the B JP slew of welfare schemes as the prime minister turns 73 In a massive O BC outrage, the prime minister launches a Vishwa karma scheme that it announced on the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day. The prime minister inaugurates a mega convention centre, the Yau Centre in the national capital. Yeah. The Congress meanwhile, unveiled six poll guarantees for poll bound, telling Ghana the Congress's bid to replicate the Karnataka model that drove it to its victory. Now in telling Ghana, Sona Gandhi says It's my dream to see the Congress in power in telling. But over Tahana Day parties split wide in the poll bound state. It's the BJP versus the BR versus the IMIM over telling date. Ah, the campaign trail slams the telling party says no government in the past 75 years marked or celebrated the tele liberation date because of vote politics and tragic news coming in from Manipur. Soldier on leave is kidnapped and killed the soldier abducted from his home and killed in Imal, the capital of Manipur. Hello and welcome. You're watching ND TV. I'm the our lead story. Well, the prime minister's 73rd birthday and the BJP slew of welfare schemes well. The prime minister today launched the Yau Centre, a mega convention centre for international delegates and of course, the BJP's infrastructural push at display after the MANAM and also the new parliament. This as the prime minister also launched the Vishwa Kar MAOA, something that was announced in a major OBC outreach on the Independence Day. The prime minister also launched a new and extended metro line for the airport here in the national capital and a game changer scheme, the Aman Health scheme as well something that's being seen as a politically crucial scheme. But of course I mean all these launches and announcements, the most crucial is the Visar MAOA. That, of course, is a massive outreach to the OC community in the run up to state elections, and 2024 i got is get the head guarantee, the bank guarantee mark the year to guarantee more data been a guarantee. So economy. In a significant move with several social and political undertones, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched the Vishwa Karma Yo. Now anyone who works with hands and tools is a Vishwa karma and the government will do everything it takes to uplift people who have been toiling hard to promote traditional skills. This is what he said. Incidentally, the occasion was also symbolic. It was the prime minister's 73rd birthday and also the prime minister first offered his prayers to Lord Vishwa Karma, who was seen as an architect of ancient Indian cities such as Dua and in Pras, the old name of Delhi. He then launched the scheme at the newly built Shumi Convention Centre in DKA and also met people from 18 traditional professions who are among the beneficiaries of the nationwide scheme. The cabinet recently had cleared the scheme with a budget of rupees 13,000 craw for the next five years. It is aimed at supporting traditional artisans, craftsmen and workers such as carpenters, blacksmiths, locksmiths, Goldsmiths, potter, scouters, cobblers, toymakers, washer man tailor and others who are generally in family run occupations. The scheme also promises technology tools, loans that subsidise interest rates and facilities to market their products at national and international levels. There's also a strong swadeshi element to this a push by the RSS and the largest sanwa to make Pat and most importantly, the villages of India self reliant and support those who are on the verge of losing their skills, craft and livelihoods. The political messaging in the move today is also important as this is a mega outreach by the centre to consolidate the BJP's OC water base. OC communities over 45% of the country's population have been strongly supporting the party since 2014. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself hails from this community and the party has particularly been focused on consolidating the non asset owning non feudal, numerically significant OC communities that have been left out by regional parties that focus on identity politics with one or two communities as their mainstay. The B JP has also been harping on the moves it has made for the OB CS, including giving a constitutional status to O BC Commission, increasing the community's representation in the cabinet to almost 27 now, decisions such as 27 reservation in need and also the G Rohini Commission to sub categorise the OB CS, with states such as Bihar attempting a census and the matter reaching the Supreme Court, it has also taken a political turn. The opposition parties under the India umbrella, have demanded a car census be done before a general census and have also asked for the removal of the ceiling on reservation. The issue of a car census is sensitive in certain quarters because some OCS suspect their number may be larger than the 52% enumerated in the 1931 census, which will make them bigger beneficiaries of political power and economic gain. In that regard, this mega outreach of the BJP to OC communities in the form of Vishwa MAOA is not just an effort to balance its Mandel and command politics, but also strengthen its welfare plank in the run up to 2024 polls. So from a car census push, of course, BJP's Vishwa Karma, who is actually going to win the O BC battle in the run up to 2024 remains to be seen but moving now to tragic news coming in from Manipur. An army soldier was killed after being kidnapped from his home in a village in Manipur. Sier, who was on leave, was kidnapped from his home in Ial West District on Saturday while his body was found. This morning, he was kidnapped by unidentified armed men from his home around 10 a.m. on Saturday. And according to his 10 year old son, who was the only eyewitness to the