HYDERABAD SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25, 2024 `12.00 PAGES 24 LATE CITY EDITION BYJU RAVEENDRAN CLAIMS HE CONTINUES TO REMAIN THE CEO The EGM which removed him violates Articles of Association and shareholder agreement rules, so they are not binding, Raveendran said EGM DID NOT HAVE THE REQUIRED QUORUM ‘SHAREHOLDERS CAN’T FIRE MANAGEMENT’ Raveendran said the EGM was convened without following proper procedure. “To pass any resolution the meeting needs to have a proper quorum, a set of people who are mandatory. Our articles are clear on the quorum requiring the presence of at least one founder director. Consequently, any resolutions taken at the meeting are not enforceable as per law,” he said ■ ■ “To reemphasise, the rumours of my firing have been greatly exaggerated and highly inaccurate,” he wrote in a letter to staff The authority to modify the board’s composition and management team lies with the board, not with a group of shareholders, he added. The EGM held on Friday was called by six shareholders | P10 32% SHAREHOLDING IS HELD BY THE SIX INVESTORS IN BYJU’S CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOGGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Wayanad to WPL hero, Sajana’s incredible journey into an overnight star. Not long ago, she was strugEVERY now and then, sport gling to even travel between throws up incredible stories. places to play. First year of Before the final ball of the WPL she was ignored. This match between Mumbai Inyear Mumbai Indian drafted dians and Delhi Capitals her for `15 lakh. The jouron Friday, Sajeevan ney started in school, on Sunday nondescript grounds Sajana was just another player trying her craft Special around her home at a in a relatively new envillage (Mananthavady) terprise: Women’s Prein Wayanad while playing mier League. with boys. Her romance She needed to score five off with cricket took off in humble the last ball to steal the win for environs with her parents — Mumbai. She promptly depos- her father Sajeevan is an auto ited the ball into the stand be- driver and mother a panchayat hind long on. It has turned her councilor — struggling to meet K A LYA N I M A N G A L E @ Chennai 15 rly stations in Telangana set for major makeover EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE `230.24 CR WILL BE SPENT TO PROVIDE MODERN AMENITIES IN 15 RAILWAY STATIONS IN STATE Basara `11.33 cr Begumpet `22.57 cr Gadwal `9.49 cr Jadcherla `10.94 cr Mancherial `26.49 cr Medak `15.31 cr Medchal `8.37 cr Miryalaguda `9.5 cr Nalgonda `9.5 cr Peddapalli `26.49 cr Shadnagar `9.59 cr Umdanagar `12.37 cr Vikarabad `24.35 cr Warangal `25.41 cr Yakutpura Latest Household Consumption Expenditure Survey shows wide gap between rich & poor AVERAGE SPENDS The survey shows that the rural population spends an average of 46% on food items while the same is 39% for urban population The bottom 5% of India’s rural population, ranked by MPCE, has an average PCE of `1,373 while it is `2,001 for the same category of population in the urban areas M O N I K A YA D A V @ New Delhi THE poorest 5% of the country survives on a daily consumption of just `46 per person in rural areas and `67 in urban areas, the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 shows. The survey which took place after over a decade, , also shows the large gap in consumption between the bottom 5% and the top 5%. The per capita daily consumption for the richest 5% of the population is `350 in rural areas and `700 in urban areas. According to the survey, the average monthly per capita consumption (in current prices) in rural and urban areas was `3,773 and `6,459 respectively - 2.5 times the monthly consumption recorded in 2011-12. However, much of the growth in monthly consumption over the previous decade is because of inflation. In real term, monthly per capita consumption has grown by only 1.3 times in urban areas and 1.4 times in rural areas. At 2011-12 prices, the same expenditure stood at `2,008 in rural India and `3,510 in urban India in 2022-23. This analysis, excludes the imputed values of items received free of cost through social welfare programmes. The bottom 5% of India’s rural population has an average monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) of `1,373 while it is `2,001 for the same category of population in the urban areas. The top 5% of India’s rural and urban population has an average MPCE of `10,501 and `20,824, respectively . Among the states, MPCE is the highest in Sikkim for both rural and urban areas (`7,731 for rural and `12,105 for urban). It is the lowest in Chhattisgarh (`2,466 for rural and `4,483 for urban). The rural-urban difference in average MPCE among the states is the highest in Meghalaya (83%) followed by Chhattisgarh (82%). The last time such a survey was conducted by the National Sample Survey Office was in 2017-18, but the report was junked by the government after the findings indicated a fall in consumer spendings. `8.53 cr Among UTs, MPCE is highest in Chandigarh (rural `7,467 and