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New identity Raju Burman, a 12-year-old resident of Poatarkuti, celebrates the new citizenship of India on Saturday. Fiftyone Bangladeshi enclaves, with a population of 14,000, merged with India. — PHOTO: SANJOY GHOSH (REPORT ON PAGE 15) CM YK ND-ND DELHI, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2015 Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad and Malappuram INSIDE NEWS | PAGE 14 VARUN DEFIES PARTY LINE NEW DELHI: BJP MP Varun Gandhi has called for the abolition of the death penalty, saying it is not a deterrent to heinous crimes. This goes against the party line. NEWS | PAGE 15 MOST POPULOUS BY 2022 NEW DELHI: In seven years, India will surpass China to become the world’s most populous country and will have 1.7 billion residents by 2050, new U.N. projections show. SUNDAY MAGAZINE — 6 Pages CLASSIFIEDS — On pages 8 & 9 SUNDAY ANCHOR | PAGE 12 DECODING DINANAGAR Gurdaspur is the latest in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. However, diplomacy must continue along with other kinds of responses from the state. WORLD | PAGE 16 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH LONDON: Three members of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s family were killed when a private jet crashed in southern England on Friday. IS THREAT State police forces will be trained in using social media NEW DELHI: The government will build a “counter-narra- tive” to the jihadi ideologies propagated by militant outfits such as the Islamic State (IS), to wean youngsters away from the group that has found trac- tion among educated Muslim youths worldwide. For this, the government will rope in “moderate Mus- lims” and “learned people” from the community and give them a presence in cyber- space. “The erudite Muslim leaders would provide a coun- ter to the extreme ideologies of Islam and help in giving an- other perspective to the theo- ry propagated by the IS,” said a senior official of the Home Ministry. After undermining the in- fluence of the IS among the young men in the country, the Home Ministry for the first time called a meeting of 12 States to frame a “national co- herent strategy.” The Hindu was the first to report on July 21 that the Ministry called such a meeting to discuss the extent of the problem. The constabulary in the State police forces would be trained in the social media as they are the ones who go around for beat-patrolling and can provide vital intelligence inputs. The meeting, chaired by Home Secretary L.C. Goyal, al- so lauded the efforts of the Te- langana Police. According to government estimates, at least 13 young men have left the country to join the IS and 20 men have been stopped. A senior government official said the government was also planning to rope in NGOs and civil society groups to curb the stigma of alienation among the minority communities. “The growth of this terror organisa- tion as well as its appeal to the educated Muslim youth is a cause for serious concern. In view of the fact that the IS is an emerging global threat and the fact that India has the second largest Muslim population in the world were the primary reasons this meeting was con- vened. The intelligence agen- cies seem to have underplayed the influence of the IS in the country,” said a senior official. Moderate Muslims to be roped in Vijaita Singh Centre to counter terror dogmas NEW DELHI: In the midst of seconding its pracharaks to the BJP (in the last count, 43 in Delhi and different States) and even despatching over 150 of its full-time members to Bihar in the run-up to the Assembly polls there, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is quietly ex- pressing its reservations about the effects of having a BJP government at the Cen- tre on its organisation. On two separate occasions last month, the Sangh’s se- nior leadership has sounded the alarm bell. At a training camp for pracharaks second- ed to the BJP, which was held a few weeks ago at Mumbai’s Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, the RSS second- in-command, Suresh ‘bhaiy- yaji’ Joshi, had some cate- chisms to impart. He told the group that their focus should remain on the party organi- sation, with government programmes and propagan- da, for which the party orga- nisation was being routinely requisitioned, to be left to the government’s own prop- aganda machinery. “Bhaiyy- ji’s reference was not just to the massive organisation of Yoga Day but also the Jan Kalyan Parva (the first anni- versary of the Narendra Mo- di government), which went on for over a fortnight,” said a source present at the meet- ing. He said there was a fully equipped information and publicity department with the government devoted to propaganda. Mr. Joshi also told those present that the organisa- tion or sanghathan, rather than individuals, was to be kept front and centre. Later, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, addressing a conclave of RSS prant pracharaks in Nainital, echoed much the same un- ease with co-option to the BJP’s plans and goals rather than the RSS’s agenda. RSS asks pracharaks in BJP not to focus on govt. propaganda Sangh wants them to focus on organisational work Nistula Hebbar CADRE TOLD NOT TO BE ENAMOURED OF TRAPPINGS OF POWER | PAGE 14 NEW DELHI: Negotiations for the release of two Hyderabad man from the captivity of the Islamic State terror group in Libya proved unsuccessful on Saturday, but officials remain hopeful of securing their free- dom. Two from Karnataka re- leased by their captors on Fri- day may return to India soon, possibly on Monday, sources told The Hindu. The four men, all academ- ics at Sirte University, had been detained outside the IS- controlled city of Sirte, as they attempted to return to India on July 29. The men had reportedly been travell- ing in two cars when gunmen stopped them at a checkpoint and took them to an unknown location. There is even uncer- tainty on whether it the IS or any other militia group that is behind the abduction. Suhasini Haidar Two Hyderabad men still in IS captivity; officials hopeful CENTRE MONITORING TALKS | PAGE 14 Srikakulam MP K. Rammohan seeks Rajanath Singh ’s help in the release of Gopikrishna. NEW DELHI: Even as India and Pakistan are embroiled in a fresh war of words over the Gurdaspur terror attack, decks are being cleared for a meeting of the National Se- curity Advisers in New Del- hi on August 23 and 24. The July 27 terror attack and the recent ceasefire vio- lations had cast a shadow on the meeting, but sources in the government said the two sides were inclined to take forward the peace process agreed at the meet- ing of the two Prime Minis- ters at Ufa in July. India, Pak. NSAs to meet Special Correspondent A SLEW OF ISSUES | PAGE 14 NEW DELHI: A day after news broke that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had written to party president Sonia Gandhi, distancing himself from any suggestion that he may have leaked what hap- pened inside a party meet- ing, he told presspersons in Thiruvananthapuram, his Lok Sabha constituency, “I am not going to say anything which can legitimise your line of enquiry by denying or confirming.” The two-page letter, ap- parently an e-mail ad- dressed to Ms. Gandhi, seemed to confirm the Con- gress president’s rare out- burst against Mr. Tharoor. The letter says he was “dis- mayed, indeed distressed, by our exchange at the morning meeting,” and that the “press leaks” were part of an agenda “maliciously aimed” at portraying him as isolated in the party. Last week, Mr. Tharoor told a session of Congress MPs that he disagreed with the strategy to disrupt Par- liament. His contrarian view was widely reported in the media, provoking the Con- gress President to say angri- ly, “You always do this.” Tharoor non-committal on letter to Sonia National Bureau ‘I AM NO CONSPIRATOR OR COWARD’ | PAGE 14 NEW DELHI: Anup Surendra- nath, Deputy Registrar (Re- search) in the Supreme Court, resigned on Satur- day, saying what happened in the Supreme Court dur- ing the hearing of the pet- itions of Yakub Memon, leading to his execution on July 30, “must count amongst the darkest hours for the Supreme Court of India”. Mr. Surendranath was present at the unpreceden- ted pre-dawn hearing and dismissal of Memon’s final petition for a 14-day interval between the President’s re- jection of his mercy petition and his execution. In a Facebook post, Mr. Surendranath said: “I have been contemplating this for a while now for a variety of reasons, but what played out at the Supreme Court during the hearing of the petitions of Yakub Memon was the proverbial final nail.” Mr. Surendranath in- tends to return to faculty work at the National Law University, Delhi. He was appointed Deputy Registrar in May 2014. Supreme Court official quits over Memon hearing Krishnadas Rajagopal ‘INSTANCE OF JUDICIAL ABDICATION’ | PAGE 14 NEW DELHI: Alleging that it hurt their religious sentiments, the right wing students’ orga- nisation Akhil Bharatiya Vi- dyarthi Parishad disrupted the screening of a documen- tary based on the Muzaffar- nagar riots at a Delhi University college on Satur- day. The screening of the movie was reported to the ABVP- controlled students’ union by some members among the audience, after which it was stopped. The incident was reported to have taken place at 2.45 p.m. while the film was being screened for about 100 stu- dents. “Two to three students who were part of the audience walked out 10 minutes into the film and called the ABVP men. Several ABVP activists then stormed inside and for- cibly stopped the screening,” said Nakul Singh Sawhney, director of the documentary titled Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai. Although, it was alleged that senior faculty member Keval Arora was threatened to be slapped by some of the activists, no reports of vio- lence were reported to the po- lice, who were summoned to the spot. “Neither of the parties has come forward to register a complaint,” said Madhur Ver- ma, DCP (North). The ABVP, meanwhile, said that it will not tolerate film screenings or any other activity that may be deroga- tory towards Hinduism and contains elements of anti-na- tionalism. “Some students from the college asked the film society to stop screening the movie as it contained derogatory state- ments about certain castes like Jats and Gujjars. When the teachers did not listen to them, they came to us. By the time we reached the college, they had heard we were com- ing and stopped the screen- ing,” said ABVP national secretary Rohit Chahal. “We were so shocked that there was no permission tak- en for screening a film on such a controversial subject. The principal did not even know about it,” he said, add- ing that some of the students in the college were so offend- ed that they wanted to file a police complaint. It was ultimately decided that the film will have to be viewed by the principal and the ABVP on Monday before the film society is permitted to screen it. ABVP forces college to stop film screening Vijetha S.N & Shiv Sunny NEW DELHI: The body of a 26- year-old doctor was found in a car at a parking lot in Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Saturday morning, said hospi- tal officials. Initial investigation has sug- gested that the doctor, who was from Chennai, committed sui- cide due to a failed love affair, police said. No suicide note, however, was recovered. Iden- tified as Prakash P., the doctor had joined the hospital two months ago and was working as a radiologist. He was also reportedly seeking treatment for depression at the hospital. RML doctor found dead at hospital parking Special Correspondent DETAILS | PAGE 3 Weekly Edition Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 RNI No. TNENG/2012/49939 ISSN 0971 - 751X Vol. 5 No. 31 CITY EDITION 28 Pages Rs. 8.00 www.thehindu.in

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  • New identity

    Raju Burman, a 12-year-old resident ofPoatarkuti, celebrates the new citizenship ofIndia on Saturday. Fiftyone Bangladeshienclaves, with a population of 14,000, mergedwith India. PHOTO: SANJOY GHOSH (REPORT ON PAGE 15)

    CMYK

    ND-ND

    DELHI, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2015

    Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad and Malappuram

    INSIDE NEWS | PAGE 14VARUN DEFIES PARTY LINENEW DELHI: BJP MP Varun Gandhihas called for the abolition of thedeath penalty, saying it is not adeterrent to heinous crimes. Thisgoes against the party line.

