Naidu meets Sharad Yadav, Bardhan over Telangana
KV Prasad/TNS

New Delhi, September 22
The Telugu Desam Party today continued its campaign for an early resolution to the stalemate that prevails in Andhra Pradesh following the announcement of carving out a separate state of Telangana.

TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who came here on Saturday, today met JD-U president Sharad Yadav and veteran Communist leader AB Bardhan urging them to join the effort in building pressure on the Centre to resolve the situation in Andhra Pradesh.

Both Yadav and Bardhan shared the TDP chief's perception that the Centre was not doing enough and blamed the Congress for creating a situation in which agitations and counter-agitations had brought the state to a standstill.

"We have to part like brothers. If necessary, the joint action committees on either side (pro and anti-Telangana) should be called to sit down and sort out the differences," Bardhan said after Naidu called on him at the CPI office along with a party delegation.

Addressing a press conference in the evening, Naidu criticised the Congress and the Finance Minister accusing the latter of responding to the issue in Parliament in a casual manner. "The Congress will have to pay a price for it is playing with the future of the people of Andhra Pradesh. It is not a party decision. Even the CPI and the BJP that support Telangana criticised the manner in which the Congress dealt with the issue," he said.

The TDP chief will attend a meeting of the National Integration Council tomorrow.

The plan is to seek and wrest political advantage in the elections both to the state Assembly and the Lok Sabha that are scheduled to be held simultaneously. The TDP has reportedly conceded space to the YSR Congress in the Coastal and Rayalseema regions while it has little to gain in Telanganaé.

SSP beats up juniors, suspended
Was furious at staff for making SP leader wait
Shahira Naim/TNS

Lucknow, September 22
Thrashing his three subordinates proved costly for the Moradabad SSP who was immediately suspended by the Uttar Pradesh Government on Sunday. SSP Rajesh Modak allegedly thrashed the three subordinates, who were posted at his residence, for not informing him about the visit of a senior Samajwadi Party leader’s to his place.

Senior SP leader and former Moradabad Mayor Dr ST Hasan had come to meet the SSP at his official residence yesterday. The three policemen reportedly did not know him but still seated him with courtesy. However, when SSP Modak learnt that the leader had been made to wait he lost his cool and reportedly hit the three juniors with a stick, wiper and broom. The three policemen showed extensive abrasions on their body to TV channels.

DIG, Moradabad, said the three policemen had given him a written complaint yesterday that Modak had beaten them unnecessarily.

"Guman Singh, Sunder Singh and Daya Kishan gave me a written complaint that the SSP, at whose residence they were posted in Moradabad, had thrashed them without any reason," DIG Amarind Singh Sanger said. He said the complaint had been forwarded to the headquarters. IPS officer and RTI activist Amitabh Thakur has sent a letter to the DGP and the Principal Secretary (Home) requesting them to order an administrative inquiry and registration of an FIR in the case.

SP leader Hasan, however, said the SSP's staff kept him waiting for over an hour when he had gone to meet him. He claimed that Modak had only scolded his staff and not beaten anyone in front of him.

(With PTI inputs) 

Venting out ire Senior SP leader and former Moradabad Mayor Dr ST Hasan had come to meet the SSP at his official residence on Saturday The three policemen reportedly did not know him but still seated him with courtesy When the SSP learnt that the leader had been made to wait he lost his cool and reportedly thrashed the three juniors black and blue

Telangana statehood divides IT men
Suresh Dharur/TNS

Hyderabad, September 22
The information technology industry, which had so far managed to insulate itself from the political turmoil in Andhra Pradesh, now stands vertically divided on regional lines.

The bitter debate over the Telangana statehood issue has created a division among the techies. A group of 3,000 IT professionals has formed a separate Telangana IT Industry Association (TITA) with an objective to actively support the statehood cause.

The new association is taking the Hyderabad-based IT students, aspirants and employees into its fold and wants to increase the representation of professionals from the Telangana region in the profession, that is currently less than 10 per cent.

