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India is committed to peace
but “it is also ready for any
eventuality,” was Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh’s stern
message to China from the
floor of Parliament on Tuesday
with regard to a massive build-
up on the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) in the eastern
Ladakh.
Repeatedly blaming China
for attempted transgression of
LAC and aggressive behav-
iour, Singh said in the Lok
Sabha that the country’s forces
are fully-prepared, stocked with
arms, ammunition, food, and
winter clothing.
Speaking about the pro-
longed stand-off with China on
the Ladakh border, the Defence
Minister accused China of vio-
lating established rules and
conventions laid down by 1993
and 1996 agreements between
the two countries and “trans-
gressing” the border.
While stating that the
Indian Army is “battle-ready”,
Rajnath said the border issue
could be resolved by talks and
dialogue. He said that the onus
is on Beijing which has “pro-
voked us” by “violent con-
duct” when talks were still on
between the two sides.
The Defence Minister said
in the middle of May China
“attempted to transgress in
many places in the western sec-
tor, including Kongka La,
Gogra, Galwan and North
Bank of Pangong Lake. This
invited counter-measures from
Indian side”.
In his brief statement in the
House, Rajnath said China has
mobilised a large number of
troops on the LAC and India
too has made “suitable counter-
moves”. He said he could not go
into more details but assured
that armed forces are fully pre-
pared to protect the country’s
territorial integrity and sover-
eignty.
Rajnath said the country is
facing the challenging situation
in Ladakh and the entire House
should make a unanimous res-
olution to strongly back the
bravehearts at the borders pro-
tecting the country in a diffi-
cult situation. “Jawano ka hosla
buland hain”, he said amid
thumping of desks by the
members.
Congress MPs who want-
ed to ask questions on the issue
later walked out from the
House when Speaker Om Birla
reminded them of rule 370 say-
ing “no question can be asked
after Minister’s
statement”.
The Defence Minister con-
stantly alluded to the “dis-
trust” created by China by its
actions on the ground while
talks between the two sides on
the military and diplomatic
level were underway during the
last few months. He said China
had increased its mobilisation
on the LAC since April and
May, this year, and tried to
“transgress” LAC.
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The Government on Tuesday
said no actionable inputs
were received by the Narcotics
Control Bureau (NCB) reveal-
ing the alleged nexus between
people in the film industry and
drug traffickers.
This after veteran actress
and Parliamentarian Jaya
Bachchan alleged that a vicious
attempt was underway to
defame the film industry by
linking it to drug abuse.
Jaya’s charge invited a sharp
reaction from actress Kangana
Ranaut and strong backing
from several Bollywood
celebrities.
Replying to a written ques-
tion in the Lok Sabha, Union
Minister of State for Home G
Kishan Reddy said the NCB
carries out searches, seizures,
arrests and investigations con-
tinuously throughout the year
on the actionable inputs devel-
oped on its own or received
from other sources.
“During the period of
Covid-19 lockdown, no such
actionable inputs were received
by the NCB revealing the nexus
between people in the film
industry and drug traffickers,”
he said.
Speaking in the Rajya
Sabha, Jaya rebutted BJP MP
and film actor Ravi Kishan’s
comments in the Lok Sabha
about drug addiction in
Bollywood. Jaya said the film
industry was being “flogged by
social media and the
Government’s non-support”.
“Just because of a few peo-
ple, you cannot tarnish the
whole industry... I was really
embarrassed and ashamed that
yesterday one of our members
in the Lok Sabha, who is from
the industry, spoke against the
film industry. Jis thaali me
khaate hain, usi me chhed karte
hain,” Jaya said.
Ravi Kishan, a popular
actor of Bhojpuri and Hindi
films, raised in Parliament the
drug-related allegations that
have emerged against the film
industry in the Sushant Singh
Rajput investigations. He
alleged a “conspiracy” by
Pakistan and China to destroy
the country’s younger
citizens.
Jaya further said such state-
ments were meant to divert
attention from the state of the
economy and unemployment
in the country.
“The entertainment indus-
try in our country provides
direct employment every day to
five lakh people and indirect
employment to five million
people. At a time when the
financial situation is in a
depressing state and employ-
ment is at the worst level, in
order to divert the attention of
the people, we are being used
to be flogged by social media
and the Government’s non-
support. But people who have
made their name in this film
industry have called it a gutter.
I completely disagree,” the SP
MP said.
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In the run up to the Bihar
Assembly elections, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
Tuesday inaugurated another
set of infra structure projects
worth C540 crore for the State
through video conference in
the presence of Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar.
The projects include sew-
erage treatment plants at Beur
and Karam-Leechak in Patna
city, as well as water-related
projects in Siwan and Chhapra
under the “AMRUT”
Yojana.
Apart from this, the PM
laid foundation stones for water
supply projects in Munger and
Jamalpur and River Front
Development Scheme under
Namami Gange in
Muzaffarpur.
The Prime Minister said
even during the times of coro-
na, the work on various devel-
opment projects progressed
uninterrupted in Bihar.
Kumar and Deputy Chief
Minister Sushil Modi assured
that projects will be completed
on time.
The Prime Minister on
Sunday inaugurated a slew of
petro chemical projects worth
C940 crore in the poll bound
State.
The PM lauded the con-
tribution of the engineers to the
development of the country on
the occasion of Engineer’s Day,
which is celebrated in the
memory of India’s pioneering
modern civil engineer, M
Visvesvaraya. Modi said Bihar
also significantly contributed
towards development of the
country by producing millions
of engineers. Modi said Bihar
is the land of historical cities
and has a rich heritage of
thousands of years.
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The Union Home Ministry
on Tuesday informed the
Lok Sabha that no leader in
Jammu Kashmir is current-
ly under house arrest.
It, however, admitted that
223 people in JK are under
detention.
Interestingly, another inter-
esting detail was found missing
in the statement. It was on July
31, 2020 the detention of for-
mer Jammu Kashmir Chief
Minister Mehbooba Mufti
under the stringent Public
Safety Act was extended by
three months.
Minister of State (Home) G
Kishan Reddy in a written
reply to a question raised by
Trinamool Congress MP
Saugata Ray said, “The
Government of Jammu
Kashmir has reported that after
the abrogation of Article 370 in
August last year various mea-
sures were taken to maintain
public order, which included
preventive detention of certain
persons.”
“As on September 11, 223
persons are under detention.
No person is under house
arrest in the UT of Jammu
Kashmir,” he said.
Meanwhile, a close aide of
Mehbooba and a former
Cabinet Minister reacted
sharply labeling it a “blatant lie”.
Naeem Akhtar, a former
Minister in the Mehbooba
Government tweeted, there are
many categories of lies. “Lies,
white lies, data, judicial lies
(spoken on oath), parliamen-
tary lies: This Government
excels in all.”
Another Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) leader
Waheed Para in a separate
tweet said, “Blatant lies (told)
in Parliament by Union
Ministers that no one is under
house arrest. It has now been
seven months of house arrest
and six months of detention for
many of us, since 5 August
2019. The detention of
Mehbooba under the strin-
gent Public Safety Act was
extended by three months,
hours before it was due to
expire ahead of the anniversary
of Abrogation of Article 370.
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India’s Covid-19 caseload
crossed 5 million marks on
Tuesday as the pandemic
showed no sign of plateauing
out any sooner.
Maharashtra breached a
landmark of 30,000 deaths on
Tuesday, as an all-time high 515
people succumbed to Covid-
19, while 20,482 more people
tested positive for the pan-
demic in various parts of the
State. The number of new cases
is nearly 4,000 lower than the
State’s highest single-day tally.
India on Tuesday recorded
82,375 new cases and 1,237
deaths. There has been a gen-
eral trend that due to the lag
effect of reduced testing at the
weekend, the first two days of
the weeks show relatively fewer
cases. This may explain slight-
ly subdued numbers on
Monday (81,000 cases and
Tuesday. Last week, India
recorded more than 97,000
new cases twice in a single
day.
Each of the four worst-
affected States — Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
and Karnataka — recorded
fewer cases than their highest
single-day spike. But Uttar
Pradesh (6,841 cases), Delhi
(4,261 cases) and West Bengal
(3,237 cases) showed no sign of
any weakening in the spread of
the pandemic.
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The Supreme Court on
Tuesday restrained
Sudarshan TV from telecasting
two episodes of “Bindas Bol”
programme, which are sched-
uled for Tuesday and
Wednesday saying it prime
facie appears to “vilify” the
Muslim community.
“At this stage, prima facie
it does appear that the pro-
gramme does vilify the Muslim
community,” the SC said while
staying the telecast of two
episodes of the programme on
alleged infiltration of Muslims
into the bureaucracy.
A three-judge bench head-
ed by Justice DY Chandrachud
which heard the plea against
the serial said it would hear the
matter on September
17.
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India on Tuesday walked out
of a meeting of the National
Security Advisors (NSA) of
the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (SC0) after
Pakistan presented a “ficti-
tious” map of the country
showing Jammu Kashmir,
Ladakh and Gujarat as its
part.
The Ministry of External
Affairs said what Pakistan was
in “blatant disregard to host
Russia’s advisory”.
Making its position clear,
the Ministry said, “At the meet-
ing of NSAs of member states
of the SCO, hosted by the
Chair of the SCO (Russia), the
Pakistani NSA deliberately pro-
jected a fictitious map that
Pakistan has recently been
propagating.”
The Ministry in a state-
ment said, “This was in blatant
disregard to the advisory by the
host against it and in violation
of the norms of the meeting.
After consultation with the
host, the Indian side left the
meeting in protest at that junc-
ture. Pakistan then went on to
present a misleading view of
this meeting.”
India was represented by
NSA Ajit Doval.
Sources said Russia termed
Pakistan’s act as “provocative”
and clarified that it did not sup-
port such an action.
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a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Bihar’s
Darbhanga, an official statement said on Tuesday. The institute
will come up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
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Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu
said that he tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday and is
presently in home isolation in New Delhi. “I have undergone
Covid test RT-PCR and have tested positive for Covid19. I am
asymptomatic and feeling healthy,” Khandu tweeted.
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The Congress on Tuesday
questioned the absence of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
in the Lok Sabha when Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh made
a statement on the India-China
border standoff. The Congress
also wanted to know if the
Chinese have encroached on
Depsang Plains, Gogra,
Pangong-Tso Lake till Finger 8,
Y-junction in Bhutan, Lipulekh
Pass in Uttarakhand and in
A r u n a c h a l
Pradesh.
Former Congress presi-
dent Rahul Gandhi, who is
abroad currently accompany-
ing his mother and interim
party chief Sonia Gandhi for a
health check-up, attacked the
Prime Minister for “mislead-
ing” the country over Chinese
transgressions.
“The country has always
stood by its armed forces and
will continue to do so in future.
But Modiji, when will you
stand against China? When will
we take back the land of our
country from China? Don’t be
scared of taking China’s name,”
Rahul tweeted.
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In line with its commitment of putting India first, Indus Towers’
field staff engineers and technicians made considerable
efforts to restore and maintain all mobile tower sites across the
mountains of Uttarakhand even when accessibility was a chal-
lenge. Despite challenges including restricted road communi-
cation due to landslides, water logging and logistical constraints
in transporting diesel, Indus Towers’ ground teams worked tire-
lessly to ensure that all the sites in the state were well attended
and maintained.
In certain cases, such as in Thal and Munsyari regions of
Pithoragarh district and areas in Almora district, field staff engi-
neers had to access the sites on foot, sometimes walking upto
10 kilometres to reach each site. UP West Circle CEO Siva Prakash
Rao said, “The need to stay connected during a natural calami-
ty is critical.
We understand the gravity of the situation and every year
during monsoon our teams work hard to overcome challenges
of water logging and landslides which restrict movement to main-
tain and restore impacted mobile tower sites before any critical
outage. In the last couple of weeks, our dedicated teams have
attended to 87 rain affected sites that were impacted across the
state due to heavy rainfall.”
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Punjab Police on Tuesday
claimed to have busted yet
another pro-Khalistan terror-
ist module, with the arrest of
two persons allegedly operating
in connivance with five crim-
inals, including a Khalistan
Zindabad Force (KZF) opera-
tive currently languishing in
Amritsar jail.
