An enormous boat accident occurred on Wednesday in Mirzapur district of Mirzapur UP. It is alleged {that a} household from Ranchi had come to go to Vindhyachal. Everyone was seeing the Ganges by boarding the boat, when the boat sank within the Ganges. Due to which all of the 12 individuals within the boat began drowning within the river. Local individuals and boatmen saved 6 individuals on the spot, however 6 individuals are reported to have drowned. Rajesh Tiwari, a resident of Dhurha village in Ranchi, had come to go to Vindhyachal together with his household. At the identical time, with the will to see the Ganges, he had gone from this facet to the opposite whereas sitting in a ship. While getting back from the opposite finish of the river Ganges, the boat out of the blue sank. 12 members of his household together with Rajesh Tiwari drowned within the river. Out of which native individuals and sailors saved 6 individuals, however 6 individuals are nonetheless lacking. In which 3 girls and three kids are included. These have been rescued Rajesh, Vikas, Deepak, the motive force of the car (Unknown), Alka and Ritika have been rescued. At the identical time, a toddler together with Gudiya, Khushboo, Anisha, Satyam and a lady youngster within the boat drowned within the river. Whose search is on. Taking directions, the officers of the district administration reached the spot instantly and directed the rescue and reduction operations. .
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NHRC seeks Centre, Jharkhand reply after report exhibits ICDS gaps
Taking suo motu cognisance of a report which identified that 55 per cent beneficiaries in 159 blocks had not obtained supplementary diet underneath the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in Jharkhand, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Tuesday requested the state and the Centre to submit a report inside six weeks.
“The Indian Express had reported on the ICDS survey findings which had covered a total of 8,818 families in 159 blocks,” the NHRC said.
“The contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of the Right to Food, which is one of the basic human rights, which the state is duty bound to protect…”The report was revealed on the idea of a survey masking 7,809 youngster beneficiaries aged 6 months to three years, 6,560 aged 3 years to six years and 4,459 pregnant and lactating ladies.
Ashrafi Nand Prasad, a part of the survey group, stated, “It seems that nutritional supplements worth more than 200 crore were not given to the beneficiaries.” -
Jharkhand HC pulls up cops for not making sufferer witness in POCSO case
Wondering if the police was siding with the accused in a minor woman’s rape case, the Jharkhand High Court has severely reprimanded police authorities for not presenting the sufferer earlier than the trial court docket for testimony regardless of its repeated orders.
The bench of Justice Anand Sen additionally directed the Jharkhand director common of police (DGP) to personally submit an affidavit inside 4 weeks stating as to why contempt of court docket proceedings shouldn’t be initiated towards 4 officers together with the investigating officer (IO) and the DIG, Dumka, for violating the court docket orders. The bench was listening to the bail utility of the accused within the rape of a 13-year-old woman registered in 2018. The accused was charged beneath Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. -
No Covid checks for migrants, rural Jharkhand braces for worst
As the primary set of migrant staff returned to Ranchi on particular trains from throughout the nation, a hoarding with a picture of Chief Minister Hemant Soren welcomed them: “Johar! Jharkhand sarkar aapka ghar aane par swagat karti hai (Welcome! Jharkhand government welcomes you upon your arrival at home).”
Then, with circles drawn up on the ground for social distancing, they had been screened one after the other and greeted with roses, meals packets and water bottles. All of them had been taken to their districts on transport organized by the state. Once house, they underwent Covid checks and obligatory 14-day quarantine in panchayat services.
This was May final yr.
On Friday, nearly 12 months later, The Sunday Express spent three hours from 3.30 pm on the Hatia station, one of many two within the state capital, and tracked the arrival of three trains, from Yeshwantpur (Bengaluru), Mumbai and Surat, all migrant hubs with new Covid curbs in place.
What this newspaper noticed informed the story of the second Covid wave that has battered the nation: no circles, no social distancing and hardly any signal of Covid-appropriate behaviour. Many of the returning staff and several other police personnel manning the platform weren’t correctly masked. The swab assortment facility was abandoned, and all of the passengers exited with none thermal screening. Outside, the hoarding was clean.
No surprise then, that the Chief Minister confided throughout a gathering with representatives from numerous districts two days in the past: “80 per cent of the population reside in rural areas and I am worried about their safety as many people are returning.”On August 31 final yr, Jharkhand noticed the very best variety of constructive instances in a day in the course of the first wave: 3,331. On May 1 this yr, 6,323 individuals examined constructive. Jharkhand has 57,043 energetic instances.
From the primary outbreak final yr until March 31 this yr, 1,113 individuals died of Covid. But this April alone, 1,282 extra deaths have been recorded.
