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‘Pakistan PM Imran Khan lobbied
for his ‘old friend’ Navjot Sidhu’
Chandigarh: Punjab’s
former Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh’s seat
sharing announcement
with the BJP was ac-
companied by a shocker
– one about his arch-ri-
val Navjot Sidhu and his
old cricketing buddy,
Pakistan Prime Minis-
ter Imran Khan.
Soon after dropping
Sidhu from his cabinet,
he had received a call
from a mutual acquaint-
ance from Pakistan,
Singh told reporters.
“The Pakistan Prime
Minister had sent a re-
quest, saying if you can
take back Sidhu into
your Cabinet I will be
grateful, he is an old
friend of mine,” he said.
Delhi court
frames sedition
charges against
Sharjeel Imam
New Delhi: A Delhi
court on Monday
framed charges against
JNU student Sharjeel
Imam for allegedly
making inflammatory
speeches at Aligarh
Muslim University and
in Delhi’s Jamia area
against CAA.
Additional sessions
judge Amitabh Rawat
framed the charges un-
der Sections 124A (sedi-
tion) among others. The
FIR was against Imam
was registered on Janu-
ary 25, 2020 with regard
to speeches made in the
Jamia area on Decem-
ber 13, 2019.
DRUG CASE: HC
REJECTS BAIL
PLEA OF MAJITHIA
AMARINDER ON 37,
BJP ON 65 SEATS
SP-RLD ALLIANCE
RUNS INTO TROUBLE
RAWAT TO CONTEST
FROM RAMNAGAR
NO SAINT CAN BE CM:
SEER ON ADITYANATH
Chandigarh: BJP will contest
65 seats in Punjab elections
while former Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh’s new party
Punjab Lok Congress has
got 37 and their third alli-
ance partner Shiromani Akali
Dal (Samyukt) getting 15.
Lucknow: The Samajwadi
Party- Rashtriya Lok Dal
alliance has run into trouble
with RLD chief Jayant
Chaudhary facing strong
dissent from his party’s top
Jat leaders in Siwalkhas
constituency, located in
Meerut but under the
Baghpat Parliamentary seat.
The disagreement is over
the candidature of Ghulam
Mohammed, a SP member.
New Delhi: The Congress on
Monday released its second
list of 11 candidates for Utta-
rakhand assembly elections
and fielded former chief
minister Harish Rawat from
the Ramnagar assembly
constituency. The Congress
also fielded Anukriti Gusain
Rawat, daughter-in-law of
Harak Singh Rawat, from
the Lansdowne assembly
constituency. Full list on P6
Lucknow: A saint cannot
be a chief minister as after
taking the oath of secularism
as a constitutional dignitary,
he cannot stay “religious”, a
prominent seer said on Mon-
day, in an apparent reference
to UP CM Yogi Adityanath.
Chandigarh: The Pun-
jab and Haryana High
Court on Monday dis-
missed the anticipa-
tory bail plea of SAD
leader Bikram Singh
Majithia in the alleged
drugs case. Majithia,
who is facing an FIR
registered by Punjab
Police in an NDPS
case, is presently on
interim anticipatory
bail. The interim bail
has been granted
to him by the High
Court on a condition
of cooperation in the
investigation.
Witnesses saw bright flashes arcing over the Emirati
capital Abu Dhabi in the early hours of Monday morning as
two ballistic missiles were intercepted, scattering debris
WAR!
WORLD
WORLD
at
UAE jet bombsrebels’ big launcher after
YemenfiresmissilesatAbuDhabi,SaudiArabia
Mohd Fahad
Sanaa (Yemen):
Yemen rebels fired
missiles at the Unit-
ed Arab Emirates
and Saudi Arabia,
with coalition forces
hitting back by blow-
ing up the insur-
gents’ launchpad as
a sharp escalation of
hostilities entered a
second week on
Monday.
The attack came a
week after the Iran-
backed Huthi rebels
killed three people
in a drone and mis-
sile assault on the
city triggering a vol-
ley of deadly air
strikes on Yemen.
Separately, mis-
siles were fired on
Saudi Arabia in
southern regions
bordering Yemen,
with two people
wounded in Jazan,
and another missile
intercepted over
Dhahran al-Janub.
The UAE said an
F16 fighter jet de-
stroyed a Huthi mis-
sile launcher in Al-
Jawf in northern
Yemen at 4:10 am
(0110 GMT).
NATO puts ships, jets on standby amid
fears of Russian invasion of Ukraine
The move added to a flurry of signals that the West is
bracing for an aggressive Russian move against Ukraine,
though Moscow denies any plan to invade
Ky iv / B r u s s e l s :
NATO said on Mon-
day it was putting
forces on standby
and reinforcing east-
ern Europe with
more ships and fight-
er jets in response to
Russia’s military
build-up at Ukraine’s
borders.
The move added to
a flurry of signals
that the West is brac-
ing for an aggressive
Russian move
against Ukraine,
though Moscow de-
nies any plan to in-
vade.
“I welcome allies
contributing addi-
tional forces to
NATO,” the Western
military alliance’s
Secretary-General
Jens Stoltenberg said
in a statement.
Britain said it was
withdrawing some
staff and dependants
from its embassy in
Ukraine.
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The Supreme Court Monday said it would hear on Tuesday a petition which
has sought quashing of the Centre’s alleged decision by which 5,789 entities
lost their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration. The FCRA
registration is mandatory for any association and NGO to receive foreign
funding. The petition is filed by US-based NGO ‘Global Peace Initiative’.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can take his legal fight against extradi-
tion to the United States to Britain’s Supreme Court, the United Kingdom’s
High Court has ruled. While the court in London gave Assange permission to
appeal, the Supreme Court must agree to accept the case before it can move
forward. The decision is the latest step in Assange’s long battle to avoid trial.
SC TO HEAR PLEA
TODAY AGAINST MHA
DECISION TO CANCEL
NGOs’ FCRA LICENCE
JULIAN ASSANGE
WINS RIGHT
TO APPEAL
EXTRADITION IN UK
TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION AGAINST
ORGANISED CORRUPTION: CM TO ACB
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Acting on the
policy of zero tolerance
for corruption, the state
government gave pros-
ecution sanctions in 90
percent of cases of cor-
ruption in the year 2021,
which shows the com-
mitment of the state
government against
corruption, said Chief
minister Ashok Gehlot
on Monday while chair-
ing a review meeting of
the Anti Corruption Bu-
reau (ACB).
Gehlot said that sen-
sitive, transparent, and
accountable good gov-
ernance is the basic
mantra of the govern-
ment, and directed the
ACB to work proactive-
ly with a policy of zero
tolerance towards cor-
ruption.
The CM directed of-
ficials that the cases
which are pending for
prosecution sanction
should not be delayed
further and decisions
should be taken on a
priority basis. He also
directed to take effec-
tive action against or-
ganised corruption.
It was informed in
the meeting that the ac-
tion of 430 traps took
place in the year 2021 to
nab corrupt personnel
red-handed while tak-
ing bribes, Turn to P8
FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
l CM directs ACB
to not delay cases
pending for
prosecution
sanction and work
with policy of zero
tolerance towards
corruption
l Disposal of
pending cases is
being done in time
bound manner, said
DG ACB BL Soni
AMARINDER SHOCKER
Sharad Pawar tests +ve
Sensex crashes by over 1,500
pts; Nifty dives to reach 17,149
Mumbai: Domestic
market indices NSE
Nifty 50 and BSE
Sensex fell for the
fifth consecutive day
on Monday to end
deeply in red. Both
Sensex and Nifty
crashed over 2.5 per-
cent at the end of the
trading session. While
Sensex fell 2.62 per-
cent to 57,491.51, Nifty
slumped 2.66 percent
to 17,149.10.
Weak global cues
and selling by inves-
tors led to the market
crashing at the start
of the pre-Budget
week.
BEATING RETREAT REHEARSAL
Camel-mounted Border Security Force (BSF) jawans during rehearsals for the Beating
Retreat ceremony ahead of Republic Day, at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on Monday.
RBI SET TO CONDUCT OVERNIGHT
VRR AUCTION OF `75,000 CRORE
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Monday said
it will be conducting an overnight variable rate repo
auction under liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) for
an amount of Rs 75,000 crore. The date of reversal
is on Tuesday, the central bank said in a release. On
January 20, the RBI had conducted an overnight
variable rate repo (VRR) auction of Rs 50,000 crore.
The central bank had said it will continue to rebal-
ance liquidity conditions in a non-disruptive manner
while maintaining adequate liquidity to meet the
needs of the productive sectors of the economy.
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CONGRESS LEADER RPN
SINGH TO JOIN BJP TODAY
Congress leader RPN Singh will be joining BJP today.
First India had already predicted this possibility in issue
dated January 20, Thursday. This political develop-
ment has created chaos in the Congress
circles especially since
the name of RPN Singh
was included in the list of
Congress Star campaign-
ers for UP polls declared
on Monday. RPN Singh
will be formally leaving the
Congress and procedurally
joining the BJP today.
Mumbai: Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
supremo and Rajya Sab-
ha member Sharad Pa-
war tested positive for
Covid-19 on Monday
.
He informed every-
one about this news
through Twitter.
Taking to the social
media platform, the for-
mer three-time Maha-
rashtra CM said, “I have
tested Covid positive
but there is no cause for
concern. I am following
the treatment as sug-
gested by my doctor.”
CORONA
CATASTROPHE
RAJASTHAN
9,480
NEW
CASES
2,424
NEW CASES
IN JAIPUR
23
NEW DEATHS

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ALWAR CASE: FLOUTING COVID-19 NORMS, BJP
MINORITY FRONT PROTESTS AT AMAR JAWAN JYOTI
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: The BJP Mi-
nority Front protested
against the Ashok Ge-
hlot government by
holding a ‘sit-in’ in front
of the Amar Jawan Jyo-
ti over the ‘rape’ of a
minor in Alwar and
other demands.
Flouting Covid guide-
lines, members raised
slogans and accused the
Gehlot government of
disrespecting the mi-
norities.
The protest was led
by State President Mo-
hammad Sadiq Khan.
A large number of
Party workers, includ-
ing national Vice-Presi-
dent Mohammad Khan,
State General Secretary
Hamid Mewati, Mahila
Morcha State President
Alka Mundra and State
Vice-President Ajay Pal
Singh were also present
on the occasion.
Various women mem-
bers, who participated
in the ‘sit in,’ voiced
their concerns and
sought the arrest of the
culprits in the Kaman
and Alwar case.
Members of BJP Minority Front staged a sit-in against state govt in front of the Amar Jawan Jyoti
over the ‘rape’ of a minor in Alwar & other demands. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO
The protest was led by State President Mohammad Sadiq Khan
Kirodi stages protest at Udaipur Collectorate
Ravi Sharma
Udaipur: RS MP Kirodi
Lal Meena staged a sit-
in protest at Udaipur
Collectorate on Monday
,
demanding a ban on
women trafficking in
tribal areas. He submit-
ted a memorandum to
Collector, TC Meena
and put forth several
demands. But when he
could not get a clear and
satisfactory answer to
his demands, he staged
a dharna at the Collec-
torate & said he will
continue to protest till
he gets a clear reply
from government about
its plan to do on the is-
sue. He was accompa-
nied by NGO workers &
few victims of traffick-
ing & demanded a CBI
probe into the matter.
Dr Kirodi Lal Meena accompanied by tribal women & children,
visited Udaipur DM TaraChand Meena at his office on Monday.
Cong govt is steeped
in lies, says Poonia
Puneet Chaturvedi
Dungarpur: State BJP
President Dr Satish
Poonia while on a day’s
visit to Dungarpur dis-
trict on Monday, first
reached the residence
of KK Gupta, state con-
vener of BJP Swachh
Bharat Mission & re-
leased posters of Sa-
marpan Nidhi Sangra-
han Abhiyan and BJP
Swachh Bharat Abhi-
yan. While interacting
with media, Poonia tar-
geted the Ashok Gehlot-
led Congress govern-
ment. He accused Rahul
Gandhi of not keeping
his promises made to
farmers during 2018
election campaign in
Rajasthan. “Today the
farmers of the state are
being forced to commit
suicide because their
lands are being auc-
tioned which shows
how the Congress gov-
ernment, right from Ra-
hul Gandhi to CM Ge-
hlot, is steeped in lies,”
said Poonia.
