New Delhi NCR  : According to officials, at least five girls from the Sonitpur district of Assam have been rescued from alleged human traffickers in various parts of Delhi-NCR.

 Ranchi : Nationwide protests against the government's decision to designate Parasnath Hill in the Jharkhand district of Giridih as a tourist destination are being held by members of the Jain community.

 Chennai : After Cyclone "Mandous" passed through Tamil Nadu, there was nonstop rain that nearly filled all the reservoirs and lakes in the Ranipet district.

 Sihect Media Group's office inaugurated in Mumbai.

 Deshratna Dr. Rajendra Prasad Smriti Samman" will be given to 35 personalities.

New Delhi, Dec 10 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the "heavy BJP machinery" deployed during campaigning made the MCD polls the toughest election contested by the Aam Aadmi Party so far and accused the party of trying to "buy" AAP councillors.

Addressing the newly elected councillors, Kejriwal claimed that the BJP has started telephoning the AAP councillors and offering them up to Rs 20 lakh.

"This election was very very tough. A few people say it was an easy election, but it was not. The way they conspired against us and the way they used state machinery against us, it was the toughest elections we ever contested," Kejriwal claimed.

 The continuous attack on access to education of minorities shows the callous attitude of the present government, whose hollow rhetoric of 'sabka sath, sabka vikas' has been unmasked in the broad daylight. The rollback of pre-matric scholarship and Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) shows the state's blatant disregard for educational equity and washing its hands of key domains such as education. There's an urgent need for condemnation and mobilization of conscientious citizens against this onslaught on education and the dignity of minorities.

Fawaz Shaheen

National Secretary

Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO)

Masahati survey conducting in Abujhmad area

Survey of 110 villages of Narayanpur district completed

Survey conducted for the first time after independence

More than 7 thousand 7 hundred farmers get Masahati Pattas

About 2200 farmers to sell paddy for the first time on support price

 TNINS 

The area of Abujhmad is spread over about 4 thousand square kilometers which covers the areas of Narayanpur, Bijapur, and Dantewada. Mostly these areas are surrounded by mountains and dense forests and tribal families reside in these areas. This area has been isolated for a long time. The survey of the land was not carried out since independence, due to which the tribal farmers living here faced many problems. On the initiative of Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel, the state government took an important decision to conduct a ‘Masahati Survey’ considering the problems of the farmers of the Abujhmad area.

Survey to be conducted for 275 villages of Abujhmad

There are more than 275 villages in the Naxalite-affected area of Abujhmad where the process of the survey was not done yet. These are mostly located in the Narayanpur, Bijapur, and Dantewada districts of the Bastar division. The state government does not have any records of these villages in this context. It was decided by the Council of Ministers that more than 50 thousand people living in these villages of the Abujhmad area will be provided with the khasra and map of the land held in their possession. Due to this, the official record of the land in their possession will be available to the farmer families and they will be able to transfer the land in their possession. In this way, about 10 thousand farmers will get ownership of more than 50 thousand hectares of land under the Abujhmad area.

Survey to be conducted for 246 villages in Narayanpur

Following the decision of the Council of Ministers taken on 27 August 2019, 246 villages were notified for the ‘Masahati survey’ of the Narayanpur district by the Revenue Department of Chhattisgarh. These villages include 237 villages of the entire Orchha development block and 9 villages of the Narayanpur development block. Till now survey of 110 villages of Narayanpur district has been conducted successfully, which includes the 9 villages of Narayanpur development block and 101 villages of Orchha development block. So far, Masahati Khasra has been distributed to more than 7 thousand 7 hundred people.

Farmers getting ownership rights

In the Abujhmad area, many farmers had been cultivating the land occupied by them within the forest areas for so many years, but due to a lack of land survey, they did not have any land-related documents. Neither they could take advantage of any government scheme nor could they get loans from banks for farming. Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel takes the initiative to conduct the survey in the Abujhmad area of Narayanpur district and farmers were given masahati pattas. This has given land ownership rights to the farmers.

