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News Brief “Maharashtra Drought” Shah Rukh Khan finishes shooting of ‘Raees’
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has finished shooting his forthcoming film “Raees” and has thanked his cast and crew, calling them the “sweetest unit” he has ever worked with. The 50-year-old actor plays a bootlegger in the Rahul Dholakia-directed film and sports a kohleyed, scruffy look in it. “Finished Raees. Maybe a bit of patchwork left if any.
Minor girl raped in Rajasthan
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by the caretaker of a shelter home for seers near Dussehra Maidan here, police said today. However, the medical examination of the victim has ruled out rape. Mahant Preetamdas Maharaj (55) on March 25 took the girl in his room in a shelter home for seers and allegedly raped her there, Sub-Inspector Shambu Dayal said.
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Water to be used at Wankhede in IPL equals 29k people’s daily requirement: HC
Rapping the BCCI and cricket associations in Maharashtra and Mumbai over water wastage when the state is reeling under severe drought, the Bombay high court on Wednesday said ideally Indian Premier League (IPL) matches should be shifted elsewhere, where there is no water crisis. “Only if water supply to BCCI is cut, you will understand,” the court observed. “How can you (cricket associations and BCCI) waste water like this. People are more important or your IPL matches? How can you be so careless? Who
wastes water like this? This is criminal wastage. You know what the condition is in Maharashtra,” a division bench headed by Justices V M Kanade and M S Karnik said, while hearing a PIL filed by NGO ‘Loksatta Movement’. The court also asked whether according to BCCI and the other cricket bodies, cricket matches are more important. “Ideally, you should shift the IPL matches to some other state where water is in abundance,” the court observed. The court also told the state that ultimately it is the government’s responsibility and duty to do something about this
which MCA’s advocate said they would be using over 40 lakh litres water for the seven IPL matches to be held there. To this, the court said it is a huge number. The petitioner then said that pending hearing of the PIL, the court should grant an in(water wastage) and im- Association, Maharash- terim order restraining all pose some kind of re- tra government and the the cricket associations straint. It also asked the civic bodies of Mumbai in Maharashtra from usstate government to spell and Nagpur. The PIL has ing water to maintain the out tomorrow what steps challenged the use of pitches. The high court it plans to take on the is- nearly 60 lakh litres of said it will consider the sue. The high court, while water to maintain pitches posting the PIL for hear- at three stadiums in the ing today, had yesterday state which will hold IPL sought responses from matches. The court today all other respondents, in- asked the Mumbai Crickcluding the Maharashtra et Association how much Cricket Association Sta- water would be used in dium, Vidarbha Cricket Wankhede stadium, to
interim relief sought by the petitioner, during the hearing tomorrow. The court also asked state acting Advocate General Rohit Deo to appear for the state government in the matter tomorrow. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s advocate Trupti Puranik told the high court today that they are supplying water to Wankhede stadium only for drinking purposes. MCA’s advocate told the
court that they are purchasing water to maintain the pitches. This water is non-portable and cannot be used for drinking purposes. He also said that the association will come out with some contingency plan to tackle the water crisis. The advocate appearing for the petitioner, however, said several villages in Maharashtra do not even have water for sanitation, cooking and other purposes.
the BJP President said, “BJP’s identity is that of a nationalist party and it is the responsibility of our generation to take this identity forward. It is our responsibility to protect this nationalist identity.” “What BJP is today is due to the sacrifices of three generations of party workers who worked to protect the ideology and ‘Bharat Mata’ and BJP workers should remember this
and not let the sacrifices be frittered away,” he said. “We should not lose out on our unique identity. For us, power is not a purpose, but a means,” said Shah, who started and ended his slogan with the slogan “Bharat Mata ki Jai”. He said for BJP, power is a means to empower the poor and downtrodden and asked party workers to help light a lamp in the life of every poor by helping them benefit from the social security initiatives and schemes started by Modi Government. “We do not do politics of cunningness, but of character,” he said, asking partymen to strive in being a bridge between the people and the government.
