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MoDi’s BlAcK MoneY pUrGe AADHAAr in nAGAlAnD-ii Demonetises Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes
NEW DELHI, NovEMbER 8 (ANI): Currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations would cease to be legal tender from midnight tonight, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said late on Tuesday evening. He said the newly designed Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 currency notes would be introduced in the months to come, but Rs 1,000 currency notes would remain scrapped. In his rare late-evening address to the nation, the prime minister asked common people to contribute to his government’s efforts to curb corruption, unaccounted or black money, and terrorism that relies on such money, as also decimate those from across the border who were pushing counterfeit Indian currency into India. “The old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination currency notes would be Pictured above: new Rs 500 & Rs 2000 notes that nothing more than scraps of paper,” will be available from november 11 onwards. the PM said, stating that much of the unaccounted money, as well as counterfeit currency, was found in the currency de- and also via Nepal. The PM said the Reserve Bank of India had nominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000. suggested introducing Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 Modi said people could go to their bank accounts to deposit their old Rs 500 and Rs denomination currency notes some two years 1,000 denomination notes and would in due ago, a proposal that was rejected. But new notes course get the newly designed notes. He said of the Rs 2,000 denomination and the redeRe 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10, Rs 20 and Rs 100 de- signed Rs 500 notes would soon be introduced. nomination currency notes would continue He said old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes would be to remain legal tenders, as would coins. The accepted at railway booking counters, airports, PM said old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency chemists, hospitals and filling stations until the notes could be exchanged at banks and post midnight of November 11. The PM called upon the common people offices for a duration of 50 days from Novemof India to contribute to this “mahayajna” and ber 10 to December 30. Modi said corruption and black money “festival” of honesty. He said the Reserve Bank needed to be uprooted, adding corruption was of India had asked banks to remain shut on Noeating the country like termite as it had become vember 9 to prepare themselves. Automated an integral part of political and administrative teller machines (ATMs) would also remain lives. The PM said ‘black money’ was used in- closed on November 9 and 10. Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel on discriminately during elections. Assembly elections are due by February in Uttar Pradesh, Tuesday said the apex bank will launch new Rs 500 Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. Of and Rs 2,000 currency notes from November 10. “RBI will launch new currency notes from Nothese, Punjab and Manipur are border states. Counterfeit currency is known to be vember 10,” Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktipushed into India from the Punjab border kanta Das said while unveiling the new notes.
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Mon district power supply cut off due to incessant rain
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DIMAPuR, NovEMbER 8 (MExN): Mokokchung Transmission Division has informed electricity consumers under Mon district that due to fault in the 66KV transmission line between Naginimora-Tizit as a result of incessant rain, power supply to the district has been cut off since November 8, 2016. In this connection, Er Shiludi Longkumer, SDO (Trans) said it was working on a war footing to restore normal supply at the earliest, despite restoration work being hampered occasionally due to rain. It has therefore appealed the affected consumers to kindly bear with the inconvenience.
DenotifieD rs 500/rs 1,000 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW • Rs 1000 and Rs 500 currency notes
in circulation in the country will become illegal from midnight of November 8 . • Rs 100, Rs 50, Rs 20, Rs 10, Rs 5, Rs 1 notes and all coins remain legal tender. • You can deposit old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in banks/post office accounts from November 10 till December 30, 2016, without any limit. • There will be a limit on withdrawal from banks and post offices to Rs 10,000 a day, and Rs 20,000 a week. The limit will be raised in the coming days. • An ID proof like Aadhar Card, Passport, Bank Pass Book will have to be presented while depositing the notes. • ATM counters and bank branches will remain closed on November 9 and in some places even on November 10. • New Rs 500 and Rs 2000 denomination notes will be available from November 11. • No new Rs 1000 notes will be issued by the Reserve Bank of India. • From November 11, there will be a maximum draw limit of Rs 2000 at ATMs, later it will be increased to Rs 4000. • Till the midnight of November 11, government hospitals, railway and government bus counters, airline ticket counters, milk booths, petrol/diesel/CNG pumps, state cooperatives, crematoria and burial grounds will continue to accept old notes.
