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OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER

MAJ ANURAG SRIVASTAVA, SC
(POSTHUMOUS)
In fond remembrance of Major Anurag Srivastava,
SC (Posthumous) who was martyred in a counter
infiltration operation in Kupuwara, Jammu and
Kashmir on 11 Jan 1996. He was commissioned
into 2 MECH INF [1 JAT (LI)] on 27 Aug 1983.
"Sherry" as he was fondly known shall always
inspire "The Royal Jats"
Colonel Prakash Prasad and All Ranks
2 MECH INF [ 1 JAT (LI)]
PR 287164 NREP(22-23).D
N.R.E.P.-1, RANCHI
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e-Procurement Notice
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tender www.jharkhandtendrs.gov.in
Date of Publication of Start Date 11.01.2023 to 11.00 AM
4.
Tender on Website End Date 20/01/2023 up to : 11.00 AM
Start Date 11.01.2023 Time : 11.00 AM
5. Bids online Submission
End Date 20/01/2023 Time : 11.00 AM
Hard Copy Submission
6. Date 20/01/2023 Time : 12.01 PM
Date POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL
Technical Bid Oppening EDUCATION & RESEARCH CHANDIGARH
7. Date 21/01/2023 Time : 11.00 AM Varthana Finance Private Limited
Date CORRIGENDUM (Formerly known as Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,)
Executive Engineer Ref: Global Tender Enquiry Notice Registered Office at : No. 5BC-110, Varasiddhi. Outer Ring Road, Service Road,
No. PI(EP)/22-23/G/07 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore-560043. Website www.varthana.com,
National Rural Employement program, Following changes are made: Email: care@varthana.com, Phone: 080-68455777, Branch Office : Office No 402, 4th floor ,Prateek Center,
Ranchi. 1. For the tender item at Sr. No.12 Near AU Small Bank, Sanjay Place , Agra 282002.
Officer Inviting Bids (Multidetector CT Scanner with dual ener-
Address : Executive Engineer POSSESSION NOTICE [Rule 8(1)] (For Immovable property)
gy (256 Slice) for Neurosciences Centre)
N.R.E.P. -1, Ranchi the bid submission dates and bid opening Whereas, The undersigned being the Authorized Officer of the M/s. Varthana Finance Private
Vikash Bhawan, Ranchi. dates have been amended as under: Ltd., (Formerly Known as M/s. Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,) Agra, Under the

Bid Submission date from 09.01.2023
Executive Engineer to 13.01.2023
Securitisation and Reconstruction of FinancialAssets and Enforcement of Security InterestAct,

Bid Opening date from 10.01.2023 to 2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section 13(12) read with Rule 3 of
N.R.E.P. -1, Ranchi 16.01.2023.
All other details shall remain the same. Demand Notice
the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued a
PROFESSOR IN-CHARGE (EP)
dated: 26-10-2022, calling upon the Applicants/
Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors, In Loan Account
No's. S17AGR-AGR-000096, S20AGR-AGR-
015265 & S21AGR-AGR-016994. 1). M/s. RBS
Public School, Represented by Authorized
Signatory, 2). M/s. Rajbahadur Singh Shiksha
Samiti, Represented by Authorized Signatory, No.
1 and 2 are having office at: Village & Post
Bhagupur (Haveli), Etmadpur Tehsil, Bhagupur,
Haveli, Agra - 283202., 3). Mr. Kripal Singh, S/o.
Raj Bahadur Singh, 4). Mrs. Hemlata Devi, W/o.
Kripal Singh, No. 3 and 4 are residing at Bhagupur,
Haveli Etmadpur, Agra, Uttar Pradesh – 283202., to
repay the mentioned amount in the said notice being a sum of Rs. 23,36,321/- (Rupees Twenty
Three Lakh Thirty Six Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty One Only) as on 24-10-2022,
to repay agreed contractual rate of interest together with incidental expenses, cost and other
charges etc., as details mentioned in the Demand Notice, till the date of payment, within 60 days
from the date of receipt of the said notice.
However the Applicants/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors herein above having failed to repay the full
amount with interest/other charges, notice is hereby given to the Applicants/Co-
Applicants/Mortgagors in particular and to the public in general that the undersigned being
Authorized Officer of the M/s. Varthana Finance Private Ltd, Agra Branch has taken
POSSESSION of the property described herein below in exercise of powers conferred on him
under section 13(4) of the said Act, read with Rule 8 of the Security Interest Enforcement Rules,
2002 on this day of 05th January 2023.
The Applicants/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors in particular and the public in general are hereby
cautioned not to deal with the property and any dealings with the properties will be subject to the
charge of the M/s. Varthana Finance Private Ltd, Agra, for an amount of Rs. 23,36,321/-
(Rupees Twenty Three Lakh Thirty Six Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty One Only)
as on 24-10-2022, together with agreed contractual rate of interest, as mentioned herein above
until the date of payment together with incidental expenses, cost and other charges. The
Applicants/Co-Applicants/Mortgagors attention is invited to provisions of Section 13(8) of the
Act, in respect of time available, to redeem the securedAssets.
Description of the Immovable Property : All that piece and parcel of property constructed
over Khata No. 107 khasra No. 166, Area 3.3860 ha share part which from school area 0.2220
hactare total land area 0.2220 ha (2220 sq mtr) situated at Mauja Bhagupur Tehsil, Etmadpur
Dist, Agra and bounded on East By : Chak Rajbahadur, West By : Chak Rajbahadur, North By :
Chak Mehtab Singh, South By : Chak Rajbahadur.
Date: 11.01.2023, Place: Mauja Bhagupur Authorised Officer, Sd/- Varthana Finance Private Limited

POLICE HEADQUARTERS, CHHATTISGARH, SECTOR 19, ATAL NAGAR, NAVA RAIPUR Varthana Finance Private Limited
(Formerly known as M/s. Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,)
Notice Inviting Registered Office at : No. 5 BC-110, Varasiddhi. 3rd Floor, Outer Ring Road, Service Road, 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar,
Videograpy/Photograpy Equipments (3rd Call) Bangalore-560043. Website www.varthana.com, Email: care@varthana.com, Phone : 080-68455777, Branch Office :at No. 109,
Ground Floor,Tagore Villa, Chakrata Road, Dehradun 248001.
No. PHQ/Sec.-10/Prove-2/63/2023 Nava Raipur, Dated: 05/01/2023 DEMAND NOTICE
Notice under Section 13(2) & (3) of The Securitisation And Reconstruction Of Financial Assets And Enforcement Of Security
Sealed tenders are being invited by the Director General of Police, Chhattisgarh on behalf of Governor of Interest Act, 2002.
Chhattisgarh from Tender are being invited for the following item. We hereby serve upon you this notice, the contents whereof you may kindly note: That you the Borrower along with Co-applicants/Mortgagors
Sl.No. Equipment Name Qty. EMD in Rs. (Each item) Tender Conditions have approached and requested for grant of the credit facility from M/s Varthana Finance Private Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as
“Company”) (Formerly known as Thirumeni Finance Private Limited). This Demand Notice issued on 30-11-2022, the contents of which
1 Storage Software at client and server end 01 Nos 10,000/- Original Equipments are being published herewith as per Sec.13(2) of the Act R/w Rule.3(1) of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules 2002, by way of alternative
2 Storage Server 01 Nos 20,000/- Manufactures (OEM) or service upon the Borrower/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors No. 1 To 7, for service of notice, since notices could not be served on the given
Authorised by Manufacturer addresses. At your request and instance, we granted you the following credit facilities (hereinafter collectively referred to as “credit facility”). The
3 Camera Tripod 06 Nos 3,750/- details are mentioned below.
The cost of the tender document State Govt. Challan of Rs. 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only) Item wise separately Loan Account No's: U20DHD-DHD-014624, U21DHD-DHD-016464, U21DHD-DHD-017845, U22DHD-DHD-019611 &S19DHD-DHD-
tender fees to be deposited in the Head of A/C-0055-Police-800-other receipt or it shall be in the form of D.D.of State Bank of 005625. Sanctioned-Loan-Amount: Rs.3,11,000/-, Rs.2,96,260/-, Rs.4,18,143/-, Rs.4,94,880/- and Rs.25,11,623/- Total Liability as on
India/scheduled Bank (other than cooperative Bank) payable at Raipur in favour of D.G.P. Chattisgarh Tender Fee is nonrefund- 28-11-2022 : Rs.36,81,569/- (With Contractual Rate Of Interest), Name & Address of Borrower, Co-Applicants & Mortgagors :
1). M/s. Dishu Public Parmarth Prathmic Vidyalaya, Represented by its Authorized Signatory, 2).M/s. Dishu Parmarth Balika Vidyalaya
able and cannot be exempted in any condition. The tender document may be obtained from the following address: Samiti, Represented by its Authorized Signatory, No. 1 and 2 are having office At Village-Mundhal, P.O Chandpur, Teh Chandpur, Bijnor, Uttar
Addl. Director General of Police (P&P) Pradesh - 246725. 3).Mr.Ramautar Singh, S/o. Sarjeet,Village Mundhal, Landmark Mudhai, District Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh - 246725. 4).Mr.
Police Headquarters, Chhattisgarh, Atal Nagar, Nava Raipur Sitaram Singh, S/o. Pokhar Singh.Chak Shahjani, Phampur, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh-246761. 5).Mr. Ram Gopal Singh, S/o. Ramautar
Pin:-492002, Phone & Fax : 0771-2431210, 2229622 Singh,Mundhal, P.O-Gandhaur, Bijnor,Uttar Pradesh - 246725. 6).Mrs. Rekha, W/o. Ram Gopal,H.No-136, Mundhal, Chandpur, Bijnor, Uttar
Pradesh- 246725. 7). Mrs. Kamlesh Devi W/o Ramautar Singh.Mundhal-Post , Gandhar, Mundhal, Binjor, Uttar Pradesh - 245725.
The tender offer in the prescribed tender form along with all the relevant documents sealed and completed in all the respect must That you availed of the above mentioned credit facilities from time to time and utilized the amount and Further, while availing the financial
be submitted as per the schedule below. SCHEDULE FOR TENDER assistance you have given an undertaking for repayment of the said financial assistance in terms of the said agreement(s)/documents(s). You
have also created a mortgage by way of Deposit of Title Deeds/ Registered Mortgages creating security interest in favor of the Company which is
a) Address for submission of Tender Document Police Headquarters, Sector 19, Atal Nagar, Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh more fully described in below Schedule.
b) Last Date and Time for receipt of tender 16/01/2023 till 03.00 pm That you continued to enjoy the above credit facility, however, you became irregular and failed to maintain the financial discipline, despite our
repeated request and reminders from the officers of the Company you have failed and neglected to repay the said dues/ outstanding liabilities.
c) Place, Time and Date of Police Headquarters, Sector 19, Nava Raipur, C.G. The operation of and conduct of the above said credit facility has become irregular and the debt has been classified as Non-Performing assets
opening Technical Bid :- 16/01/2023 at 4:00 pm (NPA) in accordance with directives/ guidelines relating to asset classifications issued by the Reserve Bank of India consequent to the default
d) Place, Time and Date of Shall be intimated later. committed by you in repayment of principal debt and interest thereon accordingly Loan Account has been classified as Non -Performing Asset
on 13-08-2022. and hereby recall the said loan / credit facility and call upon you to pay the entire outstanding balance together with interest and
opening Financial Bid :- all sums payable by you under the saidAgreement.
e) Date till which the Bid to remain valid- 120 days from the scheduled date of submission of the Bid. On account of defaults committed by you, you are jointly & severally liable to pay to us the total outstanding dues of Rs.36,81,569/- as on
28-11-2022 with agreed contractual rate of interest, until the date of payment, together with incidental expenses, cost and other charges, thereon.
Note:- 1. In case of tender opening date being declared as holiday, tenders will be opened on next working day. Under the circumstances, we hereby call upon you to repay the above said entire dues of Rs.36,81,569/- (Rupees Thirty Six Lakh Eighty One
2. Tender documents can be downloaded from our website www.cgpolice.gov.in and at the time of submission of Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty Nine Only) as on 28-11-2022 together with future interest from 29-11-2022 at contractual rate plus legal
document tender fee 1000/- Item wise separately, will be paid in the form of DD on the account of Director costs/charges thereon within 60 (Sixty) days from the date of this notice. If you fail to repay to the Company the aforesaid sum with further interest
General of Police, Police Headquarters, Chhattisgarh, Nava Raipur. and incidental expenses, cost as stated above in terms of this notice U/Sec. 13(2) of the Act, the Company will exercise all or any of the rights
detailed under Sub-Section (4) of Section 13 and under other applicable provisions of the saidAct.
3. Modification/Amendments/Corrigendum, if any shall not be advertised in the news paper but shall be published in
Varthana Finance Private Limited You are also put on notice that in terms of Sub-section (13) of Section 13 you shall not transfer by sale, lease or otherwise the said secured assets
the aforesaid web site only. Sd/- (Formerly known as Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,) detailed below without obtaining written consent of the Company.
Registered Office at : No. 5BC-110, Varasiddhi. Outer Ring Road, Service Road, This notice is without prejudice to the Company's right to initiate such other actions or legal proceedings, as it deems necessary under any other
D.I.G. of Police (F&P) 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore-560043. Website www.varthana.com, applicable provisions of Law to recover its legitimate dues.
For-Director General of Police Email: care@varthana.com, Phone: 080-68455777, Branch Office : Office No 402, 4th floor ,Prateek Center,
If you have any representations to be made in response to this, please mark the same to the Authorized Officer, M/s Varthana Finance Pvt Ltd.,
97399 Police Headquarters, Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar, (C.G.) Near AU Small Bank, Sanjay Place , Agra 282002.
Varasiddhi, 5BC-110, 3rd Floor, Service Road, 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Bangalore- 560043.
POSSESSION NOTICE [Rule 8(1)] (For Immovable property) Description of the Immovable Property: All that piece and parcel of the Land bearing Khasra No. 118, admeasuring total area 0.042 Hector
Whereas, The undersigned being the Authorized Officer of the M/s. Varthana Finance Private 420 sqmt., situated at village Mudhal, Block Jalilpur Post, Chandpur Distt Bijnor and the same are bounded as under:East by : Road, West by :
Ltd., (Formerly Known as M/s. Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,) Agra, Under the Agricultural Land Lakhan Singh, North by :Agricultural Land Chatar Singh, South by :Agricultural Land Lakhan Singh.
Securitisation and Reconstruction of FinancialAssets and Enforcement of Security InterestAct, Date : 11-01-2023, Place: Dehradun Authorised Officer, Varthana Finance Private Limited
2002 (54 of 2002) and in exercise of powers conferred under section 13(12) read with Rule 3 of
Demand Notice
the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 issued a
Varthana Finance Private Limited
dated: 24-08-2022, calling upon the Applicants/ (Formerly known as M/s. Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,)
Registered Office at : No. 5 BC-110, Varasiddhi. 3rd Floor, Outer Ring Road, Service Road, 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar,
Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors, In Loan Account Bangalore-560043. Website www.varthana.com, Email: care@varthana.com, Phone : 080-68455777, Branch Office : Sushma
No's. S19AGR-AGR-005829, S18AGR-AGR- Infinium, Unit no 5, 4th Floor Near Best price Chandigarh Ambala Highway, Zirakpur – 140603.
DEMAND NOTICE
002497, U21AGR-AGR-016891 and U20AGR- Notice under Section 13(2) & (3) of The Securitisation And Reconstruction Of Financial Assets And Enforcement Of Security
Interest Act, 2002.
AGR -015430, 1). M/s. Maharana Pratap College We hereby serve upon you this notice, the contents whereof you may kindly note: That you the Borrower along with Co-applicants/Mortgagors
of Education, Represented by its Authorised have approached and requested for grant of the credit facility from M/s Varthana Finance Private Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as
“Company”) (Formerly known as Thirumeni Finance Private Limited). This Demand Notice issued on 10-11-2022, the contents of which
Signatory, 2). M/s. Late Shree Hukum Singh, are being published herewith as per Sec.13(2) of the Act R/w Rule.3(1) of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules 2002, by way of alternative
service upon the Borrower/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagor No. 3, for service of notice, since notices could not be served on the given addresses. At
Represented by its Authorised Signatory, No. 1 and your request and instance, we granted you the following credit facilities (hereinafter collectively referred to as “credit facility”). The details are
mentioned below.
2 are having office at Village Bhotalal, Mataji, Morta, Loan Account No's:S20CHA-CHA-015312, S19CHA-CHA-007053, U21CHA-CHA-017518, S21CHA-CHA-016829 and U22CHA-CHA-
019609: Sanctioned loan amount Rs.3,38,445/-, Rs.33,14,682/-, Rs.3,45,509/-, Rs.3,00,000/- Rs.5,03,745/-.Total Liability as on 07-11-
Shajapur, Uttar Pradesh - 465001.,3). Mr. Ishwar 2022 : Rs. 47,42,800/- (With Contractual Rate Of Interest), Name & Address of Borrower, Co-Applicants & Mortgagors : 1). M/s. Saraswati
Singh Hada, S/o. Hokamchand, Gram Morta, Ideal Public School, Represented by itsAuthorized Signatory, 2).M/s. Ideal Education Society, Represented by itsAuthorized Signatory, No. 1 and
2 are having office at: Laxmi Vihar, Barwala, Hisar, Haryana - 125121. 3) Mr. Rajesh Kumar, S/o. Sube Singh, Ward No. 12, Barwala,(128) Hisar,
Shajapur, Uttar Pradesh - 465001., 4). Mr. Haryana - 125121. 4). Mr. Ramesh Kumar S/o. Sube Singh, VPO-Badhawar, Hisar, Haryana - 125121, 5).Mrs. Sudesh Rani W/o. Rajesh Kumar,
Ward No. 12,Laxmi Vihar, Barwala,(128) Hisar, Haryana - 125121.
Ramswaroop Sharma, S/o. Mangilal, Gram That you availed of the above mentioned credit facilities from time to time and utilized the amount and Further, while availing the financial
assistance you have given an undertaking for repayment of the said financial assistance in terms of the said agreement(s)/documents(s). You
Neechma, Shajapur, Uttar Pradesh – 465001., to repay have also created a mortgage by way of Deposit of Title Deeds/ Registered Mortgages creating security interest in favor of the Company which is
the mentioned amount in the said notice being a sum of Rs.1,14,10,326/- (Rupees One Crore more fully described in below Schedule.
Fourteen Lakh Ten Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty Six Only) as on 15-08-2022, to That you continued to enjoy the above credit facility, however, you became irregular and failed to maintain the financial discipline, despite our
repay agreed contractual rate of interest together with incidental expenses, cost and other repeated request and reminders from the officers of the Company you have failed and neglected to repay the said dues/ outstanding liabilities.
charges etc., as details mentioned in the Demand Notice, till the date of payment, within 60 days The operation of and conduct of the above said credit facility has become irregular and the debt has been classified as Non-Performing assets
from the date of receipt of the said notice. (NPA) in accordance with directives/ guidelines relating to asset classifications issued by the Reserve Bank of India consequent to the default
However the Applicants/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors herein above having failed to repay the full committed by you in repayment of principal debt and interest thereon accordingly Loan Account has been classified as Non -Performing Asset
amount with interest/other charges, notice is hereby given to the Applicants/ Co- on 08-09-2022. and hereby recall the said loan / credit facility and call upon you to pay the entire outstanding balance together with interest and
Applicants/Mortgagors in particular and to the public in general that the undersigned being all sums payable by you under the saidAgreement.
Authorized Officer of the M/s. Varthana Finance Private Ltd, Agra Branch has taken On account of defaults committed by you, you are jointly & severally liable to pay to us the total outstanding dues of Rs. 47,42,800/- as on
POSSESSION of the property described herein below in exercise of powers conferred on him 07-11-2022 with agreed contractual rate of interest, until the date of payment, together with incidental expenses, cost and other charges, thereon.
under section 13(4) of the said Act, read with Rule 8 of the Security Interest Enforcement Rules, Under the circumstances, we hereby call upon you to repay the above said entire dues of Rs. 47,42,800/- (Rupees Forty Seven Lakh Forty Two
2002 on this day of 06th Jan 2023. Thousand Eight Hundred Only) as on 07-11-2022 together with future interest from 08-11-2022 at contractual rate plus legal costs/charges
The Applicants/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors in particular and the public in general are hereby thereon within 60 (Sixty) days from the date of this notice. If you fail to repay to the Company the aforesaid sum with further interest and incidental
cautioned not to deal with the property and any dealings with the properties will be subject to the expenses, cost as stated above in terms of this notice U/Sec. 13(2) of the Act, the Company will exercise all or any of the rights detailed under
charge of the M/s. Varthana Finance Private Ltd, Agra, for an amount of Rs.1,14,10,326/- Sub-Section (4) of Section 13 and under other applicable provisions of the saidAct.
(Rupees One Crore Fourteen Lakh Ten Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty Six Only) as You are also put on notice that in terms of Sub-section (13) of Section 13 you shall not transfer by sale, lease or otherwise the said secured assets
on 15-08-2022, together with agreed contractual rate of interest, as mentioned herein above detailed below without obtaining written consent of the Company.
until the date of payment together with incidental expenses, cost and other charges. The This notice is without prejudice to the Company's right to initiate such other actions or legal proceedings, as it deems necessary under any other
Applicants/Co-Applicants/Mortgagors attention is invited to provisions of Section 13(8) of the applicable provisions of Law to recover its legitimate dues.
Act, in respect of time available, to redeem the securedAssets. If you have any representations to be made in response to this, please mark the same to the Authorized Officer, M/s Varthana Finance Pvt Ltd.,
Description of the Immovable Property : All that piece and parcel of the property bearing Varasiddhi, 5BC-110, 3rd Floor, Service Road, 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Bangalore- 560043.
Land Measuring 0.2000 Hectares, Comprised in Guta No. 179/10, Mauja and Pargana, Magura, Description of the Immovable Property: All that piece and parcel of the Khasra No. 527/13/2(3-0), Khewat No. 2275 Share of 23/480 ie.0 kanal
Tehsil- Kirawali, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, and bounded as follows : East By : Maharana Pratap 6.5 Marle And 6 Kanal 0 Marla Khasra No. 527/13/2(6-0), Khewat No. 1788 Share of 13/120 i.e 0 kanal 13 Marla Intkal No.6327 Total Area 19.5
Degree College, West By : Gata No. 162, North By : Gata No. 181, South By : Gata No. 179 Marle Situated at Badhawar Tehsil Barwala District Hisar, Haryana and the same is bounded as under.East By : Street and Govt. Primary School,
Property of Tej Singh. West By : Street, North By : Rajkumar, South By : Sewa Singh Etc.
Date: 11.01.2023, Place: Magura Authorised Officer, Sd/- Varthana Finance Private Limited Date : 11-01-2023, Place: Zirakpur. Authorised Officer, Varthana Finance Private Limited

