Some of the suggested reforms should be – no restrictions on FDI in captive mining and allowing mining by private players on a non-captive basis.

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Finally, with the UPA government sans the Left in power, it’s time to deliver. The foremost initiative to be taken is to work in conjunction with all stakeholders like prospective coal mining firms, power companies, unions, transport firms and power equipment makers to set up an independent regulatory body for the Coal industry, which will take care of setting up licensing, pricing, emission and other production standards; apart from monitoring the working of the entire coal industry. In a recent report by The Expert Committee on Coal Sector Reforms, the need for setting up a Coal Governance and Regulation Authority (CGRA) on the lines of UK institutions for gas and electricity and the US National Coal Council has been highlighted. Secondly, the only way to boost production rapidly is to license new mining blocks to private players, for which a licensing policy on the lines of New Exploration and Licensing Policy in the oil and gas sector must be established.

In order to exploit the colossal potential of this resource, the way ahead is to simultaneously launch mining projects across the length and breadth of country under the purview of the regulator. According to Girish Solanki, coal analyst with Angel Trade, “Some of the suggested reforms should be – no restrictions on FDI in captive mining and allowing mining by private players on a non-captive basis.” A ray of hope is being seen in recent media reports that the government is showing enthusiasm for increasing the private stake in Coal India by allowing it to take the capital market route. Also, the proposal on privatising the sector is being considered seriously.


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The state government order seeks to draw strength from subsection 4 of Section 24 of the RTI, which actually limits itself to “intelligence and security organisations… established by the Central Government or any information furnished by such organisations to that Government”. Yet announcing the amendment to the notification, cabinet secretary Shahshank Shekhar Singh insisted that the government was not tampering with the spirit of the Act. Senior BJP leader Hriday Narayan Dixit says, “The state government's move suggests that it has no faith in democracy and hence is trying to conceal information from the public.”

SR Darapuri, retired IPS officer and social activist, points out that government’s intentions are suspect. “One month ago it surreptitiously put the civil aviation department out of the Act, and now this list of five. We will petition the HC”, he says.

On June 15, a demonstration in Lucknow and 25 other district headquarters marked the start of protests that activists hope will spread through the state.

UP’s track record with the RTI has been less than impressive. In February this year, the move to install state chief information commissioner, retired bureaucrat Ram Kumar, who during his tenure had been accused of violating section 20 of the RTI, was dropped after rights bodies opposed it. The six-chapter, 31-section RTI Act, which was passed in 2005, has under Section 8 put nine kinds of information which the government is not obliged to provide to its citizens.


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In a wide-ranging interview to TSI’s Pathikrit Payne, the British High Commissioner to India discusses the economy and the role of India in defusing crises and terror.

Is there paranoia in the UK about the economic resurgence of India and it becoming an outsourcing hub, as it leads to job loss in UK?
In the case of India there’s genuine welcome from almost every political group. We think that the Indian outsourcing business is positive for the world economy. We are very comfortable with UK companies using outsourcing as one of the ways to make their business more successful. From our perspective, it makes no sense to constrain the competitiveness of our companies by limiting their ability to outsource that would weaken the company. We will succeed as an economy just by competing for relatively low skilled jobs, which can be done at a lower cost elsewhere. We have to accept that the only way we are going to succeed as a country and as an economy, is by moving up the value chain by doing higher value added tasks. So the government’s challenge is to ensure that as the low skilled jobs leave UK, we provide training and upskilling to the people affected so that they can do higher value work in the economy.

