Elect govt that listens to students: Priyanka at Jharkhand

Jharkhand Election News
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday hit out at the BJP over police action at university campuses and urged voters of Jharkhand to elect a government that will listen to students.
Claiming that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise has failed in Assam, she said the government has now brought the amended Citizenship Act which is facing the ire of students.
"Students have hit the roads in the country and are facing police batons," she said while addressing a poll rally here.
The Congress general secretary also appealed to voters to elect a government that will "listen to students, waive farm loans, provide security to women and protect your (tribal) culture and tradition."
She alleged that the Jharkhand government is creating a land bank to give it to the rich.
Mentioning that the Congress has always protected tribal culture and tradition, Priyanka Gandhi said, women are being assaulted in the country.
The fifth and the final phase of assembly polls in Jharkhand will be held on December 20.

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Jharkhand Assembly election: Exit polls predict Congress-JMM defeating BJP

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The five stage surveying for the 81-seat Jharkhand Assembly finished up on Friday evening with leave surveys showing a hung get together. Leave surveys anticipated the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)- drove union in the number one spot, and officeholder Raghubar Das-drove Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prone to miss the mark regarding the greater part mark.
The fifth and last period of surveying in 16 get together voting public of Jharkhand went off calmly, Election Commission authorities said in Ranchi. An expected 70.83 percent of the absolute 40.05 lakh voters practiced their establishment till 5 pm when the surveying finished, they said.
As per the India Today-Axis leave survey, the BJP was on course to win 22 to 32 seats in the Jharkhand Assembly. It said the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) collusion could win 38 to 50-seats, while the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) liable to win 2 to 4-situates, All Jharkhand Students Union 3 to 5-seats and others 4 to 7 seats. The leave survey said the JMM-drove coalition could corner 37 percent of the votes to the BJP's 34 percent.

diagram The Times Now leave survey said the JMM-drove collusion could win 44-seats and the BJP 28. The IANS-CVoter-ABP leave survey anticipated 31 to 39-seats for the JMM-drove partnership and 28 to 36-seats for the BJP. As the leave surveys streamed in, AJSU's Sudesh Mahato said his gathering was not shut to working with the BJP in future. The AJSU had gone separate ways with the BJP in the approach the surveys. It had won 5-situates in the 2014 Assembly surveys. BJP competitor and Jharkhand Agriculture Minister Randhir Singh is looking for re-appointment from Sarath voting public, while another saffron party chosen one and Women and Child Development Minister Louis Marandi is set in opposition to JMM working president Hemant Soren in Dumka....Read More

Voting underway in 16 seats as Jharkhand holds elections for last phase

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Surveying for the fifth and last period of the Jharkhand get together decisions in 16 voting public started on Friday.
The destiny of 237 up-and-comers, including two priests and a previous CM, will be chosen in this last stage. The surveying that started at 7 am in all gathering sections will end at 3 pm in five voting public of Borio (ST), Barhait (ST), Litipara (ST), Maheshpur (ST) and Sikaripara (ST).
Voters in the remainder of the gathering sections can practice their establishment till 5 pm. Different seats where surveying is being held in this last stage are Rajmahal, Pakur, Nalla, Jamtara, Dumka (ST), Jama (ST), Jarmundi, Sarath, Poreyahat, Godda and Mahagama. All bodies electorate are spread more than six locale in the Santhal Pargana area of the state.
On the whole, 40,05,287 electorate, including 19,55,336 ladies and 30 third sexual orientation voters, are qualified to make their choice, Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer Vinay Kumar Choubey said.
Sufficient security powers have been conveyed, he said. Of 5,389 surveying stations, 396 in Naxal-influenced regions have been set apart as "basic" while 208 have been proclaimed "touchy".
On the whole, 1,321 surveying stations in non-left wing fanaticism influenced regions have been set apart as "basic" while 1,765 pronounced "delicate". The Election Commission has set up 8,987 polling form units, 6,738 control units and 7,006 VVPAT machines.
Inside and out, 249 surveying stations have been set apart as model stalls.

Upwards of 133 surveying stations have ladies staff while 1,347 have webcasting offices, Choubey said. BJP competitor and Jharkhand Agriculture Minister Randhir Singh is looking for re-appointment from Sarath....Read More

