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DECRIMINALISATION OFPOLITICS: SC FOR LAW New Delhi: The Supreme Courton Tuesday declined to disqualifycandidates against whomcognisance of chargesheet havebeen taken by courts, saying nofurther disqualification under thelaw could be added but urgedParliament to enact a law toaddress the malaise of criminalsentering legislatures.

LAWMAKERS ALLOWED TOPRACTISE LAW, SAYS SC New Delhi: The Supreme Courton Tuesday said that lawyers-turned-lawmakers, both inParliament and the Statelegislatures cannot be barredfrom practising before the courtsduring their term as lawmakers.

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RAKESH K SINGH nNEW DELHI

In an emerging newtrend in terrorism in

Jammu & Kashmir, ex-terrorists whoreturned through

Nepal and surren-dered in Jammu &Kashmir over the years

have now joined ter-rorism again. The secu-rity agencies identified at

least six such casesrecently and advised theJ&K Police and itsCrime InvestigationDepartment, besides theArmy, to keep tabs onex-terrorists in theirrespective operational

theatres.

Reports said that surren-dered terrorist MohamamdIqbal Ganie, resident ofNowpora, Doru, Anantnag,joined Lashkar-e-Tayyeba(LeT) on May 5, 2018.

In the past, ex-terroristGhulam Ahmed Sofi, alias JaniBaba, resident of Jahama,Baramullah, was arrested by theArmy and Special OperationsGroup (SOG), Baramullah, ofthe Jammu & Kashmir Police .

Ex-terrorists likeMohammad Shafeeq Bhat,Diarwani, Batmaloo and Rahi-ul-Amin Dar of Qazogund,Kulgam, are back on the radarsof the security agencies.

Bhat, resident of Diarwani,Batmaloo, Srinagar, is a sur-rendered ex-terrorist and hadcome to India via Nepal in 2001.

He had been noticed providingshelter to terrorists in Batmaloo.

Another case is that ofRahi-ul-Amim Dar, alias Asifof Veesu, Kazigund, Kulgam,who had rejoined terrorism(2010-Hizbul Mujahideen) andwas later killed in an encounter.

Yet another case in point isthat of Sajad Ahmed Bhat, res-ident of Wayan, Pampore,

Pulwama, who was found to bean overground worker (OGW)of Pakistan-based terror groupJaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).

“Member agencies, espe-cially, CID, JKP (Jammu &Kashmir Police) and the Armyare requested to provide us thedetails of such cases (surren-dered terrorists re-joining ter-rorism) available with them,”

reads an Intelligence report.The trend is being taken

seriously and a detailed exercisehas been undertaken to ascer-tain more such cases so thatremedial measures can betaken. The surrendered ter-rorists get benefits under therehabilitation packages andtheir coming back to the terrorfold implies that they are fight-

ing the forces from funds beingmade available to them underthe Government amnestyschemes, a senior securityagency official said.

The return of the ex-ter-rorists to terror activities ismatter of serious concern forthe security agencies becausethese hardcore terrorists havewell-established links acrossthe border. These terroristsare well trained in terror activ-ities and can provide bothlogistical support and strategicinputs to foreign ultras enter-ing into the country.

The Union Home Ministryhas been opposed to keepingNepal as a “designated” routefor return of these “terrorists”from Pakistan-occupiedKashmir under the J&K

Government’s surrender andrehabilitation policy in forcesince 2010. This is mainlybecause ultras have been usingNepal as an informal transitroute to re-enter India alongwith their families, and asNepal becomes designatedroute they could be spottedby the ISI and targeted whilereturning to India.

Around 450 terroristshave returned from POK toIndia via Nepal even thoughunder the surrender policy itdoes not entitle them toany benefit. In contrast, afew ultras have re-enteredIndia via the three designat-ed routes: Salamabad,Chakanda-Bagh and IndiraGandhi International Airport,Delhi.

PNS n BHOPAL

Starting his speech by payingtribute to Pandit Deendayal

Upadhyaya on his jayanti andsaying that Upadhayaya’sthoughts are an an inspirationfor the BJP, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Tuesdayaccused the Congress of look-ing for support outside thecountry, in a veiled reference toPakistan whose former Ministerrecently tweeted in favour ofRahul Gandhi.

In an apparent reference tothe corruption allegations overthe Rafale fighter jet deal, Modiaccused the Congress ofindulging in mud-slingingagainst the Government, sayingthe Opposition party found iteasier than debating issues like

development.Addressing a rally here

ahead of Madhya PradeshAssembly polls, along with BJPchief Amit Shah, Modislammed vote-bank politicsand the practice of triple talaq.

The Congress has beenreduced from 440 seats in theLok Sabha to 44 seats due its“arrogance” but it is still notready to introspect or correctitself, he said.

“What a condition the 125-year-old Congress been reducedto! Nothing remains in theCongress... You need to look forthe Congress party with amicroscope now,” he said at therally also addressed by MadhyaPradesh Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan.

BJP president Amit Shah

said the process of evicting ille-gal infiltrators from the coun-try will not stop. Referring tothe NRC, Shah said, “Theprocess to evict illegal infiltra-tors will not stop, irrespectiveof the Congress’ opposition.”The recently published NRChas identified 40 lakh as illegalimmigrants, he added.

Mocking the Congress,Modi said the party has beenreduced to such a conditionthat it is “begging” with smallparties for alliances.

He went on to add, “Evenif they get allies, the coalitionwill not be successful. So, they(Congress) are looking for sup-port from outside India...Now,will some countries decidewho will become the PrimeMinister of India?”

He was apparently refer-ring to a tweet by formerPakistan Interior MinisterRehman Malik, who had saidRahul Gandhi will be next PMof India if he follows “Jet Gate”(Rafale deal) properly.

Modi asked, “Congress,what has happened to you?Have you lost (mental) bal-ance after losing power?”

At the rally seen as launchof poll campaign, the PrimeMinister said vote-bank poli-tics, like termites, has destroyedthe country.

Apparently referring to thecharges of corruption beinglevelled by the Congress in theRafale fighter deal, the PrimeMinister said, “They (Congress)are indulging in mud-slingingbecause they find it easier.”

He said the Congress hadindulged in “mud-slinging” ear-lier too. “But I want to tell them,the more you throw mud at us,the more the lotus (BJP’s sym-bol) will bloom,” he added.Modi said the Congress’attempts to defame him in thelast two decades haven’t worked.

“Ever since I came into pol-itics in 2001, you (Congress)have used all your strength tohurl abuses at me. There wouldnot be a single abuse left in thedictionary now,” he said.

Continued on Page 7

PNS n NEW DELHI

Congress president RahulGandhi on Tuesday con-

tinued to attack the ModiGovernment on the contro-versial Rafale deal and assert-ed that more facts on the “dubi-ous” deal should be expected inthe coming days. “This is thebeginning, there will be morefun ahead,” Rahul said, address-ing the media at his Lok Sabhaconstituency Amethi.

The Congress has beenattacking the ModiGovernment over an offsetagreement signed by Rafalemanufacturer Dassault withAnil Ambani’s Reliance Group.Rahul, through social mediaTwitter handle, also stated thathe understands the pain ofjawans, Air Force officers, thefamilies of martyred pilots aswell as Hindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL) workers, andwill work to bring to justice allthose who dishonoured them.

“To every Air Force officerand jawan who has servedIndia. To the family of every

martyred Indian fighter pilot.To every person whoeverworked for HAL. We hear yourpain. We understand how youfeel. We will bring to justice allthose who dishonoured andstole from you,” he said onTwitter.

Reminding his constituentsthat an HAL unit was locatedin Amethi district, Rahul reit-erated the charge that an offsetdeal wrongly went to AnilAmbani’s Reliance groupinstead of the public sectorHAL. “The youth shouldunderstand that employmentopportunities have beensnatched from HAL and fromyou all. The truth will be beforeyou and you can judge,” he said.

“The youth should payattention. Anil Ambani hasnot made an aircraft all his life.He floats a company just 10days before and gets the con-tract,” Rahul claimed.

“Narendra Modi becomesthe Prime Minister and the`526-crore aircraft is boughtfor `1,600 crore,” he claimed.Rahul also recalled the recent

row over former FrenchPresident Francois Hollande’sreported claim that the Indianside insisted that Dassault pickthe Ambanis as their localpartner. The Congress alsorejected BJP’s claim that Rahulwanted the Rafale dealscrapped to help a firm linkedto his brother-in-law RobertVadra and said the ModiGovernment was responding tothe alleged “scam” with abus-es and mud-slinging.

The BJP has alleged theCongress president is involvedin a “conspiracy, internation-ally” and former FrenchPresident Francois Hollandewas part of the “nexus” to sab-otage the Rafale deal.

Union Minister GajendraShekhawat had dragged theGandhi family into the inten-sifying political row over thefighter aircraft deal, allegingthat the UPA Government hadcalled off the multi-billion dol-lar deal after a private compa-ny linked to Vadra was not cho-sen as a broker.

Continued on Page 7

Spurned Cong seeks

foreign support: PM

Much more to come in Rafale, says Rahul

❝ There are elections (to civicbodies) in Jammu & Kashmirand the allies of the Congressare running away from the polls

❝ If the Congress has a bondwith them, it should havestood with them. But they(the Congress) in J&K aresaying that well, if you do notwant to come along, we cango solo in panchayatelections…What type ofcoalition is this?

❝ Even if they (Congress) getallies, the coalition will not besuccessful...Now, will somecountries decide who willbecome the Prime Minister of India?

IANS n NEW DELHI

India’s structural transforma-tion has been slower than

desired, resulting in a situationthat there has been an absolutedecline in employment post2013, with the rate of unem-ployment among the youthnow at 16 per cent, says areport by one of the country’snoted private universitiesreleased on Tuesday.

The State of Working India(SWI) report by the Centre forSustainable Employment atAzim Premji University saidthere is an urgent need to thinkcomprehensively about emplo-yment and for the Governmentto formulate a focused NationalEmployment Policy.

“Even as GDP growth rateshave risen, the relationshipbetween growth and employ-

ment generation has becomeweaker over time. Growth cre-ates fewer jobs than it used to.A 10 per cent increase in GDPnow results in less than 1 percent increase in employment,”the SWI report said.

“Between 2013 and 2015,total employment actuallyshrank by seven million. Morerecent data from privatesources show that the absolutedecline has continued past2015,” it said. “A recent studyclaims, to the contrary, that theeconomy generated 13 mil-lion new jobs in 2017.Unfortunately, this optimisticconclusion depends on selec-tive use of data and unjustifiedassumptions. As a result, therate of unemployment amongthe youth and higher educatedhas reached 16 per cent.”

Continued on Page 7

PNS n NEW DELHI

The CBI has asked Interpol’sNigeria wing to confirm if

absconding promoter ofVadodara-based SterlingBiotech Nitin Sandesara, want-ed in `5,300 crore bankingfraud, has moved there.

The CBI poser to theInterpol comes after reportssuggested that Sandesara alongwith his family members havefled from the UAE to Nigeria.India does not have any extra-dition treaty with Nigeria.

In October 2017, the CBIhad booked Sterling Biotech, itsdirectors Chetan JayantilalSandesara, Dipti ChetanSandesara, RajbhushanOmprakash Dixit, NitinJayantilal Sandesara and VilasJoshi, chartered accountantHemant Hathi, Andhra Bankex-director Anup Garg.

Continued on Page 7

More mud you sling, more lotus will bloom; vote bankpolitics is eating into country like termites, says Modi

Confirm Sterling

Biotech owner’s

whereabouts,

CBI asks Nigeria

Job scenario in Indiadeclined post 2013:Premji varsity report

A detailed exercise has been undertakento ascertain more such cases so thatremedial measures can be taken

The surrendered terrorists get benefitsunder the rehabilitation packages andtheir coming back to the terror foldimplies that they are fighting the forcesfrom funds being made available to themunder the Government amnestyschemes

A woman who lost her relative whodied while cleaning a sewer takespart in a protest near Parliament inNew Delhi on Tuesday AP

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Ex-ultras diverting financial aid for jehad, six cases surface in J&K; forces asked to keep tabs on them

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Announcing a major sop tofarmers as well as sugar

mills in the run-up to theelect ion year, the YogiAdityanath government hasoffered soft loans to the tuneof `4,000 crore plus a subsidyof `4.50 per quintal to themills to clear the dues offarmers by November 30next.

While announcing thatthe new crushing season ofsugarcane will commencefrom October last week, ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath saidthat soft loans to mills wouldbe provided through banksand other financial institu-tions at an interest of 5 percent. These loans, however,will be available only to thosemills which have cleared 30per cent of the cane dues, andwill be paid directly to farm-ers. “But, all the dues offarmers should be paid byNovember 30 next at anycost,” Yogi said.

The decision was taken atthe state Cabinet meetingheld on Tuesday under thechairmanship of the ChiefMinister. The CM said if amill defaulted in repaymentof soft loans, it would have topay 12 per cent interest aspenalty.

In another decision, thegovernment also decided toprovide `4.50 per quintalsubsidy to mills which will begiven directly to farmers. Thegovernment has sanctioned`500 crore for this purpose.Adityanath said that till date,the total cane dues in the statestood at `9,770 crore in thecrushing season of 2017-18.The private mills have yet topay `8,500 crore while thecooperative and federation

mills Rs 887 crore. This sea-son, 1111.90 tonnes of canewas crushed at the cost of`35,458 crore, of which`25,888 crore have been paidto the cane growers. “In UP,there are 119 sugar mills, ofwhich 24 are in governmentsector while the rest in privatesector.

Among the private mills,63 have paid 73 to 80 per centof their dues to the farmers,42 mills have paid above 50per cent o f the dues andnine mills have paid less than 50 per cent of theirdues,” the Chief Minister said,adding that low rate of sugarin the market was the mainreason for the mills sufferinglosses.

The CM said that thegovernment was concernedabout the financial health ofthe sugar mills, which isdirectly related to the fourmillion cane farmers o thestate, hence the Centre hadapproved the new ethanolpolicy where the mills wouldbe given Rs 53 per litre forethanol blended f rommolasses and `59 per litre forblending from sugar juice.

“ This new pol icy wi l limprove the financial healthof mills because we wantmills to be financially robustbecause cane growing area inthe state has increased in thenext crushing season,” hesaid.

The government alsoapproved construction ofbridge over the Ganga river atKarteri Ghat near Sirathu atthe cost of `249 crore whichwould be completed withinthree years while the Cabinetapproved a proposal tostrengthen 42.60-metreSidhauli-Naimisaranya roadat the cost of `72.45 crore.Under the Prasad Scheme,the façade l ight ing inVaranasi ghats has beenhanded over to Central PWDfrom UPRNN while theCabinet approved SwadeshDarshan scheme under whichthe light & sound programmewill be held at Gorakhnathtemple. The project will cost`4.20 crore. In another deci-sion, the Cabinet approved abudget of `181.82 crore forthe beautification of ShaheedAsfaqullah Khan Park inGorakhpur.

Soft loans to bail outsugar mills in UP

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Violence rocks BHU campus

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More than half a dozenstudents were injured,

several vehicles damaged andsecurity booth set afire after aclash erupted between resi-dent doctors and hostellers onthe BHU campus over non-allotment of bed to a patient.

The incident occurred lateMonday night after students ofsome hostels in the varsityjoined the patient’s familymembers who were engaged inan scuffle with resident doctors.

Soon after, the hostellersand the resident doctors pelt-ed stones at each other andindulged in arson on the cam-pus, they said. The familymembers of the patient weredemanding allotment of bed atSir Sunderlal Hospital of theBanaras Hindu University(BHU), but when a residentdoctor expressed unwilling-ness in meeting the demand onan immediate basis, an argu-ment broke out between them,police said. The argument tooka violent turn after residentdoctors and hostellers indulgedin arson on the campus, stone-pelting, hurled petrol bombsand attacked and injured eachother.

Some “anti-social” ele-ments also set afire two motor-cycles and a police picket onthe campus, police said, adding

that the clashing groups dam-aged public property and van-dalised an ATM cubicle. Atleast six students were injuredin the incident who receivedtreatment at the trauma centre.

Senior police officials,including SP (City) DineshKumar Singh, rushed to thespot along with several police-men and used “mild force” tobring the situation under con-trol in the early hours of Tuesday.A probe has been ordered intothe incident and a person wasdetained in this connection,police said. Meanwhile, BHUregistrar Neeraj Tripathi notifiedthat all the classes of the uni-versity would remain suspend-ed till September 28. Besides,

inmates of seven hostels of med-ical and non-medical studentshad been asked to vacate theirrooms in view to maintain peaceon the campus. As some of thejunior doctors were beaten upand injured, they went on strikeparalyising the working in SirSundarlal Hospital (SSH) andTrauma Centre, BHU, forcinghundreds of patients arrivedhere not only from different dis-tricts of Purvanchal (easternUP) but also from variousadjoining states either to wait orshift elsewhere.

However, SSH medicalsuperintendent Vijay NathMishra said that the health ser-vices in the hospital were nor-mal and senior doctors were

looking after the patients. Inview of prevailing tension, heavypolice force was deployed on thecampus and senior officers,including District MagistrateSurendra Singh, SSP AnandKulkarni, SP (City) DineshKumar Singh and many otherswere camping there to monitorthe situation. Elaborate securi-ty arrangements have also beenmade both at SSH and TraumaCentre to avoid any untowardincident. Just a few days ago,when Prime Minister NarendraModi visited the city, ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath hadexpressed his anguish over thefrequent disturbances at BHUand instructed the local admin-istration to tighten its intelli-gence network to check suchincidents. However, within 10days, the administration failed inits bid to maintain peace on theuniversity campus. The incidenttook place just a day after a clashbetween workers of AkhilBharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad(ABVP) and female studentswhen the latter were observingthe first anniversary of policelathi-charge during protestagainst the incident of eve-teas-ing. Last year, the university hadseen a large-scale violence, forc-ing then Vice-Chancellor GirishChandra Tripathi to go on longleave when his term in the inci-dent was almost inching close toend.

All classes to remain suspended till September 28; probe ordered

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Deep Deepawali tobe a mega eventPIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW

Aiming to catapult DeepDeepawali festival in

Ayodhya to a global platform,the UP government has plannedto make it a mega event this yearand was even attempting aGuinness Record by lightingover 3 lakh diyas at ghats dur-ing the three-day function to beattended by a delegation fromKorea that could have seniorministers. Deep Deepawali willbe held on November 11 thisyear. Tourism Minister RitaBahuguna Joshi told ThePioneer on Tuesday that thefunction was organised at amicro scale last year but thisyear the government wanted totake it to a mega level.

“Last year, 1.67 lakh diyaswere lighted at one time at Ramki Pauri ghat at Ayodhya andthis year, over 3 lakh diyas willbe lighted. Last year, the eventwas a one-day affair, while thistime round, it will be a three-day event. We have invitedGuinness Book of WorldRecord officials to record it,”Joshi said.

The Toursim Minister saidthat last year the façade light-ing was for a day while therewould be permanent lightingthis time so that the entirebuilding adjoining Ram kiPauri and both bridges atAyodhya could be seen.

“Not only lighting, the gov-ernment has plans to organiseelaborate culture programmesthis year too. Last year, Ram Lilawas staged but this year atleast four troupes from acrossthe country particularly fromSouth India will perform. Thistime dignitaries will come fromKorea. Some ministers andsenior functionaries from thegovernment will also attend thefunction,” Joshi said.

About Ayodhya, theTourism Minister said thatthe government had alreadyearmarked `200 crore toimprove infrastructure there.“The Saryu ghat and Ram KiPauri will be spruced up andwork will be completed beforeDeep Deepawali. Besides,tableaux and Rath Yatra willbe taken out around the cityand cultural programmes willbe on show all three days,”Joshi said.

Cops suspendedafter assault on girl

Lucknow (PNS): The uglyface of the 'men in khaki’, espe-cially in dealing with membersof the fairer sex, once againstood exposed after video clip-pings showing a girl beingassaulted by cops in Meerutwent viral on Tuesday. Whiletop Meerut officials feignedignorance about the inhumanact of their junior colleagues,they suspended the errant copsand ordered a probe into thematter.

SP (City) of MeerutRamvijay Singh said that aftergoing through the video thatwent viral on Tuesday, it sur-faced that the matter was relat-ed to a boy and a girl who werebrought to Medical thana aftera complaint a few days back. Hesaid that the parents were latercalled and both were handedover to them after completinglegal formalities.

Singh said that the videoshowed that the girl was beingassaulted by a woman consta-ble while some male copsaround used objectionable lan-guage against the girl. He saidthat taking congnizance, allcops seen in the video weresuspended and action was rec-ommend action against a homeguard, who was seen sitting inthe video.

The officer said that aprobe was also ordered and thevictim would be called andasked to submit a complaintafter which further actionagainst the cops would be ini-tiated.

Excise dept leaves booze shop owners high & dryPRABHA SHANKER n LUCKNOW

Owners of licensed model desi andforeign liquor shops are miffed as

the Excise department is yet to refundthe security money deposited by them.Hundreds of model liquor shop own-ers, who were not empanelled for therenewal of their licence in UP for a sec-ond time, are now facing a tough time.

“The security money of such shopsamounts to several crore rupees acrossUP. In Lucknow alone, there are about1,000 shops the security money ofwhich are yet to be refunded by thedepartment. In Lucknow alone, about Rs50 crore deposited as security money isyet to be refunded,” disclosed a source

in the Excise department. “Those whodeposited cash are not getting refundsdespite doing rounds of the Exciseoffice in Lucknow. The work is pendingdue to tardy paperwork and as officersconcerned are not available for dispos-al of our cases,” said a liquor trader ofTransport Nagar.

The trader said that his was not anisolated case. “There are several like mewho have been frequenting the Exciseoffice at Wazirganj without any result.Most of the time, we fail to meet the dis-trict excise officer or his deputy due totheir preoccupation. On the other hand,clerks at the office work at snail's paceand deliberately delay the work to exacttheir pound of flesh,” the trader lament-

ed, demanding speedy disposal of thecases.

General secretary of Lucknow LiquorAssociation KL Maurya seconded thedemand of the traders whose securityamount is lying with the Excise depart-ment. “Those who deposited cash are notbig businessmen and the money deposit-ed amounts to Rs 4-5 lakh for each shop.The delay in refund of security deposithampers their business prospects. Theycan invest the cash in other businesses fortheir livelihood,” he said.

Maurya said an applicant of IndianMade Foreign Liquor (IMFL) had todeposit 10 per cent of amount for renew-al of licence every year.

DEO Janardan Yadav contested the

claims made by licensed shop aspirantsand leaders of Lucknow LiquorAssociation. "The refund of securitymoney is pending in the departmentsince 2009. We are cross-checking doc-uments given by licensed shop owners forthe return of security deposit and this isa time consuming process," the DEO said.

Yadav said that the other reasonbehind the delay in refund of the secu-rity deposit was implementation of NewExcise Policy which needed a lot of paperwork. “The Excise Minister has directedus to clear pendency of security depositrefunds. We have disposed of about 200cases till date. Now there are nearly 800applicants who are to get back the secu-rity money,” he said.

UP minister calls Rahul

a ‘badshah of lies'

PIONEER NEWS SERVICE n LUCKNOW

Attacking Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi over

the Rafale fighter aircraft deal,Health Minister Sidharth NathSingh called him an 'emperorof lies' for levelling unsubstan-tiated and absurd chargesagainst Prime MinisterNarendra Modi. “RahulGandhi, who was earlier calledas ‘shahzada’, has now gradu-ated to becoming emperor oflies for levelling charges onRafale deal without substanceand proof," Singh said whileaddressing media persons inLucknow on Tuesday.

The Health Minister saidthat the Congress chief shouldanswer two questions. "One,when the deal for 126 Rafalefighter jets by UPA govern-ment was signed, was HALincluded in it, and two,whether was there an agree-ment for the inclusion ofReliance with the manufac-turing company Dassault

Aviation of France in 2012?" heasked.

Claiming that the jet messwould have no impact on the2019 Lok Sabha polls, Singhsaid that the Congress was try-ing to confuse people as theyhad no other agenda beforethem to contest the comingpoll. “People of the countrywould not accept a liar, whoseparty and family have robbedthe country in the past,” headded.

Singh said that theCongress was questioning as towhy the agreement with HALwas scrapped. “They shouldfirst answer as to why theirgovernment did not enter intoan alliance with the HAL andwhy did they put it onabeyance,” he said.

Meanwhile, the HealthMinister made it clear thatAyushman Bharat schemewould be implemented in fullforce in the next two months.“You give us some time as hos-pitals are being linked and by

the next two months, around2,000 hospitals would be linkedbenefiting 60 million poor ofthe state. We have alreadylinked Ram Manohar Lohiahospital in Lucknow and theprocess is underway to bringKing George’s MedicalUniversity (KGMU) under theumbrella. There is some issueover the rates for linking ofSGPGI, but it will be resolvedsoon,” Singh said.

The minister added thatthere were 1,350 diseases to becovered under the scheme and,hence, different hospitalswould have to be assigned fordifferent diseases. “In the com-ing couple of months, every-thing will be in place,” heassured.

Ayushman Bharat schemeor Modicare was launched inUP on Sunday but the firstpatient from Gorakhpur had tobe rushed to Kanpur for treat-ment as facilities were notavailable in BRD MedicalCollege in Gorakhpur.

Patient with slip disc operatedwith mini endoscopy methodPIONEER NEWS SERVICE n ALLAHABAD

Dr Pankaj Gupta, a city-based neurosurgeon, oper-

ated a case of slip disc with themini endoscopy method calledPELD (percutaneous trans-foraminal endoscopic lumbardiscectomy). A 30-year-oldmale patient who had under-gone open surgery for slip disc18 months ago developedrecurrence of symptoms afterreceiving a sudden jolt whiledriving.

He developed severe lowback pain radiating to theright lower limb. It was soexcruciating that he was notable to walk or stand. The MRIshowed recurrent slip disc atthe Lumbar 5-S1 level. Sincethe patient had undergonesurgery before so a second oneat the same place was very dif-ficult and risky as well.

Dr Pankaj Gupta operatedthe patient with the mostadvanced technique of mini-endoscopy called PELD, wheresurgery was done under localanaesthesia, with a half cen-timetre incision by creating a

small window inside the discspace removing its slippedpart. The patient was con-scious throughout the surgeryand was giving feedbackregarding the relief in his pain.His pain disappeared on theoperation table only and thepatient appreciated it. It tooka single stitch to close thewound and the patient start-ed walking comfortably sixhours after the surgery andwas discharged within 24hours.

This was the first surgeryof its kind in the city per-formed by Dr Pankaj Guptawho was assisted by Dr ArunSharma, Dr Rahul, Dr JaiSingh and Narendra.

Dr Gupta later elaboratedon the benefits of this mostadvanced surgery over theconventional open surgerywith a half centimetre incision,no blood loss, no bone cut andno pain, under local anaes-thesia, immediate on tablerelief from pain and resumingwork within 24 hours. Thisprocedure is one step ahead ofendoscopic spine surgery.

Babbar may contest from Lucknow seat


With party workers andleaders still uncertain over

the stitching of a grand alliancewith other Opposition parties,state Congress chief Raj Babbarseems to have started the groundwork to contest Lok Sabha pollfrom Lucknow seat in 2019.Babbar has chosen the party's'Prabhat Pheri’ programme,which started by him fromRajajipuram on Tuesday morn-ing, to strike a better rapportwith locals. Babbar had earlierunsuccessfully contested againstformer Prime Minister AtalBihari Vajpayee from Lucknow.

During the Prabhat Pheriprogramme at Rajajipuram onTuesday, Babbar declared takingout of 'Sandhya Pheri’ pro-gramme as well and walkedfrom Rahimnagar toKhurramnagar later on Tuesdayevening. While workers wereseen chanting Ram Dhun,Babbar met locals, shook hands

and waved at the crowd andpassersby.

Last week, Babbar also vis-ited the famous Sharma teastall at Lalbagh in the eveningand asked party workers, lead-ers and journalists to share acuppa with him. By doing so, heprobably wanted to send acrossthe message that he was con-cerned about the people ofLucknow and wanted to repre-sent their city in Parliament.

A senior Congress leaderand Babbar confidant confirmedthat irrespective of talks withOpposition parties, Babbar waspreparing to contest fromLucknow as his term at Rajya

Sabha would expire a fewmonths after the Parliamentpoll if they were held in April-May 2019.

When pointed out thatBabbar was likely to be removedfrom the UPCC top post and ifthat happens would he still befielded, the leader replied thatBabbar would contest fromLucknow irrespective of whetherhe remained the state unit chiefor not.

Early Tuesday morning,Congressmen started 'PrabhatPheri’ programme chanting'Raghupati Raghav Rajaram' inRajajipuram area of the statecapital. Babbar led the party

workers at Rajajipuram andlater in the evening walkedfrom Rahimnagar toKhurramnagar.

State Congress general sec-retary Vinod Mishra said that'Prabhat Pheri' programme willbe taken out in all blocks in thedistrict till October 2. He saidthat on Gandhi Jayanti, a biggathering in each district wouldbe organised to pay homage tothe Mahatma. Mishra addedthat Congress leaders and work-ers would celebrate the 150thbirth anniversary of MahatmaGandhi falling this year as 'Non-Violence Day’ across the coun-try.

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Awoman posing as aninspector and her twoaccomplices, also

imposters, were nabbed by theMohanlalganj police onTuesday morning. The womanaccused, identified as ShaheenBano of Rae Bareli, was don-ning a proper uniform and alsohad a badge with her nameinscribed on it. Her aides,identified as Ram Kishore andJitendra (both of Rae Bareli),were working with her as con-stable driver and constable fol-lower. The police also recov-ered a Scorpio which had apolice monogram on its wind-shield and rear window.

Inspector, Mohanlalganj,DP Kushwaha said he got acomplaint regarding checkingat Phulwariya locality ofMohanlalganj around 7:30 amon Tuesday and he reachedthere. Kushwaha said he cameto know that a woman donninga uniform of an inspector wasconducting vehicle checking.When he asked for her intro-duction, the woman chose toconfront him while boastingthat she was an inspector post-ed at the Amethi police stationof Rae Bareli.

Meanwhile, a cop noticedthat the woman had placed themonogram of UP governmenton the right arm, which ismandatorily placed on the left.He also noticed that the womanwas wearing black shoesinstead of brown, which againis mandatory for cops above

sub-inspector rank. She wasalso found wearing the beltwith the emblem upside down.