“We have formed this association solely for the purpose of supporting the cause of a separate Telangana state. We want to increase the representation of people from Telangana in the IT sector as not even 10 per cent of the professionals hail from the Telangana region now. We want the state to be formed as soon as possible,” said association president Sandeep Kumar.

“We need a lot of focus on the Telangana region right from training students and aspirants to increasing our representation in the industry,” said Manmohan Reddy, an IT professional and a member of the new association. The TITA would conduct an awareness conference to counter a growing campaign that the IT sector would lose its sheen if the state was bifurcated.

The software industry is largely concentrated in Hyderabad and the city ranks fourth in the country in terms of software exports. The city, which accounts for software exports worth Rs 50,000 crore annually, is home to about 700 IT and ITES companies, including global giants like Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, DELL, Motorola and Deloitte. 

Help defeat Cong, Modi tells NRI voters

Narendra Modi

Tampa (Florida), September 22
In a blistering attack on the UPA government, Narendra Modi today asked Indian voters to hold it accountable for nine years of “mis-governance” and to throw out the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls as they did after the Emergency in 1977.

Drawing a parallel between the elections of 1977 and 2014, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate said, “This government, which has downgraded the country, has to go. Let us affirm that this government has to go democratically.

“We should work for a progressive BJP government...Like 1977, 2014 will be the voice of the people,” Modi said, referring to the first time the Congress was voted out of power after the 1975 Emergency.

Speaking to the Indian diaspora in the US through live video conference, Modi accused the UPA government of “running away” from giving a report on its performance since 2004, when it returned to power.

“See the arrogance of the government in Delhi. They are in power for nine years but they are not ready to give performance report,” the 63-year-old Gujarat Chief Minister said.

Modi, who has stepped up attacks on the Congress since he was named the BJP’s prime ministerial choice, also spoke about a “vested interest group” shielding the “mis-governance” of the Congress but did not elaborate.

“There is a vested interest group that is a raksha kavach (protective shield) for the Congress. This vested interest group is active and come 2014, we have to fight both the Congress and this vested interest group,” said Modi, who has been denied a US visa since 2005 and has been interacting with NRIs via video-conferencing.

“As soon as I finish (my speech) they will start, what Modi said, but friends, Modi gave answers to the people in December 2012 and the people chose him for a third time with distinction to serve them,” he said.

“I want to tell the Congress friends, do you at least agree that when the Vajpayee government was there, growth rate was 8.4 per cent but now it is 4.8 per cent under this (UPA) government.”

Interestingly, Modi used the occasion to praise the leadership of L K Advani, who had resisted his nomination to the key position. He also lauded Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Chauhan and several chief ministers and leaders of the BJP.

Highlighting the achievements of the six-year rule of the NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Modi said it gave a new direction and inspiration to India and the world.

Only the BJP can save India from the current crisis, he said.

Modi urged the Indian American community, in particular his supporters, to play a meaningful role for the BJP’s victory. — PTI

BJP misleading people: Sonia

Sonia Gandhi

Rupaheli/Pachpadara (Raj), September 22
On a day Narendra Modi attacked UPA government for its “mis-governance”, Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi hit back accusing BJP of hatching conspiracies before elections and misleading people in its hunger for power.

Modi, addressing an audience in the US through video conference, claimed that the UPA was “running away” from giving its performance report of nine years, but Gandhi said her government had empowered people through various measures like RTI, food security and land acquisition while the BJP had nothing to show.

“The UPA government empowered people with Right to Information, Right to Education, MGNREGA, and recently gave food security to people and also introduced new land acquisition act in the interest of farmers,” she said.

“The BJP, on the other hand, misleads people and points fingers at the works of Congress governments. Why did they not do such work...who has stopped them from taking such decisions and empowering people?”, she asked.

“They are just concerned about power and hatch conspiracies before elections. You all need to remain alert from them because they mislead people,” the UPA chairperson said at a public meeting in Rupaheli, a remote area of Bhilwara district.

After unveiling plaques for foundation stone of a Mainline Electric Multiple Unit (MEMU) coach factory and drinking water project, Gandhi heaped praise on Manmohan Singh government, saying it has started a new era of empowering people.

