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India's bid for Olympics depends on CWG!HOZZTHAT!Global head of CWG, Kalmadi put in the dock by CAG!

Stung by the CAG's interim report which has found discrepancies in some deals, the CWG Organising Committee today defended its broadcasting rights deal with Fast Track despite a high commission paid to them, saying the UK company had doubled the revenue target. The Comptroller and Auditor General

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of India (CAG) in its interim inspection report has pointed out that Fast Track was preferred over Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM) despite a high comission and thus OC lost on revenue generation.
SMAM had offered its services for 12.5 percent while OC gave 15 percent to Fast Track.

Seemingly unimpressed by tardy preparations for the New Delhi Commonwealth Games, Australia's Olympic chief John Coates today said India will have to prepare in a better way if it aspires to host Olympic Games in future.

Coates said the Games are being viewed as a step towards securing subcontinent's first Olympic event but infrastructure problems and continuing security problems could damage India's possible bid.

"In the Olympic world we would certainly prefer that venues are all finished one year before, that you're able to have test events to test the venues, to test the organisation.

"We did have some similar experiences with Athens (Olympics in 2004) and I'm sure the Games will happen, but certainly I wouldn't like to be involved in something with construction happening so close to the event," Coates was quoted as saying by the AAP.


OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot said it was a well thought out decision to award the deal to Fast Track as they did not want to give too many contracts to SMAM, which already had bagged the sponsorship contract.

"Fast Track is a well known company in this field and we have to ensure that company which has the experience is given the job. They had done it in Melbourne and other Commonwealth Games. It was a very wise (decision) that we did not put all the eggs in one basket," Bhanot said.

"Fast Track has almost doubled the revenue we targetted. I think it's fully justified and a proper procedure was followed and it was a decision taken by the Board that not to give both the contract to one firm despite the fact that they were charging less.
"But now the end result is that we have achieved double the target... we have earned more," he said.
The OC had recently scrapped its sponsorship deal with SMSM on grounds of 'non-performance', a claim that has been refuted by the Australian firm, which said the charges against it are "imaginary".

The CAG report, it is learnt, has also alleged that high profile officials such CWG chief Mike Fennel and CEO Mike Hoper were involved in various discrepancies.
Hooper refused to comment on the developement.
"I have not seen the CAG report myself. I have seen only media reports. I will ask OC to get us a copy of the CAG report. Will comment only after seeing it," Hooper said.


This is the timeline of issuing unique identity card and (caste census). This is there in the website of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) http://uidai.gov.in/ :


" The Timelines

The first UID numbers will be issued over the next 12-18 months counted from August 2009. The first number would be issued between August 2010 to February 2011. Over five years, the Authority plans to issue 600 million UIDs. The numbers will be issued through various 'registrar' agencies across the country."

Note: Now you can understand the game plan of the great Indian bureaucracy.

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New superbug spreading from India, Pakistan!What about the Old ones? Which have Infinite Resistance as Satyam Asatyam, Exclusive Economy, Growth Tale, Shining India, Parliamentary Democracy, False Recession, NGOs, Inclusive Grwth, social Concern, Public Privat Partnership, TV icons, Intellgentsia, Marxism, Indian Judiciary, Ethnonationalism, Sanatan Hindutva and so on?

The Thieves are Ruling us and we Allow them to do their duty quite Lawfully and Constitutionally and it is called the Free market democracy! Lalit Modi is NOT Prosecuted as yet. Sharad Pawar rule the Cricket world having destroyed Indian Agriculture of PEEPLI Live looks! Prafull Patel is just not satisfied destroying the Aviation Sector and he wants IPL Saga to continue in Indian Football striving on Bottom of the world. Indian Hockey has not recovered from the Sex scandal as yet but Indian Hockey has to be resurrected with a reincarnated Himalayan Goddess as Old as Elizabeth Taylor.Reliance has every avenue of Profit making as long as the people like Murali Deora stays in the Cabinet. Raja has his own Regime and Telecom Spectrum exposes much skin nowadays. Chidambaram has become the Minister of Internal Security for the Realty, India Incs, MNCs and LPG Mafia. Mayawati is FREE to do with Revenue and Public Money as long as she remains the Dalit Queen. Himacjhal and Uttarkhand compete each other to destroy Ecology and Environment in search of Salvation in Energy. UPA, NDA and the Left, the three wings of Indian Manusmriti Hegemony controlled by Zionist Dynasty do every thing to defend the interests of US Corporate Imperialism, Galaxy Zionist  Manusmriti Order and US war Economy. Defence Budget has not to be questioned as it is very sensitive and involves Patriotism so sacred. Thus, Kalmadi Baba openly branded Aiyer as Anti national to cover up the suspicious deals in the name of sports! You may not question AFPSA or Oeration Green Hunt, Blatant Human Rights Violation all over the Aboriginal Human scape as it involves the Unity and Integrity of the Nation which is on SELL OFF by the Super slaves and extra Constitutional Elements representing the Ruling Brahaminical India Incs Class! There had been NO Recession but the Bail Out Continues. SEZ  Drive converts the country into Clusters of Foreign Teritorries and it is EXCLUSIVE Economy. Divestment is most Important as the Genetically Modified Seeds, Ind o US Nuclear Deal, FDI Infinite, Foreign capital inflow and Retail Chain! Why do you blame only Poor Kalmadi Baba involved in little Scams in comparison to the Defence Deals and Swiss Bank Accounts!Our Kolkata kali is committed to make a London of Kolkata and the Blood spills all over thanks to the Lumpanes changing Fences very recently not to mention the PCPA or Maoist Menace!She has become a KALPA Taru these days as it was so loud in lalgarh Rally supported by the Maoists. Who would answer why Railways has 7190 vacancies of locomotive pilots, 89024 in safety categories?

Congress on Thursday left Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi to fend for himself in the wake of demands for his resignation over alleged corruption in the Games' preparations.

"We do not hold any brief... Kalmadi is not there (IOC) as a member of Congress Party... the actions of Kalmadi as President of an autonomous body are not connected with the party in any way," party spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan told reporters.
The remarks came after party general secretary Digvijay Singh also joined the chorus saying Kalmadi should resign if found guilty.

The Congress spokesperson said, "if anybody is found guilty, he should be brought back to justice", but refused to comment on Mr. Singh's remarks.

Ms. Natarajan said the priority at this point of time is to hold the Games and at the same time if there is any irregularity and misconduct, it should be probed.

