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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY 4 Nirbhaya case convicts Charges against student leader, to be hanged on Jan. 22 but none held for JNU attacks Court issues death warrants on a plea by victim’s parents Aishe Ghosh, 18 others charged with vandalising server room on campus 3-member AAP panel to draft election manifesto Soibam Rocky Singh STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Leave past The Aam Aadmi Party on All four convicts in the De­ Forty­eight hours after Monday formed a three­ cember 16, 2012, Nirbhaya masked goons attacked stu­ behind: V­C member committee for dents and teachers on the JNU Vice­Chancellor M. drafting the party’s gang­rape and murder case manifesto for the Delhi will be hanged on January 22 campus of the Jawaharlal Jagadesh Kumar urged Assembly elections. Senior at 7 a.m. inside Tihar jail, a Nehru University (JNU), the students to put the past party leader Atishi is Delhi court ordered on Delhi police are yet to make behind and return to the chairperson of the Tuesday. any arrests in the case. campus. In a brief committee, while Jasmine Additional sessions judge Instead, they have regis­ statement, Mr. Kumar said, Shah and Ajoy Kumar are its Satish Kumar Arora issued tered two FIRs against in­ “Our heart goes out to all members. the death warrants for con­ jured president of the JNU injured students. The CITY Ī PAGE 2 victs Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Students Union (JNUSU) incident [violence] is DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Akshay Kumar Singh and Pa­ Aishe Ghosh and several oth­ unfortunate. I would like wan Gupta on a plea by the ers for allegedly attacking se­ to tell students that JNU AASU to protest if victim’s parents to expedite curity guards and vandalis­ campus is a secure place. PM visits State their execution. ing a server room on January Let us put the past NEW DELHI Before passing the order, 4. Supportive role: Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone visiting behind.” Ī page 3 The North East Students' the judge conducted a video The two FIRs against Ms. JNU to show solidarity with the students on Tuesday. * ANI DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Organisation and the AASU conference call with the con­ Ghosh and the others were said on Tuesday that they victs, who are lodged in Ti­ registered at 8.44 p.m. and at ical report from the AIIMS, servers and biometric devic­ would protest if Prime har, to hear their side of the 8.49 p.m. on Sunday even as Prof. Sen has demanded that es and “attacked” security Allahabad HC Minister Narendra Modi argument. the masked intruders were the police register an FIR guards, the FIRs say. visited the State for the The victim’s mother, who going around the campus that includes attempt to In a video posted online seeks report Khelo India Games 2020, was present in the court beating up students, enter­ murder among other sec­ on Monday, a fringe right­ The Allahabad HC has scheduled from January 10. when the verdict was pro­ ing hostel rooms and ran­ tions of the law. wing group, Hindu Raksha issued directions to the NEWS Ī PAGE 13 sacking them. The FIRs say a large num­ Dal, claimed responsibility NHRC to submit a report DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD nounced, said the decision would restore faith of wo­ ber of student agitators, in­ for the attack. in one month on the men in the judiciary. Faculty plaint ignored cluding Ms. Ghosh, Saket The video shows a man, alleged police excesses at On December 18 last, the tions of Mukesh, 30, Gupta, serving a three­year term. No FIR has been filed by the Moon and 18 others, alleged­ identifying himself as Pinki the Aligarh Muslim Supreme Court dismissed a 23, and Sharma, 24, saying One of the accused in the police so far on a written ly entered the Communica­ Chaudhary, saying that those University. It said, “The review petition filed by con­ no grounds have been made case, Ram Singh, died ear­ complaint filed on Monday tion and Information Servic­ who resort to “anti­national facts of the instant case vict Akshay Kumar Singh by them for a review of the lier in Tihar Jail. by a JNU faculty member, es (CIS) office located in the activities” will be treated in indicate alleged violation against its 2017 judgment 2017 verdict. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Prof. Sucharita Sen, who suf­ administration block by the same way that JNU stu­ of human rights and upholding his death penalty. A juvenile convict in the JUSTICE AT LAST, SAY VICTIM’S fered head injuries during “breaking” a glass door. dents and faculty were. negligence in the In July 2018, the top court case has been released from FAMILY MEMBERSĪ PAGE 12 the attack. In her complaint, They trespassed and dam­ prevention of such OPPORTUNITIES Ī PAGE 15 dismissed the review peti­ a reformation home after SEE ALSO Ī PAGE 4 which has a copy of her med­ aged the fibre optic cables, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 violation.” Ī Page 13 At least 50 killed in stampede Government projects Govt. invites diplomats to visit Kashmir Suhasini Haidar first group of Delhi­based di­ Delhi and Srinagar, security Peerzada Ashiq plomats to travel to Srinagar and hotel and travel arran­ slower GDP growth New delhi/ Srinagar and assess the situation gements are in place for the at Soleimani’s funeral in Iran Five months after its deci­ there, and is now awaiting a visit. 5% estimate in line with RBI forecast sion on Article 370, the go­ response from them. General was killed in a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad airport vernment has invited the According to sources in DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 12 special correspondent Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI Kerman The government expects the A stampede broke out on country’s gross domestic Tuesday at the funeral of a product (GDP) to grow at a top Iranian General killed in slower pace of 5% for the full a U.S. drone strike near the year 2019­20, as compared Baghdad airport in Iraq, to 6.8% in the previous year, leaving more than 50 people according to the first ad­ dead and many injured as vance estimates released by huge crowds packed his the Statistics Ministry on hometown. Tuesday. The tragedy in the south­ This estimate is in line eastern city of Kerman came with projections made by as Iran prepared to bury Re­ the Reserve Bank of India, volutionary Guards Com­ which had revised GDP mander, Qassem Soleimani, growth downwards to 5% for a hugely popular figure in Tense moments: A woman enquiring about her brother 2019­20 from 6.1% during its the Islamic republic. More outside the information office of a hospital in Kerman on October policy. to a six­year low of 5% in the than 50 people were killed Tuesday. * AFP As per the data, the ma­ first quarter of the 2019­20 and 212 people injured in the nufacturing sector is esti­ fiscal, while slipping further stampede, semi­official news tery. the remains of Soleimani’s mated to grow by 2% as com­ to 4.5% growth in the second agency ISNA said, citing offi­ Schoolgirls joined chants closest aide, Brigadier Gen­ pared to a robust growth of quarter ( July­September). cials in the southeastern city. of “Death to Trump” from eral Hossein Pourjafari. 6.9% in 2018­19. Likewise, The advanced estimates The streets of Kerman the crowd. “We’re here today to pay the growth in the construc­ also forecast slower rate of overflowed with mourners, People converged from respects to the great Com­ tion sector for the fiscal is ex­ growth for real Gross Value while others took refuge on afar on Azadi Square, where mander of the holy defence,” pected to see a sharp decline Added (GVA) at 4.9% as hillsides around the city, two flag­draped coffins were said a mourner. to 3.2% as against a growth against 6.6% in 2018­19. where the General was to be on display, with the second of 8.7% in the previous year. buried at the martyrs’ ceme­ one reportedly containing IRAN WARNS U.S. Ī PAGE 14 Economic growth slowed CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Kicked, abused in police custody, says Sadaf Jafar

Darapuri claimed he was denied a blanket in the cold and was also not provided food for 24 hours

Omar Rashid anti­CAA protests in Luck­ Mr. Darapuri, who is also LUCKNOW now, were granted bail on an Ambedkarite activist, said Congress worker and social Tuesday. the arrests were an attempt activist Sadaf Jafar on Tues­ by the government to sup­ day alleged that not only did Ex­IPS officer ‘mistreated’ press the voice of activists. male police officers assault Mr. Darapuri (76), too, al­ “The government was rat­ her in custody but they also leged mistreatment at the tled by the manner in which subjected her to communal hands of the police. He the entire country opposed slurs and humiliation and claimed he was denied a the law and adopted a tactic asked her to “go to Pakistan”. blanket in the cold and was of suppression. They sent “They said ‘you are a Pa­ also not provided food for 24 political and social activists to kistani’,” Ms. Jafar told The hours. “On December 20, I jail with the strategy that it Hindu after being released Former IPS officer S.R. Darapuri and social activist Sadaf Jafar was picked up from my house would leave protesters out­ from jail, more than two coming out of jail in Lucknow on Tuesday. * PTI at 11 a.m. and kept the whole side without anyone to guide weeks after her arrest follow­ day at the Ghazipur police them. But the government ing the violence during the ceiving funds from Pakistan. Ms. Jafar alleged. “They used station and was taken to the has failed in it,” he said. protests against the Citizen­ She claimed that when she such filthy language that I Hazratganj police station in Mr. Darapuri was under ship (Amendment) Act in begged the police to allow can’t repeat it.” the evening. They showed my house arrest on December 19 Lucknow. her to inform her family of Ms. Jafar and retired IPS of­ arrest at 7 p.m., and not 11 but was arrested the follow­ “They said ‘you eat here her detention on December ficer S.R. Darapuri were a.m., from some park,” he ing day. During his house de­ but sing songs of Pakistan. 19, a male police officer beat among the 14 persons grant­ said. tention, he had posted on Fa­ What have we not provided her up while women consta­ ed bail by a Lucknow court “I didn’t have any [warm] cebook a photo of him to you people? You are doing bles slapped her multiple on Saturday in connection clothes. They [police] refused holding a placard, which read jobs here, getting to eat and times and abused her. with the violence. to give me a blanket and “Save citizenship”, to express also produce kids’,” she “An officer walked up to Social activist and teacher food,” the septuagenarian solidarity with the protesters. claimed. me and pulled my hair — the Robin Verma and theatre ar­ said. The police also did not He said he would continue Ms. Jafar, a single mother whole strand of hair came off tiste Deepak Mishra, who too record his statement at the to exercise his “democratic with two minor children, said — and then he kicked me on were arrested in connection police station and fabricated right to protest till the law the police accused her of re­ my stomach and my knee,” with the violence during the it, he alleged. [CAA] is withdrawn”.

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‘With what confidence will AAP forms three­member panel Cong. asks whether Tiwari decided students go to poll date; ECI refutes allegation universities?’ to draft its election manifesto Staff Reporter BJP leader had said that AAP’s fate would be known on Feb. 8 New Delhi Party to unveil it before Jan. 20; cleaning city and resolving traffic jams on agenda

AAP national convener seholds. From December 26, Damini Nath “The nation knows CBI, he said. and Delhi Chief Minister the party has been taking it Jatin Anand ED, DRI, CBDT and Income When asked whether Arvind Kejriwal, while ad­ to households and mohalla New Delhi Tax are permanent allies of any complaint had been re­ dressing the seventh town sabhas held in all Assembly Over two weeks before the Modi­Shah duo! Has ECI ceived in the matter and hall meeting on Tuesday, constituencies. Election Commission of In­ joined the bandwagon with for comment on Mr. Surje­ asked with what confi­ “We have reached out to dia on Monday announced Manoj Tiwari? Delhi wants wala’s allegation, an ECI dence will students go to Staff Reporter 30 lakh households with the that the Delhi Assembly to know – Delhi polling spokesperson said: “No universities. New Delhi the report card. Will com­ elections would be held on dates were decided by ECI complaint received by ECI. He also accused the The Aam Aadmi Party on plete it by January 10,” Mr. February 8, Delhi BJP pre­ or in advance by Manoj Ti­ Such averments are fac­ Central government of giv­ Monday announced a three­ Rai said. sident Manoj Tiwari told a wari? Tiwari decides, ECI tually incorrect.” ing orders to Delhi Police member ‘manifesto commit­ television channel on De­ stamps?.” to not take any action. tee’ for drafting the party’s Campaign drive cember 18 that Chief Minis­ Tiwari’s response The seventh town hall manifesto for the upcoming Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses a gathering at Taking the report card to the ter Arvind Kejriwal and the Video clip On his part, Mr. Tiwari re­ meeting, part of AAP’s Delhi Assembly elections. Connaught Place on Tuesday. * PTI people and Mr. Kejriwal Aam Aadmi Party’s fate In the video, Mr. Tiwari res­ jected the allegation. election campaign, was an­ The three­member com­ holding seven town hall would be known on Febru­ ponds to a question about “This is an attempt to chored by Aaj Tak, a Hindi mittee includes, senior party January 15 and 20,” said se­ they have reached out to 30 meetings were part of the se­ ary 8. After the Congress Mr. Kejriwal by saying: spread misconception TV news channel. leader Atishi as the chairper­ nior party leader Gopal Rai lakh households with the cond phase of the party’s on Monday questioned “Whether or not he is da- among the people. What I Talking about the vio­ son, Vice Chairperson of Dia­ while addressing a press ‘AAP ka report card’ and also election campaign. He said whether Mr. Tiwari decid­ bang [fearless], we will find said was that the result lence in JNU and Jamia Mil­ logue & Development Com­ conference. distributed it to about 13 lakh that the party will announce ed the election date, the out on February 8.” Asked would be out on February lia Islamia, he said: “I am mission (DDC), Jasmine Shah Mr. Rai said that issues people during 650 mohalla the next phase of the cam­ ECI on Tuesday termed the by the anchor how he 8 – but I have clearly been too worried. The way vio­ and party spokesperson highlighted by AAP chief Ar­ sabhas since December 26. paign after releasing the allegation incorrect. knew the date when elec­ proved wrong since the re­ lence is happening in un­ Ajoy Kumar as the members. vind Kejriwal during his On December 24, the par­ manifesto. Sharing a video clip of tions had not been an­ sults will be out on Febru­ iversities, that is not good. “All the three members town hall meetings such as ty had launched ‘AAP ka re­ Mr. Rai said that current Mr. Tiwari speaking at the nounced, Mr. Tiwari said ary 11. What was said was Children go to university will incorporate suggestions cleaning the city and finding port card’, which describes schemes and works of the News 18 Chaupal event, the 2015 Assembly elec­ based on the dates of the to study… The way stu­ of people and the vision of a solution to traffic conges­ the top 10 achievements of AAP government will conti­ Congress spokesperson tions were on February 7. previous elections. Eve­ dents were attacked inside our party while preparing tion would be part of the ma­ the government in the last nue and they will now pre­ Randeep Surjewala said in “If not February 8, it will ryone has a right to specu­ Jamia and the violence that the manifesto. The manifes­ nifesto. five years and had set a tar­ pare new schemes to be in­ a tweet on Monday night: happen on February 14,” late,” said Mr. Tiwari. happened in JNU, I am ve­ to will be released between The party also said that get to take it to 35 lakh hou­ cluded in the manifesto. ry worried.”

