Srinagar, July 9: A militant was killed and a soldier was injured in an encounter at Handwara area in north Kashmir’s Kup-wara district on Wednesday.A police official told GNS that acting on a specific informa-tion about the presence of some militants at Shah Mohalla Hamla Pati village in Zatchal-dara, Handwara in the district, the joint team of army’s 21 RR and SOG cordoned off the whole area.As such the joint team intensi-fied the searches, the militants hiding in the village tried to break the cordoned and opened heavy fire upon the forces, the official said, adding that the fire was retaliated ensuing a fierce gun battle.In the meantime, the militants while fleeing entered in anoth-er hamlet adjacent to the forest area, he said, adding that an-other fresh gunfight erupted between the holed up militants and the army during which a foreign militant has been killed.They identified the militant as Abu Mosa, a divisional com-

mander of Lashkar-i-Toiba outfit and a soldier of 21 RR identified as Lias Naik Chinna Bassapa Pojari (28) also sus-tained bullet injuries during the encounter. “The injured sol-dier was immediately rushed sub-district hospital Handwara where from he was removed to army’s 92 –base hospital here in Srinagar in serious conditions.“Abu Mosa was active in in Handwara, Rajwara and Ram-hall belt since 2012 and was headed three separate militant groups in the district”, the offi-cial said, adding that the mili-tant was also involved in the killing of a police Head Con-stable at Hangalpora area of Vilgam on 13 July, 2013 besides was also involved in the attack on Army convoy at Dragmulla on 16th November last year.“GPS-01, phone-01, AK-47 -01 along with two magzines, Hand Grenades-02 and a pouch was recovered from his posses-sion”, the official said.The search operation in the area was going on to track down the remaining militant, he said.

However, sources said that an-other militant also sustained a bullet wound and managed to give slip to the joint party of forces.Meanwhile, Alif-Din Gujer of Hamala Pati area while talking to GNS said that we were busy in our house hold works when the two gunmen passed by his residence amid firing upon them by forces.

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Srinagar, July 9 (KNS): Days af-ter the high court issued strict directions to arrest absconders involved in the paper leak scam-2012, the Crime Branch (CB) of Jammu and Kashmir police raid-ed more than 15 places in south Kashmir and initiated a massive manhunt for the allegedly in-volved in the BOPEE scam.Sources told KNS that more than 15 places in South Kashmir were raided by CB and has also ac-quired further leads in the case. Details also maintained that a team of senior Crime Branch of-ficials is camping in South Kash-mir and widespread raids are be-ing carried to nab the absconders.Crime Branch sources told KNS that it has raided several shops, petrol pumps and business estab-lishments of the absconders and the grip is further being tight-ened to detain the involved. “In coming days, you will see further raids being carried in the region as most of the students who were involved in paper leak scam hail from South Kashmir,” said se-

nior Crime Branch official while pleading anonymity. He added further that the links between the brokers and other people has also been established and that the department shall stay in south Kashmir for more days so as to receive further inputs. High Court on July 2 directed the In-

spector General of Crime Branch to supervise the investigations. A Division Bench Comprising Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice Hasnain Masoodi while making observations said that a person who is involved in such a crime which is cancerous to the society and you left them scot free. It sug-gests you are shielding them. Any of us can be

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The recent Rangarajan Committee report has thrown light on over all economic health of the country and has also proved the facts and figures issued by various governments from time to time visa-vis G.D.P and in-dustrial growth as far from the facts and concocted to divert the attention of the people. According to the re-port, one amongst every three Indi-ans is poor. Though the report says that those living in urban areas and spending Rs47/ per day and in rural areas Rs.32/ daily cannot be consid-ered poor which seems to be unreal-istic and far from the truth. There is no doubt that

Rangarajan Committee Report--- Far from reality

Status of R&B projects in Kokernag Constituency reviewed Speaker for fast pacing of Children

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Poor BSNL broadband and mobile services irk subscribers

Srinagar, July 9 : Hurriyat Con-ference (M) Chairman and Amir of Mutehda Majlis-e-Ulema, Mir-waiz Dr. Molvi Mohammad Umar Farooq Wednesday paid rich trib-utes to the Um-ul-Moomineen Haz-rat Khadijah-tul-Kubrah (RZA) on her death anniversary for her ex-emplary service and sacrifices for the religion of Islam.According to a statement issued to KNS, while addressing a large gathering at Astan-e-Dastgir Sa-hib, Khanyar, Mirwaiz stated that Hazrat Khadijah has the dis-tinction to be the first to embrace Islam and first to acknowledge the prophet hood of Mohammad (SAW). He said that Hazrat Khad-ijah (RZA) became the object of great veneration by all Muslims, because as wife she lived closest to Prophet Muhamamd (SAW) (PBUH) and supported him in his difficulties. That is why; she earned the name of ‘complete woman’ said Mirwaiz. Hurriyat (M) Chairman stated that our daughters, mothers and sisters should emulate the life of Hazrat Khadijah (RZA) to live a religious, pure and honorable life.Addressing another gathering at Masjid Sharief Mir Ahmad Sahib, Ahmad Kadal,

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Khadijah-tul-Kubrah (RZA)

After High Court’s censure, massive raids

in South Kashmir

DB passes strictures against govt for shielding tainted and

corrupt officers

30,000 candidates forced to appear for written test in

a single hallSrinagar, July 9: The exhibition of non-professionalism on part of authorities in conducting written test for Fire and Emer-gency Services Department’s (FESD) fire fighter, driver and other posts created mess and chaos during the morning rush hours in Srinagar city as hun-dreds of public and private ve-hicles got stranded due to the clashes that erupted between thousands of aspirants and po-licemen. Sources told CNS that FESD authorities had called 16,500 aspirants for written test at the Indoor Stadium Complex on Wednesday morning. Howev-er, according to reports at least 30, 000 aspirants appeared at a time and,“Due to shortage of space, it became extremely dif-ficult for the authorities to ad-

just all the aspirants as a result there was chaos and confusion everywhere. Those aspirants who failed to occupy their seats raised clamor. The authorities called police to control the sit-uation which infuriated the as-pirants who alleged that some of the policemen thrashed aspi-rants without any provocation,” an aspirant from Bandipora Ajaz Ahmed Mir told CNS. Eyewitnesses said that the presence of police provoked the aspirants and they resorted to stone-pelting. Inside the Indoor Complex some of the aspirants according to eyewitnesses were thrashed by policemen while some aspirants were seen run-ning helter-skelter on the roads with torn clothes. They were chased by police after they pelted stones on them. The clashes between the police and aspirants on the roads brought traffic to halt as a result com-muters were trapped

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New Delhi, July 9: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Wednesday met Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Dis-tribution, Ram Vilas Paswan here and dis-cussed issues pertain-ing to the allotment of essential commodities including food grains by the Centre to the State.Omar Abdullah high-lighted the necessity of increasing the quota of food grains to the State to meet the demand of people particularly poor sections of the so-ciety and those living below the poverty line. He said that for a State like Jammu and Kash-mir being deficit in the production of food grains and confronted with severe winters along with remoteness and inaccessibility of areas, there is highest need of buffer stocking of food grains,See Omar On PG 11..

