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DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013 (PAGE 9) Prez shares perception that bureaucrats Chidambaram seeks higher Former BJP Minister face political pressure dividend from PSUs this year booked in fraud case MUSSOORIE, Oct 18: He quoted his secretary’s SHIMLA, Oct 18: reply, “Mr Minister, when I NEW DELHI, Oct 18: get in the current financial year said at an IMF committee meet- President Pranab Mukherjee receive instructions from you, I is Rs 73,866 crore. ing in Washington that the gov- Former BJP minister Krishan Kapoor was booked on Thursday today said he shared the percep- Finance Minister P do not look at your face. I look Chidambaram also dis- ernment is committed to the for alloting a prime residential plot in Dharamsala on his and his tion that bureaucrats face polit- Chidambaram today told heads beyond your face, at the vast cussed capital expansion plans path of fiscal consolidation and wife name while he was chairing an urban development authority ical pressure and advised civil of large state-owned companies multitudes of people of this of the PSUs with the objective has drawn red lines for the fiscal being a Minister, a police official said. servants to be patient and com- that the government will not of promoting investment and and current account deficits. country who have chosen you According to Deputy Inspector General (Vigilance and Anti- municate to politicians what accept less dividend that what it growth. “We shall not allow the red Corruption Bureau) A P Singh, a case against misuse of power has to be here”. cannot be done. received during the last finan- “Most of the PSUs will lines to be breached under any been registered against Mr Kapoor, while he was chairman of the The President said India Mukherjee told IAS officers cial year. achieve their capex plan. Some circumstances and we shall Himachal Pradesh Housing and Urban Development Authority could never become a theocrat- that they need not subject them- “Dividend payments by half-a-dozen may not. We will remain within the red lines. We (HIMUDA) under the Prevention of Corruption Act, ic state and stressed that secu- selves to political pressure or PSUs will not be less than last revisit those cases in January,” are prepared to take difficult Mr Kapoor was considered a stanch loyalists of BJP national larism was deep-rooted in the interference, but asked them to year’s. In no case will we accept the minister said. decisions in this regard, should vice President Shanta Kumar who was industry minister in the also understand the compulsion country. dividend less than last year’s,” Most of the PSU heads the need arise,” the Minister had P.K. Dhumal-led Bharatiya Janata Party Government of political leaders who are He urged IAS officers to he told reporters after meeting assured the minister that they said. Mr Singh said the case was registered after the state high court, heads of blue-chip PSUs such as answerable to those who have “My advice to senior civil work towards strengthening would meet the capex target for Against a disinvestment tar- hearing a petition August2, ordered a probe into the allotment of a Oil & Natural Gas Corp, Indian chosen them. servants is be a little patient, tell institutions and said women the current fiscal. get of Rs 40,000 crore, the gov- prime residential plot in Dharamsala to Kapoor’s wife when he Oil, GAIL India, Steel Authority “I know more often we hear him (politician) this cannot be should be encouraged to come ONGC Chairman Sudhir ernment has so far raised Rs was heading an urban development authority. of India, NTPC and Coal India. the complaint that many a thing done, why it cannot be done,” forward as this was necessary Vasudeva told reporters, “The 1,400 crore. A division bench of Chief Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice could not be done or imple- he said. for any civilisation to grow and The Government is seeking Finance Minister was fully sat- India’s GDP growth slowed V K Sharma said they were “of the considered opinion that all mented due to political interfer- Mukherjee recalled his first prosper. to keep its fiscal deficit within isfied by the performance of to 5 per cent in the year ended aspects of the matter should be inquired into by the vigilance ence. I do not hesitate to share stint as a minister in the 1970s, Speaking on the occasion, the budgetary target of 4.8 per ONGC. Our H1 capex target March from an average of 8 per department by an officer not below the rank of superintendent of the perception, yes it is there,” saying he had a learned IAS Minister of State for Personnel cent of GDP. Higher dividend was over Rs 14,000 