‘L-G assured to inquire’ “With what confidence No need for binoculars, just will the children go to un­ Model code in place, civic bodies told to enforce provisions iversities? Soon after the look up to find CCTVs: AAP incident, I had spoken to Two complaints related to violation of code received so far over certain TV programmes, says CEO the L­G and he assured to inquire into it. There Sidharth Ravi two complaints on viola­ use a digital voter slip, the Party was reacting to Shah’s statement should not be violence in New Delhi tions of the MCC had been CEO said. At such polling universities and colleges. With the announcement of received from the Bharatiya stations, mobile phones Staff Reporter they do. We want to remind Whatever must be done on the dates for the Delhi As­ Janata Party (BJP) over cer­ will be allowed inside the New Delhi the Bharatiya Janata Party this, everyone should do it sembly elections on Mon­ tain television pro­ booth for the QR code on The Aam Aadmi Party on and Amit Shah that Delhi together,” he said. day, the Model Code of Con­ grammes, the CEO said. the digital slip to be Tuesday attacked the BJP ov­ has a government that ac­ Accusing the Central go­ duct (MCC) has come into In a first, the CEO said scanned following which er Union Home Minister tually does real work that vernment, the Delhi CM place, Chief Electoral Offic­ that persons with disabili­ phones will have to be de­ Amit Shah’s statement that impacts and transform the said: “Delhi Police is capa­ er (CEO) Ranbir Singh said ties flagged on the electoral posited in a tray before the the latter couldn’t spot lives of the citizens,” Mr. Si­ ble, constables are capa­ on Tuesday. roll and senior citizens vote is cast and can be CCTV cameras in Delhi and sodia said. ble. But order is given from All government depart­ above the age of 80 across picked up later, he added. showed footages of Mr. Shah Mr. Shah has been repeat­ above “just stand there ments have been instructed Delhi will have the facility Commenting on the im­ from government­installed edly asking about the CCTV don’t take any action”.” to take down political pos­ to cast their vote as “Absen­ pact of violent clashes dur­ CCTV cameras in Lajpat cameras since the last two or ters and images of political tee Voters”. Such voters ing the election process, Nagar. three days, the AAP said. leaders from their websites would have to file their ap­ Mr. Singh said that there “You don’t need binocu­ “In the very same locality DELHI TODAY and social media accounts plications with the respec­ was no reason to believe lars, when you are doing of Lajpat Nagar where he within 24 hours, the CEO tive returning officer within that the law and order situa­ door­to­door [election cam­ had conducted door­to­door Talk: Seminar on “North Korean said. five days from the notifica­ tion in Delhi was not condu­ paigning], just look up, you campaigning two days ago, Nuclear crisis: How we got here and where we are going” by Vipin All five urban local bo­ tion of the election on Janu­ cive to carry out elections. can see them at 10 feet 16 cameras were installed by Narang, Associate Prof. of Political dies of the city have also ary 14. Between January 14 He added that the police height,” AAP leader Manish the AAP government. In Science, MIT, Massachusetts, USA at been instructed to enforce and January 19, special would keep a check on the Sisodia said during a press fact, right opposite the Conference Room II, India Interna­ tional Centre (IIC), 3 p.m. these provisions which pri­ teams will be constituted to same and would make pro­ conference, after showing house where he had gone to marily deal with enforce­ go door­to­door and facili­ visions to ensure safety. footage of Mr. Shah from the meet voters, there was a Talk: Discussion on two books: “In­ strumental Lives: An Intimate Bio­ ment of the anti­deface­ tate the process, the CEO With regard to whether CCTV. CCTV camera,” Mr. Sisodia graphy of an Indian Laboratory” by ment law, the CEO said. no new development work cal parties held on Tuesday, said. there was any provision to “The Bharatiya Janata said. Pankaj Sekhsaria and “Money, Cul­ This includes ensuring all must be started and that go­ provisions of the MCC were call off the elections if the Party is now nothing but a He also said that the Delhi ture, Class: Elite Women as Modern Subjects” by Parul Bhandari. Dis­ such defacement is re­ vernment vehicles and oth­ conveyed and the process Digital voter slip law and order situation de­ ‘Bharatiya Jumla Party’, and government has fulfilled its cussants: Dr. Simona Sawhney, Dept. moved from private proper­ er resources are not mis­ of Media Certification and Apart from this, at 11 consti­ teriorated, Mr. Singh said one that now believes that 2015 manifesto promise of of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi; Dr. Dev Pathak, Dept. of ty as well within 72 hours. used, the CEO added. Monitoring Cell (MCMC) tuencies in Delhi, voters that it would be the prero­ all other political parties installing CCTV cameras in Sociology, South Asian University, The MCC also provides that At a meeting of all politi­ were also explained. So far, will also have the facility to gative of the ECI. make false promises like buses and public spaces. New Delhi; and Dr. Lipika Kamra, School of Liberal Arts and Humanit­ ies, O.P. Jindal Global University, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Sonipat. Chair: Prof. Saurabh Dube, El Colegio de México, Mexico City at Conference Room – I, India Interna­ BJP undertakes public outreach Unseasonal rain tional Centre (IIC), 6.30 p.m.

Book Launch: T.C.A. Ranganathan, retired Chairman of Exim Bank and programme in support of CAA T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan, a noted columnist will launch their latest book ‘All the Wrong Turns’ in the presence of Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Dir­ Javadekar visits Madrasi Camp; Goel takes out peace march ector & Chief ICRIER along with Ajit Ranade, Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group, at Seminar Rooms I, II & Special Correspondent nand Rai took out a peace ly creating misconception III, India International Centre (IIC), 6 New Delhi march from Sadar Bazar to and false propaganda in the p.m. Senior leadership of the Jama Masjid in support of society,” Mr. Javadekar said. Exhibition: “Light and Lines in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the CAA. “Those spreading ru­ Middle Land”, a solo exhibition of including Union Minister mours regarding CAA are photographs by Amit Verma at Con­ vention Centre Foyer, India Habitat Prakash Javadekar, on Tues­ False propaganda not the well wishers of the Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. ­ 7 p.m. day undertook a public out­ “The CAA is for providing ci­ country...130 crore people Exhibition: “Katha”, a solo painting reach programme on the tizenship to the refugees and of the country are welcom­ show by Chandar Panjre at Triveni amended Citizenship Act not depriving any person of ing the citizenship law be­ Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, (CAA) here. it. People of all religious cause this law does not af­ Tansen Marg, 11 a.m. ­ 8 p.m. While Mr. Javadekar communities live in Madrasi fect any citizens born in Exhibition: Vision’20 a group art sought to apprise citizens of Camp and I feel very happy India. Yet some people are show by 12 young artists at All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, 1 Rafi the CAA at Madrasi Camp in talking to them because I trying to create confusion Marg, 11 a.m. ­ 7 p.m. Moti Bagh, Rajya Sabha MP found that they have no mis­ among the people but they (Mail your listings for this column Vijay Goel and Minister of conception about it. But will not succeed,” he said at [email protected]) State for Home Affairs Nitya­ some people are deliberate­ further.

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Special Correspondent government services. things, but after the elec­ the PDS benefits. NEW DELHI Ramwati, a resident of tions, it all stops,” she said. At the end of the meeting, A day after the Delhi As­ Mangolpuri, said about 50 Kamlesh, a resident of the Delhiites gathered there sembly elections’ schedule applicants in her neighbour­ Janta Mazdoor Colony, said demanded that the political was announced, women, re­ hood had been awaiting in­ she had applied to add parties promise they will sidents of slums, homeless formation about the pen­ names to her family’s ration provide pulses, oil and su­ people and Delhiites from sion scheme forms they had card in 2016, but there had gar at subsidised rates to all different backgrounds gath­ filled in June, but there had been no progress. food security cardholders, ered on Tuesday to demand been no update from the go­ With several speakers enhance the coverage of all political parties to focus vernment. complaining of the pending food security to include the on food security while draft­ ration card applications, An­ homeless, transgenders and ing their manifestos. Quality of ration jali Bhardwaj of the Delhi migrant workers and end At a public meeting or­ Noor Jahan, a resident of Be­ Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan, the quota system in PDS. Re­ ganised by the Delhi Rozi gumpur, said the quality of said while the Centre de­ presentatives from the Aam Roti Adhikar Abhiyan, resi­ ration received through the cides the amount of ration Aadmi Party, the Congress dents from across the Capi­ public distribution system and funds to be allocated to and Swaraj India were pre­ tal narrated their expe­ was poor. “At the time of the PDS, the Delhi govern­ sent, while no one from the rience with availing of voting, they [political par­ ment could give funds from BJP attended, a statement ration, pension and other ties] promise all kinds of its own budget to expand from the Abhiyan said. A ND-NDE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Hemani Bhandari there was never a lack of was murderous”. The professor came to the New Delhi communication. As the violence ensued, university as a Master’s stu­ tough questions Nursing her head injury Ms. Sen was attacked with a dent in 1984 and started while sitting at her friend’s No security stone that she said was about teaching in 1997. house in south Delhi on Recalling the day of the at­ half the size of a brick. “JNU taught me what it Let us put the past behind: Kumar Tuesday, Professor Sucharita tack, Ms. Sen said she not­ A student on a two­wheel­ means to be an Indian as the Sen, who has become one of iced something unusual — er and a colleague came to university is a microcosm of Special Correspondent the faces of the violent attack the absence of security from her assistance and tried to India with people from vary­ NEW DELHI that took place inside Jawa­ the peace meeting on Sun­ get her to a hospital but they ing backgrounds. It teaches Jawaharlal Nehru University harlal Nehru University day. The professor said that were stopped at the universi­ me and I am sure others too ( JNU) Vice Chancellor M. Ja­ (JNU) on January 5, said that whenever there has been a ty’s main gate. that there is no one way of gadesh Kumar on Tuesday the “regime ( JNU administra­ call for any gathering, there “There were police on one living, there are 100 valid faced a volley of questions tion) had completely discon­ are security officials around, side and a very aggressive ways,” she said. from reporters on how a nected with the students and but on Sunday “I did not see group on the other. I was un­ She admitted that the un­ large number of masked visi­ teachers”. any, which was strange”. able to register much but the iversity has been changing in tors managed to unleash vio­ “For the first time, there is Due to scuffles on campus student I was with kept argu­ significant ways and that the lence at the university on Ja­ a regime ( JNU administra­ over the past few days, the ing with the aggressive group democratic structure of the nuary 5. The V­C said that tion and Vice­Chancellor) JNU Teachers’ Association to let us leave but we were institution was crumbling. were many versions about M. Jagadesh Kumar which has no relationship ( JNUTA) had called for a not allowed to do so. The The kind of violence seen how the people with wea­ with the students and teach­ peace meeting on Sunday police did not intervene and on Sunday was unthinkable, pons got onto campus, and dents that JNU campus is a ers. I do not think that the evening where they advised mati T­Point where the meet­ a human chain... the women kept watching. This is not the she said, adding: “Three that the police were investi­ secure place. I urge all stu­ V­C, today, can turn around students to not indulge in ing was taking place. came forward thinking that kind of police I want my years ago, we didn’t even gating the matter. dents to come back to the and say that these are my stu­ violence. While the meeting Ms. Sen’s colleague Amit the group would not attack country to have. They didn’t know ‘V’ of violence. There “Let the police investigate, campus. Let us put the past dents and my teachers. It was under way, a student Thorat then took his bicycle women. We had thought that even facilitate the move­ were strikes, dissent and let the facts come to the front behind,” the V­C said. breaks my heart to see JNU came and informed Ms. Sen and went to check. A while group would show some res­ ment,” she said. protests but no violence. I’ll and then we will know what Commenting on the un­ going down this way,” she that a large group of people later, he came back running pect for teachers. But I now Ms. Sen was then taken to forgive them for thrashing exactly happened. We must iversity’s statements after the said, adding that there have wearing masks and carrying and told them that he had realise that this thought pro­ the health centre on campus me but I’ll never forgive not add additional versions incident, which suggested been V­Cs with whom teach­ sticks had entered the cam­ been thrashed by the mob cess does not apply to them and was later shifted to a hos­ them for turning my univer­ to what is going around and that the people behind the ers and students have dis­ pus from the main gate and and had to leave his bicycle because they did not want to pital in her blood­soaked sity – a safe space – into a cause further confusion,” violent attack were students agreed and dissented, but was coming towards Sabar­ behind. “We decided to form scare anyone... the attack clothes. space of terror”. said Mr. Kumar. who were protesting against The V­C said that a securi­ the fee hike, Mr Kumar said ty committee will be formed that on January 3, students to find the facts behind the with masks had attacked Police appeal incident, but did not give a ti­ JNU’s server rooms to derail for information meline for when the report the registration process. would be tabled. “Let the “These masked students Staff Reporter committee work and come damaged the data centre to New Delhi out with the facts instead of prevent hundreds of stu­ Delhi Police on Tuesday re­ pressurising them,” he said. dents from registering and leased a pamphlet asking had a clear intent to stop the people to come forward ‘Campus is secure’ academic functioning of the and share evidence in con­ On a question regarding im­ university,” he said, adding nection with the “clash bet­ mediate steps that the JNU that the investigation would ween two groups of stu­ administration will take to tell whether the same stu­ dents” at Jawaharlal Nehru ensure students feel safe as dents were behind the Janu­ University (JNU) campus various probes take place, ary 5 violence. on January 5. the V­C said: “We had a meet­ He added that since regis­ A senior police officer ing with the wardens, pro­ tration for the new semester said that they have decided vost and the hostel adminis­ reopened on Tuesday, over not to call anyone to the tration... we will do whatever 2,800 students had paid police station and will re­ we need to do so that securi­ their hostel fee, “which cord statements and col­ ty is provided. We are repair­ shows that students want to lect evidence at JNU’s Ad­ ing damaged hostel property resume their academic life”. ministration Block. to make them safe... we are Reacting to allegations

