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he StateMAY 19 TO MAY 25, 2014

Vol-02. Issue-34. Bhopal. Monday Page-12 Price-5/-

Published simultaneously from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

Online edition availble at wethestate.com and wethestate.blogspot.in

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Govt has managed torestrict Naxals:CM RamanSingh

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Send informationabout pendingpension casesimmediately:CS

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Modi will haveto deal withlethargy ofbureaucrats

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Priyanka is a sexier nerd

than Deepikaand Kangana ,

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David warrnerenjoys his role

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Jaipur: After securing 162 seats in

the Assembly elections last year thereby

paving way for the BJP's governance in

Rajasthan, the saffron party won all 25

Lok Sabha seats in the state and literally

buried the Congress party with the over-

whelming win. As BJP had won only four

seats in 2009, a gain of 21 seats from the

state has substantially contributed to the

party's overall tally. This is the second

time that any party has won all 25 seats

in the Hindi heartland. Congress had won all seats in 1984

general elections after the assassinationof Indira Gandhi. For the first time sincethe 1989 Lok Sabha polls, the Congressfailed to open its account in Rajasthanwith even its senior leaders biting thedust and rival BJP sweeping all the 25seats. Though in the 1989 Lok Sabha pollsBJP had won 13, Janata Dal 11 andCPI(M) one, and the Congress lost all 25seats in Rajasthan, and this time too theCongress lost all the seats, but at BJP'sgain. This historic mandate has furtherstrengthened Chief Minister VasundharaRaje's position in her party. After comingto power in the state with 163 MLAs inthe last year's assembly polls riding onModi wave, Raje had set her eyes on'Mission-25' and she won in all con-stituencies.

NEWS max A new era has begunin national politics

ith the new prime minis-ter all ready to take oathalong with the ministers

forming a part of his cabinet, a newera has begun in the national poli-tics. Heading a campaign which net-ted an unprecedented 336 seats forNDA, Modi has settled any doubtsabout whether there is a wave inhis favour. Modi offered a positivemessage of development and bet-ter days to come.

This is an occasion for celebra-tion by Indians. Modi has travelledfrom poverty and low-caste (OBC)birth to the highest office in thecountry. UPA has paid a heavy pricefor ignoring the aspirational sec-tions of Indian society. This politicalearthquake questions many of theestablished verities of Indian poli-tics. It would be fair to say thatthe landslide in favour of NDAhas been because Modi hasmanaged to repackage and sellthe Indian dream, which hadbeen all but buried by therelentless inflation and ava-lanche of corruption scamsthat became the hallmark ofUPA's second outing. An importanttakeout from this election, therefore,is that rather

than being a petitioning or an envy-ridden society, 21st century India isevolving into an aspirational societythat desires growth. Political partiesthat recognise this will stay ahead of thecurve. Modi is a conviction politician

who can think out-of-the-box and challenge conven-tional wisdoms of 20th century Indian politics. Nowonder he has benefited. Not only is he capable ofbeing a transformative PM, he enjoys a broad man-date following this election. He has taken him andhis party to the summit of power. This imposes a

heavy responsibility on him. He and his govern-ment must now work relentlessly to take Indiato the summit of its potential.

Narendra Modi faces tough challenges ahead.The first and foremost is to tackle the inflationthat has hit the common man the hardest in thepast three to four years. Although, BJP has men-

tioned it as a priority in its manifesto, it’s stillto be seen how it would be achieved. One of

the ideas is to distribute Food Corporationof India's (FCI’s) surplus food grain in theopen market to increase supply in the

market and also re-formulate how min-imum support price is calculated. The

best BJP led NDA government would bedoing is breaking away policy log-jamand ending the existing policy paraly-sis. A strong leadership can help inimproving the country's economy andinfrastructure, and curbing corrup-tion as well, giving further fillip to

the GDP. As professed by the BJP inits election manifesto, the new govern-

ment should surely bring out policies thathelp in widening tax base in the countryand include larger section of the society inthe tax net. BJP has mentioned that blackmoney stashed away abroad would be

brought back if NDA returned to power andit would be used for the welfare of the poorand to reward honest income-tax payers. Itwould be a big plus for the nation if thou-sands of crores stashed in foreign tax

havens could be bought back at the ear-liest.

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How WE look it !

Dilip Ojha

How BJP sweptRajasthan?

POSTAL REGD. MP/BHOPAL/4-323/2013-15

Govt has managed to restrictNaxals: CM Raman Singh

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has saidthat his government has managed to restrict the Naxalsto a small area in Bastar. “The areas which used to behighly sensitive are now almost free from any sort ofNaxal activities be is Sarguja or Rajnandgaon. Even inBastar region, the area of Naxal domination is reducedto Dantewada and Sukma districts only. And whateverviolent attacks they are carrying out is out of frustra-tion” added the CM.

But the CM also accepted that that the state needseffective mechanism to tackle the IED blasts carried outby the Naxals and also said that the Darbha valleywhere the recent incidents took place, was beneficial tothe Naxals because it is being a border area, they(Naxals) can cross over to other states easily from thatarea. On the accusation by Congress leader Ajit Jogithat Chhattisgarh was being ruled by bureaucrats withno direction from political executive, Singh said, “It’snot correct. The bureaucrats are there only to implementthe decisions taken by political executives and not totake decisions. Raman Singh said there were no cases ofhuman rights violations and tribal displacement innthestate. There are no problems in Chhattigarh as far as

land issues are concerned. Our policy in this matter isthe best in India and we provide better price for the landacquired. We even provide employment to the affectedpeople and if they are not able to get jobs, we providethem with minimum wages.

On thousands of tribals languishing in Chhattisgarhjails on petty offences like providing food or water toNaxals ,the CM claimed that his government has let offmany people especially in tribal areas.

“Over 1.60 lakh small cases were settled in one day.On Naxal-related offences, we are trying to let off thosewho have no involvement,” Singh said. Singh saidBastar district will witness development after the com-missioning of a Rs. 10,000 crore steel plant. The threemillion tonne per annum capacity steel plant of thestate-run National Mineral Development Corporation isexpected to start production later this year.

"After the full fledged development in the Maoist-hit area in the next 10 years, we will double the state'seconomic growth," Singh said. He said the Surguja dis-trict, which was also affected by the Maoist violence isnow peaceful while his government has stepped updevelopment in Bastar region. Singh said Chhattisgarhhas been enjoying more than 10 percent growth in theGDP for the last three years.

School education depart-ment is aiming to provide freeand compulsory admission topoor children on 25% seatsreserved for them in a muchneeded initiative to successfullyimplement Right to Education(RTE) in Chhattisgarh. Allschools have been instructed tokeep seats vacant under RTE tillend of August end for the newsession.

With 3,860 financially poorstudents, Raipur district record-ed highest number of admis-sions in Chhattisgarh underRTE in 2012-13. The districthas been setting this recordsince 2010 and it may set anoth-er one this year, claim officialsat education department.