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Classifieds
PERSONAL
I, Seema w/o Lavi Kant Sagar
r/o WZ-468-G, MS-115A, FF,
Gali-2, Hari Nagar, Delhi-
110064 have changed my name
to SEEMA KUMARI.
0040648996-1
I, Sayyum, S/o Mohabbat Ali,
R/o Mohalla Raza Nagar,
Shahabad Road, PS-Bilari,
Moradabad, UP-202411, have
changed my name to Sayyum
Ali. 0070821557-1
I, Savita Rustagi W/o Pawan
Kumar R/o H.No.1449/193, Gali
No.03, Durgapuri, Shahdara,
Delhi-110093, have changed
my name to Savita.
0040649001-1
I, Sahdev Yadav S/O Manbodh,
R/o Chhota Chaka, Naini,
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh-
211008, have changed my
name and shall hereafter be
Known as Sahdev
0070821480-1
I, Ritu, W/o Mohammad Inamur
Rahman, R/o Flat No.1003,
Block-J, The Hyde Park, Sector-
78, Noida, U.P., have changed
my name to Kulsum Rahman
for all future purposes.
0070821552-1
I, Prince Kumar, S/o Gopal
Singh, R/o 20, Dakshin Muhala,
Belarhi, Sasaram, Rohtas,
Bihar-821115, have changed
my name and shall hereafter
be known as Prince Singh.
0070821476-1
I, Prem Kumar, S/o Daulat Ram
Bansal, R/o Flat No. 606, Tower-
13, Silver City-2, Greater Noida,
U.P., have changed my name to
Prem Kumar Bansal for all
future purposes. 0070821568-1
I, Prem Ballabh, S/o Late Bhairv
Datt, R/o Plot No-650, S-2,
Shakti Khand-3, Indira Puram,
Ghaziabad, U.P.-201014, have
changed my name to Prem
Ballabh Dwivedi for all future
purposes. 0070821565-1
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R/o 1/10, Chaudhary Bheem
Singh Nagar, Kankerkhera,
Meerut, have changed my
name to Pinki. 0070821555-1
I, No -9103015W,Ex
Naik/TS(Unit/Regt-1st JAKLI),
Showkat Ahmad Beag, F/O-
Mohammad Yousuf Beigh,
R/O- Kriree Utersoo, Tehsil-
Shangus, District-Anantnag. In
my Army service records the
name and D o B of my Son has
been wrongly mentioned as
Muneeb Ahmed Beag (D o B-
24-05-2006) instead of Muneeb
Showkat Beig (D o B- 07-10-
2006). It needs corrections.
Objections be filled to Zila
Sainik Welfare office Batmaloo
Srinagar within seven days.
0020451119-1
I, Neeru Bhutani W/o Chander
Parkash, R/o-104-105, FF,
Block-D, Uttam Nagar, New
Delhi- 110059, have changed
my name to Neeru for all
future purposes. 0040649004-2
I, Muneet Pal Singh S/o Amrit
Pal Singh, R/o-H.No.D-142-B,
Jail-Road Fateh-Nagar, Tilak
Nagar, New Delhi-110018, have
changed my name to
Muneetpal Singh Jolly
0040649004-1
I, Kiran Monica Arora, W/o
Ashwani Arora, R/o E-75, Sec-
41, Noida, Gautam Budh
Nagar, U.P., have changed my
name to Mona Arora for all
future purposes. 0070821578-1
I, Karan Singh S/o Amar Singh,
R/o RZ-H-20A, Gali No.2, Near
Gupta Nursing Home, West
Sagarpur, Delhi-110046 have
changed my name to Karun
Singh Thakur. 0070821507-1
I, Kamla, W/o Prem Ballabh
Dwivedi, R/o Plot No-650, S-2,
Shakti Khand-3, Indira Puram,
Ghaziabad, U.P.-201014, have
changed my name to Kamla
Dwivedi for all future
purposes. 0070821573-1
I, Inderjeet/Inderjit s/o Daulat
Ram, R/o 6/39, Double Storey,
Vijay Nagar, Dr.Mukerjee
Nagar, Delhi-110009 have
changed my name toInderjeet
Harjai, permanently
0040649049-1
I, Farman, S/o Shakeel Ahmad,
R/o Behat Road, Kailash Vihar,
Bank Wali Gali, Saharanpur,
Uttar Pradesh-247001, have
changed my name to Amaan
Ahmad. 0070821509-1
I, Dharmendra Yadav S/O
Sahdev Yadav, R/o 62, Nai
Basti, Kishor Nagar, Chota
Chaka, Naini Allahabad, Uttar
Pradesh-211008, have
changed my name and shall
hereafter be Known as
Dharmendra Kumar.
0070821479-1
I, Chander Parkash, S/o Ram
Chander Bhutani, R/o- 104-105,
FF, Block-D, Uttam Nagar, New
Delhi-110059, have changed
my name to Chander Parkash
Bhutani, for all future
purposes. 0040649004-3
I, Ashok Kumar Mishra S/o Ram
Kishor Mishra R/o 430, Second
Floor, Room No.-105. Gali No.-
10, K-Block, Near Anandpur,
Mahipalpur, Delhi-110037,
have changed my name to
Ashok Mishra, for all
purposes. 0040648999-1
I, Suparna Purkayastha, W/o
Partha Pratim Chakrabarti,
R/o Kalyan Parishad Play
Ground, Pacific Regency, Flat
No-3B-119, Boral Main Road,
Atabagan Rajpur Sonarpur (M)
Garia, South 24 Parganas,
West Bengal-700084, have
changed my name to Suparna
Chakrabarti. 0070821508-1
I, Ajay Kumar, S/o Prem Kumar
Bansal, R/o A3/407, 4th Floor,
Purvanchal Silver City-2,
Sector-Pi-1, Greater Noida, U.P.,
have changed my name to Ajay
Kumar Bansal for all future
purposes. 0070821567-1
I, Aashu W/o Rajinder Kumar R/o
C – 68 (Second Floor) Rohit Kunj
Pitampura Delhi have changed
my as Aashu Ghai
permanently 0040649002-1
I Jaitoon W/O Jahir Ahmad R/O
235,J.P.Colony, R.K.Puram
Sector-7,Delhi-110022,Have
Changed my Name to Khatoon.
0040649073-1
I,YASHI SHARMA,W/O.MANISH
GAUR, H.NO-72,TAMOOR
NAGAR,NEW FRIENDS-
COLONY,SOUTH EAST-DELHI
110025,changed my name to
YASHI BHARDWAJ,for all,future
Purposes. 0040649070-4
I,GAVNEET KAUR,D/O.FATEH
SINGH CHADHA,ADD-J-
7/11,GALI NO- 34, OPP DR.
CHHATWAL,NEW GOBINDPURA,
KRISHNA-NAGAR,EAST DELHI-
110051,changed my name to
GAVNEET KAUR CHADHA,for
all,future Purposes.
0040649070-3
I,PANKAJ KUMER,S/o SATYAVEER
SINGH,R/o A-128,GALI.NO-
5.,BAUDH VIHAR,GHAZIABAD,
UP.201009,have CHANGED MY-
MINOR SON’S Name KANHAIYA
TO TAKSH TYAGI PARMENTELY.
0040649058-4
I,Leena Singh Alias Leena Jagbir
Chauhan W/o Sh. Jagbir Singh
Chauhan R/o C-3/119, Sec-36
Noida Gautambudhnagar have
changed my name to Dr. Leena
Chauhan 0040649055-1
I,GAURAV S/O-ASHOK KUMAR
R/O HNO.243-L,MODEL
TOWN,SONIPAT,HARYANA-
131001.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO GOURAV WADHWA.
0040649058-3
I, Zarrin D/o Mohammad Amanullah
R/o 355/22,Zakir Nagar, Nikhar
Manzil, New Delhi- 25, have
changed my name to Zarine Khan
for all future purposes.
0040649019-1
I, Pawan Kumar Rastogi S/o
Hardwari Lal R/o H.No.1449/193,
Gali No.03, Durgapuri, Shahdara,
Delhi-110093,have changed my
name to Pawan Kumar.
0040649001-2
I Sarita Juneja W/o-Gagan Arora
R/o-B-8/11, 2nd Floor, B-
Block,Sector-19, Rohini,Delhi-
110085 have changed my name to
Divya Arora for all purposes.
0040649007-1
I Dhiraj Kumar Jain,S/o-Onkar
Dass Jain R/o-H.No.122, Pocket-
B,Sector-26, Rohini,Delhi-110042
have changed the name of my
minor son from Bhavya Jain to
Bhavye Jain for all purposes.
0040649008-1
I,ASHOK KUMAR
SINHA,S/O.SHYAM BABU
SINHA,ADD-WB-97B,2ND-FLOOR
,STREET.NO-3,GANESH NAGAR-
2 SHAKERPUR,EAST DELHI-
110092, changed my name to
ASHOK SINHA,for all,future
Purposes. 0040649096-1
I, Narendra Singh S/o Surat Singh
R/o T-510/C-2/F3A,Gali No-
2,Baljeet Nagar Delhi-8,have
changed my name to Narender
Singh. 0040649074-5
It is for general information that
I,Rishabh Khandelwal,S/o
Satish Kumar Khandelwal,R/o
Rz-568,Gali.No-21,Sadh Nagar
Part-2,Opp-Vishal Mega Mart,
Palam-Colony,Delhi-
110045,declare that name of
mine and my father has been
wrongly-written as Rishabh
Kumar and Satish Kumar in my
all Education Documents.The
actual-name of mine and my-
father are Rishabh Khandelwal
and Satish Kumar Khandelwal.
respectively,which may be
amended accordingly.
0040649073-10
I,hitherto known as Firdaus
Begam alias Firdaus
Begum,D/O Moharram Ali Khan
W/O Raza Ahmed Khan,R/O
Quarter No-52, Type-2, Sector-
9,R.K.Puram New Delhi-
110022,have changed my name
and shall hereafter be known
as Firdaus Begam.
0040649070-5
I,Yatinder Singh S/o-Jagat
Singh,R/o:House.No-12, First-
Floor,Anmol Vatika
Chowkhandi-Road,Tilak-Nagar,
New-Delhi-18,Have Changed
My-Minor Daughter’s
Name,from Mansi to Mansi
Singh. 0040649058-10
I,Yashwant,R/o G-101,First
Floor,Tower-G, Amaatra
Homes,Greater Noida-West,
G.B.Nagar-201308,have
changed my name to Yashwant
Singh. 0040649075-6
I,VivekS/o-Attar Singh,R/O-
H.NO.-705,SECTOR-31,Amar
Nagar,Faridabad-
121003,Haryana,have changed
my name to Vivek
Chaudhary(New Name)
permanently. 0040649102-4
I,Veena Mattoo alias Phoola
Patwari W/o Bal Krishan
Mattoo,R/o-117,Milan
Appartment,West
Enclave,Pitampura Delhi-
110034,have changed my name
to Phoola Patwari.
0040649070-9
I,Susheela Devi,W/o Suresh
Kumar,R/o RZF-
906/22,Flat.No.B-4,Netaji
Subhash Marg Raj-Nagar Part-
2,Palam-colony,Delhi-
110077,changed my name to
Susheela Saroha. 0040649058-7
I,Simer Bhatia W/o Rupinder
Singh Bhatia R/o D-1/9,Model
Town-3,Delhi-110009,have
changed my name to Simarjeet
Kaur. 0040649070-10
I,Surjeet Singh,S/o-Shree
Bhagwan Singh,R/o-17-C,CGH
Complex,Vasant Vihar-1,South
West Delhi,Delhi-110057,infrom
that Sujeet Singh & Surjeet
Singh are one and same
person,my Correct Name is
Surjeet Singh. 0040649102-2
I,Surendra Singh Kaintura S/o
Chandan Singh Kaitura R/o 01,
Baur, Baunr, Tehri Garhwal,
Uttarakhand,-249130, have
changed my name to Surendra
Singh for all Purposes.
0040649075-9
I,Shweta W/O-Arun Kanojia R/O-
D-12/174,Sector-8,Saibaba
Chowk,Rohini Delhi-
110085,Have Changed My
Name To Shweta Kanojia,For All
Purposes. 0040649074-7
I,Shekhar Bahl S/O Rajinder Lal
Bahl R/O, Du-
155,Pitampura,Delhi-110034
have changed my name to
Chander Shekhar Bahl.
0040649070-8
I,Shama Paraveen,w/o Vakil
Khan,R/o H N.B-288,Ambedkar
Colony,Chattar-pur, Delhi-
110074.have Changed my name
to SHAMA
PRAVEEN.permanently.
0040649075-4
I,Santosh,D/o Sh.Subha
Singh,R/o.WZ-913,Dada Dev
Mandir-Road,Badiyal, Palam-
Village,New Delhi-
110045,Declare that My-Father
Names Subha Singh and Sube
Singh Both are Same and One-
Person. 0040649109-8
I,Sandeep Kumar Goutham
Chand S/o,Goutham Chand
R/o,7/91, First-Floor, Ramesh-
Nagar, New Delhi-110015,have
changed my name to Sandeep
Kumar Kataria. 0040649109-4
I,Sana Iqbal,W/o Mur Salim,R/o-
7406 Gali Lalan Wali,Quresh
Nagar,Sadar Bazar Delhi-
110006,have changed my name
to Sana for future.
0040649075-5
I,Sakshi Kapoor,D/o Sh.Anil
Kapoor,R/o
House.No.1417,Urban
Estate,Huda Gym Khana
Club,Sector-4,Gurugram,
Haryana-122001,inform that in
my,Passport No.J3154036,my
father’s name Anil Kumar
written-wrongly instead of
correct name Anil Kapoor,both
names are same person.
0040649096-4
I,Saeeda Begum w/o.Mehboob
Khan, R/o.1998,Gali Haji
Ismail,Mohalla
Qabristan,Turkman gate,Delhi-
110006, Have Changed my
name to SAIDA
BEGUM,Permanently.
0040649058-1
I,SHAHJAD ALI S/O-BUDDHU
residing at H.NO-A-11/E,
BLOCK-A,BABA FARID PURI,
PATEL-NAGAR,DELHI-
110008,have changed my name
to SAHAJAD ALI,for all future
purpose. 0040649058-6
I,SALIMUDDIN,S/O
RAFIQUDDIN,R/o 130-131,
SECTOR-3,VIBHAV NAGAR,
AGRA, U.P. 282001,changed my
name to SALIM UDDIN.
0040649073-6
I,Reva Rani W/o Charanjit Lal
Bawa R/o Flat-No.201, Paradise
Apartment,Plot-No.1, Sector-
9,Dwarka, Delhi-110077,have
changed my-name to Reva
Rani Bawa. 0040649109-5
I,Rekha,W/o Narender
Kumar,Add.B-703, Railway-
Officers Enclave,New
MotiBagh, Near-Hotel Leela
Palace,Chanakyapuri,New
Delhi-110021,have changed my
name to Rekha Kumar.
0040649058-9
I,Ravinder Kaur W/o Parvinder
Singh R/o B-219, Brij-Vihar,
Ghaziabad, U.P.-201011, have
changed my name to Rupinder
Kaur. 0040649109-3
I,Rani Sinha W/o-Asok Kumar
Chauhan R/o Laxmi-
Niwas,Buddha-Colony Main-
Road,House of Dr.Rangi Prasad
Singh,East Boring Canal
Road,Buddha-
Colony,Patna,Bihar-
800001,have changed my name
to Rani Indira Sinha.
0040649070-6
I,ROHIT BANSAL,S/O ADARSH
KUMAR BANSAL,R/o 155A,
BLOCK-C, KANCHANJUNGA
APARTMENT,SECTOR
53,NOIDA,GAUTAMBUDH-
NAGAR, U.P. 201301,changed
my name to ROHIT KUMAR
BANSAL. 0040649073-7
I,RAVI Kumar,S/o Mohan
singh,R/o-7/35 2nd floor,Nehru
Nagar,near-Gurudwara, New-
Delhi-110065,have changed my
name to Ravi Singh
Suryavanshi. 0040649070-7
I,RAM SHRIVASTAVA,S/O GAYA
PRASAD SHRIVASTAVA,R/O
WARD.NO.13,MAIN ROAD
HALDIBADI CHIRIMIRI
CHHATTISGARH.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO RAM
BABU SHRIVASTAVA.
0040649075-3
I,RAJESH KUMAR S/O MAYA RAM
GUPTA,R/O B-6/27, FIRST
FLOOR, NEAR
GURUDWARA,SECTOR-15,
ROHINI, DELHI-110089,have
changed my name to RAJESH
GUPTA. 0040649074-4
I,Gurkirpal Singh S/o Late
Verinder Pal Singh R/o-C-
25G,Vijeta,Vihar Delhi,Police
Society Sector-13,Rohini Delhi-
110085,changed my name to
Gurkirpal Singh Saini.
0040649074-3
I,GEETANJALI D/O-MAHENDER
KUMAR PAHWA R/O 317/4,RAM
NAGAR,STREETNO.8,ARJUN
NAGAR,GURGAON,HARYANA-
122001.CHANGED MY NAME TO
GEETANJALI PAHWA.
0040649058-2
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023
I,RAJESH DHAWAN S/O
PRAKASH NATH DHAWAN,R/O
112-C,PLATINUM
ENCLAVE,SECTOR-
18,ROHINI,DELHI-110085.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO RAJESH
KUMAR DHAWAN. 0040649074-8
I,Punit Kumar Rastogi S/o
Harish Chander Rastogi R/o,B-
791, MIG-Flat, East-of Loni-
Road, Shahdara, Delhi-
110093,have changed my name
to Punit Rastogi. 0040649109-1
I,Pooja Wadera,W/o Shri.Hitesh
walecha,R/o-M-18,Sri Niwas
Puri,New Delhi-110065,inform
that Pooja Wadera & Pooja
Walecha both are one & the
same person. 0040649096-3
I,Parth Luthra S/o Janendra
Luthra R/o F-
141,Mansarovar,Garden
Ramesh,Nagar Delhi-
110015,changed my name to
Paarth Luthra. 0040649074-2
I,POONAM D/O RAJ KUMAR
PARMAR,R/O E159/A H-367
KATHPUTLI COLONY PANDAV
NAGAR NEW PATEL
NAGAR,DELHI-110008,HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO.
POONAM PARMAR.
0040649073-4
I,PARV GOYAL,S/O NITIN GOEL
R/O.HOUSE.NO.B-1/66 ASHOK
VIHAR PHASE-2 NORTH WEST
DELHI-110052 HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME TO PARV GOEL.
0040649073-5
I,PARAMJIT KAUR W/O-
RAVINDER SINGH MEHTA,R/O-
FA-33,SHIVAJI
ENCLAVE,TAGORE-GARDEN
DELHI- 110027,HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME TO PARAMJIT KAUR
MEHTA. 0040649058-5
I,PARAMJEET SINGH,H.NO, N
EXTN-35,NEW PALAM-VIHAR,
PHASE-1, GURGAON,HARYANA-
122017,changed my-Minor
daughter name SAMAIRA to
SAMAIRA SHEORAN.
0040649058-8
I,Nikita Rawat,D/o-Mr. Naveen
Rawat,R/o-G-605,Sethi Max
Royale,Sector-
76,Noida,Gautam Buddha
Nagar,U.P.-201301,inform that
Nikita & Nikita Rawat is one
and same preson, my correct
name is Nikita Rawat.
0040649102-1
I,Neha,W/o Sh.Prem Kumar
Sati,R/o.RZ-25A,Old
Rajapuri,Uttam-Nagar,New
Delhi-110059,Declare that Neha
Sati and Neha Both Names are
Same and One-Person.
0040649109-10
I,Neha W/o-Sh.Prem Kumar
Sati,R/o.RZ-25A,Old-
Rajapuri,Uttam-Nagar,New
Delhi-110059,Declare that My-
Daughter Names Alisha Sati
and Alisha Both are Same and
one-Person.And Her Correct-
D.O.B is-05/10/2009.
0040649109-9
I,Musarrat Jahir W/o,Salman
Abbas Zaidi R/o,L-2, Block-L,
3rd-Floor, Abul-Fazal Enclave-
1,Jamia Nagar,New Delhi-
110025,have changed my name
to Musarrat Jahir Abbas.
0040649109-6
I,Minakshi W/o-Chetan
Kanojia,R/o E-97/17A,KH.NO-
79/5,Upper Ground-Floor,
Mahavir Enclave,Palam-
Village,New Delhi-110045,have
changed my name Meenakshi
Meenakshi kanojia,for all
purposes. 0040649109-7
I,Mahesh Kumar,S/O Late.Laxmi
Narayan,resident of,VPO-
Palhawas,Dist-Rewari,
Haryana-123035,have Changed
my Name,from Mahesh Kumar
to Mahesh Kumar Kataria vide-
Affidavit Dated-
16/12/2022,BEFORE NCT-DELHI.
0040649075-8
I,MUKESH,S/O.VISHWANATH
ADD-PLOT.NO-770,GALI.NO-6
FLAT.NO-C-22 FF,60 FUTA-ROAD
CHATTARPUR,SOUTH DELHI-
110074,Changed my name to
MUKESH KUMAR,for all,future
Purposes. 0040649075-1
I,MOHD. RAHIS S/O MOHD.
SIRAJUL R/O S-
265/117,INDIRAGANDHI
CAMPI1-TAIMOOR NAGAR
DELHI-110065,HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME TO MOHD. RAHEES.
0040649073-3
I,KAPIL BABBAR,S/O.SURENDER
PAL BABBAR,ADD-D-56,IST-
FLOOR,PREET VIHAR,EAST-
DELHI-110092,Changed my
Minor-Son name AARAV
BABBARTo ARAV BABBAR,for
all,future Purposes.
0040649070-2
I,Jasbir Singh S/o-Mahinder
Singh R/o.6/66,West Punjabi-
Bagh Delhi,known by Jasbir
Singh to Jasbir Singh Saluja,for
all 0040649074-1
I,JONEE,S/o-SHYAM SINGH,R/o-
C-37,2nd Floor, Flat.No.C-
4,Rajpur Khurd Extn.,Delhi-
110068,have changed my name
to JONEE KUMAR,for all future
purposes. 0040649070-1
I,HARPALKAUR AMARJIT
SINGH,W/O AMARJIT SINGH,R/o
FLAT.NO.54 PARK VIEW
APARTMENTS, SECTOR-
51,NOIDA, GAUTAM BUDH-
NAGAR,U.P.201301, changed my
name to HARPAL KAUR.
0040649073-8
I,HARI OM S/O MUNNI LAL,R/O
58,SAWAN PARK,ASHOK VIHAR
PHASE-3,DELHI-110052.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO HARI
OM GAUR. 0040649096-2
I, hitherto known as RAJIV
KUMAR alias RAJIV GROVER
son of Late Sh. Mehar Chand,
resident of House No. 2H-101,
N.I.T. Faridabad-121001
(Haryana), have changed my
name and shall hereafter be
known as RAJIV KUMAR
GROVER.
0040649000-1
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0020451121-1
I,Ex-No-15663266L, Hav Mohd
Iqbal Sheikh, R/O-Sunsooma
,Tehsil/District-Anantnag. I my
service records name of my
wife has been wrongly
mentioned as Meelaza Begum
instead of Meelaza Banoo as in
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to concerned authorities
within seven days.
0020451120-1
I,Bandhu Gupta S/O.Misri Sahu
R/O.B- 176B,Jhuggi Cluster
block,Mayapuri, phase-2,New
Delhi-110064 inform that
Buhdhu Gupta & Bandhu Gupta
are one & same person.
0040649073-2
I,BRAHM PARKASH S/O KISHAN
CHAND R/O 2196,RAJA
PARK,SHAKURBASTI,DELHI-
110034.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO BRAHAM PRAKASH IYf¹ffÊ»f¹f dÀfdU»f Àfþʳf ÀfWX ¸fb£¹f AÀ´f°ff»f A²feÃfIY IYû¯OXf¦ffÔU
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diya’: Dhaliwal
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US-based NRI Darshan Singh
Dhaliwal — who was sent back
from the Delhi airport on the
night of October 23-24, 2021, al-
legedly for arranging a langar for
farmersprotestingatthenational
capital'sbordersthen—saidthat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
“apologised” to him “in front of
150 people” last April. Dhaliwal
was among those who received
the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
Award on Tuesday.
Speaking to The Indian
Express afterreceivingthe award
from President Droupadi
Murmu here, Dhaliwal, who mi-
grated to the US in 1972, said the
conversation happened last
April when Modi hosted a large
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RSS CHIEF LENDS SUPPORT TO LGBTQ RIGHTS SC Collegium
Bhagwat: Hindus awake,
aggression natural in war
‘Islam has nothing to fear, must abandon rhetoric of supremacy’
DEEPTIMAN TIWARY
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
SAYING “HINDU society has
awakened” after being “at war
for over 1,000 years” and “it is
but natural for those at war to be
aggressive”, RSS Sarsanghchalak
Mohan Bhagwat has said that
the Sangh and others have of-
fered “support” to “this fight”
against“foreignaggressions,for-
eign influences and foreign con-
spiracies”.
He also said “Islam has noth-
ingtofear”inIndiabut“Muslims
must abandon their boisterous
rhetoric of supremacy”.
A resident of a house marked unsafe in Joshimath. ANI
Joshimath: Protests stall
demolition of 2 hotels;
86 houses found ‘unsafe’
AVANEESH MISHRA
JOSHIMATH, JANUARY 10
WHILE 86 houses have been
identified as “unsafe” so far — all
markedwithred'X'marks — the
first phase of demolitions is fo-
cussing on two hotels which are
among the worst hit by the land
subsidence in Joshimath.
Deep cracks on the ground
have caused one of the hotels
(MalariInn)tobealmostseparated
from its foundation, as a result of
which it has tilted towards the
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‘Hindusthan’:
Bhagwat
Inaninterviewconductedby
Panchjanya Editor Hitesh
Shankar and Organiser Editor
Prafulla Ketkar — these are RSS-
affiliated publications and ex-
cerpts of the interview have
been published in the Organiser
— Bhagwat said,“You see, Hindu
society has been at war for over
1,000 years — this fight has been
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THE SUPREME Court Collegium
headed by Chief Justice of India
Rising D Y Chandrachud Tuesday reit-
● influence erated for the third time its deci-
sion to appoint advocate
THE RSS chief’s remarks Nagendra Ramachandra Naik as
come at a time when a judge of the Karnataka High
there’s concern over tar- Court.Italsorecommendedeight
geting of minorities and other names for appointment as
political divisions that judges of five High Courts.
may deepen ahead of the “The Supreme Court
2024 polls. Underlining Collegium in its meeting held on
that the Sangh will con- 10 January 2023 has, on recon-
tinue to ‘organise’ society, sideration, resolved to reiterate
he flagged the rise of its earlier recommendation for
Swayamsevaks to politi- elevation of Shri Nagendra
cal positions. RamachandraNaik,Advocate,as
Judge in the Karnataka High
Court,” the statement said.
The Indian Express hadearlier
reported that along with Naik’s
recommendation, the
SC bars division Government had on November
28 last year returned 19 names
of living units to recommendedbytheCollegium.
Conventionally,theGovernment
save ‘Corbusian’ is bound to accept the
Collegium’s recommendation if
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STATING “IT is high time” that BY UNNY
the legislature, executive and
policy makers at the Centre and
states “take note of the damage
to the environment on account
of haphazarddevelopment,” the
Supreme Court Tuesday prohib-
ited“fragmentation/division/bi-
furcation/ apartmentalization”
of residential units in Phase I of
Chandigarh.
Directing the Heritage
Committee to consider “reden-
sification in Phase-I” of
Chandigarhand“take into con-
sideration its own recommen-
dations that the northern sec-
tors of Chandigarh ‘(Corbusian
Chandigarh)’ should be pre-
servedintheirpresentform,”the
bench of Justices B R Gavai and
BVNagarathnaaskedtheCentre
and the Chandigarh
Administration to “freeze FAR
(floor area ratio)” and “not in-
crease it any further”.
It said “the number of
floors in Phase- I shall be
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jured after the car they were travelling in fell into a canal in Siddipet
district of Telangana on Tuesday, police said. The incident happened
in Munigadapa of Jagadevpur when the car with six occupants in it
was returning to the family’s native place Bibinagar in Yadadri
Hindu society has awakened: RSS chief
Bhuvanagiri district after a pilgrimage to Vemulwada. PTI going on against foreign aggres-
sions, foreign influences and for-
eign conspiracies. Sangh has of-
fered its support to this cause, so
haveothers.Therearemanywho
havespokenaboutit.Anditisbe-
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cause of all these that the Hindu
societyhasawakened.Itisbutnat-
uralforthoseatwartobeaggres-
sive.”
CautioningthatHindusociety
isonthecuspof“yetanotherwar”,
Bhagwat said, “This war is not
against an enemy without, but
againstanenemywithin.Sothere
is a war to defend Hindu society,
HinduDharmaandHinduculture.
Foreign invaders are no longer
JAN 4
th there, but foreign influences and
foreignconspiracieshavecontin-
ued.Sincethisisawar,peopleare
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW likelytogetoverzealous.Although
this is not desirable, yet provoca-
By Alok Kumar Ranjan Sir tive statements will be uttered.”
HesaidMuslimshavenothing
to fear in India but they must
abandon their “rhetoric of su-
premacy”. “The simple truth is
this—Hindusthan should remain
Hindusthan. There is no harm to
the Muslims living today in
Bharat.Iftheywishtosticktotheir
faith, they can. If they want to re-
turntothefaithoftheirancestors,
theymay.Itisentirelytheirchoice.
There is no such stubbornness
amongHindus.Islamhasnothing
to fear. But at the same time,
Muslims must abandon their
boisterousrhetoricofsupremacy,”
he said.
“Weareofanexaltedrace;we
onceruledoverthisland,andshall
ruleitagain;onlyourpathisright,
● Joshimath: Protests stall demolition of two hotels
for the demolition, conducted a
survey of the two hotels on
Tuesday. While the demolition
work was set to begin in the
evening, the owner of Malari Inn
andsomeresidentsheldprotests,
stopping CBRI and State Disaster
ResponseForce(SDRF)personnel
from entering the hotel.
SpeakingtoTheIndianExpress,
CBRIChief ScientistDPKanungo,
whoisheadingtheteam,saidthey
planned to carry out a “mechani-
cal”demolition,withnouseofex-
plosives.Kanungowaspartofthe
teamwhichcarriedoutthedem-
olitionoftheSupertechtwintow-
ers in Noida last year.
“Thefoundationofthefirstho-
tel(MalariInn)haslefttheground
and thus the damage is irrepara-
ble. The hotel has shifted its
weight on the other hotel, so the
otherhotelisdamagedtoo.Thisis
whyasafemechanicaldemolition
of these two buildings is manda-
tory.Wehavegoneinsideboththe
buildings and have made a de-
tailedplan.Ourfirstpriorityisthe
safetyofotherbuildingsnearand
below the two hotels, and of the
workersgoinginsidethebuildings
to conduct the demolition,” said
Kanungo.
He said the demolition
process would be carried out in
steps,fromthetoptobottom,and
is estimated to take three-four
days. Hotel Malari Inn will be de-
molished first.
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resteveryoneiswrong;wearedif-
ferent,thereforewewillcontinue
to be so; we cannot live together
– they must abandon this narra-
tive.Infact,allthosewholivehere
– whether a Hindu or a
Communist – must give up this
logic,” he said.
Referring to the LGBTQ issue,
Bhagwat reiterated the Sangh’s
support for their rights.
“Thesepeoplealsohavearight
tolive.Withoutmuchhullabaloo,
we have found a way, with a hu-
mane approach, to provide them
socialacceptance,bearinginmind
they are also human beings hav-
ing inalienable right to live. We
have a transgender community;
we did not see it as a problem.
They have a sect and their own
deities.Today,theyhavetheirown
Mahamandaleshwar too. During
Kumbh, they are accorded a spe-
cial place. They are part of our
everyday life,” he said.
Hesaidthe“problemofLGBT”
is a similar one and narrated the
storyofkingJarasandh’stwogen-
erals–HansandDimbhaka–sug-
gesting they were in a homosex-
ual relationship.
“WhenKrishnafannedtheru-
mour that Dimbhaka has died,
Hans committed suicide. That is
how Krishna got rid of those two
generals.Cometothinkofit:what
doesthestorysuggest?Thisisthe
same thing. The two generals
wereinthatsortofarelationship.
It is not that these people have
never existed in our country.
Peoplewithsuchproclivitieshave
always been there; for as long as
“We will be using concrete
cutters and other equipment to
cutandremovepartsofthebuild-
ing,asusingexplosivesisnotpos-
siblehere.Toensureallourwork-
ersaresafe,wewillmaintainalist
ofworkersgoinginside,andcheck
that list after every shift.
Barricades will be set up behind
thebuildingssothatnodebrisfalls
anddamagesotherstructures.”he
said. Kanungo said his team had
notfoundanycracksonthewalls
of the two buildings so far, so it is
consideredsafefortheworkersto
enter and work inside.
Asked about the likelihood of
other structures being demol-
ished too, Kanungo said the ad-
ministration has only issued di-
rections regarding these two
buildings so far.
According to latest data avail-
ablewiththeChamolidistrictad-
ministration,crackshavebeenre-
ported in 723 houses, while 86
houseshavebeenidentifiedasun-
safe so far. A total of 131 families,
addingupto462people,hadbeen
moved to the temporary shelters
till Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the residents, in-
cludingtheownersofthetwoho-
tels, have demanded compensa-
tion as per the rates listed under
the Badrinath Dham redevelop-
ment masterplan. According to
district officials, the Badrinath
masterplan provides compensa-
tionwhichistwicethecirclerate.
ceipt for state schemes, if any, or
any additional quantity if issued
by the state/UT.
In communication to the
states, the Ministry said that the
printreceiptofNFSAwill“promi-
nently” indicate free foodgrain
distributionandsubsidyborneby
the government of India.
Themoveissignificantinview
of several states implementing
theirownfreefoodgrainscheme.
Thiswillensurethatthebenefici-
ariesknowthattheyarereceiving
PUZZLES AND GAMES
humans have existed. Since I am
a doctor of animals, I know that
such traits are found in animals
too. This is biological, a mode of
life,” he said.
HesaidtheRSSwantsthemto
have their own private space and
to feel that they, too, are a part of
the society.
“Thisissuchasimpleissue.We
willhavetopromotethisviewbe-
cause all other ways of resolving
itwillbefutile.Therefore,onsuch
matters, the Sangh relies on the
wisdomofourtraditions,”hesaid.
Responding to a question on
Sangh’srelationshipwithpolitics,
BhagwatsaidtheSanghhadcon-
sciouslykeptitselfawayfromday-
to-day politics though “there are
other dimensions of politics that
affect our national policies, na-
tionalinterestandHinduinterest”.
“Theonlydifferenceis,earlier,
our Swayamsevaks were not in
positions of political power. This
istheonlyadditioninthepresent
situation.Butpeopleforgetthatit
is the Swayamsevaks who have
reachedcertainpoliticalpositions
through a political party. Sangh
continues to organise the society
for the organisation’s sake.
However, whatever
Swayamsevaks do in politics,
Sangh is held accountable for the
same. Even if we are not impli-
cated directly by others, there is
certainly some accountability; as
ultimately,itisintheSanghwhere
Swayamsevaks are trained.
Therefore,weareforcedtothink–
what should be our relationship,
which things we should pursue
A district administration official
saidtheyhaveonlybeendirected
to demolish the two hotels, and
no official discussions have been
held on a compensation plan.
SpeakingtoTheIndianExpress
in the morning, Thakur Singh
Rana(63),theownerofMalariInn,
said he had not received any no-
tice about the demolition, and
only came to know about it
through media reports. While he
wasissuedanoticelaterintheday,
therewasnoconfirmationonthe
compensation so far.
Ranasaidthehotel,whichhas
28 rooms, was constructed in
2011. He claimed he had spent Rs
4-5 crore on its construction.
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand
Chief Secretary S S Sandhu held a
meetingwithofficialstoassessthe
situation and directed Chamoli
District Magistrate Himanshu
Khurana to carry out evacuation
in the affected areas. He directed
the district administration to de-
molish the worst affected build-
ings on “priority basis”.
“To ensure no lives are lost, all
the affected families should be
shifted and buildings that could
prove to be dangerous should be
demolished on a priority basis.
Proper arrangements should be
made at the temporary shelters
and there should be no commu-
nicationgapbetweentheaffected
people and the administration,”
hesaid,according to astatement.
freefoodgrainsundertheCentral
scheme. Last month, the govern-
ment announced to provide free
foodgrains to the NFSA benefici-
aries as per their entitlement un-
derthefoodsecuritylawforayear
beginning January 1, 2023. A de-
cision to this effect was taken in
themeetingoftheUnionCabinet,
which was chaired by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
December 23. Before this move,
the NFSA beneficiaries buy food-
grainsatasubsidisedrate—riceRs
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diligence,” he said.
Bhagwat said while Sangh
would continue to maintain dis-
tance from traditional politics, it
wouldconveytheconcernsofthe
people to the powers that be, if
they are Swayamsevaks.
“Even when Swayamsevaks
werenotthereinpowerpositions,
there were people who used to
pay heed to the advice of others.
Pranab Da was Finance Minister
in the Congress government. He
was also looking after Nepal af-
fairs.Weusedtotakeourconcerns
to him. And he would listen to us
too. That is all we do. Otherwise,
we have no business in other
spheresofactivepolitics,”hesaid.
Ontheissueof thestateof the
Indian economy, Bhagwat said,
“Bharat’seconomiclogicsuggests
thatifwehavedecentralisedpro-
duction,wewillproduceinabun-
dance.Itfurtherstipulatesthatto
sell the production, do not pro-
mote consumerism. If there is a
restrained consumption, the
priceswillgodown.Becausecom-
merceistheverybasisoflifeinthe
Western countries, they are
votaries of price rise; for which
consumerismisnecessary,which
is again based on individualism.”
He said being Aatmanirbhar
doesnotmeanwinningtheglobal
race. “To be Atmanirbhar implies
offering a new paradigm of trade
and progress that assures mate-
rialcomforts,security,guarantees
futurelifeandalsoensuresafeel-
ingofpeaceandcontentment,”he
said.
● PM said ‘humse badi galti ho gayi’: Dhaliwal
Sikh delegation at his official res-
idence in Delhi.
“He apologised to me in front
of 150 people over the fact that I
was sent back and added 'humse
badi galti ho gayi, aapko bhej diya,
par aapka bahut bada badappan
haijoaaphumarekehnepephirbhi
aa gaye (Sending you back was a
big mistake on our part, but you
haveshownmagnanimitybystill
showing up on my request)',”
Dhaliwal told The Indian Express.
Themeetingwasattendedby
Sikhbusinessmenfromacrossthe
world, he said. According to a
statement issued by the PMO on
April29,2022,addressingthedel-
egation, Modi hailed the contri-
bution of the Sikhs, saying the
community has acted as a strong
link in "cementing ties between
India and other countries."
Dhaliwal was put on a return
flight to the US on the night of
● SC Collegium names 9 for HCs, one for third time
the decision has been reiterated.
Naikwasfirstrecommended
bytheSupremeCourtCollegium
on October 3, 2019. The
Collegium reiterated its decision
ontwooccasions:March2,2021
and September 1, 2021.
On Tuesday, the Collegium
also recommended Judicial
Officers Aribam Guneshwar
Sharma and Golmei
3/kg,wheatRs2/kgandnutria-ce-
realsRs1/kg.About81croreben-
eficiariesarecoveredunderNFSA.
On December 30, the Food
Ministry notified the scheme.
“The Central government hereby
decides that the rice, wheat and
coarse grains shall be provided
free of cost for all eligible house-
holds under section 3 of the
National Food Security Act, 2013,
fortheperiod1stofJanuary,2023
to 31st of December, 2023,” said
the notification.
New Delhi
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Joshimath crisis, 50
monuments go missing,
and AI ‘urination’ case
NEWEPISODEEVERYDAY
Why Uttarakhand’s Joshimath appears to
be sinking, how 50 centrally protected
monuments have gone missing, and
update on the Air India urination case
● SC bars division of living units
restrictedtothreewithauniform
maximum height as deemed ap-
propriate by the Heritage
Committee, keeping in view the
requirementtomaintaintheher-
itage status of Phase -I” and “the
Chandigarh Administration shall
not resort to formulate rules or
bye-lawswithoutpriorconsulta-
tion of the Heritage Committee
and prior approval of the Central
Government”.
The bench said that until a fi-
naldecisionistakenbytheCentre,
“theChandigarh Administration
shall notsanction any plan of a
building which ex facie appears
to be a modus operandi tocon-
vert a single dwelling unit into
three different apartments oc-
cupied by three strangers” and
“no Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) or agree-
ment or settlement amongst co-
owners of a residential unit shall
be registered nor shall it be en-
forceableinlawforthepurposeof
bifurcation or division of a sin-
gleresidentialunitintofloor-wise
apartments”.
Thebenchsaidaperusalofthe
Chandigarh Master Plan 2031
“emphasizes on maintaining
monumental architecture and
principles of town planning con-
ceptofSun,Space,andVerdure,as
enunciatedbyLeCorbusier.Italso
emphasizes that Corbusier’s
Chandigarh,i.e.,PhaseIofthecity,
which is the most representative
of Le Corbusier’s thought, is truly
worthy of its modern heritage
value”. “In spite of observing this,
it (CMP 2031) states that eventu-
ally three storeys with one
dwelling unit per floor would be
constructedontheseplots,”itsaid.
Exercising its powers under
Article142,theCourtdirectedthe
October23-24,2021.Recallingthe
incident,hesaidthatattheairport,
the authorities gave him two
choices. "I was told to either stop
the langar and mediate with the
farmers or go back. I was given
two choices," he said.
He said the langar was a hu-
manitarian gesture on his part.
"TheissuewasthatIhadalangar.
In December (2020), when the
farmers came to Delhi, it started
raininginthemiddleofthenight.
Isawthevideos,theyweresleep-
ing in the water, it was cold. I felt
thesepeopleneededhelp.SoIde-
cided to put up a langar and pro-
vide tents to stay, give charpoys
(beds), blankets and razais
(quilts),”saidDhaliwal,whoruns
a chain of fuel stations across the
US.
Askedifhealsosupportedthe
political cause of the protesting
farmers,Dhaliwalsaid,"Itwashu-
GaiphulshilluKabuifor appoint-
ment as judges of the Manipur
High Court.
For the Andhra Pradesh High
Court, the Collegium recom-
mended judicial officers P
Venkata Jyothirmai and V
Gopalakrishna Rao for appoint-
ment as judges. For the Gauhati
High Court, it recommended
Judicial Officer Mridul Kumar
Vice chief of air staff flies
Sukhoi refuelling mission
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
PUNE, JANUARY 10
VICECHIEFofAirStaff,AirMarshal
Sandeep Singh, on Monday flew
anair-to-airrefuellingmissionon
a Sukhoi-30 MKI at Pune air base
tomarktwodecadesofhisassoci-
ationwiththefrontlinefighter,the
Indian Air Force (IAF) has said.
The IAF said that Air Marshal
Singhflewtheair-to-airrefuelling
mission with Group Captain
Aditya Bawa, Commanding
Heritage Committee to consider
the issue of redensification in
Phase I, subsequent to which the
Chandigarh Administration
should consider amending the
CMP2031 and the 2017 Rules ap-
plicable to Phase I. The amend-
ments, it said, shall be placed be-
fore the Centre for final approval.
Sounding a note of caution
amidthedebateovertheenviron-
mental disaster in Joshimath in
Uttarakhand, the bench also
pointed to a report on how hap-
hazard development com-
pounded problems during the
September 2022 floods in
Bengaluru. It said “the warning
flagged by the city of Bengaluru
needstobegivendueattentionby
the legislature, executive and the
policy makers”
Writing for the bench, Justice
Gavai said “it is necessary that a
properbalanceisstruckbetween
sustainabledevelopmentanden-
vironmental protection” and
asked authorities at the Centre
and states “to make necessary
provisions for carrying out
Environmental Impact
Assessment studies before per-
mitting urban development”.
It directed that a copy of its
judgement be forwarded to the
UnionCabinetSecretaryandChief
Secretaries of all states “to take
note”andto“takeearneststepsin
thatregard”.Duringthecourseof
discussions, the Court also re-
ferredtostepsbeingtakenforthe
protectionofcitiessuchasBrasilia,
the White City of Tel Aviv and the
cityof LeHavre,andsaid“wefind
thatsimilarstepsneedtobetaken
bytheChandigarhAdministration
aswellastheGovernmentofIndia
for protecting the heritage status
of Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh”.
manitarian, it had nothing to do
with politics. I did it for the peo-
ple.”Hesaidthegovernment'sde-
cisiontomakehisentryintoIndia
conditionaldidnotbotherhimat
thatpoint."WhenIwassentback,
it did not bother me that much. I
thought this is what destiny is,
they sent me back for some rea-
sonthoughIdidnotknowtherea-
son, and today they are honour-
ing me with the highest award...
Bhagwan ki daya hai (It is God's
grace)," he said.
Dhaliwal,whomigratedtothe
USin1972topursueengineering,
said he visits India three to four
times every year. "After I got my
degree, I did not wish to work for
anyone else, so I got into my own
business... Over the years, I have
received several awards from the
Punjab government. This is the
first one from the Union govern-
ment," he said.
Kalita.
For the Bombay High Court,
the Collegium recommended
the appointment of advocate
Neela Kedar Gokhle as judge.
Judicial Officers Ramachandra
DattatrayHuddarandVenkatesh
Naik Thavaryanaik were recom-
mended for appointment as
judges of the Karnataka High
Court.
Officerofthe30Squadron.“VCAS'
lastsortieonfighterswastomark
the legacy of his first sortie on
fighters which was also in 30
SquadronatTezpur,”atweetfrom
the Southern Western Air
Command said.
IAF base at Lohegaon in Pune,
whichisinthearearesponsibleof
the Gandhinagar-headquartered
SouthernWesternAirCommand,
is home to two squadrons of the
Sukhoi 30 MKI — the ‘20
Squadron’ and the 30 Squadron
also known as 'Rhinos’.
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Bouncers in Gurgaon booked for ‘beating up’
woman and her fiance, club denies claims
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
GURGAON, JANUARY 10
A WOMAN and her fiance suf-
fered injuries after they were al-
legedly roughed up by bouncers
following an argument at a club
in Gurgaon late Monday night,
said police.
According to police, the inci-
dent took place around 2 am at
Striker 29 club in sector 29.
In the police complaint, the
woman, a resident of Gurgaon,
said that she went to the club
withherfianceonMondaynight.
“When we were about to
leave after clearing the bill
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inter-city
bus service
by Delhi
govt soon
New Delhi: Delhiwillsoon see its
own intercity premium bus
service,withthe DelhiTransport
Corporation giving in-principal
approval to run these buses in
NCR.
“The DTC had been planning
to introduce high-quality pre-
miumbusesonlongerroutes.The
board approved it to be imple-
mentedonNCRroutesunder200
kmwhichmayincludeelectricor
CNGbuses.DTCwillbeoperating
Bharat Stage VI buses for routes
covering more than 200 km. All
the buses will be equipped with
facilities,includingCCTV,GPS,and
panicbuttons,providingconven-
ient and safer travel for long-dis-
tancecommuters,"theDelhigov-
ernment said in a statement.
The board decided to provide
free charging facilities for electric
two-wheelers in DTC depots.
“Employees will be able to
avail of loans from financial insti-
tutes empanelled by Delhi
FinancialCorporation(DFC)asper
the provision of the Delhi EV pol-
icy 2020... The two-wheeler seg-
menthasbeenoneof thepriority
segments of the Delhi EV policy.
The Delhi government is already
providingapurchaseincentiveof
Rs 5,000 per kWh of battery ca-
pacitywithamaximumincentive
of Rs 30,000 per vehicle (two-
wheeler). The DTC has a work-
force of nearly 38,000 across the
city working at the depots and
corporate office. A survey was
conductedamongtheemployees
of DTC which found that 45% of
the staff were using two-wheel-
ers to reach the office. As range
anxietyhasbeenoneofthemajor
challengesforanindividualwhile
buying an electric vehicle, free
chargingfacilitiesattheofficeand
DTC bus depots will provide a
boostforemployeesusingelectric
vehicles," the statement said.
Aaftab wants
law books to
help lawyer
New Delhi: Aaftab Poonawala,
who has been accused of killing
his 27-year-old live-in partner
Shraddha Walkar, told a Delhi
court Tuesday that he wants to
study law to assist his lawyer in
hiscase,andsoughtbooksforthe
same.
Poonawalawasproducedbe-
fore Metropolitan Magistrate
Aviral Shukla at Saket district
court’s lockup, and his judicial
custodywasextendedby14days.
Hewassupposedtobephysically
produced in court for the first
time since his arrest.
“Aaftab had spoken to the
judge and said that he wanted
booksoncriminalprocedureand
theIPCsections.Hetoldthecourt
that he wanted to assist his
lawyer in his case and wanted to
studyuponthelaw,”Poonawala’s
lawyer M S Khan said.
Poonawalahadalsomovedan
application seeking a release of
his debit cards saying he wanted
to buy winter clothes to protect
himfromthe“harsh”weatherin-
sideTiharjail.Hislawyershadar-
gued that his family had cut ties
withhimbecauseofwhichhedid
not have adequate winter gar-
ments.Theprosecutionopposed
the application stating that they
wantedthedebitcardfortheirin-
vestigation, and only after filing
the chargesheet would they re-
lease bank-related documents.
“The court has ordered that
the bank cards be released after
the chargesheet is filed in the
matter.However,directionswere
passedtoensurethathegetswin-
ter clothes,” Khan said. ENS
around 2 am, a bouncer in the
clubbeganafightwithmyfiance.
As I intervened, two bouncers, a
womanandaman,startedbeat-
ingus.Theypunchedandkicked
us and pushed us on the floor.
The two bouncers continued to
beat us and dragged us both on
thefloor.Afterassaultingus,they
pushed us out of the club on the
road and threatened to kill us,”
the woman alleged in the FIR.
Sheaddedthatapasserbyre-
portedtheincidentontheemer-
gencynumber,followingwhicha
police team arrived at the spot.
Sachin Limbu, general man-
ager, Striker 29, denied that the
couple were beaten up by the
bouncers.
“The two customers had ar-
rived around 10 pm. At the time
of closing, around 2 am, we re-
quested them to leave since the
staff hadtogohome,buttheyre-
quested for a few more minutes.
After half an hour again, we re-
quested them to leave, but they
started arguing and boasted of
connections in the police and
highplaces.Theywereinebriated
and said they know senior offi-
cers in the area. So our two
bouncers — a woman and a man
—escortedthemout.Laterinthe
parking area, they started creat-
ing a ruckus. We also called the
police. We will cooperate with
the investigation.”
Police said the complainant
andherfianceweretakentocivil
hospital for a medical examina-
tion.
As per the medico legal re-
port, the man suffered five in-
juries while the woman sus-
tainedseveninjuries,saidpolice.
PawanKumar,SHO,sector29
policestation,said,“Noarresthas
been made in the case so far. We
are verifying the allegations and
the facts of the case. A case has
been registered against two
bouncers of the club.”
After some incidents of
brawls involving bouncers last
year,Gurgaonpolicehadwritten
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‘L-G office refused to give appointment to CM Kejriwal’
New Delhi: Days after exchang- not allot a time, according to meet before Friday 4 pm,” said a
ing barbs over the city adminis- sourcesintheDelhigovernment. source.
tration, CM Arvind Kejriwal “The L-G office refused to Respondingtotheallegations,
sought an appointment to meet give a timely appointment, say- officials at the L-G office said
L-G VK Saxena but his office did ing he is very busy and cannot Kejriwal is doing “theatrics’. ENS
to bars and clubs across the city
to get police verification done
andintensifybackgroundchecks
of all their security staff.
Policehadalsodirectedclubs
to sensitise their staff and con-
duct sessions to avoid such inci-
dents.
Policehadalsodirectedclubs
to sensitise their staff and con-
duct sessions to avoid such inci-
dents.
Police said a case has been
registered against the accused
under IPC sections 323 (volun-
tarilycausinghurt),34(common
intention) and 506 (criminal in-
timidation) at sector 29 police
station.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023

Sushil Ansal moves High Court to stop release ‘Truckload’ of records

of Trial by Fire, Netflix show on Uphaar blaze
MALAVIKA PRASAD
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
SUSHIL ANSAL, the 83-year-old
real estate tycoon, convicted by
the trial court in the evidence
tampering case in connection
with the Uphaar Cinema fire
case, has moved the Delhi High
Court seeking a permanent re-
strain on the release of the
Netflix show ‘Trial by Fire’ set to
be out on January 13.
Ansal has also sought a re-
strain of the further publication
of the book ‘Trial by Fire — The
tragic tale of the Uphaar tragedy’
authored by Neelam and
Shekhar Krishnamoorthy pub-
lished by Penguin Random
HouseIndiaPrivateLtdonwhich
thesaidseriesissaidtobebased.
ThematterislistedbeforeJustice
Yashwant Varma for hearing on
January 11. Apart from the main
lawsuit, Ansal has in the interim
sought an “ex-parte interim” re-
strain on the release of the book
and the web series.
Ansal’s lawsuit claims that
account of the incarceration of
the plaintiff. Further, the plain-
tiff has struggled to achieve a
semblanceof normalcyinhislife
along with the lives of his family
members in light of the mam-
moth effects of the tragedy, the
conviction,andthesocialramifi-
cations thereof,” the suit stated.
The book was stated to have
been released in 2016 when the
review petitions in the main
Uphaar case were still pending
before the Supreme Court. As
manyas59peoplewerekilledin
the fire.
Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy, parents of two who “The plaintiff had apologised
died in Uphaar Cinema fire, wrote the book in 2016. Abhinav Saha before the Hon’ble Supreme
Court to the families of the vic-
tims andhadexpresseddeep re-
the official teaser of the web se- mense and irreparable harm” to morse towards the unfortunate
ries, produced by EndemolIndia hisreputationandhisrighttolife incident. While the plaintiff is
Pvt Ltd , was released on January under Article 21 of the sympathetic towards the pain
4 and shows “direct references” Constitution as well as his pri- and grief caused to defendant 4
to Ansal and his dramatised role vacy. and 5 (Krishnamoorthys) along
in the June 1997 Uphaar Cinema Ansalhasclaimedthathehas with several others who lost
fireanditsaftermath.Ithasbeen been punished “both legally and their loved ones, the defendants
further stated that his portrayal socially” for his association with ought not to make the plaintiff
in the trailer and teaser of the the Uphaar tragedy. perpetually liable to be rebuked
web series has caused and has “The family of the plaintiff by the public time and again, es-
the propensity to cause “im- has also suffered extensively on pecially after having served the
sentence and complying with
the orders of the Hon’ble
Supreme Court,” the plea states.
The lawsuit states that when
he found out that the web series
isbasedonthebookauthoredby
theKrishnamoorthys,hebought
a copy and was shocked to find
that the book entails “a one-
sided narration of the unfortu-
nate incident” and that its tone
is “highlyemotional” andhas in-
stances of exaggerated, prejudi-
cial and hyperbolic statements
made against Ansal.
Neelam and Shekhar
Krishnamoorthy, parents of 17-
year-old Unnati and 13-year-old
Ujjwal, who died in Delhi’s
UphaarCinemafire in June1997,
wrotethebookin2016.Thecou-
ple had said that they hope the
series will illustrate the truth of
the tragedy to generations who
have only read or heard of it.
Although the Ansals’ convic-
tion in the evidence tampering
case was upheld by a sessions
judge in July last year, it reduced
the duration to the period they
had already spent in jail.
HC SEEKS RESPONSES
ON GOPAL’S PASSPORT
RENEWAL PLEA
THE DELHI HC Tuesday
sought responses from
Delhi Police and
Association of Victims of
UphaarTragedy(AVUT)on
a plea moved by 74-year-
old real estate tycoon
Gopal Ansal seeking re-
newal of his passport for
10 years.
A single judge bench of
Justice Anup Jairam
Bhambhani, while issuing
a notice to the AVUT, re-
ferred to a 2022 judgment
of the Supreme Court in
JagjeetSingh&OrsvAshish
Mishra wherein “a victim
was accorded a right of
hearing in criminal pro-
ceedings”. Thecounselap-
pearing for AVUT opposed
Ansal’srenewalpleabefore
the High Court.
go missing from
sub-registrar's office,
HC expresses shock
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
EXPRESSING CONCERN at the
volume of documents and land
records that allegedly went
missing from the sub-registrar's
office in the national capital, the
Delhi High Court Tuesday di-
rected the physical presence of
Inspector General (IG)
Registration, Department of
Revenue (Delhi government), in
the court.
Justice Prathiba Singh said,
“This is very very shocking. I
may direct a CBI enquiry. It is not
possible that a truckload of doc-
uments from the sub-registrar's
office can go missing like this.”
She observed that the issue can-
not be treated in a cavalier man-
ner as it proves that the docu-
ments were not kept in safe
custody.
Justice Singh thereafter ob-
served, “I want a complete list of
all sub-registrars and other offi-
cials deputed in the office of
sub-registrar 3, District Central
Justice Prathiba Singh
said, “This is very very
shocking. I may direct
a CBI enquiry. It is not
possible that a
truckload of
documents from the
sub-registrar's office
can go missing like
this.” She observed
that the issue cannot
be treated in a cavalier
manner as it proves
that the documents
were not kept in
safe custody
charges. In December 2013, the
office of the sub-registrar told
the company that they did not
have the documents. The com-
pany then approached the
Department of Delhi Archives,

Man dragged on road in Gurgaon Woman Uber driver injured after since January 1, 2005. The status
of police investigation and FIR
registered be also placed on
which also denied having the
said copies.
It was argued that in

after accident with SUV, wife hurt her vehicle is pelted with stone
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
GURGAON, JANUARY 10
A 34-YEAR-OLD man was killed
afterbeingdraggedforafewme-
tres by an SUV in IMT Manesar’s
Kasan, said police Tuesday. The
victim’swife,whowasseatedpil-
lion on the motorcycle, also suf-
fered injuries, said police.
Police said the accused car
driver is yet to be arrested.
According to police, the inci-
denttookplaceonSundaynight.
Police identified the deceased as
Sardeep,ashopkeeper.Inthepo-
licecomplaint,hiswifeSameena
saidthattheduohadgonetothe
market on their motorcycle.
“We were returning to our
The wife of the victim
said that though their
family rushed them to
a hospital, he died
during treatment
house. Around 9.45 pm, when
we reached a lane close to the
house,wesawaScorpiocarcom-
ingtowardsusathighspeed.My
husbandtriedtomoveoutof the
way,butthecarrammedintous.
Due to the collision, he got stuck
underneath the car and was
dragged for a few metres,” she
saidinthecomplaint,addingthat
the car did not have a number
plate.Sheaddedthattheirfamily
members rushed them to a pri-
vate hospital in sector 87, where
her husband died during treat-
ment. She said she suffered in-
juries on hands and arms and
other parts of body.
Police said the accused is yet
to be traced. “A probe has been
initiated.WearecheckingCCTVs
to trace the accused.”
An FIR was registered under
IPC sections 279 (rash driving or
riding on a public way), 304-A
(deathbynegligence),337(caus-
ing hurt by act endangering life
orpersonalsafetyof others),338
(causinggrievoushurtbyacten-
dangering life or personal safety
of others), and 427 (mischief
causing damage), said police.
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NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
ANUBERdriverwasallegedlyat-
tacked with stones by an
unidentified person while she
was driving in North Delhi’s
Kashmere Gate area early
Monday.
The driver, identified as
Priyanka Devi, was on duty
around2 am when a man pelted
stones at her car and tried to
snatch her phone.
Police said Devi sustained
minor injuries on her chest but
managed to escape. She was
rushed to the hospital and dis-
charged after primary treat-
ment.
Sagar Singh Kalsi, DCP
(North), said, “We received a call
around2amregardingarobbery
attempt by breaking the glass of
a car. Police rushed to the spot
and found a woman cab driver,
named Priyanka who lives in
Samaypur Badli. She said the
glass of her cab was broken and
an attempt was made to snatch
her mobile. She saved her mo-
bile from being robbed and the
attacker fled from the spot.”
“We are investigating the
matter and will soon nab the ac-
cused,” he added.
“Later on, she refused to ten-
deranycomplaint.Wecontacted
herbutshesaidshedoesn’twish
to file a complaint. However, we
took suo motucognizance of the
issue and a DD entry was made.
Based on the entry, a case has
been registered under sections
of attempted robbery,” added
the DCP.
The woman said she was
driving near ISBT, and waiting to
pick up a passenger when an
unidentified man allegedly
came near the car.
“He…came by foot. He had a
stone and broke the glass of the
window. I sustained injuries. He
threatened to take my phone
and tried snatching it. There was
a bus driver nearby who saw all
this and came to help me. The
man fled after seeing him. I
called the police and told them
everything” alleged the
woman.
record.” The matter is next listed
on February 8.
The HC further directed the
IG to physically remain present
on the next date of the hearing.
The court also directed Principal
Secretary (Revenue) to join the
proceedings virtually.
The High Court was hearing
a plea moved by Monk Estates
Private Limited, claiming that in
1994, it registered six sale deeds
for agricultural land. It was ar-
gued that mutations were car-
ried out in favour of the com-
pany in February 1995, after
which it obtained the original
sale deeds.
It was argued that in 2013,
the company lost the registra-
tion documents and sought cer-
tified copies of the same from
the office of the sub-registrar af-
ter depositing the requisite
September 2021, the company
filed a Right to Information (RTI)
application that revealed that
the documents were not avail-
able.
Subsequently, in May 2019,
an FIR was registered.
Perusing the plea, the HC ob-
served that the facts showed
that the officials had knowledge
that these documents had gone
missing but chose to report it to
the police 14 years later.
“Considering that these doc-
uments could be misused for
sale and purchase transactions,
also raised serious concerns
about the credibility and in-
tegrity of preservation of land
records related to citizens itself.
Despite having knowledge of all
the facts, none of the authorities
appears to be taking any action
in this regard,” the court said.