"Our stand on Commonwealth Games is clear. We are completely endorsing and supporting the stand of the government, Sports Minister M.S. Gill. We should first successfully conduct the Games. After that if there are people who have committed offences, they are to be booked," she added.

Asked about the government's decision to hold caste census, the party spokesperson said that the party would wait before commenting on the issue till an authoritative announcement by the government is not made.


Breaking his silence, Arjun Singh today appeared to point fingers at the late P V Narasimha Rao in the exit of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in the wake of Bhopal gas disaster in 1984, thereby giving a clean chit to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. "The Chief Secretary informed me that there have been persistent calls for granting bail to Mr Anderson from Home Ministry officials in Delhi," said Singh, who was then the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister then, pointing fingers at Rao, who was then the Union Home Minister.

Meanwhile, Denying any role in the alleged money trail during the QBR launch in London, CWG Organising Committee Director General VK Verma today held sacked officials T S Darbari and Sanjay Mohindroo responsible for all the deals at that time.
Singh, who did not not share a good relationship with Rao during his days as HRD Minister in Rao''s Cabinet at the Centre later, said he had ordered the arrest of Anderson and wanted it to be recorded so that he could be produced before courts when needed. Participating in a debate on the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world''s worst disaster in December, 1984 that had claimed more than 15,000 lives, Singh said he had informed Gandhi, who was in Harsukh town in Madhya Pradesh, immediately after the arrest of Anderson on December 6, 1984.

"Rajivji did not not utter a sing word in the next two days either in support of Mr Anderson or try to mitigate his problem. Attaching motive to the then Prime Minister would be a figment of imagination of persons who can see nothing constructive of a person of that stature," he said giving a clean chit to Gandhi.

Ever since a Bhopal court gave a light punishment to the accused in the gas disaster case, there have been opposition allegations Gandhi could have a hand in the exit of Anderson soon after his arrest in the case.

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Global head of CWG, Kalmadi put in the dock by CAG

After vigilance, government auditor CAG has found damning evidence of loss of revenue, financial irregularities and overpayment at the behest of Commonwealth Games Federation global head Michael Fennell and its India chief Suresh Kalmadi. In an Inspection Report sent to the government, the Comptroller and Auditor General cited over a dozen cases including one where the Organising Committee (OC) suffered a loss of over Rs 24 crore in awarding broadcasting rights at the behest of Fennell, Kalmadi and Federation CEO Mike Hooper.
The inspection conducted for the year 2008-09 said that authorities in the OC approved a firm, Fast Track Sales Ltd, as consultant for international broadcasting rights on suggestions made by Fennell, Hooper and Kalmadi without technical evaluation of the bidders. "Thus selection of a consultant without due diligence and deficiencies in services of the consultant resulted in a projected loss of revenue of Rs 24.60 crore to the Orgainsing Committee of the Commonwealth Games," the report, which CAG sent to Sports Ministry in May, said.
The India edition of the Games will open on October 3 and is already mired in controversy over financial irregularities, as made out in a Central Vigilance Commission report, and many projects still running behind schedule. According to details of the inspection, the selected consultant proposed a higher commission of 15 per cent, as against 12.5 per cent offered by the other bidder Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM).
As a result, the OC had to pay Rs 5.20 crore as extra commission. The report also castigated the OC for not adopting the competitive bidding process in giving sponsorship rights to Australian firm SMAM, thus paying an extra commission of Rs 25.31 crore without linking it to performance.
The company was roped in to bring sponsorship for the Games, but its contract was terminated by the OC earlier this month on grounds of "non-performance" after a corruption furore rocked the October 3-14 Games. "The OC did not follow the procedure laid down in the manual and did not allow sufficient time to the consultants who had responded to the expression of interest.
Thus OC agreed to pay extra commission amounting to Rs 25.31 crore," the CAG inspection report said. The report rejected the OC''s explanation on it and said, "The OC not only agreed to pay higher rate of commission, but also agreed to pay commission on all kind of sponsorship including those where there was no role of the consultant.
"Moreover, it did not link the commission payable with performance," it said, adding that the officials had not followed the laid down procedures and did not allow other bidders for the position of sponsorship consultant. The report pointed out that the organising committee also paid commission to it for sponsorship of PSUs where SMAM had no role as the state-owned undertakings were directly associated with CWG. .

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IE - 05:06 AM
The Reserve Bank discussion paper on entry into banking is an important and valuable step forward in the process of building a sophisticated banking system.
       