Director General of Police
(DGP) Dinkar Gupta said that
the Pakistan-backed module
was busted on the basis of
inputs about the nefarious
designs of certain pro-
Khalistan elements trying to
disturb peace and harmony in
the State by launching terror
attacks.
Gupta said that following
the inputs, the Punjab Police
had launched a drive to ensure
thorough frisking and checking
of all those entering the State
from various parts of the coun-
try, thus leading to the arrest of
Harjeet Singh alias Raju and
Shamsher Singh alias Shera,
both residents of Mianpur vil-
lage in Tarn Taran district.
Six weapons (one 9 mm
pistol, four .32 calibre pistols
and one .32 revolver), eight live
rounds of ammunition, sever-
al mobile phones and an inter-
net dongle were seized from the
duo, who were nabbed at the
checkpost near Hotel Jashan on
Rajpura-Sirhind road. During
preliminary investigation, the
accused revealed that they
received four weapons from
Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh,
and two were received from
Safidon, Jind district of
Haryana, said the DGP adding
that duo is also wanted in an
attempt to murder and Arms
Act case registered in Police
Station Sarai Amanat Khan,
District Tarn Taran.
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After recovering from
Covid-19 infection,
Haryana Chief Minister
Manohar Lal Khattar on
Tuesday resumed his work by
presiding over a high-level
meeting of senior officers of
various departments at his res-
idence in Chandigarh.
In the meeting, he
reviewed the progress of vari-
ous schemes and programmes
besides issuing necessary direc-
tions to the officers concerned.
Various decisions like planning
a film city in Pinjore, hiring
drones to check illegal mining,
making Agri malls functional
among others were also taken
in the meeting.
While reviewing the
arrangement for the procure-
ment of kharif crops in the
State, Khattar directed that
every farmer registered on the
“Meri Fasal Mera Byora” por-
tal should be asked to provide
dates for bringing their produce
to the mandi of their choice.
Farmers should be asked
whether they should be paid
directly or through the arthias.
He directed the officers to
make adequate arrangements
for the purchase of farmers'
produce in the mandis across
the State. It should be ensured
that farmers do not face any
inconvenience, he added.
The Chief Minister also
directed that the Parivar
Pehchan Patra (PPP) pro-
gramme be linked with HRMS.
He said that PPP is a unique
initiative of the State
Government under which each
family in the State is being pro-
vided a unique identity.
He said that PPP would
ensure that people get the ben-
efit of various welfare schemes
and programmes at their
doorstep. He said that this
would not only save their pre-
cious time but also ensure
transparency in the service
delivery.
The Chief Minister direct-
ed to expedite the work of
preparing property IDs in all
Urban Local Bodies of the
State for the convenience of
people in property related
works. He also reviewed the
functioning of Haryana State
Industrial and Infrastructure
Development Corporation
(HSIIDC) and Haryana Shehri
Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP)
and directed to take steps to
further enhance their receipts.
Khattar directed to prepare
a plan to develop a film city at
Pinjore. He said that Haryana
is appropriate for film produc-
tion as hundreds of beautiful
locations are available in the
State.
It may be recalled that
Haryana Film Policy also envis-
ages a Film City to be devel-
oped in public-private-part-
nership mode so that the peo-
ple associated with the world of
cinema can operate from a sin-
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Amarinder Singh on
Tuesday demanded an uncon-
ditional apology from the
Union Minister Raosaheb Patil
Danve for “misleading” the
nation on the farm ordinances
issue from the floor of the
House in a clear and complete
breach of Parliamentary prin-
ciples and propriety.
Rejecting as “totally incor-
rect” Danve’s statement in the
Lok Sabha on Monday about
Punjab being on board the anti-
farmer ordinances, the Chief
Minister said that the Union
Minister of State for Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution remarks were
aimedat defamingtheCongress
and its Government in the State.
Punjab Congress president
Sunil Jakhar also slammed the
Union Minister for “violating
the sanctity of Parliament with
his false statement” on the
issue in the House on Monday,
and termed it an attempt to
denigrate the Congress
Government in Punjab with
misleading information.
The Chief Minister, in a
statement, said that at no point
did the high-powered com-
mittee make any suggestion
about bringing these anti-farm-
ers ordinances, which the
Centre introduced on the sly
amid the pandemic and has
now placed in the Parliament
for enactment through false
pretensions.
“The Minister should apol-
ogize immediately and
unequivocally for presenting
false facts in the Lok Sabha,”
said Capt Amarinder, describ-
ing the statement in Lok Sabha
as undemocratic and unethical,
and a violation of the parlia-
mentary principles.
The Chief Minister said
that the Punjab Government
has consistently and persis-
tently opposed any move to
dilute the farmers’ rights and
interests, not only in the high-
powered committee on agri-
cultural reforms but in the
state Assembly and on all pub-
lic forums. “It is our
Government which had initi-
ated the resolution in the
Vidhan Sabha rejecting the
ordinances,” he pointed out,
adding that he personally had
written twice to the Prime
Minister seeking the with-
drawal of the anti-farmer and
anti-farmer legislations that
would spell the death-knell of
the farming community in
Punjab.
The report of the high-
powered committee, of which
Punjab was made a member
weeks after it was constituted,
nowhere suggested any ordi-
nance or central law to be
enacted by the Government of
India, said the Chief Minister,
emphatically rejecting any
claim to the contrary.
“In fact, the focus of the
report was largely on market
reforms wherein the imple-
mentation of APMC Act
2003/APLM Act, 2017, had
been emphasized. Similarly,
adoption of Model Contract
Farming Act or its variants
depending upon the state
requirements had been stressed
upon in the draft report,” said
Capt Amarinder.
He pointed out that in its
response to the draft report, the
Punjab Government had clear-
ly stated that 86 percent of the
state’s farmers are small holders
cultivating less than two
hectares with little bargaining
power in the market. They are
illiterate or less educated and
cannot be left at the mercy of
market forces for determination
of commodity prices, the state
government had further said.
Pointing out that some
states like Punjab are depen-
dent on the market fee, the
State Government had further
underlined that “the market
needs to be monitored or reg-
ulated to save the farmers from
exploitative private trade”. The
farmers must receive reason-
able prices for their produce
(MSP) which covers their cost
of production and a fair level of
profit for their living, it had
commented.
The State Government’s
response further stated that
“majority of the farmers are
fearful of entering into contracts
with large corporate hous-
es…they feel that they may not
be able to compete with them
in case of any litigation”.
Going further, Punjab
Government had categorically
and unambiguously stated that
with a view to safeguard the
interest of farmers and to
ensure the food security in the
country, “it is emphasized that
system of minimum support
price (MSP) and the assured
procurement of crops by
Government of India must
continue,” he said.
The government had gone
ahead to recommend that other
MSP crops, where full and
assured procurement is not
being undertaken by the
Government of India such as
cotton, maize, oilseeds and
pulses, should be procured
fully at MSP fixed by
Government of India to
encourage farmers to diversify
away from paddy which is
water intensive.
Capt Amarinder pointed
out that the State Government
had, in its written response,
also said that “the EC Act
must be continued for those
crops in which India is defi-
cient in order to prevent the
exploitative action of the pri-
vate sector by hoarding and
black marketeering”.
Thesharingpatternofmost
ofschemesis60:40(Centre:State)
and this needs to be changed to
90:10 for Punjab, as the state,
while pioneering the green rev-
olution in the country, played a
major role in making the nation
self-reliant in foodgrain pro-
duction,thePunjabGovernment
hadsubmitted,addingthatitwas
nowtheCentre’sturntosupport
the farmers.
PRESENTATION OF FARM
ORDINANCES IN PARLIA-
MENT HAVE EXPOSED
SAD FARCE, SAYS CAPT
Punjab Chief Minister
Capt Amarinder Singh on
Tuesday said that the presen-
tation of farm ordinances in the
Parliament a day before by the
Centre had totally exposed the
farce of Shiromani Akali Dal’s
pretense of protecting the inter-
ests of the state’s farmers. With
the BJP-led NDA Government
going ahead with laying the
ordinances on the table of the
House on the very first day of
the Parliament session, instead
of accepting SAD’s so-called
plea to defer the same, the
Akali charade on the issue had
been laid bare, said the Chief
Minister.
The fact that Sukhbir had
stayed away from the House on
Monday, when the ordinances
were presented for legislation,
showed that the entire drama of
seeking postponement of their
enactmentwasplayedoutbythe
SAD president to appease the
farmer organizations, which
havebeenupinarmsagainstthe
ordinances, Capt Amarinder
said. “There is clearly a con-
spiracy to undermine the farm-
ers’ interests and that of the
states, which are constitutional-
ly-mandated to be responsible
for agriculture,” said the Chief
Minister,asking“whyelsewould
Sukhbir conveniently remain
awayfromtheParliamentonthe
opening day itself?”
SAD LEADERS MEET BJP
PRESIDENT NADDA ON
FARM BILLS
Leaders of the Shiromani
Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday
met BJP national president J P
Nadda in Delhi and urged him
that the Centre address farmers'
concerns over three farm bills
and also sought that the pro-
posed legislation be sent to a
Parliamentary committee. SAD
chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, Rajya
Sabha members Balwinder
Singh Bhunder, Naresh Gujral
and senior leader Prem Singh
Chandumajra met Nadda at
his residence in Delhi and dis-
cussed with him the issue of the
three farm bills that were tabled
in Parliament on Monday. The
Centre on Monday had intro-
duced three farm bills in Lok
Sabha. These are The Farmers''
Produce Trade And Commerce
(Promotion And Facilitation)
Bill, The Farmers
(Empowerment and Protection)
Agreement on Price Assurance
and Farm Services Bill and The
Essential Commodities
(Amendment) Bill.
The SAD, which is part of
the National Democratic
Alliance (NDA), last week had
appealed to the BJP-led Centre
not to present the three farm
ordinances for approval in
Parliament until “all reserva-
tions” expressed by farmers are
duly addressed”. Many farm-
ers'' outfits in Punjab have
been holding protests against
the three farm ordinances
promulgated by the Centre.
Farmers have expressed appre-
hension that these three ordi-
nances would pave the way for
dismantling of the minimum
support price system and they
would be at the “mercy” of big
corporates. They have been
demanding rollback of these
ordinances.
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Haryana Health Minister
Anil Vij on Tuesday said
that to ensure uninterrupted
health services during the on-
going COVID-19 Pandemic,
an online health facility ‘Stay
Home OPD’ has been started in
the State under the name of ‘e-
Sanjeevani OPD'.
With this, people suffering
from various health ailments
can get themselves registered on
the ‘e-Sanjeevani’ app to get free
online medical consultation,
said the Health Minister.
Vij said that due to the dif-
ficult circumstances arising due
to COVID-19 Pandemic, peo-
ple suffering from other med-
ical ailments were facing a lot of
problems, to solve which the
Central Government has
launched ‘e-Sanjeevani OPD'.
This service has also been start-
ed in Haryana, under which so
far more than 1000 patients
have benefited from it. This
facility is being provided free of
cost to all patients of the State.
For this, patients will have to
download the ‘e-Sanjeevani
OPD’ app in their mobile, after
which a token number will be
generated.
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Delhi Assembly “committee
on peace and harmony”
expresseddispleasureoverflout-
ing the directions of the notice
issued to Facebook India’s vice-
president and managing direc-
tor Ajit Mohan by not appear-
ing before the committee on
Tuesday, which is looking into
Facebook’s alleged role in Delhi
riots in February.
Chairman of the commit-
tee Raghav Chadha said the
Delhi legislative committee is
operating in its constitutional-
ly lawful jurisdiction and does
not conflict or weaken the
jurisdiction of the Central
Government on similar issues.
As per the judgment of the
Constitution Bench of the
Supreme Court of India in
State (NCT of Delhi) v. Union
of India (2018) 8 SCC 501, the
Legislative Assembly of the
NCT of Delhi has legislative
powers in respect of these sub-
jects, and the Government of
Delhi has the exclusive execu-
tive power in respect of the
same, he said, adding that the
Rules of Procedure and
Conduct of Business in the
Legislative Assembly (Assembly
Conduct Rules) that have been
framed under Section 33 of the
GNCTD Act provides this com-
mittee the powers to summon
and ensure the presence of
witnesses.
