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D
elhi Police officers and legal experts
are burning the midnight oil to pre-
pare a voluminous 1,000-page chargesheet
against the rapists of the 23-year-old para-
medical student. The draft is ready and
it is being supplemented with irrefutable
evidences against the six rapists. The
chargesheet is expected to be filed before
the court of Namrita Agarwal, the
Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) at Saket
Courts, on January 3, 2013.
The court is closed from January 4 to
January 6. Therefore, it is expected that
the magistrate will summon all the six
accused and frame the charges on January
7. The day-to-day trial will the next day.
After the victim succumbed to her
injuries at Mount Elizabeth hospital in
Singapore on the wee hours of Saturday,
the FIR registered at Vasant Vihar was
converted into robbery, rape and murder.
The draft of the chargesheet was then
altered and is now ready.
Top sources in the Delhi Police said
on Monday that 30 witnesses have been
cited to stand testimony in this most grue-
some gang-rape ever reported in the
national capital.
A team of 19 well versed officers
under the command of the DCP, South,
Chhaya Sharma, has been working round
the clock to gather material, circum-
stantial and corroborative evidences
backed by a strong chargesheet. Sharma
is also the head of the SIT formed by the
Ministry of Home Affairs to investigate
the most horrendous case. Sources said
that the Deli Police would ask for hang-
ing of the accused under the rarest of
rare category.
The five accused that are above the
age of 18 years will be charged under
Section 302 (murder), 376 for Rape, 1977
for sodomy and 394 for robbery and 201
for destruction of evidence and could be
given death penalty.
Police have also sought the courts
permission to get Ossification test done
to ascertain the age of the sixth accused,
who is claiming to be a minor. Minor was
also involved in raping the hapless and it
was he who inflicted critical wounds on
her that led to her death.
Cops said they will appeal the court
to have a re-look in this case and punish
this juvenile who had surpassed all
the limits.
Continued on Page 4
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rayers al a mosque here or
Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged
or carrying oul lhe Mumbai
lerror allack in 2OO8.
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haram mililanls have killed 15
Chrislians by slilling lheir
lhroals in a village in higeria's
reslive norlheasl, a relie oicial
said on Monday.
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Andhra Fradesh, who used lo
run a liquor slore in uS, was
ound dead al lhe sho under
susicious circumslances.
CAPSULE
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Y
ears have ended on a grim
note earlier too. But it is
rare for a year to conclude on
a note of unrelenting grimness
as 2012 has.
Even apart from the heart-
rending tragedy that over-
whelmed the country for
the last fortnight of the year,
there was very little to cheer
about 2012.
The Government lurched
from one crisis to another,
slipped on banana peels with
unfailing certainty.
The economy showed no
signs of recovery; Indias
growth rate plummeted to a
low not seen in recent years.
Inflation mounted steadily,
fuelled mostly by sharp increas-
es in petroleum product prices,
while the common man was
forced to reconcile to the ceil-
ing on subsidised LPG cylin-
ders and shell out a hefty price
for acquiring them beyond the
unreasonably low bar.
Politically, the year was
again marred by a succession of
corruption scandals, a proces-
sion led by the revelation that
arbitrary allotment of coal
blocks had resulted in a rev-
enue loss of C1.86 lakh crore,
just a year after the telecom
scandal had caused a loss of a
comparable C1.76 lakh crore.
The Prime Minister con-
tinued to be missing in action,
while his partys heir apparent
was invisible through every
crisis big and small.
In other words, India had
to cope with a lacklustre
authority at the helm and State
Governments too, barring a
few, wobbled without any sense
of direction.
The Governments attempt
at sugar-coating this bitter pill
by announcing the shift to
Direct Cash Transfer of BPL
subsidies has not brought the
kind of frenzied accolades the
Congress might have expected.
Thus, 2013 will begin on a
note of indecision and uncer-
tainty. With Anna Hazares
appeal fading, his makeshift
organisation wrecked by a split
in its ranks, and the breakaway
Kejriwal groups shoot-and-
scoot attacks on the integrity of
the political class also unable to
generate the same mass enthu-
siasm as we saw in the summer
of 2011, the glimmer of hope for
a systemic change that was vis-
ible then has all but dissipated.
But the defining image of
2012 will be the brutal gang-
rape and horrendous assault of
a 23-year-old woman para-
medicine student, eventually
leading to her death two days
before the gloomy year ended.
In its wake we also
witnessed a massive eruption of
unorganised, leaderless protest
which, in turn, caused
the police to use severe strong-
arm measures against
peaceful protesters.
The near-uprising in Delhi
sent ripples across the country,
with people across India
demanding tougher laws and
their prompt implementation
to deter mounting crimes
against women in our nation.
This epitomised the reali-
ty that India is now in the cusp
of history, with an old world
unable to die and a new yet to
be born.
Marxist revolutionaries of
the last century often said that
force would act as midwife to
an old world pregnant with a
new one. But in a participative
and vocal democracy like ours
force has no place, as even
Maoist barbarians will be com-
pelled to realise.
When a country undergoes
gigantic change in all spheres
and rising aspirations of an
empowered middle class
demand appropriate alterations
to Indias social, economic and
political structures, many hith-
erto sacrosanct certainties must
be cast aside.
Violent revolutions often
determined this course of
change in Western societies
through which new certainties
replaced the old.
Since India has eschewed
the path of violence, social
disruptions that we are
currently witnessing are bound
to recur.
The people have spoken.
Now it is for the Establishment
i.e. the political class, legisla-
tures, administration, judicia-
ry and other organs of the State
to respond appropriately.
Colonial era laws, for
example, have no place in a 21st
Century India.
Continued on Page 4
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eath of the Delhi gang-rape victim has
added to clamour for harsher punishment
to rapists. Both the BJP and Congress have pro-
posed chemical castration as one of the pos-
sible punishments. The BJP also mooted abol-
ishing mercy petitions in rape cases and reit-
erated the demands for capital punishment and
convening a special session of Parliament to
enact related law.
The culprits be hanged and the
Government should not accept any mercy peti-
tion in such cases. If this can be done then this
will be the only respect to that victim, Leader
of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma
Swaraj said here on Monday. She rued that the
UPA Government granted pardon to convicts
in five cases of rape-and-murder.
Swarajs Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun
Jaitley felt it was high time when lawmakers
should come together to make a strong law
against such crimes. It appears, he rued, that
people have failed the test of civility.
In Kochi, former BJP chief M Venkaiah
Naidu said, There should be a maximum pun-
ishment to rapists, death penalty or emascu-
lation (chemical castration of the rapist). Naidu
also heads the Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Home, which recently grilled
Delhi Police in the gang-rape case.
Congress spokesperson Renuka
Chowdhury said that chemical castration,
death penalty and making compulsory regis-
tration of sexual offenders are measures being
considered by the party. Women party MPs
made a number of suggestions at a meeting
called by AICC general secretary incharge of
women affairs Mohsina Kidwai to prevent
recurrence of such a heinous crime.
Meanwhile, the Government on Monday
dismissed the BJPs demand for convening a
special session of Parliament with Finance
Minister P Chidambaram saying that session
would be called only after receiving the Justice
JS Verma Committee report on making rape
laws stringent. It has also clarified that the deci-
sion to hold an all-party meeting, as being
demanded by the Opposition, will be taken
only after receiving the report of the three-
member panel.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde is
writing letters to all political parties to seek their
suggestions on the issue of changing the law
related to rape cases.
Shinde will ask parties to send their sug-
gestion to the Justice JS Verma Committee that
will recommend measures for speedier justice
and enhanced punishment in cases of aggra-
vated sexual assault.
Continued on Page 4
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cautious UPA Government has decided
to launch its game changer direct cash
transfer in a phased manner.
Announcing the direct cash transfer
(DCT) in the Capital on Monday, Finance
Minister P Chidambaram said the scheme
will be rolled out in a phased manner, where
the benefits of seven central schemes will be
directly credited into the bank accounts of
beneficiaries across 20 districts from
January 1.
However, the Government has decided
to hold back the complex transfer of food,
fertiliser and fuel subsidies for the time being.
Seven schemes in 20 districts will be
covered from New Year Day , then the
scheme will be rolled out across 11 more dis-
tricts from February 1 and 12 more districts
from March 1.
In total, in the next two months, the
scheme will impact 200,000 beneficiaries in
43 districts.
Continued on Page 4
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ven as nations around the
world ring in the New Year
with fanfare and celebrations,
India is in mourning.
The tragic death of the 23-
year-old gang-rape victim has
made people across the coun-
try, particularly Delhi, somber
as everyone is ruing the
irreparable loss to the family of
the feisty girl.
President Pranab
Mukherjee led the nation in
grieving the loss of the girl by
deciding not to take part in
New Year celebrations or
receive greetings in person.
This is Mukherjes first
New Year Day in Rashtrapati
Bhavan since his election to the
highest post last year.
In view of the recent trag-
ic event leading to the loss of a
young girl, the President has
decided not to take part in any
celebration of the New Year.
The President has also decided
not to receive any greetings in
person, said presidents Press
Secretary Venu Rajamony.
In an act of solidarity with
the victim and her family,
many people, organizations
and clubs across the country
and Delhi decided to refrain
from New Year parties and
many. functions were either
cancelled, or scaled down.
Loud music, free-flowing
liquor and youngsters flocking
the inner circle of Connaught
Place in droves with their car
horns and music blaring were
a rare sight this time, as all
thoughts were with the family
of the girl in their hour of grief.
Not only Delhiites, but sev-
eral arms of the Union
Government cancelled their
celebrations. The Indian Army
cancelled all official celebrations
and South Eastern and Eastern
Railways also did the same.
That the whole country is
united in its grief over the loss
of the braveheart was reflected
by the fact that Punjab and
Haryana also put state functions
on hold. Not just this, political
parties also joined the common
man in expressing grief and
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi
declared that she would not be
celebrating the advent of 2013.
Continued on Page 4
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19-year-old boy com-
mitted suicide at his res-
idence in New Manglapuri
near Chhatarpur in South
Delhi, and another one
attempted to kill himself,
after they were apprehended
by the police for harassing
two girls and passing lewd
comments on them.
Chandrakant, 19, hanged
himself on December 25, a day
after he was rounded up by the
Mehrauli Police on the com-
plaint of a girl. Aaj ke baad kisi
ko bhi mujhse koi pareshani
nahi hogi (After this, no one
would be troubled because of
me), read the suicide note left
by Chandrakant.
The boys family alleged
that he was unduly harassed
and insulted by the police.
Continued on Page 4
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e il crime or corrulion, ndians in general, and
0elhiiles in arlicular, now reuse lo lake lhe
0overnmenl's ailures lying low. The ublic wanls
ils leaders lo come clean, ils ockels reed o lhe
burden o inlalion, ils ublic inslilulions
unclional and mosl o all, ils cily rid o criminals.
The rolesl in lhe nalional Cailal ollowing
lhe rae incidenl was nol jusl lheir anger over lhe
same bul il became lhe medium o venling lheir
ire over lhe lack o inraslruclure, ailure o
olicing syslem, delay in juslice delivery and
many more among lhe counlless.
whal lhe common eole have been
slruggling or is resonsible governance, delivery
o services and seedy solulions lo lheir roblems.
n no shere o lheir dayloday lie are lhey are
sared innumerable and olen insurmounlable
hassles. The medical inraslruclure is limsy, lhe
educalion seclor needs reorms; lhe olicing
syslem has ailed lo inslill lhe ear o law and juslice
has virlually been denied due lo slow and lardy
rocesses. The asserlions made here are nol
wilhoul reasons. A long queue o alienls in every
0overnmenl hosilal, shorlage o doclors and
medical sla, unavailabilily o medicines, a heclic
admission rocess in schools, lack o leachers,
oor inraslruclure, high ood inlalion, shorlage
o ure drinking waler, exensive eleclricily,
excessively high uel rices, oor road and
lransorl inraslruclure among olhers are
rimarily lo be held resonsible or ublic anger.
The olice syslem in ndia never looked more
helless which is evidenl rom lhe crime grah
which is on a conslanl rise across lhe nalion.
Frocraslinalion will only rove loo coslly.
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espite a 35,000-km road
network, Delhi remains
chaotic. Crawling, grinding
traffic is a common site day in
and day out. The whopping
growth in car sales, shoddy
road management and myopic
planning has meant that the
city is bursting at the seams as
it tries to contain more than 80
lakh cars.
There is rampant
encroachment which also adds
to congestion. Significant por-
tions of carriageways are taken
over either by roadside vendors
or vehicles left on the road
haphazardly. Regardless of tall
claims by Delhi Traffic Police
and the Public Work
Department who say they have
improved the traffic scenario
and road engineering, condi-
tions remains abysmal.
With no future planning
and enforcement of law, things
are getting worse despite the
fact that the Metro carries a
considerable proportion of
commuters.
Projects like the Kalindi
Kunj bypass, ITO flyover pro-
ject and BRT corridor between
Amebedkar Nagar and Delhi
Gate are glaring examples of
poor planning.
Similarly, the BRT corridor
between Ambedkar Nagar and
Delhi Gate too has reflected
poor planning and execution.
The corridor has become a
nightmare for motorists on the
stretch.
The ITO flyover is perpet-
ually in a conceptual stage. The
flyover at Azad Market was
conceived in 2002 and is still
under construction. The fly-
over was constructed years
back to reduce traffic burden
on the stretch but it has
become a bane instead. The
Western Peripheral
Expressway and Eastern
Peripheral Expressway were
conceived to decongest
Delhis road in 2006 and parts
of it are either under con-
struction or on paper.
In these 30 years, Delhis
vehicle stock has increased 51
times. Ten flyovers between
Ashram Crossing and Dhaula
Kuan woefully fall short of
keeping the traffic moving
along the Ring Road.
Flyovers at Modi Mills,
Mayapuri, Rao Tula Ram
Marg, Azadpur, Seelampur
and many others have decon-
gested one intersection but
escalated problems at the next
one. Others split the traffic
and merge the same at the end
of the flyover.
Delhi might have the most
extensive road network at 21
per cent of its geographical area
but it is saturated and choked
with vehicles. Of 170 traffic
locations surveyed by RITES,
about 70 locations were found
to be carrying more vehicles
than their design capacity.
Studies are made, trouble areas
are identified but no resolution
is found.
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ublic transport system in the national Capital
is in a pitiable state. The lack of a safe and eco-
nomical public transport has left the city clam-
ouring for answers on the evolution of its trans-
port system over the years and the gross inabili-
ty to match the needs of a burgeoning population.
Urban mobility and transport experts opine
that Delhi fares poorly on the hallmarks of a good
public transport system accessibility, afford-
ability, reliability and last mile connectivity - which
are almost absent in the city.
The lacklustre public
transport system is respon-
sible for the reluctance of
the growing population to
switch from private modes
of travel to the non-reliable
public transport despite
rampant fuel price hikes
and high parking charges.
It is estimated that around
1,000 private vehicles get
registered in the city every-
day even as the State
Government tries hard to
wean commuters off their
vehicles. As a result, the city at present is home
to 80 lakh registered vehicles.
Due to the poor transport policy, Delhi has not
been able to overhaul its bus system, which still fer-
ries over 60 per cent of the citys population.
According to Supreme Courts order in the year 2001,
the city should have 11,000 buses as per the needs
of the population. However, 10 years on, Delhi only
has about 6,000 operational buses till date - 5,500
DTC and 400 buses under the cluster bus scheme.
And the population is manifolds more than what it
was in 2001.
An example of the shoddy policy and deci-
sion making is the cluster bus scheme, which was
launched by the Government to replace the killer
Blueline buses after they claimed over 100 lives
in a single year. Since the year 2007 in which it
was launched, the cluster bus scheme has failed
to fill the void. Thus leading to insufficiency of
buses, private and unsafe modes of transport such
as chartered buses thrive. It was one such bus in
which the heinous gang-rape was committed send-
ing shock waves across the country.
The condition of other modes of public trans-
port such as auto rickshaws, taxis, Grameen Sewas
is equally pathetic. The autos and taxis of the city
are not just notorious for fleecing people as per
their whims and fancies but they are also unsafe
for women commuters during late hours.
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egardless of having several
Government-run hospitals,
suitable treatment to common
man is not guaranteed in Delhi.
Death in absence of proper
medical attention in
Government hospitals is com-
mon news for most. Death of
five accident victims at
Shushrut Trauma Centre due to
a malfunctioning oxygen plant
fiasco is the most glaring tes-
timony to the callous approach
of hospital administrations and
health officials.
Delhi has big Central
Government-run hospitals like
AIIMS, Dr RML and
Safdarjung. Apart from this, it
operates over 35 hospitals
including two homeopathy
medical centres and an
Ayurvedic-Unani facility.
But shortage of doctors,
medical equipments, beds,
medicines and unhealthy sur-
roundings, make almost all of
these medical institutions in
need of urgent attention. It is
not that the Government is not
aware of the fact; it wakes
whenever any untoward inci-
dent takes places. Ceremonial
statements are made. Enquiry
panels are set up but the
ground reality remains as it is.
Queues at OPDs are
unending and patients keep
camping in corridors for days
to be attended by doctors.
Even here, the ones who have
contacts in the higher-ups
are luckier than others. There
are three occupants to each
bed. Blood banks are unable to
meet the demand. If a patient
needs a simple ultrasound, he
has to wait for months. And on
top of that, over-burdened doc-
tors misbehave with patients, to
be prcised, they misbehave.
One has to use contacts to get
treatment and due attention.
Government provides land
to private hospitals at a con-
fessional rate with a condition
to provide free treatment to
people belonging economical-
ly weaker section. However, in
the absence of conviction and
enforcement, poor are not
received here too.
S
carcity of water is not something new. The
Government knows the fact but no concrete
solution has been provided. Every year in summer,
taps of hundred of households go dry in several
parts of the city. There are several colonies, which
receive short supply of water through out the year.
The usual and standard reply of the Delhi Jal Board
having the responsibility of supplying potable
water is that the said locality is situated at the
tail end and as pressure is low, it fails to get ade-
quate quantity of water. But the Board barely ever
tries to resolve this issue.
Every year, water supply in the Capital is
severely affected due to rise of pollutants in Yamuna
on multiple occasions as supply is curtailed but
no preparation is done or matter is discussed and
resolved. Blame is put on Haryana, which is
accused of being unable to put a check on indus-
tries which allow industrial waste directly flowing
into the river. All these mismanagement add to
Delhis water woes. The citys water demand in peak
summer months reaches 1,150 million gallons a
day, however 835 million gallons a day is available
after all resources are tapped into.
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W
ith mounting pressure on the
judiciary, only 435 judges are
posted in various courts in the
Capital and they have to tackle
6,72,361 pending cases in addition
to the ones that comes in daily.
Further, a mere 200 public prose-
cutors are available to assist the
court in those matters.
Amidst demands of trials to be
sped up, legal experts have rec-
ommended that more judges and
public prosecutors be appointed in
city courts for early disposal of
cases. Additional Solicitor General
Indira Jaisingh said, Public pros-
ecutor plays a vital role in point-
ing out the offence committed by
accused and to assist court on the
facts of the case.
If a prosecutor takes a leave for
short duration, it become tough to
search for a replacement to stand
before court and handle the case
smoothly for that duration as that
proxy prosecutor is invariably busy
in his own work, a Government
lawyer said adding that lack of pros-
ecutors in a city is one of the reasons
cases drag on for years and years.
According to data released on
October, a total of 6,72,361 cases
are pending in six district courts
of Delhi. A total of 17,501 includ-
ing 963 rapes cases, 1,359 murder
cases, 5,409 electricity dispute
cases,665 NDPS cases, 21 CBI
cases and 1,088 anti-corruption
cases are pending in various ses-
sions court. 77,703 cases including
trademark dispute, matrimonial
dispute arbitration and concilia-
tion are pending in before various
district judges while 77,269 traffic
cases are still to reach their con-
clusion. The highest number of
cases are pending before magis-
trate and evening courts. A total of
3,09,237 cases are pending before
various magisterial courts while
1,16,516 cases are dragging on in
evening court. 63,389 cases are
pending in civil courts while
10,746 cases relating to rent dis-
pute are facing pendency in trial
courts of capital.
hIhEE 8Ihh Q hEw 0ELh
H
aving a roof over the head is still a far off dream
for many in Delhi. Despite having paid the
money to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA),
thousands are yet to get a decent accommodation.
Several have been struggling due to irregular-
ities and delay in allotment for years.
The DDA had allotted plots in Sector 29, 30
and 32 of Rohini in the year 2003. The allottes of
these plots have made almost 85 per cent of the pay-
ment to the DDA. 12 years on, they are yet to build
a house of their own. With the DDA yet to pro-
vide basic infrastructure like road, water, sewer-
age connection and electricity, the allottes of these
plots have failed in getting their building plans
approved by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
Despite having made the payments and getting
physical possession from the DDA, these allottes
are yet to build their own house in Delhi.
While the allottes of 2003 having got the phys-
ical possession, those of 2009 are still waiting for
the same. Despite intervention of the court, the pro-
ject has missed all deadlines. While the DDA had
committed to the Delhi High Court that the pos-
session of 16,000 plots will be made by May 2013,
it has sought an extension till September 2013 in
the Supreme Court. With the DDA missing all its
deadline in the past, the allottes feel that the house
of their own is still a far off dream.
The tale of those aspiring to have a house of
their own in Delhi does not end here. For those
who have got the possession of their homes, mak-
ing it livable is again a next to impossible task. The
DDA had allotted flats in Dwarka, Rohini and
Mukherjee Nagar earlier this year. While the year
has come to an end, the owners of these flats are
struggling to make their houses livable.
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o how every asecl o our lives need immediale allenlion. The colleclive ailure o lhe slale machinery - rom lhe execulive and lhe olice lo our
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year. 0uring 2OO81O, lhe 0elhi high
courl disosed o u lo O4,OOO cases.
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W
hile steep power tariff hike
of about 26 per cent has
burnt holes in Delhiites pockets,
there is no improvement of ser-
vice quality. Prolonged power cuts
have remained a regular feature.
The peak demand for power in
Delhi this year crossed 5,500
MW. While Delhiites continued
to pay the hiked power tariffs, the
discoms failed to meet the
demand for power in the Capital.
All the demands of the resident
bodies fell on deaf ears of the
Government.
Its easy to get a power con-
nection in Delhi, but rectifying a
wrong bill is a Herculean task.
After increase in power tariff in
June, the electricity bills have
increased by more than 100 per
cent. With grievances piling up,
discoms first want the consumers
to pay the outstanding and then
demand a bill correction, forcing
people to pay at the hiked rate.
Despite various resident bod-
ies claim that the discoms are
making huge profits, the Delhi
Electricity Regulatory Commis-
sion went ahead in favour of the
discoms increasing tariffs. While
NDMC has not asked for any tar-
iff revision, BSES, BYPL and
NDPL have succeeded in con-
vincing the DERC that they are
making losses and hike tariffs.
The DERC is well aware of
the fact that peak hour power
purchase prices have been con-
stantly falling since 2009.
Power scenario remains grim
8hk8hI 8h8hkh Q hEw 0ELh
G
etting admitted their wards in good
school is another challenging task in
the Capital. Parents spend sleepless nights
for their children when the process of nurs-
ery admission begins. Despite fulfilling cri-
teria, several have to pay huge amount as
donation. If reports are to be believed, one
needs to shell out C15 lakhs for an admis-
sion in reputed public school in the city.