A public meeting of JNU teachers and students on the campus; former student leader Kanhaiya Kumar speaks at the event on Tuesday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA, PTI The exercise will conti­ also requesting all students that he had not reached out nue for seven days starting to come back.” personally to injured stu­ Wednesday. “Our heart goes out to all dents and faculty members, The officer said they will injured students. The inci­ the V­C said that several ad­ BJP wants to make JNU an election issue: Kanhaiya speak to the injured stu­ dent (violence) is unfortu­ ministration officials had dents and teachers first. nate. I would like to tell stu­ contacted students and staff. ‘The party has no work to show or a chief ministerial face to project ahead of the Delhi Assembly polls’

Special Correspondent said, while encouraging the NEW DELHI students to keep their strug­ Former Jawaharlal Nehru gle alive. “It is an extreme University Students’ Union form of patriotism to defend ( JNUSU) president Kanhaiya the Constitution... if there is Kumar alleged that the Janu­ anybody who is anti­nation­ ary 5 attack on the university al, it is the government.” was an attempt to create an “Modi­Shah duo, please election issue for the BJP as it remember that JNU students did not have much work to sent back Indira Gandhi dur­ show or a chief ministerial ing the Emergency and did face to project ahead of the not let her enter campus and Delhi Assembly elections. ensured that she was defeat­ “It has been four years ed in the elections soon after since the February 9 inci­ due to the students’ move­ dent in JNU and they did not ment. We can do it to you as manage to prove anything. well,” Mr. Yechury said. Now, just ahead of the As­ AIPWA secretary Kavita sembly elections, Home Mi­ Krishnan said that the Delhi nister Amit Shah brought up Police is quick to lathi charge the issue on Monday at a pu­ Second from left: CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechuri, CPI general secretary D. Raja, Swaraj Abhiyan JNU and Jamia Millia Islamia blic event as he wants to chief Yogendra Yadav and All India Progressive Women's Association secretary Kavita Krishnan students but provide safe make JNU an election issue at a public meeting on JNU campus on Tuesday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA passage to masked attackers. by defaming it and divert at­ D. Raja, Yogendra Yadav, tention from the real issues,” at a meeting organised by Sitaram Yetchury said that suring that some members Bezwada Wilson and Shar­ Mr. Kumar said. A sedition the JNUSU and the JNU he headed the union during of the ABVP were admitted mishta Mukherjee also spoke case has been filed against Teachers’ Association (JNU­ the Emergency and at that to the hospital so that they at the event and said that the Mr. Kumar and others for TA) that took place on cam­ time also the fight was in de­ could say that the violence attack on JNU students was slogans raised on the cam­ pus after a solidarity march fence of democracy and the happened on both sides. an attack on the minds of pus during an event on Fe­ taken out by JNU alumni. Constitution. He alleged that “I salute the doctors at AI­ reason and critical thinking. bruary 9, 2016, against the Several other alumni of on the night of the attack, he IMS who did not succumb to Several JNU alumni were hanging of Parliament attack the university spoke at the visited AIIMS where BJP MP such pressure and treated not allowed on campus after convict Afzal Guru. public meeting. Former JNU­ Meenakshi Lekhi and other those who really needed their march as the university Mr. Kumar was speaking SU chief and CPI (M) leader senior BJP leaders were en­ medical care,” Mr. Yechury shut the gates. Doctors back Haryana teachers ask students President to visit JNU Elisha Vermani New Delhi Demand inquiry by independent panel Doctors and medical stu­ dents carried out a protest Special Correspondent it, brought the role and in­ march against the Citizen­ Gurugram tention of the JNU adminis­ ship (Amendment) Act and The Teachers’ Association tration under doubt. National Register of Citi­ of Central University Harya­ Quoting former Prime zens at Jamia Millia Islamia na (TACUH) has written a Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on Tuesday. The protest letter to the President con­ that a university stood “for was held to show solidarity demning the violence that tolerance, for reason, for to the ongoing movement was unleashed at Jawaharlal the adventure of ideas and against violence in univer­ Nehru University (JNU) for the search of truth”, the sities across the country. campus on January 5, and letter said that what hap­ Several protesters ex­ demanded an inquiry by an pened on January 5 juxta­ pressed concerns over ob­ independent panel com­ posed this vision. struction of medical pro­ prising ex­Supreme Court fessionals from carrying judges and renowned ‘Reign of terror’ out their duty and tending educationalists. “Fierce debate on local and to people who were The association also global issues among the stu­ wounded during the vio­ asked President Ram Nath dents, and slogans of ‘Inqui­ lence at JNU on January 5. Kovind to visit the JNU cam­ lab Zindabad’, ‘Aazaadi’ and Terming the attack on pus and assure the students social justice resonating in doctors in JNU a “war and teachers that there the atmosphere, and songs crime”, Dr. Mohammed would be an atmosphere of and theatre reflecting the Shadab Khan (23) said: free teaching. dream of a just society, are “Medical professionals are The letter further said identifiers of the ‘normal’ not targeted even during that the absence of any ac­ JNU life, but on January 5 actual wars, but here am­ tion by JNU security or the this life was eclipsed by the bulances are being police to stop the violence, horrible reign of terror,” vandalised.” despite being informed of read the letter. 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DELHI THE HINDU 4 CITY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF ‘Nirbhaya convict broke down Chief Minister welcomes verdict DUTA to extend strike, boycott official duties Award death penalty to rape convicts within 6 months: Maliwal NEW DELHI The Delhi University Staff Reporter act as a deterrent, she told Teachers’ Association (DUTA) after hearing execution date’ New Delhi The Hindu, “It will of course on Tuesday resolved to The Aam Aadmi Party on act as a deterrent in future extend its indefinite strike Tuesday welcomed the Del­ as the hanging of the con­ and boycott all official duties, 3 other convicts in 2012 gang rape­murder case remained impassive, says officer hi court’s verdict on the victs will send out a strong including evaluation. The SAURABH TRIVEDI union has been on strike for We will inform the from Meerut said. He will be 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape message. Up until now, per­ NEW DELHI <> nearly a month now, family members of approached by the Tihar jail and murder case. petrators were under the demanding absorption of After a Delhi court on Tues­ the convicts and authorities on Wednesday as “Today, a long term wish impression that there is no ad­hoc teachers. The DUTA’s day issued death warrants their last meeting another hangman in Luck­ of the people of Delhi has grave consequences to such against all four convicts in the now’s jail is said to be unwell. been fulfilled. I think, the Nirbhaya’s mother and father heinous crimes. However, general body meeting on will be arranged in 2012 Nirbhaya case, one of “We had earlier written to others will also learn that along with lawyers after the now with this judgment, it Tuesday passed a resolution Tihar. Four gallows condemning the attack on them broke down while the the prison authority of Uttar people who misbehave with verdict outside the Patiala will be proved that justice JNU students and teachers. rest remained impassive are ready Pradesh seeking service of women will not be spared,” House Courts on Tuesday. will be brought in each case when the Judge announced An officer with Tihar Jail hangman. Now that the death said AAP national convener * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA henceforth.” Air quality likely to be in the execution date, said a se­ warrants have been issued, Arvind Kejriwal while ad­ Ms. Maliwal, who had ‘satisfactory’ category nior officer with Tihar jail. DG (Tihar) Sandeep Goyal we will be writing to the pri­ dressing the seventh town of death warrants against gone on an indefinite hun­ The air quality of the city said they have received the son authority again for the hall meeting, a part of the the convicts in the Nirbhaya ger strike last December as improved to the ‘poor’ January 22 at 7 a.m. judgment copy and the death same,” said the officer. party’s election campaign. case. It took seven years. well, demanding the death category on Tuesday and is The convicts, who were pro­ warrants. On Tuesday, the Jail Superintendent of The meeting was organ­ This system will have to penalty for rape convicts expected to improve to duced before the court via vi­ (Clockwise from top left) court was hearing the appli­ Meerut prison, V.P. Pandey, ised by AAP and anchored change. Such a system must maintained that such ver­ ‘satisfactory’ on Wednesday, deoconferencing, will be Nirbhaya rape convicts — cations moved by Nirbhaya’s said he has not received any by Aaj Tak. During the meet­ be put in place, which en­ dicts should be meted out said government­run hanged on January 22 at 7 Pawan, Vinay, Mukesh and parents and the prosecution letter for sending Pawan for ing, senior AAP leader Man­ sures that the rapist is within six months of the monitoring agency System of a.m. Akshay. * PTI (Delhi government), seeking the execution. ish Sisodia said: “I am happy hanged within six months.” crime and “not wait for se­ Air Quality and Weather On hearing the verdict, Pa­ issuance of death warrant “We will inform the family that the efforts of their la­ Terming the verdict “jus­ ven years”. Forecasting and Research wan (25) who was in a sepa­ against the convicts. members of the convicts and wyers, family, friends and tice to all Nirbhayas”, Delhi “I appeal to the Centre to (SAFAR). “Scattered to fairly rate cell broke down while wan is in Jail No 4. their last meeting will be ar­ activists have paid off. The Commission for Women ensure that in the future, the widespread rainfall is Mukesh (32), Vinay Sharma “As per procedure, the A relief: hangman ranged in Tihar. Four gallows court took a decision, for chief Swati Maliwal on Tues­ death penalty should be expected and the washout (26), and Akshay Singh (31), convicts have to be moved to Hangman Pawan, who is like­ are ready and the rope or­ which people of the country day said: “Even though it awarded within six months process may further improve AQI to ‘satisfactory’ category who were together at the a separate condemned cell. ly to execute the task, said he dered from Buxar jail has al­ have been waiting for a long has taken a long time, the so that justice is provided by tomorrow,” SAFAR said. time, remained expression­ They will be put under will get relief after hanging ready reached Tihar,” said an time.” verdict is a win for all the swiftly. It has to be guaran­ less, the officer said. round­the­clock surveillance the rape convicts. “It will give officer. Mr. Kejriwal tweeted: Nirbhayas of the country.” teed that perpetrators will Three of the convicts are and their health will be mon­ a message to all those who All convicts will be hanged “There is some sense of sa­ When asked whether the be punished at the earliest,” lodged in Jail No 2 while Pa­ itored daily,” said the officer. disrespect women,” Pawan together, the officer added. tisfaction after the issuance death penalty handed will she added.

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Give information Staff Reporter from the sewage. on air quality New Delhi They had also raised con­ The National Green Tribu­ cerns about accidents being management, nal on Tuesday directed the caused due to the water log­ Haryana State Pollution ging in the area. NGT tells States Control Board and Farida­ The green panel noted: bad District Magistrate to “The flooded road hampers Staff Reporter furnish a factual and action the movement of vehicles, New Delhi taken report on sewage The flooded stretch on the emits a foul smell, causes The National Green Tribu­ overflowing on the Delhi­ Delhi­Agra Highway. water­borne diseases and nal on Tuesday directed the Agra Highway. * ASHOK KUMAR accidents on the highway. Central Pollution Control Taking cognisance of a re­ Pipeline and drains get fre­ Board (CPCB) to obtain in­ port published by The Hin- need to be remedied forth­ quently choked due to formation from Chief Secre­ du on safety concerns being with in the interest of the en­ dumping of garbage in the taries of all States and Union raised due to the overflow­ vironment and public open drain, leading to over­ Territories pertaining to ing sewage on National health.” flowing of sewage to the ser­ compliance of solid waste Highway­19, a Bench headed The Hindu on January 6 vice road.” management rules, air qual­ by NGT Chairperson Justice had highlighted how sewage An egg­stall owner, Prah­ ity management and resto­ Adarsh Kumar Goel directed from the Seekri village was lad, had said: “A portion of ration of polluted river authorities to furnish the re­ overflowing onto a service the road is damaged due to stretches across the port within one month. road for the last six months waterlogging and a truck country. The Bench said: “The and had become a major overturned a month ago. While persuing a report news report gives rise to a cause of hindrance to locals The highway authorities furnished by the apex pollu­ substantial question of the and motorists. then closed the right turn to tion monitoring body, a environment which may call The locals had com­ the road passing through

