Ss eng 25 08 2015

News BriefKush Kumar loses

in semi-final of Australian meet

Agency | New Delhi

India’s Kush Kumar made it to the semifinals before bowing out to the eventual title-win-ner Joel Makin of Wales in the City of Bendigo 2015, a PSA event in Australia. For Kumar, who has played a hand-ful of tournaments in Australia, every event has proved an educa-tion. In the latest event in Victoria, he started off well beating Jong Myoung Park of Korea in the first round 14-12, 11-9, 11-8.

I was scared of Salman: Preity

Zinta

‘Nakshatra Vatikas’ to be developed in

MP schools

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Preity Zinta has revealed she was scared of Salman Khan before she shared the screen space with the superstar. Preity, 40, who is now a close friend of the “Ba-jrangi Bhaijaan” star, worked with him in five films in her 17 year long career and said he is a shy person.

Agency | Bhopal

Keen to educate students about constellations and properties of trees, the Madhya Pradesh gov-ernment will develop ‘Nakshatra Vatikas’ in government schools. The state government has directed division-al and district officers of School Education Department to develop ‘Nakshatra Vatikas’ in open premises, a Public Relation Department of-ficial said today.

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The community leaders also called for a city bandh tomorrow in view of their rally“Patidar Anamat Andolan”

The mass gathering at GMDC ground, Ahmedabad, where at least 25 lakh people of Patel community are expected to take part

Patidar to hold ‘Maha Kranti Rally’ today

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Patels demand reservation in govt jobs, educational institutions

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

According to the conve-ner of ‘Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti’ Har-dik Patel, who is leading the agitation demand-ing reservation for Pa-tels under OBC quota, the ‘Maha-Kranti Rally’ will be organised after the mass gathering at GMDC ground, where at least 25 lakh people of Patel community are ex-pected to take part. The announcement to organ-ise a rally after the mass gathering may come as a surprise to adminis-trators as till yesterday there was no application made to take out the rally, but only the mass public meeting.”Our community members will start arriv-ing at the venue from 8 am onwards to take part in the mass gathering at GMDC ground. The gath-ering will be addressed by our leaders at around 11.30 am. After that, we will take out our ‘Ma-ha-Kranti Rally’ to hand over memorandum to the district Collector,” Patel said during a press con-ference here. “We expect

that at least 25 lakh peo-ple would attend the gath-ering and rally. Thus, to avoid any inconvenience to locals, we have called for a complete ‘bandh’ of city as well as of Gujarat. I appeal to authorities to close schools, colleges and other businesses to-morrow,” said Patel.

Yesterday, Joint Com-missioner of Police (Spe-cial Branch) Vikas Sahay had clearly stated that the permission was given only for the gathering at GMDC ground and not for the rally, as the samiti had not applied for it till yesterday. However, turn-ing the tables on the po-lice, Patel today claimed that the rally is very much on their agenda. “We will apply for permission for the maha rally today. I am sure that the police will cooperate and give us permission. Even if they don’t give permission, we will definitely orga-nise the rally,” Hardik said. The proposed rally will pass through one of the most busiest areas of western part of city and cover almost 7 km, be-


A team of Sanand po-lice caught three persons for robbing a truck driv-er posing as policemen. They took away stainless steel material worth Rs 15 lakh that was meant for Sanand GIDC. Police have recovered the goods and the truck. According to police, on August 20, a driver and a cleaner were carrying the consignment of stainless steel when they were stopped near Telav village at around 9 pm by two persons on a bike. They identified themselves as policemen and said that checking was going on to ascertain whether the truck was overloaded. They then asked the driver to ac-


The Anandiben Patel-led Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Gu-jarat is gearing up for its toughest-ever political test, after the state’s first woman Chief Minister assumed charge in May 2014, when members of her own Patidar communi-ty descend on the Ahmed-abad roads in their lakhs demanding reservation in government jobs and ed-ucational institutions on par with the OBCs. The socially-politically-eco-nomically powerful Pati-dars, or Patels, have been agitating for over a month and held big rallies across Gujarat in support of their demand of their inclusion in the list of OBCs. As a reaction, the SC-ST-OBC combine, who fear the move might adversely im-pact their interests, also held a major gathering in

