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SNIPPETS
SCR’s fortress
check yields
`10 lakh
Hyderabad: The South Central Railway conducted a
mega fortress check against
ticketless and irregular travel
at Secunderabad Railway Station on January 10. The check
was held under the direct supervision of Secunderabad
Divisional Railway Manager
S K Mishra and Senior Division Commercial Manager
Ravi Padi. During the Mega
Fortress Check, all the exit
points at Secunderabad Railway station were plugged to
prevent ticketless travellers
escaping from the premises.
60 express trains, 12 passenger trains and 36 MMTS
trains were thoroughly
checked at the station. The
check was undertaken by 147
ticket checking staff supplemented by 11 Railway Protection Force (RPF) Personnel.
A total of 2,826 persons,
comprising of 1,118 persons
travelling without ticket,
1,572 persons travelling irregularly and 133 cases of unbooked luggage were
detected. An amount of
Rs. 14, 45, 380 was realised
towards penalty from these
persons.
NEWS
Islam scholars decry hate speeches
WARANGAL MONDAY 12 JANUARY 2015
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Say it was Islam that gave the concept of equality, empowered women and formed the first democratic government in the world
Hyderabad: Stating that Islam
never preached any kind of hatred
and violent, prominent Islamic
scholars and religious heads exhorted the common Muslims and
the leaders to restrain from making any provocative speech, gesture or statement against any
other community.
Addressing a massive public
meeting
‘Jalsa-e-Rahmatulil
Aalameen’ at Chanchalguda Junior College Grounds on Saturday
night, guest speaker Mufti
Hafeez-Ur-Rahman Pasha from
Delhi advised the Muslims to
strictly follow the teachings of Islam and Prophet Mohammed
(PBUH). He said it was Islam that
gave the concept of equality, empowered women and formed the
ﬁrst democratic government in
the world comprising representatives of all faiths in Madina by
Prophet Mohammed. He said the
Prophet never taught confrontation with other communities. Despite facing physical and mental
torture and other harassment, the
Prophet never cursed anyone in
his life, he said.
Stating that Islam has always
used force only for defensive,
Mufti
Hafeez-ur-Rahman
slammed the Muslim leaders who
are giving provocative speeches
and statements. He said Taliban,
ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other outﬁts
The Prophet never taught
confrontation with other communities.
Despite facing physical and mental
torture and other harassment, the
Prophet never cursed anyone in his life
were anti-Islamic and those
working for such organisations
were not Mujahideens. He said Islam had always taught tolerance.
Strongly criticising Mohammed Ali Jinnah, he said Jinnah was a person who used to eat
pork and divided the country into
two parts in the name of religion.
He said Jinnah's politics caused
AP to launch
‘e-biz’ portal
for investors
SOARING SPIRIT
Jeevan Reddy
accuses KCR of
cheating public
Hyderabad: Congress MLA
T Jeevan Reddy accused
Telangana Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao of cheating people of Telangana by
making fake promises. Speaking to media persons on the
Assembly premises here on
Sunday, Jeevan Reddy said the
Chief Minister did not fulfil
even 5 per cent of the promises he made during the last
eight months. He said Rao had
made several new promises
during his visit to Warangal
district. Rao had failed to honour the promise of waiving off
farmers’ loan, scholarships and
other assurances, he said. Jeevan Reddy said people who
had aligned with Rao during
Telangana agitation had
started distancing themselves
due to his poor performance
and failure to honour his
promises. He advised the
Chief Minister to understand
the ground realities and begin
real work by taking entire opposition into confidence.
Spend a day in
KU without
security: TDP
leader to KCR
Hyderabad: Telangana TDP
leader Errabelli Dayakar Rao
on Sunday challenged Chief
Minister K Chandrashekar
Rao to spend one day in
Kakatiya University of
Warangal without any security. Speaking to media persons at NTR Trust Bhavan
here, Dayakar Rao described
Rao’s three-day visit to
Warangal as an eyewash. He
said Rao had conducted the
tour under a strong security
cover and ensured that people
did not express their anger.
