States News and Discussions

[Sachin]

Kerala can never put together a SEZ like sri perumbudur. There isn’t 20,000 acres lying around for use.

Land is always a premium in the commie heaven Kerala. Infact for a change I support many of the commie cadre when it comes to their concerns about land. All big-wigs Industrialists in Kerala are now fully focusing on what is available at a premium - which is land. The Smart City (which I guess has gone no where) was one such thing. Lulu Mall case is another. And this "convention centre" is the third one. I am sure Yusuf Ali etc. have no concern for the poor etc. They are in here mainly to occupy prime properties all across the state - with a vague promise of giving jobs. There was another scam in the name of "Aranmula Airport" a green-field airport which finally turned out to be again a private venture from some tourism related group. There it was the BJP and the Hindu outfits which put up a strong resistance and even went to the court to get a stay order. All environmental norms was byepassed for a private party to start an airport. The "Private" word was deliberately kept away so as to give an impression that was a like a domestic/international airport.

To be honest, I have no faith in any of the Muslim League ministers especially handling the industry portfolio. They have no sense of ecology, and their business acumen is only in selling and buying land (and decide on the commissions). These folks do NOT have a vision to start some thing new using Kerala's existing infrastructure.

People in the commie heaven are now in a dilemma. The fact that government cannot provide job for every one is now drilled into every one's head. They now see other industries (like IT) growing in other states. The past sins of the commies are now returning to bite their b-ums. They have been dubbed as dinosaurs who have made the state stagnated. And the non-commies are using this confusion to further their agenda in selling the state to tycoons.

[Supratik]

And where do they land up eh? . In another commie heaven - Kerala. All most all constructions workers are now mainly from West Bengal (and Orissa as well). I have seen some comic discussions in which commies talk about the commie-favouring intellegentsia/writers of West Bengal, the various chathopadhyayas, bandhopadyayas. And one chap snapped back "Oh yeah.. the fellow who is cleaning up plates in hotels is a bandhopadyaya, or working on high rise buildings is a chathopadhyaya". Indirectly meaning these intelligentsia stuff has not done W.B any favour and folks have to move else where for a job.

Well all over the place they are migrating for a living. There is not much productive economic activity in WB. The relatively high GDP (relative to other Indian states) is a legacy from when WB was right after MH. The only significant economic activity that has taken place under BB are IT around Kol and Haldia. Meanwhile Mamata is taking WB back to JB era. There hasn't been any significant investment in the last two years. WB may turn out to be the NK of India.

[Supratik]

The thing to remember is that the migration is due to the family planning failure of WB while the success of kerala in FP & Social development allows them to take up jobs in second world like ME. You can not send unwashed abdul from WB to ME and expect any sort of productive returns. They simply would not make it.

WB family planning and literacy/education is lop-sided. Hindus have very low fertility, high literacy and education. Muslims have very high fertility, low literacy and education. This is why WB is headed for a Muslim dominated area like KL. So at least Hindu Bengalies are not migrating for any social reasons. There are simply no productive economic activity and jobs. States like Gj and TN are miles ahead in terms of economic activity. WB is like BH with higher social indicators. Most of my relatives of the younger variety have left or are leaving. If you go to certain areas of Kol the majority of residents are older generation - the younger educated ones have left. Kol sees an influx of low skill migrants and outgo of high skilled peopled which gives it the shabby, slum-ghetto-infested look.

[Supratik]

If remittances get lumped into exports on a per capita basis kerala exports more than GJ or TN. This remittance very much produces domestic activity in terms of education, equipment, housing and standard of living. There is nothing wrong in this. Happens all the time in the USA for instance. Entire states move if economy is better elsewhere. At present there is a steady drain of folks from the Midwest and industrial North moving South, East and West. It is so bad that some states have a stagnant or falling population. Kerala can never put together a SEZ like sri perumbudur. There isn’t 20,000 acres lying around for use.

You are making a virtue out of a necessity. Without the Gulf KL would be like Cuba - high HDI but no economy. I find it hilarious when Amartya Sen talks about the "Kerala model of development". May be if all Indians migrate to USA we will have the "Indian model of development". It seems his visits to Kol have diminished after his leftist friends lost power. Not to worry as Mamata may outdo JB.

