according to
the Annual Survey of Industries,
2016-17, 22,310 factories employ
50-99, while 34,981 employ 100
plus. It is inequitable to ask these
twodisparatecategoriestocreate
the same number of jobs for the
same amount of subsidy for two
years.Theremusthavebeenfiner
gradationsinaprogressivesense,”
XLRIprofessorandlabourecono-
mist KR Shyam Sundar said.
He added that given the low
wage aspect of the EPF subsidy, it
willmostlikelyleadtocreationof
low-skilled and low paying jobs
and the total effect of these jobs
and their incomes will have lim-
itedmultipliereffectsand,hence,
less significant impact on the ag-
gregatedemand,especiallyinsec-
tors that drive it like the automo-
tive and the high-end industries.
The new scheme is similar to
Moody’s revises 2020 growth
forecast upwards to -8.9%
Moody's Investors Service on Thursday revised upwards its
2020 GDP forecasts for India to -8.9 per cent up from its
earlier projection of -9.6 per cent
Indiahad a 69-day nationwide
lockdown, which was followed
by local and state-level
restrictions to contain the
spread of the pandemic
Restrictions have eased only
slowly and in phases, and
localised restrictions in
containment zones remain
As aresult, the recovery has
been patchy, Moody’s said in its
Global Macro Outlook
2021-22
Asteadydecline in new and
active cases coronavirus cases
since September, if maintained,
should enable further easing of
restrictions, it said
younger age groups, but also the
elderly population known to be
among the most vulnerable de-
mographic during the ongoing
pandemic.
“The promising results of the
trials so far give confidence that
Covishieldcouldbearealisticso-
lution to the deadly pandemic,”
said SII in a statement.
Based on the phase 2/3 trial
resultsinIndia,thePunefirmand
ICMRwillpursuethe“earlyavail-
ability” of this product here.
“SII has already manufac-
tured40milliondosesof thevac-
cine, under the at-risk manufac-
turing and stockpiling license
from DCGI (Drug Controller
General of India — the country’s
top drug regulator),” stated the
company.
ICMRandSIIhavefurthercol-
laborated for clinical develop-
mentof ‘Covovax’,thecandidate
developed by Novavax that will
be upscaled by SII.
Novavax has initiated late
phase trials of the candidate in
South Africa and the UK and
plans to start similar trials in the
UnitedStates.SIIhasreceivedthe
bulk vaccine and adjuvant from
Novavax and will soon fill and
finish them in vials.
“This vaccine formulated at
SII (Covovax) will be tested in a
phase 3 trial in India and an ap-
plication for the same to regula-
tory authorities will be made
soon by ICMR and SII,” said SII.
the earlier scheme of Pradhan
Mantri Rozgar Protsahan Yojana
(PMRPY), which was implemen-
ted up to March 2019 to incen-
tivise new employment. PMRPY
was announced in August 2016,
with the Centre providing for full
employers’contributionof12per
cent(EPFandEmployees’Pension
Scheme) for three years for new
employees registered with the
EPFOonorafterApril1,2016earn-
ing up to Rs 15,000 per month. A
totalamountofRs8,300crorewas
given to 1,52,899 establishments
covering1,21,69,960beneficiaries
under PMRPY.
The Centre also announced
additionaloutlayforemployment
under the earlier announced
scheme of Pradhan Mantri Garib
Kalyan Rozgar Yojana, under
whichithadearlieridentified116
districtsacrosssixstateswhereat
least 25,000 workers had re-
turned in each district and em-
ploymentwastobegivenfor125
days to migrant workers.
On Thursday, the Centre said
Rs37,543crorehasbeenspenttill
date under the scheme, making
an additional outlay of Rs 10,000
crore for PM Garib Kalyan Rozgar
Yojana.Ruralemploymentguara-
nteeprogrammeMGNREGAwas
provided with Rs 61,500 crore in
theBudgetforFY21andRs40,000
crorewasadditionallyprovidedin
Aatmanirbhar Bharat 1.0. “As on
date,Rs73,504crorehasbeenre-
leasedunderMGNREGAand251
croreperson-daysofemployment
have been generated,” it said.
REVISEDPROJECTIONS
8.6% 8.1%
2020
2021
-8.9 -9.6%
■ Current projection
■ Earlier projection
Source: Moody’s Investors Service/PTI
DHANTERAS: MISSING THE USUAL RUSH
Customers buy jewellery at an outlet in Noida on Thursday. Pre-Diwali Dhanteras sales of gold and silver witnessed a tepid
response on account of high prices of the precious metals and sluggish demand due to Covid-19 induced economic hardship,
according to experts. Gajendra Yadav
Re slides for 4th day, tumbles 28p against USD
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 12
EXTENDING ITS losing streak to
the fourth straight session, the
rupee plunged 28paise to end at
74.64 against the US dollar on
Thursday on sustained demand
for the greenback from im-
porters and banks coupled with
foreign fund outflows.
The domestic unit opened at
74.44 against the greenback at
the interbank forex market and
recorded an intra-day high of
AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT 3.0
SUNNYVERMA,
AANCHALMAGAZINE&
SANDEEPSINGH
NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER12
ANNOUNCING THESE stimulus
measures,FinanceMinisterNirm-
ala Sitharaman said the govern-
ment’s“unrelentingreformpitch”
has helped in a “strong recovery”
taking root in the economy.
Whatisbeingdonefor
stressedsectors?
Thegovernmenthaslaunched
a new version of the Emergency
Credit Line Guarantee Scheme
(ECLGS) to provide funding sup-
port to stressed sectors in the
economy. This is within the Rs 3
lakh crore loan sanction limit set
underthescheme,butitcouldbe
raiseddependingonthedemand.
Companiesthathaveloanduesup
to 30 days (Special Mention
Accounts or SMA 0) as on Febru-
ary 29, 2020 will be provided ad-
ditional credit of 20 per cent out-
standing under the scheme.
Entities in 26 stressed sectors
identifiedbytheKamathCommi-
ttee, as well as the
healthcare sector,
withcreditoutstand-
ingofoverRs50crore
and up to Rs 500
crore as on February
29,areeligibletoavail
funding under the
scheme. The ECLGS,
which has been ex-
tended until November 30, has
made disbursals of Rs 1.48 lakh
crore against sanctions of Rs 2.03
lakh crore to 60.67 lakh borrow-
ers, as per government data.
Thefive-memberexpertcom-
mittee headed by former chair-
man of ICICI Bank KV Kamath,
which was set up to recommend
financialparametersrequiredfor
a one-time loan restructuring
windowforcorporateborrowers,
said in its report that companies
in sectors such as retail trade,
wholesale trade, roads, and tex-
tiles were facing stress.
The tenor of the additional
credit availed under the scheme
will be five years, including one
year of moratorium on principal
repayment. The scheme will be
available till March 31, 2021.
Whatstepshavebeen
announcedtoboost
employmentcreation?
The government announced
an employment incentive
scheme, Atmanirbhar Bharat
RozgarYojana,underwhichitwill
provide subsidy for provident
fundcontributionforaddingnew
employeestoestablishmentsreg-
istered with the Employees’
Provident Fund Organisation
On the domestic equity market front, the BSE
Sensex ended 236.48 points or 0.54 per cent lower
at 43,357.19; while the broader NSE Nifty slipped
58.35 points or 0.46 per cent to 12,690.80
74.38 and a low of 74.74 against
the US currency.
It finally settled at 74.64 to
theUSdollar,down28paiseover
its last close of 74.36.
In the last four sessions, the
rupee has lost 56 paise against
the American unit. Forex traders
GOLD
`50,057
Note: Gold, silver rates at Delhi spot market; gold per 10 g, silver per 1 kg; Brent crude as of 2200 IST
PUSH TOWARDS ACCELERATING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: INDIA INC
It is heartening to note
that despite fiscal
constraints, the
government chose to
hasten the recovery
process by spending
an additional Rs 2.65
lakh crore, thus taking
the cumulative fiscal
stimulus (till date) to
Rs 17.2 lakh crore or
9 per cent of GDP
UDAY KOTAK,
PRESIDENT, CII
We saw a powerful multi-sectoral boost coming in from the government
today … Of the dozen announcements that we heard today, perhaps the most
significant was the one relating to the production linked incentive scheme
wherein 10 new champion sectors have been added with an outlay to the tune
of Rs 1.46 lakh crore
SANGITA REDDY, PRESIDENT, FICCI
(EPFO). The central government
will provide the sub-
sidy for two years for
workerswholostjobs
betweenMarch1and
September 30, and
for new workers em-
ployed on or after
October 1.
Under the sch-
eme, the Centre will
paythePFcontributionforwork-
ers with wages up to Rs 15,000.
Thecontributionof24percentfor
both employers and employees
forestablishmentsemployingup
to 1,000employeeswillbeborne
bythegovernment;forestablish-
ments employing more than
1,000 employees, 12 per cent of
theemployees’sharewillbecon-
tributed by the government.
The additional eligibility con-
dition for the scheme specifies
that the subsidy will be provided
for employment of two new em-
ployees if the establishment has
50 or fewer employees, and will
be paid for five new employees if
establishments have more than
50 employees. The subsidy
amountunderthescheme,which
will be operational till June 30,
2021,willbecreditedupfrontonly
inAadhaar-seededEPFOaccounts
(UAN) of new employees.
“99.1percentoftheestablish-
ments will be covered under this
schemeand65percentofallem-
ployeesintheformalsectorarees-
timated to be covered in the first
category, wherein EPF contribu-
tions willbe givenbythe govern-
mentbywayofsubsidysupport,”
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman said.
said weak domestic equities too
weighed on investor sentiment.
The dollar index, which
gauges the greenback’s strength
againstabasketof sixcurrencies,
fell 0.23 per cent to 92.82.
“Rupee fell sharply against
theUSdollaraheadof theimpor-
New Delhi
RUPEE
`74.64
Thelatestroundof
stimulus...incentivises
jobcreationininformal
sector,expandssupply
ofloanablefunds
throughenlargementof
creditguarantee
schemetosupport
stressedsectorsanda
strongpushtoreal
estate,withtax
incentivesforbuyers
DINESHKHARA,
CHAIRMAN,SBI
The new scheme is similar to
the earlier scheme of Pradhan
Mantri Rozgar Protsahan Yojana
(PMRPY), which was imple-
mented up to March 2019 to in-
centivise new employment. PM-
RPY was announced in August
2016, with the government pro-
viding for full employers’ contri-
bution of 12 per cent (EPF and
Employees’ Pension Scheme) for
a period of three years for new
employees registered with the
EPFOonorafterApril1,2016,and
earning up to Rs 15,000 per
month.AtotalRs8,300crorewas
given to 1,52,899 establishments
covering1,21,69,960beneficiaries
under PMRPY.
The Centre also announced
additionaloutlayforemployment
under the earlier announced
scheme of the Pradhan Mantri
Garib Kalyan Rozgar Yojana. The
governmenthadearlieridentified
116 districts across six states
where at least 25,000 workers
have returned in each district to
provide employment to migrant
workers for 125 days by bringing
together nearly 25 schemes and
frontloadingtheworkandmoney
allotted for the whole year.
WhathastheFMannounced
forconstructionand
infrastructure?
Inamajorboostthatmaylead
to revival of stalled affordable
housing projects, the Finance
Ministerannouncedanadditional
outlay of Rs 18,000 crore for the
PMAwasYojana(PMAY)–Urban.
Sitharaman said this would help
12 lakh houses to be grounded,
and 18 lakh to be completed.
tant inflation and industrial pro-
duction number that will be re-
leased later today.
“Increase inflation is likely to
keep the rupee weighed down
against the US dollar,” said
Gaurang Somaiyaa, forex & bul-
lion analyst, Motilal Oswal
Financial Services.
On the domestic equity mar-
ket front, the 30-share BSE
Sensex ended 236.48 points, or
0.54 per cent, lower at 43,357.19,
while the broader NSE Nifty
slipped 58.35 points. or 0.46 per
cent, to 12,690.80. WITHPTI
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
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$44.14 `62,037
International market data till 1900 IST
The stimulus measures
announced ... by
Finance Minister has
specificpolicy
interventionsfor job
creation, credit
guarantee and would
also bepivotal in
de-stressing and
accelerating economic
activity inmany
critical sectors
KENICHIAYUKAWA,
PRESIDENT, SIAM
Industry participants say that
this will not only help meet the
housing need in urban areas, the
revivalofstalledprojectswillalso
lead to an increase in economic
activity and job creation in the
construction sector.
In another major move, the
FinanceMinisterannouncedare-
ductionintheearnestmoneyde-
positandperformancedepositon
government tenders (also appli-
cable to PSEs). While it reduced
theperformancesecurityoncon-
tractsto3percentfromaround5-
10percent,shesaidthatEMDwill
not be required. The government
also announced Rs 6,000 crore of
equityintheNationalInvestment
and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to
support debt financing totalling
Rs 1.1 lakh crore by 2025.
Whathasbeendoneforthe
realestatesector?
In a move that may allow de-
veloperstoselltheirhousingunits
at 20 per cent lower than the cir-
clerateonaccountofthepricere-
ductionin themarket,the Centre
has announced a hike in the dif-
ferentialfrom10percentto20per
cent(undersection43CA)forthe
period from the date of the an-
nouncementtoJune30,2021.The
benefitwill,however,beavailable
only on the primary sale of resi-
dential units with a price value of
up to Rs 2 crore. This will effec-
tively allow developers to reduce
theirpricebelowthecirclerate.It
willalsobring downtheregistra-
tioncostforbuyersiftheybuythe
unit at a price lower than the cir-
cle rate, as the registration would
not be at the circle rate.
CCI clears
Google’s
7.73% stake
buy in Jio
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER12
THE COMPETITION regulator on
Thursday approved Google’s ac-
quisitionofa7.73percentstakein
RelianceJioPlatforms(JPL),forRs
33,737. The companies had an-
nounced the move in July, noting
that they would jointly develop
affordable smartphones for the
Indianmarket.Googlehascompl-
etedtheinvestmentintoReliance
Industries’ digital arm via itssub-
sidiary Google International LLC.
TheCompetitionCommission
ofIndia(CCI)notedthatthetrans-
action“enablesGoogleandJPLto
developandlaunchanewsmart-
phoneinIndia,”andthatthe par-
ties would continue to conduct
theirbusinessactivitiesindepend-
ently outside of the market for
supply of smartphones in India.
Facebook too has invested in
JioPlatformsthisyear,acquiringa
9.99 per cent stake in the comp-
anyforRs43,574crore.Itisamong
the strategic investors who have
collectively invested Rs 1.52 lakh
crore in Jio Platforms this year.
The CCI nod comes at a time
when Google has been under in-
creasing antitrust scrutiny, with
the US Department of Justice fil-
ing an antitrust suit against the
tech giant for allegedly misusing
marketpowertomaintainsearch
dominance.
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Kerala crosses 5 lakh cases,

