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AFGHANISTAN
UNtocutaidto
2mnpeopleover
cashshortfall
Islamabad: The UN food
agency said Tuesday it
must drop another 2 mil-
lion hungry people from
food assistance in
Afghanistan this month
due to a massive funding
shortfall.The action
means 10 million people
will be cut off from the
agency’ssupportthisyear
in the country, the World
Food Programme said.
The agency will now be
abletoprovidefoodassis-
tance to about a fifth of
the15millionpeoplewho
needitinAfghanistan,the
agency said. “Amid al-
ready worrying levels of
hungerandmalnutrition,
we are obliged to choose
between the hungry and
the starving, leaving mil-
lions of families scram-
bling for their next meal,”
said Hsiao-Wei Lee,
WFP’s director
Afghanistan. “With the
in
few resources we have
left, we are not able to
serveallthosepeopletee-
tering on the edge of ut-
AP
ter destitution.”
Turkiye,Greece
agreetorevive
high-leveltalks
Ankara: The foreign min-
isters of Greece and
Turkiye agreed on
Tuesday to revive high-
level contacts between
their countries and seek
“new approaches” to
problemsaspartof efforts
to improve ties between
the two NATO allies who
are at loggerheads over a
string of decades-old dis-
putes. Discussions be-
tween Greece's Giorgos
GerapetritisandTurkiye's
Hakan Fidan were held in
a more friendly climate
triggeredbyGreecesend-
ing assistance to Turkiye
following a devastating
earthquake earlier this
year, and Turkiye offering
condolences after a
deadly train accident in
Greece. We have entered
anewandpositiveperiod
in our relations with
Greece,” Fidan said. AP
Israelitroops
killgunman
inWestBank
Ramallah: Israeli troops
killedaIslamicJihadgun-
man and wounded an-
other Palestinian in the
occupied West Bank on
Tuesday, the armed fac-
tionandmedicssaid,dur-
ing what the military de-
scribed as clashes
touched off by an opera-
tion to uncover a bomb
cache. Israel's military
said troops entered Nur
Shams camp near the
town of Tulkarm to seize
bombs manufactured by
local militants, and fired
back after coming under
attack from gunmen. A
21-year-old local man
was killed. REUTERS
WAS AMONG FIRST TRANSLATORS TO INSIST ON NAME ON COVER ALONG WITH THAT OF AUTHOR
Renowned translator Edith Grossman, Marquez’s ‘voice in English’, dies at 87
REBECCA CHACE
SEPTEMBER 5
EDITH GROSSMAN, whose ac-
claimed translations of Love in
the Time of Cholera by Gabriel
GarcíaMárquezandDon Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes raised
the profile of the often-over-
lookedroleof thetranslator,died
on Monday at her home in
Manhattan. She was 87.
Thecausewaspancreaticcan-
cer, her son Kory Grossman said.
Grossman dedicated herself
to translating Latin American
and Spanish authors at a time
when literary translation was
Hong Kong top court orders legal
framework for same-sex unions
Court gives govt 2 yrs to comply with ruling, does not grant full marriage rights
KANIS LEUNG
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 5
HONG KONG’S top court ruled
onTuesdaythatthegovernment
should provide a framework for
recognizing same-sex partner-
ships in a landmark decision for
the city’s LGBTQ+ community.
The ruling did not grant full
marriagerightstosame-sexcou-
ples but was a partial victory for
prominent pro-democracy ac-
tivist Jimmy Sham, who had
fought a five-year legal battle
overtherecognitionof same-sex
marriage registered overseas.
Shammarriedhishusbandin
New York in 2013, and argued
that Hong Kong’s laws, which
don’t recognize foreign same-
sex marriage, violate the consti-
tutional right to equality.
Equality advocates said the
judgment was a step forward
and will have strong implica-
4 Pak youths
sentenced to
death over
‘blasphemous’
posts online
M ZULQERNAIN
LAHORE, SEPTEMBER 5
A PAKISTANI court has handed
down death sentences to four
youths for committing blas-
phemy on social media, the
country's top investigating
agency said on Tuesday.
Additional District Sessions
Judge (Rawalpindi) Ahsan
Mahmood Malik sentenced the
four to death on Monday for
posting blasphemous material
on Facebook.
Each of them has also been
handed a 28-year jail term for
committing blasphemy against
the Quran as well, the Federal
Investigation Agency (FIA) said.
Afifthsuspect,UsmanLiaqat,
was handed seven years of im-
prisonment."MuhammadAmin,
Wazir Gul, Faizan Razaak, and
Muhammad Rizwan, who are in
their20s,werehandeddeathsen-
tences by the Additional District
Sessions Judge on Monday for
posting blasphemous material
againsttheProphetonFacebook,"
the FIA said. "The convicts had
sharedobjectionablecomments
about the Quran on social me-
dia," it added. The FIA said its
anti-cyber-crime wing had ar-
restedthesuspectslastyearafter
receiving a complaint against
them from one Omar Nawaz,
whoallegedthattheyhadshared
blasphemous material. PTI
At Africa Climate Summit,
call for global carbon tax
Nairobi: Climate change is “re-
lentlesslyeatingaway”atAfrica's
economic progress and it's time
to have a global conversation
about a carbon tax on polluters,
Kenya’s president declared
Tuesday as the first Africa
Climate Summit got underway.
“Those who produce the
garbage refuse topay their bills,”
PresidentWilliamRuto,ahostof
the summit, said to an audience
that included senior officials
from China, the US and the EU —
not considered a serious aca-
demic discipline or career.
Translators had long been
seen as the “humble Cinderella”
of publishing, she said in an in-
terview forthisobituaryin2021.
But as she wrote in her ground-
breaking book Why Translation
Matters (2010), she saw the role
“notasthewearyjourneymanof
thepublishingworld,butasaliv-
ing bridge between two realms
of discourse,tworealmsof expe-
rience, and two sets of readers.”
Grossman was among the
firsttoinsistthatonanybookshe
translated, her name appear on
the cover along with that of the
author, a practice that publish-
An LGBTQ pride parade in Hong Kong in 2016. Activists say
Tuesday’s ruling bolsters the financial hub’s reputation as an
inclusive place to stay and work. Reuters
tions for the lives of the LGBTQ+
community and the financial
hub’s reputation as an inclusive
place to stay and work.
Judges at the top court, by a
majority, declared in a written
ruling that the government is in
violation of its positive obliga-
ASEAN leaders in Jakarta on Tuesday. Reuters
Blow to junta: Myanmar barred
from leading ASEAN in 2026
NINIEK KARMINI
& JIM GOMEZ
JAKARTA, SEPTEMBER 5
SOUTHEAST ASIAN leaders de-
cided Tuesday that Myanmar
won’t take over the rotating
leadership of their regional bloc
as scheduled in 2026, in the lat-
est blow to efforts by its ruling
generals to gain international
recognition after violently seiz-
ing power in 2021.
Westerngovernmentsled by
the United States have con-
demned the Myanmar army’s
ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi’s
democratically elected govern-
ment in 2021. Resistance to the
military takeover has escalated
someof theworld'slargestemit-
ters of greenhouse gases.
TheAfricancontinentofmore
than1.3billionpeopleislosing5%
to15%of itsgrossdomesticprod-
uctgrowtheveryyeartothewide-
spreadimpactsofclimatechange,
according to Ruto. He and other
leaders urged reforms to the
global financial structures that
have left African nations paying
about five times more to borrow
money than others, worsening
the debt crisis for many. AP
ers had traditionally resisted for
both financial and marketing
reasons. They liked to think that
they couldwave “amagic wand”
and turn a book from one lan-
guage into another, she joked in
the interview. “And no human is
involved. No human who needs
to be paid?”
When her translation of Don
Quixoteappearedin2003—with
her name on the cover along
with that of Cervantes — it ele-
vated not only her own career
but also helped raise the stature
of literary translation. Her Don
Quixote, published by a
HarperCollins imprint, became
widely admired as the definitive
tion to establish an alternative
framework for legal recognition
of same-sex partnerships, such
as registered civil partnerships
or civil unions.
“The absence of legal recog-
nition of their relationship is apt
to disrupt and demean their pri-
intowhatsomeUNexpertshave
described as a civil war.
The Philippines agreed to
take over the regional bloc’s
chairmanship in 2026 at an
ASEAN summit hosted by
IndonesiaonTuesday,Philippine
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
said in a statement, citing what
he told fellow leaders in the
closed-door meetings.
“...Philippines isready to take
the helm and chair ASEAN in
2026,” Marcos told his ASEAN
counterparts in Jakarta, the
statement said.
An official ASEAN statement
issued Tuesday night confirmed
the decision to hand the chair to
the Philippines in 2026 and af-
firmedthegroup'scommitment
Global search begins for McCartney’s missing bass guitar
ISABELLA KWAI
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 5
BEFORE BEATLEMANIA, there
was the distinctive Höfner violin
bass — the first guitar that Paul
McCartney bought after becom-
ing the bassist for the Beatles.
That bass can be heard on
some of the band’s most famous
hits, including Love Me Do, She
Loves You and Twist and Shout.
McCartney picked up the in-
strument in a Hamburg,
Wikipedia
vate lives together in ways that
constitute arbitrary interfer-
ence,” Justice Patrick Keane
wrote.
The court suspended its dec-
laration for two years to give the
government time to comply
with its obligation.
But the judges unanimously
dismissedSham’sfinalappealon
other grounds related to same-
sex marriage and recognition of
overseas same-sex unions.
Currently, Hong Kong only
recognizes same-sex marriage
for certain purposes such as tax-
ation, civil service benefits and
dependent visas. Many of the
government’s concessions were
won through legal challenges in
recent years and the city has
seenagrowingsocialacceptance
toward same-sex marriage.
Surveys showed 60% of the
respondentsshowedsupportfor
same-sex marriage in 2023, up
from 38% in 2013. AP
to a five-point plan for restoring
peace and stability in Myanmar.
Two ASEAN diplomats told
AP that it was related to the con-
tinuing civil strife in the country
andfearsthatthebloc'srelations
with the US and the EU, among
others, might be undermined.
TheASEANstatementstressed
thedesiretoworkwiththegener-
als to end the country’s crisis, es-
pecially in the context of the five-
point plan which Myanmar
accepted in 2021 but has largely
failed to implement. The leaders
also urged the Myanmar Armed
Forcestode-escalateviolenceand
stop attacks on civilians, houses
andpublicfacilities.
Previous ASEAN statements
were less sharply worded. AP
Germany, music store in 1961,
andit accompanied the Fab Four
astheyrocketedtostunningsuc-
cess,becomingthemostfamous
band in the world. But the guitar
vanished eight years later.
Anewcampaignisseekingto
findthemissinginstrument,and
hundreds of people have re-
sponded, hoping to help solve
thedecades-oldmystery:Where
isPaul McCartney’smissingbass
guitar?
“It’s a hugely significant in-
strument in its own right,” said
NYT
Edith Grossman’s
translation of Don
Quixote appeared in
2003 with her name
on the cover.
KIM TO TRAVEL TO VLADIVOSTOK THIS MONTH
Kim, Putin plan to meet
in Russia for arms talks
EDWARD WONG &
JULIAN E BARNES
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 5
KIM JONG Un, the leader of
North Korea, plans to travel to
Russia this month to meet with
President Vladimir Putin to dis-
cuss the possibility of supplying
Russia with more weaponry for
its war in Ukraine and other mil-
itary cooperation, according to
American and allied officials.
In a rare foray from his coun-
try, Kim would travel from
Pyongyang, North Korea’s capi-
tal,probablybyarmoredtrain,to
Vladivostok, on the east coast of
Russia, where he would meet
withPutin, theofficialssaid.Kim
could possibly go to Moscow,
though that is not certain.
Putin wants Kim to agree to
send Russia artillery shells and
anti-tank missiles, and Kim
would like Russia to provide
North Korea with advanced tech
for satellites and nuclear sub-
marines, the officials said. Kim is
also seeking food aid.
Bothleaderswouldbeonthe
campus of Far Eastern Federal
Cuba uncovers trafficking of
its citizens to fight for Russia
DAVE SHERWOOD
& MARC FRANK
HAVANA, SEPTEMBER 5
CUBA HAS uncovered a human
traffickingringthatcoerceditscit-
izenstofightforRussiainthewar
in Ukraine, its foreign ministry
said, adding that Cuban authori-
ties were working to “neutralize
and dismantle” the network.
The statement from Cuba's
foreign ministry late Monday
gave few details, but noted the
trafficking ring was operating
bothwithintheCaribbeanisland
nation, thousands of miles from
Moscow, and in Russia.
“TheMinistryof theInterior...
is working on the neutralization
anddismantlingof ahumantraf-
ficking network that operates
fromRussiatoincorporateCuban
citizens living there, and even
somefromCuba,intothemilitary
forcesparticipatinginwaropera-
tionsinUkraine,”theCubangov-
ernment statement said.
Russia last year announced a
plantoboostthesizeof itsarmed
forces by over 30% to 1.5 million
combat personnel, a goal made
harder by its heavy but undis-
closed casualties in the war.
In late May, a Russianewspa-
per reported that several Cuban
McCartney picked up the
instrument in a Hamburg
music store in 1961. NYT
Englishversion,andshewenton
to inspire a new generation of
translators.
“Though there have been
many valuable translations of
‘Don Quixote,’’ the critic Harold
Bloom wrote in an introduction,
“I would commend Edith
Grossman’s version for the ex-
traordinarily high quality of her
prose.”
Gettinghernameonthecover
wasjustoneissuethatGrossman
had with publishers. She also
wanted them to commission
translations of more books and
accusedthemof “linguisticisola-
tionism” for not doing so.
Her technique helped make
Putin wants Kim to agree to
send Russia artillery shells
and anti-tank missiles. AP
University in Vladivostok to at-
tend the Eastern Economic
Forum, which is scheduled to
run Sunday to Sept. 13, accord-
ing to the officials.
On Wednesday, the White
House warned that Putin and
Kim had exchanged letters dis-
cussing a possible arms deal. A
White House spokesperson said
high-level talks on military co-
operation between the two na-
tions were “actively advancing.”
ON THE FRONTLINE: A Ukrainian soldier gives first-aid to a
compatriot in Ukraine’s Bakhmut on Monday. AP
citizens had signed contracts
with Russia's armed forces and
had been shipped to Ukraine in
return for Russian citizenship.
Russia, which has strong po-
litical ties with communist-run
Cuba, has long been a destina-
tion for Cuban migrants seeking
to escape economic stagnation.
“Cuba is not part of the war in
Ukraine,”theforeignministrysaid
Monday.“(Cuba)isactingandwill
actenergeticallyagainstanyone...
who participates in any form of
humantraffickingforthepurpose
of recruitment of Cuban citizens
as mercenaries to use arms
against any country.” REUTERS
Nick Wass, a semiretired con-
sultant for Höfner, the guitar’s
manufacturer, who has joined
forces withtwo journalists to try
and track the guitar down. “It’s
the bass that made the Beatles.”
“The bass was absolutely at
the heart of the origins of the
Beatles sound,” said one of the
journalists, Scott Jones, who
worked for the BBC. Jones’ wife,
Naomi,istheotherjournalistbe-
hind what they are calling The
Lost Bass Project.
The three Beatles fans have
her oneof the most sought-after
translators of Latin American lit-
erature in the 1980s and ’90s.
She was among those who gave
English-language readers access
to the works of Gabriel García
Márquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos
Fuentes, Laura Esquivel and oth-
ers who were writing in an en-
tirely new genre known as mag-
ical realism.
Grossman became García
Márquez’s preferred translator
after an agent who lived in her
building on Manhattan’s Upper
West Side asked her one day,
“Would you be interested in
translating García Márquez?”
“Are you kidding me?” she
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● scenario
NORTHKOREA’Srelations
with Russia haven’t al-
ways been as warm as
they were during the time
of the Soviet Union, but
Moscow now needs
friends. “It would be a
‘win-win’ deal for both, as
Putin is cornered over his
exhausted weapons in-
ventory while Kim faces
pressure from the South
Korea-US-Japan trilateral
cooperation,” said Nam
Sung-wook, a former di-
rector of the Institute for
NationalSecurityStrategy,
a think-tank run by South
Korea’s spy agency. “Their
needs are matched per-
fectly now.” AGENCIES
The new information about a
planned meeting between them
goes far beyond the previous
warning. NYT
DOWNED UKRAINE
DRONES TARGETING
MOSCOW: RUSSIA
RUSSIA SHOT down three
Ukraine-launched drones
thatweretargetingthecoun-
try's capital Tuesday, the
Russiandefenceministrysaid.
The ministry said its air de-
fence systems destroyed two
drones over the Kaluga and
Tver regions, which border
theMoscowregion,aswellas
one closer to the capital, over
Istra district. REUTERS
urged members of the public to
comeforwardwithanyinforma-
tion that might help.
Thelastconfirmedsightingof
theinstrumentwasinLondonin
1969,invideofootageof theband
members writing their final al-
bum, Let It Be. Rumors have per-
colated ever since about what
happened: The Lost Bass Project
suggests it could have been
stolen or lost either from the
basementof AbbeyRoadStudios,
or from the Apple Corps record-
ing studio on Savile Row. NYT
recalled responding.
She sent in a 20-page sample
of how she would translate
García Márquez’s masterwork
LoveintheTimeofCholera,which
was originally published in
Colombia in 1985, and thus be-
gan her lifelong collaboration
withhim,aNobelPrize-winning
author whose work she found
both exhilarating and challeng-
ing.HerEnglishversionwaspub-
lishedbyAlfredA.Knopf in1988.
Translating him, she said in
theinterview, “was like doingan
intense crossword puzzle.”
Helaterpaidhertheultimate
compliment, telling her: “You
are my voice in English.” NYT
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DESIGNATIONS IN G20 DINNER INVITE BY PRESIDENT, GOVT NOTE ON PM’S INDONESIA VISIT
PresidentofBharat,PrimeMinisterofBharatnow
official,GovtsaysIndianamechangetalkarumour
Shows mindset if anyone objects to
Bharat, says Union Minister Thakur
DIVYA A
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
BARELY TWO weeks before
Parliament meets for a special
session, the agenda of which is
still under wraps, a political row
erupted Tuesday over the name
of the country after the govern-
ment sent out a G20 Summit
dinner invitation in the name of
the “President of Bharat”, and
not the President of India.
As the Opposition attacked
the ruling BJP, a government
booklet on the Prime Minister’s
visit to Indonesia for the 20th
ASEAN-India Summit and the
18thEastAsiaSummitreferredto
Narendra Modi as the “Prime
Minister of Bharat”.
It was tweeted by BJP
spokesperson Sambit Patra who
too mentioned “Prime Minister
of Bharat”.
Rejecting as “rumours” the
speculation, especially in the
Opposition camp, that the spe-
cial session of the House had
been called to effect a name
change from India to Bharat,
Union Information and
Broadcasting Minister Arunag
Thakur told The Indian Express:
“I think these are just rumours
whicharetakingplace.AllIwant
tosayisthatanyonewhoobjects
tothewordBharatclearlyshows
the mindset.”
On the President’s dinner in-
vitation, Thakur said the
President is “Bharat ke
Rashtrapati… toh unhone likh
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Govt says Lone
affidavit insult
to injury; SC
reserves order
on Art 370 case
ANANTHAKRISHNAN G
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
THECENTREonTuesdaytermed
the affidavit filed by National
Conference MP Mohammad
Akbar Lone in pursuance to the
direction of the Supreme Court
as “adding insult” to the nation’s
“injury”.
“...This is adding insult to in-
jury to the nation. Kindly say
something about it...Your
Lordships may read what is not
written,” Solicitor General
Tushar Mehta told a five-judge
Constitution bench presided by
Chief Justice of India D Y
Chandrachud as it wrapped up
hearing onpetitionschallenging
changes made to Article 370 of
the Constitution.
The bench, also comprising
Justices S K Kaul, Sanjeev
Khanna, B R Gavai and Surya
Kant, which reserved its judg-
ment on the petitions after a 16-
dayhearing,saidit“willanalyse”
the affidavit.
Hearingaplea,whichalleged
that he had raised “Pakistan
Zindabad” slogansin theJammu
and Kashmir Assembly in 2018,
the court had on Monday asked
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Higher education in Manipur takes a
hit: ‘Sometimes I forget I am a student’
PAGE 1
ANCHOR
SUKRITA BARUAH
GUWAHATI, SEPTEMBER 5
ON A Friday morning, the multi-
storey building of the
Churachandpur MedicalCollege
(CMC)wasemptyexcept for one
room on the third floor, where
Dr Priscilla Chingbiakhoi was
giving anatomy lessons to 32
first-year students. Only six of
them were from that college,
The President of Bharat’s
dinner invitation; (below)
the official note on the
Prime Minister of Bharat’s
visit to Indonesia for the
ASEAN and East Asia meets
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IIT-Mandi punishes 72 students
over ragging, ringfences freshers
RAUNAK SARASWAT
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
THE INDIAN Institute of
TechnologyinMandi(IIT-Mandi)
hasbannedinteractionbetween
seniorbatchesandfirst-yearstu-
dents for a whole semester and
initiated disciplinary action
against 72 students — including
thesuspensionof 10studentsfor
sixmonths—inresponsetoalle-
At Modi-Yogi meeting, a
museum of temples in
Ayodhya takes centrestage
LALMANI VERMA
LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 5
WHILETHERamTempleislikely
to be opened for devotees in
January next year, another
Ayodhya project — a museum of
temples — was the focus of dis-
cussions between Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday.
The two-hour-long meeting
in the national capital was also
attended by UP Urban
Development Minister A K
Sharma, Ayodhya's Divisional
A protest by Manipur University students in Churachandpur
in July, seeking transfer to a different institute. Express
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President Droupadi Murmu, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan with M Bhaskar,
one of the recipients of the National Award for teachers, in New Delhi Tuesday. Prem Nath Pandey
1949 to 2020, Constituent Assembly to
SC: How bid to rename didn’t exactly fly
In 2015, NDA told SC no change to warrant a review
APURVA VISHWANATH
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
FROM CONSTITUENT
Assemblydebatestointer-
ventions in the Supreme
Court, using the name
BharatoverIndiahasbeen
a fraught issue.
It was on September 18, 1949
that the draft Article 1 of the
The incident took place last
month; 10 suspended
PM Narendra Modi meets
CM Yogi Adityanath in New
Delhi Tuesday. Express
CommissionerGauravDayaland
DistrictMagistrateNitishKumar.
“Theconcept of a museumof
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India versus China is
also Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam versus
One Belt One Road
Out to divide,
BJP rattled by SHUBHAJIT ROY
INDIA: Opp; NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
Sonia writing to AS CHINESE President Xi Jinping COUNTDOWN TO
G20
hasdecidedtoskiptheG20sum-
PM on session mit, the negotiators of India and
China are in talks about the One
Belt,OneRoadconcepttobepart
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE of a joint communique, while 3 DAYS TO GO
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5 India wants Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam to be included as One Family, One Future”, is actu-
AS THE government sent out a well. ally inspired from China’s “One
dinner invitation for the G20 So, while the Russia-Ukraine Belt, One Road”, which is often
Summit in the name of the war has polarised the G20 referred to as the Belt and Road
“President of Bharat”, and not grouping for the last nine Initiative. So it can be part of the
Presidentof India,apoliticalrow months, India and China are ne- communique. India doesn’t
erupted Tuesday with members gotiating on the text to put their agree to this and has resisted its
of the Opposition INDIA bloc – own philosophical imprint on inclusion in the joint document.
from the Congress to TMC, DMK the final summit declaration. Instead, India wanted
to AAP – alleging it was an at- Beijing has moved an idea Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam to be
tempt by the “rattled” BJP to “di- that India’s theme, “One Earth, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
vide people”, “distort history”
and linked to the formation of
their alliance.
Later in the day, the Congress UPI for G20 delegates
to credit platform, India
Parliamentary Party asked its
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delegates during the G20
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“We obviously want to
Constitution, which refers to the While adopting the provi- showcaseourtechnologicalplat-
Union of States as “India, that is, sion, H V Kamath had moved an UPI SERVICE for foreign dele- forms to set us apart in the
Bharat” was adopted by the amendmentunderliningtheuse gateswithoutneedingabankac- Global South, but we also want
Constituent Assembly. of Bharat. Indeed, he called for count, RuPay payments that can the developed countries to take
Fromtheplacingofthetwo the use of a “much happier ex- be made through accessories a look at them,” a senior official
commas, the order of the pression” that “Bharat, or, in the such as smartwatches, India’s from the Reserve Bank of India
words to an express men- English language, India, shall, be digital rupee, and a database (RBI) said. “We want to show
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gations of ragging during a
“freshers'mixer”heldlastmonth,
The Indian Express has learnt.
While the incident report-
edly occurred on August 11, IIT-
Mandi Director, Professor
Laxmidhar Behera, said in an
email addressed to all students
on August 20 that the seniors
had “breached” the “laxman
rekha” (crossed the line) and 72
of them were found “guilty of
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while the rest were enrolled in
medical collegesinImphal,from
where they have had to flee in
themidstof theviolencethathas
hit Manipur since May 3.
Dr Chingbiakhoi herself was
a second-year post-graduate
student at the prestigious
Regional Institute of Medical
Sciences (RIMS) — a central gov-
ernmentinstitution—inImphal,
and was preparing to complete
her course when the violence
broke out. Among those she was
teaching in CMC were students
who had to leave Imphal under
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● Museum of temples in Ayodhya
temples was discussed today.
Apart from exhibiting the archi-
According to sources, while
● India versus China
included in the joint commu- the G20 countries — meet in
Modi did not seek an update on nique, saying that this is part of Manesar for the next three days

President of Bharat, Prime Minister of Bharat tecture of various temples, the

diya (so she wrote) President of
Bharat. So what?”
“I am a Minister in the Bharat
Sarkar. There is nothing new in it.
G20-2023 (branding, logo) will
have both Bharat and India writ-
ten. So why this objection to the
name Bharat? Why does anyone
have an objection to Bharat? This
showstheirmentality,thatintheir
hearts they are against India or
Bharat. When they go overseas,
they criticise Bharat. When they
areinIndia,theyhaveobjectionto
the name of Bharat,” he said.
“Who has dropped it? (the
word India)... Nobody has
droppedit.Evenif youlookatthe
● How bid to rename didn’t exactly fly
in English does not refer to
“Bharat” in any other provision.
The Preamble also refers to “We
the People of India.”
In 2020, Chief Justice of India
S A Bobde had dismissed a PIL
seeking a name change. “Bharat
and India are both names given
in the Constitution. India is al-
ready called ‘Bharat’ in the
Constitution,” Justice Bobde had
said, refusing to hear the plea.
In 2015, the BJP-led Centre
had told the Supreme Court, in
response to a PIL calling for a
namechange,thattherewas“no
change in circumstances since
the Constituent Assembly de-
bated the issue to warrant a re-
view”.
It said that the issues regard-
ing the country’s name were de-
liberated upon extensively by
the Constituent Assembly when
theConstitutionwasdraftedand
clausesinArticle1wereadopted
unanimously. It also pointed out
that Bharat did not figure in the
original draft of the Constitution
and it was during debates that
the Constituent Assembly con-
siderednamesandformulations
such as Bharat, Bharatbhumi,
Bharatvarsh, India that is Bharat,
and Bharat that is India.
The affidavit by the Ministry
of Home Affairs was filed after a
petitioner made a representa-
tion to the Centre.
The SC then dismissed the
plea.
G20 branding… it is India 2023
and Bharat. Why should anyone
evenspeculateorobjecttoBharat
being written like that? This
branding has been done for the
last one year.”
Thakur’s remarks came after
the Opposition INDIA alliance
pointedtothedinnerinvitationin
the name of the “President of
Bharat” and slammed the BJP.
The draft Article 1 of the
Constitution — Article 1 says
“India, that is Bharat, shall be a
Union of States” — was adopted
by the Constituent Assembly on
September18,1949.Thefive-day
special session of Parliament
In 2004, the Uttar Pradesh
Assembly passed a resolution
that the Constitution must be
amended to say “Bharat, that is
India,” instead of “India, that is
Bharat.” While then Chief
Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav
moved the resolution, it was
adopted unanimously when the
Bharatiya Janata Party, which
was in then in the opposition,
walkedoutbeforetheresolution
was passed.
Thenamesof villages,towns,
railway stations etc are changed
under revenue laws of the state
since “land” falls in the state list
of the Seventh Schedule.
However, the name-change
requires the approval of the
Union Home Ministry after
which the state government is-
sues a notification in the official
gazette. For renaming states, a
change in the Constitution is re-
quired.
Articles 2 & 3 of the
Constitution which list out the
names of the states in the Union
can be changed with a simple
majority.
In 2011, Orissa was renamed
Odisha;in2007,Uttaranchalwas
renamed Uttarakhand; in 1973,
MysorewasrenamedKarnataka
and in 1969, Madras state was
renamed Tamil Nadu.
However, in Tamil Nadu and
Odisha, the High Courts have
continued to retain the old
names of the state.
starts this September 18, and this
fuelled speculation Tuesday, es-
pecially among Opposition par-
ties. Earlier in the day, Union
Education Minister Dharmendra
Pradhan took to social media to
share the dinner invitation in the
nameofthe“PresidentofBharat”.
BJP leader and Assam Chief
Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
putoutasocialmediapostwhich
read “Republic of Bharat – happy
and proud that our civilisation is
marching ahead boldly towards
Amrit Kaal”, and, speaking to re-
porters, asked why should the
country have an English name.
“It is clearly written in our
● BJP rattled by INDIA, says Opp
chairperson Sonia Gandhi to
write to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, flagging key is-
sues the party wants discussed
at the special session of
Parliament from September 18
to 22. The party conveyed its de-
cision to floor leaders of the IN-
DIA alliance who met soon after
at Congress president
Mallikarjun Kharge's residence.
Earlier, Congress general sec-
retaryJairamRamesh,inatweet,
said, “So the news is indeed true.
RashtrapatiBhawanhassentout
aninviteforaG20dinneronSept
9th in the name of ‘President of
Bharat’ instead of the usual
‘President of India’.”
AICC general secretary K C
Venugopal accused the BJP of
seeking to “divide people”. CWC
member andMPShashiTharoor
said,“While thereis no constitu-
tional objection to calling India
‘Bharat’, which is one of the
country’s two official names, I
hopethegovernmentwillnotbe
so foolish as to completely dis-
pense with ‘India’, which has in-
calculable brand value built up
over centuries. We should con-
tinue to use both words rather
than relinquish our claim to a
nameredolentof history,aname
that is recognised around the
world.”
DMK leader and Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister M K Stalin, in a
tweet, said, “...Seems like the BJP
is rattled by a single term called
Constitution:India,thatisBharat.
The name Bharat has been in us-
age for thousands of years. So
there is no need to give any new
name to Bharat. Our country was
Bharat, is Bharat and will remain
Bharat,” Sarma told reporters.
PrimeMinisterModihasoften
spokenaboutIndia’sgloriouscivil-
isational past, the need for un-
shackling its colonial legacy and
reaffirming and rediscovering its
roots and heritage. In his
Independence Day address last
year, he had spoken about the
“PanchPran”,stressingtheneedto
decolonisemindsandtakingpride
inIndia’scivilisationalheritage.
Indiabecausethey recognise the
strength of unity within the op-
position. During the elections,
‘India’ will chase BJP out of
power!”
West Bengal Chief Minister
and Trinamool Congress chief
Mamata Banerjee accused the
BJP of attempting to “distort his-
tory”. At a Teacher’s Day func-
tion in Kolkata, Banerjee said,
“We say India and the Indian
Constitutionand inHindi wesay
‘Bharat ka Samvidhan’. We all
say‘Bharat’. What isnew in this?
But the name India is known to
the world. What happened that
they suddenly had to change the
name of the country? ... History
is being rewritten.”
AAP leader and Delhi CM
Arvind Kejriwal said, “The coun-
try is of 140 crore people, it does
not belong to any one party. Just
because some parties came to-
gether and formed an alliance
andnamed itINDIA, youwant to
rename the country? Let’s say, if
the INDIA alliance holds a meet-
ing and decides to rename it to
Bharat, will they change the
name again?... This is our coun-
try, brother. It is thousands of
years old and has a rich history,
Sanskriti, tradition and you just
want to rename it because the
alliance has named itself INDIA..
You fear you will lose a few seats
because of the formation of the
alliance,soyouchangethename
of thecountry.Thisisabetrayal.”
museumwillhaveadditionalfea-
tures as attractions for devotees
visitingAyodhya.Identificationof
landforthemuseumwillbedone
and a detailed project report will
be submitted,” said Dayal.
The proposed museum will
showcasethehistory,architecture
and significance of famous tem-
plesacrossthecountry.Itwillpro-
videdetailedinformationonallthe
templesforpilgrimsandtourists.
According to sources, at least
25 acres of land will be required
forthemuseum,andtheAyodhya
administrationhasidentifiedfive
locationsaspossiblesites.Sources
saidtherewerenodiscussionson
thedeadlineforstartingtheproj-
ect, but officials have been asked
to finalise the site at the earliest.
A consultant who designed
the concept of the museum is
learnt to have given a detailed
presentation of the project.
Sources said Modi gave sugges-
tions on enhancing the grandeur
of the museum and making it
more attractive for devotees.
● IIT-Mandi punishes 72 students
participatinginraggingtovarious
degrees”.
TheIndianExpressreachedout
to Professor Behera, Dean of
Academics Aniruddha
Chakraborty,andDeanofStudent
Affairs Hitesh Shrimali for their
comments. While Chakraborty
and Shrimali said they did not
want to comment on the matter,
Behera did not respond to re-
quests for a comment.
Theseniorstudentshavebeen
handed varying degrees of pun-
ishment—afineofRs15,000and
20hoursofcommunityservice;a
fine of Rs 20,000 and 40 hours of
community service; a fine of Rs
25,000 and 60 hours of commu-
nityservice;andasix-monthsus-
pensionfromacademicsandhos-
tel. The 10 suspended students,
including three student body of-
fice-bearers who were responsi-
ble for organising the “freshers'
mixer” and have since been
stripped of their posts, have va-
cated their hostel rooms.
Accordingtosources,someof
the punished students have ap-
pealedtotheinstituteforarecon-
sideration of the punishment.
They have claimed that a prank
played on new students every
year during the “freshers' mixer”
thetempleconstruction,thestate
administrationsubmittedabook-
letcontaininginformationonthe
status of various infrastructure
projects in Ayodhya. Many of
theseareexpectedtobecomplete
before opening of Ram Temple.
Accordingtothestategovern-
ment, 263 projects worth Rs
30,923crorearecurrentlyunder-
wayinAyodhya.Theseincludethe
widening of streets, roads and
highways; approval of a new
outer Ring Road; construction of
the Maryada Purushottam Shri
Ram International Airport; and a
revamped railway station.
TheRamTempleislikelytobe
opened for devotees in January,
with the installation of the idol of
Ram Lalla any day between
January 15 and January 24.
After his meeting with Modi
today, Adityanath tweeted: “Paid
acourtesycallonrespectedPrime
Minister... Your invaluable guid-
ance gives strength to 'New Uttar
Pradesh'toplayanimportantrole
in the achievement of the resolu-
tionof‘DevelopedIndia@2047’.”
misunderstood this time.
Recallingtheevent,afirst-year
student told The Indian Express:
“The seniors first instructed us to
turnoff ourphonesandthentold
ustoplaceourhandsonthetable
topreventanyonefromrecording
theevent.Subsequently,animage
ofamiddlefingerappearedonthe
displayed slide.” Following this,
the senior students allegedly
started shouting at the freshers.
“They called us to the stage
and raised some of the questions
we had asked in a Google Form
before the event started. They
madesomeofusstandinacorner
orassumeasemi-squatposition,”
another student alleged.
“Afewofmyfriendswereabit
traumatisedbytheshouting,”said
another student.
Theevent,whichalsofeatured
performancesbydifferentcultural
clubs of the institute, reportedly
endedabruptlyaftertheinstitute
security got all students to vacate
the venue on grounds of over-
crowding. Some senior students
toldTheIndianExpresstheabrupt
end led to confusion and didn’t
give them a chance to explain to
the freshers that it was a prank.
Since August 14, the institute
has banned interaction between
India’s theme.
ButtheSanskritexpertsinthe
Chinesedelegationhavepointed
out that Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam means “the world
is a family”, and India’s theme —
One Earth, One Family — does
capturethemeaninginaway.But
in India’s theme, there is “One
Future” as well, which is not part
of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.
So Beijing’s Sanskrit experts
have said that Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakamisnotsynonymous
with“OneEarth,OneFamily,One
Future” — and, therefore, they
cannot allow the phrase to come
in the communique.
They have also said that New
Delhi, by using the Sanskrit word
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, is set-
ting a precedent, which has not
beendonebyanyhostcountrybe-
fore. Chinese diplomats have said
that countries, which have held
thePresidency,havenotincluded
phrasesfromtheirlanguageorcul-
tureinthejointdocument.
Sources said that while the
Sherpas — the top negotiators of
● India to showcase digital infra
-casetheplatformswehavebuilt
for a country of India’s scale.”
The Indian Express had earlier
reported that throughout India’s
presidency of G20, it has played
up the country’s efforts at creat-
ing digital public infrastructure
and has also explored other na-
tions’interesttoadopttheunder-
lying technologies that power
India’sdigitalpublicinfrastructure
(DPI)push,whichitbrandsasthe
India Stack. Industry analysts see
thisasIndia’sbidtosetitselfupas
anationpioneeringdigitalgover-
nance,especiallyasitaspirestoas-
sume a leadership role in the
GlobalSouth.Withingovernment
circles,thisisalsobeingpeggedas
a differentiator from rival China,
which is funding physical infra-
structure development in other
developing countries.
“DPIs, for the first time ever,
reached a global consensus and
whatoughttobetheirdefinition,
framework, and principles…
India is now a case study, as a na-
tionthatemployedanddeployed
technological tools for progress
and growth. Countries that have
lagged behind increasingly see
thisasawaytofollowIndia’slead
inDPIs,anopen-sourcedigitalin-
frastructure…ThroughtheseG20
to finalise the document, it is un-
likelythattheywillincludeeither
OneBeltOneRoadorVasudhaiva
Kutumbakam.
There is some resistance also
in including the word MAHAR-
ISHI, a millet initiative, which
IndiasaysisanacronymofMillets
and Other Ancient Grains
International Research Initiative
(MAHARISHI).
Again Beijing’s negotiators —
some of them well-versed in
Sanskrit and Hindi — have
pointed out that Maharishi
means“sage”inSanskrit,andisa
roundabout way of including a
Sanskrit term in the joint com-
munique.
Sourcessaidthatwhileacon-
sensus to include the word
Maharishi was emerging in the
G20 agriculture working group
meetings, it was fraying at the
high-level negotiations where
SherpasandSous-Sherpaslookat
every word minutely with a
stronger political lens than sub-
ject experts in the working
groups.
ing credit assessment and deci-
sion in a seamless manner. The
RBI had launched a pilot of the
platform in August and is first fo-
cusing on products such as Kisan
Credit Card, dairy loans, personal
loans and home loans.
Foreign delegates will also be
able to experience the UPI plat-
form, which has been among the
prominent pitches that India has
madetotheworld,includingboth
developingand developedcoun-
tries. The RBI official said that the
facility will be provided to G20
guests without them needing to
have a bank account in India.
“The delegates will be issued
Prepaid Payment Instruments
(PPI)walletslinkedtoUPIformak-
ing payments at merchant out-
lets,” the RBI official said. When
the foreign nationals are leaving
India they can either convert the
balanceintheprepaidwalletback
as foreign currency or decide to
hold the balance in the wallet for
use in the next trip if they fre-
quently visit India, he said.
This assumes significance
given that India is actively mark-
ing other countries to adopt the
UPIarchitecture.Theserviceisbe-
ingacceptedininternationalmar-
kets such as France, UAE,

Atithi Devo Bhava was misunderstood for ragging.

