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S.No. Constituency Candidate Name Party 1 Ichchapuram Ashok Bendalam TDP Ashok Bendalam 2 Palasa Gouthu Syam Sunder Sivaji YSRC Appalaraju Seediri 3 Tekkali Atchannaidu Kinjarapu TDP Atchannaidu Kinjarapu 4 Pathapatnam Ramana Murthy YSRC Reddy Shanthi 5 Srikakulam Gunda Lakshmi Devi YSRC Dharmana Prasada Rao 6 Amadalavalasa Koona Ravikumar YSRC Thammineni Seetharam 7 Etcherla Kalavenkatarao Kimidi YSRC Gorle. Kiran Kumar 8 Narasannapeta Ramanamurthy Baggu YSRC Dharmana Krishna Das 9 Rajam (SC) Kambala Jogulu YSRC Kambala Jogulu 10 Palakonda (ST) Viswasarayi Kalavathi YSRC Viswasarayi Kalavathi 11 Kurupam (ST) Pamula Pushpa Sreevani YSRC Pushpasreevani . Pamula 12 Parvathipuram (SC) Bobbili Chiranjeevulu YSRC Alajangi Jogarao 13 Salur (ST) Raj Anna Dora Peedika YSRC Peedika. Rajanna Dora 14 Bobbili Venkata Sujay Krishna Rangarao Ravu. YSRC Sambangi Venkatachina Appala Naidu 15 Cheepurupalli Kimidi Mrunalini YSRC Botcha Satyanarayana 16 Gajapathinagaram Appalanaidu Kondapalli YSRC Appalanarasayya Botcha 17 Nellimarla Narayana Swamy Naidu Pathivada YSRC Appala Naidu Baddukonda 18 Vizianagaram Geetha YSRC Veera Bhadra Swamy Kolagatla 19 Srungavarapukota Kolia Lalitha Kumari YSRC Kadubandi Srinivasa Rao 20 Bhimili Ganta Srinivasa Rao YSRC Muttamsetti Srinivasarao 21 Visakhapatnam East Ramakrishna Babu Velaaapudi TDP Ganta Srinivasa Rao 22 Visakhapatnam South Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar TDP Ganesh Kumar Vasupalli 23 Visakhapatnam North Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju TDP Gana Venkata Reddy Naidu Pethakamsetti 24 Visakhapatnam West P G V R Naidu (Gana Babu) TDP Gana Venkata Reddy Naidu Pethakamsetti 25 Gajuwaka Palla Srinivasa Rao YSRC Nagireddy Tippala 26 Chodavaram Sanyasi Raju YSRC Karanam Dharmasri 27 Madugula Budi Mutyala Naidu YSRC Budi Mutyala Naidu 28 Araku Valley (ST) Kidari Sarveswara Rao YSRC Chetti. Palguna 29 Paderu (ST) Giddi Eswari YSRC Bhagya Lakshmi Kottagulli 30 Anakapalle Peela Govinda Satyanarayana YSRC A V S S Amarnath Gudivada 31 Pendurthi Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy YSRC Annamreddy Adeep Raj 32 Yelamanchili Panchakarla Rameshbabu YSRC Uppalapati Venkata Ramanamurthy Raju 33 Payakaraopet (SC) Anitha Vangalapudi YSRC Golla Baburao 34 Narsipatnam Ayyannapatrudu Chinthakayala YSRC Uma Sankara Ganesh Petla 35 Tuni Dadisetti Ramalingeswara Rao (D Raja) YSRC Dadisetti Raja 36 Prathipadu Varupula Subbarao YSRC Sri Purnachandra Prasad Parvatha 37 Pithapuram S V S N Varma YSRC Dorababu Pendem 38 Kakinada Rural Ananthalakshmi Pilli YSRC Kurasala Kannababu 39 Peddapuram Nimmakayala Chinarajappa TDP Nimmakayala China Rajappa 40 Anaparthy Nallamilli Rama Krishna Reddy YSRC Doctor. Sathi Suryanarayana Reddy 41 Kakinada City Vanamadi Venkateswara Rao YSRC Dwarampudi Chandra Sekhara Reddy 42 Ramachandrapuram Thota Trimurthulu YSRC Chelluboyina Srinivasa Venugopalakrishna 43 Mummidivaram Datla