Earlier, after the stone-laying ceremony of a Rs 37,230-crore refinery and petrochemical complex at Pachpadara in Barmer district, she stressed that communal peace has to be maintained for development.

She said the country’s secular ethos require that all communities move together on the path of development. “When your own government ensures an environment of peace and harmony, there is development in every direction, then only there is prosperity. — PTI

Usmani had cash on his person: Probe
Shiv Kumar/TNS

Mumbai, September 22
Afzal Usmani, the alleged Indian Mujahideen operative accused of carrying out bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in 2008 who escaped from the police custody on Friday, was carrying cash in violation of prison rules, according to the police.

Interrogation of Usmani’s co-accused revealed that he had been carrying cash for quite some time. So far, it is not clear how he obtained that money. It might have been passed on to him in the prison or by his relatives during their visits to the court.

Jail rules prohibit inmates from possessing cash. They are also not allowed use of mobile phones in the jail.

Usmani escaped from the Sessions Court building in down town Mumbai when he was brought there for hearing. Police officials admitted he might have escaped an hour before his absence came to notice. With cash on his person, he might have moved out of Mumbai city limits within hours of his escape.

The Churchgate and the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway stations are situated a couple of km away from the court premises. “So, anyone familiar with Mumbai would be able to catch a train or a bus and be out of city limits in about an hour,” a police official said.

Usmani’s escape has put the Maharashtra Government in a spot. The Opposition is calling for Home Minister RR Patil’s head. “Was Usmani allowed to flee?” BJP leader Gopinath Munde asked. He alleged 514 accused had escaped from the police custody so far. 

IM operative still on the run, cops clueless

Mumbai, September 22
The Maharashtra Police plans to announce a cash reward for information on Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Afzal Usmani, who fled from a court here recently. Various police teams, specially formed to track down Usmani, had fanned out across the country, but had been unable to find any clue about his whereabouts so far, a police officer said here today.

A cash reward might be announced for information leading to Usmani’s arrest, if he was not traced in the next few days, a police officer said. However, he did not divulge the amount that would be offered for information on Usmani.

Suspecting that Usmani might attempt to cross over to Nepal, police forces of Bihar, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim as well as West Bengal have been alerted.

Police teams have also been dispatched to Usmani’s home state Uttar Pradesh and the neighbouring state of Bihar, the officer said, adding that he had built up a good network in the two states, during his heydays.

Usmani’s photographs with his beard and without his beard, his case details, possible places he could be found, his fingerprints, as well as details about his relatives, friends and neighbours, have also been provided to police teams and informants in Aurangabad, Thane, Pune, Vashi in Maharashtra, besides Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and other neighboring states. — PTI

Sonia lays stone of refinery complex

Pachpadra (Rajasthan), Sept 22
UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone of Rs 37,230-crore refinery and petrochemical complex here today. Gandhi, who flew in a chopper to the Thar desert of Rajasthan, unveiled two plaques of foundation stone with a push button in the presence of Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot here, 90 km from Jodhpur.

The Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and the Rajasthan Government are jointly setting up a 9 million tonnes per annum grassroot petrochemical complex.

The HPCL would have 74 per cent stake in the joint venture, while the rest 26 per cent would be with the state government. — PTI  

BJP shies away from BSY re-entry into party

Bangalore, September 22
The BJP has shied away from early re-entry of former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa into the party fold, apprehending that a green signal would provide “ammunition” to the Congress to attack it.

“It's a question of the party’s image. We don’t want to give a stick to the Congress to beat us,” a senior BJP leader said, who expects possible coming back of the political heavyweight closer to the elections, when defections from one party to another are seen as “normal”.

A section of the BJP state unit is pushing for the return of Yeddyurappa, who quit the party last year and forged Karnataka Janata Party (KJP). — PTI

Rajnath: BJP more secular than Cong
Rajmeet Singh/TNS

Chandigarh, September 22
Spelling out the agenda of the BJP in the coming General Election, party president Rajnath Singh said today that their party was more secular than the Congress.“We are secular and would always remain secular. The Congress-ruled states or supported by the Congress have witnessed more communal riots than in the BJP-ruled states. It is a false propaganda spread by the UPA government to divert attention of the masses from the burning national issues”, said the BJP chief who is in the city to meet BJP core groups of northern states.