Bench headed by NGT for the intervention of this plained of foul smell and wa­ Seekri and connecting a do­ Seagulls fly over the Yamuna on a cold day in the city. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA chairperson observed that Tribunal. The situation may ter­borne diseases resulting zen villages.” CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the data was insufficient and that information per­ taining to sewage genera­ tion and treatment reflected Man found dead on Noida Registrations for e­auction of vacant HC junks PIL for probe a gap. “Grading made by the CPCB into “good”, “aver­ age”, “poor” and “no infor­ road, belongings missing Delhi Development Authority plots begin into IGIA duty­free shops mation” is not based on any qualitative analysis but the Case of murder and loot registered Exercise to be carried out from January 28 to 31, say officials Fine of ₹10,000 imposed on petitioner extent of information fur­ nished,” it said. With regard Press Trust of India the incident took place,” a Staff Reporter put on offer, they said. In the first phase, the Press Trust of India purchased a bottle of wine to the restoration of 351 pol­ Noida police spokesperson said. New Delhi Around 129 plots meant land­owning agency had New Delhi priced ₹9,740. “We see no luted river stretches, the A Gurugram­based private “Along with his car, ob­ Registrations for an e­auc­ for expandable housing collected around ₹925 The Delhi High Court dis­ reason to entertain this writ NGT directed the State go­ firm’s employee was found jects like his mobile phone, tion of vacant residential, scheme, seven group hous­ crore by putting the vacant missed a PIL seeking a high­ petition because it is not a vernments to provide infor­ dead on a service lane in laptop and wallet were also commercial, industrial and ing plots, 67 spaces for of­ plots under the hammer level inquiry into the affairs Public Interest Litigation at mation on the in­situ and Greater Noida early on missing,” an officer said. His institutional plots among fices and shops will also be with residential plots of duty­free shops at the In­ all. This is absolutely a priv­ ex­situ remediation. Tuesday with his car and family members said he had others, under the Delhi De­ put on offer. worth ₹198 crore being dira Gandhi International ate interest litigation,” it The Tribunal added: other belongings missing, called them at 10.55 p.m., velopment Authority Additionally, 55 vacant sold for a total of ₹298 Airport here and imposed a said. The counsel for the pe­ “Chief Secretaries need to the police said. saying he would reach (DDA) began on Tuesday, plots meant for installing crore. cost of ₹10,000 on the titioner, who claimed to be a monitor and compile infor­ The victim — Gaurav home in five minutes. “But said officials. mobile towers and 12 spac­ petitioner. book publisher, submitted mation on the subject of ex­ Chandel — was a resident of he did not reach home even es meant for kiosks will al­ Sold at for ₹90 crore that on June 17, 2019, when ecution of action plans for Fifth Avenue Gaur City in after 45 minutes and calls Last date so be put on offer for inter­ The industrial plots worth ‘Private interest’ he landed at the IGIAfrom containment of air pollu­ Greater Noida (West), they made on his mobile phone The e­auction will take ested stakeholders. ₹38 crore being sold for An HC Bench refused to en­ abroad, he had gone to the tion in 122 cities where air said, adding that case of went unanswered after place between January 28 ₹90 crore, officials said. tertain the PIL, saying it was duty­free shop to purchase quality is not within permis­ murder and loot have been which his wife asked some and January 31 while the First phase The officials added that “absolutely a private inter­ wine, which cost ₹9,740. sible limits.” The NGT also registered against unknown of their neighbours to help last date of registrations is The land­owning agency, interested stakeholders est litigation”. The plea alleged that sought information on the persons. trace him,” a family source January 24, said a senior had in January last, can register on the online The Bench noted that the such shops are selling small quantity of municipal solid His body was found near said. DDA official. launched the first phase of portal till 6 p.m on January PIL was filed after a duty­ products like biscuits, cho­ waste generated, segregat­ Hidon Vihar Stadium at 4.15 GautamBuddha Nagar’s Under the scheme, 51 in­ the scheme where around 24. and that a help desk free shop at the airport had colates to customers with­ ed and treated along with a.m. with injuries on his SSP Vaibhav Krishna said in­ stitutional, 164 residential, 645 vacant plots in the was also available at the given chocolates worth out their permission and de­ data on the quantity of lega­ head. “Chandel was return­ vestigation has been taken 50 industrial and 90 com­ Capital were put under Delhi Development Auth­ ₹360 to the petitioner in­ mand and in this way they cy waste. ing home last night when up to track the culprits. mercial vacant plots will be consideration. ority’s office. stead of change when he are disposing of old stock. Kherki Daula toll plaza traffic shifts to alternative route due to congestion

Heavy traffic diversion is causing revenue loss to company, which will be claimed from agency responsible for construction of new road, says toll operation manager

Ashok Kumar long waiting time at the toll The traffic at the before the toll plaza, blocking muters to IMT Manesar re­ cated FASTag lanes on De­ GURUGRAM <> plaza. The commuters also toll has gone the traffic on the adjoining turn to work,” said Mr. Khan. cember 15, all the toll lanes, In the wake of the Ministry of save the toll fees into the drastically down carriageway to reach the ser­ He said there was also a except one on each side, Road Transport and High­ bargain. from 80,000 vice road on the opposite possibility of FASTag users would be operated as FASTag ways order for dedicated Millennium City Express­ side. The motorists then going back to the cash pay­ lanes from January 15. The vehicles per day FASTag lanes at all National way Private Limited (MCEPL) drive another 200 m on the ment mode and it was, thus, trial for one only­cash lane Highways Authority of India toll operation assistant man­ earlier to around service road to turn left on at a meeting with the NHAI on each side, i.e. Lane No.22 (NHAI) tolls from December ager Mohammad Sohrab 65,000 the road connecting to the officials, a decision to begin (heading to Delhi) and Lane 15 last year, a sizeable chunk Khan told The Hindu that the Mohammad Sohrab Khan SPR. charging penalty from the no.28 (heading to Jaipur), will Millennium City Expressway Private of traffic at Kherki Daula toll traffic at the toll has gone Limited toll operation assistant Though the statistics for cash users entering the FAS­ start on January 8. plaza here has shifted to an drastically down from manager December indicate an in­ Tag lanes was taken. “Since “All the users under the ex­ alternative road connecting 80,000 vehicles per day ear­ crease of around 20% in FAS­ the tag users may find it in­ emption category will be al­ the Southern Peripheral Ex­ lier to around 65,000. He Motorists heading towards Delhi on NH­48 take right turn become busy. More private Tag users in a month’s time, convenient to frequently re­ lowed free passage on the pressway to the Delhi­Jaipur said the heavy traffic mostly before Kherki Daula toll plaza to go to the new road through and commercial vehicles Mr. Khan said, still 50% of the charge their tags and most production of a valid docu­ Highway, opposite Hyatt Re­ had diverted to the new Sector 77. * ASHOK KUMAR have started plying on the users paid through cash and are not comfortable using ment to authenticate their ex­ gency Hotel. route, causing revenue loss to stretch,” he said. there was not much improve­ technology, they might go emption. However, they are Though the 5­km road the company. tion of an alternative road the traffic had increased 20­ The traffic on the Jaipur­ ment in the traffic situation at back to cash payment mode also advised to get the ex­ passing through Sector 77 has within 2­3 km of the toll pla­ 30% over the past few weeks Delhi carriageway of the the toll. “The real picture if we do not penalise the cash empted tag fitted on their been in use for the past six Legal aspects za. Losses incurred would be and traffic snarls were seen in highway — mostly private would emerge in the second users,” said Mr. Khan. vehicle as per the standard months, the traffic has sud­ He said the MCEPL was look­ claimed from the agency res­ the evening at the T­point vehicles from group housing week of January after the au­ Though eight lanes on Jai­ operation procedure of denly increased on this ing into the legal aspects of ponsible for the construction connecting the road to the societies along the Dwarka tomotive companies open pur­Delhi carriageway and 11 MoRTH,” said NHAI Project stretch over the past few the matter since the agree­ of the road, he added. Delhi­Jaipur Highway service Expressway — take right from again after the routine shut­ lanes on Delhi­Jaipur carria­ Director (Gurugram) Ashok weeks due to congestion and ment did not allow construc­ Ajit Singh, a vendor, said road. “Suddenly the road has the U­turn cut, about 400 m down and the regular com­ geway were declared as dedi­ Sharma.

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Timings ‘Wasn’t allowed DELHI AMU to reopen in three WEDNESDAY, JAN. 08 Sikhs safe in India, says Amarinder RISE 07:16 SET 17:41 to enter temple’ RISE 15:30 SET 04:38 phases from January 13 THURSDAY, JAN. 09 Press Trust of India ‘Akal Takht acting Jathedar should ask SAD to sever ties with BJP-led govt.’ Shimla RISE 07:16 SET 17:42 Winter vacation Mansoor it was decided that RISE 16:20 SET 05:39 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Any feeling of ing a secular nation, with no chief Sukhbir Singh Badal the university would open Himachal Pradesh Social CHANDIGARH <> was extended FRIDAY, JAN. 10 insecurity would discrimination on religious should also ask his wife Har­ in three phases. Justice and Empowerment RISE 07:16 SET 17:42 The medicine, manage­ Minister Rajiv Saizal, who is A day after Akal Takht, the be detrimental to grounds,” said Capt. Amarin­ simrat Kaur Badal to resign after clashes RISE 17:18 SET 06:39 ment and engineering facul­ a Dalit, on Tuesday told the highest temporal seat of Sikh the community’s der, adding that any feeling immediately as a Union religion, acting Jathedar Gia­ among the Sikh community Minister. between students ties would open on January Assembly that he and a le­ interest, as well as ni Harpreet Singh stated that that they were not secure Capt. Amarinder said that and police 13, faculties of law com­ gislator were not allowed to Sikhs were not safe even in that of the nation here was a matter of grave while some incidents here merce, science, life sciences enter a temple in the State. India, Punjab Chief Minister minorities in the country. concern. “If Sikhs were feel­ and there could not be con­ Special Correspondent and agricultural sciences Mr. Saizal was speaking Ghaziabad Amarinder Singh has said he While he himself did not ing insecure in this country, strued to be a case of Sikhs would open on January 20. while participating in a dis­ did not agree with him. agree with the Akal Takht as stated by the acting Jathe­ not being safe in India, per­ Aligarh Muslim University Rest of the faculties would cussion on a bill that ex­ Capt. Amarinder on Tues­ Jathedar’s remarks, the Chief dar of Akal Takht, Giani Har­ ception was as important as will reopen from January 13 open on January 24. tends reservation for SCs day expressed concern over Minister in a statement here preet Singh, then it was the reality. “The Sikhs had lived in a phased manner. A state­ The university was closed and STs in the Lok Sabha Akal Takht acting Jathedar’s said that if the former did dispensation at the Centre through a very dark period ment released by the office a week ahead of its schedule and State Assemblies by remarks that Sikhs were not feel that way then he should which was to blame,” he in the 1980s and any feeling of the Controller of Exami­ when clashes broke out bet­ another 10 years. safe even in India, and asked take up the matter with the said. of being at the receiving end nations on Tuesday said that ween students and police Mr. Saizal said that he the Takht to put pressure on SAD and ask them to leave Capt. Amarinder said that in any way would revive at a consultative meeting of on December 15. It was sup­ and Nachan MLA Vinod Ku­ the Shiromani Akali Dal to the BJP­led coalition govern­ given that the Akalis’ claim their sense of fear, which the deans of faculties, prin­ posed to open on January 6 mar were not allowed to sever all ties with the ruling ment at the Centre, of which to be the custodians of the would be detrimental to the cipals of colleges and other but the winter vacations enter a temple, but did not alliance at the Centre, which they are a part. Sikh religion, and the com­ community’s interest, as functionaries of the univer­ were extended by the admi­ mention its name, location has been unable to ensure a “Unlike Pakistan, India munity, they should take a well as that of the nation,” he sity under the chairmanship nistration because of the and the time of the sense of safety among the had always taken pride in be­ stand on the issue, and SAD added. of Vice­Chancellor Tariq “prevailing conditions”. incident.

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Sidharth Yadav Tuesday, Devraj Singh, who Bhopal taught in Vidisha district, Besides teaching Hindi, Sha­ called upon Congress leader heen Khan, removed recently Rahul Gandhi and the party as a guest faculty member at to keep its election promise. a college in Katni district, for Section 17.22 of the party’s 15 years mentored students manifesto for the M.P. Vid­ with their career goals, even han Sabha election in No­ lent them emotional support. vember 2018 reads “...they But never did she imagine will not be removed”. that despite having a PhD and Kamal Nath, now Chief Mi­ qualifying the National Eligi­ nister, had asserted, “The bility Test and the State Eligi­ Guest faculty members singing ‘bhajans’ during their ongoing party doesn’t believe in the bility Test, her own future strike in Bhopal on Tuesday. * A.M. FARUQUI tradition of guests and con­ could look this bleak. tracts. And this is about jus­ “Should we focus on our With the appointment of State government has extend­ tice. Just wait for some days, own future or our chil­ 3,418 permanent faculty ed them an edge in securing a and you won’t complain any dren’s?” wonders Ms. Khan, a members in government col­ job, though ad hoc, elsewh­ more.” single mother of a daughter, a leges by the M.P. Public Ser­ ere, the former guests, who D.P. Ahuja, Higher Educa­ BSc student, and a son in vice Commission last month, earned ₹1,500 a day, demand tion Commissioner, told The Class XII. Not paid salary for around 2,300 guests — assis­ regularisation. The last ap­ Hindu, “The guests were ap­ six months, she is left grap­ tant professors, librarians pointments happened in pointed in a temporary ar­ pling to pay ₹8,000 as house and sports officers — faced re­ 2007, and before that in 1993. rangement. And in the next rent every month, and has moval from present postings As the dharna in Bhopal three years, we plan to fill all even accrued a ₹2­lakh debt. on December 7. Although the entered the 29th day on the regular posts.”

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Jacob Koshy Foundation, Bengaluru, and enough of the product to NEW DELHI among the authors of the address the huge volume — A consortium of scientists, study, used the genome and and variety — of snakebites including some from India, gene expression data from 14 in India, according to have mapped the genome of different cobra tissues. They independent scientists. the Indian Cobra, among the annotated venom­gland­ “India is the snakebite most poisonous snakes in the relevant genes and analysed capital of the world,” says country. Knowing the the genomic organisation of Kartik Sunagar, Assistant sequence of genes could aid gene families encoding toxin Professor at the Centre for in understanding the proteins involved in venom­ Ecological Sciences, IISc. chemical constituents of the gland function. Prof Sunagar and his venom and contribute to The Indian cobra is among The authors found that 19 colleagues reported last development of new anti­ the most poisonous snakes. toxin genes are expressed month that though bites venom therapies, which have exclusively in the venom from 60 of 270 species of remained practically gland and verified the Indian snakes are known to unchanged for over a saw­scaled viper. presence of protein for 16 of kill or maim, anti­venom century. “High­quality genomes of these genes. now available is only Every year, approximately venomous snakes... will “Targeting these 19 effective against the 'Big 4.' five million people enable generation of a specific toxins using “These 4 species are not worldwide are bitten by comprehensive catalogue of synthetic human antibodies found in northeastern India venomous snakes resulting venom­gland­specific toxin should lead to a safe and but the region reports a in about 400,000 genes that can be used for effective anti­venom for significant number of snake amputations and more than the development of synthetic treating Indian cobra bites,” bites. That implies we need 100,000 deaths. Each year, anti­venom of defined Mr. Seshagiri said in a new kinds of anti­venom about 46,000 people die and composition,” the scientists statement. against species here. The 140,000 people are disabled said in the paper published Sequencing a genome is krait in Punjab produces a in India from snakebites by in the peer­reviewed journal an important step to making venom chemically different the ‘Big 4’ — the Indian Nature Genetics this week. anti­venom but wouldn’t on from the krait in South cobra, the common krait, Somasekar Seshagiri, of its own solve the problem of India,” he explained to The Russell’s viper, and the the SciGenome Research making and supplying Hindu.