Police recover Rs15 lakh worth of stolen steel

company one of the men as another stood guard at the truck. “The man was later dropped near Pirana and was asked to wait as the man on bike fled from the spot. The driver later got to know that the truck was missing from the spot as the cleaner was also sent away on some pretext. We have arrest-ed three - Sahir Shaikh and Ahmed Shaikh, resi-dents of Vatva, along with

Ejaz Shaikh, a resident of Khokhra, for the inci-dent,” said a Sanand po-lice official. B S Vyas, in-spector of Sanand police station, said that they had abandoned the truck on Kadi road whereas they had dumped the robbed goods near Ardej. Work-ing on information, police reached at the spot near Narmada Canal when the accused were transferring the goods.

the city on Monday. The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) and Sardar Patel Group (SPG), the two groups spearheading the reservation demand led by the 21-year old Har-dik Patel and other young leaders, have called for a mega gathering and rally called “Maha Kranti” in Ahmedabad on Tuesday,

putting the BJP govern-ment in a piquant situa-tion as the Patels are seen as the strongest supporters of the ruling party. About three lakh Patels are ex-pected to gather at the grounds of Gujarat Min-eral Development Cor-poration (GMDC) in the western part of Ahmed-abad. Besides, lakhs oth-

ers are expected to join the rally on the city roads, thereby posing a major law and order challenge for the largest city of the state. About 18,000 po-lice personnel have been deployed across Ahmed-abad and additional forc-es have been put on alert to tackle any emergency situation.

fore ending at Collector’s office near RTO circle. According to Patel, the rally will commence from GMDC ground and then reach the Sardar Patel cross roads in Navrang-pura via Helmate cross roads and Commerce Six Roads. He said that the rally will not be cancelled at any cost. On the option of Collector coming to the ground to accept the memorandum, Patel said, “It may not look good on our part to trouble the Collector by calling him at the ground. Thus, we will take out the rally till his office. After reaching there, some of our mem-bers will personally hand

over the memorandum at his office.” Commenting on Chief Minister Anan-diben Patel’s message as well as advertisements in media where she indi-cated that the state gov-ernment is unable to give reservation due to past Supreme Court verdicts, Hardik gave an example of midnight verdict by Supreme Court on 1993 Mumbai serial blasts con-vict Yakub Memon’s mer-cy plea. “If the Supreme Court can be opened during midnight for a ter-rorist (Yakub Memon), then why not for the up-lift of millions of youth? I refuse to accept the CM’s claim. Acts can be

changed by Supreme Court as well as Parliament if the government wants,” he said. Asked if he thinks that the Chief Minister is afraid of losing the power due to agitation, Hardik said it might be possible. “I have not read her mind, but it is obvious that she might be afraid of losing the power due to the agitation.” He also clarified that

no RSS leader has approached him to discuss the ongoing issue or to become a mediator on behalf of the state gov-ernment. When asked to reveal about the future of the agitation after tomor-row’s proposed rally, Patel said, “This is a marathon run, not a 100 meter run. Wait for tomorrow’s rally, where we will announce our future road map.”