[nawabs]

Ultra ‘Secularism’ in Uttar Pradesh

http://www.niticentral.com/2013/05/30/u ... 83772.html

There was an interesting news on Wednesday. It said that Uttar Pradesh Government, headed by a young Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, has given a Minister of State post to a Muslim cleric two days ago. Giving this post basically means that he was not democratically elected, but was specially appointed at the discretion of the Chief Minister.

Then we heard that there were protests by BJP against this move. Most casual observers would then move on to the next news item. What’s so special in a seemingly pro-Hindu BJP protesting against a secular Government giving Minister status to a Muslim Maulana? That’s probably the thought process of a typical Left liberal person in India. Hey, wait, there’s a lot more to this. Spare a few minutes.

This particular case involves a prominent Muslim cleric of Barelvi Sect, Mohammed Tauqeer Raza Khan. He’s now an adviser in Handloom Department – a Minister of State. Khan is the Itihaad-e-Millat Council president and belongs to Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.

Why is this particular case so important to look deeper into?

It’s because, this is not just a simple vote bank political move, of giving Minister status to a Muslim cleric. For understanding this, you need to go a few steps back via flashbacks, in a typical Bollywood masala movie style.

Flashback 1: Mar 12, 2010

Hindu Muslim riots flare up again in Bareilly, after Tauqeer’s release.

A relatively peaceful city, for Uttar Pradesh’s communal tension standard, Bareilly, witnessed yet another round of riots after this Tauqeer Raza Khan was released by Mayawati Government. Khan was ordered to be released soon after all the charges, except a milder one under Section 144 of the Indian Penal Code, were removed by the Uttar Pradesh administration and he was allowed to walk free following immense pressure from the members of his community.

The important question here is, what was this ‘immense’ pressure from his community on Mayawati of BSP? Why did she yield? More importantly, why was he arrested in the first place?

Flashback 2: Mar 9, 2010

A Muslim cleric arrested for communal clash in Bareilly

Security was intensified in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district following the arrest of a leading cleric for his alleged role in last week’s communal clash. Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, president of the Ittehad-e-Millat Council, was arrested. It was his “rabble rousing speech” that had led to communal tension in the district last week, officials said.

“Fearing a backlash from his supporters, a heavy security cover has come up in parts of the district,” Superintendent of Police (city) Rakesh Jolly had told reporters.

Now it gets interesting. So, this Muslim cleric, actually caused or intensified a communal riot in Bareilly, giving hate speeches against Hindus? Sounds like a serious problematic person for communal harmony.



But wait, there’s more colourful history of this Maulana.

Flashback 3: Apr 2, 2009

Congress President Sonia Gandhi lays down line as UP unit ropes in ‘Bush-haters’

Congress Party sources said that day that their President Sonia Gandhi was upset about the embarrassing episode of the party providing platform to Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC) president Tauqeer Raza Khan at party headquarters without checking his antecedents and credentials. AICC General Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Digvijaya Singh and State PCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi had roped in Khan for the election’s Muslim votes.

Interesting.. so, what was this controversial Khan doing at Congress headquarters?

Flashback 4: Mar 26, 2009

AIIMC to support Congress in UP

On this day, Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, president of the All-India Ittehad-e-Millat Council (AIIMC), extended the support of his group, a part of the Barelvi sect to the Congress. The Congress planned to have seat adjustments with the AIIMC in the next Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, said Digvijaya Singh, General Secretary of the Congress in-charge of the State, to whom the Maulana was introduced at a press conference on this day.

So far, it is clear now that this cleric was arrested and released under pressure by BSP’s Mayawati in 2010, was roped in by Congress for seat adjustments an year earlier. But it still does not help why Sonia Gandhi was ‘upset’?

For which you have to revert back to the period beyond the last two years.

Flashback 5: Mar 15, 2007

A Muslim body announces Rs 5 lakh for Taslima’s head

On his date, President of All India Muslim Personal Board (Jadeed) Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh on Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen’s head, if New Delhi does not restrict her entry into the country. “We demand that the Government should ban her entry into the country. If it is not done, anyone who beheads her will be given a reward of Rs five lakh,” he announced.