IIT-Manditookactionafterin-
vestigating anonymous com-
plaintsregardingtheeventorgan-
freshers and seniors.
Nine days after the event,
ProfessorBehera,inanemailtoall
students,said:“Theeventstarted
conversations, we have further
understood how DPIs are a pow-
erfulmechanismforinclusion,es-
Singapore and Sri Lanka, with
countrieslikeJapanhavingshown
aninterest.Incidentally,Chinahad
peciallyforcountriesintheGlobal madeasimilarpushattheWinter

ADVISORY
isedbyseniorstudentsonAugust
11.Accordingtoofficialemails,re-
viewedbyTheIndianExpress,dur-
ing the event meant to introduce
thenewbatchtoseniors,first-year
students were allegedly shouted
with the ragging of 1st year stu-
dents — abusive languages were
hurled at them, some were given
physicalpunishment,anenviron-
mentofterrorwascreated...Some
of the first-year students were
South,”MoSforElectronicsandIT
Rajeev Chandrasekhar said at a
press briefing Tuesday.
AttheRBI’spavilionattheG20
Summit venue, an experience
centrewouldbeavailablefordel-
Olympics in Beijing last year,
whendelegationsweregiventhe
optionof payingvendorsforfood
and souvenirs with the ‘e-CNY’.
New Delhi is also looking to
showcase the solutions it has de-

G-20 Summit
at, and some were punished by
being made to stand in a corner.
During the institute’s inquiry
into the complaints, the senior
studentsdefendedthemselvesby
saying this was a prank typically
08th September
ptember to 10th September, 2023 playedonfresherseveryyeardur-
ing the “mixer”, where they are
initiallyintimidatedonlytobetold
later that it was a joke, but it was
traumatised... At least three
elected secretaries were con-
firmedtobepresentthere...Dean
(of) students received an anony-
mous mail that seniors have in-
dulged in ragging. The anti-rag-
gingcommitteeactedswiftlyand
found72studentsguiltyofpartic-
ipating in ragging... The laxman
rekha was breached....”
egateswhichwillhaveaninterac-
tivedemonstrationofRBI’sPublic
Tech Platform (PTP) for friction-
lesscredit.Theplatformservesas
asinglewindowforaccessingcit-
izens’ information held by multi-
plegovernmentdepartmentsand
ministries.Lenderscanconnectto
the platform to source such data
or information required for mak-
veloped for NRIs, particularly for
makingcross-bordertransactions
for paying bills in India through
BharatBillPaymentSystem.Apart
fromthat,RuPay’sonthegoserv-
ice, which allows users to carry
out payment transactions
through accessories such as
smartwatches and smart rings
will also be showcased.

● Govt says Lone affidavit insult to injury; SC reserves order on Art 370 case
Lone, who is one of the petition-
ers in the Article 370 matter be-
fore it, to file an affidavit stating
that he “owes allegiance to the
ConstitutionofIndiaandthatJ&K
is an integral part of India”.
Lone’sone-pageaffidavit,sub-
mitted on Tuesday, said: “I am a
responsible and dutiful citizen of
theUnionofIndia.Ihaveexercised
myrighttoapproachthisHon'ble
Court through Article 32 of the
Constitution”and“thatIreiterate
theoathtakenwhilebeingsworn
in as Member of Parliament to
preserve and uphold the provi-
sions of the Constitution of India
and to protect the territorial in-
Avoid Outdoor Activities in NDMC Areas tegrity of the Nation.”
Concluding his arguments in
DP/9607/2023
Advocate Kapil Sibal, who ap-
peared for some of the petition-
ers,questionedthereorganisation
of the erstwhile state into Union
Territoriesof J&KandLadakhand
the non-restoration of statehood
for J&Keven after over four years.
He said: “How can they make
astateintoaUT?Underwhatpro-
visionoflaw?Whatpower?Your
Lordships... there may be a na-
tional security situation and,
therefore, they may temporarily
need to do that. But that national
security situation is dealt with by
Article352oftheConstitution...It
is also not their case that they did
it for national security. Pulwama
happened in February 2019 dur-
ingPresident'srule.Andthenthey
“And what is the justification
ofnotconstitutingthestatefor4.5
years?...You say you are going to
have municipal elections, local
government elections, that
tourismhasincreased.What’sthe
impediment then?,” he said.
Appearingforsomeotherpe-
titioners, Senior Advocate Rajeev
Dhavansaidtherearemanycom-
promises in the Constitution. For
instance, Article 25, he said,
addingthatitallowsSikhstocarry
theirdaggers.“Youwanttogetrid
of that? You will have to have a
constitutional amendment. This
is a compromise,” he said.
Senior Advocate Dushyant
Dave,alsoappearingforsomepe-
titioners,askedifthegovernment,
370 for the last over 70 years, can
nowsaythattheprovisionistem-
porary. He said: “Merely because
the government has changed,
does it mean it has become tem-
porary?” He contended that it is
not the case of the government
thatArticle370hasnotworkedfor
last over seven decades. “There is
notoneexampletoshowthat370
has failed,” he said.
DavepointedoutthattheBJP’s
2019 manifesto said it will abro-
gate Article 370. “Nobody is un-
derstanding what 370 is. 370 in-
tegrates J&K with India,” he said.
Constitution framers, he said,
wantedtosolidifytherelationship
of J&K with India. “And they re-
alisedthattheonlywaywecando

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● Higher education in Manipur takes a hit: ‘Sometimes I forget I am a student’
similar circumstances while
studying at RIMS, the state-run
Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of
MedicalSciences(JNIMS)andthe
private Shija Academy of Health
Sciences(SAHS).Inasimilarsitu-
ation to those who left Meiti-
dominated Imphal are 95 stu-
dents who fled Kuki-Zomi
dominated Churachandpur,
wheretheyhadenrolledinCMC.
They are now attending classes
65 km away in Imphal’s JNIMS.
As tensions simmer and in-
For more details scan stances of violence continue in
Manipur,studentswhohadtoflee
arenowmakinguseof makeshift
8750871493 arrangements to attend classes.
However,for120medicalstu-
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munitywhowerepursuingMBBS
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24 Hours Traffic Helpline: 25844444/1095 Churachandpur, the problem is
even more acute. CMC, the only
held elections in May 2019.”
medicalcollegeinthedistrictand
onlyoneintheentirestateoutside
of Imphal, does not yet have the
facilitiestoteachstudentsbeyond
secondyear.Thecollegeadmitted
firstbatchonlyinDecember2022.
Nengneiching Haokip (22), a
third-year MBBS student at JN-
IMS, said that for the students of
the institute who remained in
Imphal,classesbeganonMay22.
“I get a message every day
fromtheclassrepresentativelist-
ing out the day’s routine. Seeing
that message every night really
takes a toll on me,” he said.
A third-year MBBS student
from RIMS, Mchingmuan (24),
said,“Weleftourbooksandstudy
material behind in the hospital
because we escaped in a hurry.
We had no access to the internet
for so long, and we have not had
classes. Sometimes, I even forget
that I am a student.”
after using powers under Article
Thesestudentshavebeende-
mandingthattheybetransferred
to different institutes elsewhere,
saying that they would never be
abletoreturntotheirowncolleges
again.Theyhaveheldprotestsand
also sent out multiple memo-
randa, including one that they
presented to Union Home
Minister Amit Shah.
“Now, I’m just praying to be
able to complete degree. At first, I
was also concerned about what
other college I can be transferred
to — I wanted one of equal qual-
ity,orbetterthan,RIMS.Butnow,
Idon’tevenwanttobepicky,”said
Niang Ngaihlian (20), a second-
year MBBS student at RIMS.
A Union Health Ministry offi-
cialsaidthattheNationalMedical
Commissionhas been provided a
representationregardingtheissue
oftransferofstudents.“Itislooking
into the matter,” the official said.
soisthroughArticle370,”hesaid.
The demand for transfers comes
not just from medical students.
With most of Manipur’s premier
educationalinstitutionslocatedin
Imphal, Kuki-Zomi students of
these institutes, including NIT
ManipurandManipurUniversity,
arelookingfortransfers.
Manipur Education Minister
Th. Basanta Singh pointed to the
ChiefMinister’sCollegeStudents’
Rehabilitation Scheme launched
inJuly,theprovisionsofwhichin-
clude transfer of students be-
tween different undergraduate
colleges under Manipur
University“tocontinuewiththeir
educationwithoutinterruption”.
“Wehaveissuedanorderfrom
thegovernmentsostudentsfrom
Churachandpur can continue
with their classes online. We are
also providing Internet at certain
places where they can access the
webtoconnecttoclasses,”hesaid.
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 THE CITY 3
Court summons CM, L-G FLAG OFF EVENT Service charge: Delhi Delhi Congress
CM’s wife for
‘registering as Delhi gets 400 new e-buses, HC tells hotel body to
call it staff contribution
will hold rallies
to mark one

fleet strength goes up to 800

voter in two
constituencies’
Sunita Kejriwal
NIRBHAYTHAKUR
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER5
A DELHI Court has summoned
SunitaKejriwal,wifeofDelhiChief
MinisterArvindKejriwal,inacase
whereithasbeenallegedthatshe
was simultaneously enrolled in
thevoters’listoftwodifferentcon-
stituencies, in violation of the
Representation of People’s Act
(RPA). She has been asked to ap-
pear before the court on
November 18.
“…this Court is of the consid-
eredopinionthatprimafaciecase
is made out against accused per-
son namely, Sunita Kejriwal W/o
Sh.ArvindKejriwalforthealleged
commission of the offences…,”
said Metropolitan Magistrate
Arjinder Kaur of the Tis Hazari
Court last week.
According to the purported
voters’ lists submitted in courtby
two witnesses, Sunita Kejriwal’s
name appeared in the Chandni
Chowkassemblyconstituencyin
Delhi and the Sahibabad con-
stituency in Uttar Pradesh. Delhi
BJPsecretaryHarishKhurana,the
complainant in the case, also re-
liedonthesedocumentsincourt.
“...being registered as a voter in
Delhi’s Chandni Chowk and
Ghaziabad’s Sahibabad isillegal,”
Khurana said.
“Arvind Kejriwal and his wife
have both been IRS officers… it is
unforgivable for them to commit
such an offence because they
know that One Nation and One
VoterIDcardisunderimplemen-
tation in the country,” he added.
According toSection 17 of the
RPA(1950),nopersoncanbereg-
istered in the electoral roll for
more than one constituency.
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
AMID THE ongoing “credit war”
between AAP and BJP over work
doneinthenationalcapitalforthe
G20 Summit, Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant
Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena
cametogethertoflagoff400new
electric buses from the IP Depot
Tuesday. With this, the count of
e-buses in Delhi has gone up to
800 and the total strength of the
fleet to 7,135.
Speaking after the inaugura-
tion, Kejriwal said Delhi has now
become the city with the most
number of electric buses on its
streets. He said by the end of
2023, the city will have 1,900
electricbuses:“Delhiwouldthen
be counted among the few cities
in the world to have the most
number of e-buses. We will be
able to reduce CO2 emissions by
1.07 lakh tonnes every year.”
He also said the AAP govern-
ment has a target to meet by
December2025,whichistohave
10,480 buses — 80% (8,280) of
these would be electric.
In a post on X (formerly
Twitter), Saxena said these 400
busesarethefirsttrancheof1,500
electric buses being provided by
the Centre under the FAME-II
scheme. “Of the 1,500 buses un-
derthisscheme,921busesarebe-
L-G returns file on revised agricultural land circle rates
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
CHIEFMINISTERArvindKejriwal
Tuesday said the Lieutenant
Governor has returned the file
ontheproposedrevisionof circle
ratesof agriculturallandinDelhi
with few queries and that it will
be clarified by the city
government.
Last month, Kejriwal ap-
proved the proposal to hike the
By end of 2023, Delhi will have 1,900 e-buses: CM. Tashi Tobgyal
ing provided with FAME-II sub-
sidy of Rs 416.82 crore borne by
theCentralGovt.Fortheremain-
ing 579 buses, GNCTD will bear
the subsidy of Rs 262.04 crore,”
he said in a series of posts.
KejriwalalsourgedtheCentre
toprovidesubsidyfortheremain-
ingbusesthatwillbeprocuredby
the government.
“Eachbushasalifecycleof 12
years.Thetotalspendingonthese
921 buses would be Rs 4,091
crore, of which Rs 417(10% of the
total) would be provided by the
Centre,” he explained.
Kejriwal said the remaining
90%financialburdenwouldbein-
curred by the Delhi government.
“In our target of 8,200 buses, we
will get a subsidy on 900 new
buses.Earlier,wegotasubsidyon
300 buses from the central gov-
circle rate of agricultural land
and the file was sent to L-G VK
Saxena for final approval.
Till now, a uniform circle rate
of Rs 53 lakh per acre was set for
the city. After the revision, the
rates would be different per acre
in all districts.
The government categorised
thecircleratesintogreenbeltvil-
lages, urbanised villages,andru-
ral villages.
In South and New Delhi dis-
tricts, the circle rate for agricul-
ernment. So, 1,200 buses would
be on subsidy from the central
government.Weurgethecentral
governmenttoprovideasubsidy
on the remaining buses as well.
We thank the Centre for the sub-
sidy on the 1,200 buses,” he said.
Earlier, the inauguration of
about100e-buseswhichhadar-
rivedinMaywasdelayedoverthe
question of who would launch
them—theDelhigovernmentor
Centre. They were later pressed
into service without any formal
event.
When asked about the BJP
claiming credit for the buses, the
CM said, “I always say, take the
credit, we don't have any prob-
lem. We are just here to work for
the people.”
Thebusesareair-conditioned,
can run up to 225 km, are dis-
L-G VK Saxena
tural land will peak at Rs 5 crore
per acre. It will be Rs 3 crore in
abled-friendly, have CCTV cam-
eras and panic buttons, a facility
for two-way communication
withthecontrolroom,andaGPS
unitforlivetracking.Theyarealso
equipped with disc brakes, and
fire detection and suppression
systems.
ThesewillrunfromMayapuri,
Nehru Place, Rohini 1, Rohini 2,
andBandaBahadurMargdepots.
Further, the CM said the gov-
ernment is strengthening the in-
frastructureofdepotsfore-buses.
It has so far spent Rs 182 crore on
installation of 1,500 depots.
Delhi Transport Minister
Kailash Gahlot was also present
at the event.
Meanwhile, the BJP deputed
around100membersofitsyouth
wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva
Morcha, to stand with placards
thanking Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for the procure-
ment of the lot of 400 electric
buses leading up to the depot.
Leader of Opposition in the
Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh
Bidhuri alleged, “Foreign guests
are coming to the G20 confer-
ence...Due to the wrong policies
of the Delhi government, buses
were not available for the guests
in the capital.” BJP MP Manoj
Tiwari also claimed Delhi’s pub-
lic transportation infrastructure
would have been efficient and
problem-free had a BJP govern-
ment been in power.
North, West, Southwest and
Northwest, Rs 2.5 crore in
Central and Southeast districts
and Rs 2.25 crore in Shahdara,
Northeast, and East.
L-G House officials said
Saxena has gone through the
proposal and has sought clarifi-
cations on two points. “The pro-
posed rates are based on the re-
port dated 15.04.2017 of a
working group constituted for
capturing rates of agricultural
land and since 2017 a number of
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
THE DELHI High Court in an in-
terim order Tuesday directed
members of the Federation of
HotelandRestaurantAssociation
of India (FHRAI) to use the term
‘staff contribution’ in place of
‘service charge’ which they are
presently charging and cap it at
10% of the total bill amount.
A single-judge bench of
JusticePrathibaSinghpassedthe
order while hearing two pleas —
one moved by the National
Restaurant Association of India
(NRAI)andtheotherbyFHRAI—
challenging the July 4, 2022,
guidelines issued by the Central
Consumer Protection Authority
stating that service charge will
notbecollectedfromconsumers
by any other name.
On April 12, the HC had di-
rected the bodies to file a com-
plete list of all their members
whoaresupportingtheirpleasas
well as the percentage of their
members who impose service
chargeasamandatorycondition
in their bills.
It had also asked the associa-
tions to file whether their mem-
bers would have any objection if
the term ‘Service Charge’ is re-
placedwithalternativeterminol-
ogy (such as ‘Staff welfare fund’,
‘Staff welfarecontribution’,‘Staff
charges’, ‘Staff welfare charges)
to prevent confusion in the con-
sumer’s mind that it is not a gov-
ernmentlevy.Inaddition,theHC
villages have been urbanised. It
appearsthishasresultedinover-
lapping of some villages in the
categories of urbanised and
green belt villages with respect
to the Southwest district,” said
officials.
The file is also silent on the
rationale and the manner for
classification of villages into
green belt for the purpose of dif-
ferentiated rates, they said.
The rate revision comes after
almost 15 years.
year of Bharat
The amount shall not Jodo Yatra
be more than 10% of
the total bill amount, EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
excluding GST, court NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
said in an interim order DAYS AFTER Arvinder Singh
Lovely took over as the Delhi
hadaskedthepetitionerstostate Congress president, the party
thepercentageof memberswho has decided to organise rallies in
wouldbeopentoinformingtheir all districts of the city Thursday
consumers that the service to mark the first anniversary of
charge is not mandatory. Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo
The FHRAI submitted Yatra.
Tuesday that its members are Former MLA Mukesh
readytochangetheterminology Sharma said at a press confer-
to“staff contribution”.However, enceTuesdaythat therallieswill
the NRAI refused, arguing that be taken out in all the districts at
servicechargehasbeenimposed, 5 pm and all Delhi Congress
consideredandupheldinanum- leaders will be in attendance.
ber of decisions passed in the “Though people will be cele-
past and thus the same requires brating Janmashtami on
consideration. September 7, there is tremen-
Justice Singh thereafter or- dous enthusiasm among
dered, “The matter is now re- Congress workers and the gen-
quired to be heard further. In the eral public for the Bharat Jodo
meantime, it is directed that the Yatra anniversary rallies,”
members of FHRAI shall use the Sharma said.
terminology 'staff contribution' He added that Lovely held
for the amount of service charge meetings withpartyworkersre-
that they are currently charging. gardingtheralliesandtheprepa-
The same shall not be more than ration, and asked the party’s dis-
10% of the total bill amount, ex- trict unit chiefs to ensure
cludingGST.Themenucardshall maximum participation of
specifyinboldthatafterthepay- Congress workers, especially
mentof staffcontribution,nofur- those from the grassroots.
ther tip is to be paid to the estab- “The Delhi Congress has de-
lishment.Theaboveismerelyan cided not to organise a rally
interimorderwhichissubjectto withintheNewDelhidistrictpo-
further orders in the writ lice jurisdiction, but rallies will
petition”. be taken out in other parts of
The pleas are next listed on New Delhi district,” Sharma
October 3. said.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
CROWD-CONTROL MEASURES READIED AS CITY ON ALERT
Illuminating dark spots, more CCTVs:
Security up at Metro, railway stations
ARNABJIT SUR
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
IDENTIFYING SENSITIVE sta-
tions, focus on pickpockets and
renewed frisking: Security has
been tightened across the Delhi
Metro network ahead of the
G20 Summit.
A senior police officer said,
“Officers from the Delhi Police
and CISF have been deployed at
sensitive Metro stations, mostly
those around New Delhi district.
For additional security, more
CCTVshavebeeninstalledatcer-
tain dark spots, parking areas,
nearescalatorsandwashrooms.”
Awareness drives are being
carried out inside Metro com-
partments by teams comprising
Delhi Metro’s flying squads,
Delhi Police officers and CISF of-
ficials on a regular basis.
Animal NGO protests ways dogs
rounded up, MCD rejects charge
SAMAN HUSAIN
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
UNTRAINED STAFF handling an-
imals in a callous manner, lack of
facilitiesatshelters,andsterilisa-
tionofdogsthathavealreadyun-
dergonetheprocedure:Theseare
someoftheallegationsthatanor-
ganisation working for animal
welfare has levelled against au-
thorities as videos of dog-catch-
ingteamspurportedlyswooping
in to catch stray dogs in Pragati
Maidan and T2 airport terminal
areasurfacedasthecityprepares
to host the G20 Summit.
TheMunicipalCorporationof
Delhi (MCD) dismissed the alle-
gations and accused the NGO of
spreading “misinformation”.
“Catching dogs is not only
pointless, but the manner in
whichtheMCDiscatchingthem
is unlawful. Untrained dog-
catchers are catching the dogs in
a way that is hurting them.
Sterilised dogs are also being
caught,” the People for Animals
(PFA) alleged while speaking to
the media.
The PFA claimed that the
MCD has picked up over 1,000
dogs in three days and is hous-
ing them in facilities that lack
fans, proper staff, and even food.
Members of the organisation
said the canines were being cap-
tured using metal wires. “The
guidelinesmakeitclearthatoneis
notsupposedtoemploycrueltac-
ticssuchascatchingthedogswith
On Teachers’ Day, 118 Delhi
educators felicitated by CM
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
AN MCD school principal who
set up a computer lab with the
help of an NGO, another princi-
palfromwhoseschooleightstu-
dents cleared JEE (Advanced)
and42 qualified for NEET— they
were among 118 teachers and
principals presented the State
Teachers’ Awards by Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal
Tuesday.
Awards are given in 14 cate-
gories, including those for
teachereducators.Asmanyas14
teachers and principals from
MCD schools, 13 from private
schools, and one from an NDMC
school were given the award,
apartfromthosefromDelhigov-
ernment schools.
The two “Face of DoE”
awards, which go to Delhi gov-
ernment school employees,
were given to Seema Tomar, a
drawing teacher from SKV
Andrews Ganj, and Shishupal
Singh, a Physical Education
teacher.
Speakingattheeventheldon
Teachers’ Day, Kejriwal said,
“Teachers and students have a
uniquerelationship.Thisyear,so
far, around 1,300 students from
Delhi government schools have
clearedJEEandNEETexams.Iin-
teractedwiththosestudentsone
day and their parents, teachers,
andprincipalswerealsopresent.
Around25-30studentsfromdif-
ferent schools situated in differ-
“Anyone who enters the
women’s compartment or in-
dulges in obscene activities is
challaned on the spot or legal ac-
tion is taken,” said an officer.
In view of recent incidents of
walls of station premises being
defaced by men allegedly asso-
ciated with Khalistani elements,
CISFandDelhiPoliceofficerssaid
they will keepaclose watchout-
sidethestationstoensurenono-
torious element roams around.
“A compendium of habitual
criminalsintheMetro— snatch-
ers, pickpockets and cable
thieves — is created regularly
and will be circulated among all
staff membersinordertoquickly
identify and arrest such ele-
ments,” said another officer.
A CISF official said, “Staff has
been specifically trained to de-
tect any suspicious property in-
side commuters’ baggage and
Dogs catchers seen near Rajghat, Monday. Prem Nath Pandey
wire, but rather use the butterfly
net approach... Because dogs are
territorial animals, authorities
should tag them so that they can
be returned to the same sites
wheretheywerepickedupfrom...
MCD is breaking all norms in or-
der to hide the dogs from foreign
dignitaries, which is extremely
shameful,” stated Divyam Khera,
a lawyer and PFA member.
Ambika Shukla, another PFA
member, said people with ex-
pertise in dealing with animals
should have been involved in
the drive.
When asked if the MCD is in-
volved in removal of dogs from
G20 locations, Mayor Shelly
OberoitoldThe Indian Express on
Mondaythatnoofficialorderhas
been passed in this regard.
Responding to PFA’s allega-
CM Arvind Kejriwal and Education Minister Atishi at the
State Teachers’ Awards ceremony, Tuesday. Express
ent parts of Delhi shared their
experiences...Everystudentgave
credit for their selection to their
teachers... who went out of their
way to help them... They
came from poor families and at
times,didnothavetheresources
to buy books. Their teachers
bought the books.”
The CM said he still remem-
bered his school teachers.
“I still remember my teacher
Dua ma’am, who used to teach
me Sanskrit in Class IX. Malik
ma’am used to teach me
Geography, and Chopra ma’am
Biology. Students remember
their teachers for a lifetime,” he
added.
Thisyear,thegovernmentin-
troduced a special category to
appreciateschoolsthatrecorded
the highest average attendance
in the last academic year. The
Government Girls Secondary
School, Phase III Mayur Vihar,
COUNTDOWN TO
G20
3 DAYS TO GO
ensure extensive frisking.”
Meanwhile,theDelhiPolice’s
Railwayunithasprocuredessen-
tial equipment like searchlights,
public announcement systems
and high-quality binoculars.
A senior police officer said a
sufficient number of barricades,
ropes, loud hailers and batons
have been arranged and pro-
vided to all police stations of the
railway unit for crowd control.
Officers further said deploy-
ment has been strengthened
around abandoned huts and
tions, the MCD said in a state-
ment Tuesday, “If dogs are being
picked up, it is only on urgent,
need basis. All the dogs which
are picked are tracked and they
will be released back in their
habitat...allthe dogsaresafeand
comfortable with necessary
medical help available to them.”
Accusing the PFA of spread-
ing “misinformation”, it further
said, “The number of dogs al-
leged to have been picked up is
highly exaggerated... The han-
dler in the video shared by the
PFA a few days back had retired
a year ago... this video is being
passed aroundas thelatest one.”
In August, the MCD with-
drewitsdecisiontocapture,ster-
ilise and keep stray dogs at ster-
ilisation centres till the G-20
Summit in the city concludes.
bagged the award, with 73% at-
tendance.
A new category for student
attendancewillbeannouncedas
a distinct award.
Addressing teachers at the
ceremony, Education Minister
Atishi said, “The government
provides facilities in schools for
education, but real education is
provided by teachers in the
classroom. Teachers have a very
significantroletoplayinthelives
of children. When a child comes
to school at the age of 4, they
consider their teachers no less
than gods. Children regard their
teachersastheirrolemodelsand
90% of them dream of being like
theirteacher in the futureat that
age... While teachers may be
teaching just a subject in the
classroom, the development of
studentsasbetterhumanbeings
in the future depends greatly on
the behaviour of their teachers.”
ANANDVIHAR
Moderate
150
AQI
0 PM 10
0-50 Good
structures near railway station
premisesasthesetendtobecome
hidingspotsforsnatcherswhoen-
tercompartmentsandstealvalu-
ables from commuters. “Railway
authoritiesarebeingmadeaware
of this,” said an officer.
Additionally, 75 CCTV cam-
erashavebeeninstalledatmajor
locations,especiallyatdarkspots
— currently more than 40 — for
bettermonitoring.“Patrollingby
the RPF and Delhi Police units
willbecarriedoutacrossstations
and tracks to ensure commuters
do not cross over to get to the
otherside.Parkinglotsindarkar-
eas have been illuminated along
with tracks and circulating ar-
eas,” said an officer.
Authorities at railway sta-
tions falling in Delhi-NCR have
also been told to keep a lookout
for criminal elements or snap
demonstrators and organised
THE DELHI MOON
A painting of Chandrayaan-3, part of G20 beautification work, seen at Nizamuddin on Tuesday. Tashi Tobgyal
Artist behind G20 paintings at Dilli Haat
shares challenges, rewards of street art
VANDANA KALRA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
ASHEgazesatthepillarsbetween
Dilli Haat and INA market,
adornedwithpaintingsbasedon
traditional Gond and Madhu-
baniartforms,streetartistYogesh
Saini recalls the challenges he
faced along with his team while
bringing his vision to life.
“This is a busy area which
sees heavy traffic. So, we tried to
paint early mornings or late
nights,” says Saini,61, artist and
founderof DelhiStreetArt(DSA),
who has given the area in the
heart of Delhi a new look ahead
of the G20 Summit.
“This is part of the Delhi
Tourism department’s initiative
for the upcoming Summit, and
given its location, right outside
Dilli Haat, we deemed it best to
work with folk art,” says Saini.
As DSA gears up to celebrate
its 10th anniversary, prepara-
tions for which are underway at
its office at Mandir Marg, Saini,
SLACKLINING SPORT IN CAPITAL
In this community, it’s all about striking a fine balance
ANUSHKA SHARMA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
ON A cheerful and
noisy Sunday
evening, a child
playing football at
Delhi’s Nehru Park
suddenly loses all
interest in the
game: His atten-
tion is stolen by a
J
OIN
man walking on a
tightline,afewfeet
above the ground.
CLUB
A few moments later, his friends
tooabandonthegame,theireyes
transfixed on the man perform-
ing tricks on the line.
The sport that has captured
MANDIR MARG
Moderate
118
AQI
500 0 PM 10
51-100 Satisfactory 101-200 Moderate
groups. “A database of mischief
mongers and possible miscre-
ants has also been updated to
ensure better coordination...,”
said the officer.
A crackdown on touts oper-
ating around the station prem-
ises has also been carried out,
with most being booked under
the Delhi Prevention of Touting
and Malpractices Act.
DCP (Railways) Apoorva
Guptasaidstaff hasalsobeende-
ployedonroutesthatwillseeVIP
movement. “Proper liaisoning
with RPF and railway authorities
such as station masters, parking
contractors, owners of food
kiosks, auto and taxi unions and
coolies isbeingdoneregularly.To
ensuretamper-proofdutypasses
to staff, adequate measures will
be taken to avoid impersonation
and misuse by bad elements,”
said the DCP.
Yogesh Saini, street artist and founder of Delhi Street Art
an engineer by qualification,
shares with The Indian Express
his journey as a street artist.
In 2013, after spending a
decade intheUS,Sainibeganasa
streetartistwithbeautificationof
dustbins at Lodhi Garden. He re-
callshowascepticalofficialasked
himtofirstpaintjustonedustbin.
“This was the first time I was
painting for public viewing.
Luckily, my dustbin was ap-
everyone’s attention in the park
is slacklining that caught on in
the Capital in 2013, after a
German freelance documentary
photographerEnrico
Fabian, who was
based in New Delhi
at the time, started
the community
Slacktivism with the
motive to provide
T HE free space for the ac-
tivity to enthusiasts.
On his website,
Fabian, who is now
based in Singapore,
explains slacklining as the “art
of balancing on a narrow and
flexible piece of webbing tight-
ened low to the ground between
two anchor points — two trees,
DTU
Satisfactory
99
AQI
500 0 PM 10 500
201-300 Poor 301-400 Very Poor
RESTRICTIONS DURING SUMMIT
Here are the suggested routes for travel
by road on September 8,9,10
Bahadurgarh road
Azadpur Chowk
Lala Jagat
Narayan Marg
Punjabi Bagh
Junction North-South Corridor
Rajouri Garden
Naraina Flyover
Junction
Brar Square
Dhaula Kuan
East-West Corridor
AIIMS Chowk
IGIAirport Moolchand Underpass
■ Dispelling rumours of a
lockdown during the
G20 Summit, the Delhi
Police said the whole city
will be open and only a
small part of the New Delhi
Municipal Council (NDMC)
area will have restrictions
Amit Mehra
proved,” he chuckles. As he went
on to build a team of artists, proj-
ects started coming his way and
soon, he found himself working
with the NDMC for the beautifi-
cation of Shankar Market. “This
was probably one of the first art
districtsinDelhi.Mostofthework
had to be executed 10-12 feet off
thegroundandformanyartists,it
was their first time getting up on
the scaffolding,” he says.
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Expressway
DND Flyover
Ashram Chowk
■ The NDMC area
will be a controlled zone
where no commercial
establishments and
delivery services will
operate. Only essential
services and bonafide
residents will be allowed
Most of the artworks by DSA
are based around a theme: Be it
theunderseaworldreplicatedon
thewallsof NavyChildrenSchool
at INA to the boundary wall out-
side Suncity School in Gurgaon
emphasising on gender parity.
“Several factors go into deciding
thetheme.Wealsotrytoinvolve
the local community, including
people living in the neighbour-
hood,” states Saini, citing the ex-
ampleof a2019projectataslum
in Raghubir Nagar in Delhi.
As against an artist working
out of a studio, the life of a street
artistismarkedbyalotof unpre-
dictability — be it the weather or
road safety. “You get used to the
noise, traffic, heat, and dust but
you do need to worry about per-
sonal safety,” says Saini, citing
the example of two artists who
were recently injured after be-
ing rammed by a truck at the
South Extension flyover.
Despite the challenges, Saini
is happy with his line of work. “It
feels good when people appre-
ciate or give feedback,” he says.
perhaps. The ‘slack’, the flexibil-
ity, of a slackline allows one to
perform a variety of balance
practices and even tricks.”
Fabian initiated the activity
in Delhi with the intent to help
lesser-privileged children with
few means for enjoyment.
Mohit Tanwar, 38, believes
slacklining is more fun as
a group activity. “I was a rock
climber. I used to climb at
the Indian Mountaineering
Foundation. I discussed the idea
of slacklining with my rock-
climbing friends and they men-
Slacklining enthusiasts
practise the sport at a park
in the Capital. Express
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■ From Ring Road – Ashram
Chowk – Sarai Kale Khan –
Delhi-Meerut Expressway –
Noida Link Road – Yudhisthir
Setu – ISBT Kashmere Gate –
Ring Road – Majnu Ka Tila
■ From AIIMS Chowk – Ring
Road – Dhaula Kuan – Ring
Road – Brar Square – Naraina
Flyover – Rajouri Garden
Junction – Ring Road –
Punjabi Bagh Junction – Ring
Road – Azadpur Chowk
EAST – WEST CORRIDOR
■ From Sun Dial/DND Flyover
- Ring Road –Ashram Chowk –
Moolchand Underpass –
AIIMS Chowk – Ring Road –
Dhaula Kuan – Ring Road –
Brar Square – Naraina Flyover
■ From Yudhisthir Setu – Ring
Road – Chandgi Ram Akhara –
Azadpur Chowk – Ring Road –
Lala Jagat Narayan Marg
■ Special Commissioner of
Police (Law and Order)
Dependra Pathak said
adequate arrangements
have been made to ensure
Delhiites do not face any
kind of inconvenience
during the Summit
BRIEFLY
MinisterSingh
kicksoffS20
conferenceat
AmityUniv
Noida: Dr Jitendra Singh,
Minister of State (Inde-
pendentCharge),Ministry
ofScienceandTechnology,
inaugurated the S20
Conference, under the
aegis of G20, at Amity
UniversityNoidaTuesday.
He was accompanied by
Dr Ashok K Chauhan,
Founder President Amity
Education Group; Dr
Atul Chauhan, Chancellor
Amity University Uttar
Pradesh; Dr W Selva-
murthy, President Amity
Science Technology and
Innovation Foundation;
and Dr Ashutosh Sharma,
Co-Chair S20 and Former
Secretary, Department of
Science & Technology.
Addressing the audience,
Singhsaid,“Amityhascre-
ated a benchmark in edu-
cation across the globe.
India’s Presidency of G20
is a matter of immense
pride for the whole coun-
try. Under the visionary
leadership of our Prime
Minister Narendra Modi,
Indiahasattainedremark-
able achievements in the
field of science and
technology.”
Collegebus
catchesfire
Faridabad: Forty-seven
college students in
Faridabadescapedunhurt
after a fire broke out on
their bus Tuesday. Police
said it was caused by a
short circuit and the fire
was doused with the
help of the fire brigade.
According to spokesper-
son Sube Singh, at 9.30
am, information was re-
ceived that a fire had bro-
ken out in the bus of Ech-
elon College on Bhuapur
Road. The Tigaon police
station in-charge arrived
at the scene with their
team. They found the bus
inflamesandhelpedevac-
uate the students. ENS
tioned that there were a few
people who organised such ses-
sions in the city,” he says.
Slacklining is an open com-
munity that welcomes people of
all ages and doesn’t charge a fee
for its sessions held every alter-
nateSundayatdifferentlocations
in the city. At the venue, mostly a
park, different kinds of lines are
setupforbeginnersaswellasex-
perienced members.
“Ihadnoticedthissportmany
yearsagobutdidn’tknowwhatit
was called,” recalls Mishal, a
member of Slacktivism since
2021,“Then,afriendof minetold
me ‘let’s go slacklining’... I didn’t
knowwhatslackliningwasuntil
IsawitandthenIexclaimed,‘This
is what I was looking for!'”