In the war against terror, countries like UK seem to be penalising Sri Lanka, while rewarding Pakistan. Was LTTE less of a terror organisation than those in Pakistan?
Terrorism is unacceptable and should be stopped in whatever form it takes and from wherever it comes about. But clearly you need a plan and a strategy which is specific to the sort of terrorism you are dealing with. And what was right in Sri Lanka would almost certainly be different from what was right in Pakistan. In Sri Lanka you have a situation in which there’s a minority population which has been ill at ease with its majority Sinhalese population for decades and that has been affected by a very small group in the LTTE which has tried to use violent terrorist methods for over 20 years to advance it own cause. And we were entirely clear that the LTTE needed to be dealt with. In the case of Pakistan, we have been urging the government of Pakistan to take more vigorous effective action against the Taliban, against the Al-Qaeda and against the threats within its own country. So I think in both cases we want an outcome of stopping the terrorists and civilian causalities to be kept minimum, but the actual environments are very different. And in the case of Pakistan they clearly face a much wider canvas of terrorist threat to their society and one which is much more difficult to deal with. I don’t want to minimise the LTTE challenge but it was a single group, fairly identifiable with a single leader, while in the context of Pakistan there are different terrorist groups – Pakistan Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Al -Qaeda, the LeT and the JuD and a whole range of different organisations and therefore it is a much bigger challenge for Pakistan; one they must, in our eyes, handle successfully for the sake of the rest of the world. It’s a global threat in which Pakistan has to take a lead in addressing.


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The surrender industry

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In Assam and the North-east, insurgents who abandon the cause end up making a killing, report Pranab Bora and Monalisa Gogoi

There was a time when a Chief Minister of Assam is said to have been taken apart by the Opposition in the state Assembly after a member pointed out that the number of insurgents of a certain outfit that his government claimed had surrendered actually far exceeded the number of men that, by the government’s own estimates, the outfit had in the first place! That was in the early nineties, when insurgency in Assam had peaked only to come up against the political guile of a one-man army called Hiteswar Saikia.

Saikia, an old professor turned politician, then did the unthinkable—he split the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in half, creating what has since then been known as the SULFA, or surrendered ULFA. Some 20 years down the line, Assam continues to be in the throes of the same insurgency—and many more—its many wounds now festering and by all accounts incurable, and the illegal migrants’ problem, the one that led to the Assam agitation and then the insurgency still unshakably in place.

And in these 20 years, Assam, a state that has zilch for industries, now has a parallel economy, one that has turned the city’s Guwahati-Shillong Road into a many-kilometre long shopping arcade worth hundreds of crores, turned surrendered militants into overnight millionaires, and very bluntly told the people of Assam that crime pays, and it pays big time. Most of all, surrenders, killings and encounter deaths are now routine and nobody is counting anymore.

“Some of our people become rich by getting into business,” says Mrinal Hazarika, a militant of the dreaded 28th battalion of the ULFA that is among the latest to have got into a ‘ceasefire’ deal with the government. “As for those getting rich overnight, you’ll have to ask them. But I must say that the money that the government gives us is enough only for us to just live, so our boys get into contracts, etc. As for our struggle, we are pro-talks but still demand full autonomy.”


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Did he provide any relief to the boys who fought with him?

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On a roadside pavement in Ananatnag, a vendor yells to customers at the top of his voice. He sells used clothes. On a good day, he earns 200 rupees. “Otherwise, the earnings are around 100 or 120 rupees a day,” he says, pleading anonymity for the fear of being kicked out of business. “I have participated in more encounters than any of the Ikhwan commanders you see around. They made money; I was left to starve till I decided to work as a vendor.”

Comparing the lives of ordinary renegades and their commanders, Jahangir Khan says that unlike the foot soldiers of Turrey’s rank, commanders amassed huge money out of counter insurgency. He says: “At Taqiya Beram Shah (a village in Ananatnag), Liyaqat (a renegade commander) lived in a hut. Now he has made crores. He went to Gujarat to distribute relief after the earthquake. Did he provide any relief to the boys who fought with him?”

“No family members of those killed have been provided any jobs,” Khan says. Around 50 of those who survived have been adjusted in the Territorial Army. Some still work with the police as SPOs and are paid 3000 rupees a month. “Others are hiding. Few who dare, go out, work as vendors on pavements,” Khan says.

The Territorial Army has accommodated 250 counter-insurgents. A few more have been absorbed by CRPF. But the families of renegades who were killed have been abandoned. They are fighting a battle against ostracism and poverty.


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Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, VN Khare, talks to TSI’s Anil Pandey on a variety of issues:

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“Madras bar is divided between dmk and aiadmk”

How do you ensure that the incidents like Madras HC are not repeated?

Incidents like these are on the rise because of ideology and political appointments. Bar associations are becoming launching pads for lawyers to enter politics. Big monies are spend on bar association elections. The politicisation of bar associations has to end forthwith. Lawyers have a very important role to play in legal administration and implementation.