Omar meets Paswan, Gadkari

Srinagar, July 9 : Ali Mo-hammad Sagar, minister and general secretary National Conference on Wednesday said that the state government will soon take a decision on regularization of daily wa-gers. Sagar told KNS that the party is committed to address the grievances of the employees working on low wages and the depart-ments concerned have been asked to submit the details required for their regularization. He said that the state cabinet has already taken a decision which called for details of Daily Wagers/Daily Rat-ed Workers from various

departments by ending June, 2014 to take a final call on the matter.Sagar said that the gov-ernment understands the difficulties of the workers and will take a

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Srinagar, July 9, CNS: Poor cel-lular connectivity and irritant broadband service has become continuous source of nauisance to BSNL subscribers in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir Val-ley. Hundreds of BSNL subscrib-ers from various localities across Kashmir are continuously com-plaining of ‘poor BSNL broad-band and mobile services.” BSNL broad band subscribers from different parts of Srinagar city told CNS from past week they are unable to access Youtube and other videos through wireless ‘Wifi’ BSNL network. “No official form BSNL will take you seri-ously once you approach them to redress your problem. They will make you roam from one cham-ber to another and once they fail to convince you, they direct you to consult a particular official to avoid you,” a broad band sub-scriber

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Soldier injuredFM expected to take a call on

reducing duties on Gold imports

New Delhi, July 09: Amid high expectations from the middle class and in-dustry, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley present’s his maiden budget on Thurs-day that may contain tax sops for the salaried, dumping of the controver-sial retrospective tax and spelling out of steps to re-vive investment and man-ufacturing for growth.There are high hopes that the budget for 2014-15 to be presented in Parliament may actually not tinker with the threshold limit or the other tax slabs but could provide reliefs by incentivising savings. For boosting investment, Jaitley is expected to an-nounce tax incentives for industry. As a prelude, the government has al-ready extended the excise duty concessions for au-tomobile and consumer durable sectors till De-cember. The Finance Minister is also expected to take a call on reducing duties on gold import, which

were raised last year to check ballooning cur-rent account deficit. He could also provide relief to farmers to help them tide over the impact of deficient monsoon which could lead to fall in agri-cultural output. The government may set up a price stabilisation fund, as promised in the BJP’s manifesto. The new minister may

also outline the road map for roll out of the Good and Services Tax (GST) but it was not clear what will be his approach on the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) about which the Economic Survey makes a mention on Wednesday.In a bid to restore in-vestor confidence, both domestic and foreign, Jaitley may announce

scrapping of the provi-sion of retrospective tax-ing of corporate mergers and acquisitions, a leg-acy of the UPA that was blamed on putting off for-eign investors.The survey has also called for tax reforms in-cluding raising the tax to GDP ratio that has fuelled whether he would choose to widen the base or with-draw exemptions.Setting the tone for the Budget, the Survey un-derlined the essence of urgency to restore growth momentum and address the long-standing struc-tural problems hurting economy. The survey also made a strong case for “next wave” of economic re-forms to meet the aspi-rations of the people and catch up with the rest of the world.“The Economic Survey 2013-14 conveys a sense of urgency about the course the needs to undertake not only to recapture to the growth momentum fast, but to also ameliorate the long standing structural problem that undermines the economy’s long term potential,” Finance Sec-retary Arvind Mayaram said.The pre-Budget doc-ument

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Srinagar, July 9 : Resigning from the Peoples Democrat-ic Party (PDP), musician turned politician Shahzad Asim on Wednesday said that he will give the befit-ting reply to the party as an independent candidate from Sopore constituency in up-coming Assembly elections scheduled later for this year.Asim said that he was ditched from the party lead-ership which promised him mandate from the Sopore constituency several years back and asked to work hard to hone the constituency. “I was ditched by the same leadership which assured me mandate from Sopore con-stituency four years back. As I reached out to the people in all nooks and corners and mobilized them for the party support, the party leadership succumbed to the

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Asim resigns from PDP along

with hundreds of workers

One militant escapes in injured condition

HC directs Higher Education Dept to act against two Principals

Jammu, July 9: A Division Bench of the State High Court comprising chief justice M.M.Kumar and Justice Tashi Rabstan Wednesday issued various di-rections of wide public importance in a much publicized public interest litiga-tion filed by two social activists Shiekh Muhammad Shafi and Prof S.K.Bhalla. The DB after hearing Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed with Advocate Suraj Singh appearing for the PIL where-as senior additional advocate general Gagan Basotra for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and senior advocate Sunil Sethi with advocate Ankesh Chandel ex-pressed its dissatisfaction over the pace of 147 departmental inquiries pending against various gazetted/non-gazetted officers of the state against whom there are serious allegations of corruption, misappropriation and fraudulent trans-actions causing heavy loss to the public exchequer. The DB according to CNS after going through the compliance reports dated 29 May, 6 June, 4 July 2014 and 7 July 2014, the court observed that it has been sub-mitted that twelve departmental inqui-ries have been disposed off by different

departments including School Educa-tion, Cooperative Department, Health and Medical Education Department, Rural Development Department, Public Works Department and J&K Special Tri-bunal. The court further observed that it has not been disclosed in these 12 inquiries as to what were the nature of allegations and the status of the delinquent employ-ees. The Court is constraint to observe that the GAD is slack in securing infor-mation from the concerned departments for obvious reasons and the concerned departments are shying away in disclos-ing complete information. Our attention has been drawn to annexure R-4 which gives the list of cases pending against officers/officials. The name of the offi-cer is concealed nor the present place of posting has been revealed. Is it with the apprehension that there nexus with might would be exposed or with some other motives? The perusal of the list would show that the officers suffer from serious allegations. At item number 5, for example, the name of the officer has been withheld, who belongs to Revenue Department nor his place of posting has been revealed. Officers suffer from the allegation of transfer of

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Govt to take final call on regularization of daily

wagers very soon: Sagar

Srinagar, July 09: Army on Wednesday foiled an infil-tration attempt near Line of Control (LoC) at Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch dis-trict of Jammu and Kashmir while as a blast took place in the area following the at-tempt made by intruders to sneak in.Official sources told GNS that a group of intruders

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Krishna Ghati Sector

‘Waiting for Dr Farooq to issue the list of candidates’

Discusses J&K CAPD, road communication sectors

Srinagar, July 9 (KNS): A Special Sur-veillance Squad of vigilance organization Kashmir under the su-pervision of Altaf Ah-mad Shah, SSP ABP, caught red handed Mir Mohammad Maqbool Technical Assistant (JE) in BDO office Khansahib Budgam while demanding and accepting an amount of Rs.2000/- from the complainant namely Mudasir Ahmad Ganie son of Gh Qadir Ganie resident of Kulbugh Tehsil Khansahib as illegal gratification in connection

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Subject: Abstract Short Term Tender Notice No: 08-WW of 06/2014.Reference: - NIT Circulated under No: WWD/2221-2245 dated 18-06-2014.