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•             Spoilt Kashmir IE - 05:06 AM
• The lead editorial in the latest issue of RSS mouthpiece Organiser makes for an interesting read. Discussing the crisis in the Valley, it says Kashmiris on the Indian side are a "pampered lot," only too happy that they can afford to shut down the state for days at a stretch, and let their children roam on the streets instead of going to school.
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•             Communication is key IE - 05:06 AM
• The prime minister's televised statement, calling for resumption of dialogue and the willingness to consider the NC's autonomy proposal after meeting a delegation of MLAs from Kashmir on August 10, marks a welcome change from the imperious statements that used to emanate from New Delhi, dismissing all public outburst as the handiwork of pro-Pakistan agents.
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•             Where you point the camera IE - 05:06 AM
• On Sunday, DD News carried the following report: curfew lifted in Kashmir, the Valley was "absolutely normal".
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•             The Games we play IE - 05:06 AM
• You may ask why India should at all get excited and see dividend in an event that, when it first began in 1930, was once known as the British Empire Games, and which continues to feature sports like lawn bowls and rugby sevens played mostly by members of the "white" Commonwealth.
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•             Rebellion without a cause? IE - 05:06 AM
• The situation in Kashmir is far from normal. Both the state and the Central governments still seem to be groping in the dark for the real causes and solution to the turmoil that started on June 11.
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•             Speaking out IE - 05:06 AM
• Should Sports Minister M.S. Gill find some time in between brushing up on earthy folk tales, he may find it instructive to refer to his British counterpart's website.
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•             Stones & grassroots IE - 05:06 AM
• Before this storm in the Valley, before the calm that preceded it, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee once said that the touchstone for the peace process in Kashmir should be "insaniyat", or humanity.
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•             Blood Diamonds are forever IE - 05:06 AM
• Naomi Campbell likes her diamonds "shiny". But those aren't the sort of diamonds that former warlords gift supermodels in the wee hours of the morning.
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•             Column : Making a mash of BlackBerry FE - 03:28 AM
• The BlackBerry mess is on track to get India a reconfirmation of its almost iconic status of messing up the contours of economic engagement with the rest of the world, on a regular basis.
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•             Is there any room for more? FE - 03:28 AM
• Almost all European banks pass stress tests," is what we read in recent media reports. "The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple," said SEC enforcement chief Robert Khuzami, referring to SEC's investigations into one of the largest CDO offerings.
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•             What RBI says about new banks FE - 03:28 AM
• The central bank's discussion paper on new banks explores the option of allowing large industrial houses into the space.
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•             FE Editorial : Handle with corporatisation FE - 03:28 AM
• The oil spilling off the coast of Mumbai from Panamanian-flagged cargo carrier, MSC Chitra, has effectively been contained.
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•             Column : Bank on insurance FE - 03:28 AM
• Insurance companies backed by banks will now be better placed to sell their products in the changing regulatory structure as they will have the advantage of a strong brand, a variable cost structure and access to network sharing.
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•             Break up RBS, Barclays while there's still time FE - Wed, Aug 11
• Matthew Lynn When is a good time for the British government to take a sledgehammer to the financial system and break up banks such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays? Not when they are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and there is a risk of killing them.
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•             TRP, not truth IE - Wed, Aug 11
• Shekhar Gupta should be thanked for injecting some fresh air into the relentless media campaign about corruption in the preparations for the CWG ('Temporary insanity', IE, August 7).
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•             Truth be told IE - Wed, Aug 11
• When National Highways Authority of India engineer Satyendra Dubey was killed in 2003 after he wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he was killed for his disclosure, despite the explicit appeal that his identity be kept secret.
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•             Berry, berry complicated IE - Wed, Aug 11
• The Indian espiocrats vs Canadian geeks contest may yet end in an honourable draw. BlackBerry services may not get interrupted because Research in Motion (RIM) and the Indian government may work out a deal the full details of which will never be known publicly.
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•             The men and the waterboys IE - Wed, Aug 11
• As much as perfecting the 1-2-3 of batting — backlift, defence and drive — when young, coaches in India's mushrooming cricket academies insist you learn how to record scores in the traditional scorebook, and also try and inculcate the habit of serving drinks.
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•             Afghan neutrality IE - Wed, Aug 11
• Promoting Afghanistan's neutrality and preventing interference in its internal affairs by Kabul's neighbours are two ideas that figure in most proposals for peace in the war-torn nation.
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"Health tourists" flocking to south Asia have carried a new class of antibiotic-resistant superbugs to Britain, researchers reported on Wednesday, warning that the bacteria could spread worldwide.
Many hospital infections that were already difficult to treat have become even more impervious to drugs due to a recently discovered gene that can jump across different species of bacteria.
This so called NDM-1 gene was first identified last year by Cardiff University's Timothy Walsh in two types of bacteria — Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli — in a Swedish patient admitted to a hospital in India. NDM-1 stands for New Delhi metallo-betalactamase-1.
Worryingly, the new NDM-1 bacteria are resistant even to carbapenems, a group of antibiotics often reserved as a last resort for emergency treatment for multi-drug resistant bugs.
Researchers said the bugs had been brought into Britain by patients who travelled to India or Pakistan for cosmetic surgery.
"If these infections were allowed to continue without appropriate treatment, then certainly one would expect to see some sort of mortality," Dr. Walsh, a microbiology professor, told BBC radio.
"It's going to be very difficult to treat the infections once the patients present with these types of bacteria. You won't get well."
In the new study, led by Dr. Walsh and Madras University's Karthikeyan Kumarasamy, researchers set out to determine how common the NDM-1 producing bacteria were in South Asia and Britain, where several cases had turned up.
Checking hospital patients with suspect symptoms, they found 44 cases (1.5 per cent) of those screened in Chennai, and 26 (8 per cent) of those screened in Haryana.
They likewise found the superbug in Bangladesh and Pakistan, as well as 37 cases in Britain.
"India also provides cosmetic surgery for other Europeans and Americans, and it is likely that NDM-1 will spread worldwide," said the study, published in The Lancet.
NDM-1 was mostly found in E. coli, a common source of community-acquired urinary tract infections, and K. pneumoniae, and was impervious to all antibiotics except two — tigecycline and colistin.
In some cases, even these drugs did not beat back the infection. "We've actually almost run out of antibiotics. We only have two left and one isn't particularly good," Dr. Walsh told the BBC.
Alarming potential to spread
Crucially, the NDM-1 gene can be easily copied and transferred between bacteria. "Unprecedented air travel and migration allow bacterial plasmids and clones to be transported rapidly between countries and continents," they said, adding that most could remain undetected.
The emergence of these new drug-resistant strains could become a serious global public health problem as the major threat shifts toward a broad class of bacteria — including those armed with the NDM-1 gene — known as "Gram-negative", the researchers warn.
"There are few new anti-Gram-negative antibiotics in development, and none that are effective against NDM-1," the study said.
"We believe it's present within the community within India, not just within the hospitals," he said.
"There are no new antibiotics that are going to be available in 10 years' time," Dr. Walsh said.
"There is a desperate need for new and novel antibiotics targeted towards these types of bacteria."
Hasan Suroor adds from London
A new superbug called NDM-1, resistant to nearly all antibiotics, has been found in British hospitals and is reported to be spreading rapidly, sparking worldwide alarm.
Media reports said that up to 50 cases had already been reported, mostly involving people who had travelled to the Indian subcontinent for cancer treatment, cosmetic surgery or transplants. Some cases were also reported to have been detected in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Experts said the bug which caused urinary and respiratory problems had been found resistant to one of the most powerful groups of antibiotics — Carbapenem, generally used in emergencies. Researchers, writing in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, said NDM-1 had an "alarming potential to spread and diversify".
"The potential for wider international spread are clear and frightening," said Prof. Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University and a co-author of the research.
His fellow-researcher David Livermore of Britain's Health Protection Agency (HPA) warned that there was a very real threat that it could become a serious global health problem.
"There have been a number of small clusters within the U.K., but far and away the greater number of cases appear to be associated with travel and hospital treatment in the Indian subcontinent. This type of resistance has become quite widespread there. The fear would be that it gets into a strain of bacteria that is very good at being transmitted between patients," he said.
Alerts issued
The Department of Health already put out an alert emphasising that it issued such alerts "very sparingly when we see new and disturbing resistance".
The BBC quoted experts as saying that NDM-1 could now jump to other strains of bacteria that were already resistant to many other antibiotics.
"Ultimately, this could produce dangerous infections that would spread rapidly from person to person and be almost impossible to treat," it said, adding that infections had already been passed from patient to patient in British hospitals.
Some of those affected by the bug were reported to be seriously ill and some were found to suffer from blood poisoning.
Keywords: Superbug, New Delhi metallo-betalactamase-1, NDM-1, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli


"Darbari and Mohindroo are the two officers who were entirely responsible for the entire project (deal with AM Films) as they were of the level of joint DGs. They went under verification details and primary responsibility was theirs. I was not in London and not involved," Verma, DG (Finance, OC) told reporters. Verma also defended under-fire OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, saying it the Games were not a one-man show.