    NEWS | PAGE 15

    MOST POPULOUS BY 2022NEW DELHI: In seven years, Indiawill surpass China to become theworlds most populous country andwill have 1.7 billion residents by2050, new U.N. projections show.

    SUNDAY MAGAZINE 6 Pages

    CLASSIFIEDS On pages 8 & 9

    SUNDAY ANCHOR | PAGE 12

    DECODING DINANAGARGurdaspur is the latest inPakistan-sponsored terrorism.However, diplomacy must continuealong with other kinds ofresponses from the state.

    WORLD | PAGE 16

    KILLED IN PLANE CRASHLONDON: Three members offormer al-Qaeda leader Osama binLadens family were killed when aprivate jet crashed in southernEngland on Friday.

    IS THREAT State police forces will be trained in using social media

    NEW DELHI: The governmentwill build a counter-narra-tive to the jihadi ideologiespropagated by militant outfitssuch as the Islamic State (IS),to wean youngsters away fromthe group that has found trac-tion among educated Muslimyouths worldwide.

    For this, the governmentwill rope in moderate Mus-lims and learned peoplefrom the community and givethem a presence in cyber-space. The erudite Muslimleaders would provide a coun-ter to the extreme ideologiesof Islam and help in giving an-other perspective to the theo-ry propagated by the IS, said asenior official of the Home

    Ministry. After undermining the in-

    fluence of the IS among theyoung men in the country, theHome Ministry for the firsttime called a meeting of 12States to frame a national co-herent strategy. The Hinduwas the first to report on July

    21 that the Ministry calledsuch a meeting to discuss theextent of the problem.

    The constabulary in theState police forces would betrained in the social media asthey are the ones who goaround for beat-patrolling andcan provide vital intelligence

    inputs.The meeting, chaired by

    Home Secretary L.C. Goyal, al-so lauded the efforts of the Te-langana Police. According togovernment estimates, at least13 young men have left thecountry to join the IS and 20men have been stopped.

    A senior government officialsaid the government was alsoplanning to rope in NGOs andcivil society groups to curb thestigma of alienation among theminority communities. Thegrowth of this terror organisa-tion as well as its appeal to theeducated Muslim youth is acause for serious concern. Inview of the fact that the IS is anemerging global threat and thefact that India has the secondlargest Muslim population inthe world were the primaryreasons this meeting was con-vened. The intelligence agen-cies seem to have underplayedthe influence of the IS in thecountry, said a senior official.

    ModerateMuslims to be roped in

    Vijaita Singh

    Centre to counter terror dogmas

    NEW DELHI: In the midst ofseconding its pracharaks tothe BJP (in the last count, 43in Delhi and different States)and even despatching over150 of its full-time membersto Bihar in the run-up to theAssembly polls there, theRashtriya SwayamsewakSangh (RSS) is quietly ex-pressing its reservationsabout the effects of having aBJP government at the Cen-tre on its organisation.

    On two separate occasionslast month, the Sanghs se-nior leadership has sounded

    the alarm bell. At a trainingcamp for pracharaks second-ed to the BJP, which washeld a few weeks ago atMumbais Rambhau MhalgiPrabodhini, the RSS second-in-command, Suresh bhaiy-yaji Joshi, had some cate-chisms to impart. He told thegroup that their focus shouldremain on the party organi-

    sation, with governmentprogrammes and propagan-da, for which the party orga-nisation was being routinelyrequisitioned, to be left tothe governments own prop-aganda machinery. Bhaiyy-jis reference was not just tothe massive organisation ofYoga Day but also the JanKalyan Parva (the first anni-

    versary of the Narendra Mo-di government), which wenton for over a fortnight, saida source present at the meet-ing. He said there was a fullyequipped information andpublicity department withthe government devoted topropaganda.

    Mr. Joshi also told thosepresent that the organisa-tion or sanghathan, ratherthan individuals, was to bekept front and centre. Later,RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat,addressing a conclave of RSSprant pracharaks in Nainital,echoed much the same un-ease with co-option to theBJPs plans and goals ratherthan the RSSs agenda.

    RSS asks pracharaks in BJP not to focus on govt. propaganda Sangh wants them to focus onorganisational work

    Nistula Hebbar

    CADRE TOLD NOT TO BE ENAMOUREDOF TRAPPINGS OF POWER | PAGE 14

    NEW DELHI: Negotiations forthe release of two Hyderabadman from the captivity of theIslamic State terror group inLibya proved unsuccessful onSaturday, but officials remainhopeful of securing their free-dom.

    Two from Karnataka re-leased by their captors on Fri-day may return to India soon,possibly on Monday, sourcestold The Hindu.

    The four men, all academ-ics at Sirte University, hadbeen detained outside the IS-controlled city of Sirte, asthey attempted to return to

    India on July 29. The menhad reportedly been travell-ing in two cars when gunmenstopped them at a checkpointand took them to an unknownlocation. There is even uncer-

    tainty on whether it the IS orany other militia group that isbehind the abduction.

    Suhasini Haidar

    Two Hyderabad men still inIS captivity; officials hopeful

    CENTRE MONITORING TALKS | PAGE 14

    Srikakulam MP K. Rammohan seeks RajanathSingh s help in the release of Gopikrishna.

    NEW DELHI: Even as India andPakistan are embroiled in afresh war of words over theGurdaspur terror attack,decks are being cleared for ameeting of the National Se-curity Advisers in New Del-hi on August 23 and 24.

    The July 27 terror attackand the recent ceasefire vio-lations had cast a shadow onthe meeting, but sources inthe government said thetwo sides were inclined totake forward the peaceprocess agreed at the meet-ing of the two Prime Minis-ters at Ufa in July.

    India, Pak. NSAs to meet Special Correspondent

    A SLEW OF ISSUES | PAGE 14

    NEW DELHI: A day after newsbroke that Congress MPShashi Tharoor had writtento party president SoniaGandhi, distancing himselffrom any suggestion that hemay have leaked what hap-pened inside a party meet-ing, he told presspersons inThiruvananthapuram, hisLok Sabha constituency, Iam not going to say anythingwhich can legitimise yourline of enquiry by denying orconfirming.

    The two-page letter, ap-parently an e-mail ad-dressed to Ms. Gandhi,seemed to confirm the Con-

    gress presidents rare out-burst against Mr. Tharoor.The letter says he was dis-mayed, indeed distressed, byour exchange at the morningmeeting, and that thepress leaks were part of anagenda maliciously aimedat portraying him as isolatedin the party.

    Last week, Mr. Tharoortold a session of CongressMPs that he disagreed withthe strategy to disrupt Par-liament. His contrarian viewwas widely reported in themedia, provoking the Con-gress President to say angri-ly, You always do this.

    Tharoor non-committalon letter to SoniaNational Bureau

    I AM NO CONSPIRATOR ORCOWARD | PAGE 14

    NEW DELHI: Anup Surendra-nath, Deputy Registrar (Re-search) in the SupremeCourt, resigned on Satur-day, saying what happenedin the Supreme Court dur-ing the hearing of the pet-

    itions of Yakub Memon,leading to his execution onJuly 30, must countamongst the darkest hoursfor the Supreme Court ofIndia.

    Mr. Surendranath waspresent at the unpreceden-ted pre-dawn hearing and

    dismissal ofMemons finalpetition for a14-day intervalbetween thePresidents re-

    jection of his mercy petitionand his execution.

    In a Facebook post, Mr.

    Surendranath said: I havebeen contemplating this fora while now for a variety ofreasons, but what playedout at the Supreme Courtduring the hearing of thepetitions of Yakub Memonwas the proverbial finalnail.

    Mr. Surendranath in-tends to return to facultywork at the National LawUniversity, Delhi. He wasappointed Deputy Registrarin May 2014.

    Supreme Court official quits over Memon hearingKrishnadas Rajagopal

    INSTANCE OF JUDICIAL ABDICATION| PAGE 14

    NEW DELHI: Alleging that it hurttheir religious sentiments,the right wing students orga-nisation Akhil Bharatiya Vi-dyarthi Parishad disruptedthe screening of a documen-tary based on the Muzaffar-nagar riots at a DelhiUniversity college on Satur-day.

    The screening of the moviewas reported to the ABVP-controlled students union bysome members among theaudience, after which it wasstopped.

