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JAIPUR l THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 239
BJP CAN BUY FEW CORRUPT LEADERS
BUT NOT TMC’S DEDICATED WORKERS:
WEST BENGAL CM MAMATA BANERJEE
P5 P6
CHIEF MINISTER PINARAYI VIJAYAN
HAS LOST HIS CREDIBILITY, SAYS JP
NADDA DURING 2-DAY VISIT TO KERALA
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW
After local bodies, Gehlot-Maken duo gear up
to go out all guns blazing at assembly bypolls
Jaipur. Riding on the
enthusiasm of emphatic
win in the local body
election, senior Con-
gressleaders-CMAshok
Gehlot and AICC Gen-
eral secretary Incharge
Ajay Maken - have gone
back to the drawing
boardtochalkoutstrate-
giesfortheallimportant
assembly bypolls to be
held in four constituen-
cies of the state in the
days to come. Both Con-
gressandBJPwillaimto
come out victorious in
the ‘battle’ since the two
parties have a lot to
achieve as way of the
messagetheygivetopeo-
ple from their victories.
With this in mind,
Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot and state in-
charge Ajay Maken
have given strategic in-
structions to the in-
charge ministers and
supervisors regarding
the by-elections in the
four seats of the assem-
bly
. The duo has made it
crystal clear that the
four seats namely Sa-
hara, Sujangarh,
Vallabhnagar and Ra-
jsamand -have to be
won in any case.
Highly placed sourc-
es reveal that the mas-
ter strategist Gehlot
and man-manager par
excellence Turn to P6
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot along with Ajay Maken and Govind Singh Dotasra interacting with
party leaders at CMR on Wednesday.
Historic: Sensex closes
above 50,000 for first time
EkanamayhostIPL,WorldT20
asJayShahallpraiseforstadium
SC refuses plea against
religious conversion laws
Mumbai: The BSE
Sensex closed above the
historic 50,000-mark for
the first time ever on
Wednesday as the post-
Budget euphoria con-
tinued for the third
straight session amid a
spurt in buying by for-
eign funds and positive
global cues.
Banking, finance and
pharma counters
hogged the limelight,
whilecementandFMCG
stocks succumbed to
profit-taking.
After touching a re-
cord intra-day high of
50,526.39, the 30-share
BSE benchmark ended
at 50,255.75, up 458.03
points or 0.92 per cent.
Similarly
, the broader
NSE Nifty surged 142.10
points or 0.97 per cent to
its fresh closing record
of 14,789.95. It touched
an all-time high of
14,868.85 during the day
.
IndusInd Bank
topped the Sensex gain-
ers’ chart, zooming 7.65
per cent, followed by
PowerGrid, Dr Reddy’s,
Sun Pharma, NTPC and
Axis Bank.
On the other hand, Ul-
traTech Cement, Maru-
ti, ITC, Kotak Bank,
Asian Paints, Nestle In-
diaandTCSwereamong
the losers, slipping up to
0.90 per cent.
“Domestic equities
continued to remain in
the grip of bulls
Turn to P6
Vishal Srivastav
Lucknow: ‘Yahan to
IPL hona hi chahiye’....
(IPL must happen here)
were the first words of
Jay Shah as he had first
glimpses of the Bharat
Ratna Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee Ekana Cricket
Stadium in Lucknow on
Wednesday
.
Shah, Honorary Sec-
retary
, Board of Control
for Cricket in India
(BCCI) and newly elect-
ed President, Asian
Cricket Council (ACC),
was in the city along
with BCCI Vice Presi-
dent Rajiv Shukla, to
hold a meeting with Ut-
tar Pradesh Cricket As-
sociation (UPCA) office-
bearers.
However, exclusive
sources have revealed
to First India that
Shah’s visit Turn to P6
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court Wednes-
day refused to entertain
a plea challenging the
validity of laws enacted
by states, including Ut-
tar Pradesh and Uttara-
khand, which deal with
religious conversion by
marriage and others.
A bench headed by
Chief Justice S A Bob-
de, while saying that
the petitioner should
approachtheconcerned
high court, observed
that the issue raised is
important and the high
courts of Allahabad
and Uttarakhand are
already dealing with pe-
titions on it.
We are not on merits
at all. Allahabad and Ut-
tarakhand high courts
are entertaining simi-
lar petitions. We are not
denying the importance
of matter at all. We are
saying we would like to
have the benefit of high
courts view, said the
bench, also comprising
Justices A S Bopanna
and V Ramasubrama-
nian. Turn to P6
Jind: A huge crowd
gathered on Wednesday
at Jind in Haryana for a
farmers’ “mahapan-
chayat” or meeting to
push for the repeal of
three new laws at the
heart of farmer protests
outside Delhi since No-
vember. While several
such gatherings have
been seen in the past few
days in Uttar Pradesh,
Jind’s meeting took it to
Haryana’sJatheartland.
Five resolutions were
passedatthe“mahapan-
chayat”. Apart from the
demand that the gov-
ernment withdraw the
farm laws, the resolu-
tions called for a legal
guarantee of minimum
support price for crops,
a farm loan waiver and
the release of farmers
arrested after the vio-
lence on Republic Day
.
Bharatiya Kisan Un-
ion leader Rakesh Ti-
kait addressed the gath-
ering at Jind, consid-
ered the epicenter of
Jat politics in Haryana.
Turn to P6
SC REJECTS JUDICIAL PROBE INTO R-DAY VIOLENCE
Delhi Police
announces
reward on
Sidhu, 3 others
New Delhi: The Delhi
PoliceonWednesdayan-
nounced a cash reward
of Rs 1 lakh for anyone
who provided informa-
tion on actor Deep Sid-
hu, his two associates,
and Jugraj Singh, ac-
cused of hoisting the
Nishan Sahib, a flag sa-
cred to Sikhs, at the Red
Fortduringthefarmers’
protest on Republic Day
.
The police are con-
ducting multiple raids
in Delhi and Punjab to
look for the accused
who participated in the
violent clashes between
police and farmers dur-
ing the Republic Day
tractor march. Turn to P6
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court on Wednesday re-
fused to entertain a clutch
of petitions demanding
judicial investigations into
the violence during the
tractor rally in Delhi on Re-
public Day. The apex court
also referred to a state-
ment reportedly given by
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi during the all-party
meeting that “the law will
take its own course” and
allowed the petitioners to
withdraw pleas. The court
also dismissed another
petition seeking direction
to the media not to declare
farmers as ‘terrorists’
without any evidence,
news agency ANI reported.
In their petition, advocates
Vishal Thakre and Abhay
Singh Yadav, both practis-
ing in Delhi, sought probe
by the CBI, Turn to P6
TIKAIT’S HUNKAAR
5 resolutions passed at gathering including
withdrawal of farm laws, MSP legal guarantee
Union Home Ministry says no extension
of internet suspension at Delhi borders
...FROM MAHAPANCHAYAT IN JATLAND
Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait addresses Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jind district on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
BCCI Secretary Jay Shah and VP Rajiv Shukla inspecting the
Ekana stadium. Also seen are Ekana Stadium MD Uday Sinha
and UPCA Secretary Yudhvir Singh along with other officials.
ADDL DIRECTOR PRAVEEN SINHA
APPOINTED ACTING CBI CHIEF
New Delhi: CBI Addi-
tional Director Praveen
Sinha, a 1988-batch
Gujarat cadre IPS, has
been appointed acting
chief of the agency till
a decision on a new
director is taken to
succeed Rishi Kumar
Shukla who retired
on Wednesday after a
two-year fixed stint. The
Appointments Com-
mittee of the Cabinet
chaired by PM Narendra
Modi chose Sinha. An
order issued by the
DoP and Training on
Wednesday stated that
Sinha will look duties
of the director with
immediate effect till
the appointment of a
new CBI chief or until
further orders, which-
ever is earlier. Shukla, a
1983-batch IPS officer
from Madhya Pradesh
cadre. The CBI director
is chosen by a high-
powered committee of
PM, LoP and CJI.
Praveen Sinha
New Delhi: Home
Minister Amit Shah
became the senior-
most member of the
government to warn
of the “temptation of
sensationalist social
media hashtags and
comments” - a re-
sponse to the wave of
support for farmers
protesting the new
agriculture laws, a
wave generated by a
six-word tweet from
pop star Rihanna.
Shah joined the
growing list of BJP
politicians and lead-
ers, and Bollywood
celebrities tweeting
against “propagan-
da” that threatens
national unity
.
“No propaganda
can deter India’s uni-
ty!Nopropagandacan
stop India to attain
new heights! Propa-
ganda can not decide
India’s fate only ‘Pro-
gress’ can. India
stands united and to-
gether to achieve pro-
gress,” Shah tweeted.
Late Tuesday night
Rihanna tweeted to
her 100 million follow-
ers: “Why aren’t we
talking about this
#FarmersProtest?”
and shared an article
on the farmers’ pro-
test by American
news outlet CNN.
Turn to P6
New Delhi: Twitter may face action if it does not
comply with the government’s orders, the centre
warned on Wednesday, stressing that the social
media giant “unilaterally unblocked” accounts and
tweets - linked to an objectionable hashtag related to
the farmers’ protest - despite its order.
COMPLY OR FACE ACTION: GOVT TO
TWITTER ON ‘GENOCIDE’ HASHTAG
Rihanna
No propaganda can
deter India’s unity: Shah
Amit Shah Greta Thunberg
The Chief Minister and State
Incharge hash out strategy for
upcoming elections, direct
leaders to start groundwork
Aishwary Pradhan 
Jaipur: Hitting out at
Congress national
treasurer Pawan Bansal
for his statement about
the construction of
Ram temple, BJP state
president Satish Poonia
on Wednesday said that
Congressmen have no
faith in Lord Ram.
He said that opposing
the name of Lord Ram
is the agenda of the
Congress party
.
Poonia said that Con-
gress should stop doing
politics in the name of
Shri Ram and they
should feel ashamed.
“The statement of
Bansal is uncalled for
and immature. There is
no place for any kind of
politics about the con-
tribution for the temple
construction,” he said.
“Lord Shri Ram is the
symbol of faith for all
Indians and. There is no
pressure on anyone to
contribute to the temple
construction. Anyone
cancontributeanything
starting from one ru-
pee,” he said.
Poonia alleged Con-
gress leaders had creat-
ed hurdles for the Ram
temple.
NSUI, the student
wing of Congress, start-
ed a drive to collect
money for the temple,
but Congress distanced
itself from the drive.
During his visit to
Jaipur, Bansal on Tues-
day had said that some
people had approached
him for seeking dona-
tion for the temple con-
struction but he did not
give because the BJP
has given it a complete-
ly different colour.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Targeting
Congress National
Treasurer Pawan
Bansal for his state-
ment about denying
financial contribu-
tion for the construc-
tion of Ram Temple
in Ayodhya, BJP
leader and Deputy
Leader of Opposi-
tion Rajendra
Rathore on Wednes-
day said that Con-
gress has always de-
nied the existence of
lord Shri Ram.
“What else can be ex-
pected from him,”
Rathore said. Mean-
while, Rathore also
met LS Speaker Om
Birla & Union minis-
ter Arjun Meghwal
in New Delhi on
Wednesday
.
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Jaipur: A standing
committee of the Ra-
jasthan Wildlife Board
has cleared a proposal
to allow the mining of a
special sandstone,
much sought after by
builders including
those constructing the
Ram temple in Ayod-
hya, from Bharatpur’s
Bandh Baretha sanctu-
ary
. The proposal to de-
notify the sanctuary for
the mining of the pink
sandstone from there
will now be put up be-
fore the Rajasthan Wild-
life Board, headed by
Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot, Chief Wildlife
Warden Mohan Meena
told PTI on Wednesday
.
“The standing com-
mittee has given the ap-
proval and the matter
will be now taken up by
the state wildlife board
for consideration after
which it will be sent for
the approval by the Na-
tional Wildlife Board,”
he said.
Thousands of tonnes
of the pink sandstone
mined in Bharatpur’s
Bansi Paharpur have
beensourcedforthetem-
ple over the years, but
much more is needed, he
added. There were con-
cerns in Ayodhya that
supplies of this stone
with a unique pink hue
would dry up. Since
blocks of this sandstone
had already been carved
-- ready to be put in place
as the temple comes up
--switchingovertoaless-
er grade of stone would
have caused problems.
The Dholpur variant
is said to be no match to
the Bansi Paharpur
stone. Authorities in
Congress-run Ra-
jasthan, however, de-
nied that the move to
denotify the Bansi Pa-
harpur block in Bharat-
pur’s Bandh Baretha
wildlife sanctuary has
anything specific to do
with the Ram temple.
A senior district ad-
ministration official
said the stone is in high
demand across the
country and the pro-
cess for the denotifica-
tion was not started
only because the par-
ticular sandstone is re-
quired for the Ram
Temple. “There is ram-
pant illegal mining in
the area. There is no
forest left there and if
it is delinked from the
sanctuary, the state
government will get
the revenue from any
mining there,” he said.
Mining was banned
after 2016 but illegal op-
erations continued and
the Bansi Paharpur
(pink stone) sandstone
remained available in
the grey market. Sup-
ply of the stone took a
hit after the Bharatpur
administration seized
25 trucks loaded with
illegally mined pink
sandstone last Septem-
ber. —PTI
Supply of special pink sandstone for Ram temple to be eased soon
RAM TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION
lll
Thousands of
tonnes of the
pink sandstone
mined in
Bharatpur’s
Bansi Paharpur
have been
sourced for the
temple over the
years
OPPOSING LORD RAM’S NAME
IS AGENDA OF CONG: POONIA
First India Bureau
Dausa: A prisoner in
Dausa district jail com-
mitted suicide on
Wednesday by hanging
himself in the bath-
room. He was arrested
a few days ago on charg-
es of rape and murder
of a minor.
The police immedi-
ately rushed him to the
hospital, where the
doctors declared him
dead. The body is kept
in the morgue for post
mortem. According to
the information, the
captive is identified as
Madanlal. In the morn-
ing, he entered the jail
bathroom to take bath
and committed sui-
cide, when Madanlal
didn’t come out for
long, the fellow prison-
ers peeped inside and
saw him hanging.
PRISONER
COMMITS
SUICIDE
FUNDS FOR RAM MANDIR: BJP hits out at Cong even as Dr Raghu Sharma stresses on faith
Satish Poonia
Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: Medical and
Health Minister Dr
Raghu Sharma has hit
back at people trying
to play politics over
the NSUI’s campaign
of ‘one person, one ru-
pee’ donation cam-
paign for Ram Temple
construction.
Sharma claimed that
NSUI’s campaign is a
message for those indi-
viduals who are de-
manding crores of ru-
pees for the donation.
“These people accepted
a donation of crores of
rupees even during the
Shila Pujan, but till
date, there is no account
of what happened to
that money. Even one
rupee donation is
enough for having faith
in Ram temple.”
`1 enough for having
faith in Temple: Raghu
Dr Raghu Sharma
CHANDRASHEKHAR @ SALASAR
BJP’s State General Secretary Organisation (Rajasthan) Chandrashekhar visited Salasar on
Wednesday where he held meetings with party leaders and also offered prayers at Salasar
Balaji Temple.
CONG HAS ALWAYS DENIED
RAM’S EXISTENCE: RATHORE
Vimal Kothari
Jaipur: The ac-
cused of evading
input tax by issu-
ing fake bills of
bogus firms was
arrested and pre-
sented in the Eco-
nomic Offenses
Court by the Anti-
Evasion branch of
CGST Jaipur on
Wednesday
.
Acting as the op-
erator of Salasar
E n t e r p r i s e s ,
Ashok Kumar Sio-
tia, accused of
evading Rs 7.98
crore of ITC, was
underground for
the last one year.
Siotia is accused
of issuing bogus
firms’ bills on a
commission of
0.5%.
CGST Senior
Public Prosecutor
RN Yadav told the
court that accused
has so far issued
fake bills of Rs
45.52 cr from his
firm. Through
these bills, he mis-
used input tax
credit of Rs7.98
crore. On probe,
some more firms
are formed on pa-
pers for GST eva-
sion. Yadav said
that in the investi-
gation conducted
so far, besides fake
addresses of the
firms, some didn’t
exist at all.
Man held
for evading
GST
Rajendra Rathore
First India Bureau
Jaipur: BJP will organ-
izeintellectualmeetings
and press conferences
across the country to
brief about the provi-
sions of the union budg-
et. Union ministers and
the national office bear-
ersof thepartywillhold
a press conference in all
the state capitals on Feb-
ruary 6-7 to publicise
the provisions of the
budget.
On the same day be-
fore the press confer-
ence, the budget points
will be discussed with
the intellectuals in a
conference and with
business. All BJP MPs
will also publicise the
budget in their respec-
tive constituencies on 6,
7, 13, and 14 February
.
Intellectual meetings
and press conferences
will be organized at dis-
tricts on February 13
and 14 in all states.
It was informed in a
party meeting in which
BJP National President
JP Nadda and national
general secretary (or-
ganisation) BL Santosh
addressed through a
video conference.
Inthemeeting,thena-
tional general secretary
and State In-charge
Arun Singh gave the
task for the upcoming
programs.
BJP state president
Satish Poonia and other
state presidents also at-
tended the meeting.
During this, national
general secretary Bhu-
pendra Yadav proposed
a vote of thanks to
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi for the budget.
BJP to organise intellectual meetings
to publicise Union Budget provisions
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Jaipur Devel-
opment Authority has
issued a letter of ac-
ceptance to LNA infra
project which has been
finalised for the long
awaited project of Ram-
niwas bagh parking ex-
tension after approval
of the UDH minister on
tender.
LNA infra project
had quoted the lowest
rate during the tender-
ing process last month,
on the basis of which it
was selected for the pro-
ject under which a park-
ing facility of 1500 four-
wheelers will be devel-
oped. This will ease the
parking load in the
walled city
.
JDA approves
LNA infra
project
Abhishek Shrivastav 
Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot
government is commit-
ted to promoting agri-
culture-based ware-
housing and construc-
tion of godowns. In or-
der to aid the construc-
tion and provide relief
to farmers as well as
warehouse firms, land
conversion fees, build-
ing map approval fees,
and lease amount, etc.
have already been ex-
empted. In this connec-
tion, another order was
issued on Wednesday by
the Urban Development
Department.
According to the or-
der, the bodies have
been instructed not to
collect sewer fee and
external development
fee from the applicant
for the construction of
agro-based warehous-
es and godowns, when
the local body has not
spent any money in
this area and therefore,
there is no need for
such expenditure. But
if there is a need for
external development
and laying of sewer
lines in the area, then
an affidavit should be
obtained from the ap-
plicant. In the future,
an affidavit for giving
external development
fees and customs du-
ties will have to be tak-
en, if the need arises.
Govt relaxes norms for new
agri warehouses,godowns
Rajiv Gaur
Jodhpur: Students of
the Jai Narain Vyas
University in Jodhpur
led by ABVP leader
Ravindra Singh Bhati
on Wednesday held a
protest against the
university adminis-
tration for its decision
to hand over 34 bigha
land on Pali road to
JDA for the construc-
tion of a convention
center. Police had to
use mild force twice to
disperse them and de-
tained Bhati.
The students started
a dharna outside the
central office. As soon
as vice-chancellor Prof.
PC Trivedi arrived, the
agitating students laid
in front of his car and
shouted slogans
against him.
They surrounded
the car following
which police used mild
force and dispersed the
students.
JNVU students hold protest
against university admin
Police lathi-charge students at Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur.
JP Nadda
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Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: Health Minis-
ter Dr Raghu Sharma
speaking at state-level
School Health and Wel-
fare programme organ-
ised by NHM and UNF-
PA on Wednesday said
that adolescent health
is in priorities of the
State. The health dept
through awareness pro-
grammes will include
teachers as Brand Am-
bassadors and students
as Messengers. Prob-
lems faced during ado-
lescence will be openly
discussed in these pro-
grammes and will be
resolved. He said that
the health dept, prima-
ry and higher education
together are making ef-
forts to provide a proper
medium so that youth
take benefit of health
schemes. NHM Director
Naresh Thakral said
that special package
has been prepared for
health promotional ac-
tivities. Dr Ola, Laksh-
man Singh, Bhanwar
Lal, ML Salodia, Sunil
Thomas and other offic-
ers were present in the
programme.
CISF celebrates 21st Induction Day
at Jaipur International Airport
Kashiram Choudhary
Jaipur: The CISF
(Central Industrial Se-
curity Force) complet-
ed 21 years of its ser-
vice at the Jaipur In-
ternational Airport.
On completion of this
milestone, the induc-
tion program was or-
ganized by CISF on
Wednesday
.
The chief guest of
the induction day was
chief secretary, Niran-
jan Arya, while the spe-
cial guest was DG Jail
Rajiv Dasot, Airport
Director JS Balhara
and CISF Commandant
YP Singh were also pre-
sent in the event. In the
program, the CISF se-
curity personnel dem-
onstrated their skills
in a motorcycle rally,
which was organized
to spread safety aware-
ness.
The CISF comman-
dant YP Singh counted
on the achievements of
the CISF in its two-dec-
ade tenure at the
Jaipur Airport.
For the first time, the
CISF was given the re-
sponsibility to handle
the airport security af-
ter the Kandahar hi-
jack incident in De-
cember 1999.
The force took over
the security operations
of the Airport from 3
February 2000 on-
wards.
CS Niranjan Arya felicitating a girl of CISF staff at the Induction
function at Jaipur International Airport on Wednesday. Also seen
are YP Singh, Rajiv Dasot and JS Balhara.
Dr Raghu Sharma addressing the state-level School Health and Welfare programme on Wednesday. Dr Narottam Sharma takes Covid-19 jab in Jaipur on Wednesday.
SC seeks Raj
govt reply on
plea against
Panchayat Act
HC issues notice
to MD NHM &
state government
MoU between California’s
Living Desert Zoo and
Jodh’s Machia Park soon
2-day PC remand for IPS
Agarwal for alleged extortion
Rajiv Gaur
Jodhpur: The interna-
tional reputation of
Machia biological
park of Jodhpur is all
set to get boosted with
the signing of MoU
with California’s Liv-
ing Desert Zoo in next
few days.
A team of the Living
Desert Zoo, which is
one of the world’s top 10
zoos, will reach Jodh-
pur for the MoU signing
under which various
exchanges will be done.
