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THE TIMES OF INDIA, JAIPUR | FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2015

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JMC fails to collect

house tax, got only 1%
Target Was 100 Cr, So Far Got Only Rs 76 Lakh

Visitors to have
a taste of
zip tour in
Woodland Park
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Jaipur: The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA)s Woodland Park in

Mansarovar area for the first time will
add a special feature of zip tours for
the residents. The activity (zip line/
tour) activity is famous in foreign
countries and was recently adopted by
two famous hotels in the state. JDA is
launching the added feature in its
park to make every resident aquatinted with this kind of adventure sports.
An official said, The project will

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Jaipur: The Jaipur Municipal

Corporation (JMC), once again
turned out to be a complete failure in earning revenue in financial year 2014 2015.
In the absence of stringent
action, the defaulters continue
to evade the urban development (UD) and house tax in the
city. With the financial year almost ending, the corporation
has been able to achieve only
1% of the target of house tax.
As per documents available
with TOI, the corporation recovered Rs 76.69 lakh of house tax
as against the target of Rs 100
crore for the financial year.
Similarly, as against Rs 150
crore target set for UD tax in
this financial year, JMC recovered Rs 27.05 crore. An official
said that the total amount corporation has to collect is Rs 430
crore UD tax and Rs 170 crore
house tax from the residents.
Minimum revenue has
been collected from the zones
in Walled City areas. The record of Hawa Mahal (west )
zone shows only Rs 1.99 lakh
house tax and Rs 52.96 lakh UD
tax was collected . Similarly, Rs
14.79 house tax and Rs 97.74 urban development tax was collected from Hawa Mahal (east)
zone.
An official source said,
JMC has now woken up from
its slumber to collect taxes.
Camps are being organized in
many areas. However , due to

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There are around 116 UD tax defaulters in the tax bracket of Rs 10 lakh
and above and 265 defaulters in the bracket of Rs 5 lakh

` 26.5 crore recovered as stamp duty

Jaipur: During a drive on recovery of pending stamp duty, Jyoti
Chauhan, the deputy inspector general (DIG), Jaipur claimed to
have earned Rs 26.5 crore revenue in the last three weeks from
firms and individuals under Amnesty scheme. As per the records,
Rs 25 crore was solely recovered from a cement company which
evaded duty payable on demerger of its two companies. As per
notification issued by the finance department certain rebates on
interest and penalties were offered to the firms under the said
scheme while paying pending duty. The duties are mainly of
signing lease deed and other paper works. TNN

lack of advertisement people

are still not depositing
money.
Till date, the government
has not made any strict provision to take action against defaulters and this is why the situation has turned grim. The
defaulters are given rebates by
the government and people
who are depositing tax on time
are not given any benefits. Such
measures demotivate disci-

plined citizens, added a

source. According to the documents with TOI, there are
around 116 UD tax defaulters in
the tax bracket of Rs 10 lakh
and above and 265 defaulters in
the bracket of Rs 5 lakh. Despite several notices by the
JMC, they have failed to pay
taxes for three years in a row.
The list includes most of those
who run commercial and recreational activities.

The activity (zip line/tour)

activity is famous in foreign
countries and was recently
adopted by two famous hotels
in the state
be initiated on built operate and transfer (BoT) basis. As the park is situated
in Amanishah Nullah and there is appropriate topography the new activity
will be introduced.
Earlier, JDA was planning to construct a rock climbing wall; however,
the idea was shelved. Explaining the
concept, an official said, flying fox is
most commonly used in reference to a
small-scale zip line typically used as
an item of children's play equipment .
The project is not very expensive.
The pulley is attached to the car, and
fixed to the cable. The car itself can
consist of anything from a simple
hand grip, with the user hanging underneath, to a bucket for transporting. He added Children's versions
are usually not set up with a steep incline, so the speeds are kept relatively
low. This is why the park is appropriate place for this.

