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Port Blair, Feb 17: The APWD,during a recent door to doorsurvey of Wimberlygunj areanoticed matters related toillegal water tap connection,non-payment of watercharges bill, bifurcation byincreasing the number ofoutlets, enlarging the diameterof individual pipe line otherthan sanction diameter,drawal of water from pipelineby electric pump, utilizationthe drinking water other thandomestic purpose etc. beingdone by some public.

In this connection,the Executive Engineer, RCD,APWD, Wimberlygunj has

People cautioned againstindulging in tamperingwith water connections

cautioned the general publicagainst such practice and alsorequested to report about anyperson found involved in suchactivities to the concernedAssistant Engineers, JuniorEngineer of the area or over ph.no.03192255801. Any personfound to be guilty of thesecharges, will have their waterconnection disconnectedpermanently without anynotice. The general publichave also been urged to savewater and use it judiciouslyand cooperate with APWD byinforming the illegal activitiesregarding water supply, thecommunication said.

Associate Professor of JNRMattends international Seminar

Port Blair, Feb 17: AnInternational seminar on‘Partition Literature : Memory& Inheritance of self ’organized by the school ofHumanities & Social Sciencesof the Netaji Subhas OpenUniversity, Kolkata andsponsored by the DistanceEducation Bureau, UniversityGrants Commission, Govt. ofIndia, recently has taken placeat Rabindra- OkakuraBhawan , Salt Lake, Kolkatafrom 8th to 10th February,2014 where Dr. Jyotirmoy RoyChowdhury, AssociateProfessor & H.O.D. of theBengali Department of JNRMahavidyalay orallypresented a paper titled ‘Preservation of traditions andculture in the presentgeneration of the settlerBengali in Andamans’ whichdrew special attention of the

audience.His paper also has

been published in the ISBNcertified Seminar ProceedingsIn this connection. In hisspeech Dr. Roy Chowdhrydescribed how the BengaliFolk- culture and traditions arebeing preserved generation bygeneration among the Bengaliduring last sixty four years inthese Islands as well aserstwhile East Bengal fromwhere they came to India afterpartition and were broughthere by the Administrationafterwards .

The Bengali still talkin their colloquial languagesin everyday’s life as before,though they have to talk Hindito converse with othercommunities in these Islands.They use proverbs, riddles,folk- rhymes etc during

Total Negligence leads to total wastage of tax-payers’ money

Fish Market constructed adecade back still

lying unused at Neil Island

Neil Island, Feb 17: Nearly adecade back the Fisheries

Mohammed SajidSheekha News Service

Department had constructeda Fish Market for the benefitof Fishermen and also for theconvenience of General

Public, spending lakhs of tax-payers’ hard earned money.But due to total negligence

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After attaining indepen-dence in August 1947, therewas a need to hold GeneralElections in free India toelect a truly representativegovernment elected on thebasis of universal adult suf-frage. Therefore, Article 324,which provides for the set-ting up of Election Commis-sion as an independent con-stitutional authority, wasbrought into force from 26thNovember, 1949, whereas,most of the other provisionswere made effective from26th January, 1950 (when theConstitution of India becameeffective).

Election Commis-sion was formally constitutedon 25th January, 1950, i.e.,one day before India becameas Sovereign DemocraticRepublic. First Chief ElectionCommissioner, Shri SukumarSen, was appointed on 21stMarch, 1950.

From 1950 to 16thOctober, 1989, the Commis-sion functioned as a singlemember body. From 16thOctober, 1989 to 1st January,1990, it was converted into athree member body but on1st January, 1990, it revertedto the system of single mem-ber body. However, since 1stOctober, 1993, the Commis-sion is regularly functioningas a three member body.

The Chief ElectionCommissioner and two Elec-tion Commissioners are giventhe same salary and allow-ances as of a Judge of theSupreme Court. All the threeCommissioners have equalpowers in decision makingand in case of any differenceof opinion on any issue, thedecision is taken by the ma-jority.