All this is due to Governments failure
to provide quality education in its schools.
Despite making tall promises to bring their
school at par with public school, the
municipal corporations have failed not only
to achieve it but also to provide basic
amenities to the students. Large number
students still sit on the floor as procurement
of new desks has been delayed.
Blame it on bureaucratic mismanage-
ment or political inefficiency when chilly
winter holds grip on the entire Capital, about
10 lakh students in over 1,700 schools are
yet to receive C500 meant for buying
woolen uniforms. Usually, students are
given the money by October. The allowance
of C120 per student for buying school bags
has also not been given. Shortage of teach-
ers has only compounded their problems.
Seven years after the erstwhile
Municipal Corporation of Delhi intro-
duced computer education in its curriculum
by investing close to C50 crore, the computer
labs in 1300-odd municipal schools are non-
functional. For the last two years, the civic
agency is struggling to re-start the project.
0ood 0ovl school
slill a ar cry in cily
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R
ecent gang-rape of 23-year-
old paramedical student in
the moving bus on December 16
exposed the weak and poor
policing management in the
Capital. Though, Delhi Police
has around 83,762 personnel,
only 30 per cent of their staff is
actually available for general
policing. However, a large num-
ber of personnel are under VIPs
security arrangement.
Ten per cent of worlds
biggest metropolitan police force
with sanctioned strength of
83,762 personnel are posted
with around 416 VIPs to protect
them. The city has 11 districts
and the overall sanctioned
strength is 36,593 personnel or
3,326 per district. On the
ground, the availability of per-
sonnel is even less. The New
Delhi district has 341 police per-
sonnel in each of its seven
police stations while the one
largest jurisdiction district such
as outer district has 278 cops in
each of its 11 police stations, a
senior police official said on the
condition of anonymity.
The statistics of Delhi Police
show that the around 8,500 VIPs
from across India and the world
visit Delhi, whose security is also
the Delhi polices responsibility.
However, the shocking fact is that
the after providing security to the
VIPs, prominent celebrity on a
daily basis, finally only one
policeman is available to protect
around 495 Delhiites.
After the brutal gang-rape
incident in Vasant Vihar area, the
demand of augmentation of the
Police Control Room vans on
roads are obvious. Visibility of
men in khaki on roads at night is
also need of the hours. But the
question is under these circum-
stances, how can these limited
numbers of policemen protect a
common man. The answer is with
higher authorities.
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lhe olher hand, lolal 1,O27 robbery
cases were reorled in 2O11. "454
rae cases, including minors, have
been reorled lill Augusl while 4O8
were reorled in 2O11. Allemled
murder incidenls have been
reorled 285 in 2O12 while 2G8 were
reorled in lhe lasl year. 2,485 cases
o kidnaing have been reorled lill
Augusl as 2481 cases were reorled
in 2O11, as er oicial record.
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capital 0S NEW DELH TUESDAY JANUARY 1, 2013
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A
23-year-old youth allegedly
killed a 20-year-old girl working
with a Noida-based BPO after she
refused his marriage proposal, in
New Ashok Nagar area on Monday
evening. After chasing the accused
Devender for around 200 metres,
police nabbed him from the spot.
Another youth who was with the girl
was injured severely.
Preliminary investigation
revealed that the accused Devender
was following the girl Neha Yadav
since 10 am and had tried to attack
her at Hira Sweets in Krishna Nagar
near Bangla Sahib Gurudwara. He
finally waylaid her near New Ashok
Nagar.
Police said that accused
Devender lived in the same colony
as Neha in Rajveer Colony, Mayur
Vihar Phase III in East Delhi. The
accused is a private cab driver and
knew the victim for the last two
years.
Police said that the incident
occurred around 4.50 pm on
Monday when the Neha and her
friend Gaurav were returning from
EDM Mall in Anand Vihar in an
Alto car. Gaurav worked in the
same company and was Nehas
team leader. They were intercept-
ed by the accused Devender near
timber market in Dallupura Village.
Gaurav came out from his car and
had an argument wit h t he
Devender. Neha also came out of
the car and suddenly, accused
Devender attacked Gaurav with
his helmet and whipped out a
knife and stabbed him. Gaurav
ran to the nearby police post for aid.
The accused started abusing
Neha before stabbing her in the
stomach. He attacked the victim at
least three times in the abdomen and
thighs. As the woman collapsed, the
accused tried to flee leaving his
motorbike behind, the officer added.
Police said that by then, Gaurav
had come back with police consta-
ble Surender Sharma who began to
chase the accused. A bystander
helped the cop nab the attacker. The
victims were taken to Lal Bahadur
Shashtri Hospital where the girl was
declared brought-dead. Gaurav is
recuperating, an official said.
During interrogation, Devender
told the police that he had fallen in
love with Neha and wanted to marry
her. But her family had turned him
down and she also refused his mar-
riage proposal. She was also ignor-
ing him for the past 25 days.
8TkII EFTE Q hEw 0ELh
P
olice on Monday arrested the teenaged
brother of the 16-year-old girl who was
allegedly molested by an off-duty conductor in
a moving DTC cluster bus at Tansen Marg in
New Delhi, for allegedly raping her six month
ago. The police said that girl, while recording
her statement, disclosed that her brother,
Nazakat Ali (19) has molested her and sexual-
ly assaulted her six month ago.
It also comes to light days after a 23-year-
old girl was gang-raped in a moving bus in south
Delhi a fortnight ago. She also told us that her
brother had raped her six months ago and was
molesting her thereafter. We have arrested the
boy, the police said.
The girls tragic story came to light when
police reached her residence in west Delhis
Khyala on Saturaday to record her statement
during which she disclosed that facts that her
father had married thrice and they were living
with his third wife. She claimed that there were
problems and harassment in the family.
The girl had run away from her house fol-
lowing harassment by her family and was
molestated by an off-duty conductor, Ranjit
Singh. The conductor was arrested later. On
Saturday night, the girl had left her house at
around 9:30 pm and when the bus reached
Mandi House at around 11 pm, police person-
nel noticed the girl inside the bus alone crying.
Family has lodged a case of kidnapping after girl
went missing.
8TkII EFTE Q hEw 0ELh
D
elhi bid a chilly adieu to
2012 on Monday as the
mercury went as low as 5
degrees Celsius for the first
time this season. The maximum
temperature on Monday was
also recorded at the lowest of the
season at 13.3 degree Celsius.
Cold northern winds
caused the temperature to go to
the all-time low of this season.
The weatherman forecast the
minimum temperature to be
around five degree Celsius till
January 2.
Low temperatures coupled
with fog wreaked havoc on the
air and rail traffic schedules.
Low visibility procedures (LVP)
were implemented at the air-
port at 7.15 am and 10.10 am.
Due to thin fog, over 20 flights
were cancelled and more than
40 were delayed. About 24
trains are running late from
two to 38 hours including
Bhagalpur Garib Rath, B
Vaishali Express and Punjab
Mail. Railway authority has
rescheduled 14 trains and can-
celled 13 trains.
The cold north-westerly
and westerly winds kept the
temperature at the all time low
of the season on Monday in the
city. The maximum temperature
was recorded at seven degrees
below normal and the mini-
mum at two degrees below the
normal temperature recorded at
this time of the year.
The night temperatures
will fall further and the mini-
mum temperature will not rise
above five degrees for the next
two days, said the Airport
Met Director RK Jenamani.
A thick layer of fog is also
expected to envelope the city
from late Monday night to the
wee hours of the New Year that
will be continued for the next
two days. Some respite from
cold is expected only from
January 3 onwards when the
direction of the wind is expect-
ed to change.
Easterly winds will blow
into the city from January 3
which will lead to a marginal
rise in the temperature, said a
scientist of the Regional
Meteorological Office. The day
temperature will increase then
while the night temperature
will continue to fall. The weath-
erman also said that a new
Western Disturbance is
approaching India on January3.
While this will lead to snow-
fall and rainfall in the
Himalayas, the temperature of
the plains will rise by a degree
or two, added the scientist.
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G
rief-stricken protesters on
Monday continued their
agitation at Jantar Mantar
against violence on women, a
day after the citys gang-rape
victim was cremated under
heavy security.
Despite a significant dip in
the mercury, public, particu-
larly students and women,
reached the venue in large
number. Besides pressing for
speedy trial and conviction of
all six accused, mourners have
urged the Government to enact
strict legislation against rape
and other crimes. Two people
are sitting on a hunger strike at
the spot.
Im on hunger strike for
the past three days. I will con-
tinue my fast until fast-track
courts come up to hear cases of
sexual harassment, said
Babusingh Ram, one of them.
The All India Students
Association (AISA) also carried
out a march with least 1,000
members in Connaught Place.
Delhi Police have announced a
ban on motor traffic in and
around Connaught Place from
7 pm on Monday on the occa-
sion of New Years Eve.
Meanwhile, three Delhi
Metro Stations -- Rajiv Chowk,
Barakhamba Road and Patel
Chowk were closed at 7.30
pm on Monday. Commuters
were not allowed to enter or
leave the three stations from
that time due to security
restrictions related to New Year
celebrations, a metro official
said.
Earlier in the day, traffic
restrictions imposed near India
Gate and Raisina Hill to con-
tain protests over the gang-rape
were eased even as protests
continued in the capital.
Vehicular movement was
allowed on Central Vista of
India Gate as well as cross traf-
fic on Rajpath. Metro stations,
which were yet to be reopened,
were also opened for the pub-
lic. Police had imposed a lock-
down at India Gate and Raisina
Hill following violent protests
against the gang-rape incident.
Though traffic was allowed on
Monday, a large number of
police personnel was deployed
on approach roads to India
Gate and Raisina Hill.
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O
nce again pressing for a spe-
cial session of Parliament to
strengthen the law related to
crimes against women, BJP has
demanded that there should be
no provision for convicts sen-
tenced to death in rape cases to
file a mercy petition.
Attacking the Congress-
led UPA Government, leader of
Opposition in Lok Sabha
Sushma Swaraj also questioned
the secrecy in the cremation of
the 23-year-old girl, who was
gang-raped in a moving bus on
December 16.
Referring to five cases of
rape-cum-murder in which
the UPA Government had
allowed the mercy pleas of the
convicts to change the death
sentence to life imprisonment,
she said, The culprits be
hanged and the Government
should not accept any mercy
petitions in such cases. If this
can be done then this will be
the only respect to that victim.
Speaking at a condolence
meet for the 23-year-old Delhi
gang-rape victim organised by
Delhi BJP, Swaraj said that
2013 should be used to
strengthen all laws related to
crimes against women and that
action would be the real trib-
ute to the young gang-rape vic-
tim who died on Saturday.
Our party has announced
that we will not celebrate the
New Year. But not celebrating
will not be enough. This year
2013 should be dedicated for
the safety of women. Even if
they Government dont call a
special session, the Budget
Session should be used for
amending all laws for protect-
ing women, she added.
Categorising the crimes as
cruel, brutal, barbaric or beast-
ly, the Leader of Opposition in
Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitely said
the gang-rape of the girl could
not be described in these terms
and said it appeared that we
have failed the test of civility.
Crimes are sometimes cat-
egorised as cruel, then brutal,
then barbaric and then beast-
ly. But in this case all these four
words will fall short of describ-
ing the crime that has taken
place. The parameters of a
good civilisation are measured
by the condition of women and
the behaviour that is being
meted out to them in that
civilisation. It seems we have
failed the test of civility, he
said. Also present in the meet-
ing were senior BJP leaders
Ram Lal and Shahnawaz
Hussain including Delhi BJP
president Vijender Gupta and
several others.
8TkII EFTE Q hEw 0ELh
N
oting that rounding up and sterilisation of
canines was not yielding the desired results,
the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC)
is now planning to start on-spot sterilisation of
street dogs. Chairman, Health Committee of NMC
Dr Sanjeev Nayyar said: The mortality rate is very
high if there is any lapse in treatment. Therefore,
we need to modernise our system to control the
problem. The current practice is bit complicated
and time consuming. We can introduce new sur-
gical methods to conduct on-spot sterilisation.
Currently, sterilisation of canines is being
done by NGOs who run sterilisation centers at
different locations across the Capital. Stray dogs
are picked by the Corporation staff members in
a van and taken to the centers for sterlisation,
before dropping them back to the place from
where they were picked from. The system has
failed to deliver desired results. This year, only
2,368 stray dogs were sent to the centers of for
sterilisation. The civic body would now create
its own infrastructure to reduce the rate of repro-
duction of canines, Nayyar added.
Nayyar told the the Standing Committee that
the introduction of laser operation technique
would help in conducting on-spot operation and
the canines would not be required to be kept at
the sterilisation centers post operation.
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a financial assistance of Rs 15 lakh to the next of kin of the
23-year-old gangrape victim and offered a job to a family mem-
ber of the girl, who died on Saturday. The decisions were taken
at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit. The decision has been taken by effecting relaxation
in rules. Chief Ministers office in a statement said, Keeping
in view the extreme exceptional circumstances and barbaric
nature of the crime, the Cabinet decided to sanction an amount
of 15 lakh to the surviving members of the victim. The deci-
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T
he Delhi Police has arrest-
ed an army personnel and
his associate middle man
who were involved in illegal
sale of Indian made foreign
liquor meant for armed forces.
252 bottles of different brands
Mc Dowels, Contessa and
Bagpiper were recovered from
their possession. Police have
also impounded two cars,
including an army ambassador
car used for supplying of ille-
gal alcohol.
Police said that the accused
have been identified as Chandi
Ram Sharma and Anil Kumar
Sharma. They were booked
under Section 33 of the Delhi
Excise Act, 2009.
Accused Chandi Ram,
posted with Transport
Department of Army as driver
and after their arrest, now the
case is being examined by the
Army officials to find out the
origin and chain of supply.
"In the last week of
December month, police
received a tip off that a illegal
alcohol supplier would be com-
ing near Mother Teresa
Crescent road, near Rashtrapati
Bhavan with some cartoons of
illegal alcohol, supposed to be
distributed indifferent parts of
Delhi to their customers," a
senior police officer said.
Police acting on a tip-off,
police laid a trap and on the
instances of their informers,
they stopped a Hyundai
Accent. "They arrested the
accused - Anil Kumar Sharma
and after examination of the
car, police seized around 108
bottles of illegal alcohol," the
officer added.
8TkII EFTE Q hEw 0ELh
D
eepak Mohan Spolia, a
1979-batch IAS officer, on
Monday took charge of Chief
Secretary of Del hi
Government. 57-year-old
Spolia has succeeded
Praveen Kumar Tripathi,
who retired on December 31.
DM Spolia, an IAS officer
of AGMUT cadre, was hold-
ing charge of principal secre-
tary, Finance and Planning.
Tripathi has been given the
charge of Chairman of the
Publ i c Gri evance
Commission after his retire-
ment. Spolia is considered
close to chief minister Sheila
Dikshit and outgoing chief
secretary PK Tripathi.
Spolia has been instru-
mental in defending the
Sheila Dikshit Government
and preparing replies to CAG
and VK Shunglu committee's
adverse report against the
State Government.
He has been served as
Development Commissioner,
Principal Secretary, Land ft
Building and Principal
Secretary of Irrigation and
Flood Control in Delhi
Government.
Spolia was behind distrib-
uting provisional regularisation
certificate to 1200 unauthorised
colonies ahead of 2008 assem-
bly polls in Delhi, which helped
the ruling
Congress Government to
create a history in winning the
elections thrice in the nation-
al Capital.
On Monday, Delhi Cabinet
placed on record its apprecia-
tion for the outstanding work
and the contribution made by
the outgoing Chief Secretary
towards providing better
Governance in Delhi.
8TkII EFTE Q hEw 0ELh
A
women helpline number -
181 set up by the Delhi
Government to address the
grievances of women in distress
received more than 1300 calls
on Monday, the first day it
made functional.
According to a senior offi-
cial of Delhi Government, total
17 calls were actual calls with
various complaints, however,
1,300 calls were to check the
status of the helpline launched
by the Government.
While informing about
nature of calls, an official said
one of the family wanted to
lodge complaint about their
missing girl. "One of the calls
said their girl has eloped with
a boy and they wanted to lodge
complaint. However, a woman
wanted that her husband be
traced who has run away with
another women," he added.
The helpline launched with
great fanfare by the Delhi Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit after
brutal gang rape of 23 years old
girl in moving bus on
December 16. The helpline
number remained non-opera-
tional for first few hours on
Monday. Callers were greeted
by a long beep sound in the
morning however it became
operation by the evening.
Officials said that the
helpline could not be made
functional due to some glitch-
es in the MTNL network.
"The helpline, which will
operate from the Chief
Minister's office in Delhi
Secretariat, can be contacted
from landlines as well as mobile
phones," he added.
However, official claimed
that the helpline started func-
tioning normal after initial
hours, once the glitches were
removed from the telecom ser-
vice provider network.
The Telecom ministry had
last week released the three-
digit number following a
request by Dikshit. It will be the
first three-digit number to
have been allotted by the
Ministry in two years.
The Ministry had earlier
allotted '167' for the helpline
but upon request for a number
that would be easier to remem-
ber, the number was changed
to '181'.
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Helpline number
remained non-
operational for
first few hours on
Monday. Callers
were greeted by a
long beep sound
in the morning,
however, it
became operation
by the evening
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Finance and
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From Page 1
Two of the accused
Mukesh and Akshay Singh,
alias Thakur have under-
gone the test identification
parade while the others accept-
ed charge and refused to do so.
Both Mukesh and Akshay
Singh, alias Thakur, were iden-
tified by the male friend (28-
year-old software engineer) of
the victim who was present in
the bus when she was subju-
gated and subjected to a beast-
ly rape. Her friend was also
smashed with iron road by the
accused when he tried to save
his friend.
The Delhi Police has
appointed Supreme Court
lawyer Dayan Krishnan as the
Special Pubic Prosecutor, he
will be assisted by two juniors.
Krishnan has been represent-
ing NIA, Delhi Police and
other agencies at various courts
in many cases including the
Nitish Katara murder case.
It may be recalled that the
Delhi Police had initially reg-
istered an FIR at Vasant Vihar
police station against the six
accused persons namely; Ram
Singh, the bus driver, his
younger brother Mukesh, veg-
etable seller Pavan Gupta,
Vinay Sharma, a gym assistant
at Asiad Police gym and Raju.
Police case is backed by
solid forensic evidence. The
Medico Legal Case (MLC) pre-
pared by the doctors of AIIMS
Trauma centre is self explana-
tory in nature.
The hapless girl had suf-
fered very serious injuries, in
her abdomen, pelvic region,
cervix, internal organs, and
intestines were extensively
damaged.
From Page 1
Despite demands by Delhi
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit
and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish
Kumar, the Government has
decided not to cover food sub-
sidy under cash transfer as
many chief ministers, like
Chhattisgarh's Raman Singh
are opposed to it.
Chidambaram said that
the subsidies for food, fertiliz-
er, diesel, LPG and kerosene
will not be brought under DBT
at present as entitlements are
more complex.
Initially the benefit of seven
central schemes -post matric
scholarships for SC, STs and
OBCs, Indira Gandhi Matrutva
Sahayata Yojana,
Dhanalakshmi scheme and
stipend scheme for SC, ST job
seekers-will be directly credit-
ed into the bank accounts of
beneficiaries across 20 districts
from January 1, he said. The
scheme will be rolled out in the
whole country by the end of
2013.
Explaining why the earlier
timeline of launching the
scheme in all 43 districts from
January 1 was changed,
Chidambaram said, "We are
proceeding with a great degree
of caution. We will look at
transferring all subsidies and
benefits through this scheme
but we have to do it slowly. We
are not going to rush into any-
thing and then find that the
system cannot cope with it.
"This (DBT) is indeed a
game-changer for governance,
the manner in which we gov-
ern. This is a game-changer in
which we account for money.
It is a game changer in the
manner in which the benefit
reaches the beneficiary without
any intermediation by any
human being."
However, he parried ques-
tions about the Congress hop-
ing to get political mileage
from the scheme during the
Lok Sabha polls and even
avoided using the slogan
"Aapka paisa apake hath"
coined by his colleague Jairam
Ramesh during a briefing at the
AICC headquarters earlier.
When asked about the slo-
gan repeatedly, he said the slo-
gan was apt as it could be
understood by everyone
including a non-Hindi speak-
ing person like him.
According to the
Government, the scheme will
not only stop leakages and
corruption but also lead to
financial inclusion for the poor
who will be able to get their
bank account opened. But it
will not be a substitute for the
delivery of public service.
Chidambaram, however,
appealed that the scheme
should not be judged immedi-
ately and its impact should be
seen over a longer period of
time before terming it as suc-
cess or failure.s
Chidambaram said that
initial glitches may happen
during operationalisation, but
a monitoring mechanism is in
place to resolve them.
From Page 1
"He was fine till Monday
(December 24) evening. We
brought him home from the
police station after his bail. He
massaged my legs for some
time before going to bed. On
Tuesday morning someone
called on my phone at 8:30 am
from the Mehrauli police sta-
tion and wanted to speak to
Chandrakant. I said he was
asleep. The person, who iden-
tified himself as a police offi-
cer, called again at around 11
am. This time he said that he
wanted Chandrakant to instal
a switch board at the police sta-
tion since he was doing ITI in
electrical.
I made Chandu speak with
him but told him that he could-
n't do this," recalled Navrang,
Chandrakant's father.
"He looked lost after speak-
ing on the phone. Between 1:30
pm and 2 pm, he hanged him-
self," Navrang said.
The boy studied in ITI
Nizamuddin and he, along
with his two friends, would
usually board a bus on route
413 from Lado Sarai bus stand.
On December 24, a girl named
Charu (name changed), a res-
ident of Mehrauli, lodged a
complaint against Chandrakant
and his friends in Mehrauli
police station.
Charu and her friend also
used to board the same bus
from the same bus stop as she
studied in ITI Siri Fort.
In her complaint she said
that Chandrakant and his
friends would tease the girls
and passed lewd comments
on them whenever they would
see them.
On December 24, Charu
came along with her brother
and a few of his friends at the
bus stand in the morning
where the girl's brother and his
friends allegedly roughed up
Chandrakant before handing
him over to the police while his
other friends fled.
The police booked him
under Sections 506/509 Indian
Panel Code and later in the day
took the boy to the ITI where
he studied, to identify his
other friends. Another boy
named Sonu was also appre-
hended by the police in the
same case.
"He felt immensely insult-
ed by this because he had a
clean image in the college. He
kept reiterating before the
police that he had not done it,"
said Naveen, the deceased's
elder brother.
"He was a strong boy. He
would not give in to mild pres-
sure," said Navrang. The police
released the boy on bail in the
evening.
A day after Chandrakant
committed suicide, Sonu con-
sumed poison and tried to kill
himself. But he was rushed to
the hospital in time and saved.
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From Page 1
Swaraj said, "We feel that if
a murder takes place after kid-
nap and rape, then the death
penalty should be the only
punishment. But my demand
of the special session was
rejected by the Home Minister.
Then we demanded an all-
party meeting to discuss the
security of women but that was
rejected too."
