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Ranchi / METRO ■ Vol. VIII No. 266 ■ R 3.00 ■ 26 pages including six pages of HT City and four pages of HT Education WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
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Marines accuse Pakistani military of
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short
stories Lack of nutrition dooms health minister’s turf
are disproportional to their prised by the death of 39 children an RTI (Right To Information)
tracking underweight bodies. and 17 maternal deaths in the last petition that the disbursements
hunger The scene at the 81 Paharia
(a primitive tribe living in the
six months in the Sundarpahari-
Poryahat tribal belt.
of funds for THR to ICDS cen-
tres in Sundarpahari on a three-
hills) villages and 117 Santhal “Mothers here suffer from low month basis was not sanctioned
Hindustan Times campaign
tribal villages in Sundarpahari protein levels and their calorie for eight months — three months
Anbwesh Roy Choudhury block of Godda, around 380 km consumption per day is way last year and five months in 2011.
■ Anbwesh.choudhury@hindustantimes.com north of Ranchi, is not very dif- below the WHO guidelines: it’s According to Chatterjee, who
ferent from Sita’s hamlet. 1,900 to 1,950, against WHO’s pre- has studied malnutrition among
PETROL PRICES GODDA: Early this year, in a small Mothers and children here, scribed level of 3,200 calories per tribal communities in the block,
hamlet of Golkunda in the Raj apart from living in the shadow day. Given the prevailing scenario, it is not the shortfall in the nutri-
SLASHED BY Mahal mountain ranges of of rampant malnourishment, newborns are denied nutrition tion basket alone that is to be
R1.85 A LITRE Jharkhand’s Godda district, Sita are fighting utter government right from their first tryst with blamed.
NEW DELHI: In what comes as Paharia, 21, lost her second child negligence and apathy. breast milk,” Chatterjee said. “Poverty is one of the reasons
a major relief to vehicle due to natural abortion, a physi- Hot meals and takeaway home He added that the distribution for malnutrition. Cash crops are
owners across India, oil cal process where the mother’s rations (THR) at the Integrated of the government’s THR, a sup- not of much help and the trib-
marketing firms have decid- body miscarries a growing child Child Development Centers plementary food schemes for chil- als have to sell the high-protein
ed to cut petrol prices by due to lack of nutrition. under the ICDS programme are dren below three years and lac- beans for meager prices.”
R1.85 per litre, the first She doesn’t want to speak far from available. Poverty has tating mothers, was erratic. The annual district-wise sur-
reduction in 33 months. The about her misfortune but points forced the Paharias to sell their The THR is made up of rice, vey report shows that the vul-
reduction will come into at babies cuddled in their moth- entire crop, mainly ‘berbatee’ ■ Malnourished children with their undernourished mothers in the Sundarpahari area of Godda. HT PHOTO
palm oil, soyabean nuggets, nerable Paharia villages are one
effect from midnight on er’s arms who have already start- (high protein beans) to traders masur dal and sugar and is given of the worst hit by the paucity of
Tuesday night. Petrol in ed showing signs of chronic mal- linked to pulse markets in Significantly, the block is a part ignorant or disinterested about Dr Prabir Chatterjee, a health from ICDS centers. The scenario nutrition. In terms of prevailing
Ranchi will now cost R66.50 nutrition. Even children being Mumbai, Delhi and south India. of Jharkhand health minister the issue. “I can’t speak anything consultant for the Government is the same with hot meals that malnutrition, the villages are
per litre, R66.43 in breastfed have developed Topping it all is the crippled dis- Hemlal Murmu’s assembly con- on it,” he said before disconnect- of India and World Health are served at day schools. marked in Grade 4 and Grade 3.
Jamshedpur and R66.46 in swollen bellies, and their heads trict health delivery system. stituency, but he seemed either ing his phone. Organisation (WHO), is not sur- It was revealed in a reply to CONTINUED ON P5
Dhanbad. HTC
Lokpal panel J H A R K H A N D T U R N S 1 1
Entire Rajasthan cabinet
resigns, reshuffle soon
A vow to wipe
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan cabi-
net resigned on Tuesday to
wants more
pave the way for chief min-
ister Ashok Gehlot to carry
out corruption
out a reshuffle after the
Congress government was
teeth for CBI
hit by a series of controver-
sies, including the disap-
pearance of Bhanwari Devi.
Shanti Dhariwal, who quit
as home minister, said it Shiv Charan Singh deducted from his salary.
was a collective decision. PTI ■ shivcharan.singh@hindustantimes.com Munda also referred to the
Three schoolgirls commit PROPOSAL Committee wants agency’s RANCHI: As Jharkhand turned 11
Jharkhand Electronic Services
Delivery Act, 2011, aimed at
suicide over study stress
JAIPUR: Three girl students
anti-graft wing to have more autonomy on Tuesday, chief minister
Arjun Munda chose the occa-
reaching out to the people elec-
tronically. The CM also spoke
killed themselves by con- sion to dedicate the next 12 of transparency and his gov-
suming poison in a suicide
Nagendar Sharma
■ letters@hindustantimes.com
THE PARLIAMENTARY months towards empowering ernment’s emphasis on e-gov-
pact in Baran district of COMMITTEE IS YET TO the girl child and vowing to give ernance.