The term of the of-fice of CEC and ECs is sixyears or till the age of 65,whichever is earlier. For thepurpose of first General

EVOLUTION OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM OF INDIAElections to the Lok Sabhaand Vidhan Sabhas, the firstdelimitation order was issuedby President, in consultationwith Election Commission andwith the approval of Parlia-ment on 13th August, 1951.

To provide a legalframework for the conduct ofelections, Parliament passedthe first Act on 12th May, 1950(Representation of the PeopleAct, 1950) providing mainlyfor the preparation of electoralrolls and second Act on 17thJuly, 1951 (Representation ofthe People Act, 1951) layingdown the procedure for theconduct of elections to bothHouses of Parliament andVidhan Sabhas for each State.

Electoral Rolls forthese constituencies werepublished in all States by 15thNovember, 1951. The totalnumber of voters (excludingJammu and Kashmir) was17,32,13,635 as against thetotal population of India (ex-cluding Jammu and Kashmir),according to 1951 census,35,66,91,760. The first GeneralElections to the Lok Sabhaand Vidhan Sabhas were heldbetween October, 1951 andMarch, 1952. The first LokSabha consisting of 497 mem-bers was constituted on 2ndApril, 1952. The first RajyaSabha consisting of 216 mem-bers was constituted on 3rdApril, 1952.

After the constitutionof the two Houses of Parlia-ment and the State LegislativeAssemblies, the first Presiden-tial election was held in May,1952 and the first duly electedPresident assumed the chargeof office on 13th May, 1952.At the time of the first Gen-eral Election in 1951-52, theCommission had recognized14 political parties as multi-state parties and 39 parties asthe state parties. Presently,there are seven recognizednational parties 40 State par-

ties. For the first and secondGeneral Elections in 1951-52,and 1957, the Election Com-mission adopted the ‘Ballot-ing System’ of voting. Underthis system, every candidatewas allotted a separate ballotbox at each polling station ina screened compartment andthe voter was required onlyto drop his ballot paper, thecentrally pre-printed ballotpapers into the ballot box ofthe candidate of his choice.

From the 3rd Gen-eral Elections in 1962 on-wards, the Commissionswitched over to ‘markingsystem’ of voting. Under thissystem, a common ballot pa-per containing the names andelection symbols of all con-testing candidates is printedon which the voter has to puta mark with an arrow crossmark rubber stamp on or nearthe symbol of the candidateof his choice. All the markedballot papers are put into acommon ballot box.

The Electronic Vot-ing Machines (EVMs) wereused for the first time in partof Parur Assembly Constitu-ency in Kerala in 1982, onexperimental basis. Later,the extensive use of EVMsstarted in 1998. The EVMswere used at all polling sta-tions in the country in the14th General Elections to theLok Sabha in 2004 for thefirst time . Since then all elec-tions to Lok Sabha and Leg-islative Assemblies havebeen held using EVMs.

Since 1951-52, fif-teen General Elections havebeen held to the Lok Sabhaand 348 General Elections tothe Vidhan Sabhas and thecountry is now fully gearedfor the 16th country widegeneral elections to LokSabha . (PIB) byS.K.Mendiratta , Legal Ad-visor, Election Commission ofIndia.

UP riots: 12,000 victims yet toreturn to native villages, authorities say

M U Z AF FAR N AG A R :Over 12,000 riot victims areyet to return to their nativevillages, district authoritiessaid here on Monday. 12,681riot victims have not returnedto their native villages, addi-tional district magistrateIndermani Tripathi told news-men here. The district au-thorities have launched adrive to facilitate the dis-placed victims to get themenrolled in voter list and also

help them secure admissionfor their children in schools andcolleges, he said. T hedisplaced victims are now liv-ing in villages Jogiya Khera,Sanjak, Tawli, Baghra,Vigyana, Habibpur, Sikri,Riyawli, Nagla, Husainpur,Loee Mandwada, Shapur,Budhana, Kalyanpur,Shikarpur, Jolla, Basikala,Khampur of the district.Formsof the 2,371 families havebeen submitted to help them

in getting new ration cardsand voter cards.Meanwhile,the Uttar Pradesh govern-ment has decided to establisha government IndustrialTraining Institute (ITI) inLoee village where hundredsof riot victims are living, subdivisional magistrate ManishKumar Sharma said here onMonday. The governmenthas provided land for the In-stitute and construction willcommence soon, he said.

