Prez: China trip proved fruitful
Special Aircraft : Upbeat about her “fruitful” talks with China’s leadership, President Pratibha Patil on Monday said that she had accomplished her goal of enhancing “trust, friendship and understanding” between the two countries. Citing the support of the Chinese leaders on several crucial issues, including India’s bid for membership of the UN Security Council and correcting the trade imbalance now heavily in favour of China, Ms Patil said that Sino-Indian relationship has gone beyond purely bilateral aspects and had acquired a global dimension.
On her way back home from Shanghai at the conclusion of her six-day state visit, the first by an Indian President in a decade, Ms Patil recalled her “constructive, wide-ranging and fruitful” talks with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
“We agreed to expand, deepen and diversify the strategic and cooperative partnership between our two countries”, she told reporters accompanying her. Asked about the border dispute with China, the President underlined that India wanted a “fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable” resolution of the issue. A mechanism had been set up for this purpose and some progress has been made. The two countries have decided they would maintain tranquility along the border.
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Plan panel will visit Naxal areas
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
The Planning Commission members are planning to tour Naxal-hit districts in six states to study the real issues before suggesting the developmental works to be undertaken in these areas.
The government has already shortlisted over 30 such districts in these states which includes Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar etc, according to the sources.
Maoists have not only made the state power their main target but are now also attacking the railway and bus services ignoring aam admi who is the main sufferer. While a Centre wants to resolve this issue through dialogue and developmental works, others feel that the Maoist’s terror tactics need to be crushed.
Meanwhile, a senior educationist Narendra Jadhav, the member of the Planning Commission, is tipped to become a member of the the National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by Mrs Sonia Gandhi. On Monday, he told reporters that he received a call from the PMO on May 29 asking him to be a member of the NAC. “I have not got a formal order so far. But since it is from the PMO there is no uncertainty about it,” he said. “During UPA-I, the NAC was set up to implement the common minimum programme. Now, its role is to foster the social agenda of the UPA-II,” Dr Jadhav said.
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