    The incident was reportedto have taken place at 2.45p.m. while the film was beingscreened for about 100 stu-dents.

    Two to three studentswho were part of the audiencewalked out 10 minutes intothe film and called the ABVPmen. Several ABVP activiststhen stormed inside and for-cibly stopped the screening,said Nakul Singh Sawhney,director of the documentarytitled Muzaffarnagar BaaqiHai.

    Although, it was allegedthat senior faculty memberKeval Arora was threatenedto be slapped by some of theactivists, no reports of vio-lence were reported to the po-lice, who were summoned to

    the spot. Neither of the parties has

    come forward to register acomplaint, said Madhur Ver-ma, DCP (North).

    The ABVP, meanwhile,said that it will not toleratefilm screenings or any otheractivity that may be deroga-tory towards Hinduism andcontains elements of anti-na-tionalism.

    Some students from thecollege asked the film societyto stop screening the movie asit contained derogatory state-ments about certain casteslike Jats and Gujjars. Whenthe teachers did not listen tothem, they came to us. By thetime we reached the college,they had heard we were com-ing and stopped the screen-ing, said ABVP nationalsecretary Rohit Chahal.

    We were so shocked thatthere was no permission tak-en for screening a film onsuch a controversial subject.The principal did not evenknow about it, he said, add-ing that some of the studentsin the college were so offend-ed that they wanted to file apolice complaint.

    It was ultimately decidedthat the film will have to beviewed by the principal andthe ABVP on Monday beforethe film society is permittedto screen it.

    ABVP forces collegeto stop film screeningVijetha S.N & Shiv Sunny

    NEW DELHI: The body of a 26-year-old doctor was found in acar at a parking lot in Dr. RamManohar Lohia Hospital onSaturday morning, said hospi-tal officials.

    Initial investigation has sug-gested that the doctor, who wasfrom Chennai, committed sui-

    cide due to a failed love affair,police said. No suicide note,however, was recovered. Iden-tified as Prakash P., the doctorhad joined the hospital twomonths ago and was workingas a radiologist. He was alsoreportedly seeking treatmentfor depression at the hospital.

    RML doctor found dead at hospital parkingSpecial Correspondent

    DETAILS | PAGE 3

    Weekly Edition Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 RNI No. TNENG/2012/49939 ISSN 0971 - 751X Vol. 5 No. 31 CITY EDITION 28 Pages Rs. 8.00 www.thehindu.in

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    2 | THE HINDU SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2015NOIDA/DELHICITY

    HC to hear plea on unsafe electric polesThe Delhi High Court will hear on August 12 a writ petitionseeking directions to Delhi authorities to comply with safetynorms during installation of electric poles >> Page 5

    DCW chief writes to BassiDelhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal has askedPolice Commissioner B.S. Bassi to furnish information aboutincreasing complaints of crimes against women >> Page 6

    or freshers at Delhi University, security is oneof the major causes of concern, revealed asurvey by a youth organisation.

    On Friday, a group of members from theorganisation Wake Up India Foundation organised a flash mob cum protest to expresstheir anguish about cases of eve-teasing oncampus and to make people aware about theissue.

    Lakshita Sapra, head of the Delhi chapter ofthe organisation, said: After the new sessionbegan, we spoke to a number of DU freshersand found out that they do not find the cam-pus safe. Many girls complained that they faceeve-teasing while coming back from their col-leges in the evening. The problem is that mostof them do not report these cases, which iswhy we thought there was a need to makepeople aware about this issue through a pro-test and appeal to them to stop eve-teasing.

    A safety audit conducted by Jagori, a wom-ens organisation, last year also proves thatthe campus is not safe for students. One of theproblems that the audit pointed out was thatgirls do not feel safe after classes get over,which is why they avoid staying back andusing the college library.

    In North campus girls are not able to stayback in college after classes and hence are notable to use library facilities. We found thatgirls were using the University facilities lesserin comparison with the boys, Kalpana fromJagori said.

    The audit also found out that girl studentshad problems in returning home after college.Travelling from colleges to the metro stationwas found to be a problem because a lot ofguys would drive past the university roads,passing comments on girls and making themuncomfortable. Since DU is not a closed cam-pus, people from anywhere keep driving past

    the university roads making it unsafe for girlstudents, she added.

    The areas that girl students in North Cam-pus identify as unsafe include the stretchfrom Civil Lines metro station to Kamla Na-gar metro station, the ridge area near HansrajCollege, some lanes of Malka Ganj and theroad connecting the campus to Hudson Lane.

    When it comes to South campus, accordingto students the unsafe zones include Siri Fortcomplex, Indian Institute of Technology, Del-hi University campus and the area aroundLSR College.

    The moment we step out of college, we are

    subjected to eve-teasing and uncomfortablecomments by boys. It is disappointing thatsuch harassments issues are not addressed. Ido feel there is lack of security around thecollege, which should be a must, said Mehak,a student of Bhagat Singh College.

    Apart from taking measures to tackle thismenace of eve-teasing, Hansika Gulati, a stu-dent of Ramjas College said that the collegeadministration should also be responsible inensuring security.

    Delhi Police however claims they have tak-ing measures to ensure that girls are safe oncampus. Starting this year, we are deploying

    squads of personnel, including women, insidethe buses in DU to keep an eye on eve-teasingor molestation. We also have our squad de-ployed at bus stops on campus and in areasadjacent to the campus. We are taking eve-teasing and molestation very seriously. If anycase comes to our knowledge, the person willbe immediately booked, said Deputy Com-missioner of Police (North) Madhur Verma.

    SURVEY REVEALS SECURITY AS MAJOR ISSUE FOR FRESHERS AT DELHI UNIVERSITY

    Safety concerns for girls in DUKritika Sharma Sebastian

    F

    TRAVELLING FROM COLLEGES TO THE METROSTATION WAS FOUND TO BE A PROBLEM BECAUSEA LOT OF GUYS WOULD DRIVE PAST THEUNIVERSITY ROADS, PASSING COMMENTS ONGIRLS AND MAKING THEM UNCOMFORTABLE

    CAMPUS WATCH

    NEW DELHI: Students organisations arealso taking the issue of safety seriously.

    The Akhil Bharaitya Vidyarthi Parishad-led Delhi University Students Union(DUSU) has deployed teams of student-volunteers on campus to keep an eye oncases of eve-teasing and report if any.

    DUSU President Mohit Nagar said:Safety of girl-students is an importantissue for us. Last year, when we had come

    We have deployed volunteers in each ofthe colleges. Also, we have provided ant-ragging helpline numbers. In case studentshave a problem they can reach out, saidHitanshi Chauhan, frontier head, CYSS said.

    Roji John, President of NSUI said: Wehave been running campaigns to make surethat freshers feel comfortable and noeve-teasing or ragging happens. We believethat more than the police it is the duty of thestudents organisations to ensure a safeatmosphere on campus.

    to power, we had a discussion with the policeabout taking steps to curb incidents ofmolestation and eve-teasing on campus.This year, too, we have deployed ourvolunteers on campus to keep a check onsuch cases.

    We want the campus to be a safe placefor students, he added.

    Members of the Chhatra Yuva SangharshSamiti (CYSS) Aam Aadmi Partys studentwing are giving importance to the issue ofstudents safety and security of freshers.

    DUSU deploys student volunteers on campus Kritika Sharma Sebastian

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    CINEMA

    NEW DELHI: Until a few years back, theovercast August skiesin the Walled Cityused to be dotted with vibrant colours.People would fly kites all day, takingadvantage of the gentle breeze. However,the thrill of kite dogfights have nowbeen replaced by video games and otherforms of entertainment.

    With fewer people buying and flyingkites, the livelihood of many traditionalkite-makers has been effected. Most haveturned to other means to earn theirlivelihood, but some are practicing thecraft with a twist. One such kite-maker isUmar Darazz, who has won accoladesacross the world for his skills fromfestivals in France and England tostunning people in Russia, where he flew akite while it started snowing.

    With less people buying kites andhealth issues, Umar almost stoppedmaking kites and shut shop. However, anintervention by Kamala Gallery, aninitiative of the Crafts Council of India,gave him the opportunity to use his talentto make products that require similartechnique and skills to work with paper.

    Umar now makes wrapping paper, giftbags, envelopes, decorative kites andother products that are sold at the NGOsswanky store on Baba Kharak Singh Marg.The products, in vibrant colours, havebeen made by cutting, folding andembellishing kite paper.

    Umar says he is grateful to the NGOthat helped him continue what he lovesdoing and turning it into a way to earn aliving for his family. He feels kite flying

    has become dangerous due lack of openspaces, leading to manja-related accidentsand children falling off rooftops. However,the skill of making a a kite should not diebecause of this, he adds.

    Umar learnt the skill from his father as achild, when he was more interested in flyingthem. However, Umar started making andselling kites to support his family after hisfathers death. This necessity soon became apassion and he spent hours making the bestquality kites. Now, his kites are mostly usedto enhance the decor inside homes. The onlytime they fly is around August 15.

    Umar has even held workshops in schoolsto teach student how to make kites and istrying to pass on the finesse of making theperfect kite.

    HIGH FLYING

    When sky is the limit With fewer people flyingkites, this traditionalkite-maker is practicingthe craft with a twist

    Jaideep Deo Bhanj

    Kite-maker Umar Darazz and someof his creations at Kamala Galleryon Baba Kharak Singh Marg. PHOTOS: JAIDEEP DEO BHANJ

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    him Sen Bassi spoke to The Hin-du on transforming the Delhi Po-lice, his admiration for PrimeMinister Narendra Modis visionand what he calls a non-preju-diced relationship with ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal despitethe raging stand-off between theCentre and the DelhiGovernment:

    You assumed charge at atime when the image of yourforce was at a severe low;how does it feel to have suc-cessfully completed twoyears as the Commissionerdespite a tumultuousbeginning?