Extension Notice No: 1The last date of receipt of tenders for the following works advertised under aforesaid tender notice is hereby extended to

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IMBA Notification for Group Discussion and Personal Interview-2014It is notified for the information of all concerned that the candidates bearing following ENT application form numbers have become eligible to appear in the Group Discussion and Personal Interview for IMBA Programme-2014. The date and time for the GD/PI shall be notified separately. The admission of all the candidates for Groups Discussion and Personal Interview is purely provisional subject to verification of their original documents.

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“I somehow managed to escape along with my family members. However, in the firing incident, a cow, calf and a goat who were grazing nearby our house be-longing to us have been killed”, Alif Din said. (GNS)

in wee hours today tried to sneak into this side at Nangi Tekri area of Krishna Ghati sector in Mendhar, however, the alert soldiers of 3 Grenadier deployed along the LoC challenged them. “The intruders after being challenged opened heavy fire with automatic machine guns; the fire was retaliated ensuing a brief exchange of fire”.No loss of life reported, sources said, adding that the group of intruders returned back.Meanwhile, a blast with a big-bang occurred near LoC at Nangi Tekri area, sources said, adding that the ori-gin of the blast was not immediately known.The blast created panic among the residents living near the area, sources said, adding that a massive search operation has been launched to combat with the suspected intruders.Pertinently, On July 1 and 3, army troopers of 1 Ma-har deployed along Line of Control (LoC) at Roshni Post near Balnoi in Mendhar foiled the infiltration attempts made twice in a week by the intruders.Based on the specific intelligence inputs about a hide-out a joint operation was launched today by Rashtri-ya Rifles and J&K Police in Nilman Forest of Raigarh bowl in Ramban district.Meanwhile, a senior defence official in a statement issued to GNS said that during the search operation large cache of arms and ammunition which included one AK 56 Rifle with two magazines, one Rifle .303 with magazine, 57 rounds of 7.62mm SLR, Kenwood Radio transceiver, one IED circuit, two hand grenade fuses, one solar charging plate and one leather belt for carrying ammunition were recovered from the hide-out. (GNS)

presented in Parliament today called for revamp of complex taxation system and said “bad taxes” like surcharges, cess and dividend distribution levy need to “eventually go” so as to boost investments as well as GDP growth, which has slipped to sub-5 per cent.The BJP-led government rode to power on promises of providing relief to inflation-hit common man, amid falling growth, stagnating investments, high fiscal deficit and external crisis. On the other hand, Jaitley, though not a hard-core economist, is expected to pur-sue the path of fiscal prudence and not sacrifice it at the altar of populism. He has already indicated that the government will have to refrain from mindless populism.“If you indulge in mindless populism you burden the exchequer...you convert yourself into a high taxation society. It does not work. Therefore, if you have to fol-low a path of fiscal prudence, (you should) have a cer-tain amount of discipline,” Jaitley had said recently.The Survey has suggested a three-pronged strategy of containing inflation, pushing tax and expenditure reforms and legal and regulatory frameworks for market economy for achieving 7-8 per cent in coming years. Growth during the current fiscal is expected to improve to 5.4 to 5.9 per cent.It also calls for fiscal discipline, rationalising subsi-dies and reforming the legal and taxation system.

hospitalized and be treated by these third degree doc-tors.The court directed IG Crime Branch to exercise su-pervision on investigation of the case so that any ex-traneous influence in executing of arrest warrants is effectively checked. It also directed IG to file his prog-ress report in this regard within 2 weeks. The Crime Branch officials submitted before the court regard-ing the attachment of properties of some absconders but it expressed dissatisfaction over the attachment process. “The attachment order shows some land has been attached and nothing has been pointed out with regard to attaching of Bank accounts and Business concerns”, the court observed. While relating the issue of Crime Branch’s failure to arrest 17 accused with the process of attachment of property of the ac-cused, the court observed: “We presume that similar situation must be prevailing in other cases.” (KNS)

1200 kanals of government land to land grabbers in Kot Balwal area of Jammu district. It has been stated that the matter has been sent to Divisional Commissioner Jammu on 7 July 2011 for legal action against those who had sold land in excess of their share and further departmental action against the responsible revenue officers has been recommend-

ed who have issued the ‘Fard Intikahb’ for the sale of the land. What happened after 7 July 2011 has not been revealed and all that has been said is that action taken report is awaited. The DB looking into similar such lapses directed the Commissioner/Secretary GAD to submit a detailed report of all the 147 depart-mental inquries by filing a report before the next date of hearing. And in case the report is not filed then Commissioner Secretary GAD shall remain present in person. The DB further said if a person who suffer from serious allegations of corruptions then he would not deserve a public dealing posting. The DB also is-sued directions for immediate filling up of the post of CPO’s in order to make seven courts of additional dis-trict and session judges who have been empowered to deal with cases under prevention of corruption. The DB also took serious note of inaction on the part of the Higher Education Department for not taking action against two Principals namely Prof Nutan Kumar Resudra and Prof Hemla Aggrawal. The then Principal Government Degree College Rajouri, pres-ently, Nodal Principal GGM Scinece College Jammu and then Principal SPMR College of Commerce Jam-mu and presently Principal government degree col-lege for women Parade Jammu. The DB observed that in case of Prof Resudra an in-quiry was conducted and report was submitted on 20 August 2011 and thereafter a show cause notice was served on him on 9 September 2011 and thereafter the matter was referred to the commission of inquiries. The DB after expressing its displeasure observed that we fail to understand the procedure adopted for re-ferring the matter to commission of inquires because after the inquiry has been completed the show cause notice issued and the reply is filed then the appoint-ing authority is required to go into the issues raised in the reply and pass appropriate orders.

fuel, petroleum, k-oil and other essential items par-ticularly in the areas which remain cut off from the towns and cities during the winter months.It was stated in the meeting that Jammu and Kashmir is receiving 63067 tonnes of food grains per month as per projected population of the year 2000 for 18.02 lakh families whereas the State CAPD Department is distributing ration to 19.72 lakh families which results in a monthly shortfall of 5953 tonnes of food grains which has further widened due to increase in population from 101.44 lakh in 2001 to 125.49 lakh in 2011.

pressure from some of its leaders and gave the man-date to the relative of party general secretary Mo-hammad Dilawar Mir,” he said while addressing the gathering of hundreds of workers at Dak Bungalow Sopore who chanted the slogans against the PDP par-ty for its decision of refusing mandate to Asim and set afire their party identity cards and the flag. They re-posed the faith in Asim and disassociated themselves from the party fold hereafter. “We are not anymore associated with the PDP. If they can ditch the person who was introduced to us by them, tomorrow same can happen with us,” the workers shouted amidst anti party slogans.They resolved to participate in the elections in large numbers for his success in the upcoming Assembly elections. Meanwhile, Asim said the time is not far when the party patron and its president will be plead-ing before some of its leaders for the mandate since the lobbyism is prevailing high in the party.