Kushwaha sensed foul playand he asked the woman to tellhim her batch number andPNO number, but she fumbled.To hide her nervousness, thewoman asked Kushwaha totalk to her SP and handed him

her mobile phone. The man onthe line said he was the stenoof the Rae Bareli SP and thatthe woman was a sub-inspec-tor at the Amethi police station.

Kushwaha talked to theAmethi inspector on his CUGnumber and was told that therewas no woman officer ofinspector or sub-inspector rank

there. “We called women sub-inspectors asking them to quizthe impersonator strictly. Thewoman gave in and owned upher crime,” ASP (Rural) GauravGrover said. He said a case wasregistered and the woman wasdetained.

It surfaced during investi-gation that Shaheen was mar-ried to a Rae Bareli resident in2015. When she reached homeafter marriage, she found thather husband was already mar-ried and she filed a case in RaeBareli. During her visit to RaeBareli, she met Jitendra, whoasked her to don police uni-form and conduct vehiclechecking.

Contrary to the policeclaim, sources said that theimposter and her aides had vis-ited Mohanlalganj Kotwali topursue a case in favour of anacquaintance named in a caseof brawl on Tuesday morning.

“Initially, cops at theMohanlalganj Kotwali wereoverawed and they saluted hersoon after she stepped inside.They addressed her as madamand asked her about her work,”the sources said. They said aconstable noticed that thewoman inspector was not inproper uniform and later thefraud was exposed.

They said the woman andher aides had amassed hugewealth. “They targeted severalpeople in the past inMohanlalganj but the policefailed to get a whiff of the frauduntil she appeared at the policestation,” they claimed.


Denied fuel, a group of mis-creants thrashed staff

members of a petrol pump inThakurganj around midnighton Sunday. During this brazendisplay of muscle power, policefailed to help the victims. OnTuesday morning, the policeregistered a case under a sim-ple section of IPC while theinvestigation has yet to begin.

As per reports, the youthsriding two bikes reached thepetrol pump on Hardoi-Kanpur road around midnightnight on Sunday and asked forfuel. As the petrol pumpstopped sales after 11, the bik-ers were denied petrol and it

made them see red. Owner ofthe petrol pump, Anjali Singhof Rajajipuram, stated in hercomplaint that the grouproughed up the staff memberspresent there. “They pum-meled the staff, chasing themfrom one side of the petrolpump to the other. The staffkept calling the police but nohelp came their way,” she said.She alleged that the miscreantsalso damaged two of themachines at the petrol pump.

Media cell officials at theSSP camp office said that thevictims were identified asKaran, Tavish, Ajay, Malkhan,Gopesh and Hari. “All of themsuffered injuries and they weresent for medical tests after a

police team reached the place.A case for brawl and damagingthe property was registeredagainst the accused,” they said.

Inspector, Thakurganj,Anjani Kumar Pandey said thepolice had recovered someCCTV footages. “We are iden-tifying the attackers and theywill be nabbed soon,” he said.

The brawl at the petrol fill-ing station came as a shockerto senior officials who wereunder the impression that lawand order in Lucknow was ina good shape. “The incident hasexposed police claim on nightpatrolling. The area witnessedheavy police presence only acouple of days on account ofMoharram,” sources said.


Ahardcore criminal and hisaide were nabbed for

demanding Rs one lakh asextortion from a woman leaderof BJP in Ghaizpur police areaon Tuesday. The miscreantsarrested were identified as RajBharti and his aide Ubaid Khan,both of Sarvodaya Nagar. Thepolice recovered a country-made pistol and 325gm mor-phine from their possession.They were nabbed when theyreached the place to collect theextortion money.

Inspector, Ghazipur,Rakesh Singh said Raja andUbaid had beaten up the son ofthe said BJP leader while hold-ing him hostage at a place inIndira Nagar and had alsofilmed the incident a couple ofdays back. “Both were black-mailing the BJP leader sincethen, demanding the cash forproviding her the video clip. Asthe BJP leader feared that thevideo would make her sondepressed, she agreed to givethe miscreants the extortionmoney. On the assurance of theBJP leader, the miscreants setfree her son but remained incontact with her,” the inspectorsaid. He said the miscreantskept changing the place fromwhere they had to collect thecash. “A team consisting ofsub-inspectors (Rajesh Rai,Kamlesh Rai, Satish KumarYadav) and constables (AmitRathi, Neeraj Malviya, RavindraDwivedi, Ghanshyam Rai and

Ranjeet Singh) was formed towork on the case. We laid a trapon embankment road behindKalyan Apartment in the area,”the inspector said. He said Rajahad as many as 19 cases ofcrime, including loot and mur-derous assault, while Ubaidwas also named in two cases.

CHAIN-SNATCHING BIDA woman, identified as

Yasmin of Hazratganj, sufferedinjuries when two bike-borneunidentified miscreantsattempted to snatch her goldchain in Gomti Nagar onMonday night and she felldown in an attempt to save it.Yasmin of Balu Adda localityhad gone to Samta Mulakcrossing for an outing wherethe miscreants targeted her.The pillion-rider caught hold ofher dupatta and instead of thegold chain and tried tosnatched it. Yasmin fell downin the process. The miscreantsalso lost control of the bike andthey also fell down. Sensingdanger, both the miscreantsfled the scene abandoning thebike there. Police havelaunched a manhunt for themiscreants on the basis ofbike’s registration number.


Recovery of an abandonedbag from Engineering

College crossing in Madiaonhours before the VVIP move-ment on Tuesday sent thecops in a tizzy. Soon, a teamof bomb disposal and detec-tive squad, along with heavypolice force, was despatchedto the place. The cops heaveda sigh of relief after it turnedout that it was an empty bagand was dumped there bysome conmen.

On Tuesday, Deputy CMDinesh Sharma, Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh andother VIPs were scheduled totake part in a function in thearea. Around 10:30 am, whenthe cops were checkingarrangements ahead of theVIP movement, a cop spotteda bag lying at the crossing.Immediately after the bag wasspotted, the cops passed theinformation to senior offi-cers. Much to their relief, thebomb disposal team checkedthe bag and found it to bef i l led with documents and clothes.

Inspector, Madiaon,Pradeep Kumar said the policeidentified the bag owner onthe basis of some documents.“The bag belonged to an exec-utive engineer of PWD, AshokKumar of Aliganj. He saidsome conmen had duped himof the bag at Hanuman Setuon Tuesday morning,” theinspector said.


Lucknow Metro Rail Corporationhas begun the launch of the 60-

metre special steel span nearNishatganj bridge as a part of the ele-vated corridor from KD Singh ‘Babu’Stadium to Munshipulia.

LMRC managing directorKumar Keshav said they had begunthe launch after receiving the permis-sion from the Commissioner ofRailway Safety. Keshav said they hadalready launched two metres of thesteel span and it would take themanother 4-5 days for the completelaunch. The LMRC MD also visitedthe site in the evening to check theprogress of work. “The entire spanwas assembled at the constructionsite itself. We had to take permissionfrom the Commissioner of RailwaySafety since it was to be launchedabove the railway line. We were giventhe permission by the Railways andhence we started the work,” he said.

Asked about the trials to take

place in December later this year,Keshav said it was still too early tocomment. “We are still carrying outthe signalling and track work. Wewill be in a better position to com-ment whether or not the trial canbe started in December after amonth,” he added.

Meanwhile, Keshav said that adigital payment solution launchwas carried out on Tuesday and withthat, people could get tokens from

the machines using smartcards, andcould also top up their cards throughthe LMRC mobile app. He said theywere carrying out the digitisationprocess because they wanted thepassengers to not waste their timein trying to procure tickets at the sta-tions. He, however, pointed outthat the manual collection of tokenswould continue because there weresome people who would like to pro-cure it in the usual manner. He said

that LMRC and a private bank tiedup on Tuesday for enhancing cash-less transaction for Metro com-muters. Speaking at a functionorganised on the occasion atCharbagh station, Keshav said:“Today’s development marks animportant step ahead in the direc-tion of counterless ticketing whichthe Lucknow Metro aims to achievein the near future. By using this facil-ity, commuters can now directly gettokens from machines by paying thefare through debit/credit cards.” Hesaid that with the commissioning ofthe 23-km corridor betweenChaudhary Charan Singh (CCS)Airport and Munshipulia by earlynext year, LMRC wanted to achievecashless ticketing for the benefit ofcommuters. “Metro commuters arealso increasingly shedding reluc-tance to find automatic token vend-ing machines (TVMs) and rechargecard terminal machines (RCTMs) tobe easier and convenient to operate,”he added.

Woman impersonating police

inspector runs out of luck

The woman and her two aides, also

imposters, were nabbed by the

Mohanlalganj police when they

were conducting vehicle checking

on Tuesday morning

Abandoned

bag sends

cops in

a tizzy


Chief Minister YogiAdityanath paid his tribute

to party’s ideologue DeendayalUpadhyaya on his 102 birthanniversary on Tuesday. “TheModi government at the Centreand the BJP government in UPhave fulfilled the dream ofDeendayal Upadhyaya on his

concept of ‘antyodaya’ bylaunching pro-poor schemeslike Jan Dhan Yojana, PM AwasYojana, Swachh Bharat Scheme,Saubhagya, Ujjwala andAyushman Bharat schemes aim-ing to reach to the last person inthe society,” Yogi said.

Talking to mediapersons inLucknow after the Cabinetmeeting, the CM said that toe-

ing the line of the great thinker,the BJP had raised the slogan of‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ with-out discriminating on the linesof religion or caste. The CM,along with Governor Ram Naik,unveiled a statue of Deen DayalUpadhyay in Agra on Tuesday.Earlier, Rajnath Singh also paidfloral tributes to party ideologueDeendayal Upadhyaya.

HM, Governor, CM pay

tributes to Deendayal

LMRC begins launch of spl steel span

Hardcore criminal, accomplices heldfor extortion bid

Petrol pump staff thrashed

Minister for Family Welfare and Women & Child Development Rita Bahuguna Joshi all ears to the problems of people during‘Jan Sunwai’ at the BJP office in Lucknow on Tuesday Pioneer

Lucknow (PNS): TheCentral Drug ResearchInstitute (CDRI) is transferringnew technology for preparingmedicated biodegradable boneimplants for fracture healing onthe 76th CSIR Foundation Daycelebrations on Wednesday.CDRI is transferring the tech-nology of the product (S-008-399) as a potent fracture-heal-ing compound to M/S OrthoRegenics Pvt Ltd (ORPL),Hyderabad. Director TapasKumar Kundu said that thecompany had decided to usethe CDRI compound in com-bination with osteo-inductivemetal alloys as biodegradablebone implant materials forfaster healing of bone fractureswith good mechanical strength.The team of Atul Goel, DivyaSingh and other research schol-ars at CDRI has developed asynthetic compound whichleads to faster bone healing,enhances their mineral densi-ty and prevents bone loss.

“Administration of thiscompound at a low dose of 5.0mg/kg body weight to micewith a fracture in the femoralregion led to rapid regenerationof new bone at the fracture site.The compound is cost-effectiveand it increases new boneregeneration by enhancing thesecretion of bone morpho-genetic proteins which are crit-ical for development and regen-eration of bone-forming cells,”said a senior scientist. He saidthat osteoporosis led to weak-ening of bones and increasedone’s susceptibility to bonefractures.

CDRI to transfer

tech for making

biodegradable

bone implants

LMRC MD Kumar Keshav launching digital payment solution at Charbagh station


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FELICITATED Manaswi Tripathi, a class

10 student of GD GoenkaSchool, was on Tuesday felici-tated by Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh for excelling inBoard examinations earlier thisyear. Singh gave away prizes togirls under the ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ campaign of theCentral government. Manaswi,whose father was the Inspector-General of Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB) at the Lucknow Frontieroffice, was rewarded by Singhfor securing 92.06 per centmarks in High School.

AGITATIONPower employees belong-

ing to different unions joinedUP Bijli Mazdoor Sangathan(UPBMS) and expressed soli-darity with the leaders aimingto make their ongoing agitationmore effective, UPBMS gener-

al secretary Suhail Abid said onTuesday. The employees havelaunched the agitation againstanomalies in the wage structureand to demand more promo-tion opportunities for the sub-ordinate staff engaged in fieldwork.

PHARMACY DAY

Skilled pharmaceuticalprofessional are today’s need tohandle the 4 trillion dollarglobal chemical industry and 1trillion dollar pharmaceuticalindustry. National Institute ofPharmaceuticals Education andResearch, Rae Bareli, is nurtur-ing and training highly skilledyoung pharmaceutical profes-sional over the years as theneeds of the pharmaceutical

industry for skilled profession-al are continuously increasingyear by year. These views wereexpressed by speakers atPharmacy Day celebrationsorganised by the institute in thestate capital on Tuesday. Thechief guest was director ofCentral Drug ResearchInstitute Tapas Kumar Kundu,who delivered a lecture on‘Epigenetic modification as tar-gets of therapeutics’.

SYNDICATE BANK MD AND CEO

Mrutyunjay Mahapatrajoined as Syndicate Bank’smanaging director and CEO onSeptember 21. Mahapatra hashad varied stints in State Bankof India in the country andabroad for over 32 years and hehas a rich experience in allmajor fields of banking.


Actress Ananya Khare saidthat her new show tries to

give the message of how themiddle class people are strug-gling to follow the Gandhianvalues even as they are caughtbetween greed and princi-ples. The actress was in thecity along with the actor ZakirHussain for the promotion ofshow ‘Beechwale-Bapu DekhRaha Hai’. The actors spokeabout the show which is beinglaunched on the occasion ofGandhi Jayanti.

Zakir Hussain said theshow signifies the middleclass which bears the brunt ofall policy changes of the gov-ernment and was supposed tobe the carriers of moral values.Giving a bird’s eye view of theshow, he said that most of themiddle class people were aspi-rational and yet they could notshift from their principleswhich they were taught veryearly in their lives.

“If this middle class mantries to emulate the upperclass then he will be pushedback by the higher class. Theshow catches the sentiment ofthis struggle where this‘Beechwale’ family looks at theportrait of Mahatma Gandhiand questions why all rules aremade for them,” he said.

He admitted that comedywas extremely difficult to doamongst all the genres and it

was challenging doing it.“However, we did not go over-board and the comedy is verysubtle and situational. Theshow revolves around BobbyBeechwale played by me, thekey protagonist, who is a partof a joint family. Bobby’s 70-year-old father and 92-year-old Dadaji, addressed as‘Bapuji’, form the family’smoral pillars. Dadaji used tobe a freedom fighter, workingalong with the Father of ourNation, Mahatma Gandhi,always finding himself in themiddle of all problematic sit-uations. Hence he received the‘upadhi’ (title) of ‘Beechwale’from Gandhi that he happilystarted using as his last name,”he said. He said that his char-acter runs a spare parts shopalong with a small garagenext to it. “His wife, ChanchalBeechwale, played by AnanyaKhare, is always desiring for

things beyond her limit andbuying them on EMI or nag-ging her husband to buy it forher. She is a teacher andthough she has a laptop shecannot operate it. Bobby’syounger brother, PuppyBeechwale, is a sales executiveand a proud Gandhian byprinciple. Puppy’s wife,Sheetal Beechwale, played byAnkita Sharma, is extremelydominating, modern new-age woman. Just like in thepast the Beechwale familystill seeks answers to all theirproblems from ‘Bapuji’because they believe that hehas his eyes on everyone andall that they are doing,” saidZakir. Talking aboutLucknow, he said that he washere for the shooting of‘Prasthanam’ and has neverbeing able to explore the citycompletely whose historyand culture were awesome.

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With files on the promo-tion of excise constables

to the post of sub-inspectorslying in a state of limbo forseveral years, the ExciseConstable Association (ECA)feels chagrined. The consta-bles feel that their dream hasgot tangled in red tapismrampant in the Excise department.

“We had petitioned ourcase to the ExciseCommissioner demandingpromotion of constables assub-inspectors as 460 posts arevacant. Presently, there is anexcise inspector and exciseconstable in the departmentwho work on ground level.The inspectors have been pro-moted as circle officers andthey will be made gazettedofficers in the time to come.But hundreds of constables ofthe department are still work-ing either as constables orhead constable,” zonal gener-al secretary of ECA Satyendra

Kumar Dwivedi pointed out.He said that the promotion ofexcise constables on 460 postswas to be done on a ‘zero bud-get’ basis as they were alreadygetting the salary on par withsub-inspectors. “All the stategovernment needs to do isissue an order to declare thepromotion of excise constablesas sub-inspectors. For this,there is no need of seekingclearance from the Financedepartment,” he explained.

Dwivedi pointed out thatUP was the only state wherethe Excise department had nosub-inspectors. “The neigh-bouring states have promotedconstables as sub-inspectors,”he said. He added that ECAhad also filed a suit in thecourt to press their demand.“We have soft-pedaled theissue so far but now, we havedecided to take a tough stand.The demand of promotion isjust and long awaited. It seemssenior officials are not inter-ested in addressing ourdemand,” he said.

FOLK DANCE CONTESTBhumika Singh, a class V student of

City Montessori School (Aliganj CampusII), bagged the first prize in a folk dancecompetition organised under the aegis ofSearch Foundation and UP’s Culturaldepartment. Students of various notedschools of Lucknow participated in thecontest to explore their dancing talents.


The Uttar Pradesh HousingDevelopment Board will

redevelop the residentialcolony known asDeendayalpuram located nearIndira Nagar. The projectlaunched in 1999 is in a badshape as nothing was donethere. The residents were notprovided even the basicamenities.

The Board took over theland measuring 12 acres fromLucknow MunicipalCorporation to develop itinto a residential colony ofexcellence. Residential plotswere demarcated and allotted.Presently, there are 1,200inhabitants but a large num-ber of land has beenencroached upon by thoseenjoying the patronage ofmusclemen.

Housing CommissionerAK Chauhan said it had cometo the notice of authoritiesafter a long time. He said aconcrete plan would beworked out to make the placea premier residential colony.

The first major task is toprepare the list of encroach-ers who need to be ousted,and to identify genuine allot-tees who were given the plots20 years ago. Termingencroachment a serious issue,the Housing Commissionersaid that the UP HousingBoard authorities would take

up the issue with the govern-ment to make the colonyencroachment-free.

The present condition ofdrainage system is partiallyfunctional and the sewer sys-tem is in a complete disarray.It has to be set right to preventstagnation of water. The obso-lete drainage system needs tobe replaced with the oneequipped with latest technol-ogy to ensure efficient dispos-al of waste from the houses.

The overhead tankswhich was constructed tosupply potable water to thehouses is rusting and thepipelines are damaged. Theauthorities are supposed towork on a war-footing to tideover the drinking water crisis.

The authorities are said tohave taken it upon them-selves to construct qualityroads and service lanes incoordination with the PublicWorks Department. The planis to install solar-poweredstreet lights. For the purpose,the authorities will rope inprivate partners.

The authorities, alongwith engineers, are busychalking out the strategy toconvert the locality into a top-notch residential colony. Theplan will be finalised within amonth. The estimated cost ofthe project is said to be Rs 10crore. The plan is likely to become into existence by earlynext year.


Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh advocated

positive use of social media sothat people could know aboutdevelopments being carriedout across the country andavail the benefits. Addressinga workshop on social media inLucknow on Tuesday, Singhsaid that social media hadbecome an important tool inmodern times. "But moreoften than not, it is misused.The time has come for thepositive use of this media," hesaid.

“I appeal to all partyworkers to use social media tospread the message of goodgovernance of Modi and Yogigovernments across the coun-try. There are many people-oriented schemes which peo-ple are not aware of. Use thismedia to educate them,” theUnion minister said. Locallawmaker Neeraj Bora andBJP’s information technologycell incharge also spoke on theoccasion.


Ahead of the next crushing sea-son that starts in October, a

campaign by Sugarcane depart-ment to weed out ‘cane mafia’uncovered fake bonds of almost15 lakh tons of sugarcane. It sur-faced that the cane mafia operat-ed by registering as bona fidefarmers with Cane CooperativeSocieties which regulated canesupply to sugar mills. Duringcrushing season, the mafia pro-cured cane from small farmers atcheap rates and supplied it to millsat State Advised Price (SAP).

Cane Commissioner SanjayBhoosreddy said that some 57,348fake sugarcane bonds had been


The Uttar Pradesh govern-ment has permitted serving

of liquor on board the trains totourists travelling through thestate in five safari trains ofMaharaja Express on Tuesday.The Maharaja Express is run byIndian Railway Catering andTourism Corporation Limitedand permission is granted withcertain riders as in the previousfinancial year.

One of the conditions isthat the service provider willserve liquor bottle with QRcode depicting royalty fee paidinstead of holograms on thebottles. A Government Order(GO) issued by Excise depart-ment on September 17 says thattrains in which the facility willbe provided are Heritage ofIndia (Mumbai-Ajanta-Udaipur-Jodhpur-Bikaner-Jaipur-Ranthambore-Agra andDelhi), The Indian Splendor(Delhi-Agra-Ranthambore-Jaipur-Bikaner-Jodhpur-Udaipur-Balasore-Mumbai),Treasures of India (Delhi-Agra-Ranthambore-Jaipur-Delhi),Gems of India (Delhi-Agra-Ranthambore-Jaipur-Delhi)and the Indian Panorama(Delhi-Agra-Ranthambore-Fatehpur Sikri-Agra-Gwalior-Khajuraho-Varanasi-Lucknow-Delhi). The government hasasked Excise Commissioner ofUP to implement the GO.

unearthed across the state sofar under the ongoing anti-mafia campaign. These bondspertained to almost 25,000hectares of cane area and 15lakh tons of cane crop. As perprovisions of UP SugarcanePurchase Act, reserve area isfixed by Cane Commissionerfor each sugar mill and eachfarmer in the area is attachedto the mill for selling cane dur-ing crushing season. They areissued with receipts or ‘pur-chase’ based on annual canearea survey during July-August that determine thetotal area under crop andestimates of yield. Meanwhile,Moradabad range accountedfor the maximum of 15,870fake cane bonds, followed byBareilly and Saharanpur at12,803 and 11,510 bondsrespectively. Similar cases weredetected in Lucknow, Deoria,Faizabad, Gorakhpur andDevipatan divisions.

Bhoosreddy said the thatCane Society membership ofthese ‘farmers’ would be ter-minated and action would betaken against employees ofCane department and CaneCooperative Societies.

Department uncovers

sugarcane mafia

SCHOOLSCAN

CITYBRIEFSRajnath Singhfocuses onpositive use ofsocial media

Liquor to

be served

in trains

Show Beechwale... depicts

struggles of middle class

Excise constables press demand of promotion

Housing Board to revive

Deendayalpuram

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India stands just behindSudan and ahead of Namibia

when it comes to its invest-ments in education and health-care mapped as a measurementof its commitment to econom-ic growth in 2016, according toa study on human capital pub-lished in The Lancet, a globaljournal.

The study has noted thatIndia is falling behind in termsof the health and education ofits workforce, which couldpotentially have long-term neg-ative impact on its economy. Incontrast, Nepal, a country withsignificantly lower per capitaincome than India made thebiggest improvement—increas-ing its functional health scoreby 28% over a 16-year period—followed by Bangladesh (22%),Sri Lanka (21%) and then India(18%). Pakistan andBangladesh lagged behindthough they fared betterhealthwise.

Human capital is definedas “the educational attainment,learning, and health status ofthe workforce that contribute toeconomic productivity.”

However, that India slight-ly improved human capitalranking from 162 in 1990 to158 out of 195 countries in2016 came as a big solace. Thelongitudinal study that spannedfrom 1990 to 2016 was con-ducted by the Institute forHealth Metrics and Evaluation(IHME), an independent glob-al health research centre at theUniversity of Washington.

Finland topped the list, asper the study “Measuringhuman capital: A systematicanalysis of 195 countries andterritories, 1990 to 2016.”

Other interesting detailsfrom the study included theranking of United States at 27,down from its earlier ranking at6 in similar comparative stud-ies in 1990, because of minimalprogress, particularly in edu-cational attainment, whichdeclined from 13 years to 12.

Explaining India’s rankingof 158th in 2016, an improve-ment from its 1990 ranking of162, an IHME note said that itcame from seven years ofexpected human capital, mea-

sured as the number of years aperson can be expected towork in the years of peak pro-ductivity, taking into accountlife expectancy, functionalhealth, years of schooling, andlearning.

“Overall, India’s residentshad 39 out of a possible 45years of life between the ages of20 and 64; expected educa-tional attainment of 10 yearsout of a possible of 18 years inschool; and a learning score of66 and a functional healthscore of 43, both out of 100.

“Learning is based on aver-age student scores on interna-tionally comparable tests.Components measured in thefunctional health score includestunting, wasting, anemia, cog-nitive impairments, hearingand vision loss, and infectiousdiseases such as HIV/AIDS,malaria, and tuberculosis”, thenote said.

The study looked at fourmain drivers of human capital:educational attainment levels,learning outcomes measuredby test scores, health outcomesacross seven key areas - includ-ing rates of anaemia, hearingloss and infectious diseases -and mortality rates.

The IHME scored coun-tries on several components ofhuman capital: the number ofyears workers spend in school,the quality of their learning, andtheir health status. These com-ponents directly correlate tohow much a government pri-oritises and invests in the edu-cation and health of its people.

“Our findings show theassociation between invest-ments in education and healthand improved human capitaland GDP — which policy-makers ignore at their own

peril,” said Dr ChristopherMurray, director IHME at theUniversity of Washington.

Last year, World BankPresident Dr. Jim Yong Kimasked IHME to develop a mea-surement to rank human cap-ital as it could helpGovernments and investorsget an insight into the areaswhere investments were need-ed to improve health and edu-cation. He defined human cap-ital as “the sum total of a pop-ulation’s health, skills, knowl-edge, experience, and habits.” Inother words, a recognition thatall labour is not equal, and thequality of workers can beimproved by investing in them.

Rankings for the 10mostpopulous countries in 2016, inaddition to China,India, andthe United States wereIndonesia (131st), Brazil (71st),Pakistan (164th), Nigeria(171st), Bangladesh (161st),Russia (49th), and Mexico(104th).

Researchers found thatnations with greater improve-ments in human capital alsotend to have faster growth inper capita GDP. Countries inthe highest quartile of improve-ments in human capitalbetween 1990 and 2016 had a1.1% higher median yearlyGDP growth rate than coun-tries in the bottom quartile ofhuman capital improvements.

There were notable differ-ences in expected human cap-ital by sex in 2016. Across theboard, expected years livedbetween 20 and 64 years aregreater in females than inmales. In addition, health sta-tus tends to be higher amongfemales than males, with theexception of high-incomecountries.

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In top level appointments inthe Army, Lt General MM

Naravane has been appointedthe next Eastern ArmyCommander while Air MarshalAnil Khosla will be the nextVice Chief of Air Force afterincumbent S B Deo retiresnext month. These are amongseveral postings in the Armyand Indian Air Force (IAF)notified on Tuesday.

Naravane, commissionedinto the Sikh Light Infantry, iscurrently heading the ArmyTraining Command, ARTRAC.He will replace Lt GeneralAbhay Krishna who has beenappointed as the Central ArmyCommander. Naravane will bethe senior most Army

Commander by December2019 when current Army ChiefGen Bipin Rawat completes histenure.

In the IAF, Air MarshalKhosla who is currentlyCommander-in-Chief ofEastern Air Command basedin Shillong will be replaced bypresent Deputy Chief AirMarshal R Nambiar. His placewill be occupied by Air ViceMarshal V R Chaudhari whohas been promoted to rank ofAir Marshal. Meanwhile, AirMarshal HS Arora will go as thenext Commander-in-Chief ofSouth Western Air Commandbased in Gandhinagar. AVMAmit Deo who has also beenpromoted to next rank will bethe next Director General AirOperations.

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India and Morocco dis-cussed the entire range of

bilateral ties and agreed toenhance co-operation in thefield of defence and securityduring talks between visitingMinister Delegate to theHead of Government incharge of the NationalDefence Administration,Morocco, Abdeltif Loudyiand Defence MinisterNirmala Sitharaman here onTuesday.

The visiting dignitary ison a two-day official visit toIndia and this is the first evervisit by a Moroccan DefenceMinister to India.

Giving details of the talksbetween the two Ministers,officials said the two sidesidentif ied f ields ofHydrography, Peacekeeping,Telemedicine, InformationTechnology andCommunications as well asCounter Terrorism andCounter Insurgency aspotential areas for bilateralengagement.

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Former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh on

Tuesday said that India’s armedforces are a splendid embodi-ment of the country’s “secularproject” and it is vitally impor-tant that they remain uncont-aminated from any sectarianappeal.

He also said that the judi-ciary, as an institution, shouldnot lose sight of its primaryduty to protect the secularspirit of the Constitution as thistask has become much moredemanding with political dis-putes and electoral battlesbecoming increasingly over-laced with religious overtonesand prejudices.

“The judiciary needs toarrive at its own enlightenedview of its custodianship of theConstitution — irrespective of

the irresponsible and selfishpoliticians who have no qualmsin injecting communal virus inour body politic,” he said whiledelivering the second A BBardhan memorial lecture here.

Singh also said it wasimportant for the ElectionCommission to ensure thatreligion, religious sentimentsand prejudices do not getworked into election discourse.“As the custodian of the integri-ty of the electoral process, it isincumbent upon the ElectionCommission to see to it thatreligion and religious senti-ments and prejudices do notget worked into the electiondiscourse,” he said.

“The Commission mustbe thinking of rolling back theeasy acceptance of over-manip-ulation of religious imagery,”the senior Congress leadersaid.

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt is likely to pronounce itscrucial verdict on Wednesdayon a batch of pleas challengingthe constitutional validity ofCentre’s flagship Aadhaarscheme and its enabling 2016law.

A five-judge constitutionbench headed by Chief JusticeDipak Misra had on May 10reserved the verdict on thematter after a marathon hear-ing that went on for 38 days,spanning four-and-halfmonths.

As many as 31 petitions,including one by former HighCourt judge K S Puttaswamy,have been filed in the matter.

When the judgement wasreserved by the court, AttorneyGeneral K K Venugopal hadtold the bench, which alsocomprised Justices A K Sikri,A M Khanwilkar, D YChandrachud and AshokBhushan, that this matter had

become the “second longest”one in terms of days of hear-ing after the historicKesavananda Bharati case of1973.

The Kesavananda Bharaticase, which was heard by a 13-judge bench, by a majority of7:6 had propounded the doc-trine of the ‘Basic Structureand of the Constitution’. Ithad held that the amendmentswhich may affect this structurewere subject to judicial review.