Amar Jawan Jyoti was
merged with the NWM
to inspire our younger
generations But Con-
gress is doing politics
on this as well, Dr Poo-
nia said.
Dr Satish Poonia offers tributes
to Harshvardhan Singh’s mother,
late Devkumari at the latter’s
residence in Dungarpur.
Two youth rape, impregnate deaf and mute girl
Naveen Joshi
Bhilwara: A case of
gang- rape with a 18-
year- old deaf & mute
girl has been reported
from Chittorgarh also.
The victim’s father
runs a tea stall in
Bhilwara. On Monday,
when she was brought
to the hospital after her
health deteriorated, it
was revealed that she
was 2.5 months preg-
nant. She told doctors
in a gesture that two
boys had gang-raped
her in Chittorgarh. The
victim got married five
years ago, but for many
years, she was living at
her parents’ house in
Chittorgarh. She had
come to her father in
Bhilwara 5 days ago.
A joint team of
Bhilwara & Chittor-
garh police is probing
the case.
‘By abusing RSS,
CM feels he will
score well in
Sonia’s eyes’
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: BJP’s RS MP
Om Ma-
thur said
that his
m e e t i n g
with sen-
ior BJP
leader &
ex- minis-
ter Ghanshyam Tiwari,
was formal. Targeting
Ashok Gehlot-led Raj
govt, he said Gehlot has
no achievement of his
own & he feels that if he
abuses RSS, he will be
able to score well before
Sonia Gandhi.
WORDS OF WISDOM
TEACHER BOOKED FOR POSTING
PORN LINK DURING ONLINE CLASS
Udaipur: A teacher has
been booked under the
POCSO Act for posting
the link of a porn video
during an online class
in Udaipur. A case was
registered against the
teacher at Bhupalpura
police station on Sun-
day and an investiga-
tion has begun. The
State Commission for
Protection of Child
Rights took cognizance
after the incident came
to light on January 5.
Commission member
Shailendra Pandya
said that the com-
mission had written
a letter to the SP to
investigate the matter.
18-YEAR-OLD GANG- RAPED WHILE ASLEEP;
MAN RAPES FRIEND’S WIFE, ABSCONDING
Baran/Bundi: CI of Baram Sadar Police Stn in
Baran, Ramesh Meena said that 18-year-old
victim was gang-raped a week ago. Balram Sa-
hariya & Yogesh, entered her house, kidnapped
her while she was asleep & raped her at a
nearby a field. A woman in Bundi has filed a
plaint with Nainwan police against her hubby’s
friend, accusing him of outraging her modesty.
Cops are looking for accused Hansraj Meena,
who is absconding. —Hanspal Yadav
Jhalawar: Govt
teacher blackmailed,
raped for 2 years
by FB friend
Jhalawar: A govt teacher
was allegedly blackmailed
& raped in for two years.
The accused made videos
& clicked victim’s ob-
scene pictures, who has
now lodged a complaint.
The teacher had be-
friended Bundu Khan on
Facebook. They courted
each other for 3 years,
when accused clicked her
intimate pictures & used
them to blackmail her and
raped her repeatedly in a
hotel. —Arif Mansoori
OPPN ONLY LEVELLING ALLEGATIONS,
NOT TALKING FACTUALLY: DR JOSHI
MORAL DEGRADATION CAUSE OF RAPES: JUSTICE
VYAS ON COMPLETING 1YEAR AS SHRC CHIEF
Kamal Kant Vyas
Jaipur: Justice GK
Vyas remembered
Late Justice MC Shar-
ma on the completion
of his one year as
Chairman of State
Human Rights Com-
mission on Monday.
Expressing grief over
incidents like rape, he
said that people have
morally degraded. He
added that during his
one-year tenure out of
5,700 plaints, 4,119
have been disposed of.
He asked for efforts
for recognition of Ra-
jasthani language. “I
will make every pos-
sible effort for Ra-
jasthani,” he said.
Yogesh Sharma
Jaipur: PHED Minis-
ter Dr Mahesh Joshi
accused BJP of politi-
cal vendetta over Al-
war incident. Opposi-
tion is only levelling
allegations, but not
talking factually, he
said, adding that law
& order situation is
improving in state
with each passing day
.
State Congress ob-
served death anniver-
sary of its former
President Manikya
Lal Verma, at PCC of-
fice on Monday
. Speak-
ing on the occasion,
The Opposi-
tion is alleg-
ing that all
the evidences have
been erased before
handing over the
case to CBI, which
is not the case.
—Dr Mahesh Joshi,
PHED Minister
Dr Mahesh Joshi pays floral tributes to former State PCC Chief
Manikyalal Verma at PCC office on his death anniv on Monday.
—PHOTO
BY
MUKESH
KIRADOO
RSRTC CMD Verma to address
Conference @ Univ of Nottingham!
Shivendra Parmar
Jaipur: Sandeep Ver-
ma, CMD, Rajasthan
State Road Transport
Corporation, has been
invited as a Speaker at
the 11th Public Pro-
curement-Global Rev-
olution Conference
being organised by
the University of Not-
tingham in United
Kingdom in June this
year.
Verma, an IAS of-
ficer from the 1993
batch, Rajasthan cad-
re, has been invited to
present a paper on
“Procurement and In-
frastructure” on how
adequate competition
and timely comple-
tion of infrastructure
projects and works
can be ensured. He
has earlier worked in
the Ministry of De-
fence in the Govern-
ment of India and in
the Public Health En-
gineering Department
of Rajasthan, where
he had taken several
steps for timely reso-
lution of project hin-
drances, so that time
and cost overruns can
be avoided in large in-
frastructure projects.
He also initiated
several steps in PHED
in Rajasthan that at-
tracted increased
competition from bid-
ders all over India in
mega projects in the
Department resulting
in savings of hun-
dreds of crores in the
contract award. He is
also recognised by the
Government of India
as a contributor to an
important set of in-
structions issued by
the Ministry of Fi-
nance, GoI in October
2021 addressing vari-
ous practical issues of
concern for timely
completion of infra-
structure projects.
ABOUT VERMA’S PROFICIENCY
SANDEEP VERMA
Nat’l Voters’ Day
programme to be
held virtually today
Dr Rituraj Sharma
Jaipur: The state-level
programme to com-
memorate the 12th Na-
tional Voters’ Day will
be held through VC
from 11.30 am to 1 pm
today. Governor Kalraj
Mishra and SEC Prem
Singh Mehra will be the
chief guests, while CS
Niranjan Arya will be
the special guest. The
Governor will join the
event from Raj Bhawan
while other guests, the
state icons of Election
department Shatabdi
Awasthi and Sunder
Singh Gurjar, other
electoral officials will
be felicitated for their
excellent performance.
The theme of this year’s
Voters Day is, ‘Making
the elections inclusive,
easy and participative.’
Dotarsa gets Y+
security,‘Z’ plus
for Pilot, Mathur
Case against
four for raping
married woman
Satyanarayan Sharma
Jaipur: A 30-year-old
married woman has al-
leged that she was kid-
napped & then gang-
raped by four men in
Bhankrota police sta-
tion area. ACP Bagru
Devendra Singh, prob-
ing the case, said that
she complained that in
2019, she was kidnapped
in a car and gang-raped.
The victim has
named four men who
kidnapped her in Jais-
inghpura. The four ac-
cused are said to be
known to the victim. A
case has been regis-
tered and cops will be-
gin a probe after record-
ing victim’s statement.
Jaipur: State govt has
continued ‘Z’ Plus secu-
rity cover to former Dy
CM Sachin Pilot &BJP’s
RS MP Om Mathur. Si-
multaneously
, 3 ex- min-
isters including PCC
chief GS Dotasra will
have the security of ‘Y’
Pluscategory
.AICCPun-
jab in-charge Harish
Chaudhary & AICC Guj
in-charge Raghu Shar-
ma will also have ‘Y’
Plus security cover. —FIB

Shubham Jain
Ajmer: On the occasion
of National Girl Child
Day, Gauri Mahesh-
wari, 13, from Ajmer
was honoured with the
Rashtriya Bal Purskar
by Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi.
The event was held in
New Delhi and through
virtual medium, PM
Modi honoured the chil-
dren by interacting
with them.
Gauri is a student of
Class 8 at Mayo Girls
School, Ajmer. Gauri is
just 13 but she is a cal-
ligraphy teacher. All the
officers including Dis-
trict Collector and Gau-
ri’s family joined event
at NIC centre at Ajmer
District Collectorate.
Gauri has taught this
art to more than 1500
people around the
world. She knows more
than 150 styles. Gauri’s
parents thanked every-
one & said that she
would be allowed to do
whatever she wants in
future. Since childhood,
she was very serious
about the art.
RAJASTHAN
03
Laxman Raghav
Bikaner: On the lines
of Wagah border in
Punjab, the western Ra-
jasthan border will also
start the Beating the
Retreat ceremony in
Khajuwala, a town adja-
cent to Pakistan border.
But there will not be sol-
diers from Pakistan like
the Attari border. There
will be only BSF jawans
during the ceremony.
This would also pro-
mote border tourism in
the state.
The BSF battalion is
stationed at Khajuwala.
Ceremony will be held
on six bighas of land.
The BSF DIG Push-
pendra Singh Rathore
is very enthusiastic
about the project, which
is slated to start next
month. Recently
, a meet-
ing was held with
Khajuwala BDO. The
ceremony will be held
only on Sundays so that
children also get a
chance to watch it.
Ceremony at Khajuwala from next month
CALLIGRAPHER GAURI FELICITATED BY PM
Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: On the occa-
sion of National Girl
Child Day, Health Min
Parsadi Lal Meena di-
rected to conduct regu-
lar inspection of sonog-
raphy centers across
the state to prevent fe-
male foeticide.
He said that surprise
inspection of sonogra-
phy centers should be
done by forming com-
mittees at directorate
level, inter-district and
state level so that foeti-
cide could be curbed.
Meena was address-
ing the meeting of
PCPNDT organised by
the State Supervision
Board at Swasthya Bha-
wan on Monday
.
The minister accept-
ed that the decoy opera-
tions were affected due
to Corona and in 2021,
only six decoy opera-
tions were done. Total
161 decoy operations
are done so far. Health
Secretary Ashutosh AT
Pednekar also directed
for regular training of
sonologists at centers.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: With the reduc-
tion of testing in Raj,
rate of Covid infection
has doubled. Rajasthan
on Monday reported 23
deaths and 9480 new
cases. 5 deaths were re-
ported in Jodhpur
while the other cases
were reported from
Jaipur (4), Bikaner,
Jhalawar, Pratapgarh
(2 each), Ajmer, Dhol-
pur, Ganganagar, Ja-
lore, Karauli, Pali, Si-
kar, and Tonk (1 each),
according to a report by
the medical and health
department. Mean-
while, every third sam-
ple is being found posi-
tive in testing.
However, it is after 7
days that less than
10,000 cases reported in
the state. On Jan 18,
9,711 cases were report-
ed. Testing on Sunday
was also less. Of the
fresh cases, Jaipur re-
ported a max of 2424.
Shiv Prakash Purohit
Jodhpur: The Raj HC
promoted 26 advocates
as senior advocates on
Monday
. Of them, 15 are
from the Jaipur Bench
while the rest are from
the Main Bench here.
According to a circu-
lar issued by the Regis-
trar General of the HC,
Advocates Sanjeev
Johri, Manoj Bhandari,
Dhirendra S Cham-
pawat, Manish Sisodia,
Kuldip Mathur, Dr
Ashok Sony, Sachin
Acharya, Rajesh Pan-
war, Vineet Jain, Dr Vi-
kahs Walia & Sandip
Shah of Jodh Bench
promoted. Similarly,
Arvind Gupta, Ajit
Bhandari, Anant Kasli-
wal, Satyendra Gupta,
Mahendra Shah, Ajay
Vajpayee, Bharat Vyas,
Syed Sayeed Hassan,
Raghuvendra Bihari
Mathur, and others.
