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Panchayats 789)85 ment “first” in the Union have been given administrative Territory. and financial powers for local nion Finance Minister Replying to the debate on development, something they UNirmala Sitharaman on J&K Re-organisation lacked earlier, he added. Saturday said the Union Budget (Amendment) Bill, which Now people chosen by the 2021-22 has set the pace for includes the AGMUT cadre in masses will rule J&K, not those aatmanirbhar India and hit #$ !" the Jammu & Kashmir, Shah born to “kings and queens”, he hard at Congress leader Rahul told the Lok Sabha that the said, attacking dynastic parties Gandhi for his “hum do, healthcare capacity building on allegations levelled against Modi Government’s top prior- in the region. Even our rivals humare do” barb saying he is and development of agriculture the Government. ity is nothing but the develop- could not allege any wrongdo- becoming a “doomsday man” infrastructure, among others, “We need to recognise ment of the region. ing in these polls which were for the country by constantly which are expected to have a these two tendencies of the “You people are asking me conducted fairly and peaceful- insulting Constitutional func- multiplier effect on the econo- Congress party... this makes it what happened after scrap- ly, he said. tionaries and creating fake nar- my. clear that their belief in a ping Article 370 in 17 months Work on two AIIMS in the ratives. With regards to increasing democratically elected while forgetting how three !" region has begun, and the Replying to a debate on the allocation for rural job guar- Parliamentary system is com- families ruled the State for 70 Kashmir valley will be con- Union Budget in the Lok antee scheme, Sitharaman said pletely finished,” Sitharaman years!” said the Home Minister Narendra Modi Government is Premachandran. The Rajya do with Statehood, and Jammu nected to the railways by 2022, Sabha, the Finance Minister the Government will allocate said. reiterating that the Statehood committed to bringing peace Sabha has already passed the & Kashmir will be accorded the the Union Home Minister said. said the challenges of the Covid more funds for Mahatma Responding to former will be given in “appropriate and development in the region Bill. status at an appropriate time, He also gave assurance to the pandemic did not deter the Gandhi National Rural Congress president’s speech time”. first,” said Shah. Taking a dig at Shah at one Shah reiterated. people of Jammu & Kashmir Government from undertaking Employment Guarantee on Thursday, during which he “You people don’t read the Slamming the Opposition point, Chowdhury said, “You He said the region’s Union that “no one will lose their reforms for maintaining long- (MGNREGA) scheme for spoke about farm laws but not Bill properly. This is just about for objecting to the posting of claim all development in Territory status is temporary land”. The Government has term goals of the country. 2021-22, if needed, as against on the Budget, she said, “He is AGMUT Cadre inclusion in Hindu officer in Muslim-pop- Jammu & Kashmir has been and then took a swipe at the sufficient land for develop- “The reforms undertaken Budget estimate of 73,000 probably becoming a dooms- J&K and Ladakh. This Bill has ulated region, Shah said, “I am done by Narendra Modi. Please Congress and other parties — ment works, Shah said. will lay the path for India to crore. Hitting out at the day man for India.” nothing to do with Statehood. amazed that you people are also claim Dal Lake was also which had backed Article 370 The Bill seeks to replace the become one of those fastest- Opposition, she said the The Minister said that the You people during debate just now talking about secularism created by Modi,” said of the Constitution that gave Ordinance to merge the J&K growing economies in the Government under Prime Congress leader laid the “foun- talk on Article 370. It is gone. but what kind of secularism is Chowdhury. special status to Jammu & cadre of civil services officer world, she said, adding the Minister Narendra Modi dation” but did not speak about It was only a temporary clause this?” The Home Minister also Kashmir — saying this was a with the Arunachal Pradesh, Budget has set the pace for “works for common people the Budget during the discus- which you people kept for 70 He was replying to the slammed some Opposition temporary provision but they Goa, Mizoram Union Territory India to become aatmanirbhar”, and not for crony capitalists.” sion on it. years and now asking me when objections against the Bill members for their