It was also noted by the
committee that despite being
crystal clear about the objective
behind calling the Facebook
Officials, which on the face of
it is distinguishable from that of
the Parliamentary committee,
Facebook chose to dishonour
the powers and privileges of the
committee in the garb of oblig-
ing with the directives of the
Parliamentary Committee.
Chadha also clarified that
the notice of appearance issued
to Facebook is directly related
to the incidents of
violence/riots that occurred in
the NCT of Delhi in February,
2020, whereas the proceed-
ings in Parliament are on the
subject “Safeguarding citizens’
rights and prevention of mis-
use of social/online news media
platforms including special
emphasis on women security in
the digital space”.
“It is manifest from a
perusal of this notice that the
proceedings before the
Parliament are in no way con-
nected to the role of Facebook
in the riots/violence in the
NCT of Delhi in February,
2020. Therefore, the
Committee considers this
nothing but an untenable
excuse by Facebook to defy the
summons issued to them for
examination on oath,” he said.
It was further decided by
the committee that in the event
of subsequent default in com-
plying to the orders of the com-
mittee it shall be constrained to
proceed against the Facebook
India for committing the
breach of committee’s privilege
which shall follow consequent
penal jurisdiction of the house
under the relevant laws and
rules and regulation.
It isalso notedthat thepow-
ers and privileges of the mem-
bers and committees of the
Delhi Legislative Assembly are
sourced from Section 18 of the
Government of National Capital
Territory of Delhi Act, 1991
(“GNCTD Act”). Sub-section
(3) thereof provides that the
powers, privileges, and immu-
nities of the Legislative
Assembly, its members, and
committees, would be the same
as those enjoyed by the House
of People, i.e. the Lok Sabha and
its members and committees.
This is pari-materia with Article
105 of the Constitution of India.
The committee also clari-
fied to the Facebook once
again that refusal to appear
before the committee for rea-
sons which are evidently unten-
able in law and facts, gives the
committee the impression that
they are attempting to conceal
crucial facts in relation to
Facebook’s role in the February
2020 violence/riots in Delhi
and thus as a note of caution
that the Committee advices as
well as commands the to ensure
your appearance in person on
the next date of meeting.
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
on Tuesday slammed the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for
bringing “anti-farmer laws” like
Farmers’ Produce Trade and
Commerce (Promotion and
Facilitation) Ordinance 2020,
the Farmers (Empowerment
and Protection) Agreement on
Price Assurance and Farm
Services Ordinance 2020 and
the Essential Commodities
(Amendment) Ordinance 2020.
Addressing the media, Lok
Sabha Member of Parliament
Bhagwant Mann and Delhi
MLA Jarnail Singh said that
these bills are a step towards pri-
vatising the farming industry;
‘minimum support price’ will be
finished and these bills will give
free hand to the private players.
Jarnail Singh also said that
the party believes that this bill
is another step towards the
devastation of Indian farmers.
“In Punjab, Bharatiya Janata
Party’s ally is Shiromani Akali
Dal and they have also ruled
Punjab for many years”, he said.
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The Delhi Metro Rail
Corporation (DMRC) took
a major step towards the devel-
opment of an indigenously
built Communication Based
Train Control (CBTC)-based
signalling technology for metro
railway with the launch of i-
ATS, which is an important sub
system of the signalling system.
This prototype system as
well as a state of the art labo-
ratory for further developing
other sub- systems of indige-
nous CBTC technology was
inaugurated on Tuesday at
Shastri Park by Durga Shanker
Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of
Housing and Urban Affairs in
the presence of DMRC’s
Managing Director Dr Mangu
Singh, Shikha Gupta, Director,
BEL and other senior officials.
Speaking on the occasion,
Mishra said, “It is a really proud
occasion to start something like
this which is going to add to our
strength on the Atmanirbhar
Bharat initiative. The way we
havepromotedindigenisationin
the development of Metros in
the country, I am fully confident
that this Indian system will also
be sold outside and we will be
the leaders in this area as well.”
Dr Mangu Singh termed
this achievement as a major step
forward towards the develop-
ment of indigenous technolo-
gies required for the operation
of Metro rail systems. “This is
a very important step towards
the development of an indige-
nous CBTC system. I am sure
that we will be able to work
together and scale newer heights
to completely indigenise Metro
railway construction as well as
operations,” he said.
Automatic Train
Supervision (ATS) is a com-
puter based system, which
manages train operations. This
system is indispensible for high
density operations such as the
Metro, where services are
scheduled every few minutes.
i-ATS is the indigenously devel-
oped technology, which will
significantly reduce the depen-
dence of Indian Metros on
foreign vendors dealing with
such technologies.
Technology systems such
as the CBTC are primarily
controlled by the European
countries and Japan. As part of
the ‘Make in India’ initiative of
the Government of India, the
Ministry of Housing and
Urban Affairs (MoHUA) had
decided to indigenise the
CBTC technology.
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I completely disagree,” the SP MP said. ?=BQ =4F34;78 In the run up to the Bihar Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated another set of infra structure projects worth C540 crore for the State through video conference in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The projects include sew- erage treatment plants at Beur and Karam-Leechak in Patna city, as well as water-related projects in Siwan and Chhapra under the “AMRUT” Yojana. Apart from this, the PM laid foundation stones for water supply projects in Munger and Jamalpur and River Front Development Scheme under Namami Gange in Muzaffarpur. The Prime Minister said even during the times of coro- na, the work on various devel- opment projects progressed uninterrupted in Bihar. Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi assured that projects will be completed on time. The Prime Minister on Sunday inaugurated a slew of petro chemical projects worth C940 crore in the poll bound State. The PM lauded the con- tribution of the engineers to the development of the country on the occasion of Engineer’s Day, which is celebrated in the memory of India’s pioneering modern civil engineer, M Visvesvaraya. Modi said Bihar also significantly contributed towards development of the country by producing millions of engineers. Modi said Bihar is the land of historical cities and has a rich heritage of thousands of years. ?=BQ 90D The Union Home Ministry on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that no leader in Jammu Kashmir is current- ly under house arrest. It, however, admitted that 223 people in JK are under detention. Interestingly, another inter- esting detail was found missing in the statement. It was on July 31, 2020 the detention of for- mer Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti under the stringent Public Safety Act was extended by three months. Minister of State (Home) G Kishan Reddy in a written reply to a question raised by Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Ray said, “The Government of Jammu Kashmir has reported that after the abrogation of Article 370 in August last year various mea- sures were taken to maintain public order, which included preventive detention of certain persons.” “As on September 11, 223 persons are under detention. No person is under house arrest in the UT of Jammu Kashmir,” he said. Meanwhile, a close aide of Mehbooba and a former Cabinet Minister reacted sharply labeling it a “blatant lie”. Naeem Akhtar, a former Minister in the Mehbooba Government tweeted, there are many categories of lies. “Lies, white lies, data, judicial lies (spoken on oath), parliamen- tary lies: This Government excels in all.” Another Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Para in a separate tweet said, “Blatant lies (told) in Parliament by Union Ministers that no one is under house arrest. It has now been seven months of house arrest and six months of detention for many of us, since 5 August 2019. The detention of Mehbooba under the strin- gent Public Safety Act was extended by three months, hours before it was due to expire ahead of the anniversary of Abrogation of Article 370. ?=BQ =4F34;78 India’s Covid-19 caseload crossed 5 million marks on Tuesday as the pandemic showed no sign of plateauing out any sooner. Maharashtra breached a landmark of 30,000 deaths on Tuesday, as an all-time high 515 people succumbed to Covid- 19, while 20,482 more people tested positive for the pan- demic in various parts of the State. The number of new cases is nearly 4,000 lower than the State’s highest single-day tally. India on Tuesday recorded 82,375 new cases and 1,237 deaths. There has been a gen- eral trend that due to the lag effect of reduced testing at the weekend, the first two days of the weeks show relatively fewer cases. This may explain slight- ly subdued numbers on Monday (81,000 cases and Tuesday. Last week, India recorded more than 97,000 new cases twice in a single day. Each of the four worst- affected States — Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka — recorded fewer cases than their highest single-day spike. But Uttar Pradesh (6,841 cases), Delhi (4,261 cases) and West Bengal (3,237 cases) showed no sign of any weakening in the spread of the pandemic. ?C8Q =4F34;78 The Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained Sudarshan TV from telecasting two episodes of “Bindas Bol” programme, which are sched- uled for Tuesday and Wednesday saying it prime facie appears to “vilify” the Muslim community. “At this stage, prima facie it does appear that the pro- gramme does vilify the Muslim community,” the SC said while staying the telecast of two episodes of the programme on alleged infiltration of Muslims into the bureaucracy. A three-judge bench head- ed by Justice DY Chandrachud which heard the plea against the serial said it would hear the matter on September 17. ?=BQ =4F34;78 India on Tuesday walked out of a meeting of the National Security Advisors (NSA) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SC0) after Pakistan presented a “ficti- tious” map of the country showing Jammu Kashmir, Ladakh and Gujarat as its part. The Ministry of External Affairs said what Pakistan was in “blatant disregard to host Russia’s advisory”. Making its position clear, the Ministry said, “At the meet- ing of NSAs of member states of the SCO, hosted by the Chair of the SCO (Russia), the Pakistani NSA deliberately pro- jected a fictitious map that Pakistan has recently been propagating.” The Ministry in a state- ment said, “This was in blatant disregard to the advisory by the host against it and in violation of the norms of the meeting. After consultation with the host, the Indian side left the meeting in protest at that junc- ture. Pakistan then went on to present a misleading view of this meeting.” India was represented by NSA Ajit Doval. Sources said Russia termed Pakistan’s act as “provocative” and clarified that it did not sup- port such an action. BC0C4B CC0;20B4B340C7BA42E4A43 PWPaPbWcaP ('% #($! 0]SWaP?aPSTbW $'(!$ $# #'%$ CPX[=PSd $ #!' '$! #$'( :Pa]PcPZP #$!%$#' %(!!( DccPa?aPSTbW !#% #%#!$!( 3T[WX !!$(% #'% ( ! FTbc1T]VP[ !( #% #%! ' #! 1XWPa % '% #%$ CT[P]VP]P %$ ('# !( ' SXbWP $'%$ %(' !$' 0bbP #%$$ #(! $$! 6dYPaPc %#$ !#$(%'( :TaP[P ## #% '!# APYPbcWP] $'(' !%#'' 7PahP]P ('%!! !% %% PSWhP?aPSTbW ($ '!%(% 20B4B) $ !$( 340C7B)'!$ A42E4A43) ($(' 02C8E4)(($ 4`gZU* :?:?5:2 CC0; New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has approved establishment of a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Bihar’s Darbhanga, an official statement said on Tuesday. The institute will come up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) at a total cost of C1,264 crore, it said. Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that he tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday and is presently in home isolation in New Delhi. “I have undergone Covid test RT-PCR and have tested positive for Covid19. I am asymptomatic and feeling healthy,” Khandu tweeted. ?=BQ =4F34;78 The Congress on Tuesday questioned the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha when Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a statement on the India-China border standoff. The Congress also wanted to know if the Chinese have encroached on Depsang Plains, Gogra, Pangong-Tso Lake till Finger 8, Y-junction in Bhutan, Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand and in A r u n a c h a l Pradesh. 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Despite challenges including restricted road communi- cation due to landslides, water logging and logistical constraints in transporting diesel, Indus Towers’ ground teams worked tire- lessly to ensure that all the sites in the state were well attended and maintained. In certain cases, such as in Thal and Munsyari regions of Pithoragarh district and areas in Almora district, field staff engi- neers had to access the sites on foot, sometimes walking upto 10 kilometres to reach each site. UP West Circle CEO Siva Prakash Rao said, “The need to stay connected during a natural calami- ty is critical. We understand the gravity of the situation and every year during monsoon our teams work hard to overcome challenges of water logging and landslides which restrict movement to main- tain and restore impacted mobile tower sites before any critical outage. In the last couple of weeks, our dedicated teams have attended to 87 rain affected sites that were impacted across the state due to heavy rainfall.” 8]SdbC^fTab^eTaR^Tb RWP[[T]VTbc^ZTT_ cT[TR^X]UaPbcadRcdaT R^]]TRcTS ?=BQ 270=3860A7 Punjab Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted yet another pro-Khalistan terror- ist module, with the arrest of two persons allegedly operating in connivance with five crim- inals, including a Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) opera- tive currently languishing in Amritsar jail. Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta said that the Pakistan-backed module was busted on the basis of inputs about the nefarious designs of certain pro- Khalistan elements trying to disturb peace and harmony in the State by launching terror attacks. Gupta said that following the inputs, the Punjab Police had launched a drive to ensure thorough frisking and checking of all those entering the State from various parts of the coun- try, thus leading to the arrest of Harjeet Singh alias Raju and Shamsher Singh alias Shera, both residents of Mianpur vil- lage in Tarn Taran district. Six weapons (one 9 mm pistol, four .32 calibre pistols and one .32 revolver), eight live rounds of ammunition, sever- al mobile phones and an inter- net dongle were seized from the duo, who were nabbed at the checkpost near Hotel Jashan on Rajpura-Sirhind road. During preliminary investigation, the accused revealed that they received four weapons from Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh, and two were received from Safidon, Jind district of Haryana, said the DGP adding that duo is also wanted in an attempt to murder and Arms Act case registered in Police Station Sarai Amanat Khan, District Tarn Taran. ?=BQ 270=3860A7 After recovering from Covid-19 infection, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday resumed his work by presiding over a high-level meeting of senior officers of various departments at his res- idence in Chandigarh. In the meeting, he reviewed the progress of vari- ous schemes and programmes besides issuing necessary direc- tions to the officers concerned. Various decisions like planning a film city in Pinjore, hiring drones to check illegal mining, making Agri malls functional among others were also taken in the meeting. While reviewing the arrangement for the procure- ment of kharif crops in the State, Khattar directed that every farmer registered on the “Meri Fasal Mera Byora” por- tal should be asked to provide dates for bringing their produce to the mandi of their choice. Farmers should be asked whether they should be paid directly or through the arthias. He directed the officers to make adequate arrangements for the purchase of farmers' produce in the mandis across the State. It should be ensured that farmers do not face any inconvenience, he added. The Chief Minister also directed that the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) pro- gramme be linked with HRMS. He said that PPP is a unique initiative of the State Government under which each family in the State is being pro- vided a unique identity. He said that PPP would ensure that people get the ben- efit of various welfare schemes and programmes at their doorstep. He said that this would not only save their pre- cious time but also ensure transparency in the service delivery. The Chief Minister direct- ed to expedite the work of preparing property IDs in all Urban Local Bodies of the State for the convenience of people in property related works. He also reviewed the functioning of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) and Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) and directed to take steps to further enhance their receipts. Khattar directed to prepare a plan to develop a film city at Pinjore. He said that Haryana is appropriate for film produc- tion as hundreds of beautiful locations are available in the State. It may be recalled that Haryana Film Policy also envis- ages a Film City to be devel- oped in public-private-part- nership mode so that the peo- ple associated with the world of cinema can operate from a sin- gle place. ?d]YPQ_^[XRTQdbcbP]^cWTa_a^:WP[XbcP] cTaa^a^Sd[TPaaTbcbcf^^_TaPc^ab ?=BQ 270=3860A7 Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday demanded an uncon- ditional apology from the Union Minister Raosaheb Patil Danve for “misleading” the nation on the farm ordinances issue from the floor of the House in a clear and complete breach of Parliamentary prin- ciples and propriety. Rejecting as “totally incor- rect” Danve’s statement in the Lok Sabha on Monday about Punjab being on board the anti- farmer ordinances, the Chief Minister said that the Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution remarks were aimedat defamingtheCongress and its Government in the State. Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar also slammed the Union Minister for “violating the sanctity of Parliament with his false statement” on the issue in the House on Monday, and termed it an attempt to denigrate the Congress Government in Punjab with misleading information. The Chief Minister, in a statement, said that at no point did the high-powered com- mittee make any suggestion about bringing these anti-farm- ers ordinances, which the Centre introduced on the sly amid the pandemic and has now placed in the Parliament for enactment through false pretensions. “The Minister should apol- ogize immediately and unequivocally for presenting false facts in the Lok Sabha,” said Capt Amarinder, describ- ing the statement in Lok Sabha as undemocratic and unethical, and a violation of the parlia- mentary principles. The Chief Minister said that the Punjab Government has consistently and persis- tently opposed any move to dilute the farmers’ rights and interests, not only in the high- powered committee on agri- cultural reforms but in the state Assembly and on all pub- lic forums. “It is our Government which had initi- ated the resolution in the Vidhan Sabha rejecting the ordinances,” he pointed out, adding that he personally had written twice to the Prime Minister seeking the with- drawal of the anti-farmer and anti-farmer legislations that would spell the death-knell of the farming community in Punjab. The report of the high- powered committee, of which Punjab was made a member weeks after it was constituted, nowhere suggested any ordi- nance or central law to be enacted by the Government of India, said the Chief Minister, emphatically rejecting any claim to the contrary. “In fact, the focus of the report was largely on market reforms wherein the imple- mentation of APMC Act 2003/APLM Act, 2017, had been emphasized. Similarly, adoption of Model Contract Farming Act or its variants depending upon the state requirements had been stressed upon in the draft report,” said Capt Amarinder. He pointed out that in its response to the draft report, the Punjab Government had clear- ly stated that 86 percent of the state’s farmers are small holders cultivating less than two hectares with little bargaining power in the market. They are illiterate or less educated and cannot be left at the mercy of market forces for determination of commodity prices, the state government had further said. Pointing out that some states like Punjab are depen- dent on the market fee, the State Government had further underlined that “the market needs to be monitored or reg- ulated to save the farmers from exploitative private trade”. The farmers must receive reason- able prices for their produce (MSP) which covers their cost of production and a fair level of profit for their living, it had commented. The State Government’s response further stated that “majority of the farmers are fearful of entering into contracts with large corporate hous- es…they feel that they may not be able to compete with them in case of any litigation”. Going further, Punjab Government had categorically and unambiguously stated that with a view to safeguard the interest of farmers and to ensure the food security in the country, “it is emphasized that system of minimum support price (MSP) and the assured procurement of crops by Government of India must continue,” he said. The government had gone ahead to recommend that other MSP crops, where full and assured procurement is not being undertaken by the Government of India such as cotton, maize, oilseeds and pulses, should be procured fully at MSP fixed by Government of India to encourage farmers to diversify away from paddy which is water intensive. Capt Amarinder pointed out that the State Government had, in its written response, also said that “the EC Act must be continued for those crops in which India is defi- cient in order to prevent the exploitative action of the pri- vate sector by hoarding and black marketeering”. Thesharingpatternofmost ofschemesis60:40(Centre:State) and this needs to be changed to 90:10 for Punjab, as the state, while pioneering the green rev- olution in the country, played a major role in making the nation self-reliant in foodgrain pro- duction,thePunjabGovernment hadsubmitted,addingthatitwas nowtheCentre’sturntosupport the farmers. PRESENTATION OF FARM ORDINANCES IN PARLIA- MENT HAVE EXPOSED SAD FARCE, SAYS CAPT Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that the presen- tation of farm ordinances in the Parliament a day before by the Centre had totally exposed the farce of Shiromani Akali Dal’s pretense of protecting the inter- ests of the state’s farmers. With the BJP-led NDA Government going ahead with laying the ordinances on the table of the House on the very first day of the Parliament session, instead of accepting SAD’s so-called plea to defer the same, the Akali charade on the issue had been laid bare, said the Chief Minister. The fact that Sukhbir had stayed away from the House on Monday, when the ordinances were presented for legislation, showed that the entire drama of seeking postponement of their enactmentwasplayedoutbythe SAD president to appease the farmer organizations, which havebeenupinarmsagainstthe ordinances, Capt Amarinder said. “There is clearly a con- spiracy to undermine the farm- ers’ interests and that of the states, which are constitutional- ly-mandated to be responsible for agriculture,” said the Chief Minister,asking“whyelsewould Sukhbir conveniently remain awayfromtheParliamentonthe opening day itself?” SAD LEADERS MEET BJP PRESIDENT NADDA ON FARM BILLS Leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday met BJP national president J P Nadda in Delhi and urged him that the Centre address farmers' concerns over three farm bills and also sought that the pro- posed legislation be sent to a Parliamentary committee. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, Rajya Sabha members Balwinder Singh Bhunder, Naresh Gujral and senior leader Prem Singh Chandumajra met Nadda at his residence in Delhi and dis- cussed with him the issue of the three farm bills that were tabled in Parliament on Monday. The Centre on Monday had intro- duced three farm bills in Lok Sabha. These are The Farmers'' Produce Trade And Commerce (Promotion And Facilitation) Bill, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill. The SAD, which is part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), last week had appealed to the BJP-led Centre not to present the three farm ordinances for approval in Parliament until “all reserva- tions” expressed by farmers are duly addressed”. Many farm- ers'' outfits in Punjab have been holding protests against the three farm ordinances promulgated by the Centre. Farmers have expressed appre- hension that these three ordi- nances would pave the way for dismantling of the minimum support price system and they would be at the “mercy” of big corporates. They have been demanding rollback of these ordinances. Af_[RS4dVVdRa`]`XjWc`^F_Z`_Z_W`c^Zd]VRUZ_XdeReV^V_e 50AA38=0=24B88BBD4 7PahP]P2aTbdTbf^aZbaTeXTfb_a^VaTbb^UfT[UPaTbRWTTb 333 VKRXOG EH OLQNHG ZLWK +506 .KDWWDU ?=BQ 270=3860A7 Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday said that to ensure uninterrupted health services during the on- going COVID-19 Pandemic, an online health facility ‘Stay Home OPD’ has been started in the State under the name of ‘e- Sanjeevani OPD'. With this, people suffering from various health ailments can get themselves registered on the ‘e-Sanjeevani’ app to get free online medical consultation, said the Health Minister. Vij said that due to the dif- ficult circumstances arising due to COVID-19 Pandemic, peo- ple suffering from other med- ical ailments were facing a lot of problems, to solve which the Central Government has launched ‘e-Sanjeevani OPD'. This service has also been start- ed in Haryana, under which so far more than 1000 patients have benefited from it. This facility is being provided free of cost to all patients of the State. For this, patients will have to download the ‘e-Sanjeevani OPD’ app in their mobile, after which a token number will be generated. ²BcPh7^T ?3³QTVX]b X]7PahP]P BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 Delhi Assembly “committee on peace and harmony” expresseddispleasureoverflout- ing the directions of the notice issued to Facebook India’s vice- president and managing direc- tor Ajit Mohan by not appear- ing before the committee on Tuesday, which is looking into Facebook’s alleged role in Delhi riots in February. Chairman of the commit- tee Raghav Chadha said the Delhi legislative committee is operating in its constitutional- ly lawful jurisdiction and does not conflict or weaken the jurisdiction of the Central Government on similar issues. As per the judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India in State (NCT of Delhi) v. Union of India (2018) 8 SCC 501, the Legislative Assembly of the NCT of Delhi has legislative powers in respect of these sub- jects, and the Government of Delhi has the exclusive execu- tive power in respect of the same, he said, adding that the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Legislative Assembly (Assembly Conduct Rules) that have been framed under Section 33 of the GNCTD Act provides this com- mittee the powers to summon and ensure the presence of witnesses. It was also noted by the committee that despite being crystal clear about the objective behind calling the Facebook Officials, which on the face of it is distinguishable from that of the Parliamentary committee, Facebook chose to dishonour the powers and privileges of the committee in the garb of oblig- ing with the directives of the Parliamentary Committee. Chadha also clarified that the notice of appearance issued to Facebook is directly related to the incidents of violence/riots that occurred in the NCT of Delhi in February, 2020, whereas the proceed- ings in Parliament are on the subject “Safeguarding citizens’ rights and prevention of mis- use of social/online news media platforms including special emphasis on women security in the digital space”. “It is manifest