CISF Demands 1500 jawans from MHA । वीवीआईपी सुरक्षा के लिए सीआईएसएफ ने गृह मंत्रालय से मांगे 1500 जवान

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नई दिल्‍लीः वीवीआईपी की सुरक्षा के लिए सीआईएसएफ ने गृह मंत्रालय से 1500 अतिरिक्‍त जवानों की मांग की है. इस मांग को स्‍वीकार करते हुए गृह मंत्रालय ने सीआईएसएफ के प्रस्‍ताव को सैद्धांतिक मंजूरी दे दी है. गृह मंत्रालय से लिखित स्‍वीकृति मिलते ही सीआईएसएफ इन जवानों की भर्ती प्रक्रिया शुरू कर देगा. प्रारंभिक चरण में इन जवानों का प्रशिक्षण पूरा करने के बाद कुछ समय के लिए दूसरी यूनिट में तैनाती की जाएगी. जबकि इन यूनिट की क्विक रिएक्‍शन टीम के कमांडो को वीवीआईपी सिक्‍योरिटी का प्रशिक्षण देने के बाद उन्‍हें माननीयों की सुरक्षा में तैनात कर दिया जाएगा.

वीवीआईपी की सुरक्षा में तैनात हैं करीब 2500 कमांडो
सीआईएसएफ के वरिष्‍ठ अधिकारी के अनुसार वीवीआईपी की सुरक्षा में वर्तमान समय में कुल 2500 कमांडो को तैनात किया गया है. जिसके 1200 कमांडो की तैनाती स्‍थाई तौर पर सीआईएसएफ की स्‍पेशल सिक्‍योरिटी विंग में की गई है. जबकि अतिरिक्‍त 1300 कमांडो को दूसरी यूनिट की सुरक्षा से निकालकर वीवीआईपी की सिक्‍योरिटी में लगाया गया है. सीआईएसएफ के अनुसार वर्तमान समय में वे कुल 73 वीवीआईपी को सुरक्षा मुहैया करा रहे हैं. जिसमें नौ जेड - प्‍लस, नौ - जेड, 33 - वाई और 22 - एक्‍स श्रेणी की सुरक्षा मिली हुई है.

दिल्‍ली मेट्रो की सुरक्षा के लिए भी मांगे गए पांच हजार से अधिक जवान
सीआईएसएफ के वरिष्‍ठ अधिकारी के अनुसार गृह मंत्रालय को भेजे गए प्रस्‍ताव में कुल 6640 जवानों की मांग की गई है. जिसमें दिल्‍ली मेट्रो की सुरक्षा के लिए 5140 जवानों की मांग की गई है. वहीं वीवीआईपी सिक्‍यो‍रिटी के लिए 1500 जवान मांग गए हैं. उल्‍लेखनीय है दिल्‍ली मेट्रो के फेज तीन के नए स्‍टेशनों की सुरक्षा व्‍यवस्‍था देखने के लिए सीआईएसएफ की डीएमआरसी यूनिट को अतिरिक्‍त जवानों की आवश्‍यकता है. अभी यह आवश्‍यकता दूसरे यूनिट में तैनात जवानों को अस्‍थाई तौर पर मेट्रो भेजकर पूरी की जा रही है. गृह मंत्रालय की संस्‍तुति के बाद 5140 जवानों को मेट्रो में तैनात कर दिया जाएगा. जिसके बाद मेट्रो की सुरक्षा संभालने वाले कुल जवानों की संख्‍या करीब 12 हजार हो जाएगी.

हार्दिक पटेल की सुरक्षा वापस लेने की प्रक्रिया शुरू
सीआईएसएफ के वरिष्‍ठ अधिकारी के अनुसार गृह मंत्रालय के निर्देश पर हार्दिक पटेल की सुरक्षा वापस लेने की प्रक्रिया भी शुरू कर दी गई है. उल्‍लेखनीय है कि गुजरात विधानसभा चुनावों के दौरान हार्दिक पटेल को गृह मंत्रालय के निर्देश पर वाई श्रेणी की सुरक्षा मुहैया कराई गई थी. गृह मंत्रालय ने हार्दिक को यह सुरक्षा खुफिया विभाग की रिपोर्ट के आधार पर दी थी. गृह मंत्रालय के निर्देशों का पालन करते हुए सीआईएसएफ के कमांडो को हार्दिक की सुरक्षा में लगाया गया था. वही बीते माह 26 अप्रैल को वीवीआईपी की सिक्‍यूरिटी रिब्‍यू के बाद गृह मंत्रालय ने हार्दिक की सुरक्षा वापस लेने का फैसला लिया. गृह मंत्रालय से निर्देश मिलने के बाद हार्दिक की सुरक्षा वापस लेने की प्रक्रिया सीआईएसएफ ने शुरू कर दी है.