Wow! So, a person, now a Minister in 2013 in UP, under the world’s largest democracy’s much valued system, had publicly talked about medieval desert justice like beheading?

Wait, there’s more.

Flashback 6: Date Unknown, Feb 2006

A bounty of Rs.25 crore announced, to anyone who beheads US President George W Bush

By his own admission at a later date ress conference at the Congress headquarters on 26 March 2009, Tauqeer Raza Khan had offered a bounty of Rs 25 crore to anyone who beheads Bush, just before George Bush’s Presidential visit to India in March 2006.

End of Flashbacks:

Now our movie has run its full course.. ending is near.

Here’s a firebrand hate spewing Muslim cleric, who does not believe in any democracy as he had offered bounty to behead high profile guests, and has been picked by Akhilesh Yadav to be a Minister of State. And as a coincidence, look at his organisation’s name, which is similar to a South Indian communal political party, i.e., All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, of the recent infamous Akbaruddin Owaisi hate speech episode. Both are Ittehads. Both have leaders who believe in hate speech against Hindus. Both have incidents of extreme violence threat against writer Taslima Nasreen and there could be more.

So, someone who openly called for the assassination of your nation’s Presidential guest (Bush) and your female asylum seeker (Taslima), someone who was arrested for giving inflammatory hate speech against your nation’s majority population (Hindus) that resulted in bloody riots, is now a Minister of State in your largest State! And more importantly, BSP, SP and Congress, all the three self-claimed secular parties, have bowed in front of this medieval firebrand cleric.

Wah India.. wah! We have to bow to your ultra ‘secular’ standards!

[Vipul]

Sardar Sarovar dam clears another hurdle.

A major hurdle in increasing the height of Sardar Sarovar dam on Narmada river from the present 121.92 metres to 138.64 metres has been cleared.

Both Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh governments said during a meeting convened by Union government's department of social justice on Thursday that the process of rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) has been completed in their respective regions and that they have no objection if the height of the dam was raised.

Despite getting an environmental clearance two years ago, in January 2010 the Gujarat government could not raise the dam height because of about 400 project-affected families in Maharashtra.

It was unanimously decided by all the four states and central government to recommend to the Narmada Control Authority that the height of the dam should be raised. After this major breakthrough, water resources ministry will call a meeting of all the stakeholders and a final approval will be given in near future.

The R&R Committee of the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) had asked to resolve the issue before getting the final clearance for increasing the dam height, which was the main road block.

A senior official said the state government will be able to provide water to the planned command area - about 18 lakh hectares - once the final clearance to raise the dam height comes. It would take about 30 months to increase the dam's height to 138 metres, he said.

At present Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd command area is just 5.4 lakh hectare as against the promised 18.06 lakh hectare. The other major challenge before the government is to complete the canal network, as sufficient water is not reaching arid regions of North Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch.

A senior official said the committee has approved the action taken report submitted by Gujarat, Maharashtra and MP and found it satisfactory.

"The committee will submit today's meeting minutes to the NCA shortly. The NCA has kept a meeting for reviewing the R&R committee's report on July 2 in Indore. After NCA accepts our recommendation, it will grant final permission."

[Hari Seldon]

Child malnutrition stats state-wise for India between '07 and '11.

P.S.
Point to note: the state that made the largest gains in combating malnutrition is - yup - Gujarat. And wouldn't be surprised if similar scale of improvement has happened in other, related HDI indicators - such as female empowerment, child mortality, primary school enrollments etc.

So while paidmedia launched vituperative campaigns against Guj's social indicators and all, they "forgot" to mention the first delta gains Guj made in the past few years. Sheer coincidence, am sure. Only.

[disha]

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If remittances get lumped into exports on a per capita basis kerala exports more than GJ or TN. This remittance very much produces domestic activity in terms of education, equipment, housing and standard of living. There is nothing wrong in this. Happens all the time in the USA for instance. Entire states move if economy is better elsewhere. At present there is a steady drain of folks from the Midwest and industrial North moving South, East and West. It is so bad that some states have a stagnant or falling population. Kerala can never put together a SEZ like sri perumbudur. There isn’t 20,000 acres lying around for use.