Ziyauddin Khan
Jaipur: The sanitation
workers, who had been
protesting for the last
several days in Munici-
pal Heritage for their
6-point demand, ended
their agitation on Mon-
day after PHED and
Ground Water Minister
Mahesh Joshi mediated
& assured to fulfill all
demands at earliest.
The cleaning staff of
Municipal Corporation
Heritage had been agi-
tating for reinstatement
of the cleaning workers
who became unem-
ployed after BVG com-
pany was shown the
door. They also sought
payment of arrears.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: On behalf of
Rajasthan State Bharat
Scouts and Guides
Board Headquarters,
rovers took out a foot
march and distributed
masks to make the pub-
lic aware of Covid.
Chief Secretary and
State Chief Commis-
sioner of board, Niran-
jan Arya flagged off the
foot march from his
residence. Arya said
that Scouts and Guides
are giving message
through foot marches,
rallies for public aware-
ness. PC Jain, Puran S
Shekhawat and Neeta
Sharma, and Subhash
Yadav were present on
this occasion.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: District Collec-
tor Rajan Vishal took
a meeting regarding the
situation of Covid and
instructed that the
guidelines issued by the
state government re-
garding Covid-19 must
be followed.
Vishal said, “The tar-
get of getting the sec-
ond dose of Covid vac-
cine should be achieved
100% by January 31. “
He added that the first
three villages that meet
this target will be hon-
oured at the district
level and block level.”
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: On the occa-
sion of National Girl
Child Day, the Directo-
rate of Women’s Em-
powerment organised a
virtual state-level pro-
gramme at Indira Gan-
dhi Panchayati Raj and
Rural Development In-
stitute campus located
on JLN Marg.
Women and Child De-
velopment Minister
Mamta Bhupesh in her
address stressed that
the girls should take up
high positions and
make a name for them-
selves in the country
and world like Avani.
Principal Secretary
to the Government
Sreya Guha said that
the development and
empowerment of the
girl child will lead to the
development of the
state.
Commissioner Wom-
en’s Empowerment
Rashmi Gupta said that
the primary objective to
talk about nutrition
and menstrual hygiene.
‘PCPNDT decoy ops
affected due to Covid’
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
congratulated Gauri for the feat
13-year-old Gauri has taught this art
to more than 1500 people
Gauri Maheshwari displaying her calligraphy work during a virtual event with PM Modi (inset) Gauri
with Ajmer Collector Anshdeep, her family members at the NIC centre, Ajmer.
People queue up to get their Covid test done.
CS Arya flags off foot march of Scouts & Guides.
Parsadi Lal Meena along with Dr. VK Mathur, Suresh Kumar Yadav,
Shalini Saxena and others.
Girls should make a name like Avani: Mamta Bhupesh
Mamta Bhupesh, Sreya Guha, Rashmi Gupta & Urmila Rajoriya
I want to
make such an
app in future
so that people can eas-
ily learn this art and
everyone should know
about this art in the
whole country
—Gauri Maheshwari, Student
Informer
about fetal sex
test has been
increased to `3 L. At
present, total of 3,945
sonography centers
are registered. Of
these, 2,253 centers are
functional.
—Parsadi L Meena, Health Min
Shivendra Parmar
Jaipur: Seven days
after taking charge
as the District Col-
lector of Jaipur, Ra-
jan Vishal, called
his adopted daugh-
ter to his office to
inquire about her
well-being.
The DC adopted
Amita Tank seven
years ago. It was an
emotional moment
for both of them as
Vishal gave her a
study table, trek
suit, sweater and
study material. Am-
ita, a Class 10 stu-
dent of Gandhi Na-
gar Balika Vidya-
laya was adopted
under the ‘Aapki
Beti Yojana.’ Amita
was happy to have
met her ‘father’.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The amended
guidelines of Corona
have come into force in
Rajasthan from Mon-
day after a review meet-
ing by the CM. For wed-
dings up to 100 guests
can now be invited.
This excludes the
members of the band
party. Home Dept had
issued revised guide-
line on Jan 20 which
came into effect from
Monday
.
The weekend curfew
in city limits only - will
be from Saturday 11 pm
to Monday 5 am. Night
curfew will be applica-
ble across state from 11
pm to 5 am. Relaxation
to 14 categories in week-
end curfew continues.
Collector
Vishal meets
adopted girl
11,39,382
TOTAL CASES
9,480 IN A DAY
10,36,762
TOTAL RECOVERED
9,118
TOTAL DEATHS
23 IN A DAY
93,502
ACTIVE CASES
24,736 IN JAIPUR
COVID-19
UPDATE
Raj sees 23 coronavirus deaths, over 9,400 cases
Now, 100 people to attend
marriages from Monday onwards
DC to honour first 3
villages with 100% vax
Scouts & Guides making people aware about
Covid through foot march: CS Niranjan Arya
l 26 flights canceled
from Jaipur airport
on Monday after-
noon. Canceled due
to low passenger load
because of corona
l More than 1 lakh
RTPCR tests can be
done every day in
the state.
l In Jaipur, till a week
ago, an average of
14,000 to 15,000
tests were conduct-
ed daily
CORONA
UPDATE
26 Advocates promoted
as Senior Advocates
Joshi mediates, Heritage
sanitation workers’ end stir
DESERVING ONES
NEGLECTED: ADV
POONAM BHANDARI
Voicing his resentment on
promotions, senior lawyer
Poonam Chand Bhandari
said 126 lawyers had
applied but the High Court
has given promotion to
only 26 leaving the real
senior and established
ones in the lurch.
REHEARSAL OF
R-DAY EVENT AT
SMS STADIUM
The rehearsal for the
state level function to
be held on the occasion
of Republic Day 2022 was
held at Sawai Mansingh
Stadium on Monday.
Various cultural functions,
parades and shows were
practiced. Like every year,
this time also Republic
Day programme will be
organised with dignity &
gaiety at SMS stadium.
Farmers protest: Raj Bhavan denies getting
any bill from Govt to stop auction of farm lands
Kashiram Choudhary
Jaipur: Farmers or-
ganisations on Monday
protested demanding
the Governor’s approv-
al of bill passed in the
State Assembly last
year putting stop to auc-
tion of farmers’ land.
Farmers’ organizations
had given a call for the
gherao of Raj Bhavan
and had assembled at
the martyr’s memorial
in the afternoon.
Led by State Presi-
dent of Bharatiya
Kisan Union, Rajaram
Meel, farmers demand-
ed the enactment of
bill pending with Gov-
ernor.
The police persuad-
ed an eleven- member
delegation to go to the
Raj Bhavan and submit
a memorandum.
However, another
leader Himmat Singh
Gurjar expressed dis-
sent against the farm-
ers’ move. Later dele-
gation was escorted by
police to Raj Bhavan.
In a clarification, Raj
Bhavan stated that An-
ti-Auction Bill is not
pending with the Gov-
ernor. No bill has been
sent by the state govt.
Farmers stopped by police at
Shaheed Smarak.
—PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA
l There will be only BSF
jawans during the
ceremony.
l Ceremony will be held
on six bighas of land.
l This will happen only
on Sundays
ABOUT CEREMONY
EVERY 3RD SAMPLE +VE IN THE STATE, LESS THAN 10,000 CASES OF CORONA AFTER 7 DAYS
BEATING THE RETREAT
NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY

Vol 3 Issue No. 230
RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764.
Printed and published by
Anita Hada Sangwan on behalf of
First Express Publishers. Printed
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Road, C-Scheme, Jaipur-302001,
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Editor-In-Chief: Jagdeesh Chandra.
Editor: Anita Hada Sangwan
responsible for selection of news
under the PRB Act
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
They blame those who remain
silent, they blame those who
speak much, they blame those
who speak in moderation.
There is none in the world who
is not blamed.
—Buddha
IN-DEPTH
Amit Shah
@AmitShah
Prime minister @NarendraModi Ji
changed the thinking of women’s
development into women-led
development and opened the doors of
opportunities. Today the daughters of
the country are illuminating the name of
India in every field. On ‘National Girl Child
Day’, I convey my best wishes to every
daughter of India, the pride of the country.
Piyush Goyal
@PiyushGoyal
Just like you came forward for the
cleanliness campaign, you also
came forward for the #Vocal4Local
campaign. Make a list at home that how
many such products are there, which are
not made in India and are foreign. Urge
people to buy a similar product in future
if it is made in India.
TOP TWEETS
RICH GOT RICHER
AND THE POOR
BECAME POORER
DURING PANDEMIC
he ICE360 Survey
2021 has come up
with shocking data
about the rich-poor
gap in the country.
The rich-poor gap widened to a
frightening level in the pandem-
ic-hit year. What is disconcert-
ing is that the income of the
poorest 20 percent fell 53 percent
while that of the rich 20 percent
jumped by 39 percent sharpen-
ing the disparity between class-
es. Simply put, the rich get rich-
er and the poor got poorer. At the
same time the income of the
upper middle class rose by 7 per-
cent. Another interesting find-
ing of the survey is that a major-
ity of top 20 percent Rich India’s
bread winners have completed
high school. In the bottom 20
percent are illiterate or have on
primary education. Income dis-
parity in a way is also the cause
of the wide gap in education.
The economy faces another
round onslaught, this time by
Omicron which, hopefully
, will
notdisruptlivesandeconomythe
way it happened in 2021. But end-
ing the disparities won’t be easy
.
T
ustice Rahul
Chaturvedi of the
Allahabad High
Court made an
important point
while granting bail to a mur-
der accused recently
. Justice
Chaturvedi said, “Caste sys-
tem in our society is deep
rooted. We boast ourselves as
an educated society but we
live our lives with double
standards. Even after 72
years of independence we
are not able to get out with
this social menace. This is
pitiable and tragic.” The
judge urged introspection in
the country and said the
downtrodden and the under-
privileged should be protect-
ed. The change which Justice
Chaturvedi would like to see
in the society is impossible to
accomplish as the malaise is
too deep-rooted in our minds.
Look at the race for Rajput,
Brahmin, OBC and Dalit
votes in Uttar Pradesh before
it goes to poll. After Swami
Prasad Maurya left the BJP
and joined the SP, the BJP set
off to make its own OBC vote
bank stronger. It was then
mentioned that Brahmins
were angry with the BJP and
the party immediately swung
into action to fill that gap. In
between, Uttarakhand Gov-
ernor Baby Rani Maurya was
brought back to UP in the
hope of managing Jatav
votes of BSP chief Mayawati.
These are only broad catego-
ries of castes. Each of these
categories includes a long list
of other castes. Each of these
castes wants a caste-based
census to determine their
place in accordance with
their numbers.
A political party can ig-
nore one caste only if there’s
another one to back it. When
Yadavs backed the SP, Kur-
mis, Lodhs and others sided
with the BJP.
LIVING WITH THE EVIL
OF CASTE SYSTEM
A political party can ignore
one caste only if there’s
another one to back it.
When Yadavs backed
the SP, Kurmis, Lodhs
and others sided
with the BJP
J
PERSPECTIVE
04
Promoted by
Shree Cement Limited
Experimentation and Captaincy Woes
lead to India’s Rout in South Africa
ndian Cricket team landed on
South African shores buoyed
by their success in England
and Australia series. While
there was off-field drama over
captaincy issues, the team
was expected to win against a
South African team which is
in a rebuilding stage. It was
proven to be an arduous task
as India was defeated 2-1 in
the Test series and routed 3-0
in the ODIs. There was so
much hullabaloo over new
management and captaincy
change but the on-field Indian
team continued to play the
same outdated style of Crick-
et which has prevented them
from winning any of the
world titles in recent years.
After under-performing in
the Tests, the personnel
changefortheODIswasaimed
atbringingfreshenergytothe
dwindling fortunes of the
team. The absence of Rohit
Sharma,thenewODICaptain,
hurt the team’s balance and
made the Captaincy debate
even more complicated.
K.L.Rahul, the new In-charge
of the ODI team looked out of
sorts and bereft of ideas when
the momentum was with the
opposition. Moreover, ex-Cap-
tain, Virat Kohli lacked his
usual enthusiastic and infec-
tious energy throughout the
series.Eventheteamselection
was puzzling as India picked
Venkatesh Iyer as an all-
rounder only to make him
bowl just 5 overs in the two
matches he played. He has
been touted as a big hitter but
hecouldnotprovehisprowess
at all, batting well below his
IPL strike rate.