District education officer(DEO) Ashok Banjara said thedepartment has circulatedinstructions to all privateschools to keep seats, fallingunder RTE Act, vacant tillAugust 24. Banjara said all 170

nodal schools have been told tobe ready with details aboutreservation of seats for differ-ently abled, poor, scheduledcaste, scheduled tribe childrenin order to avoid confusionamong people. Banjara said thatparents need to approach nodalofficers with desire to apply insaid school for admission oftheir kids. "In order to createawareness among them, depart-ment staff takes initiative dur-ing admission seasons by dis-playing flex billboards. In caseof denial from schools, parentscan come to nodal officers orblock education officers andregister their complaints," hesaid.

Earlier, there have beencases where few private schoolstried violating RTE norms andrefused admission to poor stu-dents giving reasons thatschool's ambience would beaffected. However, few casesthat reached high court werelater given admission in desiredschools.

Raipur

Raipur

2 touts arrestedfor luring people

to work in TN

Schools told to keepseats vacant under RTE

2 MAY 19 TO MAY 25, 2014 (MP & CG)CHHATTISGARH EXPLORE

Narayanpur police recently arrested twolocal touts involved in luring large number ofpeople and encouraging them to migrate andwork at a food processing company in TamilNadu. Where on one side, Chhattisgarh is suf-fering with dearth of labours for several works,local people tie-up with contractors in otherstates and provide cheap labour which includesminor children as well. These labourers furtherget exploited and are poorly paid. Instances ofrape, exploitation and human trafficking hadrecently come to light.

Police said that the duo identified asRamnath and Manter Kurram were in a practiceof encouraging local people to migrate to otherstates and work with contractors. "Few days ago,police along with an NGO succeeded in releas-ing nearly 81 bonded labourers from differentparts of Tamil Nadu and since then, we have

been searching for the two accused. Both ofthem earn a commission for providing cheaplabour. The duo has admitted to having sent 11girls, including minors, to the food processingcompany in Tamil Nadu charging Rs 1,000 foreach girl," Narayanpur superintendent of policeAmit Kamre said. The incident was reportedfrom Benur police station where few locals com-plained of girls going to Tamil Nadu in largenumbers. Following the complaint, police hadreleased 81 bonded labourers recently.

During the raids, police nabbed one Tijuramwho was the main link involved in migratingpeople. Police said based on revelations byTijuram, they began searching for the accused.Migration from Narayanpur has recently taken atoll with a large number of locals acting as toutsencouraging people to move to other states toearn. Hence, police teams visit neighbouringstates at regular intervals and rescue those work-ing as bonded labourers and arrest the accused.

RAIPUR

Send information about pendingpension cases immediately: CSChief Secretary Shri Anthony de

Sa has directed all heads of depart-ments to compile information aboutpending pension/family pensioncases of retired or deceased govern-ment servants as on March 31, 2014and send the same immediately tothe Director, Pension, ProvidentFund and Insurance. The ChiefSecretary has also directed all col-lectors to fully comply with the cal-endar chalked out for actions inpension cases.

It is noteworthy that on theChief Secretary’s directives, thestate government has prescribedtime-limit for pension cases’ dispos-al last week. According to it, officehead will compulsorily send byJune 30, 2014 pension cases pend-ing as on March 31, 2014.Directives have been given thatpension cases pending as on May15, 2014 with divisional pensionofficers/district pension officersshould be disposed of by June 30,

2014. Pension cases received fromoffice heads will be disposed of byJuly 31, 2014. Directives have beengiven to start preparing pensioncases by June 30 for the govern-ment servants slated to retire onJune 30, 2016. Directives have beengiven to issue PPO/GPO to concern-ing employees due to retire tillDecember 31, 2014 by June 30,2014 and those due to retire afterJuly 31, 2015 should be issued thesame 15 days before retirement.

Madhya Pradesh Congress recentlydemanded that the Lokayukta shouldlodge two First Information Reports(FIRs) in connection with as manyalleged land scams in Indore and Bhopal.After filing a written complaint with theLokayukta officials, Leader of theOpposition in the state AssemblySatyadev Katare told reporters here, “Thefirst complaint pertains to 12,600 squarefeet land in front of the Commissioner'soffice in Old Secretariat and Pipalner vil-lage in the state capital wherein theaccused purchased land at a throwawayprice.” He alleged that the state'sProfessional Examination Board(MPPEB) scam accused Ajay ShankarMehta and Nitin Mahindra were involvedin the land scam. Others named in thecomplaint include Savita Mehta, SarlaMahindra, Vinit Mahindra and other offi-cials concerned. He stated that the rulingBJP is not willing for the CBI probe in theMPPEB scam, as it fears that the probewould expose saffron party’s corruptionand several high-profile people would befound involved in the scam. In anothercomplaint, the Congress claimed that7.56 acre land out of 10.28 acre belong-ing to a trust was leased to NarendraGorani by Kamlendru Singh in collusionwith the then Indore tehsiladar in viola-tion of rules and despite the High Court'sstay in this regard.

BHOPAL

Congress approaches Lokayukta,demands two FIRs

BHOPAL

Private universities in state have urgedUniversity Grants Commission (UGC) to treatit at par with government universities in termsof grants for research work and academic activ-ities. A delegation of MP Private UniversitiesRegulatory Commission (MPPURC) authoritiesmet UGC chairman professor Ved Prakash onSunday and raised the demand with him.Confirming the meeting, chairman ofMPPURC, Dr AK Pandey told TOI, "He hasasked us to send a proposal which we will dosoon." Chairman professor Ved Prakash duringhis address at RKDF University on Saturdayhad assured that UGC would not discriminatebetween private universities and governmentuniversities.

Justifying the demands, Dr Pandey said,"There are 12 private universities in the statewhere around 35,000 students are enrolled fordifferent courses. UGC can't ignore such alarge number of students when it comes toresearch work by them. Unlike governmentuniversities, grants provided to students of pri-vate universities are very few." There are 148

universities in the country. He said treatmentto private universities could be gauged fromthe fact that only two universities out of 12 pri-vate universities were inspected by UGC so far."In absence of inspections, private universitiesare not able to apply even for available grantsfrom UGC. Grants for private universities arevery few and that are also not available tothem in such a situation." Dr Pandey said,MPPURC, he said will be organising meets

across the country to attract corporate housesto invest in the state to set up private univer-sities. "If private universities do not get equaltreatment like government universities, itwould be tough to convince corporate housesfor investments." Private universities hadrecently raised the issue of equal treatment atpar with government universities during aninteraction with higher education ministerUmashankar Gupta.