Coming back to HDI., please do some research on women empowerment in Kerala vis-a-vis Gujarat. You will find that Kerala is at the bottom of the barrel. Period. What is the point in having high "HDI" in education when the very degree is useless? Why do several keral'ites if they do not end up in gelf, end up in Gujarat - some as barbers with MA degrees. Land has nothing to do with it., infact more innovative solutions should have come out of Kerala given the "high HDI" and "more constraints" and all the money flowing in from Gelf.

Even the vechur cow has not been used as a positive resource by Kerala.

[chaanakya]

Related to uttarakhand , News from Bihar. NiKuamma was conspicuous by his absence through the whole tragedy as it unfolded.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/furio ... o/1136290/

He got a befitting rejoinder Rambo- Dumbo- Scambo from Ms lekhi
Someone should ask him how he feels when he left Biharis to their fate in UK.

Facing allegations from BJP of not taking timely action to rescue Bihari pilgrims in Uttarakhand, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today made a veiled attack on his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi saying he was no 'Rambo' but took steps for assisting pilgrims there.

"I am not Rambo type of personality. I do not have that kind of potential," he told reporters emerging from "Janata Ke Darbar me Mukhya Mantri" programme.

Amid reports that Modi had rescued 15,000 Gujarati pilgrims from Uttarakhand, Congress had termed the senior BJP leader 'Rambo'.

Nitish Kumar dismissed BJP's allegations that unlike other states, the Bihar government did not take timely action to assist Bihar pilgrims.

"As soon as we got to know of the tragedy, the state government deputed a team of senior officials to coordinate relief and rehabilitation action there," he said adding he himself talked to his Uttarakhand counterpart Vijay Bahuguna and contributed Rs 5 crore in the relief fund.

"I myself presided over several meetings of state disaster management team and gave necessary direction to help the stranded devotees," he said.

On the allegation levelled by his former NDA partner, Kumar said, "This is nothing but a reflection of low level politics practised by them. Natural calamity and human tragedies should not be part of politics. It should not be an issue of finger pointing on each other."

He said everybody has their own character. "But, I can not stoop to such low level on such humanitarian issue like them."

Bahuguna is yet to acknowledge contribution of relief fund like that of UP

[member_19686]

Nitish okays Rs 800cr plan for Muslims
TNN | Jul 3, 2013, 04.26 AM IST

PATNA: In an important decision in the light of JD (U) parting ways with the BJP recently, the Bihar cabinet on Tuesday OK'd a sum of Rs 800.30 crore for the development of minorities under the centrally-sponsored Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MSDP) in 75 blocks and eight towns with concentration of minorities, spread over 20 districts of the state. The amount would be spent during the 12th five-year plan (2012-13 to 2016-17).

Currently, the MSDP programme is operational in seven minority-dominated districts - Araria, Kishanganj, Purnia, Katihar, West Champaran, Sitamarhi and Darbhanga - for which a sum of Rs 219 crore had been allocated in the 12th five year plan. Of this sum, the central share was about Rs 173 crore while the state's share was Rs 46.03 crore

Talking to media after the cabinet meeting here, cabinet secretariat department's principal secretary Brajesh Mehrotra said an additional 20 districts will be brought under the ambit of the programme in the current financial year, for which the Centre has agreed in principle to provide Rs 332 crore. He said the amount would be spent for the development of madrasas, schools and distribution of scholarships among students belonging to the minorities.

MSDP is a special area development programme being implemented by the Union ministry of minority affairs for the benefit of minorities. However, its benefits go to non-minorities also. The primary objective of the programme is to improve the parameters which resulted in the identification of the districts as backward and to bring them at par with the national averages.

In another major decision, the cabinet approved the home department's proposal to create 25 additional units of Special Task Force (STF) in order to contain the onslaught of left wing extremism in the state. Each STF unit would be headed by a DSP-rank official. A total of 1167 police personnel would be included in the 25 STF teams. A total sum of Rs 49.45 crore per annum would be spent on them.