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sustainable future In what ways does the bilat-

eral relationship between
Poland and India important
As a purposeful organisations, a world-class sustainable chemical company and an industry leader, Indorama in this year as both coun-
tries will be celebrating 70
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presence spanning 146 sites in 35
countries, 21 recycling facilities,
total revenue of USD 14.6 billion in 2021
and prestigious titles galore in various busi-
ness segments, the burgeoning business
journey of Indorama Ventures (IVL) has
been driven by its vision – “To be a world-
class sustainable chemical company making
great products for society.”
Within sixteen years of establishing its
first PET resin facility in Thailand, IVL set
foot on the Polish soil with Indorama Ven-
ture Poland (IVP) PET Plant in Wloclawek
in 2011, amidst the country’s steadily
growing economy and a promising future
for business ventures. Apart from the in-
herent advantage offered by Poland as a
strategic location, the availability of a
highly skilled labor force having the re-
quired expertise along with lower
operating costs, ease of operations, eco-
nomic stability, foreign direct investments,
large market, quality raw materials and ef-
ficient supply chain has cemented the fruit-
ful decision of IVL to continue to invest in
Poland.
Poland currently has four IVL sites,
including bottled PET in Wloclawek, PET
Recycling facilities in Bielsko Biala and
Leczyca and a wool yarn production facility
in Lodz that was acquired in 2022. With a
total investment of over USD 110 million in
Poland as of 2021 and FY21 revenue
amounting to USD 287 million, a slew of
factors has propelled IVL’s business growth
Wloclawek site family
in Poland, including its purpose- “Reimag-
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world” and its focus on sustainability and
recycling.
Since beginning its operation in Poland
until 2021, IVL has recycled 72 billion
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2011 IVP Wloclawek – PET Resin
2019 IVRP Bielsko Biala and
2021 Tollegno Lódz – Wool Fibers
post-consumer PET bottles and reduced 2.4
million tons of carbon footprint from the
product lifecycle while preventing 1.6 mil-
lion tons of plastic waste from going to
landfill.
IVL’s ‘Vision 2030’ heavily implemented
in PET Plant in Wloclawek through invest-
ments aimed at advancing sustainability-
The Melter Project (SPS) – system which
allows reuse PET flakes from recycled bot-
tles and solar panels of a total capacity of
50 kWp, will further bolster its global posi-
tion as a successful and responsible industry
leader.
IVL’s laudable spectrum of CSR activities
in Poland by educating and promoting
proper waste separation and PET recycling
in the community, supporting nursing
homes and hospitals, donates schools and
promotes talented secondary schools stu-
dents
Wloclawek site (IVP) is certified as a
Great Place to Work® for the period of
June 2022–2023 due to its unique work-
place culture. This coveted status makes
IVP one of Poland’s best employers and the
only certified place Wloclawek city.
term relationship dating back to
the World War era when Indian
Maharajas looked after more
than 2000 Polish children for
about five years. Since India is or-
ganising the G20 Summit, Poland
will be engaging with Indian sec-
tors like climate change, infor-
mation technology, Fintech,
packaging industries, waste
management, water manage-
ment, education, commerce &
trading, health technology, etc.
Poland and India will have a
strong diplomatic relationship
and both countries will prosper
in the coming years.
What investment opportuni-
ties exist for Indian
investors in Poland?
There are many IT companies
from India such as Infosys,
Wipro, Tech Mahindra and L&T,
etc. in industries like Uflex, Can-
pak, etc. from education. A num-
ber of indian universities have
signed an Mou or partnered
with Polish universities. The In-
frastructure sector is growing
gradually in Poland and many
Indian companies are active in
this sector.
How do you see the business
ties developing in the future
between Poland and India?
First and foremost, Poland and
India must have bilateral rela-
tions and free trade agreement
should be implemented. In the
education sector, there should be
student exchange programmes
and cultural activities that need
to be set up between both coun-
tries. In the waste management
sector, there are opportunities for
India to adopt the advanced tech-
nologies which are present in
Poland. Also there must be direct
flights from metropolitan cities
like Bangalore, Chennai, etc. to
Warsaw.
What are the future plans of
your company?
Our company is based in
Poland, and Smart Waste Technol-
ogy is present in seven different
countries globally. We have been
present for seven years by the
name of Ekolog India Pvt. Ltd.
Ekolog India is looking into the
Sludge management sectors both
in EPC & Technical partners in In-
dia. In education I am looking
forward to signing up MoUs with
major Polish universities.

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Bilateral relations reach new heights
P
AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE OLAND AND India have many
things in common. We are both
REPUBLIC OF POLAND TO INDIA, BANGLADESH, BHUTAN, NEPAL, SRI
democratic countries, in the
LANKA, MALDIVES AND AFGHANISTAN past we were both victims of
INDIA AND POLAND from the foreign imperialism, we both fought for
political standpoint and trade freedom for a long time and now we
exchange perspective share a good are both thriving economies that attract
capital from all over the world. Our bi-
bilateral relationship.The latter can be
lateral relations are reaching new
clearly seen in numbers of 2021 when heights in terms of trade exchange,
we saw the record high bilateral trade connectivity and people to people in-
exchange – around $4 billion, but teractions.
there is still untapped potential to be Our historical connections are
exploited in our economic relations. unique. In 19th century Polish scholars
India is a number one country in Asia became interested in Sanskrit and In-
dian culture. Polish nationals con-
for Polish investors, the trade between
tributed to the Indian struggle of Inde-
our countries has grown seven-fold pendence – in this context we can
over the last decade and we are name Wanda Dynowska, philosopher
striving for more. Prospective areas in and social activist who cooperated with
that regard are agricultural and food products, food processing, energy, green leaders of the independence movement
technologies, smart cities, cybersecurity, fintech and water management. in India. During World War II Indian ma-
We have good political relations with India. In 2022 Poland’s Minister of harajas received Polish refugees in their
soil: in Jamnagar, Gujarat there was a
Foreign Affairs Prof. Zbigniew Rau visited India. He participated in Raisina
shelter for c.a. 1000 Polish children and
dialogue and had very productive meetings with Prime Minister Narendra in Kolhapur, Maharashtra there were
Modi and Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar. We however look c.a. 5000 Polish citizens, mainly adults,
forward to many more such interactions on top political level. who stayed in buildings erected espe-
Our priority should be to build relations that are long lasting.We also strive cially for them. All of this was done in
to introduce Poland and the opportunities to the young generation of Indians. cooperation with Polish government in
We are very proud to maintain plenty of academic ties and endeavour to build Exile and Polish Consulate in then Bom-
bay run by Consul Eugeniusz Banasinski
on them.
and his wife Kira Banasinska.To honour
In 2021, Poland advanced Bloomberg Innovation Index at 23rd place, the deeds offered by the Good Mahara-
overtaking other countries from the Central and Eastern Europe. It is important jas, as they are called in Poland, there
that India continues to see us as the technology hub in the EU and the friendly are several places and one high school
place to do business. Poland’s economy is fast and stable, we are part of the EU named after them in Warsaw.
and despite today’s turbulent times, we have been the third preferred location In 1954 Poland and India established
in Europe for foreign investments. diplomatic relations. During next decade
many Polish engineers participated in
There are several hundreds Indian companies active in Poland in various
many projects across India, there was
sectors, mostly in advanced production technologies, IT, Research & also cooperation in many other fields. In
Development and consumption goods. Indian investors also recognise and 1989 Poland liberated itself from Soviet
appreciate the human capital, well-educated and competitive labour force Russian domination, terminated the
as well as great work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit of Polish citizens. criminal communist system and
more oxygen concentrators. In Febru-
ary 2022, when Russia launched a full-
scale military invasion on Ukraine,
Poland was also first to help. Polish
state institutions as well as Polish soci-
ety helped Indian students to escape
from the Russian aggression. In frames
of the Operation Ganga c.a. 6000 In-
dian students left Ukraine via Poland.
Poland, together with many countries
all around the world, stands for Ukraine
and for global peace and stability.
Our bilateral relations are reaching
new heights. Nowadays, after two diffi-
cult years of COVID-19 pandemic, we
observe record trade exchange which
surpassed $4 billion in 2021. We have
On the sidelines of Raisina Dialogue 2022, Prime Minister Narendra new cooperation in the defence sector.
Modi met H.E. Zbigniew Rau, Hon’ble FM of Poland Polish companies are more and more in-
terested in investment in India and the
IN ONE YEAR, feeling is mutual – Indian companies are
more and more present on Polish mar-
WE WILL BE ket.We look forward to more openness in
CELEBRATING 70TH terms of trade between European Union
and India – it could be a new factor to
ANNIVERSARY OF Polish-Indian bilateral relations.
We are now in a new era in terms of
ESTABLISHING THE connectivity and people to people inter-
BILATERAL RELATIONS actions. LOT Polish Airlines operates
in Raisina Dialogue and had fruitful from Warsaw to Delhi and Mumbai and
meetings with Prime Minister Narendra we hope that new destinations will be
launched pro-market reforms. India lib- Modi and Minister S. Jaishankar. Re- soon added to this schedule. Indian
erated its economic life in famous re- cently we had a next round of Foreign community in Poland is growing. Indian
forms inaugurated by Prime Minister Office Consultations on the Deputy FM cuisine is becoming very popular in
Narasimha Rao in 1991. These events level. However we need more interac- Poland, in Warsaw alone there are more
opened a new chapter in bilateral rela- tions on top political level between our than 100 Indian restaurants.Also there is
tions. In 2004 Poland joined the Euro- countries. cooperation in culture, especially in film
pean Union, which also gave a new Poland is first to help.We are always industry. Indian movie producers eye at
boost for the relations with India. ready to offer assistance to our Indian Polish market and they are ready to
Our political contacts are also enter- friends. In May 2021 when India was hit make more films in our country.
ing a new phase. In 2019 Minister of Ex- by a wave of COVID-19 pandemic, Polish In one year, we will be celebrating
ternal Affairs, Dr. S. Jaishankar, visited government donated 100 oxygen con- 70th anniversary of establishing the
Warsaw, in 2022 Poland’s Minister of centrators to Indian Red Cross, and a bilateral relations. All this that we
Foreign Affairs Prof. Zbigniew Rau vis- month later Polish community in India presented here allow us to expect a
ited New Delhi, where he participated and friends of India in Poland added 18 bright future.

Fastest growing economy in EU

Poland is a country with numerous business opportunities. Exporters and investors
globally are drawn to this country due to its large population, well-educated,
talented and competitive workforce, immense potential for economic growth, and
location thus allowing for unlimited access to the EU market

Success story Poland is, indeed, among the fastest- change between 1990-2020.According
developing economies not only in Eu- to International Monetary Fund,

P OLAND is one of the most economi-

cally stable countries in Europe.
Poland’s economy is the largest econ-
omy in Central and Eastern Europe re-
gion and the sixth largest economy in
the European Union, with GDP per
capita being above 70% of the EU
average (in terms of purchasing
power parity).
rope, but also around the world.
Poland’s transition from post-Soviet
country to a liberal and vibrant democ-
ratic state, an EU and NATO member has
been remarkable. Over the last three
decades, Poland’s GDP has grown faster
than any other in Europe. In addition,
Poland comes only second, after China,
in the list of biggest 25 economies GDP
Poland’s economy grew by 857%, in
comparison China grew by 3593%, in
the past 30 years.
And according to the World Bank,
Poland’s well-diversified economy was
among EU’s least affected by the
COVID-19 pandemic, which makes it a
safe haven for business in today’s
turbulent times.

Heart of Europe Business Harbour

NESTLED IN the heart of Europe, Poland’s strategic POLAND HAS earned its reputation for in-
location at the crossroads of the main transport novation-friendly environment and busi-
routes on both the east-west and the north-south ness-friendly policies. Poland ranks above
lines makes it a perfect investment location. In the majority of countries and is the Central
Poland, the East meets the West, and the North and Easter Europe region’s leader,which has
meets the South. Transit traffic between Western, been confirmed by various international re-
Eastern and Southern Europe in fact runs through Poland. ports, including the „Global Competitive-
Poland, being also the 6th most populous country in the EU, has a large internal ness Report
market of over 38 million consumers and enjoys an unlimited access to the 2019, “Doing
European Union market of over 500 million consumers. Business
2020”,”Corrup-
Polish Food sector – apples and blueberries tion Perception
POLISH FOOD products are apples, worth 303 million Index 2021” or
well known and valued all euros. “EY Attractive-
over the world. Their export In addition, Poland is ness Survey Eu-
has increased by 250% since the second largest blue- rope 2021”.
2009. The Polish food market berry producer in the Eu- Poland has also advanced in the latest in-
ranks 8th in Europe. Poland ropean Union after Spain, novation ranking compiled by Bloomberg,
has two wonderful fruits to contributing 30% of the scoring particularly well when it comes to
offer: apples and blueberries. Union harvests of this manufacturing value-added and high-tech
Poland is one of the lead- fruit. In terms of global density.
ing producers and exporters production, Poland comes Ranking 23rd in the 2021 Bloomberg In-
of apples – the largest pro- sixth, and between 2012 novation Index, Poland advanced by two
ducer in the EU, and fourth and 2020, Polish blueberry places since last year’s ranking, putting it
largest in the world. Fragrant and juicy ap- exports increased almost eightfold. ahead of several other EU countries in the
ples are Poland’s national treasure. In 2020 Poland is a synonym of innovation, Central and Eastern Europe region,including
Poland exported over 1 million tonnes of high quality and stable development. the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia
fruit to 79 world destinations. In 2020, Poland is your business partner. We but also Greece and Spain.
Poland exported 660 thousand tonnes of hope to welcome you in Poland soon.

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BRIEFLY
L-Gapproval
toprosecute
Shehlafor
2019tweets
onArmy
New Delhi: Delhi
LieutenantGovernorVinai
KumarSaxenahasgranted
sanction to prosecute ac-
tivist Shehla Rashid Shora
in a case filed against her
fortwoofhertweetsabout
the Indian Army allegedly
“aimed at promoting en-
mity between different
groups and indulging in
actsprejudicialtomainte-
nance of harmony.” Raj
Niwas sources said the
prosecution sanction was
relatedtoacaseregistered
onSeptember3,2019,un-
derIPCsection153Abythe
Delhi Police based on a
complaintmadebyanad-
vocate. The proposal was
movedbyDelhiPoliceand
supported by Home
Department. Saxena has
grantedprosecutionsanc-
tion against Rashid under
Section 196 of the CrPC.
Busramsinto
peoplesleeping
onfootpath,
8injured
New Delhi: Eight people,
includingfivewomenand
a six-year-old boy, sus-
tained injuries after a bus
lost control and rammed
into slum dwellers who
weresleepingonthefoot-
path on the Rohtak road
in Karol Bagh Tuesday,
saidpolice.Policesaidthat
before ramming into
slumdwellers,thebusal-
legedly collided with a
taxi.“Allarestableandbe-
ingtreated,”DCP(Central)
ShwetaChauhansaid.The
DCP said the driver of the
bus has been arrested.
Cashvanguard
killed;accused
fleeswith
Rs10.78lakh
New Delhi: A 55-year-old
cash van guard was shot
dead by a man while he
was loading cash inside
an ATM machine and the
accused allegedly stole
around Rs 10.78 lakh in
Wazirabad, police said.
"We are identifying the
accused person and car-
rying out raids," DCP
Sagar Singh Kalsi said.
Sixmonths
afterrape,
policenabone
oftheaccused
NewDelhi:GautamBuddh
Nagarpolicehavearrested
a man on Monday for al-
legedly raping a woman
on 21 June, 2022. Another
accused is absconding.
According to ADCP
(CentralNoida)SaadMiya
Khan, “Complainant had
said...she was sexually as-
saulted by the two, and
they had also robbed her
mobile and purse...The
(stolen) mobile was being
monitored. It was used
againthisJanuaryandwas
tracedbyourteams...” ENS
NOT A SUDDEN INCREASE, SAY DOCTORS
City’s OPDs report spike in respiratory complaints amid chill, pollution
ANKITA UPADHYAY
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
WITH THE temperature dipping
and the high pollution levels,
cases of respiratory illness have
increased in hospitals across the
city.
However, doctors said it is
notanewphenomenon,andhas
been witnessed over the years
duringwinterbutsymptomsare
persistentinpatientsforalonger
time as compared to the last few
years.
The dimly lit road stretch near Shaheen Bagh bus stand, with two-winged street lights. Abhinav Saha
The lights are out
Two barely illuminated routes. This is what The Indian Express found when it travelled on the
4.5 km Kalindi Kunj stretch, and the road between Minto Bridge and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.
Part 2 of a series that looks at Delhi’s dark spots
DELHI
MintoBridge
KalindiKunj
GAYATHRIMANI
NEWDELHI,JANUARY10
WITHTHEclosureof Ashramfly-
over, lakhs of commuters travel-
ingbetweenNoidaandSoutheast
Delhi and the surrounding NCR
regions such as Faridabad,
Badarpur and Agra take the
Kalindi Kunj stretch to avoid traf-
fic jams. Commuting on the
stretch,though,isnotaneasytask
when more than half the street-
lights don’t work.
As part of its series on Delhi’s
dark stretches, The Indian Express
travelledontwomoreprominent
routes – the above-mentioned
SDMCtollgatetoJasolaMetrosta-
tion via Shaheen Bagh, and from
Minto Bridge to Deen Dayal
Upadhyay Marg government
quarters. What we found:
A crucial stretch
On the 4.5-km Kalindi Kunj
stretch, roughly 90% of the street
lights were either not working or
hadn’tbeenswitchedon,withthe
low visibility exacerbated by a
thick layer of fog.
TheIndianExpressstartedfrom
SDMC toll gate junction, near
Kalindi Kunj Metro station. Here,
the road divides into four parts –
ontheleft,neartheMetrostation,
is Eco Park Road going towards
Faridabadsector27,Badarpurand
Mithapur. On the right, roads go
towards Amrapali Road and
KalindiKunjBridge.Alllightshere,
including high mast ones, were
not working.
Starting from the junction
near Kalindi Kunj Metro station,
there were 21 two-winged street
poles installed on GD Birla Marg
Every year, due to the cold
weather and air, hospitalisation
of patientsincreases,particularly
of those with respiratory issues,
said doctors. The average air
quality index from January 1 to
10 was recorded at 367.
Cold air is often dry, and with
high pollution levels, they act as
ahugeriskforthosewithchronic
lung diseases, said doctors. Dry
air can irritate the airways of
people with lung diseases,
which can lead to wheezing,
coughing and shortness of
breath.
Home to party offices
AN UPSCALE 1-kilometre
stretch between New Delhi
and Central district, going
from Minto Bridge till DDU
Marg government quarters,
had several dark spots. The
road from Connaught Place
side, before the bridge, had il-
luminated street lights, but
100 metres away from Minto
Bridge, the stretch got dark,
and at the signal, street lights
were absent.
From the Minto Railway
Bridge traffic signal, the road
to the right leads to Deen
Dayal Upadhyay Marg, where
BJP office, Rouse Avenue dis-
trict court, and AAP office are
situated. The 1-km stretch on
DDU Marg starting from Anna
Kalaigner Arivalayam had 17
street poles on the central
verge, which were not work-
ing.
The stretch also houses
residences of senior bureau-
cratsandgovernmentofficials.
It had one bus stop but had no
lights, and was dimly illumi-
nated only by lights emitted
fromthegovernmentresiden-
tillShaheenBaghfootoverbridge
(FOB).Ofthese,lightsononlyfour
poles were working, including
onethatwasflickering.Thenewly
constructed FOB had no lights.
Between 11.10 pm and 11.25 pm,
about six persons, including a
woman, used the FOB, and all of
them were seen using their mo-
biletorchlighttocrossthestretch.
Ontherightside,clothingand
footwear showrooms and the
denselypopulatedShaheenBagh,
which saw 2019 anti-CAA
protests, is situated. The area was
largelyshroudedindarkness.Two
busstopsoneithersideoftheroad
werenotlit,andtheonlylightap-
peared to be coming from a pri-
vate hospital on the right.
From here, another FOB was
Every year, due to cold weather and air, hospitalisation of
patients increases, said doctors. Archive
ANANDVIHAR
Severe
434
AQI
0 PM 2.5
0-50 Good
The stretch near Minto Bridge. Gajendra Yadav
Minto Minto Road
Bridge
DDU Park
Rajiv Chowk
DDU CGRC DDU
apartments Road
tial quarters.
Whencontactedlaterwith
queries on the DDU Marg
stretch, an official said: “We
situatedaround850metresaway,
near a mall. This, too, was unillu-
minated. The Vishwasji Sadak
stretch remained dark till the
Sarita Vihar underpass, 500 me-
tre before Jasola Metro station
near Apollo Hospital. There were
34streetlightsonthecentralme-
dian,of whichonlythreewerelit.
The Jasola-Apollo Metro sta-
tionsareilluminatedwithbright,
decorative lights. Most short and
tall street light poles were work-
ing. From Jasola Metro station to
NewFriendsColonytoOkhlaFOB,
the street lights were functional
but dimly lit with sodium lights.
When contacted, a senior
PWDofficialwholooksafterelec-
trical maintenance of Southeast
Delhi, said, “We have given the
SHADIPUR
Very Poor
383
AQI
500 0 PM 2.5
51-100 Satisfactory 101-200 Moderate
THESTRETCH
MINTO BRIDGE TO DDU
CGRC APARTMENTS ON
PANDIT DEEN DAYAL
UPADHYAY MARG
DISTANCE 1 KM
TIME 12.20 AM
■ 17 street light poles
■ None switched on
willcheckandrepairthelights
by tomorrow.” He added that
the lights had been fixed near
Minto Bridge.
maintenanceworkofstreetlights
to the discoms, BSES, for five
years... Usually, either we receive
complaintsfromBSESorthepub-
lic, following which we get the
lights fixed. But we have not re-
ceived any complaints regarding
non-functionalstreetlightsonthe
Kalindi Kunj stretch. The stretch
had lights; there must be some
fault in the cable or the timer, we
will get it fixed in a day or two.”
Theofficialsaidtheftisamen-
ace.“Wefileatleast3-4FIRsevery
month and police complaints of
theftofelectricpolecables,timer,
electric box…FOBs at Shaheen
Bagh and Living Style Mall were
inaugurated a month ago...cable
wires have been cut, iron items
have been stolen, due to which
According to Dr Neeraj
Gupta, professor, head depart-
ment of pulmonary, critical care
and sleep medicine, VMMC and
Safdarjunghospital,casesof res-
piratory issues have increasedin
the OPD, along with the number
of patients in all age groups with
weak lungs, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD),
bronchitisandpost-Covidsymp-
toms, and they have been show-
ing acute coughing as well.
“It…has been witnessed
every year. Persistent winter in-
creases respiratory issues, and a
SIRIFORT
Severe
421
AQI
500 0 PM 2.5 500
201-300 Poor 301-400 Very Poor
Jasola Metro
station Shaheen
Bagh Foot
GD
Birla Over Bridge
Marg
SDMC
toll gate
Vishwasji Kalindi Kunj
Sadak
Metro station
THESTRETCH
SDMC TOLL GATE, KALINDI
KUNJ METRO STATION TO
JASOLA METRO STATION,
APOLLO HOSPITAL
DISTANCE
TIME
4.5 KM
10.57 PM
No. of street lights
TILL SHAHEEN BAGH FOB
■ 21 street light poles
installed on the central
median
■ Only three working, one
was flickering
SHAHEEN BAGH FOB ON GD
BIRLA MARG TO VISHWASJI
SADAK TILL JASOLA METRO
STATION
■ 34 street light poles with
two-winged lights
■ 31 not working
lights have gone off on the FOB..."
“...Frequent patrolling should
beincreased...Oursecurityguards
....areafraidtoworkinnightshifts
due to threats by anti-social ele-
ments...,”saidtheofficial,adding:
“Wewillcheckthestretchandfix
the lights soon.” The official later
added that on the Kalindi Kunj to
GD Birla Marg stretch, “improve-
mentof streetlightandcablelay-
ing work is in progress”, while at
“Vishwasji Sadak and Shaheen
BaghtoJasola(stretch),cablefault
(hasbeen)rectifiedandthestreet
light is in working condition”.
The stretch falls under
Assembly constituency of AAP
MLA Amanatullah Khan, who
didn’t respond to calls seeking
comment.
trend begins in the month of
October-November post which
the smoke tends to remain, and
leadstothepersistenceof airway
inflammation,” he said.
He added that the patient
coming to his OPD are showing
mild to normal symptoms.
Dr Gupta said it cannot be
stated that there is a sudden in-
crease. “It’s there as usual but
symptoms tend to remain for a
longer period of time (due to the
current conditions),” he said.
Dr Rajesh Chawla, senior
consultant of pulmonology and
New Delhi
IHBAS S K Y WA T C H
Poor
292
AQI
0 PM 2.5 500
MAX: 19
401-500 Severe 0.4°C belownormal
At the show at Red Fort on Tuesday. Tashi Tobgyal
Red Fort’s light and
sound show returns
UDBHAVSETH
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
HOME MINISTER Amit Shah in-
augurated Red Fort's revamped
light and sound show yesterday
evening, after a hiatus of the pro-
gramme for five years. The one-
hour feature, Jai Hind, that will
play daily in Hindi and English,
spans three monuments on the
premises— Naubat Khana,
Deewan-e-Aam and Deewan-e-
Khas — and narrates India's cul-
turalandpoliticalhistoryoverthe
past few millennia.
"Those who don't learn from
history can't envision a great
country," said Shah.
He added, "In the past eight
years, under Modi ji, I've seen a
newconfidenceandeagernessin
the people of this country."
Thefirstprogrammewaspro-
jected on the outer fort wall and
called Matrabhoomi
(Motherland). A voice personify-
ingtheredsandstonewallsintro-
duced the show with comment
on India's scientific and cultural
progress, adding that today’s era
isdifferentfrompreviousonesbe-
cause "everybody forced to be
silentandlistencannowspeakin
Teen acid attack
victim now fears
stepping out alone
ARNABJITSUR
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
ATTACKED WITH acid allegedly
byamanwhoseadvancesshere-
jected, a 17-year-old girl from
Dwarka now goes out only ac-
companiedbyherfathersinceshe
fearssteppingoutalone.“Afterbe-
ingoperatedon,shecanopenher
eyes,butthescarsstillremain.She
willtakeherBoardexamsinafew
months and is still planning to
pursue law,” said her uncle.
The accused, Sachin, Harshit
and Virender, have been sent to
judicialcustody,andpolicesaida
chargesheet will be filed in a
month before the Dwarka court.
Familymemberssaidthatthe
girl was supposed to give her
CLAT exam three days after the
incident. “She missed the exam
as she sustained injuries on her
eyesandhadtoundergosurgery,”
the uncle said.
Whiletheaccused,allintheir
20s, are in judicial custody, the
unclesaid,“Ihopeastrongcaseis
made against the accused and
they are brought to justice.”
Weeksaftertheincident,sen-
ior police officers said that they
addedthePoisonsActtothecase
andbookedtheAgra-basedseller
for “negligence”. A senior police
officer, requesting anonymity,
told The Indian Express that they
have added section 4 of the
Poisons Act, 1919 against the
seller who sold a 100 ml bottle
critical care, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, said there isn’t a great
increase this year and not many
viral infections have been re-
ported. However, persistent
cough and breathlessness have
resultedinmanypatientsnotre-
sponding to the medication.
“The cases have increased
mainly due to winter, and pollu-
tion is perennial now and due to
which many people have devel-
oped severe cough, which is not
getting cured despite medica-
tion,” he said.
Dr Vikas Maurya, the direc-
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
FORECAST: January 11
Partlycloudysky.
Moderatetodense
fog inthemorning
MIN: 7
0.1°C belownormal
thiscountry."Thewallswerethen
projected with virtual bricks be-
ingpiledtodenoteRedFort'scon-
struction by Shah Jahan, with the
voicesaying,"Mughalswhomade
me, came as guests but came to
belong to this land." The projec-
tionswentontonarratetheVedic
period, India's contribution of
yoga to the world, and achieve-
ments of space and nuclear age.
A giant puppet held up by
men began the narration from
NaubatKhana,coveringtheDelhi
Sultanate and Mughal Empire.
Anothersculpture,of ShahJahan,
'inaugurated'thefortinareenact-
ment of the emperor's darbar at
Deewan-e-Aam. The reign of the
Marathascamenextandthepres-
tigeoftheKohinoordiamondwas
weaved into the story.
The weakening of the
Mughal Empire and rise of the
EastIndiaCompanywereshown
with reenactments of battles
and uprisings. Subhas Chandra
Bose’s Hind Fauj was a promi-
nent part of the story, leading
into the Independence struggle.
Leaders like Gandhi, and Bhagat
Singh were projected on walls,
followed by a portrait sequence
of IndianPrimeMinisters,which
wrapped up the show.
through Flipkart at Rs 600 to the
three accused.
The Act regulates the sale,
possession and importation of
acid. Earlier, police had lodged a
case under IPC section 326A
(Voluntarily causing grievous
hurt by use of acid), and 34 (Acts
done by several persons in fur-
therance of common intention).
Officers had earlier said they
werestudyingtheroleofboththe
e-commerce platform and seller
andwouldsubsequentlyaddrel-
evantsectionstotheexistingFIR.
On Flipkart’s role, the officer
said:“Wearelookingintothelia-
bilities of Flipkart and will also
take suitable legal action in due
course. We had sent them a no-
tice initially but due to an unsat-
isfactory response, we issued a
notice again and are now study-
ing their responses.”
The officer said that Flipkart
hasbeenclaimingthatsincethey
arearetailplatform,theyserveas
the intermediary between the
buyer and the seller. The source
added: “We had enquired about
their legal protocols and checks
andbalancesonthesaleofitems.”
Anotherofficerprivytothein-
vestigation said the chargesheet
is almost ready and will most
likely be filed in a month. “We
have collected all the evidence
against the three accused and
havefoundnegligenceonthepart
ofFlipkartandtheseller,”theoffi-
cer said. Flipkart did not respond
to calls seeking comment.
tor and head of the department
of pulmonology at Fortis
Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, said
that as compared to the last two
years, patients have increased
andarerequiringhospitalisation.
He said that he witnessed an al-
most 30% hike in such patients.
“Patients with chronic respi-
ratory disease, diabetes, asthma,
viral infections COPD are report-
ing increased incidents of respi-
ratoryillnessandviralinfections.
Many patients have also come
requiring ventilator support as
well,” he added.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023

17TH PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS

Murmu: Indian diaspora making stellar DAC approves

DELHI CONFIDENTIAL contributions in leadership positions DRDO missile
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
INDORE, JANUARY 10
systems worth
Rs 4,276 crore
INDIAISengagingwiththeworld
with“greaterself-confidenceand
a wider goal of securing national
interests” at a time of economic
and geopolitical upheaval across
the world, President Droupadi
Murmu said on Tuesday, inviting AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA Rajnath
theIndiandiasporatoparticipate NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 Singh
in nation-building. heads
Murmu said the nearly 3.2 AMIDTHEongoingmilitarystand- Defence
crore strong Indian diaspora has offwithChinaattheLineofActual Acquisition
RELIEF, RELIEF becomean“importantandunique
force”intheglobalscene,making
ControlineasternLadakh,Indiais
planningtoprocuretheVeryShort
Council

POLITICIANS USUALLY remind the voters how they kept the stellar contributions to world af-
promisesmadeduringelectioneering.ButAssamChiefMinister fairs in leadership positions.
Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday surprised the audience at a Murmuwasspeakingatthevale-
public rally in Tripura by admitting that he had made a “false dictorysessionof the17thPravasi
promise”intherunupto2018electionbutfortunately,forhim, BharatiyaDivasconventionwhere
theBJPgovernmentinthestatehasfulfilledit.Whileaddressing she handed over the Pravasi
thepublicatGomathidistrict,Sarmasaidasin-chargeofTripura
elections in 2018, he once promised that if the party comes to
Bharatiya Samman awards, the
highest honour for overseas
power,Rs2,000willbepaidassocialsecuritypension.“Iwasre-
allyscaredtocometoTripurafearingthatsomeonewillaskme
about it. Recently, I read in a newspaper that Manik Saha gov-
Indians,to27individuals.
“We are facing challenging
times today, with economic and
ernment has increased the pension to Rs 2,000...” geopolitical upheaval all around
us.Amidallthesechallenges,India
is engaging with the world with
TOY SHOW greater self-confidence and a
widergoalofsecuringnationalin-
THE INDIA International Science Festival (IISF), an initiative of terests,” Murmu said.
theScienceandTechnologyMinistry,willhaveanunusualshow- “These awards are significant
casethisyear—toypuzzlesandbrainteasers.Atthebehestofthe as they not only show our appre-
PrimeMinister,theministrywillshowcasetoysmadebycrafts- ciation and acknowledgment of
men from across the country at the event being held in Bhopal theachievementsof thepravasis,
laterthismonth.TheIISFwillalsobeshowcasing200ofthebest butalsoreflectourfaithintheirre-
biotech start-ups and will also feature an interaction between solve to keep India’s flag flying
theISROChairpersonandschoolchildren.Around1,500school- high in the world,” she said.
childrenfromruralareas,includingLadakh,aswellastheirteach- Among those who received
ers will also be shown how science laboratories work. the award include President of
Guyana Mohamed Irfaan Ali, US-
President Droupadi Murmu confers the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award to Guyana
President Mohamed Irfaan Ali in Indore on Tuesday. Suriname President Chandrikapersad
Santokhi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar were also present at the event. ANI
tended by over 3,500 delegates
fromnearly70countries.
On Monday, many delegates
had strongly expressed their dis-
appointment over not being able
to enter the venue due to over-
crowding when Prime Minister
NarendraModispoke,prompting
Chouhan to apologise. Even on
Tuesday, he said, “The PM's pop-
ularity is such that the hall could
notaccommodateeveryone.Iex-
press my apology once again.”
During the day, at a media
briefing addressed by officers of
Ministry of External Affairs and
MadhyaPradeshgovernment,the
authoritiessaidover3,200people
hadregisteredfortheeventwhile
the auditorium where the PM
spokehadacapacityof2,200.“But
Use Indian brands, services
abroad: Nirmala to diaspora
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
INDORE, JANUARY 10
FINANCE MINISTER Nirmala
Sitharaman on Tuesday urged
members of Indian communi-
ties living overseas to use Indian
brands and services as part of
their role of being the country's
brand ambassadors on foreign
soil and make efforts to collabo-
rate with Indian businesses, be
it small or big.
Addressing a plenary session
duringthePravasiBharatiyaDivas
Finance
Minister
Nirmala
Sitharaman
community which has made
India very proud," she said.
Referring to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's assertion that
Indians living abroad are the
brand ambassadors of the coun-
try, Sitharaman said the diaspora
Range Air Defence System or
VSHORAD (IR Homing) missile
system, which is being designed
and developed by the Defence
Research and Development
Organisation(DRDO).
The Defence Acquisition
Council (DAC) headed by
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
TuesdayaccordedAcceptanceof
Necessity (AoN) to critical pro-
curementsforthedefenceforces,
including that of the VSHORAD
(IR Homing) missile system.
The DAC also approved pro-
curement of the HELINA Anti-
Tank Guided Missiles, launchers
and associated support equip-
ment for the indigenous
AdvancedLightHelicopters(ALH)
with the Army and the Brahmos
LauncherandFireControlSystem
(FCS)fortheShivalikclassofships
and Next Generation Missile
Vessels (NGMVs) for the Navy.
TheAoNisthefirststepinthe
long and complex defence pro-
portable and can be deployed
quickly in rugged terrain and
maritime domain,” the Defence
Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry added that pro-
curement of VSHORAD, as a ro-
bust and quickly deployablesys-
tem, will strengthen India’s air
defence capabilities.
Last year, there were several
instanceswhereChinathreatened
violations along the LAC in east-
ern Ladakh and Arunachal
Pradesh.Whilesomeinstancesin-
volved Chinese fighter jets, there
wereinstancesofChinesedrones
flying very close to the LAC in the
Northeast in the later half of last
year,promptingtheIAFtoscram-
ble their fighter jets in response.
India has been in talks with
Russia since 2018 to procure the
Igla-Sairdefencemissilesatacost
of$1.5billionundertheVSHORAD
programmeinabidtoreplacethe
Russian Igla-M systems which

POETIC ADIEU
based NRI businessman Darshan
SinghDhaliwal,andDBSBankCEO
PiyushGupta,Poland-basedbusi-
ASTHEcurtainsfellonthethree-dayPravasiBharatiyaDivascon- nessman Amit Kailash Chandra
vention in Indore on Tuesday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Lath,whoassisted Indian author-
ShivrajSinghChouhanturnedtopoetrytoexpresshissentiments. itiesduringtheevacuationof stu-
Addressing a packed auditorium, Chouhan said he was feeling dentsduringtheRussianinvasion
emotional just like a father does at the 'vidaai' of his daughter's of Ukraine. Madhya Pradesh CM
wedding. “Sitaronkoaankhonmeinmehfoozrakhna/badider Shivraj Singh Chouhan, External
tak raat hi raat hogi/musafir hain hum,musafir ho tum bhi/kisi Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Civil
modpephirmulaqathogi...,” hesaid,borrowingthelinesofpoet Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya
BashirBadr,drawingloudcheersfromtheaudience. Scindia were among those pres-
entontheoccasion,whichwasat-
wehadprearrangedlargescreens
inadjacenthallsbutpeoplenatu-
rally felt since they had come all
the way to India; they would
ratherwatchtheeventinperson...
shortcomings were there on our
end,”MadhyaPradeshadditional
chief secretary Mohammed
Sulemansaid,whileAusafSayeed,
Secretary(OverseasIndianAffairs)
in MEA, sought to downplay the
issue,sayingtheeventwas“over-
all a success”.
Conventionhere,Sitharamansaid
Indian society, which has turned
aspirationalnow,offersmanyop-
portunitiestothediaspora,unlike
in the past, till the economy was
opened up in 1991.
In her opening remarks,
Sitharaman praised the Indian
diaspora, saying the community
has emerged as an "exemplar"
by making contributions where
they live, while holding on to
their roots. "You have been a
will have to explore newer chan-
nelstoparticipateinIndia'sdevel-
opment trajectory and point out
flawsinadministrativepoliciesfor
achieving greater standards.
She pointed out that India is
among the largest recipients of
remittances from people work-
ing in foreign countries. The
amount was $100 billion in
2022, she said, adding it was a
12% increase from 2021, despite
disruptionscausedbypandemic.
curement process. Not all AoNs
accordednecessarilymaterialise
into a final order. The three cap-
ital acquisition proposals—two
of the Army and one of the
Navy—totals Rs 4,276 crore and
will be procured under the Buy
(Indian-IDDM) category.
“In view of the recent devel-
opments along the northern
borders there is a need to focus
on effective Air Defence (AD)
weapon systems which are man
have been in use with the Army.
However, with a strong pitch for
'Atmanirbharta'indefence,there
has been little progress on this
front, with sources indicating the
dealhasbeenputonholdfornow.
The DAC also gave its ap-
proval to procure the HELINA
Anti-Tank Guided Missiles,
launchers and associated sup-
portequipmentfortheirintegra-
tion to the Army’s ALHs as part
of their weaponization process.