Bhopal / Rajiv Tiwari

3 MAY 19 TO MAY 25, 2014 (MP & CG)BHOPAL

The state government has con-stituted a cabinet committee toensure bidi workers’ upliftment. Itcomprises Water Resources,Finance and Commercial TaxesMinister Shri Jayant Malaiya,Panchayats & Rural DevelopmentMinister Shri Gopal Bharagava,Labour, Backward Classes andMinorities’ Welfare Minister ShriAntar Singh Arya and Minister ofState for Public Health & FamilyWelfare Shri Sharad Jain. PrincipalSecretary Labour will be commit-tee’s Member-Secretary. The com-mittee will give suggestions foruplifting living standards of bidiworkers, providing employmentopportunities and promoting mar-keting of their products.

Cabinet committeeto ensure bidi

workers’ upliftment

mand parity with govt universitiesPvt varsities demand parity with govt universities

4 MAY 19 TO MAY 25, 2014 (MP & CG)

Chhattisgarh tops in murders

caused by lunacyChhattisgarh has taken a leap from third

to first position in country for murdercaused by lunacy with 26 cases andJharkhand and Gujarat follow with 20 and12 cases respectively. As per data recentlyreleased by National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB), state has registered maximumcases of murder by lunatic people leaping toan average of 13% higher than last years'figure of just two deaths due to insanity.While Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh stood onfirst and second position in last few years,Jharkhand joined the race behindChhattisgarh this time.

Blaming it on addiction to alcohol andlosing nerve very easily, psychiatrists incapital say that it was an increasing trend instate both among males and females thattriggers incidents of attack and murder evenon family members.

Jyoti Kushwaha, a psychiatrist, said thatpeople are eventually losing their cool overpetty issues at home and society and getenraged to an extent that they injure andeven kill someone they are angry at."Though this behaviour is more common inrural areas, the fact can't be denied that thistrend is catching up fast among urban peo-

ple as well. Addiction to alcohol is the com-monest reason that medical surveys havefound which is slowly spreading amongwomen too," Kushwaha said. She said thatprofessional stress, targets and pollutioncause irritation and leads to extreme stepslike committing murder. "If NCRB claimsChhattisgarh to be on top in list of lunaticmurders, there's an urgent need to take ini-tiative for controlling this situation. Peopleneed counseling, break from work, de-addiction centres on an easily availablebasis," she said.

A senior police official in capital saidthat state was also facing increase in casesof mental patients that contribute to inci-dents of rage. However, he also said that itwasn't a surprise that state tops cases ofmurder due to lunacy because rural areaswitness at least 10 cases of murder everyfestive season caused under influence ofalcohol.

Other genre of murders in state as perlatest NCRB data of 2012 include, 36 mur-ders done out of purpose, 77 over property,78 for personal benefit and16 women mur-dered over dowry. However, data showsonly two murders caused due to witchcraft,while there are many cases that go unregis-tered.

RAIPUR

Child sex ratio declines in Chhattisgarh

RAIPUR TRAIL

What perhaps should start ringingalarm bells for Chhattisgarh govern-ment, child sex ratio in state is followingthe national trend of declining numberof females per 1000 males. Though statestill fares better than national average,child sex ratio (0-4 years) has marked aconsiderable decline from 978 to 965 (-13 points). According to second updateof Annual Health Survey (AHS) 2013-14 released this month, decline in childsex ratio, among Empowered ActionGroup (EAG) states is highest inChhattisgarh at -13. While Jharkhandand Madhya Pradesh have witnessed an

improvement in child sex ratio, from937 to 948 (+11) and 911 to 916 (+5)respectively, states of Odisha, Bihar andAssam have seen a decline from 931 to922 (-9), 956 to 947 (-9) and 933 to 925(-8) respectively.

In Chhattisgarh, among 16 districtsthat were surveyed, lowest sex ratio wasrecorded in Koriya (879), which is -38points less than baseline round of 917.As per the second update of report,Kawardha district has the best sex ratioof 1,001 in state. However, this has alsodeclined from the earlier 1,008 (-7) andremains -75 points less than baseline of1,076. According to report, across allnine EAG States, except Assam, sexratio (0-4 years) is higher in rural areas,

indicating a bias towards girl child inurban population. However, in Assam,sex ratio remains higher at 966 in urbanareas as compared to 944 in rural.Report has some good news forChhattisgarh, as there has been a gradualimprovement in Infant Mortality Rate(IMR), which has declined from 53 to 46in second update of AHS report. In fact,Chhattisgarh along with Bihar haverecorded the highest fall of -7, while UPand Uttarakhand recorded lowest ofthree from baseline to second updateround. Similarly, Neo Natal MortalityRate (NNMR), in Chhattisgarh, Bihar,Jharkhand, Odisha and Rajasthan haverecorded the highest fall of 3 while UPrecorded the lowest fall (1) from base-

line to second update. Of 16 districtssurveyed, minimum and maximumNNMR was recorded in Durg at 24 andKawardha at 42, as compared to baselinesurvey 29 and 45 respectively. As perreport, nine EAG states- Rajasthan,Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar,Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh and Assam, account for50% of country's population, 60% ofbirths, 71% of infant deaths, 72% ofunder 5 deaths and 62% of maternaldeaths. The reference period for currentround is January to December 2011.

AHS is conducted for EAG states formonitoring the impact of targeted inter-ventions in low performing districts soas to remove disparities.

Raipur

BHOPAL: Lokayukta raids onthe IPS officer, Mayank Jain, havetriggered paranoia in IPS cadre here.Some IPS officers believe actionagainst Jain was uncalled for. Formerdirector generals with the Lokayuktapolice had always discouragedaction against IPS officers. This wasthe first time that raids werelaunched against a serving IPS officerof the rank of inspector general ofpolice. Former director generals withthe Lokayukta police had always dis-couraged action against IPS officers.Before IG Mayank Jain, a deputyinspector general (Jail) U K Gandhiwas raided in 2012 in one of thebiggest operations in MadhyaPradesh in recent times. Assets worthRs 25 crore were unearthed. He wassuspended after the raids.

Before IG Mayank Jain, a deputyinspector general (Jail) U K Gandhiwas raided in 2012 in one of thebiggest operations in MadhyaPradesh in recent times. Assets worthRs 25 crore were unearthed. He wassuspended after the raids. Thoughthe Lokayukta police officials werealready aware of his assets whenthey began the raid, the extent of thediscoveries came as a surprise evento them. From a nursing home in hiswife's name in Kolar to house inMahabali Nagar, flat in Bima Kunj inKolar, three flats in Indore, agricul-tural land in Khargone, and Ujjain,nursing home in Rewa, crusher unitin Rau, the list kept expanding.

At least five more IPS officers areunder the Lokayukta scanner andone of them is of additional director-general rank, said sources.Complaints against two officers arepending for more than four years.While the raids "IAS officers hardlyallow action against people of theircadre. God knows who is going to bethe next," said an IPS officer. He saidthe matter will be raised before theMP IPS Officers Association. MayankJain is a 1995 batch officer of IndianPolice Service. An MBBS doctor, whoalso has a degree of MS (Ortho), hejoined the IPS after cracking the civilservices examination.