The Opposition leader
claimed the BJP will utilise the
Budget Session of Parliament
to articulate its views on the
subjects as the Government has
decided against calling a spe-
cial session. Party spokesman
Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said
as a political party the BJP had
every right to raise the matter
on the floor of Parliament and
it will discharge its duty by ask-
ing the Government during
Budget Session for harsher
punishment to rape convicts.
Jaitley said, "Crimes are
sometimes categorised as cruel,
then brutal, then barbaric and
then beastly. But in this case all
these four words will fall short
of describing the crime that has
taken place. The parameters of
a good civilisation are mea-
sured by the condition of
women and the behaviour that
is being meted out to them in
that civilisation. It seems we
have failed the test of civility."
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From Page 1
Opposition BJP too decid-
ed that the party would not cel-
ebrate New Year. Leader of
Opposition Sushma Swaraj
made an announcement in
this regard while participating
in a condolence meeting at
Delhi state BJP office on
Monday. Reflecting the mood
in the city, all leading markets
of Delhi took a decision to tone
down the level of celebrations.
The Khan Market
Association, traders and staff
members observed a two-
minute silence on Monday in
memory of the braveheart who
stirred the conscience of the
entire nation. The market asso-
ciation also decided to suspend
New Years' celebration and
urged all shopkeepers to keep
the lights of their signboards off
as a mark of respect for the
departed soul.
"The shopkeepers and staff
members of Khan Market dis-
tributed and wore black arm-
bands and the market was
closed till mid-day on Sunday
for a silent protest," Harish
Malik, Secretary, Khan Market
Traders Association said.
In a similar move, the New
Delhi Traders Association
(NDTA) decided not to deco-
rate Connaught Place or cele-
brate any function on New
Year's Eve or on New Year's
Day. President, of the NDTA,
Atul Bhargva expressed his
grief over the death of the girl
and said that the members
would not celebrate or organ-
ise any programme on this
New Year's Eve as a symbol of
"mourning" over the unfortu-
nate incident that shocked the
city. "We are not doing any-
thing this time. We condemned
the incident that caused the
death of a promising young
woman. The silence that will
envelop the city' s heart,
Connaught Place, on this New
Year's Day will be a mark of
mourning for that brave girl,
who battled for her life for 13
days. We express our grief and
sorrow," Bhargva said.
The traders association
demanded strict punishment
like death sentence for the six
men who have been arrested on
charges of rape, dacoity and
murder of the student.
"We feel the same pain
that the girl's family suffered
during her 13 day-long battle
for life," the association said
while canceling all celebra-
tions. Bhargva added the impo-
sition of Section 144, IPC to
control unlawful assembly and
prevent any violence in the
New Delhi district was also
another reason for not holding
any function this year.
Delhi Police decided to
close Connaught Place after 7:
30 pm. One of Delhi's oldest
five-star hotels, Ashoka Hotel
also joined the mourning and
decided to close its most fre-
quented nightclub whereas
other bar owners too echoed
the same sentiments and scaled
down the level of celebrations.
Delhi's famous Gymkhana,
where top officials and minis-
ters are often seen spending
time, cancelled its party as did
the Press Club. The common
man too joined the girl's fam-
ily in mourning and thou-
sands braved the chilly Delhi
winter to express their feelings
through peaceful protests in
different areas of the Capital.
"Our heart goes out to the
family of the woman who
fought for her life so bravely.
The least we can do is, show
our respect and send out the
message that we share their
grief," said Sandeep Nayyar of
Mukherjee Nagar who had
come to Jantar Mantar to pay
homage to the departed soul.
There were hundreds of
others who joined Nayyar and
vowed to do the same.
Protesters converged at Jantar
Mantar and on the route where
the girl was brutalized by the
rapists. She had died on
Saturday in Singapore where
she was being treated for severe
injuries. She was cremated in
Delhi on Sunday amid heavy
security arrangements.
Nation rings ...
From Page 1
The hide-bound bureau-
cracy needs to fundamentally
alter its maa-baap attitude, its
complacency replaced by a
sense of accountability, the
police have to be sensitised to
new challenges, particularly
while dealing with women's
issues, the size of the judiciary
as well as the speed of delivery
of justice must keep pace with
social changes.
At present there is a fierce
disconnect between the system
and large sections of the gov-
erned. The perverts who per-
petrated unspeakable brutali-
ties on the Delhi gang-rape vic-
tim are, after all, products of
this disconnect.
The poor and crime-
infested underbelly of urban
India, patronised by the polit-
ical class do not regard them-
selves as stakeholders in the
social order.
Such urban underbellies
existed even in developed
countries; Harlem in New York
and Brixton in London, for
example were dreaded ghettos
outside the pale of the law till
a couple of decades ago. They
are now transformed. This
transition required the leader-
ships imagination and effective
economic measures.
In the next few decades,
India will add many more
cities, while small towns will
become more crowded as eco-
nomic opportunities grow and
the rural population is tempt-
ed to migrate.
Are we planning for this
impending change although
this is writ large on the wall? It
is comforting to preach change
of mindsets, getting rid of dis-
criminatory and chauvinistic
social values and so on.
But these changes cannot
occur in a void. Unless we plan
our future, the future will over-
power us and it will be too late
to adjust.
If islands of progress, such
as Gujarat, can flourish amid a
sea of stagnancy, clearly things
can get done if there is a will to
change.
This must be a collective
yearning, which results in col-
lective social determination.
For that to happen, agendas
must change across the board.
For that, in turn, stake-
holders must accept that chal-
ta hai won't work any longer;
that people are impatient. We
have seen during 2011-12
what the collective determi-
nation of people can do; it
can shake even a somnolent
Government as ours out of
its stupor.
New methods of mass
mobilisation, through the social
media for example, are rapid-
ly changing the political land-
scape. Those who can grab the
new opportunities for leader-
ship will emerge as tomorrow's
heroes.
The gloom of 2012 can, in
the end, generate hope. Just as
there is such inequality, injus-
tice and agony in today's India,
it is also throbbing with vital-
ity and raw energy. The chal-
lenge is to channel that energy
to serve the cause of India's
transformation so that the
country can attain the status it
is destined to by history.
Let`s leeo tle lessons of 2012
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T
hree youths allegedly tried to set the house of Ram Singh,
the main accused in the gruesome gang-rape case of the 23-
year-old paramedical student, ablaze in R K Puram area of South
Delhi on Monday evening.
Police said that around 7.10 pm on Monday they received a
PCR call from some passerby that some people tried to torch Ram's
house in Ravidas Camp by putting a cracker. "After receiving the
call, local police along with two fire tenders and a bomb squad
immediately rushed to the spot," a senior police officer said.
After reaching at the spot, police found that two crackers were
exploded before their arrival in which one person is reported-
ly sustained minor injuries. One of the youth was apprehended
by the police while two others escaped. "Initial investigation
revealed that three persons came in auto rickshaw and they asked
about Ram Singh's residence. Later, they placed two crackers out-
side his house which were apparently looked like bomb and soon
after this, the crackers exploded and one person got injured," the
officer added. After seen the crackers, some passerby spotted them
and screamed for help. They immediately made a PCR call and
informed the police about this matter. One of the youth was appre-
hended by the passerby while two others escaped.
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nation 05
NEW DELH TUESDAY JANUARY 1, 2013
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A
gainst the backdrop of the
Delhi gang-rape, former
Army chief General VK Singh
on Monday said even death
penalty is too less a punish-
ment for such ghastly behav-
iour. He held the Government
as well as the Opposition
responsible for the present
state of affairs in the country
and said the protests by the
youth were justified.
Advocating strong laws to
act as deterrence, the former
Army chief cited the instance
of the US where violating a traf-
fic stop signal invites a fine of
500 dollars which is high even
by US standards.
Singh, who was booked by
the Delhi Police on charges of
inciting the protesters at India
Gate last week, said the
Government seemed to have
failed to listen to the protesters.
There is much more to their
frustration and anger than this
issue. And the problem is of the
system. If the system had been
alright, such an incident would
not have taken place, he said.
Criticising the Government
for shying away from calling a
special session of Parliament to
frame stringent laws to deal with
rape incidents, the former chief
said: It is regrettable that the
Government is not in favour of
a special session as leader of
Opposition Sushma Swaraj has
raised this demand. The
Government should go for a
special session as this is janatas
awaaz (public demand).
Taking the Opposition also
to task, Singh said if it feels so
strongly about this incident, they
should come out in the streets to
register their protest as they have
done on various other issues.
As regards the police case
against him, Singh said television
footage clearly showed his speech
and if that is called provocation
then there is a need for changing
the definition of provocation.
New Delhi: The Armed
Forces have decided against
celebrating New Year as a
mark of respect to the gang-
rape victim. Defence Minister
AK Antony had not even
accepted birthday wishes from
anyone on December 28.
Army chief General Bikram
Singh on Monday ordered all
formations that they should
not organise New Year parties.
The Navy and the Indian Air
Force also issued similar
orders to their units.
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hEw 0ELh
T
he Government on
Monday dismissed the
BJPs demand for convening a
special session of Parliament
with Finance Minister P
Chidambaram saying that ses-
sion would be called only after
receiving the Justice JS Verma
Committee report on making
rape laws stringent.
It also clarified that the
decision on holding an all-
party meeting, as being
demanded by the Opposition,
will be taken only after receiv-
ing the report of the three-
member panel.
The ruling Congress, on
the other hand, refused to take
a stand on the contentious
issue of special session leaving
it to be decided by those
responsible for Parliamentary
procedures.
A special session or a ses-
sion of Parliament makes sense
only when the report is received
by the Government...So let us
first get the report and then we
can examine when the session
of Parliament should be,
Chidambaram said. He main-
tained that the Parliament ses-
sion is required not just to dis-
cuss the incident but pass more
effective laws both for appre-
hending people and punishing
people and for the procedural
aspects.
Minister of State for Home
RPN Singh too echoed similar
views on the all-party meeting.
The committee constituted on
December 23 has been given 30
days time to submit its report.
Congress spokesperson
Renuka Chowdhury said that
the party is not or against the
special session but a decision
on the issue involving
Parliamentary procedure
would have to be taken by
those concerned like Lok Sabha
speaker Meira Kumar, Rajya
Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari
and Business Advisory
Committee. She said that on
such an issue, there should not
be any conflict.
Congress President Sonia
Gandhi has made some sug-
gestions to the Government
about making stringent laws.
Chemical castration, death
penalty and making compul-
sory registration of sexual
offenders so that they are eas-
ily identified and segregated
from the society are measures
being considered by the party,
Renuka said. Sonia during the
past few days had held meet-
ings with various leaders, legal
experts and women activists
and based on their suggestions
asked the Government to take
swift measures.
Women party MPs also
made a number of suggestions
at a meeting called by AICC
General Secretary in-charge
of Women Affairs Mohsina
Kidwai to prevent recurrence of
such a heinous crime. The
partys Chintan Shivir next
month is also likely to discuss
womens safety.
These suggestions being
discussed within the party
would be given to the
Government and may be for-
warded to Justice Verma panel
for consideration, she said.
The partys Chintan Shivir next
month is also likely to discuss
womens safety.
Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde, mean-
while, is writing letters, asking
all political parties to send
their suggestion to the panel
which was constituted follow-
ing the brutal gang-rape.
However, adopting a cau-
tious approach about Khap
panchayats opposition to death
penalty for rapists, the
Congress spokesperson said
that in collective angst against
such a crime, a lot of sugges-
tions come but considered
views should be taken to avoid
any knee jerk reactions.
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xcited with the response to
its state-of-the-art Central
Kitchen at Noida, the Indian
Railway Catering and Tourism
Corporation (IRCTC) is
mulling over replicating the
model in other parts of the
country.
The IRCTC will soon set
up a similar food factory in
Chennai and is working on
having its units in another
four metro cities. We are
hopeful that our food factory in
Chennai will be inaugurated
before June next year, IRCTCs
Joint General Manager Pradip
Kundu said. Incorporated in
1999, the IRCTC is a public
sector enterprise under the
Ministry of Railways.
The company also propos-
es to set up Central Kitchens in
Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore
and Mumbai. Principal objec-
tive (of these kitchens) is to
cater to the demand of high
quality food at reasonable prices
to the largely untapped corpo-
rate sector, he said.
IRCTC is eyeing big busi-
ness from its Chennai kitchen
and other four proposed
kitchens because of IT industries
and MNCs offices in these cities.
At present, the IRCTCs
Central Kitchen at Noida pro-
duces 10,000 meals a day.
IRCTC plans to increase the
capacity to 25,000 meals a day
in the second phase, next year.
As of now, it serves around
6,500 snack items every day for
the various Rajdhani and
Duronto Express trains origi-
nating from Delhi area. Around
1,000 meals are also served
daily to the passengers of
Ahmedabad Rajdhani Express.
The Noida food factory
caters to clients outside
Railways. It serves around 3500
meals everyday to corporate
clients like HCL, Samsung,
Lava Mobile, Aditya Birla
group, Supertech Builders, Tata
McGraw Hill and others. Some
of these companies have all
their meals (breakfast, lunch
and dinner) supplied from
here for their employees.
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T
he Enforcement
Directorate is all set to
tighten the noose around Yoga
Guru Baba Ramdev with the
agency planning to use a pro-
vision under the Indian
Passports Act to treat certain
portion of the assets acquired
by his trusts as proceeds of
crime and attach them.
CBI has chargesheeted
Ramdevs close aide Balkrishna
for using fake documents
issued by Sampoornanand
Sanskrit Vidyalaya to seek an
Indian passport.
Violation of the Indian
Passports Act is a scheduled
offence under the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act and
properties acquired by using
such travel documents are con-
sidered proceeds of the crime
and can be confiscated.
With this agenda in mind,
the ED questioned the
Principal of the
Sampoornanand Sanskrit
Vidyalaya, Naresh Chnadra
Dwivedi for over two hours at
the agencys headquarters here
on Friday, sources said.
The agency had also asked
Balkrishna to appear before it
on Wednesday, but he did not
turn up for questioning.
Balkrishna is a key trustee
in Babas operations in five
countries including USA, UK,
Mauritius and Madagascar.
The ED is investigating if
Balkrishna had used his fake
passport to negotiate the deals
for acquisition of Babas prop-
erties abroad.
The ED has already regis-
tered a foreign exchange vio-
lation case against Ramdev
and his Haridwar-based trusts
on the basis of a report from
the RBI for violation of foreign
exchange norms.
Inputs with the ED suggest
prima facie violation of FEMA
and certain transactions by as
many as 50 companies under
the Patanjali Trust are under
the scanner of the agency.
According to the RBI
guidelines, any transaction in
foreign exchange is to be
reported to the Central bank
within six months, but the
companies engaged in export
of ayurvedic medicines alleged-
ly did not do so in a number of
instances, ED sources said.
Besides, probing into the
status of foreign exchange
transactions in export of
Ayurvedic medicines, the
agency is also investigating a
Scottish island gifted to Baba
by a disciple couple.
The probes, sources said,
are aimed at checking the flow
of money through various
trusts floated by Ramdev
including the Patanjali Yogpeeth
Trust, Divya Yoga Mandir Trust
and Bharat Swabhiman Trust
among others.
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Congress president
Sonia Gandhi has
decided not to celebrate
New Year. 'Sonia Gandhi
has appealed to
partymen, well-wishers
against coming to her to extend
New Year greetings in the wake
of gang-rape incident,'
party general secretary
Janardhan Dwivedi said
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ed him as the potential prime
ministerial candidate,
Finance Minister P
Chidambaram on Monday
said that he knows his limi-
tations and conducts himself
accordingly.
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should take
your ques-
tion very
seriously. But
let me give
you a very
serious answer. I know my
limitations. And I live and
conduct myself according to
my limitations, he said when
asked about DMK chief s
suggestion.
Chidambaram said if
reporters were expecting a
light-hearted comment then I
tell you this: I know that
some of you think I am fool-
ish. But I am not so foolish as
you think.
The Congress also dis-
missed the alliance partners
suggestion as Southern
Splendour with spokesper-
son Renuka Chowdhury say-
ing it is speculation and not
worth commenting on. She
asserted that since Dr
Manmohan Singh is in office,
there is no question of anyone
occupying the place of PM.
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S
enior BJP leader LK Advani
on Monday called for inclu-
sion of teachings of saints and
gurus of India like Sree Narayana
Guru, Sree Ramakrishna
Paramhamsa and Swami
Vivekananda in the education
curriculum for inculcating spir-
itual values among the youth.
Inaugurating a conference
organised as part of the 80th
Sivagiri pilgrimage of the
Sivagiri Mutt at Varkala,
Thiruvananthapuram, the BJP
leader urged Governments to
initiate measures to include the
teachings of saint-philosophers
in school study streams. The
Sivagiri Mutt is hallowed as the
Samadhi of social reformer
Sree Narayana Guru.
Education of history should
not be confined to stories of war
heroes, Advani said, adding
that it should also include the
messages of great saints and
Gurus of the country. Lessons
on Gurus and saint-philoso-
phers were necessary to incul-
cate sense of value among the
youngsters, he said.
Praising State Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy for
his promise to include Sree
Narayana Gurus teachings in
school syllabus from next aca-
demic year, the BJP leader said
that it was the right approach to
enhance the quality of educa-
tion. Chandy had made the pro-
posal while inaugurating the
Sivagiri pilgrimage on Sunday.
The Centre also should
follow this (approach) Caste
or creed should not be a divi-
sive character as far as
mankind or human being is
concerned, the BJP leader
said. Saint-reformer Sree
Narayana Gurus philosophy
was based on the principle of
One caste, One religion and
One God for men.
Aovani calls
for inclusion of
siritual values
in curriculum
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O
wing to factionalism in the
Rajasthan BJP, bosses of
the RSS are unwilling to send
any of its pracharak as organ-
ising general secretary, a key
post in the main Opposition
party, in the State. The post is
lying vacant for the past three
and half years, when Prakash
Chandra resigned in the wake
of BJPs defeat in the Assembly
as well as Lok Sabha elections.
Though most of the senior
BJP leaders are feeling that
appointment of an organising
general secretary from the RSS
ranks is very crucial ahead of
the Assembly elections, which
are due in November next year,
no one is making any serious
efforts to fill the post.
Talking to The Pioneer, State
party general secretary Satish
Punia said it is for the BJP
Central leadership and the RSS
to take a call, which has already
been delayed beyond the limit.
But on his part, Shivlahari
prant RSS pracharak maintains
that right now there is no pro-
posal to send anyone as organ-
ising general secretary. There are
no proposal either to make sim-
ilar arrangements at district level
to take care of the organisation-
al set up of the BJP, he said.
In the absence of a regular
organising general secretary,
some time back Central party
leadership had appointed
Kaptan Singh as in-charge of
the party affairs.
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N
ormal life was hit in
Kashmir on the last day of
the year due to a shutdown
called by separatist groups to
protest against unprovoked
firing on civilians by the
troops last week in southern
town of Pulwama. The author-
ities have ordered a magister-
ial probe into the incident and
police have registered a case
against the Army amid a strict-
ly imposed curfew in the
restive town for the fourth
straight day.
Both factions of Hurriyat
Conference and a body of
lawyers had called for a shut-
down that evoked mixed
response in Capital Srinagar and
north Kashmir but threw the
normal life out of gear in south-
ern parts of the Valley. The traf-
fic was lean on the roads but
Government offices functioned
normally and undergraduate
examinations were conducted
smoothly in the colleges.
Seven persons were
wounded in the firing on
Friday (December 28) after-
noon when troops opened fire
while escorting a unspecified
number of personnel wound-
ed in an encounter in
Chandgam-Babgam village in
the outskirts of Pulwama town.
Two militants were gunned
down in the gun-battle.
Locals said that troops
opened fire without any provo-
cation while the Army said it was
retaliation to stone-pelting on
their vehicles. One of the criti-
cally injured civilians has under-
went surgeries in a Srinagar hos-
pital where all the injured were
shifted from the southern town.
Doctors said all the wounded
had firearm wounds.
Deputy Commissioner
Pulwama Shafat Barlas ordered
a magisterial inquiry into the
incident. The additional deputy
commissioner of the district
would conduct the probe.
Meanwhile, police registered a
case under four sections of
Ranbir Panel Code to begin
probe into the incident.
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A
senior officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre
on Monday created a record of sorts
when he completed 695-km long journey
from Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad on a
bicycle. Rajiv Trivedi, (51) Additional
Director General of Police, had started the
cycling expedition along with few others on
December 23, as part of a triathlon to com-
memorate 150 years of Indian Police Service.
He was given a rousing reception by the
Hyderabad city Police Commissioner
Anurag Sharma and other officials when
he reached KBR Park in Jubilee Hills area,
after covering the last stretch of 35 km from
the city outskirts. He bicycled on busy roads
of Hyderabad and went around historic
Charminar before ending his endurance-
testing journey. However, his triathlon will
formally come to an end on Monday when
he undertakes a 10 km run from the KBR
Park to AC Guards in the city.
The officer, started his triathlon with
25 km long swimming in the sea from
Bheemunipatanam to RK Beach in
Visakhapatnam.
This is first time that some body has
under taken the ultra-endurance triathlon
in India. A 15 member team, with per-
sonnel from various forces including
Border Security Force, Industrial Security
Force, Maharashtra and Odisha State
police forces and some civilians including
a software engineer from Microsoft Sunil
Menon also participated in this triathlon
along with Trivedi.
The triathlon was aimed spreading the
message for health and fitness, said
Trivedi, whose proposal for this expedition
was given permission by the State police
chief V Dinesh Reddy. The secret to health
and fitness is in maintaining body clock,
and being careful about food, he said.
Bicycling on the national highway
from Visakhapatnam, he passed through
Godavari districts Vijaywada and
Nalgonda on his way to Hyderabad.
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T
he labourers, involved in the brutal
killing of tea planter Mridul Kumar
Bhattacharya in Assams Tinsukia dis-
trict last week, not only killed the
planter and his wife but ate their flesh
after the crime, police said.
Assam Police IGP (Law and
Order) SN Singh on Monday said this
while adding that while the police
have arrested one labourer for his
involvement in the crime, another 13
persons were also identified for their
role in the crime.
About 1,000 agitated labourers of
the MKB tea estate in Tinsukia district
attacked the bungalow of the estate
owner Mridul Kumar Bhattacharya on
last Wednesday evening and allegedly
set it on fire after locking the owner and
his wife Rita Bhattacharya in protest
against the arrest of two labourers by the
police and protesting against several
other injustice meted out to them by the
tea estate management and the owner.
The police, who arrived later on the
spot, recovered two lump of flesh from
the charred bungalow.
We have recorded the statements
of two of the witnesses under Section
164 of the IPC and they have mentioned
that some of the labourers, who were
involved in the crime, had eaten up their
flesh after killing them, said Singh.
Singh, however, refused to divulge
the names of the witnesses.
One person - Santosh Dhanowar
- had been arrested so far by the
police. The arrested person is a labour-
er of the MKB tea estate. The other 13
identified persons, who also played
active role in the crime were either
working for the same tea estate or some
neighbouring gardens, Singh said,
adding that all the accused will be
booked soon.
Senior police official in the district
said that they were still investigating the
case adding the labourers were agitat-
ed against the owner and the manage-
ment of the estate for a long time for
several reasons. The owner used to tor-
ture the labourers for smallest ever rea-
sons and his behaviour towards the
labourers had always been very rude,
said police while quoting locals.
