October, 20192MIDNIGHT REPORTER

IASThe 1984 batch IAS officer of AM cadre, Ajay

Kumar Bhalla, currently posted as Officer on SpecialDuty, Ministry of Home Affairs has been appointed asHome Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs in the Govtof India vice Rajiv Gauba(IAS, JH:82).

The 1972 batch retired IAS officer of Gujaratcadre, P K Mishra has been appointed as PrincipalSecretary to Prime Minister.

The 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre,P K Sinha who is currently posted as OSD to the PrimeMinister’s Office(PMO) has been appointed as Prin-cipal Advisor to Prime Minister.

The 2010 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre,Subodh Kumar has been appointed as Private Sec-retary to the Minister of State for Chemicals and Fer-tilizers to D. V. Sadanand Gowda.

The 2011 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre,Manjunath Bhajantri has been appointed as PrivateSecretary to the Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, Dr. RajivKumar.

The 2011 batch IAS officer of UT cadre, KashishMittal has resigned from the service over differenceswith the centre on his transfer to Arunachal Pradesh.He was posted in NITI Aayo

The 2005 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre,Basant Garg has been appointed as Private Secre-tary to the Minister of State for Commerce & Industry,Om Prakash in the Dept for promotion of Industryand Internal trade at Director level

The 1999 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre,Nilkanth Avhad has been given extension asCounsellor(Economic) in the Economic Wing of theEmbassy of India, Washington D

The government appointed Ajay Kumar as De-fence Secretary, Brij Kumar Agarwal as Secretary tothe Lokpal and Subash Chandra as Secretary of De-partment of Defence Production.

The 1999 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre,Ashish Chaterjee has been given extension in thecentral deputation tenure as Joint Secretary in theMinistry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for the period ofone year.

The 1987 batch IAS officer of MP Cadre, ManojJhalani has been given extension in the central depu-tation tenure as Additional Secretary and Mission Di-rector, National Health Mission, Dept of Health & Fam-ily Welfare upto 28 March 2020.

The 2010 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre,Hardik Satishchandra Shah has been appointed asDeputy Secretary in the Prime Minister Office(PMO)

The 2007 batch IAS officer of MP cadre, SanketS. Bhondve has been appointed as Private Secretaryto the Minister for Road Transport & Highways andMicro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Nitin JairamGadkari in the Ministry of Road Transport Highways.

Rajeswar Tiwari, IAS, Telangana State posted asSpecial Chief Secretary of Environment and Forest.

Raghunandan Rao who was waiting for postinghas been made Commissioner of Panchayat Raj andRural Development .

IPSThe 1995 batch IPS officer of UP cadre, Raj Kumar

has been given extension of central deputation tenureas IG, CRPF for the period of one years.

The Assam government gave a three-month exten-sion to Assam Director General of Police KuladharSaikia.

The 2005 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre, NishantKumar Tiwary has been appointed as Officer on Spe-cial Duty(OSD) to the Minister of State(I/C) for Power,New Renewable Energy and Minster of State in theMinistry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, R.K. Singh and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

AppointmentsThe 2003 batch IRS(IT) officer, K. M. Mahesh has been ap-

pointed as Private Secretary to the Minister for Environment, Forestand Climate change and Information and Broadcasting to PrakashJavadekar.

The 2008 batch IFoS officer of Tripura cadre, Dr. Honnareddyhas been appointed as Private Secretary to the Minister for Parlia-mentary Affairs, Coal & Mines, Sh. Pralhad V. Joshi in the Ministryof Mines.

The 2003 batch IRS(IT) officer, K. M. Mahesh has been ap-pointed as Private Secretary to the Minister for Environment, Forestand Climate change and Information and Broadcasting to PrakashJavadekar.

Ms. Shah Devanshi Viren has been appointed as Private Secre-tary as Officer on Special Duty(OSD) to the Minister of Textiles toSmt. Smriti Zubin Irani.

The 1984 batch IDES officer, Man Singh who is currently postedas Director, Ministry of Home Affairs has been given premature re-patriation to his parent cadre.

As many as two officers, Saibal Dasgupta and Siddhanta Dashas been appointed to the post of Expert Member in the NationalGreen Tribunal(NGT).

The 1997 batch IFS officer, Somnath Ghosh has been appointedas OSD(JS level) in the Dept of Defence for the period of threeyears vice Shambhu S. Kumarana(IFS:1995).

The 2006 batch IFS officer, Abhishek Shukla has been appointedas Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister Office(PMO).

The 2007 batch IFS officer, Pratik Mathur has been appointedas Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister Office(PMO).

The 1982 batch IRS officer, Pramod Chandra Mody has beenre-appointed as Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT)upon his superannuation on 31 Aug 2019 for the period of one year.

The 2009 batch IES officer, Jitendra Asati has been appointedas Officer on Special Duty(OSD) to the Minister for Petroleum &Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan in the Ministry of Pe-troleum & Natural Gas.

The 2008 batch IRS(IT) officer, Abhishek Narang has been ap-pointed as Officer on Special Duty(OSD) to the Minister for Con-sumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Ram Villas Paswan in theDept of Food & Public Distribution.

The IDES officer of 2004 batch, Kedar Prasad Burande has beenappointed Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Human Re-source Development, Communication and Electronics and Informa-tion Technology, Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao in the Dept of Higher Edu-cation.

Pramod Mishra PM’s new PrincipalSecy, P K Sinha Principal Advisor

Pramod Kumar Mishra hasbeen appointed as the new Prin-cipal Secretary to Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi, while formerCabinet Secretary PradeepKumar Sinha is new PrincipalAdvisor.

Mishra (71), a retired 1972-bath Gujarat cadre IAS officer,took over his new assignment on

Wednesday, an official statement said.Mishra was the additional principal secretary to the prime minis-

ter and was holding the rank of a Cabinet minister.He succeeds Nripendra Misra who stepped down recently.Former Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha (64), who was last month

appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Prime Minister’sOffice, is new principal advisor to the PM with effect from September11, 2019, a government order said.

As Additional Principal Secretary to the prime minister between2014 and 2019, Pramod Kumar Mishra is credited with introducinginnovative and transformative changes in human resource manage-ment, particularly appointments to senior positions, the statementsaid. He has a varied work experience in the management ofprogrammes relating to agriculture, disaster management, powersector, infrastructure financing and regulatory issues.

