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Seven die of swine flu in Rajasthan, 19 test positive

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Representational Image. Photo: REUTERS/Arko Datta

Representational Image. Photo: REUTERS/Arko Datta

Jaipur: Seven people have died and 19 tested positive for swine flu in Rajasthan this year, forcing the state government to put its health department on alert, an official said Wednesday.

The deaths have been reported from Banswara, Barmer, Tonk, Kota and Jaipur areas, while the positive cases have been reported from Jaipur, Sikar, Tonk, Kota among other districts, an official told IANS.

“We have decided to do a survey of at least 50 houses near the house where a positive case of swine flu has been reported,” a senior medical department official said.

“We are requesting all the patients suffering from cold, fever, cough or running nose to come to hospital for a check-up. We do not want to take any chances,” he added.

The official said that after the sudden spurt in swine flu cases since the beginning of this year, the state health department has been geared to face any eventuality.

Health Minister Rajendra Rathore has directed all district hospitals to collect samples of suspected swine flu patients and send them to government-run medical colleges for tests.

Health officials have also been asked to keep stock of medicines used for the treatment of H1N1 influenza.

(IANS)

Rajasthan: 'IM' mail sender held, no terror link, not a Muslim

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Jaipur: The Rajasthan ATS on Saturday arrested a 34-year-old resident of Jaipur’s Murlipura area for for allegedly circulating emails to 16 ministers warning them of terror strike by Indian Mujahideen on Republic Day.

The police have identified accused as Sushil Chaudhary who was held on Saturday night for circulating threatening email claiming of orchestrating terror strikes in the state on the eve of Republic day.

The email sent to 16 Rajasthan ministers to their official email id on 22 December read, “We are Indian Mujahideen. You people be careful. We are going to give you a Big Bang surprise. You can do whatever you want, but it’s a challenge that we will carry out many bomb strikes in Rajasthan on January 26. Stop us if you can.”

“We have arrested Sushil Chaudhary, a resident of Murlipura area in Jaipur, after tracking IP (internet protocol) address of a cyber cafe,” the officer told IANS.

“Chaudhary confessed that he sent those e-mails to the ministers from a cyber cafe,” official said.

“The accused was arrested by the ATS from his residence after Google provided us the IP address through which he circulated the mails. It was traced to a cyber cafe in Vidhyadhar Nagar here,” ATS ADG Alok Tripathi told PTI.

“We were provided the IP address yesterday and the accused was held last night,” Mr Tripathi said.

“Prima facie there is no terror link and the accused is being interrogated to verify his motive,” he said.

The accused created a fake email id and sent the emails from a cyber cafe, ATS officials said. The ATS had requested the email company to provide details of the email id which led to the arrest, they added.

However, as per reports, even after getting the IP address, it proved very difficult for the police to trace him via cyber-crime investigation as he had skipped Gmail’s phone verification process while creating a fake Gmail account.

As reported by ToI, he had searched ‘how to bypass Gmail verification process’ on Google. He followed some steps after learning to bypass the process, so his contact information was routed through a website which generates fake phone number of the account creator for Gmail verification. The number which he used was US-based which initially confused the police.

Nevertheless, the IP address suggested that the email had been generated using a Reliance network. After getting the address from where the email was generated, the police reached the cyber cafe. Though Sushil provided a fake ID card, the police worked out some clues and identified him.

Rajasthan ministers receive threatening emails purportedly sent by Indian Mujahideen

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Jaipur: Some of the ministers in Rajasthan have received threatening messages on their official email IDs, DGP Omendra Bharadwaj said on Friday.

“We are examining the credibility of the email id and its sender who gave threats in the message saying ‘You yourself understand what we will do’. We are investigating the matter and have collected inputs which are being shared with intelligence agencies,” DGP Omendra Bharadwaj said.

He said that there is no specific target and also type of attack mentioned in the message which was sent on Monday purportedly by terrorists group Indian Mujahideen.

The DGP said that in view of alert sounded by the Central agencies recently, security arrangements were already tight.

“Alarming signals were coming for some time hence security arrangements were already tight,” he said. ATS is investigating the matter of threatening Emails.

“The matter is being investigated and there is no need to panic,” he said.

The DGP did not disclose the names of the ministers who received the emails.

Meanwhile, Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria, who is in Udaipur, said that the DGP was aware of all the facts and that those behind the emails would be identified.

“Security arrangements in the state are proper and police is on alert,” he told reporters in Udaipur.

(PTI)

AIFRTE condemns Rajasthan government for closure of government Schools

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Closure of government educational institutions most adversely affects children of disadvantaged sections, says AIFRTE. Photo: Daily Mail.

Closure of government educational institutions most adversely affects children of disadvantaged sections, says AIFRTE. Photo: Daily Mail.

Jaipur: The All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) has condemned the move of Rajasthan government to close 17,000 government schools in the state under garb of merger and rationalisation.

According to AIFRTE, “the justification offered by the state government that the step is being taken due to low enrollment of students in these schools is misleading and cynical.”

They said the move, “betrays complete apathy of the present regime to actual conditions of government schools and their students coming mostly from disadvantaged sections.”

AIFRTE allege the enrollment in government schools has come down due to the fact that students and their parents/guardians are forced to migrate to profit-mongering and often low-grade private schools because the government school system has been systematically downgraded by the state government over the last two decades and more by a series of anti-education and anti-child policies.

The move of Rajasthan government the Forum say, “is not in benefit of the students or the government schools at all but only in benefit of the profit-hungry private school sector.”

“Closure of government educational institutions most adversely affects children of disadvantaged sections including girls, Dalits, minorities and the disabled. Instead of rectifying the misconceived policy framework, that is increasingly jeopardizing the educational rights of these already disadvantaged sections, the state government is altogether abdicating its Constitutional obligation of providing equitable and fully-free education to every child without discrimination and in doing so it is also violating the Right to Education Act, 2009.”

According to AIFRTE, what is happening in Rajasthan is not an isolated phenomenon. “Government schools are facing a systematic policy assault across the country. In name of merger, rationalisation and other such pretentions, governments schools are being closed or auctioned to private players in Maharashtra (more than 13,000 schools), Karnataka (more than 15,000 schools), Andhra Pradesh (more than 7000 schools), Uttarakhand (more than 2200 schools), New Delhi (55 schools), Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and many other states. Closure of government schools across the country on such a vast scale is an outcome of a long-drawn withdrawal and policy-led negligence by successive governments (at the centre and states).”

“The crisis of government school system has been particularly exacerbated by the diktats of ‘Structural Adjustment Policy’ imposed by World Bank since economic reforms of 1990s. In the last nearly two and half decades, government school system has been systematically starved of funds, teachers, and infrastructure except a handful of Central Schools, Navodaya Vidyalayas and elite schools run by state-governments. This has been done with a clear intent of discrediting and ultimately destroying the government school system altogether so that an unbridled market for private schools is established. It is ironical that instead of reversing this trend and strengthening the government school system, the much hyped but misconceived Right to Education Act, 2009 has only sped up this decline by legitimising multi-layered school system and profit-oriented private schools.”

AIFRTE has appealed all pro-people organisations, activists and individuals to join hand against the alleged assault on government schools, and have also demanded the Rajasthan government to.

  1. Immediately withdraw its alleged anti-education decision.
  2. Upgrade all existing government schools of the state, minimum to the standards of Central Schools (in terms of educational infrastructure and other norms) within a time-bound schedule.
  3. Ensure that no child in the state is deprived of education on any ground whatsoever or is forced to pay money in any form for getting education either in government or in private school.

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