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S N. Name of TAC/ Telecom District Name of Nominee [Sh./Smt./Ms
Name of Nominated TAC members for TAC (2020-22) Name of TAC/ S N. Name of Nominee [Sh./Smt./Ms] Hon’ble MP (LS/RS) Telecom District 1 Allahabad Prof. Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Hon’ble MP (LS) 2 Allahabad Smt. Keshari Devi Patel, Hon’ble MP (LS) 3 Allahabad Sh. Vinod Kumar Sonkar, Hon’ble MP (LS) 4 Allahabad Sh. Rewati Raman Singh, Hon’ble MP (RS) 5 Azamgarh Smt. Sangeeta Azad, Hon’ble MP (LS) 6 Azamgarh Sh. Akhilesh Yadav, Hon’ble MP (LS) 7 Azamgarh Sh. Rajaram, Hon’ble MP (RS) 8 Ballia Sh. Virendra Singh, Hon’ble MP (LS) 9 Ballia Sh. Sakaldeep Rajbhar, Hon’ble MP (RS) 10 Ballia Sh. Neeraj Shekhar, Hon’ble MP (RS) 11 Banda Sh. R.K. Singh Patel, Hon’ble MP (LS) 12 Banda Sh. Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, Hon’ble MP (RS) 13 Barabanki Sh. Upendra Singh Rawat, Hon’ble MP (LS) 14 Barabanki Sh. P.L. Punia, Hon’ble MP (RS) 15 Basti Sh. Harish Dwivedi, Hon’ble MP (LS) 16 Basti Sh. Praveen Kumar Nishad, Hon’ble MP (LS) 17 Basti Sh. Jagdambika Pal, Hon’ble MP (LS) 18 Behraich Sh. Ram Shiromani Verma, Hon’ble MP (LS) 19 Behraich Sh. Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, Hon’ble MP (LS) 20 Behraich Sh. Akshaibar Lal, Hon’ble MP (LS) 21 Deoria Sh. Vijay Kumar Dubey, Hon’ble MP (LS) 22 Deoria Sh. Ravindra Kushawaha, Hon’ble MP (LS) 23 Deoria Sh. Ramapati Ram Tripathi, Hon’ble MP (LS) 24 Faizabad Sh. Ritesh Pandey, Hon’ble MP (LS) 25 Faizabad Sh. Lallu Singh, Hon’ble MP (LS) 26 Farrukhabad Sh. -
Parliament of India R a J Y a S a B H a Committees
Com. Co-ord. Sec. PARLIAMENT OF INDIA R A J Y A S A B H A COMMITTEES OF RAJYA SABHA AND OTHER PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES AND BODIES ON WHICH RAJYA SABHA IS REPRESENTED (Corrected upto 4th September, 2020) RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI (4th September, 2020) Website: http://www.rajyasabha.nic.in E-mail: [email protected] OFFICERS OF RAJYA SABHA CHAIRMAN Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu SECRETARY-GENERAL Shri Desh Deepak Verma PREFACE The publication aims at providing information on Members of Rajya Sabha serving on various Committees of Rajya Sabha, Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees, Joint Committees and other Bodies as on 30th June, 2020. The names of Chairmen of the various Standing Committees and Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees along with their local residential addresses and telephone numbers have also been shown at the beginning of the publication. The names of Members of the Lok Sabha serving on the Joint Committees on which Rajya Sabha is represented have also been included under the respective Committees for information. Change of nominations/elections of Members of Rajya Sabha in various Parliamentary Committees/Statutory Bodies is an ongoing process. As such, some information contained in the publication may undergo change by the time this is brought out. When new nominations/elections of Members to Committees/Statutory Bodies are made or changes in these take place, the same get updated in the Rajya Sabha website. The main purpose of this publication, however, is to serve as a primary source of information on Members representing various Committees and other Bodies on which Rajya Sabha is represented upto a particular period. -
Full of Life (He Tagged Kirron Kher) Colleagues at the Workplace, Says Ganesha
y k y cm UNFAZED PERFORMER FLASH FLOOD HORROR BIDEN WHISPERS IN WISCONSIN Actor Reyhna Pandit says she is unaffected Heavy rain in Himachal Pradesh's US Prez, while talking about repairing roads and bridges, by trolls she receives for playing a Dharamshala led to a flash shifted gears and began speaking and interacting with people in a lowered voice negative role on the screen LEISURE | P2 flood-like situation TWO STATES | P8 INTERNATIONAL | P10 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 103 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | TUESDAY, JULY 13 | 2021 12 PAGES | `5.00 74 die in lightning in UP, Raj and MP AGENCIES Monday. Besides Jaipur, the deaths were reported from New Delhi, July 12: six other districts -- Kota, Lightning strikes in Uttar Jhalawar, Baran, Dholpur, Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Sawai Madhopur and Tonk Pradesh over past 24 hours -- according to the Disaster claimed at least 74 lives, ac- Management and Relief de- cording to data provided by partment. the states governments. It In a major tragedy in was one of the worst light- Jaipur, 12 people, mostly NO GO FOR DEVOTEES: Servitors performing rituals during the annual Rath Yatra festival in Puri, Monday. Devotees were kept away from the festival due to Covid-19 curbs. PTI PHOTO ning disasters in the region youngsters, were killed and in the recent past. 11 injured in an incident of The dead include 11 vis- lightning strike at the iconic itors at 12th century his- watch tower near the Amber toric Amer Fort on the out- Fort, the officials said. Some IRREGULAR by MANJUL skirts of Jaipur who were of them were taking "selfies" Petrol costlier, taking selfies at a watch- on the watch tower, while the tower inside the fort Sunday others were on the hill evening. -