from a perusal of this notice that the proceedings before the Parliament are in no way con- nected to the role of Facebook in the riots/violence in the NCT of Delhi in February, 2020. Therefore, the Committee considers this nothing but an untenable excuse by Facebook to defy the summons issued to them for examination on oath,” he said. It was further decided by the committee that in the event of subsequent default in com- plying to the orders of the com- mittee it shall be constrained to proceed against the Facebook India for committing the breach of committee’s privilege which shall follow consequent penal jurisdiction of the house under the relevant laws and rules and regulation. It isalso notedthat thepow- ers and privileges of the mem- bers and committees of the Delhi Legislative Assembly are sourced from Section 18 of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991 (“GNCTD Act”). Sub-section (3) thereof provides that the powers, privileges, and immu- nities of the Legislative Assembly, its members, and committees, would be the same as those enjoyed by the House of People, i.e. the Lok Sabha and its members and committees. This is pari-materia with Article 105 of the Constitution of India. The committee also clari- fied to the Facebook once again that refusal to appear before the committee for rea- sons which are evidently unten- able in law and facts, gives the committee the impression that they are attempting to conceal crucial facts in relation to Facebook’s role in the February 2020 violence/riots in Delhi and thus as a note of caution that the Committee advices as well as commands the to ensure your appearance in person on the next date of meeting. BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for bringing “anti-farmer laws” like Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance 2020. Addressing the media, Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann and Delhi MLA Jarnail Singh said that these bills are a step towards pri- vatising the farming industry; ‘minimum support price’ will be finished and these bills will give free hand to the private players. Jarnail Singh also said that the party believes that this bill is another step towards the devastation of Indian farmers. “In Punjab, Bharatiya Janata Party’s ally is Shiromani Akali Dal and they have also ruled Punjab for many years”, he said. BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) took a major step towards the devel- opment of an indigenously built Communication Based Train Control (CBTC)-based signalling technology for metro railway with the launch of i- ATS, which is an important sub system of the signalling system. This prototype system as well as a state of the art labo- ratory for further developing other sub- systems of indige- nous CBTC technology was inaugurated on Tuesday at Shastri Park by Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in the presence of DMRC’s Managing Director Dr Mangu Singh, Shikha Gupta, Director, BEL and other senior officials. Speaking on the occasion, Mishra said, “It is a really proud occasion to start something like this which is going to add to our strength on the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative. The way we havepromotedindigenisationin the development of Metros in the country, I am fully confident that this Indian system will also be sold outside and we will be the leaders in this area as well.” Dr Mangu Singh termed this achievement as a major step forward towards the develop- ment of indigenous technolo- gies required for the operation of Metro rail systems. “This is a very important step towards the development of an indige- nous CBTC system. I am sure that we will be able to work together and scale newer heights to completely indigenise Metro railway construction as well as operations,” he said. Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) is a com- puter based system, which manages train operations. 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- 3. dccPaPZWP]S347A03D=kF43=4B30H kB4?C414A %!! ?=BQ 347A03D= The number of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) patients in Uttarakhand mounted 34407 on Tuesday with the state health department reporting 1391 fresh cases of the disease. With the death of nine patients, the death toll increased to 438 in the state. The number of recovered patients remained above one thousand for the third consecutive day on Tuesday. On the day the authorities discharged 1008 patients from different hospitals of the state after their recovery. A total of 23085 patients have so far overcome the disease and the percentage recovery in the state is now at 67.09 percent. Out of the total samples test- ed 6.63 percent have tested positive. A total of 12611 samples are remaining untested in different laboratories of the state. Four patients of Covid-19 were report- ed dead at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh on Tuesday. Similarly three patients suc- cumbed to the disease at the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital on the day. Two patients expired at Sushila Tiwari government hospital, Haldwani. The provisional state capital continues to face the wrath of the disease with authorities reporting 421 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. In Udham Singh Nagar 318 patients were reported while 226 in Nainital, 219 in Haridwar and 51 patients were reported in Uttarkashi dis- trict on Tuesday. In Pauri 38 patients were reported while 31 in Tehri, 30 in Pithoragarh, 27 in Rudraprayag, 23 in Champawat and seven patients were reported in Chamoli district on Tuesday. Incidentally no case of the disease was reported from Almora and Bageshwar dis- tricts. Out of 1008 patients recovered on Tuesday, 228 are from Udham Singh Nagar, 223 from Dehradun, 110 from Nainital, 87 from Haridwar, 71 from Uttarkashi and 64 from Rudraprayag. Similarly 47 patients were cured in Almora, 45 in Champawat, 39 each in Tehri and Champawat, 25 in Bageshwar, 19 in Pauri and 11 in Chamoli were discharged on Tuesday. Uttarakhand now has 10739 active patients of the disease with Dehradun maintaining its top position in the table. Here 3477 active patients of the disease are there. Dehradun is followed by Haridwar with 2280 active patients while Udham Singh Nagar is at third position with 1270 active patients. Nainital has 1264, Pauri 540, Tehri 435, Uttarkashi 311, Champawat 270 and Pithoragarh 247 active patients of the disease. Rudraprayag has 227 active cases, Chamoli 168, Almora 116 and Bageshwar 134 active patients of the dis- ease. ?=BQ 347A03D= Paving the way for air ambu- lance services from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh, the Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA) has given the all important permission for air operations from the institute. Recently the AIIMS- Rishikesh had set up a helipad facility of Air Ambulance services and a successful trial landing on the strip was done. It is noteworthy that after the No Objection Certificate (NOC) of the DGCA, a trial landing was done here in the month of August, which was successful. The AIIMS- Rishikesh helipad was inaugu- rated by Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat on August 11. Confirming the develop- ment the director of the AIIMS Rishikesh Ravikant said that apart from the disasters and road accident injuries in the state, AIIMS institute is com- mitted to fully support the state government for the med- ical care of seriously ill patients from remote hilly areas. “Due to the occurrence of disasters in the state, people get trapped in the mountains and are unable to reach the hospital on time in case of an accident. Immediate treatment of patients and injured brought to AIIMS through Air ambulance can now be started with this permission,’’ he said. The in charge of AIIMS Heli Services, Dr Madhur Uniyal said that after getting permission from DGCA for regular aerial operation, air ambulance will now be able to operate smoothly on AIIMS helipad. He said that patients will be relieved from the risks of serious patients due to delay and patient transportation due to landing on IDPL helipad Rishikesh. ?=BQ 347A03D= The prices of vegetables have been hiked once again in Dehradun amid the increasing cases of Covid-19 when the financial crisis is already burn- ing a hole in the pocket of a common man. In the last seven to 10 days, the prices of veg- etables like onions, tomatoes, lady fingers and potatoes have doubled compared to the ear- lier rates of about Rs 25 to Rs 30 per kilogramme. However, some locals also stated that the prices of some vegetables are different at different places in the city. According to Aradhana Sharma, a resident of Dalanwala, various vendors and shopkeepers are selling the vegetables as per their wishes and no one is restrict- ing them. I bought onions and tomatoes from Dharmpur veg- etable market on Monday morning at the rate of Rs 50 per kilogramme and Rs 60 per kilogramme respectively. Later that day, my husband who was unaware of my earlier pur- chases, bought some vegetables at the rate of Rs 35 per kilo- gramme for onions, Rs 80 per kilogramme for tomatoes and Rs 50 per kilogramme for pota- toes near the same vegetable market. We paid the com- pletely different prices for the same vegetables and this is not something new. Such things are happening for weeks now- every vendor in every area is selling as per their wish and making extra bucks from the locals. At least, some authorities should moni- tor such situa- tions and ensure that no one is being exploited by any vegetable seller in the market, said Sharma. A v e g e t a b l e wholesaler also informed that the local vegetable ven- dors are buy- ing vegetables at very low prices but selling them as per their own set prices to earn huge profit. Talking about such issues, the secretary of Mandi Samiti, Vijay Thapliyal stated that the prices of some vegeta- bles generally go high during monsoon as it is still raining in many districts and states. However, he added that the vendors might be selling their vegetables at higher prices than they usually do but the Mandi Samiti cannot restrict the ven- dors from selling their products at certain prices or monitor them as they sell their products as per their business. However, he stated that the prices will return to normal possibly by O c t o b e r end. Meanwhile, Thapliyal added that Mandi Samiti is fol- lowing all the precautions in the Mandi and imposing fines on those who do not follow safety protocols. He also informed that Mandi Samiti still allows the entry of suppli- ers’ vehicles on the basis of odd-even system in the morn- ing and when the crowd appears less, the restriction is relaxed for vendors after 11 AM. ?=BQ 347A03D= Creating opportunities for job creation is the topmost priority of the state govern- ment. The Mukhyamantri Swarozgar Yojana (MSY) is a major tool for achieving this. The industry, agriculture, coop- eratives, animal husbandry, tourism, forest, power and other departments should fix targets for this purpose and do the needful. Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said this while chairing a meeting on employment generation with officials of various depart- ments here on Tuesday. The CM also directed heads of departments con- cerned to provide data on employment generated and self-employment facilitate dur- ing the past three and half years.Rawat also stressed that files in the secretariat should be processed swiftly in a time- bound manner. He also direct- ed the formation of a quick action team in the secretariat for monitoring and swift redressal of complaints. The CM stressed on prepa- ration of integrated work plan for maximising employment generation opportunities under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA). For this purpose, integrated district plan should be prepared and CAMPA governing body should meet once every two months. Utilising human resources in watershed projects, development of fruit belts and women nurseries along with protection from wild animals can provide employment opportunities for thousands of people, he said. Rawat further directed that local products and handicrafts should be encour- aged in accordance with the vision of going vocal for local. Officials were also directed to display boards at district and block headquarters providing information about funds approved in various depart- mental schemes. This will ensure that the general public is aware about the budget approved for particular work to particular department. The CM further directed that boards be put up to inform entrepreneurs, businessmen, tourists and general public. All important information should be displayed on such boards so that no body faces any problem, he said. Officials were also directed to prepare an action plan to encourage tourism activities in the state. Rafting and boating should also be started, he said. Rawat further directed that effective plans should be made to maximise employment opportunities under MSME and MNREGA. For smaller schemes, the small entrepre- neurs can take the benefit of MNREGA and MSME too with provision for Mudra loan and subsidy. Focus should also be laid on 50 day additional job creation under MNREGA in the rural areas, he stressed. Further, as many local youth as possible should be provided employment opportunities under the Jal Jeevan Mission. This will enable job creation while also helping in develop- ment of agriculture and horti- culture. The CM further suggested that the period of the Covid-19 pandemic should also be con- nected to the literacy campaign. Focus should also be laid on the ‘each one, teach one’ system. The CM stressed on the impor- tance of collective effort to make the state cent per cent lit- erate. Rural Development and Migration Commission vice chairman Sharad Singh Negi, chief secretary Om Prakash, additional chief secretaries Radha Raturi, Manisha Panwar, secretaries Amit Singh Negi, Dilip Jawalkar, Radhika Jha and other officials concerned were also present in the meeting. ?