only Delhi adding more daily What is a technical recession?
On Wednesday,Kerala became the Karnataka have reported more cases LatestRBIbulletinprojectscontractionforasecondconsecutivequarter,whichmeanstheeconomyisina
sixth state in India to record more thanKerala’sfourlakhduringtheselast
than five lakh coronavirus infections. twomonths.Maharashtraaddedover ‘technicalrecession’.Whatdoesitmean,andhowisitdifferentfroma‘recession’anda‘recessionaryphase’?
Just a day earlier, Uttar Pradesh had 7.16lakhcasesandKarnataka4.13lakh.
crossed that mark. UP, More recently, activity—isclear,fromtheperspectiveof em-
however, is adding far
fewer cases every day
Kerala is getting out-
numberedeverydayby
UDITMISRA
NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER12
CONTRACTION IN INDIA. ELSEWHERE piricaldataanalysis,therearetoomanyunan-
swered queries.
than Kerala, which is Delhi, whose daily For instance, would quarterly GDP be
set to become one the numbers are touching INITSlatestmonthlybulletin—forNovember
Quarterly Real GDP growth rate (in %) enough to determine economic activity? Or
five states with the newhighseveryday.On — the Reserve Bank of India has dedicated a Octoberto Januaryto Aprilto Julyto shouldonelookatunemploymentorpersonal
highest caseloads. Wednesday, Delhi de- chapteronthe“Stateoftheeconomy”.Theidea December2019 March2020 June2020 September2020 consumptionaswell?Itisentirelypossiblethat
It has taken Kerala tected more than 8,500 is to provide a monthly snapshot of some of India 4.1 3.1 -23.9 -8.6* GDP starts growing after a while but unem-
exactly two months to new cases. For five days the key indicators of India’s economic health. ployment levels do not fall adequately.
move from one lakh to CORONAVIRUS in the last one week, “By doing so, a hallowed tradition that began
US 2.3 0.3 -9 -2.9
Duringthe2008globalfinancialcrisis,NBER
fivelakhcases.Itwason COUNT Delhi has contributed with the first issue of the Bulletin in January
UK
China
1
6
-2.1
-6.8
-21.5
3.2
-9.6
4.9
peggedJune2009astheenddateforthereces-
September 11 that the the highest number of 1947,butinterruptedduringtheperiod1995to sionbutsomemetricsdidnotrecoverformuch
state, which had managed to keep the new cases in the country. For the last date, will be revived,” the bulletin said.
Brazil 1.7 -0.3 -11.4 NA longer.Forinstance,“non-farmpayrollemploy-
spreadofthediseasefairlyundercontrol twodays,Delhihasalsoreportedmore As part of the exercise, the RBI has started Indonesia 5 3 -5.3 -3.5 ment, did not exceed the level of the previous
forfirstsixmonths,hadreachonelakh than 80 deaths. This has happened for “nowcasting”or“thepredictionofthepresent SouthAfrica -0.5 0.1 -17.1 NA peakuntilApril2014,”accordingtoNBER.
cases.Ithasbeenarapidriseafterthat. the first time since early July. ortheverynearfutureofthestateoftheecon- * RBI estimates : Source: Trading Economics To get around these empirical technicali-
Overall,however,Maharashtraand AMITABH SINHA omy”. And the very first “nowcast” predicts ties,commentatorsoftenconsiderarecession
that India’s economy will contract by 8.6% in
the second quarter (July, August, September)
INDIA GDP ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, 1951-2020 to be in progress when real GDP has declined
for at least two consecutive quarters.
INDIA ACTIVE CASES 489,294 of the current financial year.
20
That is how real quarterly GDP has come
Whilethispaceof contractionisconsider- to be accepted as a measure of economic ac-
ably slower than the 23.9% decline in the real 10 tivity and a “benchmark” for ascertaining a
550,000 grossdomesticproduct(GDP)duringthefirst “technical recession”. By this definition, as
quarter (April, May, June), the contraction of 0 the data in the table shows, India entered a
Q2 is crucial because it implies India that has -10 recession at the end of September. The UK is
489,294 entereda“technicalrecession”inthefirsthalf
-20
in its third quarter of recession. Brazil and
541,405 of 2020-21— for the first time in its history. Indonesia are also in recession while South
To better understand the term “technical -30 Africa has evaded it until now, but only mar-
500,000 recession”, one must distinguish it from two ginally. China, where the pandemic began,
1951
1954
1957
1960
1963
1966
1969
1972
1975
1978
1981
1984
1987
1990
1993
1996
1999
2002
2005
2008
2011
2014
2017
2020
other phrases — a recession and a recession- has bucked the trend.
ary phase of an economy. Source: Trading Economics, with MoSPI data
WasIndia’stechnicalrecession
LAST 10 DAYS Whatisarecessionaryphase? unexpected?
Nov 2 Nov 11 Atitssimplest,inanyeconomy,arecession- there can be a recessionary phase. to more than a year”. No.Giventhenatureof theproblem—the
450,000 ary phase is the counterpart of an expansion- As the graph shows, there have been sev- The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating pandemic—assoonasthelockdownwasan-
ary phase. In other words, when the overall eral expansionary and recessionaryphases in Committee typically looks at various vari- nouncedinMarch,mosteconomistsexpected
Note: The Nov 11 figure in this graph is based on the government update on Nov 12 outputofgoodsandservices—typicallymeas- India’s history. ables — employment, consumption etc — theIndianeconomytogointorecession.Infact,
uredbytheGDP—increasesfromonequarter apart from GDP growth to arrive at a deci- most estimates expect the economy to con-
(or month) to another, the economy is said to Howisarecessiondifferent? sion.Italsolooksatthe“depth,diffusion,and tract for at least one more quarter — that is
INDIA TOTAL CASES WORLD TOTAL CASES be in an expansionary phase. And when the As against a recessionary phase, where duration” of decline in economic activity to October to December, currently under way.
GDPcontractsfromonequartertoanother,the GDP growth rate could well be positive determine whether an economy is in a re-
8,683,916 52,331,462 economyissaidto bein a recessionaryphase. throughout, in a recession, the GDP necessar- cession or not. Howlongdorecessionslast?
Source:MinistryofHealth&Family Source:JohnsHopkinsUniversity, Together, these two phases create what is ilycontracts.Thatistosay,theGDPgrowthrate For example, in the case of the most re- Typically,recessionslastforafewquarters.
Welfare,updatedat11pmonNov12 updatedat11pmonNov 12 calleda“businesscycle”inanyeconomy.Afull turns negative. centdipineconomicactivityintheUS,which If they continue for years, they are referred to
business cycle could last anywhere between There is, however, no universally ac- started in February 2020 as a result of the as“depressions”.Butadepressionisquiterare;
one year and a decade. cepted definition of a recession — as in, for Covid-19 pandemic, the drop in activity has the last one was during the 1930s in the US.
The line graph accompanying this article how long should the GDP contract before an been so great and so widely diffused In the current scenario, the key determi-
Masks, handwashing: how adults maps India’s quarterly real GDP growth since
1951. As one can see, this line goes up and
economyissaidtobeinarecession. Butmost
economistsagreewiththedefinitionthatthe
throughout the economy that the downturn
would have been classified as a recession
nantforanyeconomytocomeoutofrecession
is to control the spread of Covid-19.

changed behaviour over time down.Thepeaksandtroughsshowthediffer-

ent expansionary and recessonary phases of
National Bureau of Economic Research
(NBER) in the United States uses. According
even if it had proved to be quite brief. In India’s case, Finance Minister Nirmala
SitharamanhasexpressedhopethatIndia’sre-
the economy. to NBER, “During a recession, a significant Then, what is a technical recession? cession could be already over and that the
A NEW study examines likely to implement such Inotherwords,evenwhentheoveralleco- decline in economic activity spreads across While the basic idea behind the term "re- economy may register positive growth in the
whether age affected behaviours. nomic growth is in the “positive” territory, theeconomyandcanlastfromafewmonths cession"—significantcontractionineconomic current quarter.
preventive or risky be- ■Except for wearing

