Murder for gain - Jewellery

An 83-year-old woman, C.Saroja was found bludgeoned at her residence in Arani, about 50 km from Chennai on Monday (February 10, 2014) . Her gold chain and gold bangles were missing. It appears the assailants were known to the victim.

Oct: 2011 - 60-year-old woman found dead in her Kodambakkam apartment, jewellery and cash missing.

Dec 2, 2012 -  A 72-year-old man and his wife (60) were found dead with injury on their bodies -gold missing.

June 16, 2013 - 70-year-old woman strangled in her house in Mogappair -gold , diamond jewellery stolen.

Where is the Tamil society moving? Old people seem to have no protection from the thieves and killers for gold jewellery. State government and the police officials have to sit up and do some home work seriously so that we don't kill elders for the sake of money by some members in our midst.

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The BJP's win in U.P

The BJP seems to have succeeded in evolving a grand Hindu coalition , while the Muslim vote by and large went to non-BJP parties.

The BJP won 71 seats and its ally Apna Dal (AD) won two seats: Mirzapur and Pratapgarh. Thus the BJP-AD combine won 73 out of 80 seats, completely decimating all their opponents. The Congress barely retained the seats of its president Sonia Gandhi and Vice-president Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli and Amethi respectively. The Samajwadi Party  only five seats which were contested by Mulayam Singh Yadav's family whereas the Bahujan Samaj Party and other parties could not open their accounts.

The electoral strategy adopted by Gujarat Chief Minister Mr Narendra Modi and his well-wisher Mr Amit Shah supported by RSS workers at the grass roots worked wonders and catapulted the situation prevalent till 2014 Elections. Congress was routed and the prestige of Rajiv Gandhi's wife and son was somehow saved, thanks to the loyal and dedicated workers of the party. BSP was also taught a lesson and its hollow claims and expectations from the state voters got exposed very badly. Similarly the SP too scratched through with a few seats mostly honouring the family pride. 

Caste and religious calculations have been thrown to winds and found wanting in their ultimate analysis. These considerations have at last lost their potential eminence and effective relevance in electing their representatives to the Lok Sabha.

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Urban India

Urban India is stinking at most of the places where the citizens are forced to survive under the weight of garbage and sewage. A terrible situation indeed! 

Can a Modi-led Government be expected to do something in this regard?   

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Water crisis to the farmers

Farmers buy water to save paddy crop in Ramanathapuram district: (Hindu, Feb 6, 2014)

Let down by monsoons, a small group of farmers is waging a battle to save the paddy crop by buying water through hiring of tankers.

Drought for two years consecutively. Both South-west Monsoon and North-east Monsoon failed this year too.

Natural disaster!!

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Scientific innovations

In a world first, British Airways is planning to use garbage to power its flights in an ambitious project which aims to convert municipal waste into 50000 metric tonnes of jet fuel per year by 2017.

Similarly mathematicians at Emory University and the University of Queensland have found a framework for the celebrated Rogers-Ramanujan identities and their arithmetic properties, solving another long-standing mystery stemming from the work of Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.

A Swedish startup has created a device that allows you to swipe your hand instead of using credit cards for payments.

A good news

The global economic balance seems to be tilting towards the developing countries. India has overtaken Japan to emerge as the third largest economy in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, after the US and China, latest data released by the World Bank showed.

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Thefts on a large scale.

Underreporting of thefts in Raipur City of Chhattisgarh state has come to light. In the month of April, 2014 alone about 269 cases of theft were reported in 20 police stations but FIRs were registered only in 95 cases.

 This is just to give an impression that crime situation is under control. A similar situation prevails in Tamil Nadu where theft, snatching and burglary for gold jewellery is a daily occurrence as being reported in newspapers. 

The state police should take effective steps to curb this trend and ensure the safety and security of its citizens and their properties.

 ( Naiduniya  Raipur, May 2, 2014)

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Careless Administration

Careless Administration 

Rains on May 6 (2014) evening have drenched the purchased paddy lying in the procurement centres/societies and the collection centres scattered all over the state of Chhattisgarh  once again. About 2,10,000 metric tonnes of paddy are lying on the open grounds of societies whereas 36 lakh tonnes are lying in the collection centres of Marketing Federation. Owing to the slow lifting of paddy by the millers, the paddy kept on the floors of societies are getting wet again and again due to rains. 

Chhattisgarh state is more than 13 years old. I remember to have allotted parcels of land in several places of the state in 2001-2002 as the Managing Director of CSIDC (Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation) from out of the open plots available in the industrial estates/areas to the State Warehousing Corporation (CGSWC) for construction of godowns on certain terms and conditions at the time of Mr C.S.Khaitan as its M.D. There were little skirmishes initially with regard to the manner of selecting sites for construction in those centres keeping in view the conditions for claiming subsidy from central agency. I am not now aware of the contribution of the CGSWC towards the creation and maintenance of a network of godowns in the state for the usage by MARKFED for storing the procured paddy. It has in fact become an annual feature to procure paddy on a large scale and do milling for central pool. Under these circumstances the state should have taken care and built covered spaces keeping in view its requirement during the procurement period and avoided the paddy getting drenched and damaged year after year. A stable government under the same leadership for more than ten years at a stretch could have devoted a little time towards this burning issue of the state as it has done and earned accolades in other sectors in recent times.

Better late than never. Action awaited as early as possible.

(May 7, 2014)

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