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U.S.-China Trade Talks End With Strong Demands, but Few Signs of a Deal

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BEIJING — Senior Chinese and American officials concluded two days of negotiations late Friday afternoon with no deal and no date set for further talks, as the United States stepped up its demands for Chinese concessions to avert a potential trade war.

The American negotiating team, which included Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the United States trade representative, Robert E. Lighthizer, headed for the airport after the talks and did not release a statement. But a list of demands that the group brought into the meeting called for reducing the United States’ trade gap with China by $200 billion over the next two years and a halt on Chinese subsidies for advanced manufacturing sectors.

The demands, which spread on Chinese social media and were confirmed by a person close to the negotiations, suggest that both sides have hardened their positions this week despite the two days of talks. Senior Chinese officials and their advisers sent a deliberate message to the West during a three-day seminar that ended on Monday that the days of conciliation by Beijing were over.

The person close to the negotiations insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.

The extensive list of United States trade demands was unexpectedly sweeping, and showed that the Trump administration has no intention of backing down despite Beijing’s assertive stance in the last few days. “The list reads like the terms for a surrender rather than a basis for negotiation,” said Eswar Prasad, an economics professor at Cornell University.

Chinese officials put the talks in a positive light. “The two sides agreed that a sound and stable China-U.S. trade relationship is crucial for both, and they are committed to resolving relevant economic and trade issues through dialogue and consultation,” Xinhua, the official news agency, said soon after the talks ended.

But the negotiations also highlighted key differences — and the American delegation’s tight-lipped departure from Diaoyutai, the parklike enclosure of guesthouses where the talks were held, suggested the two sides had made little headway in solving them.

For example, China protested penalties that Washington officials imposed last month on ZTE, a Chinese telecommunications company, for repeatedly violating American sanctions on Iran. The Commerce Department banned all shipments of American wares to ZTE, including chips and other equipment essential to many of its products. The move appears to have strengthened China’s resolve to continue its drive for self-sufficiency and to curb imports in a variety of high-tech fields.

China’s push to upgrade its technology accounts for many of its disagreements with the United States. The American document reiterated Trump administration calls for a broad halt of Chinese subsidies to manufacturers in advanced technology industries. Beijing’s $300 billion Made in China 2025 program calls for extensive government assistance to build domestic industries in aircraft manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, robotics, electric cars and five other sectors. Chinese officials defend the program as essential to upgrading the economy and have said that they would not agree to any limits on the Made in China program.

The document also highlighted China’s trade surplus with the United States. It called for a reduction of $100 billion in the coming 12 months and a further $100 billion in the following 12 months, the document said. The American side also said that it wanted to be able to impose new restrictions on Chinese investment in the United States for national security reasons without any retaliation by Beijing, and with an agreement by China to reduce its own investment restrictions.

The United States also asked that China cut its tariffs on imports by about two-thirds to match those in the United States. China, which now has a manufacturing sector nearly equal in annual output to the United States and Germany combined, contends that it is still a developing country and should be allowed to retain higher tariffs.

Chinese officials have said that they would be willing to reduce some trade barriers, but only if the United States also lowered trade barriers. Chinese officials particularly object to American limits on the export of high-tech goods that have both civilian and military applications, contending that these restrictions prevent sizable potential exports.

They also objected to United States demands for a specific cut in the bilateral surplus. Li Gang, the vice president of the Commerce Ministry’s research and training institute, said in a separate interview last month that a $100 billion cut in the surplus was “impossible.” China’s surplus has been widening lately as the United States economy grows fairly strongly and takes in more imports.

The Commerce Department announced on Thursday in Washington that the trade imbalance with China had widened slightly further in March compared with the same month a year ago, although it narrowed slightly compared to February, possibly for seasonal reasons.

The lack of a deal this week, and the failure to schedule further talks right away, does not rule out the possibility that Chinese negotiators will visit the United States next month for further talks. One possibility that American officials have considered is whether China might send Vice President Wang Qishan, who is close to President Xi Jinping, on a follow-up trip.