5 G20 IN NEW DELHI
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Jill Biden
tests positive
for Covid,
US President
negative
REUTERS
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 5
US FIRST Lady Jill Biden has
tested positive for Covid-19 just
days before President Joe Biden,
who tested negative for the
virus, is due to travel to a Group
of 20 summit in India, the White
House said on Monday. Biden’s
72-year-old wife, whose symp-
tomsweredescribedasmild,last
had Covid in August of last year.
The president, now 80, last
testedpositiveinJuly2022.“This
evening, the First Lady tested
positive for Covid-19,” her com-
munications director, Elizabeth
Alexander, said in a statement.
“She will remain at their home
in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.”
Biden flew back alone from
Delaware on Monday evening.
“Following the First Lady's
positive test for Covid-19,
President Biden was adminis-
tered a Covid test this evening,”
the White House said. "The
President tested negative. The
Presidentwilltestataregularca-
dencethis weekandmonitor for
symptoms."
The US President was tested
again on Tuesday was negative,
the White House said.
Sculptures of Nataraja, Dancing
Summit keeps Delhi airspace busy, Girl to greet delegates at venue
airlines give option to reschedule
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
WITH TRAVEL restrictions in
place in the New Delhi police
district, and delegates from sev-
eral countries expected to land
in the national capital starting
September 8, airlines are now
giving passengers the option to
reschedule their flights to avoid
travellingtoDelhionthesedates.
According to sources at the
Delhi airport, around 160 flights,
both from and to Delhi, have
beencancelledbyairlinesforthe
time period.
On Tuesday, Air India said it
would waive rescheduling
charges if passengers want to
change their travel dates.
“There will be traffic restric-
tions in Delhi between
From sanitary pads to basic
facilities, women in jail suffer
more than men: SC panel
KHADIJA KHAN
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
■ Only jails in Goa, Delhi, and
Puducherry allow women prison-
ers to meet their children without
any bars or glass separation.
■ Less than 40% Indian prisons
provide sanitary napkins for
women inmates.
■ Nearly 75% ofwomen's wards in
jails across the country have to
share kitchens and common facil-
ities with male wards.
■ All categories of women prison-
ers— undertrialsorconvicts— are
lodgedinthesamewardsandbar-
racks.
THESEAREsomeof thekeyfind-
ings of the Supreme Court-ap-
pointed Justice Amitava Roy
Committee looking into prison
reforms, which observed that
women in jail “suffer the brunt
of imprisonment far worse than
their male counterparts, espe-
ciallywithregardtoaccesstoba-
sic facilities, ranging from med-
ical care and medical staff, legal
aid and counsel, to paid labour
and recreational facilities”.
On August 29, the Supreme
Court sought the views of the
Centre and the states on the re-
port submitted on December 27,
2022, underlining that the cor-
rectional justice system is "evi-
dently gender exclusionary".
Between 2014 and 2019,
Indian prisons saw an increase
inpopulationof womeninmates
by 11.7%, and women accounted
for 4.2% of the total prison popu-
lation by 2019. Despite this, the
report notes, only 18% women
prisoners are allotted exclusive
Chance to build joint
responses to global
challenges: France
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
THE G20 Summit in India will be
anopportunitytomakeprogress
inimplementingjointresponses
to major global challenges,
France said on Tuesday, an-
nouncing its President
Emmanuel Macron's participa-
tion in the conclave.
Macron'sofficesaidthepres-
ident will travel to Delhi to par-
ticipate in the G20 Summit on
September 9 and 10 following
which he will leave for
Bangladesh for a bilateral visit.
In a statement, it said the
summit will enable Macron to
continue his ongoing dialogue
withhiscounterpartsfromevery
continenttocombatthe"risksof
fragmentation" of the world.
"The President of the French
Republic, Emmanuel Macron,
will travel to Delhi to participate
in the G20 summit under India's
Presidency on September 9 and
10, and will then travel to
Bangladesh on September 10 for
a bilateral visit," it said.
"The G20 summit will en-
able France's Head of State to
continue his ongoing dialogue
with his counterparts from
every continent, so as to com-
bat the risks of fragmentation
September 7 and 11, 2023. As a
goodwill measure, passengers
holding confirmed tickets to fly
to or from Delhi on these dates
are being offered a one-time
waiver of applicable charges, if
they wish to change their date of
travelortheirflight.Onlythefare
difference for the rescheduled
flight, if any, would be applica-
ble,” the airline tweeted.
Vistara, too, said it would
waive rescheduling charges.
Spicejet, meanwhile, has
alerted passengers to road clo-
sures and diversions and longer
and usual travel times.
Sources at the Delhi airport
said that with three new cere-
monial lounges being prepared
to welcome delegates and offi-
cials accompanying world lead-
ers, disruption for the public will
be minimal.
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS BY PANEL
■ Telemedicine and virtual
consultation to address
unavailability of women
staff or medical wards.
■ Vocational training in
collaboration with NGOs.
■ Community service for
those accused of petty
offences
women'sprisonfacilities,asonly
15 states and Union Territories
have functional women prisons.
Fundamental facilities are
“frequently denied to women,
who live in enclosures inside the
largersetupof aprisonfacility,as
opposedtoanexclusivewomen’s
prison facility”, the report notes.
The report observes that
thereisalsoalackof gender-spe-
cific training, and matrons are
not instructed on how to search
women. Itstatesthat womenin-
mates are allowed to file com-
plaints against jail staff for any
form of abuse or harassment
only in 10 states and one UT.
The lack of separate medical
and psychiatric wards for
women inmates, "basic mini-
mumfacilities"forchilddelivery,
and healthcare professionals to
address gender-specific health
needs of women inmates are
challenges on the medical front.
Additionally, prisons in 19 states
and six UTs lack psychiatric
wards for women inmates.
Toresolvethese,thereportrec-
ommends introducing telemedi-
cinefacilitiessuchasremotediag-
of the world," it said.
"Itwillalsobeanopportunity
to make progress in implement-
ing joint responses to the major
global challenges that can only
be tackled effectively through
multilateral action: peace and
stability,povertyalleviation,pro-
tectionof climateandourplanet,
food security, and digital regula-
tion," it added.
Macron'sofficesaidthesum-
mit will also provide an oppor-
tunity to follow up on the sum-
mit for a New Global Financial
Pact held in Paris last June.
"Thishadledtotheestablish-
mentof theParisagendaforpeo-
ple and the planet, providing a
framework for collective action
to ensure that no country has to
choosebetweenfightingpoverty
andprotectingtheplanet,"itsaid.
OnMacron'sBangladeshtrip,
theFrenchstatementsaidhewill
"continuetoimplementFrance's
strategy in the Indo-Pacific re-
gion, after having welcomed
PrimeMinister(Narendra)Modi
in Paris this summer, and visited
PapuaNewGuinea,Vanuatu,and
Sri Lanka." "It will also be an op-
portunitytodeepenourbilateral
relationship with a country that
is undergoing rapid economic
development,withFrance'ssup-
port, and is seeking to diversify
its partnerships," it said.
“Earlier, there was just one
ceremonial lounge. Because the
number of state guests and offi-
cials is much higher now, more
were created for this specific
purpose. Wewanttoensurethat
the general public is not hassled
because of the arrivals and de-
partures,” an official said.
According to the Delhi
International Airport Limited
(DIAL) spokesperson, a team of
seniorofficialswho will monitor
G20 arrival and departure oper-
ations has been formed.
“DIAL is already working
with different government de-
partments like the Ministry of
External Affairs (MEA), the
Ministryof HomeAffairs(MHA),
and the Delhi government to
provide necessary support for
guest facilitation,” the
spokesperson said.
■ Allowing inmates to file
complaints, sensitisation
training of prison staff
■ Women prisoners
with psychological or
psychosomatic disorders,
or victims of sexual abuse,
should get proper
counselling
E
E X P L A I NE D
With a nudge
from top
● court
WHILE HEARING the mat-
ter related to conditions in
prisons, Supreme Court in
September 2018 consti-
tuted a three-member
committee to look into is-
sues involving jail reforms
and make recommenda-
tions on several aspects,
including overcrowding.
The panel submitted its
report four years later. On
August 29, the SC sought
the views of the Centre
and state governments on
the committee's report.
nosis and virtual consultation for
treatmentofinmates,strengthen-
ingvocationaltrainingandeduca-
tion programmes, and replacing
imprisonment for petty offences
with community service and
proper counselling for inmates
withpsychologicaldisorders.
FIRST GUEST ARRIVES
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in New Delhi on Tuesday. Tinibu, the first head of
delegation to arrive for the G20 Summit, was received by MoS Health S P Singh Baghel at the
airport. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted that this is the Nigerian President’s first
visit to India since he assumed office. @MEAIndia
DIVYA A
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
A27-FOOTNatarajasculpturein-
stalled outside the Bharat
Mandapam ahead of the G20
Summit weighs around 20
tonnes and took around 3.25-
lakh man hours to take shape,
thegovernmentsaidonTuesday.
Officials from the Ministry of
Culture say that the sculpture
was created by the traditional
Sthapatis of Swamimalai, who
specialiseinHindutemplearchi-
tecture, using the lost wax-cast-
ing process as per the measure-
ments mentioned in the Silpa
Shastra. The Silpa Shastra refers
to the ancient Hindu texts that
are considered as manuals for
sculpture and Hindu iconogra-
phy, prescribing the proportions
of asculpturedfigure,itscompo-
sition, principles and meaning.
The sculpture has been
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge chairs a meeting of floor leaders from the INDIA bloc ahead of the special Parliament
session, at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday. Anil Sharma
Govt yet to divulge spl session agenda,
Sonia set to write to Modi, flag issues
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
WITHTHEgovernmentyettore-
vealtheagendaof theupcoming
special session of Parliament,
Congress Parliamentary Party
chairperson Sonia Gandhi will
write to Prime Minister
NarendraModisoonandflagkey
issues on which the party wants
a discussion. The decision was
taken at a meeting of the
CongressParliamentarystrategy
group on Tuesday.
The party conveyed the deci-
sion to floor leaders of the
Opposition INDIA bloc, who met
soonafterwardatCongresspres-
ident Mallikarjun Kharge's resi-
Nataraja sculpture installed
outside Bharat Mandapam
crafted using eight metals or
‘ashta dhatu’ (copper, zinc, lead,
tin, silver, gold, mercury and
iron),andhasbeencreatedinthe
style of Chila tradition, which
was prevalent in the southern
part of India, 9th century on-
wards.
OfficialssaythattheNataraja,
dence.SomeleaderssaidKharge,
as Leader of Opposition in Rajya
Sabha, should write on behalf of
theOppositionalliancewithsig-
natures of all floor leaders, but
the Congress was keen that
Sonia write on behalf of all the
parties. The other parties subse-
quently agreed.
An Opposition leader, how-
ever, insisted that "it will neither
be a joint letter nor on behalf of
theINDIAalliance.Itwillbewrit-
ten by the Congress
ParliamentaryPartychairperson
on her letterhead."
In theletter, Soniawillflag is-
sues such as price-rise, unem-
ployment, the situation in
Manipur, fresh revelations in the
Adani saga, the border standoff
or the Lord of Dance, symbolises
theomnipresentandtheinfinite.
This form of Lord Shiva is a syn-
thesisof religion,philosophy,art,
craft and science, they add.
Nataraja’s idol also has two in-
visible triangles interlocked rep-
resenting both Shiva and Shakti,
officials say.
PM Narendra Modi had re-
cently named the Chandrayaan
landing spot on the moon as
Shiva-Shakti point.
Meanwhile,insidethevenue,
right at the reception area,
stands alife-sizedbronze replica
of the 4,500-year-old Harappan
Dancing Girl sculpture, which
was discovered during excava-
tions at Mohenjodaro in 1926.
The girl from the Sindhu-
SaraswatiCivilisationrotatingon
anelevatedpodiumstandsinthe
centre of the arrival hall, officials
said. The actual height of the ob-
ject is 10.5 cm but the replica is
5 ft in height, weighing 120 kg.
with China, and the “attack on
thefederalstructure”,itislearnt.
Sourcessaidthereisunanim-
ityamongtheoppositionparties
on raising these issues in the
Houseduringthespecialsession.
With the idea of one nation,
oneelectionandtheIndia-Bharat
politicalrowdominatingthedis-
course, the Congress wanted to
set a counter-narrative since the
governmentisyettospelloutthe
agenda of the five-day session
starting September 18.
The Congress Parliamentary
strategy group met at Sonia's 10,
Janpath residence. Besides
Kharge, K C Venugopal, Adhir
Ranjan Chowdhury, P Opposition party has been con-
Chidambaram, Manish Tewari,
Shashi Tharoor and Gaurav
Ready to work
with all parties
for success of
summit: China
Maintained talks at various levels: Beijing
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
BEIJING, SEPTEMBER 5
CHINA ON Tuesday said it has
supported India in hosting this
year'sG20Summitandit'sready
to work with all parties to push
for the success of the high-pro-
file global conference in New
Delhi this week.
A day after the Chinese for-
eign ministry announced that
Premier Li Qiang will represent
ChinaattheG20Summitinstead
of President Xi Jinping, the min-
istry spokesperson told re-
porters here at a regular briefing
that China always attaches high
importance to the G20 grouping
and actively participates in rele-
vant activities.
"We support India in hosting
this year's summit and stand
ready to work with all parties to
make the G20 Summit a suc-
cess," she said on the conference
to be held in New Delhi on
September 9-10.
TheG20isthepremierforum
for international economic co-
operation, she said. Without
mentioning the boundary dis-
pute, the spokesperson said that
China-India relations have been
stableonthewholeand"ourtwo
sides have maintained dialogue
and communication at various
levels".
"The continued improve-
ment and growth of China-India
relationsserves the common in-
terests of the two countries and
two peoples. We stand ready to
work with India to further im-
prove and advance bilateral re-
lations," she added.
The ties between India and
China have been under severe
strain sincethedeadly clashesin
eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley
in June 2020.
The Indian and Chinese
troops are locked in an over
three-year confrontation in cer-
tain friction points in eastern
Ladakh even as the two sides
completeddisengagementfrom
Gogoi were present. Later, lead-
ers of the INDIA bloc met at
Kharge’s residence. Sources said
the India-Bharat issue came up
for discussion at both meetings.
The Opposition meeting was
attended,amongothers,byTMC
leader Derek O’Brien, DMK's T R
Baalu, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Sanjay
Raut, NCP's Supriya Sule, RJD's
Manoj Jha, JD(U)'s Lallan Singh,
CPI's Binoy Viswam, SP's Ram
Gopal Yadav, and AAP's Sanjay
Singh and Raghav Chadha.
Khargesaid,“Thegovernment
is convening a special session for
thefirsttimewithoutspellingout
the agenda. No one from any
sultedorinformed.Thisisnotthe
way to run a democracy.”
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
Chinese Premier Li Qiang
arrives in Jakarta on Tuesday
for the ASEAN Summit. Reuters
severalareasfollowingextensive
diplomatic and military talks.
India has been consistently
maintainingthatpeaceandtran-
quillity along the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) were key for nor-
malisation of overall ties.
Premier Li will be represent-
ing China at the ASEAN Summit
in Indonesia from September 5
to 8. He will travel to India after
attending the East Asia summit
in Jakarta.
US President Joe Biden,
French President Emmanuel
Macron, Australian Prime
Minister Anthony Albanese,
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz,
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak,
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio
Kishida and Brazilian President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are
among the G20 leaders who
have already confirmed their
participationintheG20Summit.
The G20 member countries
represent around 85 per cent of
theglobalGDP,over75percentof
the global trade, and about two-
thirds of the world population.
The grouping comprises
Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Canada,China,France,Germany,
India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the
Republic of Korea, Mexico,
Russia, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa,Turkey,theUK,theUSand
the European Union.
BJP MP’s
complaint: LS
privileges panel
calls Jharkhand
top officers
ABHISHEK ANGAD
RANCHI, SEPTEMBER 5
THE LOK Sabha Committee of
Privileges Tuesday ordered
Jharkhand Chief Secretary
Sukhdev Singh and former
Deoghar Deputy Commissioner
Manjunath Bhajantri to appear
before it on September 21 for
“furtherexamination”onoralev-
idenceinconnectionwithGodda
MPNishikantDubey’s“breachof
privilege” letters against
Bhajantri,andthelatter'smissive
against Dubey on levelling “false
allegations” against him.
Bhajantrihadearlierappeared
beforethecommitteeonMay18.
Dubey had written to
Speaker Om Birla on September
5, 2022, alleging that Bhajantri
had committed “unpardonable
breach of privilege” and cited
two instances of “harassment”:
treatmentmetedouttohimdur-
ingaflight take-off onAugust 31,
and alleged collusion with the
“land mafia” in selling land.
Bhajantri wrote to the LS
SecretariatonJune4thisyear,call-
ing Dubey's allegations — on al-
legedsaleofapieceoftrustlandin
Deoghar and issuance of a land
possessioncertificate—“baseless”.
In the ATC row, the Deoghar
administrationhadregisteredan
FIR against Dubey and his two
sons on August 31, 2022. In a
counter-FIR on Dubey’s com-
plaint, Delhi Police registered a
sedition case against Bhajantri
and others for allegedly going to
“restrictedsectionofDeogharair-
port” and thereby “playing with
national security”.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

PM leaves for ASEAN, Centre must remove 50% cap

on quota, raise it by 15%: Pawar
East Asia summits today Indonesia is hosting the sum-
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 5 NCP chief
Sharad
allegations that the Mantralaya
had ordered the lathicharge,
SharadPawarsaidthatitwasthe
“government’s job to find out
DELHI CONFIDENTIAL

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
AS PRIME Minister Narendra
Modi heads to Jakarta for the
ASEAN (Association of Southeast
Asian Nations) summit, officials
areworkingonanewinitiativeto
boost India-ASEAN maritime se-
curity cooperation.
Modi, who will leave for the
IndonesiancapitalonWednesday
night,willattendthe20thASEAN-
India Summit and 18th East Asia
Summit. Saurabh Kumar,
Secretary (East) in the Ministry of
ExternalAffairs,saidthatModiwill
review the progress in ASEAN-
India relations and provide them
furtherdirectionatthesummit.
“The prime minister will de-
part Delhi on the night of
September 6 and return on
September 7. Given that the G20
summit follows shortly after the
ASEAN summit, it will be a short
visit,” he said.
When asked whether the is-
PM will
return on
Thursday
sue of China's release of the so-
called“newstandard”mapwould
figureinthesummittalks,Kumar
said, “It is difficult to anticipate
what would be discussed when
theleadersmeet,butissueswhich
areof mutual concern — regional
and international— would all
come up.”
OnAugust28,Beijingreleased
the 2023edition of the“standard
map of China” that includes
Taiwan, the South China Sea,
Arunachal Pradesh, and Aksai
Chin as Chinese territories. India
has dismissed the 'map' and
lodgedastrongprotestwithChina
over it. After China's territorial
claim over the South China Sea,
Malaysia, Vietnam and the
Philippineshavealreadyrejected
the claim.
mit in its capacity as the current
Chair of the ASEAN.
ASEAN is considered one of
the most influential groupings in
the region, and India and several
othercountries,includingtheUS,
China, Japan and Australia are its
dialogue partners.
HesaidtheASEAN-Indiasum-
mit would be “special” since it is
the first one after the elevation of
therelationshipbetweenthetwo
sides to a comprehensive strate-
gic partnership last year.
“India's relations with ASEAN
arethecentralpillarofourActEast
policy as well as India's vision for
wider Indo-Pacific. India and
ASEANhaveacomprehensiveen-
gagement covering a wide array
of areas,” Kumar said.
Oneconomicties,Kumarsaid
theIndia-ASEANtradevolumein
2022-23 was USD 131.5 billion.
“It accounted for over 11 per
cent of India's trade for the year
and was the second highest after
India-EU trade,” he said.
NATIONALIST CONGRESS Party
(NCP) president Sharad Pawar
on Tuesday said that the Centre
should remove the 50 per cent
cap on quota and raise it by 15
per cent to solve the ongoing is-
sue over Maratha reservation.
Later at a rally, he slammed the
state and central governments
over their inaction in announc-
ing measures for farmers bat-
tlingdrought-likesituationssay-
ing “power in the country has
gone to wrong people”.
Addressing a press confer-
ence in Jalgaon, north
Maharashtra, Pawar said, “Some
people say that making more
people (communities) benefici-
ariesof theOBC(otherbackward
class) quota is an injustice to the
poorpeopleinthe(existing)OBC
quota. This cannot be ignored.
NATIONAL TEACHERS’ AWARDS
Want number of women teachers
Pawar
The option is to make amend-
ments by the Centre in the
Parliament to the existing 50 per
cent cap and add 15-16 per cent
to it.”
The NCP chief’s remarks
came ahead of his fourth public
rally, in a bid to rebuild the party
aftertherebellionbyhisnephew
and state Deputy Chief Minister
Ajit Pawar.
An agitation demanding
reservation for Marathas has
flared up in the state since
September 1, following police
lathicharge on protesters, de-
mandingthereservationinJalna
district of Marathwada region.
Commenting on Ajit’s chal-
lenge to prove the Opposition’s
wholathichargedtheprotesters”.
Recalling that the tribal af-
fairs minister had resigned in
1992 when the tribals’ march
faced police force, resulting in
the death of several protesters,
theNCPchief saidthatthe“same
sensitivity was absent in today’s
ministers”.
Addressing his fourth public
rallyaspartof hisstatetourtore-
build the party after the rebel-
lion, Pawar said, “The BJP, which
controls the power in the state
KITCHEN ECONOMICS
and the Centre has no affection RSSOFFICE-bearerKrishnaGopalnarratedananecdoteabout
towards farmers. They have no JawaharlalNehruandIndiraGandhiinthecontextof preserv-
loveforthosewhoaregettingaf- ing Indian culture. Speaking at an event on Sunday, held at
fected by drought nor do they Delhi University on the status of women in Indian society,
worry about drying up of dams. Gopalsaidthatonce,afterachildartistewonanationalaward
The power has gone to wrong for a film, Nehru picked up the child in his arms and invited
people. Be it Maharashtra or any him for breakfast at his home, even as the film’s director, K A
other state, the citizens are fac- Abbas, asked Nehru whether he could get the entire crew to
ing injustice.” the PM’s official residence. At this, Gopal recalled, Nehru said
he would have to ask Indira Gandhi, as she managed the
kitchen at his home. Indira Gandhi apparently took time to
say yes. When Abbas asked why her response was delayed,
Indirasaidthat her fathersometimes calls many guests home
butsincehissalaryislow,itdoesn’ttakecareof thekitchenex-
penses. Gopal cited the instance to show the importance the

GADKARI PITCHES FOR among awardees to go up: Murmu kitchen has in keeping the family tied.

DIVERSIFICATION OF
AGRI SECTOR TOWARDS
ENERGY, POWER
Jaipur: Union Minister Nitin
Gadkari on Tuesday said diver-
sificationof agriculturetowards
energyandpowersectorsisthe
needof thecountry,apparently
pitching for increased produc-
tion of ethanol.
“Your life won't change by
growingwheat, rice,maize and
bajra.Nomatterhowmuchyou
produce, the price remains the
same.... Now diversification of
agriculture towards the energy
and power sector is the need of
the country,” he said, while ad-
dressing a public rally at the
launch of BJP's fourth and last
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
PRESIDENT DROUPADI Murmu
onFridayconferredthe'National
Teachers’ Awards’ to 75 educa-
tors chosen from across educa-
tionalinstitutions,inaceremony
heldon theoccasionof Teacher's
Day at Vigyan Bhawan.
Fifty of 75 awardees were
from school, 13 from higher ed-
ucation, and 12 from the
Ministry of Skill Development
and Entrepreneurship.
Calling for an improvement
in the number of female teacher
awardees in the future editions
of the award, Murmu stressed
the necessity to “encourage fe-
Awardees at the ‘National Teachers’ Awards’ ceremony, in
New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI
teachers across schools in the
country, but there are only 32
per cent female school teachers
inthelisttoday.I'dlikethisnum-
ing the importance of a teacher
in the character development of
a child.
“Just like the foundation of a
COMMISSIONING PLAN
ALL UNION ministries and departments have been asked to
provide updates to the Lok Sabha Secretariat every quarter
on various reports, plans, programmes, schemes and posi-
tion of the government on issues of public interest. This is to
bolstertheLokSabhaSecretariat’seffortsatprovidingrelevant
reference material on Bills and other issues of contemporary
interest to legislators to help with work related to various
committeesanddebates.Theministrieshavealsobeenasked
to indicate a nodal point for coordination on the issue with
the LS Secretariat.
People of MP have
to choose between

minority appeasement
Parivartan Yatra from male teachers and students to ber to go up,” Murmu said. house, the foundation of a good
Gogamedi in Hanumangarh empower women”. Congratulatingtheawardees, lifeisthecharacter.Agoodteacher
district. ENS “Thereare51percentfemale Murmurecountedtheschooling ensures the character develop-

and tribal uplift: Shah

of her children, while highlight- ment of a child,” Murmu said.

INVITATION OF APPLICATION FOR ALLOTMENT OF

CAMERO SI REGIMENTAL SHOP AT SUBROTO PARK
1. Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Central Accounts Office, Army to procure ANAND MOHAN J
BHOPAL, SEPTEMBER 5

170 Armoured
Subroto Park, New Delhi-10 invites applications from War
Widows/ Widows of Defence personnel killed while on duty,
Disabled soldiers/EX Servicemen and spouses/Widows of Ex UNION HOME Minister Amit
servicemen etc and other general public for allotment of SI Shah on Tuesday said the people
Regimental Shop at Subroto Park Complex, New Delhi. Details
of shops are appended below:
Electronic Shop at Peter Complex
Recovery Vehicles ofMadhyaPradeshhavetochoose
between two ideologies — “mi-
nority appeasement or uplift of
At present, the Army oper- tribals” — as he attacked the op-
2. The applicable terms and conditions are mentioned in AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA ates the BEML-built vehicles position Congress in the poll- Union Home Minister Amit
application form.
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5 which are based on the bound state. Shah during the launch of
3. The application form is available from 05 Sep 23 at Service Russian-made T-72 tank hulls. Shah was speaking at the in- ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’, in
Institute, AFCAO, Subroto Park, New Delhi-10 between THE ARMY is seeking to pro- During operations under hos- augurationofJanAshirwadyatras Mandla, Tuesday. PTI
0800 hrs to 1400 hrs on every day except Saturday, Sunday cure 170 Armoured Recovery tile conditions, these vehicles in the tribal-dominated Mandla
and holidays (Tele No. 9205709144). The application form for Vehicles on tracked platforms helptherepairandrecoveryca- beltintheMahakaushalregionof
tendering may be collected on payment of Rs. 500/- per for both deserts and plains pabilitiesof its armoured fight- Madhya Pradesh. The massive came... He said his government
application. The last date of deposit / receipt of completed along the country’s western ing vehicles. outreachprogrammeoftheBJPis wasforthetribals,Dalits,theback-
application is 19 Sep 23 by 1400 hrs along with EMD (Earnest
borders as well as in high-alti- As per officials, Armoured expected to cover over 10,000 ward classes, and the poor. You
Money Deposit) of Rs. 5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand only).
tude andmountainousterrains RecoveryVehiclespavetheway kmsandculminateinBhopallater havetodecidebetweenthesetwo
The EMD should be in the form of Demand Draft drawn in
at eastern Ladakh or north fortheprogressof allarmoured thismonthwherePrimeMinister ideologies.”
favour of OIC SI Fund, Payable at New Delhi. Shop will be
allotted on auction basis. Sikkim. operations, hence are of high NarendraModiisexpectedtoad- ManmohanSingh’sstatement
tactical and logistical impor- dress the event. Unlike the previ- in 2006 at the National
tance. ous yatras, this time the BJP has Development Council had been
GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM “With induction of higher been carrying out the yatras un- met with strong opposition from
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER, PWD (BUILDING) mobilityandheavierplatforms
like T-90s and Arjun tanks, it is
der the collective leadership of
Union ministers instead of Chief
the BJP. The PMO at the time had
clarified that Singh's comments
ASSAM, CHANDMARI, GUWAHATI-3 vital that recovery vehicles Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had been “quoted out of context
withmatchingmobilityandre- spearheading them. insomesectionsof theelectronic
No.CE/TB-VII/65/2023/2
PRESS NOTICE pair capabilities are inducted
forallmechanisedformations,”
Shah said the country has to
decide between the ideology of
media,fuellingabaselesscontro-
versy”.ThePMOsaidthatSingh's
The Chief Engineer, P.W.D (Building), Assam on behalf of the Governor of Assam invites bids from Govt. registered
an official told The Indian theCongress,whichsays“themi- reference to “first claim on re-
eligible Contractors having experience in similar nature of works for the following works.
Details of bid may be seen at e-procurement portal www.assamtenders.gov.in Express. norities have the first right over sourcesreferredtoallthepriority
The bidders must be enrolled in www.assamtenders.gov.in InaRequestforInformation the wealth of the country”, and areas listed above, including pro-
published Tuesday, the Army the BJP, which says “the first right grammesfortheupliftofSCs,STs,
SI. Name of Approx Value of Completition Bid Cost of Bid
said the vehicles should have lies with the tribals and poor sec- OBCs, women and children and
No. Work Work (Bid Value) Period Security (in Rs)
adequatecross-countrymobil- tions of society”. minorities”.
1 Additioal Estimate for Rs. 6 (Six) 2% of Bid value for Rs. ity and protection and should Shah said former Prime Shah said "the Congress did
Construction of Sri Sri 10,77,81,435..00 Months General category, and 20,000.00
Madhabdeb Kalakshetra, 1% of Bid value for
be able to carry six people in- Minister Manmohan Singh dur- not promote any tribal leader,
Phase-III, Narayanpur, Reserved category cludingdriverandcommander. ing his tenure said that “the mi- while Modi made a poor, tribal
Lakhimpur, Assam It said the vehicles should norities have the first right over family’s sister, Droupadi Murmu,
also have utility equipment the coffers of the country; every- the President”. Praising Chief
N.B.:- 1. Value of work may vary according to the detail NIT. such as a crane, winches and one opposed him, but he did not Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan,
2. The Press Notice will form a part of the Bidding Document. specialmaintenancetoolssoas listen”. “The Congress did minor- Shah said he had fulfilled the an-
Sd/- toundertakevariousrepairand ity appeasement. In 2014, nouncementshemadeinthepast
Chief Engineer, P.W.D. (Bldg), Assam recovery roles. (Narendra) Modi government twoyearsforthetribalsofthestate.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 EXPRESS NETWORK 7
Two from
Kashmir get 20
‘Minister for name sake’: Madras HC questions TwoseniorGAIL
years in jail for
drug possession
Balaji continuing in TN Cabinet without portfolio officialsamong
fivearrestedin
tion,especially after his arrestby becausehewillnotbeofficiating cise his executive functions per-
ARUN JANARDHANAN the Directorate of Enforcement any work nor any work is allot- sonally,” the order said.
NAVEED IQBAL CHENNAI, SEPTEMBER 5 (ED)inamoneylaunderingcase. ted to him. Certainly, no purpose Referring to previous judg-
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 5

ARRESTED IN 2019 for posses-
sionof over15kgof brownsugar,
twomenfromKupwarainNorth
Kashmir were on Monday sen-
tenced to 20 years’ rigorous im-
prisonment by a sessions court.
SyedIshfaqShahandKhursheed
Ahmad Gojar were appre-
hended by local police in 2019
and 15 packets of one kg each
containingbrownsugarwerere-
covered from them.
Ordering the sentence, the
judge noted that, according to
their disclosure statements, the
two were in touch with an indi-
vidual in Ferozpur, Punjab, to
whom they had to sell the con-
traband.BothShahandGojarare
residents of Karnah along the
Lineof ControlinKupwara.Apart
from the 20 year sentence, both
THE MADRAS High Court on
Tuesdaycastdoubtoverthepro-
priety of retaining V Senthil
Balajiasaministerwithoutport-
folio in the Tamil Nadu Cabinet
led by Chief Minister M K Stalin.
Balaji'scontinuance,thecourt
said,“servesnopurposeanddoes
not augur well with the princi-
ples of Constitutional ethos on
goodness, good governance and
purity in administration”.
The judgment by the first di-
vision Bench comprising Chief
Justice S V Gangapurwala and
Justice P D Audikesavalu came
whilehearinga batchof writpe-
titions questioning the govern-
ment's stance on Balaji's posi-
Youth leaving for foreign
Rs50Lbribecase
Mentioning Constitutional
purview and ethos, the Bench
said, “A Minister without port-
folioisaConstitutionaltravesty.”
Observing the complexities
of the case, the court said: “The
Founding Fathers of our
Constitution may not have com-
prehended corrosion of good
and clean governance to an ex-
tent that a person would be re-
tained as a minister without
portfolio, that too while in cus-
tody. Nor did they envisage that
the executive head would re-
ward an elected member the
status of a minister, though find-
ing him not fit to discharge the
responsibilities of a minister.”
The order said, “Balaji is a
Senthil Balaji was arrested
by ED on June 14.
minister without portfolio,
meaning thereby, no work is al-
lotted to him. He is a minister for
thename sake.” “In other words,
a minister without any work.
Such a person certainly will not
be entitled for any allowances
JU panel confirms
severe ragging of
isservedbyjustceremoniallyre-
taining him as a minister.”
The court, while addressing
thecontentiousissueofGovernor
RNRavi'sinterventioninremov-
ing Balaji on the grounds of
“moral turpitude” and subse-
quently reversing the decision,
emphasised that the Governor's
actions should not bypass the
Chief Minister's prerogative.
“It is contended that the
'pleasure' can be withdrawn by
theGovernoronlyontheaidand
advice of the Chief Minister and
notonthepersonalsatisfactionof
theGovernor.Itisaddedthateven
whileexercisingdiscretionunder
Article 200 of the Constitution of
India, the Governor cannot exer-
GANGSTER ACT CASE
Vikas Dubey’s aides
ments, the order said the
Governor must exercise his dis-
cretion with the knowledge of
the Chief Minister and not by
keeping him in the dark or uni-
laterally in the “'withdrawal of
pleasureinrespectof aMinister”.
The petitions in contention
included quo warranto appeals
by former AIADMK MP J
Jayavardhan and advocate
Ramachandran, questioning the
legitimacy of Balaji holding the
ministerial position without a
designated portfolio. A separate
PIL by advocate M L Ravi chal-
lenged the Tamil Nadu
Governor's decision to dismiss
Balaji and the subsequent order
reversing this decision.
MAHENDER SINGH
MANRAL
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
FIVEPERSONS,includinganexec-
utivedirector(projects)andchief
generalmanagerofGasAuthority
of India Ltd (GAIL), have been ar-
rested by the CBI in connection
withanallegedRs50lakhbribery
case in which money “changed
handstofavoursomecontractors
in gas pipeline projects”.
“The arrested persons have
beenidentifiedasKrishnaBallabh
Singh,anexecutivedirector(proj-
ects), and Davinder Singh, CGM,
Singh. Searches were conducted
atthepremisesof theaccusedin
Delhi, Noida, Visakhapatnam
and Vadodara, which led to re-
covery of incriminating docu-
ments and digital evidence,” the
spokesperson said.
“Information had been re-
ceived that two projects — VAPL
and SAPL — were being super-
visedbySinghandsourcealsoin-
formed that he in connivance
with other officials of GAIL in lieu
for undue advantage/bribe, ex-
tended various undue favours to
thecompanydirector,Surendra,”
the CBI alleged in its FIR.
The FIR stated, “(A) Source in-

shores, Kerala churches

have been fined Rs 2 lakh each. bothworkingwithGAIL,Surendra formed that on June 27 Surendra
Additional District Sessions Kumar, director of M/s Advance approachedSinghandrequested
Judge Khemraj Sharma high- student, suggests among 23 sentenced to Infrastructures Pvt Ltd company, him to help in expeditious pro-
lightedthat“themenaceofdrugs
make efforts to stem flow punitive action Harsh Yadav and Suryavesh. The cessingoffinalbillsinconnection