A battery of senior lawyers,including Shyam Divan, GopalSubramaniam, Kapil Sibal, PChidambaram, Arvind Datar,K V Vishwanath, AnandGrover, Sajan Poovayya and afew others, had argued onbehalf of the petitioners oppos-ing the Aadhaar Scheme onvarious grounds.

Besides the former HCjudge, the top lawyers arguedfor petitioners, who includedMagsaysay awardee Shanta

Sinha, feminist researcherKalyani Sen Menon, socialactivists Aruna Roy, NikhilDe, Nachiket Udupa and CPIleader Binoy Visman.

A key argument againstthe Aadhaar scheme was thatit was violative of the nine-judge bench verdict that hadheld that Right to Privacy is afundamental right under theConstitution.

The Centre, the UniqueIdentificaiton Authority ofIndia (UIDAI), theGovernments of Maharashtraand Gujarat and the RBI hadargued in favour of theAadhaar (Targeted Deliveryof Financial and OtherSubsidies, Benefits AndServices) Act, 2016 and wererepresented by the AttorneyGeneral, Additional SolicitorGeneral Tushar Mehta, senioradvocates Rakesh Dwivedi andJayant Bhushan and lawyerZoheb Hossain. PTI

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BJP on Tuesday stepped upattack on the Congress on

the Rafale deal controversyalleging a nexus betweenCongress president RahulGandhi’s brother-in-law RobertVadra and arms dealer and‘middleman’ Sanjay Bhandari.

“Bhandari, who has closelinks with Vadra, formed acompany named Offset IndiaSolutions (OIS) in 2008 and heformed a joint venture withRafaut, an aeronautics andarmament company, as he triedto enter into an offset clause inthe Rafale fighter jets dealthrough the back door,” BJPspokesperson Sambit Patra saidhere at a press conference.

The BJP leader alleged thatthe then UPA Governmentmounted pressure on theFrench firm Dassault Aviationto give works to Bhandari’scompany.

“But when Dassault veri-fied the infrastructure of OIS,it found that they did not havethe required criteria. It alsofound Bhandari’s links withVadra. So Dassault becameadamant and they made itclear that they do not want to

enter into any kind of deal withthe OIS,” he alleged. .

“And this was the reasonwhy the Rafale deal was thenscrapped after years of negoti-ations as Vadra was not gettingthe commission out of thedeal,” he accused.

Patra also said that theCongress played with nation-al security and the strength ofthe Indian Air Force.

He said Bhandrari whohas fled abroad was broughtunder investigation by theModi Government. He saidthat Bhandari’s company wasalso blacklisted by the IndianGovernment.

“When the BJP

Government came to power in2014, investigations startedagainst Bhandari. And duringraids at 18 places in 2016 at thepremises of Bhandari a lot ofclassified documents wererecovered,” he said.

Alleging links betweenVadra and Bhandari, the BJPleader said that during raids in2016, the emails exchangedbetween Vadra, Bhandari,Vadra’s close associate ManojArora and a relative of Bhandarinamed Sumit Chahdha, alsocame to the fore.

“In an email it was revealedthat Bhandari’s relativeChahdha paid `19 crore for aflat in London for Vadra,” Patra

alleged.He also alleged that

Bhandari’s firm also paid for theair travels of Vadra in 2012.

The BJP leader furtheralleged that the then CongressGovernment also rejectedHindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL)-developedHindustan Turbo Trainer-40and went for the Swiss aircraftPilatus in 2012.

“This deal was given to theSwiss company to bribe theGandhi family and to pay com-mission on the deal to theGandhi family,” he alleged.

Meanwhile, Union LawMinister Ravishankar Prasadhit out at Congress presidentfor his “fun has just begun”remark over Rafale deal.

Prasad was quoted by thenews agency ANI that nothingelse could be expected from aleader whose entire family isinvolved in scams.

The Union Minister said“We can not expect anythingbetter from a leader whoseentire family is involved inscams be it Bofors or NationalHerald. It is s matter a shamethat a man who is a big liar andirresponsible is their partypresident.”

India ranks 158th in

human capital index

BJP cries Vadra nexus in Rafale

Armed forces must remainuncontaminated fromsectarian appeal: Manmohan

Verdict on Aadhaar validity todayNew Delhi: The Supreme Courton Tuesday said it cannot “usurpthe power” of law-makingwhich is vested with the legis-lature, but was burdened withthe duty of being the finalarbiter of the Constitution andprotector of the constitutionalethos.

Though criminalisation ofpolitics is a “bitter manifesttruth”, which is a “termite” to thecitadel of democracy, the courtcannot make a law to check it,a five-judge constitution benchheaded by Chief Justice DipakMisra said.

The bench left it toParliament to bring in a stronglaw by which it should bemandatory for political partiesto revoke the membership ofthose against whom chargeshave been framed in heinousoffences.

“In a multi-party democra-cy, where members are elected

on party lines and are subject toparty discipline, we recom-mend to Parliament to bring outa strong law whereby it ismandatory for the political par-ties to revoke membership ofpersons against whom chargesare framed in heinous andgrievous offences and not to setup such persons in elections,both for Parliament and thestate assemblies.

“This, in our attentive andplausible view, would go a longway in achieving decriminali-sation of politics and usher in anera of immaculate, spotless,unsullied and virtuous consti-tutional democracy,” the benchalso comprising Justices R FNariman, A M Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and InduMalhotra.

In its verdict, the benchnoted the submission ofAttorney General K KVenugopal that the court should

not cross the “lakshman rekha”vis-a-vis the separation of pow-ers. The top court said going bythe constitutional framework, itwould be inappropriate for thecourt to take recourse to anyother method as it cannot leg-islate but only recommendbringing in of a law.

While referring to the con-stitutional provisions, the benchsaid that according to the lawslaid down earlier, it was clearthat regarding disqualificationof lawmakers, “the law has to bemade by Parliament”.

“It would not be appropri-ate to take recourse to anyother method for the simon-pure (completely genuine) rea-son that what cannot be donedirectly, should not be doneindirectly,” the bench said.

The bench said the legisla-ture has very clearly enumerat-ed the grounds for disqualifi-cation and the language of the

provision under theRepresentation of the PeopleAct leaves no room for any newground to be added or intro-duced. “Any attempt to the con-trary will be a colourable exer-cise of judicial power for it isaxiomatic that — what cannotbe done directly ought not to bedone indirectly — which is awell-accepted principle in theIndian judiciary,” it said.

“A candidate bereft of partysymbol is, in a way, disqualifiedfrom contesting under the ban-ner of a political party. It is con-tended that the person con-cerned can contest the electionas an independent candidatebut, as we perceive, the impactwould be the same. That apart,without a legislation, it may bedifficult to proscribe the same.Additionally, democracy that isbased on multi-party system islikely to be dented,” the benchsaid. PTI

Lt Gen MM Naravane appointed new EasternArmy Commander

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Although hemophilia is awell-known bleeding dis-

order in men, not many doc-tors know that women carriersof hemophilia too have higherrisk of bleeding and that thesymptoms may be frequentand severe. Also, females withmost common inherited bleed-ing disorders like vonWillebrand disease (VWD) toofail to get timely and propertreatment as they remain mis-diagnosed.

“In fact, many times eventhe family of the affectedwoman or she herself is notaware of her medical condition.As a result, they are under-diagnosed or misdiagnosed.However, if left untreated,bleeding disorders risk seriouscomplications during mensu-artion, pregnancy, labor anddelivery,” cautions Dr NitaRadhakrishnan, AssistantProfessor at Department of

Pediatric HematologyOncology, Super SpecialtyPediatric Hospital & PostGraduate Teaching Instituteand Post Graduate TeachingInstitute, Noida.

She explains: “A significantnumber of females too haveclotting factor levels that wouldclassify them as having mild,moderate and even severehaemophilia.”

With such risks, womencarriers of hemophila or hav-ing family history shouldensure a proper diagnosis andtreatment from a specialist,called a hematologist. Also,women carriers should sharetheir health status to their doc-tors to ensure correct treat-ment.

Dr Renu Saxena, Head ofthe Hematologist Departmentin AIIMS stressed on carrierdetection and prenatal diag-nosis of the pregnant womenparticularly those with bleed-ing disorders and carriers of

hemophila. “If the family has ahistory of blood disorder thenpregnant woman should comefor pre-natal test within 16weeks of pregnancy, so thatthey have option to abort thefetus.” Preimplantation genet-ic diagnosis and non?invasiveprenatal testing are among thelatest methods of prenatal diag-nosis available to couples.

The first step in doing pre-natal diagnosis of hemophiliais to determine the sex of thefetus, since only male fetusesare at risk of having hemo-philia. Thus, subsequent testingmay not need to be done if thefetus is found to be a female.

If the woman is found to bea carrier, then with each malepregnancy there is a 50 per centchance that the infant willhave hemophilia. The type andseverity will be the same as thatof other affected members ofthe family, Dr Saxenaexplained.

To reach out to the sector,

the Union Health Ministry hasrecently come out with a draftpolicy for “Prevention andControl ofHemoglobinopathies —Thalassemia, Sickle CellDisease and variantHemoglobins In India,” focus-ing on screening of pregnantwomen and neo-natals todetect such disorders.

Vinita Srivastava, NationalConsultant, Blood Cell(NHM), Union HealthMinistry said that. “We want toestablish hemoglobinopa-thy/hemophilia units at districtlevel and above, operating in ahierarchical manner to carryout the treatment and to mon-itor for complications by nec-essary laboratory and imagingstudies among others as envis-aged in our policy. “

Dr Chandra Mansukhani,senior gynecologist at SirGangaram Hospital added thatthe risk of transmittinghaemophilia and bleeding

complications during preg-nancy and at time of the deliv-ery represent major implica-tions for haemophilia carriers.

To address the psycholog-ical issues of women withbleeding disorders, hemophilacarriers and men with hemo-philia, Empowering MindsSociety for Research andDevelopment, an NGO hasbeen frequently holding work-shops and interaction with thecommunity. “Lots of igno-rance, taboos and stigma sur-rounds the bleeding disordersparticularly when it comes towomen. Diagnosis can havesignificant impact on women’sphysical and emotional quali-ty of life. We try to equipthem better to deal with it, ,”said Richa Mohan, head of theEmpowering Minds.

“Self-medication, tattoos,body piercing are strictly no nofor the community. Delayeddiagnosis can lead to psycho-logical problems. Loss of vir-

ginity should be consideredvery carefully,” she added.

Disorder in women! Let them not bleed any further

Heavy menstrual periods;Flooding or gushing of blood;Passing clots that are biggerthan a quarter; Changing tam-pon and/or pad every 2 hoursor less on heaviest day;Bleeding symptoms andsomeone in the family has ableeding disorder, such as vonWillebrand disease, or a clot-ting factor deficiency, such ashemophilia; heavy bleedingfrom dental surgery, othersurgery, or childbirth and/orhave other additional bleedingsymptoms such as frequentprolonged nose bleeds, pro-longed bleeding from cuts oreasy bruising.

Time to see

a doctor in

case of:

Court can’t make law, it’s Parliament’s job: SCDISQUALIFICATION OF CANDIDATES WITH CRIMINAL RECORD

President Ram Nath Kovind presents Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar to Isha Outreach, being received by Sadhguru JaggiVasudev, at the National Sports and Adventure Award 2018 function at Rashtrapti Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday PTI

India, Morocco

agree to boost

defence ties

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The Twitter war betweenthe ruling Telangana

Rashtra Samiti and the BJP hastaken a new turn with the BJPnational president Amit Shah'shandle tweeting in Telugu totake the fight into the rivalcamp.

In his first tweet in Telugu,Amit Shah strongly objected tothe Telangana Governmentkeeping itself out of the"Ayushman Bharat" nationwidehealth insurance scheme and itevoked an immediate responsefrom the State's InformationTechnology Minister K TarakaRama Rao.

While Amit Shah said thatTRS was being selfish by refus-ing to implement theAyushman Bharat scheme,Rama Rao pointed out that theState was already implementing

health an insurance scheme,Aarogya Sri.

Amit Shah said in his tweetin Telugu that it was saddeningto see that the people ofTelangana were not able to ben-efit from the scheme because ofthe selfish thought of TRS,KTR shot back on Twitter,"you are clearly misinformed@amithshah ji. The successfulArogya Sri program ofTelangana is far superior interms of coverage (80 lakhfamilies) in comparison toAyushmann Bharat (only 25lakh families in Telangana). Weare a role model sate in uni-versal health coverage".

While Ayushmann Bharatscheme provides a coverage of`5 lakh per family per annumArogya Sri provides an annu-al coverage of `2 lakh perbelow poverty line family andit can be extended to `13 lakh

on cases to case basis. State Health Minister C

Lakshma Reddy also joined thewar of words pointing out thatthe 8 million families in the Statewere benefiting from the free ofcost medical treatment under theArogya Sri scheme. He arguedthat if the Central Governmentscheme was implemented it willcreate complications as identi-fying only 25 lakh beneficiariesout of 80 lakh and leaving out 55lakh families will be difficult.

Amit Shah said that theTRS Government shouldexplain to the people why ithad not implemented thescheme and deprived the poorpeople of the benefit. AmitShah's handle tweeting in Teluguwas being seen as an indicationof the BJP's strategy to put theIT tools and the social media tothe full use in the run-up to theAssembly elections.

OMER FAROOQ n HYDERABAD

Visakhapatnam police hasachieved a major break-

through in its investigationinto the the killing of twoTelugu Desam Party leaders,including MLA Kadir iSarveshwara Rao, on Sunday.The probe teams have man-aged to secure the footage ofhow the women Naxals hadstopped the car of the MLAand his associate, formerMLA Siveri Soma, and afterkilling them how they wentinto the jungle.

Through fringe footagepolice could identify at leasttwo squad members -Jalamuri Shrini Babu aliasRhino of East Godavari andKameshwari alias Sindri ofWest Godavari.

"This has helped us inintensifying the search forthe killers", said a police official.

Already six teams of policewere combing the forest areaon AP-Odisha border.

From the footage policehave gathered that on the roadto Livittiputtu a group ofwomen stopped the car ofSarveshwara Rao and hestopped the vehicle under the

impression that they had cometo air some grievances.

But when he realised thatsome of them were armed heasked the driver to drive away.But the armed women came inthe way and stopped the vehi-cle dragging the occupants.

Visakhapatnam Rural SPRahul Dev Sharma said thatone of the women was Aruna,area committee leader whocarried a reward of `5 lakh onher head in the group.

What has caught theattention of the probe teamwas that in the footage oneMaoist was seen talking on agadget with an antenna rais-ing a suspicion that theMaoists might have used satel-lite phone as there was no cel-lular signal in the area.

Police officials believe thata network of informers andhuman intelligence was used bythe ultras to monitor the move-ment of the MLA through theforest area.

Police officials and thepeople in the area suspect thatwith the anniversary of the for-mation of outlawed CPI Maoistparty and the electionsapproaching the Maoists willstep up their attacks.

The search and combingoperation has picked up thepar with the State Intelligencechief AB Venkateshwara Rao.He personally went to thespot where the MLA was killedin forest area.

Meanwhile, the StateGovernment will be paying acompensation of `42 lakh tothe family of slain MLASarveshwara Rao. Under thenorms of the StateGovernment a family memberholding graduation or higherdegree will be given aGovernment job equivalent tothe deputy collector's post.

Officials said that the fam-ily of former MLA Soma willget a compensation of `12lakh on the lines of the fami-lies of any other victims ofMaoist violence.

KUMAR CHELLAPPAN n

CHENNAI

The case of May 2018 riotsagainst the Sterlite Copper

plant at Thoothukudi whichclaimed 13 lives took a new turnin the last two days with the pro-Sterlite brigade submitting peti-tion demanding opening and theopposing group demanding clo-sure of the copper smelter unit.Both the public hearings held atThoothukudi and Chennai onSunday and Monday by theNational Green Tribunal-appointed committee saw tensemoments with petitioners resort-ing to fisticuffs and assaults.

The committee of expertsconsisting of Tarun Agrawal, for-mer Chief Justice of MeghalayaHigh Court, Satish C Garkoti,scientist, Ministry ofEnvironment, Forests andClimate Change and HDVaralaxmi, senior environmen-tal engineer, Central PollutionControl Board, examined thefactory premises at Thoothukudiand surrounding areas and alsoheld a public hearing on Sunday.

Though hundreds of peo-ple had gathered atThoothukudi PolytechnicCollege to submit their sub-missions, groups which werebehind the riots against Sterlitedrove them away from thevenue on Sunday.

The company managementhas succeeded in spreadingthe word through selective leak

in the media that all is well atThoothukudi.

Muthukumaran andGaneshan, two farmers fromUdangudi village were man-handled by the agitators andhad to be escorted out of thepremises by the police. “Wewanted to tell the authoritiesfrom New Delhi that there areno environmental or ecologicalissues here," saidMuthukumaran.

Agrawal told reporters thatmajority of the persons who hadassembled for the public hear-ing were for the closure of thefactory. As the crowd becameuncontrollable, the committeetold the people supporting thefactory to attend Monday’s pub-lic hearing at Chennai.

“I was assaulted by uniden-tified persons and the police didnothing to stop them. When itbecame clear that I cannot with-stand further blows, the policetook me out and sent me away,”said S Thyagarajan, a 62-year-old contractor who also said thatthe anti-Sterlite agitation was yetanother attempt by radical andchauvinist elements to get thefactory closed.

Thyagarajan made it toChennai on Monday and sub-mitted a memorandum to thecommittee stating that thelocals and workers of the fac-tory were unanimous in theirdemand that the factoryshould be opened.

“The rioting was a pre-

planned move and the localpeople do not have any role init. But the people who fell to thebullets were innocent while therioters escaped without anytrace,” said Thyagarajan.

Though the NGT appoint-ed committee had announcedthat they would meet onMonday only those peoplewho want the factory to beopened, many anti-Sterlite peo-ple had assembled in Chennaitoo. Vaiko, the MDMK leaderalleged that he company man-agement had paid money tomobilise supporters while thelocals were left high and dry.According to the MDMKleader, all submissions by theSterlite employees were lies.

Shanmugasundaram, alawyer monitoring the opera-tions of Sterlite pointed out thatthe riots had all the elements ofthe agitation undertaken by thePeoples Movement AgainstNuclear Energy, the outfitwhich had campaigned againstthe Kudankulam NuclearPower Plant. “The agitationhere is sponsored by Left WingExtremists, Tamil chauvinistsand of course the Church.”alleged Shanmugasundaram.

A mission constituted byChennai based Vedic ScienceResearch Centre had submit-ted a memorandum to UnionHome Minister alleging thatthe anti-Sterlite riots werefomented and led by anti-national organisations.

KUMAR CHELLAPPAN n

CHENNAI

Acourt in Erode district ofTamil Nadu on Tuesday

acquitted all the nine accusedin the abduction of Kannadasuperstar Rajkumar by forestbrigand Veerappan in 2000.

K Mani, judge of the ThirdAdditional District Court inGobichettipalayam in Erodedistrict, came down on theprosecution for its failure inpresenting a fool-proof case.Both Rajkumar and Veerappanbreathed their last in 2006 and2004, respectively. Veerapppan,who had terrorised south westTamil Nadu was shot dead bythe Special Task Force led by KVijayakumar and constitutedby the then JayalalithaaGovernment.

Judge Mani crticisedRajkumar’s family for not com-ing forward to file a complaintagainst the people who abduct-ed the Kannada actor. He saidthe prosecution failed to provideeven an iota of evidence toprove that the accused were con-nected to Veerappan and hisaide Sethukuzhi Govindan.

The Kannada film actoralong with three of his associateswere kidnapped by Veerappanfrom his farm house at DhoddaGajanur Village in Talavadi onJuly 30, 2000. Rajkumar and hiswife Parvathmma had gone tothe farm house for a housewarming ceremony when theincident occurred. While one ofthe victims escaped fromVeerappan’s captivity inSeptember 2000, the rest includ-ing the actor were released by thebrigand after 108 days inNovember 2000. The interimperiod saw the then KarunanidhiGovernment in Tamil Nadudeputing the editor of a Tamilweekly as interlocutor. Whattranspired in the discussionswith Veerappan that took placedeep inside the reserve forests ofGobichettipalayam was neverreleased.

It transpired that the abduc-tion had to do something withthe quarry business owned bythe sons of the actor and the pro-tection money they owed toVeerappan. The incident hadbecome an international newsas Tamil chauvinist organisationstoo pitched into the negotiations.

NAYAN DAVE n GANDHINAGAR

It seems the situation is goingfrom bad to worse at the only

abode of Asiatic Lions – GirForest National Park andWildlife Sanctuary - and sur-rounding areas as the death tollrose to 14 with three more lionsdying.

All these casualties of thisendangered species belongingto the cat family occurredwithin a span of a fortnight.Sources in the State ForestDepartment confirmed thattwo lionesses aging four andnine as well as a six-month-oldcub succumbed to illness.

“Forest beat guards foundcarcasses of lioness in Dalkhaniarange of Gir Sanctuary. The cubwhich was found ill was broughtto a rescue centre, but died dur-ing treatment,” said an official.Interestingly, two more deathsof lions registered despite thefact the State forest departmenthas formed 64 teams to screenand shift sick lions to rescuecentre to prevent further casu-alties of lions.

Talking to The PioneerChief Conservator of Forest,wildlife circle DT Vasavadaprima facie the cause of deathsof two big cats seemed to beinfection and some disease, butthe exact reason of death wouldbe known only after the post-mortem report.

From the first death of lionon September 12, 2018, theState forest officials are main-taining that the cause of deathwas infighting and territorialwar amongst the lions and therewasn’t any human interferencein the death of the big cats.

Around a decade ago in theyear 2007, poaching of eightAsiatic Lions created lots of hueand cry over the conservationof the endangered species. Thethen Narendra Modi ledGujarat Government had allo-cated special funding to protectthe lions in the Gir area.

In fact it was because ofModi’s effort to hard sell AsiaticLions through a tourism cam-paign in which AmitabhBachchan was the brandambassador, tourists from allacross the globe are pouringduring winter season to see themajestic animal. The deathswould definitely impacttourism activities in the area.

GANDHINAGAR: In lineswith Prime Minister NarendraModi’s vision to double theincome of farmers, the Khadiand Village IndustriesCommission (KVIC) distrib-uted bee boxes to farmers inSouth Gujarat as part of the‘Honey Mission’.

The KVIC gave 1750 beeboxes among 175 tribal peoplein the remotest Soldhara,Famaswada, Motaponda, Vaghai,Nisrana and Kagsala villages inValsad district of Gujarat. Whiledistributing the bee-boxes, KVICChairman Vinai Kumar Saxenasaid that besides production of30,000 kilograms of high-qual-ity honey from these bee boxesin the area having abundant floraand fauna, bee-keeping wouldopen many job avenues for theunemployed youths and aspiringyoung entrepreneurs.

“Being the nodal agency ofPrime Minister EmploymentGeneration Programme(PMEGP), the KVIC wouldprovide loans for setting upunits of processing, packaging,labelling and marketing for thehoney,” said Saxena, addingthat the development initia-tives taken by KVIC in Valsadhave given a ray of hope for trib-al people and they are willing to

be the part of developmentprocess. The bee-keeping willalso enhance the rich flora andfauna of the Valsad area throughcross-pollination, he added.

KVIC had decided to dis-tribute at least 7,000 bee-boxesamong the farmers in Gujarat bythe end of this year. So far near-ly 3,000 bee-boxes have beendistributed among the SC/STvillagers of Valsad, Navasari,Tapi, Dahod and Narmada dis-tricts. More such bee-boxes willbe distributed among the vil-lagers in Banaskantha, Patanand Bhuj/Kutch districts, underour ‘Honey Mission’ project inGujarat.

Following Prime MinisterShri Narendra Modi’s call for‘Sweet Revolution’ at a functionof Banas Dairy a couple of yearsago, the KVIC came into anaction mode with its enthusias-tic ‘Honey Mission’ with a targetof distributing 1,30,000 bee boxesbefore November 2018 across thenation – right from Narmadavalley area of Gujarat toKaziranga forest in Assam andhilly region of Jammu &Kashmir to dense forests ofMysore. So far KVIC has dis-tributed 29000 bee boxes tofarmers and entrepreneurs in thecountry. PNS

FAIZAN AHMAD n PATNA

Amid the sudden spurt incrime and Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar’s claim that crimerate has come down, the lawand order has become a hottopic in Bihar these days withthe Opposition slamming theGovernment and Deputy CMSushil Kumar Modi even urg-ing the criminals to hold theiractivities at least during‘Pitrapaksh’ in Bodh Gaya.

Nitish himself put a ques-tion mark on the governancesaying there was lack of coor-dination in the bureaucracyand particularly between IASand IPS officials. The admin-istration was not up to themark due to poor coordinationbetween the DM and SP in thedistricts. “The incidents ofmurders were mainly due toland disputes,” the CM said andexpressed suspicion of theinvolvement of the officials insuch disputes.

Addressing a police func-tion here on Tuesday, the CMasked the DGP, Chief Secretaryand home secretary to look intothis issue and ensure coordi-nation between the IAS and IPSofficers and ask them to holdmeeting twice a month.

The CM stressed on main-taining social balance in theposting of police in the policestations because the mainte-nance of law and order startedfrom police stations level.Addressing another functionNitish said, “Nobody can stopmar-kat (violence and killings).

Some people have interest onlyin violence and bloodshed. Butthis is a small part of entire pic-ture still only this picture isblown up and there is no men-tion of the good works done byour Government for the peo-ple.”

The political circles weretalking about the speech ofDeputy CM Modi at BodhGaya on Monday when he“appealed” the criminals not toindulge in crime for 15 daysduring Pitrapaksh.”During thisperiod people from outsideand abroad come to Gaya forpind-dan and the criminalsshould not do anything whichbring bad name to Bihar. Thepolice is alert and make all pre-ventive care still crimes arecommitted. I with folded handsappeal to criminals not to com-mit crime at least during thisperiod,” Modi said while inau-gurating the fair.

Modi’s appeal to thecriminals triggered a barrageof attack on the Government.“After folding hands, Modishould also hold their feet,”reacted leader of oppositionTejashwi Prasad Yadav. RJDsupremo Lalu Prasad who isin jail hospital, tweeted, “Youare folding hands and hold-ing and washing feet of crim-inals . You should feelashamed. Government is notrun by making requests tocriminals and seeking mercybut with might strict actions.You have grabbed powerthrough back door so youhave no courage.”

AP police achieve major

breakthrough in probe

‘WOMEN MAOISTS WAYLAID TDP LEADERS’ Sterlite, locals takestand-off to ChennaiAll acquitted as

prosecution failsto furnish proof

RAJKUMAR ABDUCTION CASE

KVIC distributes bee boxesto South Gujarat farmers aspart of Honey Mission

SAUGAR SENGUPTA n KOLKATA

With the BJP in its desper-ation to grow beyond its

size in the State by makingWednesday’s dawn-to-duskBengal bandh a success, the rul-ing Trinamool Congress lead-ership on Tuesday made it clearthat “no bandh will be tolerat-ed” directing all the Governmentconcerns to ensure hundredpercent attendance and can-celling all leaves for the day.

“All the Government staffare hereby directed to join workon Wednesday failing which aday’s salary will be deducted,”State Education Minister ParthoChatterjee who was handlingthe affairs in absence ofBanerjee, presently in Milanattending a business meet saidwhile senior secretariat offi-cials also warned absence fromoffice on Wednesday could alsocause a breakage in service.

“We will take the bandh asseriously as the ones earliercalled by the CPI(M) only to be

foiled by a determinedapproach of the Chief Minister,”another senior Minister FirhadHakim said even as the policeon Tuesdsay lathi-charged theABVP supporters who weretrying to blockade road at busyEsplanade crossing.

Twelve ABVP supporterswere arrested following a briefjostling with the police and a

lathi-cvharge even as BJPState president told a gather-ing at Hemtabad that “anyeffort to thwart the bandhwith State power and bruteforce of the Trinamool goonswill be responded to strong-ly by the people in general.They will get a taste of BJP’sstrength tomorrow.”

The State Government

would be held responsible forany untoward incidence hap-pening on Wednesday because“it is TMC’s arrogance that theyare trying to foil a naturalbandh,” Ghosh maintained.

The BJP earlier called a12-hour bandh to protestagainst the death of two stu-dents in an alleged police fir-ing at an Islampur school inNorth Dinajpur district ofNorth Bengal.

Agitating students ofDarbhit High School hadallegedly clashed with thepolice when they werestopped from engaging in abrcdikbating while they wereprotesting the appointmentof Urdu and Sanskrit teachersinstead of Bengali, History,Maths and other teachersrequired. Subsequently twostudents received gunshotsand were killed.

The locals and the BJPclaim the police fired at the stu-dents while the Governmenthave denied the allegation.

“Our workers will be on thestreets alongside the police sothat no disturbance takes place,”Hakim said adding “opur boyscan smash the BJP workers likeants but we won’t do that asMamata Banerjee believes indeep-rooted democracy.”

The Chief Minister hadalready told from Milan that theBJP was trying to provide a com-munal twist to the whole affairand asked the people to “remainalert about their dirty tactic.”

Chatterjee said all theoffices, educational institutionswill remain open onWednesday. Transport MinisterSuvendu Adhikary said publictransport would function nor-mally and ensured `75,000insurance for partly damagedvehicles and `5 lakh for fullydamaged vehicles in the bandh.

Each Minister had beengiven the charge of ensuringnormalcy in one’s constituencybefore joining a Cabinet meet-ing late in the noon to take stockof the situation, sources said.

TMC determined to foil today’s saffron bandh

ABVP students shout slogans during a protest rally against the recent killing of twostudents in Islampur in Kolkata on Tuesday. The students were killed aftersustaining bullet injuries in an agitation PTI

Three more Girlions die, deathtoll rises to 14

RISING CRIME IN BIHAR

Govt ‘appeals’ to criminalsnot to indulge in criminalactivities during Pitrapaksh

Shah, TRS in Telugu Twitter war

over health insurance scheme

Devotees walk across muddy banks of river Ganga after taking a holy dip, in Allahabad on Tuesday PTI

WHAT HAS CAUGHT THE

ATTENTION OF THE PROBE

TEAM WAS THAT IN THE

FOOTAGE ONE MAOIST WAS

SEEN TALKING ON A GADGET

WITH AN ANTENNA RAISING

A SUSPICION THAT HE

MAOISTS MIGHT HAVE USED

SATELLITE PHONE AS THERE

WAS NO CELLULAR SIGNAL

IN THE AREA

PTI n NEW DELHI

The Union Cabinet is likelyto consider on Wednesday

the proposal to convert GSTNetwork (GSTN) into aGovernment-owned company.