Actor Sidharth Malhotra does not wish to address rumours

that he is dating actress Alia Bhatt as he feels it will

‘dilute’ the importance of something which is

‘sacred’ to him

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TuESDAY, AuGuST 25, 2015

QUOTE OF THE

DAYThe global economy: Needless hype about India

The global economy may unravel too rapidly for Narendra Modi to take steps in 2016. It may also be too late for re-election. Reactions in financial mar-kets in recent days have confirmed what they think of China’s currency devaluation. They think of it as the first instalment of many moves that are coming and that China is getting ready to export its defla-tion to the rest of the world. A deflationary world is one in which corporate earnings would struggle to grow, if at all. For emerging economies, it is a bad situation, especially if they are commodity ex-porters or have large foreign currency liabilities, or both. Since 2009, dollar borrowings by non-dollar economies have gone up by 50%. Most of them are among emerging economies and in the Asia-Pacif-ic. Capital outflows from emerging economies have exceeded already $1 trillion in the past thirteen months. The fragile economic recovery in the US is now in its seventh year, when the average is around three years. It has built up several economic imbal-ances and is due for a recession. Global trade was effectively in recession in the first half of the year. According to a Standard & Poor’s survey, capital expenditures by businesses are set to contract into 2017. No surprises that the price of crude oil (West Texas Intermediate) is down to around $40 per barrel and gold has rallied. China may have inadvertently declared open the commencement of the end game for liquidity-driven stock markets around the world. There is a high risk of the bottom giving away for the world economy. Is India prepared? Indian stocks might have dropped in the last one week in sympa-thy with others, but it has escaped the worst carnage that has been reserved for other emerging market (EM) heavyweights. By the end of July, the Invest-able Market Index (IMI) of Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) had a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.1 times and a forward price-earnings ratio of 17.9 times. The benchmark EM index comparable ratios of 14.3 and 11.3 respectively. Similar is the story with price-to-book ratios and dividend yields. In short, investors are treating India as though it were a safe haven. Does India deserve this status? On the face of it, the answer is yes. India has a stable and a nominally functional government. Its current account deficit is low and the inflation rate has de-clined. India has ample foreign exchange reserves and its short-term external debt ratios are low and manageable. It is attracting both foreign direct and portfolio investments. Its central bank has ample scope for a substantial reduction in the policy rate, which, we hope, it will use in the months and year ahead. But, look under the hood. India ticks many of the boxes on economic distress that China ticks. India’s gross domestic product growth statistics are suspect. Indian banks have non-performing loans on their books which they are yet to recognize. Indian companies have not adequately deleveraged. Many sectors suffer from excess capacity.

“Although we are affected being a global economy but all our parameters are strong except currency. So our growth will be maintained,” - Finance Minister Arun Jaitley late Monday

evening once again reassured investors that India’s economy was on sound footing

Agency | New Delhi

Don’t be fooled by the adjective in the title. A more apt moniker for the latest exploits of Mar-vel Comics’ superhero team would be Forget-table Four. A decade after the underwhelm-ing original (which was followed two years lat-er by an equally dreary sequel), a significantly younger cast portrays the super-powered quartet who reunite to save our planet from extinction. (Perhaps they ought to have failed. Then at least we wouldn’t have been subjected to such driv-el. Just saying). Granted formidable physical abil-ities following a failed

Agency | Mumbai

Next year, on Eid, the box office will wit-ness the clash of two big films — Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees and Sal-man Khan-starrer Sultan. While the trade has been abuzz with speculation about which film will do better, a new devel-opment on Raees’s dis-tribution front seems to put things into perspec-tive. We’ve now been informed that co-produc-er Shah Rukh has tied up with Eros for his film’s worldwide release, since the company is known to have the most wide-spread distribution net-work in the USA and the UK. Directed by Rahul

Shah Rukh Khan ties up with Eros, ensures wide release for Raees

What Alia and I do in private time is sacred to us: Sidharth Malhotra

Agency | Mumbai

At last, Sidharth Malhotra opens up about why he refrains from opening up about his alleged girlfriend Alia Bhatt. Sidharth and Alia are said to be an item, but neither of the two has come out in the open about their relationship. Yes, both Sidharth Mal-hotra and Alia Bhatt have been very tight-lipped in answering personal questions. Now, Sidharth Malho-tra reveals the reason why he doesn’t talk about the alleged re-lationship. “Certain things, if you voice them or you want to say in a partic-ular way dilutes their impor-tance… Especially our personal life, which is precious and sacred to me. Whatever comment I make on it should not matter,” Sidharth is quot-ed as saying. The ‘Brothers’ actor went on to say that the time spent with Alia is sacred. “As far as Alia and I are convinc-

ing on-screen as lovers, romancing each other that’s all that should matter. What we do other-wise in our precious time should be sacred to us, to me,” Sidharth. Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt are teaming up again in ‘Kapoor And Sons’. This

is their second film together after ‘Student Of The Year’. “It was exciting that Alia and I got a chance to work again after ‘Student’. We have come a long way from the first film. There is a difference in our performances as well,” Sidharth said.