What has changed in land laws for J&K

haviours in response to a mask, adults adopted
Covid-19, and how these preventive activities in
behaviours changed March but then reduced
over the first three PAPER these somewhat after
months of the pan-
demic. The research,
from the University of
CLIP April.However,theuseof
masks continued to in-
crease over time. withinalocalarea,onlyfordirectoperational landintheUTwhichisanagriculturallandre- trial estates” in the UT and for establishing
Southern California NEW RESEARCH ■Older people were NAVEEDIQBAL and training requirements of armed forces”. mainsprotectedandwiththepeopleof J&K”. commercial centres in this connection.
(USC) Leonard Davis less likely than younger SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 12 Amongrepealedlaws,theJ&KAlienationof AsperlastRevenueDepartmentestimates
School is published in the journal peopletohaveclosecontactwithpeo- Land Act, 1938 and the Big Landed Estates available, of J&K’s total reported area of 24.16 What are the concerns being expressed?
PLOS. Among the findings: ple outside their household and less THE MINISTRY of Home Affairs, through an Abolition Act, 1950 provided protections on lakhhectares,9lakhhectares(37%)isnetsown InMarch2020,theCentrehadintroduced
■In March, older people were no likelyto gotoother people’s homesin order on October 26, has introduced amend- landholdingsforpermanentresidentsor“per- areaand6.58lakhhectares(27%)isunderfor- thedomicileclausethroughanamendmentto
more likely than younger people to April. However, both younger and mentsto14lawsoftheformerstateofJammu manentresidentcertificateholders”asdefined est cover. Even if both were considered pro- the J&K Civil Services (Decentralisation and
practise preventive behaviours such older people tended to resume these & Kashmir and repealed 12 others. Key by laws of the erstwhile state of J&K. tected, the total is less than 90%. Recruitment)Act,2010.Itredefinedwhoacit-
as wearing a mask, washing hands risky social behaviours as the pan- amendments were made to four major laws izen of the newly carved Union Territory
frequently, and avoiding high-risk demic progressed. that governed ownership, sale and purchase What about sale of agricultural land? Whyhavethesechangesbeenmadenow? would be and included, among others, per-
people and public places. However, of land in the erstwhile state. ThenewlyintroducedSection133-Aofthe Apart from stressing integration, the J&K sons who have lived in J&K for over 15 years,
by May, older people were more Source: University of Southern California J&K Land Revenue Act, 1996 states, “No land administration has argued that the old laws persons who have taken class 10th/12th ex-
What are the changes in the land laws? usedforagriculturepurposesshallbeusedfor “were made to serve the old agrarian-based aminationinaneducationalinstitutionwithin
The four amended land laws are the J&K anynon-agriculturalpurposesexceptwiththe economy”.Afterconstitutionalguaranteespro- the UT as well as children of central govern-
DevelopmentAct1970,theJ&KLandRevenue permissionof theDistrictCollector.”Sub-sec- vided under Article 370 and Article 35A were mentofficials“whohaveservedinJammuand
Act 1996, the Agrarian Reforms Act 1976 and tion2of Section113-Astatesthatanowneror removed on August 5, 2019, the Centre made Kashmir for a total period of 10 years”.
the J&K Land Grants Act 1960. anoccupantwhowishestoputhisagricultural provisions in the J&K Reorganisation Act to The fears being expressed are of demo-
Amongthemostsignificantchangesisthat landintonon-agriculturalusesasprovidedfor makeadaptationsandmodificationsinthelaw graphic change in Muslim-majority J&K, of
made to the J&K Development Act, in which in a regional plan, development plan or mas- foroneyear.Suchmodificationscouldbemade land being “put up for sale” and “outsiders”
the phrase “permanent resident of the State” ter plan, “shall do so it after payment of con- directly by the Centre until October 31, a year pouring in to J&K. The People’s Alliance for
has been removed without any substitution version charges as prescribed by the Board from the day J&K became a Union Territory. Gupkar Declaration — signatories of the
specified. The amendment effectively allows fromtimetotime.”Therefore,eitherwithper- GupkarDeclarationseekingtorestoreJ&Ksta-
purchase of land by any individual. mission from a District Collector or through Whatotherkeychangeshavebeenmade? tustowhatitwasbeforeAugust5,2019—said
Additionally, while defining “strategic areas” payment of conversion fee, agricultural land The J&K Development Act provides for an therealobjectiveof repealingbasiclandlaws
inJ&K,Section3ofthisActstatesthatthegov- can be repurposed for non-agricultural use. Industrial Development Corporation. Its pur- and amending the other laws is to push in an
ernment may “on the written request of an The state government spokesperson has pose would be “securing and assisting in the agendaof effectingdemographicchange and
Army officer not below the rank of Corp said that “the safeguard on agricultural land rapidandorderlyestablishment,andorganisa- disempowering the people of J&K.
Commander,declareanareaasStrategicArea alone would ensure that more than 90% of tionofindustriesinindustrialareasandindus- Longer version on www.indianexpress.com

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Tax relief until June next year: should you buy a new home now?
Sandeep Singh
THE GOVERNMENT has announced tax re-
lief that will help clear unsold inventory of
residential units valued at up to Rs 2 crore.
Buyers have been allowed to purchase
homes at 20% below the circle rate without
attractinganytaxpenalties.Circlerateisthe
government-defined value at which prop-
ertyisregistered,whereasagreementvalue
is the one negotiated between the builder
and the buyer. As prices of many unsold
units have slumped below circle rates in
manycitiesduetotheeconomicdownturn,
marketratesaremuchbelowthecirclerates
in these cities.
Not only may the fresh move allow de-
veloperstoreducethepriceof theirunits,it
couldalsoleadtoanincreaseindemandand
faster absorption of the unsold inventory.
What does it mean?
Earlier, if the developer sold property
below the circle rate, the differential be-
tween the circle rate and the agreed rate
was taxable for both buyer and seller. Last
year, the government allowed developers
to sell at rates up to 10% lower than the cir-
cle rate without attracting additional tax.
The government has now doubled the dif-
ferential to 20%. This benefit will be avail-
able until June 30, 2021.
Generally, when the sale is executed at
below the circle rate, the government
would consider the sale as being at the cir-
cle rate and would calculate profit and tax
on that rate. Now that there will be no ad-
ditional tax liability on developers for sales
executed at up to 20% lower than the circle
rate, this is expected to lead to developers
passing on the benefitto homebuyers to at-
tract them over the next seven months.
“Developers will now have the incentive
intheformofthisrevisedtaxprovisiontopass
onthebenefitof lowermarketpricestobuy-
ers without incurring additional tax liability
undertheerstwhileprovisions,”saidRamesh
Nair, CEO and Country head, JLL India.
Section 43CA of the Income-Tax Act
states that “Where the consideration re-
ceived or accruing as a result of the trans-
fer by an assessee of an asset (other than a
capitalasset),beinglandorbuildingorboth,
is less than the value adopted or assessed
or assessable by any authority of a State
Government for the purpose of payment of
stamp duty in respect of such transfer, the
value so adopted or assessed or assessable
shall, for the purposes of computing prof-
its and gains from transfer of such asset, be
deemed to be the full value of the consid-
eration received or accruing as a result of
such transfer.”
What is the inventory status? How
much of it could get absorbed?
According to Pankaj Kapoor, founder
and Managing Director of Liases Foras, the
top eight cities of the country account for
9.32 lakh unsold units and almost 94% of
that is in the less-than-Rs-2-crore bracket.
“The decision may help in some regions
where the circle rates were higher than the
prevailing market rate, which according to
our study is not too many. In most regions,
the circle rates have been lower than the
prevailingmarketrate. However,thisprovi-
sion providesscope to the developers to re-
duce prices. We also feel this may also open
up the scope of absorbing some black
money in real estate,” said Kapoor.
How will the move help?
The idea behind the concept of circle
rate is to reduce the cash component in real
estate transactions, and thereby prevent
revenue loss for the government. However,
given that real estate prices have dropped
significantly — in many cases 10-20% lower
thanthecirclerate—theindustryfoundthis
a constraint on executing transactions. If
they sold their units at 15-20% below the
circle rate, the government would not con-
sider that price for calculation of profit and
tax, and would calculate tax on the circle
rate, or at prices 10% lower than the circle
rate. Since the differential has now been in-
creased to 20%, industry insiders say that it
comes as a big boost for the real estate sec-
tor and that it will help developers lower
their prices and clear their inventory.
“It is a very welcomemove andwill lead
to offloading of unsold inventory. Due to
Covid-19, the price of properties in certain
areas has gone below the circle rate.
However, now with government permit-
ting sale at rates up to 20% lower than the
circle rate, the developer will be able to sell
the property and the homebuyer can buy
the property without having any liability
undersection43CAincaseof developerand
u/s56forindividualhomebuyer,”saidJaxay
Shah, National Chairman, CREDAI.
How will homebuyers benefit, and
what should they do?
Thebiggestbenefitisintheformof taxes
— one can now buy at up to 20% lower than
thecircleratewithoutfacingadditionaltax.
The move is expected to see a dip in real
estatepricesasdevelopersmaypushsalesto
clear their inventory by reducing prices by
upto20%lowerthanthecirclerate.Incases
where developers don’t bring their prices
down, homebuyers can negotiate for a re-
duction to a price up to 20% lower than the
circlerateintheirarea.Homebuyerswillalso
saveonstampdutyastheywouldbeableto
register their housing unit at a lower price.
SincethesebenefitsareavailabletillJune
2021,homebuyerswhoarelookingfortheir
firsthouseandarenotfacingaseverefinan-
cial constraint can go for their purchase.
Since interest rates are low and likely to re-
mainso inthenearfuture,they willalso see
a lower outgo on their EMIs.

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Improvements to Roads and Drains at Muneshwara Nagara, Near
1 Doddamma Devi Temple, Kattigenahalli and Surrounding area in 88.00 1,76,000/-
Ward No. 05. (Other)
Drilling of Borewell and providing Pump motor and Providing
2 100.00 2,00,000/-
Pipeline in Ward No. 06, Thanisandra. (Other)
Calendar of Events : (1) The tender document can be downloaded from the GOK
e-Procurement website https://eproc.karnataka.gov.in. (2) Pre bid meeting will be held
on 23.11.2020 at 3:00 p.m. in the Office of the Executive Engineer, Byatarayanapura
Division, No. 2152/20, Defence Colony, BWSSB Tank Road, Sahakarnagara, BBMP Office,
Byatarayanapura, Bengaluru-560092. (3) Lat date for uploading the Filled Tender document
is: 26.11.2020 up to 4:00 p.m. (4) Technical Bids will be opened on the website: https://
eproc.karnataka.gov.in in the Office of the Executive Engineer: 27.11.2020 on at 4:05 p.m.
if possible. (5) Date of Opening of Financial bids is on: 30.11.2020 at 11:00 a.m. if possible
(For Two Cover System). Further details may be obtained from the above office, during
office hours or website https://eproc.karnataka.gov.in
Sd/- Executive Engineer, Byatarayanapura Division, BBMP