BRIEF Raisen’s diarrhoea patients recovering

Diarrhoea patients in Begumganjtown of Raisen district are recover-ing. Situation is under control.Raisen collector visited Begumganjgovernment hospital and enquiredabout health of diarrhoea patients.

He directed doctors to providebetter treatment to them. OnTuesday, 110 diarrhoea patientswere admitted to the hospital. Afterenquiring about health of patientsin hospital, the collector directeddoctors to provide proper treatmentto them.

Earlier, the Health Department

has directed all districts to ensurethat no patient remains untreated.The Raisen collector enquiredaboutdrinking water arrangementsin Begumganj and visited affectedarea. He directed PHE Departmentofficers to supply clean drinkingwater.

Meanwhile, the department hasadvised people in all districts to useonly clean water and fresh foodstuff. The department has alsoadvised citizens as to how they canavoid using polluted material.Citizens have also been advised tovisit nearest hospital on sufferingfrom diarrhoea.

RAISEN

Lokayukta raid onMayank Jain triggersparanoia in IPS cadre

BHOPAL

5 MAY 19 TO MAY 25, 2014 (MP & CG)MADHYA PRADESH

Health Department has directedfield staff in districts to adoptprecautionary measures to con-trol seasonal diseases. PrincipalSecretary, Health Shri PraveerKrishna has directed all ChiefHealth and Medical Officers inthis regard. Sector officers willbe held responsible for suchmeasures in the villages underthem. It has been said in thedirectives that entire health staffshould remain alert and active toensure public health in cities andvillages.

At village level, adequatenumber of health workers shouldmake efforts to prevent outbreakof diseases. Villagers should beinformed about methods to pre-vent diseases like malaria, diar-rhoea etc. The PrincipalSecretary has directed trainedASHA workers and ANMs to playactive role in health-relatedactivities at Gram ArogyaKendras. It is noteworthy thaton reaching Gram ArogyaKendra, health workers are pro-vided a kit, which is useful inheath examination and treat-ment of villagers.

Sector medical officersresponsible for public

health in villages

Bhopal: Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan has said that prior-ity should be attached to providingsmart phone to students takingadmission in government colleges innext academic session. A transpar-ent process should be laid down forthis. All university and college cam-puses should be provided wi-fi facil-ity. He was reviewing activities ofHigher Education Department hereon Thursday. He directed to chalkout schemes for improving highereducation’s quality. The ChiefMinister will himself hold discus-sions with professors and collegeprincipals regarding this.

Higher Education MinisterUmashankar Gupta, Minister ofState for Higher Education DeepakJoshi and Chief Secretary AnthonyDeSa were also present on the occa-sion. Chouhan reviewed 100-dayaction plan of the department. Hedirected to chalk out a scheme forseeking cooperation of industrial

houses for infrastructure of collegesthrough discussions with them. Themeeting was informed that 10 col-leges have been selected for liftingtheir excellence to the nationallevel. These include Institute forHigher Education Bhopal, HolkarScience College Indore, TRS CollegeRewa, Adarsh VigyanMahavidyalaya Jabalpur,Government Girls College Sagar,Maharaja College Chhatarpur,Jijabai Government College Sagar,Kamla Raje College Gwalior,Government Sarojini Naidu CollegeBhopal and Government MadhavCollege Ujjain.

The Chief Minister directed toselect minimum one college in everydivision. He directed to fix norms forallotting funds touniversities.Buildings of colleges should be con-structed within time-limit. Specialattention should be paid to imple-mentation of Higher EducationLoan Guarantee Scheme. No stu-dent in the state should remaindeprived of education due to paucity

of money. Labs and libraries of allcolleges should be upgraded.Felicitate professors for excellentperformance and act against poorperformers.

Higher Education GrantsCommission’s recommendationsshould be strictly implemented incolleges. World Bank’s scheme toimprove quality of higher educationshould be improved further.Implementation of Gaon Ki Betiand Pratibha Kiran schemes shouldbe monitored regularly.Department’s annual action planshould be reviewed quarterly. It wasinformed in the meeting that actionhas been started to fill up vacanciesof professors and other staff byHigher Education Department.

As many as 20 job fairs havebeen held in the state underVivekananda Carreer GuidanceScheme. Internal reforms schemefor universities is being chalked out.Two departments of every universi-ty have been selected to be devel-oped as excellent ones.

Smart phones to students, govt's priorityRAJIV TIWARI

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he victory lap of Narendra Modi must be tem-pered with the realization that it will not be easyto meet the sky high expectations that the people

have of him. Modi has proved that he is capable ofhandling punishing workloads and taking informeddecisions. However, he will have to suffer mainly dueto the red tape and lethargy in the bureaucracy. It isa herculean task for any government to make theIndian bureaucracy perform.

Modi has an excellent record in Gujarat where thebureaucracy, assured of reasonable tenures withoutwitch-hunting and guided by clear and transparentpolicy directives, has been carrying out its task withalacrity and due diligence. Its performance has beenone of the reasons for the success of Modi’s govern-ment.

But to replicate it on a pan Indian basis will be anonerous task. Since there are many fronts on whichthe new government will have to move at once, it willtake replacement of too many officers. This will senda wrong signal down the line and bring about fears ofdowngrading of hallowed institutions. There is nodenying that a new government needs trusted officersin key positions to implement its policies. But largescale tinkering can have adverse effects. For instance,rumours have been doing the round that the RBI gov-ernor will be replaced. Reserve Bank is oneautonomous institution that has been performing itsduties laudably. Government interference, apart froma broad policy guideline, will have major negativerepercussions on the economy.

Inflation is one area that the government will haveto work on, for the rising prices of daily consumptionitems were one of the reasons people got disenchant-ed with the UPA. But the tight money policy being fol-lowed is raising the hackles of industry, which is find-ing high interest rates a disincentive to invest.Manufacturing is experiencing negative growth andneeds capital infusion but this cannot be at the cost ofinflation. It is very important to strike the correct bal-ance between the two and it is here where the politi-

cal acumen ofModi and hisd e s i g n a t e dfinance andcommerce min-isters will cometo play. We havehad policy paral-ysis for long. Nowdecisions need tobe taken. Nothingcan be achieved inthe short term, butsix months down theline prices need to bestabilized and fundsneed to be madeavailable to the manu-facturing sector at reason-able rates.

The forecast of a below aver-age monsoon makes mattersworse. If food grain production isless than usual, it will createunnecessary upward pressure on prices. The govern-ment will then have to reduce the pressure by releas-ing from buffer stocks. The storage and delivery ofgovernment stocks will need to be modernized andbrought to international standards, with cold chains,cleaner and more hygienic spaces. We have heardabout rats devouring grain meant for the poor.Leakages in the public distribution system will haveto be plugged. If the new government is not inclinedtoward Aadhar, it will have to quickly devise a newmechanism for cash transfer which seems to be thebest way to plug leakages. Otherwise, it will have toput forward an alternative mechanism as corruptionis eating away at the vitals of the nation. The newgovernment will have to be strict in ensuring that anew set of corrupt officials and contractors do not takethe place of the old ones.