for over an hour in the scorching heat. “I was trapped in the traffic mess near Bak-shi Stadium for more than an hour. This was a nightmare for me and my little kids,” a commuter Khurshid Ahmed told CNS. Holding FESD officials directly responsible for the mess, scores of aspirants said that it dis-played unprofessionalism on part of officials and nothing else. “How can you accommodate 16,500 aspirants at a place that lacks facilities? It would have been better if these tests would have been conducted district wise,” said aspirants. Due to chaos and confusion, the scheduled test was not conducted and accordingly the authori-ties cancelled the same and said that aspirants would be intimated through a separate notifica-tion about the new date of the examination. When contacted Director General FESD, Ghu-lam Ahmed Bhat told CNS that some aspirants raised hue and cry when they were barred by authorities to appear for the test as they did not carried their call letters, pencils and sheets. He said that the venue witnessed huge rush because those aspirants who had not received call letters also arrived to take part in the test. He admitted that all but 30,000 aspirants arrived at the venue. “Some time things get out of control but fortu-nately, authorities managed the affairs well and things were quickly brought under control,” Bhat said. (CNS)

positive decision in their favour. Sagar said that the matter for regular-ization of all such Dai-ly Wagers/Daily Rated Workers who have been engaged after January, 1994 was pending be-fore the Government for want of certain details and a clear cut policy.The State Cabinet dis-cussed the issue in depth and called for complete details pertaining to the engagement of such workers from various departments by ending June, 2014 positively so that a policy decision is taken, Sagar added. Meanwhile, the NC gen-eral secretary said the party will soon take a call on the list of its can-didates for the forthcom-ing assembly elections. “We are waiting for the arrival of Dr Farooq Sa-heb and as soon as he arrives, party will take a final call on the list of candidates,” he added.

with effecting the release of payment amounting to Rs 90,000/- in favour of the complainant on behalf of job card hold-ers relating to construc-tion of work of lane un-der MGNREGA scheme from the house of Mo-hammad Akbar Dar to house of Gh Moham-mad Rusray at Kulbugh Khansahib Budgam.The accused demanded an amount of Rs 10,000 from the complainant but on his insistence it was settled for Rs 2000. On this information a successful trap was laid by Vigilance sleuths. A case FIR No.30/2014 u/s 5(2) J&K P.C. Act 161 RPC has been registered and accused has been ar-rested and lodged in P/S Vigilance Organisation Kashmir. The trap team was led by Inspector Ab-dul Rashid Khan and as-sisted by staff members. . Further investigation into the case is in prog-ress. (KNS)

Mirwaiz while throw-ing light over the sacred month of Ramadaan stat-ed that the basic aim of this month is to have a spiritual introspect at individual and collective level to create a society based on religious prin-ciples. Mirwaiz stated that the month was giv-ing opportunity to the Muslims to devote their entire time to Allah, but

it was also true it gives a chance to think and protect the Islamic character, culture and identity of this place. APHC Chairman said that the holy month of Ramdaan also gives an opportunity to ponder upon the economic and social issues facing the society. Mirwaiz said that Kashmiri Nation was standing at a critical juncture, adding, showing complete solidarity and commitment with the cause guarantees its suc-cess. APHC Chairman has also expressed his heartfelt condolences over the demise of 9 people in a traffic accident at Simthan Top, Kishtward. He has offered special prayers for the deceased and prayed for the pa-tience of the bereaved families. (KNS)

Muhammad Saleem told CNS. A BSNL subscriber from Hyderpora said that what troubles you more is that there “is no one to pay heed to our grievances.” The angry subscribers said the service of BSNL has been going from bad to worse with every passing day. Reports said that at tourist resort Yousmarag poor connectivity, call drops, weak signal and other irri-tants have become perennial problems with BSNL service. Same is the case with the other areas includ-

ing Srinagar city. “As I take a stroll out-side the hotel in Yousma-rag, my BSNL mobile connection gets off for want of signal and it irri-tates me,” said a foreign tourist adding that the company is making the people to pay for the de-fective service. Similar views were expressed by the residents of Brein Nishat where BSNL net-work is out of order from past fortnight. Subscribers rued that they are suffering be-cause there is lack of accountability in the department. “BSNL em-ployees are trained in collecting bills only. This company extracts money from you for poor ser-vice.

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Take a break from your routine, Libra. You might feel like you’re leading an army into battle as you strive for new adven-tures and conquer new realms. Make sure you take a bit of time out today to stop and let your troops rest. You deserve a little rest yourself. Use this moment of stillness to form your plan of attack so you’re sure about how to proceed.

The key for you is to minimize your daily drama as much as possible, Scorpio. You may not realize how much you cripple your-self by the way you exaggerate every aspect of your life. Try not to give so much of your attention to things that really don’t matter much. Petty jealousy and gossip about other people’s lives are es-pecially irrelevant in your world.

Be careful of advertising yourself as someone who is so strong and mentally competent that you’re capable of handling every-thing, Sagittarius. Take note that the strongest mule on the trail usually ends up carrying the most weight. Your emotions are more sensitive than you may think, and certainly more than you demonstrate to others. Be honest about the way you feel and not just the way you think.

Things should flow well for you today with very little ef-fort on your part, Capricorn. Take note that if any quarrel arises, it’s an indication that the person you’re arguing with isn’t nec-essarily the right person to deal with or confide in. Emotional issues are likely to be the hardest ones to overcome, but this shouldn’t be a problem for you. You have the ability to work through these like a pro.

This is meant to be a nice, relaxing day, so treat it as such, Aquarius. There’s no need for you to plan any great strategy at this time. Try to take it easy and not indulge in any unnecessary stress. This is your time to enjoy the moment. Don’t tax your mind by overanalyzing everything that comes your way. Go with the flow and have a great time regardless of what you end up doing.

Your sensual nature is heightened, Pisces, and you’ll find yourself engaged in tender moments and languid peacefulness in the company of others. Soothe your soul by letting yourself slip into situations that give you the emotional freedom to do or say whatever comes to mind. Life should be like a love poem written by a great master. Accept the good energy that comes your way.

Your sixth sense is right on target, Virgo, so trust your instincts today. You’re likely to connect with someone in a wonderful partnership that will help you foster the very plan you want to develop now. Stay close to those things that resonate strongly with your morals. The answer is in front of you; you don’t have to search too far afield in order to find it.

Allow your eager and restless nature to express itself in ways other than through the spoken word, Aries. Show someone that you care through your gentle touch or a big bear hug. Hold on a little bit more tightly than you might normally. There’s an unspo-ken understanding that comes when you communicate through nothing but pure silence. Work on developing this kind of connec-tion with those closest to you.