and lack of planning the FishMarket was constructed far-away from Neil Island’smain market, which forcedfishermen to say no to theFish Market and continueselling fish from the road sideareas, close to main market.PRI members alleged that theFish Market was constructedwithout consulting withthem or the Fishermen, whichresulted in such wastage ofpublic money.

Making mockery ofthings, now the CCS hasstarted storing LPG inside theunoccupied fish market.

The matter does notend here now a new fishmarket has been constructedto provide shelter to thefishermen at the Neil IslandBazaar. Such wastefulexpenditure of public moneyshows how insensitive theAdministration is towardsspending funds allocated by

Government of India.When contacted the

a senior officer of FisheriesDepartment told AndamanSheekha accepted that onesuch Fish Market wasconstructed long back but hesaid that the work was takenup after due consultation ofPRI members.

“I have no idea aboutthe new Fish Market. Yes wehave heard that now CCS iskeeping LPG cylinder insidethe Fish Market we hadconstructed. I shall ask forreport that who has givenpermission to the CCS to usethe Fish Market,” said asenior officer or Fisheriesdepartment, who doesn’twant his name to be quoted.Such casual answers afterwasting lakhs of hard earnedtax payers’ money proveshow serious the departmentis towards the welfarefishermen and public.

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Billyground, Feb 17: The Presi-dent of India has conferredMedals & Certificate for theCensus of 2011 to the CensusFunctionaries of Andaman &Nicobar Islands. In North &Middle Andaman District ofAndaman & Nicobar Islandstotal 11 persons have been for-tunate to receive this presti-gious Medals and Certificates.Mr. Y.Sai Babu, V.L.W. ofHarinagar Gram Panchayat un-der CD Block Mayabunder isone of them. The medal & cer-tificate is given away by thepresident of India to those offi-cials, discharged their dutiesduring the Census 2011 for theiroutstanding Zeal and high qual-ity of service rendered during

President of India Awarded forCommendable Services in Census duty 2011

their duties. On January 3, 2014the Deputy CommissionerNorth & Middle Andaman gaveaway the honour to these offi-cials in his office in behalf ofthe President of India. The vil-lagers of Harinagar GramPanchayat and his close friendsall over the Islands expressedtheir happiness for Shri Y.SaiBabu, V.L.W. for receiving thisprestigious glorious award.

TrinathSheekha News Service

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CARI’s training programmeon commercial cultivation of

flowers under TSP at Kamorta Port Blair, Feb 17: CentralAgricultural Research Institute(CARI) conducted two daystraining programme on scien-tific cultivation of commercialflower crops to the tribal farm-ers of Kamorta under the TSPcomponent of CARI during11th to 12th February 2014.

The two days train-ing were conducted by thecourse director Dr. V.Baskaran, Senior Scientist,Division of Horticulture andForestry at tribal council of-fice, Kamorta in which thetribal council chairperson Mrs.Aysha Majid graced the occa-sion as chief guest for both thedays. The first day trainingprogramme was attended by35 tribal farmers and 41 farm-ers attended the second daytraining programme.

The different topicscovered under the trainingprogramme are the scope, im-portance and prospects offlower crops in Andaman andNicobar Islands, commercialcultivation practices of flowercrops like tuberose, jasmine,heliconias, anthurium, orchids,

cost economics of cultivationof different flowers, nurserymanagement, protected culti-vation of flower crops like ger-bera and pot cultivation of or-namental plants. The traineeswere very enthusiastic toknow the technical know-howof growing flower crops.Since the demand for flowersis high for social and aestheticrequirements they showedmuch interest to get the plant-

ing material for commercialcultivation of flower crops atKamorta Island.

