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AIR unaware of price hikes

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NK SINGH BHOPAL: The All India Radio authorities at Bhopal seem to be unaware of the sky-rocketing prices. To the utter dismay of the listeners, for the past few months, the prices of wheat have not been included in the food-grain price list daily broadcast by the Bhopal station of AIR. Though the Department of Economics and Statistics of the State Government supplies the wheat prices along with the prices of other commodities daily to the AIR, the latter find it more convenient to ignore them. The reason for this shut-your-eyes step is said to be the too-honest data' provided by the department. According to the figures available with the department, the prices of wheat in the 'open market' vary from Rs. 1.50 to Rs. 1.60 per kg. According to the rates fixed by the State Government -- which now controls the wheat trade right at the very beginning of the production pipe line -- it should not have crossed the Rs. 1 mark. Faced with this peculiar situation the AIR authorities w...
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Indo-Nepal Relation: The Susta Issue

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Indo-Nepal border. Source Patrika


NK SINGH


A border dispute has cropped up again between India and Nepal. It is not the first time that the two friendly neighbours have locked horns over territorial dispute. 

The two nations have such close cultural and traditional ties that the citizens don’t need a passport to travel to either country.

As I had mentioned in an article in Frontier of 28 June, 1969, at the root of the problem is the ‘British made boundary’. The Nepalese side has expressed its dissatisfaction over the job done by the British.

Excerpts from ‘The Susta Issue’:

It is not just a boundary problem. Indo-Nepal relations were very good in the past. Everything was there – cooperation, trade and commerce.

There is a geographical relation between the two countries as well as historical. Then, why the change?

A section of Nepalese think that India is trying to impose herself on Nepal. Extremist elements are growing and a large section of students is under the influence of pro-Peking politics.

These are the factors in whose light we have to see Susta, which sparked off a series of anti-Indian demonstrations in recent months in several towns of Nepal.

Susta is a forest area near Gorakhpur, at the tri-junction of Nepal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Both countries claimed ownership of Susta.

The Nepalese side wanted the boundary to be fixed in accordance with the map of 1817. The Indian side produced records and evidence regarding the boundary on the basis of Joint Boundary Commission’s Report and map of 1930-31.

The third round of talks (between India and Nepal) was held on May 6. The Nepalese delegation was laid by Foreign Minister GB Rajbhandari, and the Indian team by External Affair Minister Dinesh Singh.

Said Dinesh Singh: “We have no dispute at all. Only in Susta region the boundary has to be relocated and pillars put up.” 

Frontier, 28 June 1969

Frontier 28 June 1969

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