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Maoist violence may be spinning out of control
New Delhi, March 7 - A surge in Maoist violence that killed nearly 750 people, including 520 civilians, in India last year threatens to explode with the brazen killing of Sunil Mahto, MP, during Holi festivities, demonstrating again that the ultra-left radicals have the ability and resources to attack at will.
This has been this year's first high-profile attack by Naxalites, or Indian Maoists. The security establishment insists the Maoist movement has consolidated itself and the Maoists hold sway over wide underdeveloped areas across the centre, east and south of the country, forming a strategic geographical corridor.
To substantiate their point, intelligence officials cite the instance of the killing of a Congress leader in Andhra Pradesh Monday by Maoists as he inspected a road construction project in Mahabubnagar district.
'It seemed like a coordinated attack,' one senior official told IANS. Prakash, a member of the Mandal Praja Parishad -, was shot in Marikal, about 150 km south of Hyderabad.
'It is obvious that there is coordination, especially after the merger of People's War Group - and Maoist Communist Centre some years back' to set up the Communist Party of India-Maoist, the official added.
Also the fact that the ninth congress of the CPI-Maoist met in an undisclosed forest area in Jharkhand less than a month ago would have helped the Maoists to close ranks and firm up their line of attack, the sources said.
At the end of January, there were 121 Maoist attacks across India with 27 civilians and 10 security personnel killed. And, like the previous year, both Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand bore the brunt of violence. Last year the two states alone accounted for a whopping 1,025 of the 1,509 attacks that left 512 civilians and security personnel killed.
That Jharkhand has been a perfect breeding ground for Left extremism is evidenced by the fact that almost 16 of the state's 22 districts have been hit by Maoist violence. These include landmine attacks, one of which killed 13 police personnel three months ago, the assault on a Central Reserve Police Force camp and the raid on a prison.
Although an Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Home Minister Shivraj Patil promises to evolve strategies to deal with what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describes as the country's 'biggest internal security challenge', the rebellion continues to engulf huge swathes of the country's centre, east and south.
Just this year, the government deployed 33 paramilitary battalions on anti-Naxalite duty and sanctioned a further 29 India Reserve - battalions, besides setting aside Rs.3.71 billion under the police modernization scheme for weaponry, telecommunication equipment and other infrastructure.
Acknowledging that poverty in Maoist strongholds was still a serious problem, the government also sanctioned Rs.24.75 billion under the Backward Districts Initiative - to fill in critical gaps in physical and social development in affected states.
However, officials in the tribal affairs ministry admit that distribution of development funds still remains a challenge because the delivery system is corruption prone with earmarked monies not reaching the intended beneficiaries. Similarly, Maoist-affected states like Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar have some of the country's lowest ratios of police to population.
Despite the money allocated for police modernisation and expansion, many states have simply been unable to fill up vacancies in police stations despite five rounds of meeting of chief secretaries and directors general of police last year.
Counter-insurgency officials say that unless the government - including concerned state governments - redoubles its energies to contain the Maoist extremism, which currently affects 172 of the country's 602 districts, the crisis can only escalate.
http://www.rxpgnews.com/india/Maoist-violence-may-be-spinning-out-of-control_18335.shtml
7 DRDAS OF JHARKHAND GET CENTRAL ASSISTANCE UNDER SGSY
The Ministry of Rural Development has released grants-in-aid of Rs.3.05 crore to the 7 DRDAs in Jharkhand towards the second instalment of Central share of funds under the `Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana' (SGSY) during the year 2006-07.
The amount should be utilized on the Programme as per approved guidelines of SGSY. The funding pattern will be 75:25 by the Centre and the State.
The State Govts/DRDAs/ZPs are also to ensure to submit the report of State and District Levels Vigilance & Monitoring Committee meeting held during current year by March 31, 2007, otherwise Ist instalment during the next year will be held up.
The State Government should release its share within one month of the date of release of the Central assistance.
Under SGSY, assistance is given to the poor family living below the poverty line for taking up self-employment. It actively promotes group approach by organising the rural poor into Self-Help Groups.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=25502
Education helps overcome caste system
Bihar, in eastern India, is known as the most impoverished state in the country.