He has vast experience in policy making and administration andhas handled major assignments such as Additional Principal Secre-tary to the Prime Minister; Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation;Chairman, State Electricity Regulatory Commission, and in the areaof disaster management. Sinha served as the Cabinet Secretary fromJune 13, 2015 to August 30 2019.

Earlier, he has also worked as Secretary, Power; Secretary, Ship-ping; and Special Secretary, Petroleum & Natural Gas in the Govern-ment of India. On August 30, Sinha was appointed as the officer onspecial duty by the Prime Minister. Sinha is a 1977-batch IAS officerof the Uttar Pradesh Cadre. He graduated in Economics from StStephen’s college and completed his Post Graduation from DelhiSchool of Economics.

Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointednew Home Secretary

The government on Thursdayappointed Ajay Kumar Bhalla, atpresent Officer on Special Duty inthe Home Ministry, as the nextHome Secretary in place of RajivGauba who has will take over as theCabinet Secretary.

“The Appointments Committeeof the Cabinet has approved the

appointment of Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Officer on SpecialDuty, Ministry of Home Affairs as Home Secretary viceRajiv Gauba,” an official release said.

Bhalla, a 1984-batch IAS officer from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, was the Power Secretary before hewas appointed OSD in Home Ministry last month. He willhave a two-year term as the Home Secretary.

Vivek Kumar Johri takes chargeas BSF DG

IPS officer Vivek Kumar Johri took charge as the Di-rector General (DG) of the country”s largest border guard-ing force, BSF. Johri, a 1984-batch officer of MadhyaPradesh cadre, took charge from his batch-mate RajniKant Mishra at the BSF headquarters in CGO Complexat Lodhi Road. Mishra, an Indian Police Service officerfrom the Uttar Pradesh cadre, retired after occupying thetop post of the BSF for less than a year.

Mishra took over as the BSF DG in October last year.The new DG, Johri, will retire in September next year

and is the 25th chief of the force that was raised in 1965.The new chief was accorded a guard of honour be-

fore he took the baton from Mishra, a BSF spokesper-son said. Johri has been serving as the Special Secre-tary in the external intelligence agency Research andAnalysis Wing (RAW), under the Cabinet Secretariat, tillnow. He was appointed as an Officer on Special Duty(OSD) in the Union home ministry on July 29 so that hecan take over as the BSF DG.

Rajiva Sinha to be the newchief secretary of WB

Rajiva Sinha will be the new chief secretary of WestBengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted onThursday. The present incumbent Malay Kumar De willretire on Monday, she said. Sinha is currently the addi-tional chief secretary to the health and family welfaredepartment. De, a 1985 batch IAS officer, was appointedthe chief secretary in 2017 after the retirement of BasudebBanerjee.

Anil Kumar Jain appointednew Coal Secretary

Senior IAS officer Anil Kumar Jain has been ap-pointed as the new Coal Secretary, according to a govern-ment order. Jain is a 1986-batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradeshcadre. “The Appointments Committee of the cabinet has ap-proved the appointment of Anil Kumar Jain, Special Secre-tary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change asSecretary, Ministry of Coal,” the order said.

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Picture Of The SeasonThough it’s not a recent happening, but

again can’t stop without narrating the won-derful experience of top brass Dr.S.K.Joshi,Chief Secretary of Telangana.The chief re-cently visited well developed ArogyaSanjeevani Vanam at Gurramguda and therehe had a good time including cycling forsome time.Mr.Joshi loves nature and theenvironment, his devotion for Haritha-Haramis the best example for it. So, that’s the rea-son he rarely missed the opportunity ofgreen compare to red carpet.His click of cy-cling is like a picture of this season and It’ssure that the chief also want to spend thiskind of lovely time again & again. Yes - ye dilmange more !

All Is WellIn the regime of M.Mahendar Reddy, DGP

Telangana Police things are moving well ! It hasto be, because the Chief believes in seriouspolicing. Coming back to the news the last fes-tivals including the Ganesh immersion wassmooth & peaceful.The chief has set the thingsin such a way that the success stories are re-peating year by year in his command. Thoughit’s not an easy task, but it became easy becauseof the dedication of Mr.Reddy.So, no fikar in hisregime, things has to be well at any cost. Goodhappening !

First Time In IndiaHyderabad Police has already set its

own image & identity in the entire coun-try with its innovations. Now the City Po-lice Chief Anjani Kumar is taking the flaghigher. For the first time the horse loverAnjani Kumar with a group of officersjoined the Heritage Walk/Trot which ishappening for the first time in the coun-try. Such Heritage Trot is popular in somehistorical cities of Europe. OfficersArvind Kumar , Musharraf Ali, RameshReddy,Radhakrishna and CaptainPR.Singh and Siraj Attari of the IndianPolo Association also was part of thewalk.. In this way Hyderabad city policehad added a new concept of inspectionand inter department coordination in thenew exceptional way. Kudos !

Back With A BANGA 1986 batch officer of Indian Rai lway Per sonnel Ser-

vice (IRPS) N.V.Ramana Reddy, who is known to be oneof the sincere officer, has joined the Andhra Pradeshgovt on deputation.The officer has taken the charge asSpecial Commissioner at Andhra Pradesh Bhavan, NewDelhi.Earlier to this Mr.Reddy was serving as chief per-sonnel officer in SCR , Hyderabad.Mr.Reddy also servedas special secretary (protocol) in the general adminis-tration department and commissioner of information andpublic relations in the Mr.Rajasekhar Reddy’sgovernment.So, finally after a gap he is back with a bang.

On Special DriveThese days the versatile lady officer Shikha Goel,

Addl. Commissioner of Police (CCS) is on a special drive! That’s ‘Suicide Prevention’ & ‘Say No To Harassment’.Occasion was World Suicide Day Prevention Day andduring this event the officer gave a beautiful messageto the youth. “When it is dark, we see maximum starsand these stars are the new hope to live”. Whereasduring the another event the officer interacted with thestudents of Mahavir institute of science and technol-ogy and the main theme was ‘say no toharassment’.Amazing !

Meet The ‘SpiderMan’ OfficerKudos to Versatile IPS officer Mahesh Bhagwat,

Rachakonda Police Commissioner, who is on screenas a Protector & also as a Mentor. Friends ! PresentlyMr.Bhagwat is mentoring around 1200 civil aspirantsfrom all over India, including foreign countries, throughseven WhatsApp groups.In his guidance hundred &thousands of students have been benefited since fiveyears. Just amazing, what a reach ! That’s whyMidnighReporter endorsed him as a Spider ManOfficer.In the recent constable recruitment hundredsof candidates were selected, another feather is addedto his cap. Wonderful !