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OBITUARY & REMEMBRANCE Left trade unions Abode of peace turns venue of

BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE confident of total protests against JNU violence Visva-Bharati students, teachers condemn attack on campus

strike in Bengal Bishwanath Ghosh Santiniketan Supporting issues, not bandh, says TMC The new citizenship law and the mob attack in Jawaharlal Special Correspondent former Labour Minister Ana­ Nehru University have ignit­ Kolkata di Sahu. ed protests in Santiniketan — The Left trade unions, which Mr. Sahu said rallies in the abode of peace — which have called a 24­hour gener­ Kolkata would start in diffe­ generally remains insulated al strike on Wednesday in rent parts of the city at 6 from political unrest. protest against the economic a.m. “The central rally from A place that has seen only policies of the Centre, are the CITU headquarters in candlelight marches in the confident of a total shut­ central Kolkata will start at past and where emotions are Students of Visva-Bharati take part in a torchlight rally expressed mainly through art down in West Bengal. 10 a.m.,” he said. against CAA, NRC at Santiniketan. * FILE PHOTO Representatives of the and poetry has, of late, been trade unions said on Tues­ TMC’s stand simmering with anger quite the JNU students. Rabindra­ of Monday’s protests. day that not only the work­ A day after Chief Minister uncharacteristic of it, with nath Tagore’s songs were “[On Wednesday] students ing class but also the stu­ Mamata Banerjee said students as well as teachers of sung, slogans chanted and are going to hold a demon­ dents, youth and middle though she supported the is­ Visva­Bharati University speeches made. Visva­Bharati stration outside the central class, who are opposed to sues related to the strike, she openly protesting against the is a central university and its office and we teachers are go­ the Citizenship (Amend­ would not allow a bandh, Citizenship (Amendment) Act chancellor happens to be the ing to support them. I have al­ ment) Act and the National Trinamool leader Partha and the violence in JNU. Prime Minister. ready applied for leave so Register of Citizens, would Chaterjee said strike was the Many walls on the campus, “We are a part of India, that I can participate in the join the strike and make it a last weapon and by using it usually adorned with art­ and whatever is on India’s strike,” Mr. Bhattacharyya, huge success. often the Left parties were work, now bear anti­CAA slo­ agenda is on our agenda as himself a former student of The strike called by 10 making it blunt. “For 34 gans and Upasana Griha, the well. Right now, our aim is to JNU, told The Hindu. trade unions, including that years in the Left Front rule famous glass­walled prayer make the [Wednesday’s] na­ Ironically, the university is of the Congress, has a long bandhs had become holi­ hall, has become the venue of tionwide strike a big success,” holding a lecture by BJP ideo­ charter of demands, includ­ days,” he said. Asked wheth­ angry demonstrations. said Sudipta Bhattacharyya, logue Swapan Dasgupta on ing universalisation of the er they were opposed to the On Monday, more than professor of economics and Wednesday; he is going to public distribution system, strike, Mr. Chatterjee reiter­ 500 students and teachers president of the Visva­Bharati speak in favour of the CAA. containing unemployment ated what Ms. Banerjee had gathered outside the prayer University Faculty Associa­ The protesting groups have through concrete measures, said, “We are not in support hall to express solidarity with tion, who was at the forefront given a call for its boycott. increase of minimum wages, of the bandh, we are sup­ trade union rights among porting the issues.” other issues. “A number of The representatives of the issues have been added since trade unions however, ex­ IIT­Kharagpur scholars express we called the strike and peo­ pressed confidence that un­ ple are keen to protest like the aggression shown in against the fascist tendencies the past, the ruling TMC solidarity with students, teachers of the Centre. Not only the would not foil the bandh this Special Correspondent working class, but tomorrow time. “If they show any ag­ Kolkata JNU alumni demand V-C’s exit [Wednesday] we will see the gression to foil the strike, The Research Scholars’ Special Correspondent former JNUSU president, support of students, youth they will do at their own pe­ Council of Indian Institute of Kolkata said the V­C is not “govern­ and the middle class,” said ril because people want to Technology­Kharagpur is­ A public meeting organised ing the university but pursu­ State president of the Centre show resistance through the sued a statement extending by the Jawaharlal Nehru Un­ ing some twisted agenda”. of Indian Trade Unions and bandh,” Mr. Sahu said. “full support and solidarity” iversity Alumni Association “...the V­C has not once to the faculty and students of in Kolkata and a civil society said he is willing to talk to Jawaharlal Nehru University. body Citizen’s Forum for the teachers and students... In a strongly worded state­ Bengal to get 2 Peace and Democracy on Rather he is asking the stu­ ment issued on Monday, the Tuesday demanded the re­ dents to join the university council condemned the “un­ new districts signation of JNU Vice­Chan­ arguing that registration will precedented violence and cellor M. Jagadesh Kumar to be renewed as if nothing has Press Trust of India terror” on the JNU campus, restore normalcy in the un­ happened. This is unaccep­ Patharpratima (W.B.) led by “hooded, armed iversity. Albeena Shakil, a table,” said Ms. Shakil. Chief Minister Mamata Ba­ mobs”. The attack on stu­ nerjee on Tuesday an­ dents and teachers “some of nounced that Sundarbans whom are women… is horri­ ror more keenly as we have enter a campus without per­ and Basirhat will be made fying in its barbarity”, the also been part of various mission. However, the same new districts. scholars said in the state­ movements in the past.” police did not wait for per­ A major part of the Sun­ ment. “Such an act of terror The scholars also criti­ mission when they assaulted darbans is in the South 24 has no place in any civilised cised the Delhi police. “In students inside other univer­ Parganas district, while Ba­ world, least of all in the JNU, the attacking mob was sity campuses, turning them sirhat subdivision is in the sphere of learning. We, at protected by the Delhi Police into war zones,” the council North 24 Parganas district. IIT­Kharagpur, feel this ter­ who stated that they cannot said. Heavy cash transaction in IAS officer’s accounts Special Correspondent BHUBANESWAR Investigation by Odisha’s Vigilance Directo­ rate has revealed heavy cash transactions in the bank accounts of the IAS officer who was arrested last week for accepting illegal gratification of ₹1 lakh from the representa­ tive of a private company. 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THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020 WEST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CM urges India Inc. to revive business environment, create jobs Industrialists commend Uddhav for sion towards the policies sport in Maharashtra and boost to tourism in order to which would help facilitate more specifically in Mumbai, create more jobs, coupled speaking ‘with passion, from the heart’ future investments. He is which is the commerce capi­ with policy­friendly gover­ said to have told industrial­ tal of India,” Mr. Singhania nance to increase ease of do­ Piyush Pandey The interaction at State ists, “I am there for you to said. ing business. The single most Lalatendu Mishra guest house Sahyadri was at­ serve you, and you all need Uday Kotak, president de­ important business­friendly Sharad Vyas tended by industry captains, to invest in Maharashtra and signate of the Confederation message to all of us he gave Mumbai including Tata Sons chair­ not anywhere else. Let me of Indian Industry (CII), said with humility was to consid­ Chief Minister Uddhav man emeritus Ratan Tata, know how we can help. We business and industry would er [that] it’s your own go­ Thackeray has assured in­ Reliance Industries chair­ will meet every three months strongly support the CM’s vi­ vernment and the one that dustrialists that the new man Mukesh Ambani, Anand to discuss issues. This is an sion, and the CII is commit­ listens — come and work with three­party government un­ Mahindra, Adi Godrej, Sajjan action­oriented government, ted to work with the govern­ us hand in hand,” the Hindu­ der his leadership will not Jindal, Uday Kotak, Deepak and we will continuously ment for the development of jas said. work with a vendetta against Parekh, Gautam Singhania take feedback and action ac­ the State. “At around 15%, For Anand Piramal, execu­ business deals signed by the and Baba Kalyani. cordingly.” Maharashtra contributes tive director of Piramal previous regime. Environment Minister One industrialist said it highest to the Indian GDP. Group, the meeting had a Mr. Thackeray promised Aaditya Thackeray said the was a rare meeting where Mumbai can play a signifi­ great symbolic significance top CEOs and industrialists a government will develop 66 “everybody felt happy”. “We cant role in being the finan­ as it recognised the critical basket of incentives for busi­ urban forests in Mumbai, Frank talk: The Chief Minister assured industry captains of a business­friendly environment in attend so many meetings by cial capital of the world, and role that companies can play nesses agreeing to promote and at the same time work to the State over the next five years. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT chief ministers and political the State should leverage sig­ in nation building. “The employment for local youth, promote night life in the fi­ leaders, where you go just to nificant opportunity in the State can and wants to play a while assuring a business­ nancial capital. hav Thackeray that the star away 50% of those invest­ to him at midnight ready to fill the quorum. But here, he Fintech space,” he said. greater role in the revitalisa­ friendly environment in the Industrialists told The Hin- of the show was none of us, ments. Why cannot Maha­ create jobs, he will go to any was speaking with passion Gopichand Hinduja, co­ tion of the real estate sector. State over the next five years. du they left the meeting im­ but Aaditya Thackeray,” RPG rashtra [focus on] getting extent to help him. Further, and from the heart. He was chairman of the Hinduja The Chief Minister listened In his first interaction with pressed with the CM’s honest Group chairman Harsh those investments and be­ he was more interested in treating the businessmen Group, and Ashok Hinduja, to both our constructive top corporate honchos, the appeal to revive the State’s Goenka told The Hindu. coming a manufacturing hub dispersal of industry in back­ like family, and not like ‘I am chairman, Hinduja Group of feedback and suggestions, Shiv Sena leader urged the business environment and Mr. Goenka suggested driven by electronics?” he ward areas. He also empha­ the master and you are the Companies (India) said the and committed to take ac­ corporates to help Mumbai attempts at fostering a perso­ making Pune a global educa­ asked. sised that his government slave’,” the industrialist said. CM had clearly laid down the tions to simplify and shorten become a global tourism hub nal bond with each of them. tional centre, and tapping in­ Industrialist Venugopal will give maximum benefits Raymond Ltd. CMD Gau­ roadmap to make the State the approval process as well and transform cities like “It was a fabulous talk, he to investments in manufac­ Dhoot told The Hindu, “For to those who give employ­ tam Singhania said the meet­ into a $1 trillion economy. as to rationalise ready reck­ Pune, often called the Ox­ was unprepared and spoke turing moving away from the industrial growth of Mah­ ment to locals.” ing was very fruitful. “I urged “His blue print had a clear oner rates to make real estate ford of the East, into global from the heart, as he was not China. “A lot of manufactur­ arashtra, [the CM] is ready to Others present in the the Chief Minister to en­ emphasis on building more more affordable, in order to educational centres on the supposed to speak. Everyone ing is running away from Chi­ help the corporates at any le­ meeting said the Chief Minis­ hance the quality of infras­ industry, upgrade health and boost consumer sentiment,” lines of Oxford. went and congratulated Udd­ na, and Vietnam is taking vel. If any corporate comes ter spoke with a lot of pas­ tructure and public tran­ education facilities, give Mr. Piramal said.

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Alok Deshpande of action. There have been Alok Deshpande Mumbai talks within the party fold to Mumbai Fuelling speculation of what turn to the Hindutva ideolo­ The performance of minis­ could be yet another strange gy as the Sena has deserted ters of the Nationalist Con­ ‘Will ask airlines political alliance in the it by joining hands with the gress Party (NCP) in the State, Maharashtra Navnir­ Congress and the NCP,” an State government will be to give honey as man Sena (MNS) chief Raj MNS leader said on the con­ monitored directly by party Thackeray on Tuesday met dition of anonymity. president Sharad Pawar sweetener’ former chief minister and According to sources, the through periodic meetings. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party is also likely to change The first of these meet­ Press Trust of India leader Devendra Fadnavis. its flag to add more saffron ings will be held on Wednes­ Pune The meeting held in Prab­ colour to it. day. Apart from guiding the Union Minister Nitin Gad­ hadevi lasted for more than ministers on their adminis­ kari said he would request an hour, but neither of the Strained past trative duties, Mr. Pawar is Sharad Pawar airlines to provide honey two leaders was available The relations between both also likely to discuss with sachets as sweetener while for comment after it ended. parties were strained last them how to handle politi­ nisters earlier too. “This is serving tea and coffee to However, sources said the year after Mr. Thackeray cally sensitive matters. his method of working — passengers in flights. meeting could be the begin­ campaigned against the BJP The Goa Assembly passes the GST amendment and CAA Bill amidst protests by Opposition With the NCP getting the taking feedback and guiding He was speaking at the ning of the two parties com­ and Prime Minister Naren­ parties, including the Congress, Goa Forward and Mahashtrawadi Gomantak Party, in a one­ lion’s share in the Cabinet the junior ministers. He will Central Bee Research and ing together. dra Modi, though his party day session held at Porvorim on Tuesday. * ATISH POMBURFEKAR and key portfolios like be talking to us about prior­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Training Institute here on did not contest the Lok Sab­ Home, Finance, Rural Deve­ ities of the government and Monday. “Normally, one Driving force ha polls. Mr. Thackeray was lopment and Cooperation, how priorities of the work spoon of honey is equal to The BJP’s long term ally, the later served a notice by the State reverses decision on APMCs the party leadership sees need to be fixed,” he said. three spoons of sugar. Cur­ Shiv Sena, quit the partner­ Enforcement Directorate in this as an opportunity to ex­ Housing Minister Jitendra rently, refined sugar sa­ ship to form a government the Kohinoor mill case, Alok Deshpande cial invitees on every market bling the two parties to con­ pand its base in areas other Awhad said the meeting is to chets are provided on with the Congress and Na­ which further worsened the Mumbai committee whose income trol rural politics. than western Maharashtra provide guidance to the mi­ board to passengers, so we tionalist Congress Party relations. The State cabinet on Tues­ from fees levied and collec­ The Cabinet on Tuesday and Marathwada. nisters. “This is the first are trying if we can provide (NCP). The MNS, which The MNS chief had met day reversed yet another de­ tion exceeded ₹5 crore. For decided to annul the amend­ The NCP has not been meeting and Pawar saheb is honey sachets or honey managed to win only one NCP chief Sharad Pawar and cision of the previous go­ APMCs with income up to ₹5 ment. “We have been able to make inroads in Vi­ likely to take such review cubes in flights and hotels,” seat in the Assembly polls, party leader Ajit Pawar vernment to appoint four crore, the government could against this amendment darbha, north Maharashtra meetings at regular inter­ the MSME Minister said. neither has any power left in prior to the polls, giving rise technical experts on agricul­ appoint two special invitees. from the start. The move and urban areas such as vals,” he said. Passengers would be the ruling alliance, nor the to speculation that he might ture produce market com­ The Congress and Nation­ will ensure smooth func­ Mumbai. The three­party Mr. Pawar has already able to choose one of the Opposition. This seems to reach a tacit understanding mittees (APMCs). alist Congress Party (NCP), tioning of the APMCs with­ Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance called three senior ministers two, he said. “I am going to be compelling the two par­ with the NCP. The Bharatiya Janata Par­ then in the Opposition, had out any conflict,” Coopera­ has now given it an oppor­ — Home Minister Anil Desh­ call Air India, IndiGo, Spi­ ties to join hands, despite For the BJP, the loss of the ty­led (BJP) government had called the decision the BJP’s tion minister Balasaheb Patil tunity to cement its organi­ mukh, Labour and State Ex­ ceJet and GoAir and also the animosity between Sena as an ally in Mumbai brought in an amendment to attempt to control the said. sation in these areas. cise Minister Dilip Walse­Pa­ chairperson of the Khadi them in the last five years. and Pune creates difficulty the Agriculture Produce APMCs as it could not win The government will have Mumbai NCP chief and til and Mr. Malik — to Pune Gramudyog Commission, “Mr. Thackeray is set to in civic polls, and an alliance Marketing (Development them by contesting internal to table the Bill for the same Minority Development Mi­ after the portfolio distribu­ and request them to make address a public meeting on with the MNS would mean and Regulation) Act, 1963, elections. The APMCs have in the Budget session of the nister Nawab Malik told The tion and discussed the func­ both the options available January 23, where he will the party can break into the which gave the government for long been strongholds of legislature, before which an Hindu that Mr. Pawar would tioning of their respective in flights,” he said. announce the future course Sena’s Marathi vote bank. power to appoint four spe­ the Congress and NCP, ena­ ordinance will be issued. interact with the party’s mi­ departments. Ajit allays fears of transgender community about NRC, CAA Delegation meets Deputy CM after ‘others’ excluded in Assam

