- Indore Adjudged Cleanest City in India For Fourth Time in a Row, Bhopal Bags Second Place
- Bihar to Celebrate Arun Jaitley’s Birth Anniversary as State Function Every Year
- Centre Mulls Making Process of Granting Citizenship under CAA Online to Bypass States
- ‘Decrease in Youths Joining Militancy’: J&K Police Say 160 Terrorists Killed & 102 Arrested in 2019
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Indore Adjudged Cleanest City in India For Fourth Time in a Row, Bhopal Bags Second Place
Indore, Bhopal and Surat were adjudged the three cleanest cities in the central government’s cleanliness survey.
PTIUpdated:December 31, 2019, 4:04 PM IST
Indore ranked as the cleanest Indian city in four consecutive years (File photo)
New Delhi: Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the fourth time in a row in the central government’s cleanliness survey announced on Tuesday. Bhopal stood second in first-quarter results (April to June), while Rajkot grabbed the second spot in second-quarter results (July-September).
The third position was grabbed by Surat in the first quarter and Navi Mumbai in the second quarter.
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First Published: December 31, 2019, 4:01 PM IST
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Bihar to Celebrate Arun Jaitley’s Birth Anniversary as State Function Every Year
The veteran leader died at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi on August 24 this year.
PTI Updated: December 31, 2019, 6:50 PM IST
File photo of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
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Patna: The Nitish Kumar ministry on Tuesdy decided to celebrate former Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley’s birth anniversary on December 28 as a state function every year.
Decision to this effect was taken in the cabinet meeting presided over by the Chief Minister here.
Notably Kumar had on December 28 last unveiled Jaitley’s life-size statue in Kankarbagh area of the state capital on occasion of his birth anniversary.
The veteran leader died at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi on August 24 this year.
The departed BJP leader had close bonding with the Bihar where he served as party in-charge for a long time and played an important role in functioning of the NDA coalition in the state since the days they formed a government there ending 15-year rule of the RJD in 2005 end.
In other important decisions, the state cabinet approved Rs 19.40 crore as advance from the Bihar Contingency Fund (BCF) for forming human chain across the state on January 19, 2020 in support of prohibition and on the issue of climate change. The programme is also against the practise of dowry and child marriage.
The mammoth human chain will be formed for half-an-hour between 11:30 to 12 noon on that day, Road Construction Department’s Principal Secretary Amrit Lal Meena told reporters while briefing about the cabinet deliberations.
The cm in course of his ongoing statewide “Jal-Jiwan-Hariyali yatra” (tour) is exhorting people to show their commitment towards the causes by participating in the function.
He has been mentioning that over four crore people had participated in the human chain formed on January 21, 2017 in support of prohibition while in the succeeding year citizens stood holding hands of each other in a 14,000 km stretch against the social evils of dowry and child marriage.
In another significant decision, the cabinet gave its nod to extend the R-block Digha 4/6 lane road – the construction for which is currently underway – upto Ganga Path, a 20.50 km long stretch being built along river Ganga from Digha to Didarganj, through a 1.3 km long road, the RCD Principal Secretary said.
This stretch will be the second phase of the R-block Digha 4/6 lane road while its first phase of 5.80 km long road will be made operational by August 15, 2020, he said.
A sum of Rs 69.55 crore was approved for the purpose, Meena said.
In order to provide better connectivity between Patna and Rajgir, the cabinet approved the revised estimate of Rs 236.65 crore for construction of 22.17 km road between Noorsarai and Silao, Meena said.
With the completion of this stretch and the proposed Karauta-Salepur one, travel time between Patna and the famous tourist destination of Rajgir, about 85 km, will come down to 75 minutes, he said.
The meeting gave green signal to a proposal to dismiss 16 doctors from the service for being unauthorisedly absent from the duty for past several years, Meena said adding they were posted as medical officers in different primary health centres, referral hospitals, sadar hospitals etc.Get the best of News18 delivered to your inbox – subscribe to News18 Daybreak. Follow News18.com on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, TikTok and on YouTube, and stay in the know with what’s happening in the world around you – in real time.
First Published: December 31, 2019, 6:50 PM IST
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Centre Mulls Making Process of Granting Citizenship under CAA Online to Bypass States.
New Delhi: The Centre is likely to make the entire process of granting citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act online to bypass states, some of which are dead set against the new legislation, officials said on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is mulling the option of doing away with the present procedure of routing applications for citizenship through the district magistrate in view of the strong opposition expressed by several states, including Kerala which on Tuesday passed a resolution in the Assembly demanding scrapping of the controversial Act.
“We are thinking of designating a new authority instead of the district magistrate and make the entire process of application, examination of documents and granting Indian citizenship online,” a Home Ministry official said.
If the process becomes completely online, there will be no intervention from a state government at any level.
Besides, the home ministry officials are of the opinion that the state governments have no power to reject the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act as the legislation was enacted under the Union List of the 7th Schedule of the Constitution.
“The states have no power to deny implementation of a central law which is in the Union List,” the top official from the Home Ministry said. There are 97 items which are under the Union List that include Defence, External Affairs, Railways, Citizenship and Naturalisation.
According to the amended Citizenship Act, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014 and facing religious persecution there will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.
The Act says refugees of the six communities will be given Indian citizenship after residing in India for five years, instead of 11 years earlier. The act also proposes to give immunity to such refugees facing legal cases after being found as illegal migrants.
The Kerala Assembly had on Tuesday passed a resolution demanding the scrapping of the controversial Act, amid raging countrywide protests against the legislation.
The ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and the opposition Congress-led UDF supported the resolution while the BJP’s lone MLA and former Union minister O Rajagopal’s was the only dissenting voice in the one-day special session.
The house adopted the resolution moved by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Vijayan had said that “an anti-constitutional law will have no place” in his state.
A number of chief ministers, including those of West Bengal, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, had already announced that the law is “unconstitutional” and has no place in their respective state.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said, “In your (BJP) manifesto, instead of development issues, you have put in promise to divide the country. Why will citizenship be on the basis of religion? I will not accept this. We dare you…”.
“You can pass laws in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha forcefully because you have the number. But we will not let you divide the country,” she said. Describing the Act as a direct assault on India’s secular character, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had said his government would not let the legislation to be implemented in his state.
“We have a majority in the assembly and will block the bill,” Singh said. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had said the Act was clearly unconstitutional. “Whatever decision is made at the Congress party forum on the bill, will be applied in Chhattisgarh,” he said.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath had said, “Whatever stand the Congress party has taken on Citizenship Amendment Act, we will follow that. Do we want to be a part of a process that sows seeds of divisiveness?”.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram had also said the bill was a “brazen assault” on the fundamental ideas enshrined in the Constitution and the fate of the law will be decided in the Supreme Court.