Earl i er on March 2010,
Bhattacharya shot dead a 15-year-old
youth in front of his bungalow inside
the Rani Organic Tea estate. The
2010 incident took place when a
group of local villagers staged a protest
in front of his bungalow after he
threatened the locals against using a
garden road for communication and
harassed a woman villager. As the irate
mob protested, Bhattacharya shot
dead a youth of the village.
Although Bhattacharya was booked
under Section 302 of the IPC for mur-
der and relevant sections of the Arms
Act after the incident at Rani, he
availed bail later.
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T
he ruling AIADMK in Tamil
Nadu will go it alone in the Lok
Sabha elections, according to party
chief J Jayalalithaa. We will not
have any alliance either with the
BJP or the Congress. We will fight
the Lok Sabha election alone. Only
weak parties need alliance part-
ners, Jayalalithaa told the members
of the AIADMK general council on
Monday. She was addressing the
party cadre before leaving for
Kodanadu in the Nilgiris from
where she will discharge her offi-
cial works for the next few days.
Jayalalithaa told the party lead-
ers to work hard for winning all the
40 Lok Sabha seats (Tamil Nadu has
39 seats while Puducherry has
one). If only we win all the 40 seats,
we will be able to get justice for the
Cauvery Delta farmers who have
lost their crops because of
Karnatakas refusal to release the
Cauvery waters, said Jayalalithaa.
The CM alleged that the DMK
led by M Karunanidhi was working
against the interests of Tamil Nadu.
Though we got the Supreme Court
and the Cauvery River Authority to
ask Karnataka to release water, the
DMK was playing mischief. The
DMK MPs led by TR Baalu met PM
Manmohan Singh and pleaded
with him not to release a single drop
of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu,
said Jayalalithaa.
Jayalalithaa said while
Karunanidhi and the DMK were
working overtime to sabotage the
Supreme Court judgment and
Cauvery tribunal award for the
State, both the Congress and the BJP
were united in preventing Karnataka
from releasing the water.
"Immediately after the apex court
announced its order asking
Karnataka to release water, then
External Affairs Minister SM
Krishna, Union Minister Veerappa
Moily and Karnataka CM Jagadish
Shettar met PM Manmohan Singh
and told him that no water could be
released to Tamil Nadu, she alleged.
Jayalalithaa asked her party
workers why should the AIADMK
form an alliance with the BJP or
Congress ? You deliver me the
entire 40 seats and we will fight for
the rights of Tamil Nadu from a
position of strength. If we fight the
election united, no one could pre-
vent us from sweeping all the 40
seats, said Jayalalithaa.
The AIADMK swept the 2011
Assembly election in alliance with
parties like the DMDK, CPI and the
CPI(M). But immediately after the
election, Jayalalithaa said alliance
was only for the Assembly election
resulting in the DMDK and the
Lefts parting company with her.
A CPI leader described Jaya-
lalithaas declaration too premature
to make any comment. It is too
early to make any comment on her
declaration. The election is more
than a year away and anything could
happen during this period, said
Mahendran, CPI's assistant secretary.
Though Jayalalithaa had earli-
er exhorted her party cadre to work
for winning all the 40 seats, this is
the first time she is declaring that the
AIADMK would not enter into any
alliance for the Lok Sabha polls.
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B
owing to the mounting
pressure from various
organisations, the Kerala
Government on Monday
decided to ask Karnataka to
provide better medical treat-
ment to Islamist leader Abdul
Nasser Madani, lodged
presently in a Bangalore prison
as 31st accused in the 2008
bombing case.
Kerala Chief Minister
Oommen Chandy will meet his
Karnataka counterpart Jagadish
Shettar in Bangalore on
Thursday with this request. This
will be preceded by a visit on
Wednesday by a delegation of the
Muslim League to the Parappana
Agrahara prison outside
Bangalore where Madani has
been detained in order to assess
his actual health condition.
The Kerala Government
was forced to take up the issue
with the Karnataka
Government following the pres-
sure mounted on it by various
political parties, including the
Muslim League and CPI(M), in
the context of the reports that
the health condition of Madani,
crippled in one leg, had deteri-
orated in the prison.
As per the decisions
taken at a high-level meeting
chaired by Chandy in
Thiruvananthapuram on
Monday on the Madani issue,
the State Chief Minister will ask
his Karnataka counterpart for a
fresh and detailed report on the
latest condition of the Islamists
health. Madani was put in the
prison after his arrest on August
17, 2010 from Anvarssery, his
headquarters in Kollam.
The meeting discussed the
report provided by the
Karnataka Government earlier
on Madanis health. Apart from
the five-doctor team headed by
the Director of Medical
Education specially constituted
to study the report on Madani,
Home Minister Thiruvanchoor
Radhakrishnan and Health
Minister VS Sivakumar partic-
ipated in the meeting.
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India (DCGI) has issued alert
against three medical products, includ-
ing a drug used for ulcer treatment, after
they were found to be of substandard
quality. While asking the pharma man-
ufacturers to recall them immediately,
the DCGI for the first time also post-
ed the details of the products on its web-
site in public interest.
Chennai-based Central Drug Testing
Laboratory had found gastric medicine
Ranitin-152 tablet (batch no CD 981025)
by Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd in
Himachal Pradesh, Hobby Handwash
Spring Freshers (batch no 2418), manu-
factured by Hobi Kometik AS and made
in Turkey, and Kohinoor Pink Pleasure
condoms (batch no Px2054) manufac-
tured by TTK LIG Ltd, Pallavaram in
Chennai as substandard, according to a
senior official in the DCGI.
The expiry date of these products
has been marked for 2015. The lab test
found them of inferior quality. We have
posted their details on our website to keep
the users aware of them. Also, this will
keep the pharma manufacturers under
pressure to ensure that their products
maintain requisite standard, he said.
The DCGI has asked its drug test-
ing laboratories to send details of
drugs, which have been found to be sub-
standard, spurious, adulterated or mis-
branded, to its office on a regular basis,
the official added.
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF HEALTH SERVICES
LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE & ASSOCIATED HOSPITALS,
SHAHEED BHAGAT SINGH MARG
NEW DELHI 110001
WALK-IN- INTERVIEW
Walk-in-interview for appointment of Non PG Junior Residents in the various departments
of this Institution (as per vacancy break up given below) will be held in office of the Director,
Lady Hardinge Medical College & Associated Hospitals, New Delhi as per this scheduled men-
tioned below.
S. Name of the Sanctioned Category break up Date of
Department post SC ST OBC UR Interview
1. A.&E. (Casualty) 8 01 01 01 05 15.01.2013
2. Blood Bank 4 01 00 01 02 16.01.2013.
3. Anaesthesia 2 00 00 01 01 17.01.2013.
4. Paed. Casualty 4 01 00 01 02 18.01.2013
5. Paed. Surgery 6 01 01 01 03 19.01.2013
6. Paed. Medicine 10 02 01 03 04 21.01.2013
7. Paed. Radiology 1 00 00 00 01 22.01.2013
8. Surgery 2 01 00 00 01 23.01.2013
9. Psychiatry 2 00 00 01 01 24.01.2013
10. Obst. & Gynae 11 02 01 03 05 28.01.2013
11. Medicine 2 00 01 00 01 29.01.2013
12. Radiology 1 00 00 00 01 30.01.2013
13. Ophthalmology 1 00 00 00 01 31.01.2013
14. T.B. & Respiratory 1 00 00 00 01 01.02.2013
15. Dental 8 01 01 02 04 From 16 Jan. to
19 Jan.(30,
Registration per
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Total 63 10 6 14 33
Eligibility: MBBS candidates completed their internship by 31.12.2012.
Eligibility for Dental Surgery: The candidates should be graduate with BDS degree, recognized by
DCI.
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Hall (near Director Office) on the day specified for the interview of a particular specialty alongwith the
application duly filled in the prescribed format as per annexure-I. No application will be entertained
after 10.30 am.
2. Crucial date of determination of eligibility with regards to age, educational qualification etc. will be
the date of registration of the candidates appearing in the interview.
3. Candidates have been registered with Delhi Medical Council or will require to be registered before
joining the post, if selected.
4. Other service conditions will be applicable as specified by the Govt. of India from time to time.
5. Candidate must bring the following original certificates and copies thereof duly attested (by Gazetted
Officers, but not self attested) at the time of interview:
a. Certificate in support of age (10th Certificate)
b. Certificate in support of educational qualifications
c. Experience certificate, if any.
d. Medical registration certificates of Delhi Medical Council.
e. Mark Sheets of MBBS Part ,,,, & final year.
f. Undergraduate attempt certificate.
g. Internship Completion certificate.
6. Orthopadically Handicapped Candidates will be given 3% reservation as per rules
7. Candidate seeking benefit of reservation are required to submit certificate regarding there caste/OH
status (and also non creamy layer certificate in respect of OBC) as per the prescribed format issued
by Govt. of India. Status & Non Creamy Layer status as per the prescribed format issued by Govt of
India.
8. The candidate must bring the filled application form as per format given Annexure pasted the form
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10. Application forms should be accompanied with non-refundable Demand Draft of Rs. 500/- for un-
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incorrect, the candidature will be cancelled without any further notice.
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cial website http://mohfw.nic.in.
13. Selected candidates are required to deposit a sum equivalent to one month's encasements i.e.
Rs. 58529. security money (which is refundable on completion of appointment or resignation with one
month advance notice and after submission of no-dues certificate from various departments accord-
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T
he categorical declaration
by the Telugu Desam Party
(TDP) that it was in favour of
formation of Telangana State,
has not only added to the pres-
sure on the ruling Congress
party to the likewise but has
turned the tide in favour of
Chandrababu Naidu in the
Telangana region.
Naidus padyatra
(walkathon), presently pass-
ing through Warangal, the
hotbed of Telangana move-
ment, was evoking good
response from the people fol-
lowing the favourable posi-
tion TDP took at all party
meeting of December 28.
It has added a new dimen-
sion to the entire politics around
Telangana issue and has triggered
an intense debate in the
Telangana Joint Action
Committee (TJAC) whether to
admit the TDP in to its fold.
TJAC, so far seen as a front of the
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS),
has now developed chinks as
some of its constituents and
leaders were in favour of wel-
coming TDP as a new member
in view of its new position.
There were also proposals
to include CPI and Telangana
Nagara Samiti of N Janardhan
Reddy, independent MLA in to
TJAC. But others close to the
TRS leadership were not ready
to accept TDP, so far painted as
the villain of the piece. TJAC
convener Prof Kodandaram,
however, had taken a neutral
stand. Those favouring TDPs
admission were of the view that
it will strengthen the agitation
for separate state.
TRS, already facing threat
to its turf from the BJP, was now
worried about the prospects of
TDP emerging as another
champion of Telangana.
TDPs stand was benefiting
the party in many ways. As an
immediate fallout at least three
Telangana MLAs of the party
have dropped the plans to quit
the party as their followers were
now happy and satisfied with
the stand taken by the party
leadership.
Emboldened by the
Telangana leaders of the TDP,
especially likes of Kadiam
Srihari have adopted an aggres-
sive posture and have threat-
ened TRS of grave conse-
quences if it makes any attempt
to target the TDP and its leader
by portraying them as anti-
Telangana. There should not
be any doubt that TDP is for
Telangana. We will not tolerate
if TRS burns the effigies of
Naidu, he said.
On the other hand, TDP
was facing a backlash in coastal
Andhra. Seema-Andhra Joint
Action Committee, opposing
the idea of bifurcation of the
state, has put up To Let board
at TDP office in Visakhapatnam
as a protest against TDPs pro-
Telangana stand. The activists
held a noisy protest outside and
shouted slogans describing
Naidu a traitor of
Seema-Andhra.
TRS continues to target
TDP and Naidu saying they
were responsible for scuttling
chances of Telangana state for-
mation in December 2009,
when MLAs from Andhra and
Rayalaseema resigned en masse
from the Assembly allegedly at
the behest of Naidu.
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
T
hree notorious poachers
have been nabbed in
Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar
Pradesh, in the last two days.
Of the three, one was involved
in tiger poaching cases since
2001 belonging to the contro-
versial Surma village within the
core area of the reserve.
There are at least a dozen
cases of wild life crimes against
the other two persons. The
arrests have come in the wake
of a special drive during New
Years eve when the threat of
poaching increases. The three
arrested have been forwarded
to jail on Monday.
According to the Field
Director Shailesh Prasad, the
poachers were nabbed by the
members of the night patrolling
team. In the latest of the two
cases, a group of seven persons
were found moving suspicious-
ly in the Dudhwa Range near
Bhadrola Compartment-5.
While six of them man-
aged to escape, one person by
the name of Jawahar was
caught by the team. He was a
wanted wildlife criminal in
the area having old cases of
tiger poaching pending against
him, said Prasad. The mem-
bers of the team managed to
unearth tiger skin and rear
parts of a tiger, that he had kept
buried under the ground, said
Prasad. He belongs to Surma
village, which is the only village
of its kind in the country to
have the status of revenue vil-
lage despite being within the
core area of a reserve.
In a yet another case, two
persons Jhaulal and Suresh
were rounded from South
Sonalipur Range under Lauki
Compartment -5 of the tiger
reserve. They were caught with
metal traps and other tools
used in wildlife crimes. There
are about 10-12 cases pending
against them, involving the
killing of various wild ani-
mals, informed prasad.
Patrolling has been inten-
sified, with protection mea-
sures and enforcements
stepped up during the season,
when poaching activities are
on the rise, said Prasad. This
is the time when VIPs and
their kin chose to visit the
reserve when security forces
are shifted from their normal
duties. Further, the onset of
New Year also ushers a festive
mood and there is a tendency
of laxity amongst the staffs,
which encourages spurt in
poaching, he pointed out.
Jlree oaclers lelo in
!uolwa Jiger Reserve
8kk 8EhFTk Q K0LKATA
B
engal seems to have for-
gotten nothing and learnt
nothing from the death of the
Delhi girl, who succumbed
last week to the brutal gang-
rape that sparked a nationwide
furore for the past two weeks.
Kolkatas Park Street
woman, who nearly suffered a
similar fate after she too was
gang-raped about a year ago,
has cried out for help failing
which she might have to take
her own life.
The Park Street victim, a
mother of two, who was
abducted and raped inside a
moving car before being
thrown out on a busy Kolkata
junction, wonders after a year
or so of the crime, as to
whether I have to commit
suicide or to get justice.
Today, she is left with
almost no money to pursue her
case. While the prime accused
is still at large as no chargesheet
has yet been filed in the case.
This means that a right is
gradually accruing to the three
accused who are currently in
custody to get bail.
I have not only been
under threat but also cannot go
out to work and have been left
with no money to pay for my
childrens school fees, she says
adding the situation has come
to such a pass where she might
have to take the extreme path
in order to draw the attention
of the administration.
Incidentally, the Park Street
case had witnessed a lot of
drama after Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee went public
claiming the case was a con-
cocted one. Even as then DCP
Detective Department
Damayanti Sen finally was
successful to establish that the
case was indeed of a rape she
was subsequently shunted out
to an inconsequential post giv-
ing enough message about
what the administration
thought about the case.
Subsequently senior State
Ministers like Madan Mitra
questioned the character of
the victim. As late as on
Saturday Tri namool MP
Kakoli Ghoshdastidar iterat-
ed the Park Street case was not
the one of a rape but a mis-
understanding between a
woman and her clients on
professional dealings.
Even as the victim came
out with sharp reactions stat-
ing first I am not the kind of
woman as I am being made
out to be and second even if I
am one does it mean that I
must be raped. Later, she said,
how she had to make the both
ends meet at a time when she
was being literally ostracised by
the people around.
I cannot go out. The fam-
ily is in extreme financial cri-
sis. Even the lawyers are not
conducting the case properly.
They dont even speak to me.
I think there is a conspiracy to
dilute the case. It seems that I
have to take my own life to
prove that I had indeed been
raped she said insisting is this
what the administration has
learnt from the Delhi case?
80IcI4e 0aIy Way t0 et j0stIce: Fark 8treet vIctIm
Fh8 Q ThRuvAhAhThAFuRAM
P
ro-CPI(M) All India
Democratic Womens
Association (AIDWA) on
Monday urged the Union
Government to declare 2013 as
Year of Womens Safety as a
homage to the Delhi gang-rape
victim and in the context of
the increasing atrocities
against women even as the
outfit would observe Tuesday,
the New Year Day, as Black
Day in Kerala.
I am requesting Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to
declare year 2013 the Year of
Womens Safety, AIDWA
leader and CPI(M)s Rajya
Sabha MP TN Seema said in
statement issued in
Thiruvananthapuram on
Monday. We all should wear
black badges as a mark of
protest against incidents like
the Delhi gang-rape, she said.
AIDWA activists would
indulge in a poster campaign
in all important centres in
Kerala on Tuesday in protest
against the attacks on women
and girl children. Association
general secretary KK Shailaja
said they would organise
marches to the DGPs office
and various district police
headquarters demanding
strengthening of women cells
at police stations.
Meanwhile, the educa-
tional institutions in the State
would start the New Year
with a pledge and special
assemblies on Tuesday morn-
ing in order to spread aware-
ness on the atrocities against
women and girls.
Fh8 Q hY0ERABA0
A
s nation mourns the death of 23-
year-old victim of gang-rape in the
national capital, the incidents of crime
against women and girl continue with
the same regularity across the country.
A day after two policemen were
suspended in two incidents of atroci-
ties against women in Andhra Pradesh,
a group of people thrashed a teacher for
misbehaving with a female student.
The incident occurred on Monday
in Krishna Colony of Warangal. On the
complaint of the girl that the teacher
molested her, member of her family and
other residents rushed to the
Government school and beat him
before handing him over to the police.
In another incident, in Nalgonda
district, a police constable Prabhakar
was put under suspension after he tried
to abduct a 16-year-old girl in his car.
The girl was walking home around 9.30
pm when the cop tried to drag her away
in his car. On hearing the screams of the
girl, people stopped the vehicle, saved
the girl and thrashed the constable. He
was later handed over to the police.
In Krishna district, police was look-
ing for an absconding constable DV
Venkat Raju, after a married woman
lodged a complaint of rape against him.
The woman alleged that when she had
gone to Kankipadu police station, to
lodge a complaint of harassment for
dowry, the constable harassed her. A case
has been booked against the constable.
In yet another incident in same dis-
trict, a case of rape was booked against
village revenue officer Boena Pandu
after his office assistant, complained to
the police that the officer raped her
after mixing sleeping pills in her
soft drink. Woman complained that
subsequently, he was blackmailing her.
'Doolaro 2013 as yoar
o womon's saoty'
J!P reas lenefits of
ro-Jelangana stano
Crimes against women
unabated in country Fh8 Q FAThA
S
aryug Singh, the father of Delhi gang-rape
accused, Akshay Thakur had demanded
capital punishment for his son, for committing
such heinous crime.
Since my son has committed such a heinous
crime, now he should pay for it, he spoke in his
interaction with other people at his village
(Laharkarma) in Aurangabad district.
Her mother Leelawati Devi is completely
benumbed on the issue, as still she is not sure that
how her son can outrage the modesty of a girl.
Meanwhile, public protests are spreading to var-
ious places of his native district of Aurangabad.
Saryug Thakur was so much annoyed with
his son that he fully cooperated with the joint
team of Delhi Police and Bihar Police when the
team raided his house to take Akshay Thakur
into custody a few days ago.
Meanwhile, State BJP president CP Thakur
said the State BJP has decided to observe 2013
as Nari Samman Varsh (Women Honour
Year) to accelerate its fight against atrocities
on women.
Fh8 Q MuMBA
B
eginning January 1, 2013,
Mumbai suburban train
commuters will have to pay 25
per cent more by way of sur-
charge under the Mumbai
Urban Transport Project
(MUTP) on card and season
tickets for journeys undertak-
en in the notified suburban sec-
tions of Mumbai.
The MUTP surcharge,
which will go up from 8 per
cent to 33 per cent, is aimed at
raising funds necessary for
repayment of a loan taken
from the World Bank for the
rail component of the Mumbai
Urban Transport Project. It
will be levied on both season
and card ticket holders travel-
ling in first and second-class
compartments.
The hike in MUTP sur-
charge will apply for a distance
of over 10 km a surcharge
that will be three times more
than the existing surcharge.
The surcharge on the card
ticket tariff for journeys rang-
ing from 11 km to 50 km will
go up from C1 to C3 in the sec-
ond class, while the surcharge
on the first class card tickets for
the same range of distance
will increase from C10 to C30.
Similarly, in the same dis-
tance range of 11-50 km,
monthly second class passes
will cost C20 more, while the
first class monthly season tick-
ets will get costlier by C40. The
quarterly second class passes
will cost C60 more, while the
quarterly first class passes will
costlier by C120 from Tuesday.
In the distance range of 51-
100 km, the hikes will the
same as far as second and first
card tickets are concerned.
However, the monthly season
tickets will go up from C15 to
C45 in second class and from
C30 to 90 in first class. The
hikes in the quarterly passes
will be from C45 to C135 in sec-
ond class and from C90 to 270
in first class.
Mumbai local train rides
to get dearer from today
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TDP's stand has
benefited the
party in many ways.
As an immediate
fallout, at least three
Telangana MLAs of
the party have
dropped plans
to quit the party as
their followers
are happy now
Fh8 Q hY0ERABA0
P
rominent social activists
and intellectuals from
across the country have strong-
ly condemned the reported
hate speech of Akbaruddin
Owaisi, legislator of Majlis-e-
Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM).
In a joint statement they
described Owaisis speech at a
public meeting in Nirmal town
of Adilabad district as obnox-
ious. Owaisi is already facing a
case in a local court in
Hyderabad for the speech in
which he allegedly threatened
the Hindu majority and hurt its
religious sentiments.
Such obnoxious speeches
and statements divide society,
vitiate peace and lead to con-
flicts and riots that eventually
result in deaths and destruction
causing untold hardships to the
poor of all communities.
Coming from a responsible
Member of a Legislative
Assembly makes it even more
detestable and unacceptable,
said the statement signed by
Asghar Ali, engineer-Mumbai,
Swami Agnivesh-New Delhi,
Mahesh Bhatt-Mumbai, Mazher
Hussain-Hyderabad Hamid
Mohammad Khan-Hyderabad,
M Mandal-Hyderabad, Irfan
engineer-Mumbai, Sandeep
Panday-Lucknow and Ram
Punyani-Mumbai.
We demand that the
authorities take exemplary
action in the matter to ensure
that such intolerable acts are
never repeated again, anywhere
by anyone and secure peace
and harmony in the country,
they added.
Elections are due next year
and given the history of insti-
gation of communal conflicts
for polarisation of communities
to reap electoral benefits, we
can expect more such provoca-
tive statements and hate filled
speeches by representatives of
different communal parties
and reactionary groups, the
group said. Hence we appeal
to the people not to react to
such deliberate provocations
and fall prey to the machina-
tions of communal parties that
seek electoral gains through
politics of hate and violence,
they said.
Meanwhile, the State BJP
president G Kishan Reddy also
condemned Akbaruddin
Owaisi for hurting the religious
sentiments of one community.