New Delhi
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GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER (URBAN & NRW),
TASHILING SECRETARIAT PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, JAL BHAWAN,
2-CIVIL LINES JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN
GANGTOK, SIKKIM BID NOTICE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL On behalf of the Governor of Rajasthan, PHED invites bids online in electronic
format on website http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in, from manufacturers for
The Education Department, Government of Sikkim invites Request for Procurement of ISI Marked Asbestos Cement Pressure Pipes Size 80-125mm/
Proposal (Technical & Financial bids) from reputed and experienced CLASS 10, 15 (Conforming to IS 1592:2003, amended/ Revised up to date).
registered Company/Proprietorship firm/ Partnership firm/ Trustees/ For details please visit website www.sppp.rajasthan.gov.in &
Consortium to participate in competitive bidding for selection of an http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in.
TAMILNADU NEWSPRINT AND PAPERS LIMITED Implementing Agency to Survey, Design, Build, Finance, Execute Sd/-
(MUKESH GOYAL)
Unit-1: Kagithapuram – 639 136, Karur Dist. Tamil Nadu. Ph: 04324-277 001 (10 Lines) and Transfer of Greenfield Institute for Higher Education (An SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER
Unit-2 : Mondipatti - 621 306, Trichy District, Tamil Nadu. Ph: 04332-261600 Institute of Execellence/Centre of Excellence) at Chakung, West PHE 2021GLRC06936 MATERIAL MANAGEMENT CIRCLE
NOTICE INVITING TENDERS Sikkim as a Trunkey Project on a Lump sum basis under Public Private DIPR/C/8962/2020 PHED, RAJASTHAN, JAIPUR
Tender No. Description Due Date Partnership in na Design, Build, Finance and Transfer (DBFT) mode.
202113 Providing E-Procurement System (EPS) 25.11.2020 The details of the Request for Proposal (REF) can be viewed and
003700 downloaded from the website www.sikkimtender.gov.in
202123 Double Sided Tape 50 mm (Repulpable) - 50 Mtrs. 25.11.2020 Secretary
001449 for TNPL Unit-II Qty. - 3000 Nos. R.O. No.: 133/IPR/PUB/Classi/20-21
Date: 11/11/2020 Education Department, GoS
Email 202113003700 - purchase.inst@tnpl.co.in
202123001449 - purchasepacking.u2@tnpl.co.in
Detailed terms & conditions, Qty., Tender Fee, EMD are available in Tender
document at our websites: www.tenders.tn.gov.in & www.tnpl.com
Office of the Executive Engineer, KPDCL, ED-2nd, Rajbagh, Srinagar
DIPR/4254/Tender/2020 TNPL - Maker of bagasse based eco-friendly Paper Email ID:xened2nd@gmail.com ;Tel/Fax No. 0194-2311374
Extension Notice No. 1
Due to poor response, the last date for submission of bid in
respect of this office's e-NIT No.ED-II/13 of 2020-21; Dated
02/11/20issued vide this office endorsement No. ED-II/1949-
53/TS; Dated: 03/11/20 (Corrigendum 1 vide No. : ED-II/1982-
86/TS, Dated 04/11/20) having Tender ID :
2020_PDD_108354_1 for "Supply, Installation, Testing and
Commissioning of 50 kVA, 3 Phase 4-Wire Servo Stabilizer at
MD Office, KPDCL, Srinagar" is hereby nowextended with the
details enumerated below :
Last Date for receipt of e-Bids 12-11-2020; 04:00 PM
online (Extended)
Bid Opening Date (Extended) 13-11-2020; 10:30 AM

However, the rest of the terms and conditions as laid down in

the e-NIT shall remain the same.
Sd/-
No.:ED-II/2197-2201/TS Executive Engineer
DIPK-NB=3760 KPDCL, ED-2nd,Rajbagh
Srinagar

SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER DRAINAGE CIRCLE

SMC DRAINAGE COMPLEX DARISH KADAL
KAK SARAI SRINAGAR.
GOVERNMENT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR Corrigendum No:-01
Dated:- 11.11.2020
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER PMGSY (JKRRDA) JAMMU Subject:- RFP For Selection of Consultants:Preparation of Drainage
NOTICE INVITING E-TENDERS Master Plan & Detailed Project Report for Storm Water Drainage System
In Srinagar City in consonance with the Srinagar Metropolitan Region
E-NIT NO: CEJ/PMGSY/609 OF 2020-21 DATED: 07/11/2020 Master Plan (2035)
Chief Engineer PMGSY (JKRRDA) Jammu on behalf of The Government of Jammu & Kashmir, invites e-tenders on %age Above/Excess (+) OR Reference: E-Bid/SMC/SE/D/01 of 2020-21 dated 27.10.2020-
%age Below/ Less (-) basis (i.e. on Percentage-Rate Basis) from approved and eligible Contractors registered with J&K State Govt, CPWD, The following modifications are made to the bid document:-
Railways or equivalent and other State Govts up to 5.00 PM on 23-11-2020 for each of the following works including Defect Liability & Maintenance
Period of three years for Stage-I and five years for Stage-II and Bridge after construction. S. Modification/addition/amendments to original RFP.
No.
Sr. Name of Work/Package No. Name of 1. Exemption in respect of EMD /BID FEE to genuine MSMEs as per norms.
Opening of Tenders
Cost of Documents

Class of ontractor
Time Allowed for

Time and Date of

Earnest Money

No. the PIU

(Rs. in Lacs)

Call of Tender
Consttt. Part
(Rs. in Lacs)

(Rs. in Lacs)

(Rs. in Lacs)

Completion
Maintt. Part

(Rs. in Lacs)

2. The successful bidder shall be allowed to carry out technical design

Total

and other related specialized work from head /home office as long as
a fully established site office, manned by the project management per-
sonnel is maintained by the successful bidder with complete facilities
during the currency of contract at Srinagar. The progress of field sur-
veys etc shall be regularly submitted by the project management unit
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 of the agency stationed at Srinagar.
1 Construction and Maintenance of Road " T01 to Sodam" Package No.JK05-159, Regular 447.68 35.81 483.49 0.06 9.67 12 Months 10th 3. The liquidated damages shall be limited to ten percent of contract value
PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Length 11.000 km, Block Samba, District Jammu
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 447.68 Lacs 4. In view of the defense related issues, SMC shall make all possible
Jammu

efforts in facilitating procurement of satellite imagery of Srinagar city

2 Up-Gradation of road from L034 Sarwan to Rudwan, Package No: JK05-219, PMGSY- 105.59 12.67 118.26 0.06 2.37 09 Months 2nd as required for the implementation of the consultancy contract, but it
II, Block-Vijaypur, District-Jammu (Length = 2.00 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.105.59 Lacs.
shall not be mandatory for SMC to provide the same. The basic
responsibility lies with the successful bidder as per RFP
3 Construction & Maintenance of road from L056-KholiyanTalie to Kathan, Package No:- 454.30 36.34 490.64 0.06 9.81 12 Months 2nd 5. The available data for road network, drainage network etc shall be
ANY REGISTERED CONTRACTOR WITH STATE PWD/CPWD/ RAILWAYS OR EQUIVALENT QUALIFYING ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AS PROVIDED IN THE STANDARD BIDDING DOCUMENTS CAN TENDER FOR THE WORKS

JK07-266, Stage-II, Regular PMGSY Batch-I 2018-19, Block Basohli, District Kathua shared with the bidders as soon as possible.
Length = 9.200 Kms
Kathua

Adv Cost excluding Maintenance but inclusive of GST Rs. 454.30 Lacs 6. The liabilities of the successful bidder shall be limited to the extent of
contract value only.
4 Construction and Maintenance of road from L025-Patrera to Kashir, Package No:-JK07- 311.44 24.92 336.36 0.06 6.73 12 Months 2nd
265, Stage-II, Regular PMGSY Batch-I 2018-19, Block Basohli District Kathua Length All other terms & conditions laid down in the original RFP shall
= 4.575 Kms
Adv Cost excluding Maintenance but inclusive of GST Rs. 311.44 Lacs
remain same.
Sd/- Superintending Engineer
5 Construction and Maintenance of Road from L024 Malhar to Marhoon (Stage-II), 1390.27 111.22 1501.49 0.06 30.03 25 Months 7th
Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Package No JK07-228, Block Lohai Malhar, District Billawar
No:- SE/D/SMC/ Drainage Circle, SMC, Srinagar 190010.
Kathua (Length = 18.433 Kms) DIPK-NB=3800 E-mail ID:- sedrainage001@gmail.com
Advertised Cost excluding Maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 1390.27 Lacs

6 Construction and Maintenance of road from L022-Langa to Charkoo, Package No:- 732.43 58.59 791.02 0.06 15.82 15 Months 14th
JK14-659, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Ghordi, District
Udhampur

Udhampur (Length = 12.000 Kms)

Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.732.43 Lacs

7 Construction and Maintenance of Road from L049-Ser Bala to Kasuri, Package NoJK14- 374.87 29.99 404.86 0.06 8.10 12 Months 10th
616, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Ghordi, District Udhampur
(Length = 6.000 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.374.87 Lacs

8 Construction and Maintenance of Road from L047-Balota to Barrian, Package No:-JK14- 595.86 47.67 643.53 0.06 12.87 15 Months 2nd
678, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Dudu, District Udhampur
(Length = 9.000 Kms)
Ramnagar

Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.595.86 Lacs

9 Construction of 60 Mtr. long Bridge in Km 9th RD 500-600 on Balota to Barrian Road, 177.42 - 177.42 0.06 3.55 09 Months 2nd
Package No:-JK14-538, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2017-18), Block Dudu, District
Udhampur
Adv. Cost including GST = Rs.177.42 Lacs

10 Construction and Maintenance of Road from "L033 Kainthgali to Kounti, Package No:- 525.91 42.07 567.98 0.06 11.36 12 Months 8th
JK14-588, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II Length : 8.800 Kms Block
10.00 A.M.

Panchari District Udhampur.

Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 525.91 Lacs

11 Construction and Maintenance of Road from"Malti to Galiote Part-II, Package No:- 605.06 48.40 653.46 0.06 13.07 15 Months 6th
JK14-586, Regular PMGSY 12 (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II Length : 8.775 Kms Block
Panchari District Udhampur.
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 605.06 Lacs

12 Construction and Maintenance of road from L031 Dera Baba to Tanda, Package No:- 284.64 22.77 307.41 0.060 6.15 09 Months 1st
JK14-614, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Reasi, District Reasi
(Length = 6.000 Kms)
Ramnagar

24.11.2020

Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 284.64 Lacs

13 Construction and Maintenance of road from L021 Gran to Sukhalgath Part-II, Package 1052.58 84.21 1136.79 0.06 22.74 20 Months 1st
No:-JK14-611 Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Reasi, District
Reasi (Length = 15.125 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 1052.58 Lacs

14 Construction and Maintenance of road from L053 Bhaga to Lalesa Marel Part-II, 183.05 14.64 197.69 0.06 3.95 09 Months 1st
Package No: JK14-608 Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Reasi,
District Reasi Length = 3.900 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 183.05 Lacs

15 (i) Construction of balance work of Road from Chassana to Sarsote upto Malikote, 595.57 25.15 620.72 0.06 12.41 15 Months 2nd
Stage-I, Phase V, P.No.JK14-18, Block Mahore, District Reasi Length 10.00 Kms.
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 167.93 Lacs
(ii) Construction of balance work of Road from Malikote to Sarsote, Stage-I, Phase VII, Mahare
P.No.JK14-146, Block Mahore, District Reasi Length 5.00 Kms
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 113.27 Lacs
(iii) Construction and Maintenance of road from L045-Malikot to Sarsote, Package No:-
JK14-650, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I,2018-19), Stage-II, Block Mahore, District
Reasi (Length = 5.000 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs. 314.37 Lacs

16 Construction and Maintenance of Road from L029-Kandni to Ohli Part-II, Package No:- 1015.67 81.25 1096.92 0.06 21.94 20 Months 9th
JK04-602,Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Kishtwar, District
Kishtwar (Length = 14.000 Kms)
Advertised Cost excluding Maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.1015.67 Lacs

17 Upgradation of road from L058 Hidyal Chowk to Bhera via Hergadi, Package No. JK04- 289.94 34.79 324.73 0.06 6.49 12 Months 3rd
Kishtwar

635, PMGSY-II Batch-I 2019-20, Block:- Kishtwar, District Kishtwar. (Length =4.150 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.289.94

18 Construction and Maintenance of Road from l022 Sohal to Kaban Package No:-JK04- 1436.77 114.95 1551.72 0.06 31.03 25 Months 8th
601, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19), Stage-II, Block Paddar, District Kishtwar
(Length = 21.00 Kms)
Advertised Cost excluding Maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.1436.77 Lacs