This is a terrific day for you, Taurus. You should find that your relationships, especially with men, go exceptionally well. Your tender and extremely sensitive nature is finally being recognized as the treasure chest it is. There are many times in which this type of personality is seen as weak, yet today is one of those times in which you’re given the full credit you deserve.

A selfish attitude on your part won’t be tolerated today, re-gardless of the circumstances, Gemini. Don’t make it worse for yourself by pretending that you don’t notice others’ hurt feelings. People are likely to be extra sensitive today, so be careful about trying to impose your will on someone who really wants nothing more than an ear to talk to and a shoulder to cry on.

You could find the hardest person to face is you, Cancer. You tend toward introspection, and you may find yourself shrinking into self-recrimination. You could analyze the important people in your life and yet fail to address the one you really need to look at – you. As you continually strive for perfection, give yourself proper credit. Do something nice for yourself today.

Take advantage of the creative energy in the air today, Leo. Keep your hands moving and your imagination flowing toward something fun and artistic. If you begin to doubt your work, you may fall down a spiral of creative blockage. Don’t get into the habit of constantly judging the quality or outcome of your work. Give yourself free rein to open up and explore whatever comes to mind.

SRINAGAR, JULY 09: Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Mr. Ali Mohammad Sagar today inspected various prestigious proj-ects undertaken for ensuring holis-tic and sustained development of the Ganderbal district.

He was accompanied by Depu-ty Commissioner, Ganderbal, Mr. Sarmad Hafeez, Director Rural De-velopment, Mir Altaf Ahmed and other senior officers of different departments of PHE, PDD, Irriga-tion, R&B etc.

The Minister inspected included the under construction model vil-lage being constructed at Gadoora by the department of rural devel-opment and directed the officers to fast face the work so that it is con-structed within the stipulated time frame.Mr. Sagar also inspected the

first of its kind Physical Educa-tion College being constructed at Gadoora and asked for its timely completion. He also inspected the pace of work on the Central Univer-sity being constructed at Tulmulla in Ganderbal district and asked the officers to ensure that it is complet-ed within the stipulated time.

Mr. Sagar directed the officers to ensure the completion of vari-ous developmental programmes within the stipulated time frame, so that people get benefitted from these welfare measures. He said that government has undertaken a comprehensive programme for development of the Ganderbal district in various sectors like R&B, PHE, Housing, Health etc.

The Minister impressed upon officers to work in a synergised

manner, so that the bottle necks, if any are removed and the proj-ects are fast paced and completed within the stipulated time frame. He also called for close monitor-ing of these prestigious projects, so that an effective feedback can be obtained about the status of their implementation and necessary measures, if needed, are done.

Mr. Sagar while interacting with the people at different locali-ties said that the government has undertaken a comprehensive pro-gramme for ensuring overall and holistic development of the state. He said various programmes have been undertaken which have been responsible in elevating the socio-economic profile of the people be-sides providing the much needed job opportunities to them.

LMD conducts surprise inspection, imposes Rs.

6000 penalty KATHUA, JULY 09: In the view of ongoing Shree Amar

Nath Ji Yatra, a team of Legal Metrology Department Kath-ua under the supervision of the Assistant Controller Legal Metrology Kathua Ajay Verma and Comprising of the In-spector Legal Metrology Vicky Sharma and Devi Lakhan-puria conducted intensive checking of various business establishments especially provisional stores, karayana stores, shopkeepers selling mineral water, cold drinks and snacks at Lakhanpur National Highway from Lakhanpur to Chan Arrorian and Adjoining areas.

During Inspection 9 traders were booked for violation of various provisions of J&K Weights and Measures En-forcement Act 1997and Package Commodities Rules and 6 challans were compounded and penalty of Rs 6000 was imposed on the erring traders.

Besides this, Department directed all the traders to use only verified Weights and Measures for Business transac-tions and ensure that all the Package Commodities sold to the consumers especially to Shri Amarnath Yatris must bear the MRP, PKD, Net Contents and complete address and Consumer Care Number .

Sagar inspects Ganderbal projects

5 foot bridges worth Rs. 4 cr coming up in

Kokernag Constituency

SRINAGAR, JULY 09:- Minister for Haj, Auqaf, Floriculture and Public Enterprises Peerzada Mo-hammad Sayeed and Minister for Roads & Buildings Mr. Abdul Ma-jid Wani today chaired a meeting convened to review the status of projects being executed by differ-ent agencies under PMGSY and R&B sectors in Kokernag Con-stituency.

Highlighting the importance of road communication much stress was laid on timely comple-tion of the road projects being executed by different agencies under PMGSY and R&B sectors in the Constituency during the meeting. The concerned execut-ing agencies were also asked to accelerate the pace of work on the projects maintaining quality of work and ensuring their time-ly completion for the benefit of the people. The concerned were also asked for taking up some vi-

tal projects of public importance under projectization, besides preparing Detailed Project Re-ports of some roads for connect-ing left-out habitations under PMGSY.

The Meeting was informed that 5 new Foot bridges to be completed at a cost of Rs. 4 crore, would be taken up in the constit-uency for which for an amount of Rs. 60 lakh has already been

earmarked. These Foot bridges would be constructed at Na-book, Guridraman, Mathindoo, Chartenzi and Wandiwalgam over Gowran and Bringi Nallah.

The Meeting was informed that out of 39 schemes, 25 schemes stand completed by lay-ing 47 km fair-weather and 38 km blacktopped road connect-ing 33 habitations and spending Rs. 42.80 crore under PMGSY on

these projects. As many as 40 km road would also be constructed this year in the Constituency un-der the scheme, the meeting was informed.

The meeting further in-formed that 59 schemes amounting to Rs. 75.42 crore are under execution in the Con-stituency under R&B sector. The DPRs of some vital link roads have also been prepared and

submitted for funding to the concerned quarters, the meet-ing was informed.

Among others, Commissioner Secretary, R&B, Mrs. Tanveer Je-han, Chief Engineer, R&B, Kash-mir Mr. Satish Razdan, Chief En-gineer, PMGSY Mr. Vinod Tikoo, Managing Director, JKPCC Mr. T. R Bhagat, besides senior Engineers of R&B and JKPCC attended the meeting.

Peerzada, Wani review status of R&B projects in Kokernag Constituency

139th Standing Committee Meeting of J&KSSC held

Mir for ensuring supply of essentials during Ramadan

Vibrant Sports policies being implemented: Bhalla SRINAGAR, JULY 09:- Saying that promoting sports culture and sports activities

in the state is among priorities of the government and number of projects are un-derway to upgrade the sports infrastructure across the State, the Minister for Hous-ing, Horticulture, Culture and Youth Services & Sport, Mr. Raman Bhalla has said that vibrant sports policies have been framed to boost and rejuvenate the sports sector of the State by the government, besides to provide platform to the budding talent of State to exhibit their talent in national and international sports events.