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ASTROLOGY

6 MAY 19 TO MAY 25, 2014 (MP & CG)EDITORIAL

Modi will have to deal withlethargy of bureaucrats

Mega corruption overshadowedUPA’s accomplishments

ndia faces plethora of problemsas former PM ManmohanSingh hands over power to the

new Government at the Centre.Substantial portions of rural Indiaare under the control of Maoistinsurgents. Rural India remains ahellishly violent place. UrbanIndia is a theatre of hideousinequality. In the east, the Chinesearmy continues periodically toencroach on Indian Territory.

To the west, the men who mas-terminded the assault on Mumbairemain at liberty. Even India’srelationship with the U.S., so high-ly prized by Singh, has abruptlydeteriorated over the last month.

Manmohan had to face a lot of crit-icism for the scams and the inepthandling of corrupt ministers whoseem to be busy making money. Aprime minister is supposed to bethe leader, not just of his team, butalso the country, and here he couldnot rise to the occasion. He was aman we could be proud of, for hisintellect, honesty and good man-ners, but when your own cabinetdoes not take your authority seri-ously, what good are those quali-ties? India is in a much betterplace than it was in 2004 and thelives of millions of people haveimproved, thanks to variousschemes and the general economic

growth, but sadly, it is the megacorruption that overshadows thoseaccomplishments. Still many ofSingh’s erstwhile critics, politicaland otherwise, are discoveringvirtues in him. The BJP’s ArunJaitley called him a wise manwhose personal integrity wasalways aboveboard, though hepointed out that he did not alwayshave his own way. Columnists andTV anchors have spoken about hismany achievements as PrimeMinister, ranging from passinglandmark legislation such as theRight to Information to theProtection of Women AgainstDomestic Violence Act.

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han Sahu’s work with her NGOtakes her to nearby villages, andon one of those trips she came to

know about this women’s micro-financegroup which produces ready-to-eat mealpowder for the midday meal scheme inschools and for expecting mothers. Shehas known these women for a long timeand was very impressed with their initia-tive.

Chhattisgarh suffers a high exodus ofthe workforce into big cities in the searchfor jobs, numbering at about 40,000 in2013. Bhan Sahu feels that if morewomen are encouraged to take up similarself-employment projects, this will leadto sustainable income generation whichmight then lead to less migration. Theblock officer in Rajnandangao held aseminar to tell women how they couldset up their own micro-finance group.These ten women came together and putforward their business plan to the localvillage council to set up a meal powderproduction system, with details of whowould be involved, how much theywould produce and how they wouldrepay their loan.

There are four other similar set-ups inthe area, and the women decided tochoose this small-scale business becauseof easy sales. “It is inspiring and surpris-ing that this government officer made

such an effort,” said Bhan Sahu. Theythought it would be difficult but appliednevertheless, and it took four months fortheir loan to come through the localbank. The women now buy the ingredi-ents from the local market, make themeal powder, put it into packets costingabout Rs.25 each, and sell these to

schools in their area. A type of sweet,known as ‘halwa’ is made from this pow-der and fed to the children and expectingmothers. Bhan Sahu tells us, “The healthof these children is improving. At theschool, they weigh the children everyweek – this is how they monitor anyimprovement.” The Chattisgarh govern-

ment’s rural employment guaranteeschemes and food security programmesare having a positive effect. “There areonly ten people employed in this group,so it is still very small. These are smallsteps in the right direction, but there is alot more that needs to be done so peoplewill not migrate,” Bhan Sahu says.

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large number of environ-

mentalists and Yamuna

activists in the Braj region

have pinned their hopes on

Narendra Modi, who could be the

Bhagirath (saviour) of the Yamuna

river, the lifeline of Agra and

Mathura, in the manner the

Sabramati was cleaned up in

Ahmedabad.

‘Look at the Sabarmati river in

Ahmedabad today. What was the

condition of Sabarmati before Modi

took over the reins of Gujarat? It’s

a miracle of sorts, full of clean

water round the year and the

banks are not only self-sustaining

economically as they are being

rented out for various cultural

activities, but a major attraction in

the city,’ Acharya Madhukar

Chaturvedi who has been cam-

paigning for the Sabarmati model

to be adopted for the Yamuna in

Agra said. Most Gujaratis are

Vaishnavs, Krishna Bhakts who

revere the Yamuna as Krishna’s

consort, he added.

Modi, addressing an election

rally in the Taj city, had committed

to doing everything to save the

dying Yamuna. The activists are

upbeat after the BJP candidate

from Mathura, actor-turned-politi-

cian Hema Malini, publicly com-

mitted herself to taking up the

cause of the Yamuna, which she

has been saying at her public meet-

ings is part of the Braj area’s reli-

gious and cultural heritage associ-

ated with the lore of Radha-

Krishna. ‘The golden period of

Indian history, the most magnifi-

cent monuments, religion, culture

and our great heritage, blossomed

along the Yamuna’s banks in just

200 km from Delhi to Agra,’ said

Surendra Sharma of the Braj

Heritage Society. The Yamuna

Rakshak Dal and several other vol-

untary outfits have been raising

the Yamuna issue with political

parties and had sought firm com-

mitments of candidates to clean up

the river.

Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate

Jayant Choudhary also talked

about the river in his speeches,

though he did nothing in the past

fiveyears as MP to save the river.

Can Modi be Bhagirath of Yamuna river ?

A women’s self-help groupstops migration by makingready-to-eat meal powder

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s of now with Sonia Gandhiand Rahul Gandhi winningRae Bareli and Amethi, the

Gandhis still own the copyrightover the party. Even more so whenthe one silver lining in theCongress rout, Captain AmarinderSingh in Amritsar tried to valiant-ly shield Rahul and Priyanka,whom he said he has known sincethey were three or four, fromblame.

Captain Singh tried to shiftthat onto the weary shoulders ofManmohan Singh since he was thehead of the scam-bitten UPA gov-ernment. Sonia Gandhi gets powerwithout accountability. RahulGandhi turns down cabinet posi-

tions, but reverses cabinet deci-sions by storming into the PressClub to tear up an ordinance. Inthe end Sonia Gandhi says shetakes responsibility for the defeat.But her speech accepting responsi-bility was also a typical Congressspeech in that regard — acceptingresponsibility without taking anyresponsibility.

That means there was not ahint of an offer to resign, even forappearance’s sake. Tarun Gogoimight do that in faraway Assam,but the Congress has to be contentfor its mother-son leadership.

This is no ordinary defeat forthe Congress. There are sevenstates where Congress could not

even open its account. In no statehas it won more than ten seats. Inany other democracy such a resultwould have meant that headswould roll right at the top.

In any other democracy theleader of such a party would haveformally resigned, not offered toresign but resigned. At a Rahulrally in Amethi, Congress workerChetan Prajapat said, “Rahul-ji isa little too much of thinker.Priyanka is made of differentmaterial. She needs to take chargeof the organisation. Rahul can bein charge of the vision.” If theCongress has any leaders leftstanding they should hold RahulGandhi accountable for the defeat.