What about the lawyers’ ego? Does it lead to clashes all around?

Point is wherever man lives; he takes it to be his own territory. Lawyers too are like that. He lives in the courts and believes it to be his own. But a lawyer or judge has to realise that a public place like court cannot be his own marked out territory. That would not be proper.

What about amendments to the CrPC? That is exercising a lot of lawyers.

This is a lawyers’ fight for survival. It affects their breadlines. The government believes that due to overwork the system is not working well. As a result, in bailable offences, the police itself can issue bails. In the prevailing system, the lawyer takes his fees and organises bails. But post the amendment, the lawyers would have no role to play. This will directly affect their income. But there is no doubt that with this step, the work load on courts would come down and people will get speedy justice.


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Teenagers closed doors and are yet to come out.

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24. Jimmy, Jimmy, jimmy ...aaja

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25. Hum tum ek kamre mein

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When anything apart from studies was a strict no-no for teenagers, Raj Kapoor taught them a few lessons in love. Teenagers closed doors and are yet to come out.

26. Main zindagi ka saath

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Some say the song represents how escapist an average Indian is, others insist that it show our chalta hai attitude. UNO says, Indians are the happiest lot.


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TSI's satish chapparike trudges across Vidarbha for ground-truthing the trauma

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“The international cotton market has slumped, and a 50 per cent cotton crop failure this season will certainly have a bad effect on Vidarbha farmers. With that, soy bean procurement rate has also crashed. Now debt-ridden farmers will not have any other option than committing suicide,” says the young cotton grower Nitin. As he says, already signs of distress have started sweeping across Vidarbha. Just before entering Jalka, we had visited the village Baggi, near Pandharkawada. On the morning of November 6, 2008, Ashoke Lasamanna Deshettiwar (45), a farmer of this village, as usual went to his field. “Nothing seemed abnormal when he left home for the field. But after two hours, father consumed pesticide and silently returned home. Before we came to realise anything, he lost his breath, and we lost him,” his son Anil says. Anil is an ITI student and his elder brother Sunil is a soldier in the Indian Army. Sunil has been posted in Jammu & Kashmir for the past five years. “I wanted to come home for Diwali. But I got a month’s leave only after Diwali. Within six days of homecoming, I lost my father. I can’t imagine this,” says Sunil.

Deshettiwar had three acres of land in his name and he had around Rs 60,000 to pay back as debt remittance. That debt became his death sentence. “He used to worry miserably about his loans. For the past two years, crops have suffered. Yet, we had no option but to continue farming. We expected a bumper crop this year, and we’d have cleared all our debts. But due to Layla (Pink Bollworm), we have almost lost 60 per cent of the crop this year. I think that broke his back,” says Kaushalya Bai, Ashoke’s widow. She does not cry, her eyes as parched as her fields.


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What are we trying to do is invent an idea that will have a much long-lasting influence on how the art scene is to be.

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Contemporary dance is rather fascinating; do you think it could, in a way, threaten the declining traditional dance forms?

I think we shouldn’t look at tradition as static, fossilised kind of form… There are myriad art forms across the country… Some reinvent themselves and make themselves relevant; those that don’t, might die – that’s a natural course. The way to keep our inherited forms alive and kicking is by investing in them and trying to transform those.

The onus is to make the work relevant, not maybe for entire masses, but at least for some constituency.

What have been the highlights of the Festival?

The Festival started in 2000. It has developed much since; apart from the performances, this year there were things like colloquium, master classes, dance on camera, writing on dance workshop etc. What are we trying to do is invent an idea that will have a much long-lasting influence on how the art scene is to be. This idea will resurface itself in different forms because lots of artists and connoisseurs are going to take that idea and develop it in their own way according to the context they find themselves in. In that sense it has far-reaching influence on the art and dance scene in the country, and it is hugely successful from that perspective.


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All imports and field trials of geneticallyengineered organisms in India are governed by a law under the Environment Protection Act.

