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[ad_1] At an e.Adda this month, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi spoke about navigating the complicated world of Punjab politics, tackling the drug problem in the state, the repeal of farm laws, and the BJP’s ‘mistreatment’ of Punjab. On two distinct factions in Punjab Congress My faction is the Congress party. That’s where I belong. I work for the party and I work with the party for my state. I have never made a faction for myself. I have not done that in the past nor will I do it today. Even earlier, when I was made the Opposition leader, I never had a group of my own. If I have come to the position of the CM without any sort of group then why will I need any groups now? On transition of power in Punjab Whenever I have been given any task, I have done it with complete dedication and integrity. I have never cut corners. Nobody from my family was in politics and yet I contested elections in college. I was elected the municipal committee member three times and I always delivered. It was the same in my two terms as the municipal corporation president. Even as an independent MLA, I was dedicated to my job. As the leader of the Opposition, I did a cycle yatra with 3,000 youngsters. I enjoy working, there is no pressure. It’s my nature. My father taught me this, and I don’t want to change. Just because I am the CM, that doesn’t mean that I am a big master, and that no one needs to come and meet me. I am happy to go see them myself. Our previous CM (Capt Amarinder Singh) used to wake up at 2 pm, and shut shop at 4 pm. Unlike him, I rest for only two hours. What I have accomplished in these few weeks, he couldn’t do in five years. I have altered my schedule to make the most of the given time. On Capt Amarinder Singh’s exit as Punjab CM When we approached the high command about our problems and they formed a committee, he should have understood that he was not wanted. He was then told about the deficiencies and asked to resign. He didn’t. The party made him the CM twice. His wife became an MP, he himself became a Union minister. The party gave him a lot. You don’t want to work, and then you blame us and allege that we insulted you. You took your home to the farmhouse, you wouldn’t meet anyone at your official residence. Whose fault is it? You have insulted the whole world by not fulfilling the role you were given. I will introspect when and if the party asks me to not be the CM anymore. To say that I was insulted is just an excuse. You have insulted the whole world, by not fulfilling the role you were given. The party is not wrong. On criticism from the Opposition We need critics. If we don’t have criticism, how will we improve ourselves? I compete with myself. All these people — Kejriwalji talks about me a lot, Captain Amarinder Singh, Sukhbir Badal… I take criticism positively. I welcome their feedback. On power to the ‘aam janata’ When Captain Amarinder became the CM, no one said a maharaja has become the CM. Why is everyone highlighting a Dalit CM. What’s the big deal in this? The thing is that the rule of the elites is ending, and it’s headed to the aam janata. An era is drawing to a close. Captain Amarinder, Badal — they are all rajwadas — one rises, the other falls. They have all been rich. Now the power has come into the hands of the common man. There is a yug parivartan, the middle class, the farmers, they will now have the power. On delivering results and finding money for them We collect taxes and funds every year, we have budgeted for the announcements we’ve made. If we have slashed the rate of electricity, we have also started buying cheaper electricity. We have made petrol and diesel cheaper merely by slashing the taxes. Earlier, money was going to the homes of leaders, now it has started flowing to the people. This new development is being liked by people. My job is to ease the problems of the common people. These are being solved automatically because I have faced these in my life, the problems of the common man. And the support I have got, even Captain Amarinder did not get such support. All the MLAs are united and there have been no disagreements in our cabinet debates to date. So it is fortunate for me that I am working with an open heart and with an open mind. On his relationship with Navjot Singh Sidhu Sidhuji is our party leader. I am getting full cooperation from him. He is a hard-hitter and has won many matches for the country. He is in the habit of hitting sixes, so he will hit sixes, he won’t take two runs. He is a good player, he will do good things… He had just taken me to his region, we were in Patiala the day before. The party is supreme, we work the way the party guides us. Every CM has to implement the ideology of his party. On the prospect of BJP in Punjab and the possibility of their alignment with Capt Amarinder Singh The BJP has always treated Punjab as its enemy. Look how they brought these three bills that hit Punjab the most. More than 700 people died last year. Our economy suffered. Our lives were lost, our money was lost, our systems collapsed and we had to go and protest. Now they have repealed the laws. But at what cost? Even our Captain sahab, he was an able politician, don’t know why he is doing this (aligning with BJP). On the farm laws I have said two