"Mr Kalmadi is the chairman but he is not single handedly running it. All the major contracts whether its Max, Maxxam, SMAM or whatever, they have all gone through the Executive Board and not by Kalmadi. "The three names which have come in the investigation report namely Darbari and Mohindroo with regard to the whole project and Mr Jaychandaran with regard to having left London before completing his full responsibility. These all should be asked," Verma said.

When asked if he is giving a clean chit to Kalmadi on AM Films deal, Verma said, "Darbari and Mohindroo were a two-member team that was entrusted with the total responsibility of the QBR. The budget was approved by the executive board, process was approved by Overseas finance committee and now if somebody has given a wrong certificate, then it is extremely sad.

"The person who has given the fake certificates has got to be taken to the task. He should be asked why he did so." Clarifying his role in the deal with AM Films, the firm which has received lakhs of pounds for extending its "services" for the QBR in London leg.

"When the case came to us, we clearly stated that the proposal of hiring those things are concurred. All the things concerned have to be negotiated by a committee of three who will be London. I was not in London, so I can't say what process they followed.

"Our direction from here was a three-member committee, headed by Jaychandaran will negotiate with the vendors, check and verify the credentials of the vendors and take on the spot decisions. Therefore after this, what they have negotiated and how the bills have been sent, I have no comments. Those bills have not come through me at all. So I have no role to play."

Asked about the personal fax sent to Kalmadi by Mohindroo that said 127,000 pounds must be released to AM Films, Verma said, the note would not have come to him but instead had gone to the cheque signings authority.

Role was only ceremonial, says Darbari

T.S. Darbari, the CWG Joint Director General who was sacked in the wake of the corruption scandals, on Wednesday sought to clear his name of any wrongdoing by saying that he was not involved in any of the dealings with A M Films and was being made a "scapegoat."
"My role in the London QBR launch was ceremonial. It had nothing to do with any negotiation of shortlisting of vendors or financial transaction or imbursement or recommendation of advance", he said.
"This is a tragedy the way things has been projected.
Whatever has happened, it is unfortunate. I'm unnecessary being targetted and being made a scapegoat," he said.
Asked if he received a letter from A M Films dated August 22, 2009, an angry Darbari said, "If there is any letter send it to me. If someone is concocting any letter it is his problem, not mine."
"I have already clarified that I am not a party to any contract, nor was I a recommending person. There was a committee constituted for this purpose, which has recommended and competent authority has approved it," he said.
Darbari further said that neither can he deny nor can he confirm the authenticity of Raju Sebastian's letter.
"I can't deny or confirm the authenticity of the letter since neither was I an addresser nor was I the addressee," he said.
Asked if Suresh Kalmadi was aware of the deal, Darbari said, "I do not know who was in the know. I just know that Darbari was not in the know. I never knew Ashish Patel and I don't want to have a discussion about a third person. I have to safeguard my self respect and I know I am not a party to anything."
The e-mail, sent by an IHC protocol official Raju Sebastian, recommending various service providers for the London launch of the Queen's Baton Relay stirred a hornest's nest after Ministry of External Affairs declared that the mail could have been "doctored."
The e-mail was made public by CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi to justify payments to a little-known U.K.-firm — A M Films — for its "services" during the event, which was also attended by President Pratibha Patil and British Queen Elizabeth II.
The mail was originally sent to OC Director Raj Singh and later forwarded to suspended Deputy Director General Sanjay Mohindroo, who in turn sent it to Darbari.
However, Darbari, in his letter to probe panel head and Organising Committee CEO Jarnail Singh claimed he had nothing to do with the mail as he neither received it first-hand nor sent it to anybody else.
Even Raj Singh also said he won't be able to say whether the mail recommending A M Films is authentic or not.
Mohindroo, on his part, said he doesn't want to comment till the investigation is over.
"I wouldn't want to make any comment as investigation is still on, he said.


Railways has 7190 vacancies of locomotive pilots, 89024 in safety categories

Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa said on Thursday that there are approximately 7190 vacancies of loco pilots and 89024 vacancies in safety categories on Zonal Railways as on April 01, 2009.

In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Muniyappa said: "Loco pilots on Indian Railways are classified as 'Continuous' and are statutorily required to work for 54 hours a week on an average, in a two weekly period of 14 days. The rostered hours of this category of employees has, however, been fixed at 104 hours in a two weekly period of 14 days including preparatory and complementary time."

The Minister also informed that as per extant instructions, running duty at a stretch should not ordinarily exceed 10 hours from departure of the train and overall duty should not exceed 12 hours from 'signing on' to 'signing off' except in emergent circumstances like accidents, floods, agitations, equipment failures etc.

For coaching trains, crew links are prepared which comply with the provisions of Hours Of Employment Regulation (HOER) as stated above.

Passenger trains are normally run by loco pilots (passenger).

