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Telangana: TRANSCO, GENCO employees demand reversal of demotions

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Hyderabad: Engineers of the Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited (TRANSCO) and Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Limited (TSGENCO) have written to the Chairman of both the organisations demanding a reversion to the earlier decision by which the engineers were denied promotion.
Voicing their complaints in a letter, the engineers stated that promotions were offered since 2015.
However, in order to accommodate employees from Andhra Pradesh, TSTRANSCO and TSGENCO employees were denied promotions. Drawing a comparison they said that the TSSPDCL and TSNPDCL had however managed to accommodate native Telangana engineers.
“Though the engineers wrote to ministers, management and also received assurances from them, no positive move is initiated even after three months have lapsed,” read the letter.
In November 2022, the Telangana power sector management reversed employees by demotion them from higher cadre rank to a lower cadre rank. Since then the engineers have been demanding a reversal of the decision to demote them.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 16, 2023
Teen overdose deaths lead California schools to stock reversal drug

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With overdoses near record highs because of the prevalence of fentanyl, Gov. Gavin Newsom called in his recent budget proposal for $3.5 million to supply middle and high schools with naloxone — even as a potential deficit looms and some programs face cuts.
“This is a top priority,” the Democratic governor said last month. “There’s not a parent out there that doesn’t understand the significance of this fentanyl crisis.”
The second-largest school district in the country isn’t waiting.
Los Angeles Unified placed naloxone in each of its schools last fall. And Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced this week that the district will allow students to carry the overdose antidote to stem the “devastating epidemic” brought on by fentanyl.
“We remain committed to expanding access, education and training for this life-saving emergency medication,” Carvalho wrote in a memo to parents Tuesday.
Fentanyl — which is about 50 times stronger than heroin — is almost entirely responsible for a spike in youth overdose deaths in California, where such incidents were once rarer than in the rest of the country.

Some young people buy pills from dealers over social media thinking they’re pure oxycodone, Xanax or Adderall, but they’re increasingly laced with fentanyl. Others knowingly ingest the drug, a risk when just 2 milligrams can end a person’s life.
“It’s not that more teens are using drugs. It’s that the drug supply has gotten more deadly,” said Chelsea Shover, a UCLA epidemiologist.

But even the strongest advocates of supplying schools with naloxone acknowledge the limits of this approach to saving teenagers on the brink of death, especially if the drug consumption happens off campus.
California, like Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington — which require public high schools to keep naloxone on hand — will likely be able to save some overdosing teenagers. But not most, CDC cause of death data shows.
“Truthfully, I think having Narcan in schools is a Band-Aid,” said Assemblymember Joe Patterson, a Republican from a suburban district near Sacramento who’s authoring legislation requiring schools to stock the drug. “It’s really just a treatment to save lives when kids are poisoned. But we need to stop kids from being poisoned in the first place.”
Schools can get naloxone for free through California Department of Public Health grants, and some have already administered it several times this school year: 12 times in Los Angeles, at least once in Santa Clara County and once in Sacramento, according to school district spokespeople.
“If you have free, ready access to something like this, why not put it in those spaces where you could save a life?” asked Flores.
But many districts don’t carry it in the absence of a state mandate. And despite Newsom’s support for more naloxone funding, he has not said whether he backs legislation that would require schools to keep the antidote drug on site.
Keeping a couple doses in a central location within a school is only the “bare minimum thing that we should do,” said Shover.

Teenagers are more likely than school nurses to see their peers overdosing in time to do something about it, and those whose friends might be at risk should carry doses, the epidemiologist said. That reasoning, and the urging of the county department of public health, prompted LAUSD’s new policy.
California lawmakers are also considering legislation that would require stadiums, amusement parks, concert venues and universities to have naloxone on hand. The medication is available in a nasal spray and comes without risk to people who take it in, even if they aren’t overdosing.
Other legislators have proposed new regulations for social media companies in an effort to curb online trafficking of “fentapills” to young adults. And Republicans have introduced bills that would lengthen prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers and sellers — a tough political sell for the statehouse’s Democratic supermajority, which has been working to reduce incarceration rates after the decades-long war on drugs.
Changes to health education for students are noticeably absent from the batch of legislation. California doesn’t require schools to offer dedicated health classes, let alone instruction on fentanyl.
A bill from state Sen. Dave Cortese would require schools to address opioid overdoses in their safety plans and have the state provide overdose training and prevention materials to districts, replicating steps that schools have taken in Santa Clara County, where he lives.
His legislation would, however, stop short of requiring schools to teach students about the drug or train teachers to administer naloxone, even though he said he supports both. Fights to change curricula or impose teacher training requirements have historically proven difficult and time-consuming in Sacramento.
“I think the bill takes a little bit of a step forward — short of mandated training, which would be the ideal, frankly,” Cortese (D-San Jose), said of his legislation.
Even if other fentanyl proposals are politically tenuous, getting naloxone into schools has drawn the backing of both parties, making the requirement likely to clear the Legislature.
“Ideally,” Shover said, “we should have done it a while ago.”
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