Then there is the curious
case of Bhuvneshwar Kumar
who has remained injured
most of the last few years but
continues to get picked for his
control and swing. Both these
skills have not been on the
show for a while now and Ku-
mar would be thanking his
starsif heispickedinthenext
assignment at home against
the West Indies. Selection ab-
surditiesdon’tendhere.Surya
Kumar’s exclusion from the
firstcoupleof ODIsalsoraised
eyebrows as he has been given
the role to stabilize the middle
order in the crucial mid-overs
without compromising on the
run rate. India played with
just5batsmenand3‘potential’
all-rounders.
The playing style of the
team also made fans pull their
hair out. The cricketing world
has moved on to an aggressive
stylewherecapitalizingonthe
firsttenoverswiththebatand
thencarryingthatmomentum
tomakescoresof over300plus
is almost the norm. India
meanwhile, prefers to build
their innings on the back of
their star players in the top 3
and then try an onslaught, if
possible,atthebackendof the
innings.Thishasbeenarecur-
ring and acknowledged prob-
lem by the team management
butonethathasnotbeenrecti-
fied at all.
The new Indian Head
Coach, Rahul Dravid talked
about this dilemma and add-
ed that lack of partnerships
hurt India’s chances. The
other worry Dravid pointed
out was the lack of wicket-
taking thrust in the middle
overs by Indian bowlers. It
was striking that nobody
from the Indian side could
notch up a century in the 3
ODIs, but given India’s bowl-
ing limitations, the South
Africans scored three!
Experts also feel that off-
field issues might have had a
deep impact on the team’s
performance.TheKohli-BCCI
battle of nerves has been an
unstated but open secret in
recentmonths.Thedeparture
of Ravi Shastri has left Kohli
a bit lonely and cornered.
Tensions in relations with
BCCI honchos have hastened
Virat’s decision to move away
from captaincy which has left
the Indian team rather rud-
derless. With Rohit Sharma
absent and battling fitness
concerns, India needs Kohli
to support Rohit’s deputy
withhiscaptaincyexperience
and his batting for the upcom-
ing series. For that, the strain
between him and BCCI needs
to be ironed out.
The next ODI World Cup is
in India in 2023 and there are
huge expectations from the
team. Last time when the
World Cup was held in the
country in 2011, M.S.Dhoni’s
men made it memorable by
lifting the trophy. The South
Africa ODI series might be
looked at as one of numerous
experimentations but the
new leadership of Rohit-
Dravid will know that if
there is to be any chance of
India’s success in 2023 World
Cup, then the team needs to
move away into a fresh mind-
set and take a leaf out of Eng-
lish team’s book of aggres-
sive play. Sadly, till now, de-
spite the big changes at the
captain-coach level, the play-
ing style of the team remains
unchanged, doing justice to
the proverb, “the more things
change, the more they re-
main the same!”
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
I
The next ODI World Cup is
in India in 2023 and there
are huge expectations from
the team. Last time when the
World Cup was held in the
country in 2011,
M.S.Dhoni’s men made it
memorable by lifting the
trophy. The South Africa
ODI series might be looked
at as one of numerous
experimentations but the
new leadership of Rohit-
Dravid will know that if
there is to be any chance of
India’s success in 2023
World Cup, then the team
needs to move away into a
fresh mindset and take a
leaf out of English team’s
book of aggressive play.
Sadly, till now, despite the
big changes at captain-
coach level, the playing style
of the team remains
unchanged, doing justice to
the proverb, “the more things
change, the more they
remain the same!”
SIDDHAARTH MAHAN
The writer is a specialist on Sports
and Cinema who works as an actor
in the Hindi film industry
(From Left) Indian team’s Deepak Chahar is distraught after holing out for 54 off 34. South Africa celebrate clean sweeping India 3-0, South Africa vs India, 3rd ODI in Cape Town on Sunday.
The absence of Rohit Sharma, the new ODI Captain,
hurt the team’s balance and made the Captaincy debate
even more complicated. K L Rahul, the new
In-charge of the ODI team looked out of sorts
and bereft of ideas when the momentum was with
the opposition. Moreover, ex-Captain, Virat Kohli
lacked his usual enthusiastic and infectious
energy throughout the series

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IN THE COURTYARD
PIL OVER BENGAL
GOVT’S RD TABLEAU
DISMISSED IN HC
Kolkata: The Calcutta HC
on Monday dismissed
a PIL over the cancella-
tion of the West Bengal
government’s tableau for
the Republic Day parade
in Delhi saying that the
matter cannot be judged
in such a short period.
The PIL filed by advocate
Ramprasad Sarkar sought
a direction to the central
government to permit
display of the state’s
tableau in the Republic
Day parade to be held on
January 26.
TRIPURA VIOLENCE:
SC TO HEAR PLEA
IN CASE ON JAN 31
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court on Monday posted
for hearing on January
31 a plea seeking an
investigation by a special
investigation team (SIT)
into the recent communal
incidents of violence in
Tripura. A Bench headed
by Justice DY Chandra-
chud said it would hear
the matter next Monday
and granted time to the
petitioner to file a rejoin-
der on the affidavit filed
by the Tripura govern-
ment.
TOP COURT REFUSES
KERALA GOVT PLEA
IN CASE OF DILEEP
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court refused to entertain
the Kerala Government’s
plea seeking extension of
time to complete the trial
in the Malayalam actress
assault case, involving
actor Dileep. A bench of
Justices AM Khanwilkar
and CT Ravikumar dis-
posed of the state of Kera-
la petition and said that it
leaves it to the discretion
of the trial court to take an
appropriate view in that
regard. The petition was
opposed by Dileep.
SC REFUSES TO
GRANT BAIL TO UP
MLA VIJAY MISHRA
New Delhi: The SC on
Monday refused to grant
bail to UP MLA Vijay
Mishra and dismissed his
petition seeking relief in
view of the upcoming UP
elections. A Bench headed
by Justice DY Chandra-
chud said that it is not a
fit case for bail and dis-
missed Mishra’s special
leave petition. Court clari-
fied that petitioner would
be at liberty to revive his
application of bail after
evidence of witnesses are
recorded in trial.
New Delhi: A plea was moved in the Delhi High
Court seeking direction to declare that the Special
Protection Group (SPG) shall have absolute power
of superintendence for the purpose of
discharging its functions in view of
the provisions of the SPG Act, 1988.
The Bench of Justice DN Patel and
Justice Jyoti Singh on Monday said
the matter is already seized
with the Supreme Court
and a ‘Commission’
has already been ap-
pointed by SC.
PM SECURITY: PLEA SEEKS POWER OF
SUPERINTENDENCE TO SPG IN HC
INDIA
05
Anita Hada
New Delhi: The Cen-
tral Government has
made a rule to take the
All India Services - In-
dian Administrative
Service i.e. IAS, Indian
Police Service i.e. IPS
and Indian Forest Ser-
vice i.e. IFS cadre com-
pletely underitscontrol.
WB CM Mamata Baner-
jee has written two let-
ters to the PM. Apart
from states ruled by the
opposition,atleastthree
state govts of the BJP
and its allies - MP
, Bihar
and Meghalaya - have
also objected to it.
It does not seem that
the central govt will
take cognizance of the
opposition of the states.
Even though the govt is
saying that fewer offic-
ers are coming from the
states on deputation, so
there is a shortage of of-
ficers with the govern-
ment. But this is not an
excuse since the Centre
has so many officers for
whom there is literally
no work. Officers, even
after promotion to sec-
retary level, have been
given the duties of ad-
ditional secretaries.
In fact, Centre has
taken this decision af-
ter thinking about the
incident in WB. Keep in
mind that the Centre
called 2 police officers
of WB on deputation to
the Centre but the state
govt did not allow them
to come. To avenge the
same, rules are being
changed for the entire
All India Service. If this
rule is implemented,
then central govt will be
able to arbitrarily force
any officer to come on
central deputation. If
Centre elects an officer
and says that he has to
contribute to the ser-
vice of GoI by a certain
date, then whether that
officer wishes or not
and the state govt re-
leases him or not, their
service in the state will
end. It will be deemed to
be self-released on the
date fixed by the Centre.
Centre ‘clinching’ command of the All India Service!
RULES RELATED TO CONTROLLING 3 CADRES
lll
Central govt has
made changes in
the rules related to
controlling these 3
cadres and central
deputation of
officers of these
services, sent its
draft to states.
Centre has asked
states for their
opinion by January
25. Many states
have opposed it
THE CPSEs NOT
COVERED IN LIST
l National Seeds
Corporation Ltd
l Bharat Immunological
Biological Corporation Ltd
l National Informatics
Centre Services Inc.
l FCI
l HLL Infratech Services Ltd
l Scooters India Ltd
l HPCL Biofuels Ltd
l Kolkata Metro Rail
Corporation
l Karmajar Port Ltd
l Antrix Corporation Ltd
l Central Cottage
Industries Corporation
of India Ltd
l National Textiles
Corporation Ltd
SIMPLE YARDSTICK FOR EVALUATION OF
PARAMETERS FULFILLED BY COMPANIES
Excellent
90% 70-90%
Very Good
50-70%
Good
30-50%
Fair
30%
Below
Poor
THE PERFORMANCE SCORED FOR FY21
REPRESENTING 17.88% OF TOTAL EVALUATED CPSEs,
AND 31.70%, 22.76%, 16.26%, AND 11.38% RESP
EXCELLENT
22
CPSEs
VERY GOOD
39
CPSEs
GOOD
28
CPSEs
FAIR
20
CPSEs
POOR
20
CPSEs
ANNUAL OFFICIAL EVALUATION REPORT
RATINGS FOR 123 CENTRAL PSUs ANNOUNCED
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: The annual
officialevaluationreport
shows that of 123 CPSEs,
45improvedtheirperfor-
mance over FY20 either
in terms of Score or Rat-
ing or both, 36 CPSEs
maintained their previ-
ous ratings/perfor-
mancewhereas41CPSEs
were losers - HIL being
the worst with a score of
0, MTNL 1.40, and ITPO,
NEHHDC trailed among
poor performers.
From the evaluation
report, it is not clear if
any of the CPSEs failed
to submit the perfor-
mance documents for
the period. In FY2019-20
of 144 CPSEs, 4 had
failed to submit the per-
formance documents
and were put under the
‘poor’ category
.
The ratings of CPSUs
isanannualexercisecar-
ried out by the Depart-
ment of Public Enter-
prisesbasedontheMoUs
which it signs with all
CPSEs at the beginning
of thefiscalyearinApril
and covers the perfor-
mance of the company
till the end-March of
next year. Because of the
collation and analysis of
data on a large scale, the
reportnormallyhasalag
effect of one year.
The Department of
Public Enterprise (Min-
istry of Finance) had
for FY20 announced the
MoU Score Rating of
144 CPSEs whereas for
FY21 it announced the
rating for 123 CPSEs.
The reasons for the re-
ducednumberof CPSEs
can be attributed par-
tially to the selling-off
of five Air India entities
to Tata Sons and others
including State Trading
Corporation (STCIL).
22 SCORED EXCELLENT, 14 POOR, REST RATED AS VERY GOOD, GOOD FAIR
BJP’s ‘Carpet Bombing’ in Western UP!
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Voting for
58 seats in western UP
will be held on Febru-
ary 10, but about 20
days before that BJP
is setting the agenda.
In this context, the
day of January 22 was
the most important.
On Saturday, four BJP
veterans were present
in western UP and set
the agenda for the
next 20 days of cam-
paigning, and in the
campaigning, it is be-
ing stressed that since
the BJP government
came to power in the
state, the exodus of
Hindus has stopped.
This is the agenda of
BJP from Saharanpur
to Kairana.
BJP national presi-
dent JP Nadda also
reached western UP
on Saturday and cam-
paigned for the party
in Bijnor. At the same
time, CM Yogi Adity-
anath was in Aligarh,
while the party’s
state president Swa-
tantra Dev Singh was
campaigning for the
party in Saharanpur.