On his first visit to the city after becoming the BJP chief and Narendra Modi’s name being declared as the party’s PM candidate, a charged Rajnath Singh accused the UPA government of playing the communal card against the BJP. “It is the Congress which adopts the divide and rule policy, but now the people want change”, he stated.

Addressing party workers from the region, he said other political parties in the country were facing a crisis of credibility but the BJP would go to the masses with the challenge, adding: “We need to repose faith of the people in the political system. We are not against globalisation, but it should not be at the cost of the autonomy of the nation”,

Taking credit for development in the BJP-ruled states, he said strong will power was required to change the face of the nation. He repeatedly reminded the participants about the Vajpayee-led BJP government rule from 1998 to 2004 to drive home the point of the need to bring the BJP to power.

BJP chief demands Prez Rule in UP
Vibha Sharma/TNS

New Delhi, September 22
BJP president Rajnath Singh today met President Pranab Mukherjee and apprised him over the alleged "mishandling" of the Muzzaffarnagar riots by the ruling Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh. He demanded the state Assembly should be dissolved and the President should take control of the state.

The saffron party is miffed over the way UP CM Akhilesh Yadav has gone after "innocent" BJP members while adopting a "partial, soft" approach toward SP leaders, despite "ample proof" of their role in the violence that left many dead and thousands homeless.

He urged the President to take control of the state in view of the "emergency-like" situation prevailing there. Along with imposition of the President's Rule, the BJP is also demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the string of communal incidents in the state. Rajnath was accompanied by state BJP leaders when he met the President.

He also came out in support of former Army chief Gen VK Singh saying the government was deliberately troubling all those wanting to join the saffron party.

"Whatever VK Singh has said is correct. Why was no inquiry held against him when he was in service? Why are they getting into holding investigations one year after his retirement and that too soon after he shared the dais with Narendra Modi," he said.

Helpline for BSF troops to fight stress
Vijay Mohan/TNS

Chandigarh, September 22
In the first venture of its kind, the Border Security Force has established a helpline for its personnel where any individual can directly approach the apex headquarters with his perceived grievance without having to go through the hierarchical chain of command.

The helpline is expected to mitigate stress levels in the force where troops have to undertake long and arduous border guarding duties in remote areas under difficult climatic and environmental conditions. It was set up recently as a pilot project at the Headquarters, Special Director General, West, which is responsible for the management of the International Border with Pakistan and BSF deployment along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

BSF sources said in the first four months of its establishment, the helpline received over 200 complaints, out of which about 90 have been redressed. While the act of making a bonafide complaint is not held against an individual, any false or mala fide complaint, of which there have been a few instances, is dealt with appropriately under BSF Rules.

Most complaints pertain to issues concerning sanction of leave, pay anomalies, nature of duty and working conditions or transfer. The BSF is mulling to introduce this concept in other headquarters. One of the world’s largest border guarding forces in the world, the BSF has about 2.4 lakh personnel in 186 battalions.

SC: No death penalty for 2 who killed 35 Bhumihars in Bihar
R Sedhuraman
Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, September 22
The Supreme Court on Friday commuted to life term the death sentence awarded to two persons under the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) for carrying out a gruesome carnage in which 35 Bhumihars (landowners) were killed in Bara village in Gaya district of Bihar on February 12, 1992.

A Bench comprising Justices AK Patnaik and HL Gokhale acquitted another person who had also been sentenced to death by a TADA court.

The SC, however, clarified that the convicts Vyas Kahar, alias Vyasjee and Bugal Mochi alias Bugal Ravidas, would have to spend rest of their lives in prison. It acquitted the third convict, Naresh Paswan, as a similarly placed accused had been let off by the TADA court.

The apex court noted that the convicts belonged to the economically weaker and exploited sections of society such as the Scheduled Caste and backward classes and had taken part in the massacre in retaliation to an earlier attack by the Bhumihar community led by the Ranvir Sena.