More than 2000 farmers will sell paddy for the first time

Masahati patta has been distributed to many farmers after the survey conducted by the district administration of Narayanpur district under the Abujhmad area. In the current Kharif season, 2 thousand 193 farmers of Abujhmad will sell paddy for the first time after getting Masahati Khasra. Paddy is being procured from such farmers at the support price by the government based on the masahati survey. With this, farmers have started getting government schemes as well as other benefits. Under this, 35 farmers have been given solar dual pumps worth Rs.112.35 lakh, which will provide irrigation benefits to 87 acres of agricultural land. Along with this, Rs 127.97 lakh through a KCC loan, 1700 horticulture tool kits, and mini kits for the seed have also been distributed in 493 cases. Similarly, caste certificates have been provided to 2731 beneficiaries, and domicile certificates to 1573. Along with this, 11370 kg of paddy, 536 kg of lentils, and 470 kg of mustard seeds have been distributed to these farmers.

Pappu Potai sold paddy for the first time at a support price

Mr. Pappu Potai, a farmer of village Kadandi under Narayanpur district, has been given Masahati Khasra of about three and a half acres of land and now they have the ownership rights of the land. Pappu Potai, a young tribal farmer of village Kandadi, who sells paddy at the paddy procurement center after obtaining Masahati patta, told that he cultivated paddy this time on about 3.5 acres of land. He sold about 32 quintals of paddy. He told that in the previous years also he had cultivated paddy, but due to a lack of government documents, he was not able to sell paddy at the support price. In compulsion, he had to sell his crops to the middlemen at half the price. After the Masahati survey, he has been provided help for land leveling and construction of dubris. Farmer Pappu Potai said that due to the opening of the paddy procurement center near his village, the farmers of the surrounding areas are getting a lot of conveniences. He told that under MNREGA, along with the work of ‘Dubris’ construction and land leveling of fields, fertilizers and seeds have also been provided. He wants to use the amount received from the sale of paddy for fencing the field and bore on the field so that he can grow different crops for the coming seasons.

 Chennai : The RRPR Holding Private Ltd. of the Adani Group has been invited to propose two Directors to the board of New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV), and the proposal has been approved by the latter's Board.

 Impact of Gujarat election result on upcoming Lok Sabha and economy: Kedia

Usha Pathak / Navesh Kumar.

New Delhi, 8 Dec, 2022. Eminent economist and Chartered Accountant by profession GK Kedia today said that the return of BJP in Gujarat is positive for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and the ongoing efforts to bring the economy back on track.

Shri Kedia said this while reacting to the return of BJP in Gujarat, overturning of power in Himachal Pradesh and MCD election results.

The return of the BJP in Gujarat would give a positive boost to the ongoing efforts to bring the economy back on track along with the benefits of the party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, he said .

Shri Kedia said that as far as Himachal Pradesh is concerned, there has been a change of government in every election. This time Congress has got the mandate. This will have a negative impact on the pace of development, as there will be different party governments at the center and in the state. In this situation, Congress will not be able to do anything good. 

As far as AAP coming to MCD is concerned, the biggest problem here is cleanliness and basic amenities of the citizens. This has to be addressed as it is very important. L.S.

Write to Diya Mali

 AAP's victory in MCD elections, BJP on second number.

 Hyderabad (The Hawk): The Hyderabad University was shaken by student protests on Saturday after a professor allegedly tried to sexually attack a foreign student.

 Sultan S. Qureshi

 The First Regional Workshop on Developing Sustainable & Responsible Tourism was held on 29.11.22 at #Khajuraho with an active participation from States/UT Industry, and Community Stakeholders representing the Central and Western region of India.

 New Delhi : Pinky Irani, a close associate of imprisoned conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar, was taken into custody by the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in connection with the Rs 200 crore extortion case.

 New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) The Delhi High Court has restrained sharing and posting of a "sexually explicit" video of a judicial officer and a woman that surfaced on November 29 and was circulated on social media platforms, saying its circulation would cause irreparable harm to the privacy rights of the plaintiff.

 According to Satish Poonia, state BJP chief, the yatra shall cover 75,000 km on 200 chariots in 200 assemblies and the party has also launched the theme song of Jan Aakrosh Yatra.