Amit Shah harps on nationalist identity as BJP completes 36 years
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has approached probe agencies of some foreign countries including the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in connection with its probe into the Pathankot terror attack. The help of the agencies is being sought even as central probe agencies still await a formal response from Pakistan for allowing a NIA team to visit that country for a thorough investigation. Official sources said on Wednesday that the help of some
of the agencies including the FBI had been sought for tracking some of the cyber footprints that had been left by handlers of Pakistan- based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM) in the aftermath of the attack on the strategic IAF base at Pathankot on the inter-
vening night of January one and two. Immediately after the attack, Abdul Rauf, brother of Jaish chief Maulana Masood Azhar, was seen in a video taking responsibility on a website ‘alqalam.com’ and ‘rangonoor.com’ which were hosted by a US-based domain service
provider. While ‘alqalam’ was shut down before the arrival of Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team(JIT) to India last week, the other one remains active but the video has been removed. Payments for the same website have been routed through an European country and NIA has sought details of the persons who made the payments and was subsequently renewing the contract with the domain provider, the sources said.
Agency | New Delhi Asking party workers to protect and carry forward BJP’s “nationalist” identity, its chief Amit Shah on Wednesday cautioned them against complacency and said they should ensure that it emerges victorious “from panchayats to Parliament” in next 25 years. Addressing party workers on completion of 36 years of party’s formation,
Hyderabad Central University: Students 3 Pakistani terrorists may target held after protesting for VC’s removal
The students gathered in front of the campus Tension prevailed near as part of a call Agency | Mumbai the Hyderabad Central Agency | Chandigarh for ‘Chalo HCU’ University (HCU) on Attacking the Centre demanding removal Three Pakistani militants Wednesday after scores over Pakistani media and “a local” travelling and arrest of Vice of students belonging to reports suggesting that in a car carrying weapons Chancellor Appa Rao different organisations the Joint Investigation and possibly a suicide belt Podile (who resumed as held protests demanding Team (JIT) had found VC on March 22) arrest of the Vice Chanthe Pathankot terror at- could target Delhi, Goa or ar Rohit Vemula, and Mumbai, a senior police cellor and tried to forcitack “stage-managed by bly enter the varsity even gathered infront of the police deployed in large questioned how can he India”, Shiv Sena today officer said on Wednesday. as police took them into campus as part of a call numbers, immediately hold the 76th academic said this was the conse- “Input received from the preventive custody. In for ‘Chalo HCU’ given intervened and prevented council meeting, which quence of the govern- Special Cell of the Delhi development, by Joint Action Com- them from entering the was going on in the uniment rolling out a red Police say a grey-coloured all the necessary steps in educational institutions,” another this regard and specially an alert issued by the poController of Examina- mittee for Social Jus- campus and took them versity today. The JAC carpet to the neighbour- Swift Dzire… is likely to ing country. All warn- cross Banihal Tunnel later focus on strict checking lice said. Punjab has wit- tion Professor V Krish- tice of HCU to intensify into preventive custody. earlier had appealed to ings given by the Sena today (Wednesday),” tele- of vehicles, security of all nessed two major terror na, expressing solidar- their ongoing agitation The protesting students all the students, political to the government about vision channels reported vital installation includ- attacks in the past nine ity with the protesting demanding removal and raised slogans against organisations, and peoPakistan have unfortu- Punjab director general ing police buildings and months. Suspected Paki- students against Rao’s arrest of Vice Chancel- Rao and held banners ple to come to the HCU nately proved correct. of police (Law and Or- defence establishments, stani terrorists attacked removal, resigned from lor Appa Rao Podile asking him to leave the today to register their All the evidences given der) HS Dhillon as say- religious places, crowd- the Pathankot Indian Air the post and walked out (who resumed as VC campus. They said Rao protest and express soliby the Indian govern- ing. A security alert has ed places such as market Force base on January 2 of the Academic Coun- on March 22), Some of has been booked on darity against the alleged ment have been rejected been issued, he added. areas, malls, railway sta- and killed seven security cil Meeting going on in them climbed the main charge of abetting sui- injustice to Rohit and to the Varsity. The students entrance gate even as cide of research schol- the university. by the Pakistani JIT. “You are directed to take tions, railway tracks, and personnel. Corpo. Office: B/14, Madhav Chamber’s, India Colony, Opp-Vidhyanagar School, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
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Shani Shingnapur faceoff shows how it caves in to male bias