urban `12,575), whereas it is the lowest in Ladakh (`4,035) and Lakshadweep (`5,475) for rural and urban areas WITH THIS ISSUE As You Life It PLUS 12 PAGES Cong, AAP formalise deal for five states P R E E T H A N A I R @ New Delhi CLOSE on the heels of the SPCongress pact in UP the Oppo, sition’s INDIA bloc received another shot in the arm on Saturday with the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announcing their seat-sharing deal in five states, including Delhi for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Apart from Delhi, they reached agreements for Haryana, Chandigarh, Gujarat and Goa. However, there will be no alliance in Punjab. According to the seat-sharing deal, the AAP will contest four out of the seven seats — West Delhi, South Delhi, East Delhi and New Delhi. The Congress will contest from three her sporting ambitions. Sajana described her early struggles after the match where wrecked havoc. “I think Sajana and I were going through the same emotions (laughs),” Suman told this daily. “The 2018 floods were particularly hard for her family,” said Suman, who had coached her for more than a decade. “The water covered the first floor where she was staying. I cannot even imagine how she and her family survived those difficult times.” Suman also said that the family supported her throughout. “To travel for cricket every day from the area she comes from was a challenge in itself,” Suman said. L46 per person consumption a day by poorest @ Hyderabad THE foundation stone for as many as 15 railway stations across Telangana under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme (ABSS) will be laid virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday . Addressing a press conference at Rail Nilayam here on Saturday, SCR General Manager Arun Kumar Jain said that all these initiatives will further strengthen the rail infrastructure in the zone. Once completed, these stations with modern amenities will provide a unique experience for rail passengers. Sajana S in MI colours | MI she recollected how she did not have funds to travel. “I didn’t have money to travel. When I got selected for the district, I started earning money, `150 per day and it was a big amount , for me,” Sajana said in a video posted by MI after the match. Away from the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Suman Sharma, the head coach of the Kerala women’s cricket team, was nervously watching the game. She also recollected the struggles Sajana had to go through. Apart from the humble background she has come from, the 2018 Kerala floods too Bharuch rumble With Bharuch and Bhavnagar going to AAP, late Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s son Faisal Patel and daughter Mumtaz Patel were upset as Bharuch was Patel’s seat seats - North East Delhi, North West Delhi and Chandni Chowk. Both parties reached an agreement after monthslong deliberations. Addressing a joint press conference here, senior Congress leader Mukul Wasnik said the AAP will contest two of the 26 seats in Gujarat, and one of the 10 seats in Haryana, while Congress will contest the rest of the seats in these states. The two seats allotted to the AAP in Gujarat are Bharuch and Bhavnagar. In Haryana, the AAP will contest from Kurukshetra. The AAP was represented in the meet by Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj. In Goa, the Congress will contest both the seats and the sole seat in Chandigarh in alliance with the AAP. “Long rounds of talks were held on the Chandigarh seat. It was finally decided that the Congress candidate would contest this seat. We also had detailed deliberations on Goa, and it was decided that Congress will contest both seats,” said Wasnik. SPEED KILLS Rescue operations on at a pond in UP’s Kasganj district on Saturday after an overloaded tractor trolley driven at high speed overturned and fell into it. As many as 22 people, including eight children, were killed | PTI CM ORDERS PROBE AGAINST AGENCY MANAGING DHARANI EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Hyderabad Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday directed revenue department officials to immediately clear 2.45 lakh pending applications related to Dharani portal, the integrated land records management system. He also directed the officials to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the private agency that is currently maintaining the portal. The chief minister asked the revenue department to design policies and issue orders based on the recommendations of the expert committee on Dharani, which was formed to look into the reforms to make the portal foolproof. He also directed the officials concerned to make necessary arrangements in each tahsildar office to resolve the issues. The CM held a review meeting on the issues related to Dharani with Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, expert committee 2.45 lakh applications pending in Dharani portal across Telangana It is astonishing that the company that had won the Dharani tender for `116 