Dholakia, Raees is be-ing produced by Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani and Gauri Khan. Mean-while, Salman and Shah

Rukh have been busy promoting each other’s movies on social media. There have also been a few reports about this

highly-anticipated clash being averted, but the two films’ makers have not made any official an-nouncements about it.

Fantastic Four review: Revenge of the super-nerds

scientific experiment, the foursome squander their talents on a bythe-num-bers inter-dimensional adventure. As anyone familiar with the source comic books knows, the team is led by a bespec-tacled brainiac (Teller)

who can stretch his limbs to outrageous lengths. Accompanying him on the teleporting trip are his devoted childhood friend (Jamie Bell) who transforms into a Hulk-like mass of rock, and a self-styled human torch

(Michael B. Jordan). In case you’re wondering, there’s the mandatory femme (Mara), who can turn invisible and cast force fields. As for the arch-villain, he’s called Von Doom (Toby Kob-bell). Oh, such subtlety!

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

India in Sri Lanka: Kohli and his team show they can bounce back from heartbreak

China’s gloomy numbers spook Asian markets

Micromax working on its own Android-based OS

How Facebook decides what’s trending

Agency | Mumbai

Asian stocks slumped to three-year lows on Mon-day as a slide in Chinese equities gathered pace, hastening an exodus from riskier assets as fears of a China-led global economic slowdown hit markets. The fall spanned every corner of the market, with small-cap growth stocks and state-owned blue chips declining at roughly equal rates, reported Reuters. Losses appeared limited only by China’s emergen-cy brake that limits individual shares from declining over 10% in a single day, and by the fact that a sub-stantial number of stocks remain suspended from trading. The drop came after Beijing failed to make a strong policy move over the weekend to support stocks, as was widely expected after an 11% plunge last week. Many investors had expected the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) would over the weekend cut the amount banks have to keep in reserves, which could boost stocks by increasing market liquidity and address weakness in China’s vast manufactur-ing sector.

Agency | New Delhi

Micromax is working on development of its own version of the Android OS. Like Xiaomi, Samsung, and other manufacturers, Micromax’s OS will be layered over Android. Micromax will also include a suite of apps and services that will run across a number of devices like phones, tablets, wearables, etc. The idea is lead by Ashish Agrawal, Technol-ogy Head at Micromax and former Amazon exec-utive. Talking about working on a forked version of Android instead of developing something from scratch, he said that the company is quite close to the Indian audience and didn’t want to alienate it-self from developers and consumers by developing something new.

Agency | New York

Ever wondered how Facebook determines what you see in your news feed every time you log in? The social networking site has actually devised different algorithms for it. Apart from things like where you live and the pages you follow, it pri-marily looks for two broader signals - Topics that are being mentioned a lot and topics that suddenly seen an increase in mentions, Re/Code reported. For example, singer Justin Bieber is mentioned often on Facebook. So the total volume of men-tions is always high and is not a good indicator of whether or not he is part of a trending topic. So, Facebook would look for a hike in mentions relative to the normal prattle around Bieber. “This means that things that trend are not just the most highly mentioned people or topics, they have to be tied to some kind of relevant event,” the report said. Once a topic is identified as trending, it is ap-proved by a human controller, who also writes a short description for the story.