No law permits temples to allow men and prevent women from entering and offering worship within the garbha griha. But no such law is needed. Because when on Saturday, April 2, hundreds of women led by Trupti Desai, president of the Bhumata Ranragini Brigade, tried to enter the Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar district, they were stopped and the law enforcement agencies of the state did nothing to protect them. Even though the women were waving orders of a division bench of the Bombay High Court declaring that, under the 1956 Maharashtra place of worship act, the 400-year-old males-only entitlement to the sanctum sanctorum of the Shani Shingnapur temple stands cancelled. No law permitted the locals and the women’s wing of the Shiv Sena, the Sanatan Sanstha, the Hindu Janajagruti Manch and its Ran Ragini Shakha to jointly form human chains and forcibly prevent the court orders from being implemented. None was necessary, since neither the lawmakers nor the implementation machinery of the state provided any shield to Trupti and her friends from being physically blocked and attacked by status quoists. Obviously, in the town that houses the Shani temple, it is not the laws of the state but custom and religious laws that still rule. And armed with those, the local society, in turn, can support an entitlement that was outlawed six decades ago. No wonder that when the judiciary extends legal cover to women beyond social and/ or state-sanctioned limits, it is seen not as an instance of the majesty of the law asserting itself, but simply as judicial activism. Is proof still needed about how illiberal, illegal and grossly gender discriminatory customs will continue to be legitimised by social sanction and protected by the law enforcers in India? No wonder, when matters such as personal laws and right to worship are adjudicated on and liberal laws are bandied about as proof of women having some sort of equality under our jurisprudence, the status quo supporters rush to publicise it as a threat to community and then justify their stonewalling young women’s agitation for asserting their legal rights on grounds of their debatable sexual purity, given their predilection for regular and impurity-invoking menstruation. “When does a state begin to die?” asks the Yaksha of Dharmraj Yudhishthir in the Mahabharata. “When it loses its hold over justice,” says Yudhishthir. After this confrontation, what is justice from women’s point of view? Today, while the judiciary has upheld the law of the land, the state has revealed itself on the side of a value system that remains pro-male in its operative norm.
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“I never judge players based on their price. I understand how an auction works. What one actually earns in auction is not reflection of who you are. A lot of things happen in auction. You can’t control prices. Just because someone got so much money does not mean that the franchise considers him more important player than another,” - Delhi Daredevils ‘Mentor’ Rahul Dravid said in reference to a question on Pawan Negi being paid Rs 8.5 crore by Daredevils.
Actress Zarine Khan hits out at body shamers
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huge clap for Zarine Khan for her reA cent Instagram post with a blast from the
past. Known for her portrayal of Princess Yashodhara in the Salman Khan starrer Veer and the sexy Siya Diwan in Hate Story 3, the 28-years-old actress shared her pictures from the past when she was ‘big’ and said that she never used to get bothered with people’s comment, as it was her life and her body and she had the right to decide for it.
Genelia D’souza amazed with Riteish Deshmukh’s love for son
The Rolling Stones is all set to release the long-awaited follow-up to 2005’s ‘A Bigger Bang.’ Ronnie Wood revealed that the band recently spent a few days in the studio, recording a mixture of blues covers and originals. Wood said in an interview that they went in to cut some new songs, which they did,
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Actor Ranveer Singh is busy learning dance forms like ‘hip hop’ and ‘tango’ for his next film ‘Befikre’. “It’s a light romantic film. One can’t imagine that there is so much prep (preparation) for light romance, but apparently there is,” Ranveer told reporters here at an event last evening. “There are lot of dance forms that I am learning, like a little bit of ‘hip hop’, ‘tango’. I am trying to up my dance skill in this film, so let’s see. I will put in the hours for rehearsals,” the 30-year-old actor said. In Aditya Chopra’s directorial venture ‘Befikre’, Ranveer will be seen romancing Vaani Kapoor. The ‘Bajirao Mastani’ actor, meanwhile, will also perform at the opening ceremony of the upcoming season of Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament. “The opening is on 8th of April and it is going to be a wonderful show. I have performed at almost all award functions this year. I love performing live, you feel energetic,” he said. British royals Prince William and his wife Kate are reportedly slated to visit India soon and expected to be introduced to Bollywood glamour at a gala dinner, which is likely to be attended by who’s who of the industry, including Shah Rukh Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and others. When asked about it, Ranveer said, “I am not too sure about what the schedule is after April 8. I am focusing on my performance, I am concentrating all my energies on it.
