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- Mahavir Mandir at Patna goes online
- Patnites gives over-whelming support to Anna Hazare
- Whistle-blowers against corruption to get Rs 5 lakhs
| Mahavir Mandir at Patna goes online Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:07 AM PDT Mahavir Mandir temple at Patna has now opened the online door for devotees living elsewhere through online. The devotees across the world could have access to make darshan of Lord Hanuman as well as of rituals and Arti conducted in the temple. The facility will become functional shortly. The online darshan facility was inaugurated on Tuesday on temple premises by deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi who said all rituals and prasad (offerings) should also be made online. He praised the temple management for the better utilization of money for health care and other welfare works. Modi said millions of people across the world would benefit from the online facility. Mahamandaleshwar Swami Umakantanand Saraswaiji Maharaj from Mauritius was also present on the occasion. Temple committee secretary Kishore Kunal said it was the first temple in Bihar and Jharkhand which is providing online facility to have live darshan of the deity. Some prominent temples like Vishwanath Mandir in Benaras and Sai Temple at Shirdi have this facility. The Mahavir temple has made this arrangement with Tata Communications, he said. Through online, the devotees can have the facility of performing rituals after paying certain fee to the temple even though the temple trust feels the rituals should be conducted in person and not online. Kunal said the devotees would be provided facility of sending donations for Daridra Narayan bhoj or providing medicare facilities for patients suffering from cancer and other ailments. Donations for renovation and development of the temple would also be accepted. The temple website is www.mahavirmandirpatna.org. |
| Patnites gives over-whelming support to Anna Hazare Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:07 AM PDT Patna: Anti-corruption slogans continued to echo the air in different parts of Patna with hundreds of India Against Corruption crusaders gheraoing the residences of local MPs – BJP`s Shatrughan Sinha of Patna and JD-U`s Ranjan Yadav of Patliputra – as well as the BJP`s state president and Rajya Sabha MP C P Thakur and city residents taking out separate processions in support of the Gandhian. The demonstrators, with tricolours clutched to their fists, waved anti-graft banners and shouted slogans outside Thakur`s Fraser Road residence for over an hour. They later demonstrated outside the Nala Road residence of Yadav and the Kadamkuan residence of Sinha. The MPs were not in town on Tuesday. Soon after the demonstration, however, Thakur made it public that he was with the Jan Lokpal Bill. “The Bill can be passed within two days. The government is not serious. It should incorporate the civil society and opposition parties` reservations on the bill,” Thakur told over phone from Delhi and added he could resign from the Rajya Sabha if the civil society asked him to do so in support of the Bill. Anna`s India Against Corruption (IAC) activists now plan to ghearo RJD boss Lalu Prasad, an MP from Chhapra, at the official residence of his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi. “We will soon appear outside the Lalu`s home,” IAC`s Bihar coordinator Ratnesh K Chowdhry said. Meanwhile, hundreds of Muslims owing allegiance to All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz burned an effigy of Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, who had given a call to the community to stay away from the Gandhian`s stir against corruption. The Mahaz activists assembled at the Kargil Chowk near the Gandhi Maidan and also raised slogans, seeking support for the Anna agitation. “It`s none of the business of the Jama Masjid`s Shahi Imam to issue `fatwa` to the community members not to join the Anna stir. The call of Bukhari holds no significance for the community,” Mahaz president and MP Ali Anwar Ansari told. In support of Anna and his campaign, the Patna Motor Garage Owners` Association suspended its work for the day. The association`s 100-odd members also staged a dharna at the JP roundabout near the Gandhi Maidan from early Tuesday morning till evening. They later took out a candle march to the Dak Bungalow crossing and back to the Kargil Chowk. Separate groups of students of different schools also came out on the streets and raised slogans in support of Anna. A minor incident of clash was reported between the Anna supporters and the NSUI activists who had come to burn an effigy of Anna at the Kargil Chowk. In the evening, a group of musicians led by Anil Akela organized a musical evening at the Kargil Chowk to support the Anna stir. Akela, who has composed quite a few songs to support the anti-corruption campaign, had the audience cheering for Anna. Slogans like “Rashtra-heet ke liye jiyenge aur marenge, Anna ke saath hai aur rahenge” rent the air as over 200 activists under the joint banners of Patanjali Yogpeeth and Bharat Swabhiman took out a rally in the afternoon. Another group of 200 and odd members of `Patna Light Decorators Swavlambi Sahyog Samiti` took out a peace march from Kadamkuan to Kargil Chowk. |
| Whistle-blowers against corruption to get Rs 5 lakhs Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:04 AM PDT Bihar government on Tuesday announced the creation of a special fund to award informers and whistleblowers for giving tip-offs about legislators and state officials possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. The fund would remain at the disposal of the state vigilance department, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said and added the reward amount would vary from Rs 11,000 to Rs 50,000 depending on the nature of case. However, it would be paid only if the information leads to filing of chargesheet by the vigilance bureau. A separate fund has been created for tip-offs on defalcation of public money by officials and contractors. Though the amount is same – anything between Rs 11,000 and Rs 50,000, depending on the magnitude of the loot, the informer may turn richer by up to Rs 5 lakh if the accusation leads to saving of huge funds. The state has also decided to give “consolation incentive” to vigilance officials who investigate such cases to their logical conclusion. “The government would bear the cost of return journey of non-government witnesses when they travel to appear in courts in connection with such cases and pay them an additional allowance of Rs 200 per day,” Modi said. The state government has so far instituted 87 disproportionate assets cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act. In five such cases, the vigilance court has ordered confiscation of the assets. Against this order, three accused – IAS official S S Verma, transport official Kapil Muni Rai and assistant treasury officer Girish Kumar, all suspended – went in appeal to the Patna high court. Verma’s petition has since been dismissed by the high court. The Patna district magistrate has now issued a notice to Verma, asking him to voluntarily hand over his property failing which the administration would seize it. “To combat corruption, one vigilance officer has been appointed in every government department,” Modi said. |
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