He said just to test the real
mood of the people, the Chief
Minister should spend one
day in Kakatiya University
while giving freedom to students to express their views.
Heritage Foods
denies reports
on irregularities
Hyderabad: Heritage Foods
on Sunday clarified that there
was no irregularities in the
supply of pure ghee to the
Civil Supplies Department. In
a press note issued here, the
Heritage Foods president
Sambasiva Rao stated that
they had made sure there were
no irregularities. The company also clarified that a tender was called to supply 1,300
tons pure ghee. He said his
firm took a contract to supply
70 tons only. Though the market rate was Rs 53, they were
quoting only Rs 49.53. He
said reports of irregularities in
getting the contract was baseless and far from truth.
Children flying kites at NTR Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday ahead of Sankranti
Investigate irregularities in
Moulana varsity, demands BJP
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: Telangana BJP Minority Morcha president Md Haneef Ali on Sunday demanded a probe
against the alleged irregularities conducted by Mohammed Miyan, the Vice-Chancellor of Moulana
Azad National Urdu University (MANUU).
Addressing a press conference here, Haneef Ali
informed that he had written a letter to Union HRD
Minister Smriti Irani and MANUU Chancellor Zafar
Sareshwala seeking a probe into all decisions taken
by Mohammed Miyan since 2010. He alleged that
several non-Urdu speaking people were hired and
there were several irregularities in the transfers and
heavy damage to Muslims as
those who migrated to Pakistan
were not given any respect and
those who stayed back were
blamed for country’s partition. He
warned the Muslim leaders
against indulging in hate and
provocative politics.
In his speech, Khateeb-e-Zeeshan Moulana Mohammed
promotions. He also condemned the appointment
of Khaja Shahedullah as the Pro-VC. He demanded
a White Paper into the foreign tours undertaken by
the VC. The BJP leader accused the MANUU VC of
playing with the lives and careers of hundreds of students and said that the Polytechnics started by
MANUU in Hyderabad, Darbhanga and Bangalore
were not approved by the National Council for Technical Education. Similarly, he said the illegal appointments done by the VC has put additional burden of
Rs 1 crore on the university. Haneef Ali also alleged
that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao
was not serious about the protection of Wakf properties in the State.
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh
government is set to launch an
‘e-biz’ web portal next month
to make it easier for investors
to obtain licenses and permissions for business.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu held a meeting
on the proposed portal last
week, where he was given a
presentation on it.
So far, the investors have to
go through lengthy processes
to obtain permissions for setting up industries. The portal
would make it easy to get permissions from anywhere in the
world, said Parakala Prabhakar,
Adviser (Communications) to
the State government. Permissions related to environment,
power, labour and others can
be obtained at a single desk
once the portal is in place.
The Chief Minister hoped
that the ‘e-biz’ portal would be
helpful for prospective investors in setting up a company
and expansion. Licensing fees
and other money transactions
can be done through the portal,
according to a government release.
The State government is
planning to train its employees
in managing the portal and to
stop the procedure of manual
permission from April 1.
The Chief Minister has directed for linking the portal to
Aadhaar and making use of the
bio-metric system.
BJP’s membership drive proves futile in TS
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: The efforts made by the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) Telangana State unit to
enrol about 8 lakh members through traditional method of issuing membership receipts
do not seem to have yielded much result.
According to party senior leaders, party national president Amit Shah, during his recent
visit to Hyderabad, told the State party unit
that the system they had adopted was not acceptable to him and asked them to convert
the entire process of membership drive into
an online exercise. This has put the party leadership into a dilemma as they feel that it
BJP national
president Amit Shah
Big Bazaar into
big racket?
Continued from P1
Mastan Vali, an advocate of the
Hyderabad High Court, opined
that deposit was deﬁned in Sec 2
(b) of Andhra Pradesh Protection
of Depositors Act, 1999. As per the
Act 'deposit' means the deposit of
a sum of money either in lump
sum or instalments made with a
ﬁnancial establishment for a ﬁxed
period, for interest or return in
any kind. The deﬁnition for deposit under the RBI Act and SEBI
Act are different to deﬁnition of
deposit under the AP protection
of Depositors Act. As per the RBI
Act and the SEBI Act, advance for
sale is not deposit whereas in Depositors Act, there is not such exemption in the deﬁnition.