The trainingprogramme was organizedunder the guidance and super-vision of Dr. S. Dam Roy, Di-rector, CARI, Port Blair andNodal officer, TSP. Dr. D. R.Singh, Head, Division of Hor-ticulture and Forestry, CARI,Port Blair facilitated theprogramme.

Port Blair,Feb 17:The PCCPresidentK u l d e epR a iS h a r m aalong withs e n i o rl e a d e r smet thePresidentof India on

12th January, 2014 and after discus-sion has submitted a memorandumregarding :1. Legislative Assembly/Pradesh Council 2. Inner-line Per-mit to Check the influx of popula-tion, 3. 100% Local recruitment tosolve un-employment problems. 4.Creation of AN Public Service Com-mission 5. Relief and Rehabilitationof Tsunami affected farmers. 6.Grant of Special Status toChotanagpuri (Ranchi) Commu-nity.7. Legal Status to Tribal Coun-cil:8. Setting up of Women Commis-sion in A & N Islands 9.

Regularization of Excessland of pre-1942 and pre 1961 oldinhabitants and settlers, encroach-ments done prior to the year 2007and providing land to landless island-ers:10. Enhancement in MBBSseats for the students of A&N Is-lands11. Special package for Em-

ployment Generation 12. Extensionof Inland Vessel (IV) Water Limitsin Andaman & Nicobar Islands 13.Handing over management ofFPDCL to AN Admn,14. Empow-ering of Panchayati Raj Institution,15.Release of 3rd installment ofcompensation to ATIworkers,16.Request for creation of1346 supernumerary posts for regu-larization of services of DRMs inPBMC.17. Roads and Bridges fromPort Blair to Diglipur, Middle Straitto Nilambur, Gandhi ghat jetty toUttara jet ty and Chatham toBambooflat 18 Matters related toDirector of Transport Deptt, Direc-torate of CS&CA and EducationDepartment,19. Grant of Grade Payof Rs.2000/- to the Followers ofIRBn employed under the A & NAdministration,19 Re-introduction of13 months salary to the employeesof Fire Service Department: 20-Re-vision in payment of overtime allow-ance on the basis of wages of SixthCentral Pay Commission for opera-tional and Industrial employees ofAN Administration etc.

The memorandum submit-ted has been sent to Home Secre-tary, Min of Home Affairs for nec-essary action, as has been informedvide letter No: 18/01/P(I)/2014 dt31st January, 2014 of President’sSecretariat.

Kuldeep’s memorandum topresident forwarded to HM

Port Blair, Feb 17: The FieldExhibition Office, DAVP,Port Blair is organizingphoto Exhibit ion on thetheme of “SwamiVivekananda” atPanchayat CommunityHall, Ferrargung. SouthAndaman for a period of 50days from 18-02-2014 to22-02-2014.In connectionwith to pertaining photo-graphs about the Swami

Photo Exhibitionon Swami Vivekananda

Vivekananda life. T heabove Exhibition will inau-gurated by Mr. SunilKumar, P radhan,Ferrargunj Panchayat. on18-02-2014.The five daysExhibit ion at PanchayatCommunity Hall,Ferrargunj.South Andamanfor a period of 05 days from18-02-2014 to 22-02-2014.Admission to the exhibitionis free.

Port Blair, Feb 17: The in-augural match of RSC T-20League-Cum-KnockoutCricket Tournament will beheld at 10.00 am on 18thFebruary, 2014 at NetajiStadium, Port Blair. Mr. K.Ganeshan, Chairperson,

RSC T-20 to start from TodayPBMC will be the ChiefGuest on the occasion andMr. Rakesh Bali, IAS, Sec-retary Sports, Arts & Cul-tural and Mr. G. Bhaskar,President, Chamber of Com-merce will be the Guest ofhonour.