Rahul, Sonia should resign Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan has said that MadhyaPradesh will initiate necessarysteps for cementing economic andcultural ties with South Africa. Heheld discussions on various issueswith a South African delegation ledby High Commissioner FK Morulehere on Thursday.

The Chief Minister informedthat delegation that MadhyaPradesh is the fastest growing statein India. State’s economic growthrate is 11.2 per cent and between 15per cent and 18 per cent agriculturegrowth rate, which is maximum inthe country. Madhya Pradesh is astate with immense potential.Chouhan said that the state hasimmense potential for investing insectors like tourism and textiles.Madhya Pradesh looks forward toin-creasing friendly ties with SouthAfrica. Mahatma Gandhi had start-ed Satyagrah from South Africa.Great leader Nelson Mandela is asource of inspiration for Indianyouths. Thus, Madhya Pradesh andSouth Africa are closer with eachother culturally also.

Morule informed that high-leveldiscussions have been held withstate’s representatives and industri-al and commercial institutions.Discussions have been held onincreasing investment in varioussectors including coal and diamondmining. He informed that 52 MoUshave been signed between SouthAfrica and India for increasing busi-ness. Unemployment rate in SouthAfrica is 24 per cent. Most of youthsare unemployed and unable to runself-employment. Possibilities canbe explored to impart job-orientedtraining to these youths in Indiaand Madhya Pradesh. Morule saidthat citizens of South Africa andIndia are impressed by each other.The place where Mahatma Gandhiand Nelson Mandela were incarcer-ated in South Africa has beendeclared as national heritage site.

hief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan here attributed theBJP's spectacular victory in

Lok Sabha polls to the charismaticleadership of Narendra Modi and alarge number of mistakes committedby the Congress-led UPA governmentat Centre.

While talking to media persons athis residence, Chouhan said, “Alongwith Modi's leadership qualities, thenumber of mistakes committed bythe UPA helped the BJP to come topower on its own after 30 years in the

nation's history.” Referring to RahulGandhi, Chouhan said the Congressvice-president had behaved in a verychildish way by tearing the ordinancein public view, which was aimed atnegating the Supreme Court order ondisqualifying convicted MPs andMLAs. “If Rahul had some issueswith the ordinance, he could havespoken about them to the prime min-ister instead of behaving childishly,”the chief minister said, adding thatthe Congress-led UPA rule wasmarked by rampant corruption, infla-

tion and lack of power in decisionmaking, which all added to the defeatof Congress. “The UPA governmenthad badly discriminated against non-Congress governments. This wassomething which can never beaccepted in a federal structure,” headded. To a query, Chouhan said thatonly party leadership can decide onissues like construction of Ram tem-ple at Ayodhya and on Article 370.Chouhan said he was confident thatwith Modi becoming prime minister,the days of discrimination against

states would come to an end.Chouhan said he would personallymeet and congratulate Modi onSaturday in New Delhi for the BJPvictory. “I will meet Modi again afterhe takes oath as prime minister andtry to sort out a number of pendingissues related to Madhya Pradesh,”he said. Chouhan also thanked peo-ple of Madhya Pradesh for once againreposing their faith in BJP afterhanding it a grand victory in theAssembly elections in November lastyear.

Bhopal

Shivraj attributes BJP's victory to Modi

CM for cementing tieswith South Africa

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Looks like the rift between BJPpatriarch L K Advani and NarendraModi is far from over. As the saffronparty celebrated its historic win inthe 2014 polls Advani, who has beensharing frosty ties with NarendraModi, raised eyebrows by sayingthat Modi’s role in party’s victoryneeds to be assessed.

BJP won the 2014 Lok SabhaElections in a landslide win andNarendra Modi is set to form thenext government. Advani was notgracious even in victory and said: "Ithink there should be a detailedanalysis on this. It needs to beassessed as to how much contribu-

tion has been made by NarendraModi's leadership, RSS and BJPtowards the party's victory," Advanisaid, asserting that the verdict was"against corruption, inflation anddynasty." Narendra Modi oversawelection campaign for his one-timementor Advani in Gandhinagar, thecapital of Gujarat.

He also deputed his close aideAmit Shah and Anandiben Patel tomake the campaign for Advanirobust and perhaps demonstratethat there are no differencesbetween the veteran and him.Earlier, there was a general percep-tion that BJP veterans like Advaniand Murli Manohar Joshi may findit difficult to secure a place in the

party and Modi was trying to side-line them. Advani was reluctant tocontest polls from Gujarat and sen-ior party leaders along with BJPnational president Rajnath Singhcajoled him to choose Gandhinagarover his favourite Bhopal.

However, Advani is understood tohave congratulated Modi over theLok Sabha election victory by callinghim up in Ahmedabad. Soon aftertrends for various Lok Sabha resultscame in indicating BJP's triumph,Advani talked to Modi over tele-phone and congratulated him. Thetwo leaders spoke for sometime andshared the good news of the party'simpending victory, party sourcessaid.

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Rift between Advani, Modi far from over

Modi should focus on boosting industrialsector, taming inflation: Experts

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ith Narendra Modi set tolead the next governmentat the Centre, experts

today said the new Prime Ministershould focus on taming inflationand boosting the industrial sectorto revive growth.

Global financial servicesmajors HSBC and RBS have listedpriorities for the Prime Ministeras counting trends showed victoryfor the BJP-led NationalDemocratic Alliance. The govern-ment should focus on growth,inflation management, fiscal pol-icy and relationship with theReserve Bank of India, accordingto RBS. Besides, the focus shouldbe on boosting infrastructure

amid weak global demand, policyuncertainty and persistent leg-islative paralysis adverselyaffecting the industrial sector."The first and immediate policypriority of the new administrationshould therefore be reviving theindustrial sector," Royal Bank ofScotland (RBS) Head ofEconomics Research Asia PacificSanjay Mathur said.

HSBC said it expects invest-ment projects to be rolled outfaster, which would help graduallyde-bottleneck the economy.Besides, experts say Modi shouldsimplify tax structures to ensurebetter compliance and also intro-duce the Goods and Services Tax.

According to them, there is a needfor "reduction in subsidies", whichhave widened the fiscal deficit andlimited room to spend on invest-ment schemes.

"We hope for a reduction insubsidies primarily via a deregu-lation of fuel prices – this wouldfree up resources for developmentspending and human capital, aprime component of the BJP's eco-nomic manifesto," Mathur said. Astrong mandate would give thegovernment political muscle totake the structural reform agendaforward. Even so, "it will taketime andthe economic recoverywill, therefore, likely prove pro-tracted," HSBC said. Listing out

tasks in the infrastructure sector,Mathur said, "Priorities should betimely implementation of theDelhi-Mumbai IndustrialCorridor, sector-specific policiesfor export-oriented SMEs andenacting a more investor-friendlyland acquisition bill." Leadingstock exchange BSE's ManagingDirector and Chief ExecutiveOfficer Ashishkumar Chauhansaid, "We will continue to workwith the government constructive-ly in implementing ways andmeans to provide

additional funding to small andlarge companies in India to kickoff investment cycle again andcreate additional jobs."