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Agency | Mumbai Actor Riteish Deshmukh, who is currently shooting “Banjo”, is performing his duties as a father quite nicely even after “exhausted” shoots, says his wife and actress Genelia Deshmukh. Genelia is amazed how after a whole night of shooting, Riteish took time out to
play with his One-yearold son. “Amazing how Riteish Deshmukh shoots the entire night, reaches home exhausted at 7 a.m. but waits to play with his son before crashing off to sleep. Love,” Genelia posted on Twitter on Wednesday (April 6). The couple got married in February 2012. “Banjo” marks the Hindi film
debut of popular Marathi director Ravi Jadhav, who has made films like “Natarang”, “Balak-Palak”, “Timepass” among others. The film traces the story of banjo players from Maharashtra and how the relevance of the art is deteriorating nowadays. Apart from Riteish, the film also stars Nargis Fakhri.
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adding that they still got on a blues streak. Speaking at the group’s London installation Exhibitionism, based at the Saatchi Gallery, Wood added that the album could arrive later this year. The Rolling Stones recently made headlines when they performed in Cuba, claiming to be the first major Western band to play the festival since a ban was lifted over a decade ago.
Ranveer Singh learning hip-hop, tango for ‘Befikre’
Kangana Ranaut’s new co-stars are MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli
It’s official! Bipasha Basu-Karan Singh Grover sending out marriage invites now
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Bipasha Basu is not talking about her impending marriage to Karan Singh Grover on April 29, but we have come to know that the actress has already started inviting people. At a recent event, when quizzed about the friends in B-Town this same, she told media, “I will announce it when I week, the formal invites feel like.” Guess before she makes the grand announcement, she’s getting her plans in place. The actress has got the • Hirpara Kapil ball rolling and is look• Rudani Chirag ing into all the arrangements for her D-Day. She • Patel Bharat has asked the invitees to • Rudani Dixit block their dates. While • Makani Dhruvil Bipasha has been send• Patel Prakash ing messages to her close
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The makers of an upcoming television advertisement have pulled off a big casting coup. They have managed to rope in Kangana Ranaut, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli for the project. “Things are being kept under wraps as of now. But we know that the ad film will start airing during an upcoming T20 cricket series. It’ll be a one-day shoot that will take place in ing with a top Bollywood actress. Mumbai on April 7,” says an insider. The Kangana is looking forward to working with her new co-stars,” adds the commercial will be directed by insider. filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani, who had directed Kangana While Kohli and Dhoni are in another ad some time currently on a break after the back. So far, only a few World T20, Kangana will Bollywood actresses take out time from her have teamed up with busy schedule to shoot cricketers for ad films. for the ad. “For the past For instance, Anushka few days, she has been Sharma shot with Kohli, shooting for the last Priyanka Chopra did an schedule of director ad with Chris Gayle, and Vishal Bhardwaj’s film. Preity Zinta did one It has been very hectic for with Dhoni. “But this her, since she has an intense is the first time that role,” adds the insider. two top names Despite repeated attempts, from the cricket neither Kangana nor Hiworld will be rani could be reached for seen worka comment.
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Agency | New Delhi Google has marked the 120th anniversary of Modern Olympics with a doodle that celebrates the quadrennial event that began in 1896. There are four versions of the doodle each featuring a different discipline from the sporting event that was held in Athens and had athletes from 14 nations. 241 athletes – all men – from 14 nations participated in 43 events such as tennis, fencing, weightlifting, track and field, cycling, shooting, swimming, wrestling and gymnastics. This isn’t the first time Google has used a sports based doodle with previous ones being around the recently concluded World T20, 2015 Women’s World Cup, 2015 Cricket World Cup and one during the start of the Tour de France in 2013 which was the 100th edition of the cycle race.
