Immersion site of Mahatma’s urn in Bihar to be developed
THE VILLAGE ASSUMES SIGNIFICANCE BECAUSE AN URN CONTAINING MAHATMA GANDHI’S ASHES WAS IMMERSED THERE AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1948
Kursela village in Bihar’s Katihar district, at the confluence of Kosi, Gandak and Ganga river, will be soon developed as a tourist spot.
The village assumes significance because an urn containing Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes was immersed there after his death in 1948. This year, Bihar is celebrating the centenary year of Gandhi’s Champaran satyagrah.
State tourism minister Anita Devi made the assurance to include the village in the Gandhi circuit on the floor of the Bihar legislative assembly on Saturday.
Her assurance, however, came after Congress leader and legislator Sadanand Singh raised the issue of neglect of the historical site. Singh said, Sarvodaya leader Baidynath Choudhary had immersed Gandhi’s ashes there in February 1948, after the Mahatma’s death on January 30,1948.
Interestingly, some controversy surrounds the immersion of Gandhi’s last remains. A few years back, Gandhi’s great grandson, Tusshar Gandhi, had immersed an urn carrying ashes of the father of the nation, which was retrieved from a vault of the State Bank of India in Cuttack, following a long drawn legal process.
Doubts have been raised over another set of Gandhi’s ashes having been distributed among Congress leaders following Gandhi’s cremation.
One such collection is at the Aga Khan palace in Pune, where Gandhi spent a long time as a prisoner during the Indian freedom struggle.
In Bihar, the state government has drawn up plans to promote places associated with Mahatma’s frequent visits to Bihar, including his first in 1917, when he went to Champaran on an invitation of freedom fighter Raj Kumar Shukla to mobilise indigo farmers against the British planters. undertake 2500 crore digital transactions during this year?” the PM asked.
Modi maintained that people can become “brave soldiers” in fight against corruption. “If we pay school fees, we shall do so not by cash but digitally, if we travel by train, air, we shall pay digitally, if buy medicines, we shall pay digitally, if we run fair price shops, we will use the digital mode. We can do this in our day to day lives.”
The PM said that the poorest of the poor is trying to learn to pay digitally while there has been a surge in various modes of digital payment after demonetisation.
While talking about people’s responsibilities, Modi asked them to think about wastage of food, an issue that he said people raised since the beginning of Mann ki Baat.
He also advised people on ways to overcome depression, an unusual topic for his radio show. “Depression is not incurable. There is a need to create a psychologically conducive environment to begin with. The first mantra is the expression of depression instead of its suppression,” Modi said. He added that depressed people can “go out in society with a sense of service. “Devote yourself with all your heart into helping others and sharing their joys and sorrows.” Besides, mutton is much costlier than beef. Goat meat is available for ₹350 – ₹400 per kg while before the ban, beef used to be available for anything between ₹170 and ₹230 per kg.
Uttarakhand had enacted Cow Progeny Act in 2007 that prohibits slaughtering of any animal of the cow family, including buffalo and male calf. However, buffalo meat was easily available across the border in Uttar Pradesh until chief minister Adityanath ordered a crackdown on illegal slaughter houses last week. In another incident on Saturday a leopard which entered a residential colony in Rawali Mahdood village near Haridwar, was beaten to death by the locals after it attacked a couple. Both were shifted to the district hospital where their condition is out of danger. According to the forest department, the leopard was ill and suffering from an old wound.
“The leopard was too weak... We conducted autopsy and disposed the carcass,” said range officer Mahesh Semwal.
The leopard had attacked the dog of 30-year-old Guddi Devi who then came out to save her pet. The leopard then attacked her and her husband. Both of them work as labourers in the industrial area. after their father came home, the boy was rushed to the hospital. But he was declared brought dead,” the official said.
Seeing the noose mark around his neck, the hospital informed the police.
Ruling out any foul play Buddhi Prakash said the boy had a very difficult upbringing as his father mostly stayed out and the mother was not fit enough to take care of her children.
The boy must not have even known the consequence of what he was doing, the officer added.
Both the siblings were students of the government school in the area. effect’ but I don’t know what exactly provoked them,” he said, adding recently another Indian driver was humiliated in a similar fashion but he refused to file a police compliant. Li was discharged later in the day.
This is the second such incident in a week. Last Sunday, a priest from Kerala, Tomy Kalathoor, was stabbed inside a church in Melbourne while he was attending a Sunday mass. Australian police later said the assailant was a mentally deranged man. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had condemned the attack and directed the Indian consulate to render all help to the priest.