Federer beats Djokovic for 7th Cincinnati title

Lucky to have played in same era as Sanga: Kohli

Agency | Colombo

Whatever else this India team may lack, it can no longer be said that they lack grit. The house of horrors that was the final morning in Galle could have lingered in the minds of players, like an annoy-ing song that you can’t get out of your head. But Virat Kohli and his men produced a complete team effort to win the second Test by 278 runs and ban-ish the ghosts of Galle in comprehensive fashion. “At the end of the [first Test], I was heartbroken,” Ashwin said after the vic-tory. “What we did really

well was sit in the dressing room and talk about how each of us felt because we were all feeling bad. To get it out of the system, with only three days in between the matches, was a good thing.” This series is now locked at 1-1 and with Kumar Sangakka-ra not playing the third Test, India have to be fa-vourites to win their first series in Sri Lanka since 1993. It would be a rath-er large feather in Kohli’s cap if he can pull it off. The most pleasing aspect of this Test is that contri-butions came from practi-cally every single player

on the field. There were runs for six of the top seven batsmen: Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Ajink-ya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Wridh-himan Saha. Rahul and Rahane impressed the most, providing vital runs and stability at moments when the game could have turned. In each case, they were accompanied by solid supporting acts in Kohli and Vijay. Lower down the order, Saha pro-vided the bulwark against a quick finish to India’s first innings, and again he too found support from Amit Mishra.

Agency | Colombo

If there was a vote for the ‘Man Friday’ in the Indi-an team, Ajinkya Rahane will win it hands down. Whatever the conditions, whatever the situation or whatever the demands, Rahane has almost always managed to come up with the goods. Not often does a cricketer play 16 out of his first 17 Tests out of his own country and to aver-age 46.24 over this peri-od is no mean feat. Rah-ane now has a century each in Australia, England, New Zea-land and Sri Lanka - the last of which has set India on course to a possi-ble series-levelling win. “This hundred will give me great confidence because conditions were pretty challenging. It was hot out there and it was very challenging to focus at the moment. I was batting on 82 at lunch time and after the break my plan was to just take singles and go to other end. It was hot out there and I wanted to play a long innings because in cricket one wicket and

anything can happen,” R a h a n e said after his first c e n -t u r y in the

sub-continent. Not only was Rahane batting in difficult conditions but also in an alien position -the Mumbai batsman was informed of his ele-vation to No. 3 just a day before the second Test and failed to get going in the first innings, lasting just 11 deliveries. “When I got out in the first in-

nings I was very hurt. I worked with batting coach Sanjay Bangar, do-ing some throw downs. So the coach’s hard work and Ravi (Shastri) bhai’s inputs really helped me in the second innings.My

aim was to play as c l o s e

to my body as possible and just build my innings,” the 27-year-old, who bats at No. 3 for Mumbai, said. Talking about his new batting position, Rahane said, “I like to stay in the present all the time. This is my first game where I have batted at No. 3 so I would like to take it step by step, match by match. Every Test hundred is very special for me but this is the first coming at number three.” Thanks to Rahane’s century and Murali Vijay’s efforts, India set a formidable tar-get of 413 and Sri Lanka will need to score 340 on the final day with eight wickets remaining. “The match is poised pretty well. Tomorrow we have to take it one wicket at a time. We just need to be patient, that will be key, because the wicket is get-ting slower and slower.

Agency | Colombo

Indian Test skipper Virat Kohli has penned a heart-warming farewell mes-sage to retiring Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sanga-kkara, saying that he felt “lucky” to have played in the same era as the leg-endary cricketer. “Dear Sanga, it’s been an ab-solute pleasure knowing you as a person first and no words can explain you

great cricketing achieve-ments,” Kohli wrote in his message to the Lankan legend, an image of which was posted on Twitter by the BCCI. “You have in-spired so many people and shown them the way. Luck to have played in the same era as you. Thanks for everything. God bless you and your family and wish you the best in life ahead,” he added. Sanga-

kkara, considered one of the greatest batsmen to have emerged from the is-land nation, had declared that he would be bidding adieu to the game after the second Test against India in the ongoing three-match series. The stylish left-hander has ended with 12,400 runs in 134 Tests at an average of 57.40 and 14234 runs from 404 ODIs at 41.98.