Public hearing byA&N Commission for OBC

Port Blair, Feb 17: This is forthe information of the generalpublic/interested parties/organisations that public hear-ings and sittings of A&N

Commission for OBC will beheld from 21st February, 2014to 11th March, 2014 exclud-ing Public holidays, Saturdayand Sundays.

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EDITORIAL.....Costs of statue politics

Ever since statues depicting hu-mans were first conceived, theirinstallation has served as an im-portant expression of power andpolitical ideology. Likewise, thesubsequent destruction of some ofthose statues — SaddamHussein's in Baghdad or, more re-cently, Vladimir Lenin in Kiev —signal the negation of the politicsof those who erected them.

Politicians keep devisingever more inventive uses for stat-ues: to tell a story or simply tomake a point. BJP's NarendraModi is, for example, using plansto erect a gigantic statue ofVallabhbhai Patel as a prop for hiselection campaign. Meanwhile,China has erected in Harbin astatue of a Korean patriot who as-sassinated a Japanese minister asa foreign policy tool — to needleJapan and woo South Korea.Those who build such monumentsshould remember, however, thatunlike other policy tools, the costsof statue politics extend well pasttheir unveiling ceremonies.

One can perhaps bethankful that Modi has chosen theconstruction of the world's talleststatue rather than the destructionof a 16th century mosque, tomobilise his constituents. Patel isa towering figure of Indian free-dom and deserves to be celebratedon the 138th anniversary of hisbirth. But nobody could miss theovert and subliminal messages themonument is intended to convey.

BJP is smart not to pointto Patel's tough stance againstMuslims, (which is documented inA G Noorani's book Destructionof Hyderabad), as the main rea-son for its adulation of the'Ironman'. But its Statue of Unitymovement going round collectingold iron implements for the statueand the discourse that wouldsurely accompany the new yatracould have consequences wellbeyond the election season.

Thousands of miles to theeast of Gujarat, where Patel'sstatue might one day be erected,another kind of monument politicsis being played out, with a statueserving as a tool of foreign policy.Last month, China unveiled thecountry's first-ever statue com-memorating a foreigner, in thenorthern city of Harbin. The bronzestatue is of Ahn Jung-geun, aSouth Korean nationalist who as-sassinated the first Japanese gov-ernor-general of Korea in 1909.

Predictably, the statue, which is ahit with nationalistic Chinese tour-ists, has incensed Japan which con-siders Ahn a terrorist. South Kore-ans, on the other hand, are delightedto see one of their compatriotslionised on foreign shores — all themore so given that the monument isa swipe at their neighbour and fre-quent rival.

The statue can only add fuelto the South Korean anger atJapan's wartime brutal rule and es-pecially the forced prostitution ofthousands of Korean "comfortwomen". Increasingly self-confidentKoreans are no longer content withJapan's past expression of regret —particularly given the rise of a newbreed of nationalist politicians underShinzo Abe who repeatedly deniesthe past and rejects demands forcontrition or compensation.

Koreans' indignation re-cently found a new focal point in theform of a small statue of a comfortwoman — a demure young womansitting on a chair — that was in-stalled in 2011 in front of the Japa-nese embassy in Seoul. It was thisstatue that reportedly led Japan tobreak off an agreement over reso-lution of the historical dispute. Thestatue since has become a lightningrod for anti-Japanese sentiment,regularly drawing protesters andcurious tourists and even provokingright-wing Japanese attempts to de-face it.The politics of shaming Ja-pan with statues of a comfort womanhas even been taken abroad. Ko-rean-Americans have installed stat-ues and monuments memorialisingcomfort women and invited Ameri-can politicians to visit the statues tohonour their memories. Japanesediplomats in the US have lobbied,so far unsuccessfully, to persuadestate governments to remove thestatues further increasing tensionbetween South Korea and Japan.

One can hope that some-day Japan will fully acknowledge thehorrors of its wartime past andmove on to build a new future. EvenChina may one day find it neces-sary to settle its bitter dispute withJapan over contested islands. Butwhile websites that inflame passioncan be quietly shut down, and pro-vocative billboards removed, whatcan be done with the Harbin statueand Seoul's monument to a youngcomfort woman sitting forlornly ona street corner? Whether Modi winsor not Patel's statue may spawn anunseemly contest of gigantism in In-dian politics.