In its capital, Patna, bland-colored buildings stand in rows as stray dogs and pigs eat garbage on the streets. But in one house with a galvanized-iron roof that had a wall missing, there was an air of feverish excitement.
"We have great expectations of you," Anand Kumar, 33, told 30 young people in front of him. They were scholarship students selected from several hundred. The house was a prep school for those hoping to enroll in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the country's most competitive college.
But this prep school was different from other prep schools. All of the people there, including the students and Kumar, who is the principal, are from lower castes - a target of discrimination in Hindu society.
The Hindu caste system began around the 13th century B.C. The top three castes are Brahmins (priesthood), Kshatriya (governing and warrior) and Vaishya (commercial and agricultural). Lower castes include Shudra (artisan and laborer) and other "backward" classes. They are followed by outcasts such as scheduled castes (former "untouchables") and scheduled tribes including mountain tribes.
According to a government report released in October, 70 percent of India's population belongs to lower castes.
After its independence, the Constitution of India banned discrimination based on the caste hierarchy. Nonetheless, the system is still deep-rooted in Indian society. Discrimination often emerges during the turning points of one's life such as marriage and finding a job.
For those in lower castes, higher education is one of the few tickets to success.
The quality of India's higher education is considered very high compared with international standards. Only 5,000 out of 300,000 applicants can pass entrance examinations at seven IITs around the country.
Originally, the schools had been founded with support from the United States to train elites in science-related fields. The graduates today are virtually assured of getting jobs at leading companies. Banks offer student loans free of interest.
Those benefits intensify competition to pass the entrance examination.
Students from well-to-do families often have an advantage because their parents can afford to hire private tutors or use other methods.
"My mission is to send as many students as possible from lower castes to IITs and change society," Kumar said.
In a bid to support the lower castes, the Indian government has adopted a reservation quota policy in granting admissions to state-run universities and in hiring government employees.
The government has reserved 22.5 percent of enrollment at national universities for students from scheduled castes and tribes. In April, the government announced a plan to allocate another 27 percent of enrollment to students from backward classes. If the policy is implemented, about half of the entire enrollment would be reserved.
Priyansha Kusur, the eldest son of Krishna Kusur, a 45-year-old clock repairman in Patna, attracted public attention last spring for passing the IIT entrance examination after studying at Kumar's prep school.
"After my brother passed the entrance exam, I saw that you can change your life through your ability, regardless of caste," said his sister, Preeti Kusur, 15.
Preeti said she hopes to become a doctor in the future.
Some students have begun to protest the government's preferential policy for lower castes. Although the policy was intended to tear down social discrimination by caste, they say it is reverse discrimination.
"A person who can run the 100-meter race shouldn't be given the benefit of starting the 100-meter race from a distance of 50 meters. This is making a mockery of ourselves," said Anirudh Lochan, a 25-year-old medical student at Delhi University in New Delhi.
Students at state-run universities in major cities protested the government's announcement in April to expand the quota for lower-caste students. They clashed with police, causing a riot.
Medical school students, many of whom belong to wealthy higher castes, were some of the most vocal protesters.
Lochan, who organized a rally, came from top Brahmins.
"We keep ignoring the fact that the main discrimination isn't social - it's economic. ... Here, if you have money in your pocket, you get admission, regardless of your caste," Lochan said.
Meanwhile, the government policy is supported by Hari Pippal, 58, who is from a scheduled caste (Dalit), but runs Heritage Hospital with 150 beds in Agra, a city known for the Taj Mahal, which is registered as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.
Pippal said it is a fact that people who claim to be from a higher caste often look down on lower castes, even if they are so poor that they have to beg for money. He believes that Dalit need to work much harder than higher-caste people to succeed in Indian society. Some preferential policies should be allowed, Pippal said.
He pointed to the names of 45 doctors listed at his hospital's reception. Their castes could be guessed based on their family names. Pippal said that 80 percent of the doctors there were from higher castes.