Hon. Dr.TamilisaiSoundararajan, Governorof Telangana, called onPresident Kovind atRashtrapati Bhavan.Itwas the first meeting ofthe lady Governor aftertaking the charge inTelangana. So, the Capi-tal City trip concludedwith couple of other im-portant meetings. Com-ing back to the news theGovernor is planning tomeet the public directly toknow their problems andfor the same she also di-rected the concerned of-ficials to work on it. When‘praja darbar’ news camein media, the discussionstarted in the power cor-ridors. It seems that forthe public welfare many

Mr.Joel Reifman, thenew US Consul General inHyderabad started hiswork from the dayone.After the in house of-ficial meetings Mr.Joelmet the top officials anddiscussed on varioustopics. Meanwhile CG metalumni from U.S. ex-change programs.He saidI am very proud to con-nect with Hyderabad’sspecial community of tal-ented professionals,who’ve also shared expe-riences in the UnitedStates.Many more tocome.

Governor Called On President Of India

more steps & episodes will be added in coming days.After a long gap now RajBhavan will open its doors for the grievances.When it comes to the public opin-ion, people of the state are quite happy & excited to see Dr.Tamilisai Soundararajanas the Hon.Governor of Telangana. Many more good happenings are expectedfrom Raj Bhavan.

Joel Reifman Making Rounds

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Perfect Role ModelSmt.Smita Sabharwal, Secretary to Chief Minister is on screen.The versatile

lady officer deals the important subjects in the CMO, works hard to reach the com-mitments. Behind then screen works silently & always stays far from name-fameand headlines.She believes only in working and that’s the reason the fresh civilofficers look her as their role model.Credit goes to all her style of working &vision.Coming back to the news in the picture the lady officer is taking the feed-back of water connection & supply from the sarpanchs.Other officers can also beseen in the video conference. Hat’s off to her devotion !

On MissionHardcore officer Dr. B.

Janardhan Reddy, Secretary, Edu-cation is on a mission.Yes ! theofficer’s main focus is to improvequality of education and to makeit quality base he is putting all hisefforts, burning his midnight oil.Officer & his team is on toes 24/7and not ready to compromise atany cost to achieve the goal. An-other news is Mr.Reddy partici-pated in the launching program ofOpen Educational Resources(OERs) Web portal at IndiraPriyadarshini Auditorium recently.Hat’s off to the officer.

Young IAS officer Harish,the in charge Collector ofRR.Dist is on screen.The sin-cere & hardcore officer is al-ready in news for his bestperformance and now the of-ficer has risen the slogan forfitness.The officer recentlytook part in 2k run with theschool students atHayathnagar. He advised thestudents to do the regularexercise and to stop eatingjunk food immediately. Stu-dents should take a goodnutrition food to be fit and tostay away from the variousdiseases & weakness. Headded. Kudos !

The young IPS officerDr.Chetana is makingrounds with her best perfor-mance at Narayanpet dis-trict. Recently SP Chetanahas installed & inaugurateda compliant-box under ‘Ne-Nestham’ and appealed thepublic to post their com-plaints, so that the officercan directly look into it.Apartfrom smooth law & order theofficer is devoted for thefriendly atmosphere, girleducation and women em-powerment. Resident of thedistrict is appreciating theefforts of the officer.

Again ‘On Screen’These days Young IPS officer Viswajit Kampati,

Director of the Enforcement, Vigilance & Disas-ter Management,GHMC is on screen with his tre-mendous work. As for the quick rescue ‘disasterrescue force’ has been inaugurated and this forceconsists of trained rescuer, who will reach at thespot on two wheelers during emergencies. Andin coming days many more editions of emergencyworks will be added to the force. Applauds forMr.Kampati, who is in talk for his tough work inthe baldiya & in the power corridors.

Plantation On PriorityHaritha-Haram is on screen ! Entire top brass

has taken plantation drive on priory basis.TheAnti Corruption Bureau(ACB) Dr. J.Purnachandra Rao has also planted the saplingsat ACB’s court yard with his team of officers.Mr.Rao inspected the plants, which were plantedby him in last five years.He said this drive haschanged the atmosphere of the entire office andall should start this drive to make their surround-ings green.Another news is Mr.Rao advises thepublic servants to approach the ACB on toll-freeno ‘1064’ or in person, if cheated. Good idea !

Awesome AcharyaThese days happening officer B.P.Acharya, Director General & E.O. Spl. CS to

Govt., Dr. MCR HRD Institute is doing the excellent work. As, Dr. MCR HRD Institute isthe premier administrative training institute of Government of Telangana with theobjective to create and sustain a dedicated work force for Government.For whichMr.Acharya & his team with Harpreet Singh,Addl.DG are doing the fabulous work by invitingeffective speakers from all over India. RecentlyMr.Pravin Srivastava, ISS, Secretary to Govern-ment of India, Ministry of Statistics and ProgramImplementation (MoSPI) & Chief Statistician ofIndia, addressed the trainee Civil Servants whoare undergoing 94th Foundation Course at Dr.MCR HRD Institute of Telangana. Great !

SHE’s SuccessIt’s a news that harassment by minors sees

major dip in State and in last five years of opera-tions, SHE Teams has made great strides in turn-ing public spaces safer for women.Kudos to ladyofficer Swati Lakra, IG (Law and Order) and in-charge, Women Safety Wing and team who has puton lot of efforts & dedication towards thissuccess.Coming back to the other news the ladyofficer with other friends a part of Haritha-Haramplanted the saplings & clean surroundings. Goodinitiative !

Jo Fit Hai Vo Hit Hai

Best Performance

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With a view that it is better to doour bit first rather waiting for thewishes to come true, Chief JusticeRaghavendra Singh Chauhan ofTelangana high court took an initia-tive to form two special benches tohear the criminal appeals, quashpleas etc in criminal cases exclu-sively that will work on alternateSaturdays.