Finally, no more elephant polo

matches for tourists in state
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Jaipur: Elephant polo finally comes to

an end in Rajasthan, ironically this
time not through enforcement from the
government but through the stakeholders themselves. The awareness was initiated by the Times of India campaign,
Jumbo Cause.
There is some respite for the jumbos
in Amber as tourism stakeholders have
decided to issue an advisory against exhibition elephant polo matches. In a humane move that considers animal wellbeing more than the moolah earned
through elephant polo, tour operators
are now informing the foreign agents
not to book any more tours promising
elephant polo in Rajasthan.
There was a Rajasthan high court
ban on elephant polo in 2008. The high
court had issued a notice to the state
government on the charges of violating
animal protection laws while permitting elephant polo matches and using
elephants for any kind of performance.
The ownership certificates had to be renewed every five years but the Rajasthan government failed to comply, said
wildlife activist Naresh Kadyan on

JUMBO

CAUSE

whose public interest litigation (PIL),

HC had banned polo. Kadyan had pointed out that elephant is a Schedule-I animal listed in the Wildlife Protection
Act, 1972 and requires protection in its
natural habitat. The PIL mentions the
provisions of Performing Animals
(Registration) Rules 2001, prohibiting
the use of elephants in entertainment
activities. Besides, the Animal Welfare
Board of India had also moved directions to stop elephant polo. I was not

aware that elephant polo was banned.

But now that I know it I have written to
all my agents that beginning now, I
would be unable to organize any more
elephant polo matches that are illegal,
said Udaijit Singh of Dera Amber.
In Jaipur elephant polo was played
at Rambagh and Jai Mahal hotels, Dera
Amber and City Palace. But now that
Rambagh, Jai Mahal and Dera Amber
have refused to organize it for tourists
even City Palace would not organize it.
We have received a mail from all
three refusing to organize elephant polo and have informed our counterparts
across the world. All foreign agents
have been informed not to book any
more groups for elephant polo, said
Khalid Khan, executive director, Le
Passage to India.
Another tour operator of a prominent destination management company said, A letter has been sent to our
head office and country offices around
the world. We have informed our head
office and told overseas agents that elephant polo is not available henceforth
as it is illegal. We dont mind losing
business but will not do anything
wrong.

Gangster under scanner for ATM loot

Jaipur: Admitting striking similarities between ATM
thefts that took place in Pragpura village on the outskirts
of Jaipur and Rajgarh village in Churu and the Jaipurs
ATM theft of 2011, the police have not ruled out the role of
notorious vehicle-lifter Sher Singh Dhadhren. Since he
had escaped from police custody from a train passing
through Kota in October 2013, the police have started looking for his accomplices to crack the cases in Pragpura and
Rajgarh that took place in the past couple of days.
On the spurt of such cases in the state, a senior police
officer, said: It appears that gangs involved in ATM robberies have re-activated themselves. There could be a rea-

son that some gang members were either on bail or have

completed their jail terms. There could be a chance that
Sher Singh must have mobilized his team and could be behind the Pragpura situated ATM uproot case. The modus
operandi is similar to that of New Aatish Market ATM uproot case that took place in 2011, said the officer.
We have got some concrete clues and will certainly
work out this case, said Pushpendra Singh Rathore, additional SP, Kotputli on Thursday.
There is certainly a connection between the escape of
Sher Singh and the ATM theft case of Rajgarh in Churu
that took place on Wednesday, said an officer. TNN

Cold wave conditions revive as temperature dips, fog affects traffic

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Jaipur: Cold wave conditions

have revived in the state again on
Thursday when many of the places witnessed a dip in its minimum
temperatures. Fatehpur remained
the coldest in the state with a minimum of 1.5C. However, fog and
mist also affected normal life, air,
road and rail traffic. Five vehicles
suffered collision due to the early
morning fog in which at least 12
persons were injured in Shivdas-

pura on the outskirts of Jaipur.

Attributing
the
climatic
change to the active northerly
winds, the Jaipur Met office said
mercury will continue to take a dip
in the next two days.
Jaipurites woke up to a comparatively chilly morning as a
minimum temperature of 6.6 was
recorded. Despite the biting cold
conditions, schools were opened
after winter vacations on the order
of
the
district
collector
Krishna Kunal.