Sharad Vyas Mumbai The State government has assured the transgender community that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be inclusive for all in Maharashtra. After reports of transgen­ der people being excluded from the NRC in Assam, a de­ legation representing the community met Deputy Ajit Pawar and other NCP leaders meet a delegation of

Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on transgender people on Tuesday. * TWITTER/@AJITPAWARSPEAKS Tuesday. Mr. Pawar assured them that the NRC/ CAA, if The welfare board will have three different categories — implemented in the State at a helpline to ensure com­ A­1, A­2, and B — of direct all, will be made inclusive munity members are able to and indirect expenditure. for the third gender. ask for help by just making a The A­1 category for An estimated 2,000 ‘oth­ call. “The board will ensure “100% direct expenditure ers’ were left out of the NRC speedy social, political and on women/girls/transgen­ process in Assam. financial growth of the com­ ders” will cover schemes re­ The delegation also de­ munity,” Mr. Pawar said. lated to provision of free bi­ manded inclusion of the The meeting was attend­ cycles, maternity benefits third gender in the police ed by Social Justice Minister and support to self­help force, an age restriction on Dhananjay Munde, Public groups. The A­2 category, sex change, and a chapter Health Minister Rajesh with less than 100% direct on the community in text Tope, and MP Supriya Sule, expenditure, includes books, officials present in among others. schemes related to scholar­ the meeting said. “The De­ The delegation was told ship, housing and livelihood. puty CM has assured them that the government’s new The B category will in­ all help possible, while pro­ gender budget norms have clude indirect expenditure mising a gender­inclusive identified transgenders as for transgenders in intangi­ Budget,” said an official. potential beneficiaries of di­ bly targeted schemes, where The government also rect benefit transfer under beneficiaries cannot be agreed to constitute a wel­ State­run social schemes. counted. This includes fare board to ensure the Under the new norms re­ schemes for building roads third gender is main­ leased on Monday, transgen­ and bridges, and incentives streamed in Maharashtra. ders have been included in for vasectomies. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF Pay up for What happened in JNU is rice, Centre Supreme Court has tells Kerala reservations over appalling, says Amartya Sen Special Correspondent THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Nobel laureate says CAA ‘violates the demand of the Constitution’ Close on the heels of the land-grabbing case Amaravati protesters Centre denying Kerala the block highway Staff Reporter GUNTUR be turned down by the SC on additional flood relief Case tied to Yediyurappa, Shivakumar Bengaluru Tension mounted on the the grounds of being uncon­ granted to seven States, it National Highway 16 Economist and Nobel lau­ stitutional. You cannot have has demanded that the Legal Correspondent between Guntur and reate Amartya Sen termed certain types of fundamental State government pay the NEW DELHI Vijayawada on Tuesday as the violence at Jawaharlal rights of human beings — in cost of the rice allotted dur­ The Supreme Court on people gathered in large Nehru University (JNU) as this case connected with citi­ ing the floods. Tuesday expressed reserva­ numbers protesting against “appalling”, and con­ zenship — be related with re­ According to a letter tions about an NGO, Samaj the decision of the Andhra demned the delay by the un­ ligious differences rather written by the General Parivartana Samudaya, in­ Pradesh government to iversity administration and than the things that really Manager of the Food Cor­ tervening to fight a land­ announce Visakhapatnam as the police in bringing the sit­ matter such as where you poration of India to the grabbing case allegedly in­ its executive capital. Traffic uation under control. were born, and what the citi­ Kerala State Disaster Man­ volving Karnataka Chief Mi­ was held up for six hours. Interacting with reporters zenship laws require you to agement Authority, the nister B.S. Yediyurappa and on the sidelines of the award do.” State government should Congress leader D.K. Shiva­ IT Minister opens Cyient function of the Infosys Prize He further went on to say immediately remit ₹205.81 kumar when the original B.S. Yediyurappa development centre 2019 here on Tuesday, where that the Act “violates the de­ crore as cost for the 89,540 complainant had himself WARANGAL Telangana IT Minister K.T. he was the chief guest, Prof. Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayan Murthy, left, and Nobel mand of the Constitution,” tonnes of rice lifted by the withdrawn from the on merits, saying it con­ Rama Rao inaugurated a Sen said: “I’m appalled by laureate Amartya Sen in Bengaluru on Tuesday. * PTI arguing instead for a more Kerala State Civil Supplies litigation. cerned “corruption and state-of-the-art development what’s going on...that the es­ equitable process of granting Corporation from its ware­ A Bench led by Chief Jus­ crime” across party lines in centre of Cyient at the IT Park tablishment of the university layed that ill­treatment of the Citizenship (Amend­ citizenship. houses during the floods in tice of India Sharad A. the State. He had alleged in Madikonda on the outskirts can’t prevent outsiders from students could go on for ment) Act, which are also “If you read large volumes 2018­19. Bobde asked advocate how neither the Lokayukta of Warangal on Tuesday. He coming in and creating such quite some time without be­ seeing huge participation of the Constituent Assembly The letter has been writ­ Prashant Bhushan, appear­ nor the State government said bringing IT companies to bloody violence within the ing prevented by forces of from students, Prof. Sen records, you will see that us­ ten as a reminder to the ing for the NGO, to make challenged the Karnataka Warangal is just the beginning campus. I’m also appalled law and order.” said, “The student commun­ ing religion for discrimina­ previous ones sent on De­ good its claim that it did not High Court’s decision in De­ and he wants to see these that communication bet­ Responding to questions ity has great many issues to tion of this kind will be re­ cember 5 and December parachute into the case at cember 2015 to quash charg­ companies spread their ween the administration and about the massive protests think about. But the CAA in garded as not acceptable,” 30 last year for clearing the the level of the Supreme es. On Tuesday, Chief Justice operations across the State. the police would be so de­ across the country against my judgment should really he said. cost of the rice. Court but had been dogged­ Bobde orally observed that ly fighting for justice right the NGO cannot “ride piggy­ from the level of the Karna­ back” on Mr. Gowda’s peti­ taka Lokayukta. tion, especially after the lat­ Sabarimala case: dissenting judges The court gave the NGO ter has withdrawn from the Politics should be kept out two weeks to provide proof case. “You are riding on so­ of its long­standing involve­ meone else’s shoulders. You are not part of Constitution Bench ment in the case and that it cannot do that.. This person of campuses, says Venkaiah too had filed a separate [Gowda] has withdrawn. complaint with the Now, you can separately It will hear 60 petitions against entry of women into temple Lokayukta. pursue your own case… And Some universities are in news for wrong reasons, he notes The original complainant if you claim that you had Krishnadas Rajagopal Rao, Mohan M. Shantana­ 2019, to refer the issue to a and petitioner in the case, filed a complaint with the Staff Reporter ideologies, but that should NEW DELHI goudar, S. Abdul Nazeer, R. larger Bench. Justice Nari­ Kabbale Gowda, had sud­ Lokayukta, show us what Bengaluru be done outside the campus. None of the three Supreme Subhash Reddy, B.R. Gavai man, in a minority opinion denly withdrawn his case happened to that com­ Vice­President of India M. Universities are places of Court judges who dissented and Surya Kant. for himself and Justice Chan­ from the Supreme Court on plaint… Was it dismissed or Venkiah Naidu said that he learning,” he said. at various points in the Saba­ Justices Indu Malhotra, drachud, ordered Kerala to February 21, 2019. allowed?” Chief Justice was disturbed over “one or He argued that academic rimala litigation is part of the A.M. Khanwilkar, Rohinton grant women pilgrims It was then that the NGO Bobde addressed Mr. two universities that have endeavours and co­curricu­ nine­judge Constitution Nariman and D.Y. Chandra­ protection. had intervened to get the Bhushan in court. been in the news recently for lar initiatives must attain pri­ Bench, which will hear, from chud are not part of the Incidentally, Justice Khan­ top court to recall its order Mr. Gowda’s petition was the wrong reasons.” macy in universities and not January 13, over 60 petitions Bench. Justice Indu Malho­ wilkar, who is also not a part disposing of the petition. originally filed in the Su­ He was speaking at the sil­ factionalism or divisive ten­ challenging the entry of wo­ tra was the lone dissenter on of the nine­judge Bench, had Mr. Bhushan, who had ear­ preme Court against a Kar­ ver jubilee celebrations of dencies. “Our children, men of menstruating age in­ September 28, 2018, when agreed with the majority de­ lier appeared for Mr. Gowda nataka High Court decision the National Assessment and M. Venkaiah Naidu when they leave the portals to the temple in Kerala. the court, in a 4:1 decision, cision on September 28, and is now representing the in December 2015 to set Accreditation Council in of educational institutions, The court on Tuesday pu­ quashed the rule that barred 2018, and on November 14, NGO, said the case had seen aside a trial court order of Bengaluru on Tuesday. universities were in the news must be enlightened citizens blished the names of the women aged 10­50 from en­ 2019. many such complainants February 2012 to prosecute Politics should be kept out for the wrong reasons, with­ who will take an abiding in­ judges who would be part of tering the temple. The nine­judge Bench will become “compromised” the politicians and other ac­ of the campuses of educa­ out directly referring to the terest in protecting our de­ the Bench, led by Chief Jus­ Justices Nariman and set the parameters for a jud­ and bow out. cused. The High Court had tional institutions, said Mr. incidents at the JNU. “One mocracy and preserving the tice of India Sharad A. Chandrachud, part of the icial review in cases touch­ In the previous hearing in quashed the entire criminal Naidu, adding that while should not disturb the peace fundamental values that are Bobde. The other judges are Review Bench, had jointly ing on customs and practic­ March 2019, Mr. Bhushan proceedings. Mr. Gowda there are over 900 universi­ on the campus. There is enshrined in our constitu­ Justices R. Banumathi, Ash­ dissented from the majority es believed to be essential to had urged the court to list was the de­facto complai­ ties in the country only a few nothing wrong in discussing tion,” he said. ok Bhushan, L. Nageswara decision on November 14, a religion. the case again for hearing nant in the case. 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weather Watch Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday ‘It is up to States to provide 10% quota’ IN BRIEF fare of the poor not covered Centre responds to charge that law is by the 50% reservation poli­ not implemented in T.N. and Karnataka cy for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Krishnadas Rajagopal ed by the State government and the Socially and Educa­ ‘Onions being offered at NEW DELHI concerned,” the Centre said tionally Backward Classes. ₹49­58/kg to States’ The Centre on Tuesday in­ in an affidavit. It has been nearly six NEW DELHI formed the Supreme Court The Centre was respond­ months since a Bench, led by The Centre has imported that it would be the States’ ing to a writ petition from Su­ Justice Sharad A. Bobde, 12,000 tonnes of onion that prerogative to provide 10% preme Court advocate G.S. now the Chief Justice of In­ is being offered to State economic reservation in go­ Mani complaining that the dia, has reserved orders on governments at ₹49­58 per vernment jobs and admis­ economic reservation law the preliminary question kg to bring prices under sion to education was not being implemented that whether a bunch of writ control, Consumer Affairs institutions. in Tamil Nadu and Karnata­ petitions challenging the Minister Ram Vilas Paswan “Whether or not to pro­ ka. economic reservation law said. By the month­end, an vide reservation to the eco­ However, the Centre said should be referred to a Con­ additional 36,000 tonnes of nomically weaker section in its Department of Social Jus­ stitution Bench. imported onion are expected appointment to State govern­ tice and Empowerment “has Quota cauldron: The law has been put in place for people not The court had refused to to arrive. PTI ment jobs and admission to no role in deciding the reser­ covered under the 50% reservation policy. * K. BHAGYA PRAKASH pass any interim order to Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) State government education­ vation policy of any State stay or hamper the imple­ Nationwide trade Forecast for Wednesday: Heavy rain/snow likely over isolated al institutions, as per provi­ government”. January 19, 2019, persons longing to the economically mentation of the Constitu­ union strike today places in Uttarakhand. Thunderstorm accompanied with hail and NEW DELHI lightning likely over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, eastern sions of the newly inserted As per the notification is­ whose family has a gross an­ weaker section. It said the tion (103rd Amendment) Terming the government’s Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar Articles 15(6) and 16(6) of the sued by the Department of nual income below ₹8 lakh 10% reservation law was Act, which provides for the policies “anti­worker’, central and Jharkhand. Constitution, is to be decid­ Personnel and Training on are identified as those be­ enacted to promote the wel­ 10% reservation. city rain max min city rain max min trade unions have given a Agartala...... —....18.4....10.8 Kozhikode...... —....35.2....25.0 call for an all­India general Ahmedabad...... —....31.0....16.7 Kurnool ...... 0.2....31.6....22.2 strike on Wednesday to Aizawl...... —...... —...... — Lucknow...... —....23.1....12.2 oppose the labour codes Allahabad...... —....24.5....11.5 Madurai...... —....34.0....22.6 IOB officials booked being implemented, the Bengaluru ...... —...... —....18.9 Mangaluru ...... —...... —....23.0 Celebrated painter and artist Bhopal ...... —...... —...... — Mumbai ...... —....34.4....19.6 proposed privitisation of Bhubaneswar...... —....25.2....12.0 Mysuru ...... —...... —....20.8 public sector undertakings Chandigarh ...... 8.6....14.6....11.1 New Delhi ...... —....19.1....11.6 and the Citizenship Chennai ...... 2.1....30.1....24.9 Patna ...... —....19.8...... 9.2 Akbar Padamsee passes away for illegal transaction Coimbatore ...... —....32.0....21.6 Port Blair...... 1.3....30.4....24.6 Amendment Act. 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CM defends action Goa...... —....33.0....24.3 Raipur ...... —....26.8....12.4 COIMBATORE tographer, sculptor, film­ NEW DELHI It is alleged that in Sep­ Guwahati ...... —...... —...... — Ranchi...... —....21.4...... 8.6 taken on ‘kolam’ issue Hubballi...... —....29.0....19.0 Shillong...... —...... —...... — Noted painter and artist Ak­ maker, engraver and lithog­ The CBI has booked a re­ tember last year, Mr. Veepu­ CHENNAI Hyderabad ...... —...... —...... — Shimla...... 21.8...... 5.0.... -0.1 bar Padamsee died at the rapher. gional resource manager, ri got opened a current ac­ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Imphal ...... —...... —...... — Srinagar...... —...... —...... — Isha Yoga Center near Coim­ But Padamsee was most two assistant managers and count in the name of Green Edappadi K. 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His gally transferred to their October 24, 2019, in the or­ anti­CAA/NRC messages) in CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE Chennai, because they chose Ahmedabad..... 65 .30 .40 ..139 .148 ....* tion, said: “Akbar Padamsee, brother was the late film­ accounts. ganisation’s name. In observation made at to do it in front of others Bengaluru ...... 13 .54 .95 ..... — ...74 ....* 4.00 p.m., Muzaffarpur, a genius of color and craft, it maker and adman Alyque Timely action by other The FIR alleges that Mr. Chennai ...... — .30 .42 ....73 .....— ....* Bihar recorded an overall has been our fortune to have Akbar Padamsee Padamsee. bank officials resulted in Veepuri personally took the houses. Delhi ...... 12 .26 105 ..327 .214 ....* air quality index (AQI) Hyderabad ...... 2 .62 .42 ..124 .103 ....* score of 394 indicating a you spend the last part of preventing the withdrawal cheque to the bank’s Manga­ hazardous level of Thirteen girls escape Kolkata...... 24 .79 .28 ..290 .219 ....* pollution. In contrast, your life with us at Isha Yoga he had a special affinity to. Free-spirited of money from the accounts lagiri branch the same day Lucknow...... 46 102 .70 ..386 .....— ....* Tirupati, Tamil Nadu Center. Generations to come “I came to know about Born into a Muslim family, of accused persons. and without waiting for its from shelter home Mumbai ...... 13 .39 .41 ..232 .141 ....* recorded a healthy AQI BERHAMPUR score of 34 shall relish and be inspired Dhyanalinga through books. Padamsee embraced a free­ Among those named as clearance, got the amount Pune...... 76 .30 .83 ..230 .153 ....* Two security guards and the Visakhapatnam 13 .31 .49 ....95 .101 ....* by your magic of color.” The moment I saw the pic­ spirited outlook, that was re­ accused in the FIR are debited and parked in the warden of Utkal Balashram Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) ture of the Dhyanalinga tem­ flected in the versatile Green Valley Ministries Wel­ NEFT sundry creditors were terminated from their SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, No restrictions ple on the cover of a book, I themes of his work. He was fare Association (Visakha­ account. jobs after thirteen minor girls making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air Padamsee refused to be res­ knew that I was looking at a deeply influenced by Viveka­ patnam), a company named Through eight transac­ particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues escaped from Utkal and monuments. tricted to any artistic catego­ 21st century temple,” he nanda’s commentary on the Bhaktinidhi and its proprie­ tions, ₹89 crore was trans­ Balashram, a child care NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by ries. He had once said, “Do once said referring to the fa­ yogasutras of Patanjali, and tor Bellamkonda Murali ferred to the account of institution in Odisha’s reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. not label me or my art.” His mous yogic temple at the Yo­ studied Shilpa Shastra, the Krishna Sharma, IOB re­ Bhaktinidhi with HDFC CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to Berhampur , said District critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause paintings extensively depict­ ga Center, an official release ancient text on the art of gional resource manager Bank and ₹1 crore was di­ Child Protection Officer dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. ed the elements and senses. from Isha recounted. sculpting. Heli Veepuri, assistant man­ verted to that of Mr. Shar­ (DCPO), Subodh Kumar PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, “It is actually Shiva’s Me­ Though Akbar Padamsee Padamsee was awarded agers Kandrathi Sreesha and ma’s account with a diffe­ Sadangi. nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature tascape,” he said of a form was known for his radical the Padma Bhushan in 2010. Vuyyala Suresh and clerk rent IOB branch. death in people with heart or lung disease Mega human Army gets working on GOCO SC to hear pleas challenging Delhi HC order on ultrasonography chain planned model to improve efficiency Staff Reporter It mandated six months’ training to perform the procedure Patna special correspondent ed industry participants their views on The Bihar government has NEW DELHI opportunities envisaged and issues/ Legal Correspondent interim order staying the op­ in its interim order. made it compulsory for all The Army has started identifying po­ concerns if ABWs were to be run under NEW DELHI eration of the High Court’s Fe­ The Supreme court had al­ school students and teachers tential industry partners to implement GOCO model,” the official notice says. The Supreme Court on Tues­ bruary 17, 2016 order. The SC so observed that the High to participate in the over the Government Owned Contractor The last date to send responses is Janu­ day agreed to hear, in detail, had said prima facie, the HC Court had “squarely imp­ 16,000 km long human chain Operated (GOCO) model for its base ary 10. pleas challenging a Delhi High verdict transgressed into an inged” on its November 2016 to be organized across the workshops and ordnance depots. The tasks undertaken by these Court decision removing the area of legislative policy. judgment in the Voluntary State on Jan. 19 to raise aware­ A Request For Information was is­ workshops include depot­level re­ mandatory six­month train­ “The Training Rules 2014 Health Association of Punjab ness about climate change. sued on December 19, 2019 to shortlist pairs; overhaul of T­72 and T­90, guns, ing required under law for were made by the Central go­ case, which called for the service providers with experience in mortars and small arms, vehicles, performing ultrasonography. vernment in exercise of the strict implementation of the “warehousing, logistics and supply communication systems, radars, air A Bench led by Chief Jus­ power conferred by Parlia­ Pre­conception and Pre­natal chain management” for Central Ord­ defence systems, armoured personnel tice of India Sharad A. Bobde ment. Prima facie, the Rules Diagnostic Techniques (Prohi­ nance Depot, Kanpur. The Army has carriers; manufacture of spares and scheduled the case for hear­ are neither ultra vires the pa­ bition of Sex Selection) (Six also started evaluating the GOCO mo­ overhaul of aviation rotables. ing on April 8. rent legislation nor do they Months Training) Rules, 2014, del for Army Base Workshops (ABW) to The GOCO model was one of the re­ In March 2018, the Su­ suffer from manifest arbitrari­ to bring to an end the social drive “higher operational efficien­ commendations of the Lt. Gen. DB preme Court had passed an ness,” the court had observed evil of female foeticide. cies”. Shekatkar (Retd.) committee to “en­ “The agenda of these interactions hance combat capability and re­ba­ would be to understand from interest­ lance defence expenditure.”