The GST Council, chairedby Union Finance MinisterArun Jaitley and comprisingstate finance ministers, had inMay agreed to a proposal tomake GSTN a Governmentcompany, with Centre owning50 per cent stake and statestogether holding the remaining50 per cent.

“Converting GSTN to agovernment company may beconsidered by the Cabinettomorrow,” a source said.

Currently, the Centre andstates together hold 49 percent stake in GST Network, thecompany that provides ITbackbone to the new indirecttax regime. The remaining 51per cent is held by five privatefinancial institutions — HDFCLtd, HDFC Bank Ltd, ICICIBank Ltd, NSE StrategicInvestment Co and LICHousing Finance Ltd.

Jaitley had in April asked

Finance Secretary HasmukhAdhia to “examine the possi-bility” of converting GSTNinto a majority Governmentcompany or a 100 per centGovernment company.

Following this, the propos-al was put up for approvalbefore the GST Council in May.

The GSTN was incorpo-rated as a private limitedcompany on March 28, 2013under the UPA Government.It is a Section 8 companyunder the new CompaniesAct and hence is a not-for-profit entity.

Cabinet may change GSTN into a Govt entity today

LUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 nation 07

KHURSHEED WANI n SRINAGAR

Notwithstanding theground hostilities to the

conduct of local polls inJammu & Kashmir, theGovernor’s administration onTuesday elaborated a compre-hensive plan to hold the pollsby bringing in 400 extra com-panies of Central securityforces and ensuring safety ofthe contestants. TheGovernment would also pay amonth’s extra salary to theemployees involved in the con-duct of the polls while theenhancement in remunera-tion of special police officers

would be announced shortly.The administration

emphasised that the electionswere necessitated to preventloss of a whopping 4,335 cr forgrassroots level developmentthat is channeled throughurban local bodies and pan-chayats. Addressing a pressconference here, ChiefSecretary BVR Subramanyamsaid that the elections would beheld according to the scheduleissued by the Chief ElectoralOfficer and adequate securityplan has been devised to ensuresafety and security of candi-dates. He said the candidatescan be provided secure hotel

rooms in capital Srinagar,Anantnag and Baramullashould they require any pro-tection. He said a whoppingamount of `4,335 crore will bedevolved to the Urban andRural Local Bodies for devel-opmental activities immediate-ly after the conclusion of the pollprocess. “This huge chunk offunds allocated to the Stateunder the 14th FinanceCommission award has beenwithheld as no elected Urbanand Rural Local Bodies are inplace in the State,” he said. Hesaid the Government is initiat-ing some far-reaching changesin J&K Panchayti Raj Act to

make the rural elected bodiesmore powerful decision-makingentities with extended reach.

He said there are 4,490panchayats in the state and asmany Sarpanches are to beelected. The total number ofPanchs in the State will be35,000. “There will be around

39,500 elected representativesin these Panchayats,” he saidadding 79 urban local bodiesand about 1200 wards — 600each in Jammu & Kashmirregion would get representa-tives through the elections.

He said that adequate secu-rity arrangements have been put

in place for the smooth conductof polls and 400 additionalcompanies of paramilitaries arereaching Kashmir for electionrelated security arrangements.

Subrahmanyam said therewas no link between the tim-ing of holding panchayat elec-tions in the State and defermentof hearing of the PIL challeng-ing Article 35-A before theSupreme Court.

“There have been multiplepostponements of the hear-ings of Article 35-A in theSupreme court before and afterthe panchayat elections wereannounced,” the Chief Secretarysaid. “It is just accidental thatthe case is listed in January andthe panchayat elections are tobe completed before that.”

He said the Governor’sadministration is going to beconsistent in its stand beforethe apex court that an electedState Government should fightthe case. “The stand of the gov-ernor’s administration is goingto be consistent in the SupremeCourt that there are manyserious complex issues whichhave to be discussed as far asArticle 35-A is concerned andthese should not be discussedwhen Governor’s rule is inplace,” he asserted. He wasresponding to the questionseeking an answer about whyGovernor’s administration isnot discovering a new reasonfor hearing in the PIL otherthan 35A.

400 more companies of Central forces for J&K local polls

Srinagar: A prominent face ofthe National Conference, itsState spokesman Junaid Mattu,on Tuesday announced resig-nation from the party to con-test urban local body polls.The NC has decided to stayaway from the polls in protestagainst linking them with abunch of litigations in theSupreme Court on Article35A that guarantees specialprivileges to the residents ofJ&K. The NC was the firstregional party to announceboycott of the polls. The PDPand CPM followed suit citingthe ground situation and alsoissues related to Article 35A asthe reasons for their boycott.

“Based on my humble dis-agreement with the party’sdecision to boycott theupcoming ULB and panchay-at polls, I have just sent my res-

ignation from the party to theJKNC General Secretary,”Mattu wrote on Twitter. “Istrongly believe that leavingour grassroots democraticinstitutions open to misrep-resentation would inflict seri-ous harm on the State and alsowreak havoc with our socialfabric and cultural legacy,”he wrote.

“I will announce my can-didature for the ULB electionsfrom Srinagar tomorrow InshaAllah and I will remain com-mitted to serving my peopleand helping the city I grew upin meeting the challenges it’sfaced with. I won’t be address-ing the media or taking anyquestions today,” he said. TheNC in a tweet said that theMattu’s resignation from thebasic membership of the partywas accepted. PNS

National Conference spokesmanJunaid Mattu resigns from party,to contest urban local body polls

TN RAGHUNATHA n MUMBAI

After he came in for severeflak from his party leader-

ship for hailing Lord Ganesh,All India Majlis-e-IttehadulMuslimeen (AIMIM) MLAWaris Pathan on Tuesday apol-ogised for his “Ganpati BappaMorya” chant at a GaneshMandal event in his con-stituency during the weekendand said he would never uttersuch a praise on a Hindu Godin future,

In a video messageuploaded on his Twitter han-dle, Pathan said: “A few daysago I inadvertently uttered achant (of Lord Ganesh). I bowbefore Allah and say that Imade a mistake, God willing,I will not make such a mistakein future. After all I am also ahuman being. Every humanbeing commits mistakes. I amadmitting my mistake. I urgeAllah to forgive me for my mis-take. I urge everyone to prayfor me”. A controversy had bro-ken out within the AIMIMafter he chanted “GanpatiBappa Morya” and prayed tothe elephant-headed God toremove obstacles of all people,at an event organised onSunday in his home con-stituency of Byaculla to cele-brate Ganeshotsav, an act hisparty had not taken kindly to- So much so that his partyleaders and workers seeingdisrepute to his party throughhis chant hailing Lord Ganesh.

Meanwhile, the ruling ShivSena came to Phatan’s defencefor his “Ganpati Bappa Morya”chant. “What wrong hasPathan done? Was it a crimeon his part to chant GanpatiBappa Morya? Why has heapologised for his chant hail-ing Lord Ganesh? Hindus goto Masjid. The Hindus even goto Ajmer. That being the case,should we draw any inferencethat those Hindus will switchto Muslim religion. I am sur-prised as to why Pathan choseto apologise. His apology wasunwarranted,” Shiv Sena MPArvind Sawant said.

A controversy had

broken out within the

AIMIM after he

chanted “Ganpati

Bappa Morya” and

prayed to the

elephant-headed God

to remove obstacles of

all people

CONFIRM STERLING...The CBI has alleged that

the company had taken loansof over Rs 5,000 crore from aconsortium led by AndhraBank which have turned intonon-performing assets (NPA).The FIR has alleged that thetotal pending dues of the groupcompanies were Rs 5,383 croreas on December 31, 2016.

According to the FIR, thedirectors of the company “con-nived with the in-house char-tered accountant and falsifiedmaterial records of the com-pany” like production, turnoverand investments in capitalassets. The falsification wasallegedly done using variousIndia-based entities and thosesituated abroad. The CBI FIRfurther alleged that the direc-tors had quoted false docu-ments under their signatureswith “mala fide intention” toinduce banks to sanction andrelease the credit limits.

The company was earlierbooked by the CBI in Augustlast year for allegedly bribingsenior Income Tax departmentofficials. On June 28, 2011, theIT department had conductedsearches and seizures at 25premises of Sterling BiotechLtd, during which a diary con-taining hand-written records offinancial transactions wasfound, the FIR in this case hadalleged.

JOB SCENARIO...India’s new payroll data

prepared by the EmployeesProvident Fund Organisation(EPFO) shows that around 9.5lakh jobs was created in theformal sector in July, as againstthe requirement of more thana million joining the workforceeach month.

The SWI report conceivesof India’s ongoing structuraltransformation as composed oftwo processes — movement ofworkers from agriculture tonon-farm occupations andfrom informal to formal activ-ities — while it adds crucialconsiderations of social equityand ecological sustainabilityto this framework. India’s prob-lem has traditionally beenknown as not one of unem-ployment but underemploy-ment and low wages, accordingto the report. “But a new fea-ture of the economy is a highrate of open unemployment,which is now over 5 per centoverall, and a much higher 16per cent for youth and thehigher educated,” it said. “Theincrease in unemployment isclearly visible all across India,but is particularly severe in thenorthern States.” According toSWI, adjusted for inflation,wage rates have grown in mostsectors at 3 per cent per annumor more. “But 82 per cent ofmale and 92 per cent of femaleworkers earn less than Rs10,000 a month,” it said.

In this regard, the mini-mum salary recommended bythe Seventh Central PayCommission (CPC) is Rs18,000 per month. “Even in theorganised manufacturing sec-tor 90 per cent of the industriespay wages below the CPC min-imum. The situation is worse inthe unorganised sector,” the

report said. Last but not least,gender disparities are still highbut are reducing in some cases,according to the SWI.

Women are 16 per cent ofall service sector workers but 60per cent of domestic workers,while overall women earn 65per cent of men’s earnings.

“The Indian economyremains heavily gender segre-gated. Occupationally, womenare under-represented amongsenior officers, legislators andmanagers. The situation hasworsened with the proportionfalling from 13 per cent in 2011to 7 per cent in 2015,” thereport said. The ratio of maleto female labour force partici-pation rate varies from lessthan 0.2 in Uttar Pradesh andPunjab to 0.5 in Tamil Nadu aswell as Andhra Pradesh, and toabove 0.7 in Mizoram andNagaland, it added.

SPURNED CONG...“I urge you (Congress) to

come and oppose, debate anddiscuss on topics of develop-ment. However, they will notdo this, as they find it easier toindulge in mud-slinging. Butthe more mud you throw, themore the lotus will bloom,”Modi said. He said the“Congress has become a bur-den on the country today”and “it is the responsibility ofBJP workers in a democracy tosave the country from it.”

“In 1984, we lost (elec-tions), but we introspected andworked to regain the trust ofthe people. We did not try tosave our skin by blaming EVMsfor our losses. Today peoplehave once again reposed theirfaith in us,” he said. He thentold the gathering that if theCongress is “destined to beruined”, the BJP need notworry. “These are the peoplewho used a section of societyto win elections, never caringto work for the welfare of oth-ers but only trying to save theirchair. This sin of dividing thecountry is one major reason ofits destruction,” Modi said, ina veiled attack on the Congress.“They have committed a sin ofdividing the society anddestroying the social fabric toruin the country,” he said. “Ifyou want to save the countryfrom ruining caused in 70years after Independence, youhave to shoulder a vital respon-sibility,” Modi told the rally ofBJP workers. He said hisGovernment believes that theentire 125 crore citizens ofIndia are one family. “SabkaSath, Sabka Vikas (cooperationof all, development of all) is nota mere slogan for us. It is ourcommitment,” the PrimeMinister said. Referring to thepractice of triple talaq, he saidit is not acceptable even inIslamic countries. “Even theparty headed by a woman is notconcerned about our Muslimsisters. This is the deformedface of vote-bank politics,”Modi said attacking theCongress.

“It is the responsibility ofBJP workers to protect thecountry from the vote-bankpolitics which has destroyedthe country in the past 70years,” he said. Modi said his

Government believes in socialjustice for all and that its ‘SabkaSath, Sabka Vikas’ (cooperationof all, development of all) cam-paign is not just a slogan. Hesaid the Opposition partieshad formed the“Mahagathbandhan” (grandalliance) out of fear of losingthe polls. “Due to fear of defeat,the Congress is begging for thealliance with small parties, hesaid. He said the Congress“arrogance” makes its leadersbelieve that ruling the countryis their right. The Congress is“unable to accept that a ‘chaiwala’ (tea vendor) or the son ofa poor mother like Shivraj and(Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister)Yogi (Adityanath) could attainthe chair of power.”

Modi said when the UPAwas in power at the Centre, itheld grudges against not onlythe BJP-ruled Governments inother States, but also with itspeople. “They created obstaclesin every works of BJPGovernments. They did notcare if money, schemes wereleft hanging but only wanted noworks to be completed onlythen the BJP Governmentswould be ousted by people.Time has now come to teachthem a lesson,” he said.

Expressing confidence thatthe BJP would win the upcom-ing Assembly polls in MadhyaPradesh, Modi invoked formerPrime Minister Atal BihariVajpayee, saying, “the son ofthis soil may no longer be withus, but his memories are.”

He also showered praise onlate BJP leader Vijaya RajeScindia, popularly known as‘Rajmata’ of Gwalior, who isgrand mother of Congressleader Jyotiraditya Scindia.

“The country can’t forgetthree great leaders - MahatmaGandhi, Ram Manohar Lohiaand Deendayal Upadhaya.They worked for the upliftmentof the last man (poorest of thepoor), he said. “We are the peo-ple who accept Gandhi also,Lohia also and Upadhaya alsoas they always thought of thedevelopment of the last man ofthe society,” he said.

MUCH MORE...Responding to the claims,

Congress chief spokespersonRandeep Surjewala said theCongress Government gavethe contract to State-run firmHAL and alleged that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi gaveit to Anil Ambani’s RelianceDefence. “The tender wasissued in 2007 August, and onDecember 12, 2012, it wasopened...And in March 13,2014, the CongressGovernment gave the offsetcontract to State-run HAL,”Surjewala told reporters. Hecited the statements made byDassault Aviation CEO EricTrappier and former HALchairperson TS Raju. Hittingout at Law Minister RaviShankar Prasad and the ModiGovernment, Surjewala saidthey were responding to theRafale “scam” with abuses andmud-slinging. “The countryhas heard the tale of Ali Babaaur Chaalis Chor, now it isasking that when will ModiBaba and Chaalis Choranswer,” Surjewala said. “Areyou Ambani’s PM, or thecountry’s Prime Minister?” heasked.

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Deadline for UP

govt’s Taj vision

docu extended

PTI n NEW DELHI

The Supreme Court onTuesday extended till

November 15 the time for UttarPradesh government to submita vision document on protect-ing the Taj Mahal from pollu-tion. The state government tolda bench headed by JusticeMadan B Lokur that it would bedifficult to declare entire Agraas a heritage city.

The top court asked thestate government to considerdeclaring certain portions of thearea surrounding the Taj Mahalas heritage. The state govern-ment informed the court thatan Ahmedabad-based Centrefor Environmental Planningand Technology was assisting iton declaring areas surroundingthe Taj Mahal as heritage. Thematter has been listed for fur-ther hearing on November 29.The apex court had earliergiven time till October 15 to thestate, but it was extended todayafter Additional SolicitorGeneral (ASG) Tushar Mehtaand advocate Aishwarya Bhati,representing the Uttar Pradeshgovernment, sought an exten-sion. In the previous hearing,ASG ANS Nadkarni, appearing

for the Centre, had said that ithas communicated to the UttarPradesh government to send aproposal to declare Agra a ‘her-itage city’.

He had said that theArchaeological Survey of India(ASI) was in the process ofpreparing a heritage plan for theTaj which would be filed withthe UNESCO in three months.The apex court had earlierasked the authorities to take alarger perspective on issues ofpollution and green cover whilepreparing a vision document,saying that there will be no “sec-ond chance” to preserve the TajMahal. The top court, whileobserving that the Taj Mahalwould “of course be the centrepiece” of the matters to beconsidered, had said otherissues like vehicular traffic,pollution from the industriesoperating in the Taj TrapeziumZone (TTZ) and the waterlevel of river Yamuna, shouldalso be looked into whilepreparing the vision document.The TTZ is an area of about10,400 sq km spread over thedistricts of Agra, Firozabad,Mathura, Hathras and Etah inUttar Pradesh and theBharatpur district of Rajasthan.

Waris Pathanapologises forhis ‘GanpatiBappa Morya'

It was quite a dramatic rescue on the high seas, with his boat Thuriya dismasted,and Commander Abhilash Tomy himself temporarily crippled, the fact that asmall boat in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean, considered the wildest

part of seas in the world, was located and Tomy rescued is a tremendous achieve-ment. We wish the Commander a speedy recovery and hope that he is able toget back on a boat, maybe a much larger Indian Navy warship sooner ratherthan later. But this unfortunate incident, and that of a fellow Irish sailor com-peting in the same Golden Globe Race, a solo round-the-world sailing event,should raise some concerns about these long-distance sailing races. These eventsare undoubtedly a tremendous test of human endurance, but the risks involvedare immense. Participants like Commander Tomy are very aware of the risksinvolved and he himself will be aware of the risks. Rescue on the high seas, par-ticularly on a solo expedition, are difficult and thanks to the tremendous multi-national effort which involved the Indian Navy’s highly capable naval reconnaissance,the Boeing P-8I as well as Australian and French naval and Civilian ships along-side the INS Satpura, that Commander Tomy will live to see another day. Thisraises a very important question, that is, are these events too dangerous?

One of the things that makes human species is our constant need to pushour physical and mental and in some cases technological boundaries. Solo sail-ing expeditions, ultra-marathons through the Sahara desert, going to the bot-tom of the deepest parts of the Ocean and now the race to send a man to Marswithin the next decade. But pushing the boundaries carries huge risks and inthe past decade, increasingly many of us are becoming reluctant to take risks.Technology has reached a level where playing it safe is very easy, so is ques-tioning those who undertake such massive risks upon themselves. Are the costsof rescuing one man from the middle of the high seas worth it, given that themoney spent could have been used somewhere else? In our opinion, it is worthit because mankind should always keep pushing themselves to achieve more.Human achievement must not stall because we want to play it safe. It is onlybecause we keep pushing the boundaries that we have achieved what we alreadyhave as a species. And there is another thing, Commander Tomy’s boat was foundin the middle of nowhere, a spot not so far from where a Malaysian Airlines Boeing777 once disappeared. Which reminds us, everyone has still not been found,something that remains a mystery and one of humanity’s greatest failures.

So, Congress worthies have finally found the time to sit down and discussthe possibilities of alliances and/or seat adjustments with other politicalparties in the States headed for Assembly elections and the 2019 Lok Sabha

poll. The AICC committee on alliances, also known as the core group and com-prising old war horses AK Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ashok Gehlot and AhmedPatel, met on Monday and Tuesday in the Capital, a week after the party withwhich an alliance for the Congress would have proven most beneficial had alreadybolted, as it were. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati who was said tobe in discussions with Congress leaders for an alliance in Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh for the forthcoming Assembly polls has alreadyannounce a tie-up with Ajit Jogi’s regional outfit in Chhattisgarh and issued alist of 22 candidates for seats in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assemblyconcentrated in the Bundelkhand, Vindhya, Mahakoshal and, crucially, Gwalior-Chambal areas which is considered the stronghold of Congress campaign com-mittee chief for the State, Jyotiraditya Scindia. Chhattisgarh looks like a lostcause for the Congress in terms of an alliance. Indeed, the party would be bet-ter advised to fight the election on its own in the State, focussing on increas-ing its vote share, strengthening the organisation and entering into local tacti-cal understandings with the BSP-Jogi alliance where feasible in taking on theformidable Raman Singh. In Madhya Pradesh, however, Congress leaders ledby the redoubtable Kamal Nath, who is also the State PCC president, are stillthought to be in talks with the BSP for a pre-poll alliance, on the assumptionthat Mayawati’s unilateral declaration of 20-odd candidates is just the openingsalvo for the negotiations. This may well be the key alliance which the Congresshas to forge if it is serious about denying Shivraj Singh Chouhan another term.The Chief Minister has of late made overtures to the so-called upper castes onthe issue of misuse of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of)Atrocities Act and has thus opened the possibility of an SC-ST-Muslim-disgruntledwith BJP social coalition coalescing behind a united Opposition. Allied to theoutcome of this potential alliance is a Congress-BJP deal in Rajasthan wherethe latter, though not as strong as it is in Madhya Pradesh albeit in pockets,may tip the balance in what is turning out to be a close contest despite initialexpectations of a BJP rout. Garnering support of caste-based organisations andnot necessarily political parties is where the game is in these parts. The fourthState headed for polls is Telangana where Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Raohas dissolved the Assembly early. While the Congress has already worked outthe contours of a deal with the TDP, Communists and smaller regional partiesin the State, it is not thought to be in a position to dislodge KCR who anywayhas made it clear that once he has won the State as he expects to, his partywill fight the Lok Sabha polls on its own steam and look post-poll support toa non-Congress, non-BJP front as the first choice.

What the Congress can learn from regional parties in its dalliance with alliancesis: Forget Lutyen’s Delhi talk of an impractical one-on-one fight against the BJP,put your party’s interest first and seal alliances in different States based on spe-cific conditions prevailing there rather than searching for ideological affinity.

State of flux

Congress core committee meets to decide on alliances

for the States due for Assembly elections

Saving Tomy

The dramatic rescue of Commander Tomy was quite a feat but

should it raise questions about long-distance sailing expeditions?

Seeking the plane truth about Rafale dealwww.dailypioneer.com

P A P E R W I T H P A S S I O N

Amidst a political slugfest over the Rafale deal, coming clean should lead to a truce that is urgently required for the IAF to breathe normally and to prevent further damage to India’s emerging power reputation

Rafale will stick to the Government likethe Sikkim leech, especially after FormerFrench President François Hollande’sAnil Ambani bombshell which Franceand Dassault have rejected for fear of los-

ing the Rafale contract a second time. TheCongress will make Rafale the Modi Government’sBofors. Both are excellent weapons. No one hasquestioned the calibre of the equipment but onlyits cost, the alleged scam (`41,000 crore) includ-ing offsets. The Government is relying on Modi’scorruption-free image, his credibility and the aamaadmi’s confidence in him. The Congress aftervoter-data analysis has discovered that the high-est level of curiosity item is Rafale. The Congresswill launch nation-wide protests covering everyState, district and block, and submit petitions seek-ing a probe. It has already sought a JointParliamentary Committee (JPC) and urged theComptroller and Auditor General of India/CentralVigilance Commission (CAG/CVC) for an early

report. A PIL for an independent probe into pro-cedural irregularities is to be heard in the SupremeCourt on October 10. Innovative protests, like paperaircraft and balloons representing Rafale, will goup in the air. A team of elders, former BJP stalwartsand lawyers are quizzing the Government withembarrassing regularity, accusing Prime MinisterModi of “gross misuse of office in personally orches-trating purchase of 36 Rafale while scuttling a dealfor 126 aircraft…and his storm-troopers issuinglie after lie”.

The following conversations are recalled:Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said toDoordarshan: “Modiji took the decision, I backedit up” he said three days after Modi’s surpriseannouncement in Paris on April 10, 2015.Foreign Secretary, S Jaishankar briefed the mediaon April 8 and said, “Prime Minister does not getinvolved in ongoing defence contracts.” The fourthDefence Minister, new to her job, NirmalaSitharaman in November 2017 asked DefenceSecretary Sanjay Mitra during a media conferenceto spell out the cost details, which he did not orcould not do, whereas comprehensive off therecord briefings on costs had already been doneby MoD officials in 2016 after signing of the con-tract and later, spelt out by both Ministers inParliament.

On July 20, 2018, during the no-confidencemotion debate, Sitharaman waved an expired con-fidentiality agreement with Dassault in Parliament

to protect details of the cost. The Government hastied itself in knots on cost and 14 India-specificenhancements, insisting that their Rafale is nineper cent cheaper, whereas the Opposition is ask-ing how the price helicoptered from `670 croreto `1,660 crore.

Five main issues are repeating: Cost and scam;reduction of aircraft numbers from sevensquadrons to two squadrons; forfeiture of ToT and

Make in India; sidelining of HindustanAeronautics Limited (HAL); and awarding off-sets to Anil Ambani. The first allegation can onlybe resolved by CAG/CVC. The key issue isenhancing the combat capability of the Indian AirForce (IAF). If the Government had secured acost-effective deal, why did it order only two andnot three or four Rafale squadrons, the Congressis asking? According to NDTV, letters wereexchanged between two Defence Ministers aboutordering additional Rafales, like was done forMirage 2000.

In an absurd claim, Sitharaman justifying theGovernment’s contract for two squadrons — basedon precedent — told the media that IAF cannotabsorb more than two squadrons due to lack ofinfrastructure and other technical considerations.This is churlish as sufficient time of six to sevenyears is available to create infrastructure in airbases1,500 km apart at Ambala and Hashimara.

Equally preposterous is the Minister’s claimin an interview to the PTI, denouncing HAL forits lack of capacity to build a Rafale. Former headof HAL, Swarna Raju, has countered this by say-ing that they have made over 2,000 aircraft — 250Vampires, 300 Gnats, 700 MiG 21s, 165 MiG 27s,115 Jaguars, 99 Hawks, 272 Sukhois and 150Dorniers. A public critique of HAL will do littlegood to its morale and reputation. On offsets,much has been said by Sitharaman, Hollande andDassault. Dassault is certainly free to select its

Indian offset partner but the Defence Ministry hasto vet the choice.

The most tragic part of the ongoing debate isthe Government’s politicisation of the IAF — thisafter the Army’s surgical strikes were being usedas vote-catcher. Senior IAF officers were unsubtlyused during a seminar on IAF: Force structures2035 to defend the Government’s stand on Rafalewith journalists from Print and electronic mediaoutnumbering analysts. But questions on Rafale bythe media were stonewalled. Journalists whisperedthat the IAF was not happy being goaded by theMoD into speaking up on Rafale.

In a Swachh Bharat, the Government and theOpposition washing their dirty linen in publicdoes no good to national security, especially fora Government which advocates Sabka SathSabka Vikas. But sadly, modernisation and othergrievances of the military were sidelined. Theinternecine campaign of Press conferences muststop by the Government agreeing to a JPC.Sitharaman, while rejecting the JPC, wanted aprobe as to why 126 aircraft deal could not be con-summated during the UPA era, suggesting mid-dlemen’s involvement.

Insulting the workforce at HAL, insinuatingcounter scams by injecting the AgustaWestlandappear to be diversionary tactics obfuscating pro-cedural deviations as if there was something tohide. The Italian court has ruled out fraud andbribes in the AgustaWestland case.

Instead of 126 Make in India, 36 Rafale willbe made in France, surrendering vital ToT. Inorder to fast track numbers of combat squadrons,the shortfall from the cancelled 126 aircraft con-tract in July 2015, the Government has had torepeat the MMRCA 2007 tender process in April2018 for 110 multi-role fighters incurring time andcost escalation. What the UPA was unable to do,the NDA should have done — the last mile in themarathon. But instead Modi allegedly short-cir-cuited established procedures for emergency pur-chase of 36 Rafale. In the political slugfest, the IAFis left high and dry. It is intriguing how Dassaultchief Éric Trappier having said on March 14, 2015,days before Prime Minister Modi’s Parisannouncement, that he expected the contract tobe signed shortly with HAL collaboration,changed his mind.

After the Hollande Rafale revelation, itseems either a former French President or anincumbent Indian Prime Minister (who is stillsilent) is being economical with the truth.Introducing foreign hand is a fatigued ploy.Coming clean on Rafale should lead to a trucewhich is urgently required for the IAF to resumebreathing normally and India’s emerging powerreputation not being dented any further.

(The writer is a retired Major General of theIndian Army and founder member of the DefencePlanning Staff, currently the revamped IntegratedDefence Staff)

HIMALAYAN FEAT

Sir — It is encouraging that India’s 100thfunctional airport was inaugurated atPakyong, Sikkim. It is, however, ironi-cal that it took so long for the State toget a full-fledged airport ever since 1975,when Sikkim obtained its Statehood andjoined the Indian Union.

The opening of a new airport atPakyong will certainly boost tourismand other industries as well. With this,Sikkim must now prepare itself to wit-ness massive infrastructural development and the Governmentmust leave no stone unturned to aid the

State’s development. Further, as the Pakyong airport is

landlocked and surrounded by inter-national borders, aligning with Nepal,Tibet, Bhutan and China, the airportshould gradually be upgraded to aninternational status. This will enhanceconnectivity with neighbouring SouthAsian Association for RegionalCooperation (Saarc) countries.

VarunBengaluru

BLAME-GAME ON RAFALE

Sir — This refers to the report, “Congmoves CVC for probe into Rafale deal”

(September 25). It appears that in theirrespective handling of the Rafale affair,while the Congress is getting desperate,the NDA is getting awkward day by day.

While the misconceived ‘strategy’ ofthe Congress in dumping all its ‘election-oriented’ eggs in just the Rafale basketcould be a liability if it ultimately provesto be a damp squib so close to the elec-tions, the BJP is not helping its own caseeither by prevaricating or seeming to benot completely forthright or assertive inits approach. One would wish that theair on this is cleared sooner.

NS RajanKolkata

WELCOME HEALTHCARE REFORM

Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Healthier India” (September 25). TheModi Government’s Ayushman Bharatinitiative is one of the largest healthcareinitiatives, globally, which is non-par-allel in terms of scale and extent.

It is undoubtedly a historical stepthat will give access to specialisedtreatment to more than 10 crore peo-ple. Studies have shown that hugeexpenditure on medical treatment haspushed many families below the pover-ty line. With the launch of this health-care scheme, the Government has

shown that lives of the poor and themarginalised are no less precious thanof those who can afford treatment in bighospitals. This welfare scheme willcover around 10 crore families or about500 million of the population promis-ing quality care to 40 per cent of poor-er families. Also, the scheme will provide five lakh rupees cashlessmedicare facility to the poor and vul-nerable families.

Ramesh G Jethwani Bengaluru

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The fun has just begun and in the coming months

Congress will expose how every initiative under

the Modi Government has been an act of theft.

—Congress president

RAHUL GANDHI

Nothing can be expected from a leader (Rahul

Gandhi) whose entire family is involved in

scams. Be it Bofors or National Herald.