    It is a matter of immense satis-faction that I've completed twoyears serving the people of Delhi.Policing, as a service, is an indis-pensable need of any society topreserve order and cohesiveness.Delhi police, during my tenure,has given an excellent account ofitself in this regard.

    Has your souring relation-ship with Chief Minister Ar-vind Kejriwal been a cause ofconcern? What is your stanceon the current stand-off be-tween you and the Delhigovernment?

    There is no souring in our rela-tionship. Also, since the role ofthe police is defined by the Con-stitution, the issue of a stand-offdoes not arise. Legislationspassed by the Parliament definethe responsibility of the police asan important part of society func-tioning in close coordination with

    other components such as thepeople, private institutions andcivil society in addition to otherorgans of the government. Weunderstand this fully well and,therefore, have no prejudicesagainst anyone.

    There have been manychanges in your force sinceyour took over, but dont youthink the Delhi Police needsto go a long way in terms ofkeeping up with the PrimeMinisters vision of SmartPolicing?

    I've always believed that theuse of modern technology andmethodologies enhances policeefficiency and service delivery. Iam a great admirer of our hon-ourable prime minister for urgingthe police to be smart. We have

    taken a number of steps for thepurpose such as, I may mention,the 1064 anti-corruption helplineet cetera; we are also on the firststage trial of a scheme for paper-less functioning of our police con-trol room. In particular,applications like Himmat, Lostreport, PCC and e-FIR to e-FinalReport in respect of motor vehi-cle theft are a first of their kindnot only in the country but in theworld.

    Womens safety was, andremains, a major concern forthe Delhi Police; how haveprocedures to tackle crimesagainst women transformed,if at all, with you at the helm?

    Safety of women is among mytop priorities; women police offi-cers have not only been posted at

    all police stations, 24x7 helpdeskshave been established at each ofthese so that any woman whohappens to visit a police station isattended to by a woman officer.Also, rape cases are now beinginvestigated on scientific lines bywomen officers and we are ensur-ing that charge sheets in all rapecases are filed within 20 days ofthe arrest of the accused. Any de-lay is monitored directly by jointor special commissioners con-cerned so that it may not fall preyto any laxity.

    But there are many in-stances of complainants us-ing the new, tough law toregister vendetta-drivenfalse complaints, too.

    False complaints, if any, are ex-ceptions. Women across theboard are vulnerable to violence.Special provisions for redressingtheir complaints are sine qua non,or absolutely necessary, for em-powering women and enhancingtheir security. A few cases of mis-use shouldn't deter us in ourmarch towards strengtheningwomen's safety.

    What about sparring withthe government over corrup-tion?

    There is no sparring. We aremaking our processes simplerand more transparent so that op-portunities for corruption can beeliminated through computeriza-tion. As far as the human elementis concerned, we are in the proc-ess of testing installation ofCCTV cameras on PCR vehiclesso that the activities of personnelcan be recorded.

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    UNIFORM SPEAK: Ive always believed that use of moderntechnology and methodologies enhance police efficiencyPHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR

    IT IS A MATTER OF IMMENSESATISFACTION THAT IVE COMPLETEDTWO YEARS OF SERVING DELHIITES

    ARMS & THE MAN

    body. The car was first noticedby the guard at the parking lotaround 7.30 a.m. He thoughtthe doctor was waiting forsomeone. An hour later he gotsuspicious and after checkingrealised that something wasamiss, said a senior healthofficial.

    The doctors colleagues re-portedly told the police that hewas under depression and wasundergoing treatment for thepast few years.

    Police said the body will behanded over to the family, whomay be questioned to seek clar-ity on the probable cause be-hind the death. Apost-mortem will be conduct-ed before the body is handedover. Further investigation isunderway, said a senior policeofficer.

    NEW DELHI: The body of a 26-year-old doctor was found in acar at a parking lot in Dr. RamManohar Lohia (RML) Hospi-tal on Saturday morning, saidhospital officials.

    Initial investigation has sug-gested that the doctor, who wasfrom Chennai, committed sui-cide due to a failed love affair,police said.

    No suicide note, however,was recovered. Identified asPrakash P., the doctor hadjoined the hospital two monthsago and was working as a radio-logist. He was also reportedlyseeking treatment for depres-sion at the hospital.

    According to police, theywere intimated about the in-cident by hospital staff follow-ing which a team wasdespatched to the spot. Aroundhalf a dozen used injectionvials were found near his bodywith marks on the right arm,police said.

    Four visible injectionmarks have been found on the

    Doctor found deadat hospital parkingSpecial Correspondent

    Art: An exhibition of artworks byAnup Singh at Triveni Gallery, TriveniKala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Man-di House, 11 am - 7 pm

    Paintings: Tribute to a LivingMaster, a solo painting show by Pad-mashri S. V. Rama Rao at South AsianUniversity, Akbar Bhawan, Chanakya-puri, 11 am - 7 pm

    Paintings: Visage a solo show ofpaintings by Radhika Surana at OpenPalm Court Gallery, India HabitatCentre (IHC), 10 am - 8 pm

    Play: Pehchan presents Vijay Ten-dulkars Ek Ziddi Ladki Hindi Playat Sammukh Auditorium, NationalSchool of Drama (NSD), BahawalpurHouse, 1 Bhagwandas Road, 6:30 pm

    Play: Natyarango presents ElaAhalya Bengali Play at MuktadharaAuditorium, Banga Sanskriti Bhavan,18-19 Bhai Veer Singh Marg, 6:30 pm

    Dance: Still Going dance per-formance by Marina Collard at BritishCouncil, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, 4pm

    Culture: 81st Jayanthi celebra-tions of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi San-karacharya Swamigal - Maha Rudramat Sri Devi Kamakshi Mandir, J.N.U.,Delhi

    Talk: Purifying nature of a Jnaniby Shri Hariprasad Swami, founder ofSri Vishnu Mohan Foundation, at Ra-mana Kendra, 8 Institutional Area,Lodhi Road, 5 pm

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    Initial investigationsuggests that the doctor,who was from Chennai,committed suicide dueto a failed love affair

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    LUCKNOW: Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal has moved theAllahabad High Court seekingquashing of a case against himfor his alleged inflammatoryspeech in Amethi during Lok

    Sabha elections last year.The petition, filed under

    Section 482 of the CrPC onFriday before the Lucknowbench, is likely to be heard byJustice Mahendra Dayal on

    August 3. According to Stategovernment advocate RishadMurtaza, the case was lodgedagainst Kejriwal in Musafirk-hana police station of Amethi. PTI

    Kejriwal moves Allahabad High Court

    NEW DELHI: Organisations fromIndia that responded to Nepalearthquake relief as well asthose that continue to work onthe long term recovery processmet on Thursday, for a one dayconsultation, Nepal Recov-ery: Lessons Learnt And WaysForward.

    It was jointly organised byTata Institute of Social Sci-ences and the Bharatiya JainSanghatana (BJS).

    Speakers included Mr. Ra-kesh Sood, former Ambassa-dor to Nepal and Mr. VinodMenon, founder member Na-tional Disaster ManagementAuthority of India.

    There was also Dr. Parasura-man, Director TISS and Mr.Shanthilal Muttha, presidentof BJS, with over 50 participa-nts consisting of NGOs, corpo-rate houses and donororganisations.

    The sub-continent hasbeen facing an increasingnumber of disasters. This con-sultation is to consolidate andunderstand what we havelearnt from the Nepal disasterand identify the way forward,said Dr. Parasuraman.

    I am sure that the IndianNGOs along with the corporatehouses would honour the Indi-an Prime Ministers commit-ment to help our neighbouring

    country during these times ofcrisis, and through this consul-tation, identify ways to workwith Governments of Nepaland India to enable the recov-ery process to be faster andinclusive, said Mr. Muttha.

    BJS which has worked in 14major disasters in India overthe last three decades carriedout extensive relief work inNepal post the earthquake.

    Plans to reconstruct

    rural hospitals

    It has also planned for re-constructing 100 rural hospi-tals in Nepal. The JamsetjiTata School of Disaster Man-agement (JTCDM) establishedin 2006 to consolidate 60 yearsof TISSs experience in disas-ter response has also beenworking in Nepal.

    The consultation focused onkey questions and topics - howthe Indian Civil Society can re-spond effectively in a regionalcontext, the linkages and syn-ergies of response and supportbetween Indian Governmentand Indian Civil Society, regional frameworks and sys-tems to enable an effective disaster response mechanismby the Indian Government and Civil Society, and legal aspects that enable an environment for effective re-sponse (CSR, Taxation etc).

    Lessons learnt fromNepal earthquake Staff Reporter

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    wo city hospitals and the Delhitraffic police combined forces inyet another instance of transpor-tation of a human organ to save alife on Friday evening.

    Doctors at BLK Super Speciali-ty Hospital had harvested theheart, kidney, liver and eyes of57-year old Ram Babu (namechanged) who was declaredbrain-dead at the Hospital andhelped save six lives in differenthospitals.

    The Delhi Traffic Police helpedprovide a Green Corridor to ahuman heart, which was trans-ported from BL Kapur SuperSpeciality Hospital, Pusa Road,Karol Bagh to Max Super Special-ity Hospital, Saket. A distance of20 km was covered in a record 16minutes, said Sharad Aggarwal,additional commissioner of po-lice (traffic).