SC refuses to allow Jharkhand ex-CM Madhu Koda to contest Assembly polls

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The Supreme Court on Friday wouldn't permit previous Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda from challenging the up and coming get together decisions in the state. A seat of Justices N V Ramana and V Ramasubramanian looked for a reaction from the Election Commission on the request of Koda testing his preclusion by the survey board in 2017 for not recording political race costs.
The survey board had excluded Koda from challenging decisions for a long time. At the start, the insight showing up for Koda said that it has been a long time since he has been precluded and the top court ought to enable him to challenge the forthcoming surveys. "You yourself is liable for the postponement. You should sit tight for another year. We can't enable you to challenge the races at this stage. We have to hear the opposite side (EC)," the seat said and gave notice to the survey board.
On November 13, the pinnacle court had consented to hear the supplication of Koda testing the survey board choice after his guidance said that the last date for documenting designation for the up and coming get together surveys was November 18. Koda was excluded by the survey board in September, 2017 for a long time from challenging races for neglecting to document subtleties of costs identified with the 2009 Lok Sabha surveys, which he won from the Singhbhum electorate of the state as an Independent up-and-comer.
Koda, an Independent MLA, filled in as the central clergyman of Jharkhand from 2006 to 2008. He has been indicted in a coal square designation trick case and has been given three-year prison term. He has likewise been charged in tax evasion cases enrolled by the Enforcement Directorate and lopsided resources case enlisted by the state cautiousness division.

He was first captured in 2009 from Chaibasa region of the state by the watchfulness division.....Read More

Keep the tribals happy: Forest-dwellers hold the key in Jharkhand elections

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Tribals' disappointment with the moderate usage of the Forest Rights Act (FRA), which offers formal acknowledgment of woodland inhabitants' property rights, could be a central factor in more than 62 of the 81 Assembly bodies electorate in the Jharkhand state races, an autonomous research bunch said.
The examination depends on the way that the quantity of SC/ST voters qualified for land rights under the FRA was more than the edge of triumph in the last political race in 58 of the 62 seats considered FRA-delicate.
Almost 70% of the populace in voting demographics spread crosswise over Jharkhand — Chakradharpur, Gumla, Latehar and Simdega, for instance — have a place with the SC/ST class.
Dissecting the aftereffects of the 2014 Assembly decisions in these 62 bodies electorate, scientists reasoned that any ideological group that guaranteed successful execution of the FRA and different laws ensuring land privileges of tribals could vanquish the officeholder Bharatiya Janata Party.
The FRA, which became effective in 2006, is basic to the employments of in any event 3.8 million SC/ST voters in Jharkhand, 52% of 7.3 million voters, as indicated by the 2014 democratic insights.

Of the SC/ST voters, 75% (2.9 million) have a place with STs, discovered experts Tushar Shah and Archana Soreng, the two individuals from the NGO organize Community Forest Resource-Learning and Advocacy (CFR-LA), who led this examination autonomous of CFR-LA...Read More

India is 112th in WEF rankings on gender gap, Bangladesh does better

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India is 112th among countries positioned regarding the hole among sexes, and it was among the last five for ladies' wellbeing and endurance and financial support, said a yearly overview on Tuesday.
Iceland remained the world's most unbiased nation on the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report. India descended the stepping stool from its 108th position a year ago to rank beneath nations like China (106th), Sri Lanka (102nd), Nepal (101st), Brazil (92nd), Indonesia (85th) and Bangladesh (50th).
Yemen is positioned the most noticeably awful (153rd), while Iraq is 152nd and Pakistan 151st. "The time it will take to close the sex hole limited to 99.5 years in 2019. While an enhancement for 2018 - – when the hole was determined to take 108 years to close - despite everything it implies equality among people crosswise over wellbeing, instruction, work and legislative issues will take in excess of a lifetime to accomplish," the WEF said.
Geneva-based WEF, a worldwide association for open private collaboration, said the current year's improvement can to a great extent be credited to a noteworthy increment in the quantity of ladies in governmental issues. The political sexual orientation hole will take 95 years to close, contrasted with 107 years a year ago. Around the world, ladies presently hold 25.2 percent of parliamentary lower-house seats and 21.2 percent of ecclesiastical positions, contrasted with 24.1 percent and 19 percent, individually a year ago.

Be that as it may, the financial open door hole has compounded, augmenting to 257 years, contrasted with 202 years a year ago. The report said probably the best challenge to shutting this hole is ladies' under-portrayal in rising jobs, for example, distributed computing, building and information and AI....Read More

Jharkhand elections third phase: 12.8% turnout recorded till 9 am

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An estimated 12.89 per cent of the over 56 lakh eligible voters exercised their franchise till 9 am on Thursday in the third of the five-phase Jharkhand assembly elections in 17 constituencies.
Though polling began on a sluggish note long queues, with women outnumbering men, were seen in several polling stations.Senior Congress leader and former union minister Subodh Kant Sahay was among the early voters.The voting began at 7 am amid tight security arrangements, officials said.
In 12 seats polling will end at 3 pm, while voters in the remaining constituencies will be able to exercise their franchise till 5 pm.Altogether 56,18,267 voters, including 26,80,205 women and 86 third gender voters, are eligible to vote to decide the fate of 309 candidates, including 32 women nominees.
The seats going to polls in the third phase are Kodarma, Barkatha, Barhi, Barkagaon, Ramgarh, Mandu, Hazaribag, Simaria (SC), Dhanwar, Gomia, Bermo, Ichagarh, Silli, Khijri (ST), Ranchi, Hatia and Kanke (SC), an EC release said.Two of the constituencies are rserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates and one for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidate.
Notable candidates in the fray are former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi, Urban Development Minister C P Singh and Education Minister Neera Yadav.Babulal Marandi, president of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik), is contesting from Dhanwar seat, while Singh and Yadav are contesting from Ranchi and Kodarma constituencies respectively.

