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THE
JURY

TOI SOCIAL
IMPACT
AWARDS
INCLUSIVE OF

NARESH CHANDRA: Ex-Cabinet

secy, ambassador to US, governor

ARUNA ROY: Social activist and

driving force behind RTI Act

ARVIND PANAGARIYA: Vice

chairman of Niti Aayog of India

THE WISE GATHER TO

HONOUR THE GOOD

rom the remote tribal

hamlets of Jharkhand,
the sand-whipped wilderness of the Thar, the
salt-affected ravines of Chambal, the slums of Mumbai and
from many such unheeded
corners of the country, voices
and images of people who are
making a difference will come
alive when a highly eminent
Jury of Eight meets in New
Delhi today to select the winners of the TOI Social Impact
Awards 2014-15.
The Jury is packed with
wisdom and compassion, but
also fortified with decades of
experience in understanding
and changing the face of the
nation: Suresh Prabhu, Union
railways minister and a key
member of the Cabinet; Arvind Panagariya, vice chairman of NITI Aayog (of which
the PM is chairman) and a
world-renowned economist;
Naresh Chandra, who has had
adistinguished career as cabinet secretary, Indias ambassador to the US, governor of
Gujarat, and advisor to the
Prime Minister; A P Shah,
chairman of the Law Com-

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mission, who as chief justice

of the Delhi High Court, delivered the historic judgement
on section 377 decriminalising homosexuality; K V Kamath, chairman of ICICI
Bank and Infosys and a doyen
of banking; Aruna Roy, the
driving force behind the Right
to Information Act; Sunita
Narain, Indias best-known

The Finalists & The Jury: P 8

environmentalist; and Aamir
Khan, the megastar with a
knack for transforming social
issues into box-office gold.
(See page 16 for profiles of the
Jury members.)
The 40 finalists, an eclectic mix of non-profits, corporates and government entities, have certain common
features they have transformed the quality of life for
people who were for genera-

tions deprived and underprivileged. They have applied innovative solutions to

long-standing, intractable
problems. Many have melded new information tools to
address basic issues like
finding decent work, delivering medical assistance to
pregnant women in far-flung
corners of the country, or
simply providing safe drinking water to parched villages. Others have introduced
new systems of organization
backed by appropriate technologies and market access
to boost incomes or educational outcomes among the
poorest. Or, have fought back
violence against women and
hidebound practices like
manual scavenging. Truly, it
is a rainbow of change-makers where each colour is as
bright as the others.
The Jury will scrutinize
documents,
evaluations,
field reports for 40 organizations to select formal winners, but in reality all of
them will be winners.
40 shortlisted, P 9

LUCKNOW TIMES (CITY ONLY) |

JUSTICE A P SHAH: Chairman of

the Law Commission

14 new swine flu

cases in city,
total crosses 100
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Lucknow: Fourteen new

swine flu cases were reported
in the state capital here on
Wednesday, taking the total in
the city to 102. In view of the
steep rise in H1N1 cases, swab
samples to confirm swine flu
will now also be collected at
Balrampur, Shyama Prasad
Mukherjee and Ram Manohar Lohia Hopsitals. Till now,
Govt fears black marketing of flu vaccine, P 5
400 HBTI students skip
exams, vacate hostel, P 5
samples were collected only at
King Georges Medical University and SGPGI. The samples gathered from the three
designated hospitals would
still be sent to SGPGI and
KGMU for testing.
All the persons who tested
positive for H1N1 virus on
Wednesday belonged to different localities and included
three elderly persons living in
Mall Avenue, Vikasnagar and
Faizabad Road besides a child
who belongs to Mahanagar.
Patients in hosp stable, P 4

On Day 1 of auction, bizman

offers `1.21cr for Modi suit
PTI

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Surat: The pinstripe monogrammed suit of PM Narendra Modi, which went under
the hammer in Indias diamond capital on Wednesday,
turned out to be the star attraction of a three-day exhibition-cum-auction being organized at the Science Centre.
The first bid for the suit,
which became a talking point
when Modi wore it during Barack Obamas visit, was Rs 11
lakh, but as the day progressed, the price continued
to go up. At 3.30pm, textile
trader Rajesh Juneja quoted
Rs 1.21 crore to be the days top
claimant. As the auction will
continue till February 20, Junejas bid could be bettered.
Modiji is my role model. I
also want to support the cause
of cleaning the Ganga, Juneja told TOI. Just before him,

PM Narendra Modis monogrammed bandhgala suit on display in

Surat, where it is being auctioned to raise money to clean the Ganga

NRI businessman Viral Chowksi had put in a bid of Rs 1.11

crore. Prior to that, two other
textile traders had bid Rs 50
lakh and Rs 1 crore.
Apart from the suit, 455

gifts received by Modi and 361

gifts received by CM Anandiben Patel are being auctioned
to raise funds for the Clean
Ganga mission and for the
education of the girl child.