Subba Raju YSRC Ponnada Venkata Satish Kumar 44 Amalapuram (SC) Aithabathula Anandarao YSRC Viswarupu Pinipe 45 Razole (SC) Gollapalli Surya Rao JP Rapaka Vara Prasada Rao 46 Gannavaram (SC) Pulaparty Narayana Murty TDP Vamsi Vallabhaneni 47 Kothapeta Chirla Jaggireddy YSRC Chirla Jaggireddy 48 Mandapeta Jogeswara Rao V TDP Jogeswara Rao. V 49 Rajanagaram Pendurthi Venkatesh YSRC Jakkampudi Raja 50 Rajahmundry City Akula Satyanarayana TDP Adireddy Bhavani 51 Rajahmundry Rural Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary TDP Gorantla Butchaiah Choudary 52 Jaggampeta Jyothula Nehru YSRC Jyothula Naga Veera Venkata Vishnu Satya Marthanda Rao 53 Rampachodavaram (ST) Vantala Rajeswari YSRC Nagulapalli Dhanalakshmi 54 Kovvur (SC) K S Jawahar YSRC Taneti Vanita 55 Nidadavole Burugupalli Sesha Rao YSRC G. Srinivas Naidu 56 Achanta Satyanarayana Pithani YSRC Cherukuvada Sriranganadha Raju 57 Palacole Dr. Nimmala Ramanaidu TDP Dr. Nimmala Ramanaidu 58 Narasapuram Bandaru Madhava Naidu YSRC Mudunuri Prasada Raju 59 Bhimavaram Ramanjaneyulu YSRC Grandhi Srinivas 60 Undi Rama Raju TDP Mantena Ramaraju 61 Tanuku Arimilli Radhakrishna YSRC Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao 62 Tadepalligudem Pydikondala Manikyala Rao YSRC Kottu Satyanarayana 63 Unguturu Ganni Veeranjaneyulu YSRC Puppala Srinivasarao 64 Denduluru Chinthamaneni Prabhakar YSRC Abbaya Chowdary Kothari 65 Eluru Badeti Kota Rama Rao Bujji YSRC Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas 66 Gopalapuram (SC) Muppidi Venkateswararao YSRC Venkatrao Talari 67 Polavaram (ST) Modiyam Srinivasa Rao YSRC Tellam Bala Raju 68 Chintalapudi (SC) Peethala Sujatha YSRC Vunnamatla Rakada Eliza 69 Tiruvuru (SC) Kokkiligadda Rakshana Nidhi YSRC Kokkiligadda Rakshana Nidhi 70 Nuzvid Meka Venkata Pratap Appa Rao YSRC Meka Venkata Pratap Apparao 71 Gannavaram Vallabhaneni Vamsi Mohan YSRC Kondeti Chitti Babu 72 Gudivada Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao Nani YSRC Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao 73 Kaikalur Kamineni Srinivas YSRC Dulam Nageswara Rao 74 Pedana Kagita Venkata Rao YSRC Jogi Ramesh 75 Machilipatnam Kollu Ravindra YSRC Perni Venkataramaiah 76 Avanigadda Buddha Prasad Mandali YSRC  Ramesh Babu Simhadri 77 Pamarru (SC) Uppuleti Kalpana YSRC Anil Kumar Kaile 78 Penamaluru Bode Prasad YSRC Kolusu Partha Sarathy 79 Vijayawada West Jaleel Khan YSRC Velam Palli Srinivasa Rao 80 Vijayawada Central Bonda Umamaheswara Rao TDP Bonda Umamaheswara Rao 81 Vijayawada East Gadde Rama Mohan TDP Gadde Rama Mohan 82 Mylavaram Devineni Umamaheswara Rao TDP Vasantha Venkata Krishna Prasad 83 Nandigama (SC) Thangirala Prabhakara Rao YSRC Monditoka Jagan Mohana Rao 84 Jaggayyapeta Rajagopal Sreeram Tathaiah YSRC Udayabhanu Samineni 85 Pedakurapadu Kommalapati Sridhar YSRC Sankara Rao Namburu 86 Tadikonda (SC) Tenali Sravana Kumar YSRC Vundavalli Sridevi 87 Mangalagiri Alla Rama Krishna Reddy. Rk YSRC Alla Rama Krishna