    Around midnight, a requestwas received from the BL KapurHospital to provide a Green Cor-ridor for transportation of aheart to Max Hospital, Saket. Im-mediately, traffic arrangementswere made which finally culmi-nated in the heart, which wasdespatched around 3 a.m., reac-hing its destination in just 16minutes, Mr. Aggarwal said. Giv-ing details, Mr. Naresh Kapoor,director, BLK Super SpecialityHospital, said on Saturday thehospital applauds the courageand conviction of family mem-bers of Ram.

    They exhibited exemplary ge-

    nerosity to the cause of humanityand we are proud of them. Delhihas had very few cases of cada-veric organ transplant and thissuccessful harvesting of organslike kidneys, heart, liver and cor-neas, affirms our capability. Weare thankful to Delhi Police whocreated Green Corridor to helpcover over 20 km from west Delhito South Delhi in just 16 minutescarrying a live, beating heartwaiting to give new life to other,added Mr Kapoor.

    Dr. Sanjay Mehta, medical su-perintendent, BLK Super Speci-ality Hospital, said: Ram wasbrought to the hospital in the latehours of July 30 with severebrain injury and lot of internal

    bleeding.He was on ventilator and on

    brain score he was nonrespon-sive and extremely critical. Neu-rology and surgical teamevaluated him and found thatbrain stem signs were not thereand after further evaluation itwas declared that he wasbrain-dead.

    The team consulted the familyfor organ donation. Initially, thedeceaseds family was reluctantto make a donation but the teamdid not give up and consulted hisson, considering that youngergeneration is aware of the needfor organ donation.

    After much consultation andcounselling, the family finally

    agreed for donating the organsand the team immediately pre-pared for harvesting the organs.

    All the six organs were har-vested in three hours and thentransplanted to six patients suf-fering from serious aliments re-lated to kidney, eyes and liver,added Dr. Mehta.

    Max Super Speciality Hospital,Saket, in a statement, said it car-ried out its first heart transplantsurgery last night. The surgerywent off uneventfully and the pa-tient is presently recovering inthe ICU. The heart was madeavailable through a donation bythe family members of a brain-dead individual at another cityhospital.

    GREEN CORRIDOR HELPS IN SWIFT TRANSFER OF ORGAN, SAVES LIFE

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    WE ARE THANKFUL TO DELHI POLICEWHO HELPED US COVER OVER 20 KMIN JUST 16 MINUTES

    NEW LIFE

    NEW DELHI: Negligence in treat-ment that lead to an amputa-tion of a leg of a 11-year-old boyhas now resulted in the DelhiMedical Council (DMC) sus-pending the registration certif-icates of four resident doctors two each from Hindu Raoand Safdarjang Hospital for amonth.

    The childs parents claimthat they are not satisfied withthe decision, because the doc-tors will return to work in thir-ty days while the child ishandicapped for life.

    According to DMC registrarDr. Girish Tyagi: Last year inMay, a 2.5-inch long piece ofglass had pierced the boy's leftleg, while he was playing nearRana Pratap Bagh. He wasfirst taken to a quack, whodressed the wound and thepiece of glass remained there.

    When the child continuedto shriek in pain, his parentstook him to Hindu Rao Hospi-tal the next day where the doc-tors again dressed the woundand discharged him. This whenthe X-ray clearly showed thepresence of the glass piece un-der the skin, noted Dr. Tyagi.

    The boy was again taken toHindu Rao Hospital on May 3and then the doctors removedthe glass piece. But by then ithad already led to an infectionin the wounded arteries, saidDr. Tyagi. The boy was thenreferred to Safdarjung Hospi-tal where the doctors referredhim to a vascular surgeon. Nextmonth, the boy was taken to aprivate hospital in Meerutwhere the doctors amputatedhis left leg as the infection hadturned life-threatening.

    DMC suspendsfour doctors Bindu Shajan Perappadan

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi HighCourt will hear on August 12 awrit petition moved by non-government organisationCommon Cause seeking di-rections to the Delhi Govern-ment authorities to complywith safety norms during theinstallation of electric polesin order to avoid death of hu-man beings and animals.

    A Division Bench, compris-ing Chief Justice G. Rohiniand Justice Jayant Nath,fixed August 12 for hearing ofthe petition which allegedthat unsafe electric poleswere posing a threat to thelives of people and animals,while there was a callous atti-tude of the authoritiesconcerned.

    The petition, filed throughlawyer Meera Bhatia, soughtto safeguard the right to lifeguaranteed under Article 21of the Constitution, whilementioning several instancesof electrocution, including

    the recent death of a younglawyer, Gaurav Rana, and hisdog, who were electrocutedby a live wire in a park innorth-west Delhi.

    Ms. Bhatia said the petitionhad prayed for making thepublic bodies and agenciesconcerned accountable for

    their failure to take adequateprecaution to prevent loss oflife occasioned by an utterdisregard of basic safety mea-sures in the distribution ofpower in the Capital.

    The petition sought direc-tions that the electric polesposing danger to human andanimal life be repaired andthe responsibility be fixed onthe officers concerned for theelectrocution deaths causedby negligence.

    Not only humans, but ani-mals like monkeys and dogsalso get electrocuted whenthey get entangled in the livewires, especially during mon-soon. This shows that electro-cution is a big menace in theCapital, said the petition.

    Seeking directions againstpower discoms, CommonCause alleged that their fail-ure to comply with the pre-scribed safety standards hadled to electrocution of peopleas well as employees of mu-nicipal bodies and electricitycompanies.

    HC to hear plea onunsafe electric polesMohammed Iqbal

    A petition has allegedthat unsafe electricpoles were posing athreat to the lives ofpeople and animals

    ment for development of ruralpopulation. The facilitiesshould include health and san-itation, housing, power, skilldevelopment centres andmicro-industries.

    SCOPE, the apex body ofCentral Government-ownedpublic enterprises, has CentralPSUs, a few State governmententerprises and some nation-alised banks as members.

    Dr. Choubey pointed out

    that urban-rural divide wascreating desperation amongvillagers and a large percent-age of school dropouts in vil-lages were disgruntled joblessyouths, who had an inclina-tion towards criminal activ-ities. Over 44 per cent of ruralyouths discontinue educationdue to financial constraintsand lack of facilities.

    Employment in villages islargely in agriculture sector,while industrial employmentis less than four per cent. Dr.Choubey said all these factorscalled for more attention torural development, and devel-oping smart villages would be abetter option for their eco-nomic growth.

    NEW DELHI: The Standing Con-ference of Public Enterprises(SCOPE) has advocated trans-formation and development ofsmart villages across thecountry to improve standardof living in the rural areas andboost the rural economy. De-velopment of rural India holdsthe key to the nations sustain-able economic growth, it said.

    SCOPE Director-GeneralU.D. Choubey told The Hinduthat the smart villages, to bedeveloped on the lines ofPrime Minister Narendra Mo-dis initiative for smart cities,would have adequate infras-tructure and proper environ-

    Smart villages to boost rural economy Mohammed Iqbal

    The villages musthave basic facilitieslike health andsanitation, housing,and power

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    A large number of metal detectors have been installed at Red Fort in view of the securityarrangements ahead of Independence Day. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

    tating that the law and order sit-uation in the Capital was dete-riorating at an alarming rate,newly-appointed chief of the Del-hi Commission for Women(DCW) Swati Maliwal asked Po-lice Commissioner BS Bassi tofurnish information about in-creasing complaints of crimesagainst women on Saturday.

    In two letters addressed to Mr.Bassi, Ms. Maliwal also raised theissue of the murder of a teenagedMeenakshi in Anand Parbatterming the incident which hadshamed Delhi as not just themurder of an individual but a re-flection of the failure of entiresystem and society.

    Ms. Maliwal did, however,stress on the need for cooper-ation between DCW and the po-lice and said she hoped to have a

    strong working relationship withMr. Bassis force.

    In light of the Meenakshimurder case and the increasingrate of crime against women inthe State, we wish to undertake astudy on women safety in Delhiand come up with recommenda-tions for the Central, State gov-ernments and the Delhi Police.For this, we will be taking AnandParbat as a pilot area and would

    request you to provide us withthe details of all complaints re-ceived by the police station here,she said.

    Ms. Maliwal, who according tohighly-placed sources was a co-panelist on a discussion on wom-ens safety with Mr. Bassi later inthe evening on Saturday, alsosought information on the num-ber of complaints of crimeagainst women and girls includ-

    ing rape, molestation and sexualharassment in the city.

    Information on total strength(rank-wise) of the police force inDelhi and out of this, number ofwomen in police and list of policestations in which highest numberof complaints of crime againstwomen were reported in 2014-15,was also sought by Ms. Maliwal.

    The law and order situation inDelhi is deteriorating at analarming rate. According to thelatest figures of the NationalCrime Records Bureau, everydayDelhi is witnessing over five casesof rape and 12 cases of molesta-tion, the DCW chief noted.

    Womens security has be-come one of the most importantissues in todays time, she saidand asked the Delhi police chiefto furnish the list of spots in thecity where highest number ofcomplaints of crime againstwomen was reported in 2014-15.

    Out of these, list of spotswhich are near schools, collegesand universities...We are con-ducting a study on women safetyin Delhi. This data is crucial forthe same and will assist in fulfill-ing our statutory mandate of giv-ing recommendations to theCentral and State government onthe issue of women safety, sheadded.