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[ad_1] Pre-payment of deferred spectrum liabilities by Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio amounting to over Rs 26,200 crore will see the government meeting its budgetary revenue target from telecommunications during the current fiscal. Recently, Bharti Airtel paid Rs 15,519 to the department of telecommunications (DoT) towards prepayment of the entire deferred liabilities pertaining to spectrum acquired in the auction held in 2014, while Reliance Jio paid around Rs 10,700 crore for spectrum acquired in 2016 auction. The government had fixed a revenue receipt target of Rs 53,986.72 crore from telecommunications services for FY22. Once the annual licence fee and spectrum usage charges paid by the telecom operators, which would be in the range of Rs 25,000 crore to Rs 28,000, is added to the amount paid by Bharti and Jio, the budgetary target is likely to be achieved. The government’s receipts from licence fee and SUC have been increasing due to rising adjusted gross revenue (AGR) of all telecom operators. Telcos pay 8% as licence fee on their adjusted gross revenue while SUC varies from 3% to 5% for different operators. Over the past many years, the government has been failing to meet its revenue target from telecommunication services. For instance, for FY21, it had pegged an overambitious target of 1.33 lakh crore, which was later revised to33,737 crore. The FY21 revenue target may have been set in anticipation of full payment related to AGR dues of telecom operators, which they were required to pay as per the Supreme Court order in October 2019. For FY20, the government managed to exceed the revenue target, because of part-payment of AGR dues amounting to about Rs 30,000 crore by three operators — Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Tata Teleservices. In the absence of this one-time gain, the government would have failed to achieve its target.Interestingly, in the last seven-eight years, the government has been able to achieve the budget estimate from telecom receipts only twice. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] February 13, 2016. Best friends—Patrick Cantlay, and Chris Roth—are enjoying a night out, barhopping, in Newport Beach, California. The duo are walking across an intersection when, out of nowhere, a speeding motorist, knocks down Roth, who’s walking less than 10 feet away from Cantlay, and speeds off. In a report on the incident on Golf Channel, Cantlay rushed to his friend’s aid, and called 911, but, “…By the time I got to him, there was nothing I could do.’ 24-year-old Roth died in 23-year-old Cantlay’s arms.  As I read this report, and Cantlay’s narrative of that fateful morning, one detail gives an insight into his state of mind at the time. Cantlay recounts a policeman asking if he’d like a towel. “I was completely covered in blood. I didn’t realise it. Your importance level, your awareness of what is usually a big deal, was not a big deal to me. And I felt like that for months after,” he told Golf Channel. For Cantlay, who, at the time, had not been able to play competitive golf for three years, losing friend and caddie Roth, was a crushing blow.  Today, as the golf world celebrates Cantlay’s remarkable comeback to the top echelons of the game, it is somewhat convenient to try and situate Roth’s death, in the wider context of Cantlay’s life and career. But to imply that degrees of loss, have a bearing on individuals’ abilities to cope with those, would be sophistic, simplistic, and disrespectful. A notion that Cantlay has repeatedly dismissed. “That (Chris’s demise) would be difficult whether I was playing or not playing, and it would be just as difficult both ways and just as life-changing and just as earth-shattering,” he told PGATour.com after winning the season-ending FedEx Cup earlier this year.  