Central Zoo Authority
had asked Ernst &
Young to help the coun-
try’s zoos reach the
global standpoint under
a contract under 15 zoos
of the country have
been selected. From Ra-
jasthan, only Machia
Biological Park has
been selected for inter-
national collaboration.
Krishna Kumar
Vyas, assistant conser-
vator of forests, said
that the Living Desert
Zoo of California gave
the proposal for the col-
laboration with Machia
Biological Park which
will take place soon. It
is expected that per-
mission for animals
will be granted.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: IPS Manish
Agarwal, who was ar-
rested by ACB on Tues-
dayoncorruptioncharg-
es, was produced before
a local court where he
was remanded to police
remand for two days on
Wednesday
. He is ac-
cused of demanding Rs.
38 lakh from a highway
construction company
and taking Rs. 31 lakh
from another company
when he was posted as
Dausa SP. DG-ACB BL
Soni said that some doc-
uments were recovered
during search of his
house which are being
examined. After Neeraj
Meena’s arrest, ACB
probed role of IPS Agar-
wal and booked him.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The SC gave
permission to con-
duct elections to
state government on
Wednesday
. The peti-
tioner Meena in his
SLP argued that the
state government
has violated the Ra-
jasthan Panchayati
Raj Act. Bench of CJ
S A Bobde, Justice A
S Bopanna and V
. Ra-
masubramanian is-
sued notice to the
state govt and sought
a reply. Counsels for
the petitioner, said in
SC that on Nov 15,
2019, Raj govt had is-
sued notice to set up
new gram panchayat
by merging four vil-
lages in Thanagazi
tehsil of Alwar.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Single
Bench of HC of Justice
Ashok Kumar Gaur, is-
sued notices to the
State Government and
Rajasthan Medical
Services Corporation
Ltd. on the petition
filed by Vikas Sharma
Director M/s Ace Flexi
Pack Pvt. Ltd. regard-
ing the rejection of the
tender.
Advocate Sunil Ku-
mar Singh argued that
such type of activities
of respondents is viola-
tion of Article 14 of the
constitution, the re-
spondents has put a loss
of nearly Rs. 90 Lakhs
to the Government of
Rajasthan. This matter
will again list after two
weeks before the Single
Bench of Rajasthan
High Court.
Machia Biological Park
IPS Manish Agarwal at the ACB court in Jaipur on Wednesday.
Stone pelted
at 2 Congress
councillors in
Khatushyamji
First India Bureau
Sikar: After the
results of munici-
pal councillor elec-
tions in the state,
preparations for
the chairperson
election is going
on. The fencing of
the winning Con-
gress councillors
from Sardarsha-
har has been done
at Sawarthia Sewa
Sadan, Khatu. On
Wednesday, some
people came to
Khatu to take two
councillors from
Sawarthia Sewa
Sadan. The initial
quarrel among the
two groups turned
into a brawl and
stone-pelting inci-
dent. On the infor-
mation, police
reached the spot
and tried to calm
the two parties.
The agitated peo-
ple claimed that
councillors Shiv
Bhagwan Saini
and Rajkumari
have been brought
here through ab-
duction. Two
councillors gave
statements of vol-
untarily staying.
Incident sees fac-
tions in Congress,
each trying to
take-away their
councillors.
Adolescent health govt’s priority: Raghu
2ND PHASE OF VAX BEGINS TODAY
The state received
1,77,340 doses of Cov-
axin on Wednesday and
1,31,260 doses are ex-
pected to arrive on Thurs-
day for the second phase
of vaccination beginning
today. Meanwhile, 41.5%
of the total health work-
ers were administered
vaccines on Wednesday.
Against the target of
58,581 health work-
ers, only 24,303 health
workers turned up at 869
centres. So far, total of
3,63,521 health workers
have been vaccinated.
Frontline workers includ-
ing revenue department
officials will be vaccinated
in the second phase.
2 DEATHS, 92
CASES; 4 DISTS
COVID FREE
500 AYUSH WELLNESS CENTRES SOON!
‘Need to make healthcare affordable’
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Governor
Kalraj Mishra while in-
augurating 25th edition
of IIHMR University’s
Annual Global Confer-
ence PRADANYA 2021
on Wednesday said that
Digital Health can be
Revolutionary for
achieving the Sustain-
able Development Goals
in India and Beyond.
In online address to
the conference dele-
gates from more than 10
countries, Mishra
stressed on need for
making healthcare af-
fordable and quality fo-
cused. Mentioning the
Digital Health Mission
of PM Modi, Mishra
said, “India is on path
of sustainable develop-
ment, which can be
strengthened through
appropriate research,
focused health care
management initiatives
involving appropriate
use of technology
.”
Commending efforts
of university to organ-
ize an international
event on such an impor-
tant theme, he men-
tioned about need for
continuous improve-
ment in healthcare ser-
vices through efforts in
research and education
in the field.
Kalraj Mishra addressing IIHMR’s 25th annual global conference.
—PHOTO
BY
SUMAN
SARKAR
—PHOTO
BY
SUMAN
SARKAR
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ndia’s journey
from a milk defi-
cit country to
one of surplus
has been mo-
mentous. Initiated in 1970,
Operation Flood was argua-
bly the world’s most ambi-
tious dairy development
program that transformed
India into one of the largest
milkproducers.India’smilk
production rate in the past
few decades has, in many
ways, been symbolic of the
upward trajectory of the
country’s economy and in-
fluence.Thepercapitaavail-
abilityof milkin2018-19was
394gramsperdayasagainst
the world average of 302
grams. Between 2016  2019,
the annual milk production
in the country registered a
Compound Annual Growth
Rate of 6.4%. Today
, with an
annual production of 187.75
Million Tonnes (per 2018-19
data) India accounts for
about 22% of world’s milk
production. However, India
isyettojointheranksof ma-
jor milk exporting nations,
asmuchof whatweproduce
is directed towards meeting
domesticdemands.So,toun-
pack the issues facing our
dairysector,itispertinentto
divedeepandlistoutthefac-
tors that have been hamper-
ingtheproductivitylevelsof
our cows.
The dairy sector assumes
a great deal of significance
on account of multiple rea-
sons – for one, it has to do
withthesocio-culturalaffin-
ity towards cows and dairy
products in large parts of
thecountry
,andasanindus-
try
, it employs more than 70
million farmers. However,
the crying need of the hour
is for us to identify ways in
which we can enhance the
return on investment for
our farmers. Recent data in-
dicates that indigenous
cows produce 3.01 kgs of
milk per cow per day while
theyieldof exoticcrossbred
cowsis7.95kgs.So,themag-
ic word is ‘cross breeding’.
Cross breeding has taken
off in a big way because of
the advancements in repro-
ductive technologies like
IVF, embryo transfer pro-
cess, and artificial insemi-
nation.Outof theseprocess-
es, IVF and artificial insem-
ination have proven to be
the most popular and effec-
tivemethods.TheNAIP(Na-
tionwide Artificial Insemi-
nation Programme) Phase-I
was launched by PM, Nar-
endra Modi in Mathura in
September 2019. Every ani-
mal in the programme was
assigned a 12-digit unique
identification number un-
der the Pashu Aadhar
scheme to ensure accuracy
in tracking. Building upon
the first phase of the pro-
gramme, NAIP Phase-II
wasinitiatedinAugust2020
withanallocationof Rs1090
crores in 604 districts cover-
ing 50,000 animals per dis-
trict and is on track to be
completed by May 2021.
Consequently, 18 MMT of
additional milk will be pro-
duced, as average produc-
tivity will be enhanced
from 1861 kg per animal per
year to 3000 kg per animal
per year.
Until now, AI technology
has been the most used
method in India, but its
success hinges upon accu-
racy in heat detection and
timely insemination. And
this is where IVF tech will
prove to be more effective.
IVF has become a helpful
tool in crossbreeding.
In past six years, the Ani-
mal Husbandry and Dairy-
ing sector has received a
greatdealof impetusunder
PM’s vision of ‘Make in In-
dia’ and towards becoming
an‘
AtmanirbharBharat’.In
keeping with our ethos of
‘Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan’ the
marriage of rural farming
with latest innovations in
technologywillusherinun-
precedented transforma-
tions in our dairy industry
.
Breed improvement: Changing dairy’s canvas
I
ATUL
CHATURVEDI
SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING,
MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL
HUSBANDRY AND DAIRY
espite ongoing series of talks
to resolve the contentious mil-
itary standoff in Eastern
Ladakh, the Chinese incur-
sions and aggressiveness con-
tinue on the borders. Close at
the heels of revelation of con-
struction of a village in the
disputed territory in Upper
Subansiri District of
Arunachal Pradesh came to
thenewsof theforcedChinese
incursion in area of Naku La
in North Sikkim. All this at a
time when there appears to be
no positive development in re-
solving the ongoing standoff
and the relations between the
two nations are deteriorating
by the day with chances of a
confrontation on the border
appearing more likely soon
after the snow melts. While
theDragon’streacherycontin-
ues unabated, India needs to
prepare herself militarily
, po-
litically and diplomatically to
halt the Chinese expansion-
ism, a product of its Middle
Kingdom Complex being pur-
sued vigorously by the Chi-
nese Communist Party (CCP)
under the garb of China
Dream of its overambitious
ParamountLeaderXiJinping.
Ever since the emergence
of Communist China or the
Peoples Republic of China
(PRC), the Indian leader-
ship beginning with Pandit
Nehru desired to have
friendly and cordial rela-
tions with China under the
hope that it would contrib-
ute towards world peace,
oppose colonialism and
form the pillars of a Pan–
Asian order. India was
among the first few nations
to establish diplomatic ties
with the PRC on April 1,
1950. Pandit Nehru had in-
troduced China for the first
time at an international
stage during the first-ever
multi-national Afro-Asian
Conference at Bangdung in
1955. India was instrumen-
tal in getting China the per-
manent membership of the
United Nations Security
Council. Unfortunately
,
Nehru failed to read Mao’s
mind which at its back was
filled with Sinocentrism
(ideology that China is the
cultural, political, or eco-
nomic centre of the world)
and Chinese Nationalism
focussed on a modern pow-
erful Chinese nation.
Mao’s ideology manifested
in form of China emerging
on the world scene as a “Re-
visionist” power aiming to
change the existing status
quo. It resulted in annexa-
tion of Inner Mongolia, Xin-
jiang and Tibet. Subsequent-
ly, India also became a victim
of Chinese expansionism.
The Chinese greed showed
no signs of subsiding. Apart
from its adventurism in the
South and East China Seas, it
has been steadily extending
its claim lines across Ladakh
to include more and more In-
dianterritories,whilerepudi-
ating Indian sovereignty over
ArunachalPradesh.Of late,it
has included Sikkim also in
its growing lists of disputes
with India. The stubborn pos-
ture adopted by China in the
current standoff has proved
beyond doubt that China con-
siders India as its rival but
will not tolerate any rival. It
has therefore decided to put
Indiainitsplacebuoyedbyits
mighty Comprehensive Na-
tional Power (CNP).
It has established beyond
doubts its greed for expan-
sionism and hegemony over
its neighbours. India has de-
cided to contest Chinese revi-
sionism and expansionism.
It has refused to bow down to
the machinations of Xi Jin-
ping for which it has received
considerable global support.
India needs to strategize to
exploit the Chinese vulnera-
bilities which are in plenty.
The CCP is, however, very
sensitive to the two “Ts”
namely Taiwan and Tibet.
As a consequence of the
civil war in China the nation
was divided into two parts in
1949 two years after India at-
tained independence. Mao’s
communist government re-
tainedcontrolof themainland
China forcing the Republic of
China (ROC) government to
relocatetoTaiwan.Sincethen,
theROChascontinuedtoexer-
cise effective jurisdiction over
themainislandof Taiwanand
a number of outlying islands
whilecommunistChinaisalso
knownasPeoples’Republicof
China (PRC) continues to
claim it as its part (23rd prov-
ince). China’s official position
on Taiwan is uncompromis-
ing. It claims that Taiwan is,
was, and always has been an
inseparablepartof China,and
that international law sup-
ports China’s claim. CCP
wants outright reunification,
the sooner the better, seeing
the recovery of the island as
the final chapter in the civil
war and end of past humilia-
tions when China was forced
to cede territory to foreigners.
On the other hand, there
is growing global support
for Taiwan as it is viewed as
avictimof growingChinese
expansionism that wants to
impose the communist ide-
ology on a democratic na-
tion. China at the same time
threatens that “Taiwan
shall not be referred to as a
‘country’ (‘nation’) or “Re-
publicof China”orthelead-
er of China’s Taiwan region
as “President”, so as not to
send wrong signals.” The
Chinese sensitivity to Tai-
wan is growing by the day
and CCP considers cosiness
to Taiwan by any other
country as a a direct assault
on its sovereignty
.
The other Achilles Heel of
CCP is Tibet, the region that
shares border with India and
has had historic ties with In-
dia since centuries. With the
end of the Chinese Civil War,
the newly-established com-
munist regime, openly stated
its intention of ‘liberating’
Tibet, but the Indian estab-
lishment paid no heed.
To maintain control over
Tibet, the PLA entered Tibet
on October 7, 1950 and subse-
quentlyannexedit,thuselimi-
nating the traditional buffer
between India and China. In-
diadisplayedutterlackof stra-
tegic thinking by dismissing
Tibetan pleas for help and in-
stead insisting on Tibetans to
settletheissuepeacefullywith
China. Nehru was too enam-
oured with his image of Shan-
ti Doot (messiah of peace) and
“Hindi Chini Bhai-Bhai’’ fa-
çade and committed a big folly
in 1954, when, under the
Panchsheel Agreement, we
surrendered in Tibet all our
militaryandotherfacilities,to
China. Chinese responded
with attacking an Assam Ri-
fles outpost in Longju in the
Central Frontier of erstwhile
North-East Frontier Agency
(now Arunachal Pradesh) and
building a road through the
Indian Territory of Aksai
Chin in Ladakh. Nehru still
did not realise the gravity of
the situation till China back-
stabbed India in 1962.
It is worth reminding the
readers that at the time of in-
dependence in 1947, India did
notshareacommonboundary
with China in the north, but
withtwohithertoindependent
nations –– Sinkiang (present
day Xinjiang) and Tibet. The
northern border was consid-
ered settled in accordance
withtheShimlaConventionof
1914 with the Tibetan nation
being a signatory to the con-
vention. The Shimla Conven-
tion defined the boundaries
betweenTibetandChinaprop-
er, and that between Tibet and
British India (the latter came
to be known as the McMahon
Line). The boundary between
Jammu  Kashmir (which
merged with India in October
1947) and Tibet was estab-
lished vide Treaty of Chushul
signed in 1842 and between
Sikkim (which merged with
India in 1975) and Tibet was
agreed under the Anglo-Chi-
nese Convention 1890 and
physicallydemarcatedin1895.
HadTibetnotbeenforciblyan-
nexed by PRC there would
have been no boundary dis-
pute on our northern borders.
The PRC on assuming pow-
er renounced all earlier for-
eign agreements as unequal
treatises imposed on it dur-
ing the ‘century of humilia-
tion’ and demanded renego-
tiation of all borders.
Chinese obsession with
Tibet stems from many rea-
sons, one of them being to
fulfil Mao’s revisionist
dream of Five Fingers. Mao
believes Tibet to be China’s
Right-hand palm with
Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim,
Bhutan and Arunachal
Pradesh to be its five fingers
which also need to be liber-
ated contrary to the Indian
claim as mentioned above.
Tibet is China’s fundamen-
talvulnerabilityvizavizIndia
and a mechanism available to
the later to refrain China. In-
dia made a cardinal mistake
of accepting Tibet Autono-
mous Region (TAR) as part of
China thus permitting China
to share a border with India.
China time and again defied
India’s hopes of a peaceful co-
existence through its acts of
treachery by showing scant
respect to mutual treaties and
international conventions.
Time has come to junk the
OneNationpolicyof Chinaby
paying it back in the same
coin. India needs to consider
toderecogniseTibetaspartof
China and recognise Taiwan
as an independent nation. To
begin with India needs to en-
hance commerce and cultural
relations with Taiwan and in-
crease military cooperation.
To ensure Hans supremacy
CCP has been subjecting the
otherethnicminoritiestosup-
pression and subjugation.
There is growing unrest in
Tibet and Xinjiang against in-
creased Chinese atrocities.
Chinaalsoplanstochangethe
population along the Sino-In-
dianborderthroughestablish-
ment of the Hans populated
villages. To counter it India
should take off the gloves and
give up its timid Tibet policy
.
India should assist the Tibet-
anresistancemovementwith-
in Tibet and give free hand to
the Dalai Lama and his gov-
ernment to espouse the Tibet-
an freedom cause from Indian
soil. It should also draw inter-
nationalattentiontoincreased
human right violations inside
Tibet comparable to the atroc-
ities being committed on Uig-
hur Muslims.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
LASTING PEACE A DISTANT
DREAM UNLESS WE CHANGE
D
Ever since the
emergence of
Communist
China or the
Peoples Republic
of China (PRC),
the Indian
leadership
beginning with
Pandit Nehru
desired to have
friendly and
cordial relations
with China
under the hope
that it would
contribute
towards world
peace, oppose
colonialism and
form the pillars
of a Pan–Asian
order. India was
among the first
few nations to
establish
diplomatic ties
with the PRC on
April 1, 1950.
Pandit Nehru
had introduced
China for the
first time at an
international
stage during the
first-ever multi-
national Afro-
Asian Conference
at Bangdung
in 1955
BRIG VETERAN
ANIL GUPTA
The author is a Jammu
based veteran, political
commentator, columnist, security
and strategic analyst
THE CHINESE GREED SHOWED NO SIGNS OF SUBSIDING.
APART FROM ITS ADVENTURISM IN THE SOUTH AND
EAST CHINA SEAS, IT HAS BEEN STEADILY EXTENDING
ITS CLAIM LINES ACROSS LADAKH TO INCLUDE MORE
AND MORE INDIAN TERRITORIES, WHILE REPUDIATING
INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY OVER ARUNACHAL PRADESH. OF
LATE, IT HAS INCLUDED SIKKIM ALSO IN ITS GROWING
LISTS OF DISPUTES WITH INDIA
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PM ‘GLAD’ TO SEE PIETERSEN’S
AFFECTION TOWARDS INDIA
New Delhi: After Kevin
Pietersen praised ‘beloved
country’ India for provid-
ing COVID-19 vaccines to
South Africa, PM Naren-
dra Modi on Wednesday
said that he is glad to
see the former England
cricketer’s affection
towards India. PM said,
“we believe that world is
our family” and want to
play “our role in strength-
ening the fight against
COVID”. “Glad to see your
affection towards India. :)
We believe that the world
is our family and want to
play our role in strength-
ening the fight against
COVID-19,” PM wrote,
replying to Pietersen’s
tweet. On Monday, EAM S
Jaishankar had informed
that ‘Made in India’ vax
have arrived in SA.
‘JNVS TO START PHYSICAL
CLASSES FOR CLASSES 10, 12’
New Delhi: The
Ministry of Education
has allowed the restart
of physical classes for
Class 10 and Class 12
students in Jawahar
Navodaya Vidyalayas
(JNVs) in those states
that have allowed gov-
ernment and private
schools to reopen
schools for Classes 10
and 12. The Ministry
said that it has pre-
pared Standard Operat-
ing Protocols (SOPs)
for re-opening of JNVs
based on guidelines of
the Ministry of Home
Affairs and the Ministry
of Health and Family
Welfare.
93K CYBERCRIMES, SEXUAL
CRIMES REGISTERED: MHA
New Delhi: Over
93,000 cybercrimes
related to fraud,
sexual exploitation and
spreading of hate have
been registered in the
country between 2017
and 2019, Rajya Sabha
was informed. Minister
of State for Home G
Kishan Reddy said the
enhanced use of the
internet, the number of
cybercrimes was also
increasing. As per data
maintained and pub-
lished by the National
Crime Records Bureau,
21,796 cybercrimes
were registered in
2017, 27,248 in 2018
and 44,546 in 2019.
266 APPS BLOCKED BY GOVT SINCE
JUNE 2020: CENTRE TO LOK SABHA
New Delhi: 266 mobile
apps have been blocked
by the government so
far since June 2020, Lok
Sabha was informed.
Union Minister of State
for Home G Kishan Reddy
said use of the banned
apps by a large number
of people in India enables
compilation of huge data
which might be collated,
analysed, profiled  mined
by elements that are
hostile to the sovereignty
and integrity of India,
defence of India, security
of the State as well as to
the public order, apart
from being detrimental to
the interest of the general
public. Mr Reddy said with
the enhanced use of cyber
space, number of cyber
crimes, including online
fraud is also increasing.
New Delhi: In a writ-
ten reply in Rajya
Sabha on steps being
taken to deport Roh-
ingyas, the Ministry
of Home Affairs
(MHA) said Central
government has been
vested with powers to
detain  deport ille-
gal foreign nationals.
“Central Govern-
ment has been vested
with powers under
sections 3(2)(e) and
3(2)(c) of the Foreign-
ers Act, 1946 to detain
and deport foreign na-
tionals staying ille-
gally in the country,”
said Minister of State
for Home Affairs Nity-
anand Rai, while re-
sponding to Shiv Sena
MP Anil Desai’s query
.
The minister main-
tained that detection
and deportation of Ro-
hingya migrants after
due process of nation-
ality verification is a
continuous process.
He also said that the
Central government
may also, by an order,
direct the removal of
any person from India
who enters the coun-
trywithoutapassport.
“Further, under Ar-
ticle 239(1) of the Con-
stitution of India, the
Administrators of all
the Union Territories
have also been direct-
ed to discharge the
functions of the Cen-
tral Government re-
lating to the aforesaid
powers since 1958,”
said Nityanand Rai.
Central govt has power to deport
illegal foreign nationals: MHA
New Delhi: Apex child
rights body NCPCR has
identified 50 “religious
places”, including the
Taj Mahal  Shri Ram
Janmabhoomi in Ayod-
hya, where interven-
tions will be undertak-
en to ensure zero toler-
ance towards child la-
bour.
The National Com-
mission for Protection
of Child Rights (NCP-
CR) said the interven-
tion shall be undertak-
en in a collaborative
manner with the in-
volvement of multi-
stakeholders including
child welfare police of-
ficers, anti-human traf-
ficking unit, represent-
atives from NGOs.