The Minister was addressing in a 139th Standing Committee Meeting of J&K State Sports Council (J&KSSC) held here today.

Principal Secretary Planning and Development, Mr. B.R.Sharma, Principal Secre-tary, Finance, Mr. B.B.Vyas and Secretary J&KSSC, Mr. Dilip Thusu were present in the meeting.The meeting discussed threadbare various issues pertaining to the better functioning of the Sports Council, besides took stock of measures and policies being implemented for the upgradation and betterment of sports culture in the State.

Mr. Bhalla said that government is taking every possible step to encourage and provide support to the youth to exhibit their talent, so that they excel with shining future besides, bring laurels for the State in national and international sports com-petitions.

He said that focused attention is being given by the government for the upgra-dation of sports infrastructure in rural areas also to exploit the hidden talent and potential concealed in remote and far-flung areas.

ANANTNAG, JULY 9: Minister for Tourism, Mr. Ghulam Ahmad Mir has directed the departments concerned to ensure uninterrupted power and water supply besides launch of proper sanita-tion drive around mosques and shrines for facilitation of people during the holy month of Ramadan.The directions in this regard was issued by the Minister while reviewing the arrangements made by the Administration for providing hassle free services to the people of Anantnag districts during Ramadan Month at a meeting of the Officers held at Dooru today. The Minister instructed the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Depart-ment to ensure uninterrupted drinking water facilities to the people during the holy month while the Power Develop-ment Department (PDD) had been di-rected to ensure uninterrupted power supply especially at Sehri and Iftaar times.Mir directed the concerned of-ficers of Municipal Committees to en-

sure special sanitation drives around the mosques, shrines and other religious places besides all link roads of the Towns. He instructed the concerned to press ad-ditional men and machinery into service and ensure lifting of garbage on daily ba-sis from all over the towns.The Minister exhorted upon the officers to coordinate their efforts to ensure that the people do not face any inconvenience with respect to essential supplies during Ramadan. He also directed the authorities of the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribu-tion (CA&PD) to ensure availability of es-sential commodities including sugar and flour at their sale centers. He also directed them to intensify market checking and ensure that consumers were not cheated by black marketers and profiteers.Mr. Mir also made a detail visit of several areas of Dooru Constituency, took stock of people’s problems and developmental needs and instructed the concerned officers to en-sure time bound completion of dev.

Speaker for fast pacing of Children Park, Rose GardenSRINAGAR, JULY 09: Speaker,

Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Mr. Mubarak Gul today

inspected various developmental works of Eidgah Project and took stock of the pace of progress.

The Speaker was informed that the construction work on all ongoing works is apace. He asked

the officers to work with dedi-cation and complete the fixed targets well in time.The Speaker directed the Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the de-velopment of Children Park and earth filling and submit the same to the concerned quarters, so that the funds could be arranged for the purpose. Mr. Gul also asked them to start immediate construction work on chain fenc-ing.He also asked the Floriculture department to prepare the es-timates for the development of Rose Garden in Eidgah Park and start work on the project imme-diately. He was informed that out of Rs.1.20 crore DPR for the development of the Eidgah Park, Rs. 20 lakh have been incurred by the Floricutlure department so far.During inspection of Meet-ing Hall cum View Point in Ei-dgah Park, the Speaker directed the Housing Board authorities to renovate the building on war footing basis.He was informed that Rs.50 lakh have been uti-

lized on repairs and renovation of fountain, garden streetlights, meeting hall cum viw point and paths so far.He also visited vari-ous areas of Eidgah Constituency including Palpora and took stock of people’s problems, besides other developmental needs.

Several deputations met the Speaker during his visit and apprised him about their indi-vidual and collective problems.

The main demands raised by the locals included repairs and renovation of lanes, drains and early replacement of damaged poles and transformers.

Mr. Gul gave a patient hearing and assured them that their genuine demands will be looked into and directed the con-cerned authorities to redress the problem immediately. Address-ing series of gatherings enroute, Mr. Gul said that the Govern-ment, under the dynamic lead-ership of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, has taken various his-torical decisions, including the creation of administrative units to fast track development.

Was Rahul Gandhi napping or concentrating with his eyes shut

Even as the Lok Sabha cameras on Wednesday caught Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi napping dur-ing a debate on price rise, many Congress leaders in the Parliament were heard, saying they were unable to read their leader’s mind and unable to understand the path, he was leading the party. The Congress party, however, strongly denied that the leader was napping and blasted on media for making it an issue. They party said their vice-president was listening the debate with rapt attention and with all the seriousness. At around 12:33 pm, the cameras had caught Rahul nodding off, his head tilting towards right and yawning.The nap and yawn went viral on the social media, with the BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain comparing Rahul’s sleep with the Congress rule of past 10 years. "Rahul Gandhi was seen sleeping in Parliament during a de-bate on price rise. That's what the Congress was doing during their 10 year rule," he said while tweeting the image. The Congress, denied that their leader was sleeping, calling it "factually incorrect". The cameras caught Rahul when CPI-M member P Ka-runakaran was speaking on the issue of price rise. Con-gress vice-president was sitting behind Karunakaran. Those reporters present in the front row of press gal-lery, however, had a different take. They said Rahul’s eyes were not shut. But most of them agreed that right from the beginning, Rahul seemed somewhat lost, perhaps engrossed in deep thinking or meditation. Congress leader and former union minister Rajiv Shukla said, "In my years in Parliament, I have seen

many MPs take what they call catnaps. Sometimes people shut their eyes and listen to debate very careful-ly." Shukla hitting back the BJP said, "Even Vajpayee used to keep his eyes closed while carefully listening to

the debate at the same time. Congress spokesman Ab-hiskehk Manu Singhvi, while denying his leader was napping, reminded former prime minister H D Devi Gowda’s famous naps on the front benches and almost

in every function, he was either chief guest or presid-ing. He slammed the media for broadcasting these im-ages and making it an issue. His colleague Shukla took Lok Sabha TV to task, saying, they could have avoided broadcasting these pictures. “Such things do happen in Parliament. This is low level journalism." Congress ally NCP leader Praful Patel came to the rescue of Rahul, saying just because someone has closed his eyes, doesn't mean he his sleepingThis controversy has come at a time, when a fierce debate is on within the Congress party on the serious-ness and leadership qualities of its 44-year old vice president, who managed to win his party exactly the partly 44 seats in the recently conducted Lok Sabha polls. Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh in a TV interview had stated that Rahul does not have the temperament of a ruler, but later qualified his state-ment saying, he meant Rahul was not hankering after power. There is serious discomfort in the party on the contin-ued silence of Rahul and his refusal to lead the party in the parliament from the front. In the Parliament Cen-tral Hal, the place for political chatterati, during ses-sions periods, Congress leaders say, they are not only unable to read Rahul’s mind, but also have no idea of direction the way he was lead-ing to the party. Many of Congress MPs say, they were uncertain of their own future. The only solace for them, is to wait for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi gov-ernment going astray as in the BJP circles as well, there are murmurs of dissent on the working style of the Prime Minister.