Rajasthan, the police said.
One of the three Class 11
NEW DELHI: In a move that would
meet a key demand of anti-graft
REACH A CONSENSUS the people who voted him to
power a corruption-free and
The chief minister did not
miss the opportunity to lay
KV students called up her campaigner Anna Hazare, the ON WHETHER THE PM responsive government. before the people his govern-
mother to tell her they
could not handle the stress
parliamentary panel examin-
ing the Lokpal Bill is set to rec-
SHOULD BE WITHIN The chief minister announced
a slew of schemes for the girl
ment’s successes on other
fronts: organising the 34th
of their studies. PTI ommend that the prosecution THE LOKPAL’S AMBIT child amid cheers from the National Games, holding the
wing of the CBI be brought crowds that had packed the panchayat election and launch
Ash in hospital, Baby B’s under the lokpal’s control. compact and effective selec- Birsa Munda Football Stadium of the Mukhyamantri Daal Bhat
delivery date unclear The panel is also preparing tion committee have been ach- located at the Morhabadi Yojana —- all within months of
MUMBAI: Aishwarya Rai to recommend that the CBI’s ieved,” Singhvi said. Ground in Ranchi. “Let’s us his government coming to the
Bachchan, who is expecting anti-corruption wing be given At Tuesday’s meeting, the com- make them strong enough to power in September 2010.
her first child, was admit- more autonomy and be placed mittee could not, however, arrive fight problems, challenges and Speeches were short and
ted to a hospital late on under the lokpal’s supervision. at a consensus on whether the hardships that life would throw crisp. In his address, JMM patri-
Monday night. The date of These recommendations by PM should be brought within the before them,” the CM said. arch Sibu Soren asked the chief
delivery was not made pub- the parliamentary standing com- lokpal’s ambit. The issue will be Next Munda turned to his minister to treat the people as
lic yet. PTI mittee on law and justice will taken up at the next meeting. government, saying that the his own. “Run the state like your
also neutralise criticism that the The panel is also likely to rec- Jharkhand Rights To Services home,” a Soren said, referring
61% of India’s rich see CBI is often influenced by the ommend that the CVC’s powers Act, 2011, would get the admin- to the sacrifices he and his col-
family feuds over fortune ruling party of the day. be limited to taking disciplinary istration to execute works with- leagues made in their bid to cre-
DUBAI: Forty per cent of the The committee backed these action against the lower eche- in a stipulated time fra- ate Jharkhand.
globe’s wealthy have proposals made by its chairman, lons of officialdom — Group C me. Outlining his government’s Governor Syed Ahmed in his
direct experiences of fami- Abhishek Singhvi, who outlined and D employees — and not the priority of providing corruption- address was all praise for the
ly fortunes leading to dis- a structure that harmonises the top two categories, which are free governance, Munda said state government’s Bitiya
putes, but the percentage roles of the Central Bureau of proposed to be brought under the Act would play a pivotal role Varsha theme. Boys, he said, are
is higher in India, where Investigation, Central Vigilance the lokpal’s area of enquiry. in ensuring execution of people- given preference over girls, but
61% of the rich have seen Commission and lokpal. “Signifi- The panel also favoured scrap- centric schemes within a given the importance of girls cannot
family relationships dete- cant progress has been made on ping of the directive requiring period of time. In case of delay be ignored. “Girls have scaled
riorate into feuds over vital issues. The best equilibri- investigative agencies to seek or non-execution of projects, he great heights and Jharkhand is
money, according to the um between the holy trinity of government permission before said, the concerned official testimony to this,” he said.
Barclays Wealth Insights the CVC, CBI and lokpal, and a prosecuting public servants. ■ Chief minister Arjun Munda at a function celebrating Jharkhand’s Statehood Day. DIWAKAR PRASAD / HT would be penalised and money >> STATEHOOD DAY P2&3
report. AFP
UP clears plan to split state CLOSE SHAVE
Rupee hits 32-month low,
worst performer in Asia
MUMBAI: The rupee, on Dhoni rocks Eden
Tuesday, ended at a 32-
month low of 50.67/68,
PROPOSAL Split UP into Awadh Pradesh, Bundelkhand, Poorvanchal & Paschim Pradesh FOR RANCHI
PASSENGERS
falling further by 37 paise
against the dollar. It is the HT Correspondent November 21. If approved, it will out that the Bahujan Samaj Party parties had done nothing in the
worst-performing Asian ■ letters@hindustantimes.com be sent to the Centre for con- (BSP), the party she heads, had past on the issue. The CM also
currency, down nearly 12%, sent and implementation. always been in favour of small- said the plan for its passage in HT Correspondent
so far, in the current calen- LUCKNOW: Moving fast on chief However, to create new states, er units, Mayawati said the deci- the assembly was aimed at pres- ■ Jam.live@hindustantimes.com
dar year. AGENCIES minister Mayawati’s resolution, a constitutional amendment is sion was in accordance with the suring the Centre to act.