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SURESH PRABHU: Union minister

for railways

K V KAMATH: Chairman of ICICI

Bank and Infosys

SUNITA NARAIN: Indias best

known environmentalist

Govt firefights as DIGs

boat remark blows up
India Violated
International
Law, Says Pak
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The government swung into damage

control on Wednesday after a
senior Coast Guard officer
contradicted it by claiming
that he had ordered the destruction of a suspected Pakistani terror boat on the
night of December 31.
As Pakistan latched on to
the claim and accused India
of violating international
law, the Centre refuted DIG B
K Loshalis remarks and served him a show cause notice
for serious misconduct.
Loshali had told a gathering in Surat on Monday, I
hope you remember the December 31 night I was
there at Gandhinagar and I
told them at night to blow the
boat off we dont want to
serve them biryani. A video

AFTER THE BLUSTER, A U-TURN

I told them at night (on
Dec 31) to blow the boat
offwe dont want to serve them
biryani | DIG B K LOSHALI ON FEB 16
I have been misquoted. The
operation was classied and
details were not shared
(with me) | ON FEB 18
The DIGs statement does not
change ground reality. We
stand by our statement (that
occupants of the boat blew it up)
MANOHAR PARRIKAR | DEFENCE MINISTER

Pak boat on fire off

Gujarat on Dec 31

Uncanny similarities to
similar modus operandi
of the fake encounter
syndrome to bolster
machismo & build Alpha
image
MANISH TEWARI | CONG

India has once again proved to be heinous in its face,

designs and urge for peace
KHAWAJA ASIF | PAKISTAN DEFENCE MINISTER

of the meeting has since

been doing the rounds.
Though he tried to backtrack on Wednesday, saying
he had been misquoted, he
was exposed by the video and
could face court-martial for
the indiscretion.
Defence ministry sources said his remarks were irresponsible because he was
not part of the operation
that night. In fact, the offi-

cer has a patchy service record and has never held a

major command position,
sources said.
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar said his ministry firmly stood by its stand
that the rogue boat was set
ablaze by the four suspected
terrorists on it, after it was intercepted by Coast Guard patrol vessel ICGS Rajratan
around 365km off Porbander.

AAMIR KHAN: Megastar with a

social conscience

NTPC projects
to bring more
power to UP
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Lucknow: A major push from

NTPC may help Uttar Pradesh
to tide over power crisis to a
great extent in next two years.
The National Thermal Power
Corporation (NTPC) will provide additional 1,657 MW power to the state by 2016-17 from its
various projects. Presently, UP
draws 4,150 MW power from
the corporation.
The corporation is setting
up a new project with two units
of 660 MW each at Bilhaur in
Kanpur. UP will get at least 50%
power from it, said NTPCs regional executive director (north)
Saptarshi Roy. About 1,200 acre
land is required for Bilhaur project. Physical possession of
land will be given to NTPC shortly, said Roy. The first unit is likely to become functional by 2022.
UP will also get 832 MW power from another NTPC project -stage II at Tanda in Ambedkarnagar. Under it two units of 660
MW will be set up. State government will provide assistance for
acquiring 800 acre land for this
project, said an NTPC official.
1,921 MW for UP, P 5

OF LEGAL & BUSINESS CHALLENGES AND MONEY TRAILS

CJI transfers
Teesta case
to new bench

AAPs foreign
funding legal,
Centre tells HC

No change in
ease of doing
biz: Parekh

Swiss raid
HSBC for
laundering

Dhananjay Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com

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Mumbai: Pitching for easing of administrative controls, HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh told PTI on
Wednesday that impatience
has begun creeping in
among businessmen as
nothing has changed on the
ground in the first nine
months of the Modi government. I dont see ease of doing business changing so
far, he said.
Parekh said industry
was still optimistic about
the changes it expects from
the Centre, but optimism
was not translating into revenues. Our PM has had a
lucky period in these nine
months. World commodity
prices are at an all-time low
which helps India the most,
Parekh added. P 11

Geneva: Swiss authorities

raided the offices of HSBC
here on Wednesday as part of
a criminal inquiry launched
into allegations of aggravated money laundering by
the British banking giant.
The probe comes days after the leak of documents
which claimed that HSBCs
Swiss private banking arm
helped clients in more than
200 countries evade taxes on
accounts containing $119 billion. The clientele included
suspected arms dealers and
drug traffickers.
We have cooperated continuously with the Swiss authorities since first becoming aware of the data theft in
2008 and we continue to cooperate, HSBC Switzerland
said after the raid. P 11

New Delhi: CJI H L Dattu

has transferred a case dealing with the anticipatory
bail plea of rights activist
and Modi-baiter Teesta Setalvad to a new Supreme
Court bench although none
of the two judges, Justices S
J Mukhopadhaya and N V
Ramana, on the earlier
bench which had stayed
her arrest till Thursday
had sought recusal.
Advocate
Prashant
Bhushan, who had written
an article on Wednesday
stating that Modi recently
attended the weddings of the
children of Justices Mukhopadhaya and Ramana, welcomed the move. P 6

New Delhi: The Centre on

Wednesday told the Delhi
high court that it had found
nothing against Aam Aadmi
Party in its probe into allegations that the party received offshore funds illegally.
The issue was investigatednothing was found,
the government counsel
told a bench of Chief Justice
G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw. The court then asked
the government to file a
fresh status report with details of its findings.
The court also reserved
its verdict on a plea seeking
a CBI probe into the past and
present foreign funding of
AAP in alleged violation of
the FCRA provisions.