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PAGES 8 Rs. 2 Harriet Tubman YUGMARGYOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER 15 killed in wall collapse following First week of LS session over, now all incessant rain in Pune eyes on Bills, Budget AGENCY U’khand PUNE, JUNE 29 AGENCY better than this.” Cabinet meets At least 15 people, including four children, NEW DELHI, JUNE 29 On Monday, Law Minister Ravi were killed and two others injured here Sat- Shankar Prasad will move for consider- at Pauri urday when a portion of a 22-ft high com- After a rather controversial swearing-in ation and passing the contentious Aad- DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand pound wall of a housing society collapsed ceremony of new members laced with haar and Other Laws (Amendment) Cabinet on Saturday met for the on adjoining shanties following incessant religious and political slogans, the rul- Bill, 2019, to amend the Aadhaar (Tar- first time at the hill township of rains, trapping the sleeping families under ing BJP kicked off the first working geted Delivery of Financial and Other Pauri in the state’s Garhwal re- the debris, officials said. week of the new Parliament —the 17th Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, gion against the backdrop of The incident took place between 1:30 Lok Sabha — on the front foot and all 2016, and further to amend the Indian deep concern at the widespread am and 1:45 am at Kondhwa and the vic- eyes are now on the coming week with Telegraph Act, 1885, and the Prevention migration of the people from the tims were labourers and their family mem- important legislations and Union Bud- of Money Laundering Act, 2002. area. bers, a majority of them from Bihar, who get lined up. His colleague Ashwini Kumar Since the state was formed, were living in makeshift shelters at the un- Home Minister Amit Shah, in his Choubey will also be moving the Indian dozens of government offices in der-construction residential project where first legislative business as the Union Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, Pauri had been shifted to deep excavation work was underway. Minister on Friday, made a powerful 2019, in the face of “disapproving reso- Dehradun, elsewhere or closed. The meeting, presided over by Pune Municipal Corporation commis- pitch of his government’s plans for lution” by Opposition leaders NK CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, took sioner Saurabh Rao said prima facie, it ap- strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir, com- Premachandran, Adhir Ranjan Chiowd- a series of decisions including pears the soil may have loosened due to pletely demolishing Opposition’s at- hury, Shashi Tharoor and Saugata Roy. developing a lake at Lwali area to heavy rain coupled with the excavation tempts to stall him. It is expected that the government solve the district’s acute drinking work that was carried out "irresponsibly" Prime Minister Narendra Modi, re- may also move for consideration and water problem and also to devel- close to the retaining wall of the housing so- plying on the President’s address, gave passage another contentious law — op it as a tourist site. The total ciety. important talking points, including his Muslim Women (Protection of Rights cost of the project will be Rs 6.92 The intensity of the impact increased as condemnation of lynching a Muslim on Marriage) Bill, 2019 — this week. crore. many cars parked along the wall inside the man in Jharkhand and advice to opposi- Last week it tabled the fresh version of The Purkul-Mussoorie ropeway society too fell on the shanties, officials tion Congress on ways to bounce back, the controversial Bill to replace the or- project has been given to FIL In- said. Pune had received 73.1 mm of rain on politically. dinance amid attempts by Opposition to dustries and will be developed on Friday, the second highest rainfall in June Offshore too he scored with bilater- stall it. On July 5, Finance Minister Nir- the PPP mode. since 2010. Fifteen people died and three al meetings with Indonesia, Brazil, mala Sitharaman will present her first Rain creates puddles were rescued, of who are undergoing treat- Turkey, Australia, Singapore and Chile maiden full Budget for the current fiscal ments, officials said. Expressing grief over on issues related to trade, counter-ter- year. Analysts are expecting her to in Statue of Unity loss of lives, Chief Minister Devendra Fad- rorism, defence, maritime security and “tweak fiscal levers” and provide the viewers’ gallery navis ordered an inquiry into the incident. sports and US President Donald Trump much-needed boost to the Indian econ- RAJPIPLA: Rainwater made its The state government has announced saying, “Indo-US