Addressing media conference
in Hyderabad, on Monday, he
alleged that the police had
failed in taking action against
the Majlis MLA. MIM should
be derecognised over the utter-
ances of Akbaruddin Owaisi,
he said adding that his party
will lodge a complaint with the
Speaker of the State Assembly,
the State Government and the
Election Commission.
A BJP leader K Karunsagar
has already approached the
local court seeking action
against Akbaruddin Owaisi in
this matter.
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0elhi gangrae: Falher
seeks gallows or son
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T
he Congress has always
been adept at reading
the tea leaves, smoke
signals, and other occult
signs indicating the way
its fortunes are blowing. It is fully
aware of its declining credibility
since 2009, both at the Centre and
in the State of Delhi. Hence, it
views the results of the Gujarat
election, which many see as boost-
ing the prime ministerial prospects
of Chief Minister Narendra Modi,
as a countdown to an early elec-
tion, certainly in Delhi, and pos-
sibly at the national level if the risk
is considered worthwhile. Elections
forced by constitutional deadline
can leave the ruling party without
room for manoeuvre.
The first salvos have already
been fired with finesse, even as
the BJP imagines it can wait until
2014 to decide whether or not to
field a team captain. Parties not
prepared for elections in 2013
may be caught on the back foot.
Hyderabad MLA Akbaruddin
Owaisis sudden intemperate
speech against Hindus makes no
sense unless it is seen as a com-
mand performance to polarise
minority votes nationwide against
Mr Modi, and make the BJP hes-
itate to anoint him. The same is
true of activist Shabnam Hashmi
who appeared on prime-time tele-
vision eight days after the Gujarat
election result to allege that
Congress helped Mr Modi to win.
Her real objective was to signal to
one community not to forget the
2002 riots, never mind that these
were triggered by the gruesome
burning of pilgrims from Ayodhya
in a train at Godhra. Many resent
the Congresss defeat in Godhra
and other constituencies where
Muslims determine the outcome.
To emphasise her point, Ms
Hashmi, who runs an NGO, quit
five Government panels
Central Advisory Board of
Education, Maulana Azad
Education Foundation, National
Monitoring Committee for
Minority Education, National
Literacy Mission Council and
Assessment and Monitoring
Authority of Planning
Commission. Whatever her cre-
dentials to be on any panel, it is
revealing how the ruling party
concentrates patronage on per-
sons of certain ideological affini-
ties. Do experts who pack offi-
cial panels also receive
Government funds for NGO
activity? Since many NGO plat-
forms mingle with overt political
activism, are they eligible for tax
exemptions given for social work?
Anyway, with two powerful
rounds fired successfully, the
Congress is primed for a possible
national election. Specific to
Delhi, Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit, after much waffling,
rushed to seize the initiative.
Now that the brutal gang rape
victim is no more and the public
activism will come to a natural
end, the action will move to a fast
track court. With police investi-
gations virtually complete, the
prosecution can be expected to
demand death penalty (most jus-
tified in this case). If the case,
including appeals to the High
Court, the Supreme Court and
the President, can be wound up
in six months, the Congress can
claim credit and go for an early
election in Delhi at least.
The flip side is that it will be
difficult to continue to isolate the
cases of Afzal Guru, convicted for
Parliament House attack, and
Balwant Singh Rajouna, con-
victed for the assassination of
Punjab Chief Minister Beant
Singh. In fact, the Supreme Court
must take a call on whether
implementation of the death
penalty can be so blatantly tai-
lored to political convenience.
Coming to Mr Modi, his
hat-trick victory will be yester-
days story unless he carves out a
nich to stay in the national
game while in Ahmedabad. That
he is aware of this can be seen
from his performance at the
National Development Council
meet on December 27, where he
criticised the UPA Government
for lowering the growth target in
the 12th Plan to eight per cent
and fuelling despondency and
pessimism in the nation. He
charged the Union Government
of policy paralysis, but also made
constructive suggestions that
were appreciated by some Chief
Ministers, who noted the absence
of harsh words in his speech.
In fact, he began scripting his
new persona on the very day the
election result was declared, when
no BJP central leader was in
Ahmedabad to share his glory.
Mr Modi is conscious of the fact
that Gujaratis as a community feel
strongly that Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel was not given his due and
that Morarji Desai was not prop-
erly respected in Delhi. Now, the
State has been blessed with anoth-
er strongman and this alone
trumped the Leuva Patel factor
that Mr Keshubhai Patel and the
Congress hoped would cut Mr
Modi to size. Narrow caste con-
fines were transcended, but caste
was and is by no means irrelevant.
Hence, in bowing before Mr
Keshubhai Patel after a convinc-
ing victory, Mr Modi was actual-
ly paying homage to the power-
ful Patel community that stood by
him, diminishing its own stal-
wart, to respect the States senti-
ment to send its own son to
Delhi. And it has certainly put
him on the highway.
This could also be the mean-
ing of his public apology to six
crore Gujaratis for any hurt caused
in preceding years, during his
victory speech that day. The met-
ropolitan media has questioned if
he was trying to paper over the
2002 riots, but Muslims are not six
crore. More likely, he was reaching
out to everyone, including
Muslims, from the dominant Patels
to the followers of other stalwarts
he has fallen out with over the
years, many of whom are now in
the Congress. A call for unity from
a winner could be a signal to pos-
sible national allies of an intention
to be magnanimous.
The first big political test, how-
ever, will be the election of the new
BJP president. If the RSS manages
to impose Mr Nitin Gadkari again
after a lustreless first term, Mr Modi
will lose his shine. RSS as a parent
organisation could not prevent
Vishva Hindu Parishad leader
Pravin Togadia from joining hands
with Mr Keshubhai Patel in the
Gujarat election where so much was
at stake. It follows that RSS must
retreat from politics; its interven-
tions have served no good cause.
Grave challenges face the
nation. The last few years have wit-
nessed unbridled corruption,
unending mega scams, galloping
price-rise and corporate-driven
economic reforms by the UPA
Government. Simultaneously
scam-ridden populist schemes like
the Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act,
and now a direct cash transfer
scheme under Aadhar, where 3.84
out of 4.10 lakh cards have already
had to be cancelled for being
bogus, have bankrupted the econ-
omy and further squeezed the
middle class that is being denied
subsidy even as incomes decline.
So far, no political party has
seriously addressed any of these
issues. Mr Modis task is to show
that he cares, and that he can make
a difference.
(The accompanying visual is of
Indian cricket fans wearing masks of
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi at the Sardar Patel Gujarat
Stadium in Ahmedabad on
December 28. PTI Photo)
v
arious olilicians including lhose al lhe very lo o lhe ruling uFA have
romised lhal lhe dealh o lhe viclim who was raed and lorlured in a mov
ing bus in 0elhi on 0ecember 1G will nol be allowed lo go in vain. lhal
indeed is a serious resolulion, lhen lhe Cenlre musl lake cerlain immediale mea
sures which will bring aboul eeclive changes in a syslem lhal nol only allows
such crimes lo lake lace bul also does nol rovide enough delerrenl unish
menl romlly. unorlunalely, besides eslablishing various commillees, lhe
Congressled 0overnmenl has done nolhing lo inslill any olimism among lhe
eole lhal il is lanning any quick aclion ollowing lhe sordid eisode. reorls
lhal have aeared in a seclion o lhe media are correcl, lhen lhe 0overnmenl
will have beore il by February a reorl on lhe roosed changes in lhe laws
direcled al eeclively lackling crimes againsl women, esecially sexual assaulls.
l means lhal lhe reorl will lhen be discussed and a irm view will be laken
lherealer. we have no idea how long lhe rocess is going lo lake. l is ama/
ing lhal lhe 0overnmenl should have adoled lhis circuilous roule lo eecl
changes lhal oughl lo have haened yeslerday, and rejecled lhe suggeslion
made by lhe 0osilion lhal a secial session o Farliamenl should be con
vened al lhe earliesl lo discuss and inalise lhe various changes required in a
limebound ashion. l's slill nol lale or lhe uFA lo heed lhe 0osilion's sug
geslion, because il is only in Farliamenl lhal a holislic view o lhe revailing
laws dealing wilh various kinds o crimes againsl women and lheir amendmenl
can be laken and given eecl lo. The irsl and oremosl asecl which should
be discussed and imlemenled is a change in Seclion 87G o lhe ndian Fenal
Code lo rovide or dealh senlence lo ersons convicled o rae. Since lhe courls
give lhe dealh senlence in lhe raresl o rare cases already or a variely o olher
crimes, lhe same rincile can be alied in lhe case o rae loo. Addilionally,
lhe minimum senlence o seven years, which exisls resenlly or convicls o
rae, musl be enhanced.
having said lhal, il musl be remembered lhal severily o unishmenl alone
will nol rove lo be a good enough delerrenl; il musl be accomanied by lhe
cerlainly o unishmenl. Several slalislics have o lale come inlo lhe ublic domain
lhal demonslrale lhe abysmally low rale o conviclions in inslances o rae.
According lo one such reorl, lhere has been jusl one conviclion oul o GOO
rae cases reorled lo 0elhi Folice in 2O12. Equally dismal is lhe acl lhal lhe
ew cases which do end in verdicls do so aler several years and even decades
o lorluous journey. This is nol lhe slory o 0elhi alone, bul o lhe counlry as
a whole. Thereore, lhe silualion calls or lhe early eslablishmenl o asl lrack
courls lo lry cases o sexual crimes againsl women across lhe counlry.
unorlunalely, lhere
has been no move on
lhe uFA regime's arl
so ar lo make lhal
move, allhough il has
has scrambled lo do so
i n 0el hi aler lhe
0ecember 1G incidenl.
Even here, lhe 0elhi
high Courl was swiler,
laking bd^ \^cd cog
ni sance o lhe
0ecember 1G incidenl
and announcing lhe
eslablishmenl o a asl
lrack courl lo handle
lhe case. uni on
Minisler or Law and
Jusli ce Ashwani
Kumar musl slo
oinling lo lhe diicul
lies in eslablishing asl
lrack courls - as he
has been recenll y
doing - and inslead
begin idenliying sles which will address lhose diicullies. Many eminenl jurisls
have emhasised lhal lhe shorlage o judges lo handle lhe requiremenls o asl
lrack courls can be easily mel i only lhe 0overnmenl (and lhe judiciary) showed
a sense o urgency in recruiling lhe judges. l cannol be or wanl o suilable
candidales lhal lhe recruilmenl o judges will be slunled; we have enough lal
enl in lhe counlry. The nexl sle is lo ensure lhal lhese asl lrack courls com
ulsorily adhere lo a clearly laiddown lime rame, bolh in lhe comlelion o
lrial and in lhe ronouncemenl o lhe verdicl.
There are various olher rovisions in laws such as lhose dealing wilh lhe
deinilion o rae, and wilh crimes such as eveleasing and moleslalion, lhal
need lo be revisiled wilhoul delay. Moreover, lhere are also olher challenges
which only a secial session o Farliamenl can deliberale uon. 0ne o lhem
is lhe amendmenl lo The Juvenile Juslice (Care and Froleclion o Children) Acl,
2OOO. 0iven lhal a minor was involved in lhe horriic 0ecember 1G incidenl -
0elhi Folice believe lhal lhe minor had been esecially brulal in commilling
lhe crime - lhere is growing demand lhal lhe secial lrealmenl which juve
nile oenders generally enjoy under lhe Acl musl be eilher comlelely done
away wilh or whillled down in inslances o sexual assaull. And, lhis is nol an
isolaled inslance o minors involved in heinous crimes. 0n Sunday, a 14year
old boy was arresled in Aurangabad dislricl in Maharashlra or allegedly ra
ing a ourandahal year old girl. As o now, lhese oenders are lried under
lhe secial Acl and awarded senlences which are disroorlionalely lighl when
comared lo lhe enormily o lhe crime lhey have indulged in. The argumenl
unlil now or secial lrealmenl lo juvenile delinquenls lilled in avour o lhe
young age o lhe oenders and lhe acl lhal lhey could be reormed lhrough
a rehabililalion rocess. Thal may be so in lhe case o oenders convicled or
relalively smaller crimes such as lhel elc, bul minors involved in brulal rae
and lorlure cannol be lrealed wilh kid gloves. They may nol be given lhe dealh
enally - inlernalional human righls laws rohibil lhe dealh senlence lo oend
ers below lhe age o 18 - bul surely a jail lerm o lwo years or so, which is
whal such delinquenl criminals end u wilh resenlly, is a mockery o juslice.
To lhal exlenl, lhe reorled move by lhe 0overnmenl lo consider lrealing juve
niles aged belween 17 and 18, who are guilly o heinous sexual crimes, as adulls
who will allracl lhe rovisions o lhe law oulside lhe Juvenile Juslice Acl, is
mosl welcome.
while il is essenlial lhal lhe 0overnmenl slos revaricaling on lhe sles
which il musl immedialely lake, including wideranging reorms in lhe olice
orce lo unshackle lhe olice rom excessive 0overnmenl inluence, il is also
necessary lhal lhe Fresidenl musl summarily rejecl aeals or mercy rom raisls
whose dealh senlences lhe Sureme Courl has uheld. we have had lhe shock
ing seclacle o Ms Fralibha Falil, who as Fresidenl, in a il o mislaced com
assion commuled lo lielerm lhe dealh enally o ersons who had in se
arale incidences raed and murdered sixyear old and 1Oyear old girls. lhis
remains lhe level o insensilivily al lhe highesl levels o our democralic sys
lem lo crimes againsl women and girl children, lhere is lillle lo be hoeul aboul.
80 m0re revarIcatI0a
Revam tle laws, reform tle olice
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Sir With the death of braveheart
Damini, India is soaked in angst
and grief. The 13 days that she
fought for life will be remembered
as the days of India awakening
against rape and gender injustice.
The perpetrators of Daminis
fate must be punished in such a
way that anyone trying to outrage
the modesty of a woman would
think a thousand time before
committing such a heinous act.
The last days of 2012 have
given this country the greatest
shock. It raises the question
whether we are living in the 21st
century or in an era when women
were considered as chattels and
private properties. Let not poli-
tics come in the way of severe
penalty for those beasts.
Punishing the culprits in the
harshest manner would be the
only tribute to Damini. And for-
mulating and implementing
stringent laws against perpetra-
tors of rape will be a true contri-
bution to womens emancipa-
tion. Anything less will only
amount to torturing the soul of
Damini and of thousands of vic-
tims of gender violence.
Manzar Imam Qasmi
New Delhi
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Sir This refers to the article,
State as a predator and an extor-
tionist at will (December 29) by
Hiranmay Karlekar. Earlier we
saw Aam Aadmi Party chief
Arvind Kejriwal with a modest
bio-data in comparison to other
news makers, capturing dispro-
portionate media and public
attention. More, he managed to
be bigger than the cause
he espoused!
Mr Kejriwal made a guest
appearance on the third day of the
agitation in the capital over
Nirbhaya or Damini and, for
the first time, the cause dwarfed
the man. This, home-grown man-
of-all-causes had evidently pat-
terned himself after Julian
Assange of WikiLeaks fame; man-
aging only just to stir things up
without anything much happen-
ing thereafter. The nation was
more amused than threatened.
However, the year undoubtedly
belongs to the man on the street
who has signed off 2012 by not
just shaking things up but also
stirring the collective conscience
and anger of the nation and
indeed the polity.
R Narayanan
Ghaziabad
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Sir The courage of the gang
rape victim and her resolve to live
and fight for 13 days is the ultimate
courage shown in the face of real
practical adversity and not under
any textbook scenario. Coupled
with Pakistans Malala Yousafzai,
the departed Nirbhaya has shown
to the world that women are not
the weaker part of society.
Ironically, in all cases of gen-
der crimes, the situation is ranged
against the rape victims and here
the raw courage of Nirbhaya has
shown the weaklings in true
light. Sometimes, the noose
escapes the perpetrators either in
the Supreme Court or through
acts of mercy shown by
Presidents like Ms Pratibha Patil.
The l aw is al so more
favourable to juvenile criminals
than to juvenile victims. Ms Patil
did not blink for a moment
before converting a death sen-
tence to life for rapists and killers
of minor girls. One such brutal
killer and rapist in Delhi will
escape harsh punishment as he is
said to be a minor.
Manish Garg
Noida
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good oivilisation aro
moasurod by tho oon-
dition o womon and
tho bohaviour that is
boing motod out to
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his reers lo lhe news, "Molher ushes minor daughler inlo abuse lo
enjoy luslul sighl" (0ecember 2O). when lhe enlire nalion is rocked,
shocked, aghasl and urious over lhe beslial sexual assaull on lhe brave
young aramedic and her lragic demise, lhis news comes as a real ara
dox. This musl be lhe mosl obnoxious news o lhe oulgoing year. A molh
er - religiously, morally and legally considered lhe mosl reliable saely
armour or her children, esecially girls - has lurned a redalor or her
minor daughler. A slreak o masochism in 48year old Lissie alias
Mariamma's nalure is evidenl who derived leasure in walching her minor
girl being violaled by luslul men beore her very own eyes.
l is unnerving lhal lhe daughler hersel disclosed lhe lrauma she has
undergone over lhe years al lhe hands o her molher, who lhoughl nolh
ing o 'selling' her lo slrangers or sums as allry as C1OO. worse, lhe
molher seemed lo revel in lhe abused girl's menlal, hysical and emo
lional lrauma. 0irls like her musl be rovided adequale roleclion and reha
bililalion by lhe 0overnmenl. The molher deserves slringenl unishmenl
or lhe inhuman crime she has commilled.
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A
ctually, any which
way you look at it,
2012 has not been a
great year. In India
we ended the year
on a very sour note with death
of a rape victim who had been
brutally attacked. What was
shocking about the aftermath of
the attack and the protests that
followed was that it brought out
the worst in people.
What was really weird
was how people wrote lengthy
columns arguing for a mind-
set change among men. Yes,
there needs to be a change, but
enforcing that change will not
come solely through educa-
tion. To borrow a line from a
friend, there needs to be cer-
tainty in punishment in all
crimes. Fast-track justice
ought not to be the exception
but the rule, for all crimes.
How many readers
remember the outrage that fol-
lowed after the tragic story of
Baby Falak was brought out
earlier this year. Or the stories
of young boys who were mur-
dered because they stood up to
goons? We, the middle class,
privately educated Indians, at
the drop of a hat try and get
ourselves onto a television
camera, and yet we forget. We
have attention deficit disorder
as a society. We cant let crim-
inals keep on getting away
with murder and rape or even
petty crimes.
Criminals feel an impuni-
ty nowadays because cases
linger through the justice sys-
tem, and some of these crim-
inals enter politics because
political parties of all hues
welcome bahubalis into poli-
tics. That needs to change if
we are to change if India is
to change.
But, enough of that. 2012
was also a year when technol-
ogy did not progress in the
way that it should have.
Instead, technology compa-
nies found themselves in
court quibbling over minutae.
Yes, Apple did launch a small-
er version of the iPad and
made changes to the iPhone.
Yet, unlike in the past few
years, there was no one out-
standing technology of 2012.
Several technologies, howev-
er, were showcased and even
launched this year on a lim-
ited commercial scale, such as
wireless charging, which holds
immense potential for the
future, but is far too expensive
and rat her exclusive
for now.
In India in 2012, one of
the enduring arguments of the
year was around the risks, real
and imaginary, of mobile radi-
ation. Theres no doubt that
radiation is dangerous, but liv-
ing as we do in environments
with badly sheathed electrical
wiring, to argue that 25 years
after widespread deployment,
mobile radiation is a killer,
is bizarre.
With almost every human
being on the planet covered by
mobile phone, and now not
just having access to the world
by voice but also a world of
information, it must be said
that mobile phones have done
immensely more good than
any harm whatsoever.
It would be interesting to
see whether any applications
are developed in the coming
year that can improve person-
al security. Such as a method
for women to press a button
on their phone in case of an
emergency which could be
used, in conjunction with
Global Positioning Satellites
and mapping software, to
locate them. Such technologies
are all commercially available
and affordable and can also be
used for other purposes such
as locating old people with
dementia, who sometimes
walk off quite forgetfully.
Personally, I believe that
2013 will finally be the year
when high-speed and afford-
able data solutions are made
available to a bulk of Indians.
Several million Indians have
tasted life with data connec-
tions, even if it is to watch
funny clips on YouTube.
Instead of arguing about
how best to control content on
the internet which in any
case is not possible the
politicians ought to sit down
with global technology compa-
nies and Indian service
providers to see how best to give
a billion people access to reliable
high-speed internet over the air-
waves. That will need innova-
tive and unique solutions and
ought to bring out the best in
India and Indians.
If we are able to make these
changes in data connectivity
and access, we ought to also be
able to change the way we
transact. Several other poor
countries have made massive
leaps in mobile money technol-
ogy, there is no reason India a
society which runs on paper
money to make a move to
becoming a cashless, rather a
less cash intensive society.
There is a lot of hope and
possibility that exists in 2013, and
we should not waste the oppor-
tunities that we have wasted in
2012. We should not lose hope
and we must make 2013 a great
year where technology aids in
changing us.
we should nol lose hearl over lhe sad develomenls o lhe year gone by. nslead, we musl make
lhe new year a greal one where lechnology aids in making our environmenl and lives saer
MIht 0f state caaa0t sIIeace 0s
Srdeye 09
NEW DELH TUESDAY JANUARY 1, 2013
Those who are coming in the name of
students in the protests, bd]S^aXbd]S^aX
\PWX[P {beautiful women], are highly
dented and painted.
~Congress MP ABHJT MUKHERJEE
Abhijit Mukherjee is one of those
mentally bankrupt politicians who are
completely unaware of reality of Modern
ndia. He needs treatment.
~Bollywood actor ANUPAM KHER
f this is the kind
of treatment that
a group of
educated,
relatively
well-connected
women in the
capital receive,
shudder to
imagine the
nightmare that
less privileged
women in other
parts of the
country, and
economically
weak women,
must be going
through day in and
day out
PONTCOUNTERPONT
T
he past few days in Delhi
have been tense, to say the
very least. A lot of rage, fear
and helplessness was stirred
following the gang rape inci-
dent in a moving bus on the night of
December 16, 2012, and it was mani-
fested in the protests that broke out.
The protests sustained for days at an
end, despite all deterrents (closed
Metro stations and battalions of police
in riot-gear stationed all over the
city). Additionally, a debate has been
sparked about womens safety, rape cul-
ture and delayed or denied justice.
Some will claim that India is burning,
but the fact remains that this week the
spotlight turns to an issue which has
haunted women, their mothers and
grandmothers, for who knows how
long. Today, I write to share my side of
the story, as a concerned citizen, as a
woman-at-risk and as a peaceful pro-
tester from (we are told) the worlds
l argest democracy, where the
Constitution grants each citizen free-
dom, justice and equality.
On December 25, 2012, I was at
Jantar Mantar in Delhi with my moth-
er and a friend to participate in a peace-
ful protest. The issue? The rape of
Amanat and countless other women.
We hadnt been there long when I
received a call from a school-friend, say-
ing a friend of ours had been detained
at Parliament Street Police Station. I
began trying to contact the detained
friend on his phone, but to no avail. We
were in conversation with a few women
at the venue when we were approached
by two other distressed-looking women,
who claimed they had seen some
women protesters being dragged off by
the cops and taken to Parliament Street
Police Station. All the women with me
made a collective decision to walk up to
the thana and ask about the release of
the detainees. At this time, I continued
to live-tweet about the protests and my
whereabouts, to alert activist friends and
media persons, just in case things went
wrong. We arrived at the thana, volun-
tarily, just after 4:30pm, and asked to
speak with the female officer-in-charge.