19 Construction and Maintenance of Road from L024-Sirshi to Chicha Dachhan, Package 230.87 18.47 249.34 0.06 4.99 09 Months 5th
No:-JK04-487, Regular PMGSY (Batch-I, 2018-19),Stage-II, Block Marwah, District Marwah
Kishtwar (Length = 3.600 Kms)
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.230.87 Lacs

20 Construction and Maintenance of Road from L034-Bhargi to Kunan, Package No-JK04- Doda 395.70 31.66 427.36 0.06 8.55 12 Months 1st
502 under PMGSY Regular Batch- I, 2018-19, Block- Bhallessa, Stage-II, Distict:-Doda.
(Length = 9.175 Km
Adv. Cost excluding maintenance but inclusive of GST = Rs.395.70 Lacs

1.(a) The Bidding documents can be downloaded from the website http://pmgsytendersjk.gov.in from 06.55 P.M. On 12.11.2020 to 23.11.2020
(5.00 PM).
(b) The Bids shall be deposited in electronic format on the website http://pmgsytendersjk.gov.infrom 05.00 P.M. on 16.11.2020 to 05.00 P.M. on
23.11.2020.
(c) A Pre bid meeting will be held on 13.11.2020 at 12.00 Noon in the Office of The Chief Engineer PMGSY (JKRRDA) Jammu to clarify the issues
and to answer questions on any matter that may be raised at that stage as stated in Clause 9 of instruction to bidders of the Bidding documents.
2. Only online submission of bids is permitted, therefore; bids must be submitted online on website www.pmgsytendersjk.gov.in. The technical
qualification part of the bids will be opened online at 10 A.M on 24-11-2020 by the authorized officers. If the office happens to be closed on
the date of opening of the bids as specified, the bids will be opened online on the next working day at the same time.
3 For further complete details kindly visit our website http://pmgsytendersjk.gov.in
Sd/-
Chief Engineer , PMGSY (JKRRDA) Jammu,
No: CEJ/PMGSY/ 9662-9732 Government of Jammu & Kashmir
Dated:- 07-11 -2020
DIPK-8872 Jammu and Kashmir