Ashes 2015: Ian Bell backed to continue by Strauss & Cook

This ton will give me great confidence: Ajinkya RahaneAgency | London

The 33-year-old bats-man said he would “take stock” when asked about his future on Sunday as England celebrated a 3-2 Ashes series win over Australia. “If he’s got the motivation and drive to continue then he’s still got an important part to play,” said Strauss. “We know the number of high-qual-ity performances we’ve seen from him over the

years.” Warwickshire right-hander Bell has now played in five Ashes-win-ning teams, in which time he has scored more than 7,500 Test runs for En-gland in 115 games. He was moved up to number three in the batting or-der this summer, but his form has slumped - he averaged 26.87 against Australia in this series compared to 62.44 in the last Ashes series on home soil in 2013. “He’s

at the stage of his career when he’ll be thinking about what his future looks like,” Strauss, who played alongside Bell for England and captained him for three years, told BBC Radio 5 live. “For all those players who played an important part in the Ashes it’s time to sit down and take a cou-ple of days off reliving the whole series in their mind without all the pres-sure on their shoulders.”

Agency | Cincinnati

Roger Federer avenged his Wimbledon final loss to Novak Djokovic by beating the top-seed-ed Serb 7-6(1) 6-3 on Sunday to capture his second consecutive Western & Southern Open title. The Swiss second seed, playing Djokovic for the first time since losing to him in the Wimbledon final for a second straight year last month, brought his record number of Cincinnati titles to sev-en with the win. Federer easily handled his ser-vice games throughout the match and employed an attacking style that gave Djokovic fits. After cruising through the first set tiebreak, Federer

earned the only break of the match in the second game of the second set en-route to sealing the win in 90 minutes. With the win, Federer denied longtime rival Djokovic from completing the set of all nine ATP Masters titles and took a 21-20 edge in career head-to-head meetings. The win will also give Federer a

jolt of confidence going into the August 31-Sept 13 U.S. Open where he will be seeking a sixth title at Flushing Mead-ows and first since 2008. Federer will now move into second spot in the world rankings on Mon-day, which means the two rivals could meet again in the final at Flushing Meadows.

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Correspondent | Pipavav

CMA CGM announces new call in Mundra on its Cimex 2N loop (ser-vice line called FM- 3), replaces Gujarat Pi-pavav port. The line will start calling at Contain-er terminal-1 (CT-1) of Mundra Port As per the management the ser-vice line gives volume of 70000-80000 teu to Gujarat Pipavav Port (service line includes Maersk, APL Singapore, OOCL, and Hamburg as other partners of the ser-vice line) According to us the decision is take by

Maersk rather than CMA CGM as Maersk runs 5 vessels and CMA CGM runs 2 vessels in this ser-vice line, however man-agement expects to con-tain some volumes from Maersk and other part-ners We have reduced our container volumes estimates by 3.7%/6.7% for FY16E/17Edue to which earnings gets re-vised downwards by 3.5%/6.7%. Our tar-get price gets reduced to Rs176 (V/s earlier of Rs200). Maintain reduce, says karvy re-search report.

Correspondent | Vadodara

At least six people, in-cluding two officers were injured in a major fire that broke out in the atmospheric unit II of Koyali plant of Gujarat Refinery on Saturday midnight. The incident occurred while the pro-cess of shutting down the plant was underway. Company officials said the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. While locals said that they heard about six blasts, company spokespersons said that only fire broke out and there were no ex-plosions. Minutes within the fire broke out, locals and contractors gathered

immediately at the spot. “Just after midnight, we heard a loud explosion. It was followed by five more explosions. Con-tractors gathered near the gate to find out about their employees, howev-er, there was no infor-mation about how many people were affected by the fire,” said Abdul Patel, a resident of Gor-wa, who rushed to the plant site. The company said in a statement said that the fire broke out at around 12.03 am. ‘A fire occurred in the atmo-spheric unit II of Gujarat Refinery which was un-der an approved planned shutdown process. The

fire was brought under control by Gujarat Re-finery firefighting team with the help of mutual aid partners by 1.30 am,’ said the company. The company spokesperson said that four victims suffered burn injuries, one had fracture and one from other injuries, and added that their condi-tion is stable. “Investi-gations into the reasons behind the fire have been initiated. Also we are assessing the dam-age caused to the unit due to fire. The unit was in process of shutting down so no process-ing was underway,” the spokesperson.