SHIV SENA DISPUTE

Dhankhar to open presiding officers’ meet today
SC to commence hearing pleas on Feb 14, EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
cies during its G20 presidency in
2023andimprovingtherelations
encewillalsobeaddressedbyLok
SabhaSpeakerOmBirla,Rajasthan
chaired a meeting of the
StandingCommitteeof AIPOCin

Ajit Pawar indicates prolonged legal battle NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, JAN 10
THESUPREMECourtonTuesday
said that it will on February 14
commence hearing on pleas re-
lated to the Maharashtra politi-
cal crisis triggered by the Shiv
Sena's division.
A five-judge Constitution
benchheadedbyChief JusticeDY
Chandrachud was told by senior
advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing
for the Shiv Sena (UBT) led by
Uddhav Thackeray, that he will
willseekreferenceof thecasesto
aseven-judgebenchtohaveare-
lookof a2016judgmentonpow-
ers of Assembly speakers to deal
with disqualification pleas.
“We have filed the submis-
sionsonreferenceof matterstoa
seven-judge bench. They (CM
EknathShindefaction)havefiled
the response,” Sibal told the
bench which also comprised
JusticesMRShah,KrishnaMurari,
Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha.
“We will keep it for hearing on
February 14,” the CJI said.
Sibal, while seeking refer-
ence of matters to a seven-judge
bench, had sought re-look at an
earlier SC judgement. In 2016, a
five-judge Constitution bench,
while deciding the NabamRebia
case,hadheldthattheAssembly
speaker cannot proceed with a
plea for disqualification of MLAs
if a prior notice seeking removal
of the speaker is pending deci-
sion in the House.
Thisdecisionhadcometothe
rescue of rebel MLAs led by
Shinde,intheSConthegroundof
pendency of a notice for removal
ofMaharashtraAssemblyDeputy
SpeakerNarhariSitaramZariwal.
As the SC fixed the date of
hearing, NCP MLA and Leader of
Opposition in the Maharashtra
Assembly, Ajit Pawar, said there
willbe“tarikhpartarikh”(datesaf-
ter dates), indicating a prolonged
legal battle over the matter.
Speaking to mediapersons,
he said, "Tarikh par tarikh hone
wali hain (there will be dates af-
ter dates for hearing). It is their
(court's) right. Can anyone ask
the judiciary (about this)?"
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and
RajyaSabha MP SanjayRaut said
since the date of hearing hap-
pens to be on February 14
(Valentine's Day), "everything
will happen with love."
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut arrives to meet the Election
Commission in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI
EC sets Jan 17 as next date of hearing
New Delhi: Arguments by the
Eknath Shinde-led faction in the
disputebetweenthetwofactions
of the Shiv Sena for control of the
party’s name and symbol con-
cluded on Tuesday, according to
sources in the Election
Commission.TheysaidJanuary17
wouldbethenextdateofhearing.
The EC had in October last
PRESIDINGOFFICERSofstateleg-
between the legislature and ju-
diciary on the agenda.
InastatementonTuesday,the
CM Ashok Gehlot, Rajya Sabha
DeputyChairmanHarivansh,and
RajasthanSpeakerCPJoshi.
which seven state Speakers took
part anddiscussedtheagendaof
the conference. “It was decided
islatures will come together at LokSabhaSecretariatsaidthecon- The valedictory address on in the meeting that during the
Jaipur from Wednesday for the ference will be inaugurated by Thursday will be delivered by conference, there will be a de-
two-day83rdAll-IndiaPresiding Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Rajasthan Governor Kalraj tailed discussion on India'slead-
Officers’ Conference to discuss, ChairmanJagdeepDhankhar,who Mishra, a statement from the ership of G20 and the role of leg-
among other things, how India willgivetheinauguraladdresson Vice-President’sSecretariatsaid. islatures in the same,” the Lok
canbearolemodelfordemocra- Wednesdaymorning.Theconfer- Ahead of the inaugural, Birla Sabha Secretariat said.
year passed an interim order, al-
lotting alternate names and
symbols to the two sides till a fi-
nal decision in the matter is
taken. While the Shinde faction
was given Balasahebanchi Shiv
Sena, former Maharashtra CM
Uddhav Thackeray’s group was
named Shiv Sena (Uddhav
Balasaheb Thackeray). ENS

BSP’s birthday gift: A Mayawati melody

LALMANI VERMA
LUCKNOW, JANUARY 10
THEBAHUJANSamajParty(BSP)
has got a song commissioned to
honour its party president
Mayawati for her birthday on
January 15. Sung by renowned
singer Kailash Kher, the song
says Indians consider the BSP
chief to be a goddess. It was dis-
tributed to all the local BSP units
on Tuesday and will be played at
party events organised to cele-
brate Mayawati’s birthday.
The song starts by hailing
Mayawati for being one of the
big global leaders. “Desh ki saari
hastiyon me behana ka pehla
mukam hain, vishwa ke mahaan
netaon mein Maya behan ka
naam hain (Sister Mayawati is
BSP chief
Mayawati’s
birthday
fallson
January15
among the top Indian personal-
ities and is counted among the
great global leaders).”
Kher then croons, “Himmat
aur sahas ke karan Iron Lady
kehlati hain, Bharat ki janta unko
Devi ka roop samajhti hai (She is
referred to as the Iron Lady for
her daringness and courage,
Indians consider her to be an
avatar of a goddess).”
The song says nothing is im-
possibleforMayawatiandgoeson
to claim that she can even bring
the“moonandstarstoearthifshe
sets her heart on doing it (na-
mumkinkoikaamnahijoMayabe-
han na kar paye, thaan le mann
meinchaandsitaretodjaminparle
aaye)”. Mayawati is also hailed as
the “saviour of all of society (sarv
samaj ki tum uddharak)” and the
“protector of all religions (sarv
dharm ki rakshak ho)”.
BSP leaders said they did not
know who penned the lyrics.
“There is a team in Delhi that got
thesongwrittenandselectedthe
singer,” said a party leader. BSP
Delhi president Lakshman Singh
saidnoteamfromhisunitwasin-
volvedwiththeproductionofthe
song, but added that he too had
received the song from
Mayawati’sofficewithaninstruc-
tion to play it on her birthday.
Like in previous years, the
BSP will celebrate Mayawati’s
birthdayas“JanKalyankariDivas
(day of people’s welfare)”. In
Uttar Pradesh, party units will
organise programmes in which
fruits, other food items, and
blankets will be distributed to
the poor. Sarees will be distrib-
uted to women from poor fami-
lies while books and stationer-
ies will be given to children. The
Kailash Kher song will be played
at events organised in Dalit
slums and rural areas. In other
states, the celebratory events
will be held at state headquar-
tersanddivisionalheadquarters.
Sources said earlier a BSP
worker used to sing and record
songs for the party functions. He
usedtobeinvitedtopartyevents
to sing on the stage before
Mayawati’s speeches.

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TN Governor Ravi again: Pongal invite
stokes ‘Tamizhagam’ controversy
ARUN JANARDHANAN
CHENNAI, JANUARY 10
ADAYafterhedeliveredaspeech
prepared by the government
from which he omitted key por-
tions and walked out of the
Assembly,GovernorRNRaviwas
at the centre of a fresh contro-
versy Tuesday over a recent
Pongal invite from his office that
referred to him as “Tamizhaga
Aalunar” — or Governor of
Tamizhagam, instead of Tamil
Nadu. The invite, in Tamil, also
carriedtheemblemoftheCentral
Government, not the state.
TheGovernor’ssuggestionto
rename the state from Tamil
Naduto“Tamizhagam”lastweek
had sparked anger in both the
ruling DMK and the Opposition
AIADMK. On Monday, the
Governor's changes to the pre-
pared speech in the Assembly
saw Chief Minister M K Stalin
stepinanddemandthatonlythe
originalspeechbeputonrecord,
prompting Ravi to walk out.
The recent Pongal invitation
sent to VIPs and senior govern-
ment figures is unusual since
similar invitations from his of-
fice earlier had referred to him
as "Governor of Tamil Nadu", in-
cluding the one sent for the
Tamil New Year celebrations
held in April 2022.
And,incontrasttoinvitations
issued by the Raj Bhavan in the
pastthatboretheemblemof the
Tamil Nadu government, the
emblem in the latest one is that
of the Union Government.
The changes were raised by
Madurai MP and CPI(M) leader
Su Venkatesan, who shared the
invitation on Twitter, saying
there were differences from the
one sent last year. Governor Ravi
and his wife Lakshmi Ravi are
the hosts of the ‘Pongal
Peruvizha (festival)’ that will
take place on January 12 at the
Chennai Raj Bhavan.
The invite, however, did not
prompt a reaction from the
Will be part of any yatra that As Rahul visits Golden Temple,
PLEAS ON CITIZENSHIP ACT
SC: Will first decide
on constitutional
unites India: Ex-Army
validity of Sec 6A
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
THESUPREMECourtConstitution
Bench while hearing petitions
challenging Section 6A of the
CitizenshipActonTuesdaysaidit
will first decide whether the pro-
visionisconstitutionallyvalidbe-
fore proceeding to other issues
raised in the pleas.
“Presently,thefollowingissue
asframedforprimarydetermina-
tion for the Constitution Bench,
whether section 6A of the
CitizenshipAct,1955,suffersfrom
anyconstitutionalinfirmity,”Chief
Justice of India D Y Chandrachud,
who was presiding over the five-
judge Constitution Bench, said.
The bench said it will take up
the matter once it completes
hearing the petitions arising out
of the split in the Shiv Sena .
Section6Adealswith“special
provisions as to the citizenship of
persons covered by the Assam
Accord”.Itsaysthatallthosewho
cametoAssamonorafterJanuary
1,1966,butbeforeMarch25,1971,
from the specified territory (it in-
cludesallterritoriesofBangladesh
INTERNAL POLICE PROBE SUGGESTS WOMAN FRAMED IN DACOITY CASE, MAY ADD TROUBLE FOR BOMMAI GOVT
Karnataka: Case against Santro Ravi’s ‘wife’ adds twist to row
JOHNSON T A
BENGALURU, JANUARY 10
A CASE of caste atrocities and as-
sault filed by a woman claiming
tobetheestrangedwifeofalleged
racketeer K S Manjunath, better
knownas‘SantroRavi’,accusedof
immoral trafficking as well as in-
volvementinpolicetransfers,has
taken a new turn. An internal
probe by the Bengaluru Police
suggests that the woman who
filed the case against Santro Ravi
onJanuary2mayhavebeenright
in claiming that she was framed
inadacoitycaseregisteredbythe
CottonpetpoliceinBengalurutwo
months ago.
The woman, 27, and her 20-
year-old niece were held for
more than 20 days over the da-
coity charge in November 2022,
as per the report, submitted to
Governor R N Ravi
DMK, especially after Chief
Minister Stalin told a meeting of
party MLAs and ministers
Tuesday to focus on their work
andnotmakecommentsorcon-
demntheGovernoronanyissue.
Stalinaskedtheleaderstonotfall
for “traps” being laid by rivals to
disrupt the “good work of the
government” by reacting to
every issue.
It has been common to use
the word “Tamizhagam” when
discussing matters pertaining to
the state, such as referring to the
Chief Minister as ‘Tamizhaga
Muthalvar’.ButRavi’ssuggestion
to rename the state was inter-
preted as a political stance in
support of the BJP and against
Dravidian politics.
Recently, at a function in
Chennai, the state's Health
Minister Ma Subramanian par-
tially uttered the word
“Tamizhaga...” before quickly
correcting himself and remark-
ingthat“thesedays,thiswordit-
self can create trouble”.
The walkout by Ravi and the
LeftMP'stweetonthePongalin-
vite marked another low in the
contentious relationship be-
tween the Governor and the
DMK government.
In his speech Monday, the
Governor omitted references to
Tamil leaders and Dr Ambedkar,
the state's priority to law and or-
der,anditsresponsetonaturaldis-
asters and the pandemic. On
Tuesday, posters came up across
Chennai with the line:
“GetOutRavi”.
Opp invokes ’84 to target him
Chief
at the time of commencement of
theCitizenship(Amendment)Act,
1985),andsincethenareresidents
of Assam, must register them-
selvesunderSection18forcitizen-
ship. The provision was intro-
duced in 1985 following the
signing of the Assam accord be-
tween the Government of India
and agitating groups in the state.
Appearing for the Centre,
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta
urged the court to look into an-
other issue approved by the
Attorney General, which is
“whether the Assam accord, a
memorandumof settlementbe-
tweenUnionof India,theStateof
Assam, All Assam Students
Union, and All Assam Gana
Sangram Parishad arrived at for
resolving a long pending issue,
being a political settlement and
a matter of great policy impor-
tance can at all be judicially re-
viewed ”.
The CJI pointed out it’s an ar-
gument supporting Section 6A.
Thebenchsaidthefactthatithas
framed a preliminary question
does not prevent it from looking
into other issues as well once it
starts the regular hearing.
the state police headquarters,
Bengaluru Police sources said.
“The inquiry report is complete.
We feel something is missing in
the (dacoity) case,” sources said.
The finding of the internal
probe is embarrassing for the
Karnataka BJP, as the Opposition
has been accusing state minis-
ters of hobnobbing with Santro
Ravi, and allege he has a role in
fixing police transfers in the
state. Santro Ravi is linked to
nearly 20 cases of prostitution
and immoral trafficking in
Karnataka, starting 1995.
Eight days after the woman,
an engineering graduate who
claimstobeSantroRavi'ssecond
wife, filed the case of atrocity
againsthim,heisyettobetraced
by the police. Former CM H D
Kumaraswamy of the JD(S) has
questioned the delay, saying
Chief Minister Basavaraj
A ‘GetOutRavi’ poster on a Chennai street on Tuesday. Express
GetOutRavi posters across Chennai,
DMK says Stalin tried to keep peace
ARUN JANARDHANAN
CHENNAI, JANUARY 10
A DAY after the Tamil Nadu
Assembly was rocked by un-
precedented scenes of a
Governorwalkingoutbeforethe
national anthem was sung,
posters came up across Chennai
saying “GetOutRavi”.
However, DMK sources said
ChiefMinisterMKStalintriedhis
besttoavoidthe confrontation in
the House and was pushed to a
corner by Governor R N Ravi.
Top sources said the draft for
Ravi’s speech starting the new
SessionoftheAssemblywasread-
iedonJanuary6andapprovedthe
next day.
“The DMK knew there could
beproblemswithGovernorRavi,
and there were even rumours
that he might leave out words
suchas‘Dravidianmodel’.Butwe
didn’t think he would go so far as
toleaveoutnamesofTamilsocial
reformer Periyar and B R
Ambedkar. That was unaccept-
AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
FORMER CHIEF of Army Staff
(COAS) General Deepak Kapoor
(retd)isnotnewtocontroversies.
Much of these were pushed back
into the spotlight when the
General, who led the Army be-
tween 2007 and 2010, joined the
Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo
YatraonSundaywhileitwaspass-
ing through Haryana, along with
otherretiredtopofficersofthede-
fence services.
Whencontacted,GenKapoor
told The Indian Express that he
doesnotwanttocommentonany
allegations being levelled at him
over the Yatra. “But any yatra,
which unites Bharat, I am for it,”
he said.
Commissioned into the
Artillery Regiment in 1967, the
decoratedofficerheldseveralim-
portant command and staff ap-
pointments in his four-decade-
long tenure in the Army. He took
part in the India-Pakistan war in
1971 and Operation Parakram in
2001-2002, among other impor-
tant military operations.
ButasArmyChief,GenKapoor
ruffled feathers when he
amended the single-stream pro-
motionpolicy forMajorGenerals
and brought back a two-stream
Santro Ravi is linked to over
20 cases of prostitution and
immoral trafficking in
Karnataka.
Bommai was reluctant to act
against Santro Ravi due to his
proximity with ministers.
Over the last few days,
Kumaraswamy, the JD(S) and
Congress have released a series
of pictures on social media of
Santro Ravi in the company of
ministersandCMBommai’sson.
The woman has told the po-
able,” said a DMK minister,
adding that Stalin was furious
when he realised this.
AnofficialattheAssemblysaid
the CM had both the Tamil and
EnglishversionsoftheGovernor’s
speech, which under the Rules of
theHouse,ismeanttobeareview
E
oftheactivitiesandachievements
of the state govern-
EXPLAINED
ment, an outline of its
policyaswellasabrief
account of govern-
ment business for the
Session.
“Right from the
start, there were things the
Governor left out, like the phrase
'Dravidianmodel'.Thosewhono-
ticedthis,initiallythoughtitwasa
mistake. But when it turned out
that he was leaving out complete
paragraphs,theCMsentanoteto
find out what all had been omit-
ted. He talked briefly with Durai
Murugan (Minister for Water
Resources. The CM was upset
when he found out that the
names of social reformer Periyar,
Ambedkar, Congress leader and
Former Army chief Gen
Deepak Kapoor and retired
defence personnel joined
Rahul Gandhi in Bharat
Jodo Yatra on Sunday.
Twitter/ @incindia
promotionpolicythatputofficers
into two different lists – those
commanding troops and those
holdingadministrative(staff)ap-
pointments–withoutlistingspe-
cific criteria for doing so, even as
thismadetheformerbettereligi-
ble for promotions compared to
thelatter.Thedecision,whichled
to massive heartburn among of-
ficers in the force, remains in ef-
fecttilldate,despitehissuccessors
examining the matter, and the
Armed Forces Tribunal holding it
discriminatory. More recently, in
lice that Santro Ravi had got the
dacoity case registered against
her through his connections in
the police department after she
brokeoff herthree-year-oldrela-
tionship with him.
Policesourcessaidthatacase
of dacoity is a very serious of-
fence,andinnormalcourse,sen-
ior officers ought to be involved
in the investigation.
TheCottonpetpolicearrested
the woman and her niece on
November 25 from Bengaluru
on charges of robbing a 36-year-
old man, Prakash H, 36, at knife
point with an alleged accom-
plice, Shaik Salauddin. They
were released on bail on
December 17, while Salauddin
got bail on January 7.
Following her release, the
woman approached an NGO in
Mysuru involved in preventing
human trafficking, Odanadi
former CM K Kamaraj, DMK
founder C N Annadurai, and
Stalin’s father M Karunanidhi
were left out.”
Sources said the CM told his
colleagues to let the Governor
complete his speech, and in-
structedofficialstobereadywith
a draft resolution (on the original
speech), to be put out as
soon as Ravi had finished.
“And it was ready in 20
minutes,” the official said.
AtopDMKsourcesaid
● Stalin has consistently
tried to avoid a conflict
with the Raj Bhavan. “In the past,
state governors were not given
the Guard of Honor. After Ravi
took over, the Raj Bhavan started
demanding it. Ravi got the same
honouronMondaytoo.TheDMK
government made it clear that it
did not want to escalate matters.
But the Governor’s immature
handling of a prepared speech
andtheunprecedentedresponse
of a walkout was unfortunate.”
FULL REPORT ON
www.indianexpress.com
2017, Gen Kapoor along with an-
otherformerArmyChief,General
N C Vij, and other senior officers,
was named by an inquiry com-
mittee set up by the Defence
Ministry in the Adarsh Housing
Society scam of Mumbai. The re-
port, however, mentioned that
GenKapoorwasnotdirectlycon-
nected with the case and hence
not advised well against becom-
ing a member of the society,
which was meant for families of
Kargil heroes. The same year, the
formerArmyChieffoundhimself
in another controversy when,
during an election speech, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi alleged
Pakistan’sinterferenceinGujarat
elections referring to a dinner
meeting hosted by Congress
leader Mani Shankar Aiyar at his
residence. Gen Kapoor was pres-
ent at the meeting.
In2019,hewasamongagroup
of over 100 veterans who signed
alettersenttothenPresidentRam
NathKovind,statingthatpolitical
parties must not use the military
to further their political agenda.
However, on matters such as
India’s response to China in the
ongoing border standoff at the
LineofActualControl,GenKapoor
hasappreciatedthegovernment's
actions, telling that India had
given an excellent and firm re-
sponse to Chinese aggressions.
Samsthe,andwiththeirhelp,filed
a complaint of atrocities, assault
and forced prostitution against
Santro Ravi.
Apart from pictures of Santro
Ravi with ministers, local televi-
sion channelshavebroadcastau-
dio leaks of purported conversa-
tions between him and police
officers,withSantroRavibragging
aboutlinkstotheCM,thestatepo-
licechiefandothers,whileprom-
ising to facilitate police transfers.
Bommai has said the pictures
andaudioleakscouldbedoctored.
OnSaturday,hesaidjusttheexis-
tence of picturesof political lead-
erswithapersonaccusedofcrim-
inalactivitiesdoesnotindicatean
association.“Lettherebeaninves-
tigation. He has claimed associa-
tionwithformerCMsandothers.
In the electronic format and on
WhatsApp, anything can be
done... We have to find out his
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023
BJP’s Tripura campaign
hits top gear, but party
still on unsure footing
Challenges of retaining tribal support, state unit equations
LIZ MATHEW
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
THE BJP has launched an aggres-
sive campaign to retain power in
Tripura,whichitwrestedfromthe
Communists for the first time in
2018withamassivemandate.But
balancingthepowerequationsin
the state unit and retaining the
tribal support base it got during
the last election remain tough
challenges, said sources in the
party.
Doubt about the BJP’s
prospectshascomeupasithasso
far failed to ensure the support of
any major tribal party or group
evenasasectionistryingtoenter
into an electoral understanding
with the Tipraha Indigenous
Progressive Regional Alliance, or
TIPRAMotha,anoutfitledbyerst-
while Tripura royal family’s scion
Pradyot Kishore Manikya
Debbarma. BJP leaders said
Debbarmawaskeentohaveanal-
liance with the BJP.
But the TIPRA Motha chair-
man told The Indian Express that
hisassociationwiththeBJP,ifany,
would be conditional. “We will
make a political understanding
only if we are given an assurance
on Greater Tipraland for indige-
nouscommunities.Wewillnotgo
for any alliance without it. BJP
leadershavebeensayingtheywill
get55ofthe60seats.Iftheyareso
sure, let them go alone.”
According to him, the cam-
paign and the claims the BJP has
been making about its upport for
tribals do not mean anything to
tribal people in Tripura. “Tribals
want a constitutional solution to
their problems,” he said. Asked
abouttheBJP’sargumentthatthe
party has sent an Adivasi woman
leadertothesupremepositionin
thecountrybychoosingDroupadi
Murmu as the President,
Debbarma said, “Well, Gyani Zail
KAMALDEEP SINGH BRAR
& RAAKHI JAGGA
AMRITSAR, LUDHIANA,
JANUARY 10
CONGRESS LEADER Rahul
Gandhi offered prayers at the
Golden Temple in Amritsar on
Tuesday, sparking sharp reac-
tions from opposition parties in
Punjab who targeted his party
over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. At
the Golden Temple, Gandhi did
not receive any official welcome
from the Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee, which
usually honours dignitaries at
theinformationoffice.TheSGPC,
meanwhile, said the Congress
leader should have tendered for
“attack on Akal Takht” in 1984.
Gandhi arrived at the
Amritsarairportintheafternoon
afterconcludingtheHaryanaleg
of the Bharat Jodo Yatra. He will
start the Punjab leg of his Yatra
Wednesday.
Sporting an orange turban,
the former Congress chief paid
obeisance at the sanctum sanc-
torum of the Golden Temple.
“By reaching Sri Harmandir
Sahib, the faith in human values
becomes even deeper. Sat Shri
Akal!"hesaidinatweetinHindi.
Gandhialsopostedafewpic-
tures on Twitter, where he is
transactionsandtherealcrimes,''
the CM said. Promising a “thor-
ough” investigation, Bommai
said: “Santro Ravi is connected to
therulingandOppositionleaders
aswell.Imayevenspeaktosome-
onewithoutknowingtheirback-
ground. Will it be an offence?”
On January 4, Kumaraswamy
challenged Bommai to order an
investigation into the “links” be-
tweenSantroRaviandministers.
“The government should reveal
who provided Santro Ravi access
tothestateguesthouseatKumara
Krupa until a month ago. The CM
andtheHomeMinistershouldre-
veal all this,” he said, adding the
tapes illustrated Ravi’s “clout”.
“He is heard directing police
officers to meet him to facilitate
transfers. He tells the officers to
addresshimasSir.HesaystheCM
addresses him as Sir,”
Kumaraswamy alleged.
New Delhi
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
BJP supporters during a public rally addressed by Assam CM
Himanta Biswa Sarma, at Bagma village in Agartala. PTI
SinghwasthePresidentwhenthe
Sikh riots happened, Abdul
Kalam’s presidency did not bring
a sense of security to Muslims in
thecountryandScheduledCastes
did not get any constitutional
rights under the presidency of
RamNathKovind. Wearenotde-
manding anything unconstitu-
tional,wearenotpickinguparms.
What we are asking for is within
the constitutional provisions.”
Sources in the BJP said the
TIPRA Motha head was “pressur-
ing” the BJP to accept his condi-
tionsastherulingpartyisdesper-
ate to ensureithas thesupportof
tribals,giventhedisintegrationof
its ruling alliance partner
Indigenous Peoples Front of
Tripura(IPFT)andsouredtiesbe-
tween the two parties. Sources
pointedoutthatBJPnationalpres-
ident JP Nadda’s recent tour to
tribal areas neither drew much
crowdnorgeneratedanyenthusi-
asm,indicatingthattheparty’sin-
fluence in the region has drasti-
cally reduced.
The party also has problems
within. According to an office-
bearerfamiliarwiththedevelop-
ments,ChiefMinisterManikSaha
who replaced Biplab Kumar Deb
last May has so far failed to gain
popularity among the electorate
or the cadre. BJP MLA Burbo
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi pays obeisance at Golden
Temple in Amritsar, Tuesday. Kamaldeep Singh Brar
seentaking"parshad"andlisten-
ing to "gurbani" during his
Golden Temple visit.
He was accompanied by
Punjab Congress chief
Amarinder Singh Raja Warring,
Leader of Opposition in the
Punjab Assembly Partap Singh
Bajwa, local MP Gurjit Singh
Aujla.
TillTuesdaymorning,several
Punjab Congress leaders were
not aware of Gandhi’s plan to
visit Amritsar.
Meanwhile, ahead of the
Punjab leg of the Yatra, the BJP
and the Shiromani Akali Dal
(SAD)targetedtheCongressover
FCRA ENFORCEMENT
HC nixes plea for setting
up independent body
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
THE DELHI Delhi High Court on
Tuesday dismissed a PIL moved
by NGO Association for
DemocraticReformsandDrEAS
Sarma seeking directions to con-
stituteanindependenttribunalor
committee to oversee enforce-
mentof theForeignContribution
(Regulation)Act,2010(FCRA),ap-
prehending its misuse.
A division bench of Chief
Justice Satish Chandra Sharma
andJusticeSubramoniumPrasad
observed that the court cannot
presume that just because there
is a possibility of the FCRA being
misused, a body must be created
to oversee the Act's functioning.
“Hence, the mere possibility of a
lawbeingadministeredinaman-
nerwhichmayconflictwithcon-
Mohan Tripura and two IPFT leg-
islators – Dhananjoy Tripura and
Mevar Kumar Jamatia – have re-
signed and joined Debbarma’s
outfit in recent months.
Although the party has won
three of the four Assembly by-
elections since he took charge,
three BJP MLAs – Sudip Roy
Barman, Asish Kumar Saha, and
DibaChandraHrangkhawl–who
areconsideredtobeinfluentialre-
signed from the Assembly to join
the Congress. Roy Barman later
wonabypollonaCongressticket.
Union Home Minister Amit
Shah who was in Tripura earlier
this month to launch the Jan
Vishwas Yatra hinted that there
would not be any immediate
change of guard as he sought the
mandate for the BJP under Saha.
TheBJPisnotleavinganystone
unturned when it comes to cam-
paigning.NaddawillbeinTripura
onJanuary12toconclude andthe
party has been roping in popular
leadersfromWestBengaltocam-
paign in the state. West Bengal’s
Leader of Opposition Suvendu
Adhikari will be in Tripura on
Tuesday while actor-turned-
politician Mithun Chakraborty
willaddressralliesonWednesday.
ThepartyhasalsodirectedUnion
ministers to visit the state in the
coming weeks.
the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh
BadaldubbedGandhi’syatraasa
"drama”. He said it was con-
demnable that Gandhi, whose
family had a history of breaking
Punjab and discriminating
againstit,wasleadingtheBharat
Jodo Yatra in the state. “No one
has damaged Punjab as much as
the Gandhi family,” he said.
Punjab BJP chief Ashwani
Sharma said, "The way Sikhs
werekilledin1984,theCongress
never felt ashamed of it. I hope
thatduringhisyatra,he(Gandhi)
will seek an apology from
Punjabis for that heinous act.”
stitutionalrequirementsdoesnot
renderitinvalid,”itsaid.“Thejudi-
ciaryisalwayscircumspectinsub-
stituting its wisdom with that of
the legislature. The prayer made
bythewritpetitionerseekingadi-
rectiontoconstituteanindepend-
ent Tribunal Committee to over-
see the enforcement of FCRA
cannot be accepted.”
AppearingfortheNGO,advo-
cate Prashant Bhushan said the
FCRAfailstomeettheobjectiveof
restricting political parties from
accepting foreign contribution
duetotheinterferenceofthecen-
tralgovernmentinitsfunctioning.
Thecourtsaid,“Thepetitioner
has failed to place on record any
dataindicatingthenumberofpo-
litical parties which have availed
of foreign contribution, and have
failed to be penalised under the
FCRA.Courtscannotpassadirec-
tion only on hypothesis.”