He himself presided over one ofthe benches and started hearing thecriminal matters that are sufferingon account of lack of sufficientjudges. Sitting along with justiceT.Vinod Kumar the CJ heard severalmatters and disposed off 4 criminalappeals on last Saturday itself. Theother bench, a single one, presidedover by justice G Sri Devi resolved35 cases. The same benches wouldsit exclusively on October 19, alsoa Saturday. The CJ also decided tocontinue these two benches whichwill function on first and third Sat-urdays of every month. High courts do not function on Saturdays as judges haveto prepare their judgements. Given the fact that the Telangana high court cameinto being on January 1, 2019 with more than 1.87 lakh cases backlog and thereare only 14 judges though the sanctioned strength is 24,Chief justice Chauhanearlier requested the higher authorities at Delhi to enhance the judges strengthto 42 and also to fill them all so that they can work towards achieving the distinc-tion of being a no pendency court in the country.

In the meantime, the criminal side people are suffering. All the appeals per-taining to CBI and ACB cases are pending to CBI and ACB cases are pending fromthe year 2006. And in other criminal cases where persons were convicted by trialcourts, their appeals before the high court are pending from the year 2007.So,looking into the present situation the CJ has taken a call to work on two moreSaturdays. The people whose cases are pending from years have expressed theirhappiness and appreciated the step of Chief Justice.From the beginning ChiefJustice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan is committed to clear the cases on fast-track, in fact it’s a talk in the corridors of power that the CJ comes very early to thecourt and leaves late hours to clear the cases.It’s just amazing !

Applauds for CV. AnandSenior IPS officer CV.Anand, who is now on deputation to CISF and in-charge of

the Airports as IG Airport sector, has gifted three German shepherd puppies to theCISF Canine Squad. Kya baat hai ! At a function on the CISF campus at RGI Airport,Anand gifted three German shepherd puppies to the CISF Canine Squad. The dogsquads play an important role as sniffers at airports. An ardent dog and animal lover,Anand saw that the quality of sniffer dogs needed improvement at various airportsand decided to contribute his mite to the cause by gifting high breed German Shep-herd puppies born to his German shepherd pets, Don and Hazel to the airport. Ap-plauds !

Padma Shri Forest Manof India Jadav Molang vis-ited Aranya Bhavan. R.Sobha, Principal ChiefConservator of Forestsand Priyanka Varghese,OSD to CM, In-Charge forTelangana Harita Haramprogram felicitated & ap-plauded the hard-hard ef-forts of Mr.Molang.

Padma Shri awardee,Jadav “Molai” Payeng,single-handedly plantedan entire forest in MajuliIsland in Assam, after sci-entists said the Island could die after a catastrophic drought.

In 1969, 16-year-old Jadav came face to face with a huge problem, when a majordrought after a life-threatening flood left hundreds of snakes dead due to extremeheat.In order to solve this, young Jadav started planting one sapling every day inthe middle of a barren wasteland in Assam.Jadav did this for 35 years religiously,and now his efforts have finally paid off.Known as the Forest Man of India, Jadav wasable to raise a forest in a barren part of Majuli Island, spreading across 1,360 acres.

The forest, Molai, which is named after Jadav is two times larger than CentralPark and is now a home to Royal Bengal tigers, elephants, rhinos, tigers, wild boars,reptiles, deer and vultures.For Jadav, his forest is his family and he plans to plant5,000 more acres of tress on Majuli, creating a 500-mile stretch of flora on the banksof Brahmaputra river.

Haritha-Haram isin headlines.And asa part of the pro-gramme theMahbubnagar Col-lector Ronald Rossand Mancherial Col-lector Bharati Ho-llikeri are plantingthe saplings at thedistricts. Good ini-tiative !

Good HappeningThe IAS office who was waiting for the posting is back

in the power.Yes, Syed Omer Jaleel has been appointedas the Intermediate Board Secretary and Commissionerof Intermediate Education. He took the charge fromDr.A.Ashok who has been transferred. Earlier the officerworked as a Collector of Vikarabad & Chief Vigilance Of-ficer in the Dept. of Minorities Welfare.Welcome Jaleel sir.

Young officer SanjayKumar Jain, IG (Provisionsand Logistics) was givenadditional charge of DirectorGeneral, Fire Services in therecent reshuffle. M.Gopikrishna transferred asCommissioner of Printing &Stationary. On the new post-ing Arvind Kumar, PrincipalSecretary, MAUD met Mr.Sanjay and discussed aboutpending NOC cases for firesafety & ensuring appropri-ate fire safety measures inall teaching institutions.So,now the news is a very sin-cere officer Mr.Sanjay willalso deal with Fire Servicestill the news officer comes.

Annual Turkish Food Festival hosted by TurkishConsul General HE Dr. Adnan Altay Altinors andMrs.Kubra Altinors at a star hotel.

In the festival food lovers had delicious Turkeydishes. Chef Osman Cavus made the eveningmemorable.The who who’s of the town dropped inthe food festival.The festival went on for a week.

Delicious Turkish Food Festival

Van with Andrew FlemingNishaChef Osman Cavus

Mohammed Khaleequr Rahman, Ali AsgharRastgou & Mohammed Mehdi Khorasani

Dr. Adnan Altay Altinors withMrs. Kubra Altinors

Appreciations ForChief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan

Stunning Sanjay

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Hat’s Off To Forest Man of India Jadav Molang

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There is no stopping for Hyderabad. Even in a period of stagnancyfor the real-estate sector, Hyderabad has consistently registered highgrowth, year after year. According to a recent report by property consult-ants JLL India, investments in Hyderabad have surged more than fivetimes, to nearly Rs 101 billion, over the past four year.

There is no stopping for Hyderabad. Even in a period of stagnancyfor the real-estate sector, the city has registered growth, year after year.According to a recent report by property consultancy firm JLL India,investments in Hyderabad have surged more than five times, over thepast four years. Hyderabad saw a burst in investment in 2018, attractingthree times as much private equity than the previous three-year period,says Satish Vadaga, Hyderabad city lead at Anarock Property Consult-ants. Experts point out that multiple factors have come together to makerealty so resilient in this city - primarily, a focus on infrastructure, politicalstability, and policy reform. “Hyderabad saw a long slump from 2008, asdemand for a separate Telangana state was escalating. Investments werereally slow at this point, so that did leave a lot of potential space forgrowth,” points out Samson Arthur, Hyderabad director at propertyconsultancy Knight Frank India. Data from JLL India shows that therewas an annual decline of around 11% in the new residential projectlaunches between 2008 and 2013. After the formation of Telangana in2014, came stability and a government aggressively pitching for invest-ment. This resulted in a sharp turnaround in residential project launches,with a year-on-year increase of 16% till 2018. “The current governmenthas introduced pro-industry measures such as the single-window clear-ance for building permissions and more recently a plan to penalise offic-ers delaying legitimate building projects. But even more than that oneneeds to consider the significant role played by some politicians like KTRama Rao, who pitched hard for Hyderabad as the next IT destinationcity and drew in different multinational companies by making good ontheir promises,” Arthur highlights. Vadaga agrees that Hyderabad’s growthand development are products of the IT boom in the city. “Increasedoffice leasing activity in the last few years has positioned this as one ofthe most active commercial markets in the south,” he says.