Pippal started the hospital after succeeding in many other businesses beginning with a shoe shop. He said he remembers his shock when he heard a doctor say that his hospital salary was good, but he did not want to work under Chamar (a lower caste for people in the leather business).
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/16843692.htm
Job guarantee scheme extended to help distressed farmers
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREG) has been extended to 15 districts that have witnessed a number of suicides by debt-ridden farmers, parliament was informed Wednesday.
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in 2005 and implemented it last year in 200 districts throughout the country, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh informed the Lok Sabha.
This year 113 districts were added to the list, announced already in the union budget. The law provides for extending the scheme to the entire country within five years.
Besides this, 50 districts under the category of `backward regions grant fund' have also been included in this scheme. Another 34 districts selected for their backwardness by the Planning Commission have also been included.
The additions include six districts of Andhra Pradesh, two of Arunachal Pradesh, 15 from Bihar, four from Chhattisgarh and three from Gujarat. Haryana has two districts in the list, Himachal Pradesh two, Jammu and Kashmir two, Jharkhand two, Karnataka six, Kerala two, Madhya Pradesh 13, Maharashtra six, Manipur two, Mizoram two, Nagaland four, Orissa five, Punjab three, Rajasthan six, Sikkim two, Tripura two, Tamil Nadu four, Uttarakhand two and West Bengal seven.
The NREGA, 2005 guarantees at least 100 days of wage employment in every financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
The minister said 16.6 million rural households have been provided employment up to January, 2007. During 2006-07 (up to January), a total of 279,000 tangible socio-economic assets have been created under NREGA.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/news/article_1274178.php/Job_guarantee _scheme_extended_to_help_distressed_farmers
Bihar agricultural sector on downslide, services up
Patna, March 7 (PTI): Despite agriculture being the mainstay of Bihar's economy, it has grown by just 3.5 to 4.5 per cent since 2000-01, while manufacturing and industry witnessed a decline from 6.59 per cent in 2000-01 to 4.17 per cent in 2004-05, but the services sector posted a consistently high growth rate between 6.5 and 7.5 per cent.
The share of agriculture in the state's economy has fallen from 48.8 per cent from 1993-94 to 42 per cent in 2004-05, that of manufacturing sector remained unaltered at nine per cent and services registered a handsome growth from 41.3 to 49 per cent, according to the economic survey 2006-07 presented in the Bihar Assembly on Tuesday by Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.
The survey, the first presented in the Bihar legislature, said the total flood-prone area in the state was 73.06 per cent of its geographical area and 17.2 per cent of the total flood-prone area in the country.
Identifying recurrent floods as a major roadblock in agricultural development, it suggested construction of dams in upper catchment areas of Kosi, Gandak, Bagmati and Mahanananda rivers to fight the menance in the long run. In the short term it suggested construction and maintenance of embankments along the rivers.
Stating that tubewells accounted for 63 per cent of created irrigation capacity in the state, the survey said a very high dependence on irrigation by tubewells and operation of diesel tubewells due to lack of power infrastructure in rural areas translated into high cost and inefficient irrigation.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/015200703070322.htm
Holding on to Melbourne memories, she waits for her media dream
Keonjhar (Orissa), March 7 (IANS) Last March she was interviewing Queen Elizabeth and Australian Prime Minister John Howard in far away Melbourne. But 15-year-old Lipika's dreams of becoming a journalist may not materialize as her family struggles for survival and her father even contemplates getting her married so there is one mouth less to feed.
Lipika Moharana from Gurundijodi village, 60 km from the district headquarters of Keonjhar, got a glimpse of the world on the other side of the poverty line when she crossed hemispheres to represent India as one of the three youngest journalists at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, last year.
But it was back to reality after that for the Class 10 student in the government high school at Saharpada, who had been chosen by the NGO Centre For Youth And Social Development through a test.
She was in Melbourne for the 2006 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony on March 15 and came home two weeks later to grinding poverty with her landless labourer father working desperately to keep her and her younger brother in school and giving them two meals a day.
Journalism seems very far away.
"It was a fairy tale," Lipika said of her days in Australia when she interviewed many eminent personalities, including other journalists, entrepreneurs and sportspersons.