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‘Quality, a concern forIndian healthcare sector’

As many as 98,000 hospitaldeaths occur annually due tomedical errors, which also in-crease the cost of treatmentfor patients, according to K.K.Kalra, Chief Executive Of-ficer of the National Accredi-tation Board for Hospitals andHealthcare Providers(NABH).Addressing aHealth Summit organised hereon Sunday by the Confedera-tion of Indian Industry, he saidthat quality was a concern forthe Indian healthcare indus-try, which was seen to havegrown at a rapid pace, espe-cially in recent years.

Advancements inknowledge, disease manage-ment and technology besidesan aging society had in-creased the complexities inmanagement of patients. Ac-credited hospitals could cre-ate confidence in the commu-nity about the hospital’s ser-vice and assist otherhealthcare institutions preparefor high quality systems.

Further, the penetra-tion of health insurance waslow in India despite the highcost of health care. Also,there was no monitoring ofoutcomes in hospitals.

He said that whileIndia had committed to pro-

vide affordable quality healthcare to everyone under theNational Rural Health Mis-sion in the 12 Five-Year plan,it required a lot of work, hesaid.

Political commitmentwas needed to make thesafety of patients a priority inthe public health system. Theuse of information technologymust be promoted in thehealth care sector besides thesharing of best practices, saidMr. Kalra.He also clarifiedthat the NABH, which was aconstituent board of the Qual-ity Council of India, was nota regulatory body and onlyoperated accreditationprogramme for healthcareorganisations.

Speaking earlier,Vishal Bali, Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Fortis HealthcareGlobal, said that India hadover 2.5 million undiagnosedoncology patients, besidesover 60 million diabetic pa-tients. S.K. Sundararaman,chairman, CII, CoimbatoreZone, Thavamani D.Palaniswami, Convenor,Healthcare Panel, CII,Coimbatore Zone, and S. RajaSabapathy, Director, GangaMedical Centre and Hospital,spoke.

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Africa: Largest Solar SystemMoon Detailed in Geologic MapA group of scientists has pro-duced the first global geologicmap of Ganymede, Jupiter'sseventh moon.More than 400years after its discovery byastronomer Galileo Galilei, thelargest moon in the solar sys-tem - Jupiter's moonGanymede - has finallyclaimed a spot on the map.Agroup of scientists led byGeoffrey Collins of WheatonCollege in Illinois has pro-duced the first global geologicmap of Ganymede, Jupiter'sseventh moon.The map com-bines the best images ob-tained during flybys con-ducted by NASA's Voyager1 and 2 spacecraft (1979) andthe Galileo orbiter (1995 to2003) and is now published bythe U. S. Geological Surveyas a global map. It illustratesthe varied geologic character

of Ganymede's surface. It isavailable for download at"This map illustrates the in-credible variety of geologicalfeatures on Ganymede andhelps to make order from theapparent chaos of its complexsurface," said RobertPappalardo of NASA's JetPropulsion Laboratory inPasadena, California. "Thismap is helping planetary sci-entists to decipher the evolu-tion of this icy world and willaid in upcoming spacecraftobservations.

"The EuropeanSpace Agency's Jupiter IcyMoons Explorer mission isscheduled to be orbitingGanymede around 2032.NASA is contributing a U.S.-led instrument and hardwarefor two European-led instru-ments for the mission.

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Union budget betraysbackward States: Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar said on Monday thatthe interim budge of the Uniongovernment betrayed back-ward States such as Bihar.

“The budget is astory of failure. Under theUPA government, budgetaryprovisions were not up to themark and growth sloweddown. This budget does nothave the potential to do any-thing. It does not show anyconcern towards Bihar andother backward States likeBihar. Last year’s budgetraised our hopes for specialstatus by evolving new crite-ria of backwardness. But itwent no further from there.Backward States have beenbetrayed,” Mr. Kumar said.