In this way, even be-
fore the start of the
campaign, four vet-
eran leaders of BJP
camped in western
UP set the agenda of
BJP’s campaign.
UNION HOME MINISTER AMIT SHAH ON SATURDAY TRIED TO
PERSUADE ANGRY JATS AND MOBILIZE VOTES IN FAVOR OF BJP
SHAH’S DOOR-TO-DOOR CAMPAIGN! Union Home Minister Amit Shah interacts with a child
during a door-to-door campaign for the upcoming UP Assembly election, in Kairana on Saturday.
Leaders from across the
country will campaign in UP!
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: UP is the
largest state of India
and 80 MPs come from
that state. Therefore,
the election there can-
not be like any other
state. It seems that the
assembly elections of
UP are being fought at
the national level and at
the same time it seems
that parties from all
over the country will
reach to contest the
elections in UP and if
not for contesting, they
will definitely reach for
campaigning.
The leader of almost
every part of the coun-
try will reach UP in
some or the other cam-
paign. All the parties
are doing their posi-
tioning keeping in mind
2024 LS elections.
SP has given only
one seat to Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
but it is being said that
NCP chief Sharad Pa-
war will campaign in
UP. Apart from him,
other NCP leaders will
also reach for the cam-
paign. There is talk of
Nawab Malik especially
coming to UP for cam-
paigning. Similarly,
Akhilesh has also given
a seat to Mamata Baner-
jee’s party and it is be-
ing said that she will
also campaign.
There is a talk that
Akhilesh and Mamata
have held two virtual
meetings. It is being
told that Tejashwi, LoP
in Bihar Assembly, will
also reach UP to cam-
paign with SP. Cong has
imposed separate du-
ties of its CMs, leaders
across nation. AAP is
contesting polls in UP
Kejriwal’s campaign
schedule is in place too.
It will not be surprising
if Shiv Sena also reach
UP in campaign.
The leader of almost
every part of the
country will reach
UP in some or the
other campaign. All
the parties are doing
their positioning
keeping in mind the
2024 LS elections
New Delhi: Daily Cov-
id-19 cases in India will
start to decline after
February 15, said offi-
cial govt sources on
Monday
. “Covid cases in
country to decline after
February 15. The cases
have started reducing
and stabilising in some
States metro cities,”
sources told. Stressing
that vaccination has re-
duced impact of third
wave, sources added,
Union Health Min is co-
ordinating with States
and UTs. 74% of adult is
fully jabbed. —ANI
Daily Covid cases in India will start
to decline after Feb 15: Govt sources
CLASSES 1-12 BACK TO SCHOOL IN MUMBAI!
A child undergoes thermal screening as offline classes start in Mumbai
on Monday. Schools in Mumbai on Monday welcomed students of
all classes as they reopened with stringent adherence to Covid-19
protocols. Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Aditya Thackeray has said
that parents are free to make their own decisions in this regard.
Covid can end in 2022
if Int’l body takes
measures: Tedros
Geneva: The international
community can put an end
to the corona pandemic
in 2022 if it
takes com-
prehensive
measures,
DG of the
WHO Tedros
Adhanom
Ghebreyesus said on Mon-
day. “The WHO continues to
work nationally, regionally
and globally to provide the
evidence, the strategies,
the tools and the technical
and operational support
countries need.
MHA readying papers of
‘physical, financial targets’
New Delhi: The minis-
try of home affairs
(MHA) has asked its
various divisions to fur-
nish details regarding
“physical and financial
targets” fixed for Cen-
trally sponsored
schemes or Central sec-
tor for consideration of
Demands for Grants,
and it is directed to sub-
mit details in 3 days. As
per order issued by
MHA, it is directed to
all concerned Addl and
Jt Secretaries of minis-
try to submit all the spe-
cific info by Jan 27. —ANI
CGHS WEBSITE
LINKED WITH APP
New Delhi: The
revamped Central Gov-
ernment Health Scheme
(CGHS) website has been
linked with mobile app
‘MyCGHS’ to provide
easy access to healthcare
services to more than 40
lakh beneficiaries, Union
Health Minister Man-
sukh Mandaviya said on
Monday.
DEMAND FOR GRANTS 2022-2023

INDIA
06
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: The inno-
vative Conciliation and
Settlement Committee
(CSC) set up by the Min-
istry of Port, Shipping,
and Waterways is said
to be proving effective
in resolving contractu-
al disputes among con-
cessionaires, contrac-
tors, consultants, ser-
vice providers, and
major ports through
mediation and mutual
understanding
The CSC constituted
in October 2021, is head-
ed by former Ministry
secretary Gopal Krish-
na and includes former
Commerce Ministry’s
Special Secretary (Lo-
gistics) N Sivasailam,
former DoPT secretary
Dr. C Chandramouli,
former special secre-
tary and financial ad-
viser of RTH, Ship-
ping and Power Shamb-
hu Singh, and Infra-
structure Finance De-
velopment Corporation
senior director in
charge of project fi-
nance A Balasubrama-
nian.
The committee tasted
its first success on De-
cember 27, 2021, when
its mediation made
Chennai Port Authority
and Chettinad Logistics
Pvt Ltd sign a settle-
ment agreement to end
a decade-old dispute
over a contract awarded
to Chettinad in 2008 for
installing a semi-mech-
anized closed conveyor
system for coal han-
dling at Jawahar Dock
and its operation and
maintenance (OM) for
three years (though the
last one was terminated
prematurely after the
Madras High Court or-
dered Chennai Port to
stop handling dusty
cargo such as coal and
iron due to environ-
mental concerns).
t is pointed out that
the committee has a
tough job ahead as there
are more than 100 cases
pending before the
courts or arbitration
panels on contractual
disputes in major ports.
However, the silver lin-
ing is that the dispu-
tants are aware that the
committee, which is
composed of top retired
officials, is a sensible
forum to resolve their
disputes because arbi-
tration and court proce-
dures aren’t only
lengthy but also expen-
sive.
And the committee’s
success in resolving a
decade-old dispute in
less than six months is
said to have sent out a
very positive signal.
EX-PORT SECRETARY GOPAL KRISHNA
HELPS RESOLVE A DECADE-OLD DISPUTE
‘DON’TTAKESTRESS,DRAWINSPIRATION’
New Delhi: PM Naren-
dra Modi on Monday
virtually interacted
with the winners of the
Pradhan Mantri Rash-
triya Bal Puraskar
(PMRBP) and awarded
digital certificates.
“You all must work
keeping in mind how
your work can help the
country,” PM said. PM
Modi also called these
children inspiration for
the whole society. Each
child has been given a
medal, a cash prize of
Rs 1,00,000 and a certifi-
cate.
PMRBP is given as
recognition to children
aged 5-18 years with ex-
ceptional abilities and
outstanding achieve-
ment in 6 fields of inno-
vation, scholastic excel-
lences, sports, arts and
culture etc. —PTI
PM Modi: Bal
Puraskar
awards comes
with huge
responsibility
PM Modi interacts with the PMRBP awardees, via video conferencing, in New Delhi on Monday.
Your achievements are bigger than your age:
PM tells Bal Puraskar awardee from K’taka
New Delhi: PM Naren-
dra Modi on Monday
told a young dancer
from Karnataka that
her achievements are
much bigger than her
age and also extended
greetings of National
Girl Child Day
. The PM,
during an interaction
with Pradhan Mantri
Rashtriya Bal Puraskar
(PMRBP) awardees,
congratulated Kumari
Remona Evvette
Pereira who excels in
classical dance Bhara-
tanatyam and said that
Remona’s achievements
are much bigger than
her age and told her that
her art is a way of ex-
pressing the strength of
the great country
. In her
reply she said, , “My
mother was very much
interested in dancing.
She started teaching
me. Eventually I gath-
ered interest.” —ANI
‘WE ACCORD IMMENSE PRIORITY
TO EMPOWERING GIRL CHILD’
New Delhi: Greet-
ing citizens on the
occasion of Nation-
al Girl Child
Day, PM
Modi said
that it is a
day to cel-
ebrate the
exemplary
accomplish-
ments of girls in
different fields.
“National Girl
Child Day is an oc-
casion to reiterate
our commitment
and further
strengthen on-
going efforts
to empower
the girl child.
It is also a
day to cele-
brate the exem-
plary accomplish-
ments of them,”
PM tweeted.
NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY
al Girl Child
Day, PM
Modi said
that it is a
day to cel-
ebrate the
exemplary
accomplish-
and further
strengthen on-
going efforts
to empower
the girl child.
It is also a
day to cele-
brate the exem-
Amit Shah lauds PM’s efforts that
revolutionized country’s sex ratio
New Delhi: Union
HM Amit Shah on
MondaypraisedPM
Modi’s schemes ap-
pealing to people to
adopt daughters as
a symbol of pride,
after taking charge
as head of the coun-
try, which resulted
in a “mass cam-
paign” and also
“revolutionized the
sex ratio”.
“PM appealed
people to adopt
daughters as a sym-
bolof pridethrough
various schemes
like ‘Beti Bachao-
Beti Padhao’, As a
result, the move
turned into a mass
campaign and revo-
lutionized the sex
ratio.” he tweeted.
ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
UP ELECTION: BJP SLAMS AKHILESH
Lucknow/New Delhi:
The BJP on Monday
slammed Samajwadi
Party chief Akhilesh
Yadav for his reported
comments that China is
India’s real enemy
while Pakistan is a “po-
litical enemy” which is
targeted by the ruling
party for “vote poli-
tics”.
BJP spox Sambit
Patra said this shows
Yadav’s mindset and he
should tender an apol-
ogy to the country for
the comments which
show his “love” for Pa-
kistan. What the SP
president has said is
very unfortunate and
disappointing, he said.
Meanwhile Akhilesh
Yadav defended his
comment that China is
the real enemy while
Pakistan is only the
“political enemy” and
he only referenced the
Gen Bipin Rawat, the
former Chief of De-
fence Staff, who died on
Dec 8 in chopper crash.
SP FIELDS AZAM
KHAN; BJP FIELDS
AP SINGH IN UP
BJP COMMITTED
FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF UP : AMIT SHAH
Lucknow: Jailed SP MP
Azam Khan will contest
from his home turf
Rampur, SP announced
on Monday. Khan has
been in jail since Febru-
ary 2020. Party has also
named Abdullah Azam,
Azam Khan’s son who
was also in jail for two
years and recently got
bail, as the candidate
from Suar. Mean-
while Bhartiya Janata
Party has fielded Ajay
Pratap Singh from the
Thakurdwara seat, the
party said in its official
release on Monday.—ANI
New Delhi: Wishing
people of UP on its
foundation day, Union
HM Amit Shah on
Monday asserted that
BJP is committed to
the development of the
state and said that UP
has regained its glory
due to the tireless ef-
forts of Yogi Adityanath
government. —PTI
Harish Rawat to contest from
Ramnagar as Congress
releases list of 11 candidates
New Delhi: The Con-
gress party on Mon-
day evening released
another list of 11 can-
didates for the upcom-
ing Uttarakhand As-
sembly Elections
2022.
Former Uttara-
khand Chief Minister
Harish Rawat will be
contesting from Ram-
nagar and Anukriti
Gusain Rawat, the
daughter-in-law of
Harak Singh Rawat,
from Lansdowne.
Meanwhile, the Ut-
tarakhand Congress
launched a poll cam-
paign, “Char Dham,
Char Kam”, making
four promises to peo-
ple of the state if it
comes to power in
coming polls.
The promises in-
cluded Rs 40,000 per
annum to five lakh
families. —Agencies
AAP begins ‘Ek Mauka
Kejriwal Ko’ in Poll-Battle
New Delhi: Aam
Aadmi Party’s nation-
al convenor and Delhi
CM Arvind Kejriwal
on Monday launched
the “Ek Mauka Kejri-
wal Ko” campaign for
the upcoming Assem-
bly elections in five
states. Kejriwal has
requested the people
of Delhi to share vid-
eo testimony of the
party’s work in the
national capital on so-
cial media.
“Ek Mauka Kejriwal
Ko”- We are starting
this campaign from
today
... Delhi people
can make videos tell-
ing people of other
states about work
done by AAP and ap-
peal to them to give
Kejriwal-AAP a
chance,aheadof polls.