Outside the railway station, Mohammad Aftab, who was working as a tailor in Mumbai, waited for transport. There was no state-sponsored assist, and drivers of the few auto rickshaws obtainable had been haggling for higher fares. “After another lockdown in Maharashtra, I did not want to go through the trouble that we faced last year. I came back to remain with my family… No, I wasn’t tested in Mumbai or here in Ranchi,” he mentioned.
Last yr, Jharkhand recorded the return of over 5 lakh migrants. This time, Transport Secretary Okay Ravi Kumar mentioned: “We don’t know how many labourers are coming in.”
Asked why checks weren’t being performed, Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Chhavi Ranjan mentioned: “Tests are being done. We are doing it on special trains as and when the Railways informs us.”
Out within the villages, the place most of the migrant staff have returned to, the concern is palpable. And a number of representatives flagged this in the course of the district-level assembly with Soren.“Migrant labourers are scared, they secretly come to their villages. They need to be quarantined and tested. This time, the virus has reached villages,” Poonam Devi of Godda Zilla Parishad informed the Chief Minister.
Hazaribagh district officers flagged the shortage of testing and quarantine whereas these from Dumka complained of lack of medicines and oximeters. “The fear is such that people are leaving the bodies of their near and dear ones,” Dumka’s Zilla Parishad vice-president Aseem Mandal mentioned.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Arun Singh mentioned checks have to be performed and this has been conveyed to district administrations. “The priority of the state government is to save lives and the entire machinery is looking into it,” he mentioned. -
At Jharkhand prepare flag-off, BJP MP vs Cong MLA over association for seats
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav practically got here to blows Thursday after a seating argument through the flagging-off of a particular prepare from Jharkhand’s Godda Railway Station. Over 200 individuals, together with the supporters of each leaders, had gathered on the newly-constructed station for the occasion.
Poreyahat MLA Yadav instructed The Indian Express: “I went to the spot with around 25 people… Due to Covid-19, the administration had planned that only people who had train tickets would go to the platform. Dubey’s supporters had prior information and they had booked their tickets… inside we saw outsiders seated on our designated chairs. I objected. Suddenly, Dubey confronted me and appeared bent on a scuffle. I retaliated verbally. The administration controlled the situation and the rest of the ceremony went peacefully,” Yadav mentioned.
Dubey rubbished the allegations. “One Sanjay Yadav, a former Madhupur Nagar Parishad member, which comes under my constituency, was termed as an outsider by Pradeep Yadav and asked to leave when he had a valid ticket. I got angry and asked whether he was a TTE. Then he came towards me, planning to beat me, and this is when the ruckus started.” When instructed that Yadav had said in any other case, Dubey mentioned: “Everything is on video.” This was a reference to a clip of the episode that was shared extensively on social media.The inauguration occurred on a day the Jharkhand authorities issued a round banning all congregations besides marriage capabilities and final rites in view of rising Covid-19 circumstances. Godda Deputy Commissioner Bhor Singh Yadav didn’t reply to calls and texts asking why the occasion was held regardless of the ban.
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Govts failing in obligation in the direction of labourers, says Jharkhand CM
Governments throughout the board are failing of their duty in coping with the issues of labourers within the unorganised sector, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren stated on Friday.
Soren blamed the central authorities for the dearth of coordination that had pushed to the again burner motion on the dedication that his authorities had extracted from the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to cast off labour contractors and to recruit immediately from the state after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
The Chief Minister was the keynote speaker at The Indian Express Thinc migration webinar sequence in affiliation with Omidyar Network India, which targeted on inner migration within the nation.In June 2020, the Jharkhand authorities obtained a dedication from BRO to recruit labourers immediately from the state, register itself underneath the Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, and signal an MoU. The state had obtained many complaints from labourers about delays in funds and different points, Soren stated.
“Sarkar mazdooron ke prati zimmedari sahi tarike se nahi nibha pa rahi hai. Main lagatar kendra sarkar ke pas is vishay par samanway banane ka prayas kar raha tha, lekin mujhe lagta hai ki wo samanway bhi lagbhag toot hi sa gaya hai. Maine Defence Minister se bhi baat kiya tha ki BRO par hamare labourers jate hain jis salary par, woh salary nahin diya jata hai balki half milta hai, mediators kaise involve hote hain pata nahin chalta, jabki aap ek zimmedar sanstha hain. (The government is not acting responsibly. I have been trying constantly to establish some coordination, but it seems it is all but over. I spoke to the Defence Minister as well, saying that when labourers go to work for BRO, they are paid only half the salary they are promised. I cannot understand how mediators get involved in a responsible organisation like the BRO.)” he stated.
The Chief Minister stated he had despatched two trains filled with labourers to work for the BRO through the Covid-19 pandemic.