Meanwhile, theBihar Assembly also tabled itsannual budget during the on-going session of the StateLegislature.

The Education sectorcontinued to get a major

chunk of the budgetary allo-cation as in the previousyears. Of the total budget ofRs. 1.16 lakh crore for 2014-15, the share of education isRs. 24,715 crore.

Bihar recently an-nounced a new scheme ofproviding sanitary napkins togirls in government schoolsfrom class seven to class 12.The government has ear-marked Rs. 32.76 crore forthe scheme, which is sched-uled to be rolled out fromApril.

The State has alsobegun the recruitment pro-cess for the appointment of1.68 lakh school t ea c h e r s ,Bihar Minister Vijay KumarChoudhary, in charge of theFinance department, saidwhile presenting the budget.

The Health depart-ment has been allocated Rs.4,805 core. The State’s healthinitiatives include setting up ofa State Cancer Institute and

a tertiary care cancer centre.Power, which is one

of Mr. Kumar ’s key pollpromises, has been given Rs.6,354 crore for 2014-15. Forroad development, a hallmarkof the Chief Minister’s devel-opment programme, the gov-ernment has earmarked Rs.4,898.04 crore.

For the Social Wel-fare and Scheduled Caste /Scheduled Tribe Welfare de-partments, the allocation isRs. 4,631 crore and Rs. 1,159crore respectively.

For Backward Classand Extremely BackwardClass Welfare, which catersto an important vote base ofMr. Kumar, the governmenthas allocated Rs. 1,475 crore.

Overall, however, thepercentage share of budget-ary allocation classified under‘Social sector and Welfareand others’ has dropped to8.01 per cent from 9.81 percent in the last financial year.

conversation within their owncommunity , observe theirfolk-festivals, warship folk-gods and goddesses, sing folk-songs, kirtan and follow alltheir folk- rituals round theyear. Few of them try to writefolk-poems and stories and thecry of losing motherland hasalso been reflected in thesefolk-writings .

They remember thebad days of leaving theirhomeland by telling storiesstill now. He told that in theview of CulturalAnthropology these type offolk-traditions and culture arevaluable treasures. Earlierveteran novelist Mr. AtinBandyopadhyay deliveredthe inaugural speech.

Novelist Mr.DebeshRoy, renowned writer ofBangladesh Smt. SelinaHossain, Representstive of the

Associate Professor...Bangladesh Deputy HighCommission of Kolkata Smt.Mousumi Oais , Dr. ShubhaShankar Sarkar, ViceChancellor of Netaji SubhasOpen University deliveredspeeches on the theme of theseminar in the inauguralfunction. As plenary speekerDr. Nukhbah Taj Langah,Associate Professor of theForman Christian CollegeUniversity of Lahore,Pakistan, delivered a lectureon comprehensive study ofselect literary representationsthematically associated with1947 and subsequently 1971partition . Prof. Anjali GeraRoy of the School ofHumanities & Social Sciences,IIT Kharagpur delivered avaluable lecture on theafterlife of partition of 1947.Prof. Basabi Fraser of theEdinburgh Napier University

and Joint Director of theScottish Centre of TagoreStudies spoke on the problemsof refugees. Smt. Salma Bani ,Professor of Bengali language& Literature of the Universityof Canada, Torento delivereda special lecture on ‘ Womenin the Literature on Partition ‘in the last day. There was aface to face interaction sessionin between writers and readersjust before the valedictorysession. Mr. AtinBandyopadhyay, Mr. DebeshRoy, Mr. Amar Mitra,Smt.Selina Hossain and DipankarDas took part in thisinteresting session and sharetheir experience with theaudience . The Seminar endedon 10th February 17, 2014with vote of thanks given byDr. Manan Kumar Mandal,Organising Secretary of theseminar.