crime, three men entered their home while his father and he was working on the porch. Well. So this is a clear indication of how violence still continues in Manipur and isolated incidents of violence are still being reported. The situation on the ground still sensitive and volatile, moving now to a special focus on ND TV. How is militancy actually resurfacing in south Kashmir? Well, five days and counting the encounter the anti terror operation in an Anna still continues, and it's an extremely uphill battle, a challenging task for security forces, given the challenging terrain and the extremely difficult topography, how difficult it is and, well, what does it mean? Actually, in the larger context of res militancy, Naz Masoudi has this report. No, another day of heavy shelling on terrorist hideout at forest. But even after five days of massive operation, there is no breakthrough against terrorists who appear to be well entrenched in these Alpine forests. Drone attacks, mortar shells, rockets, explosives and heavy gunfire is consistently used against target area security forces are making every effort to pin down heavily armed militants who appear to be well in influenced in this kaal forest. This is general war here and the militants who appear to be well trained and having enough weapons and also food to sustain all these days. So we have to see how long this operation will continue. So what's helping terrorists survive and hold the ground for so long in the face of a massive assault? As thousands of troops, including para commandos, are engaged in this intense operation to hunt down a few terrorists, Lessons learned in peer panel may provide some answers. On April 20th, an army truck was attacked by terrorists in punch. They used steel cord bullets that were designed to be armour piercing. After killing five army Javans, terrorists set the military truck on fire and also filmed the whole attack with body cams. They also decamped with the weapons of fallen soldiers and disappeared in forests. A massive manhunt was launched in panel forests where natural capes provide shelter to terrorists. After two weeks of relentless efforts, Special Forces of the army launched an assault at a terrorist hideout, but it appears Param commandos were lured into a trap. Terrorists triggered an IED, killing five commandos. While army troops are trained in high altitude warfare after Cargill war in 1999 terrorists using forests as their base and choosing battlefield is becoming a new challenge. It was first noticed in October 2021. 9 army soldiers were killed in twin attacks in Punch, a month long operation launched by the army and heavy shelling on suspected hideouts in P Panja Forest was winded up without tracking down any attacker encounter. And jungle warfare appears to be a new terrorist strategy. Lower security forces into adverse terrain. Prolonged encounters where thousands of troops remain engaged for few terrorists with Nazi Masoudi Osama Sha for ND TV. Well, if every household takes responsibility for its kitchen and garden waste, much of the mounting garbage problem in the city's spaces can be effectively addressed. But if you don't know how to go about handling your waste, here's a centre in Bengaluru that will teach you composting. The ND TV debtor in India campaign paid paid them a visit. Here's a report. This is India's first learning centre in solid waste management nestled in the heart of Bangalore's SSR colony, Swat Graha kaliakra is an experiential theme park where you can learn the valuable practise of managing your waste the right way by composting. We invite apartments to come here and learn, so they learn. The whole process of composting gives them the confidence, and we handhold them also if required. So individuals have started composting after learning here. Apartments have started composting after learning temples have replicated to temples and lane composers. You know, just in the lane there are composers where the whole lane waste is composted, basically to encourage decentralised processing. Because waste when comes in here hundreds of tonnes to one location, it causes problems. Decentralised, uh, waste processing is the mantra for that to happen. We need learning centres like this to give confidence to people that you can compost in your balconies. If you don't have, you can compose on your terrace everywhere. The larger vision of her campaign is to reduce the burden of waste on landfills and to encourage individuals to start a green spot through compost. The vision also aims to inspire individuals to contribute their time towards greening their city. Their apartment complex their home. Our intent is to divert the waste the precious kitchen waste going to the landfill. If we can divert it from the landfill, convert it into compost. There is the trees in the park. The trees on the road are all starving and hungry for this organic matter. We should actually feed them, and this can actually turn into, like how he layout has so many parks and then so many trees. Every word can have, and it can be fed with the compost made from the city's kitchen waste. We need to actually allocate some time for the social work. There is a need for more and more volunteers. We need to allocate some time for the society for a week. If you can spare 4 to 6 hours that will be, that can make a lot of difference. Segregating the organic kitchen waste at the source itself allows for experimenting with the 20 methods thought at the Swahili. The people who come here can choose a composting method that works best for their specific situation. With a little training at the people can contribute in reducing the mountains of garbage we see in our towns and cities, and eventually, in addressing the climate crisis that humanity is currently facing