NCPCR said it has
noted instances of
“child begging, child
labour  kids in street
situations” reported at
religious places, which
is not only exploitation
but also does not re-
flect a positive image
of our nation.
NCPCR identifies 50
‘religious places’ to
combat child labour
IN THE COURTYARD
SC junks plea seeking probe
into China’s alleged
surveillance on Prez  PM
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on
Wednesday refused to
pass any order on a
plea seeking direc-
tions to the Central
government to inves-
tigate China’s alleged
surveillance on the
President of India,
Prime Minister, judg-
es (sitting and re-
tired) of the apex
court and High Court
and other influential
personalities.
A Bench headed by
Chief Justice of India
SA Bobde, while dis-
posing of the plea,
asked the petitioner to
file a representation
before the Centre say-
ing “these are sensi-
tive matter, make a rep-
resentation to the
Home Ministry or Fi-
nance Ministry”.
The Bench allowed
the petitioner to file a
representation before
the government.
New Delhi: SC junked
a PIL seeking direction
to CBI to submit a sta-
tus report in actor Su-
shant Singh Rajput
death case. A bench
comprising Chief Jus-
tice S A Bobde and Jus-
tices A S Bopanna  V
Ramasubramanian
dismissed plea filed by
advocate Puneet Kaur
Dhanda. “We are not
going to entertain this.
You go to High Court,”
the bench said. The pe-
titioner had contended
that apex court passed
an order for the CBI
inquiry on August 19,
2020 and despite lapse
of almost 5 months the
probe agency is yet to
conclude its investiga-
tion. “The CBI is not
acting responsibly in
the present case and
there is a delay in the
conclusion of investi-
gation of case,” it said.
Kochi: A court in Ker-
ala on Wednesday
granted bail to sus-
pended IAS officer M
Sivasankarin the dol-
lar smuggling case, ob-
serving that the of-
fence against him was
“serious” in nature
and “required inten-
sive probe”
Sivasankar, the for-
mer Principal secre-
tary of Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan, was
released by 3 pm from
prison after 98 days in
judicial custody
.
SC dismisses PIL to
seek direction to CBI to
submit status report
Suspended
IAS officer
M Sivasankar
gets bail
GOVT NEEDS TO LISTEN AS FARMERS
AREN’T GOING AWAY: RAHUL GANDHI
Rahul Gandhi slams Centre’s proposal to farmers, questions why government fortifying New Delhi
New Delhi: While
slamming the govern-
ment’s proposal to post-
pone the implementa-
tion of farm laws for
two years, Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi on
Wednesday questioned
why the Centre is forti-
fying the national capi-
tal if it plans to resolve
the farmers’ problems.
Addressing the me-
dia, the former Con-
gress president remind-
ed the Government of
its job and said, “Farm-
ers are the strength of
India. Suppressing
them, beating them and
threatening them is not
the government’s job.
Their job is to talk to
them and find a solu-
tion to their problem.”
“Prime Minister is
saying that offer is still
on the table to postpone
laws for two years. What
does it mean? Either
you believe that you
need to get rid of the
laws or you don’t,” he
added. He called farm-
ers ‘people who give us
sustenance’, and said, ”
Delhi is surrounded by
farmers. Why is Delhi
being converted into a
fortress? Why are we
threatening, beating,
and killing them? Why
is the Government not
talking to them and not
resolving this problem?
This problem isn’t good
for the country,” said
Gandhi. The Congress
leader said the farmers’
issue needs to be re-
solved as soon as possi-
ble and the government
needs to listen “as farm-
ers aren’t going away”.
In another dig at the
BJP-led Central govern-
ment, Gandhi said that
at a ‘time when India
needs to put money in
the hands of its people’,
the budget 2021 is for
the 1 per cent popula-
tion in the country
.”
“I had expected from
the Budget that Govt
will provide support to
99% of India’s popula-
tion. But this Budget is
that of the 1% popula-
tion. You snatched away
money from people in
the small and medium
industry, workers,
farmers, Forces and put
it in the pockets of 5-10
people,” he added. —ANI
DELHI GOVT TO
ISSUE LIST OF
PEOPLE NABBED ON
R-DAY: KEJRIWAL
LOCALS FORCED TO WALK FOR HOURS AT SINGHU BORDER
Security tightened during an ongoing protest, at the Singhu border in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Thiruvananthapuram:BJP
National President Jag-
at Prakash Nadda, who
arrived on Wednesday
for a two-day visit to
Keralaaheadof thestate
Assembly elections,
slammed the ruling par-
ty of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist)
and said that Kerala
Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayanhaslosthiscred-
ibility
.
“Kerala CM Pinarayi
Vijayan has been at-
tacking constitutional
bodies. In the gold scam,
the involvement of the
Chief Minister Office
has embarrassed self-
respecting Malayalis,
not only in Kerala but
the world over. Pinarayi
Vijayan has lost his
credibility,” Nadda said
while addressing a
press conference here.
“An investigation
which is going on is go-
ing to throw further
light and it seems many
ministers are going to
come to light,” he said.
Kerala CM has lost
his credibility: Nadda
JP Nadda
Dictators’ names begin with M!
On RaGa’s dig, BJP’s retort
New Delhi: The Con-
gress leader Rahul
Gandhi, who regularly
targets Prime Minis-
ter Narenra Modi in
his tweets, posted a
barbed question.
“Why do so many
dictators have names
that begin with M?”
he tweeted. A list fol-
lowed as evidence
“Marcos, Mussolini,
Milosevic, Mubarak,
Mobutu, Musharraf,
Micombero”.
There was no fur-
ther explanation or
context to the tweet,
which was liked near-
ly 58,000 times and
shared 12,400 times.
The BJP refused to re-
act.
“Is it necessary to
take Rahul that seri-
ously? His approach,
whatever it has been
in Indian politics, eve-
rybody has seen. Need
not react,” party chief
JP Nadda said.
Gandhi has been
consistently targeting
the government over
the farmers’ issue.
Slamming Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
for his tweet asking
why names of many
dictators begin with
the letter “M”, Union
Agriculture Minister
Narendra Singh
Tomar on Wednesday
said even Congress
doesn’t take its former
president’s statement
seriously. —Agencies
Rahul Gandhi
Guwahati: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
will visit Assam on
February 7  lay the
foundation stone of
two medical colleges
and launch the scheme
for the upgradation of
the state highways,
state Finance Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma
said on Wednesday.
Union Finance Minis-
terNirmalaSitharaman
too is scheduled to visit
GuwahationFebruary6
and be present at a pro-
gramme where money
will be given to the bank
accounts of eight lakh
tea garden workers in
thestate,Sarmatoldme-
dia. The PM will visit
Dhekiajuli from where
he will lay the founda-
tion of two medical col-
leges in Charaideo and
Bishwanath districts.
He will also launch the
‘’Assam Mala’’ scheme
under which the state
public works depart-
ment will upgrade the
state highways.
Work will be taken up
in 2500 km to be taken
up at the initial stage,
he said adding the esti-
mated Rs 5,000 crore
project is expected to be
completed within 15
years. In the February 6
function where Sithara-
man will be the chief
guest, the state govern-
ment will transfer Rs
3,000 each to the bank
accounts of eight lakh
tea garden workers
which will involve an
expenditure of Rs 2.4
crore, Sarma said.
PM to visit poll-bound
Assam on February 7
PM Narendra Modi
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After local...
Maken has instructed
the ministers in-charge
that they should start
touring these areas im-
mediately and treat the
bypolls as if they them-
selves were contesting
and therefore they
should start their prep-
arations.
It is also learnt that
team Gehlot-Maken has
categorically told the
party leaders that be-
fore the election code of
conduct, in every case,
pending works should
be completed according
to the demand of the
people so that people do
not have any complaint
with the state govern-
ment during the elec-
tion campaign.
On Wednesday, Ge-
hlot, Maken and PCC
Chief Dotasra held a
lengthy discussion with
the observer and in-
charge ministers of the
by-election areas at the
Chief Minister’s resi-
dence. They directed
that the supervisor and
the minister in charge
should visit from
Thursday-Friday and
both should take feed-
back from the grass-
roots.
During this time the
minister and supervi-
sors also spoke about
some pending problems
of the regions. Mean-
while, after the meet-
ing, in-charge Ajay
Maken told the media
that the Congress has
done well in the local
body election in the ar-
eas where the by-poll
will be held. “Prepara-
tions have also been
started for ticket distri-
bution. Although the
names will be finalized
by the party’s Central
Election Committee,”
Maken said.
Tikait’s hunkaar...
Tikait and several oth-
ers were on the stage
when it suddenly col-
lapsed under their
weight, briefly inter-
rupting the meeting.
No propaganda...
Her tweet was quickly
followed by a flood of
such messages, includ-
ing one from teen cli-
mate activist Greta
Thunberg and Leba-
nese-American former
adult film star Mia
Khalifa. Both Rihanna
and Ms Khalifa were la-
belled “anti-national”
today by the BJP’s Sam-
bit Patra.
SC rejects...
Special Investigation
Team (SIT) or a judicial
commission into the
January 26 violence in
Delhi. They also urged
the top court to call for
records of the Union
and Delhi governments
on “action or steps tak-
en by them over the vio-
lence” and ask the in-
quiry commission to
submit its report in a
time-bound manner
and take action on it.
Delhi Police...
Police also said they are
looking for protesters
named Jajbir Singh,
Buta Singh, Sukhdev
Singh and Iqbal Singh
and announced a re-
ward of Rs 50,000 for
information on them.
Till date, police regis-
tered 44 FIRs in connec-
tion with the violence
during tractor march
and arrested a total of
122 persons so far.
Historic: Sensex...
and broader indices
madefreshrecordhighs
today
,”saidBinodModi,
Head Strategy at Reli-
ance Securities.
SC refuses...
Senior advocate Sanjay
Parikh, appearing for
the petitioner, said they
have challenged the
laws enacted by three
states including Uttar
Pradesh and Uttara-
khand as innocent per-
sons are being booked
under these Acts.
He said the top court
had earlier issued no-
tice on similar petitions
and this plea should be
tagged with them.
Ekana may...
was more centered to-
wards hosting of Indian
Premier League (IPL)
and World T20 matches
in Lucknow in their up-
coming editions.
Shah who had
reached Lucknow on
Tuesday evening, visit-
ed the stadium on
Wednesday morning
where he strolled across
the stadium along with
Rajiv Shukla and Yudh-
vir Singh, Honorary
Secretary, UPCA. They
were accompanied by
Uday Sinha, Managing
Director, ECS and
Navneet Sehgal, ACS
Information. “IPL to
hona hi chahiye ya-
han.... (IPL must hap-
pen here) Kisne design
kiya hai isko? (who de-
signed this stadium?),”
Shah asked Sinha. Shah
was particularly happy
with the colour combi-
nations used for the
seating areas and he
also appreciated the
state-of-the-art dressing
rooms of the venue that
has already hosted a
ODI couple of years
back. The BCCI Secre-
tary also inquired about
the size of the stadium,
red and black soil pitch-
es, water drainage fa-
cilities etc.
FROM PG 1
FOUR SECRETARIES OF 1984
BATCH RETIRING IN 2021
Four Secretaries of 1984 batch out of total nine
are retiring in 2021. Accordingly, A B P Pandey
of Maharashtra cadre working as Finance
Secretary will be retiring in February 2021, while
Ms. Shakuntala Gamlin of UT cadre working
as Secretary, Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities is due to retire in March and Ravi Kant
of Bihar cadre working as Secretary, Department
of Ex-Servicemen Welfare superannuates in June.
Durga S Mishra working as HUPA Secretary is
scheduled to retire in November this year.
NO REGULAR HEADS FOR AIR AND DD
All India Radio and Doordarshan are not having
regular DG,s. Supriya Sahu left the DD in June
2019, since then no regular incumbent could be
appointed. DG, News, Mayank Agrawal, is holding
the additional chage of DG, DD for the last one
year. Shahryar retired as DG in December 2019.
Since then the organisation is waiting for a regular
DG. Presently, CEO, PB is holding the additional
chage of DG.
MAJ. GEN. ABHIJIT BAPAT MAY BE
MOVED TO ARMY TRAINING COMMAND
Major General Abhijit Bapat, General Officer
Commanding (GOC) of Karu-based 3rd Infantry
Division, is likely to be moved and posted on
Shimla-based Army Training Command (ARTRAC).
EIGHT IPS OFFICERS GET NEW
ASSIGNMENTS IN DELHI POLICE
As many as eight IPS officers have been
given fresh assignments in Delhi Government.
Accordingly, Deepak Purohit has been promoted
to Addl CP had posted at the Headquarter while
Chinmoy Biswal was posted as DCP, Crime and
Gaurav Sharma is DCP, Security. Rajiv Ranjan
Singh has been appointed as DCP, Outer North
district DCP; Esha Pandey as DCP, PCR; Urjiva Goel
as DCP, West district; Ghanshyam Bansal as DCP,
Traffic and Manoj C was made Addl DCP, Outer
North Delhi district.
33 IRSEE OFFICERS PLACED IN SAG
As many as 33 Indian Railway Service of Electrical
Engineers (IRSEE) officers have been appointed
to officiate under selection grade (SG). They
are: Neeraj Gupta, Sugind Surendran, BK Kisku,
Dilip Kumar Kujur, SKN Singh, Pankaj Kumar
Kesharwani, Raju Lal Meena, Rajiv Kumar,
Rajendra Kumar Sharma, Alok Ranjan Mohanty,
Om Shankar Prasad, Biplab Das, Pratibha Gupta,
Vijay Chaudhary, Sandeep Kumar Chatterjee,
Boppudi Srinivasu, Jitendra Yadav, Lalit Kumar
Tomar, Ajit Kumar, Jeetesh Kumar Singh,
Khursheed Ahmed, Sudhir Kumar Srivastava,
Vishal Monldoi, M Senthamil Selvan, Karpoor
Chandra Yadav, Santosh Kumar Singh, Bhimraj
Dhanna, Prem Singh Meena, Shobharam Verma,
Vinod Kumar, Narendra K Agrawal, Prasanna K
Bhanja and Neeraj Kumar Verma.
24 OFFICERS FROM ODISHA
AWARDED IFS CADRE
As many as 24 officers of State Forest Service of
Odisha have been awarded Indian Forest Service
(IFS) cadre. The officers: Lakshmikanta Mishra,
Arjun Behera, Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra, Bimal
Prasanna Acharya, Jayanta Kumar Das, Biswa
Ranjan Rout, Sudarshan Patra, Mihira Kumar
Biswal, Dilip Kumar Swain, Aswini Kumar Kar,
Satyanarayan Behura, Arun Kumar Mishra, Bikash
Ranjan Dash, Sudeep Nayak, Kedar Kumar Swain,
Prasanna Kumar Sahoo, Lalitendu Jena and
Pradipta Kumar Sahoo; Harsha Bardhan Udgata,
Kapil Prasad Das, Hanif Mohammed, Santosh
Banchhur and Prasanna Kumar Behera, Lakshmi
Narayan Behera.
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Opposition MPs give adjourment notices
in LS demanding repeal of farm laws
EXPLAINED: A look at how, when, and what happened in Parliament when it convened
New Delhi: Eleven
Members of Parliament
from Shiromani Akali
Dal, Communist Party
of India (Marxist), Tri-
namool Congress, Indi-
an Union Muslim
League (IUML), Bahu-
jan Samajwadi Party
(BSP), Shiv Sena, Revo-
lutionary Socialist Par-
ty, and Congress have
given notices of ad-
journment motion in
Lok Sabha demanding
farm laws to be re-
pealed.
These MPs include
Sukhbir Singh Badal
and Harsimrat Kaur
Badal from SAD,
Gaurav Gogoi, Manish
Tiwari, Preneet Kaur, K
Suresh, and Jasbir Sin-
gh from Congress.
Ritesh Pandey from
BSP, ET Mohd Basheer
from IUML, NK Prem-
chandran from RSP
, and
Adv AM Arif from CPI
(M) are among those
who gave notices today
.
Congress MP TN
Prathapan has also giv-
en an adjournment mo-
tion notice in the Lower
House over the govern-
ment’s approach in
dealing with agitating
farmers.
TMC MP Saugata Roy
gave the notice on
“repres=sion of agitat-
ing farmers by police
with the use of wires,
spikes, trenches” and to
take up discussion on
farmers”.
On Tuesday, LS wit-
nessed three adjourn-
ments following Oppo-
sition protests against
the arm laws. Farmers
have been protesting
since November 26.
Alipurduar (WB): Hit-
ting back at the BJP
amid a continuing exo-
dus of ministers and
legislators from the Tri-
namool Congress (TMC)
in the poll-bound West
Bengal, Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee said
the saffron party could
“buy a few corrupt lead-
ers” but not her party’s
“dedicated workers”.
“There is no place for
corrupt people in TMC,
those who wish to leave
ruling party should do
so immediately
,” Baner-
jee said.
The TMC supremo’s
latest remark comes
after two-time Diamond
Harbour MLA Dipak
Haldar resigned from
the party on Monday
and joined the BJP
. Oth-
er TMC leaders who
have joined the BJP
recently are Suvendu
Adhikari, Rajib Baner-
jee, Baishali Dalmiya,
Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin
Chakraborti,andRudra-
nil Ghosh.
BJP can buy a few
leaders but not my
workers: Mamata
New Delhi: After his
suspension from Rajya
Sabha for raising slo-
gans against the new
farm laws in the House,
Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) MP Sanjay Singh
compared the Central
government with ‘Hit-
ler’ and accused the
government of taking
harsh action against
the protesting farmers.
“The government is
taking such harsh ac-
tion against the protest-
ing farmers that even
Hitler has failed in front
of the Centre govern-
ment.” Taking a dig at
the Centre for treating
farmers indifferently,
he said, “A total of 44
farmers of Punjab are
missing, we have no
idea they are dead or
alive, are farmers are
from an enemy coun-
try?,” Singh asked.
Bengaluru: Asserting
that India has to focus
on new goals for new
India, Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh said the
DRDO is continuously
developing technology
that will help the
country in achieving
these goals. “Today,
when the world is
changing so fast and a
new world order is
emerging in front of us.
We have to focus on new
goals for our new India,
I am happy to see that
the DRDO is continu-
ously developing tech-
nology that will help us
in achieving these
goals,” Singh said in
Bengaluru at Aero In-
dia 2021. “In many of
our tests, we have got
success in our maiden
attempt itself, this is
our great achieve-
ment,” he added.
New Delhi: India has
become the fastest
country in the world to
reach the 4 million
COVID-19 vaccination
mark, achieving this
feat in 18 days, the
Union Health Ministry
said.
More than 41 lakh
beneficiaries have been
administered shots
under the countrywide
exercise.
“As on February, 1,
India was among the
top five countries in
terms of number of
COVID-19 vaccine doses
administered to people.
India continues to un-
dertake its vaccination
drive at a fast pace,” the
ministry highlighted.
India’s fight against
COVID-19 is bringing
daily successes on other
fronts as well, it said.
With a high number of
COVID-19 patients re-
covering every day and
the sustained fall in the
mortality rate,” minis-
try adds.
Indiafastestcountryinworldtoreach
4millionCOVID-19vaxmark:Centre
After suspension,
Sanjay Singh compares
Centre with Hitler
DRDO continuously
developing
technology: Rajnath
GUJARAT WILL NEVER RULE BENGAL,
DECLARES MAMATA BANERJEE
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee, who has triggerd a
huge “outsider versus insider” debate in the state
ahead of the assembly election, offered a clarifica-
tion, saying there is no discrimination in the state
between Bengalis and non-Bengalis while reiter-
ating her stand on the controversial law on the
National Register of Citizens. But when it comes to
ruling Bengal, the matter is different, she indicated.
BJP LEADER MUKUL ROY’S BROTHER
-IN-LAW SRIJAN ROY JOINS TMC
Kolkata: A BJP leader, who the Trinamool
Congress said is a brother-in-law of the saf-
fron party’s national vice-president Mukul Roy,
rejoined the ruling party of West Bengal. Srijan
Roy returned to the TMC months before the
assembly elections in the state amid the exo-
dus from the party to the BJP. Handing over
the party flag to Srijan Roy and two others.
The ban applies to
non-citizens including
health practitioners, diplo-
mats, from 20 specific
countries. According to
Saudi Press Agency,
the countries facing
suspension of arrival
for non-Saudis include
India, Argentina, Brazil,
Egypt, France, Germany,
Indonesia, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, Lebanon, Pakistan,
Portugal, South Africa,
Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, the UAE, the UK.
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IN CRIMINAL LAWS
BRING BILL FOR RESTORING JK
STATEHOOD: GHULAM NABI AZAD TO GOVT
Senior Congress leader Ghulam
Nabi Azad asked the govern-
ment to bring a bill in Rajya
Sabha proposing restoration of
statehood for J K. “I appeal to
you, if Jammu and Kashmir has
to progress, we need to take our
own people into confidence and
give them love,”he said.
Biju Janata Dal (BJD)
Member of Parliament
Dr Sasmit Patra raised a
demand in Rajya Sabha
for the passage of the
Women’s Reservation Bill.
During the Zero Hour, Dr
Patra reiterated the long
pending demand for the
passage of the Bill in the
Parliament.
On the direction of Lok
Sabha Speaker Om
Birla, LS Secretariat has
rolled out “Parliamentary
Research and Informa-
tion Support to Mem-
bers” (PRISM) to provide
24×7 round-the-clock
research and information
support to Members of
Parliament (MPs).
DEMAND IN RS FOR
WOMEN’S
RESERVATION BILL
PARLIAMENTARY
RESEARCH AND
SUPPORT FOR MPS
Vaccination drive is going at a fast pace in India.
Rajnath Singh
Mamata Banerjee
Sanjay Singh
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PAPLA’S INFAMY
GETS THE
BETTER OF A
MINISTER?
How Papla Gurjar
came to instill fear in
not just the Behror police
but even in the heart of a
cabinet minister lay bare
when the said minister
was confronted with the
news that the gansgter
was nabbed by Rajasthan
police. Recently, when
the minister was seated
with a few ‘close ones’,
the issue of Papla
Gurjar sprung up and
while all those present
had their own versions
and stories about the
gangster, the cabinet
minister suddenly said,
“Those from whose
grasp he slipped, are
serving in Dausa.”