Port Blair, Feb 17: The stu-dents of DBRAIT havebeen asked to pay examregistration fee betweenFeb 18 and 21, 2014 relatedto summer 2014 MSBTEboard exams. Students hav-ing backlogs are also ad-vised to pay the exam feesand register themselves

(From page 1) BRAIT students advisedonline. In the event of non-payment of fee within stipu-lated date they will have topay fine as prescribed byMSBTE. They may contactthe Academic Members forfurther assistance if any, acommunication from theAcademic Inchage-I,BRAIT said here today.

Port Blair, Feb 17: The NIOScandidates of Stream I, Block-I 2014 of April/May 2014practical examination havebeen asked to contact the co-ordinator of AI 230006 (Govt.Girls’ Sr. Sec. School) for

NIOS candidates advisedtheir examination which willbe held on March 5, 2014.Their practical time table hasalso been displayed on thenotice board of the samestudy centre, a communica-tion said.

Port Blair, Feb 17: The nameof the candidate who has beenselected for the post of ‘StateCoordinator’ in the Office ofChief Registrar of Births &Deaths is displayed in the no-

tice board of the Chief Regis-trar of Births & Deaths, At-lanta Point, along with thename of the wait-listed candi-date for information of all con-cerned, a communication said.

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Japanese Seaplanes to be based in AndamansFebruary 15, 2014: SuddenlyIndia is buying 15 US-2 sea-planes from Japan. Discus-sions over this sale have beengoing on since 2011. Thegrowing tension with Chinahas made India eager to in-crease ties with Japan, whereChina is also a threat. Tech-nically air-sea rescue aircraft,the US-2s will be based in theNicobar and Andaman Is-lands, which are in the IndianOcean just west of Indonesia.This would enable the Indiansto more easily patrol thewestern approaches to theMalacca Straits. Each year,half the world’s oil shipments,and a third of all commerce,pass through these straits. In-dia fears that China may useits growing fleet to dominatethe waters around the straits.The US-2s will make it easierto keep an eye on the Chi-nese.

The US-2 is a 43 ton,four engine amphibious mari-time patrol aircraft that cancarry twenty passengers, 12stretchers or a ton of cargo.Japan uses them for searchand rescue and uses a crewof eleven for these missions.Maritime patrol is similar andthe aircraft has a sea-searchradar as well as viewing ports

for the crew. Cruising speedis 480 kilometers an hour andmax endurance is about ninehours. The US-2s cost $110million each and it would beup to India to arm them asthe Japanese constitution for-bids the export of weapons.

A seaplane is moreexpensive to build and main-tain, but these aircraft canland and take off from thewater and be stationed any-where along the coast (or upa river). During World WarII amphibious maritime re-connaissance aircraft oftentook advantage of this andwere very useful. Currentlyonly Russia and Canadabuild seaplanes like this and

Russia is an enthusiasticbacker of these amphibiousaircraft.

In 2013 the RussianDefense Ministry bought sixBe-200 jet powered sea-planes, for about $40 millioneach. Most seaplanes useturboprop engines and usingjets makes available a fasterseaplane that can carry more.The Be-200 was developedin the 1990s, using a combi-nation of Russian and West-ern technology. It first flewin 1998, and over a dozen areon order configured as fire-fighting aircraft. This was themain reason it was designedin the first place. Five ofthese are already in service.

This model can carry twelvetons of water (which it couldscoop from a river in 12 sec-onds). The 43 ton aircraftcan carry seven tons of cargoor 72 passengers. The air-craft was offered in an anti-submarine configuration butthere were no takers. Builtto fly low and slow (it cruisesat 500 kilometers an hour),the Be-200 was ideal for anti-submarine warfare. It is un-clear what the Russian mili-tary intends to do with it.

Because most of Russialacks roads and airfields, buthas plenty of rivers and lakes,the Be-200 would greatly in-crease rapid access to manyof these areas, especiallythose beyond the range ofhelicopters. Current endur-ance is about four hours persortie. This can be increasedby using some of the cargocapacity for additional fuel,to get endurance up to eighthours or more. ( Source:strategypage.com)