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Anna Hazare raises questions on AAP election funds

November 19, 2013

New Delhi, Nov 19: Social activist Anna Hazare has once again completely disapproved the electoral path of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal and asked through a letter whether the party is using funds collected for Lokpal Movement in the election campaign.

The mentor of the AAP leader has also queried whether the party is still collecting funds in his name.anna

A hurt and upset Kejriwal on Monday, with Prashant Bhushan and Manish Sisodia, hurriedly called a press conference to release Anna’s letter and his response to it. He demanded a thorough investigation into the charge by Justice Santosh Hegde or a person carrying similar image.

“If Justice Hegde finds any instance of defalcation in the finds of the Jan Lokpal Movement or its use for the party, I will withdraw my candidature from the Delhi Assembly elections,” Kejriwal said in his reply to Hazare.

Kejriwal also said if no wrongdoing is found in the probe, Hazare should come to canvass for the AAP.

He has rushed trusted associate and AAP leader Kumar Vishwas to Ralegan Siddhi carrying his reply to Hazare, whom he termed as his “guru”.

Kejriwal, in his letter to the noted activist, has clarified that no funds collected for the Lokpal Movement are being used for elections and also his name is not being used in elections either for canvassing or collecting funds.

Kejriwal said whatever had been collected for the Lokpal Movement was spent for it .

The money collected could not be used for elections as it would be a violation of Income Tax laws. Already facing an inquiry by the Union Home Ministry over allegations of collecting funds from abroad in violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, AAP leaders said an open investigation should be conducted to settle the issue forever.

“There have been a number of investigations into the funds of India Against Corruption (IAC) and organisations run by its activists, including that of Manish Sisodia’s Kabir. We have come clear of all the charges related to funds,” said Prashant Bhushan.

In his reply, Kejriwal expressed his pain over the question raised by the social activist and reminded him of the sequence of events related to the audit of the funds collected for the Jan Lokpal Movement and said that accounts had been checked at his instance and discussed in the core committee meeting of India Against Corruption, which had spearheaded the movement. The reply reminded him that his own team had gone into the accounts.

He also clarified that Hazare’s query on the assertion of the AAP that it would pass a Jan Lokpal Act at Ramleela Maidan and said that it would be state level law limited to Delhi. “Vested interests are posting wrong information to Anna,” said Kejriwal.

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News Network
April 11,2020

New Delhi, Apr 11: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with chief ministers, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday urged CMs of states where the party is in power to unanimously demand for transfer of cash to every poor family.

He said the poor have lost their jobs and have exhausted their savings. They are now standing in lines to get free food, the former Union finance minister said.

Chidambaram said remonetising the poor would cost only Rs 65,000 crore, which is economically viable.

"Chief ministers Amarinder Singh, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel, V Narayanasami, Uddhav Thackeray and E Palaniswani should tell the prime minister today that just as LIVES are important LIVELIHOOD of the poor is important, he tweeted.

"The poor have lost their jobs or self-employment in the last 18 days. They have exhausted their meagre savings. Many are standing in line for food," Chidambaram said.

Can the state stand by and watch them go hungry," he asked, adding that chief ministers should demand that cash be transferred to every poor family immediately.

"Remonetise the poor should be their unanimous demand," Chidambaram said.

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February 29,2020

Kochi, Feb 29: When Major Abdul Rahim, a soldier in the Afghan army, died in a bomb blast in Kabul on February 19, a tear was shed for him in far away Ernakulam district of Kerala.

The major had received a transplant of hands from Eloor native T G Joseph back in 2015, and the latter’s family had grown attached to the Afghan soldier.

Maj. Abdul Rahim, a bomb disposal expert, had lost his hands in an explosion in 2012. For three years thereafter, he struggled with his handicap. Then, when 54-year-old Joseph passed away in a road accident, it was decided to give his hands to the Afghan major.

The transplant procedure was successfully performed by a team of doctors led by Dr. Subrahmania Iyer at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi.

After the transplant and an intensive spell of physiotherapy, Abdul Rahim could regain a considerable part of his hands’ functions. He rejoined the army and returned to defuse bombs in his war-torn country.

In gratitude, Major Abdul Rahim would visit Kochi every year to meet Joseph’s family. 

“We were shocked to hear of the demise of Major Abdul Rahim. Though Joseph left us, a part of him lived on. Abdul Rahim was a living memorial for us. Whenever he came to the Amrita institute for a consultation, we used to visit him,” Joseph’s wife was quoted as saying by Mathrubhoomi daily.

Major Abdul Rahim struck up a good friendship with his predecessor, in a way of speaking: the first person to have had a successful hand transplant at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. T R Manu became a close friend of the Afghan solider and kept regularly in touch.

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Agencies
July 29,2020

New Delhi, Jul 29: The new National Education Policy (NEP) approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday is set to usher in a slew of changes with the vision of creating an education system that contributes directly to transforming the country, providing high-quality education to all, and making India a global knowledge superpower.

The draft of the NEP by a panel headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief Kasturirangan and submitted to the Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal when he took charge last year. The new NEP replaces the one formulated in 1986.

Some of the key highlights of the New Education Policy are:-

The policy aims to enable an individual to study one or more specialized areas of interest at a deep level, and also develop character, scientific temper, creativity, spirit of service, and 21st century capabilities across a range of disciplines including sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, among others.

It identified the major problems facing the higher education system in the country and suggested changes such as moving towards multidisciplinary universities and colleges, with more institutions across India that offer medium of instruction in local/Indian languages, a more multidisciplinary undergraduate education, among others. 

The governance of such institutions by independent boards having academic and administrative autonomy has also been suggested.

Under the suggestions for institutional restructuring and consolidation, it has suggested that by 2040, all higher education institutions (HEIs) shall aim to become multidisciplinary institutions, each of which will aim to have 3,000 or more students, and by 2030 each or near every district in the country there will be at least one HEI.

The aim will be to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio in HEIs including vocational education from 26.3 per cent (2018) to 50 per cent by 2035.

Single-stream HEIs will be phased out over time, and all will move towards becoming vibrant multidisciplinary institutions or parts of vibrant multidisciplinary HEI clusters.

It also pushes for more holistic and multidisciplinary education to be provided to the students.

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