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023
BRIEFLY
UTTAR PRADESH
Youthbooked
forrapebid
founddead
Lucknow: A 22-year-old
youth, who was booked
forallegedrapeattempton
a girl from his neighbour-
hood, was found hanging
fromatreeontheoutskirts
of their village in Bareilly
district on Monday. Police
have registered a case of
murder against three
membersofthegirl’sfam-
ily, including her father,
uncle and a relative. No
one has been arrested in
the case so far. The police
sent the youth's body for
post-mortem. ENS
RAJASTHAN
5-dayJLFto
beginfrom
January19
Jaipur: The16theditionof
the Jaipur Literature
Festival (JLF) will begin
from January 19-23 at
Hotel Clarks Amer in
Jaipur.Theliteraryextrav-
aganza will host national,
international fiction and
non-fiction writers, in-
cluding Nobel Laureate
Abdulrazak Gurnah,
International Booker-
winning author
Geetanjali Shree, best-
selling historian and nov-
elist Katie Hickman, and
American-Canadian au-
thor Ruth Ozeki. PTI
ODISHA
BSFjawanshot
duringscuffleto
saveofficer
New Delhi: A BSF jawan
suffered a bullet injury
during a scuffle to stop a
commandingofficerwho
wasattemptingtoendhis
life using his service
weaponatacamplocated
in the anti-Naxal opera-
tions grid of Odisha on
Tuesday, officials said.
“One of the officers de-
ployed in Malkangiri dis-
trict of Odisha tried to
shoothimself."Theguard
savedhimbygettinghold
of the rifle. In the process,
a round was fired which
hit a BSF jawan working
nearby in the camp. PTI
KERALA
Mangets
66yrsinjailfor
assaultingniece
Idukki: A court on
Tuesdaysentencedaman
to a cumulative 66-year
imprisonment for sexu-
ally assaulting his minor
niece at her house. The
Idukki Fast Track Court
judge gave the man (38)
varying jail terms for 66
years . The man raped his
niece in 2021 when she
was 17 years old. PTI
‘Islamophobia’ charge
at Kerala school event:
Govt bans arts group
SHAJU PHILIP
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
JANUARY 10
ARECENTLYheldschoolartsfes-
tival in Kozhikode, Kerala, is
again at the centre of a contro-
versyafterapersoninIslamicat-
tire was portrayed as a terrorist
during a performance. The
PinarayiVijayan-ledadministra-
tion on Tuesday bannedthe per-
forming arts society responsible
from future editions of the gov-
ernment-held event even as the
Congress demanded an apology
from the chief minister.
Education Minister and
CPI(M) leader V Sivankutty said
the depiction of a Muslim man
as a terrorist was against the
stand of the Left Democratic
Front (LDF). “The organisation,
MATHA, or Malayalam
Theatrical Heritage and Arts,
which staged a show as part of
thewelcomesong duringthein-
auguration of the festival, will
not be given any opportunity
Metro pillar falls on motorbike;
mother, son killed in Bengaluru
SANATH PRASAD &
KIRAN PARASHAR
BENGALURU, JANUARY 10
“HE JOINED a play school just 10
days ago. Today, my grandson is
no more. Our life is devastated.”
The anguished scream that
followed these words from
Nirmala Solake, a retired govern-
ment employee, captured the
horror of having lost her young
daughter-in-lawand two-and-a-
half-year-old grandson in
Bengaluru Tuesday, after a pillar
under construction at a Metro
work site fell on the motorcycle
they were travelling in.
Nirmala had come to
Bengaluru from Gadag in north
Karnataka "just a few days ago"
with her husband Vijay Solake,
also a retired government em-
ployee, to spend time with their
twingrandchildren.Whiletheac-
cidentonHennurMainRoadtook
the lives of Tejaswini (28) and
Vihan, Nirmala's son Lohith (33)
andgranddaughterSushmitahad
a miraculous escape.
Thefamilyof fourwastravel-
lingonthebiketodropTejaswini,
a software engineer, at her office
at Manyata Tech Park, and the
children at a play school nearby
when the accident occurred, the
police said.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police (East) Bheemashankar S
Guled said, “The incident took
place around 10.30 am. As they
were travelling, the scaffolding
around the pillar snapped.
Tejaswini and Vihan were sitting
ontherearseatofthebike,andthe
pillar fell on them. Lohith and his
daughter managed to escape.
Tejaswini and Vihan were taken
Man’s hands
chopped off in
Kurukshetra,
taken away by
attackers
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, JANUARY 10
A 30-YEAR-old man’s hands
were chopped off by 10-12 peo-
ple while he was seated in a
restaurant on the Delhi-Ambala
national highway in Haryana’s
KurukshetraonMonday,thepo-
licesaid,addingthattheaccused
escaped with his hands. The po-
lice suspect the incident was a
fallout of a gang war.
The police identified the vic-
tim as Jugnu from Rahra village
of Karnal district. Pipli Sadar
Police Station SHO Nirmal Singh
told The Indian Express that he
was initially admitted to
Kurukshetra’s Lok Nayak Jai
Prakash Narayan Hospital and
later referred to Chandigarh’s
PGIMER for treatment.
SHO Singh said that an SIT
has been set up to probe the
matter. An FIR against Ankush
Kamalpuria,aresidentof Muana
village (Karnal), Sanju and oth-
ers has been lodged, he added.
next time. The controversy will
be looked into and necessary ac-
tion will be taken. The reception
committee viewed the pro-
gramme before staging it during
the inauguration. But it was not
a final dress rehearsal of the
show,’’ he said.
The61steditionofthefive-day
Kerala School Arts Festival began
on January 3. Reckoned to be the
biggest such eventin Kerala’scul-
turalcalendar,thefestivalwasheld
after two years because of Covid.
It first hit the headlines last week
over a debate on “Brahminical
dominance”whenseveralpeople
pointed out that only vegetarian
fare was served at the event be-
cause caterer Pazhayidom
Mohanan Namboothiri, who has
been winning the contract to
makethefoodatthefestivalforthe
last16years,isaBrahmin.
The event has now run into
controversy after various
Muslim organisations protested
againsttheportrayalof aMuslim
as a terrorist. FULLREPORTON
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to a hospital on the other side of
theroad.Butthedoctorsdeclared
that they were brought dead.”
ThelocalpoliceinGovindpura
have registered a case under sev-
eralIPCsections,including304-A
(causingdeathbynegligence)and
337 (causing hurt by act endan-
gering life or personal safety of
others),againstsiteengineersand
officers of the Bangalore Metro
Rail Corporation Limited (BM-
RCL), a joint venture of the state
andcentralgovernments,andthe
contractors involved.
BMRCL Managing Director
Anjum Parwez visited the spot
and said that a team of experts
from the Indian Institute of
Science (IISc) will be asked to in-
dependentlyinvestigatetheinci-
dent.
“Theworkisbeingcarriedout
by Nagarjuna Construction
Company Ltd. According to the
engineer from our end, all safety
measuresweretakenbutweneed
toseewhethertherewasmanual
or technical negligence. The IISc
teamwillascertainthisandaction
Haryana’s ‘Jalebi Baba’ gets 14-yr
jail for raping minor, 2 disciples
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, JANUARY 10
AFAST-TRACKcourtinHaryana's
Fatehabad Tuesday awarded 14
years in jail to self-styled god-
man Amarpuri, alias Billu, for
raping three women disciples,
including a minor, and making
videos of the act.
Additional district judge
Balwant Singh pronounced the
quantumof sentence.According
to Advocate Sanjay Verma, who
appeared for the victims, the
court awarded seven years im-
prisonment to Amarpuri, also
known as ‘Jalebi Baba’, under
Section 376 C of the IPC; 14 years
underSection6of thePOCSOAct
and five years under section 67A
of the IT Act. The jail terms will
run simultaneously.
Vermasaid: “In the court, the
accused faced allegation of rap-
ing six women, including a mi-
nor. But the judge has convicted
him for raping two women and
the minor on the basis of avail-
able evidences.”
On the other hand,
Amarpuri’s lawyer Gajender
Pandey said they will challenge
Migrant fruit-seller near RBI headquarters in Mumbai
is now part of key pilot project — launched by RBI
HITESH VYAS
MUMBAI, JANUARY 10
HE CAME to Mumbai 25 years
ago, leaving his home in Bihar's
Vaishali district, and now sells
fruit near the Reserve Bank of
India's headquarters on Mint
Road. But what makes the story
of Bachhe Lal Sahani unique is
something else.
The 45-year-old is part of the
nationwide pilot project on us-
ing Central Bank Digital
Currency(CBDC)ore-rupee--an
initiative of the RBI itself.
“It’s been close to a month
sinceIstartedacceptinge-rupee.
So far, two or three transactions
worth Rs 300 have been made,”
saysSahani,whosewife,sonand
daughter live in Vaishali.
According to him, RBI offi-
cialsapproachedhimlastmonth
and convinced him to start e-ru-
pee transactions. They helped
him open a separate IDFC First
Bank account with a digital wal-
lettoenablethetransactions.For
will be initiated accordingly. We
will stop Metro work on this
stretch for a couple of days and
willresumeaftertakingnecessary
steps,” Parwez said.
The BMRCL chief also an-
nouncedRs20lakhincompensa-
tion for the victims' family.
SpeakingtoreportersinDharwad,
ChiefMinisterBasavarajBommai
announced separate compensa-
tion of Rs 10 lakh each from the
ChiefMinisters'ReliefFundforthe
victims.
According to police sources,
thepillarwaspartofconstruction
close to the proposed Nagawara
Metrostation,whichwillconnect
Kempegowda International
Airport via Outer Ring Road.
NirmalasaidTejaswinimostly
workedfromhomepost-Covidor
left for office before 9.30 am. On
Tuesday, she said, the family left
at 10 am.
Family members said
Tejaswini got married to Lohith
fouryearsago,andtheyhadcele-
bratedtheirweddinganniversary
on December 6. “Our happiness
Amarpuri, alias ‘Jalebi Baba’
the verdict in the Punjab and
Haryana High Court. “Prima fa-
cie, this case was lodged on the
basisof aCD.Therewasnodirect
application from any of the six
victims against Amarpuri,”
Pandey said.
AnFIRwasregisteredagainst
Amarpuri on the basis of a com-
plaint fromtheSHOof the police
station concerned, he added.
The Haryana Police had in
2018 arrested Amarpuri from
Tohana town of Fatehabad and
recovered his 120 purported sex
video clippings. The then
Fatehabad women's police cell
incharge Bimla Devi had con-
Bachhe Lal Sahani, 45, near RBI HQ, Mumbai. Hitesh Vyas
every transaction, he gets a no-
tification on his phone.
The RBI launched a limited
test of the retail digital rupee for
specific use cases on November
1,2022.Thepilotcoversselectlo-
cations in a closed user group
(CUG) comprising about 15,000
customersandmerchantsacross
the country. Sahani is among a
few street vendors in Mumbai
who are part of that group.
Tejaswini and Vihan;
(left) the accident site on
Hennur Main Road in
Bengaluru, Tuesday. PTI
doubled after the birth of the
twins who were the centre of at-
tractionatallfamilyevents.Today,
as they left home, both the chil-
dren waved at us,” said Nirmala.
WorkontheBengaluruMetro
startedinApril2007.Sofar,thecity
has 55.6 km of operational lines
and 116.86 km under construc-
tion.
Duringthisperiod,therehave
been several deaths due to acci-
dents and alleged negligence.
In February 2020, a 56-year-
old worker fell to his death while
carrying out work related to the
installationofanescalatoratasta-
tion. In December that year, a 21-
year-old labourer died after a ca-
blepiercedhisheadataworksite.
And in July 2013, a 47-year-old
overseer died after a six-tonne
ironframe,beingliftedbyacrane,
fell on him.
Accidents have also taken
placeinsidestations.InApril2021,
a65-year-old mansteppedintoa
utility shaft without signage at a
station, mistaking it for the toilet
door, and fell to his death.
firmed that the 120 sex videos
were recovered from the mobile
phone of Amarpuri, who was a
mahant at Baba Balak Nath
Mandir in Tohana.
During investigation, it came
to fore that the women used to
approach Amarpuri, who had
developed a reputation as a
tantrik (occultist), to resolve
their problems. "He allegedly
usedtoofferdrugstothewomen
in some for or other, sexually ex-
ploit them and make videos of
the act. Then he used to black-
mail these women for money by
threateningtomakevideospub-
lic," Bimla Devi had then said.
As per the police, Amarpuri
sold jalebis in Tohana's main
marketforabout13years,before
hecameincontactwithatantrik
who introduced him to occult
practices.
He then shut down his shop,
bought a house in Tohana and
also built a temple with a base-
ment where he carried out his
nefarious activities. He was first
booked for rape in 2017 after a
woman accused him of sexually
assaulting her at his residence.
However, he has soon secured
bail in the case.
Although the volume of
transactions seems to be low in
the test phase, Sahani says ven-
dorsnowhave another option to
acceptpaymentfromcustomers,
apart from cash and the unified
payment interface (UPI). There,
however, appears to be some
teething issues. If there is a delay
in a transaction or if it fails, cus-
tomerspreferpayingusingother
digital payment modes, which
Joshimath crisis: No urgent
hearing, Supreme Court
lists case for January 16
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
THE SUPREME Court on Tuesday
fixed January 16 to hear a plea
highlighting the Joshimath
tragedy but told the petitioner
that there are democratically
electedinstitutionstotakecareof
such happenings and that every-
thing need not be brought to the
court.
Chief Justice of India D Y
Chandrachud told the counsel,
whourgedthecourttotakeupthe
matterforhearingonWednesday,
that“everythingthatisimportant
in the country doesn’t have to
cometousright?Therearedem-
ocratically elected institutions
which can deal with matters
which fall within their control”.
The counsel told the bench,
also comprising Justice P S
Narasimha, that the matter was
important and that people were
ontheroad.“Thereareinstitutions
taking care of it,” Justice
Narasimha responded.
Almost a week after cracks
appeared on many roads and in
hundreds of houses in
Uttarakhand’s Joshimath, au-
thorities on Sunday declared it a
landslide and subsidence-hit
zone. The plea by
AvimukteshwaranandSaraswati
urgedthecourttodeclarethesit-
uation in Joshimath a national
disaster and direct the National
DisasterManagementAuthority
to aid and assist the residents.
The petitioner alleged the de-
velopmentsaretheconsequence
of large-scale industrialisation in
the area. “No development is
needed at the cost of human life
and their ecosystem and if any
such thing is to happen, then it is
the duty of the State and Union
governmenttostopthesameim-
mediately at war level,” the plea
said.
Micro-seismic observatories being
set up at Joshimath: Union Minister
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
EARTH SCIENCES Minister
Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said
that the ministry will be setting
up numerous micro-seismic ob-
servationcentresatJoshimathto
gather data on earthquakes and
tremors of smaller magnitude.
This is the first time that mi-
cro-seismic observation centres
will be set up on the Indian side
of the Himalayan belt.
Singh made the announce-
ment at the India-UK Workshop
of Geosciences in NewDelhiand
saidthemicro-observatorieswill
be in place by Thursday.
Addressingtheworkshop,he
said there was a critical need for
fundamental research on the
physical processes that lead to
failure of the brittle layers be-
neath the crust and sub-crust.
Singh added that there is an in-
E-RUPEE PROJECT
■ e-rupee is a digital token
that will be the equivalent
of a banknote, and can be
transferred electronically.
■ Pilot project involves a
closed user group of
about 15,000 in Mumbai,
New Delhi, Bengaluru and
Bhubaneswar.
■ Banks involved are SBI,
ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and
IDFC First Bank.
are currently faster, says Sahani.
“There was a customer who
paid me Rs 50 for fruit using e-
rupee but after some days, the
same customer was unable to
maketheCBDCtransaction...But
once vendors from whom I buy
fruit start accepting e-rupee, I
will also be able to pay them
through CBDC. I have been told
that I will be able to withdraw
the money from the account
New Delhi
Locals protest against the demolition of unsafe hotels and
houses in Joshimath, Tuesday. PTI
Cabinet Secy-led panel
reviews situation
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
THE NATIONAL Crisis
Management Committee
(NCMC)underthechairmanship
of Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba
on Tuesday reviewed the situa-
tion in Joshimath and was in-
formed by the Uttarakhand
Chief Secretary Sukhbir Singh
Sandhuthattheoccupantsof se-
verelydamagedhouseswerebe-
ing shifted to safe places.
“Sandhu also informed the
NCMC that relief shelters have
beenidentifiedinJoshimathand
Pipalkoti to accommodate the
affected families. Appropriate
compensation and relief meas-
ures are being provided by the
state government to them,” an
official said.
Union Home Secretary Ajay
Bhalla apprised the committee
that a high-level Central team
of MHA led by Secretary, Border
A house at Uttarakhand’s
Joshimath. PTI
creasing need for mitigation
plans to be put into place.
A team from the Earth
Sciences Ministry will leave for
Joshimath on Wednesday and
set up these observation centres
at 7-8 different places outside
Joshimathtownthatfallsinseis-
mic 'ZoneV'. “There are two pri-
mary aspects which are impor-
tantinearthquakeobservation–
oncetheATMcardcomes,which
they said will take three
months,” he says.
The pilot covers Mumbai,
New Delhi, Bengaluru and
Bhubaneswar and will later be
extended to Ahmedabad,
Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad,
Indore, Kochi, Lucknow, Patna
and Shimla. So far, four banks --
StateBankofIndia,ICICIBank,Yes
Bank and IDFC First Bank – are
partof thefirstphaseof thepilot.
Four more -- Bank of Baroda,
Union Bank of India, HDFC Bank
and Kotak Mahindra Bank -- are
slated to join subsequently.
The CBDC is legal tender is-
sued by the RBI in digital form,
which can be transferred elec-
tronicallyfrom one holdertoan-
other.
Announcing the launch of
the pilot project from December
1,2022,theRBIsaiditmaybeex-
panded gradually to include
more banks, users and locations
as needed. It said the pilot will
test the robustness of the entire
processof digital rupee creation,
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Management, is at Joshimath
for assessment of the situation.
“Gauba stressed that the imme-
diate priority should be com-
plete and safe evacuation of all
residents in the affected zone.
Priority may be accorded to
demolition of vulnerable struc-
tures in a safe manner. All the
studies and investigations, ge-
otechnical, geophysical and hy-
drological, should be completed
in a coordinated and time-
bound manner,” the official
said.
“CS Sandhu also informed
thatoperationof Joshimath-Auli
ropewayhasbeen discontinued.
Construction works in and
around Joshimath municipality
area has also been stopped till
furtherorders.Teamsof National
Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
and State Disaster Response
Fund(SDRF)havebeendeployed
to help district administration in
their relief and rehabilitation ef-
forts,” the official said.
the location and the magnitude.
Whenyouhaveatleastthreesta-
tions in an area, you can observe
earthquakes of 5 magnitude on
therichterscale,andasthenum-
ber of observation centres in-
crease so does the accuracy as
wellasdetectionofmuchsmaller
earthquakes.Therearecurrently
157 seismic centres in India
whichhelpsusintrackingearth-
quakes of 3.5 magnitude and
above, but we can’t track any
earthquake smaller than this in
the country right now,’’ said a
ministry official.
Officials added that while
earthquakes of bigger magni-
tude have a larger impact, much
smaller earthquakes, especially
when recurring, have an impact
as well, especially on the stabil-
ity of land, and in particular
slopessuch as whatJoshimathis
built on.
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distribution and retail usage in
real time.
“Differentfeaturesandappli-
cations of the e-rupee token and
architecture will be tested in fu-
ture pilots, based on the learn-
ings from this pilot,” it said.
AccordingtoRBI,e-rupeewill
beissuedinthesamedenomina-
tionsaspapercurrencyandcoins.
It will be distributed through in-
termediaries, i.e, banks. “Users
willbeabletotransactwithe-ru-
pee through a digital wallet of-
fered by the participating banks
andstoredonmobilephonesand
devices," the bank said.
E-rupee transactions can be
both person to person (P2P) and
person to merchant (P2M). For
P2M transactions, such as shop-
ping,therewillbeQRcodesatthe
location. Users will be able to
withdraw digital tokens from
banks in the same way they cur-
rently withdraw physical cash.
Userswillbeabletokeepthedig-
ital tokens in the digital wallet,
andspendthemonlineorinper-
son, or transfer them via an app.
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The game in perspective
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RAMNATH GOENKA
It is economically unwise to look at online games
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
from a purely GST point of view

THE MISREADING Arvind P Datar

Tamil Nadu Governor Ravi’s conduct in assembly is
THE PANDEMIC SAW a huge spurt in the Court held that horse racing was a game of be located anywhere in the world. It would
unseemly, ill serves his high office popularity of online games. While some of skill and could not be treated as gambling. then lead to unnecessary investigative activ-

T
them are games of chance, many are games The repeated attempt is to treat all games ityon the partof the GSTauthorities.Itisalso
AMILNADUGOVERNORRNRavi'sdecisiontoomitkeypartsof thegovernor's of skill. This includes crossword puzzles, where any winning is involved as a perni- possiblethatmanyonlinegamesinIndiawill
address to the assembly and to leave the House when the chief minister ob- bridge, rummy, poker, scrabble and other cious activity, to be taxed as harshly as pos- shutdownandthebusinesswillgooverseas.
jected to the deviation from the printed text, casts unflattering light on his games that require application of mind and sible. The same moral dilemma seems to The net result will be lower tax revenue
highoffice.Theaddress,preparedbythegovernmentforthestartof anewses- an element of skill. The law has always plague the Group of Ministers in deciding and large-scale unemployment. It is often
sion of the House, is its statement of intent. Convention deems that the governor read it frowned upon gambling and the Supreme whether online games should be subject to forgotten that section 194B of the Income-
Courthasheldittoberesextracommercium. tax at the highest rate of 28 per cent on the tax Act requires tax deduction of 30 per cent
out in full. Governor Ravi chose to skip portions that referred to Tamil leaders including
At the same time, courts have repeatedly entire collection or only on the platform fee if the winnings are more than Rs 10,000.
Periyar E V Ramasamy, former chief ministers, K Kamaraj of the Congress and C N held that money involved in the playing of a charged by the gaming company. Thus, the winnings in excess of Rs10,000 are
Annadurai and M Karunanidhi of the DMK, besides B R Ambedkar. He also left out men- gameof skillwouldnotamounttogambling. If a person pays Rs 1,000 for playing a already subject to a whopping 30 per cent
tions of the Dravidian model of governance and the state government’s commitment to Thedistinctionbetweenagameof chance gameof skillsuchasbridgeorrummy,Rs100 TDS and this is remitted to the government.
maintaincommunalharmony.Noneof thesenamesorreferencescanbedescribedascon- and a game of skill has been maintained for is deducted as theservicecharge or platform It is then for the assessee to adjust such de-
troversial, unconstitutional or patently false. It is unclear why Governor Ravi found them over150years.ThePublicGamblingAct,1867 fee of the company that conducts the game ductionagainsthisothertaxliabilityorclaim
objectionable. expressly excluded games of skill from the It would be extremely and the balance of Rs 900 goes into the win- refund if he is not a tax assessee. The fact re-
purview of the expression “gambling”. unwise to levy GST at 28 per ner pool. If 10 persons play such a game, the mains that 30 per cent is already collected at
Governor Ravi and the Tamil Nadu government have had a fraught relationship since
Section12of thisvintagelawstated:“Nothing gross collection of the online gaming com- source.Thiskeepstheactivitylegitimateand
his appointment in September 2021. The governor has openly disagreed with the state in the foregoing provisions of this Act con- cent on the gross amount. pany is Rs 10,000 and its fee is Rs 1,000; the subject to supervision and control not only
government on several policy issues. He refused to endorse the government's opposi- tained shall be held to apply to any game of First, the consideration for balance of Rs 9,000 is then shared by the by the GST authorities but also by the
tion to NEET and has been sitting on more than a dozen bills passed by the assembly, mere skill wherever played.” the supply of online gaming winners. The question is whether the levy of Income-tax Department. If there is going to
inviting allegations by the ruling DMK and its allies, Congress and communist parties, of Whileseveraloldlawswererepealed,this service is only Rs 1,000 and 28 per cent will be on Rs 10,000 or Rs 1,000, be TDS on 30 per cent and a further GST at
acting at the behest of the Centre. His remark at a function in Raj Bhavan earlier this week one continues to be in force. Therefore, which is the service consideration for the 28 per cent on the winnings, it will be the
Parliament has maintained the distinction not the entire amount of Rs supply of online gaming services under the death of the online gaming industry.
that Tamizhagam is a more appropriate name for the state than Tamil Nadu was criti-
between the two categories of games and 10,000. Secondly, the levy of GST regime. It is economically unwise to look at on-
cised by the DMK, which accused him of interfering in state politics. The implication of has continued to hold that games of “mere 28 per cent GST on the Itissubmittedthatitwouldbeextremely line games from a purely GST perspective.
Ravi's suggestion was unsubtle – that the name Tamil Nadu has a ring of separate-ness – skill wherever played” will not amount to unwisetolevyGSTat28percentonthegross One has to look at the industry as a whole
and this was bound to attract controversy given the political history of DMK. The DMK,
entire amount, which is
gambling. amount. First, the consideration for the sup- andascertainthetotaltaxcollectionthatwill
which advocated linguistic nationalism, had got the state of Madras renamed as Tamil Recently, the Ministry of Electronics and collected by the gaming ply of online gaming service is only Rs 1,000 result if the GST is at 28 per cent only on the
Nadu in 1969. Even the AIADMK, perceived to be close to the BJP, criticised the governor Information Technology has come up with a company, would drive the and not the entire amount of Rs 10,000. service portion. The employment potential
draft notification to regulate online games. entire industry underground Secondly, the levy of 28 per cent GST on the of online games must also be examined.
because Ravi had crossed a political lakshman rekha by questioning a foundational idea
While there is no problem in regulating on- entire amount, which is collected by the Levying GST at 28 per cent on the gross
of the Dravidian Movement.Tamil subnationalismis at peacewithIndian nationalismto- linegamesof skill,itwouldbeimpermissible
and create a black market. gaming company, would drive the entire in- amount would not only kill the online gam-
day.Ravi'sexpressionof discomfortwiththeideologicalrootsof theDravidianMovement to treat games of skill as amounting to gam- Thirdly, the popularity of dustry underground and create a black mar- ing industry but lead to a serious drop in col-
clearly went beyond the remit of his office. Unfortunately, his overreach seems to be part bling either in the rules or in the notification online games cannot be ket. Thirdly, the popularity of online games lection of both GST and income-tax apart
of a pattern featuring BJP-appointed governors across states — Bhagat Singh Koshiyari in as this would be contrary to the Public discounted and no amount cannot be discounted and no amount of from resulting in unemployment. History
MaharashtraorArif MuhammedKhaninKerala,forinstance —whoareconstantlylocked Gambling Act, 1867. moral sermonising is going to prevent peo- teaches us that higher the taxes, lower is the
Indeed, a serious controversy arose as to
of moral sermonising is ple from playing online games. Unlike horse collection;a lessonthatmustnotbeignored.
in confrontation with non-BJP governments.
whether horse racing was a gambling activ- going to prevent people from racing, online games are played through
TheUniongovernmentbearsnodirectresponsibilityfortheactionsof thegovernorap-
ity. In a detailed judgment, the Supreme playing online games. servers and electronic equipment that can The writer is a senior advocate
pointed by it. But the current developments may end up strengthening anti-Centre sen-
timents in Tamil Nadu, ironically at a time when the Prime Minister and his party have
been trying to reach out to the state, arguably in a bid to assuage anxieties about the BJP's
Hindi-Hindutva push. PM Modi inaugurated a month-long Kashi Tamil Sangamam in his
constituency in November last year, essentially an attempt to build on the Hindu tradi-

SUPREME DHARMA
tionsthatthenorthandsouthsharewithVaranasiatthecentre.Theprogrammeinvolved
people-to-people interactions as well as cultural initiatives placing Tamil culture and tra-
ditionsinabroaderpan-Indiancanvas.Ravi’sconducthurtshisconstitutionaloffice.Italso
strikes a discordant note in the backdrop of the BJP’s efforts to expand its political foot-
print in Tamil Nadu. Supreme Court must continue to expand freedom, protect individuals from state

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LOOKING AT

by the hijab row, colleges and universities in the state were witnessing a stonestatueof a meditating Gandhiji,upthe
significant development. Classrooms were registering a steady increase in stairs to the central portico, and push aside
heavy curtains to enter the Chief Justice’s
the number of Muslim women students. The percentage of women from
courtroom.
the community, aged 18-23 years, attending colleges and universities had gone up from Here, above the Chief Justice’s chair, the
1.1percentin2007-08to15.8percentin2017-18.Itwasfearedthatthestategovernment’s National Emblem is encircled by the Court’s
heavy-handed decision to ban headscarves in educational institutions would hurt the motto, Yato Dharma Tato Jaya. The Court’s
confidence of the young women and roll back this educational efflorescence. The young- motto — where there is dharma, there is vic-
sters, however, stood firm in face of difficult odds: They challenged the order, first, in the tory—isasoberremindertothosewhojudge
thenation’slawsagainstthehighstandardsof
Karnataka High Court and then, in the Supreme Court. In October last year, a two-judge
the Constitution, of the high standards to
bench of the apex court could not come to a unanimous decision on the matter — it will which they too must hold themselves.
now be decided by a larger bench that has not yet been constituted. But, as a report in The demand for a federal court began a
this newspaper on Sunday shows, the judicial impasse and the charged atmosphere have littleoverahundredyearsago,whenSirHari
not dented the enthusiasm for academic learning amongst Muslim women in Karnataka, SinghGourpassedaresolutionintheCentral
especially in the region that was the epicentre of the controversy. Legislative Assembly asking the Governor-
The hijab ban did not affect exam attendance in Udupi last year. Even more hearten- General in Council to establish a Court of
UltimateAppealsinIndia.Untilthen,appeals
ingly, the overall enrollment of Muslim women hasn’t fallen. There is, however, a notable
from India were heard by the Privy Council
shift:Thenumber of womenstudents from the community whoattend government pre- in London, 6,000 km away.
university colleges (PUC) has come down by half from last year. This has been offset by India’s Supreme Court was inaugurated
an increase in their enrolment across private (or unaided) PUCs in the district. on January 28, 1950. R S Narula, recounting
Noteverystudent,however,canaffordeducationinaprivatecollege.Itistroubling,there- the inauguration in Supreme But Not
fore, that Muslim women's enrollment in Udupi’s government PUCs in 2022-23 was the Infallible, writes that M C Setalvad, the first
Attorney General of India, voiced the hope
lowest in five years. Karnataka’s Minister of School Education and Literacy B C Nagesh said
that“…thisCourtwillplayagreatandsingu-
that the government will probe these figures. For starters, he would do well to ignore the lar role and establish itself in the conscious-
comments of his party colleague and Udupi MLA Raghupati Bhat who has ascribed the de- ness of the Indian people”. Arguably, the
clinetoaconspiracybyorganisationssuchasthePFI.Amoreworthwhileresponsewouldbe Court has done so, crafting a role for itself as
tothinkofwaystomakethestatemoresensitivetotheaspirationsandconcernsofstudents. an institution of constitutional governance.
What do we hope for from the Court when
the country reaches 100?
SO LONG, NOMA
One, the Court has gone from 7 judges in
1950 to 34 today. In the next 25 years, a fur-
ther expansion is required to deal with the
Court’s voluminous docket. Who should
Closing of world's best restaurant highlights what has long these judges be? A more diverse judiciary
been obvious: Today's fine dining culture is unsustainable will bring judges with diverse life experi-
100
But most importantly, as the
United States Supreme
Court becomes more
conservative, the Indian
Supreme Court will play a
crucial role amongst global
constitutional courts on
questions of rights and
social justice. The Court has
expanded fundamental
rights to include the right to
health, education, and to
marry a person of one’s
choice, amongst others.
disability.
But the burden of strengthening the
Court does not fall upon judges alone. A few
short years from now, the Court will have its
first woman Chief Justice. But will its first fe-
male Attorney General or Solicitor General
address that Judge? As the largest litigator
before the Court, the executive must reflect
on the nature and volume of the cases that it
files. It must also think about who it chooses
to represent India. Further, the legislature
must evaluate whether we need certain
laws. Today, cheque bouncing cases are the
largestcategoryof casespendinginthecrim-
inal justice system. Should cheque bouncing
continue to be a crime? Does it justify taking
up so much judicial time?
The Supreme Court is also expected to
fulfil wide-ranging constitutional and judi-
cial roles. As a constitutional court, it decides
whetherlawandexecutiveactionviolateour
fundamental rights. But it is also a court of
final appeal, reviewing judgments passedby
the High Courts.InSupreme But Not Infallible,
B Sen writes that at its inception, the Court
heard barely twenty Special Leave Petitions
a week. Today, each judge easily hears over a
hundred SLPs a week. Further, because it is
the only national-level court, its docket in-
cludes petitions to transfer, for example, di-
vorce cases from one State to another. In the
next 25 years, the Court must prioritise its
role as a constitutional court above its other
functions.
We hope that the Court will continue to
adopt technology to bring justice closer to
the people. E-filings can reduce the carbon
footprint of litigation as well as its cost. Live
historical record. There has been a demand
for regional benches of the Court. However,
virtual courts allow lawyers all over the
country to appear before the Apex Court.
Judgments should also be translated into
Indian languages to make justice more ac-
cessible.
There are certain vestiges of colonialism
that the Court must do away with. One is the
current system of wearing black and white,
and gowns and waistcoats. The other is the
practice of calling judges "My Lord" or "My
Lady". A simple "Sir" or "Ma’am" is sufficient
to indicate a counsel’s esteem for the bench.
But most importantly, as the United
States Supreme Court becomes more con-
servative,theIndianSupremeCourtwillplay
a crucial role amongst global constitutional
courts on questions of rights and social jus-
tice. The Court has expanded fundamental
rights to include the right to health, educa-
tion, and to marry a person of one’s choice,
amongst others. It has protected free speech
and those unlawfully incarcerated. Other
constitutional courts refer to the Court’s
judgments, especially those in
Commonwealth jurisdictions with similar
lawsbecauseof theircolonialhistory.Barring
a few discordant notes, our Court has always
expanded freedom and protected individu-
als against the State and majoritarianism.
Our hope for the next 25 years is that the
Court continues to follow its dharma.
The writer is a lawyer. This article is part of
an ongoing series, which began on August 15,
by women who have made a mark, across
sectors

C
HEF RENÉ REDZEPI, the globally influential chef behind the New Nordic food
revolution, has stated what was obvious enough to inspire a satirical thriller,
The Menu, last year: The current fine dining culture is unsustainable. Citing
this as the reason, Redzepi has also announced the closure of Noma, the
Copenhagen restaurant long considered the best in the world, in 2024. JANUARY 11, 1983, FORTY YEARS AGO
Noma's closure is yet another instance of the tension between haute cuisine as art
and as a viable industry. Redzepi's recent admission to the New York Times that Noma CHIEF MINISTER HEGDE minister for tribal welfare and education in
the outgoing cabinet.
cluded the former Union minister, Surjtt
Singh Barnala, besides the five-member
cannot afford to pay its wage bill even as it charges $500 per diner speaks volumes about
the shaky foundations on which today's fine dining industry — driven by cult-like devo- RAMAKRISHNA HEGDE, ARCHITECT of the committee he had appointed for talks with
tion to individual “geniuses” and their demanding, labour-intensive “artistic vision” — is
Janata victory in Karnataka, was sworn in as
the chief minister of the first non-Congress
AKALI-CENTRE TALKS the Centre.
built. But the sheen, frankly, had started to wear off before, starting with Redzepi's own
admission of bad behaviour in the kitchen in a 2015 essay and culminating in revelations
governmentinthestatesinceindependence.
Seven other ministers were also sworn in by
HIGH-LEVEL TALKS BETWEEN the Centre
and Akali Dal to find a settlement to the
BHOSALE REPLACED
about Noma being staffed by unpaid interns and volunteers pulling gruelling shifts (in- Governor Govind Narain. Punjab tangle will be held at the Punjab Raj THE CONGRESS-I HIGH command is ex-
terns finally began to be paid in October last year). Bhavan. Union Home Minister P C Sethi, pectedtoreplaceMaharashtraChief Minister
Long hours, poor pay and toxic work environment have long plagued restaurants, LEFT FRONT IN TRIPURA Defence Minister R Venkataraman,
Petroleum Minister Shiv Shankar and Union
Babasaheb Bhosale in a week. According to
Maharashtra Congress-I sources, the high
from the high to the low end. Last year, Barber faced allegations of fostering a poor work
A 12-MEMBER LEFT Front ministry in Home Secretary T N Chaturvedi, will com- commandhasalreadystarteddiscussionson
culture at his restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barn. Until now, however, the devotion that Tripura, headed by Nripen Chakraborty, will prise the central team for the talks. Akali Dal choosing a new legislature party leader for
celebrity chefs and their restaurants inspire tended to undercut these problems. With be sworn in in Agartala, official sources said. chief Harchand Singh Longowal, who an- that state. Though the discussions have only
Redzepi finally admitting that something in the system is profoundly broken, perhaps a Thestatewillhave,forthefirsttime,adeputy nounced at Amritsar his party’s acceptance been preliminary, one of the proposals is to
fix can be found. chief minister, Dasarath Deb, who was the of the Centre’s invitation for talks, has in- ask all contenders to contest for the post.