Here’s what even new converts to the game know about Cantlay: he is, by far, the best putter in the world right now; amply demonstrated during the six-hole playoff at the BMW Championship that has quickly become one of the most watched highlight reels of the PGA Tour’s season. And while there’s no doubt that Bryson De Chambeau missed near-gimme putts during that two-man duel, the notion of the big man ‘giving away,’ the tournament are patently unfair. DeChambeau would never had the chance to ‘give away’ anything had Cantlay not forced the issue by making that 22-footer on the 72nd hole. As it turned out, DeChambeau acquired the dubious distinction of becoming the only man in the history of the PGA Tour to score a cumulative 27-under-par and not winning the event. Given that performance by Cantlay, it seemed like a grand plan was unfolding when he kept his lead in the opening rounds of the season-ending Tour Championship. And for all of Jon Rahm’s brilliance in the final round—he certainly gave it his best shot—Rahm’s foe was zen-like under pressure. Cantlay didn’t even look like he was going to crack, and displayed no nerves whatsoever. What some golf fans may not have known before he became the FedEx Cup Champion, is that Cantlay was the top-ranked amateur in the world for 54 consecutive weeks in 2011-12, and the recipient of pretty much every award you can win in that milieu. That promise began unravelling in 2013 when Cantlay felt a jarring pain in his back while on the range at the the Colombia Championship. Diagnosed with a stress fracture of the back, the young player found himself in the cold, unable to play pain-free—by 2014, his ranking had slipped to 623 in the world.  Two weeks before Roth’s accident, just when it had seemed that his back was well enough to play, Cantlay had a recurrence of pain. On doctor’s advice that he’d need at least another nine months of rehabilitation Cantlay had to pull out of the 2016 CareerBuilder Challenge—his first event in over a year. It’s hard to imagine the young man’s frame of mind at that point, and quite impossible post the accident that ensued. Cantlay’s return to wellness and playing pain-free has been a long and arduous journey. On an aside, there’s a lesson to be learnt from Cantlay’s injury for amateur golfers looking to emulate the ‘x-factor,’ in the modern golf swing. The term, which denotes the difference of coil between shoulders and the hips, was exceptionally high—18 degrees—in Cantlay’s old swing. And crucially, that difference came on the downswing which put additional pressure on his lower back. Today, Cantlay turns his shoulders more on the backswing, and has only a three-degree ‘x-factor,’ on the downswing. And we’re talking of an ivy league athlete here. Quick takeway: don’t ape the pros, or any swing that you do not possess the physical abilities to perform. Cantlay has spoken about not wanting to connect what happened with Roth and where he is as a golfer. “The golf part and the Chris part seem like two completely separate deals…”“Just something like that changes your life and puts you on a different trajectory than you ever thought you’d get on. And it definitely changes your perspective on things,” Cantlay told PGATour.com.  In the worldview of a young professional golfer, that perspective is rare. To be able to separate life and the things that really matter, from the relatively trivial fringes of what it means to be successful in a game. You can’t pick up that kind of wisdom second-hand; and 29-year-old Cantlay’s life has already passed through the fire. A golfer, Meraj Shah also writes about the game [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] By Bharat Sharma The crisis we are now witnessing in India’s water systems is not just one of demand-supply imbalance and heavy pollution of rivers and streams. This crisis is the manifestation of short-term considerations and pressures to tackle food security, migration and urbanisation, and industrialisation and not paying heed to the silent voices of the environment. For a long time, especially since the British regime, our development pathways have viewed the natural resources of water, land and forests as instruments of development instead of viewing humans and resources as part of sublime nature. Our development targets and trajectories tormented India’s water. And now water is tormenting us through deficit, depletion and scarcity, floods and droughts, storms and landslides, pollution and contamination. This book helps the reader to understand what and how we can change to come out of this spiralling crisis. Watershed has two main parts of ‘understanding’ and ‘action’ describing the facets, faultlines, and stressors of India’s water resources. Understanding the science and temperament of the unique Indian monsoon—the foundation of our total water—establishes that populous, developing, and one of the most vulnerable countries in this warming world, India must manage its water differently. The better we understand the monsoon, the better we can plan what and when to cultivate, where to habitat our population and economic centres, and how to guard against storms or droughts. When policies and major programmes (called revolutions) disrespect