February 5, 2023
Masoodi Demands Reversal Of Decision To Auction JKCL

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SRINAGAR: Hasnain Masoodi, Member of Parliament today called on RR Bhatnagar Advisor to LG and highlighted adverse consequences of dust pollution and emissions from half a dozen cement factories and limestone mines operating in Khrew on agriculture, horticulture, public health, top soil, underground water and other components of ecosystem in the area.
He lamented that though the cement industry was collecting huge profit, at the cost of the health and economic avenues of the local population and use of local resources, yet very little is being done to compensate the local population adversely affected by the ever increasing pollution. Masoodi demanded that the administration should facilitate dialogue with the cement industry and persuade it to adopt the local area, contribute to its development and provide for the utilities and amenities like electricity, water etc to the affected population as is the practice across the country.
Masoodi emphasising that any further emissions and dust pollution would be beyond carrying capacity of the local environment, demanded that instead of auction to set up a new cement plant, JKCL area be used to set up an industrial estate with eco-friendly and non-polluting industrial units to be set up by local unemployed youth, and a part of it be earmarked for setting up degree college and other facilities in the area. Masoodi demanded that 51 DRW who have spent a good part of their life serving JKCL and have been left behind be, like other employees of JKCL deputed to other departments. He submitted a written request with the supporting documents in this regard. The Advisor assured to look into the issues raised including the plight of 51 left out DRW of JKCL.

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January 30, 2023
Why Pak is demanding reversal of abrogation of Art 370 for resuming dialogue with India

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Ever since Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made an offer to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to hold “serious and sincere” talks to resolve burning issues, including Kashmir, on January 16, there has been a lot of buzz as to how the two countries should resume their long- suspended dialogue to ease the relations. Within a day after Sharif made this offer, during the course of an interview with the UAE based TV network, “Al-Arabiya”, Pakistan PM’s office stated that there cannot be any dialogue with India unless or until Delhi reverses all the decisions on August 5, 2019.
The August 5, 2019 decisions made by New Delhi can be decoded quite easily. The Special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, granted and guaranteed by Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, was scrapped. All the symbols of special status – separate constitution, separate flag and all-powerful state legislature which had the powers to frame its own laws, facilitate or stall the federal laws,- were done away with. Alongside, the special privileges of the permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir to have sole right to their land and jobs were also withdrawn. That, in simple words, translated this complicated situation, that the people of Jammu and Kashmir, on this side of the Line of Control were Indianized” in all senses of the words. They were as privileged or ordinary citizens as the people in the rest of the country.
Why Pakistan is insisting on the reversal of the August 5, 2019 decisions and making it as a condition for resumption of the dialogue with India. The nation that had been calling for the implementation of the UN resolutions on Kashmir, that is, to grant right to self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, scaled down its demand to the restoration of the special status and the statehood. There is a method in this. Pakistan was never in favour of Article 370 which determined the constitutional relation between J&K and Delhi until August 5, 2019. Sudden love for Article 370 of the Indian constitution, are based on its own logics. It fears that Kashmir would lose its Muslim-majority character as the new laws have opened floodgates for Indians from other parts of the country to buy land and set up their businesses. Pakistan has always counted, the Muslim-majority character of Jammu and Kashmir, as an asset. It had made the similar argument in 1947 while claiming that the state should be part of Pakistan. The Muslim-majority character of J&K also gives it a religion-driven argument to highlight Kashmir issue.
Islamabad, no doubt, has sensed that the Indianization of the Kashmiri Muslims in fullest terms, would leave it with no stakes on Kashmir and it may find edged out of the whole discourse and discussions on Kashmir. It wants to inflict on the growing sense of the Indianness in J&K The optics have started changing already. It is difficult to discern that all this is voluntary or manifestation of some kind of inner feelings, but the fact remains that greatest symbol of Indian nationalism- the national tricolor, is becoming visible almost everywhere in the Valley. There is no challenge to it. These optics have become more pronounced and profound when contrasted with the past, and also that how the world has come to see Kashmir in the post-Article 370 abrogation. All the fears that Kashmir will be a land red with blood once its special status is revoked have come untrue. People exercised their wisdom, avoided clashes and saved themselves from death and destruction.
Pakistan is angry over it, and that’s why it is making all sorts of excuses in suppressing prospects of dialogue with India
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January 27, 2023
U.S. to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, in major reversal