The Bench also pointed out that none of the witnesses had described the convicts as members of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) which had planned and executed the carnage. Armed with explosives and fire arms, about 300 MCC extremists had attacked the village at about 2130 hours and carried out the killings by slitting the throats of the victims after tying their hands and legs.

“It is quite possible that due to their poverty and caste conflict in the villages, they were drawn in the melee and participated in the crime,” the Bench remarked and pointed out that they did not harm the women and children. Further, one of the convicts had spared all the family members of his employer.

“This is not to say that such acts are to be condoned, but at the same time we have to consider as to whether after taking into account these circumstances of the accused, death sentence was warranted. We do not think so,” Justice Gokhale who has written the verdict for the Bench explained.

SC acquits man convicted of rape
R Sedhuraman
Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, September 22
The Supreme Court has acquitted a man, Kaini Rajan, sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for seven years for raping a woman on the roadside in broad daylight and impregnating her.

The time and place of the crime and the fact that she had filed the police complaint after giving birth to a child raised doubts over her version, a Bench comprising Justices KS Radhakrishnan and AK Sikri ruled.

Acknowledging that normally the rape victim’s version “commands great respect and acceptability, but if there are some circumstances which cast some doubt in the mind of the court on the veracity of her evidence, then it is not safe to rely on her uncorroborated version,” the Bench held.

“It was early morning at 8.30 am and the place of the alleged incident was on the side of a public road. If she had made any semblance of resistance or made any hue and cry it would have attracted a large number of people from the locality. Further, the first information report was lodged after a period of 10 months. All these factors cast a doubt on the prosecution version,” the apex court explained.

The Bench observed that the behaviour of her parents was also strange. They said they had come to know about the incident after noticing that their daughter was pregnant but kept quiet as the victim told them that the man had agreed to marry her. They also did not approach the man or his family with the marriage proposal. “They straightaway went to the police station to lodge the report, that too after the birth of the child.”

In such cases, the conviction could not be based on the rape victim’s sole version, the SC held in its September 19 verdict.

The accused, a friend of the victim’s brother, had allegedly committed the crime in September 1997 in Arakachal in Kerala. The HC had upheld the conviction by dismissing his appeal, observing that there was no reason to disbelieve her version on the paternity of the child despite the fact that no paternity test had been conducted.

World Rhino Day
Call for adoption of national rhino conservation plan
Ananya Panda/TNS

World Rhino Day

Saving Rhino: A one-horned rhinoceros along with her 22-day-old calf at Assam State Zoo breeding centre in Guwahati on Sunday. — PTI

New Delhi, September 22
Killing of a rhino, 13th this year, by poachers in Kaziranga National Park of Assam on September 17 is a wake up call for the government to roll up its sleeves if it wants to save the endangered species from falling victim to the rapidly growing network of poaching syndicates.

With just 2,650 one-horned rhinos left across Assam, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the latest slaughter comes as a grim reminder of the challenges faced in protection of rhinos in India at a time when the country and rest of the world celebrate rhinos and their conservation successes on World Rhino Day today.

Raising an alarm, the India-World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has called upon the government to adopt a National Rhino Conservation Plan to ensure synergy between various agencies, including the forest and environment department, army and paramilitary forces within a state as well as among the four rhino bearing states.

“What is lacking is national protocol for better coordination among the stakeholders and the bordering states. This will enable better coordination between the four rhino bearing states of India and enable sharing of best practices and information on poaching syndicates for protecting rhinos,” said Director of Species and Landscapes, WWF-India Dr Dipankar Ghose.

In Assam, where after decades of conservation the population of rhino living in the dense jungles, including the four protected reserves, stands at around 2,500, poaching is most rampant via easy trade routes across borders of Myanmar and Bangladesh thus taking away the reason from the government from being complacent.

Also, increasing use of lethal weapons such as the AK-47s used in last Tuesday’s poaching incident points out the easy access to such deadly weapons among poachers.