RBI likely to hold pause button until the end of 2016: Nomura
Agency | New Delhi Reserve Bank is likely to hold the pause button until the end of this year, largely owing to inflationary pressures, a Nomura report has said. However, domestic ratings agency India Ratings has said the central bank will deliver another rate cut of 0.25% this fiscal. Nomura in a research note on Wednesday said that it “expects RBI to stand pat until end-2016, as we do not see inflation undershooting 5% on a sustained basis as the cyclical factors driving disinflation (oil price falls, a slowdown in rural wage growth and the large negative output gap) are behind us.” Though in its forward guidance, RBI had said the stance of monetary policy will remain accommodative, the Japanese brokerage firm expects rates to be on hold until year end. Reserve Bank yesterday cut the key interest rate by 0.25% and introduced a host of measures to smoothen liquidity supply so that banks can lend to the productive sectors and indicated accommodative stance going ahead.
www.sunvillasamachar.com Indian PremierLeague 2016: It’s the Chennai Super Kings effect on Gujarat Lions, says Suresh Raina Agency | New Delhi
After eight years with the Chennai Super Kings, Suresh Raina is out to seek Indian Premier League glory with a new side. The left-handed batsman from Uttar Pradesh has been named captain of the Gujarat Lions, one of two new sides which have replaced CSK and Rajasthan Royals for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Raina is excited about his new assignment with the Gujarat Lions but he conceded that it would be difficult to move on after spending nearly a decade with one of the most consistent sides in the IPL.
Ten Indian-Americans are among 21 people arrested as part of a sting operation in which a fake university was created by US authorities to expose a visa scam that allowed more than 1,000 foreigners to maintain student and work visas. In a nationwide sweep federal authorities arrested 21
SPORTS ROUNDUP I can give Rihanna a run for her money: Carlos Brathwaite
But he does have with him the likes of Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo and Dwayne Smith, men who had made CSK a mean fighting machine. That’s a powerful combination and there’s little wonder then that the Rajkot-based franchise are being con-
sidered favourites for the ninth edition. “I guess it’s the Chennai Super Kings effect. There are so many from the CSK here. Yes, the team looks very good, it’s a great mix. All of us are just about beginning to get together. Some have already reached Rajkot, the rest are on their way.
people in New York, New Jersey, Washington and Virginia. “These defendants arranged to obtain visas by having individuals enroll in a fake university. Unfortunately for them, that fake university was run by undercover agents of the Department of Homeland Security,” Paul J Fishman, US Attorney for New Jersey, told reporters. The arrest-
ed people were brokers, recruiters and employers who unlawfully and fraudulently obtained or attempted to obtain student visas and foreign worker visas for approximately 1,000 foreign nationals from 26 countries. It is learnt that a large number of students who received necessary visa and permits to work in the US as a result of the sting operation for which they reportedly paid huge sums of money are from India. Officials, however, did not give the number of Indian students who were trapped by this yearlong sting operation done by immigration and law enforcement authorities.
A Gujarati Patel among 21 arrested for visa fraud in US
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Anandiben Patel launches ‘Maa Annapurna Yojna’
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Carlos Brathwaite, the West Indies cricketer, may have surprised everyone when he smashed those four consecutive sixes at the T20 World Cup final at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, but he was in for a surprise in Delhi recently. As soon as Carlos entered Novotel Hotel, Aerocity, he was welcomed by the staff who started dancing on his Champions Song. Not one to hold back, Carlos joined in the fun and showed off his coolest moves. His enthusiasm even had the
guests present at the hotel dancing with him. When complimented for his dancing skills, Carlos told us, “If there was ever a dance-off between me and fellow Caribbean Rihanna, I think it would be a really close call. I could give her a run for her money.” The hotel also gifted Carlos cus-
tomised stationery — a notepad, a key holder and a letter head along with towels with his name on it. The Champions song has been sung by Carlos Brathwaite’s teammate, cricketer Dwayne Bravo, in which he has paid tribute to all the Caribbeans who have made it big on the global stage.
