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NMML INVITATION | 25th April | Thursday | 4th Mandala Dialogue | National Reconciliation and Peace Process in Myanmar

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Kindly find below the attachment.

Mandala Dialogue is an initiative of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library to initiate a dialogue with experts and young scholars to actively engage on the emerging geo-political issues of contemporary relevance, particularly relating to India’s Neighbourhood Policy on different aspects of our relationships—trade, investment, security, culture, geo-strategy etc.

US: Chabahar port project exempted

US says Chabahar port project won't be impacted by sanctions on Iran. A State Department official said that the Chabahar port project, being developed by India in Iran, will not be impacted by US President Donald Trump's decision not to renew exemptions that let eight countries including India to buy Iranian oil without facing American sanctions.

The exception for reconstruction assistance and economic development for Afghanistan, which includes the development and operation of Chabahar Port, is a separate exception, a State Department Spokesperson said.

6.3-magnitude quake hits Tibet

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Tibet's Medog County in Nyingchi City today, said China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicentre, with a depth of 10 km, was monitored at 28.40 degrees north latitude and 94.61 degrees east longitude. Media reports said tremors were felt in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, at 4:15 a.m. local time.

More than 50 feared killed in landslide at Myanmar jade mine

Reuters

More than 50 people are feared killed in a landslide near a jade mine in Kachin province of Northern Myanmar. The landslide created a mud-lake which buried the sleeping miners as well as 40 vehicles. Ministry of Information of Myanmar confirmed that more than 50 people are missing and there is no hope of their survival in the accident.

Several fatal landslides have been caused by unregulated jade mining. In 2015, more than 100 people were killed in a mine collapse in this area. Jade mining is estimated to be worth more than 31 billion dollars. The illegal jade mining is a source of financing insurgency in the area situated on the border of Myanmar, China and India.

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement on the Pakistani soil being used by terrorists, made during his recent visit to Iran, was taken out of context, a spokesperson from the Prime Minister House said on Wednesday.

"There has been a lot of debate about PM’s statement on the use of Pakistan soil. The statement has been largely taken out of context. PM Imran Khan was talking about non-state actors using Pakistani soil under foreign influence to carry out activities in Pakistan or coordinating from Pakistan," the spokesperson clarified following criticism by some politicians from the opposition over the premier’s remarks.

"Case in point is Kulbhushan Jadhav/alike and local facilitators. In the same manner, Pakistan is attacked using soil of Iran and Afghanistan. The same was clearly stated by the PM during his visit to Iran while referring to the latest incident in Balochistan. This is why the PM is making all out efforts for peace across whole region.

"PM’s statement being linked to any other context is an effort to misinterpret the expression which doesn’t serve Pakistan in any way," the spokesperson added.

Prime Minister Imran, during his maiden official visit to Iran on Monday, had resolved “not to allow any militant group to operate from Pakistan’s soil.”

"We have been facing [impact] of terrorism since long. In Pakistan, we have suffered more terrorism than probably any other country. In the past [few years] we have lost around 70,000 people. Full appreciation must be made for our security agencies, with the way they tackled terrorism in Pakistan," the premier had said in a press conference in Tehran.

"We are committed to not let it happen again. We will not allow any militant group to operate from our soil. We will not allow our soil to be used by anyone against anyone,” he had added.

Agriculture Extension Yield GAP Between USA, India & States

April23, 2019 (C) Ravinder Singh ravindersinvent@gmail.com

Primary objective of ‘Agriculture Extension’ is to ensure that Indian Farmers get best of the world ‘Agriculture Skills and Inputs’ to get world’s best Crop Yields. There is huge yield gap between World’s Best Country Average and India Average and between India’s Best and India’s Worst.

Very high ‘TEN FOLD YIELD GAP’ indicates Gross Failure of Agriculture Extension Service in India. World’s Highest STUNTED & WASTED Children or Half of the World.

When average yield of Corn in USA is 10,572 kg per hectare, peak in some regions 15,000 kg, India Maize yield is 2664 kgand some Indian states just 1564 kg for Rajasthan. Similarly USA groundnut yield is 4442 kg, best in USA around 6000 kg, India yield 1425 kg and 624 kg in Karnataka.

As per latest Agriculture Statistics – 10 Cr Farm Holdings or 50 Cr Farmers in India have no Bank Credit service, 4 Cr Farm Holdings or 20 Cr Farmers use no FERTILIZER, 12 Cr Farm Holdings or 60 Cr Farmers have no Canal Irrigation.