“BRO se sahmati banayi gayi ki hum jo bhi labour le jayenge hum rajya sarkar ki sahmati se le jayenge, sabhi ko registered kar ke le jayenge, woh saari prakriya dhari ki dhari rah gayi…Aur inhone ek formality ke tahat koi junior officer ke saath kagaz par ek formality kar di — ek chhoti moti settlement — jiska mujhe lagta hai increased stage par koi impact nahi hoga. (An settlement was reached with BRO, however that course of was not adopted. They used a junior officer to finish a formality, a minor settlement, which I consider won’t carry any weight increased up.)
“This is how we are behaving with labourers, and these organisations (BRO) are promoting mediators who go into the interiors of villages and recruit labourers… When there is a problem, there are so many bureaucratic hurdles in the government that no headway is made. The future of such labourers is dark,” he stated.
Labourers play an necessary position in India’s economic system, the Chief Minister stated. He recalled situations of labourers being rescued from Tamil Nadu, and being given jobs in Jharkhand. He stated he had tried to grasp migration final 12 months, and had had an disagreeable expertise. Soren additionally referred to the devastation brought on by the flood in Uttarakhand final Sunday, and stated many labourers from Jharkhand had been affected.“Main CM ke roop mein ye baat bahut zimmewari ke sath kah raha hoon kyonki vigat samay mein jo migration…ko study karne ka prayas kiya, apne state mein aur doosre rajyon mein, aapko vishwas nahi hoga ki aisi aisi sansthayen hain, in mazdooron ke saath jude hue hain, aur inke saath jo durvyavahar ho raha hai, aapko sunke ashcharya hoga. Jaise Bharat sarkar ke upakram hain, jaise…border organisation hain, wahan pe logon ko le jaya jata hai, NTPC jaisi sansthaon mein le jaya jata hai… Abhi ek landslide hua Uttarakhand mein wahan par bhi hamare Jharkhand ke mazdoor maare gaye. Par kisi ke pass koi iska hisab-kitab nahin hai ki kahan se labour laya gaya, kaun labour hai, kisi ke paas koi hisab nahi hai (As a CM, I say this with a lot of responsibility…you will not believe how organisations behave with labourers. The Indian govenrment’s NTPC also employs them – you would have heard about the Uttarakhand incident; labourers from Jharkhand died, but no one has any record of where they were brought from, etc.).”
The Chief Minister’s speech was adopted by a dialogue amongst an knowledgeable panel consisting of Alex Paul Menon, Labour Commissioner and Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies, Chhattisgarh, Prof S Irudaya Rajan of the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Prof Ravi S Srivastava, previously of JNU, and presently Director, Centre for Employment Studies on the Institute of Human Development, New Delhi, and Rahul Katyal, Managing Director, Capacit’e Infraprojects Ltd). The session was moderated by Deputy Associate Editor at The Indian Express, Udit Misra. -
Lalu Yadav’s well being replace: Infection in lungs, situation steady, says RIMS Director
Image Source : PTI Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav being taken for his ultrasound at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), in Ranchi.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s well being is steady. RIMS Director, Dr Kameshwar Prasad on Thursday stated, “there’s an infection in the lungs. Treatment is going on. This is a kind of pneumonia. We’ve consulted with the Head of Department (HOD) of lungs dept of AIIMS. Rapid antigen test for COVID is negative. RT-PCR report will come tomorrow,” ANI reported.Lalu Prasad, who’s serving jail time period in reference to the multi-crore rupee fodder rip-off is presently staying at Ranchi-based Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS).
He is lodged in Ranchi since December 2017 after his conviction in instances of the fodder rip-off within the Animal Husbandry division in Bihar in early 90s.
Prasad had hit the nationwide headlines just lately after BJP leaders had complained that he was assembly individuals freely in RIMS director’s residence throughout Bihar polls.
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Pre-Matric scholarship rip-off: Jharkhand cracks down, key official suspended
STEPPING UP its crackdown, the Jharkhand authorities has suspended a key district welfare official in Dhanbad for not following due course of and accepting functions with out verification for the Centre’s pre-Matric scholarships for poor minority college students.
This is the primary punitive step taken by the state towards any of its officers after it launched a probe into the unlawful diversion of the scholarship, by a nexus of middlemen, faculty authorities, banking correspondents and authorities employees, based mostly on the findings of an investigation by The Indian Express.
Separately, the Jharkhand State Co-operative Bank has frozen the accounts of two banking correspondents in Ranchi for his or her alleged involvement within the rip-off.
Last week, the state authorities issued an order inserting Dhanbad District Welfare Officer Dayanand Dubey underneath suspension “with immediate effect for not following due process in conducting any inquiry resulting in illegal disbursement of the scholarship amount”.The official’s identify figures in an FIR registered in Dhanbad in November that accused a pc operator on the District Welfare Office of allegedly registering colleges on the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) for the scholarship with out Dubey’s signature.
