5 STATES ACCOUNT FOR 72% OF DIRECT TAX MAHARASHTRA, KARNATAKA, DELHI, TAMIL NADU AND GUJARAT ACCOUNTED FOR 72% OF DIRECT TAXES AND 53% OF CGST COLLECTED BY CENTRE, THE GOVT SAID TOP 5 states FIVE southern states PER CAPITA INCOME OF SIX STATES The five southern states mentioned above received 15% from the Centre’s divisible tax pool | P10 Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh — exceed the national average of `1,88,892* contributed `14.2 lakh cr of the total `19.62 lakh cr collected in direct taxes BHUBANESWAR  TUESDAY  MARCH 11, 2025  `9.00  PAGES 12  JEYPORE EDITION — TN, Karnataka, T’gana, AP, Kerala — together contributed 25% of the direct taxes and 27% of the Central GST UP, Bihar and MP got 36% of tax that Centre shares with states. They contributed 5% to total direct tax colllected by the Centre * Source: Economic Survey of Maharashtra 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 Fiery Day One as language At OUHS, gold medal row explodes in Lok Sabha title seems to have P R E E T H A N A I R @ New Delhi “suddenly some super CM appeared and they took a U-Turn”. THE three-language row hit ParThe minister said there is still liament proceedings on Monday time for the Tamil Nadu governas the Opposition parties and ment to sign the MoU on PM government clashed over the al- SHRI. “Today is March 10. We leged imposition of the ‘Hindi’ have still 20 days left in the month language through the National of March,” he said. Education Policy (NEP). Responding sharply to the House proceedings were ad- minister’s response, DMK MPs journed for half an hour walked into the Well of after DMK members the House and raised staged protests over Unslogans. Congress MPs, ion Education Minister too, stood up in solidarDharmendra Pradhan’s ity, though they didn’t remarks that the Tamil go to the Well of the Nadu government was House. Notably, mem‘dishonest’ on the issue bers from RJD, TMC and of implementing the PM SP did not join the DMK Schools for Rising India in their protests. Privilege (PM SHRI) scheme. Lok Sabha Speaker motion Replying to a quesOm Birla adjourned the DMK MP tion, Pradhan said the House till 12 noon. As Kanimozhi on TN government took a the House reconvened, Monday U-turn on implementing DMK MP Kanimozhi submitted a the centrally-sponsored said she was “very scheme, which envis- privilege motion pained” by a word Pradaged strengthening the against Pradhan, han used. “We have isschools managed by cen- accusing him of sues with the NEP The ... tral, state or local bod- ‘misleading the three-language formula ies. The minister said House’ by is not acceptable to that the state govern- making factually Tamil Nadu,” she said. ment had agreed to PM incorrect claims In his response, PradSHRI scheme and sevhan said he should not eral (DMK) MPs, who came to see have used a word for the memhim, conveyed this to him. bers of Tamil Nadu, the state “But when they went back, government, and its people. “I they made a U-Turn. They are do- withdraw my word if it has hurt ing mischief with the life of the anyone,” he said. Following this, students. They are misleading the Speaker said the word will be the people and doing injustice to expunged from the records. students of Tamil Nadu. They Later, Kanimozhi said Pradare undemocratic,” he alleged. han’s claim that the TN governPradhan said Tamil Nadu ment had agreed to sign the MoU Chief Minister M K Stalin had for the PM SHRI scheme but later also agreed initially but then took a U-turn was incorrect. CM: Mind your tongue, Pradhan; TN never said yes to edu policy E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Chennai CHIEF Minister M K Stalin on Monday slammed Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for making objectionable remarks against the parliamentarians of Tamil Nadu during a heated exchange in Lok Sabha. “The union minister must control his tongue and not speak arrogantly thinking himself to be a king,” the DMK chief said. During the Lok Sabha proceedings earlier on Monday Pradhan , alleged that the TN government did a “U-turn” in its stance on implementing the PM SHRI scheme in the state. Refuting the allegations, Stalin, sharing the minister’s letter dated August 30, 2024, asked, “Was it not you who wrote a letter to me, saying the PM SHRI MoU sent by Tamil Nadu has fully rejected the National Education Policy and the three-language formula?” He said, “We never came forward to implement your scheme. No one can coerce me to do so.” turned a family affair Dr Misra, wife of Prof Sahoo, is now posted as professor and head of obstetrics and gynaecolFORGET merit, eminence and ogy department at Maharaja professional accomplishments. Jajati Keshari Medical College A doctor can now “buy” the title and Hospital at Jajpur. In fact, of a gold, silver or bronze medal Prof Sahoo was the first to subto be awarded to best perform- mit the application to institute a ing medical students in MBBS, gold medal in his name. MD and MCh streams by the OdAs per the decision of the isha University of Health committee, the donation Sciences (OUHS) with a amount is `3 lakh for indonation of a few stituting a gold medal, lakhs. `2 lakh for silver medal So much so, the viceand `1 lakh for bronze chancellor of OUHS medal. The committee himself has secured has also decided to apthree gold medals - one prove donors on a firstin his own name and come first-served basis two others in the name if the applicants for the of his mother and wife. same subject are more The viceAs the state’s first than one. chancellor of public medical univer- health university The gold medal for himself has sity completes two highest marks in MD secured three years, the gold medal medicine has been instigold medals committee of OUHS tuted in the name of one in his own chaired by vice-chancelProf Siddhartha Das, name and two lor Prof Manash Ranjan highest marks in surothers in the Sahoo has approved gery in MBBS in the name of his eight gold medals rename of Prof Charan mother cently. The gold medal Panda, highest marks in and wife for best graduate in MCh neurosurgery in Sources MBBS has been instithe name of late Prof tuted in memory of late Sanatan Rath, highest Dr Harapriya Sahoo, mother of marks in medicine in MBBS in the vice-chancellor. The same the name of Prof Niranjan Trifor highest marks in MS surgery pathy and highest marks in MD and highest marks in MD obstet- dermatology in name of Prof rics and gynaecology will be Bishnupriya Devi. While three presented as Prof Dr Manash applications were rejected, deciRanjan Sahoo gold medal and sions could not be taken on five Prof Dr Leesa Misra gold medal, others due to lack of further respectively . clarifications. CONTINUED ON P5 HEMANT KUMAR ROUT @ Bhubaneswar Canada PM-elect to reset ties with India J AYA N T H J A C O B @ New Delhi IN a big push to ties that had deteriorated during Justin Trudeau’s leadership, Mark Carney set to become Cana, da’s next prime minister, has said he would work towards rebuilding his country’s ties with India. Carney emerged victorious in the race to succeed Trudeau as Canada’s next prime minister, securing 85.9% of votes in the Liberal Party leadership contest. Ahead of the elections, the former central banker addressed the issue of US tariffs on Canada during a media interaction in Calgary, Alberta, as Washington Mark Carney and Ottawa find themselves at odds over the tariff threat and a looming trade war. “What Canada will be looking to do is diversify our trade relationship with like-minded countries,” Carney said. “And there are opportunities to rebuild the relationship with India. There needs to be a shared sense of values around that commercial relationship. If I’m prime minister, I look forward to the opportunity to build that,” CONTINUED ON P5 he said.