List of Successful Candidates
11 - LIST OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES CONSTITUENCY WINNER PARTY Andhra Pradesh 1 Nagarkurnool Dr. Manda Jagannath INC 2 Nalgonda Gutha Sukender Reddy INC 3 Bhongir Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy INC 4 Warangal Rajaiah Siricilla INC 5 Mahabubabad P. Balram INC 6 Khammam Nama Nageswara Rao TDP 7 Aruku Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana INC Deo Vyricherla 8 Srikakulam Killi Krupa Rani INC 9 Vizianagaram Jhansi Lakshmi Botcha INC 10 Visakhapatnam Daggubati Purandeswari INC 11 Anakapalli Sabbam Hari INC 12 Kakinada M.M.Pallamraju INC 13 Amalapuram G.V.Harsha Kumar INC 14 Rajahmundry Aruna Kumar Vundavalli INC 15 Narsapuram Bapiraju Kanumuru INC 16 Eluru Kavuri Sambasiva Rao INC 17 Machilipatnam Konakalla Narayana Rao TDP 18 Vijayawada Lagadapati Raja Gopal INC 19 Guntur Rayapati Sambasiva Rao INC 20 Narasaraopet Modugula Venugopala Reddy TDP 21 Bapatla Panabaka Lakshmi INC 22 Ongole Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy INC 23 Nandyal S.P.Y.Reddy INC 24 Kurnool Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy INC 25 Anantapur Anantha Venkata Rami Reddy INC 26 Hindupur Kristappa Nimmala TDP 27 Kadapa Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy INC 28 Nellore Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy INC 29 Tirupati Chinta Mohan INC 30 Rajampet Annayyagari Sai Prathap INC 31 Chittoor Naramalli Sivaprasad TDP 32 Adilabad Rathod Ramesh TDP 33 Peddapalle Dr.G.Vivekanand INC 34 Karimnagar Ponnam Prabhakar INC 35 Nizamabad Madhu Yaskhi Goud INC 36 Zahirabad Suresh Kumar Shetkar INC 37 Medak Vijaya Shanthi .M TRS 38 Malkajgiri Sarvey Sathyanarayana INC 39 Secundrabad Anjan Kumar Yadav M INC 40 Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi AIMIM 41 Chelvella Jaipal Reddy Sudini INC 1 GENERAL ELECTIONS,INDIA 2009 LIST OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE CONSTITUENCY WINNER PARTY Andhra Pradesh 42 Mahbubnagar K. -
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Synopsis E Dated 03.12.Pdf
RAJYA SABHA _______ SYNOPSIS OF DEBATE _______ (Proceedings other than Questions and Answers) _______ Tuesday, December 03, 2019 / Agrahayana 12, 1941 (Saka) _______ MATTERS RAISED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE CHAIR 1. Need to start teaching of Maithili in the University of Delhi .SHRI PRABHAT JHA: (Spoke in Maithili). 2. Exemption of District Mineral Foundations (DMFs) from the Purview of Income Tax and GST Acts DR. AMAR PATNAIK: I rise to make a submission for exemption of District Mineral Trust Fund from the purview of income tax and Goods and Services Tax. These DMFs undertake developmental work under the guidelines of the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana and the provisions of the Odisha District Mineral Foundation Rules, 2015. The mandate of the DMF is to provide basic developmental interventions to benefit the people inhabiting mining affected areas, most of whom are from tribes and Scheduled Areas.It is not clear whether these trusts will also have to pay the Goods and Services Tax. Unless these funds are exempted from the purview of the Income-Tax Act, 1961, and the GST, they are ___________________________________________________ This Synopsis is not an authoritative record of the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha. Synopsis of speech delivered by hon’ble Member in Maithili will be published separately as supplement. 341 likely to incur substantial tax liabilities from their inception, which would adversely affect availability of these funds for carrying out the intended objects. I would make a request that the CBDT should exempt these District Mineral Foundation funds from Income Tax and amend the GST Act to exempt services offered by DMFs from tax. -
BJP Sees a Plot
DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2020, AHMEDABAD, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES SINCE 1932 `4.00, WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM TheIndian Expresswishes its readers Merry Christmas THE EDITORIAL PAGE THEFALLACYOFTHE CENTRALMODEL BY MILIND SOHONI PAGE 10 THE IDEAS PAGE Growth to break THENEWLEAGUE OFNATIONS CHRISTMAS IN THE VALLEY into positive BY SHYAM SARAN PAGE 11 At St Mary’s Church in Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir,onChristmas EveonThursday. Shuaib Masoodi territory in Q3, Daniel Pearl killing: Pak MINISTRY SENDS LETTER TO FARMER UNIONS says RBI study court orders release of Govt:Readyforlogicalresolution In firsthalf of Omar Sheikh, 3others 2021-22, GDP growth likelyto Directssecurity agencies nottokeep ofallissuesraisedbyfarmers be 14.2% What worked them under ‘anysortofdetention’ for growth Three farm laws have no relation to ENSECONOMICBUREAU PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA 11 Opp parties issue joint MUMBAI,DECEMBER24 ABENDINGofthe Covid- KARACHI,DECEMBER24 MSP-basedprocurement:Ministry 19 curveafter the initial Pearlwas statement against govt: WITH THE INDIAN economy surge,and a'method' to IN Asurprise move,aPakistani killedin pulling out of Covid pandemic’s the stimulus impartedto courtonThursdayordered the 2002 HARIKISHANSHARMA BUSINESSASUSUAL “deep abyss”, the real GDP is ex- the economybythe gov- release of British-born al-Qaeda NEWDELHI,DECEMBER24 who is spreading untruths? pected to break out intopositive ernment seems to be leader AhmedOmar Saeed BY UNNY territorywith aslender growth making adifference. A Sheikh and his three aides, who old Sheikh to sevenyears impris- ADAY afterfarmer unions, DMK and the Congress, to issue of 0.1per cent in October- string of liquidity meas- were convicted and sentencedin onment. -
Republic TV-2019 Mint Final LR
MONDAY, 13 JANUARY 2020 | DELHI, MUMBAI, BENGALURU, HYDERABAD, CHENNAI, KOLKATA, AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, PUNE 1 | MINT MEDIA MARKETING INITIATIVE 2nd EDITION PM Modi Builds Powerful Case to put PM Modi: We brought the problem of NPAs that was hidden by UPA Government in ‘Nation First’ front of people and solved it. Aadhaar helped reveal fake PM MODI’S IMPACTFUL SPEECH AT REPUBLIC SUMMIT 2019 identities. It saved leakage of about Rs. 1.5 lakh crore. Real estate sector PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI SAID, WITH THE MOTTO OF ‘NATION FIRST,’ HE IS was without any regulation. Our CONFIDENT THAT INDIA WILL ACHIEVE ITS GOAL OF SECURING A $5 TRILLION ECONOMY. government made laws and recently infused Rs 25000 crore to complete unfinished projects. elivering the keynote address at new energy. He added, “Ahead of chal- rogating Article 370 and 35A has re-estab- the Republic Summit 2019 on 26th lenges, there is a discussion about solu- lished the Constitutional integrity across November, Prime Minister Naren- tions. The country is witnessing decades- the nation.” Praising the implementation of dra Modi stated that the entire long disputes being solved. Sometimes, GST, he said, “99% of the goods associated A 105-YEAR OLD TRIBAL WOMAN D country had the confidence that people express that they find it hard to with the common man are being taxed SOLD HER GOATS, HER ONLY the current phase was India’s moment to believe that they are able to witness nearly half as compared to earlier times SOURCE OF INCOME, TO BUILD prosper. He cited this as an important something like this in their lifetime.” before implementation of GST.” A TOILET AND STARTED A reason for the improvement and develop- Taking on the Opposition over abroga- Asserting the $5 trillion dollar economy MOVEMENT. -
Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee (RS)
Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee (RS) Committee on HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT Rajya Sabha Member : 6 Vacant : 4 S.NO. Member Name State Party 1 Shri Vishambhar Prasad Nishad Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party 2 Shri Derek O Brien West Bengal ALL INDIA TRINAMOOL CONGRESS 3 Shri Sasmit Patra Odisha Biju Janata Dal 4 Dr. Vinay P. Sahasrabuddhe Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party 5 Shri Gopal Narayan Singh Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party 6 Shri Akhilesh Prasad Singh Bihar Indian National Congress Lok Sabha Member : 21 Vacant (LS) : 0 S.NO. Member Name State Constituency Party 1 Shri Rajendra Agrawal Uttar Pradesh Meerut BJP 2 Dr. Dhal Singh Bisen Madhya Pradesh Balaghat BJP 3 Shri Santokh Singh Chaudhary Punjab Jalandhar INC 4 Shri Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu Andhra Pradesh Narasaraopet YSR Cong.Party 5 Shri Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta Uttar Pradesh Pratapgarh BJP 6 Shri S. Jagathrakshakan Tamil Nadu Arakkonam DMK 7 Shri Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande Maharashtra Shirdi SS Dr. Jaisiddeshwar Shivacharya 8 Maharashtra Solapur BJP Mahaswamiji 9 Shri Asit Kumar Mal West Bengal Bolpur AITC 10 Ms. Chandrani Murmu Odisha Keonjhar BJD 11 Shri Balak Nath Rajasthan Alwar BJP 12 Dr. T. R. Paarivendhar Tamil Nadu Perambalur DMK 13 Shri Chandeshwar Prasad Bihar Jahanabad JD(U) 14 Shri T.N. Prathapan Kerala Thrissur INC 15 Shri Ratansinh Magansinh Rathod Gujarat Panchmahal BJP 16 Shri Jagannath Sarkar West Bengal Ranaghat BJP 17 Dr. Arvind Kumar Sharma Haryana Rohtak BJP 18 Shri Vishnu Dutt Sharma Madhya Pradesh Khajuraho BJP Bhiwani- 19 Shri Dharambir Singh Haryana BJP Mahendragarh 20 Shri S. Venkatesan Tamil Nadu Madurai CPI(M) 21 Shri Ashok Kumar Yadav Bihar Madhubani BJP Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee (RS) Committee on INDUSTRY Rajya Sabha Member : 9 Vacant : 1 S.NO. -
Atrocities and Crimes Against Women and Children
REPORT NO. 230 PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS TWO HUNDRED THIRTIETH REPORT ON ATROCITIES AND CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN (Presented to Rajya Sabha on 15th March, 2021) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 15th March, 2021) (PRESENTED TO RAJYA SABHA ON …..………NOVEMBER, 2011) HA ON ….…NOVEMBER, 2011) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi March, 2021/ Phalguna, 1942 (Saka) Hindi version of this publication is also available C.S. (H.A.)-452 PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS TWO HUNDRED THIRTIETH REPORT ATROCITIES AND CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN (Presented to Rajya Sabha on 15th March, 2021) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 15th March, 2021) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi March, 2021/ Phalguna, 1942 (Saka) C O N T E N T S 1. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (i) 2. PREFACE (ii) 3. ACRONYMS (iii) - (v) 4. REPORT 1 - 98 Chapter – I 1 - 7 Introduction Chapter – II 8 - 47 Major Issues Concering Atrocities and Crimes against Women and Children Chapter - III 48 - 59 Issues Concerning Atrocities and Crimes against Women and Children in Delhi Chapter-IV 60 - 68 Trafficking of Women and Children Chapter -V 69 - 80 Cyber Crimes against Women and Children Chapter-VI 81 - 98 Sensitizing Police and Public on Gender Issues 5. OBSERVATIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE – 99 - 120 AT A GLANCE 6. ANNEXURES 122 - 124 7. *RELEVANT MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE _____________________________________ *to be appended at later stage DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS (re-constituted w.e.f. -
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4 Patrimonial and Programmatic Talking About Democracy in a South Indian Village
4 Patrimonial and Programmatic Talking about Democracy in a South Indian Village PAMELA PRICE AND DUSI SRINIVAS How do people in India participate politically, as citizens, clients and/or subjects?1 This query appears in various forms in ongoing debates concerning the extent and nature of civil society, the pitfalls of patronage democracy, and the role of illegal- ity in political practice, to name a few of the several concerns about political spheres in India. A focus for discussion has been the relationship of civil society institutions (with associated principles of equality and fairness) to political spheres driven mainly by political parties and to what Partha Chatterjee desig- nated as ‘political society’.2 Since 2005, with the publication of the monograph, Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (Corbridge et al.), there is growing support for the argument that political cultures and practices in India, from place to place and time to time, to greater and lesser degrees, include 1. Thanks to those who commented on earlier drafts of this piece when it was presented at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, the South Asia Symposium in Oslo, and at the workshop ‘Practices and Experiences of Democracy in Post-colonial Locali- ties’, part of the conference, ‘Democracy as Idea and Practice’ organized by the University of Oslo. We are grateful to K.C. Suri for suggesting the term ‘programmatic’ in our discussions of the findings here. Thanks to the editors of this volume, David Gilmartin and Sten Widmalm for reading and commenting on this piece.