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CII to work withnew govt at Centrefor state’s growth

elcoming the newly electedgovernment at centre level,Mr C E Fernandes, Chairman

- CII Madhya Pradesh, said that CII hasalways been working towards inclu-sive growth of the country throughIndustrial development and has alwaysbeen supported by the government inthe voyage of growth. CII and the newgovernment have opportunity to workclosely with state government towardsthe common goal of state growth. CIIwill enhance its engagement with thenewly elected Government to promotesustained inclusive growth and devel-opment, transformation of an econom-ically vibrant, technologically innova-tive and socially inclusive businessenvironment, Fernandes said.

In the past, CII has embarked uponthe agenda of industrial, agriculturaland economic growth including thesocial development of the State. CIIfocused on key sectors which includemanufacturing excellence, advance-ment of sunrise sectors such as SolarEnergy and Logistics. In its continuingeffort to promote social inclusivenessand development CII’s emphasis is onenhancing skills & employability,access to quality health care for all andwomen empowerment, Fernandesadded.

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very student attending a government school willhave to participate in at least one sport. Thedirectorate of education also requires every

school to form teams for at least two sports, participatein zonal tournaments and promote "laughter therapy...during intervening periods." DoE wants sports tobecome an integral part of school-life and hasannounced a number of measures to make that happen.At the same time, taking a lesson from the October2013 accident -an 11-year-old boy was killed by ajavelin on school premises-the education departmenthas reworked its policies on sports and formulated acomprehensive set of safety guidelines.

"We learnt a lot from the javelin incident," saysPradeep Tayal, assistant director of education (sports),"The safety guidelines cover not only the practices ses-sions in schools but also tournaments and competitions.There are guidelines also for those using swimmingpools." According to the safety guidelines, "dangerousequipment" including javelins, discuses and archeryarrows are to be "kept under lock and key". For tourna-

ments, there should be "a four-wheeler with a driveravailable...The gate and passage should be kept clearfor the vehicle in case of an emergency."

Padmini Singla, director (education), explains thatin addition to issuing guidelines, the department is alsolaunching a bunch of measures to encourage greaterparticipation from students in sports. As per records ofSchool Games Federation of India, Delhi has the high-est tally of medals (1,429) as well as the highest num-ber of gold medals (347), Maharashtra, which is in sec-

ond place, is way behind with 188 gold medals.Children studying in private schools would've con-tributed to the medal tally too. The rules of the game tooare constantly evolving. "Hockey is no longer played intwo halves of 35 minutes each, but in four quarters of15 minutes. Teachers can't train teams if they them-selves don't know the rules," says Tayal. To bring themup to speed, DoE is holding five-day refresher coursesfrom May 2. The seminars will also cover nutrition, lat-est technologies and measures to control doping.

The department is also holding a tournament forteachers from April 25-about 2,000 teachers and 400yoga teachers will participate. Participation has beenmade compulsory through a circular issued on April 4.Schools with football grounds are being encouraged toform teams to participate in the 55th Subroto CupInternational Football Tournament in 2014-the under-14teams will be eligible to try for the Under-17 World Cupto be held in India in 2017. "About 20% schools havefootball grounds," says Tayal, "Even if five good teamsemerge, it's not a bad show." Nutrition matters will beaddressed at the seminar.

Govt school students will takepart in at least one sport

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Australian opener David Warner is reported-ly enjoying batting in the middle order in theIndian Premier League and is viewing it as achallenge, although he admitted that he `loves`opening. Warner has been batting at number fourfor the Sunrisers Hyderabad, warming to the rolefor his own personal development and maturityas a cricketer given that he crunched 55 runs off31 balls in his most recent outing against theMumbai Indians. According to News.com.au,Warner believes the ability to bat patientlythrough the middle period at the crease beforethundering ahead in his trademark style will bebeneficial for his own game ahead of a nine-month period that includes a Twenty20 and one-day internationals in Abu Dhabi and a WorldCup early next year. Stating that he loves open-ing and would play in that role for his country,Warner however, said that in the IPL, he isenjoying the challenge of trying to `steady theship` in the middle order until the last couple ofovers, adding that he feels it is helpful for hisgame when he `changes gears`.

India lost the first three matches to hand their opening Thomas Cupbadminton tie against Malaysia 0-3 at the Siri Fort Sports Complex hereSunday. World No.18 Kidambi Srikanth went down to World No.1 LeeChong Wei 19-21, 12-21 in the first singles which was followed by B.Sumeet Reddy and Manu Attri’s 14-21, 11-21 loss to Boon Heong Tan andThien How Hoon in the men’s doubles.

A lot depended on captain Parupalli Kashyap in the do-or-die matchbut the Hyderabadi failed to live up to the expectations and lost the sec-ond singles match 13-21, 6-21 to Wei Feng Chong in half an hour.

Akshay Dewalkar/Pranaav Chopra (doubles) and R.M.V. Gurusaidutt(singles) will play their dead rubbers later. The Indian women, led bySaina Nehwal, will play their Uber Cup tie against Canada later in the day.

India lose openingThomas Cup tie to Malaysia

New Delhi

David warrner enjoyshis role as a middle-order batsman in IPL

Sydney

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11 MAY 19 TO MAY 25, 2014 (MP & CG)GLAMOUR

ead on to know what more does theTumhari Pakhi actor have to say.TV actor Iqbal Khan, who will beseen in the forthcoming movie

Unforgettable, says that he tries to keep himselfaway from television reality shows. “When itcomes to reality shows, never say never. But Ihave always tried to stay away from realityshows. I’m primarily an actor and I like to keepmy personal life personal. I wouldn’t go for areality show unless and until I’m penniless,” saidIqbal. Unforgettable, directed by Arshad YusufPathan, is shot entirely in UAE and will be pre-miered in Dubai June 11 and its global release isschedule for June 13. But it wasn’t an instantdecision to do the film.

ur khabroos also inform us that Karisma has been sent a copy of thepetition as well and she is all set to battle it out and is in no mood togive in for an out of court settlement. A leading newspaper alsoinforms that Sunjay was compelled to take this step as he wasdenied access to their kids continually. The two have been leading

a quasi separated life for a long time now, but it seems after this step,Kareena’s elder sister will definitely start contemplating divorce statingirreconcilable differences with Sunjay. Sunjay’s friends and family havetime and again admitted to the fact that he will never divorce Karisma,but seeing the turn of events he might just change his mind. A sourceclose to Sunjay informed a leading daily, “But I think the time hascome when they want to break free from their marriage and moveahead in life.” There have also been rumours that Sunjay is goingaround with hotelier Vikram Chatwal’s ex-wife Priya. They bothehave been spotted many a times at various nightclubs and they seemabsolutely inseparable. Priya’s divorce from Vikram is done, and nowif the two want to solemnise their relationship then Sunjay will defi-nitely have to dissolve his marriage with Karisma. Talking to a leadingdaily a source informs, ”Karisma definitely doesn’t like Sunjay’s prox-imity to Priya. She is extremely stressed out. She’s keeping quietbecause Kapoors don’t wash their dirty linen in public.