In a major boost to private investment in the energy sector, the cabinet gave its nod to the proposal of a Kolkata-based firm, M/s Response Renewable Energy Limited, for setting up a 25MW solar power unit in Nawada district at a cost of Rs 425 crore.

The cabinet also gave its approval to the proposal of the home (special) department to set up a judicial inquiry commission to investigate the recent police firing at a village under Naurangia police station in Bagaha police district. A retired Patna high court judge, Rajendra Prasad, would head the commission, which will submit its report in six months. It also OK'd the proposal to give a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the kin of Munna Singh, a resident of Jamui district who died in police custody in PMCH on Monday.

The cabinet also approved a sum of Rs 384.35 crore to the Bihar Horticulture Development Society for implementation of schemes under the agriculture road map.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 885979.cms

[Vipul]

Jayalalithaa orders supply of free rice to Mosques during Ramzan.

What will (CON)gress do now to show they are more Green then Jayalalitha?
Maybe they will declare a portion of Tamil Nadu as Pukistan. Anything to be more Sickular and to get votes.

[Murugan]

Nitish Govt may collapse any time

6 Tribals killed in Police firing in Bihar

http://zeenews.india.com/news/bihar/nit ... 60298.html

[symontk]

Women's empowerment in Kerala. The effort is largest in Asia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudumbashr ... n_(Kerala)

Milestones at a glance
In contrast with the previous poverty eradication programmes there are no specific financial and physical targets set for Kudumbashree. Kudumbashree practices a process approach and not a project approach. Milestones of the Mission, at a glance, are as follows:-.

The largest women movement in Asia with a membership of 36 lakhs representing equal number of families.
36 lakh poor families brought under the community based organisations (CBO)s consisting of 1.87 lakh Neighbourhood Groups (NHG), 17,000 Area Development Societies (ADSs) and 1,058 Community Development Societies (CDSs)- rural & urban.
mobilised a sum of Rs. 1,105 crores as thrift and disbursed loans amounting to Rs.2,818 crores to the members of Neighbourhood Groups.
1,14,761 NHGs graded under Linkage Banking Programme, out of which 96,330 NHGs linked with banks and an amount of Rs.645 crores mobilised as credit.
25,050 individual enterprises and 1,757 group (with minimum 10 members) enterprises of women developed in urban areas.
1,430 individual enterprises and 4,578 group (with minimum 10 members) enterprises of poor women formed in rural areas.
2,55,270 families participated in lease land farming and 63,560 acres (257.2 km2) of land brought under cultivation.
376 group enterprises and 319 individual enterprises started under the Special Employment Programme (Yuvashree).
Ashraya-Destitute identification and Rehabilitation Project implemented in 745 Local Self Governments and 58,389 destitutes identified.
44,586 houses constructed under the Bhavanashree housing loan scheme (without subsidy) for the poor in rural areas.
235 enterprneur groups (Thelima) formed for the municipal solid waste management in urban areas.
‘Buds’-10 special schools for physically and mentally challenged children set up under the leadership of the Local Self Government.
45,262 Balasabhas (Children’s) Neighbourhood Groups) with 7.9 lakh children formed in urban and rural areas

Awards
1995 ‘We the people’ award – UN
1998 UNCHS –100 Best Innovations
2000 CAPAM – International Innovations Gold Medal
2002 UN Habitat 2002 Practices Global 100 list
2002 Dubai International Award -Finalist
2004 UNDP – One among the 15 best practices in India
2006 India Innovation Award for the Social Innovations
2008 The EMPI-Indian Express Indian Innovation Awards honour outstanding initiatives by Government organizations, NGOs and corporate houses across the country
2008 The Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration
2012 The National Award for BSUP (Basic Services to Urban Poor) implementation
2012 HUDCO's award for the best practices in slum improvement through community network

[kish]

Tamil Nadu town that's driving India's garment sector

After a sharp decline, exports from the textile town of Tirupur have bounced back. The town in west-central Tamil Nadu, 50km from Coimbatore and 460km from Chennai, has reported a 10 per cent growth in order flow in the past two months.

After power shortage in the state is reduced, the "Garment Sector" shows sings of recovery on its own. Goes to show how infrastructure is critical for development and how the previous regime mismanaged it big time.