Upload these videos
on social media,” Ke-
jriwal said. —ANI
Gurjeet Singh urges Sonia to intervene in ticket distribution
Jalandhar: Punjab
Technical Education
Minister Rana Gur-
jeet Singh on Monday
urged Congress chief
Sonia Gandhi “to in-
tervene into the allot-
ment of party ticket
from Bholath to Sukh-
pal Singh Khaira” for
the state Assembly
polls and demanded
his expulsion while
calling him “a tainted
minister” for his al-
leged involvement in
‘drug money’ launder-
ing. In a letter to Gan-
dhi, Rana said, “He
(Khaira) is currently
in jail. It is not the rou-
tine money laundering
case of unaccounted
wealth or money
. It re-
lates to drug money
.”
BADAL DEMANDS RELEASE OF BHULLAR
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: Polling for
60 assembly seats in Ma-
nipur will be held in two
phases on March 27 and
February 3. It maybe a
big surprise and contra-
diction in the policies of
certain parties where
BJPisaskingforvotesin
the Eastern state. Citi-
zens of the country have
been banned from visit-
ing Manipur. If a citizen
wants to go to Manipur,
then he/she will have to
take a permit and only
after taking prior per-
mission the citizens of
the country will be able
to go to Manipur. This
system of Inner Line
Permitwasapplicablein
some other areas of the
Northeast,butnotinMa-
nipur.
The double engine
government of Manipur
and the Centre imple-
mented the system of in-
ner line permit in the
state in 2019. At this
point, there is a sense of
contradiction where on
one hand, the slogan of
abrogationof Article370
from JK is being beat-
en on the ground stress-
ing that now the real
merger of the state has
taken place in India and
now any citizen of India
can go to Jammu and
Kashmir unhindered.
But on the other hand,
the system of carrying
permits is being imple-
mented in Manipur. Ac-
cording to political ob-
servers, there should
have been an attempt to
connect the entire area
with India by abolishing
thepermitsystemimple-
mented earlier in the
north-eastern states.
However, on the contra-
ry
, new areas are being
brought under the per-
mit raj. In fact, there
may be some political
compulsions for the rul-
ing party BJP which
have forced the party to
have two sets of rules
and regulations. Howev-
er, the result of this con-
trary arrangement will
eb visible only in the
election results.
BJP’S MANIPUR POLLS
PITCH LACED WITH NAT’L
CONTRADICTIONS!
PUSHP KUMAR
JOSHI TO BE NEXT
CMD OF HPCL
AI CABIN CREW
UNION OBJECTS TO
NEW WEIGHT RULE
New Delhi: The Public
Enterprise Selection
Board (PESB) on
Monday selected
Pushp Kumar Joshi for
the post of Chairman
Managing Director,
Hindustan Petroleum
Corporation Limited
(HPCL).
New Delhi: The Air
India cabin crew union
has objected to a new
rule that mandates BMI
and weight checks for
crew members prior to
boarding a flight. AI’s
cabin crew union has
objected to this new
company circular.
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) President
of Pune Jagdish Mulik has passed a controversial
remark against Maharashtra Congress chief Nana
Patole calling him a “stray dog”, days after the latter’s
objectional remark on PM Narendra Modi. “Nana Pa-
tole is a stray dog. It is often said that a barking dog
should be ignored, but if the dog barks, there is no
alternative but to bark. Nana, activists will teach you
the right lesson,” the Pune BJP chief tweeted.
PUNE BJP CHIEF CALLS NANA PATOLE
‘STRAY DOG’ ON REMARK AGAINST PM
New Delhi: The Enforcement Di-
rectorate (ED) has attached assets
worth Rs 69.14 crore of Tamil
Nadu-based businessman Dhanraj
Kochar and his family members in
connection with a case of cheating of
more than Rs 100 crore, the agency said on Monday.
The attached properties include immovable assets as
well as movable assets (in the form of fixed deposits
and jewellery) to the tune of Rs 69.14 crore.
ED ATTACHES RS 69.14 CR ASSETS OF
TN-BASED BIZMAN DHANRAJ KOCHAR
NEWS DIGEST
Khan: Mamata is doing
‘Nautanki’ over Netaji
New Delhi: Bengal BJP
vice president Soumi-
tra Khan on Monday
took a potshot a West
Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee for
filing a PIL in Calcutta
High Court over the re-
jection of Bengal tab-
leau for Republic Day
parade, terming it as
her ‘nautanki’ and poli-
tics over Netaji Sub-
hash Chandra Bose.
“Nautanki Mamata
Banerjee does drama in
everything. She did the
same with Singur
youth. Yesterday by
blowing a conch shell
on the occasion of Ne-
taji Subhash Chandra
Bose’s birthday she
gimmicked whole of
Bengal”, said Khan.
“Earlier Mamata Ba-
nerjee was a Central
Minister, why didn’t she
raise Netaji’s topic in
the Lok Sabha among
the other Central Min-
isters that time”, asked
Khan. According to
him, Mamata Banerjee
has failed the Azad
Hind Fauj soldiers by
not doing anything for
them. —ANI
Gopal Krishna

NEWS
07
‘AGRI BUDGET’ EXERCISE BEGINS:
TRIBALS SEEK FOCUS ON ORGANIC
Swapna S Mohanty
Jaipur: The Budget
Session of Rajasthan
Assembly will com-
mence on February 9,
and the exercise for pre-
senting a separate “Ag-
riculture Budget” has
started. To highlight the
issues of farmers in the
first-ever Agriculture
Budget, 12.50 lakh farm-
ers of tribal communi-
ties in Banswara, Dun-
garpur, and Pratapgarh
who are actively en-
gaged in natural farm-
ing, have come forward
with a few demands.
Some of their de-
mands include techni-
cal and financial sup-
port for mixed cropping
technology, supplying
mini kits of pulses and
vegetables, promotion
of organic fertilisers
and tools for preparing
them domestically, the
establishment of Seed
Testing Laboratories
(STL) in tribal areas,
and revival of milk
dairy are among others.
Secretary of Ban-
swara-based Vaagdhara
group, Jayesh Joshi,
pointed out that soil
health improvement
through the application
of biochar and microor-
ganisms.
12.50L tribals demand technical, financial support for mixed cropping techonology,
promotion of organic fertilisers, seed testing lab, and soil health lab in 1st Agri Budget
No disruption will be
there without the
appointment of a new
Chief Whip. There will be good
floor management in Assembly
during Budget Session.
—Mahesh Joshi,
Member of Legislative Assembly
Farmers have demanded bio-
char and micro-organism
banks possibly at every Pan-
chayat headquarter of tribal
districts. The management responsibility
for multiplication and distribution for its
effective implementation can be given to
FPO/SHGs working in the area under the
supervision of Agriculture University.
—Jayesh Joshi, Secretary of Vaagdhara
SET UP SOIL TESTING LABS AT BLOCK
OR PANCHAYAT LEVEL, ASK TRIBALS
Although the soil health card scheme is being run by
the Government, these laboratories are established
at district levels. Being far from most of the farmers
residing in remote villages do not get their soil samples
tested, and eventually, they are not able to apply the
recommended quantity of fertilisers. Therefore, the
tribal farmers are demanding to establish soil testing
laboratories at the block or panchayat level as well.
Gehlot Govt to come up
with land reforms soon
Abhishek Srivastava
Jaipur: The State Gov-
ernment will soon im-
plement a new policy to
end the Government’s
arbitrariness in giving
land in place of land
and to make the whole
process simple and
transparent. On the or-
ders of Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot, the Ur-
ban Development De-
partment has started
the exercise.
Many complaints like
pending acquisition cas-
es in the bodies, project
being affected due to
non-removal of posses-
sion from the spot
reached CM Ashok Ge-
hlotafterwhichheasked
UDH Minister Shanti
Dhariwal to make a pol-
icy in the matter. Dhari-
wal directed the depart-
ment to prepare a draft
of uniform and trans-
parent policy regarding
land compensation to be
given in lieu of land ac-
quisition. The objective
of the policy is to pro-
viderelief totheaccount
holders who are waiting
inthewingsof localbod-
ies for compensation.
Initially, in the cases
of acquisition,thedevel-
oped plot was given to
the account holder, in
return, the body used to
collect the amount from
theaccountholder.After
this, free developed land
was started to be given.
Chaupatis to
rejoice R-Day with
patriotic songs
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Rajasthan
Housing Board Com-
missioner Pawan Arora
informed that on the oc-
casion of 73rd Republic
Day
, patriotic songs will
be played at Chaupatis
in Mansarovar and
Pratap Nagar through-
out the day
.
Chaupatis will be
specially decorated on
this occasion. He said
that there will be pres-
entations of patriotic
songs through live
music bands on both
the Chaupatis. Patri-
otic songs will be
played on the request
of the people.
Rave party busted in
Rajsamand, 24 held
Tarun Joshi
Rajsamand: TheKham-
nor Police raided an al-
leged rave party at a Ho-
tel Rajgharana and ar-
rested two dozen people.
SP Shiv Kumar said
that they got informa-
tion about an ongoing
rave party, despite the
weekend curfew, during
their late evening pa-
trol. The police found
men and women in an
inebriated condition
creating a ruckus at the
hotel. Initially the po-
lice tried to control
them verbally but when
they did not budge, on
the instructions of
NathdwaraCOChhagan
Purohit, police person-
nel from Nathdwara
and Khamnor Police
Station arrested them
in a joint operation.
Most of those arrested
hail from Gujarat and
also include two CID of-
ficers. However the ASP
has denied having any
information about the
incident.
NEWS DIGEST
Jhunjhunu: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB)
caught the Block social security officer of Chidawa
Panchayat Samiti red-handed while he was receiving
a bribe of Rs 40,000 on Monday. His contact man
in the city has also been arrested. According to ACB
sources, the accused Priyatam Dangi had demanded
10 percent of the grant of Rs 5 lakh from a newly
wed couple which is given by the government to
encourage inter-caste marriage. After receiving the
complaint, ACB sleuths sent the couple with Rs
40,000 to be handed over to Dangi. As soon as Dangi
accepted the money, ACB sleuths nabbed him.
—PRADEEP GADWAL
Pali/Bundi: A woman
and a child died when a
car rammed inside the
trolley near Sumerpur
police station in Pali
district Five other people
were also injured. In
another incident on
Sunday midnight in
Keshoraipatan area, two
cousins riding a bike
died tragically due to
an unidentified vehicle
collision on Kota Dausa
Mega Highway.
Jhunjhunu: An FIR was
registered late on Sun-
day night against three
doctors for the death of
a 6-year-old child around
a year ago allegedly due
to their negligence. His
father had approached
the Divisional Commis-
sioner, after which panel
headed by CMHO Chhote
Lal Gurjar was investi-
gating case. The FIR has
been lodged on the basis
of the committee report.
ACB SLEUTHS NAB PANCHAYAT OFFICIAL
RED-HANDED WHILE RECEIVING BRIBE
FOUR KILLED IN
TWO SEPARATE
ACCIDENTS
3 DOCS BOOKED
FOR 6-YR-OLD
CHILD’S DEATH
Rajputs demand arrest
of former dacoit Gurjar
Vinod Tiwari
Dholpur: Two days
ago, in the case of in-
decent abuses by for-
mer dacoit Jagan Gur-
jar to Bari MLA Girraj
Singh Malinga, the
people of Rajput soci-
ety on Monday round-
ed the district collec-
torate and demon-
strated fiercely
.
During the demon-
stration, the people of
Rajput society de-
manded action by ar-
resting former dacoit
Jagan Gurjar. People
of the Rajput commu-
nity who reached the
district collectorate in
hundreds demonstrat-
ed in the collectorate
carrying posters of
Malinga and banners
of “Main Bhi Malinga
Hoon”. Angry over the
non-arrest of Jagan
Gurjar, district presi-
dent of Rajput society
Vishambhar Singh
said that Gurjar has
made indecent re-
marks on sister and
daughters of Rajputs
along with threaten-
ing to kill the MLA.