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15 THE IDEAS PAGE
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023
India, the bridge
Because none of the problems confronting the Global South can be solved without substantive
international cooperation between the developed and developing countries
RAJA-MANDALA
by C Raja Mohan
IS INDIA RETURNING to the post-colonial
rootsofitsforeignpolicy?Thedecisiontocon-
veneavirtualsummitoftheleadersof theso-
calledGlobalSouth—orthedevelopingworld
—thisweekiscertainlyanimportanteffortto
reconnectwithoneof India’snaturalinterna-
tional constituencies.
Delhi’s decision to renew its engagement
with the developing world and take up their
causesthatdon’tgetenoughinternationalat-
tentionisawelcomemove.India'sleadership
oftheG20thisyearoffersaspecialmomentto
engage with developing countries.
The summit, however, is not a simple re-
turntothepast.Afterall,thecontextandcon-
cerns in the 21st century are very different
fromthoseinthemiddleofthe20th.Indiaand
theGlobalSouthareverydifferenttodayfrom
what they were in the 1970s, when the polit-
ical mobilisation of the so-called “Third
World” peaked.
On the face of it, though, the Global
South is a reincarnation of the Third World
framework from the 1970s. But many of the
past political divides — including the one be-
tween North and South — have blurred.
India’s new activism in the Global South
must necessarily adapt.
The idea that there were “three worlds”
became obsolete after the collapse of the
Soviet Union. Many countries of the Second
World or the socialist world have become a
partoftheFirstWorldofcapitaliststates.Many
EastEuropeancountriesthatwerepartof the
Sovieteconomicandmilitarysphereof influ-
encearenowpartof theEuropeanUnionand
the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Consider, for example, that China, which
continues to call itself a developing country,
istodaytheworld’ssecond-largesteconomy.
Itsmilitarypowerovershadowsmanydevel-
oped states of the North. After he led the
Chinese Communists to power in Beijing in
1949,MaoZedongturnedtoStalin,theleader
ofSovietRussiafromtheGlobalNorth,foreco-
nomicandmilitaryassistance.Today,China’s
economyis10timeslargerthanthatofRussia
andismoreadvancedinseveraltechnological
and industrial areas. It is also the senior part-
ner in the Sino-Russian alliance.
SouthKorea,whichwasoneof thepoorer
countries in the world in the middle of the
20th century, has been a member of the
Organisation of Economic Cooperation and
Development,theOECD,whichistherichna-
tions’ club.
SomeoftheGulfcountries,liketheUnited
Arab Emirates, which were not even inde-
pendentinthemiddleof the20thcenturyto-
day control massive amounts of capital and
driveeconomicdevelopmentinlargepartsof
theMiddleEast,Africaandbeyond.Singapore,
acity-stateof theGlobalSouth,todayboastsa
per capita income of $72,000 which puts it
among the top tier of the developed nations.
Thinking across borders and beyond the
per capita metric, there are slivers of super-
richelitesinthedevelopingworldandsignif-
D B Venkatesh Varma
JAPAN’S NATIONAL SECURITY Strategy re-
leased in December is a remarkable docu-
ment.Russia’sinvasionof Ukraine,China’sas-
sertiverise,andDPRKprovocationsarelisted
as key developments creating for Japan the
most severe and complex security environ-
mentsincetheendof theSecondWorldWar.
Japan’s response — the document states
with the tranquillity of a sober tea ceremony
— will be to build comprehensive national
power,reaffirmthesecurityalliancewiththe
US, develop autonomous capabilities
through a sustained military build-up, pro-
curementof deepstrikeweaponsandinvest-
ing in the Indo-Pacific and the Quad.
On the surface, the new Strategy has
nothing startlingly new to offer. However,
probing beneath for the pulse of the under-
stated, Japan’s new concerns — the inade-
quacy of its current defence posture and its
military alliance with the US to measure up
to future security needs — echo through the
document, mildly but with the certainty of
the heartbeat of a newborn baby.
Unconstrainedbybilateralormultilateral
agreements,Chinesemilitarypowerisnoted
as growing exponentially. In less than a
decade, the Chinese nuclear arsenal would
matchnumberscurrentlyheldbytheUSand
Russia. Expectations are low that the US
would have the will or the capacity to bring
China to the arms control table.
DPRK is riding a runaway proliferation
train. Having shaken off all the limits to its
nuclear programme it pretended to accept
icantunderclassesinthedevelopedworld.In
that sense, the Global South is truly global.
The differentiation within the Global
Southisnotlimitedtotheeconomicdomain.
Although the post-colonial moment sug-
gested common political ideals within the
Global South, they were quickly lost amidst
new inter-state and intra-state conflicts
among the newly-independent nations.
Infact,noneofthepost-colonialsolidarity
movementsintheGlobalSouth,includingthe
ones focused on pan-Asian, pan-Islamic, pan
Arabiccauses,havesurvivedthe20thcentury
intact. That also applies to the Non-aligned
Movement,whichfocusedontheissuesofthe
Global South.
Four decades ago, when the Non-aligned
Summit met in Delhi in 1983, the Iran-Iraq
war, the Russianinterventionin Afghanistan,
and Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia had
paralysed the meetings. There was very little
agreement on global issues.
While the radicals directed their fire at
America, the conservative regimes were fo-
cused on the Soviet Union and its proxies in
the South. Delhi had to struggle to bridge the
political differences within the Global South.
Bythe1980s,theeconomicdifferentiation
too became pronounced within the Global
South. The East Asian nations were pursuing
a path of economic liberalisation while the
statist orthodoxy held in many others.
The East Asian growth miracle was about
abandoning the post-colonial ideas of eco-
nomicdevelopmentthatwouldfollowapath
different from capitalism and communism
(the so-called “third way”). Even committed
communistcountrieslikeChinaandVietnam
joined the bandwagon of export-led eco-
nomic growth driven by foreign investment.
TheG77,agroupof77countriesthatcame
togetherinthe1960stoalterthetermsofeco-
nomicengagementbetweentheGlobalSouth
and the North, now boasts more than 130
countries, but has little impact on the nature
of the global economy.
The end of the Cold War and the collapse
oftheSovietUnionin1991sawthesteadypo-
liticalmarginalisationoftheNAM.Althougha
number of new countries joined the move-
ment,ithadlostitsvigourandpurposeinthe
changingworldorder.ThedeclineofNAMwas
accompanied by the rise of regional institu-
tions like the ASEAN. New institutions like
APEC(AsiaPacificEconomicCooperation)and
NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Association)thatemergedsincethe1990scut
across the North-South divide.
If Japan goes nuclear
India must trust that its strategy will be a responsible one
duringtheTrumpAdministration,itsnuclear
programme is perhaps now unstoppable.
Ballistic missile tests, conducted with the
scantest regard to international reaction,
haveoverflownJapaneseairspace.Themood
in South Korea is despondent but slowly
turning in favour of its own nuclearisation.
As underlined by the document, ex-
tended deterrence including nuclear
weapons is the cornerstone of the US-Japan
alliance. Its success until now allowed Japan
the luxury of its three nuclear no’s policy —
no production, possession, or introduction
of nuclearweaponsonitsterritory.Butitwas
nevertrulytestedinAsia,asUSnuclearsupe-
riority over China was largely uncontested.
Now it is no longer so, and will be less so in
the future.
Japan has no reason to question the va-
lidity of its security alliance with the US.
What perhaps worries Japan is its future ad-
equacy. The options going forward are three
— one stated and two unstated.
The National Security Strategy calls for
Japan to strengthen the deterrence and re-
sponse capabilities of its alliance with the US,
including extended deterrence by the US,
backed by its full range of capabilities, includ-
ingnuclear.Thisisthestatedposition,notvery
different from previous Japanese pronounce-
ments on the subject. Ukraine’s sorry plight
about security assurances — provided by
RussiainthepastandtheUSinthecurrentwar
— would not have gone unnoticed in Tokyo.
The unstated part is the possibility of nu-
The end of the Cold War
and the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1991 saw
the steady political
marginalisation of the
NAM. Although a number
of new countries joined the
movement, it had lost its
vigour and purpose in the
changing world order. The
decline of NAM was
accompanied by the rise of
regional institutions like the
ASEAN. New institutions
like APEC (Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation)
and NAFTA (North
American Free Trade
Association) that emerged
since the 1990s cut across
the North-South divide.
clear-sharing by Japan. If implemented, this
may be new to Asia but is a long-standing US
practice with its key NATO allies in Europe.
US willingness to share nuclear-powered
submarines with Australia as part of AUKUS
is an indicator of possible trends.
The second unstated option is the possi-
bility of Japan itself acquiring nuclear
weapons.Thedocumentmakesnoreference
to this. But there are references to the US —
Japan’s view the “world’s greatest compre-
hensive power” finding it increasingly “dif-
ficult to maintain a free and open interna-
tionalorder”.BehindJapanesepoliteness,the
message is clear.
Significantly, the document adds that
Japan would seek to strengthen its defence
capabilitiestothepointatwhichJapanisable
to take “primary responsibility” for its de-
fence, without excluding support from the
US. These are the green shoots of strategic
autonomy, Japanese style.
Japan’s turn towards an explicit nuclear
option will come, if at all, not out of choice
but out of necessity. Its strategic predica-
ment, laid bare by the document, is com-
pounded by the lack of easy answers, a
predicament that India should view with
sympathy and understanding of a fellow
Asian country.
As the only country the target of two nu-
clear bombings, public sentiment runs deep
against Japan acquiring nuclear weapons.
Japan is also a strong supporter of the NPT,
and its derivative non-proliferation regime
C R Sasikumar
India’s own international trajectory fol-
lowed a similar path. It abandoned the old
economicformulaeof theNAMandadopted
the mantra of globalisation. Instead of scoff-
ingatregionalinstitutions,Indiandiplomacy
devotedmuchattentiontojoiningexistingor
promoting a range of new regional institu-
tions, including the SAARC, ASEAN, IORA,
BIMSTEC, and the SCO.
Even more interesting, India itself went
beyondtheNorth-Southframeworktobuild
institutionswithcross-cuttingmembership.
BoththeBRICSandQuadforumsareverydif-
ferentfromtheNAM.Theyinvolvedeveloped
and developing countries.
Thislongandtroubledhistoryshouldhelp
provide a better template for India in re-en-
gaging the Global South. Two imperatives
stand out. One, India should avoid the temp-
tationofbuildingablocagainstthedeveloped
North.Inthepast,theNAMoftenpresentedit-
selfasatradeunionagainsttheWest.Despite
the proclaimed “non-alignment” between
the superpowers, the NAM, by the end of
1970s, was proclaiming the Soviet Union as
the “natural ally’ of the developing world.
TodayIndia’sfocusmustbeonemerging
as a bridge between the developing and de-
veloped world. Because, none of the prob-
lems confronting the Global South can be
solvedwithoutsubstantiveinternationalco-
operationbetweenthedevelopedanddevel-
oping countries.
Second, Delhi should differentiate its ap-
proach from China's current cynical instru-
mentalism that claims to build a "post-
Western order" in the international system.
AlthoughChinaneverjoinedtheNAM,ittook
muchinterestinitspolicies.Itstartedattend-
ingsomeoftherecentsummitsasanobserver.
As China’s economic power rose, it saw
theGlobalSouthasamassivemarketforcom-
mercialandpoliticalinfluence.If China’sBelt
andRoadInitiativehasbeentheculmination
of thisstrategy,thegrowingbacklashagainst
it in the Global South today underlines the
limits of Beijing’s approach.
India, which was the first nation to high-
lighttheproblemsoftheBRI,musttreadadif-
ferentpath.Delhimustoffersustainableeco-
nomic cooperation to the Global South
through national, regional, and global insti-
tutions.
The writer is senior fellow, Asia Society Policy
Institute, Delhi and a contributing editor on
international affairs for
The Indian Express
but it is also painfully aware that the NPT
does precious little to constrain China, nor
for that matter DPRK.
The gap between Japan’s security needs
in a nuclearised world and its non-nuclear
public sentiment was papered over in the
past by US extended deterrence. It looks less
likely that will be the case in the future.
If Japan goes nuclear, India should wel-
come the decision.
In our separate ways, India and Japan
privileged nuclear disarmament as a prior-
ity. But there comes a time when this na-
tional preference must be subordinated to
the demands of national security.
India reached this conclusion reluctantly
but with good reason in 1998. If Japan were
to reach the same conclusion, it too would
have good reason to do so. Its technological
capabilities are not in doubt. It is for Japan to
exercise its inherent and inalienable right of
ensuring the necessary means of self-de-
fence. Thinking the unthinkable in terms of
changingpolicyisanattributeof sovereignty,
not its negation.
A multipolar Indo-Pacific can be truly
multipolaronlyif Japanisassuredof national
defence through the means of its choosing.
As a strategic partner and friend, we must
keep faith that Japan will make the right de-
cision at the right time.
The writer is former Ambassador to the
Conference on Disarmament, to Spain and
Russia. Views are personal
WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
“While Mr Trump whipped up the crowd personally to rush the US Congress
weeks before his opponent Joe Biden took office, Mr Bolsonaro fled Brazil and
spent inauguration day in Florida. He is a clown missing his circus.”
The future is
international
UGC regulations facilitating premier foreign
universities’ campuses is a win-win for students
and higher education institutes
Mamidala Jagadesh
Kumar
WITH THE LAUNCH of the National
Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the world is
lookingatIndiaasanidealdestinationtoes-
tablish campuses and invest in the higher
educationsector.TheNEPalsoenvisionsthat
Indiawillbepromotedasaglobalstudydes-
tination that provides affordable, excellent
education. Establishing foreign campuses
will provide wider educational choices, ex-
posure to innovative pedagogical ap-
proachesandthepotentialforcollaboration
with world-class institutions.
By fixing a benchmark of allowing only
thetop500foreignuniversitiesinIndia,the
draft UGC regulations have an in-built
mechanism to ensure the entry of only the
highest-quality institutions.Foreign higher
education institutions (FHEIs) intending to
cometoIndiawillbeexperiencedinimpart-
ing education and with robust financial re-
sources, integrity, long-term commitment,
andabetterunderstandingof theventure's
feasibility. The FHEIs that intend to open
campuses in India are expected to have ad-
equate financial and other resources. They
should also arrange for appropriate physi-
calinfrastructureintermsofbuilt-upspaces
for their academic programmes.
Thedraftregulationsempowertheposi-
tioningofIndiaasanaffordablevalueplayer
in the global education sector. Campuses of
foreign HEIs will attract students from the
Global South as students worldwide will
find the high-quality education in India ap-
pealing.GivenIndia'sculturalambience,in-
ternational students can get a world-class
learning experience near their home coun-
try.Itispreciselytoprovideanenvironment
for interaction that the regulations say that
academic programmes in the FHEI cam-
puses need to be in physical mode.
Thedraftregulationsarealsoabreathof
fresh air, giving more viable options to the
four lakh or so Indian students who head
overseaseachyearfortransnationaleduca-
tion. Many students who plan to go abroad
will continue to do so to study and work in
a different environment. However, many
maynotbeabletoduetofamilyorfinancial
situations. While some maythink studying
in a foreign country is about much more
than just earning an international degree,
FHEIs will provide opportunities for stu-
dentswhodonotwishtoimmigratetostay
inIndiaandstudyataforeignuniversity.This
can be a win-win situation because Indian
students will be able to access high-quality
education living in India while foreign uni-
versities can cater to huge numbers.
However, all this will only happen with
enablinglegalandregulatorystructures.The
establishment of foreign campuses will be
facilitated through the provisions of the
Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PROTECT JOSHIMATH
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘The warn-
ing from Joshimath’ (IE, January 10).
The situation in Joshimath cannot be
attributed to NTPC, the Char Dham
railway project or the Helang bypass
alone. Being an ecologically fragile area
situated atop glacial moraines,
Joshimath should have been left undis-
turbed. And yet, this area was sub-
jected to massive construction proj-
ects without any hydrological or
geological surveys. The need of the
hour is to rehabilitate the displaced
population and provide support.
Abhishek Mishra, Allahabad
ZOOM OUT
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘The Great
OBC Data Void’ (IE, January 10). The
Supreme Court’s decision to uphold
the EWS reservation, breaching the 50
per cent cap, has had significant conse-
quences. It seems, political parties feel
empowered to enact state laws beyond
the reservation ceiling without any
data assessment or due process.
Political scientist Rajini Kothari said,
“It is not politics that gets caste ridden,
it is caste that gets politicised”.
Economy, employment, health and
pollution are not priorities for the state.
Perhaps because identity politics
would serve electoral interests with-
out the government having to work on
real problems facing our country to-
day.
H Upadhyay, via email
New Delhi
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
— THE GUARDIAN
and its rules. A few representative ways in
whichFHEIscanestablishcampusesare:As
a company under the Companies Act, 2013
and operate the campus through this com-
pany; via the Limited Liability Partnership
Act,2008;asajointventurewithanexisting
Indian entity such as a university or setting
upabranchofficeinIndiaforconductingits
operations ineducation. Thebiggest incen-
tiveforFHEIsisthatthereisnoneedtokeep
a corpus fund and they can repatriate their
funds to the parent university.
The Union budget announced on
February1,2022,emphasisedforeigndirect
investment (FDI) in education. If we factor
in potential FDI in the education sector, the
cascadingeffectsonemployment,technol-
ogytransfer,andinvestmentinacademicin-
frastructure are promising.
The National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration recently con-
ductedastudytogatherreliableinformation
on foreign universities' current and future
priorities regarding establishing their cam-
puses in India, identifying major concerns
andexpectationsofforeignuniversities,and
to identify areas that need policy interven-
tions.Inthereport,severaluniversitiesrank-
ing in the top 200 have expressed their in-
terest in considering India as a destination.
Therefore,thereisevidencefortheneed
forFHEIcampusesinIndiaatleastintwoas-
pects. First, such campuses will foster
healthy competition among Indian institu-
tionstobettertheirstandardsandestablish
world-class institutions. Second, the
Institutions of Eminence (IoE) have made
considerable progress in multidisciplinary
teaching and research, leveraging technol-
ogy for effective teaching-learning, devel-
opingstate-of-the-artfacilities,andpromot-
ing the internationalisation of higher
education.TheyandotherinstitutesinIndia
canbepotentialpartnersinresearchcollab-
orations with FHEIs in cutting-edge areas.
Trustinregulationsandregulatorybod-
iesisnotaneventbutaseriesof continuous
efforts and improvements. Following NEP
2020, the UGC has been proactively work-
ing to meet the aspirations of Indian higher
educationinstitutesbyprovidingthemwith
more autonomy and bringing out progres-
sive regulation. The draft regulations on
FHEIs consider the current and desired
stages of internationalising Indian higher
education.Openingwindowsforcross-bor-
der growth for top institutions from other
countries and opening ourselves to other
countries is a progressive regulatory step.
Suppose, we see regulations regarding
campuses of FHEIs along with the other re-
cent initiatives like the joint, and dual de-
greeswithforeignuniversities,andthereg-
ulationsforenablingtheIndianuniversities
toopencampusesinothercountries,which
are in the making. Then, one can see how
the regulatory architecture addresses the
desired stages of internationalisation. The
UGC's reforms should not be read in silos.
Rather, the cumulative effects of the en-
abling provisions must be seen as a catalyst
for transforming higher education in India.
The writer is chairman, University Grants
Commission. Views are personal
CHANGE MINDSETS
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘No justice
is subordinate’ (IE, January 9). The
Madhya Pradesh High Court's resolu-
tion to call all lower courts “district ju-
diciary” and “trial courts” is a welcome
move towards ending prevailing judi-
cial feudalism. But, merely changing
the nomenclature will not suffice. A
change in mindsets is the need of the
hour. The best course of action would
be to create “All India Judicial Services”
to achieve the requisite change sought.
Ravi Mathur, Noida
PRIORITISE ACCESS
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘The
Gimmicks Commision’ (IE, January 9).
Public institutions of higher learning
that promote critical thinking have
been under constant attack for a while
now. When institutions are controlled
by the state, enacting any change be-
comes a challenge. We need our stu-
dents and educators to engage with
scholars abroad in order to improve
standars in India. However, vernacu-
lar schools with decent educational
standards are drowned out with the
coming in of more expensive schools
with better facilities. Do we want our
higher education institutes to dimin-
ish and make education less affordable
for those on the lower rungs of socio-
economic ladder? If that is the goal,
University Grants Comission is on the
right path.
Brij Arora, Navi Mumbai
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023

Calcutta HC judge NARAYANPUR VIOLENCE AFTERMATH

initiates contempt Atstadiumthathouses‘Christians’whofled

proceedings against attacks,separatedfamilies,kidsoutofschool Day after Amul
RS Sodhi

protesting lawyers JAYPRAKASH S NAIDU

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
KOLKATA, JANUARY 10
JUSTICERAJASEKHARManthaof
the Calcutta High Court on
Tuesdayinitiated contempt pro-
ceedingsagainstlawyerswhoal-
legedly disrupted the proceed-
ings of his court on Monday.
It has been learnt that Justice
Manthaalsofiledasuomotupe-
tition against the lawyers for al-
legedly obstructing their fellow
colleaguesfromappearing at his
court. The matter is being heard
by the Division Bench of Chief
Justice Prakash Shrivastava and
Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj,
sources said.
JusticeManthaalsoissueddi-
rections for preserving the CCTV
footage of Monday's protest by
lawyers outside his courtroom
and summoned the court's offi-
cer-in-charge for deploying se-
curity persons in front of his
court to ensure that no one was
stopped from entering it.
Meanwhile, a section of
lawyers said they have decided
nottotakepartinproceedingsat
Justice Mantha's court as they
opposed some of the orders
passed by him. However, the
court of Justice Mantha func-
tionednormallyonTuesdaywith
petitionsbeingheardintheusual
manner,evenassecurityoutside
hiscourtroomwasbeefedupfol-
lowing Monday’s protests.
Earlier, members of the Bar
Associationof theHighCourtac-
cusedJusticeManthaof beingbi-
ased and urged Chief Justice
Shrivastava to relieve him from
some of the cases. In a letter to
the Chief Justice, the Bar
Association members wrote:
“...It is with great regret we must
proceed to deliberate upon the
Protect judiciary:
Governor to govt
Kolkata:Adayafterasectionof
lawyers at the Calcutta High
Court protested outside the
courtroom of Justice
Rajasekhar Mantha, West
Bengal Governor Dr CV
AnandaBoseonTuesdayasked
the state government to pro-
tect the judiciary and uphold
itsindependence,PTIreported.
Following an instruction from
the Governor, Chief Secretary
HK Dwivedi, Home Secretary
BPGopalikaandKolkataPolice
Commissioner Vineet Goyal
reached Raj Bhavan and
briefed him on the situation.
During the one-hour-long
meeting,healsotoldthethree
officersthat"thejudiciarycan-
not be intimidated". ENS
actions of Justice Rajasekhar
Mantha, who has perhaps fallen
shortof hisusualstandardsinre-
cent times... Let this representa-
tion record our humble request
for your lordship to relieve
Justice Rajshekhar Mantha from
his current determination and
liberate him from his current re-
sponsibilities.”
On Tuesday, Calcutta High
Court Bar Association president
Arunabha Ghosh said the asso-
ciation has nothing to do with
the lawyers' agitation. "I have
told the Chief Justice that action
may be taken over the issue as
he deems fit," he said. Senior ad-
vocate and CPI(M)'s Rajya Sabha
member, Bikash Ranjan
Bhattacharya, condemned
Monday'sincidentandurgedthe
Chief Justice to seek an explana-
tionfromtheprotestinglawyers.
NARAYANPUR, JANUARY 10
LAST WEEK, Suklu Potai, 16, left
his home in Devgaon village, in
Chhattisgarh's Kanker district,
with his mother and three
younger siblings after getting an
ultimatum from the village eld-
ers. "They asked us to either give
up our faith in Christianity or to
leave the village. My father
stayed back, but we decided to
leave," said Potai, his voice
bouncing off the walls of the
empty badminton court.
The 16-year-old Gond tribal
is among at least 125 people, 36
of themchildren,whohavebeen
staying in an indoor stadium in
Narayanpur since last month,
having fled at least three villages
in the district -- Bhatpal,
Kulhadgaon and Borawand --
and those in nearby Kanker fol-
lowing rising tensions between
the minority tribal community
following the Christian faith and
the non-Christian tribals.
SourcesintheNarayanpurpo-
lice said that over the last two
months,atleast10FIRshavebeen
registeredagainstthetwogroups,
withsevenoftheseagainstmem-
bersof themajoritytribalgroups
forallegedlyattackingChristians.
OnDecember18,hundredsof
Christiantribalsprotestedoutside
the Collector's office alleging ha-
rassmentandviolencebytheirfel-
lowvillagersandsayingtheyhad
been forced to flee their homes.
Narayanpur Collector Ajeet
Vasant told The Indian Express
that of the 500-odd protesters,
around 375 were sent back to
theirvillagesafterthedistrictad-
ministration held negotiations
withthesarpanch(villagehead),
gayta (tribal religious head) and
patels (a high-profile position
which in several villages is often
handled by the sarpanch).
At least 125 people are staying at the indoor stadium in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh. Express
However, around 31 families, in-
cludingthatof Potai,stayedback
attheindoorstadium,tooscared
to return to their homes.
"We were to send these 125
people back to their villages by
holding a meeting with the eld-
ers from the tribal communities,
but then on January 2, violence
brokeoutandthechurchwasat-
tacked.Sotheplanhadtobepost-
poned," said Collector Vasant,
adding that with Class 10 and 12
exams coming up, the adminis-
trationismakingeffortstoensure
that the education of the dis-
placed children does not suffer.
According to Census 2011,
Hindus are the largest religious
groupinNarayanpurat92.38per
cent, with Christians only ac-
counting for 0.43 per cent. The
administrationsaystribalsmake
up over 90 per cent of the dis-
trict's population.
In Narayanpur, religion and
faith are part of a complex social
matrix--deeplypersonalyetrid-
denwithfaultlines.Severalfam-
ilies have individual members
claiming to be followers of
Christianity,withmanyidentify-
ingthemselvesastribalsandsay-
ingtheyhaven'tconverted.Their
new-found faith often stemmed
from deep personal crises such
as medical emergencies, family
tensions or a social boycott.
At the Narayanpur stadium,
16-year-oldPotaisaysthathefirst
got "attracted" to Christianity in
2014, when he went to stay with
his aunt in Malingnar in the dis-
trict. "My father drinks a lot and
doesnottakecareofus.Ihavefive
siblings;anotherdiedasaninfant.
When my mother was pregnant
again, she got very sick. The sira
(a tribal 'doctor') gave her medi-
cinesbutitdidnotwork.Myaunt,
who goes to a Gondi church in
Malingnar, started praying to
Jesus. Soon, my mother felt bet-
ter and my sister was born. Like
me, my mother too started be-
lieving in Christianity. My father
does not believe in Christianity,
buthehasnoissuewithusbeliev-
ing in Jesus. He is not supporting
us simply because of pressure
from other villagers".
Potai, a student of Class 9, is
worried about having to skip
school. Since January 1, he has
been staying at the camp with
his mother, two sisters aged 8
and 4 years, and a year-old
brother. His two other siblings
are in residential schools.
At Borawand, a village 32 km
from Narayanpur city from
where around 23 families have
fled and are now staying at the
stadium, fear and suspicion run
deep following the clashes be-
tween the two tribal groups.
A village elder who finally
agreed to speak on condition of
anonymity said, "If those people
believeinChristianity,wewillnot
allow them to stay here. They do
not believe in our rituals. For in-
stance,accordingtoourtribalcus-
tom,notasingleceremony--from
birthtoafuneralprocession--can
be done without the gayta but
they have stopped calling the
gayta. Pregnant women are not
supposedtotouchthetapintheir
homesorcomenearthewell,but
these people have started asking
questionsandfloutingtheserules.
Our tribal culture is over a thou-
sand years old. We are neither
Hindu nor of any other religion. If
Christianity cured their sickness,
then why go to a hospital? I have
noideahowtheyarebeinglured."
On allegations that they as-
saulted some of their fellow vil-
lagers, forcing them to flee, he
said,"Wedidnotattackanybody
except Munit Salam because he
was among the first to start fol-
lowingChristianity.Hepromised
us he will not spread the religion
but gradually, many others
startedbelievinginChristianity."
At the Narayanpur stadium,
talking of the attack, Munit
Salam, 25, said, "Trouble started
when a meeting was called in
Novemberandwewereaskedto
give up our faith. We said no and
several villagers beat me up and
broke my tooth. Police saved me
and brought me to the camp. I
have not returned to my village
ever since. My wife and three-
month-old daughter are staying
separately for their safety."
Salam,whoseparentsdiedby
the time he turned eight, says he
was in Class 8 at an Ashram
school in Kondagaon district
when he first went to a church. "I
likedtheprayersandthemusicin
church.Someof myhealthissues
alsohealed.In2021,Imetmywife
through the church," he said.
Tensions run high in Bhatpal,
avillageneighbouringBorawand,
whereanincidentofafollowerof
Christianity being denied burial
space had led to clashes.
Atriballeader,whotoospoke
on condition of anonymity, said,
"We will not allow them inside
the village till they give up their
faith.Thesepeoplehavestopped
believing in our devi-devta and
do not take prasad. Even our
sirha are turning to Christianity
which is embarrassing."
Arun Pannalal, president of
the Chhattisgarh Christian
Forum, said, "Rehabilitation and
compensation needs to be given
to the evicted villagers. Around
a thousand Christians from 22
villages in Chhattisgarh have
been harassed and evicted till
now since last year."
MD quit, Gujarat
minister calls it
‘routine process’
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JANUARY 10
A DAY after RS Sodhi, managing
director of Gujarat Cooperative
Milk Marketing Federation
(GCMMF),steppeddown,Gujarat
Minister of State for Cooperation
JagdishPanchalonTuesdaycalled
it part of a “routine process”.
“Itisaroutineprocess.Atpres-
ent, there is no probe or inquiry
ordered against him,” Panchal
told The Indian Express when
askediftherewasanythingamiss
that had caused GCMMF to seek
his resignation during a board
meeting held on Monday.
Monday’s sudden change of
guard at the GCMMF, known by
its brand name Amul, caused in-
tense speculation given the tone
of the letter addessed to Sodhi,
signed by GCMMF chairman
Shamal Patel and vice-chairman
Valamji Humbal. “The board has
resolved that you end your serv-
ices as the managing director of
the federation with immediate
effect. Thus you should leave the
charge as MD with immediate
effect,” the letter stated.
On Tuesday, Jayen Mehta,
who was the chief operating of-
ficer of the federation, took
charge as the interim managing
director of Gujarat Cooperative
Milk Marketing Federation
(GCMMF) at Anand, a day after
his predecessor Sodhi quit.
LikeSodhi,Mehtawhojoined
GCMMF in 1991, is an alumni of
Institute of Rural Management
Anand.Mehtahadheldchargeas
MD of Amul Dairy in 2018 for six
months when incumbent chief
K Rathnam resigned.