However, in exceptional situations suitable loco pilots (goods) are deployed, to work in passenger trains.
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बायोमैट्रिक डाटा कलेक्शन और नेशनल पॉपुलेशन रजिस्टर से साथ जाति गणना का प्रस्ताव निरर्थक, सामाजिक-आर्थिक आंकड़े नहीं मिलेंगे

नई दिल्ली: केंद्र सरकार का यह फैसला बेतुका और निरर्थक है कि बायोमैट्रिक कार्ड बनवाने के लिए आने वालों से उनकी जाति पूछ ली जाएगी। यह बेहद भ्रामक प्रस्ताव है। इस तरह आंकड़ा जुटाने से जाति आधारित जनगणना से हासिल होने वाले ज्यादातर लक्ष्य पूरे नहीं हो पाएंगे।  

जनगणना के फॉर्म में व्यक्ति की सामाजिक आर्थिक और शैक्षणिक स्थिति को समझने वाले कॉलम होते हैं। इन सूचनाओं के बगैर यूनिक आईडेंटी कार्ड बनाते समय एक अलग फॉर्म में जाति पूछ लेने भर से जाति और उनकी आर्थिक सामाजिक तथा शैक्षणिक स्थिति के अंतर्संबंधों को नहीं समझा जा सकता है।

इस तरह तो पूरी कवायद सिर्फ जाति की संख्या जानने तक सीमित हो जाएगी। इस तरह जाति का आंकड़ा इकट्ठा करने से जातियों औऱ जाति समूहों की आर्थिक, सामाजिक और शैक्षणिक स्थिति का तुलनात्मक अध्ययन नहीं हो पाएगा। जनगणना के समाजशास्त्रीय लक्ष्यों को हासिल करने के लिए जाति के प्रश्न को जनगणना के साथ ही पूछा जाना चाहिए।

साथ ही नेशनल पॉपुलेशन रजिस्टर के लिए 15 साल से ज्यादा उम्र वालों की ही बायोमैट्रिक सूचना ली जाएगी। परिवार के बाकी लोगों के बारे में इन्हीं से पूछकर कॉलम भरने का समाधान गृह मंत्रालय दे रहा है, जो अवैज्ञानिक तरीका है।

बायोमैट्रिक और नेशनल पॉपुलेशन रजिस्टर का काम अभी प्रायोगिक स्तर पर है। इससे लेकर विवाद भी बहुत हैं। इसलिए इसके साथ जाति की गणना जैसे महत्वपूर्ण कार्य को शामिल करना सही नहीं है।

जनगणना और जाति गणना का काम जनगणना विभाग ही कर सकता है। उसके पास इस काम के लिए संसाधन भी हैं और अनुभव भी। यूनिक आइडेंटी कार्ड विभाग के पास न अनुभव है न संसाधन। आईडेंटी कार्ड बनाने वालों को जाति जनगणना का काम सौंपने का अर्थ होगा, इस पूरी कवायद को बर्बाद कर देना।

BJP demands Kalmadi's resignation

Training its guns on Suresh Kalmadi, BJP on Thursday demanded the resignation of the Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, citing former OC official T.S. Darbari's statement and a CAG report indicting him of financial irregularities.
"Darbari has said all decisions were taken after getting a nod from Mr. Kalmadi or as per his directions and these were not his faults. He said he was made a scapegoat. A CAG report has also declared him (Kalmadi) guilty of wrongdoing... As such, it is not right for him to continue in Organising Committee post," Deputy leader of BJP in Lok Sabha, Gopinath Munde said.
He also cited Darbari's accusations about discrepancies in the Queen's Baton Relay and said these were done under the "under the noses of the Prime Minister and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi".

Not aware who gave safe passage to Anderson: Chidambaram

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New Delhi,Aug 12 (PTI) Government today said there were no no records of calls made by Home Ministry officials before the exit of former UCC chief Warren Anderson's from India in December, 1984 and on the "safe passage" assurance reportedly given to him. A day after Arjun Singh sought to point fingers at P V Narasimha for the exit of former Anderson from India, an accused in the Bhopal gas disaster case, Home Minister P Chidambaram also gave a clean chit to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the Rajya Sabha. He told the BJP members that "your intention" in raising this issue was "weird" and to point fingers at Gandhi. Replying to a debate on the world's worst disaster that had claimed over 15,000 lives, he utilised the occasion to say that the "elected class", Parliament and Executive failed victims of Bhopal and they deferred to the judiciary which took over a number of things which were not not in its domain. Relying on former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh's contention in the House to give a clean chit to Gandhi, he also cited contemporary media report to emphasise that Gandhi was not aware about Anderson being allowed to leave the country after his arrest in Bhopal on December 7,1984. "Safe passage (to Anderson) was indeed given,according to (M K) Rasgotra (then Foreign Secretary) and he was allowed to leave the country, according to Arjun Singhji. I am in no position to confirm or deny it," Chidambaram said. He was responding to questions by Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley and members of the Left parties as to who was responsible for allowing Anderson to leave the country. (More) PTI AMR AMI PC AKK

SMAM slams OC for 'wrongfully' terminating contract

Australian firm Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM) on Wednesday hit out at the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee for "wrongfully, viciously and abruptly" terminating its services, saying the OC took the step to deviate attention from the ongoing corruption furore and avoid paying the company.
"The OC has wrongfully, viciously, abruptly and publicly terminated SMAM's agreement in a manner that is not only counter to the agreement and inconsistent with the interests of staging a successful Commonwealth Games in India, but also detrimental to the goodwill and reputation of the Commonwealth Games Movement," SMAM said in a statement.
"SMAM believes that the OC's allegations and grounds for termination are imaginary and concocted and an attempt to deviate attention from the more serious issues and charges related to the upcoming Delhi Games. We also believe that the OC has served the alleged termination to SMAM as it does not intend to honour its financial commitments to SMAM," it added.
The company was roped in to bring sponsorship for the Games but its contract was terminated by OC on the grounds of "non-performance" after a corruption furore engulfed the upcoming Games.
But SMAM dismissed the OC's allegations of "non-performance,"
'Sponsorship income over $85 million generated'
"Owing to the diligent and concerted efforts by SMAM, a record breaking sponsorship income totalling over Rs. 400 crores ($85 million) has been generated in respect of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games so far. It has been the highest ever in the history of the Commonwealth Games surpassing the revenue achieved for the Melbourne 2006 Games. Further sponsorships are expected to materialise in the coming weeks," it said.
"SMAM refutes in the strongest possible terms the OC's allegations of non-performance by SMAM and all other imaginary and concocted claims made by the OC simply to contrive grounds for termination.
"The organisers fail to recognise that the sponsorship revenue targets that the OC set, and identified as one of the main grounds for termination, represent just one of several important objectives in the agreement," it added.
SMAM said contrary to media reports of it getting commissions, the company had not received any money from the OC.
"SMAM has been delivering an extensive range of marketing services to the OC since 2007. These services have been provided to the OC by experienced and specialised executives, from India and abroad, many of whom have delivered the then record-breaking and most successful 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games," it said.
"All services, personnel and related costs provided to the OC have been in accordance with the agreement and funded solely by SMAM for more than three years. The OC has not had to incur any risks or costs related to the services SMAM has provided.
'OC has not paid us'
"To date, SMAM has not received any payment from the OC for the work done on Delhi 2010, since its appointment in 2007. SMAM is legitimately entitled to immediate settlement of all its outstanding invoices, besides its rights to further payments and damages," it added.
SMAM criticised the OC for publicly terminating the contract without even informing the company and demanded that payment-related issues be settled immediately.
"...now that the OC has chosen this path, SMAM has no option but to follow suit, albeit unwillingly, but not before making every effort to amicably resolve the dispute that has arisen.
"As can be attested by SMAM's involvement in and commitment to the Commonwealth Games Movement for more than 20 years, SMAM seeks, in the interest of the Commonwealth Games, an expeditious resolution to this dispute. SMAM has requested that the OC join it to resolve this dispute through mediation, at the earliest possible time as per the terms of the agreement between the parties," it said.
'Not being investigated by ED'
The company also denied reports that it was under investigation from India's Enforcement Directorate (ED).
"SMAM strongly refutes any impropriety as alleged against it by OC and all the other allegations, innuendos and accusations that have been reported in certain sections of the media and which are unfounded, baseless and false," it said.
"SMAM is not under any investigation from any government authority and has not been contacted by any government authority. However SMAM wishes to clarify that it will cooperate fully with the Government or other relevant authorities, should they have any queries.
"SMAM has always operated in full conformity with applicable laws and regulations and any insinuation about inappropriate or unlawful activities is completely unfounded and without substance."