Agency | New Delhi

The government has op-posed in the Supreme Court a plea to bring po-litical parties under the ambit of the RTI Act, saying this would ad-versely impact their inter-nal working and political functioning. Submitting an affidavit, the Depart-ment of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has said that the Central Informa-tion Commission (CIC) erroneously ruled in June 2013 that political par-ties are public authorities under the RTI Act and, hence, are accountable under the transparency law. “If the political par-ties are held to be pub-lic authorities under the RTI Act, it would ham-per their smooth internal working, which is not the objective of the RTI Act and was not envisaged by Parliament. Further, it is apprehended that politi-cal rivals might file RTI


Sundarji Nandori, 70, of Chatroda in Maliya Hatina in Junagadh is a happy man these days as his daughter-in-law, Priyanka, does not have to go out to collect drinking water. All she has to do is pump it out from an underground water tank that has a capacity of stor-ing 15,000 litres. Farmers of the region are bracing themselves up to deal with a post-scanty rain period with roof water harvesting. Priyanka, 30, who is from Kalyan in Mumbai, says that she had never faced a water crisis in Mumbai. However, when she came

to Chatroda after marriage, she had to deal with drink-ing water shortage. The groundwater was salty and could not be used for drink-ing. “We were approached by the Coastal Salinity Pre-vention Cell (CSPC) and Aga Khan Trust. We de-cided to go in for rooftop water harvesting. A tank with 15,000 liter capacity was constructed and the rainwater was channelized into the tank. During ev-ery monsoon, the tank gets filled to capacity and the water collected is adequate to meet the needs of our five-member family,” said Priyanka.


Challenged by the Pati-dar agitation demanding OBC status there is little that the Gujarat govern-ment can do, technical-ly, to meet the demand. Patidars are traditional landowners and consid-ered wealthy. The two Patel groups – Kadva and Leuvas — common-ly go by the surname of Patel, and together con-stitute nearly 20 per cent of Gujarat’s population. Gujarat already has 146 castes and communities on its OBC list, defined by their socially and edu-cationally backward sta-tus. The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) led mostly by youth lead-

ers — largely business-men – want the inclusion of Patels in the OBC list to avail 27 per cent res-ervation in professional colleges and government jobs. However, to be in-cluded in that category, they would have to fit into the definition of “so-cially and educationally backward” which will be decided by the OBC commission. The best that the Anandiben gov-ernment could do is to release the data of the so-cio-economic and caste census of 2011 to deter-mine where exactly the Patels stand and propose a formula to take care of the “poor, backward Pati-dars”. The Patidars argue that one section of Patels

— the Anjana Chaudhary Patels mostly of north Gujarat who are agrari-an — have OBC status, so they should get OBC reservation. Their cam-paign, run mostly on so-cial media, appeals more at the emotional level than technical. Sample some of its rhetoric on Facebook and Twitter: Patels were forced to leave their motherland and settle abroad because of lack of opportunities at home (Patels are the largest community of In-dian diaspora especially in the UK and US). One Patel twitter handle says, “The three mistakes of my life: Gender: Male, Category: General, Qual-ification: Engineer”.


Strongly opposing the de-mand of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) to include the Patel com-munity in Other Back-ward Class (OBC) list, nearly one lakh people participated in the ‘ana-mat bachao (save reserva-tion)’ dharna called by the OBC Ekta Manch near RTO circle in Ahmed-abad Sunday. Strategical-ly called two days ahead of the August 25 mega rally announced by PAAS in Ahmedabad that claims to witness a presence of 25 lakh supporters, the dharna under the banner

of OBC Ekta Manch, an outfit of 146 castes un-der the OBC category in Gujarat, was led by Thakore Kshatriya Sena. Alpesh Thakore, presi-dent of Thakore Ksha-triya Sena, opposed the Patidars’ demand for their inclusion under OBC cat-egory. Thakore claimed that the OBC communi-ty was very disappointed by these demands and the lackadaisical attitude of the state government towards these agitations across the state. He also claimed that the OBC community in any case does not want any other community to be added