    SEEKS INFORMATION ON INCREASING COMPLAINTS OF CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN

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    Swati Maliwal did, however, stress on the need forcooperation between the DCW and the police. PTI

    WE WISH TO UNDERTAKE A STUDY ONWOMEN SAFETY IN DELHI AND COMEUP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THECENTRE, STATE GOVERNMENT, ANDTHE DELHI POLICE

    LAW AND ORDER

    GURGAON: Two juveniles havebeen detained here inconnection with the gang-rapeof a minor girl. Two moreaccused, including anautorickshaw driver, areabsconding.

    The victim, a Class IXstudent at a government

    school, wasreturningfrom schoolon a bicyclewhen theaccused in anautorickshawlured her toan isolatedplace inSector 46 andallegedly

    gang-raped her.The victim has said in her

    complaint that two of theminors were known to her.

    The accused raped her for atleast four hours.

    They also threatened her ofdire consequence if sherevealed about the incident toanyone.

    The victim kept silence fortwo days until her mothernoticed a change in behaviour.The victim then broke downand narrated the entireincident.

    The victims familyapproached the Sadar policestation on Friday andregistered an FIR.

    We have conductedmedical examination of thevictim, which confirms rape.We have managed to arrest thetwo minors in this connectionand produced them in ajuvenile court, which has sentthem to observation home. Theother two accused, includingthe auto driver, are at large,said ACP Rajesh Chechi.

    Two juveniles detained for minors gang-rapeStaff Reporter

    TWO MOREACCUSED,INCLUDINGAN AUTODRIVER,ARE ON THE RUN

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi govern-ment unveiled a new excisepolicy on Saturday paving theway for establishment of mi-crobreweries at hotels andrestaurants across theCapital.

    Fortunately for the firstcategory of Delhiites, thegovernment said it had decid-ed not to increase excise onliquor given what it termed asubstantial increase in ex-cise in the last two financialyears.

    For the second category,the policy aimed at endingthe decades-old inspectorraj.

    Allowing the establish-ment of microbreweries willmake available to the citizensof Delhi, fresh beer in differ-ent flavours, as is available inother places like Gurgaonand Bengaluru, said a seniorgovernment official.

    Under the new excise pol-icy, it has been decided to doaway with the present renew-al system of excise licence forhotels, clubs and restaurants,and merely on payment ofprescribed annual fee, the li-cence holder will be allowedto continue functioning, theofficial said.

    New excisepolicy unveiledStaff Reporter

    NEW DELHI: In a rare initiative,two judges of the Delhi HighCourt have decided to visitthe Lajpat Nagar CentralMarket in South Delhi to takestock of the cleanliness andprovision of civic amenitiesthere.

    The Court had earlier is-sued directions asking for thearea to be cleaned in order totreat Lajpat Nagar as a model.The judges had pulled up theDelhi Government and thecivic bodies over their failureto clean up the area during ahearing on a public interestlitigation over the weekend.

    Inability

    The Court said the officersconcerned were showcasing

    their inability with regard tothe orders passed and that itwas time for them to dosomething.

    The Bench, comprisingJustices B.D. Ahmed andSanjeev Sachdeva had saidthey would visit the spot aftera week and videograph andtake pictures of the area.They had warned that the of-ficers concerned would haveto face serious consequenc-es if they failed to complywith the Courts directions.

    We have taken Lajpat Na-gar as a model so that peoplevisiting there feel that some-thing has been done, observ-ed the Court after hearingarguments of the petitioner,NGO Nyaya Bhoomi that wasrepresented by B.B. Sharan.

    The Bench said that

    though there was some im-provement in the Lajpat Na-gar area, it was not good

    enough. The South Delhi Munici-

    pal Corporation, Public

    Works Department and Del-hi Jal Board were directed todisplay their efficiency andability in the small area, butthat experiment has not yetfructified into a satisfactoryresult, it said.

    War footing

    The Court said the civicagencies should do the clean-ing on a war footing as itwanted the work completedbefore the monsoon ends.All the agencies are againput to notice to do their joband maintain high level ofcleanliness in that area.

    After the Courts strong re-marks, SDMC counsel AjayArora assured that he wouldtake up the issue with the of-ficials and try to meet theCourts expectations.

    HC judges to visit Lajpat Nagar marketTo take stock of cleanliness and provision of civic amenities; pulls up government, civic bodies

    Mohammed Iqbal

    The court had earlier issued directions asking forthe area to be cleaned in order to treat LajpatNagar as a model. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

    screaming, waking up heryounger sister, who was alsosleeping in the same room.The two sisters tried to over-power Singh, but he managedto throw them off and escape,injuring the victim in theprocess. However, the securi-ty guards on duty caught holdof the man.

    The woman lodged a com-plaint against Singh underSections 376 C (rape by anymember of the managementor staff of a hospital with anywoman in that hospital), 325(voluntarily causing grievoushurt), and other sections ofthe Indian Penal Code.

    Confirming the incident,the Max Hospital authoritiessaid that the accused was im-mediately handed over to thepolice and was terminated.

    We follow a zero tolerancepolicy on any sexual miscon-duct with our employees orpatients and their families.We have a comprehensive in-duction policy for our on-rolls and contract employ-ees, the hospital said in anunsigned statement. IANS

    NEW DELHI: An Afghan woman,who was in India for hermothers medical treatment,was raped at Max Super Spe-cialty Hospital in South Delhion July 24, an incident thehospital has confirmed. A 19-year-old employee of the hos-pital, Amar Singh, was report-edly involved in the case.

    The Delhi Police have ar-rested Singh, a housekeeperat the Max Hospital in Saket.He was produced before amagistrates court on July 25,and was remanded in judicialcustody till August 8. IANShas accessed a copy of the vic-tims complaint.

    The womans statementwas recorded before a magist-rate on Wednesday.

    According to the complaintfiled by the woman, who hailsfrom Kabul, Singh tried toforce himself on her in theearly morning of July 24 asshe was asleep next to her ail-ing mother.

    The woman was sleepingon the couch provided for theattendants. The victim saidthat she had arrived in Delhifrom Kabul on July 18 to gether mother treated at theMax Hospital in Saket.

    Around 5 a.m. she waswoken up by a movementaround her and noticed thatSingh had came into the roomand was touching her privateparts. Singh then tried to rapeher. The woman started

    Max Hospital staff rapesAfghan woman, arrested

    The housekeeper at the Max Hospital inSaket was producedbefore a magistrate'scourt and remandedin judicial custody

    NEW DELHI: It has been almost amonth since Delhi Universityopened its gates to around58,000 students the firstbatch to study the much dis-cussed Choice Based CreditSystem.

    The teachers union con-tinue to consistently opposeit, while the All India Stu-dents Association held a rallyon Friday. Why is the CBCS introduced by the Ministry ofHuman Resource Develop-ment in its Central universi-ties is being so ill-received?

    The Choice Based CreditSystem operates on the sys-tem of choice. However, wedo not have the resources tooffer many choices to our stu-dents. The same lack of class-rooms, faculty and otherissues that made the defunctfour-year undergraduate pro-gramme difficult to deliver is

    now affecting the ChoiceBased Credit System, ex-plains Saikat Ghosh, a facultymember in Khalsa College.Ghosh had consistently op-posed the FYUP.

    The agitation to removethe FYUP had united all polit-ical forces on campus, makingthe withdrawal itself based onpure inefficiencies and freefrom any political agenda.However, the now almostsame syllabus that the CBCSenvisions has the teachersmore worried.

    The teachers in the uni-versity no longer have achoice when it comes to mak-ing the syllabus. We are re-duced to school teachers,teaching State-prescribedtextbooks and of course opento any agenda that the politi-cal party in power wants toenforce, says Sunny Kumar,a member of the AISA, whichstill continues giving out

    pamphlets containing infor-mation about the CBCS andcarrying out referendumseven though nobody seems tobe listening.

    Physics Teacher Abha DevHabib, one of more vocifer-ous opponents of the FYUPfeels that the CBCS is almosta replica of the FYUP. Thereare similarities in structure

    and the cafeteria-approach togiving an education, shesays.

    Another popular argumentis that the local issues in eachsubject are being ignoredwhen there is a uniformcourse being followedthroughout the country. Ahistory student could be de-prived of any local history

    that his or her State is proudof and a syllabus based on stu-dent profiles would soon be athing of the past, with everyuniversity being given thepower to amend only 30 percent of its syllabus to suittheir needs.

    No department can claimto be superior or have acourse structure differentfrom anything else you wouldfind in the country, defeatingthe purpose of being betterand competitive.

    Another worrisome factoris that several materialspending from the FYUP arebeing introduced in DU. Thecourse was known for itsschoolish syllabus, thatbordered on the ridiculous,say teachers.

    Another thing is the hastewith which it was introduced.A pan-India change in thestructure of university func-tioning was introduced on

    April 10 and within one or twomonths classes began, addsMs. Habib.

    When major systemicchanges are rushed withoutproper preparation, particu-larly with large universitiessuch as DU, the result ischaos, confusion and adverseconsequences for thousandsof students. The illegalitiesassociated with a forced im-plementation of CBCS fromJuly 2015 is now threateningto destroy Delhi Universityand ruin the careers of lakhsof students, added DUTApresident Nandita Narain,adding that they had writtento all authorities the VC,the UGC, the Visitor and theMHRD urging withdrawalof the CBCS on grounds of itbeing unsuited to public-funded universities, giventheir lack of infrastructureand teachers and their socialmandate.