Reddy 88 Ponnuru Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar YSRC Venkatroshaiah Kilari 89 Vemuru (SC) Ananda Babu Nakka YSRC Merugu Nagarjuna 90 Repalle Anagani Satya Prasad TDP Anagani Satya Prasad 91 Tenali Alapati Rajendra Prasad YSRC Annabathuni Siva Kumar 92 Bapatla Kona Raghupathi YSRC Kona Raghupathi 93 Prathipadu (SC) Ravela Kishore Babu YSRC Mekathoti Sucharitha 94 Guntur West Modugula Venu Gop Ala Reddy TDP Maddali Giridhara Rao 95 Guntur East Musthafa Shaik YSRC Mohammed Mustafa Shaik 96 Chilakaluripet Prathipati Pulla Rao YSRC Rajini Vidadala 97 Narasaropet Dr Gopireddy Srinivasa Reddy YSRC Gopireddy Srinivasareddy 98 Sattenapalle Kodela Siva Prasada Rao YSRC Ambati Rambabu 99 Vinukonda G V Aanzaneyulu YSRC Bolla Brahma Naidu 100 Gurajala Yarapathineni Srinivasa Rao YSRC Kasu Mahesh Reddy 101 Macherla Ramakrishnareddy Pinnelli YSRC Ramakrishnareddy Pinnelli. 102 Yerragondapalem (SC) David Raju Palaparthi YSRC Audimulapu Suresh 103 Darsi Raghava Rao Sidda YSRC Maddisetty Venugopal 104 Parchur Yeluri Sambasiva Rao TDP Yeluri Samba Sivarao 105 Addanki Gottipati Ravikumar Bujji TDP Gottipati Ravikumar 106 Chirala Amanchi Krishna Mohan TDP Karanam Balarama Krishna Murthy 107 Santhanuthalapadu (SC) Audimulapu Suresh YSRC T.J.R. Sudhakar Babu 108 Ongole Damacharla Janardhana Rao YSRC Balineni Srinivasa Reddy 109 Kandukur Pothula Rama Rao YSRC Maheedhar Reddy Manugunta 110 Kondapi (SC) Veeranjaneya Swamy TDP Doctor Dola Sree Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy 111 Markapuram Janke Venkata Reddy YSRC Kunduru Nagarjuna Reddy 112 Giddalur Ashok Reddy Muthumula YSRC Anna Rambabu 113 Kanigiri Kadiri Baburao YSRC Burra Madhu Sudhan Yadav 114 Kavali Ramireddy Pratap Kumar Reddy YSRC Ramireddy Pratap Kumar Reddy 115 Atmakur Mekapati Goutham Reddy YSRC Mekapati Goutham Reddy 116 Kovur Polamreddy Srinivasulu Reddy YSRC Nallapareddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy 117 Nellore City Anil Kumar Poluboina YSRC Anil Kumar Poluboina 118 Nellore Rural Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy YSRC Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy 119 Sarvepalli Kakani Govardan Reddy YSRC Kakani Govardhan Reddy 120 Gudur (SC) Pasim Sunil Kumar YSRC Velagapalli Varaprasad Rao 121 Sullurpeta (SC) Sanjeevaiah Kiliveti YSRC Kiliveti Sanjeevaiah 122 Venkatagiri Kurugondla Ramakrishna YSRC Anam Ramanarayana Reddy 123 Udayagiri Bollineni Venkata Ramarao YSRC Mekapati Chandra Sekhar Reddy 124 Badvel (SC) Thiriveedi Jayaramulu YSRC Dr. G. Venkata Subbaiah 125 Rajampet Meda Venkata Mallikarjuna Reddy YSRC Meda Venkata Mallikarjuna Reddy 126 Kadapa Amzath Basha S B YSRC Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari 127 Kodur (SC) Koramutla Sreenivasulu YSRC Koramutla Sreenivasulu 128 Rayachoti Gadikota Srikanth Reddy YSRC Gadikota. Srikanth Reddy 129 Pulivendla Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy YSRC Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy 130 Kamalapuram Pochimareddy Ravindranath Reddy YSRC Pochimareddy Ravindranath Reddy 131 Jammalamadugu Chadipirala Adinarayanareddy YSRC Mule Sudheer Reddy 132 Proddatur Rachamallu Siva Prasad Reddy YSRC Rachamallu Siva Prasad Reddy 133 Mydukur Raghuramireddy Settipalli YSRC Raghurami Reddy Settipally 134 Allagadda Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy YSRC Gangula Brijendra Reddy 135 Srisailam Budda Rajasekhar Reddy YSRC Silpa Chakrapani Reddy 136 Nandikotkur (SC) Isaiah Yakkaladevi YSRC Thoguru Arthur 137 Kurnool S V Mohan Reddy YSRC Abdul Hafeez Khan 138 Panyam Gowru Charitha Reddy YSRC Katasani Rambhupal Reddy 139 Nandyal Bhuma Nagi Reddy YSRC Shilpa Ravi Chandra Kishore Reddy 140 Banaganapalle Janardhana Reddy B C YSRC Katasani Rami Reddy 141 Dhone Buggana Rajendranath YSRC Buggana Raja Reddy 142 Pattikonda Kambalapadu Ediga Krishna Murthy YSRC Kangati Sreedevi 143 Kodumur (SC) M Mani Gandhi YSRC Jaradoddi Sudhakar 144 Yemmiganur B Jaya Nageswara Reddy YSRC K Chennakesava Reddy 145 Mantralayam Y Balanagireddy YSRC Y. Balanagi Reddy 146 Adoni Y Saiprasad Reddy YSRC Y. Sai Prasad Reddy 147 Alur Gummanur Jaya Ram YSRC P Jayaram 148 Rayadurg Kalava Srinivasulu YSRC Kapu Ramachandra Reddy 149 Uravakonda Y Viswesara Reddy TDP Payyavula Keshav 150 Guntakal R Jithendra Goud YSRC Y. Venkatarama Reddy 151 Tadpatri Prabhakar Reddy J.c YSRC K. Pedda Reddy 152 Singanamala (SC) B. Yamini Bala YSRC Padmavathy Jonnalagadda 153 Anantapur Urban Prabhakar Chowdary.v YSRC Anantha Venkatarami Reddy 154 Kalyandurg Hanumantharaya Chowdary YSRC K.V. Usha Sricharan 155 Raptadu Paritala Sunithamma YSRC Thopudurthi Prakash Reddy 156 Madakasira (SC) K. Eeranna YSRC M Thippeswamy 157 Hindupur Balakrishna Nandamuri TDP Nandamuri Balakrishna 158 Penukonda B. K. Parth Asar Athi YSRC Malagundla Sankaranarayana 159 Puttaparthi Palle Raghunath Reddy YSRC Duddukunta Sreedhar Reddy 160 Dharmavaram Gonugguntla Suiyanarayolirv. YSRC Kethireddy Venkatarami Reddy 161 Kadiri Attar. Chand Basha YSRC P.V. Sidda Reddy 162 Thamballapalle G. Shankar YSRC Peddireddy Dwarakanatha Reddy 163 Pileru Chinthala Ramachandra Reddy YSRC Chinthala Ramachandra Reddy 164 Madanapalle Dr. Desai Thlppa Reddy. M.s. YSRC Mohammed Nawaz Basha 165 Punganur Ramachandra Reddy YSRC Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy 166 Chandragiri Cbevi Reddy Bhaskar Reddy YSRC Dr.Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy 167 Tirupati M. Venkataramana YSRC Bhumana Karunakar Reddy 168 Srikalahasti Gopala Krishna Reddy Bojjala YSRC Madhusudhan Reddy Biyyapu 169 Satyavedu (SC) Talari Aditya YSRC Adimulam Koneti 170 Nagari R K Roja YSRC R.K. Roja 171 Gangadhara Nellore (SC) Narayanaswamy YSRC K. Narayana Swamy 172 Chittoor D. A. Sathya Prabha YSRC Aranii Srenevasulu (Jangalapalli) 173 Puthalapattu (SC) M. Sunil Kumar YSRC M. Babu 174 Palamaner N. Amaranath Reddy YSRC N Venkate Gowda 175 Kuppam Nara Chandra Babu Naidu TDP Nara Chandra Babu Naidu

