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  • No caste based mostly census besides SCs, STs since Independence: Centre

    Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai stated some political events and some organisations have requested to gather caste particulars within the forthcoming Census.

    NEW DELHI: The central authorities has not enumerated caste-wise inhabitants aside from Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) within the Census since independence, the Lok Sabha was knowledgeable on Tuesday.

    Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai stated some political events and some organisations have requested to gather caste particulars within the forthcoming Census.

    He stated within the Census, the castes and tribes that are particularly notified as Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) as per the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, as amended infrequently, are enumerated.

    “The government of India has not enumerated caste-wise population other than SCs and STs in Census since independence,” he stated, replying to a written query.

  • Naxal violence down by 77 per cent in final 12 years; solely 70 affected districts: Govt tells Lok Sabha

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The variety of Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) or the Naxal associated violent incidents have come down considerably by 77% since its all-time excessive quantity in 2010 and the variety of resultant deaths has additionally diminished by 90 % from an all-time excessive of 1005 in 2010 to 98 in 2022, the federal government mentioned in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

    Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, responding to a query raised by a member, mentioned that the geographical unfold of violence has considerably diminished and solely 176 police stations of 45 districts reported Naxal violence in 2022 as in comparison with a excessive of 465 police stations of 96 districts in 2010.

    The decline within the geographical unfold can also be mirrored within the diminished variety of districts lined below the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme. The variety of SRE districts diminished from 126 to 90 in April 2018 and additional to 70 in July 2021.

    Rai mentioned that to deal with the Naxal difficulty holistically, the federal government of India permitted the ‘National Policy and Action Plan to address LWE’ in 2015. The Policy envisages a multi-pronged technique involving security-related measures, growth interventions, making certain rights and entitlements of native communities, and so on. Steadfast implementation of this coverage has resulted in a constant decline in Naxal violence throughout the nation, he mentioned.

    There has additionally been appreciable enchancment within the safety scenario in Jharkhand, he mentioned, including that the prevailing safety vacuum within the state has been nearly crammed. Places like Burha Pahar, the world of Tri Junction of West Singhbhum, Saraikela-Kharsawan and Khunti and Parasnath Hills have been free of Maoist presence by the institution of camps and sustained operations by safety forces.

    “The number of violent incidents in Jharkhand reduced by 82% from a high of 742 incidents in 2009 to 132 incidents in 2022. The numbers of SRE districts in Jharkhand have also reduced from 19 in 2018 to 16 in 2021,” the minister mentioned.

    Rai knowledgeable that the central authorities offers help for capability constructing of LWE-affected states by varied schemes of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and schemes/ initiatives of one other line Ministries.

    Special emphasis is laid on the growth of the street community, bettering telecommunications, academic empowerment and monetary inclusion in Naxal -affected areas. MHA works in shut coordination with all of the Ministries of GoI to make sure the optimum implementation of those schemes in LWE-affected areas.

    Review conferences are taken by the Union Home Minister often to assessment the Naxal situation, Rai mentioned, including “Meetings and visits by different senior officers are being undertaken to make sure expeditious completion and monitoring of the works below varied schemes.”

    NEW DELHI: The variety of Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) or the Naxal associated violent incidents have come down considerably by 77% since its all-time excessive quantity in 2010 and the variety of resultant deaths has additionally diminished by 90 % from an all-time excessive of 1005 in 2010 to 98 in 2022, the federal government mentioned in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

    Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, responding to a query raised by a member, mentioned that the geographical unfold of violence has considerably diminished and solely 176 police stations of 45 districts reported Naxal violence in 2022 as in comparison with a excessive of 465 police stations of 96 districts in 2010.

    The decline within the geographical unfold can also be mirrored within the diminished variety of districts lined below the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme. The variety of SRE districts diminished from 126 to 90 in April 2018 and additional to 70 in July 2021.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Rai mentioned that to deal with the Naxal difficulty holistically, the federal government of India permitted the ‘National Policy and Action Plan to address LWE’ in 2015. The Policy envisages a multi-pronged technique involving security-related measures, growth interventions, making certain rights and entitlements of native communities, and so on. Steadfast implementation of this coverage has resulted in a constant decline in Naxal violence throughout the nation, he mentioned.

    There has additionally been appreciable enchancment within the safety scenario in Jharkhand, he mentioned, including that the prevailing safety vacuum within the state has been nearly crammed. Places like Burha Pahar, the world of Tri Junction of West Singhbhum, Saraikela-Kharsawan and Khunti and Parasnath Hills have been free of Maoist presence by the institution of camps and sustained operations by safety forces.

    “The number of violent incidents in Jharkhand reduced by 82% from a high of 742 incidents in 2009 to 132 incidents in 2022. The numbers of SRE districts in Jharkhand have also reduced from 19 in 2018 to 16 in 2021,” the minister mentioned.

    Rai knowledgeable that the central authorities offers help for capability constructing of LWE-affected states by varied schemes of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and schemes/ initiatives of one other line Ministries.