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"Linking superbug to India irrational"

India on Thursday described as "totally irrational" British scientists linking a new superbug resistant to antibiotics to this country and said it was responding to an alert issued by Britain in this regard.
V. M. Katoch, Secretary of Health Research, told PTI that the government would soon draft a reply to this after a meeting of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a nodal agency under the Health Ministry.
"When you link it to something to our anti-biotics policy, say India specific, say it is dangerous to get operated in India then you will get more infections, that is totally irrational," he said.
Sinister design of multinationals
The issue also figured in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday where members suspected the hands of multinational pharmaceutical and hospital companies behind the claims.
"When India is emerging as a medical tourism destination, this type of news is unfortunate and may be a sinister design of multinational companies" to defame the Indian medical sector, S. S. Ahluwalia (BJP) said.
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Mr. Ahluwalia, who was supported by Jayanti Natarajan (Congress), said there should be a system of maintaining a registry for patients suffering from infectious diseases.
Ms. Natarajan said reports of superbug, attributable to India, is a "wrong propaganda against the country".
National disease centre to meet today
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a nodal agency under the Health Ministry, is meeting on Thursday and "we would soon draft a reply to this," Secretary, Health Research, V.M. Katoch told PTI.
He said the Ministry will examine the issue in detail but it was "unfortunate that this new bug, which is an environmental thing, has been attached to a particular country which is India in this case."
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At least one of the NDM-1 infections the researchers analysed was resistant to all known antibiotics.
Similar infections have been seen in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands and international researchers say that NDM-1 could become a major global health problem.
Infections have already been passed from patient to patient in U.K. hospitals.
Dr David Livermore, one of the researchers and who works for the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA), said, "There have been a number of small clusters within the UK, but far and away the greater number of cases appear to be associated with travel and hospital treatment in the Indian subcontinent."
The Department of Health has already put out an alert on the issue, he said.

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Hooper refutes corruption charges, says need to focus on Games

NDTV Correspondent, Updated: August 12, 2010 19:02 IST
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New Delhi:  The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has strongly refuted the suggestion made in the interim report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that the company Fast Track Sales Ltd was chosen as a consultant for the broadcasting rights of the Commonwealth Games based solely on the suggestions of three people - the CGF President, the CEO Mike Hooper and the Chairman of the Organising Committee Mr Suresh Kalmadi.

According to Mr Hooper, it was for the Suresh Kalmadi headed Organising committee to ensure that the selection of consultants was done in accordance with Indian law.

"I strongly refute any wrongdoing. It is method for the Organising Committee (OC) to follow proper process in accordance with Indian law. The OC has to decide who it will appoint in outsourced roles," Hooper said while addressing a press conference in New Delhi.

At the same time, he did endorse the selection of Fast Track on the basis of its past record.Share on SocialGmail BuzzPrint

"The CGF makes appropriate recommendations based on recommendations. The federation stands by recommendation of Fast track, which has an enviable record of success. It has endorsements from others in past, like the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.  They met and exceeded their (Aussie) expectations," he said.

"It is my understanding that the Organising Committee (OC) did undertake process and validate credentials of persons concerned. I assume they followed whatever process required," Hooper added.

When asked about whether the Commonwealth Games venues are ready, Hooper said, "Still a lot of work remains to be done in venues. A lot to be done with regard to the finishing works. Everyone needs to focus on their work and get it done. Athletes will be judge of the Games."

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OC officials visit CWG venues to check preparation

NEW DELHI: Commonwealth Games Organising Committeevice-chairmanRandhir Singh and secretary generalLalit Bhanot on Thursday visited a couple of CWG venues to take stock of the preparation.

Both visited the Siri Fort Sports Complex for Badminton and Squash disciplines and Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range at Tughlakabad.

The visits were undertaken to check the delay in the construction work at various stadia and ensure the presence of entire team of venue operations at the stadiums comprising of the various Functional Areas.

They had a small briefing session with the team present at the venue, consisting of - the venue owners, the OC staff as well as other agencies working at the venue and seemed satisfied with the facilities.

The vice-chairman and the secretary general stressed to various agencies present at the venues that there was no luxury of any delays now and that work assigned to them must be carried out within the given timelines.

The employees of the OC were told that now the delivery of the Games depended completely on their level of performance while executing the tasks assigned to them at the stadiums as this would determine how well the Games would be conducted.

The visits of both the OC officials commenced with the Talkatora Stadium for Boxing on August 10. The next venue reviewed was the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium for Hockey.

On August 11, OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi, along with Randhir and Bhanot carried out a vigorous inspection of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Complex which consisted of reviews of the Weightlifting venue, the Athletics venue as well as the Lawn Bowls venue.

The vice-chairman would be visiting other Stadia during the next few days to ensure that any issues requiring resolution are resolved at the earliest.
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Uproar in Lok Sabha over caste-based census

NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha was on Thursday adjourned till noon after opposition members created an uproar over caste enumeration expected to be done at the biometric phase of Census 2011, saying it was a time-buying tactic.