crore in 2018 sold its shares for around `1,200 crore Revanth Reddy, chief minister REVANTH ASKS OFFICIALS TO RESOLVE PENDING ISSUES IMMEDIATELY & MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SAME IN FIRST WEEK OF MARCH WHAT CM SAID Why was maintenance of Dharani portal handed to a private agency in place of CCLA (Chief Commissioner of Land Administration)? The private agency went bankrupt later and changed its name to Terrasys Technologies Limited, changed all company directors and then sold shares to Falcon Investment Company. How did the previous government permit all this? Was there any control and management of Dharani portal by the government? What about the safety of land records of lakhs of farmers that were in the hands of foreign companies? members, chief secretary Santhi Kumari, principal secretary to revenue department Naveen Mittal and others on Saturday . The expert committee on Dharani comprising its chairperson M Kodanda Reddy, retired IAS officer Raymond Peter, advocate Sunil, retired special g rade collector B Madhusudhan and project director, CCLA, V Lachi Reddy informed the chief minister that there were flaws in Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books CONTINUED ON P5 Act, 2020. REVAMP Rollout of new criminal justice laws from July 1 M U K E S H R A N J A N @ New Delhi THREE new laws — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) — would come into force from July 1, the Centre announced on Saturday . However, the provision related to cases of hit-and-run accidents — sub-section (2) of Section 106 — will be on hold. “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), the central government hereby appoints the 1st day of July 2024 as the date on which , the provisions of the said Sanhita, except the provision of sub-section (2) of section 106, shall come into force.” The three codes were enacted to overhaul the criminal justice system by replacing the British era Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872. Passed by Parliament on December 21, the codes got President Draupadi Murmu’s assent on December 25 last year. The government decided not to roll out the hit-and-run provisions in view of the promise it made to protesting truckers. Truckers had staged a nationwide strike against the stringent punishment for the accident. According to the Section 106 (2), death of any person by rash and negligent driving not amounting to culpable homicide without reporting it to the police soon after the incident, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to 10 years and fine. EXPRESS READ TDP, JSP release first list of candidates Chennai: The TDP-JSP combine on Saturday announced their first list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in AP. The TDP released a list of 94 candidates and JSP five. JSP got 24 Assembly and 3 LS seats as part of alliance | P5 Row over Assam move on Muslim marriage Act The Himanta Biswa Sarma government’s decision to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriage and Divorce Registration Act, 1935 has triggered a row with some leaders from the minority community saying they will challenge the move in court | P8 FAMILY IN DISTRESS Hyd man ‘cheated’ into fighting for Russia N A V YA PA R V AT H Y @ Hyderabad Mohammed in military outfit IN his house in Hyderabad, Imran is surrounded by several letters addressed to the prime minister, the exter nal af fairs minister and the Telangana chief minister. His younger brother, Mohammed, is one of the Indian youths allegedly recruited to work as a “helper” to the Russian Army. The family, however, says that all of them found themselves in the middle of the Russia-Ukraine war. Speaking to TNIE, Imran said, “They were cheated with promises of a bright future.” Imran lamented that he had not received any assurance de- spite multiple pleas to several authorities. According to Imran, an application addressed to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy was submitted at the Praja Darbar on January 29, in addition to two other letters to the CM. But there has been no response. AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on January 25. On its part, the MEA on Friday said that the ministry was working closely with the Indian Embassy to bring back citizens trapped in the frontline. In Hyderabad, 30-year-old Mohammed was working as a manager in a clothing brand show- room. As per Imran, his brother was earning between `25,000 and `30,000 per month. Mohammed, who is married and has two children, was introduced to the job opportunity in Russia through Faisal Khan and his YouTube channel Baba Vlogs. “Faisal is based in Dubai and his aides Sufiyan and Pooja operate from Mumbai,” said Imran. He added the group charged `3 lakh per person. “My brother had to take a loan. He did not inform me and his wife until a few days before he left,” he added. On November 12, 2023, Mohammed landed in Moscow via Sharjah along with two others from CONTINUED ON P3 UP and J&K.
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