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This was the period when Monsanto and its Indian partner Mahyco were also carrying out illegal field experiments with genetically engineered Bt cotton. All imports and field trials of geneticallyengineered organisms in India are governed by a law under the Environment Protection Act. We at the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology used these laws to stop Monsanto’s commercialisation of Bt cotton in 1999, which is why approval was not granted for commercial sales until 2002.

The Government of Andhra Pradesh filed an anti-monopolies case, arguing that Monsanto’s seed monopolies were the primary cause of farmers’ suicides in Andhra Pradesh. Monsanto was forced to reduce its prices of Bt cotton seeds. The high costs of inputs were combined with falling prices of cotton due to the $4billion US subsidy and dumping of this subsidised cotton in India became a recipe for indebtedness, and debt is the main cause of farmers’ suicides.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has recently released a discussion paper “Bt cotton and Farmers’ Suicides in India: Reviewing the Evidence”. The report manipulates the truth about farmers’ suicides and Bt cotton at every level, saying that such suicides are “a long-term phenomena”, and the “long-term” is 1997-2007. Ten years is not too long in a 10,000-year-old farming tradition. The chronology of Bt cotton introduction is false. The story begins with Monsanto’s illegal Bt trials, not with its commercialisation in 2002. The report states that “In specific regions and years… its failure was mainly the result of the context or environment in which it was introduced or planted; Bt cotton as a technology is not to blame”. This is an interesting argument. A technology is always developed in the context of local socio-economic and ecological conditions. A technology that is a misfit in a context is a failed technology for that context. You cannot blame the context to save a failed technology.


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On a cost cutting spree!

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It seems that LG has already started experiencing recession blues, as the company has announced plans to cut $2.2 billion in costs this year. This drastic step has been taken in tandem with the company's expectations of registering a 20% decline in sales in the current financial year. Marred by the downturn in the American appliance market, which has declined by about 30% in the recent times, LG plans to slash its costs by reducing its expenses and purchasing costs considerably and simultaneously focusing on its new businesses divisions like solar power. But just these two measures would not be enough for the company to ride the slowdown wave. LG may also look at reducing its head count which stands at 82,000 employees worldwide. However, this may not be a cakewalk in its own country, since the work culture in South Korean corporations restricts job cuts and prefers to reduce workforce through attrition and voluntary retirement. On account of all this, it seems that reducing costs by $2.19 billion shall surely be a difficult job for the company.


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Let there be no love IN THE VALLEY of hatered

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Tune in to that warm, fuzzy feeling that this month brings in…Cherish your love, and don’t let anyone diss this powerful, wonderful blessing…believes Anu Gulmohar.

The East versus West debate is polarising generations over Valentine's Day celebration in Kashmir with its young and old taking opposing positions over the moral behind such cultural influences. With the lover's day approaching, the debate is likely to get intense and take a public posture as moral policing groups in Kashmir have already made their opposition to any such celebration clear.

It is not for the first time that Valentine Day celebrations in Kashmir have come under fire from social groups. In 2006, a couple of dozen black-veiled women stormed gift and stationery shops in Srinagar ten days ahead of lover's day Kashmir. The women burnt Valentine's Day cards and posters to protest a holiday they say 'imposed Western values on Muslim youth'. The women were from Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of faith), a puritanical women's group founded in 1981. Its leader Aasiya Andrabi, who is least bothered by the 'fundamentalist' label attached to her group, claimed "We will not let anyone sell these cards or celebrate Valentine's Day. These Western gimmicks are corrupting our kids and taking them away from their roots."

Ever since, the opposition to lover's day celebrations has been a yearly affair. In 2007, couples seen in restaurants were beaten up. Another social group, Forum Againat Social Evils (FASE), joined the bandwagon. And this year, Aasiya has already declared war on Valetines Day.

"We will ask the shopkeeper not to display cards and gifts. They should not force us to take action. This is not our culture. Professing illegal love and affection is against our culture," Aasiya Andrabi said in Srinagar. "No religion is in favour of spreading obscenity. If they want to put a stop, they are okay," she adds. Aasiya's assertion that western cultural was swaying the youth away from their roots was in 2006 seen as an assertion of identity by her group. But events more recent point to a bigger divide in the society over the influence of the west on this eastern society. Messages posted on hoardings in a Srinagar locality warned dating couples to stay away from residential areas or face the music. "If you are found with a person of the opposite gender, you will either be handed over to police or your heads will be shaven," the hoardings, which came up at street junctions of Karan Nagar residential area in Srinagar, read. Police was taken by a surprise. Srinagar's Senior Superintendent of Police, Afad-ul-Mujtaba, vowed investigation besides taking the hoardings down. But the residents circuitously favoured the messages on the hoardings.