=BQ 347A03D= Taking the state government to the task for pushing the doctors and nurses on the path of agitation, the Uttarakhand unit of Aam Aadami Party (AAP) has said that Uttarakhand has become a ‘strike state’ under the present regime. The state spokesperson AAP, Ravindra Anand said here on Tuesday that instead of giving incentive to the health workers who are at the fore- front of war against the Covid- 19 pandemic and are working without taking a single leave for months, the state government is deducting their salaries. He said that first the doc- tors threatened to go on strike and now the nurses are on a path of agitation. Anand said that the teachers too have not received salaries for months. He added that pathetic condi- tion prevails in every depart- ment and everywhere the employees are threatening to go on a strike. The AAP leader said that the chief minister should come forward and inform about his plan to reverse the trend of strikes in the state. ?=BQ 347A03D= The Uttarakhand Education Department declares DAV Inter College, Karnpur as Atal Adarsh Vidyalay after the chairperson of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR), Usha Negi, recom- mended to the school educa- tion department in August to consider the school as a model for Atal Adarsh Vidyalay. In July, the principal of the said school, AK Srivastava wrote to Negi stating that in the Covid-19 pandemic, sev- eral parents of private schools are incapable of depositing fees or providing quality edu- cation to their children due to financial constraints. He said that DAV Inter College is over 115 years old and has sufficient means to provide quality education in English, so those parents who want to provide quality edu- cation to their children as per the fees set by the government can admit their children in the school. As per the princi- pal, the school has 43 well qualified teachers for all the subjects and sufficient class- rooms besides a huge library and science laboratories. Besides this, Negi informed that the school will also provide free admission to the girl students who do not get 25 per cent reservation after class six under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act in private schools. Stating that such schools that come forward to help students in such crisis should be sup- ported by the education department, Negi wrote to the department to consider the said school as a model for Atal Adarsh Vidyalay which the State Government is plan- ning to set up in every block as it already meets the stan- dards. Considering the letter, secretary of the school edu- cation department, R Meenakshi Sundaram declared the DAV school not just as a model but an Atal Adarsh Vidyalay while adding that the department will pro- vide support to the school too, as informed by Negi. ?=BQ 70;3F0=8 The movement in support of demanding fees exemption in private schools ended on the 43rd day after considerable drama. A local councillor Rohit Kumar climbed atop an over- head water tank and threatened to jump if the demand was not met. Police force and the leader of Opposition and Haldwani MLA Indira Hridayesh reached the protest site at Buddh Park. They tried to convince the councillor to climb down while shortly a student leader also climbed the water tank and caught hold of Kumar. However, while he was bring- ing him down, they were attacked by honey bees which created further commotion at the protest site. Earlier, councillor Mahesh Chand who was sitting on a protest fast unto death in sup- port of the demand was taken by the police and admitted to a hospital late on Monday night. On Tuesday, the pro- testers remained on the protest site. Another councillor Rohit Kumar climbed atop an over- head water tank. He threatened to jump down if the govern- ment didn’t meet the demand of fee exemption for private school students. A larger crowd gathered at the protest site after the coun- cillor climbed atop the water tank. Soon the police force and Hridayesh also arrived at the protest site. Some time later, student leader Yogendra Bisht also climbed the overhead water tank and caught hold of the councillor. He was bringing Kumar down with him when honey bees attacked. Later, the leader of opposition assured that she will raise the issue emphatically in the Vidhan Sabha. She administered juice to the protesters to break their demonstration. 4`gZU*eR]]j^`f_ed e`$%%!(Z_F¶YR_U ( UaTbW RPbTb]X]T STPcWbP]S 'aTR^eTaXTb aT_^acTS^] CdTbSPh (PSORPHQW JHQHUDWLRQ 6WDWH¶V WRS SULRULW VDV 0 EddQbQ[XQ^T RUS_]Y^WcdbY[U CdQdU*11@ 6^ecSTSdRcX]V bP[PaXTb^U f^aZTabPc U^aTUa^]c^U fPa^] _P]STXR) 0]P]S 6^ecSTR[PaTb30E8]cTa2^[[TVT Pb0cP[0SPabWEXShP[Ph 2^d]RX[[^a cWaTPcT]TSc^ Yd_^UUfPcTa cP]ZPccPRZTS QhW^]ThQTTb fWX[TQTX]V Qa^dVWcS^f] 6eSdeQdY^WfUWUdQRU`bYSUcR_dXUb_SQc ?a^cTbcSTP]SX]VUTTTgT_cX^]T]Sb^]#aSSPh 3620´b]^SU^aPXaPQd[P]RTbTaeXRTUa^088BA ?=BQ 347A03D= In a major decision which would clear the prevailing confusion about opening of schools, the Education Minister of Uttarakhand Arvind Pandey has said that in view of the worsening situation of Covid- 19 the schools would not open in the state from September 21. In a statement the minister said that he has directed the officials to the department that they should ensure that the schools are closed in the state till the sit- uation normalises. In the unlock IV guidelines the union government had allowed the state that schools can be opened from September 21. The directive of the cen- tre was conditional and the parents had the option of either sending or not sending their wards in the schools. As per the guideline, the schools can allow the students of classes IX to XII to visit schools for clearing their doubts. However confusion prevailed in Uttarakhand as the state administration had not issued any guideline for opening of schools. This con- fusion was cleared on Tuesday by the education min- ister himself. Pandey said that the children are our future and in no circumstances their lives can be put into danger. He said that all schools in the state would remain completely closed till further orders. 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- 4. ]PcX^]#347A03D=kF43=4B30H kB4?C414A %!! ?=BQ =4F34;78 Amid Opposition’s reser- vations about the possible entry of corporate houses, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed amendments to the Essential Commodities Act and a Bill mooting 30 per cent salary cuts for MPs in the wake of economic constraints due to the Covid-19 pandem- ic. Though the MPs support- ed the salary cut, a majority of them demanded the restora- tion of the MPLADS funds citing its need for the devel- opment in their respective constituencies. BJP ally Akali Dal urged the Government to clear the doubts in the minds of farm- ers on many points men- tioned in the amendments to the Essential Commodities Act. Akali Dal’s Sukhbir Singh Badal questioned the manner in which the ordinance was brought without having any consultation with farmers’ organisations. “The most affected are the farmers from Punjab. The farmers want clarification of their doubts; they fear that the multina- tionals will initially offer lucrative deals and then dom- inate the market,” said Badal. Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said there are a lot of ambiguities in the amendments and this would open up the entry of big industries to enter into the stock holding and distribution of agriculture products. “This is a way to make hoarders ‘Atmanirbhar’,” he said in a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for becoming self- reliant. “The hoarders can create multiple entities to stock com- modities. It is a highly cen- tralised law. Under the law, licences are not required for purchasing produces. Why does this government rely all the time on the ordinance route? What was the link between the ordinance and the pandemic, the Government should explain,” added Chowdhury. Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Raosaheb Patil Danve said: “The 1955 Act was brought at a time when we faced food scarcity, now we have surplus agriculture pro- duction. In order to reduce the losses, we should have food processing units, due to non availability of cold storages, farmers suffer losses. The proposed amendment will encourage competition and it will help farmers get fair price for their produces. The consumers will also benefit.” he said. Supporting the amend- ments, Bhartruhari Mahtab from BJD, said there was a need to remove many restric- tions in trade of agricultural commodities. “This reform will improve agricultural pro- duction, the Government should have done away with restriction on exports. We are self sufficient in food grains, we can counter China’s loan diplomacy with food diplo- macy,” he said. Earlier, Lok Sabha passed the bill reducing MPs’ salary by 30%. “The Government has taken unprecedented mea- sures to tackle Covid-19. C20 lakh crore had been allocated as Covid-19 package,” said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi justifying the salary cuts. However, majority of the MPs urged the Government to restore the MPLADS funds for the development of local areas. “Almost 80% of the fund is spent in rural areas; why are you taking away the funds meant to be spent on Scheduled Castes. Of the C2.69 lakh crore allocated during 2015-20 under the MPLAD head, C2.52 lakh crore was spent, such is the efficiency,” said Chowdhury, urging BJP MPs to pressurise the Government for the restora- tion of the MPLADS scheme. =DaRddVd6ddV_eZR]4`^^`UZeZVd2^V_U^V_e3Z]]#!#! ?=BQ =4F34;78 Rajya Sabha’s Committee on Petitions has recommended that the country’s entire flood forecastingnetworkanditsover- all efficacy should be evaluated by an independent, third party expert. The Committee also recommended building of more flood forecasting stations, espe- cially in States and adoption of latest technology being used in othercountriestoforecastfloods accurately. The Committee, headed by Prasanna Acharya, tabled its report in the Upper House, on the petition moved by Prof Raj Kachroo, a resident of Gurugram, Haryana ‘praying for development of capacity to make real time forecasting of floods so as to issue timely warning to the affected people’. The panel recommended both the Centre and the State gov- ernment to bring an immediate end to illegal construction activ- ities and vegetation on flood plains across the country. The Committee has asked the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to encourage C-DAC to specifi- cally develop supercomputer for flood forecasting system and implement 2D/3D dis- tributed model on a very fine resolution grid for better pre- diction thereby increasing data size. The Committee further recommends that the latest forecasting techniques present- ly being used by the other countries are required to be studied and a suitable method required to be adopted for purpose of the forecast The petition highlights the issues of negligence and inat- tention on parts of the Ministry of Jal Shakti (erstwhile Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation) and Ministry of Science and Technology in developing capacity for real time forecast- ing of floods and management of reservoirs, lack of any sig- nificant effort made by the Central Water Commission (CWC) in developing real time flood forecasting, exigency of developing the required exper- tise and capacity at home by roping in Universities across the country, and necessity of having legislation on Dam Safety. Calling for evaluation of the entire flood forecasting network, the Committee rec- ommended resolving the short- comings. 5[^^SU^aTRPbcX]VXcbTUUXRPRh bW^d[SQTTeP[dPcTSQh X]ST_T]ST]cTg_Tac)AB_P]T[ ?=BQ =4F34;78 Two tremors jolted India every day on an average over the last six months. The National Seismological Network recorded 413 earth- quakes in the country between March 1 and September 8 this year. Fortunately, 135 out of them were of magnitude 3.0 or lower which are “usually not felt”. The Ministry of Earth Sciences informed the Rajya Sabha about the quakes on Tuesday and also enlisted that there were five cyclones over the Arabian Sea in 2019 against the average of one per year. Also, 2019 witnessed the devel- opment of more intense cyclones over the Arabian Sea. # TPacW`dPZTb aTR^aSTSUa^Pa c^BT_c'X]8]SXP ?=BQ =4F34;78 The NIA has arrested a key accused in Visakhapatnam Espionage Case, Giteli Imran (37), a resident of Panchmahal, Godhra, Gujarat. The Visakhapatnam Espionage Case of NIA, Hyderabadwasregisteredunder various sections of IPC includ- ing criminal conspiracy and waging war against the nation besides relevant provisions of Unawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Official Secrets Act for his involvement in espionage activities and working for Pak ISI. The case relates to an inter- national espionage racket in which Pakistan-based spies recruitedagentsinIndiaforcol- lecting sensitive and classified information on movement of Indian Naval Ships and Submarines. ?=BQ =4F34;78 The Union Home Ministry on Tuesday told Parliament that unexpected movement of large number of migrant workers during lockdown was triggered by panic created by fake news. “The migration of a large number of migrant workers was triggered by panic cre- ated by fake news regarding the duration of lockdown. And people, especially migrant labourers, were wor- ried about an adequate sup- ply of basic necessities like food, drinking water, health services and shelter. However, the central gov- ernment was fully conscious of this, and took all necessary measures to ensure that dur- ing the period of the inevitable lockdown, no cit- izen should be deprived of basic amenities of food, drinking water, medical facil- ities etc,” MoS Home G Kishan Reddy said in a reply to an unstarred question by TMC MP Mala Roy. She had asked the reasons why thou- sands of these labourers ended up walking home post lockdown. However, in reply to MP Mala Roy’s another question regarding the number of people who died during the said migration, the Minister said the Centre does not have the data as it is not main- tained centrally. The MHA further listed out the measures taken to contain the spread of Covid- 19 in the country. On Monday, Union Minister of Labour and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar had informed Parliament that the exodus saw over one crore migrant workers return to their native States. 5PZT]TfbcaXVVTaTSd]Tg_TRcTS ^eTT]c^UXVaP]cbSdaX]V [^RZS^f]?Pa[XPT]cc^[S :ThPRRdbTSX]EXiPV 4b_X^]PVTRPbTX]=80]Tc ?