—Union Minister

RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD

POINTCOUNTERPOINT

According to the WorldInvestment Report 2018,foreign direct investment(FDI) flows worldwidewere 23 per cent lower at

$1.43 billion in 2017, as compared to2016, and with the end of 2018 near-ing, it is forecasted that these numberswould show but a slight improvement.Last year saw a significant decline inthe value of cross-border mergers andacquisitions as well as greenfieldinvestment announcements — anindicator of future trends. However,going forward, the future looks brightwith an optimistic global economicoutlook which is better than previousyears. At the regional level, econom-ic prospects in the Asia Pacific,Europe and Eurasia, and the Americasare bright, although outlook of theMiddle East and North Africa(MENA) region is mixed.

The importance of FDI to a coun-try, whether developed or developing,cannot be undermined as it con-tributes to the economy in severalways, like transfer of financialresources, technology, and innovativeand improved management tech-niques along with raising productiv-ity. Developing countries like Indianeed substantial foreign inflows toachieve the required investment toaccelerate economic growth anddevelopment. Further, it helps speedup economic activity and bringswith it other scarce productive factorssuch as technical knowhow andmanagerial experience, which areequally essential for economic devel-opment.

It is interesting to know thataccording to the AT Kearney FDIConfidence Index 2018, India slippedthree notches to 11th rank in 2018,from eighth rank in 2017. This is forthe first time it has fallen out of top10 since 2015. FDI Confidence Indexis an annual analysis of how political,economic and regulatory changes willlikely affect FDI inflows into countries.It is constructed using primary databy surveying senior executives of theworld’s leading corporations havingannual revenues of $500 million ormore. Worldwide, the US again topsthe FDI Confidence Index for thesixth year in a row.

The continued attractiveness ofthe US to foreign investors is a resultof its large domestic market, improv-ing economic performance and newlower corporate tax rate. Companiesare also moving in and investing inUS to circumvent the Government’sprotectionist rhetoric and gain mar-ket access. Globally, there has alsobeen significant shifts among the lead-ing destinations for FDI. The top fivecountries on the index have notchanged in the past three years, buttheir relative positions have shifted.

Most notably, Canada rose to thesecond place this year, its highest-everranking in the index, and China fellto the fifth position, its lowest-everranking in the index. Germany alsofell one spot to the third rank and theUK held steady at fourth. While thetop 10 likely destinations for FDI werethe same in 2016 and 2017, there isa change in the composition of the listthis year — Switzerland and Italyentered the top 10 for the first timein more than a decade, edging outIndia and Singapore.

Europe made a significant come-back as investors are finding the mar-kets attractive. Three newcomers tothe 2018 index are all Europeanmarkets: Denmark at 20th position,Portugal at 22nd, and Norway at 23rd.This widespread intention to invest inEurope may be related to the region’seconomic upswing after several yearsof subpar economic performance. Inaddition, as in last year’s index, thelooming reality of Brexit may be moti-vating some FDI interest in the restof the European Union (EU) mem-ber economies as companies seek tomaintain their preferential access tothe EU market.

Overall, large global companiesare attracted to developed markets aspreferred FDI destinations across allregions, including Europe, NorthAmerica, Asia and Australia, due tostronger economic performanceacross developed market economies,their competitive advantages in tech-nological innovation and the regula-tory and competitive pressures tolocalise operations in core markets.What would be the key drivers forFDI investments in the coming times?

The possibility of an increase ingeo-political tensions tops the list forinvestors’ decision to invest in acountry. The perception of a politicalcrisis in an emerging market is con-tributing to the fact that fewer emerg-ing markets made it to this year’sindex. Governance factors have takenprecedence when choosing where toinvest, particularly regulations, trans-

parency, corruption, tax rates, ease ofdoing business and a general secureenvironment. Given the high-profilecorruption scandals in major emerg-ing markets, such as South Africa,Brazil and Malaysia, these factors havebecome quite important. Internationalbusiness strategy is witnessing a sea-change. Rather than adopting a one-size-fits-all model of globalising com-pany operations and products, com-panies are now pursuing localisationstrategies, which are the practices ofshifting a company’s management,operations, production, or marketingto local markets.

Factors that influence companies’decisions to localise are diverse andthey include both regulatory, likeGovernment localisation require-ments to gain market access, and eco-nomic pressures, like lower costs andcompetitive pressures from domesticfirms. This rise of localisation as aleading business strategy is likely togenerate greater FDI flows and willmake FDI a core business strategy thatwill have a significant impact on cor-porate profitability and competitive-ness. Any renegotiations or disrup-tions of regional trade zones oragreements can lead to shifts inFDIs. For instance, any major changesor termination of the North AmericanFree Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

would have a profound effect on FDIflows and the broader global businessenvironment. In fact, FDI inflowswould increase to North America ifNAFTA were to be terminated andthe major beneficiary would beCanada because of the country’sbusiness-friendly regulations, stablesecurity environment and continuedpursuit of global economic integrationthrough agreements such as theCanada-EU ComprehensiveEconomic and Trade Agreement andthe Comprehensive and ProgressiveAgreement for Trans-PacificPartnership (CPTPP).

Among market asset factors, thecost of labour is the most importantdeterminant of FDI flows and manybig businesses consider labour costsas one of the top two factors for a deci-sion to invest in any other country.This is due to the fact that the glob-al labour force has stopped growingas a share of the total populationbecause of aging population anddeclining workforce participationrates, and the labour market is lessglobalised than in the past due to ris-ing restrictions on immigration.These forces are likely to push uplabour costs in a variety of markets.For example, more restrictive USimmigration policies and a tighten-ing US labour market — companies

based in the US are paying moreattention to labour costs when mak-ing FDI decisions.

Inspite of global companies basedin the developed countries having theintention to invest in India mainly dueto present Government’s ‘Make inIndia’ initiative, India failed to hold onto its position in the top 10 countriesin the index. Also, as a result ofGovernment steps to improve theinvestment environment, India surged30 spots to rank 100th on the WorldBank’s Doing Business 2018, and inthe process, broke into the top 100 forthe first time ever. Notable reformswhich have contributed to this trans-formation of Indian business includethe elimination of the ForeignInvestment Promotion Board, aGovernment agency responsible forreviewing all potential foreign invest-ment and the liberalisation of foreigninvestment thresholds for retail, avi-ation and biomedical industries.

These bold FDI reforms, wheremore than 90 per cent of the FDIapprovals have been put on the auto-matic approval route, have made theinvestment environment positive inIndia. The 2017 nationwide GST, forexample, has faced implementationchallenges, and the 2016 demoneti-sation initiative disrupted businessactivity and weighed on economicgrowth, but have shown the world theintention of India to weed out cor-ruption. Above all, strong economicperformance and the sheer size of theIndian market are big attraction forglobal investors.

The IMF projects that India’seconomy will grow by 7.4 per cent in2018, the fastest growth rate of anymajor economy. Inward FDI flowsalready increased to an estimated $45billion in 2017, a record high. Japan,the US, the UK and Singapore con-sistently serve as large sources of FDIfor India. All these economic reformswill surely put India back higher onthe FDI confidence index in future.

Worldwide, broad-based eco-nomic expansion provides opportu-nities for global investors to deepentheir presence in key growth marketsthrough FDIs. Although, geopoliticaltensions and domestic policy risksstemming from rising populism andprotectionism could disrupt this syn-chronous global economic upswing,at the same time, these political riskscreate the imperative for companiesto establish a local presence in impor-tant markets to maintain access,thereby, driving up FDI flows.

(The writer is Assistant Professor,Amity University)

HIMABINDU KOTA

UPAHARPRAMANIK

ASHOKMEHTA

Who says Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) supremo Mayawati does notdream big? After losing three

back-to-back Assembly and Lok Sabhapolls in Uttar Pradesh, after getting zeroseats in the current Lok Sabha, she still hasnot given up her ambition of becoming thefirst Dalit Prime Minister of this country.It may be premature to talk about this, butnursing this ambition for long, Mayawatiherself thundered in 2012 during an elec-tion rally: “I hold the master key to power.”In 2014, the BSP declared her as its primeministerial candidate.

The BSP’s national executive passed res-olutions in May this year, announcingMayawati as the prime ministerial candidate for the 2019 General Election. Sheis not doing it without a purpose as theseprojections are meant to galvanise the partycadres, selling them the dream of a ‘Dalit kibeti’ reaching the top. The bottom line is thatshe should at least emerge as a kingmakerin the post-poll scenario after 2019.

Interestingly, despite her party’s down-ward turn, political parties are vying witheach other to tie up with the BSP for the sim-ple reason that the party’s votes are trans-ferable. While it may be a million-dollarquestion whether she will achieve her ambi-tion, her relevance in the grand plans forOpposition unity cannot be questioned. Even the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) is not averse to an alliance with the BSP.

The BSP has presence in 18 States andis the third-largest party after the Congressand the BJP if one goes by the vote share.In 2014, despite not getting a single seat, itsecured 19.8 per cent votes in Uttar Pradeshand more than 4.5 per cent popular votes inMadhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand, besidesgetting respectable vote shares in Karnataka,Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

Mayawati’s clout had increased after shesupported the Samajwadi Party (SP) in theGorakhpur and Phulpur bypolls, whichshowed that a united Opposition could eas-

ily defeat the BJP. A similar pre-poll alliancewith the JD(S) in Karnataka showed the suc-cess of a united Opposition. There wereexpectations that this might be carried onto the year-end Assembly polls as well as the2019 Lok Sabha election.

The first test will be the ensuingAssembly polls in Rajasthan, MadhyaPradesh and Chhattisgarh — all BJP-ruledStates facing strong anti-incumbency. Adefeat or victory will go a long way for boththe BJP and the Congress. Dalits account formore than 17 per cent of the votes inRajasthan, 15. 2 per cent of the total elec-torate in Madhya Pradesh and nearly 12 percent in Chhattisgarh. The three Statestogether account for 65 Lok Sabha seats.

The BSP polled 3.5 per cent votes inRajasthan, 6.3 per cent in Madhya Pradeshand 4.25 per cent in Chhattisgarh in the2013 Assembly elections. Thus, Mayawatiis in a bargaining position.

However, instead of going for a grandalliance, which the Congress was hoping toform, Mayawati dashed their hopes inChhattisgarh by aligning with former ChiefMinister Ajit Jogi, who had left the Congressand formed his own Janata Congress.

Mayawati has shown that she is unpre-dictable and will not blindly join the anti-BJP front. It is a double snub to theCongress that she chose to align with AjitJogi. As a second blow in Madhya Pradesh,the BSP has decided to contest all seats evenwhile the Congress was dilly-dallying aboutthe seat sharing formula.

While the BSP won only four seats inMadhya Pradesh, Dalit voters might tilt thebalance, especially in the Chambal area. Ina third blow to the Congress, the BSP mightalign with the third front formed by the SPand Left parties in Rajasthan, where theCongress is in a position to win.

Had the Congress been more accom-modative in seat sharing with the BSP, thingswould not have gone so far. The Congressis still in a “majority party mindset” not real-ising the reality that it has lost its strength.So for all purposes, the Opposition votesmight be divided which might come to theadvantage of the BJP. The BJP’s hope tocome back to power depends entirely on adivided Opposition, and being in power atthe Centre, the BJP is in a position to putpressure on Mayawati and other Oppositionleaders who are facing cases. Both Mayawatiand Ajit Jogi are facing CBI cases of cor-ruption in Chhattisgarh.

All these show that the execution of agrand alliance will not be easy as per theOpposition plan if things are not tackledwell. It is what Mayawati does in UttarPradesh that matters more. By that time theOpposition will know where they stand.Also, it cannot be ruled out that for theirown political survival, they might cometogether, but most parties are looking at apost-poll scenario. As of now, there is nodoubt that Mayawati has dashed the hopesof the Congress by going her way.

(The writer is a senior political com-mentator and syndicated columnist)

Mayawati’s growing clout

Driving India’s FDI inflow

Despite global companies having the intention to invest, India failed to hold on to its top-10 position in the AT Kearney FDI Confidence Index 2018. Strong economic

performance and the sheer size of the market can help us in the FDI confidence index

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

India’s drinking habit does not bode well

According to the World HealthOrganisation, per capita alcohol con-sumption in India has more than dou-

bled from 2005 to 2016. The increase inalcohol intake from 2.4 litres in 2005 to 5.7litres in 2016 has pointed to the fact thatwe have become more bacchanalian. Thisyear it may have become worse.

In fact, the quantity of alcohol con-sumed cannot be estimated with preci-sion, as much of the drinking goesunrecorded. Long queues outside liquor

outlets and bars announce the ‘popular'craving for alcohol.

The surge in drinking levels must beviewed seriously since the cost of drink-ing in terms of diseases and deaths is toohigh. It is peculiar that people drink on bothjoyous and sad occasions. People aredrawn to the bottle for the ‘kick' it gives— cutting them off from the real world.People turn to alcoholic drinks to escapepoverty, debt, strained relationships,irreparable losses and boredom for at least

as long as its intoxication effect lasts. But alcoholism reduces productivity,

consumption of cheap illicit concoctionssometimes results in instantaneous deaths,known as ‘hooch tragedies'. TheGovernment should attach greater impor-tance to health than revenues from alco-hol taxation. Combating liquor consump-tion should become a priority to ensure thatthe hard brew does not lay lives waste.

G David MiltonMaruthancode

THE IMFPROJECTS THAT

INDIA'SECONOMY WILL

GROW BY 7.4 PERCENT IN 2018 —

THE FASTESTGROWTH RATE OF

ANY MAJORECONOMY.

INWARD FDIFLOWS

INCREASED TOAN ESTIMATED$45 BILLION IN

2017, A RECORDHIGH

THE PIONEERLUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 26, 20188

While it is important for national life that GaneshChaturthi, Durga Puja and all other Indian festivals arecelebrated with pomp, gaiety and devotion, leaders of theHindu community which has since antiquity had a sym-biotic and symbolic relationship with nature shouldbegin the process of encouraging our revered idols to bemade of eco-friendly, natural materials. Immersion ofidols in our sacred rivers is a beautiful and significantreligious-cultural practice which must continue but wemust take care to preserve our waterways.

THE PIONEERLUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 9

50WORDEDIT

COMMENT & ANALYSIS

Immersed in preservation

KALYANISHANKAR

The execution of a grand alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party

for the 2019 Lok Sabha poll looks tough

Killing two birds

with one stone

A

report by the Government’s think-thank, Niti Aayog, titled, ‘Composite

Water Management Index: A Tool for Water Management’, released in

June this year, warned that India is facing its “worst” water crisis in his-

tory. Further, it states that by 2030, water demand in the country is projected

to be twice the available water supply unless comprehensive steps are taken

to reverse the current scenario. Substantiating the positive relationship between

water stress and economic growth, the report highlights that water scarcity

will lead to a six per cent GDP loss to the country. The issue of sustainable

management of our water resources is an essential need today, especially in

view of its limited availability and rising demand.

Other than inefficient usage and over consumption, one key factor lead-

ing to water crisis is industrial pollution. Water bodies stand endangered due

to unbridled dumping of toxic industrial waste. Recent reports around pollu-

tants causing methane fires in Bengaluru’s Bellandur lake; release of untreat-

ed industrial waste into Yamuna and Musi rivers, Maharashtra’s Ambazari lake

as well as the choking of Hyderabad’s Patancheru lake by the bulk drug indus-

try, are testament to this. As a result, no city is able to provide clean drinking

water due to water contamination and inadequate wastewater treatment. This

unabated crisis can severely hamper India’s industrial, environmental and eco-

nomic health.

A crucial but often ignored consequence of water pollution is a rise in antimi-

crobial resistance (AMR). Multiple studies conducted (by Nordea, IIT

Hyderabad etc.) around pharmaceutical industries near Hyderabad, Bhiwadi

and Vizag, have shown that copious amounts of antibiotics are being released

as wastewater into the surrounding water bodies. These serve as ‘hotspots’

for the development of resistant superbugs that do not respond to antibiotic

treatment, causing untreatable infections and diseases. The proliferation of

antibiotic residues in the environment, due to inadequate regulation of waste-

water, leads to contamination of water sources and groundwater. Moreover,

a plethora of bacterial infections or diseases, caused by a lack of access to

clean water and sanitation or poor Wash standards, gives rise to increased

antibiotic consumption, which is compounded by inappropriate self-medica-

tion.

As per a 2016 World Bank report, ‘Drug Resistant Infections: A Threat to

our Economic Future’, inability to treat infections will not only cost human lives,

but will also result in GDP losses of over five per cent in low-income coun-

tries and push 28 million people in developing countries into poverty by 2050,

thereby causing a crisis potentially worse than the 2008 economic meltdown.

Global health care costs may increase to $300 billion to one trillion dollar, annu-

ally. The regulation of wastewater treatment can be a cost-effective means

to prevent AMR as well as alleviate the water crisis, provided efforts are made

to ensure that both sets of measures are sufficiently interlinked. In the Indian

context, more research needs to be done to obtain actionable information and

understand the complex linkages between the environment, AMR and Wash

standards.

There have been some policy interventions related to the overuse or mis-

use of antibiotics in human and animal consumption. Overall waste management

by industries must be monitored by the State pollution control boards. However,

existing regulations need effective enforcement. Moreover, sufficient attention

is not given to irresponsible manufacturing of antibiotics and uncontrolled release

of active antibiotics via wastewater. Existing environmental regulations account

for the presence of heavy metals in water but there are no minimum stan-

dards for the levels of APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients) in the discharged

industrial effluents. Thus, pharmaceutical industries are not mandated to treat

the antibiotic content in the wastewater released during the manufacturing

processes.

In order to strengthen the policy focus on the AMR challenge in India,

and establish it as a State-level priority, the health ministry launched the National

Action Programme on the Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance (NAP-AMR)

in April 2017. The scheme recognises the need to mandate environmental

standards for antibiotic residues in pharmaceutical and hospital effluents. The

NGT has ordered a status report to determine the AMR levels in water bod-

ies as an impact of the pharmaceutical industry but this has been delayed

due to lack of funds. In adherence to the NAP-AMR, this dual AMR and water

crisis in India demands immediate action towards a situation analysis of the

manufacturing of antimicrobials as well as increased surveillance standards,

alongside strict policy advocacy and implementation. The development of spe-

cific antibiotic policies, supported by sensitisation and awareness workshops

can drive home the magnitude of this dual challenge. Such interventions can

help shape frameworks for participation by other relevant stakeholders. Any

gaps in adequate policy responses vis-à-vis regulations, monitoring and imple-

mentation will result in severe economic and environmental impacts as well

as loss of human lives.

(The writer is independent consultant for development issues)

IN A SWACHH BHARAT,THE GOVERNMENT AND

THE OPPOSITIONWASHING THEIR DIRTYLINEN IN PUBLIC DOESNO GOOD TO NATIONALSECURITY, ESPECIALLYFOR A GOVERNMENTWHICH ADVOCATESSABKA SATH SABKA

VIKAS

LUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 avenues 10

Empower women with cyber educationPNS n NEW DELHI

Underlining the need to bolster the cyber-security ecosystem in the country,

Microsoft India and the Data Security Councilof India have launched CyberShikshaa, athree-year programme to create a robust poolof skilled women professionals in the country.Supported by the Ministry of InformationTechnology’s Information Security Educationand Awareness, the programme recognises thegrowing potential of cybersecurity as a sunrisesegment and the need for a large base of diverseindustry ready talent.

The curriculum will comprise an interac-tive, four-month training course with a com-bination of theory, case studies and practical

hands on projects managed by a group of train-ing partners led by Centre for Development ofAdvanced Computing (C-DAC).

It will also include mentoring sessions andworkshops with industry leaders; soft skillstraining and technical sessions by Microsoftemployee volunteers. Campus interviews willbe organised for students on successful com-pletion of the course.

Around 1,000 women from underservedcommunities will be trained in ten locationsacross the country and offered employmentopportunities. The course is open to women sci-ence graduates between the age of 20-27 years.The first phase of the programme will be rolledout across Noida, Patna, Hyderabad andMohali.

PNS n NEW DELHI

On the occasion of the upcominganniversary of Make In India initia-

tive, monster.com has released the MonsterSalary Index (MSI) report for theManufacturing sector. At `230.9 perhour, Manufacturing is the only sectoramongst the eight captured in MSI to seea notable increase (nine per cent) inmedian gross hourly salary. What’s alsointeresting to note is that the mediangross salary in the manufacturing sectorin 2017 at 230.9 per hour is 5.2 per centmore than the overall median gross salaryof India which is `219.4 per hour.

In 2017, manufacturing has also beenthe second highest-earning sector inIndia and with the exception of the ITsector, manufacturing also remains the

only other sector that paid a median grosssalary of above 200 per hour threshold.

The report observes that IT sectorpaid median wage at 317.6 per hour, thehighest among all monitored sectors, but17.8 per cent less than the last year. Thisis one of the reasons why more than half(51 per cent) weren’t satisfied with theirjobs. Some other aspects contributing tojob dissatisfaction are commuting time,work-life balance, and working hours.Interestingly, employees in the IT sectorare most satisfied with their relationshipsat work.

Sharing his views, AbhijeetMukherjee, CEO, Monster.com, APACand Gulf, said: “As Industry 4.0 contin-

ues to gain wider acceptance and reshapesthe manufacturing industry, India is wellpositioned to become one of the largestmanufacturing economies in the world.The momentum is mirrored by theincreased median gross hourly wagerecorded for the manufacturing sector inthe Monster Salary Index. There arealready clear signs of green shootssprouting in pockets of local manufac-turing in sectors as diverse as steel, auto,chemicals and energy and this is alsoreflected in the 60 per cent year-over-yeargrowth in online hiring in the produc-tion and manufacturing sector till July2018, as reported by MonsterEmployment Index.”

Mukherjee added, “The advent ofautomation and AI has brought aboutsome uncertainty, but job creation isexpected to continue with an impetus onupskilling and re-skilling the currentworkforce. The IT and BFSI sectors haveshown a correction in wages and it isn’tsurprising that pay satisfaction is low withonly over 40 per cent of employees sat-isfied with their salaries. While these sec-tors have shown an upward trend in hir-ing activity as per Monster EmploymentIndex, companies could consider relook-ing at salaries in these sectors to boostemployee satisfaction.’’

Talking about the report, Prof BijuVarkkey of IIM-Ahmedabad said, “Giventhe reinvention jobs are undergoing,insights from MSI equips both employ-ers and employees to anticipate changesin the job and salary scenario better.”

Boost to manufacturing sector

Training new managers

PNS n NEW DELHI

Knolskape, an end-to-end learning and assessment platformfor accelerated employee development, has partnered with

the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to launch the FirstTime Manager Programme to train fresh managers. It aims tohelp high potential employees to take on leadership roles, addresschallenges and worries during the transition, and preparing newmanagers for a smooth passage into their new role, helping themget off to a good start.

The four-month-long programme, has been designed anddelivered by Knolskape, is a combination of simulation-dri-ven classroom sessions to be held in Kolkata and MCQ-basedassessments addressing eight competencies:nMaster class 1: Influencing and Collaboration.nMaster class 2: People Acumen, managing performanceand coaching.nMaster class 3: Managerial Communication and contex-tual leadership.nMaster class 4: Building trust and relationship.

Knolskape will deploy its AktivLearn gamified learn-ing and assessment platform for this certificate programme.It will culminate in a graduation ceremony where learn-ers will be awarded certificates to mark their readiness asmanagers.

Commenting on their partnership with Knolskape,Indrani Kar, head, CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellencefor Leadership (CII-SNCEL), said: “The purpose is to serveas a facilitator for development of leadership skills, attrib-utes and business processes within organisation and theecosystem through education, training, knowledge cre-ation/dissemination. This programme will support man-agerial capability building by focusing on skills necessaryto graduate from an individual contributor to a team leadertowards driving high performance. It will equip debutantmanagers with skills necessary for managing the newagefluid team structures.”

The pilot batch of the programme was launched onSeptember 6, 2018 at CII-SNCEL, Kolkata with 20 partic-ipants from organisations such as PACCAR Industries,Narayana Hrudalaya, Voith Paper Technology (India)Private Limited, and Imerys Steelcasting India Pvt Ltd.

PNS n NEW DELHI

The NIIT Limited, a globalleader in skills and talent

development, has launchedCareer Quest in Delhi-NCR tohelp youth find their dreamcareers. Career Quest is a plat-form where youth can exploreand learn about newage careersprogrammes in Digital market-ing, Data Analytics, IT, bankingand Finance & Accounting andBusiness Analytics throughNIIT career counselling.

The ongoing career coun-

selling will take place acrossDelhi colleges till September 29,2018.

The aim is to engage withthe youth and counsel them onnewage career options throughactivities and games. NIIT’sexpert counsellor will interactwith students and help them tofind a career best suited forthem based on their aspirationsand aptitude. Post the comple-tion of the activities the students

will be given career guides tohelp them identify and explorevarious career options.

A tool — Career Navigator— has been designed to explorean individual’s career aspirationsand advise them on the bestcareer path for their future.Any student aspiring to opt foraspirational career programmesat NIIT will have to undergo thenavigator process.

Earlier this year, NIIT also

launched aspirational careerprogrammes matching thefuture-ready talent require-ments of the industry withambitions of the generationnext. These programmesinclude Advanced Programmesin Digital Marketing andBranding; Data Analytics andPredictive Modelling; Full StackSoftware Engineering; Bankingand Finance and Accountingand Business Analytics.

PNS n NEW DELHI

With an aim to identify thebrightest, most talented engi-

neers for multi-skilled, multi-func-tional roles, the Tata ConsultancyServices recently conductedNational Qualifier Test (NQT). It isan all-inclusive online campus hir-ing initiative on its digital platformTCS iON open to graduates andpost graduates engineering stu-dents of the 2019 batch.

The NQT conducted onSeptember 2-3, 2018, witnessed amassive response from studentswith over 2.8 lakh registrationsacross 100 cities in 24 States.

This year, TCS saw a 175 percent increase in test applicationscompared to last year. The 90-minute NQT included questions onEnglish language, Quantitative

Aptitude, Programming Concepts,and Coding. In order to support thestudents taking the test, TCS offereda mock test ahead of the exam anddeep analytics on their prepared-ness.

Ajoyendra Mukherjee, EVP &Head, Global Human Resources,TCS, said: “TCS, through its NQT,followed an unprecedented democ-ratic process in IT recruitment – giv-ing all students, regardless of theirinstitute and location, an equalopportunity to prove their passionfor technology. At the same time, weworked closely with premium insti-tutions and were successful in select-ing the best talent. Besides a careerin next-generation technologies, topperformers in the NQT also qualifyfor a differentiated, entry-level hir-ing process called TCS Digital, withan even more attractive compensa-tion package.

NIIT launches Career Quest

Hunt for eligible engineersImpact Week

PNS n NEW DELHI

The Impact Week, a non-profit programme by Lufthansa Airlineswhich unites people to develop sustainable business models

using Design Thinking, will be held at Shaheed Sukhdev Collegeof Business Studies, University of Delhi from October 8 to 11,2018. The programme helps the company employees into DesignThinking Coaches, equipping them with innovative ways ofproblem-solving. This six-day programme helps participants find,test and develop business ideas through a series of trainingworkshops. The training is conducted in groups, whereparticipating students form a team of five to seven people eachwith a total of 24 to 25 teams compete against each other. Thetraining begins with a simple learning of principles of DesignThinking which is a proven innovation method by national andinternational coaches to tackle challenges in a variety of fields.This is followed by building of prototypes for the identifiedpotential customers and their problems. The last day is meant forawards basis the three-minute pitch that the teams make in frontof an international jury. In the end the jury announces five winningteams that receive prize money of 50,000 Euro and get access tothe incubator. The programme also prepares and motivatesstudents to engage in entrepreneurship and gives them platformto start their own business and find their role in the society.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

If a child can’t learn the way we

teach, maybe we should teach

the way they learn

— Ignacio Nacho Estrada

MSC AEROSPACEMATERIALS

The University ofSheffield, UK, is inviting appli-cations for MSc AerospaceMaterials course starting inSeptember 2019.

Sheffield is in the heartlandof the UK aerospace industry,meaning many internationalaerospace companies look tothe Department to discoverways to improve both materi-als and processes for use intheir products. Students willdevelop knowledge of the man-ufacturing, processing andproperties of the metals andcomposite materials used inairframes and aero engines.Students will also be trained inthe fundamentals of thermo-dynamics, structure andmechanical behaviour.

Fully accredited by theIOM3, graduates will have theunderpinning knowledge forlater professional registration asa Chartered Engineer (CEng).Students will be assessed byformal examinations, course-work assignments and a dis-sertation.

Eligibility: A good hon-ours degree in materials, met-allurgy, a physical science(chemistry or physics) or arelated engineering subject.Overall IELTS grade of 6.5 witha minimum of 6.0 in each com-ponent, or equivalent.

Fee: The annual fee foroverseas students starting in2019 is yet to be confirmed. For2018, it was £21,450. For moreinformation, log on tohttps://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mate-rials/masters/aerospace.

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENTThe Talentedge, in collabo-

ration with Mudra Institute ofCommunications (MICA), haslaunched a new one-year coursewith a comprehensive curricu-lum. This one-year onlinecourse is useful for the mid-career media and entertain-ment industry professionals andenthusiasts who want to update

themselves with the latest in thesector and enhance their rele-vance and performance. Live &interactive online sessions willbe delivered by eminent MICAfaculty and industry experts.Each topic will be taught withthe help of case studies, live cor-porate examples and general dis-cussions.

Enrolled students will alsobe provided access to the cloudcampus through which stu-dents may access other learn-ing aids, reference materialsand assessments, case studies,projects and assignments asappropriate. Throughout theduration of the course, studentswill have the flexibility to reachout to the professors, real timeduring the class or offline viathe cloud campus to raise ques-tions and clear their doubts.

Eligibility: For Indian par-ticipants, Graduates or diplo-ma holders (10+2+3) from arecognised university in anydiscipline. For Internationalparticipants, graduation orequivalent degree from anyrecognised University in theirrespective country. Proficiencyin English, spoken and writtenis mandatory.

Fee structure: For Indianresidents, the fee is `125,000plus GST and for internation-al students, it is 2500 USD.

How to apply: Interestedcandidates can enroll by fillingthe online application form.For further information, visithttps://talentedge.in/mica/1-year-pg-certificate-program-media-entertainment-manage-ment-mica/

Important dates: The lastdate to apply is October 5,2018. The course will com-mence from February 6, 2019.

