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New Delhi: The governmenthas issued strict guidelines toall
ministries asking them togive preference to domestical-ly
manufactured electronicproducts, a move aimed atboosting
electronics produc-tion as part of PM NarendraModis Make in India
drive.
A committee of secretarieshas decided that all ministriesand
departments should iden-tify department-specific do-mestically
manufactured el-ectronic products for procure-ment and notify them
within afortnight, a statement from thePMO said on Saturday.
All government depart-ments have been asked to ad-here to a
tender template al-
ready issued by the depart-ment of electronics and infor-mation
technology for procure-ment of electronic items.
The department of elec-tronics and IT has also beenasked to put
in place an onlinemonitoring system for report-ing by ministries
and depart-ments and states on procure-ment of electronic
products.
This system, to be oper-ationalized in a fortnight, will
capture the break-up of do-mestically manufacturedelectronic
equipment by val-ue, the statement said.
Industry leaders cheeredthe move. We are hopeful thatif this is
implemented in let-ter and spirit, it will lead tocreation of an
electronicsmanufacturing hub in India.We look forward for a
formalnotification from the govern-ment in this matter, said N
K
Goyal, chairman of TelecomEquipment ManufacturingAssociation of
India.
Some experts said the deci-sion should be followedthrough to
ensure that it is im-plemented. After seeing thenon-implementation
of pref-erential market access, this isa good decision by the
govern-ment. It should have been tak-en long back. Now it needs
tobe supported with statutoryprovisions. Wishfully, itshould be
extended to all thepurchases in India, whethergovernment or
private, saidRavi Sharma, chairman,CMAI (Association of
IndiaCommunication Multimediaand Infrastructure)
The Modi administrationhas vowed to boost the manu-facturing
sector and aims totake its share to 25% of theeconomy from the
current 15%.It has drawn up an ambitiousMake in India campaign
urg-ing investors to set up manufac-turing bases in the
country.
Purchase only made-in-Indiagadgets: PMO to ministries
Move Aims ToBoost Make In
India Drive
We are hopeful thatif this is implemented in letter and spirit,
it will lead to creation of an electronics manufacturing hub in
India. We look forward for a formal notificationfrom the government
in this matter N K GOYALCHAIRMAN, TEMAI
[email protected]
Agra: For all the harried for-eign tourists, with their lita-ny
of complaints againstcheating touts, hoteliers andtaxi drivers as
they go to seethe Taj Mahal, heres somegood news. Foreign
touristsneed no longer visit police sta-tions in case of an
accident orsome untoward incident.
A new rule that was intro-duced on Saturday says oncethey
complain at the controlroom number, dialing 100,cops themselves
will come tothe victims, whether it is onthe road or their hotel
room,to take details on the spot andaddress their grievance.
The new rule comes in the wake of lax police re-sponse in a case
reported onFriday in which jewelleryworth several lakhs was
stolenfrom the cab of a foreign tour-ist from outside a hotel.
Thevictim, Di-Micelle from Cali-fornia, had claimed that shehad to
run from pillar to post to
get a theft complaint lodged.SSP Rajesh Modak Dinesh
Rao clarified that foreigntourists, under the new rule,will be
provided full assist-ance in lodging the complaintbesides cops
helping themcontact their families in casethey lost luggage or
cash.
More importantly, onlyone police official will con-tact tourists
as they get ne-rvous with several cops ask-ing them similar
questions,the SSP added. Agra is a to-urist hub. Thousands of
for-eign tourists come here ev-ery day. This is the responsib-ility
of the police to assuresmooth journey of tourists inthe city, Rao
said.
Foreigners in Agra candial 100, summon a cop
FEAR-FREE TOURISM
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Mumbai: Actress KarismaKapoor and her Delhi-basedbusinessman
husband, Sun-jay Kapur, are not to end theyear with closure of
theirdecade-old marriage after all.
The couple, who filed a mu-tual consent divorce petitionin the
Mumbai family court,disagreed on some issues attheir final hearing
a few daysago. The two were packed offby the judge to work out a
set-tlement by February.
The celebrity couplewere present in court alongwith their
lawyers beforeprincipal judge Laxmi Raoon what was meant to betheir
date to get the decree just before Christmas and intime to bring in
the NewYear with, perhaps, newpartners but both failed toagree to
the terms of a trustbeing set up for the welfareof their two minor
children,a nine-year-old daughterand a much younger son.
Karisma is representedby lawyer Kranti Sathe, whileSunjay had
two top lawyerscoming in from Delhi. Karis-ma wanted to have more
sayand control over the trustthan she was getting and Sun-jay was
unwilling to let go ofhis control, it has been learnt.
Karisma, who resides inOberoi Crest in Khar, andSunjay, a
resident of Chana-kyapuri in Delhi, had con-verted the custody
petitioninto a mutual consent di-vorce petition in June.
Allformalities over, they were incourt to get the divorce, butleft
discontented instead.
When both sides got loudin the court, the judge puther foot
down. She directedthem to come back with a fi-nal settlement, after
work-ing it out amicably outsidethe court, or withdraw theirjoint
petition for divorce un-der the Hindu Marriage Act.