She wasnt present.
My mother tried to contact Suman
Nalwa, Additonal Deputy Commissioner
of Police, on the helpline number set up
to serve as special unit for women and
children, but she mumbled something
about preventive custody and hung up
the call. My question is, to prevent what?
Peace? Solutions? We were met with
much hostility from the male cops pre-
sent, who refused to give us their names
and ranks and kept their badges hidden
under their jackets. When we asked them
on what grounds they had detained those
women protesters, one constable (later
identified as Station House Office Dinesh
Kumar) said that they had been booked
under Section 65 of the Delhi Police Act.
He also said that he wouldnt release them
and that if we didnt leave the premises,
he would have us detained too. We of
course refused to go. The SHO then gave
orders to the female constables to drag
us inside and detain us. It all happened
very quickly. One woman protester had
her hair pulled by a female constable who
lashed out at me when I tried to inter-
vene. I too was pulled by my hair and the
SHO himself pushed me to a wall. I hit
my head pretty bad. My mother man-
aged to extricate me from that situation
and we were all forced into a room with
the other detainees. Inside, I found my
friend who had earlier been held up. Fear
took over and I burst into tears, unable
to understand why we were being treat-
ed like criminals. Once I calmed down
I began tweeting up a storm. The objec-
tive was to report the police brutalities
that we had faced. We were detained for
a long while and told that we would be
released only if we swore not to talk to
the media about anything. I reached
home with my mother late and was hop-
ing the ordeal was over, but I was far from
correct. At precisely 10.24pm, my moth-
er received a threatening phone-call
ordering her to bring me to the thana
immediately and have me apologise for
supposedly spreading lies about the
police to the media.
If this is the kind of treatment that
a group of educated, relatively well-con-
nected women in the capital receive, I
cannot even begin to imagine the night-
mare that women in other parts of the
country, the Dalit/Adivasi women, and
economically weak women, must be
going through day in and day out. It
pains me to hear about the girl in Patiala
who was driven to suicide because of
brazen police negligence and insensitiv-
ity. Her story is no different than of the
thousands of survivors of unreported
rape cases. This is our reality. As if rape
isnt bad enough, the police everywhere
seem to add fuel to the fire.
I wouldnt go so far as to say that all
police personnel are bad. Of course there
are cops out there who are doing a good
job, but the slack attitude and the stone-
age mindset of the police is visible to
everyone, and most terrifyingly to
women and young girls. Between going
straight home after being mugged or sex-
ually assaulted and approaching the
police for help, a girl will choose the for-
mer option. Were living between a
rock and a hard place. Women live with
the threat of harassment throughout their
natural lives and they dont feel safe
around the police either. When protec-
tors become assailants, we have a real
problem on our hands.
The irony of it all is the most
painful to me: I go to Jantar Mantar to
ask for the safety of women, and on that
very same day I get roughed up and
threatened. Most parents would
respond to such incidents by asking
their daughters to remain home (which
is supposedly safer) and keep away
from protests. This erodes even the
small freedoms we have. We dont need
such escapist solutions. It simply per-
petuates the idea that rapists are
unstoppable monsters, that there is
nothing to be done but to retreat. We
need to take a wholly different approach
to the issue. I saw many posters at the
protests that read, Dont teach your
daughters not to get raped, teach your
sons not to rape. We need to come up
with solutions that prevent rape and
sexual assault from happening at all,
whether in the public domain, or even
at home (people still dont consider
marital rape) The assailant must be
named and shamed. A rape survivor is
not a zinda laash (living corpse), but is
a person who has been through hell, is
no less a human as a consequence and
is deserving of a full life.
Even as I write this, I hear of anoth-
er girl, Sakshi, being brutalised and
humiliated in that same Parliament
Street Police station, and several more
rapes being reported across the country.
The need of the hour is a more respon-
sive and responsible police force that has
undergone rigorous gender sensitisation
training; immediate action against sex-
offenders and errant police staff; leaders
who are willing to step up to the plate
with concrete solutions and not empty
promises. We, the people, are sick and
tired of being treated like second-class
citizens with a justice-rate to match. We
want changes here and now.
(The writer is a student of Lady Shri
Ram College for Women in Delhi, and
one of the anti-rape protesters who faced
police high-handedness)
Gloomy 2012. Hoe 2013 is gooo
tlinl
now

t's easy to run to others. t's

so hard to stand on one's own
record. You can fake virtue for
an audience. You can't fake it in
your own eyes. Your ego is your
strictest judge. They run from it.
They spend their lives running.
t's easier to donate a few
thousand to charity and think
oneself noble than to base self-
respect on personal standards
of personal achievement. t's
simple to seek substitutes for
competence such easy
substitutes: Love, charm,
kindness, charity. But there is
no substitute for competence.
~Ayn Rand
Well-known author
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l is lhe rincile lhal mallers. Lawlessness challenges lhe aulhor

ily o lhe slale and overlurns lhe urose or which lhe secular
slale, democracy and 0overnmenl were eslablished. Be il in wesl
Bengal or hew 0elhi or mhal or 0ujaral, wherever and whenever
some eole violale lhe laws and lhe members, accrediled or ree
ranging, o lhe olilical class ind ways o deending lheir criminal
aclions, lhe slale and ils urose is under allack.
where lie is nasly, brulish and shorl and nalure is "red in loolh
and claw" as Thomas hobbes said or "where liberlies are lhrealened"
as John Locke said or "reedom is in chains" as JeanJacques
Rousseau said, lhe slale musl have ailed lo exercise lhe aulhorily,
esecially ils awesome coercive aulhorily lo reslrain individuals rom
reely indulging in criminal acls. Be il ulililarians uloians, lhe ur
ose o lhe slale is nol a oinl o conlicl. lhe slale exisls, il musl
unclion lo uhold lhe rule o law and mainlain law and order.
The lemlalion lo remember lhese simlislic rinciles in lhese
lragic and lroubled limes is overowering. The gang rae in hew 0elhi
wilh ils inal lragic end and lhe reealed denial o dignily and con
sequenlly juslice and lhe roleclion o lhe slale lo lhe viclim o lhe
Fark Slreel rae in Kolkala and lhe regular occurrence o olilical
clashes and murder underscore lhal lhe ndian slale, which includes
lhe comonenl bils in laces like wesl Bengal musl admil lo lhe
sreading crisis and acknowledge lhal il is nol lough enough, com
elenl enough lo deliver securily o lie and limb, lhe very reason
and urose or which il was eslablished.
The rae o a brick kiln worker in Barasal in horlh 24
Farganas has been reduced lo a case o murder by lhe
olice lhal reuses lo record lhe FR o rae. l is also
an examle o how lhe Slale, in order lo cover u
or ils incomelence colludes wilh lhe criminal lo
deny lhe viclim dignily, undamenlal righls and jus
lice even in dealh. when lhe Slale and ils machin
ery, including lhe elecled reresenlalives o lhe eo
le gang u on lhe ublic lo deny lhem lheir righls,
lhen lhe lawlessness lhal is unleashed is virlually
unconlrollable. Like corrulion, which binds lhe crim
inal, lhe 0overnmenl and lhe olilical class in an
unbreakable lie o vesled inleresls, crimes againsl women
seem lo roduce lhal same sorl o slrong adhesive.
Across Kolkala, where lhe ublic reaclion lo lhe gang rae in hew
0elhi has been limiled, lhe queslion lhal many are asking lhemselves
is why was lhere no long and suslained ublic oulrage over lhe Fark
Slreel rae and why lhere are no voices deending lhe viclim o lhe
rae rom lhe unardonable, uncivilised and unarliamenlary slander
by a Member o Farliamenl, Kakoli 0hosh 0aslidar o lhe Trinamool
Congress. Kolkala is relending lo be scandalised by lhe "denled and
ainled" commenl by Abhijil Mukherjee, anolher MF, whose only claim
lo ame is his amily conneclion lo lhe Fresidenl. 0ne reason is obvi
ous. These MFs, lhose who have been elecled lo reresenl lhe inler
esls o lhe eole, are unwilling or unable lo do so. l is also erhas
lhe case lhal lhese MFs and MLAs are unashamed o revealing lheir
regressive social alliludes, believing lhal women who arly, who wear
makeu and who dress arorialely or lhe globalised 21sl cenlu
ry eilher invile or deserve lo be allacked and violaled by men.
lhe olilical class is haier deending lhe oender ralher lhan
lhe viclims lhen lhe slale musl ail lo serve lhe urose or which il
was eslablished. lhe olilical class is conlicled aboul ils resonse
lo rae lhen il is unsurrising lhal lhis is lhe aslesl growing crime in
lhe counlry. all lhal 0overnmenls can do is shul down Melro sla
lions on hew Year's eve anlicialing lhal lhese could be oinls o dan
ger or women, lhen il is an announcemenl lo lhose wilh criminal inlen
lions lhal every olher nighl o lhe year is oen season or allacking
women. The reaclion o lhe 0overnmenl in hew 0elhi and lhe reac
lion o lhe Trinamool Congress in wesl Bengal is unishing women
or being who lhey are. women cannol enjoy lhe reedom o move
menl lhen il lurns lhem inlo secondclass cili/ens or lhe imrisoned.
lhis is all lhal lhe slale is caable o lhen execling lhal combina
lion o delerrence, ersuasion and incenlive required lo reduce crimes
againsl women is delusional. The slale is suosed lo enacl laws and
lhen enorce lhem. l cannol ass on lhe buck lo eole and lell lhem
lo deend lhemselves, which is whal lhe olilical class is doing lo women
via Mamala Banerjee, Abhijil Mukherjee and Kakoli 0hosh 0aslidar.
lhe olilical class is haier deending lhe oenders
ralher lhan lhe viclims, lhen lhe slale will surely ail lo
serve lhe urose or which il has been eslablished
Feole are sick and lired o being lrealed like secondclass cili/ens, wilh juslice laking ils own lime in coming, i al all il
does. They wanl change, here and now. Assurances won'l do any more. hor will lalhis, leargas and waler cannons work 8hIkhk MkE1EE
FRST
COLUMN
NEW DELH TUESDAY JANUARY 1, 2013 money 10
1
In its biggest acquisi-
tion ever, State-
owned Oil & Natural
Gas Corp (ONGC) agreed
to buy US energy giant
ConocoPhillips 8.4 per
cent stake in the Kashagan
oilfield in Kazakhstan for
about $5 billion. ONGC
Videsh Ltd, the overseas
arm of the State explorer,
would pay a base price of $4.25 billion plus a share
of working capital and other cash calls together with
interest for the 8.4 per cent stake in the field that pro-
duces 370,000 barrels per day (18.5 million tons a year)
of crude oil.
This was the biggest acquisition by OVL, sur-
passing its $2.2 billion buyout of Russia-focused
Imperial Energy in January 2009. It was the biggest
acquisition by an Indian companies this year, and the
sixth largest in the history.
2
Hinduja Group firm
Gulf Oil acquired US-
based Houghton
International for $1.045
billion (about over C5,747
crore) after conclusion of
necessary regulatory
approvals.
The acquisition of this
speciality chemical maker
would make Gulf Oil the worlds 9th largest lubricant
company, without affecting its financials as the pur-
chase has been made through a step-down subsidiary
structure in the US and UK.
3
Mumbai-based Piramal Healthcare acquired
Decision Resources Group, a US-based compa-
ny in the healthcare information segment for
about C3,400 crore.
Decision Resources Group provides web-enabled
research, predictive analytics via proprietary databases
and consulting services to the global healthcare indus-
try, and 48 of the top 50 global pharma companies
are its customers, Piramal said on Wednesday.
Piramal Healthcare sold its domestic medicines
business in 2010 to Abbott for C17,000 crore and later
streamlined its business, foraying into the financial
services sector.
4
Worlds largest spirits maker Diageo Plc acquired
53.4 per cent stake in United Spirits for C11,166.5
crore in a multi-structured deal, which has pro-
vided Vijay Mallya a breather from troubles emanating
from the grounded Kingfisher Airlines.
Mallya would continue to remain chairman of
USL, and another UB Group executive will be
named president. Currently, Ashok Capoor of UB
Group is the managing director (MD) of the company.
Diageo would nominate the MD and the chief finan-
cial officer (CFO).
5
A Singapore-based fibre and pulp maker agreed
to pay 13 times its market cap to buy an
Indonesian coal major, and help GMR and the
S i n a r Ma s
group get a
listing in the
island state for
its coal assets.
Bangalore-
based GMR
group, which
buys coal from
Indonesia, and a company owned by Indonesias Sinar
Mas, have agreed to transfer their joint stakes in
Golden Energy to Singapores United Fiber System
(UFS) for about 2.6 billion Singapore dollars ($2.05
billion). UFS is a pulp producer with interests in con-
struction.
Golden Energy owns coal mines in Indonesia and
is jointly owned by GMR Infrastructure (30 percent)
and PT Dian Swastatika Sentosa (66.99percent), a sub-
sidiary of Sinar Mas group.
United Fiber will pay the shareholders of Golden
Energy- GMR and DSS - in shares for this transac-
tion, giving the two stakeholders near complete con-
trol of the company which has a market cap of 200
million Singapore dollars
6
The UK-based Vedanta Resources Plc will merge
its Indian firms - Sesa Goa and Sterlite Industries
- into a single entity Sesa Sterlite and also offload
debt of $9 billion (C45,000 crore) on it. Under the
merger, three Sesa Goa shares will be issued for five
Sterlite shares.
Vedanta will also transfer to the new entity its
share holding of 38.8 per cent in Cairn India along
with a debt of $5.9 billion. Sesa Goa will pay a nom-
inal consideration of $1 for Cairn India acquisition.
After the transfer, Sesa Sterlite will have a 58.9 per cent
shareholding in Cairn India. There will not be an open
offer for Cairn India shareholders as there is no change
in promoters.
7
State-run Oil
and Natural
G a s
Corporation Videsh
Limited (OVL)
recently announced
that it had bought
US energy company
Hess Corps stake in
in Azeri, Chirag and
Guneshli (AGC) group of oil fields for $1 billion mak-
ing its debut in Azerbaijan.
Jo mergers ano acquisitions in noia in 2012
hEW EIhI: Flying permit of
Kingfisher Airlines, which has
been suspended by aviation
regulator DGCA, expires
today, but rules allow that it
can be renewed within two
years.
The beleaguered carrier
has submitted a revival plan to
Directorate General of Civil
Aviation (DGCA), which has
asked for more details regard-
ing how it would fund the plan
given the precarious financial
situation the company is in.
We have not taken any
decision as yet on Kingfishers
licence. We are waiting for
more details, highly-placed
DGCA sources said, adding
there is nothing concrete on
the table as of now as far as
Kingfishers revival plan is
concerned.
While its lessors and ser-
vice providers like Airports
Authority of India (AAI) are
insisting that the airline should
not be allowed to fly till it clears
all dues to them, airline sources
say as per DGCA rules, they
have a two-year window to
renew the Scheduled
Operators Permit (SOP).
SOP was suspended on
October 20, capping three
weeks of lockout in the cash-
strapped carrier preceded by a
strike by its empl oyees
demanding payment of
salaries.
Kingfisher is saddled with
a loss of C8,000 crore and a
debt burden of another over
C7,524 crore.
It was issued an airline
licence on August 26, 2003,
which was actually in the name
of Air Deccan that was bought
over by the liquor baron Vijay
Mallya-owned carrier. This
licence is valid till today.
Kingfisher CEO Sanjay
Aggarwal had informed DGCA
chief Arun Mishra that the air-
line would require about C652
crore over the next 12 months
to run its operations and the
amount would be put in by its
parent company UB Group. Of
this, C120 crore would be need-
ed to meet salary arrears.
However, there has been no
word from the UB Group as to
how it would commit the fund-
ing and raise it from where.
Banks have been unwilling to
fund the airline. FTI
FIyIa ermIt 0f kIafIsher exIres t04ay
hEW EIhI: Flying out of Delhi
would become cheaper from
Tuesday, with the development
fee (DF) charged by the oper-
ator of IGI airport here being
reduced by C100 for domestic
and C700 per international pas-
senger.
The decision of GMR-led
Delhi International Airport
Limited (DIAL) to slash the
charges followed a directive by
Airports Economic Regulatory
Authority (AERA) for charging
C100 and C600 per embarking
domestic and international pas-
senger respectively from
January one.
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit
Singh had earlier directed DIAL
and Mumbai International
Airport Limited (MIAL) to
abolish DF at the two airports
with effect from Tuesday.
Following this, DIAL had
moved AERA, which, after
consultations, decided to slash
the rate which would remain
effective till April 2016. Till
today, DF being charged at
Delhi airport was C200 and
C1300 for domestice and inter-
national passengers respec-
tively.
Welcoming the order,
DIAL said in a statement the
measure would enable air-
lines to reduce the overall trav-
el cost of passengers, thus giv-
ing a boost to the Indian avia-
tion sector.
In October, the Minister
had also directed Airports
Authority of India (AAI) not to
levy DF at Chennai and Kolkata
airports, which are being mod-
ernised by it.
AAI was also asked to
infuse additional equity of
approximately C288 crore in
MIAL and C102 crore in DIAL,
against its 26 per cent share in
the equity in them.
In case DF is abolished, the
expected financing gap for
MIAL will be estimated at
about C4,200 crore and for
DIAL at about C1,175 crore.
While DF is levied to
meet cash flow requirements
before completion of an air-
port upgrade project, User
Development Fee (UDF) is
charged for using the com-
pleted facility. At present,
DF is levied at private-led
Delhi and Mumbai airports,
among others. Fh8
hEW EIhI: Finance Ministry on Monday sought more
information from IKEA for its India investment plans
and will take up the Swedish furniture majors pro-
posal to open cafeterias at its proposed mega retail
outlets next week.
IKEAs proposal will be taken up next week,
Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram said
after the Foreign Investment Promotion Board
(FIPB) reviewed the application.
The FIPB, headed by Mayaram, has already rec-
ommended permission to IKEA to invest C4,200 crore
for undertaking single-brand retailing of its products.
The recommendation has been forwarded to Cabinet
Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for final
approval.
An official in the Department of Industrial Policy
and Promotion (DIPP) said that FIPB has asked IKEA
to provide more information regarding its investment
plans in India.
No decision was taken today. More information
has been sought from IKEA, Mayaram said.
Following a representation from the Swedish firm,
DIPP had recently forwarded a request to FIPB for
reviewing its November 20 decision giving only part
approval to IKEAs plan.
Batting for IKEAs proposal, Commerce and
Industry Minister Anand Sharma last week had said
that government has taken a favourable view on IKEAs
request.
All the stores globally whether IKEA or some
other single brand retailers, where people shop for long
time... There are cafeterias inside. The government
has taken...Note of the representation that IKEA has
made in this regard and a favourable view has been
taken so that we accept their global model and the
process of FIPBs formal approval is currently under-
way, he had said.
Sources said that besides furniture, the
Scandinavian firm in its original application had
sought Government approval to sell items such as tex-
tile products, consumer electronics, leather products,
lifestyle products, and food and beverages to be served
at its restaurants and cafes.
The company had envisaged an investment of
C10,500 crore in single-brand retail trading after India
allowed 100 per cent FDI in the segment.
IKEA, the worlds largest furniture retailer, oper-
ates 336 stores in 44 countries. It plans to set up 10
furnishing and homeware stores as well as allied infra-
structure in over 10 years in India. Subsequently, it
plans to open 15 more stores. Fh8
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W
ith the new financial
year round the corner,
the Government in a recent
internal review of the econ-
omy, mainly of its key eco-
nomic indicators - inflation,
trade deficit and industrial
growth - all of which showed
improvement, has expressed
hope that the slump in the
economy is expected to peter
out and positive growth is
expected in FY14.
Accordi ng to of f i ci al
sources, during the review of
the financial markets which
involved several key min-
i st ri es l i ke Mi ni st r y of
Finance, Corporate Affairs,
and Consumer Affairs apart
from the PMO and Home
Ministry, it was indicated
that with domestic inflation
falling to 7.2 per cent in
November 2012 compared to
7.5 per cent during the cor-
respondent period in 2011, is
likely to remain stable.
In the review - which
basically is a comparative
study of the financial markets
in the month of November
2012 with that of the corre-
sponding period of 2011 - it
was felt that inflation is large-
ly due to a dip in fuel and
manufacturing inf l ation.
Sources pointed out that soft-
ening of manufacturing infla-
tion indicated weak demand
in the economy.
On core inflation, the
review said that it declined to
4.5 per cent in November
2012 frm 5.2 per cent in the
same month in 2011 and
here too it was mainly due to
weak demand in the econo-
my.
It said that the trend of
weak demand could translate
into lower core inflation and
in the coming months, it is
expected to continue given
the weak economy. On the
declining fuel and power
inflation (which came down
to 10 per cent year on year in
November 2012 compared to
compared to 11.7 per cent), it
was obser ved t hat t hi s
happed mainly due to falling
petrol prices.
In the coming months,
the Government is expecting
that the inflation in fuel and
power sector would remain
stable, unless some geo-polit-
ical event leads to a hike in
fuel prices.
On trade deficit, the
review noted that it improved
only marginally to $19.3 bil-
lion in November 2012 from
$21 billion during the corre-
sponding period, led by a 4.2
per cent drop in exports even
as imports grew 6.4 per cent.
Despite the fall, it was felt that
the deficit is still high and
this is mainly on account of
increased oil imports and
weak imports.
In all, it was felt that
while exports are weak and
contracting on year on year
basis, sequential movement is
visible in them since the last
couple of months, reflecting
st abi l i sati on i n external
demand.
At the same time, the
review cautioned that high
level of oil imports posed a
risk to the trade deficit esti-
mates of $185 billion for
FY13. Indias external com-
mercial borrowings (ECBs),
which is the largest compo-
nent of its external debt,
increased further in October
2012. Overall though, the
borrowi ngs for FY13 i s
expected to be 10 per cent
lower than last years $36
billion. ECBs are the largest
component of the countrys
external debt at 30 per cent,
the analysis said.
Indust ri al growt h, it
noted, jumped sharply in
October 2012 to 8.2 per cent
compared to 0.7 per cent
decline in September 2012,
whi ch was much above
expectation. This increased
growth, the analysis said,
when seen in conjunction
with other trends like sequen-
tial improvement in exports,
uptrend in purchase man-
agers index order book, rise
in cement despatches, among
other factors, points towards
bottoming out of the eco-
nomic activity, although at
weak levels.
Govt reviews
economy, says
outlool is ositive
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
I
n a slight improvement over
FY12, Governments fiscal
deficit in April-November
period of the current fiscal
stood at C4.13 lakh crore,
which is 80.4 per cent of the
Budgetary Estimates (BE).
In absolute terms, the fis-
cal deficit - gap between
expenditure and revenue col-
lection - was C4.13 lakh crore
during the first eight months
of the current fiscal, according
to Controller General of
Accounts (CGA) data released
whi ch was rel eased on
Monday.
This is slightly better than
the fiscal deficit position last
year when it was 85.6 per cent
of the Budget target. The
improvement is mainly on
account of some tightening on
the expenditure front.