    Special emphasis is laid on the growth of the street community, bettering telecommunications, academic empowerment and monetary inclusion in Naxal -affected areas. MHA works in shut coordination with all of the Ministries of GoI to make sure the optimum implementation of those schemes in LWE-affected areas.

    Review conferences are taken by the Union Home Minister often to assessment the Naxal situation, Rai mentioned, including “Meetings and visits by different senior officers are being undertaken to make sure expeditious completion and monitoring of the works below varied schemes.”

  • India’s subsequent census to be digital, app-based train: Centre

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: India is gearing up for its first digital census and the federal government has already made a number of technological developments on the platform on which the precise headcount, class, gender, age, employment and different socio-economic knowledge of over 130 crore Indian residents could be captured and categorised.

    Nityanad Rai, Minister of State for Home Affairs, knowledgeable the Parliament on Tuesday that the following census shall be an app-based train, including, “the forthcoming Census will be the first digital Census and there is a provision for self-enumeration.”

    Rai additional stated that “Mobile apps for the collection of data and a census portal for the management and monitoring of various census-related activities have been developed.”

    The Minister was responding to a query in Lok Sabha on the standing of the decennial census, which was slated to be performed in 2021. Several Parliamentarians sought to know from the Ministry of Home Affairs as to when the census could be accomplished.

    “The intent of the Government for conducting Census 2021 was notified in the Gazette of India on March 28, 2019. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census 2021 and the related field activities have been postponed until further orders,” Rai stated, including that the following census could be achieved on a digital platform.

    The final decennial or decadal inhabitants census train of India, performed by the Directors of Census Operations who coordinate the work of census taking within the respective States and Union Territories, was undertaken throughout Feb 9–28, 2011, with a revisional spherical throughout March 1-5, 2011. The subsequent Census was due in 2021 however the identical has been postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

    Meanwhile, Rai stated, “the population projection for India and States and Union Territories for 2011-2036, based on Census 2011 data, were available in the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections published by the National Commission on Population, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.”

    Population Census offers fundamental statistics on the state of human assets, demography, tradition and financial construction on the native, regional and nationwide ranges. The data and knowledge are very important to information and form the long run improvement initiatives of the nation.

    NEW DELHI: India is gearing up for its first digital census and the federal government has already made a number of technological developments on the platform on which the precise headcount, class, gender, age, employment and different socio-economic knowledge of over 130 crore Indian residents could be captured and categorised.

    Nityanad Rai, Minister of State for Home Affairs, knowledgeable the Parliament on Tuesday that the following census shall be an app-based train, including, “the forthcoming Census will be the first digital Census and there is a provision for self-enumeration.”

    Rai additional stated that “Mobile apps for the collection of data and a census portal for the management and monitoring of various census-related activities have been developed.”

    The Minister was responding to a query in Lok Sabha on the standing of the decennial census, which was slated to be performed in 2021. Several Parliamentarians sought to know from the Ministry of Home Affairs as to when the census could be accomplished.

    “The intent of the Government for conducting Census 2021 was notified in the Gazette of India on March 28, 2019. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census 2021 and the related field activities have been postponed until further orders,” Rai stated, including that the following census could be achieved on a digital platform.

    The final decennial or decadal inhabitants census train of India, performed by the Directors of Census Operations who coordinate the work of census taking within the respective States and Union Territories, was undertaken throughout Feb 9–28, 2011, with a revisional spherical throughout March 1-5, 2011. The subsequent Census was due in 2021 however the identical has been postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

    Meanwhile, Rai stated, “the population projection for India and States and Union Territories for 2011-2036, based on Census 2011 data, were available in the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections published by the National Commission on Population, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.”

    Population Census offers fundamental statistics on the state of human assets, demography, tradition and financial construction on the native, regional and nationwide ranges. The data and knowledge are very important to information and form the long run improvement initiatives of the nation.

  • Some neighbouring nations provoked separatist emotions amongst border inhabitants: MoS Nityanand Rai

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union minister Nityanand Rai Friday mentioned some neighbouring enemy nations have fuelled “fanatic” non secular and separatist emotions amongst India’s border inhabitants that has not been fully built-in into the nationwide mainstream because the individuals had been pressured emigrate resulting from lack of primary facilities.

    The minister of state for residence affairs mentioned the federal government was “concerned” over the migration from ahead areas and holding this in thoughts, the Modi authorities initiated numerous schemes for his or her welfare.

    The ‘Vibrant Villages’ programme for the frontier areas, which was introduced in Budget-2022, was a part of this bigger initiative, he mentioned.

    “The over 15,106 km-long Indian border working alongside seven nations is troublesome and inaccessible resulting from lack of primary amenities like training and healthcare. It has not totally built-in with the nationwide mainstream.

    “The level of education in the border population is low. A GoM (group of ministers) on improving national security apparatus had said in its report in 2001 that people living along India’s international borders, especially along land borders, are facing a number of problems and are deprived from basic amenities. Not getting adequate facilities, some people from these areas migrate for better lifestyle and employment opportunities and due to this the border population has not been fully integrated with the mainstream of the nation,” he mentioned.