Hearing this everyone
became silent and the
minister continued.
“That time the cops
got carried away with
the monetary bust of
over 31 lakh rupees.
After the incident, the
former SP wanted that
station incharge to
be posted in my area,
however I declined.
After that the cop was
posted in Dausa,” the
minister said, although
a bit perplexed with the
thought.
RAJ’S DHAROHAR REGAINS TOURISTS’ LOVE!
Nirmal Tiwari
Jaipur: In a good
sign for the tourism
industry
, the footfall
of tourists in the de-
sert state has in-
creased which is
expected to go high-
er in next few days.
In the first month
of the year 2021, the
number of tourist
arrivals was more
than4.44lakhwhich
is a clear indication
of improvement in
the sector which
suffered huge losses
due to covid pan-
demic. Due to the
Corona crisis, all
the tourist places,
including monu-
ments, museums,
national parks, bio-
logical parks, safa-
ris, were closed on
March 18 last year.
The tourist spots
were reopened on
June 1. From June 8,
all hotels, restau-
rants and other
places related to
tourism were also
opened for tourists.
In the desert state,
tourism season
started from Sep-
tember 1 and the
number of tourists
kept on increasing.
7.63 lakh tourists
visited the state
from June 1 to De-
cember 31 last year.
Of them, 5.98 lakh
visited the monu-
ments in the state
capital. The total of
4,44,339 tourists vis-
ited the state’s mon-
uments in January
.
Over 4.44 lakh tourists visited
Raj in Jan after tourism
season resumed in Sept 1 last
Kashiram Choudhary 
Jaipur: Jaipur : The
state government has
geared up its prepara-
tions to introduce a new
excise policy soon.
For new new excise
policy, the data of
shops of all the dis-
tricts has been cllected
by the excise commis-
sioner office.
Preparations are
afoot to bring an excise
policy on contracts for
foreign liquor, country
liquor and cannabis
and the excise commis-
sioner has sent his re-
port in this regard to
the State Government.
According to sources,
it is believed that a new
excise policy will be an-
nounced in the next 4 to
5 days. However, with
regard to the policy, the
State Government can
also decide that the li-
cense of the shops be
renewed for the next fi-
nancial year only. And
if a new excise policy is
introduced, then there
is a high possibility of
e-auction of liquor
shops. The excise com-
missioner and the fi-
nance secretary (reve-
nue) are deliberating on
this issue to come up for
the best policy in the in-
terest of state and con-
tractors.
Nirmal Tiwari 
Jaipur: With an aim to
promote legal mining
and curb on illegal min-
ing activities, the Ra-
jasthan government
would soon issue a new
mining policy with
stringent provisions to
use drones and in-
creased penalty
.
A committee which
was formed to draft the
new policy has complet-
ed its work and the draft
has been sent to the
Mines Minister Pramod
Jain Bhaya for approv-
al. After clearance from
the cabinet, the new
policy will be released.
The new policy is
aimed at generating
more revenue, facilitat-
ing legal mining and
curbing illegal mining
in the state.
Sources said that the
limitation of 4 hectare
for mining lease will be
abolished and the land
owner can get license
on entire land if the
mineral is discovered.
Satellite imaging proce-
dure will be adopted for
demarcation of old
lease and new lease
while a penalty up to Rs
2.25 lakh can be im-
posed on illegal mining.
Govt to announce new excise
policy soon; data collected
State Govt to bring new mining
policy with stringent provisions
Sachin Pilot to attend
farmers’ panchayat in
Dausa on February 5
Follow discipline, DGP
Lather tells policemen
Laxmikant Sharma
Dausa : Various farm-
ers’ associations will
organise a massive
farmers’ panchayat on
February 5 in Dausa.
The panchayat will be
held at Rajesh Pilot Sta-
dium. Former Deputy
CM Sachin Pilot will
also attend the event.
In order to support
this mahapanchayat
and make a big suc-
cess, the district Con-
gress leaders are
standing together with
the farmers.
Meanwhile, the
Women and Child De-
velopment Minister
Mamta Bhupesh held a
meeting with the work-
ers of Sikkarai region
and urged them to sup-
port the farmers’ cause.
Dausa MLA Murari Lal
Meena is leaving no
stone unturned to
make this mahapan-
chayat successful.
First India Bureau
Bharatpur: DGP M L
Lather on Wednesday
motivated the police-
men to perform duty in
discipline with re-
sponsibility.
During his visit to
Bharatpur, Lather held
a meeting with the po-
licemen at police
ground on Tuesday and
appreciated them for
their work during the
pandemic.
He said that the pub-
lic has great expecta-
tions from the police
department, so the po-
lice need to act more
responsible manner
than others.
Sachin Pilot
DGP M L Lather addressing
policemen in Bharatpur.
Govt has collected data for New Excise Policy.
New Delhi: In a rare
move, the Army has
ordered a Court of
Inquiry (CoI) to look
into a lingering rift
between two generals
of the Jaipur-head-
quartered South
Western Command
over a range of is-
sues relating to the
overall functioning
of the crucial forma-
tion, authoritative
sources said.
Chief of the com-
mand Lt Gen Alok
Kler and his deputy Lt
Gen KK Repswal are
at loggerheads for the
past several months
over the role, charter
and duties of various
appointments as well
as on running of the
command that takes
care of security along
the borders in Ra-
jasthan and Punjab.
It is learnt that Lt
Gen Kler had made a
representation to the
Chief of Army Staff
on the conduct of Lt
Gen Repswal. A simi-
lar complaint was
made by Lt Gen Rep-
swal against his sen-
ior. The Army head-
quarters tasked Lt
Gen IS Ghuman, the
Central Army Com-
mander with conduct-
ing the probe, the
sources said.
They said Lt Gen
Ghuman was examin-
ing the allegations
and counter allega-
tions by both the gen-
erals and will submit
a detailed report
based on the investi-
gation. Any further
step will be based on
the report, said a
source. —PTI
Army orders probe into
lingering rift between 2
Gens in SW Command
Lt Gen Alok Kler Lt Gen KK Repswal
INDO-US ‘YUDH ABHYAS’
IN RAJ FROM FEB 8-21
Jaipur: The 16th
edition of Indo-US
joint military exer-
cise ‘Yudh Abhyas’
will be held in Ra-
jasthan between
February 8 and 21,
a defence spokes-
person said on
Wednesday
.
The exercise
near the India-Pa-
kistan border aims
at enhancing coop-
eration and inter-
operability be-
tween the two ar-
mies and will focus
on counter-terror-
ism operations un-
der the United Na-
tions mandate, the
spokesperson said.
The drill comes
days after the air
forces of India and
France held a five-
day joint exercise
in Rajasthan in
January
.
Dr Rituraj Sharma
Jaipur: Chief Secre-
tary Niranjan Arya
chaired a meeting in
state secretariat on
Wednesday regarding
reinstatement of 14
public servants, includ-
ing 2 RAS officials. Dur-
ing the meeting, the
current status and mer-
it of the cases from de-
partments of Agricul-
ture, UDH, IT, Finance
and DoP were dis-
cussed.
Based on the status, a
recommendation for re-
instatement of ten offic-
ers back into service
has been made.
Now the recommen-
dations will be sent to
Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot and only after
CM’s approval, the rein-
statement orders will
be issued.
The meeting was at-
tended by Principal
Secretary, DOP, He-
mant Gera and other
DoP officials.
CS Arya makes recommendations for
reinstatement of 10 suspended officers
CS INAUGURATES SBI COUNTER
Night view of the illuminated Amer Fort in Jaipur on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
If only humans would realise the
value of a person or a moment
before it becomes a memory, then
life would be even more beautiful.
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Yogesh Sharma
Jaipur: Ending all de-
bate about cabinet ex-
pansion, AICC General
Secretary Incharge of
Rajasthan Ajay Maken
on Wednesday dispelled
any rumors about cabi-
net expansion and
cleared the air saying
no reshuffle or expan-
sion will happen till the
upcoming budget ses-
sion of the state assem-
bly goes on. However, he
also stressed that the
district level political
appointments will be
done by April for which
party members and led-
ers have been asked to
fill up the requisite per-
forma by 10 February.
First India had hinted
on the day of Maken’s
arrival that cabinet ex-
pansion will not hap-
pen, but district level
political appointments
will be given a go ahead.
On his one day visit to
Jaipur, Maken and PCC
Chief Govind Singh Do-
tasra met the PCC office
bearers at a meeting
wherein the state in-
charge congratulated
the PCC officials for the
results of the civic elec-
tions. However, this
time around Maken did
not give any dead line
for completing the po-
litical tasks.
Maken’s visit to
Jaipur was very impor-
tant today as he and
PCC Chief Dotasra took
meeting of state Con-
gress office-bearers and
presidents of frontal or-
ganizations at the state
Congress headquarters.
In the meeting, Maken
told all the officials that
in the month of Febru-
ary, political appoint-
ments are to be imple-
mented at the district
level. Maken told the
media that the official
performance performa
and by February 9-10,
the PCC members will
have to fill the perfor-
mance and give the
names of workers who
are meritorious so that
their names can be dis-
cussed with local lead-
ers.
The state-incharge
said the Congress office-
bearers have been asked
to visit districts as-
signed to them and they
will meet local leaders
to discuss names for
district-level appoint-
ments to various com-
mittees of government
departments. On an av-
erage, 150 workers get
appointed to such pan-
els in an assembly con-
stituency
. There are 200
assembly constituen-
cies in 33 districts of the
state. “The office-bear-
ers will be submitting
the names by February
8 or 9. Our efforts are
that appointments at
the district-level, which
are around 25,000-30,000,
are made in the first
fortnight of February,”
he told reporters here
on Wednesday
.
During the meeting,
some secretaries, in-
cluding Shobha Solanki
and Mahendra Singh
Khedi, raised key is-
sues. Maken also held
discussions over results
of polls to urban local
bodies and upcoming
bypolls to four assem-
bly seats with Chief
Minister Ashok Gehlot
and senior party lead-
ers. He stressed that the
Congress got more seats
in the local bodies polls
than the BJP, which
showed that people
have reposed faith in
the party
.
Notably, during the
day, maken even took
out time to meet former
deputy chief minister
Sachin Pilot. The meet-
ing between the duo oc-
curred at Pilot’s official
residence where, ac-
cording to sources, the
duo held talks on politi-
cal situation of the state
as well as elated to the
organization. Maken,
who stayed at Pilot’s
residence for nearly an
hour, left with Pilot
tweeting that he ‘had a
fruitful discussion’
with the AICC General
Secretary Incharge.
Meanwhile, in the
evening Maken left for
New Delhi by 8 PM In-
digo flight. PCC Chief
Govind Singh Dotasra
and several other lead-
ers saw Maken off at
the airport.
Shivendra Parmar
Jaipur: The real estate
market is in a slump and
what little sales were be-
ing made, was halted
with the advent of
month long Malmass.
However, denying the
trade-pandits a chance
to make merry on their
predictions, RHB, with-
inafortnightof theMal-
maasending,hasearned
a revenue of `135 crores
byselling500properties.
Of these, under the
Wednesday Auction Fes-
tival, 430 properties
haveyielded `42.32crore
in revenue while addi-
tionally, 70 premium
propertiesfetched `92.73
crore to the Board.
Notably, in such a
short time, no private
and government insti-
tution in the state has
sold or acquired so
much revenue through
e-auction.
“After the end of Mal-
mas, there is a lot of en-
thusiasm among people
for purchasing RHB’s
properties. With the
WednesdayAuctionFest,
there is competition
among buyers to buy the
Board’s premium prop-
erties. The e-auction of
residential and commer-
cial premium properties
wascarriedoutinRHB’s
prestigious schemes of
Jaipur, Kota, Bikaner,
Dausa and Sawai Mad-
hopur, in which around
500 people participated.
It is noteworthy that in
Pratap Nagar scheme of
Jaipur, a plot of 2,400
square meters on Mahal
Road was sold for Rs15
crore,” said Pawan Aro-
ra, Commissioner, RHB.
TheCommissionerin-
formed that 6 shops of
AYUSH market being de-
veloped by the Board in
Pratap Nagar at Jaipur
were sold for `2.94 crore.
“Similarly, 8 show-
room plots in RHB Aat-
ish Market being devel-
oped under Mansarovar
Yojana were sold for
`10.08 crore. Interest-
ingly, plot number 66 in
Atish Market was sold
at 4 times its fixed mini-
mum bid price. The
fixed bid price of this
plot was `80,000 per
square meter, which
was sold for `3.40 lakh
per square meter. Simi-
larly, 1 plot in Ayush
Market was sold for
three and a half times
its fixed selling price,”
Arora said.
Notably
, 60 properties
were sold in Jaipur Cir-
cle I, II and III, which
gave the board a reve-
nue of `8.02 crore while
Jodhpur Circle I and II
sold 81 properties, giv-
ing the Board a revenue
of `7.40 crore. Similarly
,
Kota circle sold 52 prop-
erties for `4.06 crore,
while Bikaner circle
sold 120 properties for
`10.76 cr, Udaipur circle
sold 66 properties for
`6.68 crore and 51 prop-
erties in the Alwar cir-
cle sold for `5.40 crore.
Maken denies cabinet expansion, gives
green signal to district level appointments
RHB recreats record selling properties worth `135 cr in a fortnight!
RHB’S ‘PENTA-CENTURIES’!
lBoard achieves unique record to sell
record property in shortest time, a feat
unequalled by any govt or private institute
lPlot at Atish Market sold at 4 times its
fixed min bid price @ `3.40 lakh per sqm
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot has given
instructions for effec-
tive implementation of
schemes related to edu-
cation, health, drinking
water and employment
in the state. He said that
these schemes are im-
portant from the point
of view of inclusive de-
velopment. “Every
needy person sitting in
the village-dhani should
get the benefits on time,
therefore schemes
should be handled
in Mission
Mode,” Gehlot
said while
addressing
the first
meeting of
the State De-
velopment Co-
ordination
and Monitor-
ing Commit-
tee (Disha) on
We d n e s d a y
e v e n i n g
through video
conference
at the CMR.
In this meeting,
which lasted for about 3
hours, CM reviewed the
progress of schemes re-
lated to MNREGA,
Prime Minister Crop
Insurance, Jal Jeevan
Mission, Samagra Shik-
sha Abhiyan and Na-
tional Health Mission.
Gehlot said that the
MNREGA scheme has
proved to be a boon for
connecting the common
man with employment.
“In the challenging
phase of Covid, its im-
portance has increased.
Rajasthan has always
been a pioneer in the
implementation of this
scheme,” Gehlot said
and gave instructions to
ensure that Saharias
and Kherwas of Baran,
who completed 100 days
of employment and
MNREGA workers of
Kathodi tribe of
Udaipur, should be pro-
vided additional 50 days
of employment. He ex-
pressed happiness that
number of employed
families has increased
from 50.65 lakh to 69.96
lakh. Also, payment to
99.69% workers has
been ensured in 15 days.
Reviewing the pro-
gress of PM Crop Insur-
ance Scheme, Gehlot
said our government
has ensured payment of
crop insurance to farm-
ers by giving a part of
the state premium. He
said providing clean
drinking water in every
village-dhani of the
state is our top priority
.
“For this, Jal Jeevan
Mission Scheme should
be given a boost,” Ge-
hlot said.
It was decided in the
meeting that keeping in
view the inaccessible
and desert conditions of
Rajasthan like the Un-
ion Territories and
North-Eastern and Hill
States, Centre should
again be requested to
run this scheme in part-
nership of 90:10. It was
informed in the meeting
that due to the best im-
plementation of NHM
in the state, there has
been a significant de-
cline in maternal and
infant mortality
.
WORK ON VITAL SCHEMES ON MISSION MODE: CM
AtfirstmeetingofDisha,Gehlotinstructsforeffectiveimplementationofschemesonedu,health,drinkingwateremployment
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot is con-
stantly taking sugges-
tions from representa-
tives of all sections of
the society to meet the
issues related to public
interest in the state
budget to be presented
during the upcoming
session of the assembly
.
In this series, on Feb 5
and 6, Gehlot will inter-
actwiththeconsultative
committee, women en-
trepreneurs, NGOs 
civil society and sport-
spersons and invite
their suggestions to be
includedinstatebudget.
Gehlot has invited
more than 100 people for
their suggestions on
budget. For the discus-
sion that will be held
through V-C. On Feb 5,
state level tax advisory
committee and tax ex-
perts will give their sug-
gestions. This will be
followed by a similar
meeting wherein youth,
women professionals
and talented students
will put forward their
suggestions at 4 pm.
On Feb 6, at 12 noon,
CM will discuss budget
with representatives of
NGO, Civil Society and
Consumer Forum and
take their suggestions.
At 4 pm CM will seek
suggestions of farmers,
livestock owners, repre-
sentatives of the dairy
association and repre-
sentatives of the tribal
areas and include them
in the budget.
Peoples’ budget: CM to
huddle with commoners
Ajay Maken, Dharmendra Rathore and Govind S Dotasra at
Rathore’s residence on Tuesday. —PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR
UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal, Bhaskar A Sawant and Pawan Arora.
Ajay Maken having breakfast with Govind S Dotasra, Dr Raghu Sharma, Pramod Jain Bhaya, Udai Lal Anjna, Rafiq Khan, Vaibhav Gehlot
and other Congress leaders at the residence of Dharmendra Rathore on Wednesday.
MAKEN’S BUSY DAY
Congress state incharge Ajay Maken met Assembly
Speaker CP Joshi at his residence in Jaipur on
Wednesday where PCC chief Govind S Dotasra and
MLA Sanyam Lodha were also present.
Ajay Maken met Sachin Pilot at his residence in Jaipur
on Wednesday. Pilot tweeted a photo captioned, “Was
happy to receive AICC General Secretary in-charge
of Rajasthan @ajaymaken at home in Jaipur. Had a
fruitful discussion.
Ajay Maken and Govind S Dotasra greet each other
during the meeting of newly appointed officials of the
party organisation at PCC Headquarters on Wednesday.
—Photo By Suman Sarkar
ANGDAAN,MAHADAAN: GEHLOT
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: CM Ashok Gehlot has congratulated Prin-
cipal SMS Medical College, Dr Sudhir Bhandari
and entire team of organ transplant physicians for
successful organ transplantation for the second
time in a week at SMS Hospital. Gehlot said every
year thousands of patients die all over the country
from stopping of functioning of vital organs. “In
such a situation, many patients suffering from
serious diseases can be given life by transplanting
the organ at the right time. Saving life of others by
donating organs makes organ donor and his fam-
ily proud even after death. This positive message
needs to be conveyed to all in society so that fami-
ly of the patient who have been declared braindead
can be motivated to donate patient’s organs,” CM
stressed. It is noteworthy that after 14-year-old
Vishal, who was admitted to SMS, was declared
brain dead, his family members decided to donate
as per the advice of doctors.
iya Tose Naina laage re
was the dance sequence
that made me fall in love
with Waheeda. I watched
the 8-minute song over-
awed as she brought
alive the ‘idea of India’
through the festivals, all woven
together in the amazing grace of
her dance and expressions. Kaan-
to se kheench kar yeh aanchal,
another Waheeda special from
the same movie Guide was my
‘rebel’ song for a long time, Wa-
heeda in her path-breaking role
as Rosie was heartbreakingly
beautiful and far ahead of her
times.
Raat bhi hai kuch
bhhegi bheegi,
the sensuous
grace of Wa-
heeda, her
come-thither expressions and the
sheer innocence she managed in
those enigmatic smiles in full
sleeved dress, makes this song
one of my top favourites not to
mention that I loved the mous-
tache swirling macho Sunil Dutt
making a statement with both-
the money and the weapon!
Jaane kya tune kahi is one of
my favourites because it cele-
brates the innocence of the
streetwalker that Waheeda as-
says, as she beckons the smitten
curious Guru Dutt with her large
expressive eyes.
Rangeela re is a poem in love
and despair- I believe it to be one
of the finest dance sequences of
Waheeda as she portrays a heart-
broken wom- an with
pain flow-
ing
from every step and sigh – Dukh
mera dulha Virha hai doli – I still
get goosebumps when I see her
sitting on the floor- beautifully
demure absolutely beautiful in
white! She reminded of an Ajanta
sculpture in this number!
Zara nazron se keh do ji and
Bhanwra bada nadaan re is car-
ried purely on her impish expres-
sions- a joy to watch!
Waqt ne kya haseen sitam – The
light and shadows and Waheeda
Rehman – still as she emotes each
syllable with her bottomless yes
– is a song which will always stay
with me- it is a dance of emo-
tions and life!
Waheeda ji … jiyo hazaa-
ro saal!
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beauty, grace, gorgeous dances and path-breaking
roles, this Throwback Thursday as she celebrated her
83rd birthday on February 3, City First remembers
some of her most amazing dance sequences!
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LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Your desire for an exciting
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likely to be fulfilled today.
Those looking for buying a
house can get a good bargain.
Appreciation is in store for some
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is yours if you play your cards well
today.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
You may wait for
someone’s invitation for a
trip. Your professionalism
in handling problem areas
will be appreciated. Tenant troubles
are foreseen for some house owners.
You will find family life more than
fulfilling. A senior is likely to put in a
good word for you.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
A new deal is likely to
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NOV 23 - DEC 22
You are likely to take up
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Remaining on the good side of those
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JAN 21 - FEB 19
You will have to be more
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APR 21 - MAY 20
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CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
Success is foretold on the
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AUG 24 - SEP 23
Getting into a favourable
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JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Your performance at work
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OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Good performance on the
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good networking, a prized posting
can be yours.
f my earliest mem-
ories of childhood
is waking up to the
sharp, high-
pitched sound of
the pressure cook-
er whistle. It
seemed to me to be the
harshest sensations as a
child. But today, it reminds
me of my Mother and her
warmth, and the delicious
food lovingly prepared and
served by her.
Her efforts nourished my
spirit as much as it filled
my stomach. During my
school days, My Mom who
was also working in a gov-
ernment hospital used to
prepare food for us in the
evenings. I was not a foodie
then! I developed this inter-
est as years passed by
.
My love for cooking
comes from both my Mom
and Dad. When my two sis-
ters and I were growing up
in the 70s, we loved every-
thing Mom cooked, but
there was a dish she made
that stood out over every-
thing else. It was Yakhni
Pulao. My elder Sister Na-
lini is close to Mom’s magic
of Yakhni Pulao and my
younger Sister Shalini
makes the best Shami ke-
babs anyone could ever
make. So delicious.