Net tax receipts during the
April-November period stood
at C3.7 lakh crore, while total
expenditure was about C8.67
lakh crore.
For the full fiscal ending
March 2013, the Government
had budgeted the fiscal deficit
at C5.14 lakh crore, or 5.1 per
cent of the GDP. However, it
raised the target to 5.3 per cent
of GDP last month.
The fiscal deficit was 5.8
per cent of GDP in 2011-12.
The high fuel, fertiliser and
food subsidy outgo is one of
the major reasons for the bal-
looning fiscal deficit.
The Government has
already imposed measures like
rationalisation of expenditure
and optimisation of available
resources to improve fiscal
deficit condition.
This includes 10 per cent
mandatory cut on non-plan
expenditure in the current
year, ban on holding of meet-
ings and conferences at 5-star
hotels, ban on creation of
plan and non-plan posts and
restrictions on foreign travel.
In order to bring down the
subsidy, the Government in
September raised the diesel
price by a steep C5 per litre
and capped the number of
subsidised cooking gas cylin-
ders to six per household in a
year.
!iscal oeficit at S0/ of
Buoget estimates in Ar-Nov
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE
LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE & SMT. S. K. HOSPITAL
NEW DELHI
STORES SECTION
OPENTENDER NOTICE
Tender Enquiry No: Stores/LHMC/Steam Cleaning-535
On behalf of Hon'ble President of India, Director, L.H.M.C. &
Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi, invited sealed tenders in the pre-
scribed form, from registered / well established/reputed firms for 06
(Six) Hygienic Steam Vacuum Cleaning System along with one skilled
manpower in each machine at L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New
Delhi. The tender documents should be submitted in Two Bid System.
Interested parties, who have sufficient experience in the field,
can collect detailed information/ Terms and conditions of the ten-
der personally from Stores Section, Room No. 10, Administrative
Block L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital. New Delhi. The cost of the ten-
der document Rs. 500/-, which may be paid by DD/Pay order in favour
of Director. L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital. New Delhi, payable at
New Delhi or depositing tender cost in the Account Section of
L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi. The tender document can
also be downloaded from website of MoHFW & CPP Portal. A
Demand Draft of Rs. 500/- to be submitted separately along with
the tender documents.
Sealed Quotation should be superscripted as "Quotation for
Hygienic Steam Vacuum Cleaning System" alongwith a DD/Pay
order for Rs. 2,00,000/- (Rs. Two Lacks only) in favour of Director,
L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi as earnest money may
be dropped in the TENDER BOX kept at Stores Section, Room No.
10. Administrative Block L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi.
IMPORTANT DATES
u Bidding Documents are available for sale at this office from 10.30
AM to 02.30 PM and from 03.00 PM to 04.00 PM, on all work-
ing days (Monday to Friday). from 01st January 2012 to till a
day prior to the closing date of receipt of Bid indicated above.
u Closing Date and Time for : 31st January 2013,
Receipt of Bids 12.00 Noon
u Bids Opening Date and Time : 31st January 2013,
12.30 Noon
The Agencies having proper working office in Delhi with full
address, Phone Nos & Fax Nos will only be considered. The Director.
L.H.M.C. & Smt. S.K. Hospital. New Delhi reserves the right to reject
any or all tender without assigning any reasons whatsoever.
Sd/-
Avanish Singh
Stores Officer
Lady Hardinge Medical College &
davp 17148/11/0014/1213 Smt. S. K. Hospital
NEW DELH TUESDAY JANUARY 1, 2013 money 11
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MF Farooqui, lhe new Secrelary (heavy nduslry) visiled BhEL's Cororale 0ice al Siri Forl. B Frasada
Rao, CM0, BhEL and all unclional 0ireclors welcomed lhe Secrelary. The erormance and ulure
readiness o Bharal heavy Eleclricals Limiled (BhEL) were reviewed by lhe Secrelary. he was brieed
aboul lhe erormance lrends o lhe comany, diversiicalion lans, manuacluring and R&0 caabilily
new inililalives and slralegies or growlh, among olhers
FTI Q hEw 0ELh
T
op earning Central Public
Sector Enterprises will have
to double their minimum
expenditure on corporate social
responsibility (CSR) from
beginning of 2013-14 fiscal, as
per the new norms of the
Department of Public
Enterprises.
CPSEs earning net profit of
over C500 crore will have to raise
their minimum expenditure on
CSR to 1 per cent from the next
fiscal from existing 0.5 per
cent, Department of Public
Enterprises (DPE) Secretary O
P Rawat told the news agency.
Under the new norms,
PSUs with net profit of over
C500 crore in the previous year
will have to earmark 1 per cent
of it from the current level of 0.5
per cent for carrying out such
activities. But the upper limit of
2 per cent remains unchanged.
As per the existing norms,
CPSEs whose net profit is C500
crore and above in the previous
year, their CSR spending ranges
between 0.5 to 2 per cent of their
profits.
However, the new guide-
lines related to allocation of
budget for CSR will be enforced
till the time new companies law
comes into effect and once it is
implemented the quantum of
earmarking funds for CSR
would change for all companies,
including PSUs.
The suggested slabs of
budgetary allocation for CSR
would stand modified as and
when the new company law
brings in provisions in this
regard, which will need to be
followed by all companies
including the CPSEs, the
revised norms stated.
Under the present system,
there is also a provision of a
minimum expenditure of C3
crore on CSR activities for
CPSEs, having a net profit of C
100-500 crore.
Under the revised norms,
the minimum requirement of C
3 crore has been removed as this
created anomalous situation
vis-a-vis CPSEs in the higher
slab of over Rs 500 crore net
profit, Rawat said.
Besides, CSR and sustain-
able development would be
combined into one set of guide-
lines.
At present, CSR and sus-
tainable development are two
separate subjects and are dealt
differently for the purpose of
Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) evalua-
tion.
Once the revised guidelines
would be in place, the empha-
sis of CSR and sustainability
would be on capacity building,
inclusive socio-economic
growth, environment protec-
tion, green and energy efficient
technologies promotion, back-
ward regions development and
upliftment of under- privi-
leged people.
We have moved from
financial CSR to all encom-
passing business conduct
guidelines, Rawat said.
However, the percentage of
earmarking funds remains the
same for PSUs having net prof-
it less of than C 100 crore.
These companies are
required to earmark 3 per cent
of their income for undertak-
ing such activities. To address
the issue of PSUs not fully
spending theallocated funds
earmarked for CSR, the gov-
ernment has made it manda-
tory for these companies to
disclose the reasons for the
same.
As per the new norms, the
unspent amount of the budget
allocated for CSR and sustain-
ability activities for a year will
have to be spent within the next
two financial years, failing
which, it would be transfered to
a Sustainability Fund to be
created separately for CSR and
sustainability activities.
Besides, the revised norms
underscore the need for the top
management of PSUs to be
actively involved in carrying
forward the agenda of CSR
and sustainability.
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G
rowth rate of eight core sec-
tor industries declined to 1.8
per cent in November from 7.8
per cent in the same month last
year due to drop in production
of coal, natural gas and cement.
The eight core sector indus-
tries had registered eight-month
high growth of 6.5 per cent in
October 2012.
The decline in growth in
November, 2012, was due to neg-
ative growth witnessed in coal,
natural gas and cement sectors
and drop in growth rates of elec-
tricity, steel and petroleum refin-
ery products, according to the
official data released on Monday.
The cumulative expansion
of the eight industries -- crude
oil, natural gas, cement, coal,
electricity, steel, petroleum refin-
ery products and fertilisers -- was
down at 3.5 per cent in April-
November 2012 against 4.8 per
cent in the same period last year.
The eight industries have a
weight of 37.9 per cent in the
overall Index of Industrial
Production (IIP).
Production of natural gas
and coal contracted by 15.2 per
cent and 4.4 per cent, respec-
tively in November. Cement
output too shrunk by 0.2 per
cent as against 17 per cent
growth in the same month last
year.
Steel and electricity pro-
duction slowed to 6 per cent
and 2.3 per cent, respectively. In
the same month last year, it was
10.5 per cent and 14.4 per cent
in that order.
Petroleum refinery output
also slowed down to 6.6 per
cent against to 11.2 per cent last
year.
However, production of
fertiliser and crude oil grew by
5 per cent and 0.8 per cent in
November respectively.
FTI Q hEw 0ELh
T
he Empowered Group of
Ministers on spectrum,
headed by Finance P
Chidambaram, is scheduled to
meet on January 3 to discuss
details of the spectrum auction
due this fiscal.
EGoM is meeting this
Thursday, official sources said.
The EGoM, they said, will
discuss the auction plan pre-
pared by the Department of
Telecom (DoT) after the Cabinet
approved the sale of unsold
GSM spectrum in 1800 Mhz
band and in the premium 900
Mhz spectrum band.
The government is learnt to
be preparing fresh plans to auc-
tion the radiowaves that can
fetch around C39,895 crore.
As per the proposal, the
government may get around
C25,316 crore from the auction
in the premium 900 Mhz band,
and C14,579 crore from auction
of unsold spectrum in the 1800
Mhz band.
For the CDMA (800 Mhz)
band, DoT may propose either
to recommend the matter to
Telecom Regulatory Authority
of India or auction the
radiowaves in succession to
GSM spectrum.
DoT may sell more spec-
trum in Delhi, Mumbai,
Karnataka and Rajasthan in the
1800 Mhz band, compared to
the quantum it had earlier put
up for auction that ended on
November 14.
Spectrum held by existing
operators, whose licences are
coming up for renewal, is also
being put for auction, said an
official source.
DoT may put 15 Mhz of
spectrum in 1800 Mhz band
(used for 2G GSM services)
amounting to 12 blocks in Delhi
and Mumbai for auction at
reserve price of C 485.15 crore
and C474.92 crore per block,
respectively, they said.
The government in the pre-
vious auction had put up only 10
Mhz for auction, divided in 8
blocks of 1.25 Mhz each, for C
693.06 crore in Delhi and
C678.45 crore in Mumbai which
attracted no bidders.
In Rajasthan and Karnataka,
it will auction same quantity of
11 blocks spectrum at reserve
price of C46.96 crore and C
231.08 crore, respectively.
For the premium 900 Mhz
band, which provides double
coverage of the signals com-
pared to signals in 1800 Mhz
band, the government is learnt
to have fixed minimum price of
C 970.30 crore per block for
Delhi, C949.84 crore per block
for Mumbai and C 227.44 crore
per block for Kolkata circle.
The government may auc-
tion 15 Mhz of spectrum in 900
Mhz band in Delhi and
Mumbai circle and 12.5 Mhz
airwaves in Kolkata.
As per the draft propos-
al , new pl ayers may be
required to bid for minimum
of 4 blocks in both 1800 Mhz
and 900 Mhz band in Delhi
and Mumbai, sources New
entrants may have to bid for
4 blocks in Rajasthanand
Karnataka where 1800 Mhz
band will be put up for auc-
tion, the sources said.
However, for auction of
900 Mhz in Kolkata, new
players may be required to bid
for minimum of one block
only.
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P
eople turned to the Internet
to buy everything from dia-
pers to books, houses and even
groceries this year, pushing e-
commerce revenues in the coun-
try to $14 billion with the pos-
sibility of even higher earnings
in 2013.
Factors like spiralling infla-
tion and slower economic
growth failed to dampen the
online shopping frenzy as more
and more companies opted for
selling wares through the inter-
net route, offering innumerable
options and discounts to buyers.
Increasing Internet pene-
tration and availability of more
payment options boosted the e-
commerce industry in 2012.
Besides electronics, customer
traction grew considerably in
categories like fashion and jew-
ellery, home and kitchen and
lifestyle accessories like watches
and perfumes, Snapdeal Vice
President (Marketing) Sandeep
Komaravelly said.
While travel still comprises
a significant portion of the e-
commerce market, other seg-
ments are catching up fast.
Apparel, books and
lifestyle categories (beauty,
footwear and health) will drive
e - c o m m e r c e ,
HomeShop18.Com Founder
and CEO Sundeep Malhotra
said, adding that relatively sta-
ble and growing domestic
economy will also be major
growth drivers. The coming
year looks promising for the
industry.
According to
Peppercloset.Com owner
Sumeet Arora, e-commerce
segment has doubled to $14 bil-
lon this year from $ 6.3 billion
in 2011. This figure is likely to
reach 38 million by 2015.
So, what can one expect in
2013 from the thousands of e-
commerce websites.
More personalised offers,
loyalty programmes and better
customer care is what most e-
commerce companies would
focus on to offer customers a
richer, more relevant online
experience, an industry analyst
said.
According to
HomeShop18.Com, an inno-
vation that will revolutionise
e-commerce in India is cost
optimisation through ware-
house and logistics manage-
ment that will enable compa-
nies to do profitable business.
While players like eBay
and IndiatimesShopping have
been around
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R
etail inflation for industrial workers moved up marginally to 9.55
per cent in November on account of surge in the prices of food
items, cooking gas, medicines and bus fares.
The rate of price rise was 9.34 per cent in the same month last
year.The retail inflation measured in terms of Consumer Price Index
for industrial workers was 9.6 per cent in October this year, a Labour
Ministry statement said here.
Food inflation was 10.85 per cent in November as against 7.61
per cent during the same month last year, and 9.91 per cent in
October.
Retail inflation rises to 9.55/
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T
hough quite late in the day,
the Coal Ministry on
Monday, began the process of
giving away coal blocks meant
for state-owned entities through
the Government dispensation
route, under which 17 reserves
would be given away mainly to
power companies for captive
purpose.
It has been decided to
offer 17 coal blocks (14 coal
blocks for end use i.E. For
power and 3 coal blocks for
mining) to different
G o v e r n m e n t
Compani es/ Undert aki ng
(Central and State), the Coal
Ministry said in a statement.
The development comes
in the wake of the govern-
ment's repeated announce-
ments to make policy for
mines allotment transparent.
Govt offers 17 coal
llocls to PS!s,
invites roosals
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (SW)-II
DELHI JAL BOARD: DELHI SARKAR
OVER HEAD TANK: NAJAFGARH: NEW DELHI-110043
CORRIGENDUM
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vide NIT No. 13(2012-13) published vide tender ID No.
2012_DBJ_25834_1 is extended for 03.01.2013 upto
02.45 P.M. The amount of Earnest Money may be read as
Rs. 64,100/-. Other terms and conditions shall remain same.
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speech.
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BREFS
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A
31-year-old New York
woman charged with the
murder of an Indian immigrant
has been ordered to undergo a
psychiatric evaluation after she
laughed at her arraignment
telling the judge she thought it
would be cool to push the vic-
tim in front of a train.
Erika Menendez has been
charged with murder as a hate
crime for pushing 46-year-old
Sunando Sen in front of an
oncoming train at a subway sta-
tion in Queens on December 27.
Sen, who owned a printing
and copying business, would be
cremated today by his friends
after it emerged that he has no
family in India.
A Kolkata native, Sen
lived with roommates in a
small apartment in Queens
and was unmarri ed.
Menendez was arraigned on
Saturday night but showed no
remorse for her actions dur-
ing the court hearing.
According to the Queens
District Attorneys office,
Menendez laughed uncontrol-
lably and smiled during the
hearing, telling prosecutors
that she pushed Sen onto the
subway tracks for no reason.
I pushed a Muslim,
Assistant District Attorney
Michelle Kaszuba quoted
Menendez as telling detectives
during the hearing. There is no
reason. I just pushed him in front
of the train because I thought it
would be cool. I just pushed him
because he was Muslim.
Asked if Menendez showed
any regret for the crime,
Kaszuba said she told author-
ities: Nope, I dont like to
regret anything. It is what it is.
Menendezs behaviour at
the hearing even infuriated
Judge Gia Morris who ordered
the womans defence lawyer
Dietrich Epperson to Tell your
client this is not funny. Youre
going to have to have your
client stop laughing.
Epperson told the judge
that Menendezs behaviour in
court was not different from
how she had been behaving
since her arrest and said her
client did not think the pro-
ceedings were funny.
Morris ordered that
Menendez be held without bail
and undergo a psychiatric eval-
uation before her court hearing
on January 14. Menendez has
not entered any plea. Menendez
told police that before pushing
Sen, she spent time with her
boyfriend in Bronx, went to
Times Square and smoked mar-
ijuana, Kaszuba said.
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U
S Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton has been admitted
to a New York hospital after
doctors discovered a
blood clot during a fol-
low-up examination of a
concussion she had suf-
fered earlier this month
following dehydration
and a fall.
Clinton, who was
admitted to the New
York Presbyterian Hospital on
Sunday, is expected to remain
there for at least 48 hours as
doctors monitor her condi-
tion and treat her with anti-
coagulants, the State
Department said.
Doctors will continue to
assess her condition. They will
determine if any further action
is required, said Clintons
spokesperson and Deputy
Assistant Secy of State Philippe
Reines, without specifying
where the clot was discovered.
The 65-year-old Clinton,
who had announced long ago
her decision to leave office at
the end of Obamas first term,
was earlier planning to return
to work this week after recu-
perating at home over the past
three weeks.
Clinton, who has
maintained a gru-
elling work schedule
through her tenure
having set an official
travel record by visit-
ing as many as 112
countries and logging
nearly a million miles, had suf-
fered a stomach virus earlier
this month, leading to dehy-
dration, fainting and fall.
At that time, officials said
the concussion that she suf-
fered during the fall was not
severe and that Clinton would
work from home for the time
being even as she recuperated
and doctors monitored her
condition. Her illness had
forced her to stay away from
the crucial Congressional hear-
ing on the Benghazi attack.
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fforts to stave off the US
fiscal cliff were still on as
of Monday morning with
Democrats and Republicans
making progress but still to
fully reconcile their contrasting
positions even as the midnight
deadline was fast closing in.
Lawmakers indicated that
some disputes had been
resolved between the two sides,
but some crucial sticking points
still remained, leading to con-
tinuation of talks between Vice
President Joe Biden and Senate
Republican Leader Mitch
McConnell.
At the time of writing,
doubts remained if the com-
promise deal is hammered out
and both the Senate and the
House of Representatives pass
it within the next 15 hours, fail-
ing which the US would begin
its slide on the so-called cliff
with automatic tax hikes and
federal spend-
ing cuts with
effect from
m i d n i g h t
(10. 30 am
Tuesday India
time).
S o m e
senior l aw-
makers indi-
cated that some deal could
materialise and secure passage
by both chambers before the
deadline, but without address-
ing all the key issues.
I think there is some good
news, Democratic
Congressman Chris Van
Hollen said on CNN. I think
now theres a better than 50-50
chance that we will avoid the
fiscal cliff by midnight tonight.
It is a very open question
about whether or not some-
thing put together in the Senate
would be able to get enough
votes in the House. But first
things first. Lets first see if they
can get an agreement in the
Senate, he said, but declined to
get into specifics even as he
claimed that Democrats have
shown a lot of flexibility and
now were waiting for addi-
tional flexibility on the
Republican side.
From the Republican side,
a spokesman for Senator
McConnell said: The leader
(McConnell) and the VP con-
tinued their discussion late
into the evening (on Sunday)
and will continue to work
toward a solution.
Although some reports
spoke of major progress with
a near-agreement on extend-
ing tax concessions to families
earning up to $450,000 a year
($400,000 for individuals),
work was still on other stick-
ing points. President Obama
had offered a $400,000 thresh-
old earlier on, but made it sub-
ject to a broader deal. But
some other reports said
McConnell still wanted it
pegged higher at $550,000.
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in the last few years. People didnt even know that
such a concept can exist where one person con-
quers the stage and takes the responsibility of
making everyone laugh. Options of live enter-
tainment were limited to dance and singing
shows. It was only a few years back that we wit-
nessed a revolution in the entertainment segment
and I am really happy that stand-up comedy is
finally finding grounds and is getting popular. The
number of artistes in the field is rising and that
is a good sign.
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look into the eyes of the person you are talking
to. It was supposed to be very impolite and peo-
ple often used to take offence if you looked any-
where else while talking to them. But today it
seems everyone is comfortable, and if not com-
fortable they have made themselves understand
that it is a norm for everyone to keep texting or
tweeting even while they are talking to someone
else or even dining. I dont know about the rest,
but to me it is very irritating when a person starts
texting in middle of a conversation. It seems like
our world is limited to the 140 characters on some
virtual space.
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I am sure that every Indian would be proud
of the kind of airports that we have today. No one
would have thought earlier that even we can have
an airport where you can shop from the best of
the brands, almost everything that you want
to, ranging from clothes to headsets. It is no
more a pain or any sort of discomfort to
be spending time at our airports with
world-class facilities.
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It is no more just Mumbai. Talk
about any city and traffic seems to
be the problem. No one would have
imagined getting stuck in massive
traffics in tier two cities of the
country. But today thats so common.
I think the rise in purchasing power
is to blame for that. People think they
can buy as many cars as they want.
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cared to know till a few years
back about how much profit a
movie made. Today every second
movie is crossing a 100 crore mark
thats a positive norm.
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lot of efforts from last year
will be spilling into 2013.
For many years, the music
scene in India has been domi-
nated by classic rock and con-
temporary pop but all that is
about to change. With the
rise of indigenous bands,
we now have a multiplic-
ity of genres backed by
substance. Lip service is,
at last, a thing of the
past.
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The expats
made Latin music,
especially salsa is
quite a rage in India
but it remained
restricted to that
alone.
Now, several his-
panic artistes have
come to India and
are taking the
understanding of
Latin music to
beyond the
known bound-
aries. There are two
or three bands in
Delhi alone that are
making Bossa Nova
and Samba music. I
am also looking forward to a
different kind of rock n roll.
One with a touch of burlesque
to it.
The earthy, primal is what
I am hoping to hear more of,
not just punk versions. Bands
like Avi & The Uprising are
makers of the sound.
The idea is to make music
a more diverse experience but
not at the cost of a good tune.
Bringing in stand-up comedi-
ans is yet another norm that we
will observe in music circles.
Another very prominent norm
in 2013 will be live dance
music, which will also include
bhangra, salsa and the likes.
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Anyone who understands
music will tell you that
Bollywood produced music is
essentially crap. There used to
be a lot of soul involved till
sometime ago but now, it is all
digitally remastered noise. I
mean, come on, is Honey Singh
Yo-Yo really music? Bhangra
(and Punjabi music), is far
more evolved than that.
Substance will be the keyword
in 2013.
It is such a sad state of
affairs. There are so many for-
mer members of Bollywood
music orchestras who are pen-
niless today. They do not have
jobs and are forced to give up
on their music. There are only
two of the original several
orchestra outfits that have sur-
vived the times. I hope that in
2013 we will be able to eradi-
cate the domination of film
music and choose to listen to
more home-grown sounds.
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The more original music
by home-grown Indian bands
will find their place through
independent radio. One of the
pioneering efforts towards the
same is Radio 79. These are the
efforts to bring out non-com-
mercial, non-film music that
focus on Indian bands. The
advertising agencies think it is
too much of a risk to promote
home-grown talents. It is a very
peculiar Indian thing that Indi
concerts and sounds too close
to home are not considered
stylish or international in
taste. Unfortunately, the adver-
tising agents who may not be
artistically enlightened or have
enough substance are dictating
the taste of the people and
telling them what to listen to.