As realty numbers stand still, how is Hyderabad still growing !

Credai Telangana announcesnew office bearers

The Confederation ofReal Estate DevelopersAssociation of India(Credai) Telangana hasannounced its new officebearers for the period2019 to 2021. The newteam of Credai Telangana

will be led by G Ram Reddy, Chairman, Ch Ramchandra Reddy, Presi-dent and D Murali Krishna Reddy, President-Elect, E Premsagar Reddyas Secretary among other members. G Ram Reddy, Chairman of CredaiTelangana said, “We had an interesting real estate journey in the statesince its formation in 2014. The real estate sector was lagging behindthe rest of the country. However, due to proactive policies and initiativesby the state government, the real estate sector in Hyderabad and restof the state is showing positive growth and leading the country both interms of absorption of office spaces and sales of the properties.”

Credai Telangana takes pride in successfully hosting the grand edi-tion of NATCON 2019 at Tel Aviv last month with more than 1,200 del-egates attending the same.

The real estate sector is struggling in most parts of the country,however, Hyderabad and its suburbs are showing a significant increasein demand. Hyderabad is also showing a tremendous increase in theabsorption of office space primarily driven by the growth in the BFSI, IT& ITeS sectors.

We Work to lease 1 million sq ft inHyderabad

WeWork India is in the processof taking up around 1 million sq ft ofoffice space in Hyderabad. The fa-cilities will be spread across four lo-cations in Hyderabad, including theIT hub of Gachibowli. “The firm haspre-leased the properties in the firsthalf of 2019 and this marks its entryin the Hyderabad market,” said aperson aware of the deal. The com-pany plans to double its space to 6

million square feet by the end of this year. The We Company, known asWeWork, led by CEO and founder Adam Neumann is in the process ofraising funds through an initial public offering. India is the only locationin the world where WeWork operates through a franchise. WeWork’saffiliate in India is a firm set up, owned and controlled by real estatedeveloper Embassy Group. Since the launch of WeWork in India, theEmbassy Group has invested $119 million in the WeWork affiliate. Apartfrom various startups, it also counts large companies including Microsoftand Amazon among the clients. At present, WeWork India has 23 co-working centres - nine each in Bengaluru and Mumbai, and anotherfive in Gurugram - totalling 39,000 seats.

Phoenix Group, a Hyderabad-based real estate developer, is setto add about 10 million sq ft of built-up office space before March 2020.

Phoenix Group Chief ExecutiveOfficer Joe King said: “This year,we expect to complete about 10million sq ft of office space in

Hyderabad and thereby effec-tively double the total officespace we as a group con-structed over the past 18 years.”

“We are bullish on theHyderabad office space market.Apart from a latent pent-up de-mand for office space, the cityhas become an attractive desti-

nation for setting up offices in theIT and other services segments. Itsinfrastructure and future potentialfor growth due to Outer Ring Road,superior connectivity, internationalairport and congestion-free envi-ronment, is attracting more compa-nies to the city,” he said.

Phoenix Group set to add 10 million sq ft ofoffice space in Hyderabad by March 2020

During an interaction King said:“There is a growing pressure onDelhi and the NCR region andMumbai for quality office space.Hyderabad has provided the per-fect platform for growth for IT andservices companies seeking to ex-pand with quality infrastructure anda huge talent pool.”

“Over the years, we had devel-oped 10 million sq ft of office spaceand in one year we are doublingthis. And, we are ready and raringto grow and step up the construc-tion activity in years to come, asdemand spikes up,” he said.

Stanza Living to launch office inHyderabad, continue hiring

Stanza Living, a student housing start-up, will continue its expansionspree and will hit a 1000 employees by the end of the year, said thecompany in a press release. The company, which is present in Banga-lore, Pune, Indore and Chennai will also be launching an office inHyderabad, said the release. The company increased its headcountfrom 250 to 750 in the last quarter, said the release. It has been focusingon hiring for the consumer experience, operations excellence and tech-nology teams. The hiring will be carried across levels, said the company.The company had appointed five new vice-presidents in the last year infinance, real estate, customer experience, supply chain and procure-ment; and marketing and consumer engagement. According to reports,the company had raised an estimated $50 million in July this year.

Indiabulls Real Estatesells properties toBlackstone for Rs2,700 crore

After selling a 50 per cent stakein Mumbai and Gurugram commer-cial properties to US-based fundmanager Blackstone one and a halfyears ago, Indiabulls Real Estatesold the remaining stake to theformer for Rs 2,717 crore.

Indiabulls Real Estate has solda 50 stake in Indiabulls One Cen-tre and Indiabulls Finance Centrein the Lower Parel area of Mumbaiand a commercial proper ty inGurugram to Blackstone.

In March last year, Indiabullssold 50 per cent in the sameMumbai properties to Blackstonefor Rs 4,750 crore at an enterprisevaluation of Rs 9,500 crore.Indiabulls said the equity value inthe deal was Rs 2,250 crore andthe rest was the transfer of debt.

According to sources, it isIndiabulls larger plans to exit realestate before its proposed mergerwith Laxmi Vilas Bank. In June,Embassy Property Developmentsbought 14 per cent of the promot-ers’ stake in Indiabulls Real Estate.

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Space Square By Pooja Jain

3D Visualisation :The New Way of Designing

3D Visualisation is the process of creating graphics and rendering designs using 3D softwares. 3D visualisationimproves the manufacturing process by keeping up with design changes and evolving ideas.

Space Square firm does this exceptional 3D Visualisation and the innovative feminine Pooja Jain is behindthe firm, who is specialized in 3D visualization in interior designing , currently working with different teamsacross the globe as a freelancer.

Pooja Jain has a good experience of working in residential and commercial interior projects such as villas,apartments, retails stores, restaurant and bar, showrooms etc.