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Construction of Pawarpada to Pangarpada to Palaspada 2,065,236.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18%
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PUNE, JANUARY 10
sends stop work notice to RVNL
Road, Taluka- Mokhada, District- Palghar. & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including ingtheconstructionworkwithin over two-and-a-half years.
Total - 590/- monsoon)
2 Construction of Poshera Thakurwadi Palaspada Road, 2,065,348.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
ACOURTinKolhapuronMonday EESHANPRIYA M S threedays.MariaDianaGouveia, Eight days ago, the residents
Taluka- Mokhada, District- Palghar. & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including framed charges against 10 ac- MUMBAI, JANUARY 10 thesarpanchof Velsao,said,“Ire- noticed that construction work
Total - 590/- monsoon)
cusedinthe2015murdercaseof ceived a complaint from Shalini hadbegunontheeastside.Upon
3 Construction of Mokhada Takpada Road, Taluka- 1,647,953.00 17,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
Mokhada, District- Palghar. & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including veteran activist and Community THERESIDENTSof Velsaovillage Barbosaaboutencroachmenton inquiryandnoticingthelogoson
Total - 590/- monsoon) Partyof India(CPI)leaderGovind in south Goa have locked horns her family's property. The com- the machinery, the residents re-
4 Construction of S.H. No. 30 to Sakhari Road, Taluka- 1,648,597.00 17,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
Mokhada, District- Palghar. & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including Pansare, marking the beginning with the Rail Vikas Nigam plaintwasmadeonSaturday,and alised that the work was being
Total - 590/- monsoon) of trial in the case. All 10 accused Limited (RVNL) over its ongoing on Monday, I issued a stop work carriedoutbyRVNL.Initially,due
5 Construction of Road SH-78 to Khodala Nashera V.R. 2,058,805.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days have pleaded not guilty. construction work through pri- notice to RVNL. However, work to the protests, the work was
No. 58 Km. No. 0/00 to 6/700, Taluka- Mokhada, & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including
District- Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon) The accused are Sameer vately-owned farmland in the has not stopped, as due a high stopped, but workers returned
6 Widening and Construction of Road Borsheti to 2,059,673.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days Gaikwad, Virendrasinh Tawade, village for laying a double track court order that states that the the next day with police protec-
Savarpada (Vr 92) Km. No. 3/00 to 4/00, Taluka- & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including Amol Kale, Vasudev Suryavanshi, for freight trains. permission of the panchayat is tion, Rodriques said.
Mokhada, District- Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon)
7 Construction of Road Dhamodi Pimpalpada Ase 2,060,257.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
Bharat Kurne, Amit Degwekar, ThepanchayatofVelsaovillage notrequiredforRVNLtocarryout “Also, on Tuesday, they
Jalichapada Km. No. 1/400 to 3/400, Taluka- Mokhada, & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including Sharad Kalaskar, Sachin Andure, andtheownersofthelandwhere developmental work." dumped construction equip-
District- Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon)
Amit Baddi and Ganesh Miskin. theconstructionworkbeganeight The residents of Velsao have ment on church-owned land
8 Construction of Protection Wall & Mori on Road 2,060,194.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
Tulyachapada Dandawal Km. No. 0/00 to 3/00, Taluka- & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including Accordingtotheinvestigation,the daysago,havedeemeditunautho- been protesting against the con- without permission. We will be
Mokhada, District- Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon) accusedhavelinkstoradicaloutfit rised, as the land is privately struction work for over a week. takingupthismatteraswell.We
9 Construction of Protection Wall on Baldyachapada 2,490,958.00 26,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days SanatanSansthaanditsaffiliates. owned and no settlement or Orville Dourado Rodriques, understand this is for transport-
Road To River VR-12 Km. 0/00 to 3/00, Taluka- & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including
Mokhada, District- Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon) All 10 were produced before agreement has taken place with founder of Goencho Ekvott, a ing coal to industries in
10 Construction of Protection Wall on Dhamodi Bivalpada 4,139,577.00 43,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days the Kolhapur court on Monday itsowners,saidlocalresidents. Velsao-basedNGOattheforefront KarnatakaandMaharashtra.Itis
Road VR. 1 Km. 1/200 to 1/700, Taluka- Mokhada, & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including andchargesframedagainstthem After over a week of protests of the protests, said: "No authori- notevenforapassengertrainand
District- Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon)
11 Construction of Bridge on Mokhada Aambepana 2,051,818.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
underIndianPenalCode(IPC)sec- by the residents, the village pan- sationhasbeengivenforthecon- the development is not going to
Shivakordyachime Road, Taluka- Mokhada, District- & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including tions pertaining to murder, at- chayat on Monday sent a stop structionbythefamilythatowns benefit Goa," Rodriques said.
Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon)
tempttomurder,criminalconspir- worknoticetotheRVNLbasedon the land. There is no deal, no inti- He added, "We are a small
12 Widening and Construction of Protection Wall on 2,844,405.00 30,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
Dhamodi Pimpalpada Ase Jalichapada Road, Taluka- & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including acyandprovisionsoftheArmsAct. a complaint raised last Saturday mation and no agreement. The village primarily depending on
Mokhada, District- Palghar. Total - 590/- monsoon) Till now, 12 accused have by the owner of the land, Shaliny familywasunawareofthework." farming... These are our paddy
13 Construction of Madkyachimet Kelghar Road, Taluka- 2,048,052.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days been identified in the case, of Victoria Barbosa Saksena. Rodriques added the matter fields... Imagine what will hap-
Mokhada, District- Palghar. & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including
Total - 590/- monsoon) whomtwo—SarangAkolkarand As per the stop work notice, of constructionof doublerailway pen if our farmlands are en-
14 Construction of Osarveera Ghodipada Road, Taluka- 2,062,999.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days Vinay Pawar — have been pro- RVNLhasbeendirectedtostopits track on th west side is sub-ju- croached?”Phonecallsandmes-
Mokhada, District- Palghar. & Above GST Rs. 90/- (Including claimedabscondingbythecourt. activities immediately and pro- dice,andtheresidentshavebeen sages sent to RVNL MD Pradeep
Total - 590/- monsoon)
15 Construction of Baldyachapada Ghodipada Road, 2,061,407.00 22,000.00 Class V(A) 500/- + 18% 180 Days
ThenexthearingisonJanuary23. duce legal documents authoris- battling the issue in court for Gaur did not elicit any response.
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Total - 590/- monsoon)
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023
MANY FIRMS EITHER DID NOT RECRUIT OR PROVIDED SMALL POOL OF OFFERS
Amidlayoffs,US techgiantshirelessfromIITs
DEEKSHA TERI
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 10
AMIDGLOBALlayoffs,theIndian
Institutes of Technology (IITs)
have seen a decline in the offers
coming from America-based
tech giants such as Amazon,
Meta, Twitter and Google in the
2022-23 placement season.
IIT placements are held in
two phases – the first phase in
Decemberandthesecondphase
between January and June.
Out of the 45 international
offers recorded in IIT-Kharagpur
sofar,therewereonlythreefrom
US-based companies, while
thosebasedinJapan,Taiwanand
Singapore had 28, nine and two
offers, respectively.
SpeakingtoTheIndianExpress,
Sathyan Subbiah, adviser (place-
ment), IIT Madras, said, “This ac-
ademic year, Amazon did not list
themselvesforthecampusplace-
ment. However, Google and
Microsoft did come for recruit-
ment. But the number of offers
they made is much less as com-
pared to last year.”
RELIEF FOR JEE-MAIN ASPIRANTS
Criterion of 75% in Class XII not applicable
on top 20 percentile candidates of all boards
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
MUMBAI, JANUARY 10
IN A relief to students aspiring to
appear for Joint Entrance
Examination (JEE)-Main, the
Ministry of Education (MoE) on
Tuesdaydecidedthatapartfrom
the eligibility criteria of scoring
75percentandaboveinClass12,
students from the top 20 per-
centile of all boards will be eligi-
ble to seek admission based on
their JEE-Main score.
PM to attend three-day police
chiefs’ conference from Jan 20
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
EMERGINGTRENDSinmilitancy
and hybrid militancy in Jammu
and Kashmir, role of crypto cur-
rency in counter terrorism, and
Left-wing extremism are some
of the issues to be discussed in
the conference of DGPs/IGPs to
be held in Delhi from January 20
to 22. Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will be attending all the
sessionsatthethree-dayconfer-
ence, officials said.
Theconferencewillbehosted
ANALYSIS OF NCAP TRACKER DATA FOR 2022
Delhi still most polluted city,
3 from Bihar placed in top 10
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
DELHI CONTINUED to be the
most polluting city in the coun-
try in 2022, but data shows it
fared a tad better than in 2019.
In 2022, the national capital
recorded an annual average of
PM2.5concentration99.7micro-
grams per cubic metre of air,
muchabovetheCentralPollution
ControlBoard(CPCB)standardof
40 micrograms per cubic metre
of air,ananalysisofCPCBairqual-
ity monitoring data by the NCAP
trackerhasshown.However,the
city has shown a 7% improve-
ment from 108 micrograms per
cubic metre in 2019.
The analysis, released on
Mondaytomarkfouryearsof the
launch of the National Clean Air
Programme (NCAP), has found
that some of the top polluted
non-attainment cities in 2019
have marginally improved their
PM2.5andPM10levels,butcon-
tinue to breach CPCB standards.
Most of the least polluted non-
attainment cities in 2019, on the
otherhand,haveactuallyseenan
increase in both PM 2.5 and PM
10 since then, the analysis says.
Government data shows that
inthepastfouryears,Rs6897crore
hasbeenreleasedtothecities.
For the analysis, the NCAP
tracker has only taken into ac-
count non-attainment cities
(NACs), which recorded a moni-
toring uptime of more than 50%.
Theanalysishasfoundthattop
10mostpollutedcitiesof2022are
from the Indo-Gangetic Plain. All
three of Bihar’s NACs — Patna,
The situation is no different
at IIT-Delhi.
Anishya Madan, head of the
Office of Career Services, IIT
Delhi,said,“Amazonwasinvited
andtheydidtaketheinitialtests,
but they finally did not turn up
for the placement process.”
Amazon and Google had
both given pre-placement offers
to students the previous aca-
demicyearatIITRoorkee,butdid
not hire this time around.
MekalaBhavya,afourth-year
student and a core team mem-
ber of IIT-BHU's training and
placement cell, said that
AmazonandGooglehavepulled
out of the institute’s placement
process.“Lastyear,wesawmany
students being recruited from
our institute. Students got offers
pretty quickly. However, this
time,theprocesshasbeenslow,”
she said.
In the 2021 placement ses-
sion at the BHU, 1,155 students
wererecruitedinthefirst10days
of the placement drive and 35 of
them had bagged international
offers, with the highest package
being Rs 2.05 crore from Uber.
As the JEE-Advanced already
hasthiscriterion,thispart-relax-
ation also will allow students to
compete for seats in prestigious
IITs and NITs.
AccordingtotheJEE-Mainin-
formation brochure released by
the National Testing Agency
(NTA), apart from the All-India
rank of the candidate in the na-
tionalentrancetestforengineer-
ingadmissions;theaspirantsare
also expected to score 75 per
cent and above in Class 12 in or-
der to be eligible for admission.
PM to
attend all
sessions
at event
by the Intelligence Bureau. The
conference is held every year to
share best practices among state
police and central agencies. DGs
ofallstatesandtheCentralArmed
Police Force (CAPF) will partici-
pateintheconference.“Tentative
agenda is on counter terrorism,
emergingtrendsinmilitancyand
THE CHOKING REALITY
MOST POLLUTED
CITIES (For PM 2.5)
Delhi, Faridabad,
Ghaziabad, Patna,
Muzzafarpur, Noida,
Meerut, Gobindgarh,
Gaya and Jodhpur
MOST POLLUTED
CITIES (For PM 10)
Ghaziabad, Faridabad,
Delhi, Noida, Patna,
Meerut, Muzzafarpur,
Durgapur, Jodhpur
and Aurangabad
MuzaffarpurandGaya—nowfea-
ture in the top 10 most polluted
citiesonthebasisofPM2.5levels.
Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh,
which has made concerted ef-
forts towards air quality man-
agement, has been ranked in
both thePM 2.5 and PM 10 list as
one of the top 10 cleanest cities.
“While among the least pol-
luted non-attainment cities this
year, nine of the 10 cities have
breached the CPCB annual per-
missible limit of 60 ug/m3 for
PM 10, indicating the air to
breathe isn’t safe even in the
Out of the 45 international offers recorded in IIT-Kharagpur
so far, there were only three from US-based companies. File
Other IITs report a mixed
picture.
At IITMandi,Googlehired no
candidate as against three in the
last placement season. But it
hired eight interns, an increase
from two earlier. Amazon's
numberincreasedfrom14to20.
Microsoft hired 11 students. The
institute also reported 19 inter-
national offers, an increase from
10 last academic year.
For SC/ST candidates, the quali-
fying aggregate score was de-
clared 65 per cent and above.
Even as this has always been
the eligibility criteria, it was sus-
pended for the past three years
from the admissions process
held during the pandemic. This
was due to lack of uniformity in
evaluationpracticesundertaken
bydifferentboards–stateaswell
as national, owing to the pan-
demicconditions.Withresump-
tion of normalcy in board exam
evaluation, the original eligibil-
hybrid militancy in Jammu and
Kashmir, Khalistan communica-
tionandlogisticsnetwork,roleof
virtualassetsanddarkwebinter-
rorfinancinganddrugtrafficking,
roleofcryptocurrencyincounter
terrorism,” an official said.
“Othertopics...Chineseinflu-
ence in the neighbourhood and
implications for India, growing
radicalisation and instability in
the neighbourhood and its im-
plications for India,” the official
said. Officials said border man-
agement,effectivemanagement
of prisons, and technology in
policing will also discussed.
CLEANEST CITIES
Srinagar (J&K)
Records PM 2.5
concentration of
26.33 ug/m3
Kohima (Nagaland)
Records PM 10
concentration of
26.77 ug/m3
CURRENT ANNUAL
AVERAGE SAFE LIMITS
PM 2.5 PM 10
40 ug/m3 60 ug/m3
`6,897cr
in
4 yrs have been spent by
the Centre’s National
Clean Air Programme,
but cities are still choking
cleanest cities,” said the report.
“Unlike the most polluted
cities, most of the least polluted
cities in 2019 saw air quality lev-
els deteriorate and rankings slip.
Forinstance,Mumbaiwasthe
seventhleastpollutedcityin2019
but its PM 2.5 levels increased
from 34 ug/m3 in 2019 to 49
ug/m3in2022anddroppedtobe-
ing the 23rd least polluted city in
thecountry,”theNCAPtrackerre-
portadded.Theanalysis,however,
pointsoutthatoneof thereasons
could be attributed to increased
levels of monitoring.
EXPRESS NETWORK 17
Prithvi-II tactical ballistic
ment. However, slowly, life is tional offers this year, when
missile successfully tested
New Delhi: India on Tuesday car-
ried out a successful test launch
of tacticalballisticmissilePrithvi-
tegral part of India's nuclear de-
terrence. The missile struck its
targetwithhighaccuracy,”itsaid.
nowcomingbacktothepre-pan- compared to last year.” IIfromatestrangeoff theOdisha The usertraininglaunch suc-
demic status. As a result, the en- Abhishek Kumar, the head of coast, the Defence Ministry said. cessfully validated all opera-
gagement across online plat- the Centre for Career “A successful training launch tional and technical parameters
forms is dropping. E-commerce, Development at IIT Guwahati of a short-range ballistic missile, of the missile, the ministry said.
gaming, online education, saidthatwhile“theinstitutehad Prithvi-II, was carried out on The missile, which is pow-
streaming of online content received good response from January 10 from the Integrated eredbylightpropulsiontwinen-
which saw an exponential companies this year, despite the Test Range, Chandipur off the gines, has a range of around 350
growthduringthepandemicare layoffs and US economic reces- coast of Odisha,” a statement km and can carry 500-1,000 kg
now slowing down,” Asmita sion, international companies from the ministry read. of warheads.Itusesanadvanced
Chitnis,Directorof theSymbiosis were taking a little more time to “A well-established system, inertial navigation system to
Institute of International process applications now”. Prithvi-II missile has been an in- strike the set target. ENS
Business (SIIB) says. Some students who were
Subbiah flagged the shift looking forward to getting
from software, thepredominant placed in the top IT companies
route many engineering gradu- have now changed their plans. “I
ates take, to other sectors. He was aiming for getting a spot in
said, “The software companies the Amazon team through IIT
are not hiring much, but other
streams and companies are still
placements... but now, I am not
sure anymore because what if I
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Applicants/ Mortgagors, In Loan Account
No's. AGR7052S, U20AGR-AGR-014994,
U21AGR-AGR-017098, U22AGR-AGR-
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Represented by its Authorised Signatory, 2).
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its Authorised Signatory, No. 1 and 2 are
having office at Village Nagar, Post Sahai,
Kiraoli, Agra, Uttar Pradesh-283105., 3). Mr.
Braj Mohan Tiwari, S/o. Ram Gopal Tiwari,
4). Mrs. Shashi Tiwari, W/o. Braj Mohan
Tiwari, No. 3 and 4 are residing at House
No.316, Nagar, Sahai, Kiraoli, Agra, Uttar
Pradesh-283105., to repay the mentioned amount in the said notice being a
sum of Rs. 21,20,347/- (Rupees Twenty One Lakh Twenty Thousand Three Hundred and
Forty Seven Only) as on 24-10-2022, to repay agreed contractual rate of interest together with
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the date of payment, within 60 days from the date of receipt of the said notice.
However the Applicants/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors herein above having failed to repay the full
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under section 13(4) of the said Act, read with Rule 8 of the Security Interest Enforcement Rules,
2002 on this day of 09-Jan-2023.
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18
What is a cold wave, why northwest India is shivering
ABHINAYA HARIGOVIND
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
DELHI AND other parts of northwest India
have been reeling under a cold wave spell
that set in last week.
In Delhi, the Safdarjung weather station,
whichprovidesrepresentativefiguresforthe
city, has recorded cold wave conditions for
five consecutive days this month, making it
the longest such spell in a decade. The low-
est minimum temperature recorded this
month was 1.9 degrees Celsius on January 8,
the second-lowest minimum temperature
in January in 15 years.
While lower-than-normal temperatures
were recorded over parts of Northwest India
from the last week of December, these con-
ditions intensified in the first week of
January.Fogandlow cloud coveragebrought
severe cold day conditions to the region,
THIS WORD MEANS
DELEGATED LEGISLATION
Parliament delegates functions to certain authorities,
since MPs can’t deal with every aspect themselves
KHADIJA KHAN
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
IN UPHOLDING the Centre’s 2016 deci-
sion on demonetisation, one of the key
questions to decide for the Supreme
Court was whether Parliament gave ex-
cessive powers to the Centre under the
law to demonetise currency. While the
majority ruling upheld the validity of the
delegated legislation, the dissenting ver-
dict noted that excessive delegation of
power is arbitrary.
What is delegated legislation?
Parliament routinely delegates cer-
tain functions to authorities established
bylaw,sinceeveryaspectcannotbedealt
directly by the lawmakers themselves.
This delegation of powers is noted in
statutes, which are commonly referred
to as delegated legislations.
Thedelegatedlegislationwouldspec-
ify operational details, giving power to
those executing the details. Regulations
and by-laws under legislations are clas-
sic examples of delegated legislation.
A 1973 SC ruling explains the concept
as: “The practice of empowering the
Executivetomakesubordinatelegislation
withinaprescribedspherehasevolvedout
ofpracticalnecessityandpragmaticneeds
of a modern welfare State. At the same
time it has to be borne in mind that our
Constitution-makers have entrusted the
powerof legislationtotherepresentatives
of the people, so that the said power may
be exercised not only in the name of the
people but also by the people speaking
through their representatives. The role
against excessive delegation of legislative
authority flows from and is a necessary
postulateofthesovereigntyofthepeople.”
What was the delegation here?
Section 26(2) of the Reserve Bank of
IndiaAct,1934givespowerstotheCentre
to notify that a particular denomination
of currency ceases to be legal tender.
The provision reads: “On recommen-
dation of the Central Board the Central
Government may, by notification in the
Gazette of India, declare, with effect from
such date as may be specified in the noti-
fication,anyseriesofbanknotesofanyde-
nominationshallceasetobelegaltender.”
In Ladakh protest, longstanding demands and a rare Leh-Kargil unity
NAVEED IQBAL
SRINAGAR, JANUARY 10
RESIDENTSOF the Kargil andLeh regionsof
Ladakh have been protesting for over two
years seeking special rights and safeguards
for the Union Territory. On January 2, the
Home Ministry announced that a High
Powered Committee would look into the
demands. The organisations leading the
protests have, however, given the an-
nouncementthecoldshoulder—thepanel,
instead of assuaging their concerns, will
likely galvanise the protests further.
Disappointment after 2019
Therevocationof JammuandKashmir’s
special status and bifurcation of the erst-
while state into two UTs brought joy and a
sense of achievement in Buddhist-domi-
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023
whentemperaturesremainedbelownormal
over parts of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana,
Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
What is a cold wave?
The IMD marks a cold wave in terms of
minimum temperatures — when the mini-
mum temperature in the plains is 4 degrees
orlessorwhentheminimumtemperatureis
less than 10 degrees and 4.5 to 6.4 degrees
below the normal.
One of the major factors contributing to
colderthannormaltemperaturesovernorth
India this month is the large-scale fog cover,
according to RK Jenamani, scientist, IMD.
“Whilewesterly andnorthwesterly winds of
around 5 to 10 kmph in the afternoon have
also been contributing to the dip in temper-
ature, an important factor this month is fog,
which has been lasting for longer durations,
preventing sunlight from reaching the sur-
The SC majority verdict held that
since the delegation is to the Centre,
which is answerable to Parliament,
it can’t be struck down. File
Here, Parliament, which enacted the
RBI Act, is essentially delegating the
power to alter the nature of legal tender
to the Centre. The Centre exercised that
power by issuing a gazette notification,
which is essentially the legislative basis
for the demonetisation exercise.
Why was this challenged?
The challenge was: “In the event that
Section 26(2) is held to permit demon-
etisation, does it suffer from excessive
delegation of legislative power thereby
renderingitultravirestheConstitution?”
The Constitution gives lawmaking
powers to Parliament. While operational
aspectscanbedelegatedtostatutorybod-
ies,essentialpowerscannotbedelegated.
Also, the delegation must be with suffi-
cientguidelinesonhowthepowercanbe
used. The petitioners in the demonetisa-
tion case argued that since Section 26(2)
contains no policy guidelines on how the
Centre can exercise its powers, it is arbi-
trary and therefore, unconstitutional.
What did the court decide?
Themajorityverdictheldthatsincethe
delegationofpoweristotheCentre,which
isanswerabletoParliament,thedelegation
ofpowercannotbestruckdown.However,
in the dissenting opinion, Justice BV
NagarathnaheldthatCentrecouldnothave
exercised its delegated powers because
Section 26(2) of the RBI only gives powers
totheCentrewhentherecommendationis
“initiated” by the RBI Central Board.
nated Leh, but triggered a degree of appre-
hension in Muslim-dominated Kargil.
Leh had for long sought UT status and
separation from J&K’s administrative set-
upcentredinSrinagarandJammu.Thepro-
tection of land belonging to local people
was the major concern in Leh. In Kargil, the
primary demand was for statehood.
After more than a year had passed after
the creation of the UT of Ladakh, concerns
began to be raised in both regions over the
protection of land, employment, and polit-
ical representation. In Kargil, the religious
leadershipand civil society representatives
formed the Kargil Democratic Alliance
(KDA). In Leh, the Ladakh Buddhist
Association(LBA),the region’sstrongest re-
ligious forum that is part of the
Apex Body of Leh (ABL), an alliance of non-
BJP parties, took the lead to press the re-
gion’s demands.
Dense fog in New Delhi on Monday. Praveen Khanna
face and affecting the radiation balance.
There is no heating in the day time, and then
there is the impact of the night. Foggy or
cloudy nights are usually associated with
EXPLAINED SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & CLIMATE CHANGE
Ozone hole, filling up now
A new assessment says the ozone layer will recover to 1980 values by 2066 over Antarctica; in Artic by
2045. Success of Montreal Protocol is noteworthy, but phasing out greenhouse gases is more difficult
AMITABH SINHA
THE OZONE ‘hole’, once considered to be the
gravest danger to planetary life, is now ex-
pected to be completely repaired by 2066, a
scientific assessment has suggested. In fact,
it is only the ozone layer over Antarctica —
where the hole is the most prominent —
which will take a long time to heal com-
pletely. Over the rest of the world, the ozone
layer is expected to be back to where it was
in1980by 2040 itself,aUN-backedscientific
panel has reported.
The recovery of the ozone layer has been
made possible by the successful elimination
of some harmful industrial chemicals, to-
gether referred to as Ozone Depleting
Substances orODSs, through the implemen-
tation of the 1989 Montreal Protocol. The as-
sessment has reported that nearly 99 per
cent of the substances banned by the
MontrealProtocolhavenowbeeneliminated
from use, resulting in a slow but definite re-
covery of the ozone layer.
Damage to the ozone layer
The depletion of the ozone layer, first no-
ticedintheearly1980s,usedtobethebiggest
environmental threat before climate change
came along. Ozone (chemically, a molecule
having three Oxygen atoms, or O3) is found
mainly in the upper atmosphere, an area
called stratosphere, between 10 and 50 km
from the Earth’s surface. It is critical for plan-
etarylife,sinceitabsorbsultravioletrayscom-
ingfrom the Sun.UVrays are knownto cause
skin cancer and many other diseases and de-
formities in plants and animals.
Thoughtheproblemiscommonlyreferred
to as the emergence of a ‘hole’ in the ozone
layer, it is actually just a reduction in concen-
tration of the ozone molecules. Even in the
normal state, ozone is present in extremely
lowconcentrationsinthestratosphere.Where
the‘layer’issupposedtobethethickest,there
arenomorethanafewmoleculesofozonefor
every million air molecules.
In the 1980s, scientists began to notice a
sharp drop in the concentration of ozone.
This drop was much more pronounced over
the South Pole, which was later linked to the
uniquemeteorologicalconditions—temper-
ature, pressure, wind speed and direction —
that prevail over Antarctica. The ozone hole
over Antarctica is the biggest during the
months of September, October, and
An unexpected unity
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra
Modi met with the mainstream political
leadership of Jammu & Kashmir in June
2021, then MoS Home G Kishan Reddy held
a meeting with 11 members of the KDA.
Neither meeting
was, however, fol-
lowed up effec-
EXPLAINED POLITICS
tively — even
though MoS Home Nityanand Rai did visit
Leh in late August 2021.
On August 1, in a rare show of unity, the
KDAandABLmetinLeh’sGrandDragonho-
tel.DrSiddiqWahid,academicfromLadakh
and former vice-chancellor of the Islamic
University of Science and Technology,
Awantipora, described the meeting as “an
unexpected surprise”.
Thetwoorganisations,whichhadraised
their demands separately in their regions
warmernights,butif thefogremainsfortwo
or three days, cooling begins even at night,”
he explained.
Light winds and high moisture near the
THINNING NATURAL SUNSCREEN OVER ANTARCTICA
South
America
Antarctica
Australia
1980
2000
PRIOR TO 1979, scientists had not
observed atmospheric ozone
concentrations below 220 Dobson
Units (DU; measure of the total
amount of ozone in a vertical
column of air above the Earth’s
surface). In the early 1980s, scientists
using ground-based and satellite
measurements began to realise that
the Earth’s natural sunscreen was
thinning dramatically over the
South Pole each spring. This
thinning of the ozone layer over
Antarctica came to be known as the
ozone hole. The stratospheric ozone
layer protects life on Earth by
absorbing ultraviolet light, which
damages DNA in plants and animals
(including humans) and leads to
sunburns and skin cancer.
IN 1979, the maximum depth of the
hole was 194 Dobson Units (DU). In
1982, it fell to 173 DU, in 1983 to 154
DU, and in 1985 to 124 DU.
November.
Bythe middle of 1980s, scientistshad fig-
ured out that the chief cause of ozone deple-
tionwastheuseof aclassof industrialchem-
icals that contained chlorine, bromine or
fluorine. The most common of these were
the chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, that were
used extensively in the airconditioning, re-
frigeration, paints, and furniture industries.
Improvement in the situation
Theozoneholehasbeensteadilyimprov-
for a year, held discussions over five hours.
Atapressconferencelater,theyputforward
a four-point agenda: statehood for Ladakh,
safeguards under the Sixth Schedule of the
Constitution, reservation of jobs for the
youth of Ladakh, and creation of separate
parliamentarycon-
stituencies for the
two parts of the re-
gion. This agenda
has driven the agitations in the UT ever
since.
Growing resentment
More and more voices on the ground
have been saying thatthe safeguards under
the now repealed Article 370 worked to
protect the interests of Ladakhis as much as
Kashmiris. Former J&K minister and senior
Congress leader in Leh, Nawang RigzinJora,
said that in seeking to become a UT, Ladakh
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land surface have been contributing to the
formation of a blanket of fog over large
swathes of the Indo-Gangetic plains in the
morning.
Since there has not been any significant
impact of western disturbances over the re-
gion, cold northwesterly winds have also
contributed to low temperatures. Western
disturbances, which are storms from the
Mediterranean region, are associated with a
change in wind direction, bringing easterly
winds to northwest India. The last time the
region saw easterly winds was on December
29, Jenamani said.
Delhi usually records cold wave spells in
DecemberandJanuary.Overthepastdecade,
the number of cold wave days in January has
rangedfromnonetoseven.Whiletherewere
no cold wave days in December in Delhi this
winter, the five such days so far this month
are more than January last year, when there
were no cold wave days, IMD data shows.
1990 1994
2010 2018
Pictures and caption: NASA Earth Observatory
THE IMAGES HAVE been picked
from a series published by NASA
showing the size and shape of the
ozone hole every year from 1979
through 2019. The measurements
were made from 1979-2004 by
NASA’s Total Ozone Mapping
Spectrometer instruments; from
2005-11 by the Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute’s Ozone
Monitoring Instrument (which flies
on NASA’s Aura satellite); and from
2012-19 by the Ozone Mapping
Profiler Suite on the NASA/NOAA
Suomi NPP satellite. Red and yellow
areas in the images indicate the
ozone hole. The maps show the
ozone hole on the day the lowest
ozone concentrations were
measured each year.
IN 1991, ozone concentration fell
below 100 DU for the first time. The
deepest hole was in 1994, when con-
centrations fell to 73 DU on Sept 30.
ingsince2000,thankstotheeffectiveimple-
mentation of the Montreal Protocol.
The latest scientific assessment has said
that if current policies continued to be im-
plemented, the ozone layer was expected to
recover to 1980 values by 2066 over
Antarctica, by 2045 over the Arctic, and by
2040 for the rest of the world.
The elimination of ozone-depleting sub-
stances has an important climate change co-
benefit as well. These substances also hap-
pentobepowerfulgreenhousegases,several
had not bargained for the loss of its political
representation.
“What we asked for was a UT on the
lines of Pondicherry — a UT with an elected
Assembly. The bureaucracy does not repre-
sent the aspirations of the people,” he said.
PoweriscurrentlyconcentratedintheL-G’s
office in both Srinagar and Leh.
DrWahidtoldTheIndianExpressthatthe
demand for separate parliamentary con-
stituencies was justified despite the small
populationof theUT.“Inaskingforasecond
Member of Parliament for the UT, Ladakh is
safeguarding its hard-earned unity by pre-
empting the tendency to divide Leh and
Kargil in each election cycle,” he said.
The two districts of Kargil and Leh have
different demographic compositions, with
Buddhists dominating Leh, and Muslims
Kargil. Christians are a small minority of
Ladakh’s total 3 lakh population.
New Delhi
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What is the forecast for the week
ahead?
Cold wave conditions abated over parts
of northwest India on Tuesday, with the
minimum temperature in Delhi rising to 6.4
degrees Celsius.
With a western disturbance affecting
northwest India, the minimum temperature
is set to rise by 2 to 4 degrees over the plains
of northwest India over the next three days,
according to an IMD update Tuesday. While
dense fog is likely to persist over parts of
Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh and
Bihar over the next 24 hours, it could abate
thereafter, before making a comeback on
January 14, the forecast indicated.
In Delhi, the maximum temperature,
which saw a low of 16.1 degrees Celsius last
week, could rise to around 20 degrees
Celsius by January 12. The minimum tem-
perature, meanwhile, could climb to around
9 degrees by January 12.
of them hundreds or even thousands of
times more dangerous than carbon dioxide,
the most abundant greenhouse gas and the
main driver of global warming. The report
said that global compliance to the Montreal
Protocolwouldensuretheavoidanceof 0.5to
1 degree Celsius of warming by 2050. This
means that if the use of CFCs and other sim-
ilar chemicals had continued to grow the
way it did before they were banned, the
world would have been 0.5 to 1 degree
Celsius warmer than it already is.
Infact,itwaswiththisclimatechangeob-
jective in mind that the Montreal Protocol
was amended in 2016 to extend its mandate
over hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, that have
replaced the CFCs in industrial use. HFCs do
not cause much damage to the ozone layer
—thereasontheywerenotoriginallybanned
— but are very powerful greenhouse gases.
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal
Protocol seeks to eliminate 80-90 per cent of
the HFCs currently in use by the year 2050.
This is expected to prevent another 0.3 to 0.5
degreeCelsiusof globalwarmingbythe turn
of the century.
Precedent for climate action
The success of the Montreal Protocol in
repairing the ozone hole is often offered as a
model for climate action. It is argued that
emissions of greenhouse gases can also sim-
ilarly be curtailed to arrest rapidly rising
global temperatures.
However, the parallels of elimination of
ODSswithgreenhousegasesarelimited.The
useof ODSs,thoughextensive,wasrestricted
to some specific industries. Their replace-
ments were readily available, even if at a
slightly higher cost initially. The impact of
banning these ozone-depleting chemicals
was therefore limited to these specific sec-
tors. With some incentives, these sectors
have recovered from the initial disruption
and are thriving again.
The case of fossil fuels is very different.
Emission of carbon dioxide is inextricably
linked to the harnessing of energy. Almost
everyeconomicactivityleadstocarbondiox-
ide emissions. Even the so-called renewable
energies, like solar or wind, have consider-
able carbon footprints right now, because
their manufacturing, transport, and opera-
tion involves the use of fossil fuels.
Theemissions of methane,theotherma-
jorgreenhousegas,comesmainly from agri-
cultural practices and livestock. The impact
of restraining greenhouse gas emissions is
not limited to a few industries or economic
sectors, but affects the entire economy, and
also has implications for the quality of life,
human lifestyles and habits and behaviours.
Climate change, no doubt, is a far more diffi-
cultandcomplexproblemthandealing with
ozone depletion.
Going forward
Intheabsenceof aclearmandateforthe
committee constituted by the MHA on
January 2, both the ABL and KDA leader-
ships have declined to participate in its
meetings.
“Untilourdemandsareclearlyidentified
intheagendaandtakenupinthediscussions,
we are not going to participate in this
process,” Sajad Kargili of the KDA said. The
Ladakhleadershavealsopointedoutthatthe
Centre'scommitteehasnorepresentationof
SunniMuslimsfromtheregion,andthatsev-
eral members have been included without
the consent of the ABL and KDA.
Interestingly,thedemonstrationsforthe
protection of Ladakh’s land and identity are
taking place in Jammu, which is part of a
different UT. Locals describe this as a sense
of “ownership” over J&K that “no constitu-
tional division can take away”.
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Shivpal’s dope ban
reduced after
supplement found
contaminated
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
JANUARY10
JAVELIN THROWER Shivpal Singh, a former
AsianChampionshipssilvermedallist,hadhis
four-yearbanreducedtooneyearaftertheap-
pealpaneloftheNationalAnti-DopingAgency
(NADA)acceptedthatthesupplementhehad
consumed was contaminated.
“Thesupplement'primetestobooster'was
foundtobecontainingmethandienonebythe
NationalDopeTestingLaboratory(NDTL).The
appellant disclosed the use of 'prime testo
booster'inhisdopingcontrolform.Theappel-
lantwasconsumingasupplementwithacom-
positionsimilarto'primetestobooster'sincea
considerable period of time and never tested
positive,” the appeal panel noted in its order.
ThedisciplinarypaneloftheNationalAnti-
DopingAgencyhadinAugustbannedShivpal
for four years after he tested positive for ana-
bolic steroids, including methandienone.
The appeal panel headed by Abhinav
Mukerji also directed NADA to take proactive
steps and to collaborate in an active way with
regulatoryagenciestoprosecuteandcurbthe
menace of fake, contaminated supplements.
“NADA is also directed to frame a policy and
deviseamechanismtocertifyshops/establish-
mentsthroughoutthecountryassafesources
from where athletes can purchase supple-
mentswithoutfearoffallingpreytounscrupu-
lous elements,” the appeal panel order said.
Shivpal's sample was collected after he
returned from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Shivpal won a silver medal at the 2019 Asian
Championships with a throw of 86.23 me-
tres, his personal best. However, at Tokyo, he
finished 27th with a below-par throw of
76.40 metres. Tuesday's order states that the
supplement was given to Shivpal by his
coach, who purchased it from 'Herbal Power
Pharmacy'.
“The supplement store was later found to
be involved in the sale of contaminated sup-
plementsandanFIRdated6/10/2021hasbeen
registeredagainstthesaidretailerforbeingen-
gaged in the sale of contaminated supple-
ments,” the order stated. It also stated that
'methandienone',aprohibitedsubstance,was
found in the supplement but 'it was not dis-
closedontheproductlabelandnotdiscovered
through a basic internet search.'
“Thisisanothercasewhichshowsthatspu-
rioussupplementsarebeingsoldinIndiaand
top athletes are suffering because of this.
Having said that, NADA panel has observed
that NADA needs to do much more to crack
down on the sale of spurious supplements,”
Shivpal's lawyer Vidushpat Singhania said.
The appeal panel, however, said that
Shivpalshouldhavebeen'extracautious'while
takingnutritionalsupplements'inlightofram-
pant contamination'.
State of women in sport
Pilot survey says 48 % female athletes travel over 10km to train in Manipur;
playing in shorts elicits stares, badly-lit facilities a put-off in Bihar
SHIVANINAIK
JANUARY10
MANIPUR'S FIVE-DAY long Holi festival is
rarely about colour-throwing revelries. They
have 'mothers marathons' and 'waterpot car-
rying' races, wearing phaneks instead. "100s
ofsportsclubsbackedbythecommunitytake
part in sport on every festival occasion. They
don't wait for governments to do something,
they just play," says former shuttler, now part
ofpolicyresearchatSimplySport,aBangalore
basedorganisation,AditiMutatkar,explaining
how the north eastern state, has ended up a
powerhouse in sport.
The daily diet in most of Rajasthan is just
not conducive for sports ("food can make or
break champions"). And despite having the
highest Arjuna awardees from Maharashtra,
Shivaji Park, the sporting nerve-centre of the
statecapitalMumbai-asmodernastheycome
- rarely has girls playing team sports at the
ground:theseweresomeoftheremarksjotted
down in Simply Sport's 'Breaking Barriers for
Women in Sports' pilot survey for 2022.
213athletesfromHaryana,Bihar,Rajasthan
andManipur(82%in15-20agecategory)were
surveyedthroughquestionnairesand34semi-
structuredinterviewsconductedwithcoaches.
Thefourstateswerechosenasrepresentatives
of states historically having participation and
medals won by female athletes (Haryana &
Manipur)andminimum-BiharandRajasthan.
It was aimed at understanding barriers for
womenintakingupsportasathletes,coaches
and administrative staff while proposing ac-
tionable recommendations.
Somestartlingfigurespoppedup:despite
allthatenthusiasmandinitiative,Manipurre-
mained a curious case where 48% of female
athletessaidtheyhaveto"travelmorethan10
km to access a sports facility."
Overall 49 % of Tokyo Olympics athletes
were women; China - 70 %, Canada 61 %,
Russia, Australia, USA, GB 54-56 %, as per the
survey. India lagged behind at 44 %.
Haryana, India's 18th most populous, had
sent 51 women to the Olympics / World
Championships/AsianorCWGandhadhigh-
estparticipationatCWG2022with39athletes.
Theirsportsbudgetallocationlastyear:18.891
CrINR.WhileMaharashtrahadthehighestfe-
male Olympians, the success story was the
23rd most populous state of Manipur - 52
women at Olympics or other Games or
World's, 7 at 2022 CWG, and a budget of just
12.902lakh. Rajasthan-largeststatearea-wise,
7th in population had just 5 at Olympics and
World's, though 4 at last CWG. (Budget com-
mitted this year - 16.5 Cr).
Bihar,acknowledgingitsstragglerstatusin
women'ssport,heldatwodayconclavetoad-
dress the sub-par numbers. The third most
populousstatehadsent0totheOlympics,ac-
49%of participantsattheTokyoOlympicswerewomen,buttheIndiancontingent’s
percentagestoodat44%. AP
STORY OF THE STATES
■ RAJASTHAN, the largest state
area-wise and 7th in population,
had just 5 female sportspersons at
the Olympics and Worlds.
■ BIHAR, the third most populous
state, had sent 0 to the Olympics.
■ The largest increase in medals
won by female athletes (in CWG,
Asian and Worlds), over the last
two decades, was seen in
JHARKHAND and ODISHA, both
leaping into India's Top 15.
■ 52 women from MANIPUR have
been at the Olympics or other
Games or Worlds and 7 were at the
2022 Commonwealth Games. This
is despite Manipur's sports budget
being just Rs 12.90 lakh.
cording to the survey. The largest increase in
medals won by female athletes, over the last
two decades, was seen in Jharkhand and
Odisha,bothleapingintoIndia'sTop15onthe
dint of supportive facilities in last 20 years.
WhileIndiahascomeuptospeedoverthe
lastfewOlympics,(Riowas100%womenwin-
ners, albeit just 2 medals and Tokyo had 3 out
of7),theparticipationfiguresread257female
athletescomparedto1008males.54atTokyo
compared to 4 at Atlanta was promising,
thoughinanuancedobservation:"3.1 %ofpar-
ticipating women won medals, higher than 2
% of men." Overall, 8 women's and 27 men's
medals have been won at Olympics (CWG -
SPORT/CALENDAR 19
men285,women175;AsianGames-Men472,
women161).Pooraccesstosportsfacilities,no
equipmenttoplay,havingtotravelmorethan
10kmtoreachthefacility,safetyconcerns,lack
of preferredfemalecoaches,unsafetravelling
to tournaments and discrimination in sport
werethecommonthreadrunningthroughthe
whole geography, as the survey respondents
flagged these concerns.
Female athletes in Bihar also pointed out
how if they showed the courage to play in
shorts, men would surround the group and
stare,whichcouldgetintimidating.Theywere
comfortableplayingiftheycouldwearsalwars
under the skirts. Many complained of being
unable to travel to practice daily, because cy-
cletyreswerepunctured,andveryfewsports
facilities were well-lit in evenings - the only
time they could train.
Perhaps the biggest indictment was in
India's poor numbers on female coaches,
though globally too only 11 % of accredited
coaches at Rio Olympics were females.
Oneofthebiggestissueshighlightedinthe
report came from current doubles shuttler,
Ashwini Ponnappa: "Through media cam-
paigns our aim also should be to change the
way women's sport are perceived. If people
thinkit'sboring,slowandnotinteresting,that
mindsetneedstobechangedbytakingactive
actions to make it better all round for young
girls to take up sports and also for people to
view it," she said.
Haryana athletes were the most confi-
dent. "In Haryana and Manipur, they would
talkaboutagrandmotherpickingupasword
and going out to fight. Besides being geneti-
cally and nutritionally strong, and being bet-
ter than a cousin was a motivation in
Haryana - if she had a silver, they had to have
gold. If she had gold, they had to win two,"
Mutatkar explained.
Kabaddi team faces risk of
ban due to delay in elections
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10
THE COURT administrator-run Amateur
Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) has
been threatened with suspension while the
national team could be banned by the
world body. This is due to the continued in-
ability of the national federation to conduct
its election since August 2018.
The International Kabaddi Federation
(IKF) has sent four letters since May 2022 to
Justice (Retd) SP Garg, who was appointed
as the administrator of the sport by the
Delhi High Court in September 2018.
“I would like to inform you that this is-
sue (AKFI election) will now be put up for
a decision in the forthcoming meeting of
the IKF Executive Board, which could re-
sult in suspension of AKFI as well as non-
participation of Indian Kabaddi Team in
any future events of IKF and AKF (Asian
Kabaddi Federation),” read a letter sent to
the AKFI administrator by the world body
on December 1, 2022.
The court had ordered the administra-
tor to finalise AKFI’s electoral college and
hold elections for the federation. But in
September 2019, the election was paused
when a player from Tamil Nadu, AC
Thangavel, moved the High Court claiming
that the list prepared included members
who weren’t eligible to vote. Since then, the
matter has remained in court and four
years have passed without an election be-
ing conducted.
The IKF had earlier sent a letter on
October 31 and demanded an answer in
this regard from the administrator by
November 30. That letter stated that the
national team would not be allowed to par-
ticipate in the Hangzhou Asian Games and
the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
in Thailand if there was no progress to-
wards holding the elections.
Justice Garg has said that a decision in
the matter has been made and that the
Indiawonthebronzemedalatthe2018AsianGamesinthemen’skabaddievent. File
court will announce its decision soon.
“The elections have already been stayed
by the High Court. Even if anyone wants to
do anything, they can’t do it. Writing a let-
ter to us is useless. We are ready to conduct
the election as per the order of the High
Court. The order has been reserved and the
verdict may come any time. We will follow
the directions as per the court,” he told The
Indian Express.
Asian Games participation at
risk
But the delay has resulted in the sword
of suspension hanging over the national
federation, while also risking India's ban
from the sport which it claims to have in-
vented.
The development assumes even more
significance with the Asian Games sched-
uled later this year in China. Kabaddi is not
an Olympic sport yet and the Asiad remains
the pinnacle of the game, as far as multi-
sport events are concerned.
India won the bronze medal in the
men’s event and silver in the women’s sec-
tion at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.
It was the first time the national men's
team couldn’t win the gold since the sport
was introduced at the Asian Games at the
1990 edition in Beijing.
Kabaddi is yet another sport in India
that has seen its Indian federation being
pulled up by the world body. The All India
Football Federation and the Indian Olympic
Association were also under fire from FIFA
and the IOC respectively for not being able
to hold their elections.
In the case of the AIFF, the appointment
of a Committee of Administrators by the
Supreme Court was considered to be ‘third-
party interference’ by FIFA, which led to a
temporary ban on the organisation. The
ban was lifted after the court dissolved the
CoA.
In the case of the IOA, elections were
held recently with former track queen PT
Usha elected president.

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BRIEFLY
FranceskipperLloris
endsint’lcareer
Paris:WorldCupwinnerHugoLlorisre-
tired from playing for France after a
record 145 appearances. Lloris won the
2018 World Cup and was captain of the
squad that lost to Argentina in the final
in Qatar last month. The 36-year-old
goalkeeper told L'Equipe newspaper he
will focus on his Tottenham club career
intheEnglishPremierLeague.“Iwantto
continue to perform, to live this sport as
I have always done, and maybe this de-
cision will give me more physical fresh-
ness with my club," Lloris said. “With
Tottenham,Iwanttolivestrongthings,to
finishinthetop4ofthePremierLeague,
to do well in the Champions League, in
the FA Cup too." AP
MalaysiaOpen:Saina,
SrikanthloseinRd1
Kuala Lumpur: Ace Indian shuttlers
Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth's
woeful run continued as they suffered
first-round exits from the season-
opening Malaysia Open here on
Tuesday. London Olympics medallist
Saina, who endured a tough 2022 bat-
tling multiple injuries and a lack of
form, went down 12-21 21-17 12-21
to Han Yue of China in the USD
1,250,000 Super 1000 tournament.
Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, in
women's doubles, were the only
Indian badminton players to win on
the first day of the tournament. The
Indian duo, who won a bronze medal
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games,
beat Hong Kong's Yeung Nga Ting and
Yeung Pui Lam 21-14 21-19 to enter
the round of 16. PTI
Rudrankksh,Manu,
Siftwinintrials
NewDelhi:WorldchampionRudrankksh
Patil, Olympian Manu Bhaker and Sift
Kaur Samra won their respective trials
amongGroupAshootersattheDr.Karni
Singh Range here on Tuesday.
Rudrankkshwonthemen's10mairrifle
T2 trials after finishing second in the T1
leg on Monday while Sift Kaur Samra
baggedadoubleinthewomen's50mri-
fle3positions(3P),winningtheT2trials
afteremergingtriumphantinT1,alsoon
Monday. Olympian Manu Bhaker won
the women's 25m pistol T1 trials.
Maharashtra's Rudrankksh overcame
the Army's seasoned shooter Chain
Singh 17-13 in the gold medal face-off.
He had finished fourth in the qualifica-
tion with a score of 630.8 while Chain
shot 630 to qualify sixth. PTI
Manika,Sreejareach
pre-quarterfinals
Doha: Indian paddlers Manika Batra
andSreejaAkulaenteredthepre-quar-
terfinalsof theAsiaContinentalStageof
2023 WTTC Finals but the country's
threeotherwomeninthefraylosttheir
respective matches here on Tuesday.
Batra progressed with a 4-0 sweep of
Hong Kong's Zhu Chengzhu. Akula ad-
vanced to the next stage of the tourna-
ment with a 4-3 win over Chen Szu-Yu
of Chinese Taipei. However, Diya
Chitale lost 1-4 to Hirano Miu of Japan,
Swastika Ghosh was blanked 4-0 by
Korea's Jeon Jihee, and Reeth Tennison
also suffered a 0-4 defeat at the hands
of Hayata Hina of Japan. In the men's
section, Harmeet Desai was thrashed
4-0 by China's Fan Zhendong. PTI
RANJI TROPHY
What detractors say hardly makes a difference, says Shaw after 240*
DEVENDRA PANDEY
JANUARY 10
ONCETHEnewkidontheblock,PrithviShaw’s
descent into the sidelines was as rapid as his
ascent.Hewasonly18,spottingjustafaintout-
lineofamoustache,whenhereeledoutahun-
dred on Test debut against the West Indies in
Rajkot and was drummed up as the future of
Indian cricket.
Five years on, he has endured failures, in-
juries and rejection. But with a sparkling 240
not out from 283 balls against Assam, his ca-
reer best score in first-class cricket, Shaw
demonstratedthathischapterinIndiancricket
isfarfromover.Rather,hisbestdayscouldyet
be in the future.
Just a few miles away from the Assam
CricketAssociationStadium,whereIndiakick-
started their build-up to the 50-over World
Cup scheduled later this year, Shaw whipped
upthekindofthrillingbattingthatearmarked
himforinternationalsuccess.Thethrill-a-ball
knock — like on his Test debut, he reached his
hundred in the first session — was smattered
with 33 fours and a six. That is 138 off his 240
runs coming in boundaries, a typical pattern
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Drop by drop, Virat makes SL sweat
Kohli's 45th ODI century, and fifties from Rohit
and Shubman power India to a 67-run victory
PRATYUSHRAJ
GUWAHATI,JANUARY10
WALKINGINatanextremelycomfortable143
for 1 on Tuesday, Virat Kohli scored his 45th
centuryintheODIs.Nottotakeanythingaway
from him, but pedestrian would be a compli-
ment for this Sri Lankan bowling attack. If Sri
Lankan bowlers were all over the place, the
fielding was equally bad. Kohli was dropped
twice -- on 52 and 81, and Kasun Rajitha was
the unlucky bowler both the time.
Dasun Shanaka’s team looked below par
inalldepartmentsastheygotoutplayedby67
runsbyastrongIndianteam.Chasingamam-
moth 374 on a good batting pitch, Sri Lanka
endedwith306for8.Themarginlookedlesser
because,towardstheend,Indianbowlersfailed
to wrap up the tail and Sri Lankan captain
Shanaka(108notoutoff88b;12x4,3x6)made
the most of it. He scored his second ODI cen-
tury and put on an unbeaten 100-run stand
with Kasun Rajitha for the ninth wicket.
Flying start by the openers
After being put into bat, Indian openers
Rohit Sharma (83 off 67b; 9x4, 3x6) and
Shubman Gill (70 off 60b; 11x4) put on 143
runs for the opening wicket. At the end of the
powerplay, India was 75 without losing any
sweat.Theyshowedintentrightfromtheword
go and the poor bowling from Sri Lanka also
helpedtheircase.Rohitlookedateaseandwas
athisattackingbest.Attheotherend,hisyoung
partner matched him stroke for stroke. Given
the relative ease with which they scored, it is
safe to say both Rohit and Gill missed out on
scoringacentury.Gillwasgivenlbwafterplay-
ing across the line off Shanaka’s bowling.
DebutantMadushankacleanedupRohittoget
his maiden ODI wicket.
Kohli rises to the occasion
With the openers failing to convert their
starts at the other end, Kohli kept one side in-
tact. It was a typical Kohli knock, who walked
inandplayedthesheetanchor’sroletoperfec-
tion. He reached his first fifty in 52 balls. The
next fifty came in just 38 balls, before he was
dismissed in the 49th over, when he was try-
ingtouptheanteandKusanMendis,whohad
dropped a regulation catch earlier, grabbed a
skier and Rajitha finally had his man.
ItwasnotKohli’smostdominatingknock
but he showed signs of returning to his best
in his favourite format. Be it his flick while
running down the crease against the gentle
pace of Shanaka or coming skipping down
the wicket and hitting off-spinner
Dhananjaya de Silva for a flat six over mid-
wicket or for that matter the ferocious ramp
shot against Rajitha, Kohli was at his usual
elements. His knock must be a pleasing sign
for head coach Rahul Dravid and Rohit as
Kohliisbeginningtoshowconsistencyinthe
format, especially with the 50-over World
Cup scheduled for later this year.
ItwasKohli’ssecondback-to-backcentury
in the ODIs. Earlier, Kohli ended his ODI cen-
turydroughtduringIndia’stourofBangladesh.
India's No 3 had remained century-less for
1214 days. Kohli reached another ODI mile-
stone, equaling Sachin Tendulkar’s record of
20ODItonsathome.WhileTendulkarreached
thelandmarkin164matches,Kohlihastaken
only 101 games. Kohli also surpassed
Tendulkar’s record of most centuries against
Sri Lanka in ODIs. Tendulkar has eight to his
credit, while Kohli has nine now.
Cameos from Iyer and Rahul
Apart from Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (28 off 24b;
3x4, 1x6) looked fluent but failed to convert
his start. Underfire KL Rahul (39 off 29b; 4x4,
Prithvi Shaw demonstrated that his chapter in Indian cricket is far from over. PTI
in his batting when he hits the high notes.
Resultantly,Mumbaiendedthedayon397for
two with captain Ajinkya Rahane giving him
Rohit withdraws
‘Mankading’ appeal
Mohammed Shami almost did a
'Mankading' by trying to run out Sri
Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka at the
non-striker'sendbuthisskipperRohit
Sharmaintervenedandwithdrewthe
appeal. It happened in the fourth ball
of the final over of Sri Lanka's stiff run
chase of 374 when Shanaka was two
runs shy of his century. “I had no idea
Shami did that (run-out); he was bat-
ting on 98. The way he batted was
brilliant; we cannot get him out like
that," Rohit said about the incident.
1x6)) also could not make it big and was
bowled around the legs after being deceived
by a slower one from Rajitha. After 40 overs,
India were 294 for 3 and were looking set to
touch the 400-run mark. India lacked the fin-
ishing touch in the last ten overs as they only
managed to get 79 runs and lost four wickets.
Impressive from pace battery
And if Sri Lanka, whose body language in
thefieldwascuriouslydevoidof energyorin-
tent, were hoping for a respite with the bat, it
wasn’ttobeasIndia’spacetrioofMohammed
Shami, Mohammed Siraj, and Umran Malik
bowled with fire and pace.
In his opening spell, Siraj landed a double
blow on the visitors by removing Avishka
Fernando (5) and Kusal Mendis (0). Umran
then strangled Charitha Asalanka (23) down
the leg side.
PathumNissanka(72)andDhananjayade
Silva (47) put on a quick 72-run stand for the
fourth wicket, but their fighting alliance was
broken by Shami, who drew the edge, and
Rahul grabbed a regulation catch. The extra
paceofUmranendedNissanka’svaliantknock.
Assoonashesawtheshortball,Nissankawent
for the pull, but the pace hurried him and he
ended up giving an easy catch to Axar Patel at
mid-wicket.
Nextin,Hasarangatookonfellowleg-spin-
ner Yuzvendra Chahal. He smoked two sixes
overthedeepmid-wicketregionthenfollowed
itwithabeautifulinside-outshotoverthecov-
ers.Hisadventurousstaycametoanendashis
wild hoick was caught by Iyer.
Meanwhile, Umran was not done yet.
DunithWellalagedepartedwithouttroubling
thescorers.Hewasalsodonebytheextrapace
andGilltookagoodsharpcatchatthefirstslip.
Vice-captain Hardik Pandya joined the act as
Chamika Karunarathne charged down the
track and ended up driving it straight to Rohit
Sharma, patrolling at mid-on.
SCORECARD: India: Rohit b Madushanka
83,GilllbwShanka70,KohlicMendisbRajitha
113,ShreyascFernandobDhananjya28,Rahul
b Rajitha 39, Pandya c Hasaranga b Rajitha 14,
Axar c Fernando b Karunaratne 9, Shami (not
out)4,Siraj(notout)7,Extras(1lb,5w)6,Total
(in 50 overs, for 7 wickets) 373. Bowling:
Rajitha 10-0-88-3, Madushanka 6-0-43-1,
Hasaranga 10-0-67-0, Karunaratne 8-0-54-1,
Wellalage 8-0-65-0, Shanaka 3-0-22-1,
Dhananjaya 5-0-33-1.
Sri Lanka: Nissanka c Axar b Umran 72,
Fernando c Pandya b Siraj 5, Mendis b Siraj 0,
Asalanka c Rahul b Umran 23, Dhananjaya c
Rahul b Shami 47, Shanaka 108*, Hasaranga c
Iyer b Chahal 16, Wellalage c Gill b Umran 0,
Karunaratne c Rohit b Pandya 14, Rajitha (not
out)9,Extras(3lb,9w)12,Total(in50overs,for
8wickets)306;Bowling:Shami9-0-67-1,Siraj
7-1-30-2, Pandya 6-0-33-1, Umran 8-0-57-3,
Chahal 10-0-58-1, Axar 10-0-58-0.
company on 73.
Shawhasbeen driven by afierce determi-
nation to be reconsidered for national selec-
Making full use of two dropped chances, Virat Kohli hit an 87-ball 113 against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. PTI
Is Rahul taking Surya’s spot in ODIs?
PRATYUSHRAJ
GUWAHATI,JANUARY10
ON A DAY India racked up 373, it feels amiss
to be talking about their batting but since
this is an ODI World Cup year, a potential
puzzle needs resolving. It can be phrased in
a couple of ways: How to fit Suryakumar
Yadav or Ishan Kishan in the playing XI?
It will come down to untangling the log-
jam that exists in the team; to accommo-
date Surya, a couple of other pieces will
have to be untangled. The Indian think-tank
might view it as unnecessary now but as we
have seen in recent World Cups, the team
that dares wins. Punts have to be taken,
courage shown, to push the team further to
win trophies.
With Shreyas Iyer high up in the peck-
ing order, scoring consistently, Surya can’t
be a straight swap for anyone else in the
team. The decision-makers would have to
take out two pieces to get him in.
If KL Rahul, who in the past three years
has been consistent in ODIs and averages
43.87 at a strike rate of 88.53 at No. 5, con-
tinues his iffy current form, he may offer a
door for entry.
But since he is the wicketkeeper and es-
pecially with Rishabh Pant likely to be in re-
hab for a long time, Kishan will have to
come in. And then the pressure racks up on
Shubman Gill to up his game and keep per-
forming at a higher level. Else, Kishan moves
up to the opener’s spot, and Surya comes in
at No.6. With Kishan, the left-handed op-
tion also enters the debate.
Rahul played 10 ODIs in 2022, manag-
ing only 251 runs, including two fifties. One
of them came while opening the innings
against South Africa in Paarl, and the other
at No. 5 against Bangladesh in Mirpur. He is
averaging 27.88 at a strike rate of 80.19.
So, the man under most pressure will be
Rahul. Since this is a World Cup year, the fo-
tion,buthisstarttothisRanjiseasonwasmid-
dling.Sevenpreviousoutingshadyielded160
runs atan average of 22.85 with just one half-
century.Hecouldnotmusterasinglehundred
in the previous season either.
But at no point did Shaw give up. “I was
happywiththewayIwasbatting(thisseason),
just that I was not getting a big score,” he tells
TheIndianExpress.“Butwhenyouarehungry
toscorerunsanddoingyourprocess,youwill
eventuallyberewarded.Theinningswasare-
sultofthehardworkIputintomygameinthe
last few years.”
In pursuit of finding his lost touch in the
long format — in T20s though, he was in blis-
teringform,rackingup332runsatastrikerate
of181inthisseason'sSyedMushtaqAliTrophy
— he listened to his inner voice than seek the
adviceoftoomanyformersplayersorcoaches.
“I didn’t talk to too many people, but was
visualising everything myself. I spent time
watchingoldfootageofmybatting.Iwasthink-
ing alone about what was happening and re-
aliseditmyselfwhatIwasdoingwellandwhat
Iwasnotdoingwell.Iwasgettingmyprocesses
right and was doing everything well. But I
knew that sometimes it (runs) does not hap-
pen, and sometimes it does happen.”
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KL Rahul played 10 ODIs in 2022,
managing only 251 runs. Sportzpics/BCCI
cus will be on the here and now; he can’t af-
ford to slip up. If 50-over cricket is an exten-
sion of the T20 format, Surya should be
India's No. 5, not Rahul.
Rahul made a 29-ball 39 on Tuesday
against Sri Lanka in Guwahati, but couldn’t
get the boundaries flowing and fell in the
41st over, bowled round his legs off a slower
one from Kasun Rajitha.
He will rue the fact that he missed out
on a belter of a track against a pedestrian
attack. One couldn’t help but think of Surya
or even Kishan at that stage; the difference
between 373 and 400.
Pushing the horizon
The brand of white-ball that Rohit
Sharma's team has been aspiring to master
for the past one year comes naturally to
It happened for Shaw in this match.
Fair-weather friends
Asimportantly,heshutoutallthenegative
voices in his life. Since his downward slide, he
has been a much trolled and ridiculed figure,
with several even body-shaming him and
makingfunofhisfitness.Butheremainedun-
affected, barely bothering about them or the
peoplewhosuddenlylefthimbecausehewas
riding tough times.
“When runs were not happening, people
justusedtokeeptalking.Iusedtoignorethem.
Thereisnoimportanceof peoplewholeftme
during my tough days,” he says.
The23-year-oldtoldhismanagertohandle
social media. “Whatever detractors say, it
hardly makes a difference. I knew what I was
doingright,andwhatIwasdoingwrong.Iwas
focused on my process and how I handle my-
self.IammatureenoughtoknowthatIneed-
n’t address these people,” Shaw elaborates.
That defiance rubbed onto his batting. He
quicklysizedupthepitch,realisedthattheball
was keeping low, “so tried to play as close to
the body as possible.”
Importantly, he did not throw his wicket
awayafterreachingahundred,whichhedidin
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With big totals likely to be the
norm at World Cup, India may
need the firepower provided by
Yadav and Ishan to push itself
further.
Surya, India's only Mr. 360 batsman. His bat-
ting technique is made to order for a No. 5
in ODIs. With four anchors - Rohit , Gill, Virat
Kohli and Iyer - in the top four, he is the one
who can take on the bowlers from the word
go and shift the momentum. He can not
only hit those “out-of-this-world strokes”
(as head coach Rahul Dravid raved about
him) but can also manipulate the field eas-
ily and pick those gaps.
Another way to look at this situation is to
ponder whether India also view Rahul as a
sponge to soak up a batting collapse? Even
if he isn’t in great form, he is the Test opener
after all and probably more equipped than
Kishan for that role. But considering the
World Cup is in Indian conditions, that rea-
soning doesn’t hold up on scrutiny. It’s his
past performances that have given him the
role and he has to find a way to get to his
supreme best if he has to resist the pressure
from the contenders.
The second player who can suddenly
feel the pressure on him will be Gill. If
Kishan comes in, even for Rahul first, he will
be pushing Gill. And if Rahul scores and Gill
fails, Kishan can return to knock on Gill's
door. Both Gill and Rahul can’t afford any
mess-ups.
Especially if such large totals are going
to be the norm in India, India will automat-
ically be forced to scale up their ambition
on what’s a decent target to set or how to
equip themselves to chase down mammoth
totals. Clearly, no link in the team can be
weak if they are to progress in global tour-
naments.
thefirstsession,andgroundouthisrunsinthe
nexttwo.“Inthefirstsession,Igotalotofloose
balls, that’s why I hit a lot of boundaries and
scored fast,” he says.
Shaw'sreturntoformcouldnothavebeen
bettertimed,asIndiaarescheduledtoplayfour
Tests against Australia. Though Rohit Sharma
and KL Rahul are firm favourites to open, and
there are Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal
as back-ups, all four have been historically in-
jury-prone. So Shaw would do no harm by
keeping himself among the runs and scoring
double hundreds. He is climbing back to the
summit, renewed and refreshed.
BRIEF SCORES: Mumbai 397-2 in 90
overs (Prithvi Shaw 240*, Rahane 73*) vs
Assam; Jharkhand 103 in 32.1 overs (Ravi
Kiran5/42,PRao3/27)vsChhattisgarh95/8in
43overs(AvinishSingh46*,VikashSingh3/15,
AshishKumar3/37; Maharashtra350/6in83
overs(RuturajGaikwad116*,AzimKazi87bat-
ting,KedarJadhav56)vsTamilNadu;Andhra
203/3in74overs(CGnaneshwar81,Hanuma
Vihar 76 batting) vs Delhi; Hyderabad 79 in
30.5 overs (Dharmendra Jadeja 3/8, Jaydev
Unadkat3/28)vsSaurashtra250/5in54overs
(HDesai81,CJani68,SJackson59*,GAReddy
3/74)