As such, any person collects deposits with a promise to return in
any kind falls within the deﬁnition of the Depositors Act. Hence,
he opined that the government
should suo motu enquire into this
matter under the provisions of
the AP Protection of Depositors
Act, 1999 before any cause of action or grievances at large has
taken place, he added. The Proﬁt
Club Card also attracts the provisions of the Prize Chits and
Money Circulation Schemes
(Banning) Act, 1978 as it intends
to mobilise deposits through its
direct selling agents. A senior police officer also opined that it was
an outright violation of the law of
the land.
As per the General Terms and
Conditions of the Proﬁt Club
brochure, one could be enrolled
as member through direct sales
agents/agencies duly appointed
by Future Group. It also absolves
its own liability to fulﬁl its obligations if there is change in law.
More, The Future Group sets a
condition that in case of disputes,
the Mumbai Courts have exclusive jurisdiction. In essence, if
anybody wants to ﬁle a suit
against the Future Group if it fails
to fulﬁl its obligations, one has to
go to Mumbai to ﬁle the suit.
Practically, it is not economically
feasible to an ordinary customer.
It is high time that the law enforcing agencies took initiative to
curb such illegal activities.
would be a very difficult task to ensure
that details including
the addresses of the
new members are included in the online
list. They had given
receipt books to the
cadre and asked
them to enrol members, but did not collect the details from
them.
Though the party
leaders tried to ex-
plain this to Amit Shah, he is learnt to have
told them that there was no option but to go
in for online membership drive and had set a
high target of 35 lakh.
Online membership drive will help in
avoiding bogus membership. Normally political parties set target for the membership
drive and give receipt books to its rank and
ﬁle. In many cases, the leaders themselves pay
the membership money and show some
names to achieve the targets.
A senior leader told The Hans India that
the issue of membership drive was back to
square one and all the efforts they had made
so far had gone waste.
Hasham Ashraﬁ from Kanpur
also accused some Muslims leaders of making provocative statements only to retain their seats.
He said such statements could
beneﬁt the leaders and their parties, but they would badly hurt the
interest of common Muslims in
the country.
Moulana Ashraﬁ advised the
critics of Islam to study Holy
Quran, teachings of Islam and life
of Prophet Mohammed before
commenting anything against it.
He said that Islam gave rights to
all sections of the society, including animals and trees. He said it
was Islam that elevated the status
of women. The meeting was also
addressed by MBT president Dr
Khayam Khan, MBT spokesperson Majeed Ullah Khan, Khateeb
of Jama Masjid Mahedviya
Moulana Syed Bakhtiyar Alam,
Zaakir-e-Ahle-eBait Moulana Ali
Murtuza, Sunni Ulema Board
general secretary Moulana
Haseeb-ul-Hassan Siddiqui and
others.
The meeting continued till the
wee hours of Sunday. Despite severe cold, hundreds of people remained seated in an elegantly
decorated open ground. Guest poets Shayer-E-Islam Fayyaz
Bhadoyi (Banaras) and Qamar-ulIslam (Odisha) recited Naat-eShareef of Prophet Mohammad.
Four abandoned
girls wait in vain
for their mom
In a bizarre incident, a woman hailing
from Mahabubnagar in Telangana, fed
up with her abusive husband, ran away
from home with four little daughters,
but abandoned them at a Mumbai
Railway Station. The husband is now
refusing to take back the girls, who have
been sent to a shelter
OUR BUREAU
Hyderabad: For the past few
weeks, Mumbai police have
been trying to trace a woman
from Mahabubnagar, who
abandoned her four daughters aged between three and
nine at Kalyan Railway Station in Mumbai on December
28. Police who have already
spoken to the father of the
girls - Mahalaxmi, 3, Akhila,
5, Sapna, 7, and Rajeshwari, 9,
- have not been able to convince him to take the girls
back home.