So far, the Chinese side has been led by Liu He, a Politburo member who is also the vice premier for finance, trade and technology.

Trade experts have been saying for weeks that Chinese officials would like to resolve the dispute with the United States so that they can go back to focusing on issues closer to home.

“That’s the immediate problem, because it’s a headache for them that’s distracting from a very pressing domestic agenda,” said Christopher K. Johnson, a former C.I.A. officer who analyzed China and now holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The Beijing talks were unlikely to result in a comprehensive deal, but experts said they could still be a first step toward reaching some sort of accord.

“There’s no way our team is going to risk signing up to something without getting back here and making sure that Trump is happy with it first,” Mr. Johnson said. “Maybe there’s also some optics where Trump wants to be seen standing with Wang Qishan and striking the deal.”

“I think we’re still several jumps down the track from that.”

Follow Keith Bradsher on Twitter: @KeithBradsher.

Chris Buckley contributed reporting.

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Arizona lawmakers pass teacher raises, but budget falls short of teacher demands – ThinkProgress

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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) signed a portion of the budget bill that helps fund teacher raises on Thursday morning, after House lawmakers debated the bill into the early morning hours. Teachers watched the session all of Wednesday night and camped out outside the Capitol building.

Teachers will get an average raise of 9 percent and then 5 percent for the next two years. Teachers also won $400 million in education funding to partially make up for recession-era cuts, according to the Associated Press. Although the raises were lower than what teachers wanted, they are an improvement over the 1 percent raises Ducey originally proposed.

Candles and glow sticks coming out at the AZ state capitol #RedforEd #abc15 pic.twitter.com/R53V6nTG5J

— Kim Tobin (@KimABC15) May 3, 2018

Thursday is the sixth day teachers have been out of school. Although teachers said they would end the walkout on Wednesday if the budget passed, the session stretched into the night and morning, which meant many large school districts closed school on Thursday.

Striking teachers’ demands had included a 20 percent raise, no new tax cuts until per pupil funding reaches the national average, competitive pay for educational support staff, and restoration of education funding to 2008 levels. Lawmakers have slashed education funding in the state since the Great Recession. State funding per student fell by 36.6 percent between 2008 and 2015, more than any other state. Teachers have also left the state for smaller class sizes and higher salaries.

On Thursday, House Democrats voted against the K-12 budget bill, which addressed teachers’ pay, because they said it didn’t go far enough to fund schools and pay raises, according to the Arizona Republic. Teachers watching the session reportedly approved of their vote by making jazz hands.

In a Facebook video on the Arizona Educators United page, which belongs to organizers of the walkout, kindergarten teacher Kelley Fisher assured teachers they were voting to support teachers.

“Their voting no has nothing to do with not wanting to give us a raise,” she said. “It has everything to do with this budget not taking care of our students.”

There are hundreds of #Red4Ed folks outside #azleg. The overflow rooms are full. On a typical budget night, this mall would be mostly empty, save for some lobbyists. @azcentral pic.twitter.com/64ZiWQET4N

— Rachel Leingang (@rachelleingang) May 3, 2018

During the session, state Senator Steve Farley (D) said he had never seen so many people in the gallery during the early morning hours of budget debate in the 12 years he has spent in the statehouse, according to Arizona Republic. To keep lawmakers accountable, teachers took photos of the vote count screen revealing how many lawmakers voted to increase funding for private prisons or voting against expanding the definition of a teacher.

Democrats offered a number of amendments that were supported by teachers, such as limiting classroom size to 25 students and setting a maximum student-to-counselor ratio. Another amendment widened the definition of a teacher to include librarians and counselors. All of the Democrats’ amendments failed.

Republicans offered amendments in response to the walkouts, which included an amendment from Rep. Kelly Townsend, which would have prohibited teachers in public schools from talking about or showing their political views during classroom time, and fined those who did. She also proposed an amendment to make it illegal to close schools with the exception of natural disasters and other dangers, according to the Arizona Republic. Both amendments failed.

Although Arizona Educated United, the coalition of teachers who have been organizing the walkouts, said the walkout would end after the budget passes, Phoenix New Times reports some teachers had reservations about that decision. Teachers told the publication that leaders caved into pressure from parents and other stakeholders too soon and that there wasn’t a vote similar to the one held to decide whether to walk out of classrooms.

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