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In Kohima, Clairvoyance Technologies Pvt. Ltd., another enrolment agency is continuing with Aadhaar enrolment at In the interim period as Nagathe Census Directorate. land transitions into a State unMeanwhile in Dimapur, der the Unique Identification there are reports that private Authority of India (UIDAI), companies and individuals Aadhaar enrolment has come (brokers) are conducting ento a standstill except in the disrolment. However, it could not tricts of Dimapur and Kohima. be ascertained whether this In the commercial hub, was being done with authoridue to public demand, ‘In Mezation from the district admindia Computer Services LLP’, istration. “Two months back an Aadhaar enrolment agensome persons came to our cy in Nagaland, was requested colony along with the bioto continue its services at DC metric equipment and Dimapur office complex for another 3 months. But • Correction of errors and data in captured our data. They presently the DC office Aadhaar card can be done online charged Rs. 500 each from every person who centre is not issuing any by any individual came for the enrolment. new Aadhaar forms and only working on the back- • Private centres charging Rs. 200- Now I have downloaded 500 per correction or enrolment my Aadhaar card online,” log data captures. disclosed a Dimapur resof Aadhaar card An order issued by DC ident. Dimapur dated SeptemEarlier, it was also reportber 20, 2016, stated “In view ting lost on the way. The SDO said problem of ed that the Zunheboto district of the termination of Aadhaar operators by the company, is- fingerprint quality should not administration closed down sue and receipt of new Aadhaar arise except in rare cases like an unauthorized private forms is hereby suspended till old persons suffering from dia- company running the Aadfurthernotice.Theoperatorsare betes in which the fine lines of haar enrolment business afalso directed to complete the the fingerprint gets distorted ter it came to the notice of the capturing of biometrics of those or damaged. Likewise, the iris administration that the comapplicants who had submitted quality may depend on the fo- pany was charging an exorbicus of the camera or the person tant Rs. 500 per person. their forms at the earliest.” In Dimapur, a couple of “Initially, after the com- posing for the shot. “We send pany stopped paying salary the data to head office in Hyder- private centres are still doto the operators, the centre abad and only after they reject ing the Aadhaar enrolment, charged Rs. 20 per form and saying fingerprint or iris quality ‘correction’ and charging Rs. another Rs. 20 for bio metric is not good we come to know as 200-500 per correction or encapture for payment of salary we don’t have the equipment to rolment. “Correction of errors and to 5-6 operators and to meet determine whether iris or finother expenses like fuel for gerprint quality is good or bad,” data in the Aadhaar card can be done online by any indigenerator and stationery. But James said. On possibility of data be- vidual at home or through the amount charged was not enough to meet expenses so ing hacked on the way, James vendors and is outside the the form fee was further hiked. admitted he has no explana- jurisdiction of RGI. But for The public complained and so tion; “some data are getting enrolment and biometrics, issuing of forms was stopped,” lost on the way. We upload the the district administration said a source who was in- data captured but some never should be aware and kept posted,” RGI sources said. volved in the Aadhaar enroll- reach Hyderabad,” he said. Dimapur | November 8
ment process. There are also cases where individuals have gone through the data capture process at the DC office centre several times and so far received no confirmation of their Aadhaaar generation status. When queried, SDO (C) Dimapur, James Swu, who is also sub-district registrar of the Aadhaar exercise under NPS, said there are three probable reasons for such cases: bad quality of fingerprint, iris and some data get-
1379 Hindi teachers without salary for eight months NSCN (K) allegations baseless: GPRN/NSCN Kilonser
Calls for 2nd phase agitation on November 15
DIMAPuR, NovEMbER 8 (MExN): A total of 1379 Hindi teachers appointed under Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) have not received their salary for the last eight months. The aggrieved teachers have proposed for a 2nd phase agitation on November 15 to demand their due. Informing this, the All Nagaland Hindi Teachers’ Union (ANHTU) in a press statement urged the concerned department and the State Government to take necessary steps and make arrangements to pay the pending salaries.
The Hindi teachers union also pointed out that even if the Central government has not sanctioned the salaries, it is the duty of the State Government and the concerned department to look into this matter and make quick arrangement for the aggrieved teachers. Further, the union reminded that the 1379 Hindi teachers appointed under CSS are included in the Central budget for 5 years and after which they will be included in the State budget and this system has been implemented in the following past year i.e., 1977, 1982, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2006. The union has therefore urged the State Government not to bring any confusion to the teachers regarding the system. The union has also extended full support to the agitation.
DIMAPuR, NovEMbER 8 (MExN): GPRN/NSCN Kilonser, Law and Justice, Hokato Vusshe on Tuesday termed the allegations made against him by the NSCN (K) through its MIP as “baseless, fabricated and illogical.” On the issue of alleged financial mismanagement during his tenure with the NSCN (K), Vusshe clarified that the audit report for the financial year with detailed expenses and transactions was submitted to the concerned collective leadership before he left the organization
on February 2013 and which was accepted without any complaints. In connection to the extortion allegations, the GPRN/NSCN Kilonser asked the NSCN (K) to list out the so-called evidences pertaining to his involvement. “It is clearly evident that the accusations are done purely on the leaders personal sentiments and the timing of allegations indicates a smear campaign by the leader to cover up his own well publicized anti national activities,” the statement read. Vusshe also termed the alleged
extortion link with one Kughato Chishi and Sgt Vikuto Zhimo as illogical while asserting that the duo joined GPRN/NSCN in 2012, which was before he left NSCN (K) and later defected back to NSCN (K) by 2013. Also taking serious note of the threat of capital punishment, the Kilonser said, “Threatening the national workers with capital punishment and false accusations is setting a dangerous precedent in the community, which may lead to internal disturbance in the state of Nagaland.”