Upto 1966 or first 20 years after Independence FARMING WAS PRIMITIVE – Low Yield Seeds, Minimum Pesticide Use in spite of Locust Attacks, Persian Wheels for Irrigation, Animal Power Ploughing and Manual Harvesting.

MS Swanimathan imported HY RED WHEAT from Mexico in 1966which had TRIPLE Yield in Irrigated and Fertilized Farms but Red Wheat didn’t suit Indian preference for White Bread or Roti. 18,000 Tones of Wheat Seeds were not CLEANED and Processing – brought with it ALIEN WEEDS. It was years of Local Breading to IMPROVE COLOR/TASTE.

2007-2012 – States Reporting Highest MILK PRODUCTION also report substantial growth in Live Stock Numbers. ‘Livestock population has increased substantially in Gujarat (15.36%), Uttar Pradesh (14.01%), Assam (10.77%), Punjab (9.57%) Bihar (8.56%); Sikkim (7.96%), Meghalaya (7.41%), and Chhattisgarh (4.34%)’.

Out of 300m Cattle & Buffalo approx. only 80m Are in MILK – only about 27% Yield Milk. Only 20m are Exotic/Cross Bred Cows i.e. JUST 6% of Bovine Population.

Other issues were already covered in my 5 Chapter report – pdf attached.

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Dear Friends,

The National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 928 out of 943 candidates, who are contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase 4.

There are 15 candidates who have not been analyzed due to unavailability of their properly scanned and complete affidavits, at the time of making this report.

For the complete report, please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/lok-sabha-elections-2019-phase-4-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

· Candidates with Criminal Cases: 210(23%) out of 928 candidates analysed have declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 158(17%) out of 928 candidates analysed have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

· Candidates with Declared Convicted Cases: 12 candidates have declared convicted cases against themselves.

· Candidates with cases related to Murder: 5 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section -302) against themselves.

Candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 24 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section 307) against themselves.

· Candidates with cases related to Kidnapping: 4 candidates have declared cases related to kidnapping such kidnapping for ransom, etc. (IPC Section-364A), kidnapping (IPC Section-363), Kidnapping or abducting with an intent secretly and wrongfully confine person (IPC Section-365) etc, against themselves.

· Candidates with cases related to Crime Against Women: 21 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women such as assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (IPC Section-354), husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty (IPC Section-498A) etc., against themselves.

· Candidates with cases related to Hate Speech: 16 candidates have declared cases related to hate speech against themselves.

· Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 25(44%) out of 57 candidates from BJP, 18(32%) out of 57 candidates from INC, 11(20%) out of 54 candidates from BSP, 12(57%) out of 21 candidates analysed from SHS, and 60(17%) out of 345 independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 20(35%) out of 57 candidates from BJP, 9(16%) out of 57 candidates from INC, 10(19%) out of 54 candidates from BSP, 9(43%) out of 21 candidates analysed from SHS, and 45(13%) out of 345 independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

· Red Alert Constituencies*: 37 out of 71 constituencies are red alert constituencies. Red alert constituencies are those constituencies where 3 or more contesting candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

Financial Background

· Crorepati Candidates: There are 306(33%) candidates who have assets worth Rs. 1 crore and more.

· Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among the major parties 50(88%)out of 57 candidates from INC, 50(88%) out of 57 candidates from BJP, 20(37%)out of 54 candidates from BSP, 13(62%) out of 21 candidates from SHS and 8(80%) out of 10 candidates from SP have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

· Average assets: The average asset per candidate contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase 4 election is Rs. 4.53 crores.

· Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 57 BJP candidates is Rs. 13.63 crores, 57 INC candidates is Rs 29.03 crores, 54 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs 2.69 crores, and 21 SHS candidates have average assets of Rs 17.85 crores

High asset candidates: The details of the top 3 candidates with the highest assets are given below :

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Nakul Nath	MADHYA PRADESH	CHHINDWARA	INC	6,18,41,72,757	41,77,74,000	6,60,19,46,757 660 Crore+	Y
2	Sanjay Sushil Bhosale	MAHARASHTRA	MUMBAI SOUTH CENTRAL	Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi	4,37,62,003	1,20,68,62,305	1,25,06,24,308 125 Crore+	Y
3	Anurag Sharma	UTTAR PRADESH	JHANSI	BJP	36,98,60,113	87,32,00,000	1,24,30,60,113 124 Crore+	Y

Table: Top 3 high asset candidates

Zero Assets Candidates: There are 3 candidates who have declared zero assets. The details of these candidates are given below :