[Murugan]

Telangana issue

http://twileshare.com/auut

[krishnan]

Read the last two paras of that letter to modi

[Murugan]

What the H#ck

Rajiv Gandhi's Statute brought down in AP...!!!

[RamaY]

^ It is good only, if they replace these statues with historical figures instead of the Italian National Congress leaders.

[Murugan]

[krishnan]

they didnt just burn and bring it down, they beat his statue with foot wear, one guy even spit into his footwear before hitting RG's face with it

[Murugan]

Indira - Head removed


Rajive before brought down


Nehru-ji

[prahaar]

Dynasty is uber-sensitive about such things. Let us just hope people in this region are not made to suffer some collective punishment.

[RoyG]

Eh, elections are right around the corner. Dynasty ain't going to beat anyone. They will just sit tight and hope to reap votes.

[ShyamSP]

TV9 Live: Seemandhra Bandh: Protesters Try To Destroy Rajiv Gandhi Statue in Anantpur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_rLlCXFi6k

Rajiv Gandhi Statue Destroyed At Ananthapur District
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BumKCnw ... r_embedded

^^ Like in Middle-east they are dragging the statue.

[Murugan]

More pics coming from SeemAndhra

http://news.oneindia.in/2013/08/02/in-p ... lide268473

[Singha]

shades of stalin statues torn in east germany lol.

NDA should make it clear Jagan and his TRS is just B-team of INC and will run with the same pack of dawgs post-election!

[RoyG]

shades of stalin statues torn in east germany lol.

NDA should make it clear Jagan and his TRS is just B-team of INC and will run with the same pack of dawgs post-election!

I'm sure Modi will exploit this opportunity to score some points over Congress.

[ShyamSP]

shades of stalin statues torn in east germany lol.

NDA should make it clear Jagan and his TRS is just B-team of INC and will run with the same pack of dawgs post-election!

I'm sure Modi will exploit this opportunity to score some points over Congress.

What? It's not reported widely but activists burned the BJP office also. If Modi comes, he'll also get eggs and chappals. BJP is in the same position as Congress with respect to this issue. BJP was flushed out AP, esp non-T, long time back.

[Muppalla]

Modi is daring to go into seemandhra. I do not think it is a good idea. Anyone who supported Telangana and who is not a Telanganite is a bad strategy and Modi in spite of his high ratings and respect cannot change the fortunes after the jokers of his party went overboard.

[ShyamSP]

^
BTW looking at INC Telangana issue timing, Protests in non-T areas, MIM comments, strangely coincide with Modi's planned public meetings in AP.

At this time Modi's public meeting in Telanagana will be failure (compared to expectations) as BJP cab present anything useful. In Seemandhra, it looks to me he'll surely be embarrassed and INC Media will have entertainment to put him down.

[Muppalla]

^
BTW looking at INC Telangana issue timing, Protests in non-T areas, MIM comments, strangely coincide with Modi's planned public meetings in AP.

At this time Modi's public meeting in Telanagana will be failure (compared to expectations) as BJP cab present anything useful. In Seemandhra, it looks to me he'll surely be embarrassed and INC Media will have entertainment to put him down.

Let us see. Modi's meetings are always not planned too much time ahead. September is when he is planning from seemandhra. The political game so far did not go very well with INC. Modi made similar statements like CBN. Grand Capital etc. This is now a touch me not type of state.

[krisna]

Can folks confirm whether NaMo is going to AP on Aug 11 at all.

He seems to have a business meeting in Thailand on Aug 10-11.

Info gleaned from teetar.

[Muppalla]

AP CM and APCC President

[nawabs]

Thulasi Maddineni, a 2005 IAS officer who was DM of Koppal district in Karnataka was unceremoniously demoted to the post of CEO, Zilla Panchayat, Malngalore thanks to her bold decision against a brother of junior minister in the Congress government for illegally encroaching land of a poor man.

A pyrrhic victory for the Tangadagis in Koppal

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/ban ... 865943.ece

Deputy Commissioner Thulasi Maddineni cancelled a land registration in the name of Nagaraj Tangadagi, younger brother of Minor Irrigation Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi, just before she was transferred.