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Rangarajan Committee

Report--- Far from reality

The recent Rangarajan Committee report has thrown light on over all economic health of the country and has also

proved the facts and figures issued by various governments from time to time visa-vis G.D.P and industri-al growth as far from the facts and concocted to divert the attention of the people. According to the report, one amongst every three Indians is poor. Though the report says that those living in urban areas and spending Rs47/ per day and in ru-ral areas Rs.32/ daily cannot be considered poor which seems to be unrealistic and far from the truth. There is no doubt that the num-ber of poor has come down from 45 crores estimated in 2009-2010 to 36 crores in 2011-2012, but does it mean that all those spending Rs. 47/daily figure in lower middle class? Per-haps Mr. Rangarajan and before him Mr. Tendulkar have prepared the reports while sitting in air-con-ditioned ivory towers and the price level of some thirty years old when a Roti at a Dhaba would cost 25 pai-sa only. Perhaps they donot know that even at a village dhaba this time a roti costs between Rs.5 To Rs.10 and a simple vegetable or dal Rs.30. How can one spend his life on Rs.32 a day, is beyond imagina-tion. If one goes by a realistic ap-proach all those Indians who spend less than Rs. 100/ per day are in fact below poverty line. The Rang-arajan committee has forgotten all other necessities of life and thinks that a person can live on a one time meal only dispensing with other requirements of life like clothes, medicines, education and shelter which these unfortunate people do not posses in cities as well as in villages. The economy of India has registered growth for the last some years but it is not so strong to compete with other developing countries and it is here that the ru-pee becomes weaker and weaker by every passing year. A common man can only accept and recognize all the theories of development ad-vanced by experts and economists when he lives a life without being confronted by hunger, starvation and all other basic requirements of life. At this time, crores of people sleep without an evening meal and under open sky. Mr. Rangarajan, are these people livng above pov-ery line?

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

Quote of the day

Mark Twain

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Let legislators be as parliamentar-ians as they are expected to be

The Largest Tribal Religious Congregation at Sammakka

Sarakka Jathara Sammakka Sarakka Jathara or Medaram

Jathara is the largest tribal religious congre-gation in the country. The biannual Jathara takes place at Medaram village of Tadvai Mandal in Warangal district, in Telangana

region of Andhra Pradesh. Approximately one crore devotees are expected to take part this time at the Jathara to be held between February 12 to 15, 2014. A little festival of tribal’s in a small village has become a major pilgrimage in the last six years. This festival is held to get the blessings of goddesses Sammakka and Sarakka. It's believed that in those 3 to 4 days of the Jathara, goddesses’ real presence is felt. With the Jathara nearing, arrangements at Medaram village have also been picking up speed. It might be noted that about 80 lakh pilgrims had taken part in the Jathara last time.The Sammakka Jathara was declared as a state fes-tival by Andhra Pradesh government in 1998. Dev-otees in large number from neighbouring districts and different states including Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odessa, Maharastra, Karnataka and Jhar-kand participate at the Jathara. People offer banga-ram (gold) in the form of jaggery of a quantity equal to their weight to the goddesses and take holy bath in Jampanna Vagu (stream). It is a festival with no Vedic or Brahmanic influence.Jampanna Vagu is a tributary to River Godavari. According to the history, Jampanna is the tribal war-rior and the son of Tribal Goddess Sammakka. The Jampanna vagu took his name as he died in a bat-tle fighting against Kakatiyan Army in that stream. The Jampanna vagu is still red in colour believed to be with the blood of Jampanna (Scientifically the red colour of the water is attributed to the soil composi-tion). Devotees believe that taking a holy dip in the red water of Jampanna Vagu reminds of the sacrifice of their gods who save them and also induces cour-age into their souls.

The actual festival begins in the month of Magha, on Sudha Pournami (full moon day) evening when Sarakka (in the form of vermilion) would be tradi-tionally brought from Kanneboyinapalle, a neibhou-ring village in the forest, and placed on a gadde, an earthen platform raised under a tree. By next sunset, the main goddess Sammakka (in the form of vermil-ion) will be brought from Chilukalagutta. There are two gaddes (platforms) separately one for goddess "Sammakka" and other for goddess "Sarakka". They are represented by bamboo sticks smeared with tur-meric and vermilion (Pasupu and Kunkuma). Since time immemorial, there is a huge tree standing on Sammakka gadde.Hundreds of people who are often believed to be possessed by the goddess come here dancing ecstat-ically throughout their journey. People believe that Goddesses Sammakka, Saralamma fulfill their de-sires with their divine and miraculous powers.Couples visit to pray to the goddess to bless them with children. Many pilgrim pay their promises made to goddess during the Jathara, by offering jag-gery, calf 's, coconuts and donations in cash etc. Pil-grims take bathe in Jampanna stream to get purified and absolve from sins.When the priests bring out the ochre box and oth-er relics from a hidden forest location, there is great tumult with frenzied beating of drums, blowing of trumpets and full throated yells. It is said that during the festival a huge tiger prowls around peacefully.According to a tribal story, in the 13th century some tribal leaders who went for hunting found a new born girl (Sammakka) emitting enormous light and playing amidst tigers. She was taken to their habita-tion. The head of the tribe adopted her and later she became the saviour of the tribals of that region. She was married to Pagididda Raju, a feudatory tribal chief of Kakatiyas, who ruled Warangal area. She was blessed with 2 daughters and one son namely Sarak-

ka, Nagulamma and Jampanna respectively.After sometime, there was a severe drought that lasted for years and as a result the mighty Godavari River dried up. Pagididda Raju didn't pay tribute to King Pratapa Rudra. In turn king Pratapa rudra sent his army to subdue the tribals and collect the tribute. Then a War was fought between tribal chief Pagididda Raju and Kakatiya army on the banks of "Sampenga Vagu" (Jampanna Vagu). The Koya army fought valiantly but could not withstand the well equipped Kakatiya army.Though fought valiantly Pagididda Raju, his daughters Sarakka, Nagulamma, son in law Govinda Raju lost (husband of Sarakka) lives in the battle. Later Jampanna also dies in Sampenga Vagu (after renamed as Jampan-na Vagu in the memory of his heroic fight against well trained Kakatiya army).Upon hearing this news Sammakka also enters war and fights and causes lot of damage to Kakatiya army. Surprised by her Bravery and Valour the Kakatiya Prime Minister visited war ravaged Koya kingdom with proposal of peace and offered Sammakka a place in the emperor’s harem as the chief queen. Sammakka turned down the offer and resolved to continue the fight to avenge the dead. The battle continued and Sammakka was seriously wound-ed. Sammakka told her people that as long as they remem-bered her, she would protect them. Then, she cursed the Kaktiya dynasty to perish and with that wounded body proceeded towards Chilakala gutta and disap-peared in the forest. The grieving Koyas searched for their queen all they found were a red ochre box (a container of vermilion), her bangles and the pug marks of a huge full grown tigress, exactly the same place where she was found as an infant by the koyas. The Kakatiya dynasty came to an end very soon. Since then the Koyas, Waddaras and other Indian tribes and castes have been hold-ing festivals in memory of Sammakka and Sarakka regularly.