New Delhi
20 CLASSIFIEDS & TENDERS
Classifieds
PERSONAL
I,UZMA NAAZ,W/O MOHD
ZAHID, H.NO-370 3RD-FLOOR,
MATIA-MAHAL JAMA-MASJID
DELHI-110006,HAVE CHENGED
MY NAME TO UZMA
BEGUM,FOR ALL PURPOSES.
0040554939-1
I,USHA RANI W/O RAVINDRA
NATH GULATI R/O
FLATNO.229,POCKET-1,DDA-SFS
FLATS,SECTOR-5,DWARKA,
DELHI-110075. CHANGEDMY
NAMETO USHA RANI GULATI.
0040554939-6
I,Srishti Khurana,D/o-
Kulbhushan Khurana,R/o -527-
A,Street No-2,Vishwas Nagar
Shahdara,Delhi -110032,have
changed my name from
SRISHTI KHURANA to SRISHTI
for all future purposes.
0040554977-1
I,Simmi Verma alias Simmi
Saini,W/o-Virender Singh,R/o-
H.No.328,Second-Floor,Jagriti-
Enclave,Delhi-110092,have
changed my name and shall
hereafter be known as Simmi
Saini 0040554939-4
I,Prarthana Mittal D/o Ajay
Kumar Mittal R/o-C-28, Sector-
56, Noida, Uttar-Pradesh have
changed my name to
Prarthanna Mittal.
0040554965-1
I,Navneet Singh,S/o Ravinder Pal
Singh,H.No.104,Jharsa Road,
Housing Board Colony,
Gurgaon, (Haryana)-
122001,have changed my name
to Navneet Uppal.
0040554965-2
I,Muskan,D/o Tarun Gupta R/o-
C-219, 3RD-FLOOR, ANAND
VIHAR, DELHI- 110092,have
change my name,from Muskan
Gupta to Muskaan Gupta,for all
purposes. 0040554939-3
I, Yaseer Hamid S/o Hamid
Khalil R/o 461/38, 2nd floor,
Zakir Nagar, Okhla, South
Delhi, Delhi-110025 have
changed my name to Yasser
Hamid 0070720734-1
I, Vinod Kumar Mittal S/o Shri
Brij Mohan Lal, R/o 6318, Neem
Wala Chowk, Nabi Karim, Pahar
Ganj, New Delhi-110055, have
change my name to Vinod
Kumar for all purposes.
0040554913-1
I, Vicky Kumar S/o Yogendra
Prasad Gupta R/o Mp Bagh Ck
Road,Arrah, Bhojpur, Bihar
802301, have changed my name
and shall hereafter be Known
as Anurag Kashyap
0070720745-1
I, Ujjwal Sharma S/O Vinod
Kumar Sharma R/o House No-
297, Sec-17, Panchkula,
Haryana-134109, have
changed the name of my minor
daughter Ciara Sharma aged
about 09 Years and she shall
hereafter be known as Amy
Sharma. 0070720775-1
I, Sumitra Yadav W/o Davinder
Kumar R/o-158,Hanuman-
Mandir Haiderpur,Village
Delhi-88,inform that
Suman,Suman Yadav and
Sumitra Yadav is same and one
person. 0040554977-3
I, Shabana,R/o-H.no-A-
2/16,Harijain Basti, Gali
No.3,Kondli,East Delhi-
110096,has corrected my
D.O.B.-07-07-2006,vide affidavit
no. IN-DL02399596669735S,And
for future purposes this will
applicable. 0040554977-2
I, Sarya Bhatia,S/o Kapil Bhatia,
R/o.637, DDA-
Tenements,Vishal-Enclave,
Tagore-Garden, N.D-27,have
changed my name to Saryu
Bhatia. 0040554965-4
I, Sarita W/o Ashok Kumar R/o-
103A,Gupta Enclave, Vikas
Nagar,Delhi,have changed my
name from Sarita to Rinku
Kumari for all purposes.
0040554950-9
I, Sandeep Kumar S/o Meer
Singh R/O B10 17 Akash Ganga,
Arakkonam Camp, Post
Arakonam, Ins Rajali
Arakonam Vellore, Tamil Nadu-
631006, have changed my name
and shall hereafter be Known
as Sandeep Lamba.
0070720747-1
I, SHARVAN KUMAR,S/o
CHANDER DEV MANDAL,R/O-D-
99/1, 2nd-floor, Gali.no-1, New-
Govind Pura Krishna-Nagar,
East/Delhi, DELHI-
110051,changed my name to
SHRAVAN KUMAR,
permanently. 0040554950-2
I, S R Madhuri M Alias K S R
Madhuri Alias Kakaraparthy
Sesha Ratna Madhuri D/o
Mummidivarapu
Kamacharyulu and W/o KCHKN
SRINIVAS R/o Eswara Dharani
Apartment, 7 9 13 Flat A3,
Ramaraopeta, Kakinada
(Urban), Gandhinagar (KKD),
East Godavari, AP-533004, have
changed my name to KSR
Madhuri 0070720754-1
I, Rajender Singh-S/o Shiv Baran
Singh,R/O-19/192,Gali.No-
83,Shiv Kunj, B-Block, Sant-
Nagar, Burari, Delhi-
110084,have changed my name
to Rajinder Singh,permanently.
0040554965-3
We,Jitender Kumra S/o-
Shri.Krishan Kumra and My
Wife Smt.Babita Kumari D/o-
Shri.Bidhi Chand R/o-C-
122,Siddhartha Kunj
Apartment,Plot.No.17,Sector-
7,Dwarka,New Delhi-75,inform
that Jitender and Jitender
Kumra,Babita Kumari and
Babita Kumra are same person
for all,Future purposes as per
affidavit.No.IN-
DL94276996740657S,Dt.17.10.20
20. 0040554939-5
I, Rajeev Kumar Tiwari S/O Mata
Charan Tiwari,H.no.122
Basant-Nagar, Vasant-Vihar,
New Delhi 110057,CHANGED MY
NAME TO Rajeev Tiwari.
0040554939-7
I, Priyanka Kumari D/o Sriniwas
Singh R/o FL No-304-B,
Shardalok Apartment, Nehru
Nagar, Patliputra, Patna, Bihar-
800013, have changed my name
and shall hereafter be Known
as Priyanka Singh
0070720743-1
I, Pradeep Mishra S/O Gokaran
Nath Mishra R/O 218 Gali No-2,
J-2 B Block Gupta Colony
Sangam Vihar Delhi-110080,
declare that name of my father
and mother has been wrongly
written as Gokaran Nath
Mishra and Raj Kumari in my
10th class marksheet and
cartificate and the name of my
father and mother wrorgly
written as Gokaran Nath
Mishra and Raj Kumari in my
12th class marksheet and
cartificate..The actual name of
my father and mother is
Gaukaran Nath and Reeta Devi
respectively which may be
amended accordingly
0070720748-1
I, PYARE LAL, S/O-LAKHI RAM,
ADD-L-1, 2/57, SHANI-BAZAR,
SANGAM-VIHAR DELHI-110062,
CHANGED MY NAME TO PYARE
SINGH, permanently.
0040554950-4
I, MANMINDER SINGH KALSI,
S/O.SANTOKH SINGH,
H.NO.313/49 L/2,35-B,
INDERLOK ONKAR-NAGAR,
NORTH/WEST.DELHI-
110035,CHANGED MY NAME TO
MANMINDER
SINGH,permanently.
0040554950-5
I, PRAVEEN SHARMA,
S/O.JAGDISH CHANDER
SHARMA,ADD-1/11719,B- 1,
NEW NO.F-56, PANCHSHEEL
GARDEN,ST.NO.3, NAVEEN-
SHAHDARA,DELHI
110032,changed my name to
PRAVEEN KUMAR SHARMA,
permanently. 0040554950-7
I, Gopal Krishna Choudhary, S/o
Shri Gauri Shankar Choudhary,
R/oFlat No.A-13, Tower-6, Type-
IV, Kidwai Nagar East, New
Delhi- 110023,have changed my
son’s name from TANMAY
KRISHNA to
TANMAYCHOUDHARY for all
purposes. 0040554866-1
I, GIRISH CHAND,S/O SH.Gopal
Dutt,H.No-570,Type-2,Laxmi Bal
Nagar,New-Delhi,that Girish
Chand and Girish Chandra is
one and the same person.
0040554950-1
I Aman Kumar S/o Prem Nath
Sharma R/o-661/72 Gali.No-8
Jawahar colony
Faridabad,have Changed my
Name to Aman Sharma
0040554920-1
I, DINESH KUMAR,S/O-DHARAM
SINGH YADAV ,ADD-WZ-314,
SHAKURPUR-VILLAGE, DELHI-
34, CHANGED MY NAME TO
DINESH KUMAR YADAV,
permanently. 0040554950-6
I, Choti W/o Ashok Sen R/o D-34
block D, Near Shiv Mandir
Punjabi Basti Baljeet Nagar
New Delhi 110008 have
changed my name to Anita Sen.
0070720749-1
I, CHANDER DEV,S/O-
Bindeshwari Mandal,R/O-A-
39,C-6, Sewa Sadan-Block,
Mandawali,Mandawali-
Fazalpur, Shakarpur,
East/Delhi, Delhi-
110092,changed my name to
CHANDER DEV
MANDAL,permanently.
0040554950-3
I, Atulla Khan,S/o Amirul Hasan,
R/o-B-1242, Near-Government
MCD-School Sawda-
Gheora,Delhi-81,inform that
my father name wrongly-
written as Amiruk Hussain in
my educational-documents
my father actual name is
Amirul Hasan 0040554950-8
I Vijender Partap Yadav S/O,
Lalman Yadav R/o 63 B, Near
Durga Ashram, Chattarpur,
New Delhi 110074 have
changed my name to Vijender
Yadav for all purposes.
0040554881-1
I SUSHIL MOHAN S/O
SH.C.L.KHANDELWAL R/O KU
104 PITAM PURA NORTH WEST
DELHI DELHI 88 HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME FROM SUSHIL
MOHAN KHANDELWAL TO
SUSHIL MOHAN FOR ALL
PURPOSES. 0040554883-1
I Pooja W/O, Om Prakash
Choudhary R/o 194 Ground
Floor, Sec 16 B, Near Odisha
Sadan, Pocket-1, Dwarka,
Delhi-110078 have changed my
name to Meera Devi for all
purposes. 0040554879-1
I Pankaj Devi W/o Manoj Kumar
R/o B-6/41, Sector-5, Rohini,
Delhi-110085, Wrongly Mention
my name Pinky in my Child
School Record but my correct
name is Pankaj Devi.
0040555008-1
I Neeraj Singh Chauhan S/O Jeet
Singh R/O.H.NO-169, Dhakka
Village G.T.B Nagar Delhi-
110009, changed my name to
Neeraj Singh. 0040554939-2
I Binod Kumar Singh S/o Sh.
Kameshwar Singh R/o
H.No.258, Nanak Pura, South
Moti Bagh, New Delhi-110021
have changed the name of my
minor son from David to
Naman Kumar for all purposes.
0040554858-1
LOST & FOUND
It is notified for the information
that my Original Qualifying
Examination mark sheets
andCertificates of Main,
Secondary, Examination of
Year-2002 and Roll No-6395162.
Senior Secondary,
Examination of Year-2004 and
Roll No.-6242510 issued by
CBSE have been actually lost.
Name of the candidate-Vivek
Parashar,Address-H-336,
Rajnagar-2, Palam colony,
New delhi-110077. Ph-
8968430587 0040554965-7
I,Pushpa Gang,W/O Naresh
Gang,R/O-1090,Dr.Mukherjee-
Nagar,Delhi-110009,have lost
my milk food 100 shares of
Folio No.P.4306
Certificate.no.2495
Dist.Nos.207516 to 207565.
Certificate.no.11912
Dist.Nos.593585 to 593634 .
0040554939-9
I, Bal Kishan,S/o-Swarn
Dass,have lost my DDA
Possession letter,NOC, DDA
site Possession slip,for the
address Flat.No.542, Pocket-
6,Sector-B4, Narela, Delhi-
110040.Finder contact:-
9212188809 0040554977-7
I,Manju Jain,D/o H.C.Jain,R/o-A-
45,Pushpanjali-Enclave,New
Delhi-110034,have lost my
original-Building Buyer-
Agreement & Allotment-Letter
of property-bearing No.C-12A-
04, Solera-Group
Housing,Sector-
107A,Gurgaon.Finder contact
me at above said-Address.
0040554965-5
I,Nitin S/o-mehar Singh,R/O-
Chamanpura
(jhajjar)Haryana,have lost my
original-certificate and
marksheet Class-10thYear-
2019 Rollno-8207992 CBSE-
DELHI 0040554965-6
I, NILU YADAV,D/o Ram dayal
yadav R/o-F-146/4, shaheen-
bagh jamia-nagar okhla, Delhi-
110025, have lost my original-
certificate class-12th
year-2007 Rollno-
4232848,CBSE-CHENNAI.
0040554939-8
PUBLIC NOTICE
General Public is hereby informed
that my client S.Gurcharan Singh and
his wife Smt. Rajwant Kaur Both R/o
S-221/33-A, Ground Floor Vishnu
Garden, Gali No.3, Khyala Phase -II
Delhi-110018 ,have severed all social
relation with her Daughter
Kamalpreet Kaur. My clients have
disowned and debarred from their all
movable and immovable properties,
anybody dealing with her shall do so
at his/her/their own risks and
responsibilities for the same.
M.K.Sharma (Advocate),
Ch. No.201,SIB (AuthorityBuilding),
Janakpuri-New Delhi-58
PUBLIC NOTICE
It is for the information of general public
that my client Sh. Anil Manchanda S/o
Late Sh. M.L. Manchanda and Smt.
Kusum Manchanda, W/o Sh. Anil
Manchanda both are R/o F-129A, First
Floor, Mansrover Garden, Delhi have
disowned his/her Son namely Sh. Sahil
Manchanda and his wife namely Smt.
Aakansha Salhotra from all her/his
movable and immovable properties and
severed all his/her relations with them.
My clients shall not be responsible in
future for any acts and deeds of their
disowned son and his wife.
Sd/- (NAVEEN THAKUR)
ADVOCATE
OFFICE AT: M-138, SHIVAJI MARKET,
RAGHUBIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI
PUBLIC NOTICE
Under the instructins from and on behalf of my
client’s Shri Mohd. Ilyas Khan aged 66 years
old S/o Late Niaz Mohd. R/o C-12/484,
Yamuna Vihar, Delhi-110053, I hereby
release the Public Notice to public at large
that my above said client have disowned and
disinherited his son Ameer Afzal Khan aged
about 32 years from all his movable,
immovable properties, agriculture land in the
native village, assets and deposits in all
respects and all social affairs as the above
said son of my client had become unfaithful,
disrespectful, disobedient and who along with
his wife had left my old age client and his wife
at this juncture when entire world is fighting for
pandemic CORONA virus disease and if he
does any wrongful act/acts, civil or criminal,
then my client and his other family members
are not liable or responsible for the same
done by him.
Sd/- RIAZ MOHD. (Advocate)
Ch. No. C-177, G.L. Joseph Block,
Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54
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PUBLIC NOTICE
MY CLIENTESS SMT. GINNO
GOTHWAL W/O LATE SH. KISHORI
LAL GOTHWAL R/O H.NO. A-77,
ASHOK VIHAR PHASE-3 DELHI-
110052 HAVE SEVERED ALL
RELATIONS AND DEBAR HER
DAUGHTER SMT. USHA NINDAWAT
@ BABLI W/O SH. HEM CHAND
NINDAWAT FROM THEIR ALL
MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE
PROPERTIES DUE TO THEIR
DISOBEDIENCE AND OUT OF
CONTROL BEHAVIOUR, MY
CLIENTS WILL NOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ANY
ACTS/ DEEDS IN FUTURE.
Sd/- R.D. DUBEY (ADV.)
CHAMBER NO. 5TH FLOOR 515,
ROHINI COURTS DELHI
PUBLIC NOTICE
BE IT KNOWN TO GENERAL PUBLIC AT
LARGE that my client MRS. RAMAN TULI
R/o F-14A, Single Story, Ground Floor,
Vijay Nagar, Delhi-110009 has severed all
her relation and connections from her elder
son namely Sh. SUMIT TULI @ Lucky and
has disowned him and all his legal heirs/
family members (Wife and children) from
all movable and immovable properties in
all manners on account of his misconduct,
misbehaviour beyond control and
disobedient behaviour. Henceforth, my
client shall not be responsible for acts,
deeds and things of his abovenamed elder
son and anyone dealing with him in any
manner shall be doing so at thier own risk
and responsibility and my client is not
responsible in any manner.
Sd/- RISHABH GUPTA
Advocate
D-2/9, Model Town-III, Delhi-110009
PUBLIC NOTICE
It is hereby inform that my client Madhu Puri
W/o Sh. Sunil Puri R/o B-201, Apex Green
Valley, Sector-9, Vaishali, Gaziabad, U.P.
was the owner of Flat no. 65 D/C Siddhartha
Extension, New Delhi sold the said property to
Smt. Usha Goel through registered sale deed.
Further the General power of Attorney Reg. at
Sub Registrar New Delhi vide Reg. no. 2400,
Book No. 4, Vol. no. 2454 Page no. 170-173,
Possession Letter, allotment letter in respect
of above captioned Property is lost. The lost is
reported vide LR no. 721435/2020 dated
9.11.2020 with Ps Crime Branch Delhi.
I hereby notify that any person/Firm/
Company/ Bank (except mentioned above or
otherwise and/ or objection there of
He/She/They may lodge notify the same to
the undersigned with documentary proof
within 15 days from the date of publication,
failing which the title shall be determined be
clear and marketable without any defect
encumbrance Flaw and impediment. My client
as well as further owner is free to create/
transfer/ mortgage/ registered any further