the UP cabinet, on Tuesday, required. Nothing short of a two- aspirations of the people. Mayawati said that, imme- RANCHI: Commuters of Loha-
Joshi wanted CAG to finish approved the proposal for a divi- thirds majority in each House “I believe smaller administra- diately after the BSP came to rdaga-Ranchi passenger train
2G audit fast: official sion of the state into four parts. of Parliament can carry through tive units are good for proper power in May 2007, she had cre- had a narrow escape when the
NEW DELHI: In a twist to the The parts are Awadh Pradesh, a constitutional amendment. development and maintenance ated districts and divisions for land below the railway tracks
2G tale, BJP’s Murli Mano- Bundelkhand, Poorvanchal and Announcing the cabinet deci- of law and order,” she said. a better development of each caved in around 10 km from
har Joshi is alleged to have Paschim Pradesh. sion, Mayawati told journalists Assailing the Congress, Sam- region and also wrote several Hatia station.
pushed the CAG to comp- The proposal will be tabled the division was necessary for ajwadi Party and BJP for “ignor- times to Prime Minister The alert driver of the train
lete the spectrum allocation in the assembly during the win- a balanced development of all ing” the interests of the people, Manmohan Singh about the applied emergency brakes a few
audit before it was tabled in ter session, which begins on the regions in the state. Pointing the chief minister said these division of the state. meters awayfrom the crater near
Parliament last winter ses- Nayasarai village after some vil-
sion. In a note dated July 13, POT-BOILER lagers signalled to the driver to
2010, RB Sinha, a senior offi- stop. “All the passengers of the
DNA test to identify ‘lost & found’ son
cial in the CAG’s office, packed train rushed out as soon
wrote that he got a call from as it came to the halt fearing the
Joshi asking him to finish worst,” said Mohit Munda, who
the audit fast, since he fear- was on board the train.
ed that “Executives” would Ramesh Babu Thiruvananthapuram, had WOMAN IN KERALA month. On November 12, the Railway sources told HT that
go for a “cover-up”. PTI ■ letters@hindustantimes.com reconciled to their childless Thiruvananthapuram addi- the land caved in probably
existence. TO KNOW IF A NURSE tional judicial magistrate because of a ring road that was
Good economics to sell
uranium to India: Oz PM
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A
court-ordered DNA test will
Then, Kumari received an
anonymous letter earlier
SWAPPED HER SON FOR ordered DNA tests on her
and the 21-year-old man.
being constructed nearby. “A
tunnel for was being construct-
MELBOURNE / BANGALORE: In a bring the curtains down on a this year saying she had A GIRL 21 YEARS AGO The police have also ed below the rail tracks that led
dramatic policy reversal, 21-year-old “lost and found” given birth to a boy, who was entered the scene. “We have to the cave-in,” said a member
Australian PM Julia Gillard, tale straight out of a swapped with the baby girl, factory reply. registered a case (following of the railway inspection team
on Tuesday, signalled a plan Bollywood film. and that her son, now 21, Her investigations led her the court order) against the that rushed to the spot.
to lift a long-standing ban on The story began on was living with his foster to the Thiruvananthapuram (now closed) hospital and the The crater formed due to the
uranium sales to India, cit- December 18, 1990. Kerala parents. Corporation’s birth registry, nurse who attended on her incident was temporarily filled
ing New Delhi’s growing University professor Sarala After the initial shock, where she found that a boy (Kumari) 21 years ago. We and rail employees were guid-
economy and its ambitious Kumari, now 60, had just Kumari made inquiries with had been born at Gee Gee are yet to locate the nurse, ing trains passing through the
atomic energy plans. India given birth to a girl child, who people who were associated Hospital — to a couple from though,” said inspector A area. “We have instructed our
hailed the move, calling it a died of infection hours later. with the now-shuttered Gee Varakala, 40 km north of the Pramod Kumar who is inves- people to make sure that all
recognition of its “impecca- Over the last two decades, Gee Hospital, where she had state capital — at about the tigating the case. trains passing the area main- ■ Team India captain MS Dhoni plays a shot en route to his
ble non-proliferation cred- she and her husband, who undergone a caesarian sec- same time as her “daughter”. The last act of this drama tained a very low speed,” said century against the West Indies in the 2nd Test match at
entials” and growing energy live on the outskirts of tion, but failed to get a satis- Kumari moved court last will play out shortly. G Malya, divisional railway man- Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on Monday. SUBHANKAR CHAKRABORTY / HT
needs. IANS ager, Ranchi.