Former deputy chief minister and AJSU party president Sudesh Mahto is trying his luck to regain Silli seat after he lost the 2014 assembly polls and the subsequent bypoll to JMM candidates Amit Mahato and his wife Seema Mahato....Read More

With 23 starvation deaths in 4 years, Jharkhand struggles to curb hunger

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The Central GST assortment missed the mark concerning the moved gauge by almost 40 percent during the April-November time of 2019-20, as indicated by the information exhibited in the Parliament.
The genuine CGST assortment during April-November remained at Rs 3,28,365 crore while the planned gauge is of Rs 5,26,000 crore for these months, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said in a composed answer in Lok Sabha on Monday.
Thakur included that the information was, notwithstanding, provisional.In 2018-19, the real CGST assortment remained at Rs 4,57,534 crore as against the temporary gauge of Rs 6,03,900 crore for the year.
For reinforcing checking instruments to forestall GST avoidance, accentuation has been laid on framework based scientific devices and framework created insight, he said.
"In this association, the Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management (DGARM) has been set up by the CBIC. Further, E-way charge squads have been initiated for the motivations behind irregular confirmation of the products in travel," Thakur said.
The priest likewise educated the House that it has embedded another CGST decide which puts limitation that the information charge credit (ITC) profited by a citizen will not surpass 20 percent of the qualified credit accessible in regard of solicitations or charge notes.

The topping of ITC would prompt decrease in instances of fake ITC availment just as increment in installment of duty through money in this way boosting GST assortment, Thakur included.....Read More

Cidco sells 7 Navi Mumbai plots at double the reserve price, nets Rs 386 cr

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A day before the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was set to be discussed in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, there were widespread protests against the proposed law in the Northeast. There was also dissent within the Janata Dal (United) for supporting it in the Lok Sabha (LS) and the Shiv Sena indicated it might withdraw its support to the Bill.None of this is sufficient to decisively alter the numbers that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has marshalled in favour of the contentious Bill. Opposition strategists conceded they were at least 20 votes short of the government numbers. They said the battle was about constitutional morality and not majority.
As things stand, the BJP, its allies and regional parties, supporting the Bill have 128 votes in favour of the Bill in a House of 240. This figure, if the Sena also supports the Bill, would reach 131. The Opposition has 109, which could increase to 112 if the Sena votes with the opposition. An unlikely change of heart in the JD (U) could make the battle closer, but not by much. The JD (U) has six MPs in the Rajya Sabha. JD (U) leaders Prashant Kishor and Pavan Verma have spoken against their party for supporting the Bill.
Chart The Opposition received a shot in the arm in the LS with the Telangana Rashtra Samiti opposing the Bill. The Opposition strategists also feared several MPs to remain absent from within their ranks.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who also heads the Shiv Sena, said in Mumbai, “We need to change this notion that one who supports the Bill and the BJP is a patriot and one who opposes it is anti-national. The government should answer all the issues raised on the Bill.”

Chart The Sena has suggested changes it wants to be included in the Bill in the Rajya Sabha, he said. “Where will these refugees stay...in which state. All this should be clarified.” “We raised some questions but they were not answered. It is an illusion that only the BJP cares for the country....Read More

Cidco sells 7 Navi Mumbai plots at double the reserve price, nets Rs 386 cr

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At a time when the real estate sector is passing through difficult times, Cidco has managed to garner Rs 386 crore from selling 10 plots in Navi Mumbai within a few days.
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), which is the planning body for Navi Mumbai, had put on block 10 plots across Airoli, Vashi, Kharghar and New Panvel (West) for residential and commercial development.
On December 6, the authority sold its five plots-- three in Airoli and two in Vashi -- for Rs 229 crore, which is almost four times higher than the reserve price.
The authority on Tuesday netted another Rs 157 crore from the remaining five plots, which was more than double the base price.
It may be noted that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, which too is sitting on a huge land bank in the plush BKC area, has not been able to sell its plots since the past many years due to poor market.
From the three Airoli plots Cidco fetched Rs 121.6 crore, while form the two commercial plots in Vashi, it earned Rs 116.5 crore.
In the first auction, the Ahmedabad-based Shreenathji Organisers was the highest bidder for two plots, while the remaining three were bagged by Pacific Properties, Avenue Supermarts and Narayani Trexim.

In the second auction, Cidco sold one plot in Kharghar, four plots in New Panvel (W) to Vishwakarma Bhagyodaya Aarsh Ventures, Millennium Infra, Olive Enterprises and Millennium Realtors, respectively......Read More