"I also attended an International Child Reporter seminar in Melbourne. There were reporters from Pakistan and Ghana as well. But I can only dream now," she added wistfully, her photographs and her participation certificate her dearest possessions.
For father Pradipta Kumar Moharana, a casual farm labourer, it's a hard reality to live with. His hut housing his family of four is in desperate need of repair but he just doesn't have the money.
"If I continue this way, I may not be able to fulfil my daughter's dream. I am helpless," Moharana told IANS.
Though he doesn't have to pay tuition fees for Lipika - it is free for girls - he does have to buy more books and study material with the Class 10 board examination this year. His son, in Class 8, too has his needs.
If the situation continues this way, he might just get her married to lessen the burden. "Although I want to see my daughter at the top like every father, I may have no option."
The family has applied to the district administration for a BPL (below poverty line) card that will entitle them to subsidised rations but that has yet to materialise.
The local administration says the matter has not come to its notice.
"I have not come across this problem. I will look into the matter," said local block development officer Akhaya Kumar Mohanty.
Till he does, a young girl waits, her dreams of becoming a journalist and getting her family out of the poverty rut put on hold.
http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/march/07/features/holding_on_to_ melbourne_memories_she_waits_for_her_media_dream.html
26 brick kiln labourers rescued
BANGALORE: The Department of Labour, accompanied by the revenue authorities, the police and non-governmental organisations, on Tuesday rescued 26 migrant labourers from Orissa who were working under inhuman conditions at a brick kiln in Hosahodya village of Kolar district, 80 km from here.
The department officials found that the labourers were paid around Rs. 3,000 each as advance payment. The labourers, including four children aged between 6 and 17, were not given proper shelter or water, and were beaten and kept locked during their free time.
All the labourers are from Barapudugia and Ambapali villages of Balangir district, and Brahamanipali village of Puintala district in Orissa.
The raid was conducted following a report by Action Aid, a non-governmental organisation, on the harassment suffered by Debara Bharasagar, a resident of Brahamanipali who ran away from the kiln.
A team of the Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA) and South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring visited the site and alerted the Labour department.
A department team led by Deputy Labour Commissioner (Region-2), Bangalore, Vasantkumar N. Hittanagi, raided the place, and rescued the labourers.
The owner of the kiln Chennappagowda is absconding.
The labourers said they had come to the kiln hoping that they would get good money to tackle poverty in their villages. They were sent to Bangalore by Kalakanhu Bariha, a "sardar," six months ago.
They were earning Rs. 200 a day for making 20,000 bricks and this sum was deducted from the advance amount. Once a week, the owner gave them Rs. 200 to buy foodgrains.
The labourers complained that the kiln owner beat both men and women with rods and made them work for long hours.
Drinking water was given once a week. No water was provided for bath or washing purposes, they said.
http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/07/stories/2007030716500100.htm
Between Marx and market
UPA's Communist allies are throwing a spanner in the works of economic reforms and the liberalisation regime
The UPA Government was all waiting for self-congratulation in the Budget when rising inflation burst the bubble of nine per cent growth. In the process, the Government's cleft foot has been exposed. Near seven per cent inflation in wholesale prices with over 10 per cent inflation in several parts of the country mocks at the claim that for two successive years of the UPA regime, growth has been nine per cent plus with a double-digit growth aimed for the coming financial year.
Since November 2006, the UPA Government has been on a fire-fighting mode with many classical anti-inflationary steps. The Reserve Bank has been raising its interest rate so much that it is now almost 7.5 per cent. The central bank has also raised the CRR and has mandated several other steps. But the inflation rate has moved up from four per cent to 6.58 per cent. It has been steadily climbing despite these steps to douse the demand flame and reduce money supply.
The origin of this runaway inflation is not in the bloating money supply or demand push. If it were so, the bank rate increase would have taken care of it. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being an economist should have known that with so many populous policies that his Government has launched after coming to power in 2004, there would be an inflation if the process of economic reforms were not pursued to its logical end.