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TOPOFTHE
WORLD
Former Pakistan PM
Imran Khan. File
PAKISTAN
ECissues arrest
warrantsagainst
Imran,hisaides
PAKISTAN'S TOP election
body on Tuesday issued
bailable arrest warrants
for former PM Imran
Khan and other top lead-
ers of his party in a con-
tempt case. The case is
based on statements is-
sued by top Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders
against the Election
Commission of Pakistan
(ECP) and Chief Election
Commissioner Sikander
Sultan Raja. A four-mem-
ber ECP bench headed by
NisarDurraniissuedwar-
rants against Khan and
his close aides - Fawad
Chaudhry and Asad
Umar. PTI
SAUDI ARABIA
Norestrictions
onpilgrims’age
thisHajjseason
ISLAM'SANNUALhajjpil-
grimage in Saudi Arabia
will return to pre-pan-
demic levels this year af-
ter restrictions saw the
annual religious com-
memoration curtailed
over concerns about the
coronavirus, authorities
say. SpeakingonMonday
night in Jeddah, Saudi
Hajj and Umrah Minister
Tawfiq bin Fawzan al-
Rabiah said: “I bring you
two bits of good news.
Thefirst:Thereturnof the
numbers of pilgrims to
what they were before
the pandemic without
any age restrictions. And
second:Allowinganyhajj
mission from around the
world to deal with any li-
censed company that
meets requirements
of pilgrims.” AP
UNITED STATES
Indian-American
isNASA chief
technologist
AN INDIAN-AMERICAN
aerospaceindustryexpert
has been appointed as
NASA’snewchieftechnol-
ogist to serve as principal
advisor to Administrator
Bill Nelson on technology
policyandprogrammesat
the space agency's head-
quartershere.ACCharania
joinedthespaceagencyin
his new role on January 3.
He replaces another
Indian-Americanscientist
Bhavya Lal, who served as
acting chief technologist
prior to the former's ap-
pointment.Inhisposition,
Charaniawilloverseetech-
nology collaboration with
otherfederalagencies,the
privatesector,andexternal
stakeholders,NASAsaidin
a statement. PTI
OPULENT HOUSE LIKELY OF TWO FORMER SLAVES WHO BECAME RICH THROUGH WINE TRADE
‘Domus Vettiorum’: Pompeii’s newly restored house offers glimpse of elite life
FRANCESCO SPORTELLI
POMPEII, JANUARY 10
THE NEWLY restored remains of
an opulent house in Pompeii
that likely belonged to two for-
mer slaves who became rich
through thewine tradeoffer vis-
itors an exceptional peek at de-
tails of domestic life in the
doomed Roman city.
On Tuesday, the House of
Vettii(DomusVettioruminLatin)
was being formally unveiled af-
ter 20 years of restoration. Given
fresh life were frescoes from the
latest fashion in Pompeii wall
RETALIATION FOR COVID CHECKS ON ITS OWN TRAVELLERS
China halts visas for S Korea, Japan
Move appears to affect new applicants
and not those already holding visas
KEN MORITSUGU
BEIJING, JANUARY 10
CHINESEEMBASSIESsuspended
issuing new visas for South
KoreansandJapaneseonTuesday
inapparentretaliationforCovid-
19 testing requirements recently
imposed by those countries on
travellers from China.
The embassies in Tokyo and
Seoul announced the suspen-
sions in brief online notices. The
Seoul notice, posted on the em-
bassy’s WeChat social media ac-
count, said the ban would con-
tinue until South Korea lifts its
Nepal: Opp
helps PM
win vote of
confidence
YUBARAJ GHIMIRE
KATHMANDU, JANUARY 10
NEPAL’S NEWLY elected Prime
Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Prachanda comfortably secured
a vote of confidence in the
Parliament on Tuesday, winning
supportfrom notonlyhis seven-
party alliance but also
the opposition.
The land-
slide victory to
Prachanda,
who secured
268 out of 270
votes, was
largely be-
causeofanun-
PM Pushpa expected, last-
Kamal Dahal minute
Prachanda support from
the main op-
positionNepali
Congress (NC), the single-largest
partywith88members.
Prachanda was elected PM
on December 26 after the CPN-
MaoistCentreleaderwalkedout
of a pre-poll alliance led by the
NC and joined hands with the K
P Sharma Oli's CPN— Unified
Marxist Leninist (UML).
“Itwasanunconditionalsup-
port (to the government) in the
extraordinary situation that the
country is facing now," said NC
vice president Purna Bahadur
Khadka."Butwewillcontinueto
play effective opposition role."
Oli sarcastically welcomed
the NC support to the PM, care-
fully adding, “provided it has
come without any mischief”.
In his speech, Prachanda said
hewantedtotakeforwardpolitics
of mutual trust rather than “poli-
ticsofdisrespectandvengeance”.
SL PM party in pact with US: 6-yr-old who shot at teacher had
Rajapaksas for local polls brought gun from home, say police
Colombo: Sri Lankan President
Ranil Wickremesinghe's United
National Party (UNP) will join
hands with the ruling Sri Lanka
PodujanaPeramuna(SLPP)party
led by the powerful Rajapaksa
family in the upcoming local
body elections.
UNP General Secretary
Palitha Range Bandara said the
decision was made on Monday
after a meeting of senior leaders
from the two parties.
Wickremesinghe succeeded
Gotabaya Rajapaksa as Sri
decorationbeforetheflourishing
city was buried under the vol-
canicashfuriouslyspewingfrom
Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The unveiling of the restored
home is yet another sign of the
rebirth of Pompeii, which fol-
lowed decades of modern bu-
reaucratic neglect, flooding and
pillaging by thieves in search of
artifacts to sell.
That is delighting tourists
andrewardingexpertswithtan-
talizing fresh insights into the
everyday life of what is one of
themostcelebratedremnantsof
the ancient world.
“The House of the Vetti is like
“discriminatoryentrymeasures”
against China. The announce-
ment covered tourist, business
and some other visas.
China’s Foreign Ministry
threatenedcountermeasureslast
week against countries that had
announced new virus testing re-
quirements for travellers from
China.Atleast10inEurope,North
America and Asia have done so
recently,withofficialsexpressing
concern about a lack of informa-
tionaboutrapidlyspreadingvirus
outbreaks in China.
It wasn’t clear why South
Korea and Japan were targeted,
and whether the suspensions
1,500 rioters arrested, Brazilians
pour out on streets: No amnesty
Demonstrators hold a banner that reads ‘We are democracy’ during a protest against Sunday’s riots by supporters of far-right
former president Jair Bolsonaro, in Sao Paulo. AP
AP & REUTERS
JANUARY 10
FAR-RIGHT former Brazilian
PresidentJairBolsonarohasbeen
admitted to a hospital in Florida
withstomachpainsas1,500ofhis
supporters were rounded up in
Brasilia after storming key build-
ings in the capital on Sunday.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, a leftist who took office on
January 1 after defeating
Bolsonaro in an October election,
vowedtobringthoseresponsible
to justice. He accused rioters of
trying to overthrow democracy,
andquestionedwhythearmyhad
Lanka's presidentafter he quit in
wake of the protests last year.
The elections, which were
scheduled to be held last year,
got postponed due to the eco-
nomic crisis. “We will contest
under our elephant symbol and
their (SLPP's) lotus symbol in
certain areas, while there will
also be a common symbol in
some areas,” Bandara said.
Officials say a whopping SLR
10 billion is required to conduct
the elections across the cash-
strapped nation. PTI
the history of Pompeii and actu-
ally of Roman society within one
house,”Pompeii’sdirector,Gabriel
Zuchtriegel,gushedasheshowed
off an area of the domus known
as the Cupid Rooms last month.
“We’re seeing here the last
phase of the Pompeian wall
painting with incredible details,
so you can stand before these
images for hours and still dis-
cover new details,” the archaeo-
logical park’s energetic director
told The Associated Press ahead
of the public inauguration.
“So,youhavethismixture:na-
ture,architecture,art.Butitisalso
a story about the social life of the
Passengers wait to board a flight to China, at the Incheon
International Airport in South Korea on Tuesday. AP
would be expanded to other
countriesthathaveimposedvirus
testingonpassengersfromChina.
China’sembassyinTokyosaid
notdiscouragedcallsforamilitary
coup outside their barracks.
Bolsonaro, who flew to the
UnitedStatesdaysbeforehisterm
inofficeended,wenttoahospital
inOrlandoonMondaycomplain-
ingof intestinalpainsrelatedtoa
stabbing he suffered during the
2018electioncampaign.Hisdoc-
torsaidhehasanintestinalblock-
age that was not serious and
would likely not need surgery.
In Brazil, chants of “No
amnesty!Noamnesty!”wasthe
rallying cry as thousands of
Brazilians streamed into the
streets of Rio de Janeiro and Sao
Paulo, demanding retribution
against supporters of Bolsonaro
NEW YORK TIMES
NEWPORT, VIRGINIA, JAN 10
THE SIX-YEAR-OLD boy who
shot at his teacher, Abigail
Zwerner, in the middle of a rou-
tine lesson at Richneck
Elementary School last week,
had brought the handgun from
home, the police said.
At a news conference on
Monday, officials said it was not
an accident and appeared to be
an intentional shooting.
Columns frame the ‘peristylium’, or courtyard, of the House
of Vettii in the Pompeii Archeological Park, near Naples. AP
only that visa issuance had been
suspended.Theannouncements
appearedtoapplyonlytonewap-
plicants,withnothingaboutpeo-
who stormed Brazil’s capital
Sunday, and those who enabled
the rampage.
“These people need to be
punished, the people who or-
dered it need to be punished,
those who gave money for it
need to be punished,” Bety
Amin, a 61-year-old therapist,
said on Sao Paulo’s main boule-
vard. The word “DEMOCRACY”
stretched across the back of her
shirt. “They don’t represent
Brazil. We represent Brazil.”
The Federal Police’s press of-
fice told AP the force plans to in-
dict at least 1,000 people, and
has begun transferring them to
the nearby Papuda prison.
When the shot was fired,
Zwerner threw up her hand, but
the bullet passed through it and
struck her chest. Though badly
wounded, she sent the students
in her class, as many as 20 chil-
dren, scrambling into the hall-
way, while another employee
rushed into the room and re-
strained the 6-year-old, the au-
thorities said.
The authorities offered on
Monday the first account of how
the child obtained the gun, say-
ingthattheweapon,a9-millime-
BOOK RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON TUESDAY
READERS GET HANDS ON HARRY’S ‘SPARE’
After weeks of hype and days of leaks, Prince Harry's book went on sale around the
world Tuesday. In Britain, a few stores opened at midnight to sell copies to diehard
royal devotees and the merely curious who said they wanted to form their own opinion.
ple currently holding visas.
South Korea’s Foreign
Ministry said in a statement that
“our government’s step to
strengthen anti-virus measures
on passengers arriving from
China is based on scientific and
objective evidence.” A Japanese
ForeignMinistryofficialsaidear-
lierthatitwouldbe“regrettable”
if restrictions were imposed.
In a phone call on Monday
before the visa suspension was
announced, Chinese Foreign
Minister Qin Gang “expressed
concern” about the measures
takenbySouthKoreatohiscoun-
terpart,ForeignMinisterParkJin.
China’s move appeared to be
grounded in its demands that its
citizens be treated the same as
those of other countries. AP
The administration of
President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva says that is only the start.
“It’s unacceptable what hap-
pened Sunday. It’s terrorism,”
Marcelo Menezes, a 59-year-old
police officer from northeastern
Pernambuco state, said at a
protest in Sao Paulo.
“I’m here in defence of
democracy, I’m here in defence
of the people.”
USPresidentJoeBidenjoined
otherworldleadersincondemn-
ing Sunday's riots, calling them
"outrageous," while Bolsonaro,
who isnowinFlorida,deniedin-
citinghissupportersandsaidthe
rioters had "crossed the line."
ter Taurus handgun, came from
his home and that it had been
legally purchased by his mother.
“The child had obtained that
firearm,placeditinhisbackpack
and brought it to school,” Chief
Drewsaid,citinginterviewswith
the child and his mother.
Chief Drew said that any po-
tential charges would be based
on “what the facts are and what
the law supports.”
The child is receiving treat-
ment at a medical facility. His
family has not been identified.
Pompeiian society and actually
the Roman world in this phase of
history,” Zuchtriegel added.
Previous restoration work,
which involved repeated appli-
cation of paraffin over the fres-
coed walls in hopes of preserv-
ing them, “resulted in them
becoming very blurred over
time, because very thick and
opaque layers formed, making it
difficult to ‘read’ the fresco,” said
Stefania Giudice, director of
fresco restoration.
But the wax did serve to pre-
serve them remarkably.
Zuchtriegel ventured that the
fresh “readings” of the revived
New Delhi
Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Reuters
Bitter fighting as
Russia ups assault
in eastern Ukraine
Wagner Group deploying ‘waves of
mercenaries’ in mining town: Kyiv
DAN PELESCHUK
& TOM BALMFORTH
KYIV, JANUARY 10
RUSSIAN TROOPS have stepped
up an assault on the small salt
mining town of Soledar in east-
ern Ukraine, forcing Ukrainian
troops to repel waves of attacks
ledbymercenaryforces,officials
in Kyiv said.
Britain said on Tuesday that
Russian and forces of the
Wagner contract group were
probably now in control of most
of the town, in the industrial
Donbas region, after advances in
the last four days.
SeizingSoledarwouldbead-
vantageous to Russian forces as
they fight for control of the city
of Bakhmut, a few kilometres to
the southwest, where troops
frombothsideshavebeentaking
heavylossesinsomeof themost
intense trench warfare since
RussiainvadedUkraine.Itwould
also give Russia a welcome bat-
tlefield victory after a series of
setbacks in recent months.
“Russia'sSoledaraxisishighly
likely an effort to envelop
Bakhmut from north, and to dis-
rupt Ukrainian lines of commu-
nication,” UK Defence Ministry
said in an intelligence briefly.
SerhiyCherevaty,spokesman
for Ukraine's eastern forces, told
Ukrainian television Russian
forces were deploying their best
Secret files from Biden’s
V-P days found, Trump:
When will FBI raid?
STEVE HOLLAND &
KANISHKA SINGH
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 9
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS from
Joe Biden's vice-presidential
days were discovered in
November by the US president's
personal attorneys at a
Washington think tank, a White
House lawyer said on Monday.
Nearly 10 documents were
found at Biden's office at the
Penn Biden Center for
Diplomacy and Global
Engagement,CBSNewsreported
earlier, adding that US Attorney
General Merrick Garland had
askedtheUSattorneyinChicago
to review the classified docu-
ments which were handed over
to the National Archives.
The classified material was
identified by personal attorneys
forBidenonNov.2,daysbeforethe
midterm elections, Richard
Sauber,specialcounseltothepres-
ident,saidinastatementMonday.
frescopainting“reflectthedreams
and imagination and anxieties of
theownersbecausetheylivedbe-
tween these images,” which in-
cludeGreekmythologicalfigures.
And who were these own-
ers? The Vettis were two men —
Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus
Vettius Restitutus. In addition to
having part of their names in
common, they shared a com-
mon past — not as descendants
of noble Roman families accus-
tomed to opulence, but rather,
Pompeii experts say, almost cer-
tainly, as once enslaved men
who were later freed.
It is believed that they be-
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Wagner
contract
● fighters
THE WAGNER Group
passes itself off as a pri-
vate military contractor.
Russia has denied any link
to it, sometimes refusing
the mercenary group
even exists. But Wagner
fighters have been seen
fighting alongside Russia
troops in Ukraine, wear-
ing the group’s chilling
white skull emblem.
WagnerfightersatSoledar,which
had been struck 86 times by ar-
tillery over the past 24 hours.
He said Russia was using
WWI-styletactics,throwinglarge
numbers of men into battle and
absorbing heavy losses. “This is
basicallynota21st-centurywar,”
he said.
Prominent journalist Yuriy
Butusov, who is embedded with
Ukrainian troops in Soledar,
wrote for the online outlet New
Voice that Russian forces had es-
tablished fire control over the
main Ukrainian supply route to
the town. “This is not a complete
encirclement,butnormalsupply
along the route is impossible,
(and) this is critical for defence,”
he said. REUTERS
Biden was
V-P during
2009-17
The Penn Biden Center is
name for Biden, who periodi-
cally used the office space from
mid-2017 until the start of his
2020 presidential campaign.
The Justice Department is
separately probing former
President Donald Trump's han-
dling of highly sensitive classi-
fied documents that he retained
at his Florida resort after leaving
the White House in January
2021. FBI agents carried out a
court-approved search on Aug.
8 of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
About 100 documents marked
as classified were seized.
“WhenistheFBIgoingtoraid
the many homes of Joe Biden,
perhapseventheWhiteHouse?”
Trump said. REUTERS
came wealthy through the wine
trade. While some have hypoth-
esized the two were brothers,
there is no certainty about that.
In the living room, known as
the Hall of Pentheus, a fresco de-
picts Hercules as a child, crush-
ing two snakes. Ornamental
marble baths and tables sur-
round the garden.
Pompeii’s architect director
of restoration work, Arianna
Spinosa, called the restored
home “one of the iconic houses
of Pompeii...not only because of
the frescoes of exceptional im-
portance, but also because of its
layout and architecture.” AP
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MUMBAI, JANUARY 10

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behind: How?
MIHIRMISHRA
NEWDELHI,JANUARY10
ON MONDAY (January 9), a
GoFirst flight from Bengaluru
to Delhi took off leaving 55
passengerswhohadboarding
passes, stranded inside a bus
onthetarmac.TheDirectorate
General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) on Tuesday issued a
show-cause notice to the air-
line with two weeks to re-
spond.
Whathappenedat
A mix-up involving
the number of buses
ferrying passengers
to the aircraft is to
blame.
near the aircraft. It was con-
veyed that this bus would be
the last ferrying the passen-
gers.
While the buses were be-
ing driven to the aircraft, the
third bus with 55 passengers
was held up somewhere.
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
NEWDELHI,JANUARY10
FOR MOST of this financial year,
whilefiscalandmonetarypolicies
werefocusedontamingrunaway
inflation, the bane of high prices
could now turn into a blessing of
sorts, as it could help the govern-
mentbalanceitsfiscalmathahead
of the presentation of the follow-
ing year's Budget.
Even as tax revenues are seen
slowing down in the third quar-
ter,andgovernmentexpenditure
is set to overshoot significantly
with a ballooning subsidies bill, a
higher nominal GDP estimate of
15.4 per cent (as against an as-
sumption of 11.1 per cent in the
"However, the higher-than-bud- indirect taxes, average monthly and Nifty ended 1 per cent
FISCAL MATH geted nominal GDP would help
meetthebudgetedtargetforrev-
GST receipts are up 20 per cent.
Non-tax revenues have grown
lower on Tuesday, dragged
down by Reliance Industries
enue and fiscal deficit at 3.8per slower with weaker-than-ex- and banking stocks along with
Budget estimate Apr-Nov
cent and 6.4per cent of GDP, re- pected dividends from the a weak trend in European mar-
2022-23 2022-23 spectively, in FY23," it said. Reserve Bank of India and slower kets.
Revenue receipts 22,04,422 14,23,152 The cushion provided by an divestment proceeds, with non- Unabated foreign fund out-
overshoot in revenue projections tax revenue at 74 per cent of the flows also negatively impacted
Tax Revenue 19,34,771 12,24,833 andstrongerthanbudgetednom- year-end target during April- the domestic equity market.
Non-tax revenue 2,69,651 1,98,319 inal growth will help absorb November as against 92 per cent The 30-share BSE Sensex
higher spending needs, DBS said a year ago. tanked 631.83 points or 1.04 per
Non-debt capital 79,291 41,481
in a note. "The FY23 fiscal math Forthenextfiscal,thegovern- cent to settle at 60,115.48.
receipts hasbenefitedfroma)strongnom- ment, however, will face a chal- During the day, it tumbled
Total expenditure 39,44,909 24,42,787 inal GDP growth of around 16per lengewithslowerrealandnomi- 808.93 points or 1.33 per cent to
cent vs budgeted 11per cent; b) nalGDPgrowthamidweakening 59,938.38.
Revenue expenditure 31,95,257 19,95,674
abovetargettaxcollectionsdueto demand conditions, a slowing The broader NSE Nifty de-
Capital expenditure 7,49,652 4,47,113 better growth, reopening boost, globaleconomyand normalising clined 187.05 points or 1.03 per
Fiscal deficit 16,61,196 9,78,154 formalisation,andtightercompli- base effects from the pandemic. cent to end at 17,914.15.
ance; c) pick up in nominal GST "Withanexpectedretailinflation From the Sensex pack,
Nominal GDP 2,58,00,000** 2,73,07,751* collections,whichhavehelpedto print at just 4.3 per cent and a Bharti Airtel, State Bank of India,
Source: CGA, Ministry of Finance *First adv estimate for FY23 GDP offsetlowerRBIdividends,fuelex- mere 1 per cent growth in the HDFC Bank, UltraTech Cement,

E
Bengaluruairporton Meanwhile, the fourth bus, Budgetfor2022-23)couldendup **GDP projection in Budget for FY23 (All figures in Rs cr) cisecuts,highersubsidies,anddi- wholesale price index in FY24, Bajaj Finance, HDFC, NTPC, ITC,
Monday with 5-6 passengers, helping the government meet its vestmentmiss,"itsaid.Asperthe GDP deflator could be 2 per cent, Reliance Industries, Tech
EXPLAINED

morning?
GoFirst flight
G8116 from
Bengaluru to Delhi
departed at its
scheduled time of
6.30 am without 55 passen-
gers, who were left behind in
the bus. The passengers had
their boarding passes, and
theirchecked-inbaggagehad
been loaded onto the aircraft.
Theissuecametolightonlyaf-
terpassengerstweetedabout
this incident.
Howdidsuchathing
happen?
On Monday morning,
GoFirst was ferrying passen-
gersbookedonflightG8116in
four separate buses from the
terminal building to the air-
craft.
Whilethreeofthosebuses
had more than 50 passengers
each, the fourth bus had only
5-6 passengers. A message
about this bus was conveyed
tothegroundstaff positioned
reached the aircraft.
Assuming this
was the last bus of
passengers booked
● on the flight, the air-
line announced the
completion of boarding, even
as 55 passengers were
stranded on the tarmac.
Whoistobeblamedfor
thismix-up?
According to the DGCA, in
this case, multiple mistakes
suchaslackofpropercommu-
nication,coordination,recon-
ciliation,andconfirmationre-
sulted in a highly avoidable
situation.
Industry experts said that
thegroundstaffarepotentially
to blame, as is the lead cabin
crew, who is in charge of the
cabin and has a list of passen-
gersbookedontheflight.They
alsosaidthatsuchnegligence
may raise potential safety is-
sues, and the show-cause no-
tice by the regulator will help
improve compliance.
fiscal deficit target of 6.4 per cent
of the GDP for this fiscal.
Experts said that the fiscal
deficit is expected to be higher in
absolutetermsbyatleastRs1lakh
crore, but the gains from a rise in
nominal GDP (which considers
inflation) will help meet the
‘Housing sales in 2022 hits
9-year high’
Real estate consultant Knight Frank India released
the 18th edition of a half-yearly report that tracks
property markets of top eight cities
Budget targets. However, the pit-
fallofthisgainwouldbeseennext
fiscal year, wherein a potentially
slower growth rate and tepid tax
revenueswilladverselyaffectthe
government's Budget math.
In its report, India Ratings, a
Fitch-group company, said that
therevenueandfiscaldeficitsare
expected to come in at Rs 10.58
lakh crore and Rs 17.61 lakh crore
inFY23,higherthanthebudgeted
Rs9.9lakhcroreandRs16.61lakh
crore, respectively, in FY23.
3,12,666units: Housing
salesrose34%in2022across
eightmajorcities
51.6millionsqfeet: The
grossleasingofofficespace
increased36%
TOPEIGHTCITIES
Mumbai 85,169units (up 35%)
Delhi-NCR 58,460units (up 67%)
Bengaluru 53,363units (up 40%)
Pune 43,410units (up 17%)
Hyderabad 31,046units (up 28%)
Chennai 14,248units (up 19%)
Ahmedabad 14,062units (up 58%)
Kolkata 12,909units (down 19%)
Source: Knight Frank/ PTI
latest data on government fi- dragging down India's nominal Mahindra, ICICI Bank and Tata
nances for April-November, the GDP growth to the lowest level Consultancy Services were the
firsteightmonthsofthisfiscal,the compared to any year between major laggards.
deficit reached 59 per cent of the the early 1970s and FY19. Such a Tata Motors, Power Grid,
full-yeartarget,higherthan46per slow growth rate would have se- Tata Steel, Hindustan Unilever,
cent in the corresponding period rious implications for the macro- IndusInd Bank and Mahindra &
a year ago. Direct tax collections economy and financial markets," Mahindra were among the win-
rose24percentYoY,whileunder Motilal Oswal said in a report. ners from the 30-share pack.
PE inflows Carlyle gets majority stake
plunge 42% to in VLCC for $300 million
$23.3 bn in sition,AmitJain,managingdirec-
REUTERS
2022: Report BENGALURU,JANUARY10
tor and co-head of Carlyle India,
told Reuters on Tuesday.
“In a crowded market, having
New Delhi: Private equity invest- PRIVATE-EQUITY firm Carlyle a distinct value proposition with
ments into domestic companies Group has acquired a majority high product efficacy and an es-
fellsharplyyear-on-yearby42per stake in Indian beauty care and tablished brand is very valuable,
cent to $23.3 billion in 2022, wellnesssolutionsproviderVLCC and that's what VLCC has,” Jain
which is the lowest since 2019, for around $300 million, two added.Foundedin1989,VLCChas
whenitwas$15.8billion,accord- sources told Reuters on Tuesday. anetworkof 210retail“clinics”in
ing to an industry report. The equity for the transaction 118 cities across 11 countries in
Thenumbersreflecttheover- will come from funds managed South Asia, the Middle East and
allfundingwinterthatthestartup and advised by entities affiliated Africa. Founders Vandana Luthra
spaceinparticular,andtheoverall withCarlyleAsiaPartners,Carlyle andMukeshLuthrawillcontinue
foreign investments in general saidinastatement,withoutspec- to hold a significant stake in the
have been witnessing since the ifying a deal value. company, Carlyle said, without
Ukraine war began last February. A Carlyle spokesperson de- sharing further details. India's

Equity mutual fund inflows

Private equity investment in- clinedtocommentonthematter. beauty and personal care indus-

Overseas remittances flows into the country fell by a

sharp42percentin2022fromlast
VLCC'sonlinesales-upfrom7per
centoftotalsalesto22percentin
tryisexpectedtogrowto$27.5bil-
lion by 2025 from $17.8 billion in

rose by 12% in 2022: FM

year to $23.3 billion -- the lowest the past three years - would help 2020, according to estimates by

rise over 3-fold in Dec: AMFI Mumbai:Underliningthecontri- asthe“realambassadorsofIndia”

annualinflowssince2019,butstill
relatively elevated compared to
historical levels, said Elaine Tan, a
theskincareandbeautyproducts
brandgainadistinctvaluepropo-
Indian financial services firm
Avendus.

ENSECONOMICBUREAU
MUMBAI, JANUARY 10
NETINFLOWSintoequitymutual
funds grew over three fold to Rs
7,303.39croreinDecemberfrom
Rs 2258.35 crore in the previous
month, according to the data re-
leased by Association of Mutual
FundsinIndia(AMFI)onTuesday.
Among the various equity ori-
ented schemes, small cap funds
witnessed the highest inflows of
Rs2,244.77crore.Itwasfollowed
by Rs 1,962.26 crore in mid cap
fundsandRs1,189.5croreinlarge
and mid cap funds, the data
showed.
INVESTMENTSIN
LIQUIDFUNDS
■ The liquid funds saw
the highest outflow of
Rs 13,852 crore,
followed by Rs 2,239.78
crore in floater funds
“Investorswillcontinuetoin-
vest in the India growth story
through the mutual fund route
overthenearfuture.Investorsare
looking forward to a growth-ori-
entedbudgetwhichshouldhave
apositiveimpactonthemarkets,”
said N S Venkatesh, chief execu-
tive, AMFI said
Large cap funds saw outflow
ofRs26.37croreasagainstanout-
flow of Rs 1,038.84 crore in
November. Focused and
sectoral/thematic funds saw an
outflowof Rs164.32croreandRs
203.59 crore, respectively.
During the month, debt ori-
entedschemessawanoutflowof
Rs 21,946.73 crore compared to
an inflow of Rs 3,668.59 crore in
November. Liquid funds saw the
highest outflow of Rs 13,852
crore, followed by Rs 2,239.78
croreinfloaterfundsandRs1,800
crore in medium duration funds.
Full report on
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bution of non-resident Indians, and appealed to them to use senior analyst at Refinitiv, the
Union Finance Minister Nirmala madeinIndiaproductsandserv- LSEG business arm that provides
Sitharaman on Tuesday said re-
mittances sent to the country by
ices as far as possible so that the
country'sindividualbrandcanbe
financial markets data.
In the December quarter, the
overseasIndianswereabout$100 promoted across the globe. PEinvestmentstotalled$3.61bil-
billion for the year 2022, an in- Sitharaman also said that af- lion, down 8.1 per cent sequen-
crease of 12 per cent in one year. ter the “China plus one” policy, tially from $3.93 billion and fell
Speaking at a session during the world is now talking about 67.2percentannuallywhenitwas
thePravasiBharatiyaDivas(PBD) the “European Union (EU) plus $11.06billion,accordingtothere-
convention, she described NRIs one” policy. PTI port. PTI
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Patra as Deputy Governor,
Reserve Bank of India, for a
further period of one year
with effect from January 15,
2023, or until further orders,
whichever is earlier. Patra,
who is handling the
Monetary Policy
Department, is also a
Member of the Monetary
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economies — the United States,
Europe and China — the World
Bank warned on Tuesday.
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Mumbai: CoinbaseGlobalInc
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its workforce by about 950
employeesaspartofarestruc-
turingplan,inathirdroundof
layoffsforthecryptocurrency
exchange since last year. The
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half, to just 1.7 per cent, from its
previous projection of 3 per
cent. If that forecast proves ac-
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weakest annual expansion in
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