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6 FEBRUARY 2018 ASIA www.theasianindependent.co.uk Solar power park with 2,000 MW capacity inaugurated in Karnataka Bengaluru | Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday inaugurated a solar power park with a 2,000 megawatt capacity at Pavagada in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district, about 70 km from here. “Karnataka has emerged as the third-largest producer of renewable energy in the country. We have set a goal to source at least 20 per cent of power requirements from renewable projects,” Siddaramaiah said. In future, Karnataka aims to be an energy-surplus state, he said. Built on 13,000 acres spread across five villages, the park entailed an expenditure of Rs 16,500 crore, an official statement said. The solar park generated 600 MW power as of January 2018 while an additional 1,400 MW is expected to be generated by December. Even as the southern state claims that this solar park is the largest, Rajasthan’s Bhadla solar park coming up in Jodhpur district will have a capacity of 2,255 MW when fully operational. “The solar park has farmers from the Pavagada region as partners and beneficiaries who have leased out land for the park,” said state Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar. Nearly 2,300 farmers are part of the project, with several giving their land for Rs 21,000 per acre per annum rent. Tata Trusts, Telangana sign MoU on cancer care Hyderabad | The Telangana government and Tata Trusts on Thursday signed an MoU to deliver high quality affordable cancer care and develop academic and research capabilities in the state. As part of the three-tier model, two apex super specialty hospitals in Hyderabad — the MNJ Institute of Technology and the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences — will be upgraded to handle complex cases on a referral basis. Medical colleges in Adilabad, Nizamabad, Mahbubnagar and Warangal will be strengthened so that they can offer diagnosis and treatment of cancer cases. District hospitals in Karimnagar, Khammam and Nalgonda will be developed to offer diagnostic and standardised day care chemotherapy. “Thereby, a state-wide cancer care network will get created to take treatment closest to patients, through beefing up the existing public health system and infrastructure,” said a statement from Tata Trusts. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Telangana’s Health, Medical & Family Welfare Department Principal Secretary Santhi Kumari and Tata Trusts Managing Trustee R. Venkataramanan in the presence of Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao, Health Minister C. Laxma Reddy, and Tata Trusts Chairman Ratan N. Tata.
www.theasianindependent.co.uk ASIA FEBRUARY 2018 7 ‘Centre not doing anything about fishermen imprisoned in Pakistan, Lanka’ “The Congress will bring ordinary and poor fishermen to the frontline of the political mainstream,” he said. New Delhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked said the goverment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not doing anything with regard to fishermen jailed in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Gandhi was addressing the first National Executive Committee meeting of the All India Fishermen Congress. He said when the Congress returns to power at the Centre, an independent Fisheries Ministry will be set up under a Cabinet Minister. Gandhi said the Congress would fight for the rights of fishermen in India. “The union government is denying the rights of fishermen to live on their own land. They are facing serious difficulties in fishing due to arbitrary price hike of kerosene and diesel,” the Congress chief said. “The central government is not ready to interfere in the issues of fishermen imprisoned in Pakistan and Sri Lankan jails,” he added. He said Modi, who travels abroad frequently, has not raised imporatant issues concerning fishermen at international fora. “Lots of fishermen are imprisoned in foreign jails due to inadvertently crossing the international borders in the high water. Modi is instead only taking up issues of the corporates and multi-millionaires,” Gandhi added. “The Congress will bring ordinary and poor fishermen to the frontline of the political mainstream,” he said. One AAP MLA joins probe, the other seeks a week’s time New Delhi | Of the two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs who were asked to join an ongoing police investigation here into a case related to the alleged assault on Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash, one MLA joined the probe on Thursday while the other sought a week’s time. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Harendra Singh told IANS that AAP MLAs Nitin Tyagi and Rajesh Rishi were asked to join the probe into the alleged assault. “Rishi reached the Civil Lines Police Station today (Thursday) at around 5.30 p.m. and left at 8 p.m. The other MLA has sought one week time,” Singh said. Last week, Anshu Prakash alleged that he was assaulted by AAP MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal, in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his residence on February 19 night, when the Chief Secretary was called for a meeting. Khan and Jarwal were later arrested and are currently in judicial custody. Centre okayed Economic fugitive Bill to ‘divert attention’: Congress New Delhi | The Congress on Friday took on the Centre over the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill saying that the former approved the Bill just to “divert attention” of the people. “All this is being done just to divert attention. We want to know what they did earlier and not what they will do in the future,” Congress leader Anand Sharma said. “The country already has many laws. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attaches the properties of so many people and makes cases,” he added. On the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, Sharma said that “scamsters have looted” and fled the country. “The government knew all this yet let them (jeweller Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi) flee. Complaints against Nirav Modi and Choksi had been coming since 2015 and were presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Sharma added. Sharma also called former finance minister P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram’s arrest in the INX media case as an ‘act of revenge.’ “Whatever is happening with Karti Chidambaram is happening with the feeling of revenge. They caught him, while Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi ran away,” he said. Unity govts with two major parties are always a challenge - PM Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday said that the recent Local Government election was a barometer and a very strong message to the government to be more active and that the changes promised have not taken place fast enough. “Last local government election was a barometer and a very, very strong message to the government that they should be more active,” he said, participating in a discussion during the ‘Invest Sri Lanka’ Forum held in Singapore. He stated that unfortunately the country went into an election at a time when there was a rapid increase in cost of living and there was a shortage of fertiliser. “Not really the atmosphere for elections, nevertheless it’s a barometer that the changes we promised have not taken place fast enough.” He noted that the government also spent the first two years in stabilizing the economy. When asked as to how much of a challenge the unity government initiated by him has proven to be in pushing reform, he said that unity governments with the two major parties are always a challenge. “We do have agreement on reforms in many areas and the plus point is the stability.” “Because once the unity governments are over, whoever comes to power it’s very unlikely that they are going to change the system,” he said. In his final message to the investors gathered at the forum, the PM said: “Come to Sri Lanka. Look at the investment opportunities. And even if you don’t find something initially, you’ll have a good holiday.”
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