    Choice based credit system continues to face oppositionVijetha SN

    Students staging a protest against CBCS at DelhiUniversity on Friday. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

    NEW DELHI: Utensils and wood-en furniture will becomecheaper in the national Cap-ital with the Delhi govern-ment announcing more thana seven per cent reduction inthe Value Added Tax (VAT)imposed on such items, said astatement issued onSaturday.

    On the other hand, going tothe spa, gymnasium and liv-ing in expensive hotels willbecome costlier due to an in-crease in luxury tax.

    The tax reduction, whichcame into force on Saturday,is for items under three cate-gories utensils or cutleryitems made of metal (includ-ing pressure cookers andpans), except those made ofprecious metals, wax of all

    kinds not covered by any oth-er entry of any schedule ofthe Delhi VAT Act, 2004, andwood and timber.

    According to the govern-ment, the decision to slashthe VAT from 12.5 per cent to5 per cent on such items is inkeeping with the amend-ments approved recently bythe Delhi Assembly to theDelhi Value Added Tax Act,2004.

    The Delhi government isof the view that the existingambiguity in the tax struc-ture for no valid reason needsto be rectified, the state-ment said.

    Rationalisation of VATand other taxes is the need ofthe hour and the Delhi gov-ernment will continue withits pro-people reforms, itadded.

    Delhi reduces VAT by7%, increases luxury taxStaff Reporter

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi HighCourt on Friday granted threemonths time to the Food Safetyand Standards Authority of In-dia (FSSAI) to frame and en-force guidelines for makingavailable wholesome, nutri-tious and hygienic food toschool children and restrictingthe sale of junk food in andaround schools.

    The Court allowed an appli-cation of FSSAI seeking exten-sion of time following itsMarch 17 judgment by which ithad directed regulation of junkfood consumption amongschool children through re-strictions on the sale of foodshigh in fat, salt and sugar in andaround schools. A DivisionBench, comprising Chief Jus-tice G. Rohini and JusticeJayant Nath, asked FSSAI tocreate regulations within thetime period. The Court hadearlier accepted draft guide-lines for restriction on junkfood.

    The Court had also directedthe Central Board of SecondaryEducation to consider includ-ing compliance with the guide-lines as a condition for schoolsfor getting affiliation with it.Besides, directions were issuedto the Delhi Government toconsider issuing instructionsto schools to follow theguidelines.

    The judgment came on apublic interest writ petitionmoved in 2010 by a non-gov-ernment organisation, UdayFoundation, which raised theissue of easy availability of junkfood and carbonated drinks tochildren and sought a ban onthese food items in schools.Under the guidelines, food highin fat, salt and sugar cannot besold within 50 metres of schoolpremises.

    The draft guidelines alsosuggested creation of a canteenpolicy and school health educa-

    tion programmes to educatestudents and parents aboutill-effects of unhealthy foodhabits. In its judgment, theCourt had refused to pass or-ders to the government on howto regulate the sale of junkfood, while noting that the gui-delines had been created by anexpert panel.

    The Court had also declinedto define the term junk foodafter observing that the draftguidelines had not used theterm junk, but had used theterm, high in fat, salt and sug-ar (HFSS) foods. When anexpert body constituted forthis very purpose and in per-formance of its statutory du-ties has framed the guidelines,without there being any specif-ic challenge thereto, we do notconsider appropriate on ourpart to tinker with it, it said.

    The guidelines provided ascientific background on howconsumption of junk foods waslinked with the growing non-communicable diseases suchas obesity, diabetes and hyper-tension among children.

    FSSAI gets 3 monthsto enforce guidelinesMohammed Iqbal

    Judgment came on apublic interest writpetition which raisedthe issue of easyavailability of junkfood and carbonateddrinks and sought aban on these fooditems in schools

    NEW DELHI: Over 142 different-ly abled youths were, on Sat-urday, shortlisted for jobs atmultinational companies onthe first day of an eight-day-long job summit organised bythe Delhi government here.

    They were among a total214 youths to have beenshortlisted for jobs by eightMNCs and other companies,a senior government officialsaid.

    The youths were selectedon the first day of the summitheld at District EmploymentCentre on Pusa Road. Seven-ty-two of them were short-listed by companies at otheremployment centres, the offi-cial said.

    The jobs included the postof financial planning adviser,housekeeping, tele-caller, da-ta entry operator, securityguard, attendant, helper,driver and peon.

    Twenty-five private com-panies were approached toparticipate in the job summit,Labour Minister Gopal Raisaid.

    MNC jobs: 142differently abledyouths shortlisted

    Staff Reporter

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    JAMMU: Protesters on Satur-day clashed with the police atseveral places in Jammu,prompting authorities toclamp prohibitory orders inthe district where a bandhwas observed for the secondday over the demand for set-ting up AIIMS in the region.

    Police resorted to canecharge and teargas shelling atfour places to disperse theprotesters. The situation isbeing brought under control.Three persons have been in-jured, SP, Jammu, RajivPandey said, adding eightpersons have been taken intocustody.

    Congress activists took outanti-government rallies andburnt effigies in Jammu city.

    Members of AIIMS Coor-

    dination Committee (ACC),which is spearheading thestir, also took out rallies inseveral parts of the city .

    As they reached Jewel, In-dra Chowk and Kachi Chawa-ni areas, the police stoppedthem from moving towardsthe BJP headquarters, result-ing in clashes. The police re-sorted to cane-charge andteargas shelling to dispersethe protesters, who indulgedin stone pelting.

    Eight people have beentaken into custody, Mr. Pan-dey said.

    ACC Chairman and JammuBar Association presidentAbhinav Sharma was alleged-ly assaulted by policeman ashe led a march in Gandhina-gar area.

    As the violent protestsspread to various areas ofJammu city, District Magist-rate Simrandeep Singh todayimposed restrictions on as-sembly of four or more peopleand all rallies in all the mu-nicipal limits of Jammu dis-trict under section 144 ofCrPC.

    This applies to the munic-ipal limits of Jammu city andperipheral tehsils also. Any-one violating shall be bookedby police, the DM said in anorder.

    The ACC on Saturday wentahead with its three-daybandh in Jammu rejectingthe Centres announcementfor AIIMS-like facilities inthe region.

    Meanwhile, Health Minis-

    ter Lal Singh appealed to thepeople of Jammu to not getmisled by the false, mischie-vous and motivated cam-paign unleashed bydisgruntled political ele-ments. Mr. Singh, who wasaddressing party activists atPt. Prem Nath Dogra BhawanSaturday, said no one, excepta handful of people, have anydoubt on the issue. - PTI

    Protests spread in Jammu over AIIMSrow; prohibitory orders clamped

    PATNA: The JD(U) on Mondayattacked the BJP as the Centrehas ruled out granting specialcategory status to Bihar andprovided only a special pack-age instead.

    Prime Minister NarendraModi during his election cam-paign last year had promisedto provide special category sta-tus, special package and spe-cial attention to Bihar. Whathappened to it? senior Biharministers Vijay Chaudharyand Bijendra Prasad Yadavtold reporters.

    There is no proposal as of

    now to grant special status toany state. There is a proposalto give special package, UnionMinister of State for PlanningRao Inderjit Singh had said inLok Sabha during questionhour on Friday.

    The senior ministers of Nit-ish Kumar government tookthe BJP to task for this andsaid people would teach thema lesson in the coming As-sembly election.

    Mr. Yadav, the FinanceMinister, also pooh-poohedBJPs argument that the statewould get three times more by

    way of special package thanthe special category status.

    The benefits of projectsNarendra Modi government isplanning to present as specialpackage would not be confinedto Bihar but for other statesalso. It could not substitute forspecial category status, Mr.Yadav said.

    The Jagdishpur-Haldia gaspipeline, national highwaysand railway bridges BJP is pro-posing to present as specialpackage to Bihar would not beexclusive of Bihar but wouldbenefit other states too. - PTI

    JD(U) attacks BJP over denialof special status to Bihar

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    10 | THE HINDU SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2015NOIDA/DELHINATION

    IDUKKI: Finally, women of theMuthuvan tribe in the forestsof Edamalakkudy are begin-ning to escape the unintend-ed scourge of a moderncontraceptive pill, which theGovernment had introducedto them in the mid-1990s.

    The pill, Mala D, a heavilysubsidised oral contraceptivepushed countrywide throughthe Governments social mar-keting blitz for birth control largely aiming the rural, lessthan affluent sections hadrendered infertile a big chunkof women of this tribe ofabout 2,000 people in 28settlements.

    In 2010, a study had foundthat no fewer than 117 of thetribes women had turnedbarren.

    But the silver lining is, astudy by the governmentCommunity Health Centre(CHC) in Devikulam nowsays that 2012-13 saw sevenMuthuvan newborns, whichrose to eight births in 2013-14. In 2015, another eight ba-bies were born as of end-Julythis year. The study also saysthe number of infertile wom-en too has now gone down to32. The CHC study says theusage of the pill has now comedown.

    Too many Muthuvan wom-en, mostly illiterate or semi-literate, had been using thecheap pill continuously formany years, often up to eightor more years. This was not toavoid bearing children, but toescape a tribal custom thatforced them into disablingisolation every time theymenstruated. Continually us-ing the pill ensured they

    would not menstruate.Sources say the pill, which

    technically cannot be dis-pensed without a prescrip-tion, was so much in demandonce that even local tea shopsrun by Muthuvan men usedto sell cartons of it, until theGovernment woke up a fewyears ago and began a cam-paign. Once the pill becameharder to come by locally,many Muthuva women usedto trek about 18 km throughthe forest to catch a bus toMunnar, some 22 km farther,to buy fresh stocks, say thesources.