Pooja said 3D rendering is essential in a project to understand the outcome of the actual portrait. It is a newway to go in terms of designing presentations.

“Today I work only with “Sketchup+vray” and I render realistic views. Sketchup presentation is much morecomplete to understand the idea that leads the project.I think that in future 3D visualization will not just be a toolto design or to represents something that we are designing. I think that 3D designs will become the final objectitself.” She added.

Pooja Jain

by Space Square

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Public SectorPOWERGRID awarded for Swacchata initiative

President of India, ShriRam Nath Kovind presentedthe Swachh Bharat Award toPOWERGRID under PSUCorporate Category for sig-nificant CSR contribution un-der the initiative of SwachhIconic Places (SIP) andSwachh Bharat Kosh (SKP)at an event organized by De-partment of Drinking Water &Sanitation, Ministry of JalShakti at Vigyan Bhawan. Theaward was received by ShriK. Sreekant, CMD POWER-GRID.

Union Minister reviews performance of NMDC

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas andMinister of Steel, Govt. of India visited the Head Office of NMDC Limited at Hyderabad. TheMinister met CMD, Directors and employees of the company and reviewed NMDC’s perfor-mance in presence of G. Kishan Reddy, Hon’ble Miniser of State for Home Affairs, Govt. ofIndia. Shri Pradhan said, NMDC being one of the largest mining companies in India shouldfocus on increasing iron ore production. This will have the benefit of keeping prices in checkand ensuring equitable supply of raw material to all steel producers. He further asked NMDCto carry-out sustainable and responsible mining using digital means. The Minister directedthat the execution and commissioning of the ongoing projects especially NMDC Iron andSteel Plant (NISP) should be monitored regularly so that it can be completed on priority. ShriPradhan also reviewed the Slurry Pipeline Project of NMDC.

Earlier CMD, NMDC Shri N. Baijendra Kumar, IAS welcomed the Minister and statedthat this is the first visit of Shri Pradhan to NMDC Head office and he apprised the Ministerabout NMDC’s performance. He also informed about progress of ongoing projects and as-sured that best efforts are put to ensure maximising productivity and profitability of the com-pany. Shri Binoy Kumar, IAS, Secretary (Steel), Smt. Rasika Chaube, IDAS, Additional Sec-retary, Ministry of Steel, functional directors of NMDC, senior officials of Ministry of Steeland NMDC were present during this meeting.

NHPC clocks Rs. 9,086 cr revenue

NHPC Limited, hosted its 43rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Faridabad.Balraj Joshi,CMD, NHPC addressed the shareholders at the AGM wherein members of NHPC Boardand Company Secretary, NHPC were also present. While addressing the gathering, ShriBalraj Joshi highlighted various achievements made by NHPC. CMD informed that the Com-pany had earned total revenue and revenue from operations (net) of Rs. 9,086 crore and Rs.8,161 crore respectively during FY 2018-19. He also said that NHPC had achieved its high-est ever annual generation of 24,193 Million Units (MUs) surpassing the previous highestgeneration of 23,404 MUs during financial year 2015-16.

BHEL Net Profit up by 51%; 100% Dividend DeclaredAmidst the continued

challenging business envi-ronment, Bharat HeavyElectricals Limited (BHEL)has registered profitablegrowth in fiscal 2018-19,while continuing to contrib-ute in nation buildingendeavours. This wasstated by Dr. NalinShinghal, Chairman and

Managing Director, BHEL at the 55th Annual General Meeting of the company.Addressing shareholders, Dr. Shinghal said that during the year, the company achieved

a profit before tax (PBT) of Rs.2,058 Crore, registering an increase of 30%. Net profit (PAT)for the year stood at Rs. 1,215 Crore, an increase of 51% over the previous fiscal. Thetopline also grew to Rs.29,349 Crore, as against Rs.27,850 Crore in the previous year.Consequently, a total dividend of 100% has been declared, maintaining BHEL’s impeccabletrack record of paying dividends uninterruptedly for over four decades.

NLC ,CMD asserts at Public EnterprisesTechnology Conclave

A two day technology conclave on the theme “Vision New India 2022- Developmentthrough technology for all’ was jointly organised by IIT Madras and Ministry of HeavyIndustries And Public Enterprises at Chennai .

During the inaugural session, in the presence of Hon’ble Union Minister of State forHeavy Industries and Public Enterprises Shri. Arjun Ram Meghwal, Dr. Madhukar Gupta,Additional Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises, Government of India and the IIT,Madras faculty , Shri Rakesh Kumar, CMD NLC India Limited and Chairman SCOPE, spokeon how industry and academia can work together to serve the nation better through ca-pacity building. He equated on a newer pattern of education and skill development in rel-evance with the requirements of the business world for overcoming the challenges of theVolatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous global business environment.

He pointed out that as the world was passing through the Fourth Industrial Revolutionmarked by emerging technology breakthroughs in numerous fields like Robotics , ArtificialIntelligence Nanotechnology, quantum computing, internet of things, 3D printing and so on, our younger generation must equip accordingly in various skills to meet these new re-quirements.

NTPC signs MoU to build hydro projectsof 520 MW in Himachal Pradesh

NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power producer, today signed a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) with the Himachal Pradesh government to set up two hydro projects total-ing 520 MW in the state. The MoU was signed by Shri Prabodh Saxena, Principal Secre-tary (Energy), Himachal Pradesh and Shri A K Gupta, Director (Commercial) NTPC Ltd inthe presence of Shri Jai Ram Thakur, Hon’ble Chief Minister Himachal Pradesh, Shri SureshBhardwaj, Education Minister Himachal Pradesh, Shri Shrikant Baldi, Chief SecretaryHimachal Pradesh and other officials and dignitaries at the Power Conclave organised bythe State Government in Shimla today. Seli & Miyar HEPs are located in Chenab Basin atLahaul & Spiti district. While Seli HEP (400 MW) is a Run of River Project with pondagescheme, Miyar HEP (120 MW) is a Run of river project without pondage scheme, on Miyartributary of Chenab River.

NTPC has presence in Himachal Pradesh with Koldam Hydro Power Station, the firsthydro power project of NTPC Ltd, with an installed capacity of 800 MW. The power stationis commercially operational since July 2015 and provides 28% power to the state of HimachalPradesh.