It all began around one-and-a-half years ago when Nagaraj Tangadagi, younger brother Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi, started constructing a bungalow on 36 guntas of land in survey no. 322/1/2 of Karatagi village in Gangavati taluk of the district. G. Ram Mohan, a resident of the same village, lodged a complaint with Deputy Commissioner against Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi.

Mr. Ram Mohan’s objection was that Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi had encroached upon 21 guntas of his land for constructing the bungalow. After verifying the documents, the Deputy Commissioner stayed the construction, which was subsequently challenged in the Karnataka High Court by Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi. The High Court, which initially stayed the Deputy Commissioner’s order, later disposed of the petition by ordering that the issue settled at the district magistrate’s court.

When the matter came back to Ms. Maddineni, the Tangadagis who sensed that they may not get a favourable order allegedly started making efforts to get her transferred out of Koppal. Ms. Maddineni received her transfer order on June 27, 2013 and Govinda Reddy was posted as Additional Deputy Commissioner until further orders. It appears that Ms. Maddineni too was expecting the transfer.

Order upheld

Before accepting her transfer order, she disposed of the case the same day by upholding the order of the Deputy Director of Land Records , Koppal, which had rejected Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi’s claim of ownership on the land where he was constructing a bungalow.

According to it, Veeresh, son of Shivarudrappa, and Veerabhadrappa, son of Shivarudrappa were, and not Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi, the owners of that land.

Ms. Maddineni also cited the Supreme Court’s order in the Subhaga & Others vs. Shobha & Others case while passing the order.Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi claimed that he had purchased the land from Neelavva and that he was the legal owner of the land.

But the Deputy Commissioner’s final order read: “A person cannot sell what is not owned by him. Since Neelavva was not owning land in Survey no. 322/1/2, it was not possible to sell that land.”

The order also held officials of the Gangavati taluk office responsible for creation of fake documents in favour of Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi.

Expressing happiness over the Deputy Commissioner’s order, Mr. Ram Mohan told The Hindu: “I always believed in the law of the land. I had hoped that justice would prevail, and I am happy with the Deputy Commissioner’s order. ” Attempts by this correspondent to contact Ms. Maddineni and Mr. Nagaraj Tangadagi did not bear fruit.

[Vipul]

Muslim clerics call UP govt's bluff on IAS Durga Shakti's suspension.

The tug-of-war between the union government and the Uttar Pradesh government on the suspension of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Durga Shakti Nagpal took a dramatic turn after several Muslim clerics came out in support of the 28-year-old officer and demanded immediate reinstatement.

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has also decided to take on the Samajwadi Party government in the state and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured that the centre was in touch with the state government and all rules will be followed. Meanwhile, the union government has said that it was waiting for the report from Uttar Pradesh government but if the IAS officer writes a letter to the centre directly then they will also seek a report on the basis of the letter.

ALSO READ: IAS Durga Shakti suspension:Wall demolition or fixed by the Sand mafia?

“The demolition of the masjid wall was as per the lekhpal's report and the SP government is trying to make it into a Muslim issue.The government wants to show that Muslims want that an honest officer be suspended for the construction of a mosque. Durga Shakti Nagpal has been used as a sacrificial goat,” Aamir Rashadi Madni, President of Rashtriya Ulama Council, told media.

ALSO READ: 'It wasn't Durga Shakti, but another official who razed wall'

Coming under attack from all quarters, the Uttar Pradesh government has toughened its stand against Nagpal and has dared the union government to withdraw all IAS officers from Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party, an ally of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), has been shifting its stand on the crucial food security bill to put pressure on the centre.

“Uttar Pradesh would say that we do not want any IAS officer. Let the Centre withdraw all these officers from the state and it would run the state with its own officers,” said Ram Gopal Yadav, senior leader of Samajwadi Party. The union government has asked the state government to immediately file a detailed report on the suspension of Nagpal, who had cracked down on sand mafia

Voice of support for Nagpal has also come from Maulana Yasoob Abbas, spokesman of the Shia Muslim Personal Law Board, who asked the Uttar Pradesh government to immediately revoke the suspension and she be allowed to take action against the sand mining mafia active in Gautam Budh Nagar. “The decision to suspend her had nothing to do with the mosque but her drive against the illegal sand mafia,” said Abbas, according to media reports.