Inquiries by Mahabubnagar police revealed that the
girls’ father was an unemployed alcoholic who routinely fought with his wife,
Sujata Boya, 32, for not having
a son. The Child Protection
Unit of the Thane Police has
temporarily shifted the girls
to the Bhiwandi Children's
Home and are persuading
their relatives to take their
custody.
The girls, who only speak
Telugu, have no idea about the
day they boarded the train
and where they had been
abandoned.
Investigation revealed that
their mother, along with the
girls and a male relative,
boarded the train from their
hometown and landed in
Kalyan late on December 28.
One of the girls told the police
that their mother had instructed them to sit on a
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bench, saying she would bring
them food, after which she
disappeared. The girls revealed that the family survived on the money earned by
their mother, who did odd
jobs. None of the girls went to
school.
Inspector Madam Ballard
from Thane Crime Branch,
while interacting with a
Mumbai tabloid said, “The
girls’ father has simply refused to take back his daughters. He said we could do
whatever we wanted, but he
wouldn’t accept the girls. We
are speaking to the man's relatives, especially his mother,
hoping these innocent girls
get a home and a decent life.”
The cops are taking help of
the village elders, including
Mahabubnagar
sarpanch
Venkat Reddy to ﬁnd a home
for the girls. “We are also talking to the girls' grandmother,”
Reddy said.
Meanwhile, cops have a few
leads suggesting that the girls’
mother is in Mumbai. “The
CCTV camera footage shows
the woman and a man leaving
the station,” a Thane Crime
Branch officer said.
Hurdles ahead for Mission Kakatiya
VRC PHANIHARAN
Hyderabad: Restoring hundreds
of choked feeder channels of waters bodies identiﬁed for restoration in Telangana under Mission
Kakaitya poses a herculean task
for the irrigation officials. The ambitious project which is one-of-itskind taken up anywhere in the
country in the recent past was
conceived to be implemented in
four to ﬁve phases. The main objective of the project was to rejuvenate the chain of tanks which
had provided drinking water as
well as irrigation waters in Telangana State.
However, over the years, the
feeder channels from the catchment areas to the tanks had been
encroached or several obstructions have come in their way, resulting in water ﬂowing out
through the feeder channels. Due
to this, thousands of tanks are getting dried off, or getting fewer
quantities of water at many places
in the State.
Speaking to The Hans India,
PPMU Project Director Dr G Malsur said, “Restoring feeder channels is one of the crucial aspects
of the Mission Kakaitya.
However, as these tanks are existing ones, their maps are available and their feeder channels
were already identiﬁed ones. And,
we are taking care of this key component of the project.” Once these
feeder channels have been restored, officials feel that they will
not only bring water into the tanks,
but also cause recharge of ground
water, bring down ﬂuoride levels
and sustain the eco-systems survived on these thanks and their
feeder channels for decades.
Besides, there are hundreds of
rain-fed tanks and chain tanks
which would be ﬁlled by waters
coming through the canal system.
It is in case of these tanks that the
officials are focusing to work on to
save every drop of waters coming
from the catchment areas. However, the southwest monsoon
which provides about 70 per cent
of the rain fall in the area has been
played a taunting game during
most of the time since 2006. Of the
464 mandals in the State, only 43
had recorded normal to excess
rainfall, and the overall deviation
from the normal rainfall had stood
at 48 per cent during the last year.
Similarly, with a few exceptions
even the district-wise and seasonwise rainfall in Telangana had witnessed much deviation from the
normal rainfall for most of the time
since 2006.
It was against this backdrop,
9,300 tank restoration works
needed to be carried out during
the current year, TS Irrigation
Minister T Harish Rao said. The
target set was to complete the
works much ahead of the onset of
southwest monsoon, which normally keeps its date with Telangana around ﬁrst and second
weeks of June. As part of speeding
up of the works, 50 per cent of tender process would be completed
by January 26, and scrutiny of
5,302 tanks had already been completed, he said.