crore. We cent over the past decade. First- police”. he said, while addressing IAS officer as secretary whom he V Narayanasamy said bureau- from PSUs would make up part have spent 99.3 per cent. We quarter (April-June) growth The court had said the “probe would also unravel involvement officers at Lal Bahadur Shastri once asked if he felt “embar- crats should be neutral and of the shortfall from disinvest- will spend this fiscal year’s slipped to 4.4 per cent from 4.8 of officials concerned as well as other persons”. National Academy of rassed” taking instructions from work to strengthen institutions. ment and lower receipts in other capex plan of Rs 35,000 crore. per cent in January-March. Mr Kapoor’s name was also in the chargesheet of Congress Administration. a newcomer like him (PTI) heads of accounts due to slow- We have cash of around Rs The World Bank slashed during opposition which was submitted to the President on which ing economic growth. 13,000 crore.” India’s growth forecast for the present Congress rule was conducting Vigilance probe after taking The Ministry, according to Sail was confident of current financial year to 4.7 per power in the state. (UNI) Gujarat police raid ashram, officials, is hopeful of meeting achieving its capex target for the cent from its earlier projection the dividend receipt target in the current fiscal, Chairman C S of 6.1 per cent. current fiscal and has not sought Verma told reporters. The International Monetary Lunar eclipse to greet any special dividend. However, “We have met 87 per cent of Fund estimated an average no trace of Narayan Sai they said the situation would be capex target of first half of the growth rate of about 3.75 per reviewed in January. year. We will meet capex target cent in market prices for India. DARBHANGA/NEW DELHI, ashram in Ariyari village in The elder among the two The government received Rs of whole year, which is Rs The Finance Ministry has sky watchers today Oct 18: search of Sai, but were unable to alleged that she was raped by 55,443 crore as dividend and 11,500 crore”, he said. said India’s economic growth find him, police said. Asaram at his Ahmedabad profit in the last fiscal. The tar- will exceed 5 per cent. (PTI) NEW DELHI, Oct 18: Narayan Sai, son of arrested Last week, Chidambaram Asaram, 72, presently in jail ashram while the younger one A penumbral lunar eclipse will greet sky watchers in the wee self-styled godman Asaram in Jodhpur for allegedly raping charged his son with sexually Bapu, remained untraceable hours tomorrow, the last of three lunar eclipses this year. a teenager, has been slapped assaulting her at the Surat The penumbral eclipse will begin at 03:20:38 AM and end at today even as the Gujarat police with a fresh police case along ashram. SC seeks response from Centre, raided an ashram in Bihar's 07:19:49 AM. with Sai on October six follow- The Gujarat police had gone The deepest phase or greatest eclipse will occur at 05:20:17 Darbhanga district to arrest him ing a complaint of sexual to an ashram in Jaynagar in on rape charges while his aide AM. assault against them by two sis- neighbouring Madhubani dis- The beginning and end of a penumbral eclipse are not visible. was nabbed in Delhi for ters in Surat. trict yesterday where Sai had states on mental hospitals In fact, no shading can be detected until about two-thirds of the allegedly helping him. been on a visit. The FIR, lodged by the sis- NEW DELHI, Oct 18: financial constraints as adequate made autonomous, it said. Moon’s disk is immersed in the penumbra, SPACE president C B A three-member team of In Delhi, Sai's aide ters, alleged that they were resources allocation is not being "Lack of adequate adminis- Devgun said. Gujarat police assisted by their Dharmesh, who was in-charge raped between 2002 and 2004 in The Supreme Court today made to meet their require- The eclipse will be seen all over the country, he said. Bihar counterparts raided the of Asaram's ashram on Ridge trative and financial powers of different ashrams of Asaram. asked the Centre and State ments. The Centre and State A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is in a direct line Road in central Delhi, was the Directors and the Governments to file their Governments should accord pri- between the Sun and the Moon. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs arrested this morning from his Superintendents of the hospitals response within three weeks on ority in allocation of financial when the Moon passes through penumbra, the lighter part of the CBI registers PE into Khemka’s hideout in a joint operation by is seriously affecting their func- a plea for improving the condi- resources both for the regular shadow.