Iqbal Khan: Iwouldn’t go for areality show untilI’m penniless

t’s like they started a new fashion trend bydonning nerdy glasses. Anyways, we werequite impressed by all these actors so weasked you to help us decide who looks the

sexiest with glasses on. The contestants for the sexi-est nerd poll included Priyanka, Deepika, Kangana,Sonam and Sonakshi.

These actors collectively received 1,061 votes.The crown of the sexiest nerd went to none otherthan Priyanka Chopra who bagged 441 votes, that is42 percent of the total. Let’s take a look at the voteswon by the others. Trailing behind the Exotic babe

was none other than her good friendDeepika who won 38 percent votes(398 votes).

The rest of the divas managed topull in a few votes. While the Queen actor won 8percent votes (88 votes), Sonakshi won 7 percentvotes (76 votes). Though Sonam Kapoor is known asthe fashionista of B-town, she bagged the least num-ber of votes in this poll. She only got 5 percent of thevotes, that is 58 votes.

Well, so Priyanka Chopra is the sexiest nerd, asso many of you voted for her. Election results can bea bit shocking or pleasantly surprising and we wit-nessed that recently, didn’t we? Anyways, you tell uswhat you think about Priyanka being crowned as thesexiest nerd!

We had recently conducted apoll asking you to vote forthe B-town diva who looksthe sexiest while sportingnerdy classes. Well, here’syour verdict. Recently, onnumerous occasions, we

spotted our glam girls sport-ing nerdy glasses. PriyankaChopra, Deepika Padukone,

Kangana Ranaut, SonamKapoor and Sonakshi Sinha

are few of the babes whomade glasses look sexy.

Priyanka is a sexier nerd than

Deepika andKangana , say fans!

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Kareena KapoorKhan’s didi andestranged jijumight also move tothe court for adivorce.Karisma Kapoorand her estrangedhusband SunjayKapoor are all setto battle it out incourt for the cus-tody of their chil-dren – Samaira andKiaan. He has fileda petition for thesame in the Bandrafamily courtrecently.

Karisma Kapoor and Sunjay Kapurto fight in court for kids’ custody!

or the past one year, 15 casesof corruption at higher officesare pending with the Central

government in which the CBI hassought permission under 6A of DelhiSpecial Police Establishment Act(DSPEA). This is one of the biggestimpediments, according to agency, tocheck corruption at higher offices.

However, the Supreme Courtrecently brought relief to the CBI asit took away the shield that protect-ed top bureaucrats from being inves-tigated in corruption cases withoutprior approval. CBI Director RanjitSinha said, “The judgment hasbrought big responsibility on us. TheCBI will now have to see that noinnocent civil servant is harassed.The decision to examine any civilservant will be done with utmost duediligence and be taken only by anofficer of the rank of Joint Directoror above in CBI.”

The pending cases include that ofParimal Rai, an IAS officer beinginvestigated for his alleged role inthe 2010 Commonwealth Gamesscam. CBI sought sanction from theMinistry of Home Affairs (MHA) lastyear but so far no decision has beentaken. Rai, considered close to for-

mer Delhi CM Shiela Dikshit, is cur-rently posted in Goa. The agency isalso awaiting sanction from the CivilAviation Ministry to probe YashwantBhave, the chairman of AirportEconomic Regulatory Authority. Theagency has sent a request to probehis role in connection with the alle-gations by the erstwhile promoter ofAircel telecommunication, CSivasankaran, that he was coercedinto selling his stakes to MaxisCommunication by the then telecomminister Dayanidhi Maran.Similarly, in the coal block allocationcases, CBI request against the chair-man of Competition Commission ofIndia, H C Gupta, who was formercoal secretary, was first declined in2013. It was only after Guptastepped down from the post that theagency was able to examine him.

CBI officials said delay in grantof permission many a times lead todelay in probe due to which investi-gations have suffered in the past.Giving an example of a long pendingrequest, a CBI official said therequest to probe the role of six seniorofficials in the Civil AviationMinistry for their alleged role inirregularities in the Rs 8,000 croreAirbus deal for supply of 43 aircraftto erstwhile Indian Airlines in 2005,is still pending.

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India is a country with cultural diversity.India has witnessed a lot many vindictive mean minded, foul mouthed politicians till now. They give hatred speeches to divide Indians into Hindu and Muslims, Dalit and Uper cast. They always followed divide and rule policy . The biggest failure of our democracy may lie in the fact that we have elevated politicians beyond the law.

They talk about Muslim Votes , HinduVotes and create a fine line of religionbetween the masses for their own benefit.Rare are politicians who talk about coun-try's development or any constructive idea.They keep blaming the ruling party and

keep highlighting the current issues todivert the attention of voters. Politiciansalways played the political card against thevoters in India .Hindus who wanted to cel-ebrate their religious freedom were madeto feel guilty. Muslims who wanted to bepart of mainstream India were made to feelguilty. They filled India’s psyche with fearand hate. They hated all indigenous, grass-root thinkers. They hated Sardar Patel,Lalbahadur Shashtri, Morarji Desai,Charan Singh, Chandrashekhar, PVNarsimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee andnow Modi. Politicians always believed thatvoters can be fooled over religious issuesand fake statistics of development but thisfriday, which is celebrated as an auspiciousday by Muslims across the world we wit-

nessed a change in India's mood.It, turnedout to be auspicious also for the BharatiyaJanata Party \(BJP\) leader and India’sfuture Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The massive victory of BJP was cele-brated like a festival in India. It wasbecause Modi delivers what he had prom-ised: A Congress-free India. He is a nation-alist with the promise of economic and cul-tural revival . The results were historic ...It is evident that the Indian voter hasdelivered an significant verdict. It may betime for Indian national congress to intro-spect. No family name will work unlessthere's real work to endorse it. It may be atime for SP and BSP to think above castand creed. Modi made good governance anddevelopment the main focus of his cam-

paign, deriding Gandhi as a "princeling"who had little concept of the aspirations ofthe 551 million people who voted in the bit-ter and protracted six-week contest.

I can't remember the last time the teenhas changed channels from a music chan-nel to a political speech. This elections theyouth participated actively and encouragedothers to vote for the nation. These elec-tions are nothing short of being revolution-ary. Just think of the scale of the change.For such a change in any other country, youwould have had a massive rebellion. This isthe beauty of a democracy- not a single lifelost. Over 550 million people voted- mini-mal violence yet such a significant change.Congratulations to the political system ofIndia.

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