10-year in jail, 7 acquitted

is on increase these days and the
mainsuffererofthismenaceisthe
younger generation of society”.
Hesaid:“Duetothismenace,
the life of the younger genera-
tion is being put in peril of de-
struction, thereby affecting not
only individual families but the
society in large.”
“In order to save the youth,
who are the future of the society,
from destruction, the easy avail-
ability of drugs including supply
thereofatdoorstepistobecurbed
with an iron hand,” he said.
Additional Public Prosecutor
DarRashidsaid,“Itisagoodthing
that we are able to secure such
convictions.Wearedealingwith
suchcasesacrossJ&Kanditisour
top priority everywhere.”
The two men were arrested
in December 2019 when, acting
on information received by the
Karnah police station, the police
partyapprehendedShahand,af-
ter further questioning, he “dis-
closed that he along with one
Khursheed Ahmad Gojar went
near the LoC and brought 15 kg
of brown sugar for smuggling”.
According to the prosecution
“seven packets of 1 kg each were
hiddenbyhimandrestoftheeight
packetsof1kgeachhavebeenhid-
denbyKhursheedAhmadGojar”.
SHAJU PHILIP
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
SEPTEMBER 5
CONCERNEDOVERthemigration
of young members abroad, par-
ticularlytoEuropeandCanadafor
higher studies and employment,
the Catholic Church in Kerala has
launched initiatives aimed at en-
ticingthemtoremaininthestate.
For Kerala, remittances from
Malayalis living abroad have
been a lifeline of the economy.
The Church’s move marks a first
for a major community in the
state attempting to put the
breaks on migration.
Overthelasttwomonths,var-
ious dioceses of the Church have
launched programmes aimed at
developinganinterestamongthe
youthingovernmentjobs,bothat
the state and Central level. The
programmes seek to ensure that
theyouthareequippedtotakeon
government recruitment exams.
The Syro-Malabar Church,
Kerala's numerically dominant
Christianchurch,hasalreadyseen
a large number of its members
settle in different parts of the
world.Ithasestablisheddioceses
intheUnitedStates,Canada,Great
Britain and Australia.
Last month, the Church’s dio-
ceses of Changanassery, Pala and
Kanjirappally, which have juris-
dictionincentralKerala’sChristian
belt, jointly decided to give train-
ing to the youth for government
recruitment examinations.
In a joint statement, the bish-
opsofthesediocesessaidthescale
ofmigrationfromKeralawascre-
ating a "social crisis".
"The falling number in Kerala
is a challenge to the existence of
the Christian community in the
state. The parents, who accom-
pany the migrating youths, are
also fast becoming part of alien
lands.Thebrain-drainfromKerala
andtheincreaseinthenumberof
houses being kept closed in the
state have created a social crisis,’’
the circular said.
Referringtothejobvacancies
in the state and the central gov-
ernments, the bishops’ circular
said:“If ourchildrenrealisethese
opportunities and enthusiasti-
callyworkhard,fromschooland
college levels, they can emerge
winners.”
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KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 5
THE COMMITTEE set up by
JadavpurUniversitytoprobethe
death of a student on the insti-
tute's premises confirmed that
he was subjected to severe rag-
gingandrecommendedpunitive
action against those who were
involved in the crime.
The committee, which sub-
mitted its report on Tuesday, 25
daysaftertheincident,suggested
theexpulsionoffourstudentsand
year-long suspension of several
others,officiatingvice-chancellor
Buddhadeb Sau told PTI. “The re-
port confirmed that the 17-year-
old student was subjected to se-
vere ragging by seniors on the
night of August 9,” he said.
The student, who hailed
fromNadiadistrict,diedinahos-
pital the next day due to injuries
he suffered after falling from the
second floor of a hostel building.
“The four, whose expulsion
was recommended by the com-
mittee, were present during the
incident.Theyhavebeenarrested
and their role was confirmed by
the inquiry panel," the VC said.
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 5
A COURT in Kanpur Dehat on
Tuesday convicted 23 of the 30
aides of slain gangster Vikas
Dubey in a Gangsters Act case
that was lodged in the aftermath
of the 2020 Bikru killings. They
have been sentenced to 10 years
of imprisonment.
Onthenightof June3,2020,a
police team came under heavy
gunfire when they had gone to
arrest gangster Vikas Dubey,
leading to the death of eight po-
licemen,includingDSPDevendra
Mishra.
Tuesday's conviction was in a
case under the Gangsters Act,
whilethetrialinconnectionwith
theBikruincidentisstillgoingon.
DistrictGovernmentCounsel
(Criminal) Raju Porwal said the
caseundertheGangstersActwas
lodged based on the Bikru inci-
dent and other criminal history
of these accused. “The charges
were framed on October 28,
2021. In 22 months, the verdict
was announced. Twenty-three
out of the 30 accused were con-
victed and sentenced to 10 years
in prison along with a fine Rs
50,000each.Sevenaccusedwere
acquitted by the court,” he said.
Inastatement,releasedbyUP
Special Director General (Law
andOrder)PrashantKumarsaid,
“Intotal,37peoplewerearrested
and seven had surrendered in
courts.Apartfromthem,sixper-
sonswerekilledinpolice(action
after the incident). Along with
sectionsformurderandattempt
to murder, a separate case under
the Gangsters Act was lodged.”
VikasDubeywaskilledonJuly
10, 2020 while he was being
brought to Kanpur from Ujjain,
Madhya Pradesh, where he was
arrested a day earlier. Among
those who were convicted on
TuesdaywereVikasDubey’sbusi-
ness associate Jaikant Bajpai and
aideShyamuBajpai(35).Theoth-
ers sentenced by the court in-
clude Heeru Dubey alias
Dharmendra (35), Jahan Yadav
(49),DayaShankarAgnihotrialias
Kallu (47), Islam Beig alias Bablu
Musalman (40), Ramu Bajpai
alias Ravindra (35), Shashikant
Pandey, among others.
WITHPTIINPUTS
arrestedaccusedwillbeproduced
beforethecourtconcerned,”said
a CBI spokesperson.
The agency registered the
caseonSeptember4onthebasis
of source-basedinformationand
an FIR alleging criminal conspir-
acy and under Prevention of
Corruption Act was registered
against six persons, including
Sunil Kumar, senior general
manager of MECON Limited,
who has not been arrested,
Vadodara-based M/s Advance
InfrastructuresPvt.Ltdcompany
andunidentifiedpublicservants.
“Acasewasregisteredonthe
allegationsthatKBSingh,incon-
spiracywithothers,wasextend-
ing undue favours in connection
with SAPL (Srikakulam Angul
Pipeline) and VAPL (Vijaipur
Auraiya Pipeline) projects of
GAIL. It was further alleged that
director Surendra Kumar had
arranged the bribe amount of Rs
50lakhthroughtwoprivateper-
sons. It was also alleged that the
bribe of Rs 50 lakh would be de-
liveredtohimbytheprivateper-
son,” the spokesperson said.
“A trap was laid by the CBI
and after delivery of the bribe by
theprivateperson,bothwereap-
prehended. The Rs 50 lakh bribe
money was recovered from
with the work in VAPL, who in
turn assured him help from his
side.Surendramethimathisres-
idenceinNoidaonJune29.Source
informed that despite the insis-
tencefromthefinancedivisionof
GAIL that the bills be processed
through VIMS (Vendor Invoice
Management System) portal,
Singhinfluencedhissubordinates
andorderedforprocessingofpay-
ment in offline mode.”
“(The) Source further in-
formed that despite the fact that
huge recoveries had to be made
fromM/sAdvanceInfrastructures
Pvt Ltd for incomplete works,
Singhusedhisinfluenceoversub-
ordinates to release the payment
on July 20,” the CBI alleged.
“(The) Source further in-
formed that in SAPL project be-
ingexecutedbytheM/sAdvance
InfrastructuresPvtLtd.Davinder
Singh was supervising the proj-
ect and Sunil Kumar, senior gen-
eralmanagerof MECONLimited,
was monitoring the project as a
Project Management
Consultant. (The) Source further
informed that Surendra, in con-
nivancewithDavinderandSunil,
was getting various undue
favours for his company by pay-
ing huge bribe money to them,”
the FIR stated.

‘Tropical cyclones, especially in the Arabian

Sea, are becoming more and more frequent’
Dr R Krishnan, Director, Centre of Climate Change Research at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, analyses the factors behind
extreme weather events and predictive models. The session was moderated by Amitabh Sinha, Deputy Editor

levelintheregionitself.Oncethemeansealevel
increases, storms can lead to extreme events in
coastal regions.
Melting glaciers in the Himalayan region are
goingtoimpactprecipitation,likewhathappened
in Pakistan last year. The meltwater run-off and
the increased precipitation could lead to large-
scale flooding. With so much infrastructure de-
velopment taking place in urban areas and con-
stricting traditional drainage channels, flooding
isagiven.It’snotjustmeteorologybutmitigation
involves hydrological management and gover-
nance issues.

On assessing extreme rainfall events
Noteveryheavyrainfalleventiscausedbycli-
mate change. There is natural variability as well.
Butinmanyinstances,globalwarmingcausedby
greenhousegasemissionscouldbeplayinganim-
portant role. We undertake, what are known as
attributionstudies,toassesswhetheranypartic-
ular event was decisively influenced by climate
change.Insuchcases,werunclimatemodelswith
andwithouttheeffectsof globalwarming.These
arenotstraightforwardexercises,andhavetoac-
count for a large number of variables and uncer-
tainties. The simulations are run several times to
getafairideaofthesignal-to-noiseratio,andthen
we interpret the results.
Even then we can offer conclusions only in
terms of probabilities. Sometimes these proba-
bilities are very clear. There could be a very high
probabilitythatacertaineventcouldnothaveoc-
curred in the absence of climate change. But, at
othertimes,thedataisnotveryconclusive.So,we
then say we are not sure.
On a particular region being more vulnerable
to rainfall events
Ithinkweneedtodoaregion-by-regionstudy.
An earlier study showed that extreme event
trendsarenotuniformacrossIndia.Insomeparts,
therateof increaseisdifferentandinsomeparts,
the trends are different. They are all very much
co-dependent.Forexample,inwesternIndia,the
emptyseahasalinktotheIndianOceanDipole(a
climate pattern affecting water temperatures)
events as well. So the regional heavy precipita-
tionhasalinktothecirculationpattern,themodes
of variability, the way the water vapour is chan-
nelled to that region from source and so on. We
can expect that in many regions but heavy pre-
cipitationisprojectedtoincreaseinaglobalsense.
AUDIENCE QUESTIONS
On floods in Himachal Pradesh being
a man-made disaster
Other than rainfall events, there have
been many developmental changes in the
region that have altered the land use and
land cover. We need to calibrate models
for a particular region. Say you have
stripped an area of its forest cover, it
would make the land barren. We are basi-
cally changing the Albedo (proportion of
light reflected from a surface) of the re-
gion. When we have more forest cover, we
are absorbing more radiation, whereas
when we are taking out the forest cover,
we’re reflecting back incoming radiation.
When the land is heated during the pre-
monsoon months and triggers a very
heavy deep convection and localised
Weathersystemsalsoplayamajorrole.When
monsoonsystemsareorganisingthemselves,that
is the time you can expect these events to pro-
duce a lot of rainfall. They are not going to be the
same throughout the year.
On uncertainty about extreme events
The early warning systems developed by the
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) have
made tremendous progress. We had Cyclone
Biparjoythisyearbutthemodelforecastshelped
heavy precipitation, there is a sudden in-
flux of moisture.
On forest fires and heat waves
A forest fire depends on many com-
plex factors. When the land surface dries
out, there is less soil moisture and a con-
tinuous high-pressure system. There is a
kind of sinking motion over the area,
which is very conducive to the develop-
ment of a forest fire. That’s why forest fires
happen in the Indonesian region or
Australia during an El Nino event (mean-
ing below-average levels of rainfall). It also
depends on the vegetation, the kind of
trees you have and the oil that comes out
of these trees. In the Australian region,
they’re highly flammable.
in disaster preparedness. The models are per-
formingwell,especiallyfortropicalcyclonesand
the active phases of monsoon synoptic systems.
The Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) cen-
tres are helping as well in weather prediction.
On climate change causing extreme rainfall
and flooding, like in Chennai in 2015
If you want to do a model-based attribution,
then it depends on what we are referring to as a
particular event. For example in Uttarakhand, in
(Left)DrRKrishnaninconversationwith On the Indian subcontinent being not as
AmitabhSinha warm as the global average
Generally,temperaturechangesaremostpro-
nounced in the polar regions. One possible rea-
2023, there was a low-pressure system going son could be the Ice-Albedo feedback, which ba-
from the Bay of Bengal and a flow of moisture sically means a higher absorption of the solar
fromtheArabianSea. Toassesstheroleofclimate radiation withthemeltingiceexposingagreater
change, we have to do two sets of experiments – land surface. This leads to amplified warming in
with and without greenhouse gases. We may the high-latitude region. This is also affected by
have to do hundreds of experiments for each of circulation changes. In tropical areas, the warm-
themwithafairlyhigh-resolutionmodel.Thatis ingislesscomparedtothehighlatitudes.Onerea-
going to take some time though it’s not impossi- son is the formation of clouds, which reduce the
ble. We require a lot of computing resources. radiationreachingthesurface.Thewatervapour
Greenhouse gases are assessed in a climate con- feedback increases warming. Also, there was
text. It is very different when we are doing a some effect of the aerosols that cooled large ar-
weather prediction. So it has to be cleverly de- easinthenorthernhemisphere,accordingtothe
signed. In principle, it is possible, but even if you IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
have these resources, experiments are going to Change).EmissionsfromNorthAmerica,Europe
taketime.Andbythetimeyoudothat, (especially during the 1970s and 80s)
youwillhaveanothereventoccurring China and even India have offset the
andwewillendupchasingevents.We rise in temperature because they cut
havetoprobablytakeaverypragmatic down incoming solar radiation.
approach. Also, model to model, there Without that, the temperature in-
canbedifferences,soweneedtocoor- crease could have been much higher.
dinate this big effort. In the tropics, water vapour feed-
back causes warming. Then when
SCANTHECODETO
On other kinds of climate change precipitation happens, the soil is go-
WATCHVIDEO
impact over the Indian ing to get wet, there is going to be
subcontinent more evapotranspiration and latent
Tropical cyclones, especially in the Arabian heat fluxes. So it is going to be complicated.
Sea, are becoming more and more frequent. We Therefore, some areas in the extreme northwest
have earlier mostly seen them in the Bay of of India could see a temperature rise. As the land
Bengal, so a part of this phenomena at least has surfaceisnotwet,especiallyduringthepre-mon-
todowithclimatechange.Someworkisalready soon months, the temperatures can go up. The
going on already but if the Arabian sea cyclones land surface processes are going to be a very key
aregoingtoincrease,they’regoingtoaffectstorm factor in controlling temperature changes over
surgesandalready,thesealevelhasgoneup.Sea the subcontinent. With increased monsoon pre-
levels are rising in many coastal areas. This is cipitation, the temperature increase may not be
mostly because of the increase in the mean sea that much.
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WORDLY WISE
Sportsmanship is making sure
you have respect for the guy you’re
playing across from. — WARREN MOON

FOUNDED BY
Tradition & its discontents
§

§
RAMNATH GOENKA
Only a resentful, insecure caricature of Sanatan Dharma
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
can worry about dharma not surviving justice

A TEACHER’S DAY Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The classroom must be a space that is open, and protected
UDHAYANIDHI STALIN’S REMARK calling for powermentwithintheconfinesof Hinduism as far away from Sanatan Dharma. Ironically,
from pressure and prejudice

A
the eradication of Sanatan Dharma has
BOUT TWO YEARS ago, when schools and colleges began to reopen after the thrown open the deepest fissure in modern
Indian identity. To understand the stakes, it
Covid-enforced shutdown, reports and surveys underlined that the country
might be worth beginning with a recent
was staring at a learning crisis. It was evident that digital teaching had been Udhayanidhi starrer, Maamannan. The film
a poor substitute for the physical classroom. Educationists and teachers centres on the plight of a Dalit MLA in Tamil
pointed out that addressing learning gaps — an area of concern even before the pandemic Nadu with a heart-breaking dignity about
— would require a radical re-imagination of the classroom. This called for removing the him.ThisMLA,Maamannan(Vadivelu),issub-
myriad hurdles — social, cultural, administrative, bureaucratic — that have, for long, lim- jecttotheindignitiesof caste.Alocalpolitical
itedteachers'capacitytonurturetalent.Inaverysignificantway,however,thecountrywas rival, Rathnavelu (Fahadh Faasil), is the em-
bodiment of upper-caste political privilege.
well-placedtoturncrisisintoopportunity.ThenewNationalEducationPolicy(NEP)—an-
But the centre of the film is Athiveeran,
nounced about three years ago, in July 2020 — had proposed a range of measures to make Maamannan’sson(playedbyStalin)trauma-
learning“moreexperiential,holistic,discovery-orientedandenjoyable”.Thepolicyaffirmed tisedbycastethriceover:Achildhoodwitness
thepivotalroleoftheteachersindrivingreformsandrecommendedmeasurestoupskilled- toatraumaticcasteatrocity,adailyencounter
ucators in a rapidly changing world, where students are exposed to increasing and diverse with his father’s humiliation, and then
sources of information outside formal learning avenues — YouTube videos, for instance. Rathnavelu’sattemptstodestroytheonething
that allows Dalits social mobility — a coach-
NEP came into effect last year. A year is too short a period to assess any policy. Yet, the day
ing centre. The film centres on Athiveeran’s
after another Teacher's Day, educational administrators must pause and reflect: Have they revoltandhisrefusaltobepacifiedintheface
appreciated the policy's vision in adequate measure? Have the recent curriculum changes of asocietythatwantstoputhiminhisplace.
inschoolandcollegecurriculabeentruetotheNEP'saimof “developingcriticalminds”?Or The practice of the Indian caste system is
does the institutional autonomy promised by it still appear distant? vile and oppressive. We can debate its theo-
Today, more than ever before, diverse sections of people see education as a means to logical complexities, the periodic revolts
against it and its transformation during
social mobility. This is attested by the increase in enrollment figures across educational
modernity. There is still a remarkable invisi-
levels in the past 10 years. This welcome development places responsibilities on agents bilitytothedepthofitspersistence.Onesurest
across the educational spectrum — the policymaker, the administrator, the pedagogue. sign of this is the following. Many votaries of
A first or second-generation learner — possibly from a Dalit or minority community — “Sanatan Dharma” claim it to be eternal, en-
compassing and ecumenical. But a basic em-
should have no reason for trepidation in the country's classrooms, campuses, laborato-
ries, dormitories, and playgrounds. But a variety of disquieting incidents are proof that in- pathy escapes them when it comes to caste.
stitutions — and those who run them — have not given adequate importance to this im- How does the Indian tradition look to those
who have been its most persistent victims?
perative. More than 120 suicide deaths in India's higher education institutions between
After such knowledge, what identification
2014 and 2021 — including 68 students from reserved categories — speak of the unbear- with this tradition?
able stresses of the educational system. And these figures do not include those who take There is a diagnosis in modern times be-
their lives unable to take the pressures of the coaching institutes that train students for ginningwithAmbedkar,whoconcludedthat
engineering and medical courses — including at Kota in Rajasthan where suicide deaths caste is an ideological system, sanctioned by
this year are at an eight-year high. religion, and the emancipation of India from
caste required its emancipation from
Mindsetsmustbechangedif top-downapproachestoteachinghavetogiveway toen-
Hinduism. Contrary to what the BJP claims,
gaged and non-hierarchical learning relationships. In today's social media age, insulating there is nothing in this line of thinking that
classrooms from prejudices and insecurities is not always an easy task. Yet, the critical promotes genocide. Dalit politics has, ar-
role of these spaces in shaping the future means that the brutish behaviour displayed by guably,beenthemostconstitutionalpractised
teachers recently in Muzaffarnagar and Kathua call for introspection. Another Teacher's by any group. The affront in Stalin’s remark is
Day should not go by with these questions remaining unanswered. notthathecalledSanatanDharmaavirusthat
promotes inequality. It is more our horror at
theprospectthatonceDalitsareinanempow-
eredposition,theymightchoosetorejectthe
The practice of the Indian
caste system is vile and
oppressive. We can debate its
theological complexities, the
periodic revolts against it
and its transformation
during modernity. There is
still a remarkable invisibility
to the depth of its
persistence. One surest sign
of this is the following. Many
votaries of ‘Sanatan
Dharma’ claim it to be
eternal, encompassing and
ecumenical. But a basic
empathy escapes them
when it comes to caste.
How does the Indian
tradition look to those
who have been its most
persistent victims?
After such knowledge,
may not survive the genuine achievement of
voice. Like Athiveeran, they will refuse to ac-
cept what even an MLA has to stand. A confi-
dent tradition knows it can survive the de-
mands for justice. Only a resentful, insecure
caricatureofSanatanDharmathattheBJPhas
created can worry about the possibility that
their dharma might not survive justice.
ThereisaresponsetoUdhayanidhiStalin’s
position. It might go something like this. You
might imagine someone saying, “We under-
stand the full vileness of caste, not just as an
abstractgestureorasastrategicaccommoda-
tiontowardoff conversion.Westandonyour
side and commit every fibre of our being and
institutional practice to instituting equality.”
Modern India can have only one dharma:
Treatingpeopleasfreeandequalindividuals.
Let us build that together. But this kind of re-
sponse requires an exemplariness and credi-
bilitythataNarayanaGuruoraGandhimight
havecarried—evenGandhi’sstocknowruns
low. So the substitute for exemplarity is the
mendacious abstraction called Sanatan
Dharma.Inthisparticularcase,wecannotlook
real victims in the eye. And so to avert their
haunting moral gaze, we invert another con-
trived victimhood.
One could even say more as a critique of
Stalin’sremark.Foronething,thelargerpoliti-
cs of social reform requires both combative-
nessandcoalitionbuilding.Aformofarticulat-
ion that needlessly puts off many possible
fellowtravellersonStalin’sjourney,byputting
theiridentityonthelineasamatterofpsychol-
ogy, may not be the wisest thing for a politi-
cian. It let the BJP occupy the only ground it
knows how to occupy — divisiveness and dis-
cord.Butthisisamatterofpoliticaljudgement.
More could be said about the eradication
of Sanatan Dharma as a sociological strategy.
For all the impressive achievements of the
Dravidian movement, the dispiriting fact is
how deeply caste is still entrenched in Tamil
Nadu. This is a contestable observation. In
NorthIndia,casteviolencecanbehorrendous.
Butoftenthereisacrudeinstrumentalityand
amoralityaboutit.Byallaccounts,thereisstill
something more ominously sincere, en-
afterthereleaseof Maamannan,anotherfilm
director Pa Ranjith, criticised the DMK for
shielding casteism. This begs the question:
Does merely attacking, merely changing the
ideologicalvalence—fromSanatanDharmato
BuddhismorRationalism—actuallydisman-
tle caste? Does it turn out to be the case that
the “metaphysics” in which caste is embed-
ded is now less consequential than we think,
andweneedtoattendmoreseriouslytoother
structures of power?
Arethereothermodelsthathaveallowed
societiestotranscendtheirtraditionswithout
making those traditions despicable? Should
the Ambedkarite call be seen as ultimately
moreacridecoeur?Nocountrycanmovefor-
ward without confronting the oppression at
the heart of it, and there is oppression at the
heart of various versions of Sanatan Dharma.
Equally,itisoftenself-defeating,tonotbeable
torescueaculture’sgenuinepossibilitiesfrom
the oppressions that disfigure it. Destroying
itsbestpossibilitiesdoesnotleadtotheutopia
of justice; it leads to an arid wasteland of
meaning, filled by forces even more reac-
tionary and mediocre.
In modern times, Sanatan Dharma has
beenusedbothforreformandextremereac-
tion. Aurobindo once equated Sanatan
Dharma with nationalism, only to correct his
mistakeandmoveittowardsanauthenticand
directcommunionwiththeDivine.Butthese
debates are beside the point. Stalin and
PriyankKhargewereaskingaquestion:What
will promote moral equality? Their answer
may not be wholly convincing. But the BJP’s
response proved their point. Their Sanatan
Dharma is so demonic that the only, perhaps
drearily eternal, answer it has to every prob-
lem is more discord. The reason Stalin’s re-
mark got the attention it did, is not because it
isnew.Itisbecausehehauntinglydrewatten-
tion to the moral wreckage of Indian tradi-
tions. Any genuine defender of that tradition
wouldworktowardsapoliticsofmoralexem-
plarity, not act like a thuggish crybaby. It is a
pity no so-called Sanatani has the moral
courage to make this obvious point.

REDUCING FRICTION abstractpietiesofdominantSanatanDharma

altogether. This fragile compromise of em-
what identification with
this tradition?
trenched and ritually oppressive about caste
identitiesinTamilNadu,evenamongstgroups
The writer is contributing editor,
The Indian Express

RBI should carefully examine data on digital currencies to

determine the way forward

A THE ART OF HONESTY

CROSS THE WORLD, central banks are examining the prospects of issuing
digitalcurrencies.AspertheAtlanticCouncil,19oftheG20countriesarenow
in advanced stages of development of CBDCs (central bank digital curren-
cies).Twenty-onecountrieshavelaunchedpilotprojects,while11countries
haveintroducedadigitalcurrency.TheReserveBankof Indiahasalsobeentakingtentative
stepstowardsthatend.InOctober2022,itissuedaconceptnoteoncentralbankdigitalcur- Meet the text, meet the words, decide for yourself, I tell my students
rencies.Subsequently,itlaunchedpilotsofCBDCsinboththewholesaleandretailsegments.
The pilot in the wholesale segment involved the settlement of secondary market transac-
tionsingovernmentsecurities,whilethatintheretailsegmentwaslaunchedwithaclosed
Sumana Roy
user group covering select locations. On Monday, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, while
EVERY TEACHER HAS a tic or two. It’s a gift those I teach now, in a liberal arts college vacuum cleaner, it has no commitment to
speaking at the G20 TechSprint finale, said that the central bank is “slowly and steadily ex- to their students who turn these into jokes close to the country’s capital city – the first memory or to life.
panding the CBDC pilots to more banks, cities, people and use cases.” and anecdotes. I suspect that I’ve given my who, like me, paid no more than Rs 1,200 a It is possible that my students agree with
As per the RBI's annual report, cities such as Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Guwahati, students an easy one — I really must ration year;thesecond,wheretuitionfeesforayear me when I tell them about art being outside
Hyderabad,IndoreandKochiarebeingaddedtothepilotinphases.Theadoptionof there- the number of times I say “honesty” in a 90- would perhaps be a quarter of my father’s theperimeter of intentionality, thatitisfrom
tail CBDC has also been gaining traction. As per reports, it has crossed over a million users minute class lecture. I didn’t use the word life savings. Different as their histories are — this that it derives its power, that only then
with such frequency in the early 2000s, and different as they will possibly remain, will art feel as necessary as everything out-
and 2.6 lakh merchants. The central bank is aiming for 10 lakh CBDC transactions per day
when I first began teaching in a government because of the inequities of the system — side intentionality does, like sleep and love
by the end of this year. Considering the widespread usage of the UPI architecture — in July, college.Theword—ashabit—wasstillapart there is something that we have not been and shadow. Otherwise, it feels engineered
9.96 billion transactions were routed through it — interoperability with this payment sys- of the cultural temperament, I suppose. able to protect both from. A jaded genera- for effect; “craft” is not a skill butonly a man-
tem could help trigger widespread adoption. What is it that has changed in the last two tion, their exhaustion deriving from the pes- ifestation of honesty. I’m not sure, though,
Several benefits could accrue from CBDCs. Along with bringing down the operational decades that makes me run to the word so simism that has been their inheritance, they whethertheyunderstandwhatImeanwhen
costsassociatedwithphysicalcashmanagement,itcouldalsomaketheinter-bankmarket often in the classroom? have been raised by a culture of dishonesty. I ask them to protect themselves from the
Peopledidnotliveontheinternetthen,of The language that surrounds them, both of cultureof disingenuousnessanddisenchant-
more efficient. Further, as Das also pointed out, CBDCs can help make cross-border pay-
course — fake news, WhatsApp forwards, praise and criticism, is a network of lies that mentthatsurroundsthem.Ignoretheblurbs,
ments“cheaper,fasterandmoresecure”withtheirinstantsettlementfeatures.Considering Instagram aura, a compulsive need to lubri- they are being compelled to repeat and per- the reviews, the awards, the aura, the self-
that India is a big recipient of remittances this could lower the costs and frictions associ- cate the system with lies, these were still a petrate because of the timidity and obedi- advertisement,thisculturethatpraisesone’s
Why is it that they cannot
ated with these transactions, bringing in wider benefits. However, considering the wide- thing of the future. A student could still ask ence forced on them by the behaviour of own at the cost of honesty, abuses outsiders
rangingimplicationsthatCBDCscouldhaveonthefinancialandmonetarysystem,thecen- how Robinson Crusoesurvived on the island remember these posts they marketforces,andbyus,themarket’sagents. with indifference, the lies and words (“clas-
tral bank must proceed with caution. It must rigorously examine the empirical data that it for so many years without a girlfriend. I’m ‘liked’ yesterday when they In one of the first discussions we have in sic”, “genius”, “best”, “brilliant”, “master-
is generating, and use it carefully to determine how to proceed forward. not implying that the last noun in the sen- can remember the poems class, I ask my students to tell me about piece”, “amazing”) and the actions;meet the
tence might have been replaced by “smart- and the songs, I ask. The three Instagram posts that they “liked” the text,meetthewords,decideforyourself,that
phone” had it been today. Like Crusoe, the previous day. Without exception, they are isindependence,Inagthem.Ican’tgivethem
student had few distractions. Like Crusoe, answer is obvious: It is unable to remember. When I ask them to a Taylor Swift song for this, but I do have a

PLAYERS & PADOSIS students were more independent-minded.

My intention isn’t to lapse into nostalgia.
It is not to wonder why we have rarely en-
counteredthefearlessnessof students—and
Sports is not a proxy for battle. Displays of muscular the active collaboration of teachers — in this
nationalism only weigh it down century. Naming a couple of student protest
language and the form of
writing that decides
memorability; also, the
finger that ‘likes’ everything
that falls in the way of their
tell me about their favourite songs or po-
ems, there is cheer and conversation in the
class — and, quite frequently these days, a
lot of Taylor Swift. Why is it that they can-
not remember these posts they “liked” yes-
terday when they can remember the po-
John Lennon song about fierce intellectual
and artistic independence: “I don’t believe
in Bible / Hitler / Kennedy / Jesus / Buddha /
Gita / Elvis …,” Lennon sings; and then, in a
moment of unexpectedly chilling self-cri-
tique, “I don’t believe in the Beatles …”

F
movements in metropolitan Indian univer- news feed is as agnostic as a ems and the songs, I ask. The answer is I have a feeling that they might remem-
OR ALL HIS prescience and brilliance, George Orwell did the world one disserv- sities in the last 15 years will only be an illus- obvious: It is language and the form of writ- ber the song.
ice. In a 1945 essay titled 'The Sporting Spirit', Orwell wrote: “Serious sport has tration of exceptions proving the rule. I do
vacuum cleaner, it has ing that decides memorability; also, the fin-
nothingtodowithfairplay...itiswarminustheshooting.”Thisnotionof sportas not blame our students, not those I taught no commitment to memory ger that “likes” everything that falls in the The writer teaches at Ashoka University,
a proxy for battle, and sportspersons as representatives of an often narrow, neg- for nearly 15 years in Bengal’s provinces, not or to life. way of their news feed is as agnostic as a Sonipat. Views are personal
ativenationalismreareditsheadonceagainintheaftermathof theIndia-PakistanAsiaCup
matchatKandy,SriLanka.GautamGambhir,formerIndiaopenerandcurrentBJPMP,took
umbrage at the bonhomie between players of competing sides on the field. In essence, the
parliamentarianfromEastDelhibelievesthatbecauseIndianplayers“representanationof
over a billion people”, they must not be friendly with their opponents during a game.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1983, FORTY YEARS AGO
WhenitcomestoPakistan,everyinteraction,gameandcompetitionbearsthenear-un-
bearableburdenofhistory,politicsandmuscularnationalism.Atatimewhen“gotoPakistan” AKALI DAL MEETING were faced with a power problem in view of
the eclipse periods undergone by the satel-
liance provided its programme tallied with
that of the former. He said the country had
is a slur, not a suggested travel plan, national figures and role models like Virat Kohli and
THE SIMMERING DIFFERENCES in the Akali lite. According to ISRO, the satellite was un- been searching for a national alternative to
RohitSharmamustbelaudedfortheirabilitynottoletthecoldbilateralclimateaffecttheir Dal came to the surface at a four-hour meet- dergoing eclipses daily since it was the the Congress (I).
warmthtowardsPakistanicolleagues.Infact,inadifferenttime,Indianscouldhaveappre- ing convened by party chief Harchand Singh equinoctial season and its array could not
ciatedthefactthatBabarAzamlooksuptoKohli.Orrememberthatitisonlythe22people
on the field who truly understand the pressures of those moments. A hug and a pat on the
Longowal. Jathedar owing allegiance to
Longowal openly branded Jathedar Jagdev
generate power.
ZIA ON INDIA
shoulder is only natural. SinghTalwandiandBhindranwaleasagentsof
the Congress (I) and traitors to the panth.
CPM ON UNITED FRONT PRESIDENTZIA-UI-HAQOFPakistanstopped
just short of openly blaming India for distur-
Buteveninthesetimes,Orwell'sdirevisionisnottheonlyone.AyoungPakistanifanis
THEWESTBENGALchief minister,JyotiBasu, bancesflowingfromprotestsagainsthismar-
seen(ina“viral”video)expressingheradmirationforKohli.ShehastheIndianflagpainted
ononecheek,andthePakistanflagontheother.Whenacompatriotchidesher,sheretorts, INSAT-1B POWER ISSUE welcomed the formation of the four-party
united front under the leadership of the
tial law regime but hoped it would not affect
theIndo-Paknormalisationprocess.“Youcan
“Chacha,padosikopyaarkarnakoiburibaattohnahinhainna(Uncle,lovingyourneighbour SPACE SCIENTISTS GRAPPLING with the JanataPartypresident,ChandraShekhar,and puttwoandtwotogether”,hetoldaWestern
is not a bad thing).” Perhaps hers is the kind of patriotism everyone should aspire to. problem of the stuck solar array of Insat-1B said his party, the CPM, might join the al- correspondent at a press conference.