Samajwadi Party (SP)leaderMulayam Singh Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chiefLalu Prasad raised the issue in the house as members assembled for the Question Hour at 11 am.

They were objecting to the decision of a group of ministers headed by finance ministerPranab Mukherjee on caste enumeration expected to be done at the biometric phase of the ongoing population census.

"Are they fooling us," Mulayam Singh shouted as Lalu Prasad tried to explain that the biometric process will take "100 years and will still not be completed".

The enumeration of caste in India has been evoking polarising response even as the pressure of other backward castes (OBC) groups forced the ministerial panel's nod.

However, it has not been resolved at what stage of the census would this be done even as sources on Wednesday said the caste information could be recorded in the last stage of Census 2011 when biometric information will be gathered.

During this phase, biometric signs, including photographs, fingerprints and iris-mapping of citizens will be collected for the National Population Register (NPR) to create a multi-purpose unique identity card.

The first stage of the census - the household and family survey - is already over.

Janata Dal-United (JD-U) member Sharad Yadav also joined the protests, urging SpeakerMeira Kumar to allow the protesting members to speak over the matter and ask the government to explain its position.

The speaker urged them to let the Question Hour proceed and raise the issue in Zero Hour. However, the SP, RJD and JD-U members walked towards her podium, forcing her to adjourn the house till noon.

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Parliament, executive let down Bhopal victims: Chidambaram

NEW DELHI: The political establishment and executive let down the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy by allowing the judiciary to deal with its aftermath, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday.

"The elected political establishment let down the victims. What complicated the matter was the intervention of the
judiciary," Chidambaram said in a reply to a debate in the Rajya Sabha on the Bhopal gas tragedy.
At least 3,500 people were killed instantly and thousands more later after the deadly methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984.

Chidambaram pointed out that all the legal proceedings, distribution of compensation and issue of extradition of Union Carbide chiefWarren Anderson happened during tenures of multiple prime ministers and when parliament was very much in session.

"We are now in the sixteenth Lok Sabha. While today, I share the grief, pain and sorrow, I feel a deep sense of guilt that now in all the 26 years the executive and parliament have not exercised the vigil that they should have done," he said.

The home minister said that "the elected representatives thought they could hide behind the judiciary".
"This is another example where the parliament and executive ought not to abdicate its responsibility in favour of the judiciary. Let this be a lesson to all of us," said Chidambaram.

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Ensure distribution of food grains rather than let it rot: SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to ensure free distribution of food grains to the hungry poor of the country instead of allowing it to rot in the FCI godowns. "Give it to the hungry poor instead of it (grains) going down the drain," a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma said in an order.

The bench further asked the Centre to ensure construction of a big godown in each of the states besides separate godowns in different districts and divisions within the states.

The apex court also asked the government to ensure that fair price shops are kept open throughout the month.

The bench passed the direction while dealing with a PIL filed by the PUCL on the rampant corruption in public distribution system (PDS) besides rotting of food grains in FCI godowns even though thousands are going without food in the country.

At the last hearing, the apex court had asked the government to consider the suggestions for disbanding PDS supply to Above Poverty Line (APL) families and restrict the benefit only to BPL families and Antodya Anna Yojana (AAY) Scheme beneficiaries.

However, the Centre in an affidavit on Thursday said that it was extending the PDS supply to APL families only after meeting the requirements of the BPL/AAY beneficiaries.

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Walking the valley of death

                                                Tarun Vijay,              12 August 2010, 01:26 PM IST                                               

I just returned from Leh and thought I should share with you what I saw there.

It was the Indus valley we used to go to almost every year since 1996 when the festival of the Indus, the Sindhu Darshan, was conceived. It was the same valley we entered this year with sadness and disbelief writ large on our faces. Looked as if we were going to enter a valley of death and misery.

I was in Dehradun organizing the opening of my parliamentary office that the news of the Leh tragedy struck me. Sindhu made Leh my second home with a friend almost in every home and gompa. It was impossible not to visit the place but tickets were not available.

Somehow, Anuj, founding member of Sindhu Darshan and a long-time friend, managed and almost direct from Delhi's Nizamuddin station I reached the airport to catch a morning IC flight, praying it won't be cancelled on account of bad weather or something else. The plane was full of Army jawans and members of the media.

We spoke nothing. There was hardly anything that could have engaged us in a discussion. The silence was the only support. Silence born out of the fear of the unknown. Silence borne out of the fear of losing the known and the unknown. At 30,000 feet my mind was engrossed in Choglumsar, where in a guesthouse with Mr LK Advani we had first seen the Indus and the seed of a festival was sown that would change the economy of the area in coming years.

Choglumsar was the village worst hit -- almost everything got washed away, and houses were buried under the silt and the huge boulders the flash flood had brought with the speed of light.

Leh, at 11,500 feet and a rarefied oxygen level, requires visitors to take rest at least for the first 12 hours and a lot of liquid intake. That is a prescription for normal times. We just sped to the city, to see deputy commissioner Angchuk. He was a picture of anarchic disorder -- surrounded by people, taking calls from Delhi and Srinagar, giving hopes and notes of a positive situation. "Everything is under control, sir." He knew he didn't know what he was saying but what else could he have said to the armchair secretaries and politicians calling him ad nauseam?
I contacted Brigadier Kanitkar and Lt Gen SK Singh of the 14 Corps and then Brigadier Ajay Kumar, deputy general officer commanding of 3 Div, Trishul. They were all engrossed in relief work. It's another war, said Gen Singh. I agreed. The war against the inhuman fury of nature and the war to provide succor to the distressed. The Army appeared as a new god to the traumatized Ladakhis, whose memory failed to recollect if ever this kind of havoc had befallen them.

The first people to reach a dumbstruck Choglumsar, were Army jawans and RSS workers; the RSS was holding an annual camp nearby, so all the campers rushed to the site rescuing wailing and crying people. They organized help, informed Delhi's leaders, started a langar the next day and set up a fund -- Ladakh Disaster Relief Fund. But they were not alone. Almost everyone who was anyone began working without delay. The Ladakh Buddhist Association was a pioneer with Sikh, Christian and Muslim associations and Ladakh Mothers' Association.