Today I am sharing one
of My Mom’s favourite rec-
ipe without which our
Christmas in incomplete
even today
.
Mutton Yakhni Pulao
INGREDIENTS
1-kilo old basmati rice,
washed and soaked in wa-
ter for a minimum of 2
hours. 1.5-kilo fatty goat
meat on the bone. 250
grams Clarified butter. 4
pods black Cardamoms. 6
pods green cardamoms. 10
cloves. 1 teaspoon black
cumin. 50 grams
Whole coriander
seeds. 100 grams
fennel seeds. 1
large stick cin-
namon. 3 dried
bay leaf. 1 tea-
spoon black pepper.
Salt to taste. 2 medi-
um-size peeled on-
ions plus 2 medi-
um size thinly
sliced onions. 50
grams Fresh
ginger. 50 grams
Fresh garlic. 2
litres of water. 25
grams each of gin-
ger and garlic paste
for Pulao.
PREPARATION
Prepare the stock : In a
large cooking pan, add
washed meat and water.
Wrap up these spices in a
muslin cloth and place it in
the pan Black and green
cardamoms, cloves, black
cumin, cinnamon stick, bay
leaf, peppercorns, corian-
der seeds, fennel seeds,
peeled onions cut into four,
Chopped ginger and garlic.
Add salt to taste.
Place the pan on fire and
cook the meat till it is ten-
der, but not falling off the
bone. To tenderise,
the meat will ap-
proximately
take
45 minutes on woodfire. I do
not use gas and pressure
cooker. Keep checking the
meat every 20 minutes.
When the meat is tender,
drain the stock and keep
the meat aside. Please do
not wash the meat again or
else you will lose the fla-
vour. You should have ap-
proximately 6 cups of stock.
Prepare the Pulao: In a
heavy-bottomed pan. Add
ghee and sliced onions. On
the medium heat, fry the
sliced onions till caramel-
ized, this will take about 10
minutes. Add ginger-garlic
paste and the reserved
meat. Saute till the garlic
raw smell goes. Turn the
heat to low and add the
stock. Once it starts boiling
add soaked rice. Check the
salt.
Now cover the pot with a
cloth or a kitchen towel and
place the lid on top. Allow
rice to cook for 20 minutes.
As much as you may be
tempted, Please do not open
the during the steaming
process or else you will lose
the aroma and will end up
with undercooked rice.
Now turn the heat off and
allow the rice to settle for 20
- 30 minutes. Decant with a
wide-rimmed steel plate as
we do at home. Serve with
plain yoghurt or Raita.
Learning to cook is no
longer that instruc-
tionclasswhere
you make notes and see
someone demonstrate. It is
now a hands-on experience
where you learn as much
about food, as you do about
management.
Cooking classes are no
longer limited to that are
conducted by women in
their homes to teach young
brides how to put up a fan-
cy dinner on the table. It is
no longer a class even! It is
about having an experience
learning exotic dishes and
bonding with family and
friends over food.
You could argue that you
can be done by simply look-
ing up recipes from the in-
ternet or watching YouTube
videos and learn along, but
nothing to beat a real-life
hands-on experience and
learning live from each oth-
er. “There is a Chef in each
one of us.” People from all
walks of life, who love food,
indulge themselves in
cooking these days.
INDULGE IN A COOKING
EXPERIENCE
MANOJ EDWIN
(Uncle Nibolson’s)
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
O
YOUR
DAY
Horoscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
Mutton Yakhni Pulao
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  • 1. www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia JAIPUR l THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 239 BJP CAN BUY FEW CORRUPT LEADERS BUT NOT TMC’S DEDICATED WORKERS: WEST BENGAL CM MAMATA BANERJEE P5 P6 CHIEF MINISTER PINARAYI VIJAYAN HAS LOST HIS CREDIBILITY, SAYS JP NADDA DURING 2-DAY VISIT TO KERALA OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW After local bodies, Gehlot-Maken duo gear up to go out all guns blazing at assembly bypolls Jaipur. Riding on the enthusiasm of emphatic win in the local body election, senior Con- gressleaders-CMAshok Gehlot and AICC Gen- eral secretary Incharge Ajay Maken - have gone back to the drawing boardtochalkoutstrate- giesfortheallimportant assembly bypolls to be held in four constituen- cies of the state in the days to come. Both Con- gressandBJPwillaimto come out victorious in the ‘battle’ since the two parties have a lot to achieve as way of the messagetheygivetopeo- ple from their victories. With this in mind, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and state in- charge Ajay Maken have given strategic in- structions to the in- charge ministers and supervisors regarding the by-elections in the four seats of the assem- bly . The duo has made it crystal clear that the four seats namely Sa- hara, Sujangarh, Vallabhnagar and Ra- jsamand -have to be won in any case. Highly placed sourc- es reveal that the mas- ter strategist Gehlot and man-manager par excellence Turn to P6 Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot along with Ajay Maken and Govind Singh Dotasra interacting with party leaders at CMR on Wednesday. Historic: Sensex closes above 50,000 for first time EkanamayhostIPL,WorldT20 asJayShahallpraiseforstadium SC refuses plea against religious conversion laws Mumbai: The BSE Sensex closed above the historic 50,000-mark for the first time ever on Wednesday as the post- Budget euphoria con- tinued for the third straight session amid a spurt in buying by for- eign funds and positive global cues. Banking, finance and pharma counters hogged the limelight, whilecementandFMCG stocks succumbed to profit-taking. After touching a re- cord intra-day high of 50,526.39, the 30-share BSE benchmark ended at 50,255.75, up 458.03 points or 0.92 per cent. Similarly , the broader NSE Nifty surged 142.10 points or 0.97 per cent to its fresh closing record of 14,789.95. It touched an all-time high of 14,868.85 during the day . IndusInd Bank topped the Sensex gain- ers’ chart, zooming 7.65 per cent, followed by PowerGrid, Dr Reddy’s, Sun Pharma, NTPC and Axis Bank. On the other hand, Ul- traTech Cement, Maru- ti, ITC, Kotak Bank, Asian Paints, Nestle In- diaandTCSwereamong the losers, slipping up to 0.90 per cent. “Domestic equities continued to remain in the grip of bulls Turn to P6 Vishal Srivastav Lucknow: ‘Yahan to IPL hona hi chahiye’.... (IPL must happen here) were the first words of Jay Shah as he had first glimpses of the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Wednesday . Shah, Honorary Sec- retary , Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and newly elect- ed President, Asian Cricket Council (ACC), was in the city along with BCCI Vice Presi- dent Rajiv Shukla, to hold a meeting with Ut- tar Pradesh Cricket As- sociation (UPCA) office- bearers. However, exclusive sources have revealed to First India that Shah’s visit Turn to P6 New Delhi: The Su- preme Court Wednes- day refused to entertain a plea challenging the validity of laws enacted by states, including Ut- tar Pradesh and Uttara- khand, which deal with religious conversion by marriage and others. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bob- de, while saying that the petitioner should approachtheconcerned high court, observed that the issue raised is important and the high courts of Allahabad and Uttarakhand are already dealing with pe- titions on it. We are not on merits at all. Allahabad and Ut- tarakhand high courts are entertaining simi- lar petitions. We are not denying the importance of matter at all. We are saying we would like to have the benefit of high courts view, said the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubrama- nian. Turn to P6 Jind: A huge crowd gathered on Wednesday at Jind in Haryana for a farmers’ “mahapan- chayat” or meeting to push for the repeal of three new laws at the heart of farmer protests outside Delhi since No- vember. While several such gatherings have been seen in the past few days in Uttar Pradesh, Jind’s meeting took it to Haryana’sJatheartland. Five resolutions were passedatthe“mahapan- chayat”. Apart from the demand that the gov- ernment withdraw the farm laws, the resolu- tions called for a legal guarantee of minimum support price for crops, a farm loan waiver and the release of farmers arrested after the vio- lence on Republic Day . Bharatiya Kisan Un- ion leader Rakesh Ti- kait addressed the gath- ering at Jind, consid- ered the epicenter of Jat politics in Haryana. Turn to P6 SC REJECTS JUDICIAL PROBE INTO R-DAY VIOLENCE Delhi Police announces reward on Sidhu, 3 others New Delhi: The Delhi PoliceonWednesdayan- nounced a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh for anyone who provided informa- tion on actor Deep Sid- hu, his two associates, and Jugraj Singh, ac- cused of hoisting the Nishan Sahib, a flag sa- cred to Sikhs, at the Red Fortduringthefarmers’ protest on Republic Day . The police are con- ducting multiple raids in Delhi and Punjab to look for the accused who participated in the violent clashes between police and farmers dur- ing the Republic Day tractor march. Turn to P6 New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday re- fused to entertain a clutch of petitions demanding judicial investigations into the violence during the tractor rally in Delhi on Re- public Day. The apex court also referred to a state- ment reportedly given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the all-party meeting that “the law will take its own course” and allowed the petitioners to withdraw pleas. The court also dismissed another petition seeking direction to the media not to declare farmers as ‘terrorists’ without any evidence, news agency ANI reported. In their petition, advocates Vishal Thakre and Abhay Singh Yadav, both practis- ing in Delhi, sought probe by the CBI, Turn to P6 TIKAIT’S HUNKAAR 5 resolutions passed at gathering including withdrawal of farm laws, MSP legal guarantee Union Home Ministry says no extension of internet suspension at Delhi borders ...FROM MAHAPANCHAYAT IN JATLAND Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait addresses Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jind district on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY PTI BCCI Secretary Jay Shah and VP Rajiv Shukla inspecting the Ekana stadium. Also seen are Ekana Stadium MD Uday Sinha and UPCA Secretary Yudhvir Singh along with other officials. ADDL DIRECTOR PRAVEEN SINHA APPOINTED ACTING CBI CHIEF New Delhi: CBI Addi- tional Director Praveen Sinha, a 1988-batch Gujarat cadre IPS, has been appointed acting chief of the agency till a decision on a new director is taken to succeed Rishi Kumar Shukla who retired on Wednesday after a two-year fixed stint. The Appointments Com- mittee of the Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi chose Sinha. An order issued by the DoP and Training on Wednesday stated that Sinha will look duties of the director with immediate effect till the appointment of a new CBI chief or until further orders, which- ever is earlier. Shukla, a 1983-batch IPS officer from Madhya Pradesh cadre. The CBI director is chosen by a high- powered committee of PM, LoP and CJI. Praveen Sinha New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah became the senior- most member of the government to warn of the “temptation of sensationalist social media hashtags and comments” - a re- sponse to the wave of support for farmers protesting the new agriculture laws, a wave generated by a six-word tweet from pop star Rihanna. Shah joined the growing list of BJP politicians and lead- ers, and Bollywood celebrities tweeting against “propagan- da” that threatens national unity . “No propaganda can deter India’s uni- ty!Nopropagandacan stop India to attain new heights! Propa- ganda can not decide India’s fate only ‘Pro- gress’ can. India stands united and to- gether to achieve pro- gress,” Shah tweeted. Late Tuesday night Rihanna tweeted to her 100 million follow- ers: “Why aren’t we talking about this #FarmersProtest?” and shared an article on the farmers’ pro- test by American news outlet CNN. Turn to P6 New Delhi: Twitter may face action if it does not comply with the government’s orders, the centre warned on Wednesday, stressing that the social media giant “unilaterally unblocked” accounts and tweets - linked to an objectionable hashtag related to the farmers’ protest - despite its order. COMPLY OR FACE ACTION: GOVT TO TWITTER ON ‘GENOCIDE’ HASHTAG Rihanna No propaganda can deter India’s unity: Shah Amit Shah Greta Thunberg The Chief Minister and State Incharge hash out strategy for upcoming elections, direct leaders to start groundwork
  • 2. Aishwary Pradhan  Jaipur: Hitting out at Congress national treasurer Pawan Bansal for his statement about the construction of Ram temple, BJP state president Satish Poonia on Wednesday said that Congressmen have no faith in Lord Ram. He said that opposing the name of Lord Ram is the agenda of the Congress party . Poonia said that Con- gress should stop doing politics in the name of Shri Ram and they should feel ashamed. “The statement of Bansal is uncalled for and immature. There is no place for any kind of politics about the con- tribution for the temple construction,” he said. “Lord Shri Ram is the symbol of faith for all Indians and. There is no pressure on anyone to contribute to the temple construction. Anyone cancontributeanything starting from one ru- pee,” he said. Poonia alleged Con- gress leaders had creat- ed hurdles for the Ram temple. NSUI, the student wing of Congress, start- ed a drive to collect money for the temple, but Congress distanced itself from the drive. During his visit to Jaipur, Bansal on Tues- day had said that some people had approached him for seeking dona- tion for the temple con- struction but he did not give because the BJP has given it a complete- ly different colour. First India Bureau Jaipur: Targeting Congress National Treasurer Pawan Bansal for his state- ment about denying financial contribu- tion for the construc- tion of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, BJP leader and Deputy Leader of Opposi- tion Rajendra Rathore on Wednes- day said that Con- gress has always de- nied the existence of lord Shri Ram. “What else can be ex- pected from him,” Rathore said. Mean- while, Rathore also met LS Speaker Om Birla & Union minis- ter Arjun Meghwal in New Delhi on Wednesday . RAJASTHAN JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 02 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Jaipur: A standing committee of the Ra- jasthan Wildlife Board has cleared a proposal to allow the mining of a special sandstone, much sought after by builders including those constructing the Ram temple in Ayod- hya, from Bharatpur’s Bandh Baretha sanctu- ary . The proposal to de- notify the sanctuary for the mining of the pink sandstone from there will now be put up be- fore the Rajasthan Wild- life Board, headed by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Chief Wildlife Warden Mohan Meena told PTI on Wednesday . “The standing com- mittee has given the ap- proval and the matter will be now taken up by the state wildlife board for consideration after which it will be sent for the approval by the Na- tional Wildlife Board,” he said. Thousands of tonnes of the pink sandstone mined in Bharatpur’s Bansi Paharpur have beensourcedforthetem- ple over the years, but much more is needed, he added. There were con- cerns in Ayodhya that supplies of this stone with a unique pink hue would dry up. Since blocks of this sandstone had already been carved -- ready to be put in place as the temple comes up --switchingovertoaless- er grade of stone would have caused problems. The Dholpur variant is said to be no match to the Bansi Paharpur stone. Authorities in Congress-run Ra- jasthan, however, de- nied that the move to denotify the Bansi Pa- harpur block in Bharat- pur’s Bandh Baretha wildlife sanctuary has anything specific to do with the Ram temple. A senior district ad- ministration official said the stone is in high demand across the country and the pro- cess for the denotifica- tion was not started only because the par- ticular sandstone is re- quired for the Ram Temple. “There is ram- pant illegal mining in the area. There is no forest left there and if it is delinked from the sanctuary, the state government will get the revenue from any mining there,” he said. Mining was banned after 2016 but illegal op- erations continued and the Bansi Paharpur (pink stone) sandstone remained available in the grey market. Sup- ply of the stone took a hit after the Bharatpur administration seized 25 trucks loaded with illegally mined pink sandstone last Septem- ber. —PTI Supply of special pink sandstone for Ram temple to be eased soon RAM TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION lll Thousands of tonnes of the pink sandstone mined in Bharatpur’s Bansi Paharpur have been sourced for the temple over the years OPPOSING LORD RAM’S NAME IS AGENDA OF CONG: POONIA First India Bureau Dausa: A prisoner in Dausa district jail com- mitted suicide on Wednesday by hanging himself in the bath- room. He was arrested a few days ago on charg- es of rape and murder of a minor. The police immedi- ately rushed him to the hospital, where the doctors declared him dead. The body is kept in the morgue for post mortem. According to the information, the captive is identified as Madanlal. In the morn- ing, he entered the jail bathroom to take bath and committed sui- cide, when Madanlal didn’t come out for long, the fellow prison- ers peeped inside and saw him hanging. PRISONER COMMITS SUICIDE FUNDS FOR RAM MANDIR: BJP hits out at Cong even as Dr Raghu Sharma stresses on faith Satish Poonia Vikas Sharma Jaipur: Medical and Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma has hit back at people trying to play politics over the NSUI’s campaign of ‘one person, one ru- pee’ donation cam- paign for Ram Temple construction. Sharma claimed that NSUI’s campaign is a message for those indi- viduals who are de- manding crores of ru- pees for the donation. “These people accepted a donation of crores of rupees even during the Shila Pujan, but till date, there is no account of what happened to that money. Even one rupee donation is enough for having faith in Ram temple.” `1 enough for having faith in Temple: Raghu Dr Raghu Sharma CHANDRASHEKHAR @ SALASAR BJP’s State General Secretary Organisation (Rajasthan) Chandrashekhar visited Salasar on Wednesday where he held meetings with party leaders and also offered prayers at Salasar Balaji Temple. CONG HAS ALWAYS DENIED RAM’S EXISTENCE: RATHORE Vimal Kothari Jaipur: The ac- cused of evading input tax by issu- ing fake bills of bogus firms was arrested and pre- sented in the Eco- nomic Offenses Court by the Anti- Evasion branch of CGST Jaipur on Wednesday . Acting as the op- erator of Salasar E n t e r p r i s e s , Ashok Kumar Sio- tia, accused of evading Rs 7.98 crore of ITC, was underground for the last one year. Siotia is accused of issuing bogus firms’ bills on a commission of 0.5%. CGST Senior Public Prosecutor RN Yadav told the court that accused has so far issued fake bills of Rs 45.52 cr from his firm. Through these bills, he mis- used input tax credit of Rs7.98 crore. On probe, some more firms are formed on pa- pers for GST eva- sion. Yadav said that in the investi- gation conducted so far, besides fake addresses of the firms, some didn’t exist at all. Man held for evading GST Rajendra Rathore First India Bureau Jaipur: BJP will organ- izeintellectualmeetings and press conferences across the country to brief about the provi- sions of the union budg- et. Union ministers and the national office bear- ersof thepartywillhold a press conference in all the state capitals on Feb- ruary 6-7 to publicise the provisions of the budget. On the same day be- fore the press confer- ence, the budget points will be discussed with the intellectuals in a conference and with business. All BJP MPs will also publicise the budget in their respec- tive constituencies on 6, 7, 13, and 14 February . Intellectual meetings and press conferences will be organized at dis- tricts on February 13 and 14 in all states. It was informed in a party meeting in which BJP National President JP Nadda and national general secretary (or- ganisation) BL Santosh addressed through a video conference. Inthemeeting,thena- tional general secretary and State In-charge Arun Singh gave the task for the upcoming programs. BJP state president Satish Poonia and other state presidents also at- tended the meeting. During this, national general secretary Bhu- pendra Yadav proposed a vote of thanks to Prime Minister Naren- dra Modi for the budget. BJP to organise intellectual meetings to publicise Union Budget provisions First India Bureau Jaipur: Jaipur Devel- opment Authority has issued a letter of ac- ceptance to LNA infra project which has been finalised for the long awaited project of Ram- niwas bagh parking ex- tension after approval of the UDH minister on tender. LNA infra project had quoted the lowest rate during the tender- ing process last month, on the basis of which it was selected for the pro- ject under which a park- ing facility of 1500 four- wheelers will be devel- oped. This will ease the parking load in the walled city . JDA approves LNA infra project Abhishek Shrivastav  Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot government is commit- ted to promoting agri- culture-based ware- housing and construc- tion of godowns. In or- der to aid the construc- tion and provide relief to farmers as well as warehouse firms, land conversion fees, build- ing map approval fees, and lease amount, etc. have already been ex- empted. In this connec- tion, another order was issued on Wednesday by the Urban Development Department. According to the or- der, the bodies have been instructed not to collect sewer fee and external development fee from the applicant for the construction of agro-based warehous- es and godowns, when the local body has not spent any money in this area and therefore, there is no need for such expenditure. But if there is a need for external development and laying of sewer lines in the area, then an affidavit should be obtained from the ap- plicant. In the future, an affidavit for giving external development fees and customs du- ties will have to be tak- en, if the need arises. Govt relaxes norms for new agri warehouses,godowns Rajiv Gaur Jodhpur: Students of the Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur led by ABVP leader Ravindra Singh Bhati on Wednesday held a protest against the university adminis- tration for its decision to hand over 34 bigha land on Pali road to JDA for the construc- tion of a convention center. Police had to use mild force twice to disperse them and de- tained Bhati. The students started a dharna outside the central office. As soon as vice-chancellor Prof. PC Trivedi arrived, the agitating students laid in front of his car and shouted slogans against him. They surrounded the car following which police used mild force and dispersed the students. JNVU students hold protest against university admin Police lathi-charge students at Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur. JP Nadda