Harpreet Kaur- The Energy Analyst

Vastu and it’s relationshipwith our health

Today Vastu Shashtra is subject many are awareabout. Our temples validate the the importance of VastuShashtra. When we feel little concerned or we are wor-ried about any future events we visit and pray to Godand we feel peaceful. But what about our daily lives andabout our health issues ?? Many of you will be sur-prised to know that every direction in the house is re-lated to our organs and whenever we face any healthconcern it’s directly related to Vastu of our house. Nowa days people are suffering due to Kidney problems,some are going through painful process of dialysis .One of my clients had problems of kidneys and he usedto take injections to reduce the pain . After almost aweek in hospital he sought our consultancy . What wenoticed is that he was sleeping in North bedroom withthe décor of room being red & maroon we told them to

remove those colors and advised suitable colors and other simple remedies for the roomand within a month he started feeling better and after 6-8 months he is recovered fully. InMarch this year we had a client from Hyderabad whoose mother had problems with thefood pipe . She had undergone treatment but with no luck. We visited her house and wesaw she was eating her food in between west and North West when we check the energyof that place it was very low. We just advised her to eat her food in southeast direction inher house to aid digestion . And kept her medical reports in North East . And as of todayshe is Hale and hearty. Today many families are suffering through the pain of seeing theirfamily member going through the trauma of Cancer. An Industrialist family was anxiousabout the health of their father who had been detected with Cancer in Salivary gland ,boththe sons were still bachelor’s and the elder sons marriage talks were on ,just at that timethe cancer was detected. They approved us for consultation. What we saw in their housewas that even though they had a very positive entry in Northeast which gave them pros-perity but , They had a Red Car parked in Northeast which was causing major imbalance. Since Vastu purush head comes in Northeast anything heavy or red in color would createproblems . Plus the client used to spend lot of time on their farmhouse. The entire housewas built as per Vastu . Interiors done were beautifully but only problem was their Barbequein front on the bungalow in Northeast. Which they started using just 1-1/2 years back. Asthe sons along with their cousins used to gather at their farmhouse ,also the family hadmany functions and parties there but since barbeque is fire element , it started affectingthe owner. As he is the gruhpurush (eldest of the family) . We just removed the Barbequefrom front and put it in different direction to balance the energies. After doing all remediesthe owner had a minor surgery to remove the tumour ,he underwent radiation but hisdoctors were surprised as he recovered fully and didn’t need any chemotherapy sessionsit’s been 2 years band he is 100% cancer free. And luckily by God grace he had no relapse.

Preeti Kandhari can be reachable on Preeti.kandhari@gmail.com.

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‘SEWA’ Officially LaunchedA new NGO, called SEWA (Society for Empowering Women to Achieve) was launched by

Mrs. Mamta Trivedi, Founder President, and 7 Mrs. India Finalists from Telangana. The goal ofSEWA is women empowerment. This will be achieved through various initiatives, such as pro-viding aid to Education, supporting small Enterprise, listening to people and understandingthem with Empathy, Enhancing health and hygiene of women by providing basic necessities,encouraging self-defence, Environmental protection and other causes. SEWA will also workwith other NGOs to make this world a happier place.

Boss Anurag SharmaReleased ‘StunningSeptember’

Midnight Reporter’s Stunning Sep-tember ‘Hindi Diwas’ edition is out witha bang released by Big Boss Shri.Anurag Sharma, Advisor to theTelangana Government (Police, CrimeControl and Law & Order).

Boss is a true ‘Hindi Lover’, his fa-ther was a renowned Hindi poet, likefather like son, Mr.Anurag Sharma com-municates a very good Hindi and what’samazing is he uses quotes & poemswhile communicating, this makes histalk more effective & clear. Pleasure thatStunning September is released by thehappening top brass. Delighted !

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Event Of The MonthSanskruti Women’s Club celebrated 150th Birth Anniversary of

Mahatma Gandhi & Kasturba Gandhi at Bapu Ghat,LangarHouse.One of the very decent event to promote the khadi & the ide-ology of Gandhi.Talk by Tushar Gandhi was the highlight of the event.During the event Club & Raatnam Khadi Udyog showcased Khadi’sjourney through centuries.As, many distinguished personalitiesgraced the occasion.In the picture the Konda Kavita Reddy is seenwith the modern charkha, which is donated by Sanskruti Club.

In TalkBina Mehta is in talk ! The

happening lady has recentlyplanned Pre-Garba at city’sstar hotel, which was a grandsuccess.Number of femininetook part in the Pre-Garbawearing traditional garba at-tire. Fabulous event filled withjoy & garba. Good one Bina !

Birthday WishesThe happening lady Janaki

Rajagopal Lagadapati celebratedher birthday. What an amazingfollowing on social media, hun-dreds & thousands of wishes andblessings.This shows her kind-ness & nature.Best wishes to thebest feminine.

Crown Comes All The WayPretty Preeti Harjs brought the crown to the town !

Proud moment as Preeti won Mrs. India runner up titleat Mrs. India Pageant held recently at Chennai.Womenfrom different parts of the country were part of thepageant. Preeti also won 1st Runner up title at Mrs.India Telangana, after which she was entitled to repre-sent at the national platform. She is also an entrepre-neur, who owns a QSR chain called ‘Gabru Di Chaap’.She manages her business as well as the responsi-bilities of the crown with outmost passion and dedi-cation. Recent success party is in talk !

Click Of TheMonth

Picture of pretty Sudha Jainwith actor Ashish Vidyarthi ,isthe click of the month.The ac-tor invited for a talk planned byAlgebra-the arts and ideas club,where Sudha got the chance tomeet the actor.So, when itcomes to the news Sudha is awell-known face of thetown.Quite active & quite hap-pening.

FestiveGreetings

Does this pic-ture really needs acaption ! Hope no,as Rhea Melwani’sclick declares thestart of festive sea-son. Kudos the cam-eramen, who hasgrabbed the rightmoment at the righttime. Festive greet-ings Rhea ! Initiative

Rina ‘On Screen’Yoga queen Rina Hindocha is

again on screen ! Rina is devotedto yoga to make the society fit &healthy and also dedicated tohelp the needy children throughan NGO. Passion & social respon-sibility both are on a priority. Infact Rina has a wonderful follow-ing on social media and this is allbecause of her good nature andsoftness.Her attire resembles thestart of the festive season.

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Tourism

Saudi Arabia has thrown open its doors to foreign tourists, announcing that it wouldlaunch a new visa programme for 49 countries in a bid to draw foreign companies to investin the country's tourism sector.

