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TIMES NATION

* SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Purchase only made-in-India Trust issues: No divorce

for
Lolo
before
end
of
yr
gadgets: PMO to ministries
Swati.Deshpande
@timesgroup.com

Move Aims To
Boost Make In
India Drive

We are hopeful that

if this is implemented
in letter and spirit, it
will lead to creation
of an electronics
manufacturing hub in
India. We look forward
for a formal notification
from the government
in this matter

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The government

has issued strict guidelines to
all ministries asking them to
give preference to domestically manufactured electronic
products, a move aimed at
boosting electronics production as part of PM Narendra
Modis Make in India drive.
A committee of secretaries
has decided that all ministries
and departments should identify department-specific domestically manufactured electronic products for procurement and notify them within a
fortnight, a statement from the
PMO said on Saturday.
All government departments have been asked to adhere to a tender template al-

N K GOYAL
CHAIRMAN, TEMAI
ready issued by the department of electronics and information technology for procurement of electronic items.
The department of electronics and IT has also been
asked to put in place an online
monitoring system for reporting by ministries and departments and states on procurement of electronic products.
This system, to be operationalized in a fortnight, will

capture the break-up of domestically

manufactured
electronic equipment by value, the statement said.
Industry leaders cheered
the move. We are hopeful that
if this is implemented in letter and spirit, it will lead to
creation of an electronics
manufacturing hub in India.
We look forward for a formal
notification from the government in this matter, said N K

Goyal, chairman of Telecom

Equipment Manufacturing
Association of India.
Some experts said the decision should be followed
through to ensure that it is implemented. After seeing the
non-implementation of preferential market access, this is
a good decision by the government. It should have been taken long back. Now it needs to
be supported with statutory
provisions.
Wishfully,
it
should be extended to all the
purchases in India, whether
government or private, said
Ravi Sharma, chairman,
CMAI (Association of India
Communication Multimedia
and Infrastructure)
The Modi administration
has vowed to boost the manufacturing sector and aims to
take its share to 25% of the
economy from the current 15%.
It has drawn up an ambitious
Make in India campaign urging investors to set up manufacturing bases in the country.

Foreigners in Agra can Loan waivers have not

dial 100, summon a cop helped farmers: Rajan
Ishita.Mishra@timesgroup.com

Agra: For all the harried foreign tourists, with their litany of complaints against
cheating touts, hoteliers and
taxi drivers as they go to see
the Taj Mahal, heres some
good news. Foreign tourists
need no longer visit police stations in case of an accident or
some untoward incident.
A new rule that was introduced on Saturday says once
they complain at the control
room number, dialing 100,
cops themselves will come to
the victims, whether it is on
the road or their hotel room,
to take details on the spot and
address their grievance.
The new rule comes in
the wake of lax police response in a case reported on
Friday in which jewellery
worth several lakhs was stolen
from the cab of a foreign tourist from outside a hotel. The
victim, Di-Micelle from California, had claimed that she
had to run from pillar to post to

FEAR-FREE TOURISM

get a theft complaint lodged.

SSP Rajesh Modak Dinesh
Rao clarified that foreign
tourists, under the new rule,
will be provided full assistance in lodging the complaint
besides cops helping them
contact their families in case
they lost luggage or cash.
More importantly, only
one police official will contact tourists as they get nervous with several cops asking them similar questions,
the SSP added. Agra is a tourist hub. Thousands of foreign tourists come here every day. This is the responsibility of the police to assure
smooth journey of tourists in
the city, Rao said.

Udaipur (Rajasthan): Debt

waiver schemes of central
and state governments have
not benefited farmers as they
restricted credit flow subsequently, Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan said on Saturday.
Studies have shown that
debt waiver programmes
have been ineffective, constraining credit flow to farmers after their loans were
waived off, Rajan said at a
conference in Udaipur.
Concerned over farmers
suicides, arising partly out of
their inability to pay back
loans, Rajan said there was a
need to study if they were
caused by indebtedness or
other factors. He recalled
that waivers were declared for
farmers in Andhra Pradesh
after cyclone Phailin made
landfall in October 2013.
Referring to subsidies in
the agriculture sector, the
RBI governor said it would be
worth studying if they (subsidies) have actually helped
farmers. The concern is if

IN FOR THE LONG HAUL: Rajan

Short-term inflation
goals not our target

he RBI would focus on

medium-term inflation to
let the economy adjust to
changes rather than chasing
short-term inflationary goals,
its governor Raghuram Rajan
said on Saturday. Rajan
asserted that no country in
the world chased shortterm inflation targets ignoring domestic and
global developments. IANS

the benefit in the form of

cheap credit to agriculture
is being put to right use or
leading to over-indebtedness, Rajan added. IANS