  • 3. RAJASTHAN JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 03 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Vikas Sharma Jaipur: Health Minis- ter Dr Raghu Sharma speaking at state-level School Health and Wel- fare programme organ- ised by NHM and UNF- PA on Wednesday said that adolescent health is in priorities of the State. The health dept through awareness pro- grammes will include teachers as Brand Am- bassadors and students as Messengers. Prob- lems faced during ado- lescence will be openly discussed in these pro- grammes and will be resolved. He said that the health dept, prima- ry and higher education together are making ef- forts to provide a proper medium so that youth take benefit of health schemes. NHM Director Naresh Thakral said that special package has been prepared for health promotional ac- tivities. Dr Ola, Laksh- man Singh, Bhanwar Lal, ML Salodia, Sunil Thomas and other offic- ers were present in the programme. CISF celebrates 21st Induction Day at Jaipur International Airport Kashiram Choudhary Jaipur: The CISF (Central Industrial Se- curity Force) complet- ed 21 years of its ser- vice at the Jaipur In- ternational Airport. On completion of this milestone, the induc- tion program was or- ganized by CISF on Wednesday . The chief guest of the induction day was chief secretary, Niran- jan Arya, while the spe- cial guest was DG Jail Rajiv Dasot, Airport Director JS Balhara and CISF Commandant YP Singh were also pre- sent in the event. In the program, the CISF se- curity personnel dem- onstrated their skills in a motorcycle rally, which was organized to spread safety aware- ness. The CISF comman- dant YP Singh counted on the achievements of the CISF in its two-dec- ade tenure at the Jaipur Airport. For the first time, the CISF was given the re- sponsibility to handle the airport security af- ter the Kandahar hi- jack incident in De- cember 1999. The force took over the security operations of the Airport from 3 February 2000 on- wards. CS Niranjan Arya felicitating a girl of CISF staff at the Induction function at Jaipur International Airport on Wednesday. Also seen are YP Singh, Rajiv Dasot and JS Balhara. Dr Raghu Sharma addressing the state-level School Health and Welfare programme on Wednesday. Dr Narottam Sharma takes Covid-19 jab in Jaipur on Wednesday. SC seeks Raj govt reply on plea against Panchayat Act HC issues notice to MD NHM & state government MoU between California’s Living Desert Zoo and Jodh’s Machia Park soon 2-day PC remand for IPS Agarwal for alleged extortion Rajiv Gaur Jodhpur: The interna- tional reputation of Machia biological park of Jodhpur is all set to get boosted with the signing of MoU with California’s Liv- ing Desert Zoo in next few days. A team of the Living Desert Zoo, which is one of the world’s top 10 zoos, will reach Jodh- pur for the MoU signing under which various exchanges will be done. Central Zoo Authority had asked Ernst & Young to help the coun- try’s zoos reach the global standpoint under a contract under 15 zoos of the country have been selected. From Ra- jasthan, only Machia Biological Park has been selected for inter- national collaboration. Krishna Kumar Vyas, assistant conser- vator of forests, said that the Living Desert Zoo of California gave the proposal for the col- laboration with Machia Biological Park which will take place soon. It is expected that per- mission for animals will be granted. First India Bureau Jaipur: IPS Manish Agarwal, who was ar- rested by ACB on Tues- dayoncorruptioncharg- es, was produced before a local court where he was remanded to police remand for two days on Wednesday . He is ac- cused of demanding Rs. 38 lakh from a highway construction company and taking Rs. 31 lakh from another company when he was posted as Dausa SP. DG-ACB BL Soni said that some doc- uments were recovered during search of his house which are being examined. After Neeraj Meena’s arrest, ACB probed role of IPS Agar- wal and booked him. First India Bureau Jaipur: The SC gave permission to con- duct elections to state government on Wednesday . The peti- tioner Meena in his SLP argued that the state government has violated the Ra- jasthan Panchayati Raj Act. Bench of CJ S A Bobde, Justice A S Bopanna and V . Ra- masubramanian is- sued notice to the state govt and sought a reply. Counsels for the petitioner, said in SC that on Nov 15, 2019, Raj govt had is- sued notice to set up new gram panchayat by merging four vil- lages in Thanagazi tehsil of Alwar. First India Bureau Jaipur: The Single Bench of HC of Justice Ashok Kumar Gaur, is- sued notices to the State Government and Rajasthan Medical Services Corporation Ltd. on the petition filed by Vikas Sharma Director M/s Ace Flexi Pack Pvt. Ltd. regard- ing the rejection of the tender. Advocate Sunil Ku- mar Singh argued that such type of activities of respondents is viola- tion of Article 14 of the constitution, the re- spondents has put a loss of nearly Rs. 90 Lakhs to the Government of Rajasthan. This matter will again list after two weeks before the Single Bench of Rajasthan High Court. Machia Biological Park IPS Manish Agarwal at the ACB court in Jaipur on Wednesday. Stone pelted at 2 Congress councillors in Khatushyamji First India Bureau Sikar: After the results of munici- pal councillor elec- tions in the state, preparations for the chairperson election is going on. The fencing of the winning Con- gress councillors from Sardarsha- har has been done at Sawarthia Sewa Sadan, Khatu. On Wednesday, some people came to Khatu to take two councillors from Sawarthia Sewa Sadan. The initial quarrel among the two groups turned into a brawl and stone-pelting inci- dent. On the infor- mation, police reached the spot and tried to calm the two parties. The agitated peo- ple claimed that councillors Shiv Bhagwan Saini and Rajkumari have been brought here through ab- duction. Two councillors gave statements of vol- untarily staying. Incident sees fac- tions in Congress, each trying to take-away their councillors. Adolescent health govt’s priority: Raghu 2ND PHASE OF VAX BEGINS TODAY The state received 1,77,340 doses of Cov- axin on Wednesday and 1,31,260 doses are ex- pected to arrive on Thurs- day for the second phase of vaccination beginning today. Meanwhile, 41.5% of the total health work- ers were administered vaccines on Wednesday. Against the target of 58,581 health work- ers, only 24,303 health workers turned up at 869 centres. So far, total of 3,63,521 health workers have been vaccinated. Frontline workers includ- ing revenue department officials will be vaccinated in the second phase. 2 DEATHS, 92 CASES; 4 DISTS COVID FREE 500 AYUSH WELLNESS CENTRES SOON! ‘Need to make healthcare affordable’ First India Bureau Jaipur: Governor Kalraj Mishra while in- augurating 25th edition of IIHMR University’s Annual Global Confer- ence PRADANYA 2021 on Wednesday said that Digital Health can be Revolutionary for achieving the Sustain- able Development Goals in India and Beyond. In online address to the conference dele- gates from more than 10 countries, Mishra stressed on need for making healthcare af- fordable and quality fo- cused. Mentioning the Digital Health Mission of PM Modi, Mishra said, “India is on path of sustainable develop- ment, which can be strengthened through appropriate research, focused health care management initiatives involving appropriate use of technology .” Commending efforts of university to organ- ize an international event on such an impor- tant theme, he men- tioned about need for continuous improve- ment in healthcare ser- vices through efforts in research and education in the field. Kalraj Mishra addressing IIHMR’s 25th annual global conference. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
  • 4. PERSPECTIVE JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 04 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Vol 2 Issue No. 239 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764. Printed and published by Anita Hada Sangwan on behalf of First Express Publishers. Printed at Bhaskar Printing Press, D.B. Corp Limited, Shivdaspura, Tonk Road, Jaipur. Published at 304, 3rd Floor, City Mall, Bhagwan Das Road, C-Scheme, Jaipur-302001, Rajasthan. Phone 0141-4920504. Editor-In-Chief: Jagdeesh Chandra. Editor: Anita Hada Sangwan responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act And do not let your dislike of a people lead you to be unjust. —Surah Al-Ma-idah 5:8 Spiritual SPEAK Top TWEET Prakash Javadekar @PrakashJavdeka India’s tech industry has hailed the tax breaks incentives in #Budget2021 , as an important step towards #AatmanirbharBharat. Coming in the wake of the pandemic the #AatmanirbharBharatKaBudget strengthens important pillars for India’s economic growth. Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants. Indians know India and should decide for India. Let’s remain united as a nation. #IndiaTogether #IndiaAgainstPropaganda ndia’s journey from a milk defi- cit country to one of surplus has been mo- mentous. Initiated in 1970, Operation Flood was argua- bly the world’s most ambi- tious dairy development program that transformed India into one of the largest milkproducers.India’smilk production rate in the past few decades has, in many ways, been symbolic of the upward trajectory of the country’s economy and in- fluence.Thepercapitaavail- abilityof milkin2018-19was 394gramsperdayasagainst the world average of 302 grams. Between 2016 2019, the annual milk production in the country registered a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 6.4%. Today , with an annual production of 187.75 Million Tonnes (per 2018-19 data) India accounts for about 22% of world’s milk production. However, India isyettojointheranksof ma- jor milk exporting nations, asmuchof whatweproduce is directed towards meeting domesticdemands.So,toun- pack the issues facing our dairysector,itispertinentto divedeepandlistoutthefac- tors that have been hamper- ingtheproductivitylevelsof our cows. The dairy sector assumes a great deal of significance on account of multiple rea- sons – for one, it has to do withthesocio-culturalaffin- ity towards cows and dairy products in large parts of thecountry ,andasanindus- try , it employs more than 70 million farmers. However, the crying need of the hour is for us to identify ways in which we can enhance the return on investment for our farmers. Recent data in- dicates that indigenous cows produce 3.01 kgs of milk per cow per day while theyieldof exoticcrossbred cowsis7.95kgs.So,themag- ic word is ‘cross breeding’. Cross breeding has taken off in a big way because of the advancements in repro- ductive technologies like IVF, embryo transfer pro- cess, and artificial insemi- nation.Outof theseprocess- es, IVF and artificial insem- ination have proven to be the most popular and effec- tivemethods.TheNAIP(Na- tionwide Artificial Insemi- nation Programme) Phase-I was launched by PM, Nar- endra Modi in Mathura in September 2019. Every ani- mal in the programme was assigned a 12-digit unique identification number un- der the Pashu Aadhar scheme to ensure accuracy in tracking. Building upon the first phase of the pro- gramme, NAIP Phase-II wasinitiatedinAugust2020 withanallocationof Rs1090 crores in 604 districts cover- ing 50,000 animals per dis- trict and is on track to be completed by May 2021. Consequently, 18 MMT of additional milk will be pro- duced, as average produc- tivity will be enhanced from 1861 kg per animal per year to 3000 kg per animal per year. Until now, AI technology has been the most used method in India, but its success hinges upon accu- racy in heat detection and timely insemination. And this is where IVF tech will prove to be more effective. IVF has become a helpful tool in crossbreeding. In past six years, the Ani- mal Husbandry and Dairy- ing sector has received a greatdealof impetusunder PM’s vision of ‘Make in In- dia’ and towards becoming an‘ AtmanirbharBharat’.In keeping with our ethos of ‘Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan’ the marriage of rural farming with latest innovations in technologywillusherinun- precedented transforma- tions in our dairy industry . Breed improvement: Changing dairy’s canvas I ATUL CHATURVEDI SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING, MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRY espite ongoing series of talks to resolve the contentious mil- itary standoff in Eastern Ladakh, the Chinese incur- sions and aggressiveness con- tinue on the borders. Close at the heels of revelation of con- struction of a village in the disputed territory in Upper Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh came to thenewsof theforcedChinese incursion in area of Naku La in North Sikkim. All this at a time when there appears to be no positive development in re- solving the ongoing standoff and the relations between the two nations are deteriorating by the day with chances of a confrontation on the border appearing more likely soon after the snow melts. While theDragon’streacherycontin- ues unabated, India needs to prepare herself militarily , po- litically and diplomatically to halt the Chinese expansion- ism, a product of its Middle Kingdom Complex being pur- sued vigorously by the Chi- nese Communist Party (CCP) under the garb of China Dream of its overambitious ParamountLeaderXiJinping. Ever since the emergence of Communist China or the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), the Indian leader- ship beginning with Pandit Nehru desired to have friendly and cordial rela- tions with China under the hope that it would contrib- ute towards world peace, oppose colonialism and form the pillars of a Pan– Asian order. India was among the first few nations to establish diplomatic ties with the PRC on April 1, 1950. Pandit Nehru had in- troduced China for the first time at an international stage during the first-ever multi-national Afro-Asian Conference at Bangdung in 1955. India was instrumen- tal in getting China the per- manent membership of the United Nations Security Council. Unfortunately , Nehru failed to read Mao’s mind which at its back was filled with Sinocentrism (ideology that China is the cultural, political, or eco- nomic centre of the world) and Chinese Nationalism focussed on a modern pow- erful Chinese nation. Mao’s ideology manifested in form of China emerging on the world scene as a “Re- visionist” power aiming to change the existing status quo. It resulted in annexa- tion of Inner Mongolia, Xin- jiang and Tibet. Subsequent- ly, India also became a victim of Chinese expansionism. The Chinese greed showed no signs of subsiding. Apart from its adventurism in the South and East China Seas, it has been steadily extending its claim lines across Ladakh to include more and more In- dianterritories,whilerepudi- ating Indian sovereignty over ArunachalPradesh.Of late,it has included Sikkim also in its growing lists of disputes with India. The stubborn pos- ture adopted by China in the current standoff has proved beyond doubt that China con- siders India as its rival but will not tolerate any rival. It has therefore decided to put Indiainitsplacebuoyedbyits mighty Comprehensive Na- tional Power (CNP). It has established beyond doubts its greed for expan- sionism and hegemony over its neighbours. India has de- cided to contest Chinese revi- sionism and expansionism. It has refused to bow down to the machinations of Xi Jin- ping for which it has received considerable global support. India needs to strategize to exploit the Chinese vulnera- bilities which are in plenty. The CCP is, however, very sensitive to the two “Ts” namely Taiwan and Tibet. As a consequence of the civil war in China the nation was divided into two parts in 1949 two years after India at- tained independence. Mao’s communist government re- tainedcontrolof themainland China forcing the Republic of China (ROC) government to relocatetoTaiwan.Sincethen, theROChascontinuedtoexer- cise effective jurisdiction over themainislandof Taiwanand a number of outlying islands whilecommunistChinaisalso knownasPeoples’Republicof China (PRC) continues to claim it as its part (23rd prov- ince). China’s official position on Taiwan is uncompromis- ing. It claims that Taiwan is, was, and always has been an inseparablepartof China,and that international law sup- ports China’s claim. CCP wants outright reunification, the sooner the better, seeing the recovery of the island as the final chapter in the civil war and end of past humilia- tions when China was forced to cede territory to foreigners. On the other hand, there is growing global support for Taiwan as it is viewed as avictimof growingChinese expansionism that wants to impose the communist ide- ology on a democratic na- tion. China at the same time threatens that “Taiwan shall not be referred to as a ‘country’ (‘nation’) or “Re- publicof China”orthelead- er of China’s Taiwan region as “President”, so as not to send wrong signals.” The Chinese sensitivity to Tai- wan is growing by the day and CCP considers cosiness to Taiwan by any other country as a a direct assault on its sovereignty . The other Achilles Heel of CCP is Tibet, the region that shares border with India and has had historic ties with In- dia since centuries. With the end of the Chinese Civil War, the newly-established com- munist regime, openly stated its intention of ‘liberating’ Tibet, but the Indian estab- lishment paid no heed. To maintain control over Tibet, the PLA entered Tibet on October 7, 1950 and subse- quentlyannexedit,thuselimi- nating the traditional buffer between India and China. In- diadisplayedutterlackof stra- tegic thinking by dismissing Tibetan pleas for help and in- stead insisting on Tibetans to settletheissuepeacefullywith China. Nehru was too enam- oured with his image of Shan- ti Doot (messiah of peace) and “Hindi Chini Bhai-Bhai’’ fa- çade and committed a big folly in 1954, when, under the Panchsheel Agreement, we surrendered in Tibet all our militaryandotherfacilities,to China. Chinese responded with attacking an Assam Ri- fles outpost in Longju in the Central Frontier of erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (now Arunachal Pradesh) and building a road through the Indian Territory of Aksai Chin in Ladakh. Nehru still did not realise the gravity of the situation till China back- stabbed India in 1962. It is worth reminding the readers that at the time of in- dependence in 1947, India did notshareacommonboundary with China in the north, but withtwohithertoindependent nations –– Sinkiang (present day Xinjiang) and Tibet. The northern border was consid- ered settled in accordance withtheShimlaConventionof 1914 with the Tibetan nation being a signatory to the con- vention. The Shimla Conven- tion defined the boundaries betweenTibetandChinaprop- er, and that between Tibet and British India (the latter came to be known as the McMahon Line). The boundary between Jammu Kashmir (which merged with India in October 1947) and Tibet was estab- lished vide Treaty of Chushul signed in 1842 and between Sikkim (which merged with India in 1975) and Tibet was agreed under the Anglo-Chi- nese Convention 1890 and physicallydemarcatedin1895. HadTibetnotbeenforciblyan- nexed by PRC there would have been no boundary dis- pute on our northern borders. The PRC on assuming pow- er renounced all earlier for- eign agreements as unequal treatises imposed on it dur- ing the ‘century of humilia- tion’ and demanded renego- tiation of all borders. Chinese obsession with Tibet stems from many rea- sons, one of them being to fulfil Mao’s revisionist dream of Five Fingers. Mao believes Tibet to be China’s Right-hand palm with Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to be its five fingers which also need to be liber- ated contrary to the Indian claim as mentioned above. Tibet is China’s fundamen- talvulnerabilityvizavizIndia and a mechanism available to the later to refrain China. In- dia made a cardinal mistake of accepting Tibet Autono- mous Region (TAR) as part of China thus permitting China to share a border with India. China time and again defied India’s hopes of a peaceful co- existence through its acts of treachery by showing scant respect to mutual treaties and international conventions. Time has come to junk the OneNationpolicyof Chinaby paying it back in the same coin. India needs to consider toderecogniseTibetaspartof China and recognise Taiwan as an independent nation. To begin with India needs to en- hance commerce and cultural relations with Taiwan and in- crease military cooperation. To ensure Hans supremacy CCP has been subjecting the otherethnicminoritiestosup- pression and subjugation. There is growing unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang against in- creased Chinese atrocities. Chinaalsoplanstochangethe population along the Sino-In- dianborderthroughestablish- ment of the Hans populated villages. To counter it India should take off the gloves and give up its timid Tibet policy . India should assist the Tibet- anresistancemovementwith- in Tibet and give free hand to the Dalai Lama and his gov- ernment to espouse the Tibet- an freedom cause from Indian soil. It should also draw inter- nationalattentiontoincreased human right violations inside Tibet comparable to the atroc- ities being committed on Uig- hur Muslims. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL LASTING PEACE A DISTANT DREAM UNLESS WE CHANGE D Ever since the emergence of Communist China or the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), the Indian leadership beginning with Pandit Nehru desired to have friendly and cordial relations with China under the hope that it would contribute towards world peace, oppose colonialism and form the pillars of a Pan–Asian order. India was among the first few nations to establish diplomatic ties with the PRC on April 1, 1950. Pandit Nehru had introduced China for the first time at an international stage during the first-ever multi- national Afro- Asian Conference at Bangdung in 1955 BRIG VETERAN ANIL GUPTA The author is a Jammu based veteran, political commentator, columnist, security and strategic analyst THE CHINESE GREED SHOWED NO SIGNS OF SUBSIDING. APART FROM ITS ADVENTURISM IN THE SOUTH AND EAST CHINA SEAS, IT HAS BEEN STEADILY EXTENDING ITS CLAIM LINES ACROSS LADAKH TO INCLUDE MORE AND MORE INDIAN TERRITORIES, WHILE REPUDIATING INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY OVER ARUNACHAL PRADESH. OF LATE, IT HAS INCLUDED SIKKIM ALSO IN ITS GROWING LISTS OF DISPUTES WITH INDIA Promoted by Shree Cement Limited
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  • 6. INDIA JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 05 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia PM ‘GLAD’ TO SEE PIETERSEN’S AFFECTION TOWARDS INDIA New Delhi: After Kevin Pietersen praised ‘beloved country’ India for provid- ing COVID-19 vaccines to South Africa, PM Naren- dra Modi on Wednesday said that he is glad to see the former England cricketer’s affection towards India. PM said, “we believe that world is our family” and want to play “our role in strength- ening the fight against COVID”. “Glad to see your affection towards India. :) We believe that the world is our family and want to play our role in strength- ening the fight against COVID-19,” PM wrote, replying to Pietersen’s tweet. On Monday, EAM S Jaishankar had informed that ‘Made in India’ vax have arrived in SA. ‘JNVS TO START PHYSICAL CLASSES FOR CLASSES 10, 12’ New Delhi: The Ministry of Education has allowed the restart of physical classes for Class 10 and Class 12 students in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) in those states that have allowed gov- ernment and private schools to reopen schools for Classes 10 and 12. The Ministry said that it has pre- pared Standard Operat- ing Protocols (SOPs) for re-opening of JNVs based on guidelines of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 93K CYBERCRIMES, SEXUAL CRIMES REGISTERED: MHA New Delhi: Over 93,000 cybercrimes related to fraud, sexual exploitation and spreading of hate have been registered in the country between 2017 and 2019, Rajya Sabha was informed. Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the enhanced use of the internet, the number of cybercrimes was also increasing. As per data maintained and pub- lished by the National Crime Records Bureau, 21,796 cybercrimes were registered in 2017, 27,248 in 2018 and 44,546 in 2019. 266 APPS BLOCKED BY GOVT SINCE JUNE 2020: CENTRE TO LOK SABHA New Delhi: 266 mobile apps have been blocked by the government so far since June 2020, Lok Sabha was informed. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said use of the banned apps by a large number of people in India enables compilation of huge data which might be collated, analysed, profiled mined by elements that are hostile to the sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the State as well as to the public order, apart from being detrimental to the interest of the general public. Mr Reddy said with the enhanced use of cyber space, number of cyber crimes, including online fraud is also increasing. New Delhi: In a writ- ten reply in Rajya Sabha on steps being taken to deport Roh- ingyas, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said Central government has been vested with powers to detain deport ille- gal foreign nationals. “Central Govern- ment has been vested with powers under sections 3(2)(e) and 3(2)(c) of the Foreign- ers Act, 1946 to detain and deport foreign na- tionals staying ille- gally in the country,” said Minister of State for Home Affairs Nity- anand Rai, while re- sponding to Shiv Sena MP Anil Desai’s query . The minister main- tained that detection and deportation of Ro- hingya migrants after due process of nation- ality verification is a continuous process. He also said that the Central government may also, by an order, direct the removal of any person from India who enters the coun- trywithoutapassport. “Further, under Ar- ticle 239(1) of the Con- stitution of India, the Administrators of all the Union Territories have also been direct- ed to discharge the functions of the Cen- tral Government re- lating to the aforesaid powers since 1958,” said Nityanand Rai. Central govt has power to deport illegal foreign nationals: MHA New Delhi: Apex child rights body NCPCR has identified 50 “religious places”, including the Taj Mahal Shri Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayod- hya, where interven- tions will be undertak- en to ensure zero toler- ance towards child la- bour. The National Com- mission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP- CR) said the interven- tion shall be undertak- en in a collaborative manner with the in- volvement of multi- stakeholders including child welfare police of- ficers, anti-human traf- ficking unit, represent- atives from NGOs. NCPCR said it has noted instances of “child begging, child labour kids in street situations” reported at religious places, which is not only exploitation but also does not re- flect a positive image of our nation. NCPCR identifies 50 ‘religious places’ to combat child labour IN THE COURTYARD SC junks plea seeking probe into China’s alleged surveillance on Prez PM New Delhi: The Su- preme Court on Wednesday refused to pass any order on a plea seeking direc- tions to the Central government to inves- tigate China’s alleged surveillance on the President of India, Prime Minister, judg- es (sitting and re- tired) of the apex court and High Court and other influential personalities. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, while dis- posing of the plea, asked the petitioner to file a representation before the Centre say- ing “these are sensi- tive matter, make a rep- resentation to the Home Ministry or Fi- nance Ministry”. The Bench allowed the petitioner to file a representation before the government. New Delhi: SC junked a PIL seeking direction to CBI to submit a sta- tus report in actor Su- shant Singh Rajput death case. A bench comprising Chief Jus- tice S A Bobde and Jus- tices A S Bopanna V Ramasubramanian dismissed plea filed by advocate Puneet Kaur Dhanda. “We are not going to entertain this. You go to High Court,” the bench said. The pe- titioner had contended that apex court passed an order for the CBI inquiry on August 19, 2020 and despite lapse of almost 5 months the probe agency is yet to conclude its investiga- tion. “The CBI is not acting responsibly in the present case and there is a delay in the conclusion of investi- gation of case,” it said. Kochi: A court in Ker- ala on Wednesday granted bail to sus- pended IAS officer M Sivasankarin the dol- lar smuggling case, ob- serving that the of- fence against him was “serious” in nature and “required inten- sive probe” Sivasankar, the for- mer Principal secre- tary of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was released by 3 pm from prison after 98 days in judicial custody . SC dismisses PIL to seek direction to CBI to submit status report Suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar gets bail GOVT NEEDS TO LISTEN AS FARMERS AREN’T GOING AWAY: RAHUL GANDHI Rahul Gandhi slams Centre’s proposal to farmers, questions why government fortifying New Delhi New Delhi: While slamming the govern- ment’s proposal to post- pone the implementa- tion of farm laws for two years, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday questioned why the Centre is forti- fying the national capi- tal if it plans to resolve the farmers’ problems. Addressing the me- dia, the former Con- gress president remind- ed the Government of its job and said, “Farm- ers are the strength of India. Suppressing them, beating them and threatening them is not the government’s job. Their job is to talk to them and find a solu- tion to their problem.” “Prime Minister is saying that offer is still on the table to postpone laws for two years. What does it mean? Either you believe that you need to get rid of the laws or you don’t,” he added. He called farm- ers ‘people who give us sustenance’, and said, ” Delhi is surrounded by farmers. Why is Delhi being converted into a fortress? Why are we threatening, beating, and killing them? Why is the Government not talking to them and not resolving this problem? This problem isn’t good for the country,” said Gandhi. The Congress leader said the farmers’ issue needs to be re- solved as soon as possi- ble and the government needs to listen “as farm- ers aren’t going away”. In another dig at the BJP-led Central govern- ment, Gandhi said that at a ‘time when India needs to put money in the hands of its people’, the budget 2021 is for the 1 per cent popula- tion in the country .” “I had expected from the Budget that Govt will provide support to 99% of India’s popula- tion. But this Budget is that of the 1% popula- tion. You snatched away money from people in the small and medium industry, workers, farmers, Forces and put it in the pockets of 5-10 people,” he added. —ANI DELHI GOVT TO ISSUE LIST OF PEOPLE NABBED ON R-DAY: KEJRIWAL LOCALS FORCED TO WALK FOR HOURS AT SINGHU BORDER Security tightened during an ongoing protest, at the Singhu border in New Delhi on Wednesday. Thiruvananthapuram:BJP National President Jag- at Prakash Nadda, who arrived on Wednesday for a two-day visit to Keralaaheadof thestate Assembly elections, slammed the ruling par- ty of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and said that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayanhaslosthiscred- ibility . “Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has been at- tacking constitutional bodies. In the gold scam, the involvement of the Chief Minister Office has embarrassed self- respecting Malayalis, not only in Kerala but the world over. Pinarayi Vijayan has lost his credibility,” Nadda said while addressing a press conference here. “An investigation which is going on is go- ing to throw further light and it seems many ministers are going to come to light,” he said. Kerala CM has lost his credibility: Nadda JP Nadda Dictators’ names begin with M! On RaGa’s dig, BJP’s retort New Delhi: The Con- gress leader Rahul Gandhi, who regularly targets Prime Minis- ter Narenra Modi in his tweets, posted a barbed question. “Why do so many dictators have names that begin with M?” he tweeted. A list fol- lowed as evidence “Marcos, Mussolini, Milosevic, Mubarak, Mobutu, Musharraf, Micombero”. There was no fur- ther explanation or context to the tweet, which was liked near- ly 58,000 times and shared 12,400 times. The BJP refused to re- act. “Is it necessary to take Rahul that seri- ously? His approach, whatever it has been in Indian politics, eve- rybody has seen. Need not react,” party chief JP Nadda said. Gandhi has been consistently targeting the government over the farmers’ issue. Slamming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his tweet asking why names of many dictators begin with the letter “M”, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday said even Congress doesn’t take its former president’s statement seriously. —Agencies Rahul Gandhi Guwahati: Prime Min- ister Narendra Modi will visit Assam on February 7 lay the foundation stone of two medical colleges and launch the scheme for the upgradation of the state highways, state Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Wednesday. Union Finance Minis- terNirmalaSitharaman too is scheduled to visit GuwahationFebruary6 and be present at a pro- gramme where money will be given to the bank accounts of eight lakh tea garden workers in thestate,Sarmatoldme- dia. The PM will visit Dhekiajuli from where he will lay the founda- tion of two medical col- leges in Charaideo and Bishwanath districts. He will also launch the ‘’Assam Mala’’ scheme under which the state public works depart- ment will upgrade the state highways. Work will be taken up in 2500 km to be taken up at the initial stage, he said adding the esti- mated Rs 5,000 crore project is expected to be completed within 15 years. In the February 6 function where Sithara- man will be the chief guest, the state govern- ment will transfer Rs 3,000 each to the bank accounts of eight lakh tea garden workers which will involve an expenditure of Rs 2.4 crore, Sarma said. PM to visit poll-bound Assam on February 7 PM Narendra Modi
  • 7. INDIA JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 06 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia After local... Maken has instructed the ministers in-charge that they should start touring these areas im- mediately and treat the bypolls as if they them- selves were contesting and therefore they should start their prep- arations. It is also learnt that team Gehlot-Maken has categorically told the party leaders that be- fore the election code of conduct, in every case, pending works should be completed according to the demand of the people so that people do not have any complaint with the state govern- ment during the elec- tion campaign. On Wednesday, Ge- hlot, Maken and PCC Chief Dotasra held a lengthy discussion with the observer and in- charge ministers of the by-election areas at the Chief Minister’s resi- dence. They directed that the supervisor and the minister in charge should visit from Thursday-Friday and both should take feed- back from the grass- roots. During this time the minister and supervi- sors also spoke about some pending problems of the regions. Mean- while, after the meet- ing, in-charge Ajay Maken told the media that the Congress has done well in the local body election in the ar- eas where the by-poll will be held. “Prepara- tions have also been started for ticket distri- bution. Although the names will be finalized by the party’s Central Election Committee,” Maken said. Tikait’s hunkaar... Tikait and several oth- ers were on the stage when it suddenly col- lapsed under their weight, briefly inter- rupting the meeting. No propaganda... Her tweet was quickly followed by a flood of such messages, includ- ing one from teen cli- mate activist Greta Thunberg and Leba- nese-American former adult film star Mia Khalifa. Both Rihanna and Ms Khalifa were la- belled “anti-national” today by the BJP’s Sam- bit Patra. SC rejects... Special Investigation Team (SIT) or a judicial commission into the January 26 violence in Delhi. They also urged the top court to call for records of the Union and Delhi governments on “action or steps tak- en by them over the vio- lence” and ask the in- quiry commission to submit its report in a time-bound manner and take action on it. Delhi Police... Police also said they are looking for protesters named Jajbir Singh, Buta Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Iqbal Singh and announced a re- ward of Rs 50,000 for information on them. Till date, police regis- tered 44 FIRs in connec- tion with the violence during tractor march and arrested a total of 122 persons so far. Historic: Sensex... and broader indices madefreshrecordhighs today ,”saidBinodModi, Head Strategy at Reli- ance Securities. SC refuses... Senior advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for the petitioner, said they have challenged the laws enacted by three states including Uttar Pradesh and Uttara- khand as innocent per- sons are being booked under these Acts. He said the top court had earlier issued no- tice on similar petitions and this plea should be tagged with them. Ekana may... was more centered to- wards hosting of Indian Premier League (IPL) and World T20 matches in Lucknow in their up- coming editions. Shah who had reached Lucknow on Tuesday evening, visit- ed the stadium on Wednesday morning where he strolled across the stadium along with Rajiv Shukla and Yudh- vir Singh, Honorary Secretary, UPCA. They were accompanied by Uday Sinha, Managing Director, ECS and Navneet Sehgal, ACS Information. “IPL to hona hi chahiye ya- han.... (IPL must hap- pen here) Kisne design kiya hai isko? (who de- signed this stadium?),” Shah asked Sinha. Shah was particularly happy with the colour combi- nations used for the seating areas and he also appreciated the state-of-the-art dressing rooms of the venue that has already hosted a ODI couple of years back. The BCCI Secre- tary also inquired about the size of the stadium, red and black soil pitch- es, water drainage fa- cilities etc. FROM PG 1 FOUR SECRETARIES OF 1984 BATCH RETIRING IN 2021 Four Secretaries of 1984 batch out of total nine are retiring in 2021. Accordingly, A B P Pandey of Maharashtra cadre working as Finance Secretary will be retiring in February 2021, while Ms. Shakuntala Gamlin of UT cadre working as Secretary, Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities is due to retire in March and Ravi Kant of Bihar cadre working as Secretary, Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare superannuates in June. Durga S Mishra working as HUPA Secretary is scheduled to retire in November this year. NO REGULAR HEADS FOR AIR AND DD All India Radio and Doordarshan are not having regular DG,s. Supriya Sahu left the DD in June 2019, since then no regular incumbent could be appointed. DG, News, Mayank Agrawal, is holding the additional chage of DG, DD for the last one year. Shahryar retired as DG in December 2019. Since then the organisation is waiting for a regular DG. Presently, CEO, PB is holding the additional chage of DG. MAJ. GEN. ABHIJIT BAPAT MAY BE MOVED TO ARMY TRAINING COMMAND Major General Abhijit Bapat, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Karu-based 3rd Infantry Division, is likely to be moved and posted on Shimla-based Army Training Command (ARTRAC). EIGHT IPS OFFICERS GET NEW ASSIGNMENTS IN DELHI POLICE As many as eight IPS officers have been given fresh assignments in Delhi Government. Accordingly, Deepak Purohit has been promoted to Addl CP had posted at the Headquarter while Chinmoy Biswal was posted as DCP, Crime and Gaurav Sharma is DCP, Security. Rajiv Ranjan Singh has been appointed as DCP, Outer North district DCP; Esha Pandey as DCP, PCR; Urjiva Goel as DCP, West district; Ghanshyam Bansal as DCP, Traffic and Manoj C was made Addl DCP, Outer North Delhi district. 33 IRSEE OFFICERS PLACED IN SAG As many as 33 Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) officers have been appointed to officiate under selection grade (SG). They are: Neeraj Gupta, Sugind Surendran, BK Kisku, Dilip Kumar Kujur, SKN Singh, Pankaj Kumar Kesharwani, Raju Lal Meena, Rajiv Kumar, Rajendra Kumar Sharma, Alok Ranjan Mohanty, Om Shankar Prasad, Biplab Das, Pratibha Gupta, Vijay Chaudhary, Sandeep Kumar Chatterjee, Boppudi Srinivasu, Jitendra Yadav, Lalit Kumar Tomar, Ajit Kumar, Jeetesh Kumar Singh, Khursheed Ahmed, Sudhir Kumar Srivastava, Vishal Monldoi, M Senthamil Selvan, Karpoor Chandra Yadav, Santosh Kumar Singh, Bhimraj Dhanna, Prem Singh Meena, Shobharam Verma, Vinod Kumar, Narendra K Agrawal, Prasanna K Bhanja and Neeraj Kumar Verma. 24 OFFICERS FROM ODISHA AWARDED IFS CADRE As many as 24 officers of State Forest Service of Odisha have been awarded Indian Forest Service (IFS) cadre. The officers: Lakshmikanta Mishra, Arjun Behera, Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra, Bimal Prasanna Acharya, Jayanta Kumar Das, Biswa Ranjan Rout, Sudarshan Patra, Mihira Kumar Biswal, Dilip Kumar Swain, Aswini Kumar Kar, Satyanarayan Behura, Arun Kumar Mishra, Bikash Ranjan Dash, Sudeep Nayak, Kedar Kumar Swain, Prasanna Kumar Sahoo, Lalitendu Jena and Pradipta Kumar Sahoo; Harsha Bardhan Udgata, Kapil Prasad Das, Hanif Mohammed, Santosh Banchhur and Prasanna Kumar Behera, Lakshmi Narayan Behera. POWERGallery By arrangement with: http:// whispersinthecorridors.com Opposition MPs give adjourment notices in LS demanding repeal of farm laws EXPLAINED: A look at how, when, and what happened in Parliament when it convened New Delhi: Eleven Members of Parliament from Shiromani Akali Dal, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Tri- namool Congress, Indi- an Union Muslim League (IUML), Bahu- jan Samajwadi Party (BSP), Shiv Sena, Revo- lutionary Socialist Par- ty, and Congress have given notices of ad- journment motion in Lok Sabha demanding farm laws to be re- pealed. These MPs include Sukhbir Singh Badal and Harsimrat Kaur Badal from SAD, Gaurav Gogoi, Manish Tiwari, Preneet Kaur, K Suresh, and Jasbir Sin- gh from Congress. Ritesh Pandey from BSP, ET Mohd Basheer from IUML, NK Prem- chandran from RSP , and Adv AM Arif from CPI (M) are among those who gave notices today . Congress MP TN Prathapan has also giv- en an adjournment mo- tion notice in the Lower House over the govern- ment’s approach in dealing with agitating farmers. TMC MP Saugata Roy gave the notice on “repres=sion of agitat- ing farmers by police with the use of wires, spikes, trenches” and to take up discussion on farmers”. On Tuesday, LS wit- nessed three adjourn- ments following Oppo- sition protests against the arm laws. Farmers have been protesting since November 26. Alipurduar (WB): Hit- ting back at the BJP amid a continuing exo- dus of ministers and legislators from the Tri- namool Congress (TMC) in the poll-bound West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the saffron party could “buy a few corrupt lead- ers” but not her party’s “dedicated workers”. “There is no place for corrupt people in TMC, those who wish to leave ruling party should do so immediately ,” Baner- jee said. The TMC supremo’s latest remark comes after two-time Diamond Harbour MLA Dipak Haldar resigned from the party on Monday and joined the BJP . Oth- er TMC leaders who have joined the BJP recently are Suvendu Adhikari, Rajib Baner- jee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborti,andRudra- nil Ghosh. BJP can buy a few leaders but not my workers: Mamata New Delhi: After his suspension from Rajya Sabha for raising slo- gans against the new farm laws in the House, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh compared the Central government with ‘Hit- ler’ and accused the government of taking harsh action against the protesting farmers. “The government is taking such harsh ac- tion against the protest- ing farmers that even Hitler has failed in front of the Centre govern- ment.” Taking a dig at the Centre for treating farmers indifferently, he said, “A total of 44 farmers of Punjab are missing, we have no idea they are dead or alive, are farmers are from an enemy coun- try?,” Singh asked. Bengaluru: Asserting that India has to focus on new goals for new India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said the DRDO is continuously developing technology that will help the country in achieving these goals. “Today, when the world is changing so fast and a new world order is emerging in front of us. We have to focus on new goals for our new India, I am happy to see that the DRDO is continu- ously developing tech- nology that will help us in achieving these goals,” Singh said in Bengaluru at Aero In- dia 2021. “In many of our tests, we have got success in our maiden attempt itself, this is our great achieve- ment,” he added. New Delhi: India has become the fastest country in the world to reach the 4 million COVID-19 vaccination mark, achieving this feat in 18 days, the Union Health Ministry said. More than 41 lakh beneficiaries have been administered shots under the countrywide exercise. “As on February, 1, India was among the top five countries in terms of number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to people. India continues to un- dertake its vaccination drive at a fast pace,” the ministry highlighted. India’s fight against COVID-19 is bringing daily successes on other fronts as well, it said. With a high number of COVID-19 patients re- covering every day and the sustained fall in the mortality rate,” minis- try adds. Indiafastestcountryinworldtoreach 4millionCOVID-19vaxmark:Centre After suspension, Sanjay Singh compares Centre with Hitler DRDO continuously developing technology: Rajnath GUJARAT WILL NEVER RULE BENGAL, DECLARES MAMATA BANERJEE Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee, who has triggerd a huge “outsider versus insider” debate in the state ahead of the assembly election, offered a clarifica- tion, saying there is no discrimination in the state between Bengalis and non-Bengalis while reiter- ating her stand on the controversial law on the National Register of Citizens. But when it comes to ruling Bengal, the matter is different, she indicated. BJP LEADER MUKUL ROY’S BROTHER -IN-LAW SRIJAN ROY JOINS TMC Kolkata: A BJP leader, who the Trinamool Congress said is a brother-in-law of the saf- fron party’s national vice-president Mukul Roy, rejoined the ruling party of West Bengal. Srijan Roy returned to the TMC months before the assembly elections in the state amid the exo- dus from the party to the BJP. Handing over the party flag to Srijan Roy and two others. The ban applies to non-citizens including health practitioners, diplo- mats, from 20 specific countries. According to Saudi Press Agency, the countries facing suspension of arrival for non-Saudis include India, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UAE, the UK. SAUDI ARABIA BANS ENTRY FOR NON-CITIZENS T T T COMMITTEE FORMED TO SUGGEST REFORMS IN CRIMINAL LAWS BRING BILL FOR RESTORING JK STATEHOOD: GHULAM NABI AZAD TO GOVT Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad asked the govern- ment to bring a bill in Rajya Sabha proposing restoration of statehood for J K. “I appeal to you, if Jammu and Kashmir has to progress, we need to take our own people into confidence and give them love,”he said. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Member of Parliament Dr Sasmit Patra raised a demand in Rajya Sabha for the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill. During the Zero Hour, Dr Patra reiterated the long pending demand for the passage of the Bill in the Parliament. On the direction of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, LS Secretariat has rolled out “Parliamentary Research and Informa- tion Support to Mem- bers” (PRISM) to provide 24×7 round-the-clock research and information support to Members of Parliament (MPs). DEMAND IN RS FOR WOMEN’S RESERVATION BILL PARLIAMENTARY RESEARCH AND SUPPORT FOR MPS Vaccination drive is going at a fast pace in India. Rajnath Singh Mamata Banerjee Sanjay Singh
  • 8. NEWS JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 07 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia PAPLA’S INFAMY GETS THE BETTER OF A MINISTER? How Papla Gurjar came to instill fear in not just the Behror police but even in the heart of a cabinet minister lay bare when the said minister was confronted with the news that the gansgter was nabbed by Rajasthan police. Recently, when the minister was seated with a few ‘close ones’, the issue of Papla Gurjar sprung up and while all those present had their own versions and stories about the gangster, the cabinet minister suddenly said, “Those from whose grasp he slipped, are serving in Dausa.” Hearing this everyone became silent and the minister continued. “That time the cops got carried away with the monetary bust of over 31 lakh rupees. After the incident, the former SP wanted that station incharge to be posted in my area, however I declined. After that the cop was posted in Dausa,” the minister said, although a bit perplexed with the thought. RAJ’S DHAROHAR REGAINS TOURISTS’ LOVE! Nirmal Tiwari Jaipur: In a good sign for the tourism industry , the footfall of tourists in the de- sert state has in- creased which is expected to go high- er in next few days. In the first month of the year 2021, the number of tourist arrivals was more than4.44lakhwhich is a clear indication of improvement in the sector which suffered huge losses due to covid pan- demic. Due to the Corona crisis, all the tourist places, including monu- ments, museums, national parks, bio- logical parks, safa- ris, were closed on March 18 last year. The tourist spots were reopened on June 1. From June 8, all hotels, restau- rants and other places related to tourism were also opened for tourists. In the desert state, tourism season started from Sep- tember 1 and the number of tourists kept on increasing. 7.63 lakh tourists visited the state from June 1 to De- cember 31 last year. Of them, 5.98 lakh visited the monu- ments in the state capital. The total of 4,44,339 tourists vis- ited the state’s mon- uments in January . Over 4.44 lakh tourists visited Raj in Jan after tourism season resumed in Sept 1 last Kashiram Choudhary  Jaipur: Jaipur : The state government has geared up its prepara- tions to introduce a new excise policy soon. For new new excise policy, the data of shops of all the dis- tricts has been cllected by the excise commis- sioner office. Preparations are afoot to bring an excise policy on contracts for foreign liquor, country liquor and cannabis and the excise commis- sioner has sent his re- port in this regard to the State Government. According to sources, it is believed that a new excise policy will be an- nounced in the next 4 to 5 days. However, with regard to the policy, the State Government can also decide that the li- cense of the shops be renewed for the next fi- nancial year only. And if a new excise policy is introduced, then there is a high possibility of e-auction of liquor shops. The excise com- missioner and the fi- nance secretary (reve- nue) are deliberating on this issue to come up for the best policy in the in- terest of state and con- tractors. Nirmal Tiwari  Jaipur: With an aim to promote legal mining and curb on illegal min- ing activities, the Ra- jasthan government would soon issue a new mining policy with stringent provisions to use drones and in- creased penalty . A committee which was formed to draft the new policy has complet- ed its work and the draft has been sent to the Mines Minister Pramod Jain Bhaya for approv- al. After clearance from the cabinet, the new policy will be released. The new policy is aimed at generating more revenue, facilitat- ing legal mining and curbing illegal mining in the state. Sources said that the limitation of 4 hectare for mining lease will be abolished and the land owner can get license on entire land if the mineral is discovered. Satellite imaging proce- dure will be adopted for demarcation of old lease and new lease while a penalty up to Rs 2.25 lakh can be im- posed on illegal mining. Govt to announce new excise policy soon; data collected State Govt to bring new mining policy with stringent provisions Sachin Pilot to attend farmers’ panchayat in Dausa on February 5 Follow discipline, DGP Lather tells policemen Laxmikant Sharma Dausa : Various farm- ers’ associations will organise a massive farmers’ panchayat on February 5 in Dausa. The panchayat will be held at Rajesh Pilot Sta- dium. Former Deputy CM Sachin Pilot will also attend the event. In order to support this mahapanchayat and make a big suc- cess, the district Con- gress leaders are standing together with the farmers. Meanwhile, the Women and Child De- velopment Minister Mamta Bhupesh held a meeting with the work- ers of Sikkarai region and urged them to sup- port the farmers’ cause. Dausa MLA Murari Lal Meena is leaving no stone unturned to make this mahapan- chayat successful. First India Bureau Bharatpur: DGP M L Lather on Wednesday motivated the police- men to perform duty in discipline with re- sponsibility. During his visit to Bharatpur, Lather held a meeting with the po- licemen at police ground on Tuesday and appreciated them for their work during the pandemic. He said that the pub- lic has great expecta- tions from the police department, so the po- lice need to act more responsible manner than others. Sachin Pilot DGP M L Lather addressing policemen in Bharatpur. Govt has collected data for New Excise Policy. New Delhi: In a rare move, the Army has ordered a Court of Inquiry (CoI) to look into a lingering rift between two generals of the Jaipur-head- quartered South Western Command over a range of is- sues relating to the overall functioning of the crucial forma- tion, authoritative sources said. Chief of the com- mand Lt Gen Alok Kler and his deputy Lt Gen KK Repswal are at loggerheads for the past several months over the role, charter and duties of various appointments as well as on running of the command that takes care of security along the borders in Ra- jasthan and Punjab. It is learnt that Lt Gen Kler had made a representation to the Chief of Army Staff on the conduct of Lt Gen Repswal. A simi- lar complaint was made by Lt Gen Rep- swal against his sen- ior. The Army head- quarters tasked Lt Gen IS Ghuman, the Central Army Com- mander with conduct- ing the probe, the sources said. They said Lt Gen Ghuman was examin- ing the allegations and counter allega- tions by both the gen- erals and will submit a detailed report based on the investi- gation. Any further step will be based on the report, said a source. —PTI Army orders probe into lingering rift between 2 Gens in SW Command Lt Gen Alok Kler Lt Gen KK Repswal INDO-US ‘YUDH ABHYAS’ IN RAJ FROM FEB 8-21 Jaipur: The 16th edition of Indo-US joint military exer- cise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ will be held in Ra- jasthan between February 8 and 21, a defence spokes- person said on Wednesday . The exercise near the India-Pa- kistan border aims at enhancing coop- eration and inter- operability be- tween the two ar- mies and will focus on counter-terror- ism operations un- der the United Na- tions mandate, the spokesperson said. The drill comes days after the air forces of India and France held a five- day joint exercise in Rajasthan in January . Dr Rituraj Sharma Jaipur: Chief Secre- tary Niranjan Arya chaired a meeting in state secretariat on Wednesday regarding reinstatement of 14 public servants, includ- ing 2 RAS officials. Dur- ing the meeting, the current status and mer- it of the cases from de- partments of Agricul- ture, UDH, IT, Finance and DoP were dis- cussed. Based on the status, a recommendation for re- instatement of ten offic- ers back into service has been made. Now the recommen- dations will be sent to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and only after CM’s approval, the rein- statement orders will be issued. The meeting was at- tended by Principal Secretary, DOP, He- mant Gera and other DoP officials. CS Arya makes recommendations for reinstatement of 10 suspended officers CS INAUGURATES SBI COUNTER Night view of the illuminated Amer Fort in Jaipur on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