The conservative Muslim kingdom is also relaxing strict dress codes for female visi-tors that previously required them to wear all-covering black robes, or abayas.

Tourism chief Ahmed al-Khateeb told Reuters in an interview in the run-up to theofficial announcement that abayas will not be mandatory for women tourists but modestdress is, including at public beaches.

The country announced the new visa programme and appealed to foreign companiesto invest in a sector it hopes will contribute 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by2030. Visas will be available online for about $80, with no restrictions for unaccompaniedwomen as in the past. Access to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina is restricted.

More details, including which countries are eligible, were expected later on Friday.

Khateeb said China, Japan, Europe and the United States were among the top outboundtargets. Until now, foreigners travelling to Saudi Arabia have been largely restricted to resi-dent workers and their dependents, business travellers, and Muslim pilgrims who are givenspecial visas to visit Mecca and Medina. The country has in recent years relaxed strictsocial codes, such as segregating men and women in public places and dress require-ments for women.But as it liberalises rules on tourism, Khateeb indicated that alcohol re-mains banned: "We will have enough tourists to come to Saudi Arabia to enjoy other things."

Plans to admit significant numbers of leisure tourists have been discussed for years,only to be blocked by conservative opinion and bureaucracy. An e-visa for sporting eventsand concerts was introduced last December.

The move is part of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitiousplans to develop new industries to wean the world's top oil exporter off crude and open upsociety including by introducing previously banned entertainment.

Saudi Arabia will issue new visas, relax dress code for tourists

Tourism to surge in Phuket duringvegetarian festival

Despite the strong value of the Thai baht, an upcoming vegetarian festival in Phuketis expected to attract a large number of Chinese tourists and bring the resort islandprovince about 2 billion baht in tourism-related revenue, said the Phuket Tourist Associa-tion, the province's main association relating to tourism business operators.

The vegetarian festival, which will run from Saturday until Oct 7, will draw a largenumber of Chinese tourists since this period coincides with celebrations of China's na-tional day, said association president Bhummikitti Ruktaengam. .

The province is also expecting to welcome an unusually high number of visitors fromneighbouring Singapore and Malaysia during the same period

“Altogether, both Thai and foreign visitors to Phuket during the vegetarian festival areexpected to spend about 2 billion baht across the province,” he said.

Kerala tourism bags threePATA gold awards

Kerala Tourism bagged three Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) gold awards, in-cluding the one for an ethnic food restaurant run by women at Kumarakom under itsresponsible tourism mission, in Kazakhstan. The two other gold awards were for an ad-vertisement campaign of Kerala tourism and for its website. The awards were received bytourism minister Kadakampally Surendran and tourism director P Bala Kiran.

“It is a big honour for Kerala Tourism and also a strong validation of the state’s imageas an alluring tourist destination. I am sure these awards will give a huge traction inshowcasing the touristy charms of the state to a wider international audience,” Surendransaid. “I am particularly happy for receiving the gold award for the women-run ethnic foodrestaurant at Kumarakom under the responsible tourism mission (RTM), which has be-come the mainstay of our tourism policy and initiatives. Out of the 15,500 RTM initiatives,13,500 units are led by women,” the minister added.

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Across Africa tourism is boomingTravel and tourism remained a key driver of the African economy in 2018, accounting

8.1% of GDP, and contributing $194.2 billion to the region’s economy, a new report byAfrican e-commerce company Jumia found.

The region’s tourism industry grew at a rate of 5.6% in 2018, second only to Asia Pa-cific, according to Jumia’s 2019 Hospitality Report. This compares to a global growth rate of3.9% annually.

Around 67 million tourists flocked to Africa in 2018, a record 7% increase from 63 mil-lion arrivals in 2017 and 58 million in 2016.

From the souks of Marrakech to the quaint vineyards of the Cape, the top African touristspots were Morocco and South Africa, with around 10 and 11 million arrivals per year.

More relaxed visa rules in Ethiopia coupled with improved transport infrastructure gavetheir tourist industry a staggering 48.6% boost in 2018, raking in a total of $7.4 billion.

The majority of foreign visitors were holiday-makers with 71% of tourist spending acrossthe continent spent on leisure activities.

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Roadmap to promote tourism inJammu and Kashmir, Ladakh soon

With eye on developing manpower and promote exchanges between the tourist andthe locals in the newly created Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a special roadmaphad been prepared, Union Minister of Tourism and Culture Prahlad Singh Patel told in aninterview. According to Patel, the government plans to rope in locals to promote tourism inthe Valley. Under the 'Bed & Breakfast' scheme, the government will pay the locals who willoffer food and shelter to tourists. "We will encourage locals to offer lodging facilities at theirresidences to tourists," Patel said. Patel said upgradation of manpower, which would in-clude training guides, asking people to host tourists at their homes in areas where therewas shortage of hotels and give them basic training was required to boost tourism in thetwo new UTs -- J&K and Ladakh. The ministry also plans to motivate Kashmiri youth to gofor online training schemes, which could help them become tourist guides and provide asource of income. "We will primarily focus on upgrading manpower and offer them trainingfacilities in Delhi and J&K as well as online," Patel said.

Hawaii saw more visitor arrivalsTotal visitor arrivals and spending rose again statewide in August, which was only the

third month both categories have been up since November.Tourists spent $1.5 billion, up more than 6% from August 2018, according to prelimi-

nary statistics released today by the Hawaii Tourism Authority. August spending growth wasoutpaced by the year-over-year gain in visitor arrivals, which rose nearly 10% to 928,178.Part of the reason that monthly gains were so robust is that they are being compared to lastAugust when Hurricane Lane and the heightened eruption at Kilauea Volcano took a toll ontourism. The monthly results were mixed across the islands. In general, monthly spendingand arrivals rose for North America, but international markets posted declines.

The spending increase still wasn’t quite high enough in August to break the year-to-date trend of more visitors coming to Hawaii and spending less while they are here. Despitesome August gains, spending through the first eight months of the year dropped a halfpercent to nearly $12.1 billion. Year-to-date visitor arrivals to Hawaii increased more than5% to more than 7.1 million.

Until the past three months, arrivals had been growing since February 2017, but tour-ism spending had been falling for seven months. That’s the opposite of HTA’s goal, whichnow favors visitor experience, resident sentiment and spending over tourism arrivals. Afterall, tourism and government officials alike have learned that visitors are happiest whenresidents are satisfied.