Mumbai: Actress Karisma

Kapoor and her Delhi-based
businessman husband, Sunjay Kapur, are not to end the
year with closure of their
decade-old marriage after all.
The couple, who filed a mutual consent divorce petition
in the Mumbai family court,
disagreed on some issues at
their final hearing a few days
ago. The two were packed off
by the judge to work out a settlement by February.
The celebrity couple
were present in court along
with their lawyers before
principal judge Laxmi Rao
on what was meant to be
their date to get the decree
just before Christmas and in
time to bring in the New
Year with, perhaps, new
partners but both failed to
agree to the terms of a trust
being set up for the welfare
of their two minor children,
a nine-year-old daughter
and a much younger son.
Karisma is represented
by lawyer Kranti Sathe, while
Sunjay had two top lawyers
coming in from Delhi. Karisma wanted to have more say
and control over the trust
than she was getting and Sunjay was unwilling to let go of
his control, it has been learnt.

A few days ago in a family court, the couple

failed to agree on the terms of a trust being set
up for their kids. When both sides got loud, the
judge directed them to come back with a final,
amicably worked out settlement, in February
Karisma, who resides in
Oberoi Crest in Khar, and
Sunjay, a resident of Chanakyapuri in Delhi, had converted the custody petition
into a mutual consent divorce petition in June. All
formalities over, they were in
court to get the divorce, but
left discontented instead.
When both sides got loud
in the court, the judge put
her foot down. She directed
them to come back with a final settlement, after working it out amicably outside
the court, or withdraw their
joint petition for divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act.
Once a mutual consent

plea is filed, there is a six

month cooling off period to
give time to both sides for a
rethink, at the end of which
if they still want to split, divorce is granted. They also
have up to another year to
work on their decision to
take divorce by consent.
Sunjay was the first to
move the Bandra family court
on May 31. He filed a custody
petition for the children, saying Karisma was seeing
someone else. Karismas alleged love interest, pharma
company honcho Sandeep
Toshniwal, has his divorce
plea pending in the same
court before another judge.

Diggy wants
Rahul to take
over Cong
reins full time
Bhopal: With Congress reeling under a
string of poll
defeats, its senior member
Digvijaya Singh on Saturday said party
vice-president Digvijaya Singh
Rahul Gandhi
should assume full-time
leadership of the AICC.
All Congressmen today
want Rahul Gandhi to take
over full-time leadership of
the All India Congress Committee, the party general secretary said in Bhopal, unfazed
by Congress having distanced
itself from a similar suggestion made by him last month in
which the party described it
as his personal view.
Singh, however, said Congress president Sonia Gandhi
will continue to remain our
leader. Under her leadership Congress has achieved
miraculous success.
From just two states at
one point of time, the party
went on to form government
in 14 states. Also, Congress
stormed to power at the
Centre in 2004 and again
won elections in 2009, Singh
said. But now the time has
come for Rahul to take charge
of the party, he said. PTI

NIA, CBI join forces to track

Saradha-JMB Ponzi cash link
Saibal.Gupta@timesgroup.com

Kolkata: In a significant development in the Saradha

scam probe, the NIA and the
CBI will now jointly investigate the possibility of a Ponzi
cash link with the Burdwan
blast and the Jamaatul-Mujahideen Bangladesh module.
Sources say top officials of
both central agencies met in
Delhi on December 18 and decided to continue the probe in
a coordinated manner and share information. This comes
just weeks after Union minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh told the Lok Sabha
in a written reply that investigators had so far not found any
proof of Saradha links with

NEW LEADS
About `75 crore changed
hands between JMB and
some Bengal politicians

2 new cases lodged

against Sudipta Sen

NIA probing transactions

of a TMC MP and a former
TMC leader who allegedly
helped in money transfers

he CBI has registered two

fresh cases against
Saradha boss Sudipta Sen in
connection with alleged cheating of investors in Assam by
his firm. The case was filed on
Friday. On the same day, central agencies began tracing
more than Rs 50 crore Sen had
allegedly parked with his immediate family before he fled
Kolkata in April last year. TNN

the Khagragarh blast. Central

investigators have agreed that
while NIA will continue probing into the terror aspect of the
JMB blast, the CBI which is

conducting the Saradha probe

will try to ascertain if illegal proceeds were used to fund
cross-border terror cells.
When asked about the rea-

Money was transferred

to Bangladesh banks and
routed back through NGOs
Shakil Ahmed, who died
in Burdwan blast, moved
money 18 times in 3 years

son for this change of strategy,

a senior NIA officer said, During interrogation, some information has come up that shows
a huge amount of money was
transferred to various banks in
Bangladesh. We need to identify the money trail that played
an important role in the blast.
During the interrogation
of JMB operative Sahanur
Alom and Myanmarese Adbul Kahled, NIA sleuths realized that the amount of money transferred to Bangladesh
is much higher that thought.
Meanwhile, the SSKM
Hospital discharged transport minister Madan Mitra
on Saturday, which means the
TMC member will ring in
the New Year behind bars.