claim that continued with it for over 70 (AGMUT) cadre. Shah said the she said. In her sharp riposte to “I wanted to know from the Statehood will be given raised by Opposition leaders the proposed law negates the years before the Modi Government expects that The Finance Minister said Rahul, she said the former the Congress why it took a U- back. I am telling you the Adhir Ranjan Chaowdhury, hopes of the region getting Government annulled it in around 25,000 Government the Budget has laid emphasis Congress chief was creating turn on the farm laws but no Statehood will be given on an Assaduddin Owaisi, Manish back its erstwhile Statehood. August 2019. jobs will be created in J&K by on increasing capital expendi- fake narratives but does not reply came,” she said. appropriate time. The Tewari and NK This legislation has nothing to Jammu & Kashmir has 2022. ture, raising allocation for have patience to listen to replies Turn to Page 4 ( !" # # $ !"#$% &'( ) *' 789)85 The study interviewed around 2,500 respondents, L ! ! 789)85 Day violence, over 500 police said that 122 farmers had so far ndia has one of the worst including 1,647 respondents "M! " ! personnel had been injured, been arrested by Delhi Police in Iroad safety records in the from low-income households, " & rotesting farmer unions on while a protester had died. connection with 14 of the 44 world with a total of 1,50,000 432 from high-income house- ! PSaturday demanded a high- On January 26, thousands FIRs, adding that SKM will fatalities and 4,50,000 injuries holds and 420 truck drivers in " ' level judicial enquiry into the of protesting farmers who provide legal and financial aid in road accidents every year, the four selected States (Uttar violence during the tractor reached ITO from the to all the arrested farmers. resulting in social-economic Pradesh and Bihar representing rally in Delhi on January 26 Ghazipur border clashed with The SKAM leaders claimed losses equivalent to a shocking Low-Capacity States and Tamil and the alleged “false” cases the police. Driving tractors, that “false” cases were being 3.14 per cent of GDP every Nadu and Maharashtra repre- "( ! slapped on the peasants. many of them reached the Red slapped on farmers charging year. senting High-Capacity States) ! ) Addressing a press confer- Fort and hoisted a religious flag them with serious offences like As per World Bank report across urban and rural areas. & ( ence at the Singhu border, there. dacoity and attempt to murder released by Union Minister The qualitative part of the *+ Samyukta Kisan Morcha lead- At the press conference, to “harass” them. for Road Transport and study included focus group ! , -*+ ers asked farmers who are get- another leader Ravinder Singh Turn to Page 4 Highways Nitin Gadkari on discussions with road crash .'/+ & !! " ting police notices not to Saturday, India has one per cent survivors and their family ' appear before the force direct- ! %#& # ' of the world’s vehicles, but it The study, released by centage terms, the number of members and in-depth inter- " " ly and instead approach the accounts for 10 per cent of all Gadkari, reveals that more accidents decreased by 3.86 per views with adolescents aged 14- L !M legal cell constituted by the + ,- % ( road crash victims. than 75 per cent of poor house- cent in 2019 as compared to 18 years. ' unions for any assistance. And more alarming is the holds in India reported a 2018, while accident-related “We have taken a number Kuldeep Singh, a member New Delhi: Three more men ) fact that 70 per cent of the fatal- decline in their income as a deaths decreased by 0.20 per of positive initiatives to reduce !" of SKM’s legal cell, said that a have been arrested in connec- # ities are in the age group of 18 result of a road traffic crash. cent and those injured road crash deaths in India. retired judge of the Supreme tion with the violence during to 45 years. The financial loss for the poor decreased by 3.86 per cent. With the support of all stake- "" Court or high court should the farmers’ tractor parade in New Delhi: The Delhi Police’s With the National Road amounted to more than seven The World Bank report holders in our society, I am 012 " probe the incidents to unravel north Delhi’s Burari area on Crime Branch on Saturday Safety Month underway, the months’ household income, highlights the disproportionate committed to reducing road " 1&.*3 the “conspiracy” behind the Republic day, police said on took actor-activist Deep Sidhu World Bank in association with while it was equivalent to less impact of a road crash on crash deaths by 50 per cent by " & January 26 violence and the Saturday.