Attributing the climatic

change to the active
northerly winds, the
Jaipur Met office said
mercury will continue to
take a dip in the next
two days
Due to the cold conditions, the
roads wore an empty during early
morning hours and late evening.
The fog and the mist affected air

traffic as a few early morning

flights were delayed. Likewise, at
least 7 early morning trains to Jaipur arrived late due to poor visibility. Relatives of the passengers
coming to Jaipur by various trains
were worst affected in the absence
of poor communication by railways authorities. Everything, including various Apps run by the
railways, were not giving proper
information of arrivals and departures of traina. One of the railways App that gives train updates

have wrong updates, said a passenger who had to bring his relatives from Sealdah-Jodhpur train
that arrived Jaipur at 4.24 am on
Wednesday after a delay of almost
4 hours.
Buses on the highways connecting Jaipur to Agra, Jaipur to
Delhi and Jaipur to Ajmer were
moving in slower pace due to poor
visibility.
Fatehpur was followed by Churu where a minimum temperature
of 2C was recorded, Pilani record-

Tevar has that mainstream attitude

CINEMA OF THE WEEK
Tevar (Drama) 1/2

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha,

Manoj Bajpayee, Raj Babbar
Direction: Amit Ravindernath Sharma
Duration: 2 hours 39 minutes
Language: Hindi (U/A)
58888 code: tev
A corrupt politician gets infatuated

with a morally upright student and

will go to any lengths to marry her.
But she spurns his advances and seeks
shelter with a boy her age.

ell hath no fury like a politician

scorned. This stands true for the
better part of India where every
minister is a government unto himself.
So you have Mathuras ministercum-goonda Gajender Singh (Manoj
Bajpayee) wooing collegian Radhika
(Sonakshi Sinha). When she rejects his
marriage proposal, he vows to get the

Big Eyes (Drama/Biography)

1/2

Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz,

Krysten Ritter, Terence Stamp,
Jason Schwartzman
Direction: Tim Burton
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes
Language: English (U)
58888 code: big

girl by hook or by crook.

Theres bound to be an alpha male
hero to rise against the archetypal
villain. In comes Agra boy Pintu Shukla
(Arjun Kapoor)a combination of
Rambo, Terminator and Salman Khan
(so he says). The son of Shukla (Raj
Babbar), the superintendent of police,
Pintus wastrel existence gets meaning
when his path crosses that of Radhika.
From thereon, its one explosive ride
between the hunter, the prey and the
protector.
in money terms. Her life revolves
around her art, and her only confidante
in matters of life, love and more is her
friend DeeAnn (Ritter). Margaret raises
a daughter by herself as she is a divorcee. She is also desperate for work. And
even so, she takes refuge in her paint-

Margaret Keane (Adams) has a gift

for creating paintings that are

evocatively and hauntingly beautiful.
However, so buried is she in her art that
she does not know how to market her
creations. Enter Walter (Waltz), who
not only charms and marries Margaret,
but also makes millions off her work.

he story begins in the 1950s. Beat

poets and artists abound before
the psychedelic explosion of the
1960s. Margaret is a freewheeling artist
and has no sense of taking care of business, finance and how to value her work

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Amit Sharmas Tevar, a remake of

the Telugu hit Okkadu (2003), is overa-decade-old wine served on a larger
canvas. But one mustnt grudge the
filmmaker for telling us an old story.
After all, in the last decade, not much
has changed in the political landscape
of India. The Gajenders of the
country do run a parallel government.
So when murders are committed in
broad daylight or the media is lynched
by a mob, you have to just stand by
and watch.
Instead, you reserve those claps for
Babbar and Bajpayee, who deliver class
acts even in this milieu. Arjun is
bombastic. Sonakshi is adept, but there
has been an overdose of her in recent
times. Subrat Dutta as the henchman
Kakdi shows that a good actor can do
wonders even in a lesser role.
The songs Superman and Shruti
Haasans playback attempt Joganiya
have recall value. Of course, the film
shouldve been reduced by a good 20
minutesit doesnt run quite as fast as
Arjun does on screen.
Amit makes a smooth progression
from 30-second commercials to a
159-minute-long film. His penchant for
colours, the right use of the Taj Mahal
(as a monument of love), his finesse
ings, all of which are characterized by
portraits of all kinds of people, with
larger than life eyes.
The movie essentially revolves
around Margaret and Walter. As a fellow artist who also makes his living by
selling paintings, he meets Margaret
by chance at a local fair. He sells his
works for $35 while the unsavvy Margaret is willing to paint a portrait for
$2. Walter, a better salesman than a
painter, knows he is no match for her
artistically but he knows a good catch
when he sees one. He soon charms and
marries her and then passes off her
paintings under his own name along
with smiley-face salesmanship to make
big bucks. It is essentially plagiarism
disguised by a veneer of love and it is
only a matter of time before Margaret
takes off the rose-tinted glasses and
sees things as they really are.
Adams Margaret is yielding at first
but gradually, her righteous indignation
takes over. Waltz plays the consummate
scoundrel, a wolf in sheeps clothing,
with ease. The film is largely compelling