the variations and cultivate crops that can’t be feasible with a region’s water endowments, we develop a deep water faultline. The Green Revolution, indeed, helped put the famine and costly food imports behind us for now, but plunging groundwater tables and mounting energy subsidies make us question how much longer can we walk this road. India must look to widen and diversify the foundations of its food security. Water-related crises in agriculture relate to procurement policies favouring rice and wheat; farmers sticking to geographically unsuitable crop choices; falling groundwater levels; unequal access to irrigation, and a lack of storage and value-addition for harvested crops. Crop and water technology and energy subsidies have made farmers more dependent on what the government buys from them. The nation lost a good opportunity by repealing the three farm laws and bowing down to status quo. Our rivers are under siege and at the same time the low and falling water storage—both above and underground—is a serious hydrological faultline. Deforestation of the upper catchments of rivers and sand mining and encroachments in the flood plains have drastically reduced the capacity of rivers to hold and recharge aquifers. As the author aptly puts it, “…it has been torn asunder by the greed of the elite and gnawed by the poor, striving to eke out a subsistence”. A river must flow and nourish. If it does not flow, it is not a river. Our cities face annual crisis cycles when municipal taps run dry, but the contours of the crisis are shaped by wealth, geography, and patterns of water use. For the wealthy, water is peripheral; for the rich or middle class, water is important but not yet central, and it is only for the poor that life revolves around water. When the cities swallow their lakes, ponds and wetlands, the water resilience disappears. This pattern is repeating itself across most Indian cities. Given the paucity and unpredictability of municipal water, households have access to water through tankers and borewells. Households and tankers mine groundwater, and after several years, as borewell after borewell begins to run dry, populations face a serious challenge. A 2019 study by World Resource Institute showed a tanker water to be 52 times more expensive than piped water in Mumbai, and 12 times more expensive in Bengaluru, and the poor are hit the hardest. Trying to solve the water crisis without managing the demand is like trying to clap with one hand. Without a good handle on data on the actual demand (policy planning still uses three-decade-old projections by the National Commission on Integrated Water Resources Development), we can’t even agree if there is a crisis. The collateral damage is also the questionable quality of the supplied water. In as early as 2019, all water samples collected in Delhi failed to conform to BIS standards, and Kolkata and Chennai were not too far behind. “The future depends on what we do in the present” and this aptly applies to managing the water futures of India. Plentiful and free groundwater and canal supplies have sculpted India’s growth story thus far. If dams were our temples, borewells were perhaps the answered prayers. However, without appropriate curbs, prices and demand management, the power of the technology can be destabilising. The real power of technology is unleashed when we manage it. Three technologies hold key to India’s water security—improved forests in the catchments, a natural technology; rejuvenated tanks for storing monsoon water, a time-tested traditional technology; and large-scale sewage and wastewater treatment, a modern technology. Further, water needs to have an economic value to support its development and distribution, and as a way of signalling respect for India’s water. The brilliance of the book lies in its convincing reasoning, evidence, and research-based arguments, and a well-organised discourse providing a 360-degree view of the important water issues of India. Each chapter starts with a carefully curated quote, which at times is provocative and at others, witty, like “a fool with a tool is still a fool”. The flow of the chapters is smooth and the prose alternates between shades of philosophy, fact-of-the matter, argumentative, and, at times poetic. Still, the author could have been concise. The mismanagement and improvement of public irrigation systems could have been covered in greater detail. Watershed is a must-read for water policy planners, professionals, civil society organisations, and everyone interested in understanding and improving India’s water. Bharat Sharma is Emeritus scientist, International Water Management Institute, & senior visiting fellow, ICRIER, New Delhi Watershed: How We Destroyed India’s Water and How We Can Save ItMridula RameshHachettePp 415,