PNS n NEW DELHI

India is portrayed as a con-spicuous innovative hub forrising brilliance and virtu-

osity. However, we often ques-tioned the panache and endow-ment of our countrymen forbeing at power to innovate. TheAegis School of Data Science,Cyber Security and Telecom,key innovators and veterans ofthe industry, realised that it isimportant to recognise that theIndian innovators and theirinnovations are changing thelives of millions.

This year, Aegis will beencouraging innovations inTelecom and Mobile Categoriesfrom September 24 to 28, 2018in Delhi and “Focus and TechCategories” from November12 to 16, 2018 in Mumbai whowill compete for the prestigiousAegis Graham Bell Award andthe winners will be facilitated atAegis Graham Bell AwardCeremony on January 18, 2019.

Innovations will be pre-sented by companies acrossIndia as well as from overseascountries like Maldives andIsrael such as Mobile CommTechnologies, Huawei, DikshaTechnologies, MahindraComviva, Sterlite Technologies,Airtel, Aria, C-DOT, VodafoneIdea, and many others.

Bhupesh Daheria, CEO,

Aegis School of Data Science,Cyber Security and Telecom,said: “The week-long event willwitness the participation ofhigh quality innovations inTelecom and Mobile domainand as well this year, we haveparticipation from Maldives,Canada, Israel and USA show-casing their innovations andcompeting for the title of AegisGraham Bell Awards.”

Innovations will be pre-sented in front of the ninthedition of Aegis Graham BellAwards first jury round. Thejury members are Dr AbhijitGangopadhyay, foundingDean, IIM Indore & dean,Aegis School of Business, DataScience, Cyber Security andTelecom; Ved PrakashChandan, director, AegisSchool of Business, DataScience, Cyber Security &Telecom; Sudhir Gupta, for-mer secretary, TRAI; VimalWakhlu, former CMD, TCIL;Cmde Dr J Jena, deputy DG,Cellular Operators Associationof India; Tilak Raj Dua, direc-tor general, Tower andInfrastructure ProvidersAssociation; Rakesh KumarUpadhyay, former CMD,BSNL; Pawan Garg, formerchairman, ITU APTFoundation; Satya Gupta, NextGeneration Network Guruamongst others.

Ajay, a middle-class boy from Jaipur, wasclear while choosing a skill universitywith a goal to master the skills need-

ed to start his own establishment. But, he wasconfused as about the skill he should considerand also how to start his enterprise.

Many of us have the same dreams, but tofollow them, we follow a lengthy approachwhich is to first graduate and then do anMBA. After academics, start exploring theshortlisted ideas, gather information, makefeasibility reports, research and analyse themarket in every possible way; everything byourselves. After doing everything, there’s stillhesitation as it is his first venture. That’s thestory most students aspiring to becomeentrepreneurs.

There is a myth that skills’ courses aremeant for those who want to join jobs in theirchosen skill sets. Aspirants ignore the biggerpicture of enterprise development whichacademia, universities and the Governmentare trying to address by introducing courseslike Bachelor of Vocational Education (BVoc)in entrepreneurship.

The Government has realised the valueof start-ups and new entrepreneurial venturesas this is the only way to outperform on the

global stage. India is home to 3,100 start-ups per year, ranking behind the US, the

UK and Israel, according to a 2015NASSCOM report. It is anticipated

that India will be home to the 112 mil-lion working population in the age

group of 20-24 as compared to 94million in China. So many young

brains at work will surelyhelp the entrepreneurshipecosystem to prosper in

the nation.

ROAD AHEADThe sector is

expected to growfaster with theGovernment’s

thrust to sup-port entrepre-neurship in the

country. Newideas and employ-

ment opportunities withgood career growth is on offer to

those who join this course.The Government has intro-

duced more than 50 new start-upschemes. A good number of institu-tions like National Institute ofEntrepreneurship and Small BusinessDevelopment, National Institute forMicro Small Medium Enterprises,Indian Institute of Entrepreneurshipand Entrepreneurship DevelopmentInstitute of India, Centre forEntrepreneurship Development

and Institute of Entrepreneurship develop-ment have been conducting short and longduration entrepreneurship development pro-grammes.

Many States have come up with State SkillDevelopment Corporations (SSDCs). TheSSDCs and several other institutes are con-ducting programmes funded by Ministry ofSkill and Entrepreneurship Development asper the qualification packs and national occu-pational standards.

Establishment of skill universities bymany States has signalled the transformationof India’s higher education with a strong tilttowards skills education to generate employ-ment and to facilitate better industry-acad-emia interface.

The University Grants Commission(UGC) has issued instructions for offeringBVoc, MVoc and PhD in EntrepreneurshipSkills in the list of degrees that can be award-ed by the universities under Section 22 of theUGC Act. However, over 800 universities inthe country are still offering conventionaldegrees.

All skill universities, namely, HaryanaVishwakarma Skill University (HVSU),Institute of Leadership Development (ILD),Symbiosis Skills and Open University (SSOU),Team Lease Skills University (TLSU),Centurion University, Seacom Skills

University and Bhartiya Skill DevelopmentUniversity have come together and formed anassociation of Indian Skills Universities. Theobjective is to convert the job seekers into jobgenerators. This course will inculcate the pos-itive attitude, business culture and empowerthe students to start their micro enterprise.

SKILLSA focused vocational skill development

programme like BVoc in EntrepreneurshipSkills will:nMotivate students towards self-employmentthrough positive Attitude. nEquip the students with entrepreneurialskills and knowledge.nEnable students to assess the commercialviability of new/existing business opportu-nities.nEncourage students to start a micro enter-prise.nEnable the students to create an entrepre-neurial environment by providing jobs.nEnable the students to secure gainful wageemployment if required.nPermit the students to take up competitiveexams of all nature at the Centre and State ser-vices like any other graduate.

The role of skill development universitiesdoesn’t end by just equipping students withthe necessary skills. They also provide men-toring and support after completion of thecourse. Many institutes have establishedincubation centres to nurture the businessideas of the aspirant entrepreneurs, extendguidance, mentorship, proper handholding tostart and run the business. Skill universitiesacross the nation have tie-ups with their Stateskill ministry and allied Government bodiesto help students in every possible way.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREDThe eligibility for the programme is Class

XII (10+2) passed with Physics, Chemistryand Mathematics (PCM). Or IndustrialTraining Institutes (ITI) after Class X orPolytechnic diploma will be considered asequivalent to 10+2. Looking at the increas-ing demand, the UGC has now given BVoccourses a status equivalent to a graduationdegree and the students after completing BVoccourses can definitely compete forGovernment jobs. Admission will be throughan entrance exam or based on the merit ofthe qualifying the exam. One of the special-ties of the BVoc courses is that they are mod-ular in nature with multiple entry and exitpoints at certificate (after six months), diplo-ma (after one-year), advanced diploma (aftertwo-years) and BVoc (after three years).

It is a matter of importance for studentsto select the right avenue at the right time tomake a successful professional career.

The writer is the founder, Bhartiya Skill Development

University, Jaipur

BE AN ENTREPRENEUR

BVOC IN

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

SKILLS WILL INCULCATE

THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE,

BUSINESS CULTURE &

EMPOWER STUDENTS TO

START MICRO

ENTERPRISE

Courses like BVoc in Entrepreneurship Skills empower aspiring entrepreneurs to be job creators rather than

jobseekers. These courses mentor them to start and run a business, says DR RAJENDRA KUMAR JOSHI

AWARD FOR INNOVATION

Bhupesh Daheria, CEO Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security & Telecom

Decision making is an integral process ofeach day of our life. We take 100s ofdecision in a day — few within fraction

of seconds, few take months; few in impulse,few after a lot of thinking and reasoning; fewpersonal, few professional.

This is not in reference to this learning— the decision taken in seconds or onimpulse, but the later part which takes lot ofthinking, reasoning.

Over the time if one learns the art ofthinking strategy referred as integrativethinking, one will naturally use the same inevery decision he makes.

In process of making a decision weoften don't know what to do. Our first

impulse is usually to determine which is rightby the process of elimination, which iswrong. Nothing is wrong in the process, buttoday what appears right could be leading toeliminating a right by stating it wrong.

Let us see, where are probablepossibilities in stages of decision-makingwhere we tend to eliminate wrong whichcould be a brighter right.

There are four stages when it comes todecision-making. These are:

Determining Possibilities: The first stepis figuring out which factors to take intoaccount when considering an issue. Oftenone tends to discard as many as possible or

not even consider some of them in the firstplace when considering an issue, consideringit will help to narrow down to most possiblesolution as well reduce time involved, veryimportantly assuming it will make thingseasy. Remember complexity should be keptat bay.

Analysing causality: After definingpossibilities, one applies a filter ofrelationship with each possibilities, based onassumptions, past references andexperience. One might not be aware of the

terminology called linear regression but weuse it often while analysing possibilities.

Envisioning the decision: Every decisionis a result of combination of events, actions,decisions. One often breaks down a probleminto independent pieces and work on themseparately or in a certain order.

Achieving resolution: All the abovethree, leads to an alternative which oneaccepts assuming it as the best possiblealternative, even if one might not be centpercent satisfied. It is accepting between

either and or. The complete decision-making process

can be seen in a different light:

nDetermining Possibilities: Consideringall possibilities and multiple opportunitieseven if it involves complexity and time.

nAnalysing causality: Looking at theglass not only as half filled or half empty, butthinking out of the box - encouraginginnovation, new ideas, challenging statusquo.

nEnvisioning the decision: Seeing theentire jigsaw puzzle — how the various parts

of it fit together, how one decision will affectanother.

nAchieving resolution: Thinking beyondof either and or. Starting back the entirethought process again even if it takes moretime, delay in decision making and addingefforts.

There are opportunities to explore atevery junction — why miss it by seeingthings through the same lens. Explore theworld of possibilities — use the integrativethinking. There are various tools to facilitateintegrative thinking.

The writer is Ajay Sharma, Future of Work Strategist, Founder, Flexiorg.com

LUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 avenues 11

M I N D I T

Internshala has launchedInternships for 1st YearStudents, an initiative toencourage the first year col-lege students across thecountry to pursue an intern-ship and build their careerearly on in life. Every year, 6-8 million students enroll incolleges but at the time ofgraduation, only 8-10% ofthem have a job. Throughthis campaign, Internshalawill provide internshipsmatching the skill-sets of the1st year students to preparethem for future jobs. Thecampaign which began onSeptember 22, 2018 alsohighlights the importance ofearning a stipend throughinternships right from the 1styear of college and being ableto manage their expenses orfulfill their wishes.

For more details visit:https://internshala.com/internships-for-1st-year-students

The Queen MaryUniversity of London(QMUL) is inviting applica-tions for 100 fully fundedstudentships for internationalstudents. Scholarships areavailable for pursuing post-graduate research pro-gramme.

The QMUL is one of theUK’s top research universi-ties, ranked fifth for world-leading and internationally

excellent research.Eligible countries:

Home, EU, and Internationalstudents are eligible to apply.

Eligibility: Applicantsmust have previous degree.English language require-ments: University expects allstudents to have a good stan-dard of English in order tosuccessfully study on acourse. The minimumEnglish language require-ment is GCSE grade C or 4,though the requirements forsome courses may be higher.

How to apply: Selectyour course of study from thelist of postgraduate courses.Academic entry require-ments: University accepts abroad range of overseas qual-ifications. Consultcountry/region specific infor-mation to find out whetheryou have the right qualifica-tions.

English language andfoundation courses: If yourfirst language is not Englishyou must be able to providerecent evidence that yourspoken and written com-mand of the English languageis adequate for the pro-grammes for which you haveapplied. For a full list of ourEnglish language require-ments please see English lan-guage requirements webpages. Applying to QueenMary: Postgraduate applica-tions should be made online.Paper applications are nolonger accepted.

Application deadline:The last date to apply isJanuary 31, 2019.

With the increase in the num-ber of high-rise buildingsand malls in India, there are

plenty of opportunities in lift tech-nology or elevator technology. Thetechnicians are trained profession-als who can handle all the issuesconnected with the lift/ elevator theequipment in commercial, residen-tial and industrial buildings. Thereare many ITI's run by theGovernment and ITC's run privatelythat conduct courses in Lift tech-nology. Those who have success-fully completed the course canwork as lift engineers, supervisorsand technicians. Depending on theexperience and responsibilities, theremuneration varies between`25,000-`50,000 per month.

The National Institute of LiftTechnology is one of the majorinstitutes in the private sector offer-ing lift technology course. Otherinstitutes where one can study are:Jaju Industrial Training Centre(JAJU ITC), Ajmer. Course: LiftMechanicNS Industrial Training Centre,Ernakulam. Course: Lift MechanicSt Xavier Industrial TrainingCentre, Thrissur. Course: LiftMechanicArulmigu Kalasalingam IndustrialTraining Institute, Krishnankoil,Tamil Nadu. Course: Lift Mechanic

STUDY CENTRES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (SALES) ATEZENITH EDUCATIONLocation: Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad,BengaluruStipend: `5,000-`10,000 per monthLink: internshala.com/i/14589Application deadline: October 3, 2018

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (SALES) AT R-BIOPHARMNEUGEN Location: Delhi, Hyderabad, BengaluruStipend - `8,000-`15,000 per monthLink:internshala.com/i/14590Application deadline:October 2, 2018

GRAPHIC DESIGN ATDESIGNERS LABLocation: Delhi, BengaluruStipend: `5,000 per monthLink: internshala.com/i/14591Application deadline: September, 30,2018

OPERATIONS AT SUBHAG Location: Delhi, Noida, BengaluruStipend: `6,000 per monthLink: internshala.com/i/14592Application deadline: September 29, 2018

DIGITAL MARKETING AT UBICUE MARKETINGLocation: Delhi, Hyderabad, BengaluruStipend: `10,000-`20,000 per monthLink: internshala.com/i/14593Application deadline: September 29, 2018

JOURNALISM AT FIT INDIA TRUSTLocation: Delhi, Mumbai, BengaluruStipend: `5,000 per monthLink - internshala.com/i/14594Application deadline: September 30, 2018

CONTENT WRITING AT RECENTLYHEARDLocation: Work From HomeStipend: `2,000 per monthLink: internshala.com/i/14595Application deadline: October 4, 2018

QUERY: My name isJyotsna Vats. My date of birthis April 8, 1996. Please suggestthe right career options forme, so that I can be successfulin my life.

BHATT: People born underAries are born leaders. Eager,spontaneous, enthusiastic, youare downright fearless in facingany situation. You have a rebel-

lious streak and liketo do things in yourown way.

You alwaysremain at the fore-front. The true Fireelement in you rais-es its head whenever

you are confronted with achallenge or pressure. Ultracompetitive, you have all theenergy and enthusiasm to takeon the world, but because youare undisciplined, you tend tolose out on lucrative opportu-nities. Channelising the energyin the right direction is an artand you should learn it.

The biggest problem withyou is lack of patience. You getfrustrated when you have towait. Your impatience becomesa major hurdle in your profes-sional growth. Needing a con-stant change in life, you woulddo well as a doctor, dentist,lawyer, stock broker, or even aprofessional athlete.

Business: Having ambi-tious nature and eagerness totackle new challenges, youwould do very well as an entre-preneur. Hence, starting yourown business is a good optionfor you.

Finance: Ruled by the plan-et Moon, you can do very wellas banker, capitalist and or a

f i n a n c i e r .Strong condi-tion of Marsshow signs ofgetting that you canclear the Civil Services andwork with the Income TaxDepartment.

Media or PR: You have nat-ural skill of doing promotionand sales within you. You alsohave creative writing anddesigning skills. You can take upassignments in advertising, PRor marketing communicationbecause other combinationsare also supportive.

Manager: Leadership isanother prominent quality,making you a potential CEO orat least, management material.Even if you start from executivelevel you are destined to reachmanagement level.

Fitness trainer: Anythinghaving to do with competitionor physicality is right up youralley. You can be a good fitnessand personal trainer.

Most important quality thatyou need to learn or cultivate asyou go along the career paths,is the ability to think through.We all know that hasty actionsdon’t bear sweet fruit in busi-ness and in professional deci-sions. If you imbibe this learn-ing, you can avoid taking regret-table career decisions or moves.Another vital lesson you have tolearn is to finish whatever taskyou begin. However, whateverpath you will choose to follow,it will lead to success.

— Vinayak Bhatt is a cosmiccounsellor at Vedic Grace and can bereached at either [email protected]/or [email protected]

FORTUNER/VINAYAK BHATT

More than 800 schools from Delhiwill compete with each other to winthe city’s top honour and a place inthe nationals of India’s biggest everintegrated school quiz show –Discovery School Super League byBYJU’S. Conceptualised at a never-before scale, the quiz show willreach out to 13,000-plus schoolsacross India hosting the initial on-ground round, targeting 25 lakhstudents in the age-group of 8 to 14years. After a strict funnelingprocess, the top teams from acrossStates will qualify for the 6-episodeTV quiz show which will premiereon Discovery channel and DiscoveryKids starting February 2019. Thewinners will get a special prize of anall-expense paid trip to NASA.

Mrinal Mohit, COO, BYJU’S,said, “We are excited with theresponse the quiz has generated. Itis becoming bigger with eachpassing day. I wish all the studentsfrom Delhi all the very best.”

The IIIT-Hyderabad MachineLearning Lab and TalentSprint haveentered into an agreement withNASSCOM’s Centre of Excellencefor Data Science & ArtificialIntelligence (CoE-DSAI) based inBengaluru as an ecosystemknowledge partner. This associationwill support NASSCOM’s initiativeof creating AI/ML expertise amongIndian IT Professionals.

As traditional, IT roles vanish,companies are betting big on AIand other deep tech areas to furthergrowth. By 2021, approximately75% of enterprise applications willuse AI according to a report by IDC.Currently only 1% of the ITworkforce has AI expertise.

SCHOOL SUPER LEAGUE

PROGRAMME ON AI/ML

IN BRIEF

Nothing is strong as gentleness, andnothing is as gentle as real strength

— RALPH SOCKMAN

Mental health concerns inour youth are on the rise.No matter what the age or

grade of a child, all our childrenare vulnerable and as parents, weneed to be cognizant of our child’semotional and psychological needsat all times. With a high increase instress levels, substance abuse, ado-lescent suicides, exposure to socialmedia and other factors that jeop-ardise their well being — prepared-ness, prevention and early inter-vention — are the key factors toequip us to save a life or just simplypreserve our youth.

Fitting in and not standing outis an integral part of our Youthtoday in discovering who they areand amalgamating their identity.

Around 30-70 percent ofschool-going children experiencebullying or peer pressure in someform or the other. However, onlyless than half of them report it.Whether it's emotional, verbal,physical, sexual or cyberbullying -it usually slips the parental radarbecause of the guilt, fear andshame that ride high in the victims.

Most children and adolescentsnever share as they feel embar-rassed or threatened that it will getworse if reported. They go throughextreme feelings of rejection andisolation.

Low self-confidence, anxietyand depression; lack or loss ofinterest and motivation; inability tofocus or concentrate; disturbedappetite and sleep patterns andpsychosomatic symptoms.

Bullies too, are perhaps victimsthemselves. They may come fromdysfunctional homes/environmentsor just have behavioural patternsbased on their narcissistic person-ality traits.

They force conformity andassert power so as to enhance con-trol in a group setting. They wear amask of dominance to hide ordeflect their own complexes, inse-curities or weaknesses. Being per-

ceived as different themselves theyusually target children they see asdifferent or weaker.

What should We Do?nFrom a very early age instill

values and morals in our childrento be more accepting and tolerantof various people and situationsaround us.

nTo be devoid of discrimina-tion and bias — based on gender,religion, caste, disability, socio-eco-nomical background, skin colouror sexual orientation.

nInstill the ability to step intothe shoes of another person, aim-ing to understand their feelingsand perspectives, and to use thatunderstanding to guide our actions

nInculcate the concept of col-lective responsibility in schools andsociety — to stand up and not be abystander especially when it iswrongdoing that’s been witnessed.

nAstringent disciplinary poli-cies and counselling must beadopted in all educational insti-tutes.

nLet children know that some-one else’s behaviour is not a reflec-tion of their weakness or theirfault. The bully, victim andbystander need psychological assis-tance.

All need to feel safe, secure andaccepted.

How to deal

with bullying

Preparedness, prevention and earlyintervention are factors that can help youth, says DR ZIRAK MARKER

Dr Zirak Marker, Medical DirectorChild & adolescent psychiatrist, MpowerTraditional education has

taken a back seat. As wemove towards 2022 where

online education is expected tocross $40 billion market potentialin India, classroom education initself will not suffice the career-ori-ented educational needs. Theadvent of new technology has evenled to traditional educators modi-fy their psychology and approachto teaching and make suitable forthe current generation’s needs.

Demand for customised edu-cation has led to better and moreinnovative teaching methods andthe access to the Internet with pull-based content creation approachhas created a philosophical shift inteaching methods and completelyremodeled the traditional class-room. Every student has a differ-ent ability to learn. With easyaccess to the Internet and free edu-cational materials, it becomesimportant that educators capitalisethe need for customised learning.

With schools getting moreinvolved in developing the overallcharacter of their students andworks in MNCs becoming moretime consuming, students at all lev-els have actually lost the will andtime to sit in classrooms or to fol-low a fixed timetable for every lit-tle thing. Even food gets deliveredat the doorstep at any point of theday, so it is only fair that studentsexpect the same in education.

The penetration of the Internet,

laptops and smartphones is a bless-ing for educators in this regard.

The ability to design onlinelearning platforms which offersmooth experience to studentseven at low Internet speeds hasbeen an icing on the cake. There aresome learning platforms that ben-efit students from the remote areasof Kashmir, Alleppey, Manali andNagaland to name a few. Suchcourses and opportunities havebeen encouraging for youth whohas carved out a new way to learnand grow.

CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENTThe traditional education

method was largely focused onmaking the students learn every-thing to make them skilled work-ers but now this has shifted toensure that the students are taughtto learn basis what they want tolearn.

This shift in the ultimate aimof education is the result ofincreased customer engagement ona one to one basis with the educa-tor. Now, students can interact ona one to one basis with their train-ers and educators like never before.

The rise of Google Plus,YouTube and other free sources oflearning on the Internet are anenabler for the students in this,learning on their own process.Once you teach a student how hecan teach himself without assis-tance, he or she can train himself

with any skillrequired.The increasing

demand for skill up courses inprofessional, through online

methods, where they use self-paced, non-classroom methods totrain themselves in industry-rele-vant skills is a huge testament tothis fact.

EDUCATORS ARE THE LINKThe increasing importance of

technology does not in any waymean that the role of teachers oreducators has become obsolete.Rather, it has now become evenmore important. Technology actsas a better enabler which caters tothe shift in the consumer behaviourin the education sector, but the keydecision-making element is still thecontent. The availability of freeaccess to content is just an indica-tion that the teachers/educatorsnow need to work harder and cre-ate user-specific and up-to-datecontent.

Although Artificial Intelligence(AI) is also being used to act asinstructors in some areas, forexample, the US Navy has used AIprogrammes to educate its entry-level IT Professionals. But even ifAI develops as a medium ofinstruction, even it will need skillededucators to program them, so therole of educators with this philo-sophical shift has become all themore pivotal and crucial.

A WIN-WIN FOR ALLIt is not that the need for per-

sonalisation or increased customerengagement is a pain to the edu-cators. Rather, this philosophicalshift kicked in by technology, is aboon even for the educators.

For starters, the cost of coursecreation and distribution hasreduced drastically. It is usually aone-time cost with changes kick-

ing in only whenthe content needs to be

updated. The only placewhere the cost or where the

attention, from the educator’s end,has improved, is the need to main-tain interpersonal relationships,bringing more skilled and thought-ful educators and better techno-logical interface. But, even then theROI of educators is now on a rise.Even working professionals andindustry experts, with a knack forteaching, are now designing cours-es and hosting them on these neweducation portals. They are nowfulfilling their longtime dream ofcontributing to the field of educa-tion, without giving up the com-forts of their jobs, earning addi-tional revenue and in turn impart-ing valuable industry knowledge tothe students.

Students also reap the benefitsas more and more self-paced cours-es on industry-based skills havecome up and owing to the lowercosts the course fees have seen amajor reduction.

ROLE OF INDUSTRYNo education system in a

country like India can survivewithout the endorsement of indus-try, which further translates intojob opportunities and better livingstandards. It is encouraging to seehow the Indian Industry has recog-nised this paradigm philosophicalshift in learning. Not only hasindustry started to partner withOnline Learning Platforms to cre-ate and deliver content but has alsostarted to collaborate and partnerwith platforms to absorb the learn-ers on these platforms for fulfillingtheir requirement for upskilledprofessionals for the high growthcareer paths.

Technology is bringing in aphilosophical shift, true but it is notthe silver bullet. Its role in the fieldof education can’t be ignored andwill yield long-term returns onlywhen it is coupled with the needsof the customer, strengthened withvaluable customer relationshipsand meaningful customer engage-ment.

The writer is founder-CEO,Career Anna

The advent of new technology and Internetpenetration is changing the way students want tolearn today. It is time wemodify our approach toteaching so that it becomes awin-win for all concerned,says VARUN SAXENA

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EDUCATION CAN’T BEIGNORED & WILL

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B U S I N E S S C O R N E RDUCATI DRIVES IN 959 PANIGALE CORSE AT `15.2 LAKH

New Delhi: Italian super bike maker Ducati Tuesday launched the959 Panigale Corse in India priced at `15.2 lakh (ex-showroom).The model coming to India is a special edition, sporting a dedicatedlivery inspired by the Ducati Corse MotoGP colours, the company saidin a statement. “The 959 Panigale embodies absolute excellence throughthe advanced electronics package that inspires confidence and allowsriders to explore the limit,” Ducati India Managing Director SergiCanovas said. The bike comes with a 955-cc engine which generatesa power of 157 HP of power. It comes with an electronics package,including latest ABS from Bosch, Ducati traction control (DTC), Ducatiquick shift (DQS), engine brake control (EBC) and ride-by-wire (RbW).It also features three riding modes -- Race, Sport and Wet.

TRIUMPH PLANS NETWORK EXPANSION IN INDIANew Delhi: British superbike brand Triumph Motorcycles

plans to introduce in India around six products, a mix of new mod-els and upgrades of current bikes, by June next year, a top companyofficial said Tuesday. The company, which sells superbikes pricedbetween `7.7-22 lakh in the country, also aims to expand its salesnetwork from the current 16 dealerships to 25 over the next 3-4 yearswith an aim to reach smaller towns as well. “Before June 2019, weplan to launch six products. It would be a mix of new and faceliftsof the current models,” Triumph Motorcycles (India) General ManagerShoeb Farooq told PTI. Triumph Motorcycles (India), which followsJuly-June financial year, sells 13 models, including variants, in theIndian market. It gets 65-70 per cent of its sales from top 20 citiesof the country although its customer footprint spreads across 400 citiesand towns across India. Among the new launches, Triumph plansto drive in 1,200 cc Triumph Scrambler, which will make global debutin October, into the Indian market in January next year. Elaboratingon the sales growth target during the current fiscal, Farooq said thecompany expects to grow in the range of 10-12 per cent. “In the lastfive years, the premium motorcycle segment (500 cc and upwards)has been growing at a CAGR of 20 per cent as compared to around6-7 per cent for the normal two-wheelers. For Triumph, the growthhas been at 47 per cent in the last five years,” he added. The premi-um segment industry is around 7,500 units a year and Triumph hadabout 20 per cent market share last fiscal. Bullish on the growthprospects, Farooq said in the next four to five years, the industry isexpected to grow at 10-15 per cent touching a size of around 13,000units a year. “We (Triumph) should be doing not less than 2,000 unitsper year,” he added. On the potential for growth from smaller citiesand towns, he said: “Today, Triumph has customer footprints in 400cities and towns across India but around 60 per cent of the sales comesfrom the top 20 cities.”

Stocks end 5-day losing

streak, gain 347 points

PTI n MUMBAI

Market benchmark SensexTuesday bounced back

by 347 points to end its five-daylosing streak helped by a recov-ery in banking, pharma andFMCG stocks.

The 30-share index closedat 36,652.06, up by 347.04points or 0.96 per cent in avolatile trade. It touched ahigh of 36,705.79 and a low of36,064.10 in day trade.

The 50-share NSE Niftyended sharply higher by 100.05points, or 0.91 per cent, at11,067.45 points. Intra-day, itshuttled between 11,080.60 and10,882.85.

A recovery in financialstocks led by HDFC andHDFC Bank helped the keyindices break the five-day los-ing streak which saw theSensex tanking 1,785.62 pointsor more than 5 per cent.

Kotak Bank, Axis Bank,SBI, IndusInd Bank and ICICIBank also bounced back onpositive sentiment after LICchairman V K Sharma com-mented that the insurance giantwould not allow debt-riddenIL&FS to collapse and wasexploring options to revive it.

Reports of successfulfundraising by IndiabullsHousing Finance also bolsteredthe market sentiment, analystssaid. “After a volatile trade,

market bounced back towardsclosing backed by renewedbuying in financial & pharmastocks. Continued weaknessin rupee invited investors'attention towards export-ori-ented sectors and at the sametime keeping fiscal path onedge. Domestic fund flow con-tinued to add liquidity in themarket due to value buyingopportunity after the recentcorrection,” Vinod Nair, Headof Research, Geojit FinancialServices commented.

Mixed Asian cues and afirming trend in Europeanmarkets largely on the back ofstrong earnings acceleratedbuying activity towards thefag-end.

The session was marked byvolatility and stock-specificaction, even as the overall sen-timent remains weak as a freshround of US-China tariffs anda surge in oil prices to nearfour-year highs added to wor-ries about risks to globalgrowth, brokers said.

The rupee also pared ini-tial losses to trade 5 paisehigher at 72.58 against thedollar (intra-day).

Covering-up of short posi-tions by speculators ahead ofSeptember month expiry in thederivatives segment onThursday also helped the mar-ket stage a smart rally.

Domestic investors made

purchases worth `2,284.26crore while foreign investorssold equities worth `1,231.70crore on a net basis, provisionalmarket data showed.

Axis Bank was the biggestgainer in the Sensex pack,surging 2.96 per cent, followedby HDFC at 2.95 per cent.

Other gainers were KotakBank 2.88 per cent, HUL 2.72per cent, Maruti Suzuki 2.66per cent, Sun Pharma 2.58 percent, SBI 2.15 per cent, AsianPaint 1.91 per cent, HDFCBank 1.32 per cent, Infosys 1.28per cent, Bajaj Auto 1.15 percent, IndusInd Bank 1.10 percent, NTPC 1.07 per cent, ITCLtd 1.06 per cent, ONGC 1.05per cent, Bharti Airtel 0.73 percent, Vedanta 0.46 per cent,ICICI Bank 0.45 per cent andTata Motors 0.27 per cent.