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The humane people

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After reading the article "And then they came for me" (TSI, Jan 26-Feb 1), I'm at a loss of words with the striking revelations I got as I went through the author's words. Lasantha Vikramathunga was assassinated, but the influence such human beings can sow in the hearts of the young generations will be long lasting and shall lead to revolutionary outcomes.

Lishana Kurikkal MP

Malappuram


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Heartfelt wishes

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I came across your latest issue at a doctor's chamber. I bless you and your team from the bottom of my heart for bringing out such a wonderful magazine. I think you should work a bit more on the publicity of this magazine. You are sceptical about the success of the newly elect US President in your column. Well, the problems are of mammoth proportions. I believe in what he says because in the last six decades not a single US President has spoken with so warm heart in favour of world peace. Like other US presidents he's never uttered a word about US supremacy in his speeches. I think Obama will not follow the footsteps of his predecessors. Let President Obama be the harbinger of peace.

Subrata Chatterjee

West Bengal


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This would only serve their intention of maligning revolutionaries in the eyes of the masses.

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Just before being hanged, Sukhdev had written a letter to Gandhi, declaring that he believed his country would be served better by his death. He also requested Gandhi not to ask the revolutionaries on behalf of the British to ‘give up violence’. This would only serve their intention of maligning revolutionaries in the eyes of the masses. But Gandhi did not stop appealing to the revolutionaries, and while all of India begged Bapu to plead for the lives of the trio and not sign the Gandhi-Irwin pact, Gandhi went ahead and signed, thus sealing their fate. Many historians believe, Gandhi could have saved them. He chose not to… he would have had his reasons.

As for Sukhdev, on the 23rd of March 1931, at 1933hrs, his tall figure cast a long shadow as he joined his best friends on their way to the gallows. And the walls of Lahore Central Jail echoed his voice as he sang … Shaheedon ki chitaon par judenge har baras mele/ Watan par mitne waalon ka yehi baaki nishan hoga; Kabhi yeh bhi din ayega jab apna raaj dekhenge/ Jab apni hi zameen hogi aur apna aasmaan hoga.

Martyrdom is not a martyr’s alone for there are those that love him, miss him and suffer for him in his wake. And whether it is a Sukhdev Thapar or a Sandeep Unnikrishnan, a nation that cannot honour its heroes, surely doesn’t deserve any…


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Betrayal at chauri chaura

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‘The harm that good men do’, was an essay by Bertrand Russell that I never finished reading but was a heading I often thought about whenever I heard the name Gandhi being discussed… I had often witnessed disparate schools of thought converging on the notion that Gandhi the man, as well as Gandhi the idea, had often done more harm than good to the cause of this nation’s freedom, from both communalism and colonialism. Many years ago, on this very day, the 4th of February, near the town of Gorakhpur, there once lay 22 charred bodies and a few blackened bayonets. And amidst the rubble and ruins of that day, there also lay the smoking ruins of a nation’s aspirations. The year was 1922 and the place – a little known police station in a town called Chauri Chaura.

At Chauri Chaura that day, a non-violent protest march, part of a nation-wide Non-Cooperation movement under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, turned violent when policemen opened fire on unarmed protestors, killing three of them. The angry mob went on the rampage and burnt down the police-chowki. Twenty-two policemen, too, were burnt alive inside the police station. Gandhi felt he had been betrayed, perhaps even shamed by his followers. For him, violence was not an option. His followers had committed themselves to ahimsa. And yet, they had weakened and given in to their impulses, thus jeopardising the movement around the country. He wanted to disown the action of the protestors at Chauri Chaura and therefore he denounced them and withdrew a movement that had galvanised a nation. photo-op

The protestors too felt betrayed. Not only were they being hunted down, but their leader had, in effect, given them up, holding them accountable for not just the death of the policemen but also the withdrawal of the movement.