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OBC Ekta Manch calls ‘save quota’ dharna

What the Anandiben govt can and cannot do for the Patidars

Patel’s OBC demand: Gujarat CM invokes Sardar Patel to end stir, says can’t give reservation


Two days ahead of a mega rally called by the Patel community to press their demand for OBC status, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today ruled out any reservation for them citing the Con-stitution and Supreme Court judgements. The chief minister also urged the members of the said community to end their ongoing agitation. “As per the Constitution and judgements of Supreme Court, we cannot make any changes in the struc-ture of reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs, nor can we give reservation beyond 50 per cent,” she said today in a print and video message to the people of Gujarat. “Vari-ous state governments at different points of time

gave reservation by going against the constitution and Supreme Court judge-ments… We do not want to do that. This state gov-ernment does not believe in making fake promises,” Patel said. “Today, I make this appeal to end this agi-tation and join the path of the state’s development,” she added. The chief min-ister’s public message came just two days ahead of the Patel community’s mega rally seeking Other Backward Class (OBC) status. “A negative agita-tion is not good for any society, community and the government. In past, agitations have snatched livelihoods of the poor and common people. Vi-olence and tension have an adverse impact on the economy,” she said. The chief minister, meanwhile, asked agitators to hold

in the 27 per cent reser-vation quota. “Patels are the same community that has been opposing res-ervation demands from all other communities

till date in Gujarat. Why is the community that is among the most econom-ically sound communities in Gujarat are now de-manding reservation for

themselves. Also, why reservation for Patels when they are in majori-ty in the cabinet and how can they be backward with luxury cars,” Tha-

kore questioned. While addressing the gathering, the leaders of OBC Ekta Manch claimed that they were ready for any other package for Patels by the state government but not inclusion in the OBC cat-egory and that they would not part with the 27% OBC quota with Patels. “We are not opposing any person but would not let a single per cent benefit under 27 per cent reser-vation category to go to Patels. The state govern-ment can announce any other package for them,” said Rakesh Prajapati, leader of Prajapati com-munity.

talks with the government instead of organising ral-lies which, she said, may harm the economy of the state. “The controversy triggered by the ongoing reservation movement has made its impact felt on the social life, which has created a situation of unease in society,” she said. “We can find a solu-tion through talks and

negotiations on the issue of reservation. The state government has formed a committee of seven min-isters to address the issue and we have also invited representatives of all the castes and communities, including Patel commu-nity. Talks are ongoing and I believe that a solu-tion will come out of it,” she said. While noting

that the “future of our next generation, our chil-dren and our youth is the main concern behind this agitation for reservation and that is quite obvious” Patel, however, said that “we can solve the issue of impact of reservation while taking admission to higher education and gov-ernment jobs by adopting an alternative solution”.

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applications with mali-cious intentions, thereby adversely affecting their political functioning,” the affidavit stated. The DoPT claimed that the CIC had made a “very liberal” interpretation of the RTI Act, “leading to an erroneous conclusion” that political parties such as BJP, Congress, CPM, CPI, NCP and BSP are public authorities. In its judgment, the CIC had said that political parties should be held account-able under the RTI Act since their constitution was akin to setting up a body by the government and they also performed public functions after availing various financial

aid and concessions by the Centre. But this judg-ment remained only on paper and the parties did not comply with the man-date of the RTI Act. Com-plaining non-compli-ance, applicants Subhash Chandra Aggarwal and Anil Bairwal of the Asso-ciation of Democratic Re-forms (ADR) approached the CIC which, in March this year, directed the DoPT to take necessary action. ADR and Aggar-wal moved a PIL in the Supreme Court, seeking a declaration that political parties are public author-ities and should manda-torily disclose details of income and expenditure for public scrutiny.

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