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“You see multiple countries across the broad coalition we’ve built stepping up to send a strong message of support to our long-term commitment to Ukraine,” said a senior administration official, who asked for anonymity to speak ahead of Biden’s announcement.
The news comes after weeks of discussions between U.S. and European leaders, particularly the Germans, who have long resisted sending their own Leopard 2 tanks. Biden has spoken with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz multiple times this month about providing assistance to Ukraine, and the two nations announced last month that they would send Patriot missile systems to help defend Ukrainian cities, said the senior administration official.
Top members of Biden’s national security team — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley and national security adviser Jake Sullivan — also met frequently with their German and European counterparts, including most recently at a meeting of defense ministers at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, last week.
Top U.S. officials urged Germany to send their Leopard 2s, which are abundant across Europe and easier for the Ukrainians to use and maintain than the Abrams. But Berlin stood firm, with senior German leaders privately telling Washington that they would only send Leopards if the U.S. sent Abrams.
The president knew Ukraine needed Leopards on the battlefield as soon as possible, so he worked with his national security team to approve the Abrams. He ultimately decided to send American tanks after Austin’s recommendation, according to two other U.S. officials.
Biden “knew the only way Germany would do Leopards is if we did Abrams and allied unity is the most important thing to him. So Secretary Austin sent a proposal on how to make it happen,” one of the officials said.
The U.S. could have sent just one tank to seal the deal with Germany, but Austin decided to send a full battalion, said the second U.S. official. This shows the decision was “not a symbolic gesture, but something the secretary thought was the right thing to do.”
As news of Biden’s decision emerged in media reports Tuesday, including POLITICO, the government in Berlin announced on Wednesday that Germany and its European partners planned to “quickly” send two Leopard 2 tank battalions to Kyiv. Poland, Spain, Norway and Finland are also likely to join in the coalition of nations sending Leopards.

The decision comes after Pentagon leaders argued publicly and privately that now may not be the right time to send the Abrams. The tanks are too complicated for Ukrainian forces to learn to operate quickly and maintain on the battlefield, they argued.
“The Abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. It’s expensive, it’s hard to train on. It has a jet engine, I think it’s about three gallons to the mile of jet fuel. It is not the easiest system to maintain,” said Colin Kahl, the Pentagon’s top policy official, after a trip to Kyiv. “It may or may not be the right system.”
The administration’s thinking on the challenges the Abrams presents hasn’t changed. But the decision was made to procure them now so that when they arrive on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces will be able to maintain and operate them.
The tanks won’t be drawn from DoD’s stocks, as has been the case for other military aid. Rather, DoD will procure the weapons with money provided through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. This means it will be months before Ukraine actually gets them.
“There are technical aspects to the Abrams, which makes it a little bit more challenging than some systems that we have provided,” said a second senior administration official. “There’s supply chain issues that have to be dealt with, certainly training and maintenance issues that has to be dealt with.
“That’s why we’re doing it this way, through USAI, so that we can take the time, not too much, but take enough time to make sure that when they get into the field that the Ukrainians can use them and maintain them and keep them in the fight effectively offensively on our own.”
Another reason to procure the Abrams through contracts rather then sending them directly from DoD stocks is because the Pentagon does not have sufficient tanks in its inventory to transfer them to Ukraine, said a third senior administration official.
“As with other capabilities, you’ve seen us do this before if we do not have readily within U.S. stocks, then we go the procurement route to make sure that we can procure the right capability for Ukraine,” the person said. “That is what we’re doing here with the Abrams.”
The M1s will build on the capabilities the Pentagon has provided in previous aid packages, including hundreds of armored vehicles, air defenses and artillery shells, officials said.
DoD is now working through the challenges of delivering the Abrams and supporting them on the battlefield. The military will be setting up a “very careful” training program to teach the Ukrainians how to maintain, sustain and operate the weapons, “which do require a good deal of assistance,” the official said.
In addition to the tanks themselves, DoD is also procuring eight M88 recovery vehicles, which are designed to repair or replace damaged Abrams parts during a fight, as well as extricate vehicles that become bogged down. These vehicles “go with the Abrams to be able to provide coverage of your operation, to make sure Ukrainians will be able to keep these Abrams up and running,” the official said.
At the same time, DoD is training Ukrainians on combined arms maneuver tactics, which will allow Ukrainian forces to integrate the Abrams and other armored capabilities into their overall operations.
All of these weapons are aimed at helping Ukraine continue fighting Russia over the coming weeks and months, particularly in the wide-open terrain of the northeastern Donbas region, said the third senior administration official. The Abrams, in particular, is reflective of the administration’s long-term commitment to the war.
“We’ve said all along, the capabilities we’re going to provide are going to evolve with the needs of the war. And I think that’s what you’re seeing here,” said the second senior administration official.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

January 25, 2023