In view of this, WWF-India underscores the need for both the Centre and state governments, especially Assam where WWF-India has partnered with the state forest department and other concerned agencies for increasing the rhino population to about 3,000 by 2020 in its Indian Rhino Vision, to strengthen measures for safeguarding the endangered species.

“Even as the 30 deaths in a year may not be shocking given the fact that even forest cover is depleting and as all are due to poaching incidents is what is worrying. We have been trying to coordinate in seeing that rhinos in the jungles are relocated to the three more identified sites in Assam,” said Dr Ghose while pointing out that in the north eastern state terrorism issue is important for the Army and paramilitary forces. 

Border pact is done deal, Manmohan to tell Hasina
Ashok Tuteja
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 22
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will reassure his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina about India’s commitment to implement the additional protocol to the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) when the two leaders meet in New York on September 28 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

While renewing his invitation to Sheikh Hasina to visit New Delhi at an early date, he will inform her on how the UPA government was keen to introduce in the Monsoon session of Parliament the Constitutional Amendment Bill to ratify the LBA, informed sources said.

The meeting assumes importance against the backdrop of India’s failure to endorse the landmark accord signed during Manmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka in September 2011. Sheikh Hasina, who was expected to visit India this month, has put her trip on hold.

Dhaka is learnt to have conveyed to New Delhi that a Prime Ministerial visit at this stage would be fruitless because India has nothing to offer her though she has gone out of her way to address India’s major concerns, particularly on the security front, and created an opportunity to elevate the relationship.

Apart from its failure to get the LBA ratified in Parliament, the UPA government has also not been able to ensure the signing of the Teesta water sharing accord due to vehement opposition from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Sources said the meeting between the two PMs in New York was aimed at mitigating the diplomatic fallout of New Delhi’s inability to get the LBA ratified.

There is an apprehension in New Delhi that its failure to endorse the LBA could reignite anti-India sentiments ahead of the crucial elections in Bangladesh.

Such a situation could also cause a backlash against the ‘friendly’ Sheikh Hasina government, much to the discomfort of New Delhi. Sources sought to dispel the impression that ratifying the LBA would imply India losing territory.

The accord just legalises the de-facto situation which plainly means that Indian enclaves in Bangladesh are in Bangladesh’s possession while Bangladesh’s enclaves in India are in India’s possession. 

UGC can change criteria after exams: SC
R Sedhuraman
Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, September 22
The Supreme Court ruled that the University Grants Commission (UGC) had the power to fix the final qualifying criteria for the recruitment of teachers and other academic staff in universities and colleges from among the candidates who had obtained the minimum marks in all the papers in the National Eligibility Test (NET).

A Bench comprising Justices KS Radhakrishnan and AK Sikri pointed that UGC, exercising its powers under Section 26(1) of the UGC Act, had issued in 2010 regulations on recruitments of Assistant Professors for maintaining a proper standard in higher education.

“The power of the UGC to prescribe, as it thinks fit, the qualifying criteria for maintenance of standards of teaching, examination etc cannot be disputed,” the SC ruled.

As many as 2,04,150 candidates had obtained the minimum marks in all the three papers in the 2012 NET, of whom 43,974 were declared qualified for lectureship eligibility as per the qualifying criteria. UGC gave some further relaxation on September 18, 2012 and as a result a total of 57,550 candidates were declared successful in the NET Exam 2012.

“We are of the considered view that the candidates were not misled in any manner. Much emphasis has been made on the words ‘clearing the NET.’ Clearing means clearing the final results, not merely passing in Paper I, II and II which is only the initial step, not final,” the SC said.

The UGC had only implemented the opinion of experts by laying down the qualifying criteria “which cannot be considered as arbitrary, illegal or discriminatory or violative of Article 14 of the Constitution,” it ruled.

NHPC official abducted in Assam
Bijay Sankar Bora/TNS

Guwahati, September 22
A General Manager of the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC), Anil Kumar Agarwal, was abducted at gunpoint by suspected Bodo tribe militants near Assam-Arunachal boundary inside Assam territory late last evening while he was travelling from Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh to Tezpur in Assam.

The NHPC official was posted at the project site of Tawang Basin Hydro-electric Project in Arunachal Pradesh.