For instance, the Government could have easily mopped up funds from the market through speedy disinvestment process of PSUs. But the Congress's allies did not allow even partial disinvestment or sale of the five to 10 per cent of equities it held in these PSUs. Not a single PSU - not even a loss-making one - was sold. The Left forced Mr Manmohan Singh to withhold the partial disinvestment in PSUs like BHEL, which he had announced. Another ally, the DMK, threatened to quit the Government when the Prime Minister announced the partial sale of holding in Neyveli lignite mines and related power stations. The bank unions, with Left support, have stymied the Government proposals for raising funds through partial sale of equities in PSU banks.
Several newspapers have quoted official sources as expressing concern on revenue deficit in the next fiscal mainly due to plan expenditures that are "populist, susceptible to political pressures and sweeping in terms of the claims of potential benefits to millions of people". This again adds to the mismanagement of the economy. One telling instance is that the Planning Commission wants to restrict further expansion of the NREG programme to only 50 districts, while the Rural Development Ministry wants it to extend to 200 districts.
In other words, the Planning Commission is saying that the projected benefits from NREG - billed as the Congress president's pet scheme - are more imaginary than real. The plan expenditure is expected to be 15 per cent higher in the coming financial year, most of it on the so-called social schemes. The education cess is going to be raised by one per cent mainly because of the haste shown in extending reservations to OBCs and religious groups, thanks to the UPA's vote-bank politics. This is like shooting one's own foot as the inflationary impact would decelerate growth.
At every step the UPA Government has to succumb to the undue demands made by the Communist allies. Even within the Congress, backbiting has been going on for long. What other explanation could be there for the Congress president to write that four-line letter to the Prime Minister on the issue of special economic zones after over 40 of these were sanctioned and over 240 were waiting for sanction?
Our economist Prime Minister knows that there is no escape from massive expansion of the infrastructure if Indian corporates are to remain ahead in today's globalised scenario. However, some allies of the UPA Government are vehemently blocking its major economic decisions; the Left, for example, is opposing the Centre's SEZ policy. Ironically, in the Left-ruled West Bengal, the Indonesian Salem group has been allowed to build an SEZ at Nandigram against local opposition to land acquisition.
No wonder the investments already made in the infrastructure are not giving the desired result. Instead they are adding to the inflationary pressures, pushing up the price line. For instance, the progress on the Golden Quadrilateral and related projects planned by the previous NDA Government are crawling for the lack of funds. Worse, even the roads already built are not being utilised in full. At the other end, the reforms in insurance, banking and pensions are held up preventing needed support for the expansion of trade and industry. It is ironical to see the Left first driving the Government in the wrong direction and then threatening with street demonstrations against its "wrong" economic policies.
The UPA Government was gloating over its "pro-farmer" policy. Now it has to admit that in the last 12 months, agricultural production has declined, especially in foodgrains, pulses and edible oils. It is going to increase the import of agricultural products to make up for the deficit. This decline means the inflation rate in rural areas is higher at around 10 per cent. And though the Government made a big show about curbing the suicide of the farmers by publicly granting cheques to the dead farmers' families, the tragedy continues to evade a solution.
One can only commiserate with Finance Minister P Chidambaram as he is forced to ride two horses at the same time. As he prepares to present the Budget, his promise at all meetings of chambers to pursue the reforms appears to be a mirage. His Government, after all, is reined in by the Left parties on the one hand and by the subtle manoeuvres of his own party president on the other. In any other country, after the ruling party president snubs the Prime Minister in a four-line letter that is duly leaked, the latter would quit rather than suffer such humiliation - more so when the head of the Government has to take some tough decisions to improve the economy.
The net result of this entire muddle would be a Budget that would neither promote growth nor curb inflation. In any case, if the Budget is based on the assumption of four per cent inflation, as is being reported, then the Finance Minister is clearly taking us for a ride.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_ name=punj%2Fpunj102.txt&writer=punj
West Bengal legislators to get laptops
KOLKATA: Members of the West Bengal assembly now have a solid reason to get computer training; they may be gifted with laptop computers by the assembly secretariat.