A delegation of Ra-
jput society met dis-
trict collector Rakesh
Jaiswal and demanded
the arrest of former
dacoit Jagan Gurjar.
Meanwhile, police
have raided several
places to catch Jagan
Gurjar. The dacoit
was, however, not
found.
Rajasthan Assembly building, Amar Jawan Jyoti and other nearby Govt buildings illuminated ahead of R-Day in Jaipur on Monday.
Single Window Clearance System for
biomass based power projects now: Arya
Dr Rituraj Sharma
Jaipur: Chief Secre-
tary Niranjan Arya
while presiding over a
virtual meeting of the
State Level Empow-
ered Committee
(SSLEC) at the govern-
ment Secretariat here
on Monday said that a
Single Window Clear-
ance System has been
constituted for in-prin-
ciple approved biomass
based power projects.
Arya said that the
state government had
issued Biomass Poli-
cy-2010 to promote
power generation from
non-conventional en-
ergy sources. RREC
director NS Nirvana
said that the three pro-
jects proposed by the
committee are M/s
VCA Power Private
Limited (14.90 MW) Vil-
lage Dhod, Sikar, M/s
TNA Renewable Ener-
gy Private Limited
(14.90 MW) Village Du-
grana tehsil. Bhadra,
Hanumangarh and
M/s Nano Energy Pri-
vate Limited (8 MW)
village Shaitan Singh
Tehsil Lohawat, Jodh-
pur have been ap-
proved. He said that
the firms have been
given 36 months to set
up the project.
Nirvana said that
the firms have ob-
tained land tax, power
evacuation approval
and NOC of water.
“Electricity generated
from these projects
will be purchased by
Rajasthan Energy De-
velopment Corpora-
tion. Mustard husk,
garbage and agricul-
tural residues are used
in such power projects
creating employment
opportunities for the
farmers and unem-
ployed in rural areas.”
CASE OF ABUSING MLA MALINGA
—PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA

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POSTAL REG NO. JPC/004/2022-24
Rajendra Chhabra
Nirmal Tiwari
Jaipur:Amajorscandal
has come to light in the
Mines department as in
spite of punishing a re-
nowned company, the
department has instead
gone out of the way,
keeping rules and regu-
lations at one side, and
awarded the company
instead!
The matter pertains
to Jindal SAW Limited,
withwhomthestategov-
ernment has yet again
entered an MoU after 6
years, instead of cancel-
ling the lease of a
1,557-hectare iron ore
mineinBhilwara.Those
in the know-how of
workings claim that the
department is wrong
and will lead to an ex-
chequer loss of crore of
rupees. However, an
even more serious point
is that the MoU has not
been signed by the Sec-
retary (Additional CS)
rather by Director KB
Pandya, even though
Pandya is not a compe-
tent authority for this
task. Signing the MoU
this past January 10,
Pandyahasputhischair
on the line.
The Mines Depart-
ment had granted the
mines located in Dewas
in Bhilwara for extrac-
tion of Iron Ore to Jin-
dal SAW on November
16, 2010, for a 30-year
lease and the condition
was that the company
will set up a small plant
for manufacturing iron
pellets within 2 years,
and in 4 years, will also
set up a steel plant with
an investment of Rs
2,500 crore. While the
company did set up its
ironpelletplant,itnever
took a step in the setting
up of the steel plant.
In 2016, the depart-
ment and company en-
tered in an MoU, signed
by the then Principal
Secretary Mines - Deep-
ak Upreti - wherein the
setting up of the plant
was stressed upon while
condoning the delay in
its set up.
However, despite this,
when year after year
passed, the Mines de-
partment under the cur-
rent government came
to action. At first the Di-
rector, and later at the
government’s level, Sec-
retary sent notices one
after the other to Jindal
SAW asking as to why
shouldn’t its lease be
cancelled. However, the
company did not give
even a single reply and
after 12 years, the situa-
tionisthesameasonthe
day of signing the lease.
But it is surprising
that while on one side
the Mines department is
preparing to cancel the
November 2010 lease
agreement with Jindal
SAW, on the other hand,
a new MoU has been
signed for the same
plant i.e. a second MoU
for the same plant,
which is not only wrong
but against rules too.
Those in the know-
howof thismatterclaim
thatsincetheconditions
of the 2010 lease agree-
ment have not been ful-
filled, the lease is not in
effect. The department
has not given any exten-
sion since iron ore, be-
ing a major mineral,
falls in the central list.
Under such, when Jin-
dal SAW does not practi-
cally have any lease of
mines in Bhilwara, then
the MoU does not make
sense. Moreover, the Di-
rectorisnotacompetent
authority to become a
signatory for the MoU
with such a major in-
vestment.
PANDYA BECOMING SIGNATORY TO ‘NEW’ MoU RAISES CONCERN
EVEN AS JINDAL SAW FAILS TO DELIVER ON ITS FIRST MoU!
IS THERE A SCANDAL BREWING IN THE MINES DEPARTMENT?
Mines Department
had granted the
mines located in
Dewas in Bhilwara for
extraction of Iron Ore
to Jindal SAW on
November 16, 2010,
for a 30-year lease
and the condition was
that the company will
set up a small plant
for manufacturing iron
pellets within 2 years,
and in 4 years, will
also set up steel plant
with an investment of
Rs 2,500 crore.While
the company did set
up its iron pellet plant,
but it never took a
step in the setting up
of the steel plant
The scandal in this entire scenario is that
the lease should be cancelled. According
to the new rules of the Union government,
mines of major minerals cannot be allotted
on lease now. Therefore, the Bhilwara mines
will be auctioned now. According to the ini-
tial estimate, there are 180 million tonnes of
reserves of iron ore of various categories in
this mine and during an auction, the price
can go up as high as Rs 5,000 crore. Therefore,
Director KB Pandya becoming a signatory in
the entire episode raises suspicion. However,
knowledgeable sources, in this particular
matter, claim that without minister Pramod
Jain Bhaya and ACS Dr Subodh Agrawal’s
knowledge and nod to this effect, KB Pandya
can not even think of signing the MoU!
THE SCENARIO...
Pramod Jain Bhaya Dr Subodh Agarwal KB Pandya
Yogesh Sharma
Jaipur: The Raj Bha-
wan and the Congress
government have come
face to face on the Civil
Procedure Code (Ra-
jasthan Amendment)
Bill 2020 passed by the
state government to
stop the auction of agri-
cultural lands up to 5
acres.
Issue created
The issue was created
when a delegation of
Bhartiya Kisan Union
led by its state presi-
dent Rajaram Meel
handed over a memo-
randum at Raj Bhawan
demanding to clear a
bill to amend Rajasthan
Agricultural Credit Op-
eration (Removal of
Difficulties) Act to stop
auction of land up to 5
acres and its clearance
is pending with the
Governor.
Raj Bhawan clarifies
Soon after the delega-
tion left, a clarification
was issued by Raj Bha-
wan saying that no such
bill (regarding the
RODA act) is pending
for clearance at Raj
Bhawan.
GS Dotasra reacts
Reacting to it, PCC
Chief Govind Singh
Dotasra said that the
state government had
amended the proviso to
section 60 (1) (b) of the
Code of Civil Proce-
dure (CPC) on Novem-
ber 2, 2020, which
would have banned at-
tachment and auction
on taking KCC loan on
5 acres of land and the
bill is still pending in
Raj Bhawan.
Dotasra said that on
November 24, 2020, the
government had sent
the CPC amendment
bill. He said that it
seems that officers
have not given the right
facts to the Governor.
He said that the bill
was not returned to the
state government with
any objection and it is
pending at the level of
the government. On the
party’s digital member-
ship campaign, Dotas-
ra said the party is en-
gaged in the member-
ship drive and the Digi-
tal worker app link will
be given soon.
Dotasra attacks BJP
Attacking the Bharati-
ya Janata Party, PCC
Chief Govind Singh
Dotasra said that the
party is not able to play
the role of opposition
in the state and could
not create any major
movement against the
Congress government
in 3 years.
The Congress leader
also accused the cen-
tral government of be-
ing anti-farmer. He also
said that Congress or-
ganization is taking the
schemes of the state
government to the
villages.
FACE OFF BETWEEN RAJ BHAWAN
GEHLOT GOVT OVER PROPOSED BILL
On Nov 24, 2020,
the govt had sent
CPC amendment
bill, it seems that
officers have not
given right facts to
Governor: Dotasra
A group of farmers took out a march towards Raj Bhawan from Shaheed Smarak but were stopped by
police on Monday. Later, a 13-member delegation submitted the memo.—PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA
If the bill had
got the green
signal from the
Raj Bhawan, the farm-
ers would have gotten
relief. It is for the Raj
Bhawan to
clarify
where the
mistake has
happened.
The farmers
will complete relief only
when the bill is cleared.
We will be able to imple-
ment the bill only when
it gives consent from the
governor. At present, the
CM has put a tempo-
rary ban on attach-
ment.
—Govind Singh Dotasra,
PCC Chief
Reacting to the mat-
ter, it was said by
the Chief Minister’s
office that Raj Bhawan
has informed journal-
ists that no bill to
amend the RODA Act
has come to the Raj
Bhawan in relation to
the auction of agricul-
tural land. The truth is
that the Government of
Rajasthan had amended
the proviso to section
60 (1) (b) of the Code
of Civil Procedure
(CPC) on November
2, 2020, which would
have banned attach-
ment and auction on
taking KCC loan on 5
acres of land. But this
bill is still pending in
Raj Bhawan.
RAJ BHAWAN SAID THAT NO BILL TO
AMEND THE RODA ACT HAS COME: CMO
Jaipur: Water supply minister Dr Mahesh Joshi
has targeted the BJP and the Central govern-
ment over the pending files like the
agricultural laws with the Governor.
Speaking to the media at PCC head-
quarters here on Monday, Joshi said
that the BJP has been pressurising the
Governor in many cases. The BJP and
the Central government cause hin-
drance for a state in making good laws to reap
political benefits from it.
DR MAHESH JOSHI BLAMES BJP FOR
PRESSURISING GUV TO SIT ON FILES
Bhanwar S Charan
Kota: A feeling of satis-
faction and happiness
was visible on the face
of UDH minister Shanti
Dhariwal on seeing the
renovation work of
Govt College in Kota,
from where he gradu-
ated. Dhariwal was the
president of the student
union in this college.
During the day he also
visited Antaghar un-
derpass, JDB circle, Ko-
tadi Chauraha, Aerod-
rum underpass, and
other sites. He directed
the UIT secretary to im-
pose a penalty of Rs 10
lakh on contractor
double penalty if con-
tractor fails to deposit
amount.
DreamtorenovatecollegefromwhereI
studiedisbeingfulfillednow:Dhariwal
From P1…
which is the highest
number of traps ever
since the bureau was
founded. The CM also
talked to the officials
about their experienc-
es and listened to their
suggestions for the
betterment of the de-
partment.
Gehlot appreciated
the ACB’s initiative of
‘Sajag Gram Yojana’
and said that it can
also play an important
role in curbing cor-
ruption in public wel-
fare schemes in rural
areas. On the 1064 hel-
pline of the ACB, the
chief minister said
that it has helped peo-
ple in reaching out to
the bureau and it
should be further
strengthened. DG ACB
BL Soni said that time-
bound disposal of
pending cases is being
done. ACB has got 239
officers and jawans,
due to which investi-
gation work has accel-
erated.
Jaipur: CM Ashok
Gehlot on Monday said
that online trade in
mandis and e-payment
should be encouraged
in the state to make the
prices of agricultural
produce more com-
petitive. He said that
farmers themselves
would go ahead and
adopt it if they would
know about benefits of
e-payment. Gehlot was
speaking in a review
meeting of Agri dept.
Kota: Parliamentary Affair minister Shanti Dhariwal has
claimed state govt had passed bill on Nov 24, 2020 and
forwarded to Guv. “There is no mistake at our level.
The bill is with Guv only. If it was sent to central govt,
then problems would have been solved,” he said.
CM Ashok Gehlot on
Monday called upon
girls to progress and
touch new heights
in life while assert-
ing that safe, healthy
child is basis of the
cultured society.
