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DELHI, MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015 Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 5 ● No. 111 ● CITY EDITION ● 20 Pages ● Rs. 8.00 ● www.thehindu.in Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad and Malappuram PERSPECTIVE | PAGE 9 NATIONAL | PAGE 11 NATIONAL | PAGE 11 SPORTS | PAGE 15 A BOOST TO TIES ACTOR ALLEGES ATTACK LION NUMBERS UP IN GIR ROSBERG REIGNS SUPREME The ratification of the India-Bangladesh ANANTAPUR: Actor Neetu Agarwal, GIR: The number of Asiatic lions BARCELONA: Nico Rosberg ended Land Boundary Agreement will help to accused of involvement in the in the Gir sanctuary and the Lewis Hamilton’s winning streak in expand bilateral ties, writes retired smuggling of red sanders, has nearby areas has gone up to Formula One in a near-flawless diplomat Jayant Prasad in a special accused a man of attacking her. 523 from 411 in 2010. victory in the Spanish Grand Prix. article for The Hindu. • • Govt. set to grant citizenship ‘OPEN SECRET’ EXPOSED Analysis of data reveals engineering colleges across the country share faculty to Hindus from Bangladesh Names of over 50,000 teachers figure Will submit policy document soon to Supreme Court on rolls of more than one institution Eight major while in Karnataka it was over Jayant Sriram States were 92 per cent. NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA AICTE silent government is set to move studied by Neither the colleges nor the forward on the question of campaigners AICTE could offer an explana- granting citizenship to Hin- tion. Despite phone calls and du immigrants from Bangla- Rukmini S. an emailed questionnaire, no desh and is expected to AICTE official responded to submit a policy document to NEW DELHI: It has long been an The Hindu’s questions. the Supreme Court soon. open secret that engineering Even accounting for the The document, being for- colleges ‘share’ faculty mem- probability of some people mulated by the Home Minis- bers to meet official norms; sharing the same name, the da- try, will decide the fate of now there is data to prove it. ta, Mr. Dubbudu said, showed Official data from eight major that norms were being fla- EXCLUSIVE States shows that over 90 per grantly violated. “If people like thousands of Bangladeshi cent of engineering colleges us can find these trends using Hindus living in 18 States. religious minorities coming have at least one teacher data on AICTE website, I am The Centre is expected to The previous UPA from Bangladesh to India was whose name also features on sure it is far easier for AICTE submit the document in re- government went not confined to Assam alone. the rolls of another college, to find this out if they are will- sponse to a case filed in 2012 slow on the case as it The UPA government was and there are at least 50,000 ing to,” he said. The findings by two NGOs, Swajan and Bi- careful to go slow on the case such ‘duplicate’ teachers. build a case for greater public malangshu Roy Foundation, involved the question since it involved the question All accredited engineering access to official data, he said. which pleaded that Hindus of granting rights on of granting rights on the basis colleges must submit to the All In Tamil Nadu’s Kanyaku- and persons of other minor- the basis of religion of religion. The files show India Council for Technical mari district, KNSK College of ities from Bangladesh mi- that since 2012, the govern- Education (AICTE) the names than one college, Mr. Dubbudu seemed to be working in more repetitions, while in Odisha it Engineering at Therekalputh- grating to India to escape ment had not filed any offi- of their faculty members, and and his team found, which than one college. In Maharash- was 40 per cent. Every engi- oor and NSK Polytechnic Col- religious persecution must later be converted to citizen- cial response to the petition colleges are not supposed to meant that a quarter of the to- tra, over a quarter of all faculty neering college in the two lege at Chenbagaramanpudur not be bracketed with illegal ship. It was made clear that and had not even sent a law- share faculty. tal engineering faculty in the names consisted of repetitions States had at least one such share 11 faculty members. Yet, migrants and sent back. the focus of the case was on yer to attend the hearings. Open data campaigner Ra- States consisted of duplicate and over 95 per cent of colleges repetition. Over 2,500 faculty Dr. K. Thanappan, chairman of According to the Assam Assam where animosity to- Since the NDA came to kesh Reddy Dubbudu and his names. In