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Musicians across the city
are bound to express their
anguish at the recent social con-
cerns through music. People
will use the medium to express
themselves. This is, again, a
phenomenon ongoing for a few
years but will be a norm this
year. It will be a movement
towards maintaining a level of
awareness among people.
Though not all outfits will
be protest bands but there
will definitely be ele-
ments of saying what
needs to be said in
t h e i r
music.
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s days change to weeks, weeks
change to months and months
become years, we do unconcious-
ly become a part of the system lit-
tle realising the changes that we
have adapted to. We seem to move
on in a trance-like state where the
change becomes a normal.
Hailing from a small town,
even a few years back, I found it
very difficult to reach a destination
in Delhi. I stopped at almost every
red light asking for directions. I
never realised when I stopped ask-
ing strangers and just used my
Galaxy Tablet to reach my destina-
tion. For that matter, my calls to my
mother asking her how much
masala I should put in the chicken
reduced long back courtesy Google
(She still feels her recipe is better).
Now when I come to think of
it, on the turn of every New Year
something or the other became a
new normal for me. Instant plan-
ning for parties and outings
became a part of my life the
moment ATMs were introduced
swipe and I am done.
How many of us could
ever think that regular peo-
ple would leave work and
sit at India Gate praying for
someone they do not
know? The change of the
collective consciousness did
certainly not come overnight.
It slowly became normal for
us to count as a people, make
our voices heard and pray for an
unknown person. I think around
a decade ago, when I was trying
to familiarise myself with the
metro life sitting in a bus, a
Maruti 800 was up in flames and
a woman driver was asking for help.
No one stopped. The nine to five
jobs did not give them enough time
for social service. Now it is fairly
normal for a helpful crowd to col-
lect and take care of a victim of an
accident.
Just the other day when I was
entering a five-star to have lunch
another normal struck me
frisking by security guards. A
polite namaste and a big
smile later, I have been
frisked by many a
security guards
and I deal with
it as if it has
been hap-
pening
for ages. I have very conviniently
forgotten the days I could just
prance around in any hotel or mall.
From Aamir Khan, Rahul Bose,
Shabana Azmi and Kabir Bedi,
celebrities taking up a social cause
and rubbing shoulders with the
common man is normal today. And
yes, considering the fact that we are
a Bollywood-obsessed nation, it cer-
tainly is a big plus.
So as you open
your eyes to the
New Year, think of
the normal that you
wished happened. I can
see my mother, daughter,
sister walking freely on
Delhi roads in the middle of
the night.
The new normal
How many of us
could ever think
that regular
people would
leave work and
sit at ndia Gate
praying for
someone they do
not know? The
change of the
collective
consciousness
did certainly not
come overnight
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he biggest norm that has emerged
in the last year is very much vis-
ible to all of us. There has been an
awakening in the last few years and
now we are raising our voices against
injustice. Be it the Anna Hazares anti
corruption movement or the ongoing
protests against the Delhi gangrape
across the cities, we are no more
scared to take to the streets. We are
getting united for the cause. There has
been a social revolution, which I hope
will spread fast. We are promoting the
new way of living. There are groups
trying to reach out to the underpre-
viliged section of society and spread-
ing the word. One thing that I really
like is that youngsters are participat-
ing in full force. We are no more the
generation where we would not stick
out our necks, fearing what the world
would say or our parents might bash
us for doing this.
The sense of sharing and giving
back to society is much more preva-
lent in present times. Be it any festi-
val or major occasion or even other-
wise, charity has become the latest
norm among the people. I can see that
we are rising above the class and sta-
tus barriers, though it is just a begin-
ning and we have a long way ahead,
but its a good start.
Apart from the social behav-
ioural changes, I think we are getting
mature as audience. I would definite-
ly talk about the changing norms of
Bollywood since its very much a part
of our lives. People, where on one
hand welcome films like Dabangg and
Rowdy Rathore, they are appreciating
the new cinema, that has emerged
lately. It is only because of the kind of
appreciation and motivation that we
are receiving in our homeland that we
have confidence to take these movies
to the international platform. Indian
films have not only become an impor-
tant part of major international fests
but they have gained a status for them-
selves.
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T
he series of images that speak strongly
of the underlying reality, rather than
merely reflecting the random objects and
people on streets, take you through the jour-
ney to London. But this journey might be
a little different than what you have heard
or read about the city. They talk about how
different the city can be to you, and no mat-
ter that you will have every one around, you
would just not feel comfortable in the crowd.
The pictures are a narrative of London as
a metropolis. People think that it is a city
of dreams and everything will be sort of
wow. But the social reality of the city can be
something different and that is what I want-
ed to present through my pictures that do
not follow the aesthetics of photography,
shared Siddhartha Tawadey, Geography of
Solitude: In between spaces, is ongoing at
Queens Gallery, British Council.
People want to go to London as they
feel it is the land full of opportunities. But
once you are away from your homeland you
look out for more than opportunities. You
need a sense of warmth and connect with
the space within which you move around,
and that can be missing, added the visual
artist, who has divided the exhibition in
three parts: photographs, short films and
installations. Each is a result of some kind
of innovation.
Tawadey stayed in London for almost
eight years and the works displayed were
clicked by him during that period. This
exhibition is perceived from the point of
view of young Indians who leave their coun-
try and expect everything to be glossy and
glittering. But while I was there, I met many
Indians who suffered a sense of alienation.
No matter that you make friends but there
is that felling of being away that nothing can
take away. For example, if a person is mov-
ing from a small city like Meerut to Delhi,
it will be a certain change for him but over
time he would adjust as he knows the ulti-
mate reality of the city. But when he will be
transported to a city like London he will
move with the pre-conceived notion that
things will only be good there. So later that
sense of alienation comes as a shock and it
is difficult to move with it, he explained.
One of his short films Empty Life reflects
the politics of food, poverty, gender, ethics,
illiteracy and identity through symbols and
metaphors. The footage is from the sem-
inal film of Satyajit Rays Pather Panchali jux-
taposed with found footage from archives
and footage bought in garage sales. Empty
Life explores the inequalities between the
developed countries and India in the most
literal way. The truth is always on the sur-
face, we manipulate it by apathy and ratio-
nalisation. These visible truths are revealed
in the video and it forces the viewer to con-
front the realities that we choose to ignore,
added Tawadey.
The exhibition continues till January 4. A
ll of us have heard of the
Bhagavad Gita. But how
many of us know its true
meaning? For the latter, here is
a chance. Director of Akshara
Theatre Gopal Sharman will-
stage a play that will explain to
you the essence of the sacred
text. This New Year, I am com-
ing with four new plays.
Bhagavad Gita is one of them. In
this, we are trying to explain the
actual meaning of the Bhagavad
Gita. If we see in Khap panchay-
at, the mukhiya always quotes
the holy book but none of them
know its true meaning. So with
the help of this play, we are try-
ing to send a strong message and
explain the essence of the
Bhagavad Gita, says Sharman.
Akshara Theatre, that he
formed with his wife Jalabala
Vaidya in the 70s, is a speci-
men of Sharmans fine creativi-
ty and imagination. He feels that
as a theatre person, you must
befriend darkness and conquer
light. In these times when peo-
ple are voicing their opinions
against social issues, I want to
make a difference through my
plays. Theatre is very strong
medium to spread a message.
People can feel the emotion and
it is like reality. Through my four
different plays, we are trying to
give a beacon on new thinking.
Generally known to stage
English plays, does he feel that
language is a barrier as most
of the people who would
watch the plays speak in
Hindi? I used English in the-
atre but if we talk about
Bhagavad Gita, I have used
Sanskrit shlokas. On the other
hand, music and action clear-
ly explain the thoughts that we
want to convey, he says. Ask
him about the source of his
creative energy and he is quick
to add, Most of all, it is a sense
of beauty that drives me. I set
out in search of it, unaware
what it will be a poem, a
song, a play, a sculpture or a
work crafted in wood. You can
communicate it through var-
ious ways a perfect move-
ment or gesture or inflection
of voice or tone.
I
just want to show the real rural
area of Chhattisgarh with the
help of my work. I can convey
my feeling in the metropolitan
city like Delhi. Here people
really enjoy my work, says
artist Deepak Verma about his
solo art exhibition held at Pyare
Lal Bhawan.
About the response he got
for his exhibition, he says,
Because the rape victim died
and Delhi was in grief, most of
the people could not visit my
exhibition. But still I received a
good response. Now I have
already tried to get permission
to exhibit at the Lalit Kala
Akademi.
When asked about his inspi-
ration he says, I am from a
small village called Sarra near
Raipur. From childhood I always
used to see folk painting on the
wall of huts. In university days,
I did landscape but personally I
like to show real Chhattisgarh in
my work. Village and tribal cul-
ture inspired me a lot. People
come to see my work at metro-
politan cities because they want
to know more about tribals.
Other artists are also doing
similar themes. People like my
work because I give a simple
message which is the key word
of tribal culture.
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A
ustralian pace legend Glenn
McGrath will be inducted
into the ICC Cricket Hall of
Fame during the third Test
between Australia and Sri Lanka
starting January 4 in Sydney.
McGrath will join Enid
Bakewell and Brian Lara to
become third inductee of 2012-13,
the ICC said in a statement.
McGrath becomes the 68th male
member of the Hall of Fame and
joins fellow 2012-13 inductees
West Indian Brian Lara and
Englands Enid Bakewell in being
recognized by the ICC and the liv-
ing members of the Hall of Fame.
While Lara and Bakewell were
inducted in September at the ICC
Awards, McGrath will be induct-
ed at his home ground of the SCG.
A fourth and final inductee of
2012-13 will be announced next
summer.
McGrath represented
Australia in 124 Test matches
between 1993 and 2007 and
claimed 563 Test wickets at an
average of 21.64. He took more
Test wickets than any other seam
bowler currently in the game or
retired.
He also represented Australia
in 250 ODIs, claiming 381 wick-
ets at an average of 22.02, and was
part of the Australian side that won
three successive World Cups --
1999, 2003 and 2007. He still
holds the record for most wickets
in World Cup competitions, with
71 scalps and his figures of 7-15
against Namibia are the best in the
competitions history.
I am honoured that the ICC
Cricket Hall of Fame voting acad-
emy, which includes all the current
living Hall of Famers, have nom-
inated and voted me to be induct-
ed into the Hall of Fame, McGrath
said of the induction.
I am very much looking for-
ward to celebrating the occasion
on 4 January with not only my
friends and family, but all those at
the SCG which is of course is like
a second home to me, he added.
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Sydney: Chris Gayle responded to
Brad Haddins criticism of his
form in Australias Twenty20 Big
Bash tournament with a barb of his
own, saying hes a better batsman
than the ex-test wicketkeeper even
on his non-preferred side.
A key player in the West
Indies World T20 title triumph,
Gayle has scored 70 runs in five
matches this season for Sydney
Thunder, which lost to Haddins
Sydney Sixes on Sunday. Haddin
suggested in a television interview
after he was dismissed by Gayle
that Thunder fans werent getting
value for money from their star
import.
The tall, left-handed Jamaican
batsman responded via Twitter on
Monday, advising Haddin to stop
watch my money and watch him-
self!!
Not my fault he aint good as
I am even if I bat right hand!!!
The tweets had been removed by
late Monday. AP
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Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
S
outh Africa will begin the
New Year by aiming to
strengthen their No.1 status in
the ICC Test Championship
Table, when they play a two-
match series against New
Zealand from Jan 2 at Cape
Town.
South Africa currently lead
the rankings with 123 rating
points and have a five-point lead
over second-placed England.
Graeme Smiths side retained the
Test Championship Mace in
December 2012 after it defeat-
ed Australia 1-0.
For South Africa to retain
the No.1 spot, they just need a
0-0 result or better in the two-
match series against New
Zealand. South Africa could at
best gain one rating point for
winning the series 2-0 but could
lose one point if they win the
series 1-0.
In the event of the series
ending at 1-1, South Africa
would drop down to 119 points,
just one ahead of England, cur-
rently placed at 118.
But if South Africa were to
lose the Test series against New
Zealand 0-1, they would also
lose the top position to England
- dropping seven points in the
process to end on 116.
Then, South Africas final
position on the table will depend
on the result in the Australia-Sri
Lanka series. Australia current-
ly lead the series 2-0 and they
could gain three rating points to
end at 117 if they win the third
Test starting in Sydney from Jan
3. New Zealand, on the other
hand, would remain at No.8 on
the table but would gain seven
ratings to finish at 86.
In the event of South Africa
losing both their Tests against
New Zealand, they would lose
eight ratings to fall to 115 ratings
points to finish third on the
table. A 2-0 win for New
Zealand would push them up to
88 points but they would remain
in eighth place.
Now to lee it
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B
angladesh is not going to
tour Pakistan next month
because of security concerns,
the countrys top cricket official
said Monday.
Bangladesh had agreed in
principle to play a one-day
international and a Twenty20
match against Pakistan, and the
possible venue was Lahore
where gunmen had attacked
the Sri Lankan team in 2009.
No international match has
been held in the troubled coun-
try since then.
Bangladesh Cricket Board
president Nazmul Hasan told
reporters Monday that he has
already informed Pakistan
about the decision. He said the
International Cricket Council
did not reply to Bangladeshs
repeated appeals for being
engaged in the planned tour.
The situation in Pakistan
is alarming. There are worries
in the country (Bangladesh)
over the proposed tour, Hasan
said in Dhaka.
The latest decision came as
a serious blow to Pakistans
efforts to resume internation-
al cricket in the country.
In 2011 April, Bangladesh
was scheduled to tour Pakistan
but it was scrapped after the
countrys High Court asked the
government to suspend the
matches because of security
concerns.
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rank Lampard boosted
Chelseas hopes of reeling in
the Manchester teams in the
Premier League title race, scor-
ing twice in a 2-1 win at
Everton on Sunday to remind
the club of his enduring class
with his future still uncertain.
However, beleaguered
Queens Park Rangers edged
closer to relegation with a lack-
luster 3-0 home loss to
Liverpool, leaving the last-
place club eight points adrift of
safety heading into 2013.
Chelsea fell behind to
Steven Pienaars strike after
just 63 seconds at Goodison
Park but hit back through goals
either side of the halftime by
Lampard, who is free to talk to
other clubs from Tuesday with
his contract up in the summer.
A fourth straight win kept
third-place Chelsea four points
behind Manchester City, and
11 off Manchester United, with
a game in hand on both rivals
going into the new year.
Rafa Benitez is slowly
putting his stamp on the
European champions five
weeks after joining the club as
interim manager but his next
task may be to persuade his
bosses to hand the 34-year-old
Lampard, who has been at
Chelsea since 2001, a new deal.
I just hope for me per-
sonally (to) play in a winning
team, said Lampard, who has
scored in each of his last three
starts. I know theres a lot of
speculation and talk . but for
me the enjoyable bit is the 90
minutes.
Luis Suarez scored twice in
the opening 16 minutes to
take his league tally to 13 - one
behind top scorer Robin van
Persie of Man United - and
Daniel Agger added the other
for mid-table Liverpool, with
all three goals coming in a one-
sided first half. Liverpool man-
ager Brendan Rodgers wasnt at
Loftus Road - he was sent
home from London hours
before kickoff because of illness
- but he would have enjoyed
watching from afar as Suarez
and his teammates ran amok.
We played probably our
best football of the season in
the first half, Liverpool captain
Steven Gerrard said. Luis
Suarez has been brilliant ... hes
a magician.
Liverpool climbed a posi-
tion to ninth and is five points
off fifth-place Arsenal.
Chelsea stayed in the title
hunt by ending Evertons nine-
month unbeaten run at home,
but the visitors will come away
from Goodison Park knowing
they were fortunate to survive
an onslaught by David Moyes
side.
Nikica Jelavic twice struck
the goal frame, as did fellow
striker Victor Anichebe, as
Everton passed up a chance to
move ahead of its opponent.
Weve run the European
champions really close but we
didnt quite have enough in the
end, Moyes said. We played
well enough to get a second
goal but were unfortunate, hav-
ing shots back off the wood-
work. I thought we were a bit
unlucky.
It was left to Lampard to
rescue Chelsea, demonstrat-
ing the priceless knack of find-
ing time and space in the area
that has made him one of the
most prolific midfielder in
Premier League history. The
England midfielder headed in
a cross from Ramires in the
42nd and then was on the spot
to scoop home from close
range after Everton goalkeep-
er Tim Howard saved from
Juan Mata. We have to keep
believing this season there
is a long way to go, Lampard
said. We can only win our
games, then rely on other
things.
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Driven on by memories of
last seasons extraordinary title
climax, Manchester United is in
no mood to relax despite hold-
ing a seven-point cushion over
Manchester United heading
into the second half of the
Premier League campaign.
United surrendered an
eight-point advantage with six
games left as City claimed a
first English title in 44 years by
finishing with six straight wins.
Playing his 21st year at
United, Ryan Giggs has a bet-
ter idea than anyone of the
twists and turns still to come.
Speaking ahead of Uniteds
trip to Wigan on Tuesday,
Giggs says were only halfway
there and there are a lot of
tough games to come ... we
know we have to carry on
producing.
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ithalio Raj was on
Monday name as the cap-
tain of the 15-member womens
cricket squad for the World
Cup to be played in India next
month.
ICC Womens World Cup
will begin from January 31, and
the finals will be played at the
CCI ground in Mumbai on
February 17.
Hosts India will play on the
opening day of the tournament
against West Indies at the
Wankhede Stadium.
Squad: Mithali Raj (C),
Harmanpreet Kaur, Jhulan
Goswami, Amita Sharma,
Gouhar Sultana, M
Thirushkamini, Sulakshana
Naik, Ekta Bist, Mona
Meshram, Rasanara Parwin,
Niranjana Nagarajan, Punam
Raut, Reema Malhotra, Karuna
Jain, Shubhalaxmi Sharma.
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elhi bowlers produced a col-
lective effort as they
enforced follow-on upon
Vidarbha on the third day of
their crucial final group B league
encounter of the Ranji Trophy at
the OLD VDCA ground here on
Monday.
In reply to Delhis first
innings score of 523 for nine
declared, hosts were all out for
257 thereby conceding a huge
lead of 266 runs. Being put into
bat again, Vidarbha were one for
no loss at stumps.
On Monday, none of the
Vidarbha batsmen except vet-
eran Hemang Badani (68) could
make an impact. Sumit Narwal,
Pradeep Sangwan, Vikas Mishra
and Rajat Bhatia took two wick-
ets apiece while Vikas Tokas got
another wicket. Shikhar Dhawan
and co will be aiming to record
an innings victory which will
take them to 24 points and
ensure a smooth passage into the
knock-out stages. Even if they
get six points, it would mean that
they finish on 23 points and
would even qualify in that case.
While Uttar Pradesh with
33 points emerged as group
champions, Baroda with 22
points also have very good
chance of qualifying through to
the next stage. In case Delhi only
manage to get three points and
finish on 20, they would expect
Maharashtra to deny Karnataka
an outright win so that the
southern state finishes on 18
points.
If they record an outright
win, Karnataka will have 21
points, and in case of an innings
win will end on 22 points. If
Karnataka end on 22 points and
have a margin of an innings and
1 run-win, they will have a bet-
ter run-quotient than Baroda as
both have same number of out-
right wins. The bottom line is
that Delhi need an outright win
to get rid of any other mathe-
matical possibility out of their
way.
Brief Scores
Delhi: 523/9 declared lead
Vidarbha: 257 (H Badani 68, S
Narwal 2/27; V Mishrs 2/38) &
1/0 by 265 runs.
Dolhi pushing or win
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Q aiIWays: 214 & 814/O declared (Mahesh Rawal 75 nol oul, Krishna
Kanl uadhyay 55 nol oul, Amil Faunikar 54; Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
8/42) lead 8engaI: 157 & 18/O by 85O runs
Q ujaraI: 244 & 15O/5 (Farlhiv Falel 47, Manreel Juneja 8O nol oul;
Javed Khan 2/22, Ankeel Chavan 2/5O) lrail Mumbai: 447 (wasim Jaer
171, hiken Shah 82; Rush Kalaria 8/8O, Kushang Falel 8/7O) by 44 runs
Q ajasIhan: 884 & 1O8/2 (vineel Saxena nol oul 54; A Ashish Reddy
1/28) lead hyderabad: 84O (Farlh Jhala nol oul 75, A Ashish Reddy G2;
Riluraj Singh 4/8G) by 85 runs
Q 8aurashIra: 242 & 8O8/4 declared lead MF: 185 & 8O/2 (J Saxena 4G; 0
Jadeja 1/17) by 822 runs
F 8
Q karnaIaka: 572/O declared lead MaharashIra: OO & 815/2 (harshad
Khadiwale 18G, Ankil Bawne 8O, Sangram 0ili Alilkar 78; h S Sharalh
1/54) by 158 runs
Q TamiI hadu: 57O/G declared (0 Karlhik nol oul 187; M Sharma 2/77)
lead haryana: 7/O by 5G8 runs
Q F: 1GO & 111 beal disha: 127 & 1O1 (0ovind Fodder 8G; mlia/
Ahmed 5/2O) by 48 runs
F 6
Q 8ervires: 185 and 152 (A Sinha 47 nol oul; A Yadav G/48, S hadeem
4/G4) lead 1harkhand: 12O & 85/O by 188 runs
Q oa: 881 & 11/O lead kssam: 8GG (S Roy 87 F 0as 7O; S Jakali 4/72)
by 2G runs
Q Tripura: 22G/5 (Subhrajil Roy 8G, Abbas Ali 5O; Farve/ Rassol 8/42) vs
1ammu & kashmir
Q kndhra: 82O & 88/O lead keraIa: 812 ((vA Jagadeesh 117, Sanju
Samson 122; 0F vijaykumar 4/77, T Alchula Rao 4/78) by 17 runs.
881I I80FI Roundup ~ Day S
This ono's or Groig and Hussoy
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ans al lhis week's inal Auslralia
Sri Lanka Tesl here have been
asked lo wear lribules lo lhe lale
Tony 0reig and reliring balsman Mike
hussey, oicials said on Monday.
widebrimmed hals were
suggesled lo recall lhe memory o
ormer England calain 0reig, who
died o a hearl allack aged GG on
Salurday. Fans will also be urged lo
don lhe lrademark while nose
roleclive /inc sunscreen
synonymous wilh hussey, who will
be laying his lasl Tesl slarling
Thursday. Bolh leams will observe a
minule's silence beore lhe slarl o
lhe game and will sorl black
armbands in honour o 0reig.
0reig was inslrumenlal in lhe
ormalion o lale Auslralian media
lycoon Kerry Facker's breakaway
world Series Crickel rom 1O777O,
which senl shockwaves lhrough lhe
sorl. 0reig was also a slrong
suorler o Sri Lankan crickel and
enjoyed a high roile in bolh
counlries. "he was a greal human
being and a greal voice or Sri
Lanka," Sri Lankan balsman Thilan
Samaraweera said Monday.
hussey conlinues in good orm
al age 87, jusl monlhs younger lhan
Ricky Fonling who called il quils
earlier lhis monlh. Bul hssey has
said he wanls lo send more lime
wilh his our children, who are all
aged under eighl. he has scored 1O
hundreds in 78 Tesls and averages
51.52. Auslralia have already
clinched lhe series againsl Sri Lanka.
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