Dhanbad is among the many six districts in Jharkhand, other than Ranchi, Latehar, Ramgarh, Lohardaga and Sahibganj, the place The Indian Express discovered that the nexus colluded to dupe gullible dad and mom and college students, and arrange faux beneficiaries, whereas real candidates had been overlooked.
Explained: What is Jharkhand’s pre-matric scholarship rip-off?
During its investigation, The Indian Express matched entries on the NSP with beneficiary financial institution accounts within the Public Finance Management System (PFMS) to seek out a number of circumstances of the scholarship being illegally diverted in Jharkhand and Bihar. It discovered that the rip-off additionally roped in colleges from Punjab and Assam.
The preliminary findings of this newspaper’s ongoing investigation, printed in a collection of stories beginning November, led to the registration of an FIR by the CBI in Bihar and separate FIRs throughout Dhanbad by the Jharkhand police towards 103 individuals. No arrests have been made but.
Subsequently, the Dhanbad administration discovered alleged irregularities and corruption in disbursal price about Rs 10 crore involving a gaggle of middlemen based mostly in Chatra district.
In 2019-20, the Ministry of Minority Affairs disbursed Rs 61 crore underneath this scheme to Jharkhand. Under the scholarship, college students from Class 1 to five obtain Rs 1,000 per yr, and college students of Class 6 to 10 obtain Rs 5,700 a yr if they’re day students or Rs 10,700 if they’re in a hostel.
The Indian Express reported that in a number of circumstances, middlemen satisfied faculty house owners to supply their establishment’s login ID and password on the NSP, or use a faux faculty letter pad to acquire them. Then, they concerned banking correspondents to open accounts of potential beneficiaries utilizing their Aadhaar playing cards and fingerprints earlier than making use of for scholarships on their behalf.This newspaper discovered that as quickly because the scholarship is credited, the middlemen siphon off the cash: they both strike a take care of the beneficiaries or colleges, or the beneficiaries stay unaware and the cash is cut up between the brokers, banking correspondents, and college employees.
Following up on these stories, which recognized banking correspondents Hashim Ansari and Rajab Ansari from Urguttu in Ranchi’s Kanke block, the Jharkhand State Co-operative Bank (JSCB) froze their accounts and sought explanations from them.
In their written response, the 2 denied any involvement, described the fees as “baseless” and submitted an inventory of colleges together with college students to whom they claimed to have disbursed the quantities.However, these responses, which had been accessed by the Indian Express, present a mismatch of their claims and information out there on the NSP.
For occasion, their responses embrace a be aware from the principal of Today’s English School in Ranchi that 45 college students acquired the quantity in his presence from the “bank workers”. However, the NSP information for 2019-20 present that scholarships got to 213 college students, together with 186 hostelllers, from the varsity. The principal, Suresh Baitha, stated cash was given solely to 45 college students. “My school does not have a hostel,” he stated.
Similarly, the responses embrace a be aware from the proprietor of Itki Carmel School in Ranchi that 35 college students acquired the scholarship cash in his presence. However, the NSP reveals that 182 college students acquired the scholarship, together with 175 hostellers, from the varsity. School proprietor Sadique Hussain stated: “Rajab Ansari approached me with the names of the students and asked me to sign. The amount was not mentioned then.”
JSCB CEO Prem Prakash stated: “As soon as we received information of their alleged involvement, we froze their accounts. Their records are being scrutinised. We haven’t activated their accounts yet.” -
Jharkhand: 30 arrested for stopping CM’s convoy at protest; 2 policemen suspended
Thirty folks have been arrested for stopping Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s convoy, vandalizing barricades and injuring policemen throughout a protest Monday.
The crowd had gathered to protest days after a girl’s mutilated physique was present in an remoted space in Ranchi district. However, in the course of the protest at Kishoreganj Chowk, protestors allegedly obtained violent, after which the CM’s convoy was rerouted. Sources within the police additionally added that they’ve suspended two cops for dereliction of responsibility.
Ranchi SSP Surendra Jha stated, “30 people found involved in this incident have been sent to jail so far. They had conspired to attack the CM’s convoy in a planned manner and had even pelted stones on the first vehicle on the convoy. In due time the convoy rerouted. ”
CM Hemant Soren advised reporters, “I got to know about the incident later…A few people had planned this…and if found to be true and the administration will take strict action. Ranchi is a very small city and we know each other’s face and whose people they are, we all know very well. But the law does not work seeing the party or organization. The law will act on the wrong activities.”
On the Ormanjhi restoration of the physique stated: “Police is doing their job and we are not hiding anything from the public.”
Meanwhile, Jharkhand authorities Tuesday shaped a two member High Level Committee comprising an IAS officer KK Soan and an IPS officer DIG Akhilesh Jha. A present trigger discover has additionally been issued to the SSP and Deputy Commissioner Ranchi.