document as and when required.
Sd/- Naveen Kumar Tripathi
Advocate
Off. at 219-D/C, Siddhartha Extension,
New Delhi-14
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public at large is hereby informed
that my client Shri. Satish Kumar has
lost the original documents of his
property bearing no. E-31-22 First
Floor, Park Elite Floors, Parklands,
Sector-85, Village Budhena,
Faridabad East, Haryana, 121003.
Anybody found the same may be
returned to the undersigned.
Anybody deal with that property shall
do the same at his /her/ their cost,
risk, peril and consequences.
Sd/- Dalip Singh Advocate
Ch. No. 184-A Patiala House
Courts New Delhi
Mob - 9953096660
PUBLIC NOTICE
General Public is hereby informed
that my Client Smt. Leela Parsad,
w/o Late Sidheshwar Prasad, R/o-
H.No- 17 Block-A, Janta Flat DDA,
Near Hanuman Mandir, Kalka Ji,
South Delhi-110019, have PUBLIC NOTICE
disowned her son Sh. Sanjay BE IT KNOWN TO ALL
Kumar and his wife Smt. Madhvi CONCERNED that my client Mr.
from all movable and immovable Mohd. Nadeem son of Sh. Mohd.
Properties due to their Mumtaz resident of 301-A, Top
misbehaviour. If future whosoever Floor, Gali No. 6, Zakir Nagar,
deals with him deal on their own Jamia Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi-
risk and my client will not be 110025 had executed a General
responsible for their action. Power of Attorney dated
MD. TAUHEED ARSHI (Advt.) 01.11.2020 in favour of Mohd.
Enrl. No. D/7618/2017 Parvez S/o Md. Yusuf, resident of
F-12/21, F-Block, Jogabai
Extension, Jamia Nagar, New
Delhi-110025 and appointed him
PUBLIC NOTICE as his true and lawful General
To be known to all that my client
SHAKUNTALA W/O LATE SHRI SRI
Attorney in respect of his property
CHAND R/O DDA MIG FLAT NO. 24-C, No. R-155/4, admeasuring 65 sq.
SECOND FLOOR, BLOCK-KD, ASHOK yards, consisting into Three
VIHAR, PHASE-I, DELHI- 110052 purchaser
of DDA MIG FLAT NO. 24-C, SECOND
Bedrooms, One Lobby, One
Kitchen, One Toilet and Bathroom,
FLOOR, BLOCK-KD, ASHOK VIHAR,
PHASE-I, DELHI- 110052 want to apply for One Balcony with One Two
conversion of the aforesaid flat from lease
Wheeler Parking at Ground Floor
hold to free hold in DDA. Original documents
Part of Khasra No. 256, situated at
i.e. Demand Letter, Handing Over
Possession, Site Possession Slip have been Gali No.4, Jogabai Extension,
lost. An FIR vide LR No. 727933/2020 dated
Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025
12.11.2020 has lodged in P.S. Crime Branch
Delhi for loss of documents. Any person(s) but for his personal reasons and
claiming any right, interest, having any consideration, it has become
objection or found in possession of original
necessary for him to revoke all the
documents, may write /contact with above
powers conferred in favour of his
named person at above address/phone No.
9312246862 within 15 days from the date of said attorney, therefore by this
publication of this notice. The person claiming
any right, interest, objections with respect to
public notice, he has cancelled the
this property can personally inform or write to said General power of Attorney,
Dy. Director (LAB Housing MIG), D Block, 3rd absolutely and completely and
Floor, Vikas Sadan, INA, New Delhi.
revoke all powers or authority
KAMAL SINGH (ADVOCATE)
QU-259-A, PITAMPURA, DELHI-88 thereby and thereunder given to
him before revocation either
expressly or impliedly to do all
acts, deeds intents and purposes
PUBLIC NOTICE regarding the said property. By this
This is to inform general public that Publication, the attorney executed
Sh. Varun Sharma and Smt. Deeksha
in his favour is void and invalid.
Khurana, jointly wish to purchase
Entire First Floor of property bearing
Sd/- Mohd. Asif (Adv.) OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (EAP)-III
Office: P-1A, G/F, Batla House,
No. S-393, Greater Kailash-I, Delhi
Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025 DELHI JAL BOARD, GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI
from Sh. Sukjinder Singh and Smt.
O.H.T. ASHOK VIHAR, NEW DELHI 110052
Sarbjeet Kaur, both R/o 1st Floor, S-
if3 10hRLY(10)
393, Greater Kailash-I, Delhi. That any Press NIT NO:- 02 (2020-21)
person/s having any claim whatsoever
with respect to the above stated
''IMPORTANT'' SI. Name of work Amount put to Earnest Money Date of release of Last date/time
property or the said Plot of Land is No. tender (EMD) and tender in E- of receipt of
required to give notice of the same to Whilst care is taken prior to Tender fees Procurement solution tender
the undersigned within 15 days from 1. Distribution System improvement in UGR command Civil- Rs. EMD Rs. Tender ID no. 04.12.2020 up
the date of publication hereof, acceptance of advertising areas of Punjabi Bagh (G-02), Pitampura (H-06) and 189,43,13,916/- 3,06,00,000/- 2020_DJB_196617_1 to 3:00 PM
together with copies of documents copy,itisnotpossibleto verify Lawrence Road (H-08) targeting continuous pressurized E&M- Rs. Tender Fee Dated: 11.11.2020.
forming basis of such claim, failing water supply and DMA based NRW Reduction and 18,35,13,207/- Rs. 1500/-
which it shall be concluded that there its contents. The Indian Providing House service connections Package-2 O&M- Lump Sum
is no claim whatsoever against the
above said property.
Express (P) Limited cannot be Pre-bid meeting will be held on 19.11.2020 at 11:00 a.m. in the Conference Hall, Varunalya Phase-II, Jhandewalan, Karol Bagh,
Sd/- TANUJ KHURANA (Advocate) held responsible for such New Delhi-110005. The NIT is available with bid forms and other details at http://govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in. Any future
D/814/2004
contents, nor for any loss or amendment/corrigendum, pre-bid reply etc. can only be seen on website.
M: +919717215434
Sd/-
damage incurred as a result of ISSUED BY PRO (WATER)
transactions with companies, Advt. No. J.S.V. 223 (2020-21) EE (EAP)-III
PUBLIC NOTICE associations or individuals “STOP CORONA - WEAR MASK, FOLLOW PHYSICAL DISTANCING & MAINTAIN HYGIENE”
Be it known to all concerned that my
clients Shri Veer Singh son of Shri Jai advertising in its newspapers
Ram and Smt. Santosh wife of Shri
Veer Singh resident of H. No. 291. or Publications. We therefore
Rabidass Gali, Ambedkar Marg,
recommend that readers
Mandawali Fazalpur, Delhi- 110092,
have disowned and debarred their
make necessary inquiries
daughter Smt. Himanshi Rani wife of
Shri Anil Kumar resident of A-41, First before sending any monies or
Floor, S. K. Tailor Gali, Basant Gaon,
Delhi from their all movable, immovable entering into any agreements
properties as she is disobedient, ill
tempered, dishonest, untrustworthy with advertisers or otherwise
nature and who got married to Mr. Anil acting on an advertisement in
Kumar on 30/06/2016, without seeking
proper consent of my clients and she any manner whatsoever.
interfare in all personal matter of my
clients which cause immense torture to
my clients and my clients have severed all
family and social relations with their
above daughter and her husband Anil
Kumar. My clients shall not be held
responsible for any acts deeds and
Details of the Tender Notices of
transaction of their disowned daughter
S.C Railway can be seen on our
and her husband and spouse. Any person website : www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in
dealing with them be doing so at her own
e-procuremebt Tender
PUB/0935
risk and responsibility.
Sd/- DINESH KUMAR (ADVOCATE)
Office: F-18, Street No. 1, Mandawali
Notice No. 178
Unchepar, Delhi- 110092. The following tenders and corrigendum
notice have been floated through e-
Procurement. Tenderers are requested
PUBLIC NOTICE to visit the web-site www.ireps.gov.in
My client Daya Krishan Kapoor and submit their offers. It may be noted
S/O Shri Krishan Kapoor R/O
1/5743A, Gali No. 15, Old Balbeer that the offers submitted manually
Nagar, Shahdara, East Delhi, or on paper will not be accepted.
Delhi-110032 has disowned his O ff e r s s e n t b y p o s t a r e n o t
daughter in law Komal Kapoor
W/o Late Rahul Kapoor from his entertained:
all movable and immovable
properties and severed all relation
Tender No. TMC202007
with her due to her disobedience. Description: Supply of PLC MOD,
My client shall not be responsible
Power Supply & PLC Battery Lithium
for her any acts.
Sd/- D.P. SHUKLA & for the use of RGM
MEENAKSHI Due date: 03.12.2020
(Advocates)
Corrigendum No.1 to the tender
Ch. No. 521, Saket Courts,
New Delhi-17 notice no. 177 (e-Procurement
Tender Notice).
Te n d e r N o t i c e N o . & D a t e :
Tender Notice No. 177 of 04.11.2020
Tender No. : TMC2020003
Description: Due date of Tender
opening is postponed to 09.11.2020 to
17.11.2020 and Acceptable Makes are
changed.
For complete details please refer
www.ireps.gov.in.
Dy. Chief Engineer/TM/HQ/
A1254/20 Secunderabad
For further tender conditions /
details and for downloading the
tender documents,
Please visit website at
http://www.ireps.gov.in or
www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in
New Delhi
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CROSSWORD 4275
ACROSS
1 Unusually smart do for film
eminence (7)
5 Questions about shoes
(5)
8 Drawn level with having been
passed and left behind
(9)
9 Food and drink (3)
10 Sordid purpose (4)
12 A factor in mathematics
(8)
14 Two men, one customer
(6)
15 Pensive - about wanting a
family? (6)
17 and 1 Down: A spell of
shocking weather (8,5)
18 Capital solo composition
(4)
21 Lettuce-producing small
companies (3)
22 One is never sorry to have
them (2,7)
24 Seats of learning, perhaps
(5)
25 The height of a severe storm
(7)
SolutionsCrossword4274:Across:1Clear-cut,5Clef,9Plaid,10Workman,11
Runningcosts,13Creche,14Circle,17Overbalances,20Drastic,21Leave,22Dado,
23Playpens.Down:1Copy,2Erasure,3Ridinghabits,4Unwind,6Limes,7Finished,
8Fractionally,12Accorded,15Cremate,16Glycol,18Eland,19Lens.
JUMBLED WORDS
CALENDAR 21
OVER THE HEDGE by Michael Fry & T Lewis
DAY TODAY
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)
Relatively serious
decisions should be
considered, but not
necessarily taken.
You are right in seeing this as a
time for meditation on the
issues rather than definite
concrete action. Your
circumstances are changing,
and you may want to wait until
things have settled down.
TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)
Think very carefully
about your long-
term hopes and
wishes, and make
CALVIN & HOBBES by Bill Watterson sound and sensible plans to get
what you want. It’s a day to
listen to advice, read
instructions, and generally pay
heed to people who know what
they’re talking about. They, in
DOWN their turn, may find that your
1 See 17 Across ideas are a lot more creative
2 Girl comes up with a greeting than they realised.
(3)
3 Girlfriend who could be blind GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)
or stoned (4) Today’s lunar
4 Compensate with cosmetics? patterns offer you all
(4,2) the chances you
5 It could result in deflation need to deal with
being on the way (8) routine chores and tasks. This
6 These mixed harm poets (9) may sound rather dull, but get
7 He plays havoc with well- as much as you can under your
proportioned limbs (7) belt today and you’ll thank your
11 Work and play may be the good sense at the weekend. By
same to them (9) the way, if you want to slip out
13 Foreshadows a stoppage in the
docks (8)
MARVIN by Tom Armstrong of an obligation, next week
could give you the chance.
14 Having forced a way in I’d CANCER (June 22 - July 23)
creep around (7) Mercury’s
16 New way to recite a church relationship with
service (6) Venus favours
19 Beginning working as a film sensible people
actor (5) doing sensible things in
20 Though socially acceptable in sensible ways. It also enables
time, it gives one the shivers you to do the practical work
(4) necessary to get your dreams
23 First offender caught in the off the drawing board. First of
very act (3) all, though, you’ll have to pay
the costs, and these could be
greater than expected.
LEO (July 24 - Aug 23)
If you enjoy intrigue
and behind-the-
scenes manipulation,
as we all do to some
DifficultyLevel5s
degree or another, you may do
SOLUTION SUDOKU 4291
BY PETER VIDAL
LIBRA (Sept 24 - Oct 23)
Your stars are
generally optimistic
and advantageous,
so if you are anxious
to get off the treadmill at work,
now would seem to be a good
time to do it. Find ways to
lighten up! Over the next
few days, you will be
free to question your
professional priorities –
with positive results.
SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
You are much too
sensible to blame
the stars for
anything that goes
wrong. Yet now that the Moon
is gracing you with its
benevolent rays you must
realise that the celestial
configuration shares some
responsibility for your
major achievements.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23 - Dec 22)
There’s definitely an
undercurrent in the
air today. You’re
never happy when
emotions get intense and
feelings run high, and that is
just what is likely to happen.
You’ll probably be left in the
dark regarding a number of
significant questions, just
for now.
CAPRICORN (Dec 23 - Jan 20)
Your financial
affairs certainly
look set to prosper.
Bear in mind the
following general principles:
luxuries are better buys than
necessities and pleasure will
be more profitable than pain.
In love, it’s time to mend
fences and heal a rift. Be
generous in victory.
AQUARIUS (Jan 21 - Feb 19)
Anyone who tells
you that you’re
incompetent,
inefficient and
irresponsible is likely to be sent
away with a flea in their ear.
And quite right, too. Why
should people pick on you just