    This was because theirclannish customs dictatesthat women should be shunt-ed out to a Valpura, usually abare and otherwise unusedshanty away from their hutsin their forest habitat, allthrough the days of theirmonthly periods. Though the

    Muthuvans are supposedlymatrilineal, their Valpurasare mostly unsafe, dilapidat-ed and often rat and insectinfested structures that thetribal men shun as impureand refuse even to go near.Most Muthuva women dreadspending a week every monthin these. Other reasons, thesources say, are that thewomen just cannot afford tokeep off their manual farmwork for days together, or toexpect their husbands tocook and look after kids lefthome, if they have any.

    After the alarm went off,the State government triedputting up a few Valpuras forthese women, but with nomaintenance, most of thesealso went to seed shrouded inweeds and creepers, in notime.

    The local panchayat offi-cials say there are now 38Valpuras and each settle-ment has one or more ofthese, depending on the pop-ulation. But the underlyingcauses for their plight stillremain to haunt thesewomen.

    Kerala tribal womensee new stirrings of lifeGiji K.Raman

    A tribal settlement in Idukki

    A contraceptive pillhad turned manytribal woman

    tropolis as a capital to at-tract investment.

    The Chief Minister madea pointed observation thatjust as Union minister forprogramme implementa-tion Rao Inderjit Singhmade a statement in the LokSabha on Friday refusing togrant special status to anystate, the then Prime Minis-ter Manmohan Singh had,during the final stages of thedebate on the division oferstwhile Andhra Pradeshin February 2014, made justsuch a promise.

    Moreover, current Unionministers Arun Jaitley andVenkaiah Naidu, then in theOpposition, had in thatsame debate fought hard forspecial status for the resid-ual state of Andhra Pradeshto enable it to rebuild afterthe loss of Hyderabad.

    While the Centres state-ment on Friday gave an op-portunity to the AndhraPradesh opposition to workup a round of barrackingagainst Mr. Naidus Govern-ment, industry circles said itwas a serious setback to theState Governments plans toattract investment to its in-frastructure and new capitalprojects.

    Funding for projects

    Special status, if given,would have bound the Cen-tre to devolve 90 per cent offunding for projects in theform of grants, leaving thestate government to coughtup the rest. Further, itwould have extended sever-al tax breaks to industry, en-couraging investment flowsto the residuary state.

    One section of industry inHyderabad said the denialof special category statuswould have an impact on in-vestment in Andhra Pra-

    desh. According toIndustrial Development Fo-rum convenor J.A. Chow-dary industry had beenpinning its hopes on theslew of incentives includinga 15-year tax holiday forsome sectors, promised atthe time of bifurcation to setup shop in Andhra Pradesh.

    A lot of companies wouldland up in the new State ifincentives are offered. Butnow they will look else-where, he said.

    BJP leaders from AP wereat pains to explain away theministers statement in Par-liament, insisting, as MrNaidu did, that he Mr Inder-jit Singh did not have And-hra Pradesh in mind whenhe spoke.

    The BJPs state presidentand Visakhapatnam MP KHaribabu said special statuswas still under considera-tion. The Central Govern-ment is committed to all theassurances that are in theAP Reorganisation Act andeven those not in it for thedevelopment of the State,he asserted.

    It so happens that thepromise of special categorystatus was not included inthe text of the AP Reorga-nisation Act.

    VIJAYAWADA: A day after theCentre declared in the LokSabha that there is no ques-tion of conferring specialcategory status on any Statein the country, Chief Minis-ter Chandrababu Naidu ledhis governments spinmeis-ters in adopting the positionthat this sweeping state-ment did not apply to And-hra Pradesh.

    Speaking ahead of a TDPconclave in Vijayawada, Mr.Naidu said Andhra Pradeshcannot be lumped with oth-er States because it was bi-furcated against its peopleswill, with the terms of divi-sion leaving it heavily in thered, without a capital andwith much leeway to makeup against other frontlinestates in the South.

    Centres help essential

    Hiding his disappoint-ment lest his partys tieswith its ally, the BJP, bestrained, he insisted theCentral government shouldhandhold Andhra Pradeshuntil it achieved parity withits neighbours, Tamil Nadu,Telangana and Karnataka,each of which have a me-

    A.P. is hopeful though Centre deniesspecial category status to any StateV. Raghavendra& M. Rajeev

    N. Chandrababu Naidusays A.P. cannot belumped with other Statesbecause it wasbifurcated against itspeoples will

    doctor, while examining a headinjury, should look for dysfunc-tional speech, hearing and vision;the instructions that seem rightout of an MBBS text book waswritten in Arabic in 925 AD byscholar Abu Bakr Al-Razi. All of AlRazis medical work which runsinto 24 volumes named KutabulHawi Fit-Tibb will soon be trans-lated into English and convertedto e-books in Hyderabad.

    The multicrore, translation anddigitisation project will be under-taken by Dairutul Maarifil Osma-nia, a centre that the VI Nizam,Mir Mahboob Ali Khan Siddiqui,established in 1888.

    The centre has edited and com-piled 240 manuscripts that runsinto 800 volumes with two lakhpages.

    The translation of the bookswill help to distinctly understandthe contribution that Arab med-

    icine had made to medical science.Al Razi could have been the

    first medical theorist to state thatfever is not a disease but a symp-tom of some other illness. He listsout a 1,000 varieties of fever thatare symptoms to a 1,000 varietiesof diseases, said Md. Mubeen Iq-bal, an Arabic scholar who hasdone translations of ancient texts.

    Al Razis medical textbooks de-tails out symptom based diagnos-is. Each of the 24 volumes lookinto one aspect of human illness.For instance, the first volume istitled, diseases of the head and thesecond diseases of the eye. Thethird volume is on diseases of thethroat, ear, nose and teeth.

    As per the project, it is not just

    Al Razis work but all the two lakhpages of Arabic scholarship onmedicine, history and religion willbe translated into English, centreofficials said. Among the bookswhich are to be translated are Ki-tab-al-Umda which is on surgery.All our compilations are authenticas they are based on original man-uscripts collected from countriesincluding Turkey, Germany andSpain, said Prof Mustafa Shareef,Arabic scholar and director of thecentre.

    Prophetic traditions

    The oldest compilation that thecentre has dates back to 9th cen-tury AD. Musnad Abu Yalas Ha-dis or collection of Prophetictraditions was the first book thatwas compiled from manuscripts,the director said. The manu-scripts are collected in microfilmformat. The Nizam had establish-ed the centre to improve on Hyd-erabad states wealth ofknowledge.

    The Union government whichhas in principle agreed to fund theproject is expected to release Rs.37.9 crore in the coming month.As per the calculation of DairutulMaarifil Osmania, the translationwork will alone cost Rs. 25 crore.

    24 VOLUMES WILL BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, CONVERTED TO E-BOOKS

    A peek into Arab medicineNikhila Henry

    A

    Dairatul Maarifil Osmania, a centre established in 1888for compilation of ancient Arabic manuscripts will start amulticrore translation project this year. PHOTO: G. RAMAKRISHNA

    ALL OUR COMPILATIONS AREAUTHENTIC AS THEY ARE BASED ONORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTEDFROM COUNTRIES, INCLUDING TURKEY,GERMANY AND SPAIN

    ANCIENT MEDICAL TEXTS

    BENGALURU: With over 17 at-tacks seen over the past sixmonths, activists and ele-phant experts believe theconstruction of the 400 kVMysuru-Kozhikode trans-mission power line may belinked to the increased man-elephant conflict in Kodagu.

    After analysing the data, itdoes look like there is somerelationship between con-struction of the line and theattacks. There definitelyneeds to be a halt in construc-tion until the issue can be ex-amined and mitigationmeasures are suggested,Asian Elephant expert Ra-man Sukumar told TheHindu.

    His opinion was sought forby the Karnataka State Hu-man Rights Commission,

    where the Coorg Wildlife So-ciety (CWS) had filed a com-plaint on May 22 against theproject. On Friday, Mr. Suku-

    mar told the commission thatat least 10 deaths and 7 casesof injury were reported in thearea over the past six months,

    and may be linked to the dis-turbance created by theproject.

    C.P. Muthanna, presidentof the CWS, said the increasein attacks were consistentwith the period of construc-tion. When constructionstopped in 2014, there was alull in attacks, and when con-struction started in Decem-ber there was a spike again, heclaimed.

    Last year, after protests inthe region, a three-membercommittee had been set up bythe State government to re-view the project. Mr. Suku-mar, who was a member, hadnoted in the report submittedthat there was potential forincrease in elephant-humanconflict within coffee planta-tions, paddy fields and settle-ments in Kodagu district as aresult of movement of ma-

    chinery for cutting trees andconstruction of tower lines.

    Manoj Kumar, Chief Con-servator of Forests (Kodagu),said a thorough study wasneeded as the region has anumber of elephants, andconsequently, high number ofattacks. We cant brush thesuggestion aside, nor can weconclusively say that the at-tacks are because of the pow-er project, he said.

    The department had al-ready surveyed the nearly 50sq. km for gaps from wherewild elephants enter humanhabitation.

    A proposal for Rs. 18 crorehas been sent for the year.But, these measures cannotbe done overnight as trenchesand other barriers need to becreated in forest areas as wellas around villages, said Mr.Kumar.

    Spike in elephant attacks in Kodagu linked to power projectMohit M. Rao

    Mysuru-Kozhikode transmission power