Once a mutual consent
plea is filed, there is a sixmonth cooling off period togive
time to both sides for arethink, at the end of whichif they still
want to split, di-vorce is granted. They alsohave up to another
year towork on their decision totake divorce by consent.
Sunjay was the first tomove the Bandra family courton May 31. He
filed a custodypetition for the children, say-ing Karisma was
seeingsomeone else. Karismas al-leged love interest, pharmacompany
honcho SandeepToshniwal, has his divorceplea pending in the
samecourt before another judge.
Trust issues: No divorcefor Lolo before end of yr
A few days ago in a family court, the couplefailed to agree on
the terms of a trust being setup for their kids. When both sides
got loud, thejudge directed them to come back with a final,amicably
worked out settlement, in February
Bhopal: With Congress reel-ing under astring of polldefeats, its
se-nior memberDigvijaya Si-ngh on Satur-day said
partyvice-presidentRahul Gandhishould assume full-timeleadership of
the AICC.
All Congressmen todaywant Rahul Gandhi to takeover full-time
leadership ofthe All India Congress Com-mittee, the party general
sec-retary said in Bhopal, unfazedby Congress having
distanceditself from a similar suggesti-on made by him last month
inwhich the party described itas his personal view.
Singh, however, said Con-gress president Sonia Gandhi will
continue to remain ourleader. Under her leader-ship Congress has
achievedmiraculous success.
From just two states at one point of time, the partywent on to
form governmentin 14 states. Also, Congressstormed to power at the
Centre in 2004 and again won elections in 2009, Singhsaid. But now
the time hascome for Rahul to take chargeof the party, he said.
PTI
Diggy wantsRahul to take
over Congreins full time
Digvijaya Singh
[email protected]
Kolkata: In a significant de-velopment in the Saradhascam probe,
the NIA and theCBI will now jointly investi-gate the possibility of
a Ponzicash link with the Burdwanblast and the Jamaatul-Muja-hideen
Bangladesh module.
Sources say top officials ofboth central agencies met inDelhi on
December 18 and de-cided to continue the probe ina coordinated
manner and sh-are information. This comesjust weeks after Union
minis-ter of state for personnel Jiten-dra Singh told the Lok
Sabhain a written reply that investi-gators had so far not found
anyproof of Saradha links with
the Khagragarh blast. Centralinvestigators have agreed thatwhile
NIA will continue prob-ing into the terror aspect of theJMB blast,
the CBI which is
conducting the Saradha probe will try to ascertain if ille-gal
proceeds were used to fundcross-border terror cells.
When asked about the rea-
son for this change of strategy,a senior NIA officer said,
Dur-ing interrogation, some infor-mation has come up that showsa
huge amount of money wastransferred to various banks inBangladesh.
We need to identi-fy the money trail that playedan important role
in the blast.
During the interrogationof JMB operative SahanurAlom and
Myanmarese Ad-bul Kahled, NIA sleuths real-ized that the amount of
mon-ey transferred to Bangladeshis much higher that thought.
Meanwhile, the SSKMHospital discharged trans-port minister Madan
Mitraon Saturday, which means theTMC member will ring in the New
Year behind bars.
NIA, CBI join forces to trackSaradha-JMB Ponzi cash link
About `75 crore changed hands between JMB andsome Bengal
politicians
Money was transferred to Bangladesh banks and routed back
through NGOs
Shakil Ahmed, who died in Burdwan blast, moved money 18 times in
3 years
NIA probing transactions of a TMC MP and a former TMC leader who
allegedly helped in money transfers
NEW LEADS
Udaipur (Rajasthan): Debtwaiver schemes of centraland state
governments havenot benefited farmers as theyrestricted credit flow
subse-quently, Reserve Bank of In-dia governor Raghuram Ra-jan said
on Saturday.
Studies have shown thatdebt waiver programmeshave been
ineffective, con-straining credit flow to farm-ers after their
loans werewaived off, Rajan said at aconference in Udaipur.
Concerned over farmerssuicides, arising partly out oftheir
inability to pay backloans, Rajan said there was aneed to study if
they werecaused by indebtedness orother factors. He recalledthat
waivers were declared forfarmers in Andhra Pradeshafter cyclone
Phailin madelandfall in October 2013.
Referring to subsidies inthe agriculture sector, theRBI governor
said it would beworth studying if they (subsi-dies) have actually
helpedfarmers. The concern is if
the benefit in the form ofcheap credit to agriculture is being
put to right use orleading to over-indebted-ness, Rajan added.
IANS
Loan waivers have nothelped farmers: Rajan
IN FOR THE LONG HAUL: Rajan
The RBI would focus onmedium-term inflation tolet the economy
adjust tochanges rather than chasingshort-term inflationary
goals,its governor Raghuram Rajansaid on Saturday. Rajanasserted
that no country in the world chased short-term inflation targets
ig-noring domestic and global developments. IANS
Short-term inflationgoals not our target
The CBI has registered twofresh cases againstSaradha boss
Sudipta Sen inconnection with alleged ch-eating of investors in
Assam byhis firm. The case was filed onFriday. On the same day,
cent-ral agencies began tracing more than Rs 50 crore Sen
hadallegedly parked with his imm-ediate family before he
fledKolkata in April last year. TNN
2 new cases lodgedagainst Sudipta Sen
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