Last 5 years were hottest on record, Why only 52, 083 voters from more signs heat is man-made: WMO Dimapur for the UlB election
DCC says it is preposterous that there should be a shortfall of 63, 312 voters when compared to 1, 15,395 voters during the 2004 electoral roll, 12 years ago
DIMAPuR, NovEMbER 8 (MExN): The District Congress Committee (DCC) said it has detected serious discrepancies in the recent enumeration exercise undertaken for finalising the preparation for the electoral roll for the election to the Dimapur Municipal Council. According to a statement issued by the DCC, addressed to the State Election Commissioner through the DC Dimapur, the figures listed by the recent enumeration for the DMC election from the 23 wards, which has 102 polling booths was only 52,083. Bringing comparison, the 2016 electoral roll figure showed a shortfall of 63,312 when compared to the official record of the total votes in the electoral roll prepared for the 2004 municipal council elections, which stood at 1, 15, 395. The DCC said it was preposterous that there should be shortfall in the recent electoral roll when compared to the electoral roll of 12 years back, when the rest of the country recorded a trend of exodus of rural populace converging to the urban township. Questioning how the only commercial cosmopolitan town cannot be only different from the rest of the country, the DCC expressed doubt on the enumeration exercise that “was adversely conducted since out of total 102 polling booths from the 23 wards,
not even one polling booth showed an increase of voters from 2004 till 2016.” Citing instance, it revealed that ward-19 which is New Market area showed a steep decline from 4000 voters in 2004 to just 632 voters in 2016 while ward-22, Burma Camp had decreased to 1915 voters in 2016 from 5425 voters in 2004. The DCC also pointed out that the Election Commission normally accepted an increase of at least 3% voters per annum from every polling booth. So if the 3% increase was to be calculated from every polling booth in the 12 years, it came to 36% increase in the number of voters, it stated. And even if a minimum of 25% voters from the 102 polling booth in 12 years were accounted, the DCC said there should have been an increase of at least 1, 45,000 voters from the 23 wards. The DCC also considered it unfair that the GBs and chairman of the respective ward were asked to identify voters from the 2016 ECI electoral roll to be used in the municipal election. It argued that the GBs and chairman of the different wards would surely be affiliated to one or the other political party or the supporter of one candidate or the others and therefore they would not be able to do justice to the voters. In this connection, the DCC, through its president Kughato S Aye and general secretary Khrozote Kapfo, has urged the Election Commission to appoint authentic and genuine government enumerators and conduct intensive and thorough enumeration before the municipal election is conducted. Otherwise, the DCC would have no alternative but to seek judicial intervention, the statement read.
MARRAKESH, NovEMbER 8 (REuTERS): The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gas emissions had raised the risks of extreme events, sometimes by a factor of 10 or more. “We just had the hottest five-year period on record, with 2015 claiming the title of hottest individual year. Even that record is likely to be beaten in 2016,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement. Among the worst extremes, a 2011-12 drought and famine in the Horn of Africa killed more than 250,000 people and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines killed 7,800 in 2013, the WMO said. Superstorm Sandy caused $67 billion of damage in 2012, mostly in the United States, it said in a report issued to a meeting of almost 200 nations in Morocco tasked with implementing a 2015 global agreement to combat climate change. The last five-year period beat 2006-10 as the warmest such period since records began in the 19th century. The heat was ac-
Children play cricket in the dried-up Chandola lake on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, india May 27, 2016. (REUTERS/Files)
companied by a gradual rise in sea levels spurred by melting glaciers and ice sheets. The changes “confirmed the long-term warming trend caused by greenhouse gases,” the WMO said of the report. And the amount of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, reached 400 parts per million in the atmosphere for the first time in records in 2015, it said. Last year was the first in which temperatures were one degrees Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial times, partly because of an El Nino weather event that warmed the Pacific. The 2015 Paris
Agreement set an overriding target of limiting warming to “well below” 2 degrees C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times, ideally just 1.5 (2.7F). But pledges so far to curb greenhouse gas emissions are too weak and put the globe on target for about 3C (5.4F), U.N. data show. The Marrakesh meeting is trying to work out ways to step up actions and write rules for the Paris Agreement. Getting on track “means a global transformation” of the world economy to cleaner energies in sectors from energy to transport, Moroccan Environment Minister Hakima El Haite told Reuters.