    Taking benefit of this sense of “disparity” among the many locals, a few of our enemy neighbouring nations, by means of greed and conspiracy, fuelled hardline non secular and separatist emotions, he mentioned.

    Some neighbouring nations have completed a “big conspiracy” of accelerating the power of the border inhabitants on their facet…they’re doing quite a few issues for this (growing inhabitants alongside their borders)…, he mentioned with out naming any nation.

    “We must take into consideration this…we now have good intentions. We need nobody emigrate from any a part of our nation resulting from lack of primary facilities.

    “Hence, it is important that people living along the Indian borders are integrated with the national mainstream. The border population is very important in order to ensure security of our frontiers,” Rai mentioned.

    Calling the nation’s border inhabitants “brave and patriotic”, Rai mentioned it’s also in India’s strategic curiosity that “we connect with them”.

    He mentioned this whereas delivering his keynote handle throughout the ‘Rustamji Memorial Lecture’ organised by the BSF.

    The annual lecture is organised in reminiscence of the primary chief and founding father of the BSF, Ok F Rustamji.

    The Border Security Force (BSF) was raised in 1965 and it’s primarily tasked to protect the Indian frontier with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

    Rai mentioned the central authorities, beneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has “redefined” border administration with give attention to the native inhabitants.

    Numerous work has been completed on this course however migration remains to be going down and that may be a explanation for concern, he mentioned.

    “Seventy-five years ago, when India got Independence, it was thought that different communities, values, history, language, religion and culture would be nurtured together but that weakened somewhere. But in 2014, when the Modi government came, it initiated the policy of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayas’ and we are now progressing with the philosophy of ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’,” he mentioned.

    The minister mentioned financial and social improvement of the border inhabitants is the federal government’s topmost precedence.

    Apart from the seek for a greater life and employment alternatives, Rai mentioned another causes for the migration of the border inhabitants could possibly be attributed to harsh climate and lack of meals for livestock amongst others.

    “Even if those who migrated consider returning, a large chunk does not come back to their land,” the minister mentioned.

    He buttressed his level by quoting a speech by Union Home Minister Amit Shah made in November final yr in Gujarat’s Kutch saying the border inhabitants ought to get the identical advantages as these dwelling in cities.

    The minister requested forces just like the BSF, which at instances is the one authorities company in these distant areas, to “identify the problems of the locals and make their lives easier and better”.

    “The government is very concerned about this issue and the Union home ministry is very vigilant…all agencies should work in a coordinated manner. We will provide all funds for and regular monitoring will be done,” he mentioned.

    Recounting his latest go to to a border village in Ladakh, Rai mentioned he discovered that there was no hand pump for the residents.

    He mentioned the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, which guards the India-China LAC, obtained a borewell completed and the migration from that village comprising 26-27 homes was stopped.

  • Have ‘Kashmiri Pandits’ turn out to be ‘Kashmiri Migrant Employees’? Centre thinks so

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  Have Kashmiri Pandits turn out to be ‘Kashmiri Migrant Employees’ within the eyes of the Government of India?  At a time when there’s a rising sentiment on the plight Kashmiri Pandits fuelled by Bollywood movie ‘The Kashmir Files’, the Ministry of Home Affairs has referred to as them ‘Kashmiri Migrant Employees’. 

    In a written reply to a zero-hour query raised by Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits on February 4, Nityanand Rai-the minister of state for Home Affairs referred to as “Kashmiri Migrant Employees”.

    The Shiv Sena MP, reacting to Kashmiri Pandits being referred to as ‘Kashmiri Migrant Employees’ mentioned: “The letter speaks of Kashmiri Migrant Employees. Kashmiri Pandits are not migrants sir, Kashmir is their home and they continue to wait to return with dignity and honour”.

    According to the written response acquired by Chaturvedi, out of 6,000 Transit Accommodations (TAs) authorised by the federal government to deal with Kashmiri Migrant Employees in Kashmir valley, just one,025 items have been accomplished whereas 1,488 items are in several phases of completion.

    “In the initial phase the private land was to be acquired for construction of these transit accommodations. However, due to cost escalation and time overrun in land acquisition process, Govt of J&K in 2019 to acquire state land with the aim to speed up the construction works,” the ministry famous within the written reply.

    “It is expected that construction will be completed by 2023,” it mentioned. 

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  • No choice but on NRC at nationwide degree: Union Minister Nityanand Rai

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai knowledgeable Parliament that authorities is but to take a choice on getting ready the National Register of Citizens at nationwide degree.

    Rai was responding to a query by Trinamool Congress MP Mala Roy who requested concerning the standing of getting a NRC for the complete nation. Roy additionally requested when the work associated to NRC will likely be accomplished together with the standing of NRC in Assam.

    In a written reply, Rai mentioned, “Till now, the Government has not taken any decision to prepare National Register of Indian Citizens at the national level. On the Supreme Court directions, the supplementary list of inclusions and the list of exclusions for NRC, Assam were published on August 31, 2019.”