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The temperatures will further dip
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Taken 3 (Action/Thriller)

Cast: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace,

Forest Whitaker, Dougray Scott, Sam Spruell
Direction: Olivier Megaton
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes
Language: English (A)
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Bryan Mills (Neeson) lives a quiet life, takes care of

his teenaged daughter Kim (Grace) and feels tenderly

for his ex-wife Lenore (Janssen), who has been having
problems with current husband Stuart (Scott). Lenore
is found dead in Bryans apartment one afternoon and
hes the cops chief suspect for her murder. But Bryans
chief objectives are to find Lenores killers, protect his
daughter and prove his innocence.

Tevar (tev)

Elderly man
found
murdered in
Walled City
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Jaipur: The citys Galta Gate

police is looking for a man on
suspicion that he murdered his
75-year-old landlord and stuffed
his body in an iron box before
disappearing. The body of the
landlord had been found from
his house in Bas Badanpura area on Wednesday. Though the
involvement of the tenant in the
crime is yet to be confirmed, the
police said the victim was last
seen alive on January 5 and the
suspect who lived in a portion of
the victims house is also missing since then.
Sources said that the police
have clues about the identity of
the suspect. However, there is
no evidence suggesting so far
that the victim had verified the
tenant with the police as required by the norms.
According to the police, the
victim, Immamuddin alias Parantha, owned half-a-dozen
houses in the Walled City areas

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TENANT FLEES

Taken 3 (tak)

and was making a living out of

the rents. His wife and children
stay at a different place.
He owned a multi-story
house in Bas Badanpura area. A
tenant had been staying in one
of the portions in the house for
the past three-four months. The
officer said that as per the
neighbours, Immamuddin was
close to the tenant, said a police
officer.
The officer said that Immamuddins son lodged a missing
complaint with Galta Gate police station when he could not
contact his father since January 5. A police officer was sent
to Immamuddins house which
was found locked from outside.
On suspicion, the lock was broken open and the officer felt a
foul smell coming out of one of
the rooms. He informed his senior officers following which a
team was rushed to the house.
In presence of the SHO and other officers, an iron box was
opened and the body was discovered, said the officer.
The officer said the body
was sent for postmortem. It is
mandatory to get tenants verified with the police. Immamuddin, however, did not follow this
law and so we are having a difficulty in identifying the tenant.
We have got some clues about
the suspects identity and police
teams have been rushed to various places in his search, said
the officer.
The officer added, We have
come to know that Immamuddin was last seen alive on January 5. The tenant is also missing
since then. Immamuddin was
once a history-sheeter of Ramganj police station area.

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Visual Appeal: 3.5/5
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in presenting the real locations

indicate his adroitness in filmmaking.

and touches upon many aspects about

the dynamics of a couples love, along
with the lengths and limits of tolerance
one can have for the other.

ills is not your ordinary tough guy. He possesses

deadly skills thanks to his military and CIA background, but is also extremely ethical and discerning about when and how to use those skills. His prime
concerns are his ex-wife and daughter. And when someone
messes with that, as weve seen in the previous Taken
movies, he finds them and eliminates them.
Screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
smoothly set up a situation that places Mills squarely in
the police crosshairs as Lenores murderer. The film opens
with some Russian mobsters who capture and kill the
accountant of a company, the boss of which owes money
to the mafia. Meanwhile, Mills visits his daughter ahead
of her birthday and Lenore drops in at his place later on
as he is making dinner. Everything changes when he
comes home to her corpse the next day, after receiving a
message from Lenore asking to meet.
Thereafter, Mills must evade the cops, seek revenge
and protect Kim. Investigating inspector Dotzlers
(Whitaker) instincts tell him that all is not what it seems
in this case. What works greatly to the movies credit is
the pacing (never a dull moment here!) and that sense of
Whats going to happen next? Mills and his group of
friends rely heavily on technology to stay ahead of the
cops as well as to nab the bad guys. Dotzler and team try
to predict what Mills will do next. Spruells don Malankov,
suitably debauched and with a Spetsnaz background, is
as nasty and cold-hearted as they come. But Graces Kim
is really the most riveting.
All in all, a suitable swansong for the franchise.

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