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
THE IDEAS PAGE
North & South, East vs West
East Asia Summit in Jakarta and the G20 summit in Delhi highlight the irreversible crises in the old
multilateral order. India, though, is shaping the new regional and global frameworks
RAJA-MANDALA
by C Raja Mohan
IT CAN NOW be said plainly. Post-Cold War
multilateralism is past its peak — at both the
global and regional levels. This week’s East
Asia Summit in Jakarta and the G20 summit
in Delhi highlight the deep and arguably ir-
reversible crises in the old multilateral or-
der. The dying embers of old multilateral-
ism are marked less by the absence of
Russian President Vladimir Putin and
Chinese President Xi Jinping at both sum-
mits than by their deepening conflicts with
the rest of the world. Russia is locked in a
war with the West over Ukraine, and China
is at odds with many of its Asian neighbours,
including India, Japan, the Philippines, and
Vietnam, as well as the US.
The gloomy prospect for multilateralism
is in contrast with India’s brightening oppor-
tunities to shape regional and global orders.
Delhi’s role is critical in the Indo-Pacific
Quadrilateral Forum, in the attempt to
broaden the ambit of the G20 to address the
concerns of the Global South and in the pro-
motionofbalancedglobalisationthatwillhelp
allcountries.Althoughthereismuchfocuson
theRussianinvasionofUkraineandtheprob-
lemsithascreatedfortheworldeconomyand
the forging of a consensus at the G20, it is Xi’s
China that presents enduring challenges to
multilateralism. With its new-found eco-
nomic clout and growing military power,
Chinese expansionism has begun to pose a
great challenge in Asia, and its staunch sup-
portforRussiaispartoftheprobleminEurope.
As India’s bilateral challenges with China
multiply, regional and global multilateralism
hasemergedatthecoreof India’snationalse-
curityandinternationalrelations.Nowonder
India is investing so heavily in multilateral
diplomacy,includingtheQuadandG-20and
ismakingbolddeparturesfromthetraditional
tenets of its multilateralism.
The end of the Cold War at the turn of the
1990screatedfavourableconditionsforanin-
tensive phase of multilateralism. Europe
moved towards rapid regional economic in-
tegration and expansion under the banner of
theEuropeanUnion.InAsia,theAssociationof
SoutheastAsianNationsprovidedtheframe-
work for intensifying regional economic and
political cooperation. Regionalism in Europe
andAsiawasfacilitatedbytheendofthegreat
power rivalry in both continents. Russia was
drawn into the Group of Seven leading
Westerncountries,makingittheG8.Moscow
was also engaged in consultations with the
NATO. In Asia, China became a close partner
for the US on economic and political fronts.
This, in turn, translated into new possibilities
for cooperation among major powers on
global issues — such as the proliferation of
weaponsofmassdestruction,climatechange,
andpandemics.Theintegrationof Chinainto
theWorldTradingOrganisationin2001gave
ahugeboosttoBeijing’seconomy,whichrap-
idlyemergedastheworld’ssecond-largestaf-
ter the US.
The2008globalfinancialcrisisunderlined
the urgency of expanding the G7 to bring in
the middle powers to restore stability to the
global economic order. But no sooner than
Yezdi Nagporewalla
WHEN PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi set
the vision of India’s G20 presidency as inclu-
sive,ambitious,decisive,andaction-oriented,
he underscored the nation’s deep commit-
ment to democracy and multilateralism. The
G20isbuiltontenetssuchascollectiveaction
andinclusivepartnershipbetweendeveloped
and emerging economies. India at the helm
of theintergovernmentalforumistrulyawa-
tershedmomentforfindingpragmaticglobal
solutions for the well-being of all. As a signif-
icant voice of inclusivity, our nation is the
bridgethatconnectstheworld.TheStartup20
EngagementGroupwillbeestablishedunder
India’sG20presidencyforthefirsttime,recog-
nising the role of startups in driving innova-
tionthatrespondstoarapidlychangingglobal
scenario. India has taken a very strategic
stance and will host over 200 meetings in 60
citiesacross32differentworkstreamscover-
ingthelengthandbreadthofthecountry.This
will enable G20 delegates and guests to get a
glimpse of India’s rich cultural heritage and
will help these cities with infrastructure de-
velopment, women’s empowerment, foster-
ingastartupecosystem,promotingtradeand
investment, and fuelling tourism. There is no
doubt that the ongoing discussions and out-
comes during this period will become global
markerstomeasureprogressincriticalprior-
ity areas under a clear framework.
AkeyfocusareaattheG20isthegrowthof
digital infrastructure. India, with its various
initiatives,hasunlockedthepotentialtoover-
multilateralism got a fresh wind behind its
back, the contradictions within the system
came to the fore.
The Russian occupation and annexation
of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014
marked the first major crisis of the post-Cold
War security order in central Europe and has
led to the Russian war against Ukraine. Asia
has, over the last decade, seen China’s grow-
ingunilateraleffortstoalterthe borderswith
neighbours. China has also sought to manip-
ulatetherestoftheworld’sdependenceonits
economy for political and strategic gains. Xi’s
reversal of key policies initiated by Deng
Xiaoping in the 1980s — peaceful periphery
andcommonprosperity—hasdevastatedre-
gional and global institutions.
In Asia, the ASEAN-led regional institu-
tionsstruggletocopewithChina’saggressive
territorial expansionism. In the inevitable
pushback,thelastfewyearshaveseentherise
of newsecurityinstitutionsliketheQuad,the
AUKUSthatbringstogetherAustralia,Britain,
and the US, and the trilateral compact in
Northeast Asia between the US, Japan and
South Korea. This has raised questions about
the continuing centrality of the ASEAN in
shaping the regional order in Asia.
Beijing’s attempt to gain unilateral eco-
nomic advantages has compelled the US and
Japantode-riskthemassiveinterdependence
with China built over the decades. Like much
of the world, India also bet in the 1990s that
economiccooperationwithBeijingwouldbe
mutuallybeneficialandhelpresolvepolitical
differences. Thanks to Xi’s hegemonic ambi-
tions, India has been cured of that illusion.
In the 1990s, Moscow persuaded Delhi to
join hands with Beijing in promoting a mul-
tipolar world that would counter American
unilateralism. This core principle of India’s
post-Cold War multilateralism has begun to
unravel as economic and security threats
mounted from China. The problem for Delhi,
it became increasingly clear, was from a
“unipolar Asia” dominated by Beijing, rather
than from a “unipolar world” led by the US.
An expansive and positive US engagement
A bridge for the world
India’s experience in inclusive growth can help develop global solutions
come the imbalance between different co-
horts of the population and enable inclusive
growth.TheUnifiedPaymentsInterface(UPI),
which has witnessed a 58 per cent year-on-
year volume growth this year, is an excellent
example of India’s digital infrastructural suc-
cess.Theemphasisonthenation’sexperience
indigitalpublicinfrastructureinunlockingin-
clusive growth can be positioned as a global
solution for other emerging economies.
Financialinstitutionsplayakeyroleinfur-
therenhancingIndia’sdigitalgrowth.Theim-
pact of digital initiatives has been profound,
andtheseinitiativeshaveenabledcitizenen-
gagement,providingconvenientdigitalserv-
icesacrossthenation.Asseenduringthepan-
demic, digital pathways have enabled a
smoothprovisionof essentialservices,driven
economicgrowth,andfosteredamoreinclu-
sive digital economy. Suitable models of gov-
ernance and regulation are needed to ensure
thateveryone can reap thebenefits of a data-
driveneconomy.TherecentlyreleasedDigital
PersonalDataProtectionBillisacaseinpoint.
Furthermore, multilateral financial insti-
tutions should be reformed to ensure that fi-
nance is accessible to those in need. The G20
nations are looking to enhance the agility of
multilateral development banks (MDBs) for
tackling21st-centurychallengesandensuring
prompt resolution of debt and debt-related
matters. Another critical step will be to estab-
lish a global regulatory framework for crypto
assets beyond central bank jurisdiction.
In the 1990s, Moscow
persuaded Delhi to join
hands with Beijing in
promoting a multipolar
world that would counter
American unilateralism. This
core principle of India’s post-
Cold War multilateralism
has begun to unravel as
economic and security
threats mounted from China.
The problem for Delhi, it
became increasingly clear,
was from a ‘unipolar Asia’
dominated by Beijing rather
than a ‘unipolar world’ led by
the US. An expansive and
positive US engagement with
India aided this profound
shift in Delhi’s perspective.
Climate change is causing natural disas-
tersonagiganticscale.Thishasdisruptedhu-
man life and the biodiversity of our planet. It
isnowtimeforIndiatoleadtheworldonsus-
tainability. Our traditional ways of living in
balance with the environment have much to
teachthemodernworld.Theprioritymustbe
to focus on building cities for tomorrow, cli-
mate-resilient infrastructure, new methods
of growing food and new economic systems
that balance growth and sustainability.
A crucial component of sustainable
growthneedstobetheIndiaStackforsustain-
ability. A technology-first and sustainability-
ready digital infrastructure that helps man-
age ecosystems, energy needs, waste and
waterresources.Indiacanuseitsstrengthsin
technologyandanintrinsicunderstandingof
digital innovation and circularity to show
what a sustainability-first economy really
looks like. Artificial intelligence and different
tenetsof sustainabilitycanbothbeharnessed
for a greener and yet more prosperous India.
Global Value Chains (GVCs) are one of the
keydriversofsustainablegrowth,jobsandliv-
ingstandards.Severalfactorsareessentialfor
becoming a trusted and resilient trade part-
ner. Enabling ease of doing business and ad-
dressing decriminalisation will be key.
Moreover,intheeraof Industry4.0,technolo-
gies such as blockchain, IoT, analytics and
clouddigitalisationof tradewillbeanimpor-
tant paradigm shift. They will be instrumen-
talinprovidingastrongimpetusviaincreased
C R Sasikumar
withIndiaaidedthisprofoundshiftinDelhi's
perspective. India embraced the Indo-Pacific
ideaandrevivedtheQuadthathadgonemori-
bund in 2007. This involved greater military-
strategic cooperation with Australia, Japan,
and the US in Asia.
Four features of India’s new multilater-
alism stand out at the Jakarta and Delhi
summits.
First, in Jakarta, Modi will underline that
the Quad is not in competition with the
ASEANbutwillcomplementitseffortstopro-
moteregionalstabilitythroughmorebilateral
and minilateral security cooperation to deter
andlimitunilateralismandterritorialexpan-
sionism.
Second is India’s focus on what External
AffairsMinisterSJaishankarcallsa“re-global-
isation” “that is more diversified, more dem-
ocratic, where there would be multiple cen-
tres of production, not just of consumption.”
Put simply, globalisation can’t be tethered to
China’sfactoriesandBeijing’spoliticalfancies.
Third,Indiaisnotwalkingawayfromfind-
ingcollectivesolutionsdespitethecurrentcri-
sis in multilateralism. India has put in much
effortinthelastninemonthsnottotiethefate
of theG20tojustafewissueslikeUkrainebut
to pursue agreements on a range of conse-
quential issues, like modernising the global
taxregimeandreformingthemultilateralde-
velopment banks.
Finally,puttingtheconcernsof theGlobal
SouthontheG-20agendaislikelytobealast-
ing contribution to India’s new multilateral-
ism. Although widely misunderstood as a re-
turn to the old confrontational politics of the
NAM in the 1970s, Delhi’s current emphasis
is on building bridges between developing
and developed countries. Many in the devel-
oped world are waking up to the importance
ofgreatercooperationbetweentheNorthand
the South amidst the breakdown of relations
between the East and the West.
The writer is senior fellow, Asia Society Policy
Institute, Delhi and contributing editor on
international affairs for The Indian Express
transparency and trade facilitation.
Low-carbon manufacturing is now be-
comingacompetitiveadvantage.Indiahasal-
ways excelled in frugal innovation, and our
vast pool of skilled resources has the poten-
tial to address this market need at scale. Top
Indian companies have already started look-
ingdeeplyatnetzerotargetsinthecontextof
India’sambitiontobenetzeroby2070.Atthe
sametime,India’svastMSMEsector,inwhich
the country’s vast population works, needs
support.Wemustbecognisantofthefactthat
creating a low-carbon economy needs peo-
ple and skills; mandating climate legislation
can impact livelihoods at scale.
Anequalworldisasafeandsecureonefor
all. The G20 EMPOWER Digital Inclusion
Platform, which is available in 120 languages
and open to young girls and women across
G20nations,isapositivestepforenablinggen-
derequalityandwomenempowerment.And
especiallypertinenttohelpthemgrowinthe
new technology-driven global order.
India’s G20 Presidency aims to strive for
just and equitable growth for all in the world,
navigating through turbulent times, in a sus-
tainable, holistic, responsible, and inclusive
manner. The challenge ahead is to adopt a
unique approach of living in harmony with
thesurroundingecosystemandfosterthetrue
spirit of “vasudhaiva kutumbakam” (One
earth, one family, one future).
The writer is CEO, KPMG, in India
WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
“A recent BBC report ‘Any story could be your last’ described the crackdown on
Kashmiri media in some detail... The BBC report quotes seven journalists and one
editor, all anonymously, who told the British media group that they felt ‘choked
and suffocated’ due to atmosphere of ‘fear and intimidation.’”—DAWN,PAKISTAN
A less taxing
time
A widening tax base is strengthening fiscal
foundations. This should translate into
greater government revenues
Ishan Bakshi
IN THE RUN up to almost every budget,
when asked to spend, the common refrain
hasbeenthat,constrainedbyitslimitedtax
revenues, the Union government hardly
has any room to manoeuvre.
However, contrary to the widely held
notion that only a small section of society
pays taxes, there has been a steady in-
crease in both direct and indirect tax pay-
ers over the past few years. This increase
in the tax base has occurred not during a
phase of rapid economic expansion, but
of slower, uneven growth. While, ideally,
this expansion should have raised the tax
to GDP ratio, creating greater fiscal space
for the government to spend on public
goods, cuts in both direct and indirect tax
rates (GST), along with the pandemic-in-
duced economic disruptions, have de-
pressed the fiscal gains accruing from this
surge in tax payers.
This would suggest that the almost
stable tax to GDP ratio (direct and indi-
rect/GST) is, in part, the consequence of
a conscious policy choice — of shifting to
a low tax regime. Whether this is driven
by ideological or political considerations
is another matter. But what it has done is
left more in the hands of the private
sector, while leaving the government
with fewer resources to fund its develop-
ment objectives.
Takealookatthedirecttaxbase.During
the assessment year 2014-15, the number
of companies paying tax stood at 7.46 lakh.
By 2022-23, they had risen to 10.7 lakh —
an increase of around 43 per cent. Over the
sameperiod,thenumberof individualtax-
payersgrewby65percent,risingfrom5.38
crore to 8.9 crore. The disaggregated data
shows that small taxpayers (those with in-
comeslessthanRs5lakh)accountforasiz-
able number of these new tax payers.
Similar trends can be observed in the
case of indirect tax payers. The number of
active GST payers (as of June 2023) stood
at 1.4 crore, up from 1.2 crore in 2019.
Around 80 per cent of these taxpayers are
proprietorships, while another 10 per cent
are partnerships. These two categories, in
fact, account for most of the increase in the
tax base over these years. This was only to
be expected. Smaller establishments, after
all, also have an incentive to register under
GST as it allows them to avail input tax
credit. The effects of coming under the in-
direct tax net are possibly reflected in the
increase in direct tax payers as well.
As thenumber of establishments in the
countryispeggedataround6.4crore,these
numbers also imply that at the very least
22 per cent of firms are formal in nature,
paying some form of taxes. In comparison,
even though the number of individual tax-
payers is higher than the contributing
members of the EPFO, as these taxpayers
would also include individuals not part of
the labour force, such as retirees receiving
interest/rentalincome,theshareof thefor-
mal labour force is likely to be lower in
comparison. However, this does suggest
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
DISCUSS AND DEBATE
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Not a
rubber stamp’ (IE, September 5).
Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's
refusal to be a part of the “One Nation
One Election” committee is unfortu-
nate. It has further shrunk the already
shrinking opposition space and made
the government’s job easier. Even if it
is an eyewash and a deliberative exer-
cise whose outcome is predetermined,
how the opposition will address the
challenge outside the committee is not
known. Instead of declining the nom-
ination, the opposition could have ar-
gued for more representation. In the
event of failure, Chowdhury could
have forcefully put forward the oppo-
sition’s views on the proposal, even if
dissenting, inside the committee.
R K Vijay, Jaipur
NOT A SOLUTION
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘Better for
voter, better for citizen’ (IE, September
5). It seems the BJP’s defeat in
Karnataka and the challenge posed by
the nascent INDIA alliance for the 2024
elections are the reasons for the “one
nation, one election” proposal. Only af-
ter the BJP’s ascension to power in
2014 did the trend of the prime min-
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
that income tax payers are no longer re-
stricted to a tiny sliver of the labour force.
Part of this increase in the tax base is
the natural consequence of the economy
growing in size — more companies are
setting up shop, more individuals are en-
tering the labour force, and more formal
sector jobs are being created. Alongside,
the growing formalisation of the economy
is also likely to have played a role by mak-
ing tax evasion or avoidance a more com-
plicated exercise. And while the lowering
of tax rates during this period may have
also played a part, it has also meant that
this expansion in the tax base hasn’t trans-
lated into a commensurate surge in the
tax to GDP ratio.
In September 2019, the government
announced a cut in the corporate tax rate
for existing companies from 30 per cent to
22 per cent. Broadly speaking, that trans-
lates to a reduction of about 25 per cent
(though in effective terms it differs). As per
the government, the revenue loss on ac-
count of this was Rs 1.28 lakh crore in
2019-20 and Rs 1 lakh crore in 2020-21
(neglecting the impact of non-availability
of exemptions under this regime). The cor-
porate tax to GDP ratio stood at 3.5 per cent
in 2018-19. By 2022-23, it had declined to
around 3.1 per cent.
Onthepersonalincometaxfront,inthe
interim budget of 2019, the government
had announced that individual taxpayers
with taxable income upto Rs 5 lakh would
get a full tax rebate. While the personal in-
come tax to GDP ratio rose from 2.5 per
cent in 2018-19 to 3 per cent in 2022-23,
the number of individuals with zero tax li-
ability also increased from 2.9 crore in
2019-20 to 5.16 crore in 2022-23.
Consideringthemostrecentchangestothe
tax structure — the rebate limit has been
raised to Rs 7 lakh under the new tax
regime — individuals with zero tax liabil-
ity mayrise further, limiting the gains from
an expansion in the tax base.
In the case of GST, while the
Subramanian committee report had
pegged the revenue neutral rate at 15.5 per
cent, as per a report by RBI, the weighted
average GST rate fell from 14.4 per cent at
the time of transition to 11.6 per cent in
2019 due to the various tax cuts in
November 2017 and December 2018.
Despite tax rates being lower by
around 25 per cent, collections have re-
mained broadly stable. Indirect tax collec-
tions (subsumed under GST) stood at
around 6.3 per cent of GDP in 2016-17. In
comparison, GST collections were at 6.6
per cent of GDP in 2022-23. Excluding rev-
enue from the compensation cess, collec-
tions were 6.2 per cent.
It is difficult to arrive at firm estimates
of the tax revenue implications on ac-
count of these cuts. But, these numbers
do suggest a strengthening of the fiscal
foundations of the Indian state. While tax
collections will invariably be influenced
by the underlying economic momentum,
as the country traverses the development
path, as it transitions from a lower to an
upper-middle-income economy, as the
share of the organised sector rises, more
gains will accrue. This will increase the fis-
cal space for the government to enhance
its spending, if it so chooses. These gains
should not be squandered away by in-
creasing give-aways.
ishan.bakshi@expressindia.com
ister and other ministers frequently
dashing to poll-bound states for cam-
paigning — and significantly impact-
ing the country’s governance — be-
come more apparent. That a single
election would reduce corruption be-
cause political parties would spend
less is wishful thinking. It will only lead
the electorate to conflate national and
local issues, and candidates, while
voting.
Kamal Laddha, Bengaluru
A TEACHER’S ROLE
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘Two
crimes, two responses’ (IE, September
4). The writer condemns the Kathua
teachers, but not the Muzaffarnagar
teacher who egged her students on to
slap a seven-year-old. The writer talks
about how “a guru, is placed a notch
higher than god”, but does not pontif-
icate on the qualities required in a guru
when it comes to the Muzaffarnagar
teacher. While one of the two involved
in the Kathua incident has been ar-
rested, the Muzaffarnagar teacher is
freely relaying her version of the story.
Teachers in both cases should be
brought to book for sullying the image
of their professions. These incidents do
not cancel each other out.
S H Quadri, Bikaner
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Classifieds
PERSONAL
I, Rajeev Kumar Ranjan
S/oShambhu Nath, R/o 297
Gangotri Apartment, Pocket 1,
Sector 12, Dwarka, New Delhi,
Delhi-110078. I have changed
the name of my minor Son
Harshil Ranjan aged about 13
Years and He shall hereafter be
known as Harshil Gupta
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I, Praveen Kumar Uniyal S/o
Uma Nand Uniyal, R/o 386, LIG
Flats, Hastsal Uttam Nagar,
Delhi-110059,have changed my
name to Praveen Uniyal for all
purposes. 0040687277-3
I, Poonam Ridhlan, W/o Sushil
Kumar R/o E-2nd 247,
Madangir, Dr. Ambedkar
Nagar, South Delhi-110062.
have changed my name and
shall hereafter be Known as
Punam Ridhlaan 0070862776-1
I, Pinki, W/o Sumit Kumar R/o B
51, D K Road, Mohan Garden,
Uttam Nagar, West Delhi-
110059. have changed my name
and shall hereafter be Known
as Pinki Devi 0070862774-1
I, Partap Singh S/o Lal Singh, R/o
House No.495 N, Devli, South
Delhi, Delhi-110062, Declare
that name of Mine & My Wife
and My Minor Son has been
wrongly written as Pratap
Gusain & Nima and Subham
Gusain in my minor Son
Shubham Gusain, aged about
16 Years, In his 10th Class
Marksheet cum Certificate.
The actual name of Mine & My
Wife and My Minor Son are
Partap Singh & Neema Gusain
and Shubham Gusain, which
may be amended accordingly.
0070862769-1
I, Neeti Khatri W/o Vinod
Sohanlal Khatri R/o G5-1504,
Albaria, Ecovillage-1, Plot No.8,
Sector-1, Greater Noida West,
Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP-
201301 have changed my name
to Neeti Vinod Khatri for all
future purposes 0070862727-1
I, Mohammad Sarf Raj s/o Mohd
Umar, R/o H.No.86, Mohalla
Bazar Madhodass
Sikandrabad, Bulandshahr, U.P.
have changed by name to
MOHAMMAD SARFARAZ
ANSARI for all purposes.
0040687277-2
I, Kanika D/o Shri Jitender Goyal
R/o H. No.876, Sec-19,
Faridabad (Haryana) 121002,
have Changed my name to
Kanika Goyal for all future
Purposes. 0040687266-1
I, Kalpana Kaushik W/o
Ashutosh Kumar Kaushik, R/o
D-64, Vishwas Park, Near Apni
Bakery, Main Rajapuri Road,
Uttam Nagar, West Delhi, Delhi-
110059. I have changed the
name of my minor daughter
Vrinda Kaushik aged about 17
Years and She shall hereafter
be known as Vanya Kaushik
0070862771-1
I, KAILASH CHANDRA JOSHI S/O
NO.110063L RANK Ex SUB LATE
R D JOSHI R/O C-3/159,
GURUDWARA ROAD MAHAVIR
ENCLAVE-1, DELHI-110045 HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO
KAILASH JOSHI VIDE AFFIDAVIT
DATE 5.9.23 BEFORE DELHI
0070862851-1
I, Joginder Kumar S/O Late. Sh.
Chunni Lal R/O 10188/25, Near
Filmistan Bhagat Singh Nagar,
Karol Bagh, Delhi 110005, Have
Changed My Minor Son’s Name
From Rudransh To Hariansh for
all purposes. 0040687293-1
I, Jitender Kumar S/o Shri Bal
Kishan Goyal R/o H.No. 876,
Sec-19, Faridabad (Haryana)
121002, have Changed my
name to Jitender Goyal for all
future Purposes. 0040687267-1
I,TIKINA NAYAK W/O ALOK
KUMAR NAYAK,R/O.CINEMA
HALL CHOWK,KUHUDI
ASTARANG,PURI,ODISHA-
752109,HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME,FROM TIKINA NAYAK TO
TIKINA BEHURA,VIDE-
AFFIDAVIT DATED-
05/08/2023,BEFORE NCT-DELHI.
0040687386-7
I, Gurmeet Kaur D/o Kulwant
Singh, R/o C-1/151, Nand Nagri,
North East Delhi, Delhi-110093.
Declare that Name of Mine and
My Father has been wrongly
written as Naseem Bano and
Karmuddin in my 10th Class
Certificate. The actual name of
Mine and My Father is Gurmeet
Kaur and Kulwant Singh, which
may be amended accordingly.
0070862773-1
I, Dheeraj, S/o Surjeet Singh
Chaudhary, R/o H.no 134
ground floor sector 21c
Faridabad Haryana 121001
have changed my name to
Dheeraj Kumar 0070862724-1
I, BHAWNA D/O NO.110063L
RANK Ex SUB LATE R D JOSHI
R/O C-3/159, GURUDWARA
ROAD MAHAVIR ENCLAVE-1,
DELHI-110045 HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME TO BHAVNA JOSHI
VIDE AFFIDAVIT DATE 5.9.23
BEFORE DELHI 0070862852-1
I, Ashwin Kumar S/o Sh.
Kamlesh Mishra R/o 495, First
Floor, Sardar Patel Enclave,
Gram Sabha, Pooth Kalan Extn.
Delhi-110086 have Changed my
name Mishra Ashwin
Kamleshkumar to Ashwin
Kumar for all purposes.
0040687283-1
I,BAROT KULDEEP KUMAR
VINODCHANDRA,FATHER
OF,NISARG,R/O 183,ISHWAR-
BHUWAN NEAR-FUTI MASJID
DARIYAPUR AHMEDABAD-
380001,CHANGED MY MINOR
SON’S NAME FROM NISARG TO
NISRAG BAROT,VIDE-
AFFIDAVIT,DATED-
05/09/2023,BEFORE NCT-DELHI.
0040687386-5
I Sudha Chawala D/o Kishan W/o
Sh. Rahul Chawala R/o J-1, DDA
Flats, Sarai Phoos, Tis Hazari,
Delhi-110054 have changed my
name to Sudha for all
purposes. 0040687263-4
I Sippy D/o Late Sh. Ashok
Kumar Kanojia R/o 38D, DDA
Flats, Pandav Nagar, Patel
Nagar, New Delhi-110008 have
changed the name of my minor
son from Chitransh Bhatnagar
to Viraj for all purposes.
0040687263-1
I Pooja W/o Gulshan chawla R/o
Flat-102, Cedar Tower, Omaxe
hills-1, Faridabad-121001 have
changed my name to Pooja
Tomar 0070862789-1
I Nikhil Purandare S/o Shrikant
Neelkanth Purandare R/o 171,
Keshav Kunj Apartment, Plot
15A, Sector 22 Dwarka, South
West Delhi-110077, have
changed my name to Nikhil
Shrikant Purandare
0070862806-1
I Neha Devi Kasudhan D/O,
Avadhesh Kumar Kasudhan
R/o F-32,near Indian National
Public School,sector 20, Noida,
U.p. 201301 have changed my
name to Neha Kasaudhan.
0040687280-1
I Manty Kumar Singh S/O, Sh.
Jitendra Kumar Singh R/o
House No. D-7/7467, Vasant
Kunj, South West Delhi, Delhi-
110070 have changed my name
to Saurabh Singh.
0040687381-1
I Madhu Lata Dawgotra W/o,
Avinash Chander R/o A-602,
Elite Homes, Sector-77, Noida,
Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar
Pradesh shall be known by
Madhu Lata for all purposes.
0040687377-1
I Kunal Rahate alias Kunal
Sudhakar Rahate S/o Late
Sudhakar Rahate R/o Tower
No.OC.10, Flat No.201, Orange
County , Ahinsa Khand-1,
Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, UP-
201010 have changed my name
to Kunal Sudhakar Rahate for
all purposes. 0040687263-2
I Bhanu Pratap S/o Sh.
Mahender Singh R/o C-50-A,
Kalkaji, South Delhi, Delhi-
110019 have changed my name
to Bhanu Pratap Singh for all
purposes. 0040687263-3
I Avinash Chander Dawgotra
S/o, Om Parkash Dawgotra R/o
A-602, Elite Homes, Sector-77,
Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida,
shall be known by Avinash
Chander for all purposes.
0040687379-1
It is for general information
that I,Mohd Abdullah,S/o Mohd
Shoyab,R/o,B-138,Gali No.-
20,Subhash-Mohalla,North-
Ghonda, Delhi-110053,declare
that name of my father has
been wrongly-written as Mohd
Shoyab Qazi in my 10th-class
record.The actual name of my
father is Mohd Shoyab,which
may be amended accordingly.
0040687375-5
I, Gaurav Goyal s/o Mukesh
Goyal r/o CP-59, Maurya
Enclave, Pitampura, Delhi-
110088 have changed my name
to Gaurav GOEL. 0040687309-2
It is for general information
that I,Mohammad Atif,S/o Afzal
Ahmed,R/o B-970/1,Gali.No.-
19,Subhash Mohalla,North
Ghonda,Delhi-110053,declare
that name-of mine, my father
and my mother has been
wrongly-written as
Mohammad Ateef, Afzal
Ahmad and Nazmin Kusar in
my-Passport and Atif,Mohd
Afzal and Nazneen in my
Educational documents.The
actual name of mine my father
and my mother are
Mohammad Atif,Afzal Ahmed
and Nazneen Kausar
respectively,which may be
amended accordingly.
0040687375-4
I,Umesh Agarwal,S/O-Late Shri
Mali Ram Aggarwal,R/O-20-
21,Ground Floor,Pridarshni
Vihar,Part-2,Delhi-110009,have
changed my minor son name
from Bhavyam Aggarwal to
Bhavyam Agarwal.
0040687404-4
I,Umesh Agarwal,S/O-Late Shri
Mali Ram Aggarwal,R/O-20-
21,Ground Floor,Pridarshni
Vihar,Part-2,Delhi-110009,have
changed my minor daughter
name from Paarthvi Aggarwal
to Paarthvi Agarwal.
0040687404-5
I,Rahul,S/O-Shri Laxman Dass
Gambhir,R/O-G-21/69,Ground
Floor,Sector-7,Rohini,Delhi-
110085,have Changed my name
to Rahul Gambhir.
0040687404-2
I,RAMSINGH S/O HAJARI
LAL,R/O GOKULPURA,
BUNDI,RAJASTHAN-
323025.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO RAM SINGH MEENA.
0040687273-7
I,Poonam Aggarwal,W/O-Shri
Umesh Agarwal,R/O-20-
21,Ground Floor,Pridarshni
Vihar,Part-2,Delhi-110009,have
changed my name to Poonam
Agarwal. 0040687404-3
I,Arun Jain,S/O-Shri Geeta Ram
Jain,R/O-E-2/5,Shastri
Nagar,Delhi-110052,declare
that Arun Jain and Arun Kumar
Jain both the names are one
and same person. 0040687404-6
Sunita Devi spouse of
15612058N Hav Upendra
resident at M-173B, Sector-
23,Sanjay Nagar, Ghaziabad
(UP) have been changed my
Name from Shunita to Sunita
Devi vide Affidavit Number- IN-
UP02716209824684V dated-01-
Sept-2023 before Govt of
UP,Ghaziabad 0070862791-1
I, Shajad S/o Yaseen R/o 308,
Rawli Road Peer Wali Gali, Kela
Mandi, Muradnagar have
changed my name to Shahajad.
0070862632-2
I,VIKRAM SINGH GOG S/O
GURMEET SINGH R/O PLOT
NO.3534/A,2nd-
FLOOR,TIRTHANKAR
NAGAR,JAIN
NAGAR,KARALA,DELHI-
110081.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO VIKRAM SINGH.
0040687264-2
I,Treveni kaul,W/o ANISH
DHAR,R/o B-051,6-Floor,
TOWER-8,SPAZE PRIVY
SECTOR-72,GURGAON,
HARYANA-122001,have
changed my name to TRIVENI
DHAR,for all,future purposes.
0040687315-5
I,Susheela,W/o Jagdish
Chand,R/o H.No.12, Aali
Village,Sarita Vihar,Delhi-
110076 have changed my name
to Sushila. 0040687370-1
I,Somesh Yadav,S/o Sube
Singh,R/o Flat No.007,3rd
Floor,Plot.No.D2,Dharam
Colony,Palam Vihar
Extension,Carterpuri,
Gurugram(HR.)122017,have
changed my name to Somesh.
0040687386-3
I,Shalendra Kumar S/o
Yashwant Kumar
Chauhan,R/o,Flat-No.209,
Gaurs-Residency, Chander-
Nagar, Ghaziabad, U.P.-
201011,have changed my-name
to Shailendra Kumar Chauhan.
0040687388-4
I,Sarika Kaur,W/o Gurmeet
Singh,R/o J-5/4, Rajouri
Garden,New Delhi-110027,have
changed my name from Sarika
Kaur to Sarika Sehdev.
0040687273-9
I, Divya Gupta w/o Gaurav Goel
r/o CP-59, Maurya Enclave,
Pitampura, Delhi-110088 have
changed my name to DIVYA
GOEL. 0040687309-1
I,Samar Jeet Singh
bhadana,S/o-ajay bir
Singh,House.no.951,sector-
17,faridabad haryana-
121002,changed my name to
samarjeet bhadana.
0040687370-5
I,SURENDER MOHAN S/O SATYA
PARKASH
R/O.FLATNO.62,LOKNAYANK
APARTMENT,OPP.GARG
SWEETS,SECTOR-
9,ROHINI,DELHI-110085.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO
SURINDER MOHAN.
0040687386-4
I,SUNITA CHOURASIA,W/O
JITENDER KUMAR CHOURSIA
R/O G-6/74-75,SECTOR-
11,ROHINI,DELHI-110085.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO
SUNITA. 0040687273-8
I,SUNIL KUMAR,S/o Shri.ARJUN
PRASAD R/O.FLAT.NO.-A-9,3RD-
FLOOR,KHASRA NO.7/7/1,D-
BLOCK,GALI.,NO-16,TOMAR
COLONY,BURARI,SHANI
MANDIR,BURARI, NORTH
DELHI,DELHI-110084,have
changed my name to SUNIL
KUMAR PANT,for all,future
purposes. 0040687397-4
I,SUBAL ROY S/o Shri Adwaitya
Kumar Shit, R/o.Flat.No.57A,B-
12-A,Dhawalgiri,Sector -
34,NOIDA,Gautam-Budh-
Nagar,U.P. 201301,have
changed my name to SUBAL
KUMAR ROY,for all,future
purposes. 0040687386-2
I,SHIVI DEVI W/O NO.4065467X
RANK HONY/NB/ SUB BHARAT
SINGH RAWAT,R/O U.S
249,UTTRAI SCHOOL-BLOCK
MADAWLI FAZALPUR,DELHI-
92,HAVE CHANGED,MY
NAME,TO SHIVI RAWAT VIDE-
AFFIDAVIT 6.9.23, BEFORE.
DELHI. 0040687397-1
I,SHIV RAM,S/O KUNDAN
LAL,R/O A-1/170,FIRST FLOOR
PASCHIM VIHAR WEST DELHI-
110063,HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO SHIV RAM LONGANI.
0040687375-3
I,SATISH KUMAR MARWAH S/O
LAKHPAT RAI R/O
13/431,OUTER RING
ROAD,SUNDER VIHAR,PASCHIM
VIHAR,DELHI-110087.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO SATISH
KUMAR. 0040687264-1
I,SANJAY LAL NAUTIYAL,S/O
INDRA DEV NAUTIYAL R/O
HNO.E-284A,GALINO.5,WEST-
VINOD NAGAR,DELHI-
110092.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO SANJAY NAUTIYAL.
0040687273-6
I,Raman Kumar S/o Bali Ram
R/o-QP-72 Upper-Ground-Floor
Pitampura Delhi-110034,have
changed my name to Raman
Kumar Sharma 0040687375-6
I,Rajan S/o-Rampal
Singh,R/o,H.no.167, Saini
Mohalla,Near Shahid Bhagat
Singh Park,Tikri Kalan,New
Delhi-110041,state that I am
also known as Rajan Saini. Both
Rajan and Rajan Saini are one
and same person. Now my
correct name is Rajan Saini,for
all purposes. 0040687273-10
I,RAMSARAN S/O BECHEY LAL
R/O HNO.602,SECTOR-
6,BAHADURGARH,JHAJJAR,HAR
YANA-124507.HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME TO RAM SHARAN
GUPTA. 0040687315-4
I,RAKESH KUMAR
GOEL,S/O.SHYAM LAL,ADD-B-
275,GROUND-FLOOR,VIVEK
PHASE-1,VIVEK-VIHAR
SHAHDARA,DELHI-
110095,Changed my name to
RAKESH GOEL,for all,future
purposes. 0040687273-1
I,FARZAN,S/O.MOHAMMAD
ISLAM,ADD-C-107,TOP-
FLOOR,NEW JAFRABAD
SHHDARA ,NORTH EAST DELHI-
110032,changed my name to
MOHAMMAD FARZAN,for
all,future purposes.
0040687264-9
I,Cuchira Chatterji,W/o Arun
Banerjee,R/o 1104,Aster-
4,Supertech Emerald Court l,
Sector-93A,Noida,have
changed my name to Suchira
Banerji.
0040687264-3
I,Punit Bahl s/o-Surinder
Singh,R/O D904, Aditya Mega
city,Vaibhav
Khand,Indirapuram,Ghaziabad
,UP-201014,have changed my
name to Puneet
Bahal,permanently.
0040687264-5
I,Priyanka w/o-Ashish
Nagar,R/o-Jasana
Road,Nachauli
Village,Lingayas College,
Badarpur Said(111),Faridabad-
121101, Haryana,have changed
my name to Priyanka
Nagar,permanently.
0040687264-7
I,Nitisha Juyal W/o Sachin
Uniyal R/o B-212, Ramesh
Nagar, H.O. Karam Pura, West
Delhi-15 have changed my
name to Nitisha Uniyal for all
purposes. 0040687361-1
I,Neelam Rani,W/o Sunil
Monga,R/o 150, Jeewan-
Nagar,Near P.S. Sunlight
Colony, New Delhi,South
Delhi,Delhi-110014,have
changed my name to Neelam
Saini. 0040687315-1
I,MOHAMMED
TAUSEEF,S/O.MUFTI
MOHAMMED TEHZEEB,ADD-
855,CHATTA ISLAM UNCHI
MASJID BALLIMARAN,DELHI
110006.Changed my name to
MOHAMMAD TAUSEEF,for
all,future purposes.
0040687273-2
I,M R Sharma S/o,Raj Narayan
Sharma R/o,B-202, B-Block,
Metro-Vihar,Shastri-
Park,Seelampur,Delhi-
110053,have changed my name
to Mahesh Chand R Sharma.
0040687388-5
I,Laxman Dass,S/O-Shri Hari
Chand Gambhir,R/O-G-
21/69,Ground Floor,Sector-
7,Rohini,Delhi-110085,have
Changed my name to Laxman
Dass Gambhir. 0040687404-1
I,Kundan Lal Bhatia,S/o Om
Prakash Bhatia,R/o-50, 3rd
Floor,Pocket-11B,Sector-
23,Rohini,Delhi-110085,have
changed my name to Kundan
Bhatia. 0040687388-3
I,Krishna Verma,s/o Sanjay
Verma,R/o G-130,1st-
Floor,Kalkaji,New Delhi-
110019,Declare that my Given
Name Krishna and Surname
Verma(Krishna
Verma)permanently.
0040687264-8
I,Koushiki Ghosh,W/o Sh.Saikat
Kumar Basu R/o-Flat.No-
B,503,5Th Floor,G.L.S Avenue-
51,Sector-92,
Wazirpur(115),Gurugram,Hary
ana-122505.Have changed
my,name from Kaushiki Ghosh
to Koushiki Ghosh,for all,future
purposes. 0040687397-3
I,Km Mamata Singh,D/o
Rajeshwari Singh,W/o Vinay
Kumar Singh,R/o Flat.No-8,
Type-4,New Tihar Jail-
Complex,Janakpuri, Hari-
Nagar,Delhi-110064,have
changed my name to Mamta
Singh.
0040687386-1
I,Kajal khurana d/0 vinod kumar
khurana,r/0 HNO.4318
shukarpura REWARI
HARYANA,HAVE CHANGE NAME
AFTER-MARRIAGE KAJAL W/0
HARSH KUKRAJA,FOR ALL.
0040687264-4
I,KIRTI PARMAR,W/O-BAROT
KULDEEP KUMAR
VINODCHANDRA,R/O-
183,ISHWAR BHUWAN NEAR-
FUTI MASJID-DARIYAPUR
AHMEDABAD-380001,HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME,FROM
KIRTI PARMAR TO PARMAR
KIRTIBAHEN MANUBHAI,VIDE-
AFFIDAVIT DATED-
05/09/2023,BEFORE NCT-DELHI.
0040687386-6
I,KAVITA,W/O SHIV RAM
LONGANI R/O A-1/170,FIRST
FLOOR PASCHIM VIHAR WEST
DELHI-110063,HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME TO KAVITA LONGANI.
0040687375-2
I,Jaya Sharma D/o Shri Rajan
W/o Harish Rawat R/o U.S-249
uttari School Block,Mandawali
Fazalpur,Delhi-92,have
changed my,name to JAYA
RAWAT for,all Purposes.
0040687397-2
I,JITENDER KUMAR CHOURSIA
R/O G-6/74-75,SECTOR-
11,ROHINI, DELHI-110085.HAVE
CHANGED MY CHILD NAME
TANSHIQ TO TANISHQ
CHAURASIA.
0040687315-3
I,Indira Priyadarsani Swain,W/o
Pravat Kumar
Swain,R/o,Flat.no 705,Tower-
G8,Eros Sampoornam, Sector-
2,Greater Noida-
West,G.B.Nagar,U-P
201306,have changed my name
to Indira Priyadarsani
Pradhan,for all,future purpose.
0040687315-2
I,ASHIMA W/O SANJEEV
KUMAR,R/O JD-
33/C,PITAMPURA,DELHI-
110088.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO ASHIMA VARSHNEY.
0040687273-5
I,IKRAMUDDEN,S/O.MOHD
RAFIQ,ADD-C-II- 115A,RAJU-
PARK KHANPUR,SOUTH-DELHI
110062,changed my name to
MOHD IKRAM,for all,future
purposes.
0040687273-3
I,HEMLATA W/O ANIL KUMAR
SINGHAL,residing at,AK-35
SHALIMAR BAGH,DELHI-
110088,have changed my name
to HEMLATA SINGHAL,
permanently.
0040687370-4
I, Vinod Khatri S/o Sohanlal
Harikaran Khatri R/o G5-1504,
Albaria, Ecovillage-1, Plot No.8,
Sector-1, Greater Noida West,
Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP-
201301 have changed my name
to Vinod Sohanlal Khatri for all
future purposes
0070862726-1
I,Bharti,D/o Satpal,R/o-F-60, Top
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
PUBLIC NOTICE
Floor,Deep Vihar,Sectro-
“Our Clients Sh. Surinder Kumar S/o Sh. Ragh
24,Rohini,Delhi-110042,have Bir and Smt. Sunita Devi W/o Sh. Surinder
changed my name to Bharti Kumar both R/o H.No. 272, Near Mombati
Factory, Bakkar Wala, West Delhi-110041, have
Dahiya 0040687388-2 severed all their relationships from their Son
I,Ashish,S/o-Satish Chander
Sh. Shakti Sehrawat R/o Building No. 33, Flat
No 304, Goodwill 5, Plot no. 33, Sr. NO. 209/4,
Kalyani Nagar, Pune City, Mahrastra,-411006 and
Sharma,R/o.H.No.241,Ward.No.
his wife Smt. Pooja R/o H.No. 272, Near
9, Kayasthan-Mohalla,Near- Mombati Factory, Bakkar Wala, West Delhi-
110041 and have disowned and debarred them
Bara-Bazar, Rohtak,
from all their movable and immovable properties
Haryana,124001,Have Changed and our client would not be responsible for the
acts, deeds and things done.by them.
My Name to Ashish Sharma,for
Sd/-
all,future Purposes. Bharat Bagga
Advocate
0040687273-4
OFFICE: E-15/127, 2ND FLOOR,
SECTOR-8, ROHINI, DELHI -110085
I,Ashish s/o Sunder,R/o
Linagayas-College, Nachauli- PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE
“General public at large is hereby informed
Village,Badarpur Said (111), that my client- Mr. Jagdish Kanwar Bajar Be it known to all concerned that my clients
Faridabad-121101,Haryana, S/o Lt. Sher Singh R/o H.No. 135 (Now G- Sh. Khursheed Anwar, S/o Late Sh.
7), Village Bankner, Delhi-40, has severed Mohammad Sulaiman Siddiqui, R/o Pocket
have changed my name to B-8, House No.14-H, Mayur Vihar Phase-
his relations from his son- Mr. Krishan
Ashish Nagar,permanently. Kant, his wife- Ms. Archana D/o Sh. Ram III, New Delhi-110096 have severed all
Niwas and their both minor children, relations with their son Javed Anwar R/o
0040687264-6 presently staying at H.No. 135 (Now G-7), Flat No.110, Laurel Project, Saveri, Greater
First Floor, Village Bankner, Delhi-40 for Noida, U.P and have disowned and debars
I,Amit S/O Yashpal R/O. Village want of control and their extortive conducts him from inheriting immovable and
and also has disowned them from his all movable properties of my clients. Any
Nizampur Mazra Post-Farmana
movable and immovable properties. person dealing with him shall do so at his
Tehsil-Kharkhoda Farman(2- Henceforth, any person dealing with own risk and liabilities.
R)Sonipat Haryana- aforesaid- Mr. Krishan Kant & his wife-
Sd/-
131408,have changed my name
Ms. Archana shall be doing so at his/her ABHINAV TYAGI
own risk, cost & consequences which shall Advocate
to Amit Sharma. 0040687370-2 not be binding on my client in any manner,
whatsoever.
Ch. No. 439-440, Civil Wing,
Sd/-
Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54
I,Ajay Tyagi,S/o S.S. Tyagi,R/o-
PRADEEP KUMAR
17191, ATS Advantage,Ahinsa
Khand-1,Indirapuram,
Advocate
Ch. No. 51, Civil Wing,
PUBLIC NOTICE
Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-110054 Public at large hereby informed that my client
Ghaziabad-201014, U.P. have Batti Lal son of Shri Bharosi Lal and Smt.
changed my name to Ajay Munni Devi wife of Shri Batti Lal Both R/o
Kumar Tyagi. 0040687388-1 PUBLIC NOTICE H.No. G-55, Vijay Vihar, Phase-I, New
The public at large hereby informed that
Delhi-110085, has debarred and disowned his
my client Sh. Vipin S/o Lt. Harshad Son namely Bablu from his all movable and
I,ARTI KUMARI,W/O.HEMANT immovable properties due to their disrespectful
Bhai and my clientess Smt Jyoti, W/o
KUMAR,ADD-A-9/1, INDIRA Sh. Vipin both R/o H. No. 569, DDA behavior and also severed all his relations with
Flat, L-Block, Mangol Puri, Delhi-83 them. If anybody deals with them in any manner,
ENCLAVE NEAR IGNOU NEB
have disowned their son Tilak from all he/she shall do so at his/her own risks, costs and
SARAI,SOUTH DELHI- their movable and immovable properties consequences. My client shall not in any manner
be liable and responsible for the same.
110068,changed my name to because of his bad conduct towards my
clients. My clients shall not be Sd/-
ARTI MANDAL,for all,future responsible for any acts, deeds and Ghanshyam & Associates (Advocates )
purposes. 0040687375-1 things whatever done by him with Enrl No. D/2077/2008
anybody if anybody dealing with him Chamber No.1509, Lawyers Chamber
I,ANIL KUMAR,S/O LT. LALA SHIV shall be at their own risk. Block, Rohini Court Complex,
Sd/- New Delhi-110085
DHAN MAL,residing at AK- AMIT SHARMA
35,SHALIMAR BAGH,DELHI- Advocate
Ch. No. 233, Western Wing,
110088,have changed my name
Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54
to ANIL KUMAR
SINGHAL,permanently
PUBLIC NOTICE
0040687370-3 Known to All that my client
Narender Singh S/o. Harnam
I, hitherto known as MEGHNA Singh R/o. VP 123C, City Park,
SINGH ALIAS MEGHNA SURANA Pitampura, Delhi-110034 with his
D/O MANMOHAN SINGH W/o family disown and severe all
MOHIT SURANA R/o B-3/58, relations from his son Vikramjeet
Singh, who is major as he is not
SECTOR-16, ROHINI, NORTH in control of my client and his
WEST DELHI, DELHI-110089 family members.
have changed my name and Anyone dealing with Vikramjeet
shall hereafter be known as Singh shall do so of his / her peril
any criminal, civil cases filed
MEGHNA SURANA. against him by anyone for that
0070862849-1 my above client is not
responsible in any manner for his
I, Vijay Pal R/o House No-1000 son's act, omission and deeds.
Sd/- (Binod K. Agrawal)
Sec-40 Gurgaon have changed
Advocate
my minor daughter’s name
Ch. No.- A-15, Western Wing, PUBLIC NOTICE
from Sanskriti Dhankhar to Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54 BE IT KNOWN TO THE GENERAL
Lakshita Singh. 0040687380-1 PUBLIC THAT MY CLIENTS RAJKUMAR
S/O MADAN LAL AND NEELAM W/O
I, Silvester Francis Gomaz S/o PUBLIC NOTICE
RAJKUMAR BOTH R/O G-1577-1578,
JAHANGIR PURI, DELHI-110033,
Francis Gomez R/o SA-26, The General Public is hereby DISOWNED THEIR SON SAHIL SONKER
Sophia Apartment, Abhay informed that my client Sh. Mohan FROM ALL MOVABLE- IMMOVABLE
Lal Chaudhary S/o Late Sh.
PROPERTY(S) AND SEVERE ALL
Khand-4, Indirapuram, RELATIONS FROM HIM DUE TO HIS
Roshan Lal Chaudhary R/O E- MISCONDUCT, INSOCIAL AGGRESSIVE
Ghaziabad U.P.-201010, have 263, Naraina Vihar, New Delhi, AND OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. IF
changed my name to along with Smt. Krishna ANYONE DEALS WITH HIM IN ANY
Chaudhary, had agreed to MANNER WHATSOEVER, MY CLIENTS
SYLVESTOR GOMEZ for all purchase the below mentioned
AND THEIR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS
future purposes. 0070862813-1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
scheduled property from its owner OF HIS ACT IN FUTURE.
viz. Sh. Deepak Goel S/O Sh. M.L.
I, Subhash Khurana s/o Late
DEVENDER SINGH
Goel R/O H. No. 567- D, Sector ADVOCATE
Labha Mal Khurana R/o 15, Part-I, Gurgaon-122001 Ch. No. 620, Lawyer's Chamber Block
H.No.67, Road No.7, East (Haryana) and Ruchika Goel.
Rohini District Court, Delhi-110085
In reference to below mentioned
Punjabi Bagh,New Delhi-26, Scheduled Property, an FIR no.
also known as Subhash 271/2020 has been registered on
Chander Khurana, Subhash 19.06.2020 against the accused
Chand Khurana, Subhash
namely 1. Sh. Deepak Goel, 2.
Ruchika Goel and 3. Officials of
Chand. All are same persons
ICICI Bank, Green Park Extension
(i.e. myself) 0040687277-1 Branch, at Police Station Sector-
53, Gurugram under Section 406
I, Sonia W/o Rajeev Nirwani R/o- and 420 IPC. My client Sh. Mohan
238, H B Colony, Sector-10 Lal Chaudhary s/o Late Sh.
Roshan Lal Chaudhary is the
faridabad, Haryana, have
complainant in above named FIR.
changed my name to Sonia It is informed that my client
Agarwal 0040687272-1 /Complainant Sh. Mohan Lal
Chaudhary along with Smt.
Krishna Chaudhary, had entered
I, Sonam, D/O Dharamvir Singh,
R/O Flat No- C 104,Shakti
into an Agreement to Sell date
29.08.2018 with Accused no. 1
Apartment, Plot No- 18, Sector- and 2 for purchasing the below
mentioned scheduled property.
5, South West Delhi, Delhi PIN
The public at large is informed ''IMPORTANT''
110075, have changed my name vide this notice that whosoever
to Sonam Ahlawat for all future buys/purchases or agrees to Whilst care is taken prior to
purposes. 0070862612-2 buy/purchase the below acceptance of advertising
mentioned scheduled property, copy, it is not possible to verify
I, SARFARAZ AHMAD S/o shall be solely responsible for the its contents. The Indian
SHABBIR AHMED R/o, 2336 consequences borne out of the Express (P) Limited cannot be
legal proceedings in the above-
KATRA ALAM BEG BALLIMARAN held responsible for such
mentioned FIR. contents, nor for any loss or
CHANDNI CHOWK DELHI SCHEDULED PROPERTY damage incurred as a result of
110006, have changed my name Villa Apartment freehold
Apartment No. TPV-G-GV-GV07
transactions with companies,
to SARFARAZ AHMED associations or individuals
Premises known as "PALM
Permanently. 0070862725-1 SPRINGS", Sector-54, situated in advertising in its newspapers
the revenue estate of village or Publications. We therefore
I, Rupali Mathur W/o Atulesh Qazirabad, Tehsil & District, recommend that readers
make necessary inquiries
Saran Mathur, D/o Late Gopi Gurugram (Haryana)
Chand Bhalla R/o 127, Sector- admeasuring about 663.042 Sq. before sending any monies or
Mts. (7136.93 sq. ft.) together with entering into any agreements
28, Noida, Distt.- G.B.Nagar,
all rights to common ways, with advertisers or otherwise
(U.P.)- 201301 have changed my parking, along with car parking acting on an advertisement in
name from Rupali Mathur to space No. LA-33 in lower any manner whatsoever.
Basement, paths, passages,
Rupali Bhalla Mathur for all
staircases, entrances, lobby, lifts,
purposes. 0070862792-1
liberties, privileges, and
easements whatsoever provided
I, Ravi Kant S/o Sukhbir Singh
for the said Villa Apartment and
R/o V.P.O.- Dattaur, Distt.- with all fittings, fixtures,
connections, structure
Rohtak, Haryana-124501, have
standingthereon. SIDDHARTH
changed my name to Ravi Kant BAMBHA ADVOCATE 28/44,
Parashar for all purposes. Punjabi Bagh West, New Delhi-
110026
0040686994-1
I, Rani W/o Ravi Kant Parashar
PUBLIC NOTICE
R/o V.P.O.- Dattaur, Distt.-
It is to inform the general public that the
Rohtak, Haryana-124501, have Original Conveyance Deed, registered
with Sub-Registrar Gurugram, of
changed my name to Rani
Property bearing No. A-0604, 6TH floor,
Parashar for all purposes.
Tower-A, SKYON, Golf Course
Extension Road, Sector-60, PO
Badshahpur, Gurugram, Haryana-
0040686994-2 122102, owned by me and my late
husband Mr. Prem Kumar Khanna has
I, Rajeev Ranjan, S/o Sriniwas been lost/stolen/misplaced and a report
in this context has been lodged with
Chaurasia, R/o H.no.3, 3rd floor,
Delhi Police on 01.09.2023 vide LR No.
JK Ext. Laxminagar, Delhi 92
850094/2023. Public is hereby warned
not to deal with any person, not
have changed my minor son’s authorized by owners named above, in
name of age 2.4 yrs from
respect of above property,on the basis
of such lost deed. Such dealing / misuse
Saarthak Kashyap to Saarthak would be illegal, unlawful & entail
criminal/penal consequences. If found
S Ranjan 0070862802-1 by anyone, kindly contact/return to
MRS. SHEILA KHANNA, N-55 LANE W-
1 7 , S A I N I K FA R M S ( S O U T H ) ,
KHANPUR, N. DELHI-110062 (M)
LOST & FOUND 9811065567, 9650213188. SANDEEP
THUKRAL Advocate R-522,
Basement Floor New Rajinder Nagar
I Deepti Gupta d/o Sh. Anil New Delhi 110060
Kumar r/o A1/34, Alok Park,
Near Modipon Colony, Modi PUBLIC NOTICE
Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar My client Sh. Arvind Kumar Yadav
Pradesh-201204, have lost my
and his wife Kavita Yadav R/o Plot
original conveyance deed of
No. 1 A, Khasra No. 141, 25 Foota
property bearing Flat No. T2- Road, E-Block, Prem Nagar,
1016, Signature Global GRAND Najafgarh, South West Delhi-110043
IVA, Sector-103, Gurugram, have disowned her son Rahul Yadav
and his wife Ruchi Yadav from her all
Haryana-122006 alongwith 2-3
movable and immovable properties
other papers. Finder please
and her sewered all the relationship
contact at above address or on with them, anybody deals with them
mobile +91-9711010163 will be at their own cost and risk and
0070862855-1 consequences.
Ravi Mathur (Advocate)
Lost my property allotment, Ch. No.815 Rohini Court Delhi-85
letter of J-1004,10th-floor In
Roseburry Tower,Plot.No.10A
Sec.Techzone-IV,Greater Noida
West,UP,Finder contact;Yougal
Bisht,S/D/W/O-Girish Chandra
Bisht,in above address.
0040687397-7
PUBLIC NOTICE
It is for general information that I,
KISHOR KUMAR S/O SH. RAM
KHILARI R/O H.NO. C-34, CHANDAN
VIHAR, NIHAL VIHAR, NANGLOI,
WEST DELHI, DELHI-110041 declare
that name of mine and my minor son has
been wrongly written as KISHORE and
SHUBHAM in the school record of my
minor son SHUBHAM PAREWA aged 15
years and name of mine and my minor
son has been wrongly written as
KISHORE and SUBHAM in his birth
certificate. The actual name of mine and
my minor son are KISHOR KUMAR and
SHUBHAM PAREWA, which may be
amended accordingly.
It is certified that I have complied with other
legal requirements in this connection.
Sd/-
KISHOR KUMAR
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Meerut officials’
U-turn over
Chopra statue’s
missing javelin
AMIT SHARMA
MEERUT, SEPTEMBER 5
WHEN THE word about a javelin
being allegedly stolen or broken
fromtherecentlyinstalledstatue
of world champion and Olympic
gold medallist Neeraj Chopra
spread on Monday morning, the
police and civil administration in
Uttar Pradesh's Meerut were on
their toes to trace the suspects or
at least the missing part.
Police teams were formed to
trace the “culprits” and Meerut
SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan was
quoted as saying, “We are going
through the CCTV footage in the
area to track down the culprits.”
Whencontactedearlierinthe
day, MDA vice-chairman
Abhishek Pandey said, “...If it is
true, then the MDA will re-install
themissingjavelinonthestatue.”
But as the day progressed, the
MDAdida U-turnand claimedin
apressconferenceintheevening
thatitwastheywhoremovedthe
javelin only to replace it later.
“Somepeoplehadobjectedto
the javelin being made of plastic.
This is why we got it removed on
Sundaynight.Nowithasbeenre-
placed by an iron javelin. It was
neither stolen nor broken,” said
MDA JE (engineering section)
Pawan Bhardwaj.
MAHADEV APP MONEY LAUNDERING CASE
ED initiates process to issue
Red Corner Notice against
online gambling kingpins
JAYPRAKASH S NAIDU
RAIPUR, SEPTEMBER 5
THE ENFORCEMENTDirectorate
(ED), which is investigating al-
leged money laundering in the
Mahadev app online gambling
case, has initiated the process of
issuing a red corner notice
against two Dubai-based king-
pins running the app.
In a related development,
four accused arrested so far by
the ED were sent to judicial cus-
tody on Tuesday.
Sourabh Chandrakar, 28, and
Ravi Uppal, 43, both of whom
hail from Bhilai, are the main
promoters of Mahadev book
app. They run their operations
fromDubaiandkeep80percent
of theprofits.EDsourcessaidthe
duo is suspected to have made
Rs 5,000 crore from this app.
Chandrakar and Uppal have
been staying in Dubai for nearly
two years. Uppal is said to be an
engineering graduate.
The qualifications of
Chandrakar are not known.
Chhattisgarh police sources told
The Indian Express thata lookout
notice was issued against them
three months ago.
ED sources said on Monday a
non-bailablewarrantwasissued
against the two accused by a
special Prevention of Money
Laundering (PMLA) court and
the matter was taken up with
the Ministry of External Affairs
as part of the procedure to issue
red corner notices against
Chandrakar and Uppal.
As per ED's website, “Red
Corner Notices are issued for
fugitives wanted either for
prosecution or to serve a sen-
tence. A Red Notice is a request
to law enforcement agencies
worldwide to locate and provi-
sionally arrest a person pend-
ing extradition, surrender, or
similar legal action. Further,
Interpol has designated a
National Central Bureau in all
its 195 member countries as a
single point of contact between
law enforcement agencies of
that member and Interpol. In
this regard, the CBI is officially
designated as National Central
Bureau of India entrusted with
the responsibility to publish,
maintain and update the Red
Corner Notices against fugi-
tives/offenders as requested by
law enforcement agencies of
India from time to time.”
On August 23, four persons
were arrested by the ED, includ-
ingalow-rungpoliceman,foral-
legedly taking a bribe of Rs 60
crore to 65 crore and passing it
on to senior police officers and
politicians.
On Tuesday, after 13 days of
EDcustody,theyweresenttojail
where they will be lodged till a
court grants them bail.
“We have got more leads af-
ter questioning of the four ar-
rested accused. Further probe is
on,” said ED counsel Saurabh
Pandey.
The Mahadev online gam-
bling app provides platforms for
illegal betting in different live
games such as card games,
chance games, cricket, bad-
minton, tennis, football and
others, even providing an av-
enue to bet on different elec-
tions in India. It also provides a
facility to play several card
games such as ‘teen patti’,
poker, ‘dragon tiger’, virtual
cricket games, and more.
EXPRESS NETWORK 11
MHA asks senior
officers to give
‘realistic’ revised
Budget estimates
MAHENDER SINGH
MANRAL
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
THE UNION Ministry of Home
Affairs has asked all additional
secretaries, joint secretary (se-
curity) and cabinet secretariat,
among others, to provide real-
istic estimates for revised
Budget estimates to be pre-
sented in the upcoming Budget
for the current financial year af-
ter audits.
Public Accounts Committee
(PAC) noticed that the revised
Budget have been “unrealistic”,
and that even supplementary
demands obtained from
Parliament “have not been fully
utilised”.
In a letter to all additional
secretaries, joint secretaries of
MHA, directors, deputy secre-
taries, under-secretaries in the
ministry,deputycontrollerof ac-
counts (home), Vinay
Muthukumar stated, “The audit
and the PAC have observed that
budget estimates/revised esti-
mateshavebeenunrealistic.The
supplementary demands ob-
tained from Parliamenthavenot
been fully utilised and that re-
appropriation of funds have
been made at will which are of-
ten infructuous.”
DEATH OF CLASS X STUDENT
School principal among four
booked for murder, conspiracy
Man says son targeted after he mobilised parents for fee cut
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 5
ADAYafteraclassXstudentdied
after allegedly falling from the
fourth floor of a private school
building in the Kasba area of
Kolkata, police on Tuesday reg-
istered a murder FIR against the
school principal, vice-principal
and two teachers of the school.
Earlier, the police had regis-
tered a case of unnatural death.
“The father of the deceased
student submitted a written
complaint at Kasba Police
Station, against the principal,
vice-principal and two other
teachers of the school, accusing
themof hatchingacriminalcon-
spiracy to kill his son. Based on
the complaint, an FIR under IPC
sections 302 (murder) and 120B
(criminal conspiracy) was regis-
tered," said Joint Commissioner
of Police (Crime) Shankha
Shubra Chakrabarty.
The father has alleged that
his son was being targeted by
schoolteachers and was beaten
to death on Monday.
“A school project was sup-
posed to be submitted on
Monday. He was scolded for not
being able to submit it on time.
He felt humiliated after he was
made to stand in the class hold-
ing his ears,” the student's father
said.
He also alleged that his son
was being targeted as he had
mobilised parents to demand a
reduction in school fees during
the Covid-19 pandemic.
“During Covid-19 pandemic,
I had mobilised parents of the
students against the school au-
thoritiesdemandingareduction
in fees. The school eventually re-
duced the fees by 33% under
pressure from us. Since then, my
sonwastreateddifferentlyatthe
school," the father alleged.
The student's father also
claimed that the school author-
itiesinitiallytoldhimthathisson
fell from a staircase and was do-
ing okay. “But by the time, we
reached the hospital, he was
dead... Despite falling to his
death from a height, his body
showed no signs of broken
bones. He was first killed and
then thrown off the fourth floor
of theschoolbuilding,”thefather
said.
Meanwhile, a team of foren-
sicexpertsvisitedtheschooland
inspectedthespotwherethe16-
year-oldfelldown.Theteamalso
reconstructed the sequence of
the event based on the informa-
tion they have received so far,
sources said.
As per the investigators, the
CCTVfootageshowsthatthestu-
dent was alive till 2 pm and was
last seen on the top floor of the
building. He was reportedly
found lying on the ground
around 2.15 pm.
The body has been sent for
postmortem.
Reacting to the allegations,
the school authorities on
Monday said, “An investigation
into the matter is on. No school
will ever target children and ha-
rass them. We are a children-
friendly institution and no
teacher reacted the way it's be-
ing alleged.”