your best now. There is much because you have your own
Instructions that you can do to help other way of doing things? There’s
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theanswerforthegivenquip. thanks in a few days’ time. PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)

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5s=VeryHard;6s= doubts,consulttheexpertsone there is nothing you
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020 5 NEWCOMERS IN AUS SQUAD
Australia named five uncapped players in a 17-member Test squad for
the four-match series against India, starting December 17. Squad: Tim
Paine (c), Sean Abbott, Joe Burns, Pat Cummins, Cameron Green,
Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon,
Michael Neser, James Pattinson, Will Pucovski, Steve Smith, Mitchell
Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Matthew Wade, David Warner PTI

D grade in UAE before touchdown in Australia

Some Indian players land in Australia after rather forgettable outings in the recently-concluded Indian Premier League
TUSHARBHADURI
NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER12
THE IPL is over, and it’s time to turn our atten-
tiontothemarqueeinternationalcontestcom-
ing up, India’s tour of Australia. With no other
competitive matches to follow, we look at the
IPL form of the players who would be featur-
ing in the bilateral series in Australia.
Rahane’s woes
AjinkyaRahane,whowillbeleadingIndia
in three Tests after Virat Kohli returns for pa-
ternity leave, has had diminishing returns in
the IPL. To captain in Australia is difficult
enough in any situation, but Rahane, a man
who thrives when backed, will now head to
thatchallengewithconcernsoverhispersonal
form.HestruggledtogetintoDelhiCapitalsXI
in the initial phase and when he got a chance,
he didn’t set the stands alight. In the eight in-
nings he played, apart from a 60 while chas-
ing a middling total againstRoyal Challengers
Bangalore, the 32-year-old didn’t provide the
desiredsolidity.Rahanewasoutforsingle-digit
scores in five knocks.
Shaw’s opening troubles
Mayank Agarwal and Rohit Sharma have
had injuries of varying degrees in the IPL, and
if itflaresupagain,Indiamighthavetoturnto
Prithvi Shaw in the Tests. However, with his
lastsevenscoresintheIPLreading4,0,0,7,10,
bowled in one of them and bowled his full
quota of four overs in just one game.
Umesh, out of sight... and mind?
With figures of 0/48 and 0/35 (three
overs) Umesh Yadav was deemed surplus to
requirements by RCB after just two games.
Even after playing 46 Tests, the pacer is
dogged by inconsistency. He doesn’t have
happy memories of the previous tour Down
Underwhenhewastheweaklinkona pace-
friendly Perth pitch. With Bhuvneshwar
KumaroutwithinjuryandIshantSharmaon
his way back from one, it could have opened
the door for Umesh, but it seems Navdeep
Saini has moved ahead of him.
Is Pant turning the corner?
One swallow doesn’t make a summer.
RishabhPanthadaforgettableIPLandlooked
apaleshadowofthefree-scoringbatsmanthat
he usually is. A knock of 56 under pressure in
the final may restore some confidence in a
player who is not in the white-ball scheme of
things for the Australian tour. An injury in the
middle of the campaign didn’t help matters,
but Pant seemed to be struggling against the
tactic of bowling outside his hitting arc. He
scored 343 runs at an average of 31.18, but a
strike rate of just over 113 and nine sixes in 14
matchesdoesn’tusuallymakethedesiredim-
pact in T20 games.
Will Thakur get a game?
WHAT ABOUT
THE AUSSIES
MARCUSSTOINIS: With352runsin
17gamesatanaverageof over25
andstrikerateof almost150,
coupledwith13wickets,hecouldbe
athreatforIndia.
DAVID WARNER: Had another
500-plus runs season (548 in 16
games, average 39.14, strike rate
134.64). The left-hander will be a
big threat on home turf.
STEVE SMITH: His struggles after
two fifties early on were a big
reason for Rajasthan Royals
finishing at the bottom. But it will
be foolish to write Smith off.
PAT CUMMINS: Got 12 wickets in
14 games but often got big scalps –
such as Smith, Jonny Bairstow, Ben
Stokes, Rahane and Dhawan.
JOSH HAZLEWOOD: He
inexplicably played just three
games for CSK even though he
hardly let the team down.
ALEXCAREY: Hereplacedthe
injuredRishabhPantforthree
Shikhar Dhawan walks out of the Sydney airport. Team India began its 14-day quarantine on Thursday. BCCI gamesbutdidn’thavemuchimpact.
GLENN MAXWELL: Didn’t do a lot
with the bat for KXIP but delivered

How the mainstays fared

9, 0, the youngster won’t be full of confidence
ashewasdroppedbyDelhiCapitalsplayingXI
forthebusinessendofthetournament. Apart
from mental blues, technical deficiencies too
hadcreptin:aproblemagainstpacyshortball
was ever present and the swinging delivery
around off stump too had him lamely poking
away from the body. Trent Boult had him on
toast, so could Mitchell Starc and Josh
Hazlewood.
Was Kuldeep even there?
Nottoolongago,KuldeepYadavwaspartof
an irresistible double spin attack for India in
white-ball cricket and was touted for success
in Tests as well. But the chinaman bowler
seems to have been found out by a lot of op-
positionteams,somuchsothatKolkataKnight
RiderspreferredVarunChakravarthyoverhim.
Yadav played just five matches, wasn’t even
ShardulThakurfindshimselfinthejumbo
touringparty,pencilledintheODIsquad,prob-
ablyonlybecauseof theuniquecurrentsitua-
tion. Playing for the struggling Chennai Super
Kings, the medium pacer was often targeted
bytheoppositionandhadareturnof10wick-
etsinninematches.Notblessedwithlightning
speed, Thakur will have to be ultra-accurate
and get the ball to deviate if he gets a chance.
Pandey under scanner
SuryakumarYadav’somissionfromthetour
islikelytoputthespotlightonManishPandey.
He played throughout Sunrisers Hyderabad’s
campaign and with the side heavily depend-
entonDavidWarner,hewasexpectedtoshare
someof theburden.Pandeycametotheparty
off and on, but his technique of giving himself
room and staying beside the line was often
foundwantingagainstqualitypaceorspin.
VIRAT KOHLI: The Indian skipper
didn’t have the greatest of IPLs by his
lofty standards, with 466 runs in 15
games with three half-centuries.
ROHIT SHARMA: His fitness was the
subject of more conjecture than his
form. The Mumbai Indians skipper
managed 332 runs in 12 games but
came good in the final.
SHIKHAR DHAWAN: He had a
purple patch in the middle of the
tournament when he scored two
consecutive hundreds as he
finished as the second-highest run-
getter. But he had his share of low
scores as well, a reflection of his
international career.
KL RAHUL: The Orange Cap winner
couldn’t take his team to the playoffs
and there was some criticism about
his strike rate as well though his past
suggests that he will bat lot more
aggressively for India.
HARDIK PANDYA: He was in scary
hitting form throughout the
competition and bowlers were often
clueless on where to bowl to him. His
strike rate of close to 180 was one of
the reasons for Mumbai Indians
retaining the trophy.
RAVINDRA JADEJA: With the CSK
batting floundering, he was more
useful lower down the order with the
bat than with his left-arm spin.
MOHAMMEDSHAMI: Oneof the
shininglightsforKXIP,heregularlygot
wicketswiththenewballandkept
thingsincheckatthedeath.Hedispl-
ayedimpressivecontrolontheyorker.
JASPRIT BUMRAH: With 27 wickets
and an economy rate of 6.73, MI’s
banker was his usual self, delivering
wickets and breaking the back of the
opposition.
TUSHARBHADURI
some handy spells with the ball. He
had been in great batting form for
Australia coming into the IPL.
JAMES PATTINSON: With 11
wickets in 10 games, he was a useful
cog in MI’s potent pace attack.
NATHAN COULTER-NILE: A
sporadic inclusion, his bowling
was key for MI in the final.
AARON FINCH: Largely struggled
with the bat and was eventually
dropped in favour of compatriot
Josh Philippe.
ADAM ZAMPA: Played just three
games but was at his best in the
last game against Sunrisers (1/12
in 4 overs).

How Pak gamers joined hands for

Kashmiri’s Indian PUBG team
GAURAV BHATT
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 12
HIS E-SPORTS venture in disarray after the
PUBG ban in India, a Kashmiri teenager
reached out across the border -- and got
players from Pakistan to represent his team
for the qualifiers of a pro league.
Two months ago, Stalwart Esports, a
professional gaming outfit owned by 18-
year-old Zeyan Shafiq from Anantnag, se-
cured India a slot in the PUBG Mobile Pro
League (PMPL) South Asia qualifiers. But
with its roster of Indian players unavailable
to compete with the popular mobile game
banned since September due to concerns
over its links to Chinese companies, Shafiq
reached out to members of the Pakistani
champions, Team Freestyle.
They agreed. And although the India-
Pakistan collaboration failed to advance
through the regional event, which con-
cluded earlier this week, it was a win-win
for the fans, and Shafiq.
“When you have got the determination
nothing could stop you, not even the
ban!!!! Divided by borders and disputes,
united by esports,” read the announcement
by Stalwart Esports on Twitter last month.
“If I have an option to pick a player from
a country with which we don't have good
ties, but if that player is really skilled and I
know if he will join my roster he can do
wonders, why shouldn't I provide a
chance?” Shafiq told The Indian Express
from Anantnag.
He said that he hasn't let go of his Indian
players -- “they are my family” -- and with
PUBG slated to relaunch soon with a shift
to Microsoft, the rendezvous with Pakistan
remains a one-off.
Shafiq's outfit wasn't the only Indian
team to look for help from neighbours.
FutureStation and Element Esports bor-
rowed players from Bangladesh and Nepal,
respectively. But the apprehension around
Pakistani players representing an Indian
team was high, says Shafiq.
“When we took the decision, there were
some negative aspects in mind as well,” said
Shafiq. “If we would have faced backlash,
we would have taken some action. But the
majority understood that we were helpless
and would have had to give up the berth.
They welcomed the decision, and we were
happy to continue.”
In Pakistan, meanwhile, the competitive
Anantnag resident Zeyan Shafiq, the
owner of the eSports team Stalwarts
eSports which fielded Pakistani players
to represent the Indian team at the
PUBG Mobile Pro League.
PUBG season had been ravaged by Covid
and a ban of their own in July. So Team
Freestyle, the inaugural Pakistani champi-
ons in 2018, jumped at the opportunity.
Bonding
“We received Stalwart's email and
thought it would be a great opportunity,”
said Abdul Haseeb Nasir, aka Black in the
PUBG circuit. “It was a lot of fun. Our per-
formance was up and down but experiences
like these help you form bonds. They are
from India, we are from Pakistan. But we
were getting support from both countries.”
Nasir, who played under-16 cricket in
Rawalpindi before PUBG took priority, is a
20-year-old cult figure in Pakistan -- not only
because of his virtual exploits but also as the
“saviour” who helped lift the ban in his
country on the favourite game of millions.
On July 2, citing a suicide case, Pakistan
Telecommunications Authority (PTA) an-
nounced the ban stating that “the game is
addictive, wastage of time, and poses a se-
rious negative impact on the physical and
psychological health of children”.
This move came on the cusp of a Global
Finals appearance for Team Freestyle, who
had to compete over Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs). The resulting lag and
data loss meant they stood no chance in a
game dictated by split-second frames.
Nasir spent most of the rest of July at the
Islamabad High Court after filing a petition
against the ban.
“I stood in the sun for days, engaged in a
legal battle trying to convince that this is
nothing illegal. People often say 'this is a
game about guns and killing people, don't
let your kids play'. I argued that this is just
a game. Banning it will only be detrimental
for Pakistan,” said Nasir. “The ban was lifted
within a month and people who didn't even
play competitively knew that Black from
Freestyle did this.”
That community, however, threatened
to turn on Team Freestyle when Stalwart
came calling. “We were getting some hate
initially. For Stalwart, the question was 'why
are you picking players from Pakistan?' For
us, it was 'why are you playing for India?'"
said Nasir, who pacified his supporters by
reminding them that they will be addressed
as “players from Pakistan”.
“We explained that the slot is because
of India, but Pakistan is being represented in
the competition. We said 'instead of four
teams from Pakistan, now there were five.
You should be happy',” he said.
Tensions dissipated once the competi-
tion began. Over four days and against 19
opponents, Stalwart Esports ebbed and
flowed. But the live chat was flooded with
viewers professing love for the India-
Pakistan collaboration.
Shafiq believes the showing bodes well
for South Asian teams, a region which has
historically struggled against heavyweights
from East and Southeast. “I do understand
there are political disputes. But this is high
time we rise above them and show some
unity, at least in the gaming aspect. There
were many negative comments because
India and Pakistan joined forces. But over-
all, the reaction was mature,” said Shafiq. “I
will sum it up with one comment I saw:
'India + Pakistan = OP (overpowered).”
"There might be problems between the
countries, but this unites us," asserts Nasir.
"Believe me, we have as many supporters
from India as we do from Pakistan. Every
day they reach out to us via DMs, and you
can't explain how it feels. In those mo-
ments, it doesn't matter who is from India
or Pakistan. The love we get is the same
from both."

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