Speaker Hasim Abdul Halim said in Kolkata on Wednesday that he had plans to equip legislators with laptops. There was a precondition, however, to get a laptop, the legislator would have to undergo a computer course and must have a certificate. For, the laptops would be given only to members who were computer literate.
The plan for Doordarshan being given the right for direct telecast of assembly proceedings had not got off the ground as the funds were not available for this. The assembly authorities did not want that telecast of assembly proceedings became a commercial venture, with commercial breaks in between. There was no plan to give private television channels the right of direct telecast of assembly proceedings as the government had no control over these channels.
The budget session of the state assembly would begin on Thursday with the customary governor's address. The state budget would be tabled on March 16.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/West_Bengal_legislators_to_get _laptops/articleshow/1732822.cms
US team questions Bengal policy on land acquisition
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) A US business delegation to India Wednesday quizzed the West Bengal government on transparency in farmland acquisition for industrialisation in the state.
During an interactive seminar attended by the state government officials, Ron Somers, a representative of the US-India Business Council (USIBC) and member of the 15-member delegation, raised repeated questions on the transparency regarding the state government's land acquisition procedure and the recent political storm over the sensitive issue.
'Land is very important in West Bengal. The government should be very careful about the land acquisition and should deal the issue of displacing people from their own land sensitively and responsibly,' said Somers at the seminar on the Indo-US economic cooperation.
Dwelling at a length on the question of transparency, Somers asked Naveen Prakash, the executive director of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC), to explain the actual scenario in the state regarding land acquisition.
'Even if we invest in the infrastructure development in West Bengal, which might require land acquisition, the US companies would always deal with it with social responsibility,' he said.
During his power-point presentation, Prakash clarified the state government's stand on the land acquisition process, especially on the controversial Tata Motors small car project in Singur.
'I don't know what experience you have about the entire process of land acquisition in West Bengal. It was quite transparent and the state government had done it with utmost clarity following the actual guidelines of the land acquisition law,' he said.
He said there was no question of people being deprived since adequate compensation had been paid.
Later, the US team said that they have a strong faith in the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led state government in West Bengal.
'We know that they are transparent and thus we have come to this state for foreign direct investment (FDI),' said Somers.
West Bengal Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb said that the state government was happy with the appointment of a principal commercial officer by the US government last year to explore trade opportunities in West Bengal.
'After 2005, the trade relationship between India and the US has increased by 99 percent,' the chief secretary said.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/news/article_1274104.php/US_team_ questions_Bengal_policy_on_land_acquisition
Munjals may set up cement plant in Chhattisgarh
Motorcycle major Hero Honda may start a cement manufacturing unit in Chhattisgarh, Hero Honda Motors Chairman Brijmohan Lal Munjal hinted here today.
"If the Chhattisgarh government takes the initiative, the company may think of setting up a cement manufacturing facility in Chhattisgarh," Munjal was talking to reporters after inaugurating the new showroom of Hero Honda Motors in Bhilai.
Stating that Haryana was the number one state in the country as far as industrial peace was concerned, Munjal said that besides infrastructure, law and order situation was the most important criterion for setting up any project.
"This was the reason why Hero moved out from Punjab and settled in Haryana," he added. Chhattisgarh was best suited for steel and cement factories, Munjal said.
Hero Honda Motors could consider a proposal for setting up a cement plant in Chhattisgarh but the state government would have to take the initiative in this regard, he reiterated.
He, however, denied any possibilities of moving out of Haryana to set up ancillary units for motorbikes.
"In the transport sector, the body and spare-parts units should be near the main industrial unit and hence, the possibility of coming to Chhattisgarh or any other states is bleak at this point of time," Munjal said.
He urged the Chhattisgarh government to develop a plant to get more investments.
The Hero Honda chairman said that proper action plan for development of infrastructure and other facilities to attract industry was needed to attract investors to the state.
Asserting that industries were the lifeline of any state, Munjal said, "Industrialists set up projects for profits and will be attracted towards the state only if it guarantees this."
http://www.business-standard.com/compindustry/storypage.php?leftnm=1&subLeft=1&chklogin=N&autono=276824&tab=r
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