=BQ =4F34;78 Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed ‘The Aircraft (Amendment) Bill, 2020’ pro- viding for statutory backing to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and entailing increasing the fine for viola- tions from C10 lakh to C1crore. The Bill was passed by a voice vote after an hour-long dis- cussion. The legislation had already been cleared by the Lok Sabha in March this year. Under the new Act (after its implementation), any vio- lation will attract heavy pun- ishment, for example, violators will be punished up to two years in jail or fine up to C10 lakh or both. Carrying arms, ammunition, and explosives or other banned goods on board, and developing illegal con- struction around the airports will attract fines up to C10 lakhs to C1 crore. Replying to the debate, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the Government in the last three years has recruited 1,000 air traffic controllers as against requirement of 3,500 such offi- cials. “India is the third largest market globally after the United States and China, and India is growing rapidly in the aviation sector, in terms of pas- sengers’ growth and aircraft in the skies ,” he said. Earlier, opposition parties had opposed the Bill, and Congress’ Rajyasabha MP KC Venugopal raised concern over “many vacancies in the aviation industry”. He also pointed out to the near-misses of the air- craft in the skies for last many years. Former Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said that airlines are financially stressed due to COVID-19 and need support from the government. Stating the importance of civil aviation sector in the country, he said: “Four to five per cent people of the country board flights one time in a year. If this number goes up to 10-15 per cent, we would need a huge increase in the number of air- ports and aircraft.” Replying to issues raised by Congress member, Puri said Venugopal should look at the issue of privatisation in a his- torical context. The country’s largest airports Delhi and Mumbai were successfully pri- vatised in 2006 under a previ- ous political dispensation, and proceeds from the process have resulted in getting resources to develop airport infrastructure in the country, he noted. Since the privatisa- tion of Mumbai and Delhi airports, the Airports Authority of India has received C29,000 crore, Puri said. On the Congress’ charge of allotting six airports to one group, Puri said the Delhi and Mumbai airports account for 33 percent of air traffic and earnings. The six airports that were awarded in 2018 togeth- er account for only nine per cent of traffic and earnings, he said. On Air India’s privatisa- tion, he said, “If I could help it, we would keep it, but with C60,000 crore debt, the choice is not between privatisation and not privatisation. Some of my colleagues should realise that the choice is between pri- vatisation and closing down.” ?=BQ =4F34;78 ABill that seeks to accord the status of an institution of national importance to a Jamnagar-based cluster of three Ayurveda institutes — Institute of Post Graduate Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Gulabkunwerba Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya and Institute of Ayurveda Pharmaceutical Sciences was introduced in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Approved by Lok Sabha in the last session, the Bill ‘The Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill, 2020,’ was introduced by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday here. Moving the Bill for pas- sage, Vardhan said this for the promotion of quality and excellence in education, research and training in Ayurveda and allied disci- plines. “This is going to be the first institution in the country in the field of Ayurveda to be given the status of an institu- tion of national importance. This is one of the oldest in the country under the Government sector. 10 per cent of Ayurveda research pub- lications are from this insti- tute,” he said. The Institute of Post Graduate Teaching and Research in Ayurveda is the only centre, which is a WHO collaborating centre and is the only institution, where PG and research facility is avail- able. “This is a first attempt to give such recognition to an Ayurveda institution, which has already attained an international stature,” the Minister added. ?=BQ =4F34;78 Of the nearly 10 lakh active cases in the country, at least close to half (48.8 per cent) are concentrated in three States — Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh while Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Kerala and Telangana con- tribute close to a quarter (24.4 per cent) of the active cases. In contrast, there are 14 states and Union territories where the total number of active cases are less than 5,000 while 18 States and Union ter- ritories are reporting cases between 5,000-50,000, the gov- ernment said on Tuesday as the country’s tally went past 49 lakh. India’s Covid-19 tally surged to 4,930,236 on Tuesday after 83,809 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry. The country also recorded 1,054 new fatalities due to the viral disease during the same period, taking its death toll to 80,776. Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary said during a press conference here that there are 990,061 active cases and 38,59,399 patients have been discharged across the country. He added there are only four states, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, in the country where the total num- ber of active cases is more than 50,000. Bhushan also said the country’s average positivity rate is 8.4% and that Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, has 21.4 per cent. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, he said account for 60 per cent of total active cases in the coun- try. 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- 5. ]PcX^]$347A03D=kF43=4B30H kB4?C414A %!! ?=BQ 90D Alert jawans of the Border Security Force ( BSF) late Monday night foiled a major infiltration bid along the International border with Pakistan after exchanging heavy volume firing with the group of five infiltrators in the Samba sector of Jammu fron- tier. The BSF jawans had even illuminated the area using Para bombs to track down the foot prints of these heavily armed terrorists as they retreated back inside the Pak territory. The BSF authorities are going to lodge a strong protest with the Pakistan Rangers for extending an helping hand to these armed terrorists to sneak inside the Indian territory. A BSF spokesman in Jammu said, “on the interven- ing night of 14-15 Sep 2020, alert troops of BSF foiled an infiltration bid from the Pakistan side in the Samba Sector”. The spokesman said, ini- tially the suspicious movement of a group of 05 terrorists was noticed on the Pakistan side of the International boundary of Samba sector which was tracked by the alert BSF troops”. He said, “ at about 12.30 am the group of heavily armed 05 terrorists were seen by alert BSF troops coming close to the International boundary. He said the terrorists reached there tak- ing advantage of an undulating terrain and thick wild growth”. BSF spokesman said, “after alerting all the BSF duty points when BSF troops challenged them to stop they fired on BSF party with heavy volume of fire. BSF troops retaliated in self defence with coordinated effec- tive fire and foiled a possible infiltration bid attempt of armed terrorists from Pakistan side helped by Pakistan rangers”. “Area was illuminated with the help of Para bomb and BSF troops saw fleeing ter- rorists toward Pakistan side. The area was searched but nothing recovered as terrorists could not cross the IB”,BSF spokesman added. 3D7 W`Z]dARSZUe` Z_WZ]ecReVeVcc`cZded 80=B Q ?0C=0 At least 18 persons were killed in light- ning strikes in 10 districts of Bihar on Tuesday, even as the Meteorological Department cautioned people not to move about in open places due to fear of lightning and heavy rain in the next 24 hours. Lightning detection centres have been established in Madhubani, Katihar, and Gaya. Teams from the state disaster management authority have been asked to remain on standby. Four deaths due to lightning were reported from Raghavpur block in Vaishali district, two each from Rohtas, Bhojpur and Gopalganj, and Saran dis- tricts, and one each from Patna, Begusarai, Araria, Supaul, and Kaimur and another district after heavy rain on Tuesday after- noon. The officials said that over 330 per- sons had lost their lives due to lightning strikes this year, including 100 on June 24. 1XWPa) 'ZX[[TSX] [XVWc]X]VbcaXZTb ?A0344?B0G4=0Q 0;860A7 CWT^X]dSSX]0WPS0ac6P[[Tah P]ScWT3T_PacT]c^U5X]T0acb 0[XVPaWdb[XD]XeTabXchY^X]c[h ^aVP]XbTSP]8]cTa]PcX^]P[EXacdP[ 0ac4gWXQXcX^]°0FP[Z8]CXT±X] P30ac6P[[Tah1Ta[X]6TaP]h fXcWX]eXcTSPacXbcbUa^ % R^d]caXTbX]R[dSX]VDB6TaP]h CdaZThP]SBPdSX0aPQXPP]S $ Pacf^aZb_dc^]SXb_[PhX]cWT bW^f 78C:0=370A8Q 90D The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) early Tuesday morning swooped down on the premises of the for- mer BJP Minister and Chairman of the Dogra Swabhimaan Sangathan Lal Singh across multiple locations in Kathua and Jammu districts in connection with a land grab case. The firebrand leader had parted ways with the BJP after he was shown the exit door from the council of ministers during Rasana rape and murder case involving an eight year old nomadic girl. Singh had later floated Dogra Swabhimaan Sangathan and had unsuccessfully contested 2019 Lok Sabha polls from both the Lok Sabha seats of Jammu province. According to official sources, “CBI sleuths raided the residential premises of Lal Singh in Kathua and Jammu along with few other locations around 7.00 am early Tuesday.Two separate CBI teams carried out these raids in con- nection with a land grab case”. CBI had formally registered a case against RB Educational Trust, run by the family members of Lal Singh, and others including the then DC Kathua (JK), the then Tehsildar, then Naib Tehsildar, the then Girdawar, the then Patwari and other unknown persons on the allegations of having facilitated the trust to possess land much beyond the ceiling limit, and submitting false affidavits in support of the trust, causing losses to the State exchequer. The raids were going on dur- ing the day across nine different locations ( three in Jammu and six at Kathua) includ- ing the office of RB Education Trust. Earlier, on June 25, CBI had registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against RB Educational Trust to probe into the alle- gations of illegal gratification and extra- neous consideration by the revenue and for- est officials of Kathua district in allowing the sale and purchase of forest land. :D0A274;;0??0=Q :278 Normal life was thrown out of rails by the BJYM (the youth brigade of the BJP) across Kerala on Tuesday as they took out processions and rallies in district headquarters demanding the immediate resignation or sacking of higher Education Minister KT Jaleel and Industries Minister EP Jayarajan who are in the eyes of controversies for their association with gold smuggling scam and LIFE Mission corruption charges. Things are likely to turn for the worst on Wednesday when BJP’s state presi- dent K Surendran will take out a pro- cession to the Secretariat. This is the second day in succession the State is coming to a standstill fol- lowing widespread stand off between the demonstrators and police. On Monday the activists of the Mahila Morchcha had shocked the police in the capital city by laying siege to the Secretariat. Hence the police came fully prepared on Tuesday morning to prevent untoward inci- dents of any kind. But the BJYM which staged a rally in front of the Secretariat refused to dis- perse despite the urging by police offi- cers. “We will disperse only after Jaleel and Jayarajan submit their resigna- tions or the chief minister sacks these ministers,” retorted VV Rajesh, gener- al secretary of the BJP who led the rally. The Police resorted to lathi charge, bursting of tear gas shells and water can- nons. 19?PRcXeXbcbaP[[hcWa^fb ]^aP[[XUT^dc^UVTPaX]:TaP[P Jammu:Notwithstanding resis- tance shown by the separatists and mainstream politicians against acquiring Domicile cer- tificates more than 4 lakh resi- dentsacrosskashmirvalleyhave been issued these certificates by the Union Territory adminis- tration while 1 lakh applications were under process till September 14. According to a press state- ment issued by the Department of Information and Public rela- tions, “over 16.79 lakh persons across twenty districts of the Jammu and Kashmir union ter- ritoryhavebeenissuedDomicile certificates till September 14, 2020”. As per the figures, total 2113879 lakh applied for the issuance of the certificate of which 1679520 were issued the domicile till September 14. The certificates issued include over 4.16 lakh in Kashmir division and 12.44 lakh in Jammu division. The figures also revealed that 19571 West Pakistani Refugees, 2424 Balmiki com- munity members and 765 Gorkha Community members were also issued domicile cer- tificates under clause 2. Of the total Domicile cer- tificates issued in the UT, over 14.32 lakh were issued to the PRC holders (clause 1(a) and Clause 1(b), 1.38 lakh under clause 2(a) and Clause 2(b) (to statesubjectapplicantsandnon- statesubjectapplicantsandtheir children), including 1.01 lakh to state subjects and 45794 to non- state subject; 34045 to the stu- dents under (clause3) including 24455 state subjects and 9590 non-state subjects; and 18612 to Kashmiri Migrants/ children ( Clause 4). PNS :D0A274;;0??0=Q :278 Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday warned those creating a raucous all over the State under the garb of agitations have only one intention and that is to facilitate the spread of Covid-19 pandemic across Kerala. Briefing the media, Vijayan came down heav- ily on the BJP and its frontal organisations which he alleged were trying to sabotage the good works his Government was doing to control the coro- navirus. “These are not agitations but an apology under the garb of agitations. These is no situa- tion in Kerala which warrants an agitation. Their intention is to destroy the peace and tranquilli- ty prevailing in the State by spreading rumours, lies and half truths. The Government will take strong action against those who try to spread the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Vijayan while referring to the State-wide agitations unleashed by the BJP. /DQG JUDE FDVH %, VHDUFKHV /DO 6LQJK V SUHPLVHV LQ -DPPX .DWKXD C=A067D=0C70Q D108 Seven persons involved in Friday’s assault on a retired petty Navy officer at Kandivli in north-Mumbai were re-arrested by the Samata Nagar police here on an added charge of tres- pass, but were released on bail against a personal