In contrast, Yes Bankremained distinctly weak bycrashing 2.83 per cent ahead ofthe board meeting to be heldlater in the day to decide thefuture course of action after theRBI curtailed the term of itsMD and CEO Rana Kapoor.

Also, PowerGrid sufferedthe most by falling 3.07 percent, Coal India 1.94 per cent,Adani Ports 1.65 per cent,Tata Steel 1.10 per cent, Wipro0.93 per cent, TCS 0.71 percent, M&M 0.22 per cent, HeroMotoCorp 0.14 per cent andRIL 0.14 per cent.

PTI n NEW DELHI

The foreign direct investment (FDI) inthe food processing sector has already

touched the USD 1-billion mark so far thisyear, Food Processing Minister HarsimratKaur Badal said Tuesday. “When we tookover the government in 2014, FDI in thefood processing sector used to be USD 500million every year. This year, we touchedUSD 1-billion mark.

This is a tip of the iceberg, we have togo a long way,” Badal said addressing theCII event on post harvest and logistics.According to official data, FDI in the foodprocessing sector was USD 904.9 millionin the 2017-18 fiscal, while it stood at USD727.22 million, USD 505.88 million andUSD 515.86 million in 2016-17, 2015-16and 2014-15, respectively.

The FDI in multi-brand retail wasallowed keeping in mind the need toboost food processing level and provide analternative market to farmers to sell theirproduce, she said.

The focus was to see retailers directlyprocure farm produce from farmers. “I amhappy to see companies like Metro andWalmart are keen to tie up directly withfarmers.”

About USD 14 billion that was com-mitted during the World Food India 2017for next few years, the minister said: “I amhappy to share that 70 per cent of the pro-jects have already started the grounding.”

This will help grow the processing lev-els and reduce food wastage which is esti-mated to be `1 lakh crore per year, she said.

Talking about domestic investment,National Rainfed Area Authority (NREA)CEO Ashok Dalwai said, "We have seenthat the captive investment in agriculture,

which is pre-requisite for any kind of accel-erated growth, has not really happenedthrough the corporate sector."

While the private investments havelargely been through farmers themselves,the corporate sector which should haveplayed a greater role has not really doneso, he said.

Dalwai said the corporate sector can-not be blamed as the government --which should have been the trigger inbringing the investment in the private sec-tor -- has not tailored the policy that suitsits requirement.

Also, there has been captive investmentin industry and services sector since lib-eralisation in 1991.

“Agriculture, which is the primary eco-nomic activity and in a way it is the eco-nomic sector which generates the demandfor services and industry sectors, was notsubjected to the liberalisation. But in thelast four years, the emphasise has been onbringing in reforms in the sector and makeit a private sector enterprise,” Dalwaisaid. The government has been focusingon post harvest management and logistics,he added.

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FDI in food processing touchesUSD 1-billion mark: Badal

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SONATSOFTW 381.3 0.95 0.25SOUTHBANK 14.4 -0.2 -1.37SPARC 363.4 5.45 1.52SPICEJET 68.8 -2.7 -3.78SREINFRA 40.4 -0.2 -0.49SRF 1898.05 -3.15 -0.17SRTRANSFIN 1169 38.95 3.45STARCEMENT 99.25 1.25 1.28STRTECH 323.65 4.75 1.49SUDARSCHEM 417.8 2.25 0.54SUNCLAYLTD 3952.95 -1.9 -0.05SUNDRMFAST 587.7 -11.6 -1.94SUNPHARMA 639.8 16.1 2.58SUNTECK 439.25 -7.45 -1.67SUNTV 637.05 4.65 0.74SUPPETRO 245.35 -2.1 -0.85SUPRAJIT 234.9 2 0.86SUPREMEIND 1076.55 3.9 0.36SUVEN 274.15 7.7 2.89SUZLON 6.2 -0.31 -4.76SWANENERGY 137.7 2.25 1.66SYMPHONY 1024.6 13.95 1.38SYNDIBANK 33.5 -0.15 -0.45SYNGENE 621.15 2.75 0.44TAKE 171.1 4.75 2.86TATACHEM 711.45 5.15 0.73TATACOFFEE 101.4 -0.3 -0.29TATACOMM 504.35 0.55 0.11TATAELXSI 1232.7 -31.3 -2.48TATAGLOBAL 235.6 3.3 1.42TATAINVEST 742.95 -6.2 -0.83TATAMETALI 676 -8.75 -1.28TATAMOTORS 240.9 0.65 0.27TATAMTRDVR 127.5 -0.55 -0.43TATAPOWER 70.1 1.05 1.52TATASTEEL 599.95 -6.65 -1.1TCS 2183.1 -15.6 -0.71TEAMLEASE 2528.6 -4.6 -0.18TECHM 759.65 9.8 1.31TEJASNET 268.25 1.55 0.58TEXRAIL 65 -1.5 -2.26THERMAX 927.5 5.05 0.55

THOMASCOOK 243.4 5.7 2.4THYROCARE* 629.25 4.85 0.78TIFHL 569.95 10 1.79TIMETECHNO 150.7 0.5 0.33TIMKEN 612.4 -4.5 -0.73TITAN 794.6 4.15 0.53TNPL 278.75 4.1 1.49TORNTPHARM 1727.95 46.35 2.76TORNTPOWER 228.1 -2.05 -0.89TRENT 345.6 -9.65 -2.72TRIDENT 62.2 0.9 1.47TRITURBINE 108.1 -2.2 -1.99TTKPRESTIG 6284.2 -160.5 -2.49TV18BRDCST 38.5 -0.55 -1.41TVSMOTOR 595.6 21.7 3.78TVSSRICHAK 2733.7 56.7 2.12TVTODAY 419.4 17.2 4.28UBL 1379.7 64.45 4.9UCOBANK 17.9 0.05 0.28UFLEX 299.5 -2.6 -0.86UJJIVAN 278.4 2.05 0.74ULTRACEMCO 4028.1 41.45 1.04UNICHEMLAB 208.55 1.3 0.63UNIONBANK 70.2 -1.95 -2.7UPL 658.4 10.5 1.62VBL 765.7 -2.2 -0.29VEDL 230.7 1.05 0.46VENKYS 2500.75 -29.6 -1.17VGUARD 181.45 -4.85 -2.6VIJAYABANK 45.55 -0.1 -0.22VINATIORGA 1298.95 3.15 0.24VIPIND 472.85 -16.85 -3.44VMART 2579.6 66.05 2.63VOLTAS 575.35 8.15 1.44VTL 1017.6 -8.35 -0.81WABAG 349.25 -14.25 -3.92WABCOINDIA 6941.35 66.8 0.97WELCORP 149.65 -4.7 -3.05WELSPUNIND 63.6 2 3.25WHIRLPOOL 1477 -10.8 -0.73WIPRO 329.5 -3.1 -0.93WOCKPHARMA 563.75 14.1 2.57YESBANK 219.85 -6.4 -2.83ZEEL 450.2 3.6 0.81ZENSARTECH 272.25 4.95 1.85ZYDUSWELL 1428 -32.45 -2.22

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SCRIP OPEN HIGH LOW LTP CHANGEKOTAKBANK 1,146.00 1,191.10 1,120.15 1,186.10 37.4HDFC 1,728.80 1,784.00 1,713.80 1,773.35 54.65SBIN 264 272.95 260.8 272.5 8.15HINDUNILVR 1,600.00 1,640.00 1,577.05 1,638.00 47.55LUPIN 860.7 887.75 857.5 886.15 25.4AXISBANK 598.8 619.8 589.55 614 16.65SUNPHARMA 624.1 645 624.05 640.75 16.75MARUTI 7,750.00 8,018.25 7,680.00 8,001.00 207.95CIPLA 644 665.8 643 661.35 15.75DRREDDY 2,570.60 2,619.25 2,550.25 2,616.25 62.3BAJAJFINSV 6,060.00 6,250.00 5,932.05 6,190.00 122.35GRASIM 1,023.00 1,043.40 1,008.00 1,039.95 20.5HCLTECH 1,102.00 1,125.05 1,094.30 1,118.00 21.7HDFCBANK 1,925.70 1,962.00 1,915.00 1,961.70 36HINDALCO 240.05 244.8 234.8 244 4.1BAJFINANCE 2,235.00 2,330.35 2,180.60 2,297.75 36.95UPL 651.3 664.9 639.95 661.15 9.75ASIANPAINT 1,271.80 1,304.85 1,257.15 1,290.00 18.05ULTRACEMCO 3,970.00 4,049.00 3,950.00 4,026.55 51.65NTPC 169.15 170.5 164.4 170 2.1INFY 718.25 736 717 726 7.75ITC 296.9 302.35 292.35 301.15 3.2BHARTIARTL 359.2 363.65 344 359.9 3.7BAJAJ-AUTO 2,727.10 2,801.85 2,727.10 2,788.00 28.7INDUSINDBK 1,675.10 1,717.55 1,649.00 1,691.05 16.85TECHM 751.45 772.7 745.1 759 7.55ONGC 181.95 184.65 179.4 182.05 1.45ICICIBANK 307 313.5 300.05 310.95 2.2TITAN 791 814.3 778.15 794.95 3.85ZEEL 444 453.45 437 450 1.95LT 1,316.00 1,332.70 1,308.00 1,324.00 5.65TATAMOTORS 241 243.5 235.45 241.1 0.9HEROMOTOCO 3,121.95 3,125.00 3,082.00 3,112.60 2.4IOC 152.4 155.85 151 155 0.05VEDL 230.2 232.9 226.7 229.95 0.05M&M 896 900 865.25 896 -0.05RELIANCE 1,235.50 1,245.00 1,195.00 1,229.75 -2.3EICHERMOT 25,860.00 25,990.00 25,035.25 25,682.00 -170.8TCS 2,204.90 2,211.90 2,153.80 2,183.10 -15.35BPCL 358 365.45 355.1 364 -3.4TATASTEEL 609 609 575 601.75 -5.95WIPRO 333 334.9 326.25 327.5 -5.2ADANIPORTS 345.1 349.45 324.3 339.95 -5.9HINDPETRO 245.9 245.9 239 243.8 -4.35COALINDIA 281.15 285.95 273.15 275.45 -5.7POWERGRID 197 198.6 191.65 192.6 -5YESBANK 230 238.85 197.25 220.5 -5.9GAIL 380.5 380.5 363.55 370.95 -9.95INFRATEL 277 280 268.05 270 -7.85IBULHSGFIN 984 984 786 927 -54.95

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LUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 world 13

China congratulates

new Maldives Prez

PTI n BEIJING

Hoping for continued con-ducive business environ-

ment for Chinese firms inMaldives under the new gov-ernment, China Tuesday con-gratulated Ibrahim MohamedSolih, widely viewed as an allyof India, a day after he defeat-ed the pro-Beijing President,Abdullah Yameen, in the pres-idential election.

China is willing to workwith Maldives to consolidate“our friendship and deepenthe cooperation between thetwo countries”, Chinese ForeignMinistry spokesman GengShuang told a media briefinghere.

Solih’s victory has a geopo-litical significance in the SouthAsian region as the archipelagois strategically located in theIndian Ocean where China isflexing its muscles.

In 2014, the Maldives hadsigned a MoU with Beijing insupport of China’s ambitiousBelt and Road Initiative (BRI),a project which is opposed byIndia as it includes the ChinaPakistan-Economic Corridor(CPEC) which transversesthrough Pakistan-occupiedKashmir.

“China congratulates theMaldives on its successful pres-idential election as well asSoil’s victory,” Shuang said.

“We respect Maldives’ peo-ple’s choice and we hope thecountry can maintain stabilityand development,” he said.

The comments wereChina’s first reaction to Solih’sunexpected victory on Monday.

“China and Maldives enjoytraditional friendship. In recentyears, the two countries main-tained very sound develop-ment momentum and we haveconducted mutually beneficialcooperation under frameworkof the Belt and Road Initiative,(BRI) and achieved outstand-ing outcomes,” Shuang said.

Responding to a questionon strong criticism of largescale Chinese investment in theisland nation and the FreeTrade Agreement (FTA) bythe Maldivian DemocraticParty to which Solih belonged,Shuang hoped the new gov-ernment would create enablingenvironment for the Chinesefirms to continue to work inMaldives.

China and Maldives hadsigned the FTA in lastSeptember and it came intoeffect on August 1 this year.

China is ready to continuecooperation with Maldives, thespokesman said.

“As to the FTA signedbetween China and theMaldives...we have alwaysencouraged Chinese enter-prises to invest and operate inMaldives in accordance withthe market based rules and reg-ulations,” Shuang said.

China hopes “Maldives willmaintain the consistency andthe stability of their policies andcreate enabling atmosphere forthe Chinese enterprises oper-ations there”, he said.

“China will work withMaldives to ensure the soundimplementation of this FTAand expand the trade andinvestment cooperationbetween the two sides to thegreater benefit of our twocountries and two peoples,”the spokesperson said.

Trump wants to hold 2nd summit with KimPTI n LAHORE

US President DonaldTrump has said he

expects to hold a secondsummit with North Koreanleader Kim Jong-un “in thenot too distant future” overthe progress in the denu-clearisation of the KoreanPeninsula and praised himfor being “very open and ter-rific”.

The two leaders heldtheir first historic meeting inSingapore in June but thedetails of their agreementover disarmament werevague, with no timeline orindication on how the stepstowards denuclearisationwould be achieved.

“I am going to be meetingwith Chairman Kim in thenot-too-distant future.

The location is beingworked on, the time is beingworked on, and we will beannouncing it,” Trump toldreporters during a meetingwith his South Korean coun-terpart Moon Jae-In in NewYork on the sidelines of theannual UN GeneralAssembly.

Trump praised Kim as“very open” and “terrific”,despite the glacial pace ofprogress toward denucleari-sat ion on the KoreanPeninsula.

His comments were instark contrast to his debutaddress at last year’s generalassembly when he threat-ened to “totally destroy”North Korea and denouncedKim as “rocket man”.Pyongyang responded bycalling the US president“mentally deranged”.

The White House onMonday said the two leadersdiscussed plans for a secondsummit between Trump andKim and committed to close-ly coordinating the next steps.

Moon shared with Trump

the outcomes of this month’sinter-Korean summit, whichincluded Kim’s reiteration ofhis commitment to complet-ing denuclearisation, theWhite House said. “Trumpcommended President Moonon conducting a successfulthird inter-Korean summitwith Chairman Kim andnoted that there remainedmuch work to be done toaccomplish their mutual goalof achieving the final, fullyverified denuclearisation ofNorth Korea,” said a readoutof the meeting.

The two leaders agreedon the importance of main-taining vigorous enforcementof the existing sanctions toensure North Korea under-stands that denuclearisationis the only path to economicprosperity and lasting peaceon the Korean Peninsula, itadded.

Since the June 12 meetingbetween Trump and Kim,the North has made overturesto the South and tried toimprove its image.

While l itt le concretechange has occurred, NorthKorea has suspended its con-troversial missile testing, amajor source of regional ten-sion.

Kim has promised to dis-mantle North Korea’s mainmissile testing and launchingsite, and said he coulddecommission the mainnuclear test site, if the UStook some reciprocal action.

Some critics have raisedconcerns that the humanrights situation in NorthKorea has been ignored toensure better relations.

In the months since theSingapore summit, talks havefaltered over North Korea’sunwillingness to start dis-mantling its nuclear weaponsprogramme without first hav-ing firmer security guaranteesfrom Washington.

... hopes for continued conducive biz environment

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, center, the president-elect of the Maldives interacts withhis supporters during a gathering in Male, Maldives on Monday. AP

US Prez inks first trade

deal with South Korea

PTI n WASHINGTON

US President Donald Trump on Mondayinked his administration’s first trade deal

with South Korea, which he described as “a his-toric milestone” and a promise fulfilled to hiscountrymen. “The new US-Korea agreementincludes significant improvements to reduceour trade deficit and expand opportunities toexport American products to South Korea,”Trump told reporters at the signing ceremo-ny in New York on the sidelines of the annu-al United Nations General Assembly.

Describing it as a “very big deal” and agreat day for the two countries, Trump saidthese outcomes give the finest American-madeautomobiles, innovative medicines and agri-cultural crops a much better access to Koreanmarkets. “I think our farmers are going to beextremely happy. It was very limited as to whatthey could do and what they could send. Andnow, it is an open market and they are goingto be sending a lot more farm products. Thatmakes me feel very good,” he said.Trump saidas a part of the agreement, the US has alsosecured an increased access to America’s autoindustry. According to the US TradeRepresentatives, since the US-Korea FreeTrade Agreement(KORUS) came intoeffect in 2012, theUS trade deficit ingoods with Koreaincreased by 75per cent fromUSD 13.2 billionto USD 23.1 bil-lion (2017),while the

overall deficit increased by 57 per cent fromUSD 6.3 billion to USD 9.8 billion(2017).“Through negotiations to improveKORUS, the United States has secured changesthat will reduce the trade deficit and ensure thatKORUS is a good deal for American workers,farmers and businesses,” it said, adding that theUS achieved important steps to improve thelarge trade deficit in industrial goods andaddress the KORUS implementation con-cerns that have hindered American exportgrowth. Trump said the agreement will reducebureaucracy and increase prosperity in boththe countries. Workers in the US and SouthKorea will find new customers and newopportunities to expand and grow.“Our teamswill be working hard to ensure that the termsof the deal are fully implemented,” hesaid.South Korean President Moon Jae-In saidthe free trade agreement between the twocountries is significant in the sense that itexpands the alliance to the economic realm aswell.

“Today we have made amendments andmodifications to improve the existing agree-ment. With the swift conclusion of the nego-tiations for the revision, the uncertainty sur-rounding our FTA has been eliminated. And,as a result, companies from both countries willnow be able to do business under more stableconditions,” he said.

In addition, he hoped that this will providethem with a platform upon which the eco-nomic ties of the two countries will be elevat-ed to a higher level in a freer, fairer, and moremutually beneficial direction.

During the meeting, Moon sharedwith Trump the outcomes of September’s inter-Korean summit, which included DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea Chairman Kim Jong

Un’s reiteration of his commitment to com-plete denuclearisation.

Trump commended Moon on con-ducting a successful third inter-Koreansummit with the North Korean leader,Chairman Kim, and noted that thereremained much work to be done toaccomplish their mutual goal of achiev-ing the final, fully verified denu-clearisation of North Korea.

Kavanaugh denies sexual misconductallegations, says never assaulted anyonePTI n WASHINGTON

US President DonaldTrump’s Supreme Court

nominee Judge BrettKavanaugh has said that he“never sexually assaulted any-one” and always treatedwomen with dignity andrespect, as he sought a fairprocess to defend his “integri-ty” over the mounting sexualmisconduct allegations thathave put his confirmation intojeopardy.

Two women - ChristineBlasey Ford and DeborahRamirez - have come out pub-licly in the last 10 days, alleg-ing that they were sexuallyassaulted by Kavanaugh 36and 25 years ago respectively.

“I have never sexuallyassaulted anyone, not in high

school, not ever. I have alwaystreated women with dignityand respect,” Kavanaugh saidon Monday as he broke hislong silence on the issue.

“Listen to the people whohave known me best throughmy whole life, the women whohave known me since highschool, the 65 who overnightsigned a letter from high

school, saying I always treatedthem with dignity andrespect...,” he told Fox News ashe gave his first interviewalong with his wife.“I am look-ing for a fair process, a processwhere I can defend my integri-ty and clear my name. And allI am asking for is fairness andthat I’d be heard in thisprocess,” Kavanaugh, 53, said.

Kavanaugh and his firstaccuser 51-year-old Ford, aprofessor at Palo AltoUniversity, are scheduled totestify before the SenateJudiciary Committee onThursday.

The Democrats are askingfor an FBI investigation intothe incident, which so far hasbeen stonewalled by theRepublicans and PresidentTrump. “This is an allegation

about a party in the summer of1982 at a house nearConnecticut Avenue and East-West Highway with five peoplepresent. I was never at any suchparty,” Kavanaugh said.

“The other people whowere alleged to be presenthave said they do not remem-ber any such party. A womanwho was present, anotherwoman who was present, whois Dr Ford’s lifelong friend, hassaid she does not know me andnever remembers being at aparty with me at any time inher life. All I am asking for isa fair process where I can beheard,” he added. PresidentTrump continues to supportthe nomination of JudgeKavanaugh. He has questionedthe motives of the Democratsin raising this issue.

China says can’t hold US tradetalks with ‘knife to the throat’PTI n BEIJING

China said on Tuesday it wasimpossible to hold trade talks

with the United States whileWashington is imposing tariffs thatare like “holding a knife to some-one’s throat”. Speaking a day afterWashington activated tariffs on$200 billion in Chinese goods, vicecommerce minister WangShouwen said China is open tonegotiations but that the two sidesmust treat each other “equally andwith respect”.

“Now that the US has adopt-ed this type of large-scale traderestrictions, they’re holding a knifeto someone’s throat. Under thesecircumstances, how can negotia-tions proceed?” Wang told a newsconference. US Treasury SecretarySteven Mnuchin had invitedChinese officials to hold new

talks, but President DonaldTrump’s latest salvo — and warn-ings that another $267 billion ofgoods are being lined up —appear to have scuttled that effort.

Wang met US officials inWashington in August but therehave been no high-level meetingsbetween the world’s top twoeconomies for months. He saidTuesday the US measures “havemade it impossible for the nego-

tiations to proceed” and blamedthe US for abandoning a consen-sus on trade that was struck inMay, but was quickly followed bynew US tariffs. High-ranking offi-cials from several Chinese gov-ernment agencies held a press con-ference on Tuesday as Beijingrolled out a new white paperclaiming to set the record straighton trade related facts.

Fu Ziying, another vice min-ister of commerce, noted that somein the United States accuse Beijingof engaging in unfair competitivepractices, causing the huge tradedeficit between the two countries.

“This is totally devoid of fact,groundless, and totally misleading,”he said, adding that Americanfirms sold $700 billion worth ofgoods in China each year, earningmore than $500 billion in profit.The trade fight between the top

two economic giants has steadilyescalated through the summer, asthe US levied two waves of newtariffs that have now hit about $250billion worth of goods, roughly halfof China’s exports to the UnitedStates.

Beijing has struck back witheach step, hitting $110 billionworth of US goods, or nearlyeverything China buys from theUnited States.

Experts have warned thesnowballing trade spat will harmboth economies and even globalgrowth, with Fitch Ratings cuttingits growth estimates for China andthe world for 2019.

China’s exports to the USaccounted for 19 percent of all itsoverseas shipments last year,according to the white paper pub-lished by China’s cabinet, the StateCouncil, on Monday.

‘Indo-Pak trade potentialstands at $37 billlion’Islamabad (PTI): The tradepotential between India andPakistan stands at USD 37 bil-lion, according to a World Bankreport which said that continuedpolitical tensions and lack ofnormal trade relations betweenthe two nations have cast a shad-ow over cooperation effortswithin South Asia.

The report ‘A Glass HalfFull: The Promise of RegionalTrade in South Asia’, which wasreleased on Monday, has high-lighted among key factors, thelong list of product restrictionsin bilateral trade. India andPakistan continue to maintainlong, sensitive lists of items onwhich no tariff concessions aregranted. The lack of normalbilateral trade relations betweenthe two countries affects the for-mation or deepening of region-al value-chains in various high-value trading sectors, Dawnnewspaper reported quoting thereport.

Pakistan has a list of 936items and almost 17.9 per centof tariff lines that apply toimports from all South AsianFree Trade Area (SAFTA) coun-tries. India maintains a list of25 items (0.5 per cent of tarifflines), which includes goodssuch as alcohol, firearms, etc.However, it has a much longer,64-item list, (almost 11.7 percent of tariff lines) for Pakistanand Sri Lanka, but which effec-tively applies only to Pakistan,because India applies a smallersensitive list to Sri Lanka as partof a separate India-Sri LankaFree Trade Agreement. Items onthe Indian sensitive list can be

imported at the most-favoured-nation tariffs from any SAFTAcountry, including Pakistan,because India accorded Pakistanthe status in 1996, soon after theaccession of the two countries tothe World Trade Organisation.However, Pakistan has notgranted India the most-favoured-nation’s status or non-discriminatory market access.

In addition, the preferentialaccess granted by Pakistan on82.1 per cent of tariff linesunder SAFTA is partiallyblocked in the case of Indiabecause Pakistan maintains anegative list comprising 1,209items that cannot be importedfrom India. In practice, many ofthese items are exported fromIndia to Pakistan through athird country, usually the UnitedArab Emirates.

The report says anotherbarrier to bilateral trade is theproliferation of NTMs (non-tar-iff measures), some of whichtake the form of non-tariff bar-riers, such as port restrictions.Pakistan allows only 138 itemsto be imported from India overthe Attari-Wagah land route.Furthermore, cargo trucks fromeither side cannot move beyondtheir border zones, which meansthat goods must be transloadedat the border, adding to the timeand cost of trading.

Another factor impedingbilateral trade in goods andservices, as well as FDI, is theencumbered visa regime thatIndia and Pakistan have createdfor each other, which restrictsthe mobility of people betweenthe two countries.

SC promises high-levelsecurity toMusharraf Islamabad (PTI): Pakistan’sSupreme Court on Tuesdayassured former dictator GeneralPervez Musharraf that high-level security will be provided tohim if he returns to the countryto face the trial in a high-profiletreason case. Musharraf, 75, hasbeen living in Dubai since 2016.The former Army chief is facinga high-profile treason case andhas been declared absconder dueto his persistent failure to appearbefore the special trial court setup to try him in the case. Athree-member bench, presidedby Chief Justice Saqib Nisar washearing a petition on Tuesdaypertaining to losses suffered bythe country after the promul-gation of the NationalReconciliation Ordinance(NRO) case in 2007.

Nisar asked Musharraf ’slawyer Athar Shah why did henot return to Pakistan, the Dawnnewspaper reported. “He left thecountry on the pretext of pain inhis backbone but he can be seendancing abroad,” Nisar said.

The lawyer responded thatthe former military rulerrespected the courts but couldnot return because of securityissues.

The chief justice said thatthe head of the Rangers force inthe relevant province will beresponsible for Musharraf ’ssecurity upon his return to thecountry, the report said.Musharraf will also be offeredthe services of best available doc-tors in the country if he comesback, Nisar asserted.

Pope Francisacknowledgesabuse scandalsdriving peoplefrom churchTallinn (Estonia): PopeFrancis acknowledged Tuesdaythat the sex abuse scandalsrocking the Catholic Churchwere driving people away andsaid the church must changeits ways if it wants to keepfuture generations.

Francis referred directly tothe crisis convulsing his papa-cy on the fourth and final dayof his Baltic pilgrimage, whichcoincided with the release of adevastating new report intodecades of sex abuse andcover-up in Germany.

Francis told a gathering ofyoung people in Estonia, con-sidered one of the least reli-gious countries in the world,that he knew many youngpeople felt the church hadnothing to offer them andsimply doesn’t understandtheir problems today.

Those complaints recent-ly poured into the Vatican viasurveys commissioned aheadof a big meeting of bishopsstarting next week on how tobetter minister to youngCatholics.

“We know - and you havetold us - that many young peo-ple do not turn to us for any-thing because they don’t feelwe have anything meaningfulto say to them,” Francis told agathering of Catholic,Lutheran and Orthodox youngpeople. PTI

PTI n BERLIN

Scientists have identified anarea in the brain that allows

people to see the world as a sta-ble, unified whole despiteblinking. People blink everyfive seconds. During this briefmoment, no light falls on theretina, yet people continue toobserve a stable picture of theenvironment with no inter-vals of darkness.

Researchers at the GermanPrimate Center and theUniversity Medical CenterGottingen and colleagues fromthe US performed studies onepilepsy patients to determinewhere this perceptual memoryis situated in the brain, and howit works. They have identifieda brain area that plays a crucialrole in perceptual memory.

The finding, published in

the journal Current Biology,enables a better understandingof the interaction of perceptionand memory. Despite blinking,people still see the world as astable, unified whole,researchers said. It must there-fore be possible for the brain toretain visual information for ashort period of time and thenput it together to form a con-clusive image without inter-

ruptions, they said.Caspar Schwiedrzik from

the German Primate Centerand his team suspected that themedial prefrontal cortex, whichplays an important role inshort-term memory and deci-sion-making, may be a keyplayer in this process.

At New York University inthe US, scientists had studiedthis region of the brain inpatients with epilepsy. To treatthe disease, electrodes weretemporarily implanted in thebrains of these patients.Subjects were shown a dot lat-tice on a screen and were askedto indicate their perception ofthe vertical or horizontal ori-entation of the points.

They were then shown asecond dot lattice and wereasked to indicate the orienta-tion of the points.

Dubai courtslaps Indian manwith molestationcharges Dubai (PTI): An Indian youthhas been slapped withmolestation charges by aDubai court after he alleged-ly groped a woman while shewas walking late at night,according to a mediareport.The man, a driver byprofession, denied the charge,claiming that he touched thewoman by mistake, theKhaleej Times reported. Theprosecutors accused the 30-year-old man of inappropri-ately touching the Filipinawoman and then fleeing thescene.The case was registeredat the Bur Dubai police station.

The complainant, a 25-year-old waitress, told theprosecution that she did notknow the suspect prior to theincident. “It was at 1:20 am onAugust 3. I was near a restau-rant and was about to go to asupermarket. My friend waswith me.

There were a group of fiveto six men who were comingin the opposite way. One ofthem groped me intentional-ly. I yelled at him but he thenreplied in a very abusive andvulgar manner,” the womanwas quoted as saying byKhaleej Times.

He did not just ignore herscreams for help but alsolaughed and continued hisway, she said, adding, “I fol-lowed them and kept scream-ing until an African man cameand restrained the defendant.”

Pope Francis, reviews the honor guard during the welcome ceremony at the Kadriorg Presidential Palace, Estonia on Tuesday.Pope Francis concludes his four-day tour of the Baltics visiting Estonia. AP

‘Why it doesn’t get dark when you blink’

LUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 sport 14

PTI n DUBAI

India managed a tie in a nail-bitingmatch against Afghanistan in the

dead 'Super Four' rubber of the AsiaCup here on Tuesday.

Requiring a run off two balls withone wicket in pocket, Jadeja hit one inthe air and was caught by Nabi in thedeep.

Mohammad Shahzad slammed themost significant hundred of his careerto take Afghanistan to 252 for eightagainst India, lightening up While theother batsmen struggled, it seemed theunconventional Shahzad was batting ona different surface, hammering 11fours and as many as seven sixes.