The road to Choglumsar looked like a pathway to the valley of death and destruction. The bus station, Sonam Narboo Memorial Hospital, shops and houses near the ITBP headquarters, Kendriya Vidyalaya, State Bank's branch, everything was mangled as if a giant dinosaur had descended as an Extra-Terrestrial and chewed away in its jaws all that it saw. The road was hardly visible. Just the bulldozers and small trucks loaded with household things, some trunks, clothes dumped, gas cylinders, mattresses and kids clinging to their lucky-to-have-survived parents sitting on top of it.

The village was buried underneath. We walked up to the Army relief camp, where Brig Ajay was directing his men with digging instruments, medicines and food plates for the victims. At every step, we felt we are walking on the dead. The earth sank at each step; there was a home under us, a kitchen or a baithak, where people were in deep sleep when the flood flashed. Many of them couldn't get a second to run out. Silt came gushing in with huge boulders from the hill top which turned like deadly balls crushing houses and humans. The area is a tourist spot known the world over as Moon Land. Barren magical mountains reflecting a vibgyor spectrum, blue, black, violet, orange, brown, steel grey and dark chocolate. It's a land of rocks, mighty boulders, sand dunes and lyrical streams dotted with romantic lakes with the moon in a clear transparent sky as if it's a next-door neighbour.

Everything was dead now. The macabre dance of death was unimaginable. Lamas were joining the digging work, with foreigners who had come here as tourists from Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea and Israel, but offered to be volunteers in the rescue operations. Doctors from Delhi, Mumbai and Vadodara offered help and operated on patients in the 153 Army Hospital, said Colonel (Dr) Anurag Khanna, commanding officer of the hospital. Houses in Saboo and Choglumsar were either invisibly buried under earth or half-buried in silt, with household things, utensils on the rack, pictures hanging on the walls, thankas on the walls and the Dalai Lama's portraits clearly visible from broken window panes. Two women walked down to us like souls possessed. "Have you seen this?" they said, showing us pictures of their relatives. Sisters were searching brothers and mothers wailed for their lost children.

The entire area stank intolerably. The stink of the dead bodies buried under our feet. New channels of water had created fresh havoc with skeleton bridges made of wooden doors and poplar branches coming up where there had been homes a couple of hours back. Inside the half-buried houses or those which had their foundations washed away with just the upper part standing like a toy house hanging on a tree, had silt filled inside the rooms up to seven or eight feet. It will turn into stones soon, said Ajay, making it almost impossible to find the bodies buried in the moulds. It was a whole city turned into a burial ground.

Thupstan Chhewang, the firebrand youth leader of the eighties, who led the locals against a historic revolt against the communal oppression of Srinagar, looked a broken man. Nothing is working here, he said. "The J&K government doesn't treat us as equal citizens of the state. Our hospital doesn't have an x-ray machine, not even a morgue. The unidentified bodies are lying in the open, decomposing and spreading the stink in the city. Even when all was normal, postmortems were conducted in a garage. The government didn't give us even a CT-scan machine, which we managed from Tata Trust."

Dorjey, the chief executive officer of the Ladakh Hill Development Council, the local administrative unit, said: "We had applied for a Rs 83 crore flood relief scheme, offered by the Centre three years back, to the J&K government, as  it needed to reach Delhi through their recommendation. The minister in charge in Srinagar laughed it away saying, "Floods??? In Ladakh?? What do you need this money for?"

The Ladakhis had applied to the government for upgradation of their local hospital to a 200-bed one, under the government's National Health Mission scheme. The application is yet to be approved. An area of 48 thousand sq km, with a border with China and Pakistan stretching from Skardu and Baltistan (illegally occupied by Pakistan) to Aksai Chin (under illegal occupation of China), Ladakh has borne the first brunt of war since the 1950s, winning Mahavir Chakras and many more war-time decorations. The planners ignore all its demands to progress and infrastructure, looking at its population, a little more than 200,000.

But they don't understand that the area of this one "district" is more than Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. One revenue district often spreads out to an 80 sq km area with a road needed to join two localities (modhas or mohallas) as long as 45 kms! And because they do not pelt stones on Army jawans, stand in respect for the tricolour, and sing the national anthem in every school with pride and cries of "Bharat Mata ki Jai", they get political boots from the "secularists" in Delhi. Money is spent like water to divide the Buddhist society and political ravines created to weaken their voices. "They want us to become like Hurriyat and demand independence, and only then our basic demands will be met," said one local leader with bitterness.

It may take a year before Leh returns to some kind of a bruised normalcy. Memory of the missing people is bringing a sense of fear enveloped in trauma. Come October and winter will bring more misery; tents won't suffice. New houses can is built only next year when summer begins in March-April. Wrecked families and unfound bodies of the dear ones will be an emotional disaster.
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Saving a woman and her sweet, little baby

Life saved

And the soil embraced its elements

 Bodies kept for identification

The last remains

The pain is writ large on the face

A journey of some sort

Clearing the debris

A war of nerves

Distribution of sleeping bags by jawans

Finding a new desitination

Waiting rudderless at a chhorten (prayer wheel)

ITBP free langar

Muslim women hurrying up to reach a relief camp

With whatever retrieved, a  'home' in rucksack and suitcase, reaching the camp

Stony questions

Jawans helping a last journey

Helping hands in olive

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Once this was a home

Sil, and the silence

A bagful of memories

A trunk of history

Last-ditch efforts

With five feet of silt filling the room, utensils in

the shelf look untouched, may be someone is buried there

Petrol pump in a shambles

Thupstan Chhewang receiving a little medical help from Tarun Vijay

Brig Ajay Kumar of 3 Div (Trishul) supervising rescue work

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Relief camps in the foothills and a makeshift hospital

Casualty section of SNM Hospital turned into a casualty itself;

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Unidentified decomposing bodies in the garage of hospital

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Requesting tourists to register as volunteers,

members of Ladakh Buddhist Association

The man who directed helping hands of God,

Lt Gen SK Singh, corps commander, 14th Corps

Maj Chitra Mukherjee and Brig Datta explaining the condition of a

traumatized Ladakhi woman to the author.

Col Anurag Khanna is the chief of this Army hospital, which

proved a life saver for the victims

Pictures of admitted patients are flashed on computer

screen in Army hospital to help searching relatives

Finding the names of their dead on the list pasted by

authorities on the walls of hospital

A woman labourer from Chhattisgarh

Dorjey, the chief of local government, Ladakh autonomous Hill

Development Council, telling the bitter truth

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Unidentified bodies are kept in the open for identification

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