CM CALLS
UPON GIRLS
TO TOUCH
NEW HEIGHTS
CM Gehlot: Online
trade in mandis,
E-payment should
be encouraged
NO MISTAKE AT OUR LEVEL: DHARIWAL
ACB’s important role in effective
implementation of govt’s zero-tolerance
policy against corruption: CM Gehlot
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot presides meeting with BL Soni ,
Abhay Kumar, Kuldeep Ranka and Dinesh MN on Monday.
Shanti Dhariwal reviews ongoing projects in Kota on Monday.
The building which is over 100 years
old, still looks great. I had a dream to
get the college building renovated,
which is now being fulfilled. Seeing the work,
there is a feeling of happiness and pride in the
mind. —Shanti Dhariwal, UDH Minister
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FACE
OF
THE
DAY!
Aries
MARCH 21 - APRIL 20
You are likely to have
fun at work today. A
changed lifestyle
promises good health.
You may not be in the
best of financial situations, but things
are likely to improve. Much excitement
is foreseen on the family front. There is
some scope of improving your scores
on the academic front.
Gemini
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Homemakers will get a
chance to implement
their ideas. You are
likely to be recognised
for your efforts on the
professional front. Some of you can be
invited for guidance or consultancy.
Chance of a raise is possible for some.
Timely and correct decwision will help
you in saving a lot of money.
Leo
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Job prospects for those
freshly out of profes-
sional institutes are set
to brighten up soon. A
positive outlook will
help you throw out the negativity
within. You will manage to ignore
distractions and interruptions at work
to complete a pending task in time. is
so miffed.
Libra
SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22
This is the day to play
your winning card on
the professional front. A
lot of time may be
wasted in socialising,
but you will love every moment of it!
Time is ripe for investing in a scheme
you have been considering for long.
Your upbeat mood and a happy
demeanour will brighten atmosphere.
Sagittarius
NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22
Sticking to workout
routine may benefit you
on the health front.
Meeting relatives at a
marriage or party cannot
be ruled out. Accompanying someone
you click with is likely to make your
business journey entertaining. Support
from the family may seem most
encouraging.
Aquarius
JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19
Balancing act between
home and office will
remain most smooth
for working women.
You succeed in putting
an ambitious project on the tracks and
cross all hurdles in making it a
success. Love beckons and promises
to give immense joy and fulfillment.
Homemakers can exceed budget.
Taurus
APRIL 21 - MAY 20
A major purchase may
make a dent in your
savings, but will help in
keeping up with the
jonesses. Speculation
may not be profitable and you can very
well burn your fingers. Some of you
may get hard pressed to find a good
match for someone eligible in the family
down, Saturn will save you.
Cancer
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
You may get motivated
to shake a leg just to get
on the fitness trail. It will
be important to keep a
tab of your expenses
today. Some shuffling on the work front
is likely but will not affect you. Peace
and tranquillity prevail on the home
front and will help you unwind.
Romance seems on the upswing.
Virgo
AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23
Satisfaction is foreseen
for the image conscious
people trying to achieve
perfect figure and
physique. You will
succeed in surmounting the odds to get
a stalled job back on the tracks. Your
efforts on the academic front will keep
you in contention. You are likely to
spend an enjoyable time.
Scorpio
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22
You will succeed and
move ahead in your
professional life, as the
year begins. Be careful,
though, as your daily
routine may be affected adversely.
Your boss may be the reason for your
annoyance. Pressure tactics can
infuriate you. Probably, by 5th or 6th,
you may think of taking up a new job.
Capricorn
DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20
Focussing on your
career graph at this
juncture will be a step
that will take you far. A
rethink is in order for
those going in for a heavy investment.
Recovering a loaned amount from
someone will not pose much difficulty.
You will manage to defuse tensions
prevailing at home.
Pisces
FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20
Financial condition of
those down in the
dumps is set to
improve. Your
efficiency at work is
likely to impress those who matter at
work. Your biggest asset is your sense
of humor try to use it to cure your not
so good health. Spending time with
family.
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iterature, power-
ful, thought-pro-
voking, insightful
writing, has en-
thralled, inspired,
q u e s t i o n e d ,
through the ages.
A great piece of writing
isn’t just a record of life
and times for posterity, it
is indeed capable of
shifting and shaping
opinion and society.
More specifically chil-
dren’s literature con-
tains the same power.
Power to influence, insti-
gate, inspire. However, to
analyze the impact that
children’s literature can
have on society at large,
the ways in which it can
create confidence glob-
ally, we need to under-
stand certain nuances.
ENTERTAINMENT
WITH IMAGINATION
In the modern era, with
the digital age and over-
exposure to the visual
medium, it has been felt
by large sections of soci-
ety that children are con-
suming content that is
making them duller,
rather than more intelli-
gent. In this kind of sce-
nario, the importance of
children’s literature is
greater than ever. The
best part about literature
is that it presents the best
form of entertainment to
children. While stories
of fantastical lands, wiz-
ards and sorcerers
delight children,
they also don’t
spoon-feed (like
a lot of visual
content), forcing
readers instead, to
develop their own
images and interpre-
tations. This helps
children become
more creative, im-
aginative, analyti-
cal and critical. It
really is the best
kind of entertain-
ment, the kind that
endows readers
with conscious
and uncon-
scious life
skills!
A THTINKING
GENERATION
First and foremost, chil-
dren’s literature, with its
plethora of offerings
raging from fiction, nov-
els, poems, books and
magazines, informs and
moulds an entire genera-
tion’s way of thinking,
and greatly influences
children’s worldview.
When I was a child, for
instance, and I was ex-
posed to literature, it is
what captivated me to-
wards animals and wild-
life. It sparked my life-
long interest, one that
has endeared and turned
me into a nature lover. It
has made me sensitive,
aware, and kind. That of
course is something that
took place at a personal,
micro-level. Today, when
an entire generation is
exposed to literature
that uses real-life issues
as a backdrop or prem-
ise, topical, contextual
concerns such as war,
climate change, and gen-
der equality; these is-
sues become part of an
entire generation’s con-
cerns, by first familiar-
izing children with their
existence and meaning,
and then compelling
them to examine them,
and form their own opin-
ions. Literature, there-
fore, doesn’t just enter-
tain, it also serves a
deeper function of
getting children to be-
come thinkers.
WRITER’S GERM
Exposing children
to timely read-
ing and sto-
ries also
s e w s
t h e
seeds of creativity and
writing within them.
Not only do young
learners gain exposure
to different facts, points
of view and opinion-
building; it instils in
them an unconscious
yet strong urge to write
themselves. If there is a
young child who be-
comes keenly interested
in reading, there are
imminent chances that
he or she will want to
write too! And rather
than being ‘taught’ how
to write, the best way of
learning is through
reading and organically
inculcating the nuanc-
es, tips, tricks, and
methods of writing
one’s own original ma-
terial, be it fiction or
non-fiction. It is a kind
of educational sensiti-
zation process, the best
kind of orientation –
much more effective
than a later creative
writing class or work-
shop!
GLOBAL CONFIDENCE
With the combined vir-
tues of imbuing stu-
dents with life skills
and fueling their quest
and concern for press-
ing issues; children’s
literature has the
unique ability to create
an entire generation of
tomorrow’s adults and
leaders who will be
self-aware, generally
aware, sensitive, ques-
tioning, and enlight-
ened. The world today
is in dire need of free-
thinking, imaginative,
innovative do-gooders
who can tackle a myri-
ad of problems that
plague the world,
through thoughtful ac-
tion rather than by
force and supremacy.
And a generation fueled
by a diet of literature
can be that change-
agent, inspiring and
building global confi-
dence and instill-
ing mankind’s
faith, once again,
in humanity!
KARTIK BAJORIA
(the author is a Jaipur-based
Communication Skills Educator
Writer)
L
LITERATURE
FOR CHILDREN

I am a sucker for nature, beauty and
art. I believe in promoting tourism
via my art too. Kalga, Himachal
Pradesh, ain’t just a destination but
it has given a new meaning to my
work. I started learning my tattooing
in January 2018 at a shop in Jaipur
named Zero Error Tattoos. I was
always into art and drawing because
of my immense understanding of
portraits and nature. When I was
a kid I used to make portraits but
never I’ll come this far. I myself got
amazed by them because I never ex-
pected that I can create something.
The person who is the backbone
in this process and my better half,
Aryaman pushed me and made me
understand to just to try it once and
then I knew I wanted a career in art
(somehow). I just enjoyed doing it.
Kalga, where I live now is a place
that I feel like I won’t find it any-
where else for my profession. You
have to climb Kalga and then you’ll
reach my cafe Tabiba where I make
tattoos surrounded by the mighty
mountains. It’s so much fun making
tattoos there that it doesn’t even feel
like I’m working, I make sure
to provide best expe-
rience artwork to
all the clients that
come and visit
me there.
—ARYA
TAK
ETC
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Life is a journey...
not a destination
NATIONAL TOURISM DAY 2022
THE TOURISM INDUSTRY
SUFFERED A HUGE BLOW IN 2020
AS A RESULT OF LOCKDOWNS AND
TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS AIMED AT
CURBING THE SPREAD OF
COVID-19, WHICH MADE PEOPLE
AROUND THE WORLD LIMIT THEIR
ACTIVITY AND LOSE THEIR
LIVELIHOODS. CITY FIRST BRINGS
TO YOU VIEWS OF OUR ARDENT
READERS OF A MEMORY FROM
THEIR FAVOURITE TRIP, THE
IMPORTANCE OF THE TOURISM
SECTOR IN INDIA’S ECONOMY,
THE PROPOSED MEASURES AND
RECOVERY PLANS!
s we cele-
brate Na-
t i o n a l
T o u r i s m
Day, on
January 25
every year,
the day is observed
by the government
to encourage tour-
ism and explain the
essential role of it
in the growth of the
country!
India is a country
where ethnicity,
practice, culture,
etc changes with
every kilometre as
one moves from
North to South. In-
dia being the 7th
largest country in
the world stands
apart from the rest
of the Asian conti-
nent. It has moun-
tains and the sea,
which makes the
country a distinct
geographical entity
.
Travel tourism
industry in India
has been a signifi-
cant contributor to
the country’s GDP.
The sector even
generates a large
employment base.
So when by mid-
March 2020, the
popular tourist at-
tractions in India
started to close
down, and the news
on putting a halt on
flying began to
make rounds, we all
started to predict
the grim future of
the travel industry
in the country al-
ready. In fact the
shutting down of
the iconic Taj Ma-
hal on March 17,
2020, which attracts
millions of visitors
every year, was a
sign enough to as-
sess the hard blow
this pandemic was
launching at us. As
the tourism indus-
try is now reviving
slowly, some of us
still feel they won’t
be travelling any-
time soon.
MITALI DUSAD
mitalidusad01@gmail.com
I can’t believe I went to
a trip in the first month
of 2020. It feels sur-
real. I visited Kashmir
with my friends and
it was no less than a
magical experience.
I hope this pandemic
settles soon and we
get to experience more
hustle free travels. The
beauty of the country
should be preserved at
all costs.
—HARISH JANGID
Travel, for me, is an
escape from the gen-
eral monotonous rou-
tine of life. It helps me
calm down to enjoy
the little things in life
and pace the otherwise
overwhelming life. It
gives me sheer joy to
spend time with nature
ultimately running to-
wards the hills to soak
the sight of sunsets.
—SATYENDRA
PRABHAKAR
Now and then my life
becomes a constant
circle of functioning a
work-life balance and
to do it along with a
toddler is just hectic.
Travelling to a new place
comes as restitution to
me. It’s the only thing
that helps me reju-
venate, energize and
come back stronger to
deal with the everyday
chores of life.
—LUBNA ABBAS
Travelling is one of the
most blissful things in
the world. I enjoy the
beauty of nature. Tourism
industry definitely faced
a huge setback post
pandemic. It did leave the
inner traveller in
me disappointed for a
while, But eventually
2021 saw things taking a
better shape and I hope
this third wave settles
soon.
—KOMAL KHANCHANDANI
A
Tattoo Artist, Arya Tak promoting tourism and culture with her art
Alleppey Backwaters, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Amer Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Kalga, Himachal Pardesh
Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Buddha Park,
Ravangla, Sikkim

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