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Increasing the arc of red terror

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Naxalites are spreading themselves nicely in Maharashtra

February 1, 2009 was a Black Sunday for the Maharashtra Police who lost 15 policemen including one sub-inspector to a group of armed Naxals in an encounter in the jungles of Markegaon village in Gadchiroli district. For the first time, security personnel in such large numbers were killed by the Naxals in Maharashtra.

According to sources, the newly-formed Border-Platoon Dalam is involved in the ambush. The Markegaon area is close to the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border.

Reportedly, the ambush triggered after Naxalites belonging to Tippagarh Dalam burnt down a road roller and a tractor engaged in building a bridge on Sawargaon-Kotgul road, near Markegaon, on January 30.

On February 1, the police team was heading towards Markegaon, 45 kms from Dhanora, to investigate the January 30 attack, when the Naxals attacked them. The rebels had reportedly gathered in the area – adjoining Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district – in huge numbers. The encounter saw 15 policemen fighting valiantly against a hundred odd Naxals but lost the battle after they ran out of ammunition. The bodies of the policeman were mutilated. The rebels fled with two INSAS (Indian National Small Arms System), one two-inch mortar, six self-loading rifles, one pistol and six AK47s.

The last time such an attack happened was in 1992, when nine policemen were killed by rebels. Now, following the killing, a high alert has been sounded in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

The police remains woefully ill equipped. For instance, Anti Naxals Operation’s (ANO) request for a helicopter in Maharashtra has remained in limbo with the Central and state governments for a long time. On February 1, a helicopter was sought from the Chhattisgarh government. According to senior ANO officials, the chopper would have been helpful - if the relief party had landed in time. The dilly-dallying of the officials working in the affected districts has affected the working and morale of the police force.


Satish Patil


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Six more... to fix more?!

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Of late, Bajaj Auto has seen some of its worst days, ever! But will new launches alone prove the gracious saviour? Pawan Chabra provides the solution for long-term sustainability... and proves why new launches alone are just not enough

How would you react to the figure if your head of sales came up to you one fine day and claimed that that was the percentage change in monthly domestic sales as compared to the previous year? Would you fire him, or at least give him some words that would buzz around in his nightmares for some good quarters! Now let us put that hypothetical situation in realtime frame. Bajaj Auto Limited, saw its domestic sales falling to a lowly 69,419 units for the month of December 2008, a real-time 53.34 per cent fall in sales (as compared to December 2007) and overall sales falling by 33 per cent, after having fallen for the preceeding months too (see table). Even for the period April-December 2008-09, the growth story was quite demotivating with the percentage figure actually being a negative 21.24 per cent on a yoy comparison! Yes, we do consider the fact that this has been a year/period when many auto giants have kissed the ground below, but at the same time (and for the same period mentioned above), how do we justify the handsome sales growth of Hero Honda, HMSI and Yamaha reading light years better at +11.16 per cent, +16.62 per cent & +27.09 per cent (note the '+'ives there!)? The only two-wheeler company amongst the top four in the country whom we missed out in the statistical comparison above was TVS Motor Co., which too saw a relatively decent fall of just 2.45 per cent in the period mentioned above. So once again, how does Rajiv Bajaj react to the Bajaj ship entering the cursed Doldrums, a curse which has even dug deep into its net profits for the quarter Q3, FY 2008-09, gnawing it by a further 23 per cent to touch Rs.164 crore as compared to Q3, FY 2007-08.

Here's a truth that would perhaps take you by surprise; Rajiv's reaction is thus: the bold man has lined-up six new products to be launched in 2009, with an aim to make a comeback into the positive growth zone (bold!). Out of the 6 new promises, the identity of 4 bikes were revealed, out of which 3 belong to the value-segment and one to the premium-segment (Ninja 250cc).The positive thing working for him at the moment is the fact that most experts in the sector are vouching for his success (with the new launches), as they still consider the Indian auto market to be following a growth trajectory. But will the effort be worth for Bajaj to reach expected heights? And will the company finally stage a comeback, having been reduced to the no. 4 spot in the two-wheeler industry from being counted amongst the top two in the country?


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