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DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Retrieving ideas of democracy and nation The substantive versions of these ideas have been evoked in the popular upsurge across the country today that such rethinking was needed mained on rectification of the read the kind of slogans that have to foreground democracy in an an­ course and the institutions and been voiced, the songs that rever­ ticipatory mode. policy measures arising there­ berate, paintings and plays that A battle over welfare While posing the relation bet­ from, rather than envisaging the hold the crowds in rapt attention, ween the ideas of the nation and future of India beyond these con­ and the extent and intensity of The AAP will hope that the Assembly polls democracy before the emerging fines. participation, and connect them are a referendum on its government’s work Valerian Rodrigues public in India in this fashion is a to the popular demands that have gross simplification, and the argu­ A notion of the nation been voiced by the very same peo­ elhi, the Union Territory (UT) that hosts India’s ments that people made and the The rise of the ruling party has ple overtime. capital city, might lag behind several States in ithin much of modern In­ positions they took were far more GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO placed a particular notion of the In the Northeast, there is a wi­ Dtotal population and in area, but it enjoys out­ dian thought, the idea of complex, this debate came to an tional and institutional ship was to nation on the political agenda, and despread feeling that the CAA has size significance in terms of media and political atten­ WIndia as a nation implied abrupt end, or merely became the set sail in and were apprehensive it has sought to refract constitu­ watered down the autonomy that tion. With 1.47 crore electors spread across the largely the assumption that it would inva­ ideological fixtures of political par­ of its future course. Others wished tional democracy and elections they sought for their culture, lan­ metropolitan national capital region and its pockets of riably be a democracy — i.e., India ties, once India embraced consti­ it bon voyage for a variety of rea­ through it. It has confined consti­ guage, and land rights and very rural voters in some suburbs, Delhi is expected, in polls realising itself or constituting itself tutional democracy and held pe­ sons including utility calculations. tutional democracy to the bare let­ forcefully voiced before the Bordo­ as a nation will necessarily do so as riodic elections under universal Whichever way one looked at it ter of the law and periodic elec­ loi Committee of the Constituent scheduled on February 8, to reprise the three­cornered a democracy. The relationship bet­ adult franchise. Interestingly, cer­ through a phalanx of institutions tions to merely sub serve a Assembly. The large­scale partici­ electoral fight which has been the norm in recent elec­ ween the two was not problema­ tain measures that the current go­ dovetailed to constitutional de­ majority in the House. In the pro­ pation of Muslims in this upsurge tions. The Aam Aadmi Party, which graduated from a tised. vernment has embraced in the mocracy and periodic elections, cess it has shorn them off from demonstrates that they do not social movement to a political party less than a decade There were some exceptions name of constitutional rectitude the elite thought the future of In­ even residual considerations of de­ want to be kept out but be treated ago, will now seek to stand on its governance record, though: the Gandhians laid stress have reopened new fissures within dia lay in operationalising a set mocracy as the self­rule of the citi­ as equal citizens. There is univer­ five years after nearly sweeping the Assembly results in on Swaraj but this idea, while not the Indian body polity. It has made course of action rather than reth­ zen community and the nation as sal outrage about the communica­ 2015. The Bharatiya Janata Party will hope that unlike in being not opposed to democracy, it imperative that we reopen the inking its foundations. the outcome of this process. tion blockade in the Kashmir Val­ did not directly connote self­rule relation between the nation and The course of action that India One of the most ominous ex­ ley. Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana, the legions of of the citizen­community. The so­ democracy in India afresh even to took came to be theoris ed by the pressions of the Bharatiya Janata But what is more is the partici­ voters who supported it in the Lok Sabha election will cialists and communists who were sustain meaningful versions of likes of the late Rajni Kothari who Party’s version of the nation is pation of the rest, especially stu­ not transfer their votes to its competitors , while the interested in the idea of democra­ constitutional democracy and pe­ argued that democracy is alive and found in the Citizenship (Amend­ dents in this movement. They Congress will seek to regain the support of the UT’s cy, and uncoupling it from the idea riodic elections. kicking by accommodating diversi­ ment) Act, 2019, or the CAA, 2019 seem to be saying: We do not want poorer and marginalised sections, most of whom shift­ of nation, tended to lay stress on ty within the policy­making pro­ and the National Register of Citi­ you to shove down our throat your ed allegiance to the AAP in 2015. The AAP, if multiple the economic prerequisites and Trajectory of democracy cess through a distinct type of par­ zens, allegedly on the anvil but of­ pet notions of the nation and opinion polls are to be believed, is on a strong wicket redistribution of power to realise There were complex questions ty system, that he termed ficially denied in the face of wides­ rules. Stop befuddling us with the former. There were some that had to be explored in the one­party dominance. There was pread resistance. Several your doubletalk. There are mat­ despite its setback in the Lok Sabha election where it thinkers such as V.D. Savarkar who wake of I ndependence, and par­ much claptrap that came from el­ commentators have already point­ ters of much more profound con­ won only 18% of the votes for the third place behind the argued that the idea of nation took ticularly following Partition . One sewhere too. ed out that the CAA calls into ques­ cern and urgency that we need to BJP’s 56.6% and the Congress’s 22.5%. A Centre for the shape in India in the epochal past, was if India is a nation, what kind Comparativists such as Atul tion the foundations of citizenship put upfront, and since they can be Study of Developing Societies­Lokniti survey of May but they dwelt little on democracy. of a nation is it? If democracy is Kohli argued that India demon­ in India, the role and place of the pursued only together, we need to 2019 found that most of Delhi’s voters who voted Some Islamic scholars such as the mode of political association of strated “a delicate balance ” bet­ majority in a political democracy reopen a conversation across our against the AAP for other parties in the national elec­ Maulana Maududi introduced con­ this nation, what kind of democra­ ween “forces of centralization and and minority rights and reorders divides. The nation can only be tions wanted the party to return to power in the As­ cepts such as “theo­democracy”, cy is conducive to it? However, giv­ decentralization” and “ the inter­ them to suit the notion of the na­ that big and small that such a con­ sembly election. This dichotomy in support could be i.e., the mode of self­rule where ing short shrift to these questions, ests of the powerful ” have been tion the current ruling dispensa­ versation affords. believers ordain their common af­ an amazing constitutional archi­ pursued “without fully excluding tion cherishes. While this popular upsurge explained by the reasonable satisfaction among voters fairs; but apart from the hierarchi­ tecture came to be put in place. the weaker groups”. Consociation­ How do we go about retrieving does not give us a full­blown ideal with the welfare and development work done by the Ar­ sation and exclusion such a con­ Amid a setting of bewildering so­ alists such as Arend Lijphart ideas of democracy and nation of democracy that we wish to be vind Kejriwal led­government. ception threw up, it was hardly cial diversity and inequalities, In­ thought that the Indian case de­ authentic to our context? One and the image of the nation it re­ A PRS Legislative Research report has shown that linked to the idea of nation as a dia stepped into holding periodic monstrated that democracy is via­ route leading to the same is sub­ casts, the indicators are all there to Delhi spends the most — nearly 40% of its overall Bud­ bond or fellowship that marks it elections on the basis of universal ble — in spite of diversity and in­ jecting the demands that the pop­ see. There is a surplus in the ideas get allocation compared to an average of 23% elsewhere off from every other kindred enti­ adult franchise. equality — if it accommodates ular upsurge has voiced after the of nation and democracy that for­ in India — on education, health, water supply and san­ ty. There were those who thought The elite who were at the helm them in the governing institutions dilution of Article 370 of the In­ mal rules of law and modes of re­ through the lens of caste, exam­ of operationalising constitutional of a polity. These arguments came dian Constitution, and particularly presentation can never exhaust, itation between 2011 and 2019. The AAP’s focus on im­ ples being E.V. Ramaswami Naick­ democracy and periodic franchise to be profoundly qualified by their following the enactment of the and you cannot trump the former proving government­run primary education, health er, K.M. Panikkar and B.R. Ambed­ made some place for diversity and proponents later, in the context of CAA, to reflective consideration. by invoking the latter. care (the Mohalla clinic scheme in particular), lowering kar and also Adivasi leaders such preferential considerations to the the failure or inadequacy of these There are many angularities to the electricity and water supply costs besides easing public as Jaipal Singh , who argued that disadvantaged in the Indian pu­ institutions, and the rise of power­ popular upsurge of the scale that Valerian Rodrigues was a Professor at transport woes (through schemes such as free ridership the idea of nation has to be pro­ blic. Some were aware of the ful dissent movements from be­ we are witnessing in India today. Mangalore University and Jawaharlal for women in government­run buses) has earned the foundly rethought in India and course such a complex constitu­ low. However, their emphasis re­ But certain issues stand out if we Nehru University party strong campaign points. This could not yield it di­ vidends in May, as the party still does not have a cohe­ rent ideological position or a national presence, while There is a design flaw with this military post voters were concerned with other issues such as nation­ al security that favoured the BJP. The AAP’s incohe­ Creating a Chief of Defence Staff is problematic; it also erodes civilian supremacy over the defence establishment rence on questions related to ideology was a drawback exerting command over all consti­ tary Affairs headed by CDS: The This will invariably encroach then, and that is the reason why it will seek to turn the tuents of his allocated force irres­ Armed Forces of the Union, name­ upon the domain of the service polls into a referendum on its tenure. The BJP hopes to pective of their service. ly, the Army, the Navy and the Air chiefs. challenge the AAP on this turf after passing a Bill in De­ After the war ended and the Force. Integrated Headquarters of The CDS, as Permanent Chair­ cember 2019 that came up with a legal framework to world split into two ideological the Ministry of Defence compris­ person of Joint Chiefs of Staff Com­ provide ownership rights to those living in Delhi’s un­ blocs, General Dwight D. Eisen­ ing Army Headquarters, Naval mittee, would outrank the three Manish Tewari hower became the First North At­ Headquarters, Air Headquarters service chiefs even though theo­ authorised colonies. Whether this recent gesture, that lantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Defence Staff Headquarters. retically all are four star. Moreover is of importance to the roughly five million people in supreme commander while politi­ The Territorial Army. Works relat­ the advice of the CDS could over­