  • 9. If only humans would realise the value of a person or a moment before it becomes a memory, then life would be even more beautiful. —Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor, First India JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia 08 2NDFRONT POSTAL REG NO. JPC/010/2019-21 Yogesh Sharma Jaipur: Ending all de- bate about cabinet ex- pansion, AICC General Secretary Incharge of Rajasthan Ajay Maken on Wednesday dispelled any rumors about cabi- net expansion and cleared the air saying no reshuffle or expan- sion will happen till the upcoming budget ses- sion of the state assem- bly goes on. However, he also stressed that the district level political appointments will be done by April for which party members and led- ers have been asked to fill up the requisite per- forma by 10 February. First India had hinted on the day of Maken’s arrival that cabinet ex- pansion will not hap- pen, but district level political appointments will be given a go ahead. On his one day visit to Jaipur, Maken and PCC Chief Govind Singh Do- tasra met the PCC office bearers at a meeting wherein the state in- charge congratulated the PCC officials for the results of the civic elec- tions. However, this time around Maken did not give any dead line for completing the po- litical tasks. Maken’s visit to Jaipur was very impor- tant today as he and PCC Chief Dotasra took meeting of state Con- gress office-bearers and presidents of frontal or- ganizations at the state Congress headquarters. In the meeting, Maken told all the officials that in the month of Febru- ary, political appoint- ments are to be imple- mented at the district level. Maken told the media that the official performance performa and by February 9-10, the PCC members will have to fill the perfor- mance and give the names of workers who are meritorious so that their names can be dis- cussed with local lead- ers. The state-incharge said the Congress office- bearers have been asked to visit districts as- signed to them and they will meet local leaders to discuss names for district-level appoint- ments to various com- mittees of government departments. On an av- erage, 150 workers get appointed to such pan- els in an assembly con- stituency . There are 200 assembly constituen- cies in 33 districts of the state. “The office-bear- ers will be submitting the names by February 8 or 9. Our efforts are that appointments at the district-level, which are around 25,000-30,000, are made in the first fortnight of February,” he told reporters here on Wednesday . During the meeting, some secretaries, in- cluding Shobha Solanki and Mahendra Singh Khedi, raised key is- sues. Maken also held discussions over results of polls to urban local bodies and upcoming bypolls to four assem- bly seats with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and senior party lead- ers. He stressed that the Congress got more seats in the local bodies polls than the BJP, which showed that people have reposed faith in the party . Notably, during the day, maken even took out time to meet former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot. The meet- ing between the duo oc- curred at Pilot’s official residence where, ac- cording to sources, the duo held talks on politi- cal situation of the state as well as elated to the organization. Maken, who stayed at Pilot’s residence for nearly an hour, left with Pilot tweeting that he ‘had a fruitful discussion’ with the AICC General Secretary Incharge. Meanwhile, in the evening Maken left for New Delhi by 8 PM In- digo flight. PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra and several other lead- ers saw Maken off at the airport. Shivendra Parmar Jaipur: The real estate market is in a slump and what little sales were be- ing made, was halted with the advent of month long Malmass. However, denying the trade-pandits a chance to make merry on their predictions, RHB, with- inafortnightof theMal- maasending,hasearned a revenue of `135 crores byselling500properties. Of these, under the Wednesday Auction Fes- tival, 430 properties haveyielded `42.32crore in revenue while addi- tionally, 70 premium propertiesfetched `92.73 crore to the Board. Notably, in such a short time, no private and government insti- tution in the state has sold or acquired so much revenue through e-auction. “After the end of Mal- mas, there is a lot of en- thusiasm among people for purchasing RHB’s properties. With the WednesdayAuctionFest, there is competition among buyers to buy the Board’s premium prop- erties. The e-auction of residential and commer- cial premium properties wascarriedoutinRHB’s prestigious schemes of Jaipur, Kota, Bikaner, Dausa and Sawai Mad- hopur, in which around 500 people participated. It is noteworthy that in Pratap Nagar scheme of Jaipur, a plot of 2,400 square meters on Mahal Road was sold for Rs15 crore,” said Pawan Aro- ra, Commissioner, RHB. TheCommissionerin- formed that 6 shops of AYUSH market being de- veloped by the Board in Pratap Nagar at Jaipur were sold for `2.94 crore. “Similarly, 8 show- room plots in RHB Aat- ish Market being devel- oped under Mansarovar Yojana were sold for `10.08 crore. Interest- ingly, plot number 66 in Atish Market was sold at 4 times its fixed mini- mum bid price. The fixed bid price of this plot was `80,000 per square meter, which was sold for `3.40 lakh per square meter. Simi- larly, 1 plot in Ayush Market was sold for three and a half times its fixed selling price,” Arora said. Notably , 60 properties were sold in Jaipur Cir- cle I, II and III, which gave the board a reve- nue of `8.02 crore while Jodhpur Circle I and II sold 81 properties, giv- ing the Board a revenue of `7.40 crore. Similarly , Kota circle sold 52 prop- erties for `4.06 crore, while Bikaner circle sold 120 properties for `10.76 cr, Udaipur circle sold 66 properties for `6.68 crore and 51 prop- erties in the Alwar cir- cle sold for `5.40 crore. Maken denies cabinet expansion, gives green signal to district level appointments RHB recreats record selling properties worth `135 cr in a fortnight! RHB’S ‘PENTA-CENTURIES’! lBoard achieves unique record to sell record property in shortest time, a feat unequalled by any govt or private institute lPlot at Atish Market sold at 4 times its fixed min bid price @ `3.40 lakh per sqm First India Bureau Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has given instructions for effec- tive implementation of schemes related to edu- cation, health, drinking water and employment in the state. He said that these schemes are im- portant from the point of view of inclusive de- velopment. “Every needy person sitting in the village-dhani should get the benefits on time, therefore schemes should be handled in Mission Mode,” Gehlot said while addressing the first meeting of the State De- velopment Co- ordination and Monitor- ing Commit- tee (Disha) on We d n e s d a y e v e n i n g through video conference at the CMR. In this meeting, which lasted for about 3 hours, CM reviewed the progress of schemes re- lated to MNREGA, Prime Minister Crop Insurance, Jal Jeevan Mission, Samagra Shik- sha Abhiyan and Na- tional Health Mission. Gehlot said that the MNREGA scheme has proved to be a boon for connecting the common man with employment. “In the challenging phase of Covid, its im- portance has increased. Rajasthan has always been a pioneer in the implementation of this scheme,” Gehlot said and gave instructions to ensure that Saharias and Kherwas of Baran, who completed 100 days of employment and MNREGA workers of Kathodi tribe of Udaipur, should be pro- vided additional 50 days of employment. He ex- pressed happiness that number of employed families has increased from 50.65 lakh to 69.96 lakh. Also, payment to 99.69% workers has been ensured in 15 days. Reviewing the pro- gress of PM Crop Insur- ance Scheme, Gehlot said our government has ensured payment of crop insurance to farm- ers by giving a part of the state premium. He said providing clean drinking water in every village-dhani of the state is our top priority . “For this, Jal Jeevan Mission Scheme should be given a boost,” Ge- hlot said. It was decided in the meeting that keeping in view the inaccessible and desert conditions of Rajasthan like the Un- ion Territories and North-Eastern and Hill States, Centre should again be requested to run this scheme in part- nership of 90:10. It was informed in the meeting that due to the best im- plementation of NHM in the state, there has been a significant de- cline in maternal and infant mortality . WORK ON VITAL SCHEMES ON MISSION MODE: CM AtfirstmeetingofDisha,Gehlotinstructsforeffectiveimplementationofschemesonedu,health,drinkingwateremployment First India Bureau Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is con- stantly taking sugges- tions from representa- tives of all sections of the society to meet the issues related to public interest in the state budget to be presented during the upcoming session of the assembly . In this series, on Feb 5 and 6, Gehlot will inter- actwiththeconsultative committee, women en- trepreneurs, NGOs civil society and sport- spersons and invite their suggestions to be includedinstatebudget. Gehlot has invited more than 100 people for their suggestions on budget. For the discus- sion that will be held through V-C. On Feb 5, state level tax advisory committee and tax ex- perts will give their sug- gestions. This will be followed by a similar meeting wherein youth, women professionals and talented students will put forward their suggestions at 4 pm. On Feb 6, at 12 noon, CM will discuss budget with representatives of NGO, Civil Society and Consumer Forum and take their suggestions. At 4 pm CM will seek suggestions of farmers, livestock owners, repre- sentatives of the dairy association and repre- sentatives of the tribal areas and include them in the budget. Peoples’ budget: CM to huddle with commoners Ajay Maken, Dharmendra Rathore and Govind S Dotasra at Rathore’s residence on Tuesday. —PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal, Bhaskar A Sawant and Pawan Arora. Ajay Maken having breakfast with Govind S Dotasra, Dr Raghu Sharma, Pramod Jain Bhaya, Udai Lal Anjna, Rafiq Khan, Vaibhav Gehlot and other Congress leaders at the residence of Dharmendra Rathore on Wednesday. MAKEN’S BUSY DAY Congress state incharge Ajay Maken met Assembly Speaker CP Joshi at his residence in Jaipur on Wednesday where PCC chief Govind S Dotasra and MLA Sanyam Lodha were also present. Ajay Maken met Sachin Pilot at his residence in Jaipur on Wednesday. Pilot tweeted a photo captioned, “Was happy to receive AICC General Secretary in-charge of Rajasthan @ajaymaken at home in Jaipur. Had a fruitful discussion. Ajay Maken and Govind S Dotasra greet each other during the meeting of newly appointed officials of the party organisation at PCC Headquarters on Wednesday. —Photo By Suman Sarkar ANGDAAN,MAHADAAN: GEHLOT Naresh Sharma Jaipur: CM Ashok Gehlot has congratulated Prin- cipal SMS Medical College, Dr Sudhir Bhandari and entire team of organ transplant physicians for successful organ transplantation for the second time in a week at SMS Hospital. Gehlot said every year thousands of patients die all over the country from stopping of functioning of vital organs. “In such a situation, many patients suffering from serious diseases can be given life by transplanting the organ at the right time. Saving life of others by donating organs makes organ donor and his fam- ily proud even after death. This positive message needs to be conveyed to all in society so that fami- ly of the patient who have been declared braindead can be motivated to donate patient’s organs,” CM stressed. It is noteworthy that after 14-year-old Vishal, who was admitted to SMS, was declared brain dead, his family members decided to donate as per the advice of doctors.
  • 10. iya Tose Naina laage re was the dance sequence that made me fall in love with Waheeda. I watched the 8-minute song over- awed as she brought alive the ‘idea of India’ through the festivals, all woven together in the amazing grace of her dance and expressions. Kaan- to se kheench kar yeh aanchal, another Waheeda special from the same movie Guide was my ‘rebel’ song for a long time, Wa- heeda in her path-breaking role as Rosie was heartbreakingly beautiful and far ahead of her times. Raat bhi hai kuch bhhegi bheegi, the sensuous grace of Wa- heeda, her come-thither expressions and the sheer innocence she managed in those enigmatic smiles in full sleeved dress, makes this song one of my top favourites not to mention that I loved the mous- tache swirling macho Sunil Dutt making a statement with both- the money and the weapon! Jaane kya tune kahi is one of my favourites because it cele- brates the innocence of the streetwalker that Waheeda as- says, as she beckons the smitten curious Guru Dutt with her large expressive eyes. Rangeela re is a poem in love and despair- I believe it to be one of the finest dance sequences of Waheeda as she portrays a heart- broken wom- an with pain flow- ing from every step and sigh – Dukh mera dulha Virha hai doli – I still get goosebumps when I see her sitting on the floor- beautifully demure absolutely beautiful in white! She reminded of an Ajanta sculpture in this number! Zara nazron se keh do ji and Bhanwra bada nadaan re is car- ried purely on her impish expres- sions- a joy to watch! Waqt ne kya haseen sitam – The light and shadows and Waheeda Rehman – still as she emotes each syllable with her bottomless yes – is a song which will always stay with me- it is a dance of emo- tions and life! Waheeda ji … jiyo hazaa- ro saal! JAIPUR, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2021 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia 09 aah aheeda Waah! W Waheeda Rehman has wooed generations with her beauty, grace, gorgeous dances and path-breaking roles, this Throwback Thursday as she celebrated her 83rd birthday on February 3, City First remembers some of her most amazing dance sequences! ANITA HADA anita.hada@firstindianews.com P
  • 11. 10 ETC JAIPUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia F A C E O F T H E D A Y MEGHNA KAUR, Content Creator LEO JULY 24 - AUGUST 23 Your desire for an exciting time on the social front is likely to be fulfilled today. Those looking for buying a house can get a good bargain. Appreciation is in store for some homemakers. A professional victory is yours if you play your cards well today. LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22 You may wait for someone’s invitation for a trip. Your professionalism in handling problem areas will be appreciated. Tenant troubles are foreseen for some house owners. You will find family life more than fulfilling. A senior is likely to put in a good word for you. ARIES MAR 21 - APR 20 A new deal is likely to come through and give you a taste of success. Those fond of travelling may get their chance soon. This is the time when you enjoy yourself with a new group of friends or colleagues. A change of job is likely to give you better salary and perks. SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22 You are likely to take up someone’s cause and earn appreciation from all quarters on the social front. Remaining on the good side of those who matter on the academic front will help you achieve much. Good tidings of your well wishers will keep you going on the professional front. GEMINI MAY 21 - JUNE 21 Excellent opportunities may knock at your door. Professionals will be able to give their best in a new situation. Financially, this day may prove lucky for you, so go ask for the raise that is keeping you on tenterhooks. Don’t take any chances with your health today. AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19 You will have to be more focussed on the academic front. You may get busy organising something on the social front. You may need to put your ideas into action, if you want to prove yourself. A party may be thrown in your honour at work. Your good performance is likely to be noticed. TAURUS APR 21 - MAY 20 A family youngster is likely to do you proud. A business trip is indicated and will achieve much. Your strategy to promote yourself on the professional front will bear fruits. You may need to speed up things on the academic front to remain ahead. The day finds you in your element. CAPRICORN DEC 23 - JAN 20 Success is foretold on the academic front. Your reputation is likely to boost your image on the social front. On the work front, you will manage to keep your superiors in good humour. This is an excellent day to spend time with family.Good planning will see you complete tasks. VIRGO AUG 24 - SEP 23 Getting into a favourable situation on the academic front is possible. Good luck promises to brighten your day. Some positive changes can be expected on the home front. This seems a good day for job seekers. New avenues for earning open up as you get more determined. CANCER JUNE 22 - JULY 23 Your performance at work will be commendable. Your own happiness is in your hands today. Spouse may need her space, respect that. This is a favourable day for completing pending jobs. Financially, no problems are foreseen. It is best to avoid outside food. PISCES FEB20 - MARCH 20 You will manage to achieve what you had aimed for on the academic front. A celebration can find you in your element today. Praise and honour are likely to greet you in something that you have managed to achieve. You will be a pillar of strength to a friend or associate. SCORPIO OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22 Good performance on the academic front will help enhance your reputation at work. Some favourable developments on the social front are foreseen. Buying new furniture or a major appliance is possible. With good networking, a prized posting can be yours. f my earliest mem- ories of childhood is waking up to the sharp, high- pitched sound of the pressure cook- er whistle. It seemed to me to be the harshest sensations as a child. But today, it reminds me of my Mother and her warmth, and the delicious food lovingly prepared and served by her. Her efforts nourished my spirit as much as it filled my stomach. During my school days, My Mom who was also working in a gov- ernment hospital used to prepare food for us in the evenings. I was not a foodie then! I developed this inter- est as years passed by . My love for cooking comes from both my Mom and Dad. When my two sis- ters and I were growing up in the 70s, we loved every- thing Mom cooked, but there was a dish she made that stood out over every- thing else. It was Yakhni Pulao. My elder Sister Na- lini is close to Mom’s magic of Yakhni Pulao and my younger Sister Shalini makes the best Shami ke- babs anyone could ever make. So delicious. Today I am sharing one of My Mom’s favourite rec- ipe without which our Christmas in incomplete even today . Mutton Yakhni Pulao INGREDIENTS 1-kilo old basmati rice, washed and soaked in wa- ter for a minimum of 2 hours. 1.5-kilo fatty goat meat on the bone. 250 grams Clarified butter. 4 pods black Cardamoms. 6 pods green cardamoms. 10 cloves. 1 teaspoon black cumin. 50 grams Whole coriander seeds. 100 grams fennel seeds. 1 large stick cin- namon. 3 dried bay leaf. 1 tea- spoon black pepper. Salt to taste. 2 medi- um-size peeled on- ions plus 2 medi- um size thinly sliced onions. 50 grams Fresh ginger. 50 grams Fresh garlic. 2 litres of water. 25 grams each of gin- ger and garlic paste for Pulao. PREPARATION Prepare the stock : In a large cooking pan, add washed meat and water. Wrap up these spices in a muslin cloth and place it in the pan Black and green cardamoms, cloves, black cumin, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, peppercorns, corian- der seeds, fennel seeds, peeled onions cut into four, Chopped ginger and garlic. Add salt to taste. Place the pan on fire and cook the meat till it is ten- der, but not falling off the bone. To tenderise, the meat will ap- proximately take 45 minutes on woodfire. I do not use gas and pressure cooker. Keep checking the meat every 20 minutes. When the meat is tender, drain the stock and keep the meat aside. Please do not wash the meat again or else you will lose the fla- vour. You should have ap- proximately 6 cups of stock. Prepare the Pulao: In a heavy-bottomed pan. Add ghee and sliced onions. On the medium heat, fry the sliced onions till caramel- ized, this will take about 10 minutes. Add ginger-garlic paste and the reserved meat. Saute till the garlic raw smell goes. Turn the heat to low and add the stock. Once it starts boiling add soaked rice. Check the salt. Now cover the pot with a cloth or a kitchen towel and place the lid on top. Allow rice to cook for 20 minutes. As much as you may be tempted, Please do not open the during the steaming process or else you will lose the aroma and will end up with undercooked rice. Now turn the heat off and allow the rice to settle for 20 - 30 minutes. Decant with a wide-rimmed steel plate as we do at home. Serve with plain yoghurt or Raita. Learning to cook is no longer that instruc- tionclasswhere you make notes and see someone demonstrate. It is now a hands-on experience where you learn as much about food, as you do about management. Cooking classes are no longer limited to that are conducted by women in their homes to teach young brides how to put up a fan- cy dinner on the table. It is no longer a class even! It is about having an experience learning exotic dishes and bonding with family and friends over food. You could argue that you can be done by simply look- ing up recipes from the in- ternet or watching YouTube videos and learn along, but nothing to beat a real-life hands-on experience and learning live from each oth- er. “There is a Chef in each one of us.” People from all walks of life, who love food, indulge themselves in cooking these days. INDULGE IN A COOKING EXPERIENCE MANOJ EDWIN (Uncle Nibolson’s) cityfirst@firstindia.co.in O YOUR DAY Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva Mutton Yakhni Pulao