According to the recent report of the local intelligence unit (LIU) from Gautam Budh Nagar, the report states that Nagpal was not present at site when the wall of a local mosque was demolished in Kadalpur village. The Uttar Pradesh government has suspended Nagpal and also filed a chargesheet against her on charges of demolishing the wall of a mosque and which led to communal tension in the village and nearby areas.

Most of the political parties, including Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress, have criticised the suspension of the IAS officer and have demanded that the state government must reinstate her immediately. However, the Samajwadi Party supremo, Mulayan Singh Yadav has also now come in support of his chief minister son Akhilesh Yadav and has supported his decision to suspend the 2009 batch IAS from Punjab cadre who was on deputation to Uttar Pradesh since September 2012 after her marriage to an Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer.

Just a week before being suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government, the 28-year-old officer was responsible for the arrest of 15 people and had imposed a fine of Rs.2 crore on the illegal sand miners in Gautam Budh Nagar. The flying squads formed by Nagpal had seized 24 dumpers and 300 trolleys which were used by sand mafias.

[krishnan]

very strange developement , obviously its the hand of the congi

[nawabs]

Kerala govt may dip into God’s own funds to fix overdraft crisis

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/ke ... is/1229704

God's own country, may have to dip into the almighty's kitty to bail itself out of a financial crisis.

With month-end commitments of salaries, pensions and interest payments piling up, the state government is staring at an ugly overdraft situation, forcing it to either seek help from the state-run Devaswom Board or the cash-rich State Beverages Corporation.

Kerala is entitled to market loans worth Rs 12,000 crore, but this has been drawn nearly to the hilt, sources in state finance department told FE.

"To face the overdraft crisis, the options will be to utilize the revenue-flush Kerala Devaswom Board or the huge tax pool from the State Beverages Corporation," a senior official said, adding that the state government had tried tapping the welfare boards, which were sitting on cash reserves.

The welfare boards for unorganised sectors are said to have turned down the fund pleas.While Kerala urgently needs at least Rs 4,000 crore this week, the balance in state treasury has thinned painfully to a bare Rs 1,000 crore.

Almost all temples in Kerala (except a few such as the Padmanabhaswamy temple where a huge gold treasure was unearthed recently) are managed by the Devaswoms. Run by the state, these Devaswoms collectively earn about Rs 1,000 crore per year.The Guruvayoor temple alone contributes Rs 450 crore a year to the Devaswom Board revenues.

With an average of 12 lakh bottles of IMFL being sold every day, State Beverages Corporation, the sole distribution arm of IMFL in Kerala, is equally in a position to give a leg up to the treasury. With sales turnover of nearly Rs 9,000 crore per year, translating to Rs 7,240 crore in tax inflows, the corporation is Kerala's big money-spinner.

The treasury crisis has also hit the plan funds substantially. The plan expenditure schedule laid down by the state planning board, setting 30 % expenditure each in the first two quarters of the current fiscal and 40 % in the third quarter, has gone awry. With the general elections coming up, Kerala is weak on the political will to realise the Rs 10,000-crore commercial sales tax arrears.

[krishnan]

they will do everything except curb the expenditure

[Vriksh]

Can someone give some input on this report. Prima face seems to suggest Gujarat social indicators are not any different from other states. Perhaps is even
Worse in some aspects. Is the data correct and analysis without bias?

http://www.iamrindia.gov.in/ihdr_book.pdf

[disha]

^^^ Yawn

First of all it is not an official GOI report., it is GOI supported NGO and the report is published from Oxford (UK). That itself should be cause enough to put the report in dustbin.

Now the report uses data from 2005/2007 in general and also in some places uses 2011 and in some places from 2004. That is a very high variance., does not give any information at all. Given this situation, it is even difficult to analyze! Instead of going through the data., I will put it in shredder and put it in dustbin.

Third, and this gets my goat., this is specifically targetting HDI (that is very vague) and within that SC/ST status. This is overall a bad thing. I will try to use the report as TP