such areas, will sway voters remains to be seen. he scale of the First World cal power was vested in the NATO GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO ing to the Army, the Navy and the ride the advice of the respective War underscored the com­ Council. The First Supreme Com­ Governor General of India, recom­ Air Force. Procurement exclusive Service Chief s on critical tactical None for four Tmand and control dilemmas mander of the Warsaw Pact Forces mended a three­tier higher de­ to the Services except capital ac­ and perhaps even strategic issues. of concurrent conflicts playing out was Marshal Ivan Konev, while de­ fence management structure to quisitions, as per prevalent rules With the creation of the DMA on A four­day Test will make all cricket simultaneously in multiple facto political authority resided Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. and procedures.” most issues, the reporting struc­ seem like limited over internationals theatres of conflict. with the General Secretary of the Three committees were constitut­ It added, “The Chief of Defence ture of the three services to the De­ Soviet Union in Moscow. The Unit­ ed: the defence committee of cabi­ Staff, apart from being the head of fence Minister would now be revity and quicksilver processes constitute a rag­ War and the West ed States, vide the National Secur­ net presided over by the Prime Mi­ the Department of Military Affairs, through the CDS; if not immediate­ ing trend be it Twitter or two­minute noodles. It During the locust years of Great ity Act 1947, established the Joint nister; the Defence Minister’s will also be the Permanent Chair­ ly it would become the norm over Bis in sync with the current era notorious for its Britain, an issue that received con­ Chiefs of Staff. They were jointly Committee chaired by the Defence man of the Chiefs of Staff Commit­ time. Even today while in theory shrinking attention spans and paucity of time. Organ­ sideration was the British higher tasked to be Military Advise rs to Minister, and the Chiefs of Staff tee. He will act as the Principal Mil­ the service chiefs report directly to ised sport too isn’t immune from this need to shorten command and control structures. the President and the Secretary of Committee integrated into the mil­ itary Adviser to the Raksha Mantri the Defenc e Minister, in practice With the declaration of the Second Defence. Despite the experience itary wing of the Cabinet Secreta­ [RM] on all tri­Services matters. all files and decisions are routed formats. In this universe of instant gratification, Test World War, the onus for the higher of the Second World War, they riat. The chair of the committee The three Chiefs will continue to through the Defence Secretary. cricket with its five­day schedule and breaks for lunch direction of war fell to the remit of chose not to appoint a Chief of De­ was rotational, with the Service advise RM on matters exclusively However most problematic is and tea, might seem an anachronism. It may boggle the the War Cabinet serviced by the fence Staff (CDS). The U.S. amend­ Chief longest in the committee be­ concerning their respective Ser­ the erosion of civilian supremacy mind that there were timeless Tests in the past during Chiefs of Staff Committee. The ed this structure vide the Goldwa­ coming the chairperson’. vices. CDS will not exercise any over the defence establishment in which a contest stretched beyond five days till a result British legislative system func­ ter–Nichols Act in 1986 by having a This procedure operated into military command, including over the Ministry of Defence itself. This was arrived at. That phase ended in 1939 as visiting tioned through the Second World chairperson and vice­chairperson ‘the middle of the 1950s despite the three Service Chiefs, so as to impacts on the first principles of squads were constrained by the urgency to catch a ship War. Winston Churchill, as Prime of the Joint Chief s of Staff. The the Commander­in­Chief only be­ be able to provide impartial advice constitutionalism and has implica­ Minister, was given supreme pow­ Joint Chiefs in unison are again the ing an invitee to the Defence Com­ to the political leadership.” tions for our democratic polity al­ back home. Since those days of the slow life, cricket ers but stayed accountable to Par­ principal military advisers to the mittee of Cabinet. The designation so. Sophistry is being employed to evolved and Tests now have two raucous siblings in One liament through the War Cabinet. government. There is no CDS. The of the Commander in­Chief of the A subordination suggest that the Secretary DMA Day Internationals and Twenty20s, where a result is in­ He assumed the portfolio of Minis­ military chain of c ommand runs three services was consciously al­ Herein lies the contradiction and would be in charge of military af­ evitable and the thrills, however transitory, seem limit­ ter for Defence, with the resultant directly from the theatre comman­ tered to Chiefs of Staff in 1955. Af­ the design flaw. As Secretary in fairs and the Defenc e Secretary less in these abridged formats. ODIs and T20s draw in duty of overseeing the British War ders through a civilian Defence Se­ ter the 1962 Sino­Indian w ar, the charge of the Department of Mili­ would look after the ‘defence of the crowds and sponsors while Tests are now seen as an effort. This allowed him, as Chair­ cretary to the President. However, Defence Committee of the Cabinet tary Affairs (DMA) and having su­ the realm’. The fact is that the de­ ageing matriarch lost to nostalgia and the prospect of person of Chiefs of Staff Commit­ Britain, conversely in 1959, creat­ first morphed into the Emergency perintendence over the Indian Ar­ fence of India is managed by the tee, to exercise both tactical and ed a Chief of the Defence Staff. Air Committee of Cabinet and then la­ my, Indian Navy and Indian Air three services who would now re­ ever­dwindling revenues. In a bid to bolster cricket’s strategic options. Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson ter into the Cabinet Committee on Force, there would be an implied port to the DMA. original form, the International Cricket Council (ICC), is After the United States entered became the first CDS after serving Political Affairs’. It is now the Cabi­ subordination of the three service Since the DMA would exercise mulling over four­day Tests from 2023. Cold logic has the war, following the Pearl Har­ as the rotational chairperson of net Committee on Security, or chiefs to the CDS notwithstanding control over the three services, it trumped relevance and it is a move that will destroy the bor attack , an integrated com­ the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Was CCS. This system has served India any declaration to the contrary. As virtually makes the CDS the ‘Su­ sanctity of Tests and all that it stood for. mand became the norm during it required or was it the hubris of a well over the years. Secretary of the DMA, the CDS is preme Commander of the Indian The tussle spread over five days is considered as the the Second World War as diverse declining power — the jury is still On December 24, 2019, a Press tasked with facilitating the restruc­ Armed Forces’. A new czar has ultimate benchmark for judging cricketing greatness. allies including the Soviet Union out on that. Information Bureau release on the turing of military commands, risen. had to work in unison. A unified Cabinet clearing the appointment bringing about jointness in opera­ Batsmen have to cope with fast bowlers on a fresh first command required a single com­ The outline for India of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) tions including through the esta­ Manish Tewari is a lawyer, Member of day pitch and also counter wily spinners on a wearing mander liable to the joint chiefs of In India, ‘in 1947, Lord Ismay, the said: “The following areas will be blishment of joint/theatre com­ Parliament and a former Information and surface on the fifth day. The action gathers steam over staff supported by a joint staff and Chief of Staff to Lord Mountbatten, dealt by the Department of Mili­ mands. Broadcasting Minister four days before a spectacular combustion on the con­ cluding day. Yes, in recent times many Tests have fin­ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. ished within three or four days and broadcasting com­ panies that spend top­dollar for telecast rights, have to To read more letters Bulwark or misled? resonating across Constitution and for and, more importantly, their son lives, by train; the online, scan the QR code craft studio­analysis to justify their ad­inventory. The violence on the generations. This mounting prevention of responsibilities. They should journey times was 24­36 Another factor is that the ICC is keen to create more campus of the Jawaharlal dissent has also been discrimination based on not become pawns in the hours long. I now go by air, can be more lively and space for various T20 leagues ranging from the Indian Nehru University on reflected in some of the any of the various hands of scheming but the pleasure from train interesting than train travel Premier League to the Big Bash in Australia besides sup­ Sunday night has given rise political realignments. In differences which make up politicians. If at all they are travel, especially with berth (Open Page, “Let the mind porting the World Cup for Twenty20s. However, a four­ to much commentary as Jharkhand, for example, the great Indian serious about the whole facilities, will be missed. fly, take the train”, January well as accusations and there is now a new platform democracy. This little note issue, their representatives There were numerous 5). day Test will lack character. Imagine what would have counter­accusations on who for non­BJP political parties is to say: be warned, do not should invite the powers­ moments when they were D. Sethuraman, happened during that epochal March in the summer of was responsible. A hunch I and agencies to come let the JNU attack take away that­be to a meaningful like scenes of a film. Nothing Chennai 2001 at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens where V.V.S. Laxman, have is that this has been together. All this could the focus from the protests debate on a public platform corrections & clarifications: Rahul Dravid and Harbhajan Singh inspired India to orchestrated in order to actually pose a serious against the NRC and CAA that must be telecast live. A With reference to the report, “Officials help elderly man, who stun Steve Waugh’s Australians. If that Test had ended distract us — we the people political challenge to the (Editorial page, “Students neutral and initial approach was ill­treated, regain bequeathed property” (some editions, Jan. as a mere draw in four days, Indian cricket may not — from the struggle which is BJP by the time of the next in the vanguard of is essential for 6, 2020), a reader had raised a doubt how the district administra­ have progressed over the last decade­and­a­half. A five­ on the streets all over India: next general election. So a democratic struggles”, understanding of the CAA’s tion could have nullified a will, when the person concerned is alive namely, the protest against word of caution to our January 7). intended purport. and can revise it on his own. It is clarified that on the senior cit­ day Test is the acme, a four­day one will slowly blur the izen’s complaint, the district administration got the transfer of the Citizenship youth who have been Devaki Jain, V. Lakshmanan, distinction with limited overs cricket and it is a clear property to his son declared invalid under Section 23 of the Main­ (Amendment) Act, 2019 exemplary and who have New Delhi Tirupur, Tamil Nadu and present danger that players such as Sachin Tendul­ tenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, and the National Register of also been a source of great which provides for such a step. The use of the word “bequeathed” kar, Ricky Ponting and Virat Kohli have recognised. It is Citizens. Public dissent is hope for my generation; we ■ Students are admittedly a The charm of rail travel in the headline and the text was erroneous.

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