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Priyanka Ramrao Shirole	MAHARASHTRA	NASHIK	IND	0	Y
2	Vitthal Natha Chavan	MAHARASHTRA	THANE	IND	0	Y
3	Prem Lata Banshiwal	RAJASTHAN	TONK SAWAI MADHOPUR	IND	0	Y

Table: Candidates with zero assets

Low asset candidates: The details of three candidates with lowest assets( excluding zero assets candidates) are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Prince Kumar	RAJASTHAN	JHALAWAR BARAN	IND	500^*	0	500 5 Hund+	N
2	Shamshuddin	RAJASTHAN	CHITTORGARH	IND	786^*	0	786 7 Hund+	Y
3	Baban Sopan Thoke	MAHARASHTRA	MUMBAI NORTH EAST	IND	1,100	0	1,100 1 Thou+	Y

Table: Candidates with low assets

^* on assets value indicates that the candidate has not provided the total in their affidavits, it has been calculated on the basis of details provided by them in the same

· Candidates with high liabilities: There are 459 candidates who have declared liabilities. The details of top 3 candidates with high liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Navajyoti Patnaik	ODISHA	BALASORE	INC	1,04,20,05,000 104 Crore+	1,07,95,82,000 107 Crore+	Y
2	Kunal Rohidas Patil	MAHARASHTRA	DHULE	INC	42,09,66,036 42 Crore+	58,57,84,500 58 Crore+	Y
3	Riju Jhunjhunwala	RAJASTHAN	AJMER	INC	85,39,98,231 85 Crore+	30,60,12,685 30 Crore+	Y

Table: top 3 candidates with high liabilities

Undeclared PAN: 70 (8%) candidates have not given PAN details.
Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: There are 18 candidates who have declared their annual total income** to be more than Rs. 1 crore. The details of top 3 candidates with the highest annual income are given below:

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	State	Total Asset (Rs)	Self Source of Income	Spouse's Source of Income	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by candidate	Total income shown by candidate in ITR in the last financial year (Self+Spouse+ Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by candidate in ITR in the last financial year (Rs)
1	Dutt Priya Sunil	INC	MUMBAI NORTH CENTRAL	MAHARASHTRA	96,20,96,603 96 Crore+	Business, Income from other source, Capital gains, House Property	Income from other source, capital gains, business profession, salary	2017-2018	13,82,85,680 13 Crore+	13,13,35,440 13 Crore+
2	Vivek Krishna Tankha	INC	JABALPUR	MADHYA PRADESH	66,91,18,888 66 Crore+	Leagal Services	Rental	2017-2018	11,58,83,659 11 Crore+	11,25,46,240 11 Crore+
3	Baijayant Panda	BJP	KENDRAPARA	ODISHA	57,44,15,842 57 Crore+	Emoluments Remuneration & Allowances Rental Income, Interest Income, Capital Gains, Dividend & Income From Other Sources.	Emoluments Remuneration & Allowances, Interest Income, Capital Gain, Consultancy, Dividend & Income From Other Sources	2017-2018	10,50,80,380 10 Crore+	9,54,64,880 9 Crore+

Table: Top 3 Candidates with highest income declared in ITR

*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing ITR

Other Background Details

Education details of candidates: 404(44%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th and 12^th, while 454 (49%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 34 candidates have declared to be just literate and 9 candidates are illiterate.
Age details of candidates: 287(31%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 489 (53%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 148(16%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years. 1 candidate has declared his age to be above 80 years. 3 candidates have not given their age.
Gender details of candidates: 96(10%) female candidates are contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase 4 elections.

Summary of Phase 1 to 4

S.No	Lok Sabha Election Phase	Total Number of Candidates	Total Number of Candidates Analysed	Candidates with Declared Criminal Cases	Percentage of Candidates with Declared Criminal Cases	Candidates with Declared Serious Criminal Cases	Percentage of Candidates with Declared Serious Criminal Cases	Crorepati Candidates	Percentage of Crorepati Candidates	Average Assets (Rs. In crores)	Women Candidates	Percentage of Women Candidate s
1	Phase 1	1279	1266	213	17%	146	12%	401	32%	6.63	89	7%
2	Phase 2	1644	1590	251	16%	167	11%	423	27%	3.9	120	8%
3	Phase 3	1612	1594	340	21%	230	14%	392	25%	2.95	143	9%
4	Phase 4	943	928	210	23%	158	17%	305	33%	4.53	96	10%
Total		5478	5378	1014	19%	701	13%	1522	28%	4.39	448	8%