bond of C15,000 each. The seven Shiv Sainiks-- Shiv Sena Shakha Pramukh KamleshKadamandfiveoftheir associatesSanjayManjre,Rakesh Belnekar, Pratap Sund Vera, Sunil Desai and Rakesh Mulik who had been arrested and later released on bail on Saturday in connection with the incident – were re-arrested on Monday night, after the Samata Nagar police invoked section 452 ( Housetrespassafterpreparation forhurt,assaultorwrongfulcon- finement of IPC. The invocation of section 452 of IPC and subsequent arrests of the six Sainiks had comeafterwide-spreadcriticism of the Kandivli police for allegedly dealing with the ruling Sena activists with kid gloves. ThesixarrestedShivSainiks were on Tuesday afternoon pro- duced before a Borivali Magistrate’s Court which remandedinjudicialcustodyfor 14 days. However, the lawyer for theaccusedsubsequentlymoved abailpleasbeforethesamecourt which released them on a bail against a personal bond for C15,000 each. Jaipur: Taking every person seriously the corona epidemic, wear- ing a mask essentially, keeping social distancing and following the health protocol completely, the ever increasing corona infection can be completely controlled. The greatest need of the hour is that awareness of the corona be given the shape of a social movement. This emerged prominently during the Corona Awareness Dialogue on Tuesday at a Panchayat level through video confer- ence with expert practitioners. In addition to regional TV chan- nels, social media platforms - Facebook, YouTube, this awareness dialogue was broadcast live through more than 8 thousand e-Mitra Plus centers and webcasts. Live broadcast of this program got mil- lions of people from the state and other parts of the country. Members of the state cabinet, MPs, MLAs, officials of the admin- istration and police of the state, principals of the medical college, CMHO, PMO and doctors, Gram Panchayat level public repre- sentatives and personnel also became part of this discussion. In this open platform awareness dialogue, Dr. Naresh Trehan, MD, Medanta Hospital, Gurugram of the country, Dr. SK Sarin, Director of ILBS, New Delhi, Dr. Devi Shetty, President, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, effectively addressed the Panchayat level Gave useful information to the people of Corona for rescue. C=A067D=0C70Q D108 In an apparent counter to the effort by the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to politicise the alleged assault on a retired Navy man at Kandivli by some ruling Shiv Sainiks, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of the NCP on Tuesday ordered investigations against BJP MP Unmesh Patil for the alleged assault on an Army veteran Sonu Mahajan in 2016. Taking to twitter on Tuesday, Deshmukh said: “In 2016 the BJP MLA and incumbent MP Shri Unmesh Patil and others had attacked retired Soldier Shri Sonu Mahajan. The then state BJP Government did not give justice to Shri Mahajan. I have received several applications in this matter and have ordered investiga- tion in this matter”. “The offence was committed in 2016 but due to the State BJP Government protection to Shri Patil no FIR was filed. In 2019 on Hon'ble High Court directions a FIR was filed but no fur- ther legal action has been taken against Shri Patil and others,” Deshmukh said in another tweet. Maharashtra Congress general secretary and spokesperson Sachin Sawant, who had on Sunday alleged that the BJP MP had tried to kill Army veteran Mahajan during chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ tenure, slammed the previous BJP govern- ment for its failure to act against the BJP MP concerned. NewDelhi:The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor (HORC) project and a new AIIMShospitalinDarbanghain poll-bound Bihar. The HORC from Palwal to Sonipat via Sohna-Manesar- Kharkhauda will be imple- mented in a joint venture between the Railways and Haryana Government. The 122-km project worth more than Rs.5617 crore will facilitate diversion of traffic not meant for Delhi and will help in developing multimodal logistics hubs in Haryana State sub- region of NCR. This ambitious project is expected to be completed in fiuive years. “This Rail Line will start from Palwal and end at existing Harsana Kalan station (On Delhi-Ambala section). This will also give connectivity enroute to existing Patli Station (On Delhi-Rewari line), Sultanpur station (On Garhi Harsaru-FarukhnagarLine)and Asaudha Station (On Delhi RohtakLine),”saidGovernment instatement,addingthatprivate stake holders will be accommo- dated in the project to de-congest Delhi. The districts of Palwal, Nuh, Gurugram, Jhajjar and Sonipat districts of Haryana will be benefitted through this rail line. PNS ?=BQ =4F34;78 Amid the gradual opening up of the economy and consequent rise in Covid-19 cases, the Government on Tuesday told Parliament that the battle against the virulent virus is far from over but asserted that the lockdown from March 25 to May 31 successfully controlled the aggressive progression of the disease. At the same time, it admitted that there has been a steady rise in the number of cases in the post-lockdown phase. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Vardhan said that the government is taking all nec- essary measures to prevent the spread of the disease. “It is important that sustained com- munity support is ensured to control the spread of the virus and break its chain of trans- mission.” “We are in the stage of unlocking to revive the econ- omy and it’s important that sus- tained community support is ensured consistently to control the spread of COVID-19 infec- tion and break its chain of transmission,’’ he said. “I want to remind the members that the battle against Covid-19 is far from over. I wish to inform the house that the government is taking all necessary measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in India,” said Vardhan. 0CC02:==0EH0=8=D108 DFWLYLVWV UHDUUHVWHG UHOHDVHG RQ EDLO C=A067D=0C70Q D108 With no money to eke their living, 99 per cent 3000- odd “out of work” Covid 19- hit commercial sex workers (CSWs) from Pune’s infamous Budhwar red-light area have made up their mind to quit their profession and are looking alternative livelihood options, according NGO Asha Care Trust. Over the period of lock- down, the demand for sex work has dried down forcing sex workers to borrow loans for sur- vival. The findings of a survey conducted by Asha Care Trust, a forum that works towards the welfare of sex workers, reveal that 85 per cent of the workers have taken loans and over 98% of them have taken it from their brothel owners, managers and moneylenders, subjecting them- selves to further exploitation. Budhwar Peth is India’s third-largest red-light area which nearly houses 700 broth- els and around 3,000 commer- cial sex workers. PWP7 ^aSTab_a^QTX]c^PbbPd[c ^]0aheTcTaP]Qh19? P] EXYPhP]fPa]b__^bXcX^]P[[TVTb R^]b_XaPRhc^bPQ^cPVT6^ecbf^aZb 9:) eTa#[PZW aTRTXeTS^XRX[T RTacXUXRPcTb $08 RUJDQLVHV LQW¶O YLUWXDO DUW H[KLELWLRQ APY2 R^]SdRcbR^a^]P PfPaT]TbbSXP[^VdT ?P]STXRWXc ?d]TbTgf^aZTab [^^ZU^a^cWTa [XeT[XW^^S 2T]caTP__a^eTb7A2_a^YTRc ]Tf088BW^b_X]3PaQWP]VP 6^eccPZX]VP[[]TRTbbPahbcT_bc^ _aTeT]cb_aTPS^UeXadb)EPaSWP] C=A067D=0C70Q D108 Maharashtra breached a landmark of 30,000 deaths on Tuesday, as an all- time high 515 people suc- cumbed to Covid-19, while 20,482 more people tested pos- itive for the pandemic in vari- ous parts of the state. Tuesday’s fatality tally of 515 is more than 495 deaths recorded in the state on September 10. With the fresh deaths reported on Tuesday, the total deaths mounted from 29,894 to 30,409. With 20,482 fresh infec- tions, the total infected cases in the state jumped from 10,77,374 to 10,97,856. Of the total 515 deaths reported on Tuesday, Nagpur accounted for a maximum of 88 deaths, while there were 60 deaths in Thane, 50 in Pune, 49 each in Mumbai and Kolhapur, 38 in Sangli, 22 each in Ahmednagar and Jalgaon, 16 in Solapur, 14 in Raigad, 13 in Latur and 10 each in Palghar, Nashik and Aurangabad. Similarly, in the lower range, there were 7 fatalities each in Satara, Beed and Gondia, 6 each in Nandurbar, Osmanabad, Nanded and Bhandara, 5 in Yavatmal, 2 each in Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri and Jalna and one death each in Akola, Amravati and Chandrapur. In addition, 5 persons from other states or countries died in Maharashtra. PWPbTTbP[[cXTWXVW^U$$ UPcP[XcXTb
- 6. N one less than the Chinese leader Xi Jingping himself has conceded that the world’s largest stand- ing military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with more than 2.1 million active- duty strength, is afflicted by the “Peace Disease.” Since taking over the reins of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the General Secretary and chairman- ship of the Central Military Commission (CMC) in 2012, Xi has unleashed transformational investments and restructuring in the PLA in terms of doctrinal, strategic, technological, cultural and on-boarding of weapon plat- forms. Yet, he remains acutely conscious of the combat inexpe- rience that besets a military force that has not been tested since 1979, where it came a cropper against a decidedly inferior Vietnamese force. Importantly, the Vietnamese forces that had fought the Chinese in 1979 were still blood-soaked from fighting the American forces for nearly two decades, and had even worn out the supposedly better organised, trained and equipped military then. The essential mass of the Chinese PLA in 1979 had last seen a full theatre-level combat only in the early 1950s (Korean War) and soldiers, therefore, were raw and untested when they had taken on the Vietnamese. They were soon made to pay a price for lazily assuming that a larger force, bet- ter equipment and aggressive pos- turing could compensate for com- bat inexperience. It is this forebod- ing pertaining to the obvious inexperience of today’s PLA that Xi has been alluding to in the con- text of “Peace Disease,” even as it continues its optics of aggressive posturing, intimidation and glob- al expansionism. There are other elements compounding the “Peace Disease” that are pertinent in questioning the core spirit of PLA’s fighting abilities. First, the perennial con- cern of ensuring PLA’s loyalty and subservience to the civilian CCP – this got magnified by the purges initiated against the PLA Generals in the initial Xi years and elevat- ing his own “young guard.” Not only was this “young guard” of post-1979 vintage but the essen- tiality of “unity of command” in a Chinese combat unit (at compa- ny levels) is always diluted and compromised with the shared command responsibility of the political officers, who are responsible for ensuring the non-military task of loyalty to the party, i.e. CCP. A vital chink in the structural forma- tion of the PLA is the relative under-development of the non- commissioned officers (NCO cadre), which is invaluable for operational efficacy. The steel of the Indian Army that shone in the Kargil operations was attributable among other things to the “junior command” that led from the front, where the role of NCO cadre was signif- icant. Unlike the militaries of India (or even Pakistan), which are bloodied in real time oper- ational experience in internal urgencies or restive borders, the Chinese “Peace Disease” comes with accompanying laxities. Even the 1967 Nathu La and Cho La border clashes in the Indo-China history were symp- tomatic of a recalibrated Indian military that was by then bat- tle-hardened and in a very dif- ferent frame of mind from the Indian military of 1962. Undoubtedly, China has embarked on mammoth mili- tary investments that ensure that its annual budgetary allo- cation (estimated at $261-266 billion in 2019) towards its armed forces is almost four times that of India. There is debatable realism about the Chinese claims in cutting-edge military technologies (the Chengdu J-20 Stealth ‘5th gen- eration’ fighter plane) or about the quality of training, restruc- turing, command systems and so on. Despite its claimed pro- ficiency in indigenous weapon- ry, China has openly sought S- 300 and S-400 anti-aircraft systems, SU-27 and SU-35 fighter jets from Russia, among other platforms and technolo- gies to “reverse engineer.” But where the Chinese score over countries like India is in the way they have internalised “security” as an integral com- ponent of their national vision, international manoeuvres and strategic calculus for all policy decisions, be it internal or external. Whereas, beyond selective invoking of the “Indian soldier” whenever ten- sions looms, the Indian gover- nance has diminished the role, relevance or priority on defence matters and only displays knee- jerk or politically competitive “investments” in the said domain. Ironically the mis- management of India’s domes- tic affairs by its political class- es has ensured that the armed forces have not suffered any “Peace Disease.” Battle experience is one of the most important features that determines the fate of forces, along with others like the lethality of weapons, processes, leadership, numeri- cal strength or even environ- mental factors like social, cul- tural or political moorings. Japan’s “banzai” culture and motivation levels could com- pensate for material disadvan- tages. The numerically far- superior and experienced Iraqi military (after the decade long Iran-Iraq war) got decimated within 100 hours by the supe- riority of American weapons, training and professionalism in the first Gulf War. At the same time, the same battle-experi- enced and obviously more pro- fessional American military has been forced to “pull out” of Afghanistan when faced by the rag-tag Taliban militia who neither have the matching weaponry, training, nor the infrastructural wherewithal. The Chinese awkwardness with the reciprocal stare-down at Doklam, Galwan gallantry and recent operations of the Indian Army in occupying advantageous heights is reflec- tive of the “Peace Disease” that has been sought to be compen- sated by sabre-rattling, deceit and troops/infrastructural build-up. Lieutenant General He Lei of the PLA had famously remarked a couple of years ago that his biggest regret before retiring was that he never fought a war – his successors are even more distant from war experience, whereas, those on the other side may have other concerns and deficiencies, but “Peace Disease” is certainly not one of them. 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