ties have never been omy to put it on faster track. way into the viewing gallery of the compensation of Rs 5 lakh each for the kin Statue of Unity in Gujarat, with of the deceased, an official said. The Pune prising additional collector, officials of "I was deeply saddened to know about the tourists sharing videos of puddles Municipal Corporation commissioner said a Building Permission department of the mu- death of innocent workers, including on the floor and water dripping off committee has been set up to probe the in- nicipal corporation, labour department and women and children in the incident of col- the roof. cident. "Deep excavation work was going an independent structural expert from the lapse of a compound wall of a residential Hyperloop test track to The viewing gallery, at a height of on at the site adjacent to the Alcon Stylus College of Engineering, has been set up to complex in Pune. Every life lost in incident 135 metre, has a grill frontage society. The retaining wall which caved in probe the incident. "The committee will was precious. My heart goes out to the kin which allows winds to blow in wa- was located between the under-construction submit its report in the next seven days, and of all those who lost their loved ones, and come up near Pune ter during heavy rains, said offi- site and the housing society," Rao said. action will be taken against those responsi- wish speedy recovery to the injured," he MUMBAI, JUNE 29 cials. "In the landslide, the 20-22 feet wall ble for the mishap as per findings of the re- said in a statement. State Congress chief Several of those who shared caved in and fell on the makeshift shanties port," he said. Ashok Chavan urged the Maharashtra gov- The Virgin Hyperloop, a revolutionary mode of transport proposed by British videos on social media, however, of labourers which were put up along the Rao said majority of the deceased ernment to extend all help to families of the industrialist Richard Branson, has moved closer to reality with the Maha- expressed displeasure. wall," he said. hailed from Bihar. dead and injured. The deceased have been rashtra Government earmarking a 15-km stretch of land for a test track. The Statue of Unity, a 182-metre "There are set guidelines and dos and "Extremely saddened to know about identified as Alok Sharma (28), Mohan According to state government sources, the test track for the hyperloop is memorial to Sardar Patel in Ke- don'ts when permission is given for con- loss of lives in the Kondhwa, Pune wall col- Sharma (24), Aman Sharma (19), Ravi proposed to be constructed between Kiwale and Urse on the Mumbai-Pune vadiya in Narmada district, is the tallest structure of its kind in the structing a building. According to prelimi- lapse incident. My deepest condolences to sharma (19) Laxmikant Sahani (33), Sunil Expressway. Apart from earmarking Rs 300 crore, the government has got the world and was inaugurated by nary investigation, deep excavation was be- the families and praying for speedy recov- Singh (35), Ovi Das (2), Sonali Das (6), faculty and students of IIT-Bombay also to participate in the project. Reports Prime Minister Narendra Modi on ing carried out in an irresponsible manner at ery of the injured. Directed Pune Collector Bhima Das (38), Sangita Devi (26), Ajit say the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA), the October 31 last year. “We had the site. The digging work was going on al- to conduct an in-depth enquiry," Fadnavis Kumar Sharma (7), Rekhal Kumar Sharma nodal agency for developing the project, has sought assistance from the Prin- come with great hope to see the most near the wall," the civic chief said. said on Twitter. Governor Ch Vidyasagar (5), Niva Devi (30), Dipranjan Sharma and cipal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India to prepare safety guide- worlds tallest statue. He said a five-member committee com- Rao also expressed grief over the incident. Avdesh Singh. lines for the Hyperloop. Postal Department to get facelift with higher allocation in Budget NEW DELHI: The Department of Post can expect to be allocated more funds from the Budget for a facelift that includes improvement of postal operations and promotion of philately, upgrading bureaus, innovative products and processes, opening up of more Postal Savings Banks, 40 lakh ATM cards and digitisation of post offices. Postal operations, which come under Central Sector Schemes, were al- lotted a revised Rs 661 crore in 2018-19 Budget and in the interim Bud- get 2019-20, this was hiked to Rs 773.47 crore. It is likely to be further increased to Rs 1,500 crore while for the India Post Payments Bank, the allocations could be Rs 500 crore from the current Rs 335 crore in the in- terim Budget, sources said.