Later, the experiencedMohammad Nabi produced ahandy knock, 64 off 56 balls,to ensure that Afghanistanput up a competitive total.

The undisputed star ofthe evening was wicket-keep-er batsman Shahzad, who wasno short of inspiration in themiddle with his rolemodel M S Dhonistanding behindthe stumps.

While hisopening part-ner JavedAhmadi waseven struggling to get a sin-gle, Shazad thoroughly enter-tained the crowd with a barrage ofbig hits.

He was ruthless especially againstthe rookie Indian pacers KhaleelAhmed, Siddharth Kaul and debutantDeepak Chahar, who were played inplace of the rested Jasprit Bumrah,Bhuvneshwar Kumar and YuzvendarChahal.

Chahar had a forgettable debuteven though he picked up a wicket.

The other Indian players rested forthe game were captain Rohit Sharmaand his opening partner ShikharDhawan. Lokesh Rahul andManish Pandey replaced themin the eleven and as fatewould have it, Dhonistepped on the field tocaptain India for the200th time.

The pacerswere guilty ofbowling too full

or too full and Shazad made them payfor their mistakes. Most of his lofty shotswere crossed-batted as he cleared hisfront foot to hit the huge sixes over deep

mid-wicket.He even had his luck on his

side as he was dropped at mid-offon way to completing a half cen-

tury. He surprisingly experiencedthe nervous 90s before finally reach-

ing the three figures for the fifth timein ODIs, with a flick off Chahar

towards the fine-leg boundary.It was not a full-strength Indian

bowling attack but that takesnothing away fromShazad's sensationaleffort. His other ODIhundreds had comeagainst Canada,

Zimbabwe, Scotland andNetherlands.

Afghanistan would have been indeep trouble if it was not for Shazad, whowas running out of partners at one stagewith his team reeling at 82 for four from65 for no loss after Indian spinnersKuldeep Yadav (2/38) and RavindraJadeja (3/46) came into play.

The chinaman was even on a hat-trick.

Shahzad was then joined byGulbadin Naib (15 off 46) and the twoshared a 50-run stand for the fifth wick-et. After his dismissal, Nabi started plun-dering the bowlers, hitting four sixes andthree boundaries to take help the teamcross 250.

PTI n ABU DHABI

Smarting from back-to-back losses at the hands of arch-foes India, Pakistan will have their task cut out when

they lock horns with a tricky Bangladesh in a virtual semi-final of the Asia Cup here on Wednesday.

One of the two teams will be heading home after theirfinal Super Four game at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadiumhere and given the backlash they received after the revers-es against India, former world and Asian championsPakistan will be eager to raise their game.

While their batting has shown signs of improvementdays after being bowled out for 160-odd runs, more needsto be done if they are to make the title clash, where Indiaawait.

The struggling batsmen would do well to take a cuefrom the seasoned Shoaib Malik, who has been one of thefew impressive performers from the side in the continen-tal tournament, which they have won two times.

However, Pakistan's biggest concern is the poor formof pace spearhead Mohammed Amir, who seems to havelost sting and is struggling to take wickets, which is his pri-mary job, and which was reiterated by his skipper SarfrazAhmed on the eve of the group game against India.

Sarfraz's words did not have the desired effect as Amirand Co failed to deliver.

Pakistan will hope the team gets the job done againstBangladesh and regain confidence.

After their nine-wicket humiliationat the hands ofIndia, coach MickeyArthur said Pakistan

have a huge task at hand."It's a semi-final now. We have to find a way to dig our-

selves out of the hole we are in at the moment. We will comeback from this. We are at our best in must-win matches.That's when we come to the party," he said.

"I believe in our players. I think they are a fantasticbunch of players," he added.

Bangladesh managed to scrape past a spiritedAfghanistan in a last-over finish to keep their hopes alive,and having produced decent performances, save the lossagainst India, they will fancy their chances againstPakistan.

SQUADSPakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam,Sarfraz Ahmed, Shoaib Malik, Haris Sohail, ShadabKhan, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali,Junaid Khan, Usman Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Asif Ali,Mohammad Amir.Bangladesh: Masrafe Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan, TamimIqbal, Mohammad Mithun, Litton Kumar Das,Mushfiqur Rahim, Ariful Haque, Mahmudullah,Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Nazmul Hossain Shanto,Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nazmul Islam Apu, Rubel Hossain.

PTI n NEW DELHI

Ace cricketer Virat Kohli sent the shut-terbugs into a clicking frenzy as he

received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratnaaward, sharing the country's highest sport-ing honour with diminutive world championweightlifter Mirabai Chanu at theRashtrapati Bhawan here on Tuesday.

Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, whowon Gold medals in the Commonwealthand Asian Games this year, and junior worldchampion sprinter Hima Das were amongthe 20 sportspersons, who received theArjuna Award from President Ram NathKovind here.

The ceremony, which is traditionallyheld on August 29 to commemorate thebirth anniversary of hockey legend MajorDhyan Chand, was pushed to September 25this year to avoid a clash of dates with the18th Asian Games in Jakarta and

Palembang, which concluded on September2.

Kohli was accompanied by his actor wifeAnushka Sharma, his mother Saroj Kohliand his elder brother Vikas at the ceremo-ny.

Kohli is the third cricketer to be hon-oured with the Khel Ratna after batting leg-end Sachin Tendulkar (1997-1998) and for-mer captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007)

The world's No 1 Test batsman as perthe ICC rankings, has been in stupendousform in the past three years though hemissed out of the top award despite nomi-nations in 2016 and 2017.

Kohli received the Arjuna award in 2013and the Padma Shri last year.

Sharing the top honours with him wasChanu, who had received the Padma Shriearlier this year, was chosen for the KhelRatna following her Gold medal in 48kg cat-egory at the World Weightlifting

Championships last year.She also bagged the yellow metal in this

year's Commonwealth Games but didn'tcompete at the Asian Games due to injury.

"It was a huge honour for me. I neverexpected I will receive the award so early inmy career. It is one of the happiest moment

of my life," Chanu said.Chanu, who missed the Asian Games

due to a back injury, said she has startedtraining again but will return to the inter-national arena only in April next year.

"It's been a week that I have started train-ing again. The doctors have advised me togo slow so I will miss the WorldChampionships in November. I am expect-ing to return at the Asian Championshipsin next April," she said.

While the Khel Ratna award carries aprize purse of ` 7.5 lakh, the Arjunaawardees are given 5 lakh each along witha citation.

Besides the Khel Ratna and Arjunaawards, the President also gave awayDronacharya and Dhyan Chand awards tocoaches, the Tenzing Norgay NationalAdventure awards, Maulana Abul KalamAzad Trophy and Rashtriya Khel ProtsahanPuraskar.

The awards, like every year, copped a fairshare of controversies after wrestler BajrangPunia's threat to move court over Khel Ratnasnub being the most prominent one. Heeventually backed down after meetingSports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore.

The Dronacharya Award was present-ed to eight coaches this year, including crick-et mentor Tarak Sinha and 39-year-old box-ing coach C A Kuttappa, who was creditedby Vijender Singh for his historic OlympicBronze in 2008.

The Dhyan Chand Award for lifetimesporting achievement was given to four for-mer athletes.

Among the notable absentees wascricketer Smriti Mandhana and tennisplayer Rohan Bopanna, both of whom wereto receive the Arjuna award. Mandhana iscurrently with the Indian women's team onits tour of Sri Lanka while Bopanna is play-ing an ATP event in Chengdu, China.

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Skipper Baba Indrajith's superb knockof101 went in vain as Tamil

Naduwent down to Jharkhand by eightruns in the VijayHazare TrophyElite 'C'league here on Tuesday.

In another match, Services notchedup its second straight win, humblingBengal by eight wickets.

In the third match of the day,Gujarat outplayed Rajasthan by eightwickets, with spinner Hardik Patel's fivewicket haul and Priyank Panchal knockof 84 coming to the fore.

In the Tamil Nadu-Jharkhandmatch, the latter chose to bat after skip-per Ishan Kishan won the toss.

The talented Southpaw continuedhis hot form from Monday and gave theteam a rollicking start.

Kishan made 85 off 87 balls (8x4,3x6) and added 83 for the openingwicket with Anand Singh (52) and 104with Virat Singh (48).

The experienced Saurabh Tiwaryweighed in with a half century to powerJharkhand past the 300 mark.

Chasing 308 for a win, Tamil Nadudidn't have the best of starts as theaggressive N Jagadeesan was dismissedearly.

Abhinav Mukund carved out aclassy 63, but the loss of wickets pegged

the hosts back.Skipper Indrajith led a wonderful

rearguard and kept Tamil Nadu in thehunt with his scintillating strokemak-ing, but could not carry the team overthe line.

A minute's silence was observedbefore the start of the Bengal VsServices match as a mark of respect toformer BCCI president BiswanathDutt, who passed away in Kolkota onMonday.

BRIEF SCORESBengal 129 in 38 overs (AbhimanyuEaswaran34,Anustup Majumdar 33,Varun Choudhary three for 23, ArjunSharma three for 30 lost to Services130 for two in 22 overs G Rahul Singh(lhb) 53 not out (50b, 5x4, 1x6), RajatPaliwal (skipper) 58 not out (55b, 8x4,1x6).

Points: Services: 4 ; Bengal: 0 .

Rajasthan 179 for nine in 50 overs;Chetan Bist 44, Chandrapal Singh 82not out (95b, 3x4, 5x6),Hardik Patel (las)five for 22 (10-2-22-5) lost to Gujarat180 for two in 40 overs PriyantPanchal 84 (112b, 9x4, 1x6) Kshitij Patel89 not out, (110b, 9x4, 1x6).

Points : Gujarat : 4; Team Rajasthan: 0.

Jharkhand 307 for eight in 50 overs(AnandSingh 52 (75b, 9x4)(No.2/wk/skipper)Ishan Kishan 85(87b,8x4, 3x6), Virat Singh 48, SaurabhTiwary 54 (43b, 2x4, 4x6), C V Varunthree for 61) beatTamil Nadu 299 in49.5 overs (Abhinav Mukund 63 (68b,7x4, 1x6), B Aparajith 38, B Indrajith101 (90b, 7x4, 1x6),B Anirudh Sitaram46,VarunAaron three for 63, AnukulRoy three for 55).

Points : Jharkhand 4 ;Tamil Nadu0.

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Indian women ended their tour of SriLanka in style with a comprehensive 51-

run win against the hosts in the fifth andfinal T20 International here on Tuesday.

India thus clinched the series 4-0 withthe second match being abandoned dueto rain.

Batting first, India scored a com-mendable 156 in 18.3 overs with skipperHarmanpreet Kaur smashing her way to63 off 38 balls. Her innings comprisedthree fours and five huge sixes.

Jemimah Rodrigues, who had adream series, contributed 46 off 31 ballswith six boundaries and a six.

Sri Lanka were all out for 105 in 17.4overs with leg spinner Poonam Yadavbeing the pick of the bowlers with 3/18in 4 overs. Off-spinner Deepti Sharmaand left-arm spinner Radha Yadav alsochipped in with two wickets apiece.

The T20 series has all aboutJemimah's coming of age performance forthe senior side. Her sequence of scores inthe T20 series is — 36, 57, 52 not out and46.

During this match, along with herskipper, she added 75 runs in 7.1 overbefore a batting collapse hit India. Savethe duo and ODI captain Mithali Raj (12),none of the others could reach double fig-ures.

Off-spinners Shashikala Siriwardene

(3/19) and Priyadarshini Fernando (3/24)were the wreckers in chief. However,Harmanpreet's power hitting got Indiapast 150-run mark.

Sri Lanka were never in the chase andtheir end came swiftly with last five wick-ets falling for only 11 runs.

From 94 for five, they were all out for105 as most of their players went for need-less shots under pressure.

Brief Scores: India 156 all out in 18.3overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 63 , JemimahRodrigues 46 , Shashikala Siriwardene3/19, Priyadharshini Fernando 3/19)

Sri Lanka 105 in 17.4 overs (PoonamYadav 3/18, Radha Yadav 2/14). India wonby 51 runs.

India win five-match series 4-0.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni onTuesday had a date with destiny

as he got to lead India for the 200thtime in ODIs, nearly two years aftergiving up captaincy on his ownterms.

With skipper Rohit Sharma andhis deputy Shikhar Dhawan beingrested after four matches in six days,it was nothing but sheer destiny thatIndia's most successful captain walkedout alongside match referee AndyPycroft and Afghanistan skipperAsghar Afghan for the toss in theirAsia Cup game.

Dhoni has never bothered aboutmilestones and that is why heremained unfazed while calling timeon his Test career with 10 short of 100matches, a benchmark for any crick-eter worth his salt.

It didn't matter to Dhoni one biteven though he had no competition.

No wonder when the decision toquit ODI captaincy was announced inearly January 2017, his fans were lesssurprised. It didn't matter that he hada chance to captain India in 200 ODIs.

But then if destiny had made anelaborate plan, it was not in Dhoni'shands to change the script.

"I was not really sure of where Iam standing. I have captained in 199ODIs, so this gives me an opportuni-ty to make it 200. It's all destiny andI always believed in that," Dhoni saidwith a poker face when Russell Arnoldposed the question at the toss.

Since numbers didn't matter dur-ing his halcyon days, it was all themore expected that it would mattereven less when he is in the twilight ofhis illustrious career.

"It's not in my control, once I leftcaptainship," he said when asked if heever thought that he would be able tocomplete 200 ODIs as captain.

Then came the usual Dhonianswer.

"Good to complete 200, but I don'tthink it really matters," he soundedbusiness as usual.

But people who were used to seehim lead for 10 years were happy.

"He is hundred percent the mostpopular Indian captain," SunilGavaskar made the most telling state-ment.

YESTERDAY ONCE MORE: DHONI

LEADS INDIA FOR 200TH TIME

MOST MATCHES AS SKIPPER IN ODIPlayer M W L T N/R Success%

Ricky Ponting (Aus) 230 165 51 2 12 74.78

Stephen Fleming (NZ) 218 98 106 1 13 48.16

MS Dhoni (India) 200 110 74 4 11 59.04

Arjuna Ranatunga (SL) 193 89 95 1 8 48.44

Allan Border (Aus) 178 107 67 1 3 61.23

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AFGHANISTAN WOULD HAVEBEEN IN DEEP TROUBLE IF ITWAS NOT FOR SHAZAD, WHO

WAS RUNNING OUT OFPARTNERS AT ONE STAGE

WITH HIS TEAM REELING AT82 FOR FOUR FROM 65 FOR

NO LOSS AFTER INDIANSPINNERS KULDEEP YADAV

(2/38) AND RAVINDRAJADEJA (3/46) CAME

INTO PLAY

Kuldeep Yadav, third left, celebrates with teammates after dismissing Afghanistan's captain Asghar Afghan for golden duck on Tuesday AP

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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messiwere far from the auditorium by theRiver Thames when Luka Modric

broke their decade-long grip on FIFA'saward for the world's best player.

Football's biggest individual accoladewas handed to the 33-year-old playmakeron Monday night in recognition of a yearwhen he led Croatia to its first World Cupfinal and won a fourth Champions Leaguetitle in five seasons with Real Madrid.

"It is very important, because for sucha small country to win the best player award,it's something amazing and that shows othersmall countries that everything is possible,"Modric said. "You just need to believe andto work for it. And that all dreams couldcome true."

It required voters to be more imagina-tive and not just make the predictable picksof Ronaldo and Messi, who split the previ-ous 10 awards. Messi voted for Modric,while Ronaldo and Modric each voted forReal Madrid's Raphael Varane.

Brazil's Marta did become a six-timewinner, earning the women's honor for thefirst time since 2010.

Another Brazilian, Kaka, had been thelast player other than Messi or Ronaldo toclaim the men's prize from FIFA, at the 2007gala.

"We knew we were surrounded by twoaliens that were just sharing these awards,"Real Madrid and Spain defender SergioRamos said. "But I think it is also very pos-itive to recognize the work, the career andthe season of players that are not just strik-ers. I am really happy for Luka Modric".

Modric has had to accept playing inRonaldo's shadow during six years atMadrid even as the 1.72 meters (5-foot-8)

technically-gifted Croatian's ingenuity onthe ball and passing range made him as akey component in the team's Europeandominance.

Modric and Ronaldo on a third suc-cessive Champions League in May beforeachieving something far more unexpected:captaining Croatia to its first World Cupfinal.

"I would change all my individual tro-phies for that trophy of World Cup cham-pion," Modric said, reflecting on the 4-2 lossto France in the final in July.

Modric, who joined Madrid fromTottenham in 2012, received 29 percent ofvotes from the coaches and captains ofnational teams, reporters and fans.

Ronaldo, who left Madrid in the off-

season to join Italian champion Juventus,was second with 19 percent. He captainedEuropean Portugal to a round-of-16 exit atthe World Cup.

Mohamed Salah was third with 11 per-cent after scoring a record 32 goals in a 38-game English Premier League season forLiverpool, which reached its firstChampions League final in 11 years.

France forward Kylian Mbappe wasfourth and Messi fifth with just under 10percent of the vote. Messi scored 45 goalsfor Barcelona, which won the Spanish title,but only netted once at the World Cup asArgentina was eliminated in the round of16.

Messi and Ronaldo skipped the cere-mony at London's Royal Festival Hall andsent no messages of congratulations toModric on their social media accounts,which have hundreds of millions of fol-lowers.

"Two guys we don't know," actor IdrisElba, who hosted the show, said after high-lighting the absence of Messi and Ronaldo.

Former Croatia captain ZvonimirBoban, now a FIFA deputy secretary gen-eral, cried after being lauded by Modricfrom the stage.

"At this particular moment, I would liketo mention my footballing idol and captainof Croatia generation 1998," Modric said,referring to the team that finished third inthe nation's first World Cup appearance 20years ago. "He was my big inspiration andthat team gave us belief that we couldachieve something great in Russia.Hopefully we can be the same for next gen-erations."

WOMEN'S AWARDMarta won after leading Brazil to

Copa America Femenina glory. The 32-year-old also scored 13 goals as OrlandoPride reached the NWSL playoffs.

"It was worth all the sacrifices," the strik-er said.

COACHESNo French player was among the final-

ists but Didier Deschamps was voted man-ager of the year after becoming only thethird man to win the World Cup as a play-er and coach.

Reynald Pedros, the Frenchman wholed Lyon to French league and ChampionsLeague glory, became the first club coachto win the women's game award, previouslyexclusive to national-team managers.

GOALSalah didn't leave empty-handed,

earning the Puskas Award for his goal inthe Merseyside derby last December.Salah's goal in Liverpool's 1-1 draw againstEverton was a mixture of strength andfootwork. Receiving a pass from right backJoe Gomez, Salah shrugged off CucaMartina, twisted inside Idrissa Gueyeand curled a left-footed shot aroundAshley Williams and into the top corner

.GOALKEEPER

Thibaut Courtois added the FIFAgoalkeeper award to the Golden Glove hecollected in Russia for helping Belgium tothird place with three clean sheets.Courtois left Chelsea for Madrid after thetournament.

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Cristiano Ronaldo turns his focus back toJuventus's quest for a treble this season on

Wednesday after losing out in the FIFA's bestplayer of the year award.

He had been nominated for his superboverhead bicycle kick for Real Madrid againstJuventus in last season's Champions Leaguequarter-final, which even drew a standing ova-tion from Juventus supporters in Turin.

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri hadbacked Ronaldo — who has scored three goalsin his last two league games — for the award,as he led the way in the Champions Leaguewith 15 goals to help Real to a third straighttitle.

"With no offence to Luka Modric, I'd givethe Ballon d'Or to Ronaldo for what he didlast season. I think he deserves it," said Allegri.

The Italian champions face a heavy weekin Turin withthree games intheir AllianzStadium in thespace of sevendays.

After Wednesday's game against 18th-placed Bologna, who shocked Roma 2-0 at theweekend, Juventus play Carlo Ancelotti'sNapoli in a top-of-the table clash on Saturday.

Juventus have had a perfect start to theseason with five wins and 15 points -- threepoints ahead of Napoli.

Allegri's side also play Swiss club YoungBoys in the Champions League a week onTuesday, a game which Ronaldo will miss afterhis controversial sending off against Valenciain Spain.

ROMA CRISISNapoli host promoted Parma, before their

trip to Turin, with an eye on their ChampionsLeague game against Liverpool in Naples.

"We won there (Juventus) last season andstill finished second," said Napoli strikerLorenzo Insigne.

"If we don't win the midweek game withParma, then the result with Juve is irrelevant,so we have to take it one at a time."

Under-pressure Roma host promotedFrosinone looking for a boost after slippingto 14th with their weekend defeat in Bologna.

Coach Eusebio Di Francesco has report-edly been given a week to save his job, start-ing against the newcomers from outsideRome, before the city derby against Lazio atthe weekend.

Frosinone are second from the bottom ofthe table with 12 goals conceded, includingtwo to Juventus last weekend.

Roma then host Czech club Viktoria Plzenin the Champions League next week, havinglost their opener to holders Real Madrid.

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Goalkeeper Niraj Kumar, whoturned out to be the hero in

India's goalless draw against for-midable Iran in the AFC U-16Championship, said Tuesday he was"confident" of saving the penalty.

Niraj, who saved a spot kick inthe 76th minute, said that it was a"big challenge" to play Iran.

"I was confident that I wouldsave the penalty," Niraj said.

"We were playing at a rhythmin the match and I had that confi-dence and the team support behindme.

"It is always a challenge to faceIran and we had to be on our toesdefensively to put up with their swiftforwards."

Head coach Bibiano Fernandessaid the team has got better as thetournament progressed.

"We have got better and betteras the tournament has progressed.The mistakes I had identified defen-sively in the game against Vietnamwere not there against Iran," Bibianostated.

The coach smiled whenreminded that it was in 1984 whenIndia had last held Iran to a goal-

less draw, in the Asia Cup Finals inSingapore.

As things stand now, Indianeed a draw against current tabletoppers Indonesia to advance to thequarterfinals. Even a loss will earnthem a quarter-final ticket if theother match between Iran andVietnam, which kicks off at thesame time, ends in a draw.

"We performed to the best ofour abilities and though it wouldhave been special if we would have

won, we are happy with a point andaim on our next opponents,"Bibiano said, reflecting on India'sthree missed chances in the last fiveminutes.

"We had aimed for a win, but Iam very pleased and happy with apoint and a draw. As long aschances are created, goals wouldcome. It would have been a worryif chances were not created," thecoach added.

Defender Bikash Yumnam said

"it won't be easy against Indonesia"."We were very compact defen-

sively against Iran. We know we hadto play together as a unit. Iran arevery strong in attack but we deviseda plan to counter that," he said.

"It won't be easy againstIndonesia. They have very swift for-wards. We will stick to our strate-gy against them. We will give ourbest."

Bibiano has been successful indeveloping a bunch of raw talent-

ed youngsters into a cohesive unit."Each and every player is giv-

ing his cent percent in training andare playing as a single unit. We havethe capacity to give our cent percentin each and this team has shown

what dedication and hard work cando in football," Bibiano said.

"It was difficult for us againstIran. Iran are one of the strongestteams to face in youth matches andwe almost had a win against them."

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World number twoCaroline Wozniacki

and Wimbledon championAngelique Kerber easedthrough their opening match-es at the Wuhan Open inChina on Tuesday. AustralianOpen champion Wozniacki,who received a first-roundbye, was barely troubled by the61st-ranked Swede RebeccaPeterson, winning 6-4, 6-1 toset up a third-round clashwith Olympic championMonica Puig, who rompedpast Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2, 6-2. Peterson offered someresistance in the first set,breaking Wozniacki's serve at5-2, but faded as the Dane —who lost her first match atJapan's Pan Pacific Open last

week — quickly regainedcontrol as she looks for a goodrun in Wuhan to secure areturn to the WTA Finals,which she won last year.

"It's great to get a goodstart, obviously. Every matchcounts," Wozniacki said.

World number threeKerber has already qualifiedfor next month's Finals whichwill be held in Singapore andadvanced after a knee injuryforced her American oppo-nent Madison Keys to retire.

The German looked setfor a big win over the 2017 USOpen semi-finalist and wasleading 6-0, 4-1 when Keyscould not continue.

"I was feeling good. Iplayed the first set really well,"Kerber said. "It's nice to be inthe next round.

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India's premier women's golf event — the HeroIndian Open — will be contested over 72 holes for

the first time when it tees off at the DLF Golf andCountry Club here from October 18-21, the organ-isers announced on Tuesday.

The event will see as many as 120 players fromover 30 countries vying for the coveted trophy.

The tournament will witness the defendingchampion Camille Chevalier of France trying toextend her hold over the trophy from a strong fieldof international and Indian players.

The tournament, co-sponsored by Castrol, willset a host of new landmarks — starting with the prizemoney that touches a record $ half a million for thefirst time, making it the second richest golf tourna-ment in the country after the men's Indian Open.

The prize money gets a 25 per cent increase over2017 and a five-fold increase from its inaugural edi-tion in 2007.

For the first time, the tournament will be con-tested over 72 holes and will be telecast live over allfour days, a significant landmark for Indian women'sgolf. Vani Kapoor, who finished a career-best tied-sixth in the previous edition, will be leading the

Indian challenge.Among other top Indians is the current Pro Golf

Tour Order of Merit leader - Tvesa Malik, along withAmandeep Drall, and Gursimar Badwal among oth-ers.

The international players include Camille, for-mer champion Swedish Caroline Hedwall, Beth Allen- the 2016 LET Order of Merit winner, Thailand'sKanyalak Preedasuttjit - winner of the ThailandLadies Open, and Celine Boutier - winner of theAustralian Ladies Classic.

Currently, 11 of the top-20 players on the LETOOM have entered the tournament, which isalready higher than previous years. There are ninetournament winners in the field, which includes the2016 winner of the LET OOM.

"As a long-term sponsor of Golf across the world,it gives me great joy and satisfaction to see this sporttake giant strides in India. Tournaments such as theseinspire young girls to take up the sport as a career,"CEO, Hero MotoCorp, Pawan Munjal, said.

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The Indian men and women's teamsmade winning starts to their cam-

paign in the 43rd Chess Olympiad hereon Tuesday.

The women team blanked NewZealand 4-0 with only Tania Sachdevfacing some real troubles while the trioof Koneru Humpy, Eesha Karavadeand Padmini Rout recorded easy vic-tories.

On a day when ViswanathanAnand was rested, Krishnan Sasikirandropped a half point on the fourthboard but that was only after PHarikrishna, Vidit Gujrathi and BAdhiban had secured victories on the

top three boards to ensure a winfor the team.

The Indian teams got twomatch points following the vic-tory as the day produced some indi-vidual upsets but the higher rankedteams prevailed.

For the Indian men, Harikrishnarouted Ernesto Giron in quick timeand Adhiban had little troubles to winas white against Daniel Arias.

Gujrathi showcased his skills at theexpense of Ricardo Ernesto Chavez butSasikiran faced some troubles and hadto split the point with Carlos BurgosFigueroa.

Sasikiran with black faced initialdifficulties despite a huge rating dif-

ference and sacrificed a pawn toreach what looked like a promis-ing endgame optically.

With some precise defensefrom his opponent, the Indian decid-

ed to take the draw as the team hadwon anyway.

Koneru Humpy played her firstcompetitive game in two years and itdid not look like she had been away fora long time. With some clinical preci-sion, the Indian GM nailed HelenMilligan with black pieces.

Jasmir Haomo Zhang proved nomatch for Karavade despite showingsome early promise while Qin NicoleShu Yu lost to Padmini Rout in anoth-er one sided duel on the fourth board.

Tania Sachdev came back from thejaws of defeat and even scored a winafter Vyanla Punsalan went haywire byfirst missing out on a chance to createa big upset and then blundering awaywhat was an easy half point in the rookand pawns endgame.

Modric The Best

France's Didier Deschamps receives the Best FIFAMen's Coach award from Arsene Wenger AP

Real Madrid and Croatian midfielder Luka Modric and Brazilian Marta pose with the FIFA best player trophy AP

Juventus players pose for photo during training session

Golfers Gaurika Bishnoi, Vani Kapoor and Amandeep Drall posefor photos with the trophy of Hero Women's Indian Open event

Players compete during the Chess Olympiad

Host Idris Elba, center, poses with the 11 players of the top team with players David De Gea, Dani Alves,Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane, Eden Hazard, N'Golo Kante, Luka Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo, KylianMbappe and Lionel Messi during the ceremony of the Best FIFA Football Awards in London on Monday AP

We have got better as tournament progressed: Bibiano

NEW DELHI: Indian football captainSunil Chhetri is highly impressedwith the country's U-16 and U-20sides, who have punched abovetheir weight in recent times, and saidthey are capable of achieving biggerthings in the future.While the U-16 team shocked Iraq,the U-20 squad caused one of Indianfootball's biggest upsets by stunningthe sport's superpower Argentina ina tournament in Spain.Asked about the playersrepresenting the youth teams,Chhetri said, "U-16 team in totality,of course the U-19 teams is alsodoing well, great result againstArgentina, something they should bereally proud of."But the U-16 team is amazing, youshould watch them play. We

watched some videos of them, somegame plans and they are amazing.Bibiano is doing a great job withthose kids and I just hope, they cankeep improving from what they are."I am pretty sure they are going toachieve bigger things in the comingyears.India's all-time highest scorer, whois also among the top five ininternational football, said they arelooking forward to the 2019 AFCAsian Cup."The aim is 2019 Asian Cup andbefore that we have got a couple ofmatches which we will try our bestto win and improve and eventually tothe Asian Cup. The players are goingto give everything they have gotwhen the tournament comes," the34-year-old striker said. PTI

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long grip to winFIFA’s best player

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LUCKNOW BEAT MORADABADLucknow beat Moradabad 3-2 in a friendly carom test

match organised by District Carom Association at IrrigationSports Club on Tuesday. On this occasion, international play-er Mohd Gurfan was also felicitated. Kawaja MoinuddinChisti V-C Mahrookh Mirza gave away the prizes.

MAMTA SPORTING WINMamta Sporting edged past Aliganj Warrior 1-0 in a

league match of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya football tour-nament held at Chowk Stadium on Tuesday. Vikas Karkiscored the lone goal of the match in the 25th minute.

SELECTION TRIALSRegional Sports Office is organising district-level bad-

minton and athletics trials at KD singh ‘Babu’ Stadium onOctober 1. Interested may reach the venue at 10 AM alongwith their age-proof certifictaes.

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