all, nearly 90 per members in Odisha and over the Vellalar Trust running the Accord, all persons who wards refugees from Bangla- power in May last year, it has team at the public data website cent of the over 1,500 accred- INVESTIGATION 8,000 in U.P. were named in institutions, says it is a “false crossed over from Bangla- desh is a strong political proactively followed the case ‘Factly’ downloaded faculty ited engineering colleges in the multiple colleges. allegation.” desh after 1971 are to be de- issue. and, in the words of one of data from the AICTE site for States had at least one ‘dupli- had at least one such ‘dupli- In Gujarat, over 2,000 (With inputs from ported. However, in July 2013, the the lawyers involved, made eight States and searched them cate’ teacher on their faculty. cate’ teacher. In all, nearly teachers’ names were found in R. Ravikanth Reddy in Supreme Court made the emphatic assurances that it for duplicates. They shared 8,000 teachers in the State more than one college, while in Hyderabad, S. Sandeep Refugee status case into a national issue — would resolve the matter. their findings with The Hindu. 8,000 repeats in TN were present in the lists of Karnataka had 3,000 such 'du- Kumar in Vijayawada and R. The petitions demanded the Bench hearing the case In Andhra Pradesh and Te- In Tamil Nadu, over a fifth of multiple colleges’ faculty lists. plicate' teachers. Over 97 per Arivanantham in Nagercoil) grant of refugee status to made 18 States a party to it, ½ HOME MINISTRY UNCLEAR OVER langana, nearly 8,000 names all faculty names were repeat- In Uttar Pradesh, over half cent of colleges in Gujarat had these persons, which could observing that the problem of GUIDELINES | PAGE 10 were repeated across more ed and over 8,000 teachers of faculty names consisted of at least one duplicate name ½ COLLEGES AT A LOSS | PAGE 10 Parties slam AAP Govt. over circular Staff Reporter “He talks about unfettered as per the opinion of the Di- defamation, but to start a spe- freedom of speech but he rector (prosecution), an of- cial drive against the media is NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi wants everyone else’s throat fence of defamation is made a subtle intimidation. Inde- Party-led Delhi Government to be throttled. This is the out in relation to any news pendent and active media is came under strong criticism height of hypocrisy,” BJP item whether aired or pub- essential for democracy, and from political parties here on spokesperson G.V.L .Narsim- lished, the Principal Secreta- the media knows that irre- Sunday after it gave its De- ha Rao said. ry will refer the matter to the sponsible reporting can lead partments the go-ahead to Delhi Congress chief Ajay Law Department and obtain to a loss of credibility for seek legal recourse against Maken termed the circular the sanction under Section them,” said D Raja, CPI leader news items with “defamatory “virtual censorship”, adding 199 (4) of the Criminal Proce- and Member of Parliament. imputations against the Chief that it was not only an attack dure Code (Cr.PC). A senior Government offi- Minister”. on the media but also on After the sanction is ob- cial, however, said the circu- Terming the circular, is- democracy. tained, the Home Depart- lar was a reiteration of sued by the Directorate of In- “As soon as his party came ment will forward the case to existing rules. “The said cir- formation and Publicity to power, he had stopped the public prosecutor for cular is an internal communi- (DIP) on May 6, a result of media’s entry in the building making a complaint under cation and is not a new rule or “repeated exposures by (the Delhi Secretariat). He Section 199(2) of the Cr.PC. law which has been enacted media of the Arvind Kejriwal should not have a problem The move comes days after by the Government; there is Government’s misdeeds”, the with the media as his party the Delhi Government issued nothing more to be added to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power with their an order for close monitoring it,” said a spokesperson. accused the Chief Minister of help,” Mr. Maken said. of all news channels. ½ being a “hypocrite”. According to the circular, if “There are laws that punish MORE REPORTS | PAGE 5 Road rage: DTC driver beaten to death Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: A 42-year-old Del- hi Transport Corporation REPORTS ON PAGE 11 (DTC) bus driver died after being mercilessly thrashed by Team India a motorcyclist in an apparent Third Phalke for the Kapoor family case of road rage reported in needed for West Delhi’s Mundka on Sun- Shubhomoy Sikdar day morning.