Assembly bypolls: High WALK IN INTERVIEW FOR SPECIAL

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with over 89 per cent voting.
The counting of votes is on September 8.
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a united front in the Ghosi constituency in Uttar
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50.30 per cent, and in Jharkhand's Dumri where a to- WALK-IN-INTERVIEW
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and nearly 73 per cent, respectively.

NBCC signs MoU with

Kerala State Housing Board
New Delhi: NBCC, a public sector enterprise, has signed
anMoUwithKeralaState Housing Board (KSHB)forde-
velopment of 17.9 acres of land parcel at Marine Drive
inKochi,Kerala.TheapproximateprojectcostisRs2,000
crore. The MoU was signed at Trivandrum by KSHB
Secretary B Abdul Nasar and NBCC, CGM (BD), Pradeep
Sharma,inthepresenceof NBCCDirector(Commercial)
K P M Swamy, and Principal Secretary, Housing and
Revenue, Govt of Kerala, Tinku Biswal. ENS
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NOTICE OF AUCTION FOR LEASE OUT OF COMMERCIAL PREMISES FOR BANK AT
SHRI ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHHAINSA, FARIDABAD
An open auction for lease out of commercial premises for Bank only, located in the campus of Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee Government Medical College, Chhainsa, Faridabad is hereby announced. The auction will be held on
29th September 2023 at 11.00 AM in the conference room of Director's Office, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Government Medical College, Chhainsa, Faridabad.
Sr. Name of Name of Auction EMD to be Website/Portal Nodal Officer
No. Department/ Work Date & Time deposited
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Interested Nationalized Banks are invited to attend and bid on the lease of this PREMISES. The lease will
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Norms of rate for Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Medical College Chhainsa in Faridabad District works
out @ Rs, 11239/- (Rupees Eleven Thousand Two Hundred Thirty Nine only) per month including 2% mainte-
E-AUCTION NOTICE nance cost of the building per year. The increase in bid amount per bid must be at least Rs. 1000/- and the high-
est bidder will get the lease of this PREMISES.
E-Bids are invited for licensing out The bidder will be required to pay an earnest money Rs. 15000/- amount, which must be deposited before
auction in the form of Demand Draft in the favour of Director, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Medical
shops/sites/activities at various Tourist College, Chhainsa, Faridabad, Haryana. The details of terms & conditions of lease deed can be obtained from
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held on 28th September, 2023 11.00 am Director
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
to 4.00 pm. Last date for submission of Government Medical College,
Chhainsa, Faridabad,
documents is 26th September, 2023 till 20841/Hry Haryana.
11.00 am. For enquiry please contact
concerned DDO of the complex. Office of the Superintending Engineer
3rd Circle P.W.D. Pithoragarh
E-Auction documents along with details E-mail: sepwdpth@rediffmail.com
of activities are available at the website Latter No 5128/58C- 03(Yata ‘B’)/2023 Dated: 04-09-2023
of HTC i.e. www.haryanatourism.gov.in National Competetive E-Tender Notice
as well as on NIC portal The Superintending Engineer 3rd Circle, Public Works Department Pithoragarh invites
http://eauction.gov.in for online participa- tender through E-Tendering (Two Bid System) on behalf of Hon’ble Governor of
tion. Managing Director, HTC reserves Uttarakhand for following works. All other information will be available form date
12-09-2023 at 5.00 PM onward on website http://www.uktenders.gov.in
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Ref. No.: 1112/I1-02(xix)-2/ITCO/URRDA/23
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Dated : 04/09/2023