GSI has made phenomenonal contributions in the mineral sector and is carrying out systematic investigation for mineral re-source assessment of the country in geolog-ically potential areas through modern and

sophisticated exploration methods involving modern geological mapping techniques, geomorphological and lineament mapping through study of satellite imageries, aero and ground geophysical studies and geochemical mapping. As part of this GSI has initiated extensive pro-gramme of modernization on the advice of the Parlia-mentary Standing Committee on Industries, and as per guidelines laid down by an Expert Panel on Moderniza-tion of GSI. The modernization programme is aimed to improve the regional exploration for assessment of natu-ral resources by infusion of latest state of art technology. The technology infusion envisaged during the 12th Five Year Plan period is” Ø Strengthening of the state of the art equip-ment in chemical laboratories like ICP-MS, ICP-AES to match world standard in precision and also facilitate log-ical conclusion of mineral exploration within scheduled time.Ø Modernization and augmentation of equipment for ground geophysical survey like multi-channel gam-ma ray spectrometry, multi frequency EM system etc.Ø High-end petrological instrument for diamond, strategic and PGE exploration.Ø State of the art drilling machine (reverse circula-tion, hydraulic etc.). In order to improve the quality of exploration for miner-al resources of the country, following equipment / instru-ments were procured or in the process of procurement as per the plan: § Airborne surveys including airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and gamma-ray surveys have proved quite useful in identifying first order target areas

worldwide and may be used as direct tool in exploration. The airborne survey is strengthened by procurement of heliborne multi-sensor airborne survey system compris-ing on board sensors like magnetic, gravity, time domain electromagnetic (TDEM) and gamma ray spectrometry and hyper spectrometry. § Application of geochemistry to mineral exploration, adopting conventional as well as advanced geochemical techniques, in soil surveys, stream-sediment surveys, vapour surveys and bedrock surveys has proved useful in detection of dispersion ha-loes of hidden ore bodies. To strengthen the geochemical exploration GSI has upgraded its regional laboratories by procurement of sophisticated instruments like ICPMS, EPMA etc. for low detection analytical determinations particularly for elements like gold, PGE, rare earth etc. § Application of time-tested geophysical techniques in locating concealed deposits is considered as one of the most effective exploration tools. Ground geophysical survey is being strengthened by procuring new sophisticated instruments like Multi electrode resistivity-IP unit, multi frequency EM profil-ing unit etc. § GSI has procured magneto telluric (MT) instru-ment to strengthen its geophysical survey over Indian craton to image the sub continental lithospheric mantle (SCLM). The outcome of the survey will enhance the scientific knowledge of the deeper parts of the earth and will help to model the process of craton formation more accurately which in turn will help in targeting concealed ore bodies/kimberlite bodies (KCR) § GSI carries out offshore surveys and mineral re-source evaluation in the EEZ and TW. To strengthen the marine survey GSI is procuring one deep Ocean Going Research Vessel from M/s Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea. This will help in assessing the mineral/nat-ural resources present in EEZ of our country.

The details of technological upgradation with adequate instrumental back up is as follows: o In the field of Thematic Geological Mapping (TGM), the technology infusion that has been envisaged includes: Field Laptop, or Table PC, Mapping GPS unit, GSI Portal, mobile mapping vans with portable gener-ator.o In view of completion of systematic geological mapping over the country, an Integrated Thematic Map-ping (ITM) has been visualized with required technol-ogy infusion that includes: Ground Penetration Radars [GPR], shallow drills, deep drills, Electron Probe Micro Analyzer etc.o As a redressal measure for effective analytical output with lower detection limits of geochemical sam-ples, augmentation of the state of the art instruments such as ICPMS, AAS, XRF and DMA, in the laboratories of GSI has been incorporated.o In the field of geophysical mapping, the technology infusion that is being proposed includes high precision gravimeter and total field magnetometer. · For hyperspectral mapping, Space borne and Airborne Hyperion data with specific spectral range (necessary for geological objects) are to be procured and utilized. In this context, it is contemplated to have a con-tinuous acquisition of hyperspectral data in collabora-tion with ISRO/ NRSG/NNRMS. · To enhance the pace of drilling and qual-ity/reliability of subsurface information, it is necessary to induct improved techniques and equipment such as reverse circulation drilling with inbuilt system for con-trolled deflection of borehole path and adopting a com-bination of coring and non-coring operations in a single borehole. Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drilling which is fastest and cheap method is also to be inducted. State of the art drilling machines such as reverse circulation, hydraulic rigs, etc., are in the process of procurement.

Latest Technique in Mineral Exploration Technology Infusion envisaged during XII Five Year Plan Period

The unfortunate happenings in the Legislative Assembly are in no way conducive for

the constitutional bodies like legis-latures which are symbolic of dig-nity, Parliamentarian behaviour, statesmanship and political ma-turity of the society as a whole. The dent such incidents cause to democratic institutions are fatal and uncalled for. India is the larg-est democracy of the world which symbolizes the deep rooted phi-losophy of supermacy of constitu-tion and democratic foundations which provide solution to every problem through negotiations and by sitting across the table. The leg-islatures which enact laws to guide the whole nation and the states should really look as the bodies of decency and patience and not like the state Assemblies or Parliament is looking for the past few days. If the constitutional bodies are not allowed to function, how can they fulfill the aspirations of the people whom they represent and whose eyes are always fixed on them for the solution of their problems. The legislators are elected by the peo-ple with a purpose and if that pur-pose is not served then what is the fun of wasting cores of rupees on holding the elections. The Govt. should also behave as responsible as it should be. It should allow the opposition to pose the problems of the people so that a solution is carved out. If the Govt. tries to si-lence the opposition then what is the fun of sitting in these august houses. The real test of democracy comes when the opposition rais-es the public issues and the Govt. patiently listens and tries to solve them. The present session is per-haps the last but certainly the last Budget session, hence it is im-perative for both opposition and Govt. to take maximum benefit of the time and utilize it for the wel-fare of the people. Now as the Lok Sabha Elections are nearing, the code of conduct will be in force, hence the developmental aspect has to be kept in mind. Both op-position and Govt. has to go to people who will judge them on performance and what they are doing in the state legislature. It is the duty of the people’s represen-tatives to solve them with best of their capabilities and the unfortu-nate incidents in which two mem-bers of the Assembly had to suffer physically should not be allowed to be repeated. The language and gestures used is the past and also on many occasions by some mem-bers do not suit the parliamentar-ianism, and statesmanship.