FIFA labels proposed Futsal League unauthorised in letter to AIFF Agency | Mumbai
Expressing concern over the proposed Premier Futsal league, announced on Tuesday with great fanfare here by former Portugal football star Luis Figo, world governing football body FIFA has shot off a letter to the Figo launched the five-a-side Futsal All India Football Federation, it has been learnt. Barcelona League featuring eight citybased franchise teams which “FIFA’s head of events, and Real is to be held in the country Jaime Yarza, has sent a Madrid legend from July 15-24. Figo, who letter to the AIFF exFigo announced played with distinction for pressing concerns over a non-affiliated group the launch of the top Spanish sides Barcelohaving announced the Futsal League on na and Real Madrid, will be the president of the first-ever Futsal League which has Tuesday Futsal league, started by Indian not been sanctioned by entrepreneurs under the entity Prethem,” a source privy to the development said on mier Futsal Management private limited, it was anWednesday. On Tuesday, nounced at a media conference here.
Govt working on Aadhar linked health scheme for 8 crore families: Nadda
WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption for calls, messages
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Messaging giant WhatsApp is rolling out end-toend encryption, a move that will potentially protect texts and voice calls of its over one billion users from hackers and “regimes”. The announcement has come close on the heels of a legal battle between Apple and FBI over the US agency’s demand that the iPhone maker help unlock its mobile phones. Many Silicon Valley players had supported Apple citing that user data privacy needs to be respected. “WhatsApp has always prioritised making your data and communication as secure as possible. And today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve completed a technological development that makes WhatsApp a leader in protecting your private communication: full end-to-end encryption,” WhatsApp founder Jan Koum said on the company blogpost. He added that the latest version of the app will encrypt every call, message, photo, video, file and voice message that is sent on the platform by default, including group chats.
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Wednesday officially launched the state-wide implementation of National Food Security Act, which has been renamed as ‘Maa Annapurna Yojna (Scheme)’ by the state government. Though the Food Security Act was passed during the UPA regime at the Centre, Patel, in her speech at a grand launching function at Sanathal village near here, did not mention anything about the Act and sought to give all credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who according to Patel,
envisioned the scheme. “When Congress was ruling this state, only 1.88 crore people were given food-grains at subsidised rates prior to 1995. Now, under this Maa Annapurna Yojna, 3.82 crore people of Gujarat will be benefited. Each of them will get rice at Rs 3 per Kg and wheat at Rs 2 per Kg,” said Patel. She even slammed past Congress governments in Gujarat for “not understanding the pain of poor citizens”. “Out of 35 kg given at subsidised rates during Congress rule, only 16 kg of food-grain was given at those rates, while for the
remaining 19 kg, government used to charge Rs 7.70. Now, PM Modi removed this condition and has announced to give the entire 35 kg of food-grain at subsidised rates,” she said. Patel claimed that Modi is the first PM of India who took care of poor citizens. “Due to efforts of Modiji, many poor citizens, including widows and those farmers who lost their crops, are now covered under this scheme and they no longer have to worry about feeding their families. No other PM has thought about poor people in the past,” said Patel.
Union Health Minister Shri J.P. Nadda while interacting with media persons at Circuit House in Ahmedabad at a press conference organized by Gujarat BJP said the centre is working on Aadhar connected health scheme covering 8 crore families. The government is planning to provide Rs 1 lakh annual health coverage to Economic Weaker Section class family. For every senior citizen in family there will be additional Rs 30,000 relief in expenditure. The assistant money will not be given to individual but the institutes that provide services. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched accidental insurance and life insurance schemes in Kolkata to bring these poor people in social security net. In reply to a question related to AIIMS, Nadda said Gujarat will get All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) soon. He said the location of AIIMS will be decided mutually. When asked, “Bharat Mata Ki
Jay first and AIIMS then after?” Nadda replied, “it is because of Bharat Mata Ki Jay that Gujarat will get AIIMS. People elected a government believing in Bharat Mata Ki Jay and therefore so many states are getting AIIMS.” He added that during 1956-2000 there was only one AIIMS and India had to wait for Atal Bihar Vajpayee to become Prime Minister to see the second AIIMS. During Atalji’s government 5 AIIMS were established, and now Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has planned 11 AIIMS. Taking AIIMS to states was NDA government concept and we will take this concept ahead. Responding to the question related to lack of doctors in government health facilities, Shri Nadda said there’s an issue of shortage in supply of doctors nationwide, and to increase the supply, MCI guidelines need changes. Some relaxations in medical education sector have been already made to increase the supply of doctors.
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