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B-837 ENGINEER, CENTRAL (R&B) CIRCLE, d¶fþ»fe ¶f¨ff¹fZÔ" WXÀ°ff./-A²feÃf¯f Ad·f¹f³°ff, dUôb°f The Chief Engineer, URRDA on behalf of Governor of Uttarakhand invites the item rate in
BHUBANESWAR ´ffSXZ¿f¯f ¸fÔOX»f dõ°fe¹f CXq´fiq ´ffUSX MÑf³Àfq IYf´fûÊ electronic tendering system for construction of Bridges under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak
Yojana in the Districts of Dehradun for 01 number of package with estimated cost totaling to
Mail i.d seccbbsr@gmail.com d»fq ¸fbSXfQf¶ffQ, ´fÂffÔIY: 1257/dUq´ffq¸fÔq Rs. 3.11 Crore including their maintenance for five years from the eligible contractors
dõq¸fbq/BÊ-d³fdUQf/2023 dQ³ffÔIY 05.09.2023 registered with PWD/CPWD or equivalent*.
E-procurement Tender Call Notice No.13 of 2023-24 Date of release of Invitation for Bids through e-procurement: 06.09.2022
No. 2976 (Estg.) Bhubaneswar the 31st August-2023 Availability of Bid Documents and mode of submission: The bid document are available
The Chief Construction Engineer, Central (R&B) Circle Bhubaneswar ''IMPORTANT'' online and should be submitted online in www.pmgsytendersuk.gov.in. The bidder would be
required to register in the web-site which is free of cost. For submission of the bids, the bidder
on behalf of the Governor of Odisha invites percentage rate bids
for construction of one number road works to be received in Whilst care is taken prior to acceptance of advertising is required to have Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) from one of the authorized Certifying
Authorities.
online bidding, double cover system as detailed in: copy, it is not possible to verify its contents. The Indian The bidders are required to submit original affidavit regarding correctness of information
https://tendersorissa.gov.in. The details of bid documents will be furnished with bid document as per provisions of Clause 4.4 B (ii) of ITB with CONCERNED
available in the above website from 5:00 PM of 07.09.2023 to 5.00 Express(P)Limitedcannotbeheldresponsibleforsuch CIRCLE OFFICES, mentioned in SBD/MBD, only up to or before the time and date of the
P.M of 21.09.2023. The bidders must possess compatible Digital contents, nor for any loss or damage incurred as a submission of the Bids (for World Bank funded works) and on a date not later than
three working days after the opening of technical qualification part of the bid (for
Signature Certificate of Class II or III. Bids received online shall be
opened at 11.00 AM of 22.09.2023 in the Office of the Chief result of transactions with companies, associations or Regular PMGSY Works), either by registered post or by hand, failing which the bids shall be
declared non-responsive. No physical documents will be accepted after the closing date and
Construction Engineer, Central (R&B) Circle Bhubaneswar. individualsadvertisinginitsnewspapersorPublications. time of submission of bids.
Further details can be seen from the e-procurement
portal www.tendersorissa.gov.in. We therefore recommend that readers make Last Date/Time for receipt of bids through e-procurement: 12.09.2022 01:00 PM.
For further details please log on to www.pmgsytendersuk.gov.in
Addendum/Corrigendum, if required, will be available necessary inquiries before sending any monies or Chief Engineer
only in the Website.
Sd/- Er.P.K.Mohanty
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India, that is Bharat: how Constituent Assembly decided
APURVA VISHWANATH
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
“INDIA, THAT is, Bharat, shall be a Union of
States.” From whether two commas were
necessary to the order of the words to the
name of the newly independent nation it-
self, what would become Article 1 of the
Constitution of India was passionately de-
bated in the Constituent Assembly.
Who said what, and how
was the Article adopted?
EXPLAINED
Various arguments
The first debate on Article 1
LAW
was to begin on November 17, 1948.
However, on the suggestion of Govind
BallabhPant,thediscussiononthenamewas
postponed to a later date.
On September 17, 1949 Dr B R Ambedkar
presented to the House the final version of
the provision, which included both ‘Bharat’
and ‘India’. Several members expressed
themselves against the use of ‘India’, which
EXPLAINED GLOBAL
WHATISTHEBLACKSEAGRAINDEAL—
ANDWHYISITSIGNIFICANT?
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
TURKEY’S PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip
Erdogan on Monday said he was confi-
dentRussiawould“soon”revivetheBlack
Sea grain deal, under which safe passage
was assured to ships carrying grain from
Ukraine in the Black Sea. Russia’s
President Vladimir Putin, however, said
the deal will not be restored until the
West meets its obligations to facilitate
Russian agricultural exports.
In July this year, the Kremlin had re-
fused to extend the grain deal, which had
been signed in 2022 to help avoid a food
crisis in parts of Africa and the Middle
East that were heavily dependent on
Ukrainianimports.Sincethen,Turkeyhas
repeatedly pledged to revive the agree-
ment. On Monday, Erdogan and Putin
held talks on the issue at the Russian
Black Sea resort of Sochi.
What is the Black Sea grain deal?
Ukraine is among the world’s biggest
exporters of food grains, such as wheat
and corn, and a major contributor to the
United Nations’ food aid programmes.
After Russia invaded the country last
February and blockaded its ports, food
prices soared and raised fears of food
shortages in some parts of the world.
To tackle the situation, the UN and
Turkey,onJuly22,2022,gotRussiatoagree
totheBlackSeaGrainInitiative.Itallowed
cargo ships to travel from and to three
Ukrainian ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk
and Pivdennyi (Yuzhny), after inspection
that they weren’t carrying arms. The safe
passage in the Black Sea was 310 nautical
mileslong,andthreenauticalmileswide.
ThedealwasextendedtwicebeforeRussia
withdrew from it.
Why did Russia refuse to extend the
Black Sea grain deal?
Russiahascontinuedtoclaimthatthe
promises made to it under the deal have
not been met. The Kremlin says that the
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A short history of the nation’s names, from Rig Veda to the Constitution
ADRIJA ROYCHOWDHURY
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
ARTICLE1oftheConstitutionrefersto“India,
that is Bharat”, and the Hindi version uses
“Bharat” for ‘India’ throughout — “Bharat ka
Samvidhan”,“Hum,Bharatkelog”(Preamble),
“Bharat ka Rashtrapati” (Article 52), etc.
In 2020, the Supreme Court had dis-
missedaPILseekingtoremove
‘India’fromArticle1andretain
only ‘Bharat’, saying: “India is
EXPLAINED
already called Bharat in the
Constitution itself.”
HISTORY
The National Anthem refers to “Bharat
Bhagya Vidhata”, India is called Bharat/
BharataminalmostallIndianlanguages,and
the Indian passport says “Bharat Ganarajya”
on the cover.
What are the roots of the name ‘Bharat’?
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
they saw as a reminder of the colonial past.
Seth Govind Das from Jabalpur preferred
toplaceBharatoverIndia.Apopulardemand
was to underline that India was a substitute
for Bharat in “English language”.
“India, that is, Bharat” are not beautiful
words for the name of a country. We should
have put the words “Bharat known as India
also in foreign countries,” he said.
Hari Vishnu Kamath used the example of
the Irish Constitution to argue that the word
‘India’ was only a translation of
Bharat.
“If honourablecolleaguesin
theHousewould take thetrou-
ble of referring to the Irish
Constitutionpassedin1937,theywillseethat
the Irish Free State was one of the few coun-
tries in the modern world which changed its
name on achieving freedom; and the fourth
article of itsConstitutionrefers tothechange
in the name of the land,” he said.
“The Constitution of the Irish Free State
reads: “The name of the State is Eire, or, in
the English language, Ireland,” Kamath said.
Ukraine
Crimea
Odesa Russia
Yuzhny Chornomorsk
Sea
Black
Turkey
Istanbul
country is facing trouble exporting its
own agricultural products and fertilisers
because of the many sanctions the West
has slapped on it.
While there is no direct restriction on
Russia’s agricultural products, Moscow
says barriers on payment platforms, in-
surance, shipping, and other logistics are
hampering its exports.
Russia has also said it had agreed to
the grain deal to help ensure global food
security, but Ukraine has since exported
mainly to high-and middle-income
countries. The UN has pointed out that
while this is true, poorer countries have
beenhelpedbyfoodpricescoolingdown.
What has happened since the deal
came to an end?
Since it declined to extend the deal,
Moscow has repeatedly attacked
Ukraine’s biggest grain-exporting ports.
On Monday, a Russian drone strike tar-
geted the Danube River port of Izmail in
Odesa, damaging warehousesand build-
ings. The attack took place just hours be-
fore Putin and Erdogan met.
Russiaisalsolookingtoexportgrainto
African nations. Putin on Monday said
Moscow was close to a deal with six
African countries over a plan to supply
Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia,
the Central African Republic and Eritrea
with up to 50,000 tonnes of grain. Russia
wouldsupplythefoodandcarryoutlogis-
tics at no cost, and deliveries “would be-
gininthenextcoupleofweeks,”headded.
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“Bharata” appears in the Rig Veda (c.
1500-1000 BC) as the name of the tribe of
Sudas, who defeated an enemy coalition
in the Battle of the Ten Kings; the Rig Veda
also refers to Bharata’s people (Bharatam
Janam), and the sons of Bharata
(Bharataputra).
The idea of ‘Bharatavarsha’ as a geo-
graphical entity can be traced back to
Puranic literature, and to the epic
Mahabharata (the bulk of
whichisthoughttohavebeen
compiled between the 3rd
century BC and 4th century
AD). The Vishnu Purana (the
earliest portions of which are thought to
havebeenwrittenc.400BC)says“thecoun-
try that lies north of the ocean and south of
the snowy mountain is called Bharata, for
there dwelt the descendants of Bharata”.
TheHathigumphainscription(2ndcen-
tury BC-1st century AD) says the Jain king
At a meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India, in the front row (from left): Dr
B R Ambedkar, B G Kher, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and K M Munshi. Public domain
Hargovind Pant made it clear that the
people of Northern India “wanted
Bharatvarsha and nothing else”.
Pant argued: “So far as the word ‘India’ is
concerned, the Members seem to have, and
really I fail to understand why, some attach-
For RSS, India always Bharat
Since before Independence, the Sangh has used the word Bharat for the country, even in English
communications. For it, ‘India’ is a term given by outsiders, with no historical, cultural mooring
DEEPTIMAN TIWARY
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
AT A Guwahati event on September 1, when
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat urged people to
usetheword‘Bharat’insteadof ‘India’forthe
country, he was carrying forward a long-
standing, pre-Independence tradition of the
Sangh Parivar.
On Tuesday, a controversy erupted after
a G20 invitation from the government was
sent out in the name of the “President of
Bharat”. Some Opposition leaders called it
anattempttochangetheConstitution,which
uses both India and Bharat.
‘Bharat is the natural name’
“This is a needless controversy being
raked up by the Congress. Bharat is the nat-
ural nameof India.It is not a questionof BJP’s
ideology,”BJPNationalExecutiveCommittee
member and chairman of Dr Syama Prasad
Mookerjee Research Foundation, Anirban
Ganguly, said. “All Indian languages call the
country Bharat. Read Bangla literature and
find out what India is called in them. Both
India and Bharat are part of the Constitution.
We are giving primacy to Bharat because
most people call it Bharat.”
He added that those “shouting over it”
have been at the forefront of “distorting his-
tory and our civilisational identity”.
“British gave many names. But subse-
quently,CeylonbecameSriLankaandBurma
became Myanmar. Has it caused any prob-
lems? The argument of the founding fathers
[using it in the Constitution] is good, but
should it then also not apply to the words
‘secular’and‘socialist’,astheywerenotsanc-
tioned by them?” Ganguly said.
An RSS leader who is now with a govern-
mentinstitutiontooarguedthatthereshould
be no Bharat vs India debate.
“There is an issue between Hindustan
and Bharat. But there is no issue between
IndiaandBharat.EveryonecallsIndia‘Bharat’
inHindi.InMarathi,Bangla,Gujaratiandsev-
eralotherIndianlanguages,itiscalledBharat.
Culturally, India has always been Bharat.
India was a geographical term given by out-
siders. Bharat has such a beautiful meaning.
Even in the Constitution, it should actually
have been ‘Bharat that is India’,” he said.
Longstanding Sangh practice
The Sangh, which roots for an Indian cul-
ture shorn of British and Islamic influences
and insists on the use of Hindi language, has
used the term Bharat since its inception.
According to Rakesh Sinha’s book The
‘Bharata’ appears in Vedic and Puranic
literature; Mahabharata. Public domain
Kharavela “sent an expedition to conquer
Bharatavarsha”.
Writing in January 1927, Jawaharlal
Nehrualludedtothe“fundamentalunityof
India” that has endured from “the remote
past”: “a unity of a common faith and cul-
ture. India was Bharata, the holy land of the
Hindus, and it is not without significance
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try. If we, even then, cling to the word ‘India’,
it would only show that we are not ashamed
of havingthisinsultingwordwhichhasbeen
imposed on us by alien rulers.”
Ancient references
Das argued that the Vishnu Purana and
Brahma Purana mention Bharat. Others said
the seventh-century Chinese traveller Hiuen
Tsang too had referred to Bharat.
“...BynamingourcountryasBharatweare
notdoinganythingwhichwillpreventusfrom
marchingforward.Weshouldindeedgivesuch
anametoourcountryasmaybebefittingour
history and our culture,” Das argued.
Dasalsomentionedapamphlet,whichhe
saidwasaneffort“toprovethat‘India’ismore
ancientthan‘Bharat’”.“Iwantthatitshouldbe
onrecordthatthisisincorrect.‘Idyam’and‘Ide’
ment for it. meanfire.‘Idenyah’hasbeenusedasanadjec-
“Wemustknowthatthisnamewasgiven tive of fire and ‘Ida’ signifies voice,” he said.
to our country by foreigners who, having Kamath suggested Bharat or
heardof therichesof thisland,weretempted Bharatvarsha or Bharatbhumi as possible
towards it and had robbed us of our freedom names that are derived from scriptures.
in order to acquire the wealth of our coun- “Historians and philologists have delved
EXPLAINED POLITICS
At the birth centenary celebrations of M S Golwalkar, (from right) former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat,
and former Sarsanghchalak K S Sudarshan. Express Archive
Makers of Modern India: KB Hedgewar, pub- Bharat to denote India even in its English
lished by the Ministry of Information and texts. The first-ever RSS resolution of 1950 is
Broadcasting, in 1929, during a speech at instructive in this context. The resolution,on
Wardha (Maharashtra), RSS founder Dr K B the plight of Hindus who suffered the vio-
Hedgewarsaid,“TheBritishgovernmenthas lence of Partition,repeatedly used terms like
promised to give independence to India on “State of Bharat”, “Govt. of Bharat”, “citizens
many occasions, but these have turned out of Bharat”.
to be false promises. It has Two resolutions of
now become amply clear Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi
that Bharat shall attain in- In his book Bunch of Sabha and Karyakari
dependence on her own Thoughts, the second Mandal in 1953 were
strength.” RSS chief, M S called ‘Movement for
In his last speech in Complete Integration of
Nagpur in 1940 before his Golwalkar, writes, “In Kashmir with Bharat’ and
death, Hedgewar said, our cultural tradition, the ‘Bharat’s Pak policy vis-a-
“The golden day when all respectful way of calling a vis Kashmir’ respectively.
of Bharat would be In fact, no resolution of the
woman is by her child’s
Sanghified will certainly RSS has the word India in
dawn. There will then be name. So also is the case its heading.
nopoweronearththatcan with the name ‘Bharat’ The first time the word
dare cast a malicious eye for our motherland.” India appears even in the
on Hindus.” textsof theseresolutionsis
in1962,wherethegovern-
‘Term India culturally odd’ ment is referred to as the “Government of
A senior RSS leader underlined that India”. Subsequently the word has found a
since all RSS leaders speak in Hindi, they place in the Sangh’s English texts, where
naturally refer to India as Bharat. “The PM India has been used interchangeably with
also speaks largely in Hindi unless address- Bharat. However, there has never been any
ing an international audience. So, it is not resolution asking for the word India to be re-
surprising that they speak of Bharat and not placed by Bharat.
India. Also, India is an odd term culturally. In that context, Bhagwat’s Guwahati
Have you heard anyone say India Mata ki speech has significance, especially since it
Jai,” said the leader. was followed by the government invitation
However, the RSS has consistently used using “President of Bharat”.
thatthegreatplacesof Hindupilgrimageare Country, Two Names (South Asia
situated in the four corners of India — the Multidisciplinary Academic Journal).
extreme South overlooking Ceylon, the ex-
treme West washed by the Arabian Sea,the What about ‘India’ and ‘Hindustan’?
East facing the Bay of Bengal and the North The name Hindustan is thought to have
in the Himalayas.” (Selected Works Vol. 2) derived from ‘Hindu’, the Persian cognate
In his monumental Discovery of India, form of the Sanskrit Sindhu (Indus), which
Nehru referred interchangeably to “India”, came into currency with the Achaemenid
“Bharata”, and “Hindustan”: “Often, as I Persianconquestof theIndusvalley(north-
wanderedfrommeetingtomeeting,Ispoke western parts of the subcontinent) that be-
to my audiences of this India of ours, of gan in the 6th century BC (which was the
Hindustan and of Bharata, the old Sanskrit
name derived from the mythical founders
time of The Buddha in the Gangetic basin).
The Achaemenids used the term to
of the race.”
Social scientist Catherine Clémentin-
identify the lower Indus basin, and from
aroundthefirstcenturyof theChristianera,
Ojha explained Bharata in the sense of a re- the suffix “stan” came to be used with the
ligiousandsocio-culturalentity,ratherthan name to create “Hindustan”.
a political or geographical one. Bharata The Greeks, who had acquired knowl-
refers to the “supraregional and subconti- edge of ‘Hind’ from the Achaemenids,
nentalterritorywheretheBrahmanicalsys- transliterated the name as ‘Indus’. By the
tem of society prevails”, she wrote in her time the Macedonian king Alexander in-
2014 article, ‘India, that is Bharat…’: One vaded India in the 3rd century BC, ‘India’
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deep into this matter of the name of this
country, especially the origin of this name
Bharat. All of them are not agreed as to the
genesis of this name Bharat. Some ascribe it
to the son of Dushyant and Shakuntala who
wasalsoknownas‘Sarvadamana’orall-con-
queror and who established his suzerainty...
in this ancient land. After him this land came
to be known as Bharat,” he said.
Ambedkar’s refrain
Dr Ambedkar reminded the House sev-
eral times that the civilisational debate was
unnecessary since the name Bharat was not
opposed by members.
“We are merely now discussing whether
the word ‘Bharat’ should come after ‘India’,”
hesaidinresponsetoKamath’sintervention.
When Kamalapati Tripathi talked at
length about how the word Bharat reminds
everyone of the past glory of India,
Ambedkar asked if this was necessary.
“There is alotof work to be done,” he said
before the motion was adopted.
WITH ADRIJA ROYCHOWDHURY
Strong cultural resonance
The term Bharat has a deep cultural con-
text for the Sangh.
In his book Bunch of Thoughts, the second
RSS chief, M S Golwalkar, underlines this.
“In fact, the very name ‘Bharat’ denotes
that this is our mother. In our cultural tradi-
tion,therespectfulwayof callingawomanis
by her child’s name. To call a lady as the wife
of Mr So-and-so or as Mrs So-and-so is the
Western way. We say, “She is Ramu’s
mother”. So also is the case with the name
‘Bharat’ for our motherland. Bharata is an
elder brother of ours, born long long before
us. He was a noble, virtuous and victorious
kingandashiningmodelof Hindumanhood.
When awoman hasmore than one child, we
callher bythename of hereldestor the most
wellknownamongherchildren.Bharatawas
well known and this land was called as his
mother,Bharat,themother of allHindus,” he
says in the book.
In another context, he emphasises how
the name Bharat appears even in the Vedas
and Puranas in context of the motherland.
He has also spoken of Bharat being the land
of the Hindus.
In fact, it is a running theme in his texts.
Talking about appeasement of Muslims by
Independent India’s leadership, Golwalkar
said in the book, “The first thing they
preached was that our nationality could not
be calledHindu, thateven ourlandcould not
becalledbyitstraditionalnameHindusthan,
as that would offend the Muslim. The name
‘India’ given by the British was accepted.
Takingthatname,the‘newnation’wascalled
the ‘Indian Nation’.”
Notably, most associate organisations of
theRSSalsohavethewordBharatiyainthem
— Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad,
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Bharatiya Kisan
Sangh,etc.Evenwhiletranslatingtermssuch
as ‘Akhil Bharatiya’, the RSS does not use ‘All
India’ but ‘All Bharat’. For example, in the
RSS’s latest press statement on Akhil
Bharatiya Samanvay Baithak to be held in
Pune, the English translation calls it ‘All
Bharat Coordination Meeting’.
OnSeptember1,addressingtheSakalJain
Samaj in Guwahati, Bhagwat asserted that
thename‘Bharat’hasbeenanintegralpartof
the nation’s identity since ancient times and
should be embraced and propagated.
“The name of our country has been
Bharat since ages. Whatever may be the lan-
guage, the name remains the same… Our
country is Bharat, and we will have to stop
using the word ‘India’ and start using Bharat
in all practical fields, only then will change
happen,” he said.
had come to be identified with the region
beyond the Indus.
Duringthetimeof theDelhiSultansand
the Mughals, the name ‘Hindustan’ was
used to describe the entire Indo-Gangetic
plain. But from the late 18th century on-
ward, British maps increasingly began to
use the name ‘India’.
“Partof theappealof thetermIndiamay
havebeenitsGraeco-Romanassociations,its
long history of use in Europe, and its adop-
tionbyscientificandbureaucraticorganisa-
tions such as the Survey of India,” historian
Ian J Barrow in his article, ‘From Hindustan
toIndia:NamingChangeinChangingNames’
(Journal of South Asian Studies, 2003).
“The adoption of India suggests how
colonial nomenclaturesignalledchangesin
perspectives and helped to usher in an un-
derstanding of the subcontinent as a single,
bounded and British political territory,”
Barrow wrote.

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SECTOR WATCH
MARKETS
SEBI to launch one
hour settlement of
trades: How it will
benefit investors
HITESHVYAS
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 5
SECURITIES AND Exchange
Board of India’s (SEBI), which,
in July this year, had an-
nounced that it is working to
launch real-settlement of
trades, is now planning to im-
plementone-hoursettlement
of trades first. The regulator is
aimingtolaunchonehourset-
tlement of trades by March
next year, its Chairperson
Madhabi Puri Buch said on
Tuesday. She also said the
Application Supported by
Blocked Amount (ASBA)-like
E
facility for trading in the sec-
ondary market will
likely be launched in
EXPLAINED
January 2024.
What is trade
settlement?
Settlement is a
two-way process which in-
volves the transfer of funds
and securities on the settle-
mentdate.Atradesettlement
is said to be complete once
purchasedsecuritiesofalisted
company are delivered to the
buyer and the seller gets the
money. The current cycle of
T+1 means trade-related set-
tlementshappenwithinaday,
or24hoursoftheactualtrans-
actions. The migration to the
T+1 cycle came into effect in
January this year.
India became the second
country in the world to start
theT+1settlementcycleintop
listed securities after China,
bringing in operational effi-
ciency, faster fund remit-
tances, share delivery, and
ease for stock market partici-
pants.
What has SEBI said?
“On the way to instanta-
neous settlement, we believe
BRIEFLY
Russia’soilprice
toIndiainJuly
lowestsince
Ukrainewar
New Delhi: The average price
of Russian oil delivered at
Indian ports in July dropped
to the lowest since Moscow's
invasion of Ukraine in
February last year, according
togovernmentdata.Indiare-
ceived Russian oil at an aver-
age price of $68.09 per barrel
inJuly,marginallydownfrom
$68.16 in June and sharply
lower than $99.58 in July
2022, according to Reuters'
calculations based on the lat-
est data posted on ministry’s
website. REUTERS
`5,517crloans
disbursedin
August:Paytm
New Delhi: Fintech major
PaytmonTuesdaysaiditdis-
bursed Rs 5,517 crore loans
through its platform and de-
ployed87lakhdevicesforof-
fline payments in August.
The Vijay Shekhar Sharma-
led fintech platform said in a
regulatory filing that on an
average9.4croreuserstrans-
acted through Paytm
monthly during July and
August this year. PTI
NBCCinksMoU
withKeralaState
HousingBoard
New Delhi: NBCC on Tuesday
signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with
Kerala State Housing Board
(KSHB) for development of
17.9 acres of KSHB’s land par-
cel at Kochi’s Marine Drive in
Kerala.Accordingtoapressre-
lease, the approximate proj-
ectcostisRs2,000crore. ENS
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In one hour trade
settlement, if an
investor sells a share,
they will get the
money in an hour
thattheone-hourtradesettle-
ment is much quicker to im-
plement than instantaneous.
So, if the instantaneous is go-
ing to take some more
months, we will implement
one-hourtradesettlementbe-
fore that,” SEBI Chairperson
Buch told reporters on the
sidelinesof theGlobalFintech
Fest.
The technology
for implementation
of one-hour trade
settlementexistsbut
for instantaneous
● tradesettlement,the
system needs some
additional technology devel-
opment, which may take
moretime.Sheexpectsthein-
stantaneous trade settlement
to be launched by the end of
2024.
In July, she had said that
theregulatorisworkingonthe
instantaneous settlement of
tradesonthestockexchanges,
and is engaged with the
ecosystem.
What are the benefits of
one-hour trade
settlement?
UnderthecurrentT+1set-
tlement cycle, if an investor
sellssecurities,themoneygets
credited into the person's ac-
countthenextday.Inonehour
tradesettlement,ifaninvestor
sells a share, they will get the
money credited to their ac-
count in an hour, and the
buyer will get the shares in
theirdemataccountwithinan
hour.
Inflation to stay elevated in next few months,
policies to prevent it from rising further: S&P
PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
INFLATIONINIndiaislikelytore-
main elevated in the near terms
butgovernmentpolicieswillpre-
vent it from rising further, S&P
Global Ratings Economist (Asia
Pacific) Vishrut Rana said on
Tuesday.
InJuly,theconsumerpricein-
dex based retail inflation spiked
to15-monthhighof7.44percent
in July, with specific food com-
India’s services sector UPI QR CODE- CBDC INTEROPERABILITY
activity moderates in How the latest tech tweak could push RBI’s
Aug; exports expand digital rupee pilot among users, merchants
PRIYANSH VERMA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
INDIA'S SERVICES Purchasing
Managers’ Index, compiled by
S&P Global, eased to 60.1 in
August from an over 13-year
high of 62.3 in July. The services
PMI print has stayed above the
60 mark in four of the past five
months.
“India's service economy
continued to thrive in August,
with a series-record increase in
new export business inducing
another sharp expansion in to-
tal sales,” S&P Global said on
Tuesday. “Growth of the latter
waned, but remained among
the best in 13 years. The same
trend was recorded for output,”
it added.
The services PMI is an indi-
cator which measures change in
services activity as compared to
the previous month. A reading
of above 50 denotes expansion
in activity, while a reading be-
low signals contraction.
Since, the PMI data is the
most immediately available and
widely tracked activity indica-
FM NIRMALA SITHARAMAN AT GLOBAL FINTECH FEST
‘Need to set up framework to handle
challenges related to crypto assets’
HITESH VYAS
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 5
FINANCE MINISTER Nirmala
Sitharaman on Tuesday called
for setting up a framework for
handling challenges related to
crypto assets.
Besides, cyber threat is an-
other area which needs global
cooperation, she said.
“India’s Presidency has put
on table in the G20 issues re-
lated to regulating or under-
standing that there should be a
framework for handling issues
related to crypto assets,”
Sitharaman said while address-
ing the Global Fintech Fest.
She said active discussions
are happening on this. Even the
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and Financial Stability
Board (FSB) have submitted
synthesis paper on crypto as-
sets.
“Crypto (is a) threat as well
as an opportunity. But crypto is
also an example to say how un-
less global cooperation works
out well, you are not going to be
able to have a responsible finan-
cial ecosystem which can regu-
late it as well,” she said.
In December last year, the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Governor Shaktikanta Das
warned that private cryptocur-
Auto retail sales see 9%
growth in August: FADA
Automobile sales were aided by growth in all segments, as
per Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations
August2023
TOTALRETAILSALES 18,18,647units 16,74,162units
modities mainly driving the in-
crease.
Speaking at the 'Monthly
Asia-Pacific Credit Focus' webi-
nar, Rana said in India the mon-
soon has been very patchy and
overallrainwasabout11percent
below normal.
“That is a significant concern
asitcanaffectgrainpricesinIndia
over next few months,” he said.
The government has already im-
posed export curbs on rice and
levied a 40 per cent export duty
on onions to make available
tor — policymakers often quote
the data while announcing de-
cisions.
S&P Global compiles the PMI
data from responses received
from about 400 service sector
companies. The sectors include
consumer (excluding retail),
transport, information, commu-
nication, finance, insurance, real
estate and business services.
“Indian services companies
achieved a remarkable mile-
stone in August, as they wel-
comed a series-record surge in
new export business,” said
Pollyanna De Lima, Economics
Associate Director at S&P Global
Market Intelligence.” Several re-
gions contributed to the upturn,
including Asia Pacific, Europe,
North America and the Middle
East.”
Total new business increased
for the 25th month in a row dur-
ing August, S&P Global said.
Survey participants cited adver-
tising and robust demand for
services among the reasons for
witnessing growth. “Although
softer than in July, the overall ex-
pansion in sales was one of the
strongest seen in 13 years.” FE
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. @nsitharamanoffc
rencies, if allowed to grow,
would lead to the ‘next financial
crisis’ and reiterated his stance
to prohibit them. This comes in
the wake government plans to
move ahead with its ongoing
discussions for formulating an
overarching regulatory and tax-
ation framework for crypto as-
sets, a move which had been
stalled in wait for a global
framework.
In last year's Budget, even
though the government
brought in a tax for cryptocur-
rencies, it did not proceed
ahead with framing any futher
regulations for it despite the
Reserve Bank of India having
proposed a ban on it. In July last
August2022
enough stock in local market
ahead of the festive season.
“Supplies remain very strong
and the government is likely to
step in to prevent significant in-
crease in commodity, wheat and
rice prices. It will help to keep
food price inflation little bit low,”
Rana said. Tomato prices, which
had skyrocketed in July, had
started cooling in late August.
The significant spike in veg-
etable prices is coming down,
Rana said.
“Overall,theinflationenviron-
HITESHVYAS
MUMBAI,SEPTEMBER5
WITH BANKS enabling the inter-
operability of Unified Payments
Interface’s (UPI) Quick Response
(QR)codewiththeircentralbank
digital currency (CBDC), applica-
tion, users of retail digital rupee
will be able to make transactions
by scanning any UPI QR at a mer-
chant outlet. Merchants can also
accept digital rupee payments
through their existing UPI QR
codes.Thisintegrationof UPIand
CBDC is part of the Reserve Bank
ofIndia’s(RBI)ongoingpilotproj-
ectonpushingtheretaildigitalru-
pee.
Whatisinteroperability?
Interoperability is the techni-
cal compatibility that enables a
payment system to be used in
conjunction with other payment
systems, according to the RBI.
Interoperability allows system
providers and participants in dif-
ferentsystemstoundertake,clear
and settle payment transactions
across systems without partici-
pating in multiple systems.
Interoperability between pay-
year, underscoring that the RBI
has expressed concerns over
cryptocurrencies and sought a
ban on them from the govern-
ment, Sitharaman said in
Parliament that “international
collaboration” would be needed
for any effective regulation or
ban on cryptocurrency as the
digital currency is borderless in
nature.
Talking about global cooper-
ation, Sitharaman said Tuesday
in an interconnected world, fi-
nancial technology transcends
borders, therefore making cross
border partnerships is ab-
solutely crucial. Collaborative
ventures open up access to a
vast and diverse customer base
AUGUSTSALES:
Passengervehicle
registrationsup7%
3,15,153units
Two-wheelersalessawa
jumpof6%
12,54,444units
Commercialvehicle
registrationsrise3%
75,294units
Tractorsalesjumped14%
73,849units
Three-wheelerretailsales
sawajumpof66%
99,907units Source:
FADA/PTI
mentforIndiawilldependonen-
ergy prices. Food prices will re-
main elevated but is unlikely to
go up because of public policies.
We expect overall inflation to re-
main elevated but not rising fur-
ther for India over the next few
months,” Rana added.
The finance ministry in its
monthly report had last month
said that price pressure on food
itemsisexpectedtobetransitory,
butthegovernmentandRBIneed
to step up vigil to deal with ele-
vated inflationary pressure.
CBDC is a tokenised digital version of the rupee. File
ment systems contributes to
achievingadoption,co-existence,
innovation,andefficiencyforend
users.
UPIQRcodeinteroperability
withCBDC
Interoperability of UPI with
thedigitalrupeemeansallUPIQR
codes are compatible with CBDC
apps. Initially, when the pilot for
the retail digital rupee was
launched, the digital rupee users
had to scan a specific QR code to
undertaketransactions.However,
with the interoperability of the
two, payments can be made us-
ing a single QR code. The digital
GOLD
`60,300
Note: Gold, silver rates at Delhi spot market, gold per 10g, silver per 1 kg; Crude oil (Indian basket) as of September 4
accelerating market participa-
tion and penetration. She said
there are various threats includ-
ing cyber and physical, in build-
ing a responsible financial
global system. “As much as you
build firewalls, there are more
and more newer ways in which
(cyber) attacks are being made,”
Sitharaman said. The finance
minister said the global annual
cross border payments cur-
rently stands at $20 trillion, in-
curring $120 billion in transac-
tion cost. India is the largest
remittance receiver with about
$100 billion worth of remit-
tance, taking 2022 as the base.
“The high remittances are a
motivating factor in our pursuit
of enhancing cross border pay-
ment arrangements. Enhancing
cross border payments has
been India’s priority,” she said,
adding that this issue has been
discussed in the G20.
The finance minister said
fintech companies need to in-
vest heavily in robust security
measures, utilising advanced
encryption and other measures
to protect user data and finan-
cial transactions.
“A secured system is what
will build trust and therefore
that is a must for the financial
ecosystem to truly flourish.
India can lead in making the fi-
nancial ecosystem inclusive, re-
Recurring food price Rupee falls
shocks pose risk to below 83
against dollar
inflation: RBI Guv
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 5
RESERVE BANK of India
Governor Shaktikanta Das on
Tuesday said the recurring food
price shocks pose a risk to an-
choring inflation expectations.
Retail inflation or consumer
price-based inflation (CPI) rose
to a 15-month high of 7.44 per
cent in July from 4.81 per cent in
June. This surge was primarily
driven by a rise in prices of veg-
etables, cereals, pulses, spices
and milk and products.
“The frequent incidences of
recurring food price shocks pose
a risk to anchoring of inflation
expectations, which has been
underway since September
2022. We will remain watchful
of this...,” Das said while deliv-
ering a lecture at Delhi School of
Economics.
He said the role of continued
and timely supply side interven-
tions, as being undertaken by
the government, assumes criti-
cality in limiting the severity
and duration of such food price
shocks. “In these circumstances,
it is necessary to be watchful of
any risk to price stability and act
rupee issued by the RBI, or the
CBDC, is a tokenised digital ver-
sion of the rupee. The digital ru-
pee is held in a digital wallet,
whichislinkedtoacustomer’sex-
istingsavingsbankaccount.UPIis
directlylinkedtoacustomer’sac-
count.
Benefittingcustomersand
merchants
TheinteroperabilityofUPIand
CBDCwillensureseamlesstrans-
actions between a customer and
merchant without having the
needtoswitchbetweenmultiple
digital platforms. It will allow a
digital rupee user to make pay-
USD RATE
`83.04
silient and sustainable,”
Sitharaman said.
Given the country’s rich and
successful experience in digital
payments, Sitharaman urged
the Indian fintech industry to
take a strong lead in cross-bor-
der payment systems.
The finance minister further
said the recent income tax re-
turn (ITR) data, released in
August, showed that the for-
malisation of the Indian econ-
omy is now really wide.
“Each tax slabs has seen a
minimum three-fold increase
in tax filing. Some even achiev-
ing a nearly four-fold surge. We
are in Mumbai, so, contextually
I like to highlight that
Maharashtra continues to be
the leader,” she said. Other
states are moving up with re-
spect to ITR filings. In places like
North-East, Chhattisgarh,
Jammu and Kashmir, the new
ITR filings have gone up to two
digits, growing by double digit
growth, Sitharaman said.
She said in a span of about
four years, the number of de-
mat accounts has increased by
2.5 times from 4.1 crore in 2019-
20 to 10 crore in 2022-23.
A record number of mutual
fund systematic investment
plans (SIPs) are being registered
which helps in generating long-
term wealth, she said.
timely and appropriately. We re-
main firmly focused on aligning
inflation to the target of 4 per
cent,” the Governor said.
The government has man-
dated the central bank with
keeping CPI at 4 per cent, with a
comfort band of +/- 2 per cent.
Das reiterated that given the
likely short-term nature of the
vegetable price shocks, mone-
tary policy can await the dissi-
pation of the first-round effects
of such shocks which may pro-
duce short-lived spikes in head-
line inflation.
“We remain on guard to en-
sure that second order effects in
the form of generalisation and
persistence are not allowed to
take hold,” Das said.
Last month, the RBI left the
repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per
cent for the third consecutive
time on inflation concerns. It re-
vised its FY2024 CPI inflation
projection to 5.4 per cent from
an earlier estimate of 5.1 per
cent. The central bank also
raised CPI inflation forecast for
the second quarter to 6.2 per
cent vs 5.2 per cent and for the
third quarter to 5.7 per cent vs
5.4 per cent. FULLREPORTON
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ments for their daily needs, such
as groceries and medicines, by
scanninganyUPIQRcodesatany
merchantoutlet.Evenmerchants
arenotrequiredtokeepaseparate
QR code to accept the digital ru-
pee payments. They can accept
CBDC payments on their existing
QRcode.“Wewilltakeadvantage
of the UPI network to increase
transactions in CBDC. There will
beoneQRcode,andyoucanscan
the QR code using the CBDC app.
If the merchant has a CBDC ac-
count,thepaymentwillbesettled
in the CBDC wallet. If a merchant
does not have a CBDC account,
then there will be an option to
make payment using UPI,” RBI’s
Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar
said in July this year.
ContactlesswithQRcode
A Quick Response (QR) code
consistsofblacksquaresarranged
in a square grid on a white back-
ground, which can be read by an
imaging device such as a camera.
Itcontainsinformationaboutthe
item to which it is attached, ac-
cordingtotheNationalPayments
Corporation of India (NPCI).
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OIL SILVER
$89.75 `75,500
International market data till 1900 IST
Over 6 crore
ITR filings
processed for
AY 2023-24
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
AS MANY as 6.98 crore tax re-
turnshavebeenfiledforincome
earnedin2022-23fiscalandout
of them, more than 6 crore fil-
ings have been processed, the
Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) said on Tuesday.
The CBDT -- the apex deci-
sion making body in matters of
income and corporate taxes --
said the department is not able
to process certain Income Tax
Returns (ITRs) for want of cer-
tain information/action on the
part of taxpayers.
Of the total ITRs filed, about
14 lakh are yet to be verified by
taxpayers while the depart-
ment has sought further infor-
mation from another 12 lakh
taxpayers, for which requisite
communication has been sent
through their e-filing accounts.
Besides, certain ITR filers are
yet to validate their bank ac-
counts.
“As on September 5, 6.98
crore ITRs for Assessment Year
2023-24 have been filed, of
which6.84crorehavebeenver-
ified.Of these,morethan6crore
ITRs, or 88 per cent of the total
verified ITRs, have been
processed,” the CBDT said in a
statement.
Refunds have been issued
for more than 2.45 crore filers
for AY 2023-24.
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
MUMBAI,SEPTEMBER5
THE RUPEE plunged by 0.4 per
cent to close at 83.04 against the
US dollar on Tuesday amid a
strong American currency and
higher crude oil prices.
Moreover, foreign fund out-
flows from the domestic equity
marketsalsoweakenedthelocal
currency.Therupeehasbreached
the83-levelagainstthedollarfor
the fifth time since August 14.
Anindya Banerjee, VP -
Currency Derivatives, Kotak
SecuritiesLtd,said,“dollar-rupee
spotclosed29paiseat83.04due
tostrengthintheUSdollarIndex
andweaknessintheChinesecur-
rency. Uptick in the US bond
yields and news of fresh credit
stress in China drove dollar
higher. We expect a range of
82.60 and 83.25 on spot.”
“One needs to be watchful
about the sharp volatility in ru-
pee,whichcouldimpactFIIflows
going ahead,” said an analyst.
Brentcrudefutures,theglobaloil
benchmark,wastrading0.66per
cent lower to $ 88.41 per barrel.
Meanwhile, the dollar index,
climbed by 0.38 per cent to
104.64.
India can do
100 bn UPI
transactions a
month: NPCI
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5
INDIA HAS the potential to do
100 billion Unified Payments
Interface (UPI) transactions a
month, a top official from the
National Payments Corporation
of India said on Tuesday.
This would be a 10-time
growthoverthe10billiontrans-
actions achieved by the 2016-
launched platform in August.
Dilip Asbe, chief executive
officerandmanagingdirectorof
NPCI, said there are 350 million
UPIusersatpresentandpegged
the growth opportunityin mer-
chants and users at 3 times
more. “...if you take the com-
bined effect, we have a 10x op-
portunity from where we
stand,”Asbesaidspeakingatthe
Global Fintech Fest here.
He declined to specify a date
by which NPCI aims to reach
there, but said that by 2030,
India will witness 2 billion
transactions a day. At present,
global giant Visa processes 22.5
billion transactions a month,
while its rival MasterCard does
over 11 billion transactions.
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place as arranged (5,5)
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doctors directions (5)
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have to go on (2,7)
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Fear of failure, apprehension lead to neither-here-nor-there squad
SRIRAM VEERA
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 5
THE SMARTLY brave punt would be on India
reaching the World Cup semifinals. Beyond
that, if nationalism doesn’t colour the betting
skills,itwouldbeaverycourageouspersonto
pick this team as a winner.
ItwouldtakeinspiredcaptaincyfromRohit
Sharma,alliedwithaveryintelligentselection
of theplayingXIontheday,togobeyondthat.
Foratournamentthatwilldecidetheirlegacy,
bothRohitandRahulDravidhavetheirhands
and heads full in what would be a very taxing
World Cup campaign.
Iftheydoit,theywillgodowninhistoryas
greatleaders;if theydon’t,itwon’tbeashock.
When the selection of World Cup venues
for India games were announced, a pattern
emerged. All slow, potentially spin-abetting
tracks,carefullychosenfortheopponentssug-
gested a CSK-level planning. Australia will be
hit at Chennai, England will be ambushed at
the slow turner at Lucknow, South Africa will
betakendownatthesluggishKolkata,Pakistan
on a pace-and-spin sucking belter in
Ahmedabad, and Sri Lanka will be downed at
the2011WorldCupfinalpaata.Theopponents’
strengths were tamed by the Indian strength,
or so the feeling it gave.
It hasn’t quite played out that way.
In search of balance
Skipper Rohit’s challenge will be to figure out an ideal playing XI with depth in batting as well as bowling
EXPRESS
ATASIACUP
VENKATA KRISHNA B
KANDY, SEPTEMBER 5
DEPTHINthebattingandsixbowlingoptions
in the eleven will be India’s formula at the
homeWorldCup,wheretheylooktoendtheir
ICCtitledrought.Whatitmeantwasthatthey
could not draft an off-spinner or a right-arm
tweaker into the 15-member squad an-
nouncedbythechairmanofnationalselection
committee Ajit Agarkar. With concerns over
thefitnessoftheirpacers,theyhadtopickfour
apartfromHardikPandyaforthetournament
that begins on October 5.
The squad was expected to remain more
orlessthesameasonepickedfortheAsiaCup,
though. Rohit Sharma and Agarkar had said
therewasstillscopeforafewchanges,trigger-
ingspeculationof surprisemoves. Butallthat
was put to the bin on Tuesday. From the team
that is currently featuring in Asia Cup, the se-
lectors have omitted Prasidh Krishna, Tilak
VarmaandSanjuSamson.Itisunderstoodthat
thethreewillremainasreservesalongwithR
Ashwin,whowillbeacoverforthethreespin-
ners–RavindraJadeja,AxarPatelandKuldeep
Yadav. The two-time ODI world champions,
though, could make changes to the squad till
September 27.
Biggest challenge
WithKLRahulclearingthefitnesstestover
theweekendattheNationalCricketAcademy,
there was no scope for last-minute surprises
like it has been the case with India’s World
Cup-boundsquadsoverthelastfouryears.The
15-membersquadincludesfivebatsmen,two
wicketkeepers, one all-rounder, four pacers
andthreespinners(twoofthemall-rounders),
andhastherightbalance.Elevencanbat,eight
could bowl.
ButthebiggestchallengeforcaptainRohit
andtheteam-managementwillbetofindthe
samebalanceintheplayingeleven.Withtheir
topfivebeingone-dimensionalandallfourfast
bowlers mostly being No 10 and 11s (apart
from Shardul Thakur occasionally), Rohit ad-
mittedthathisteamwillhavetostrikeacom-
promise on fielding the best attack at times.
“Youneedbothbowlingdepthandbatting
depth. We need to create that depth and we
found that it was lacking in our team for the
last few years. When we talk about depth in
batting,thatNo.9,No.8positionsbecomecru-
cial. In the first game here we saw that we fell
short in the backend. We want tail-enders to
contribute too. Another 10-15 runs in that
gamewouldhavemadeadifference,”hesaid.
In the ongoing Asia Cup, India showed
enough evidence of it, where they included
Shardul Thakur ahead of Mohammed Shami
intheiropeningfixtureagainstPakistan.Byall
looks of it, this is set to continue at the World
Cupaswell,evenifitmeansIndiamayhaveto
benchabowlerwhoiscapableoffinishinghis
quotaof10oversinfavourofThakur,themost
expensive among the five, and has an econ-
omy rate of 6.17 in ODIs.
Fix or break?
“Whenyou’retryingtofixsomething,you
mightendupbreakingit,”RohitsaidofIndia’s
pace pack. “You have to be mindful of what
you’re doing in trying to use resources as best
as you can. When you have six bowlers, they
mightmissoutonsomeovers.Youhavetosee
whatsuitsthebowlers,andwhatsituationthe
game is in. Even the spinners may not be able
tocompletetheirquota.Thisisthebestwecan
dowithbalanceanddepth.Wehavethreeall-
Keeping with the trend of lack of exemplary
planning or confident punts, further hit by
injuries, and above all by the fear of lack of
balance, India have gone with a squad that’s
neither here nor there.
It’s fear or apprehension that leaps out of
the selection.
What if our No.8 to No.11 don’t get the 20
runs. What if our spinner - be it R Ashwin or
the leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal- get hit
and don’t score runs. What if the top three
fail. What if the opposition spinners like
AdamZampaor RashidKhanoutspinIndian
spinners.Whatif JaspritBumrahisn’tquiteat
his fluent best and can last a two-month
tournament? What if the middle-order
doesn’t come off.
Andtopatchupthatfretfulapprehension,
theyhaveresortedtoband-aidtheirpotential
weakspots.GetinShardulThakurinhopethat
hewillbetheallrounderlikeMitchMarsh.Get
inAxarPatelandhopehecanwrigglethrough
with his bowling without bleeding too many
runs but save India with the bat.
Like EQing headphones. Less bass? Amp
upthedbsinthelowfrequency.Toomuchtre-
ble?Ampdownthehigherfrequency.Muddy
vocals, tune the mid-frequency. But if the in-
strumentitselfdoesn’tquiteholdupinquality,
EQing will fall flat.
Apprehension and not planning has laced
the selection path. When Suryakumar Yadav
INDIA SQUAD FOR ICC WORLD CUP
roundersintheteam,fourbowlersandsixbat-
ters.Wehavethoughtaboutitalotandnamed
thissquad.Thisisthebestcombinationforus.”
Rohit explained.
Unlike the T20 World Cup, where India
have struggled to get back from setbacks, the
ODIWorldCupformat,whereeachteamgets
toplayninematches,allowsthemthetimeto
revisit their strategy and rectify flaws. In a 10-
team tournament, which is much like the IPL,
Rohit knows a thing or two about getting the
house in order and undergoing a course cor-
rection,shouldtheteamgetoff toaslowstart.
Breathing space
IndiastarttheircampaignagainstAustralia
in Chennai on October 8 before facing
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, New
Zealand, England, Sri Lanka, South Africa and
theNetherlandsinthegroupstages.“It’s differ-
ent,especiallytheformat,whereyouplaynine
league games, semis and finals, that is 11
games. We played that format in the World
Cup in 2019, and there’s always a chance for
you to make a comeback. We saw last time
around,howEnglandmadeacomebacktothe
semisandthefinalsafterlosingtheirwayearly.
It givesyoumore timetothink about strategy
and what you’re going to execute as a team.
T20 format is different where you have less
time. We had to beat Pakistan and SA to qual-
ify for the semifinals. Here, even if you don’t
start well, you have the time to make a come-
back. It does give you a little more breathing
space,” Rohit said.
Having found the balance, the only hole is
the absence of an off-spinner, a regular in the
lasttwoWorldCupathome.In2011,Indiahad
both R Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh, apart
frompart-timersSachinTendulkarandSuresh
Raina. But India never had at least one spin-
ner who bowls right-handed—leg-spinner
LaxmanSivaramakrishnanplayedacoupleof
games in 1987. But having not played Ashwin
since2022andWashingtonSundardiscarded,
Agarkar felt it would be the fast-bowlers who
would be needed most. “Clearly there were
discussions as both Jadeja and Axar take the
ball away. We would have ideally wanted an
off spinner but this gives us the best balance.”
With three of their players Shreyas Iyer,
KL Rahul and Jasprit Burmah coming from
long injury-layoffs, India would be wary of
their form. Rahul, who suffered a groin nig-
gle while recovering from a thigh injury he
sustainedduringtheIPL,issettojointheteam
in Colombo on Tuesday. With Kishan cur-
rently in good form, scoring four successive
half-centuries in as many matches, it would
be interesting to see if Rahul takes his place
in the eleven. “KL was part of the camp in
Bangalore. He looked good. He batted for al-
most the entire duration of 50 overs in
Bengaluru. He’s an important player for us.
Kishanplayedwellrecently,playswellatthe
top and KL’s record in ODIs is brilliant. We
have two good options. We can pick and
choose between the two who will fight for a
spot in the team,” Agarkar said.
WORLD CUP SQUAD
Batsmen: Rohit Sharma (C),
Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas
Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav
Wicketkeeper batsmen: KL Rahul
& Ishaan Kishan
Allrounders, including spinners:
Hardik Pandya (VC) (fast bowler),
Ravindra Jadeja (left-arm spinner),
Axar Patel (left-arm spinner),
Shardul Thakur (fast bowler)
Fast bowlers: Mohammed Shami,
Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah
Spinners: Kuldeep Yadav
(Chinaman bowler)
R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal were out of the race to make it to the squad as
selectors feared about the batting depth. BCCI/Sportzpics
couldn’tfireatNo.4orNo.5,onlythenthetalk
of a left-handed option was talked up; enter
Ishan Kishan. It won’t be a surprise despite
Ishan’ssuccessagainstPakistanattheAsiaCup,
Dravid won’t be breathing easy. He might be
feelingwhatSunilGavaskarpointedout—how
that partnership was down to the faulty cap-
taincybyBabarAzamwhokeptthepacersout
for a long while.
Indiaskipper RohitSharma(left) andBCCIchief selectorAjitAgarkarannounceIndia’steamforthe World CuponTuesday. ANI
How and why Samson lost out to
Kishan for a place in the WC team
SANDIP G
SEPTEMBER 5
EVENBEFOREIndia’ssquadfortheWorldCup
was announced, his army of staunch fans
stormed the social media platforms, alleging,
asusual,biasandfavouritism.Theyknewwhat
wastocome.SanjuSamsonwouldnotbeinthe
listof15menwhowouldrepresentIndiainthis
World Cup. Samson himself has, in public fo-
rums, requested them to control their angst,
butintheirblindingdevotiontotheiridol,they
wouldnotheedtoeventhewordsof Samson.
In reality, though, Samson himself has
squandered the breaks offered to him, and he
himselffailedtoassertandcementhisplacein
theside.Forallthewondrousgiftshepossesses,
hehasacruelknackofnotperformingwhenit
matters to the team, or suffers the crueler fate
of afellowbatsmanout-performinghim.
Hislastinternationalknock,againstIreland,
was a classic case study. Reaching the middle
in the fifth over, the opportunity was ripe for
him to make a head-turning knock. He did
score40,off26balls,butjustwhenheseemed
to shift through gears and compose a knock
that could define him, he perished playing a
confusedshort.Hewasintwominds,whether
to cut or dab, and in the end did neither and
managed to drag the ball onto the stumps.
Thatinessencesumsuphiscareer—atale
of opportunitieswasted,astoryof notimpos-
ing himself in an ultra-competitive environ-
ment,tobealwaysshadedoutbyfellowaspi-
rants. Oftentimes, a lack of ambition has
flickered. Ishan Kishan presents a classic an-
tithesis. The left-handed batsmen might not
be as gifted as Samson, might not possess as
glitteringanarrayofstrokesasSamson’sdoes,
might not be as technically competent as
Samson is, but he simply maximised his op-
portunities.andfortifiedhiscaseforWorldCup
selection.
Kishan too had to wait
Both Kishan and Samson made their ODI
debutsinthespaceoffivedaysinColombothe
yearbefore.Samsonstruckafluentrun-a-ball
46comingatonedrop,inthethirdover,batting
Likethethoughtwhenthepitcheswerese-
lected seemed to have evaporated soon. That
planwasunderstandabletoanextent.IfIndia,
with an unbalanced squad, had to succeed,
thentheyprobablythoughtit’sbesttopunton
turners and have the best spinners on it. The
CSK way, for years. But they didn’t have the
confidence to carry on that punt. They pulled
outAshwinandChahaloutof theraceasthey
It's not that Sanju Samson was bad, but
Ishan Kishan was simply better.
Sportzpics/BCCI
first; but Kishan slapped a 42-ball 59, as an
opener chasing 263 in his maiden outing. For
allthosecryingaboutalackof asustainedrun
of matches, Kishan too was not gifted with a
stringof gamesstraightaway.Hehadtowaita
few months further for his next break in ODIs
than Samson. Kishan sat out for the tour of
WestIndies,whereinSanjuscoredonly72runs
inthreeinnings.Oneof themwasa51-ball54
chasing 312, wherein he got run out, paving
thewayforAxarPateltocrackamatch-defin-
ing 64 off 35 balls.
ThathasbeentheplightofSamson,some-
oneelsemakingabiggerimpact,someoneelse
composing a more defining knock. That’s ex-
actly what his career has lacked — a defining
innings,onethatremainsimperishableinthe
memoryofbothfansandselectors.Heisabats-
manof enchantingstrokesratherthanagreat
scorer of runs. All that sticks in memory is a
flurryofgorgeousboundaries,nimblefeet,fast
hands,twinklingeyescajolingtheballtogaps
withoutaflexofamuscle.Buttopleasetheau-
dience is different to winning games for your
team. Even his highest score — a splendid 86
not out off 63 balls against South Africa in
Lucknow —endedona tragic note,with India
falling short by nine runs in pursuit of 250.
JusttwodayslateraftertheLucknowgame,
Kishan, his career at semi-crossroads, rattled
out an 84-ball 93 to help India chase 282. Of
course, he had a dynamic Shreyas Iyer, who
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feared about the batting depth.
Wicket-taking skills in the vital middle-
oversnowlieswithKuldeepYadav.Criticalruns
from the lower order depends on Hardik
Pandya. If Kuldeep doesn’t fire, then it will be
hopedthatBumrahorShamicanpulloutaspe-
cial spell against the odds. Or luck favours
through Shardul’s break-through ability. If
Pandyadoesn’tfirewiththebat,thenhopethat
Jadejadoesthatjob.It’snotevenclear,goingby
their recent games, if India are confident to
launchbothShamiandBumrah;orwillthefear
ofbattingpowermakethemseparatethetwo?
Nothing much was really pulled through
with conviction. Umran Malik experiment
nevertookoffduetolackoftrust,thespinners'
punt folded easily.
Nothing is of real surprise. In the lead up
to the T20 World Cup in Australia, some of
the names that came in and swiftly moved
out were the likes of Deepak Hooda,
Venkatesh Iyer. Why were they selected in
the first place and wasted crucial games in
the lead-up remained a mystery. As was the
case when nearly all successful teams went
with a leg spinner, India chose to bench
Chahal. And play Harshal Patel, a more un-
suitable candidate in Australian conditions
couldn’t have been envisioned.
That’s the kind of move that rankles; they
have punted on strange destined-for-failure
choices,butdon’thavethecouragetotakethe
helped himself to a hundred, alongside him,
but Kishan’s knock was as valuable. This was
perhaps the innings that changed the lives of
both Kishan and Samson. The latter fell down
inthehierarchy;thestocksof Kishanswelled.
Twoinningslater,Kishawouldpeel210offjust
131 balls in an incredible show of power-hit-
ting.NotthatSamsonwasbad,butKishanwas
simplybetter.TheKishan-Samsondebatewas
settledthenandthere.Kishanwouldcontinue
tobeexamined,butwouldpassoutwithflying
colours.Pushedintothemiddle-orderagainst
Pakistan, he compiled arguably his most ma-
ture innings against the bite and bark of
Pakistan’s trio of pacers.
In such a backdrop, the only other shard
of hopeforSamsontosealaWorldCupberth
was if Iyer and KL Rahul were not to regain
fitness. It was not to be — Iyer played the first
two games in Asia Cup; Rahul is expected to
feature in the Super Four. Iyer averages 45 in
44 ODIs; Rahul aggregates 45 too in 52 in-
nings. At No 5, the average shoots to 53 in 18
games. Samson, of course, averages 55, but
acrossonly12innings(of whichheremained
not out in five).
In their absence, Samson did nothing of
notetopushhiscase,toinhabittheconscious-
ness of the selectors. In the two ODIs in West
Indies, he made just nine and 51 (three other
batsmen outscored him); in the eight T20Is
that followed, he eked out only 123 runs,
grossly inadequate numbers if you were try-
ing to make a last-gasp dash to cover lost
ground. His desperation manifested as reck-
lessshotsandclumsyjudgementofsituations.
To shove Rahul out of the side, he needed to
show his wares behind the stumps, where he
failedtocatchtheeyesoftheselectors.Instead,
what springs to mind is the fuming face of
YuzvendraChahalafterSamsonspilledacatch
of his bowling in Guyana.
This has been the story of his life, he sel-
dom turns up in big moments (IPL 2022 final,
andonlyonefifty-plusscoreatanaverageof21
andstrikerateof116,insevenplay-offgames),
and only to be over-run and over-shadowed
by more ambitious and ruthless competitors.
Itisnobias,favouritismortoughluck,butjust
that he failed to capitalise his breaks.
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same risk on more potentially-better choices
like Chahal (in that T20 World Cup).
If that T20 World Cup campaign was
paved on the roads of messy experimenting,
this ODI World Cup has run on nervy hope.
The choice of the paths shut down, and the
timing of the close down tell a tale. If there
had to be a choice between Ashwin in a T20
tournament in Australia or an ODI competi-
tion in India, the choice would seem clear to
most. Not with the team.
Theteammanagementnodoubtseesitas
prudent decisions. They aren’t confident yet
abouthowtheirpacersBumrahandShamiwill
lastatwo-monthgruellingtournamentwhere
thechoiceofvenuesmeansIndiaareshuttling
across the length and breadth of the country.
Theyhavearealunderstandableworryabout
the runs from the lower order. Rishabh Pant’s
injury, and concerns over fitness of KL Rahul,
Shreyas Iyer, who had seemingly solved the
No.4problembeforehewentout,andbackin-
jury to Bumrah, their Powerplays and end-
overs trump card.
Withtheirworryabouttherunsatbottom
andlackofconfidenceinthemiddle,theyhave
tinkered with both batting and bowling. But
band-aids can’t be trusted. If India pull off a
heist by winning the World Cup, it will come
down to Rohit Sharma the captain, pulling off
masterful moves with some luck and a lot of
pluck from his chosen men.
ASIACUP
Colombotoremain
venueforSuper4s
THESUPER4stagesoftheAsiaCupwill
sticktoitsoriginalschedulewithallthe
matchesbeingplayedinColombo.The
Indian Express understands that the
Asian Cricket Council has decided
against shifting the matches to
Hambantota as it expects the weather
forecast to improve over the weekend
and beyond.
Ever since India’s Group B match
against Pakistan was washed out in
PallekelelastSaturday,therehavebeen
concerns about the matches taking
place in Colombo, which has been re-
ceiving heavy rainfall. The Sri Lanka
Cricket then suggested moving the
tournamenttoHambantotawhichwas
accepted by hosts Pakistan Cricket
Board. But with India continuing to
show reluctance to travel to
Hambantota, the remaining five
matchesoftheSuper4stageandthefi-
nal to be played in Sri Lanka will be
played as per schedule in Colombo.
Moreover, shifting matches to
Hambantota would have been a logis-
ticalnightmareasthecityinthesouth-
eastern part of Sri Lanka doesn’t have
any hotels close to the stadium.
Moreover,toaccommodatefourteams,
matchofficials,commentatorsandthe
broadcastcrewatashortnoticewasal-
ways going to remain a challenge. And
it is understood that considering all
these options, the ACC decided to play
the tournament in Colombo itself.
Sources in the know said that un-
like Dambulla, which is a dry zone,
Hambantota also receives rainfall and
underthecircumstancesthecapitalcity
with all its facilities was considered a
safe option.
Thetournament,whichiscurrently
underway in Lahore, will restart in
Colombo on Sunday with India taking
on Pakistan at the R Premadasa
Stadium. -VENKATAKRISHNAB
Shah: ODIs in UAE
could’ve caused
player fatigue
BCCISecrataryJayShahonTuesdayre-
sponded to former PCB President
Najam Sethi’s recent comments in
which he mentioned that during his
tenure he’d suggested that the 2023
AsiaCupbestagedintheUAEinsteadof
Sri Lanka.
“The Asia Cup 2022 edition was
played in the UAE in the T20 format,”
Shah said in a statement. “It’s impor-
tanttoemphasizethatthedynamicsof
a T20 tournament cannot be directly
compared to those of a 100-over One-
day format. In this context, ACC mem-
bers received feedback from their re-
spective high-performance teams,
expressing concerns about playing
One-day matches in the UAE in the
month of September.
“Suchaschedulecouldhavepoten-
tially led to player fatigue and an in-
creasedriskofinjuries,particularlyright
before the all-important ICC Cricket
World Cup.”
Furthermore,headdedthatthede-
cision to not host all the games of the
ongoing continental tournament in
Pakistanwasonethatcameinconsen-
sus with the stakeholders involved.
“All the full members, media
rights holder, and in-stadia rights
holders were initially hesitant to
commit to hosting the entire tour-
nament in Pakistan.
“This reluctance stemmed from
concerns related to the security and
economic situation prevailing in the
country,” Shah said. ENS
 18 SPORT
Smells like team spirit
At short chess camp for Asian Games, lot of tactics, some fun, and lessons from Boris Gelfand
AMIT KAMATH
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 5
SOME OF India’s top chess stars
allowedthemselvesabrief break
from training on Sunday to cel-
ebrate the birthday of Arjun
Erigaisi. It was a small celebra-
tion, these days time is at a pre-
mium for India's top chess tal-
ents: R Praggnanandhaa, D
Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi, Erigaisi
and Pentala Harikrishna.
But after the celebration, the
playerswerebackatwork,cram-
ming in some team work before
they prepared to face off each
other at the Tata Steel Chess
Indiatournament,whichstarted
for them on Tuesday.
“Arjun’s birthday was a nice
social event, for which we all
came together. It had to be a bit
short, but we had to keep it that
way because of the very hectic
schedules of players who have a
lot of tournaments in general,”
says coach of the team Srinath
Narayanan.
Thefranticschedulesof play-
ers, coupled with how little time
they spend in India these days,
meant that they could squeeze
in just a short window of five
days to train together in Kolkata
for the upcoming Asian Games
in Hangzhou. After the strenu-
ously long FIDE World Cup in
Baku which lasted for nearly a
month,manyof theIndiansflew
to Dusseldorf to play in the FIDE
World Rapid Team tournament.
Afterthat,theylandedinKolkata
— most of them at least, with
Pragg being required to travel
even more, across the country
for felicitations — where they
held a quick camp before the
start of the country’s biggest
rapid and blitz tournament.
A photograph of a training
BRIEFLY
Hockey goalkeepers PR
Sreejesh and Savita
Punia wear the Asian
Games ceremonial
dress. PTI
Whereabouts
failure:Hima
suspended
New Delhi: Star India
sprinter Hima Das has
been provisionally sus-
pended by the National
Anti-Doping Agency for
three whereabout fail-
ures in 12 months, ac-
cording to sources. The
23-year-old Assam run-
ner has not been named
in the Hangzhou Asian
Games teamduetoanin-
jury she had sustained
earlier this year. Hima
had won a 400m individ-
ual silver at the 2018
Jakarta Asian Games. PTI
ChinaOpen:
Prannoy,Sen
loseinRd1
Changzhou: World
Championship bronze
medallist HS Prannoy
made a shock opening-
roundexitfromtheChina
Open Super 1000 bad-
minton tournament after
going down in three
games to Malaysia's Ng
Tze Yong here on
Tuesday.Theworldnum-
ber six Indian toiled hard
for one hour six minutes
before losing 12-21 21-13
18-21 to the Malaysian,
who is ranked 22nd.
Reigning ommonwealth
Games champion
Lakshya Sen also crashed
out of the tournament in
thefirstroundafterlosing
to Anders Antonsen of
Denmark in three games
21-23 21-16 9-21 in one
hour and 18 minutes. PTI
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The Asian Games team pose for an informal photo during their camp in Kolkata.
Grandmaster Boris Gelfand (not in pic) was invited by AIFC to coach the team.
session, posted by Vidit Gujrathi
on social media, shows the play-
ers flanked by Srinath and Boris
Gelfand, who has been invited
by the AICF to coach the young-
sters just for the camp. What’s
remarkable about the image is
thatthereisjustonelaptopopen,
the one in front of Gelfand. The
Indianyoungsters---eachraised
in the internet era --- has a chess
board to figure out tactics on.
“These days, it’s very easy to
double check everything with
engines. But these guys are very
curious to learn by themselves
overtheboard,”GelfandtoldThe
Indian Express. “So we would
have positions that I would
check with engines to see if it
was correct. They would do it
over the board. And too often, it
was correct. Maybe these play-
ers have had different mediums
tolearnaspectsof thegamethan
‘Pragg has to be aware that there
are a lot of tough steps ahead’
AMIT KAMATH
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 5
Viswanathan Anand has no
qualms in admitting he mis-cal-
culated. Just three years ago, in
December 2020, when he had
started the Westbridge Anand
Chess Academy (WACA), he re-
membersthinkingthattheplay-
ershehadtakenunderhiswings
— Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh
and Nihal Sarin — would need
five or six years to enter the elite
clubof 2700-ratedplayers.It’san
elusiveclubinthesport,withcur-
rent membership of 35 people.
Gukesh reached the fabled
mark in July last year within two
years of Anand’s prediction.
Pragg followed in July this year.
Arjun Erigaisi is also a part of the
club, with Nihal just six points
away. “The reason I say this is a
golden generation is because all
of these guys are still teenagers
— with the exception of Arjun,
who became 20 two days ago —
which means, very conserva-
tively, for the next 10 years at
everytoptournamentasIndians
we can hope for one of our play-
ers to be there. It's a great time to
be an Indian chess fan,” Anand
told journalists on the sidelines
of theTataSteelChessIndiatour-
nament. On Monday, Pragg had
toldjournalistsatKolkatathathe
feels he has the potential to be a
world champion. It’s a measure
of how much the teenager has
grown in confidence.
“It’s good that he feels this
confident. But again, you have to
Lanka win thriller against Afghanistan
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
SEPTEMBER 6
RASHID KHAN buried his face in
his hands as Mujeeb Ur Rahman
holed out to long on where
Sadeera Samarawickrama took
the offering and tumbled on to
thegroundoff thefirstballof the
38th over. In the Afghanistan
dressing room, they looked in-
consolable. Needing three more
runsinpursuitof 291/8,theyhad
to get there in 37.1 overs to make
it to the Super 4’s stage at the ex-
us,buttheyareasmotivatedand
ambitious as us.”
The Soviet-born Israeli chess
player,whofamouslychallenged
Viswanathan Anand for the
world championship crown in
2012, currently helps the five-
timeworldchampionfromIndia
at the Westbridge Anand Chess
Academy as a mentor and was
invited by the AICF last year for
a camp for the Indian national
team players. They invited him
again this year.
“It’s not a permanent thing.
Thefederationinvitedme.If they
invite me again for more camps,
I’ll be happy to visit,” he added.
There is a unique dynamic at
play: many of the players are
friends, but are also rivals chas-
ing the same limited spots at the
top of the pyramid.
“There was good cama-
raderie especially among poten-
Vishwanathan Anand during a briefing at the Tata Steel
Chess tournament in Kolkata on Tuesday. Partha Paul
prove it, and very few people do.
I don’t say that to mock him or
anything. He will need to be
aware that there are a lot of
tough steps ahead. Even if your
odds are very good, you will
need to pull it off. Because only
one person will get through and
it’s a very high bar,” says India’s
first grandmaster.
Untilthegenerationof prodi-
gies are ready to clear that ‘very-
high bar’, there are a few more
steps they need to take, believes
Vishy. “The (next step) is akin to
the difference between being a
touristataplaceandlivingthere.
It’s nice to qualify for the first
time. Then you have to be con-
sistent, you have to do it regu-
larly. If you keep on playing the
Candidates, and you’re estab-
lished there, that’s the next step
pense of Sri Lanka. It looked all
but over. But only it didn’t. There
was still plenty of life in it. But
only somebody forgot to tell the
Afghans. Their head coach
JonathanTrott,whosatforama-
jor part of the last few overs
chewing his nails, should have
done better. With a wicket still
in hand, had they got to 295 in
37.4 overs, they could have still
boarded the flight from Lahore
to Colombo to play the Super 4s.
It was a schoolboy mathe-
matical error: to qualify, they
needed six runs off four deliver-
tial rivals, said Srinath who
added: “There are aspects of
chess which are common for
everyone. And there’s no inter-
personal rivalry involved. There
are aspects of chess which are
personal, which you want to
keep to yourself. It was quite
easy to interact and collaborate.
They're quiteenthusiastic about
playing as a team.”
“We worked mainly on mid-
dle game and endgames rather
than openings. The main secrets
of chess players are in opening
preparations. So we didn’t work
on openings. We looked at
endgames and middlegames, so
all of them can acquire useful
knowledge and no tension will
exist,” added Gelfand.
These days, the complexion
of the national team has also
changed, as captured perfectly
by Vidit on Monday during the
It’s good that he feels
this confident. But again,
you have to prove it, and
very few people do. I
don’t say that to mock
him or anything. He will
need to be aware that
there are a lot of tough
steps ahead. Even if your
odds are very good, you
will need to pull it off. .”
VISWANATHAN ANAND
FORMER 5-TIME WORLD CHAMPION
(before making it to the World
Championship). Maybe with all
of these guys that’s the chal-
lenge, to bring consistency into
it,” he says.
He also warns that while the
jumps these guys havemadeare
‘spectacular’ now the other top
players will beworking on figur-
ing them out. “This is a very tal-
ented group of individuals.
Whether they outperform the
previousgeneration(of Indians),
we’ll see. Once they smell the
world championship, they’ll
want it,” says the man who has
worn the world champion’s
crown five times.
Whilealothasbeenspokenof
howthecurrentprodigiesstarted
very young, got good coaching
earlyonandgotalotofearlycom-
petitiveexposurethankstothein-
iesandthoughtheyhadonlyone
wicket in hand, with Rashid bat-
ting on 27 of 16 deliveries, it was
very much in their limits.
Instead,theireyesandminddid-
n’t look beyond the target which
at that stage was three runs of
one delivery. Had they managed
to get two runs off the first ball
of the 38th over, they would
have got three more balls to get
six runs. It was such a thin mar-
gin which decided Sri Lanka’s
passage to the Super 4 stage,
where they will be joined by
Bangladesh from Group B.
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Gauff beats Ostapenko to enter semis
REUTERS
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 5
asteadystreamof ballsdeepinto
the corners en route to captur-
ingthefirstsetin20minutesand
limiting Ostapenko to seven
AMERICAN SIXTH seed Coco points.
Gauff bolstered her hopes of se- Former French Open cham-
curingamaidenGrandSlamtitle pion Ostapenko, playing in her
The frantic schedules of as she enjoyed a stress-free 6-0 first U.S. Open quarter-final, fi-
6-2 win over Latvia's Jelena nally got on the board with a
players, coupled with Ostapenko on Tuesday to reach break to level the second set at
how little time they the U.S. Open semi-finals. 1-1 but Gauff never wavered as
spend in India, meant Gauff, whose lead-up to the she broke right back and cruised
U.S. Open included hardcourt ti- home.
that they could squeeze tles in Washington and The 19-year-old American
in just a short window Cincinnati, converted six of her Gauff won 6-0,6-2. USA Today went up a double break for a 5-2
of five days to train seven break points and dropped lead before closing out the
serve just once during the 67- match on her serve in a game in
together in Kolkata for minute match in Arthur Ashe Latvian 20th seed could not find which she had to come back af-
the upcoming Asiad. Stadium.Ostapenko entered the herrangeanddeliveredanerror- ter falling behind 0-30. With the
match full of confidence having filled performance. win, Gauff avenged her round of
upset world number one Iga Gauff wasincontrolfromthe 16 loss to the Latvian at this
drawing of lots for the Tata Steel Swiatek in the previous round start and showcased excellent year's Australian Open that left
event. “I used to be the youngest but against Gauff the misfiring court coverage while delivering the American in tears.
player in national camps some
time back. Now I am the second
oldest,” Vidit said with a smile.
Srinath says that the enthu-
siasm shown by the Indians at
the short camp left Gelfand im-
pressed,despitehimhavingseen
wave after wave of chess players
over many generations.
Talking about the influence
of Gelfand, Srinath said: “The
things they are good at is more
of sporting qualities related to
chess. But the things that Boris
has accumulated through his
years of experience are some
thingsthatcansaveyearsof their
time.”
While India is sending a
strongteamtoHangzhou,teams
like Uzbekistan, Vietnam and
Iran will pose a strong challenge.
But thebiggestnames inthefray
could be in the Chinese team,
whocouldcallonreigningworld
champion Ding Liren.
Srinath, who is the personal
coach of Arjun, believes that
these young players will look at
the Asian Games as just another
event."I'mnotentirelysureif the
enormity of the stage will sink
in,” says Srinath. “But that's a
good thing. It won’t add to the
pressure.”
ternet,Anandpointsoutjusthow
much chess the current lot have
been playing. He says he has
around 4000 recorded games in
thedatabase.Six-sevenyearsago,
he could glance at the database
and could tell which player was
youngbasedonhowmanygames
they had played: those who had
around 800 games against their
nameswouldinevitablybeyoung.
Today players are adding 500 to
600 games a year, thanks to the
game going online.
With the current generation
playing so much chess, there is
also the fear of them getting fa-
tigued.
“Fatigue is a big part of chess
in modern times. The players
will have to pay a lot of attention
to physical fitness. All the top
players in the world follow it,
these guys will need to do it as
well,” he says.
“There is such a thing as too
much chess. They will need to
learn to stop once in a while.
Right now they’re hungry for
chess. The schedule they have
coming up is very demanding.
But if they want it, they should
go for it. It’s also different when
you’re a teenager. When you’re
19, nothing matters.”
Even though the next gener-
ationhasmadetheleapandison
its way to fill his massive shoes,
Anand is always asked if he still
wants to contend. If the current
generation’s emergence will
push him to play full tilt. He
points out that last year he
played seven classical games.
This year he’ll play even fewer.
The Asia Cup, having seen a
few damp squibs over the past
few days in Pallekele, came alive
inLahore.Itwasperhapsthesort
of contest that was needed,
where the emotions overflowed
in the dressing rooms and in the
stands of the Gaddafi Stadium.
BRIEF SCORES: Sri Lanka 291/8
in50overs(PathumNissanka41,
Dimuth Karunaratne 32, Kusal
Mendis92, Charith Asalanka 36;
Gulbadin Naib 4/60) beat
Afghanistan 289 in 37.4 overs
(Hashmatullah Shahidi 59, Md
Nabi 65; Kasun Rajitha 4/79).