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Who will be AP CM in 2019?

The absolute answer from every citizen of Andhra Pradesh for this question is

Shri. Nara Chandrababu Naidu.

While they answer this, they are very sure of reasons also. Listed below are the reasons mentioned by citizens of AP.

For a person to become CM of any state, He/she need to be efficient in 3 main aspects:

          Financial Managament

     Welfare and Administration

      Law and Order

A Person who can efficiently handle these three, can become the CM of a state and administer it well for the upcoming 5 year term.

For 2019 in AP, three parties are contesting in the elections.

      Telugu Desam Party (TDP)

      YSR Congress Party (YSRCP)

      Janasena Party (JSP)

As three parties are contesting, their respective chiefs are contesting for the CM seat of Andhra Pradesh. Though three persons are in the race for CM position, the competition is in just between TDP chief Nara Chandra Babu Naidu and YSCRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy.Being said this; people compared these two persons’ efficiency in the above mentioned three aspects.

Financial Management:

a.  Chandra Babu Naidu:

He studied M.A. in economics. He has been applying his studies in the real time and managing the state to be in good financial position. For this, the revenue of the state should be higher than the expenditure of the state. During the Bifurcation, the residual Andhra Pradesh state has been left with a revenue deficit of 16,000Crores of rupees. To cover it up, the state should gain new industries in order to increase the revenues. He has brought several industries and set up in Andhra Pradesh in these 5 years. Now, the debt of the Andhra Pradesh came down by 10% while the neighboring state Telangana’s, which is left with surplus budget, debt is up by 9%. This is a clear example of his financial management skills.

b.  Jagan Mohan Reddy:

While the later proved his efficiency and skills in Financial Management and good for the state, this person, the chief of YSRCP proved his efficiency and skills in Financial frauds. He has been convicted in 13 cases as A1 for the financial frauds committed in his dad’s regime. The total value of the fraud is 1 lakh Crores rupees. The cases were charged by CBI, ED, and other financial fraud Investigation agencies. He has committed breach of Insider information, Money Laundering, Misusing the power of his father when he was CM.

The person who could commit unacceptable financial frauds when he was not in the power, the same person would become No.1 in the world if given power. So, the people of AP wisely chosen Nara ChandraBabu Naidu when asked the question “who will be AP CM in 2019”.

Welfare and Administration:

a. Chandra Babu Naidu:

The first term as chief minister of new state of Andhra Pradesh, he has come up with unexpected no. of welfare schemes to make people happy. Popular schemes of those are: Pasupu-Kumkuma for Women, Yuvanestham for Youth, Annadatha Sukhibhava for Farmers, 2000 rupees of pension for Old age people, NTR vaidya seva for poor etc., These welfare schemes have brought fame for the current government and current CM, Chandra Babu Naidu.

Administration is making sure the whole organizational system throughout the state running softly without any hindrances. Administration is making sure the schemes reach to the common public without fail and people get benefitted out of the schemes introduced. Administration is making the government agencies corrupt-free and the requests of the citizens are resolved within time. This has been proven by current government. People are very happy about his Administration. He has kept all his 40 years of political experience in order to administer the state well. He is known for the discipline and always strive to incorporate in every level of the state administration

b. Jagan Mohan Reddy:

While the latter striving for making the state corrupt-free and No.1 in India, this person is known for his corruption, Misusing of power and Indiscipline.  This person has forced the IAS officres in his father’s regime as CM to sign on the MOUs which is illegal. Then officers had no choice as they were threatened to death if not signed. Corruption was in peaks during their regime. Officers of every level earned much money from bribes. There was no control by the government as the corruption is headed by this person Jaganmohan Reddy.

People are well aware of what bad he have done to the state and well aware of what good CBN has done for the state in his 15 years of tenure as chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. So, people have chosen Chandrababu Naidu as their person to be the CM when they were asked the question “Who will be the AP CM in 2019”.

Law and Order

This is most important aspect among three though each aspect has got its importance. People can lead life though the other aspects are not fulfilled. But when the Law and Order is disturbed in the state, people can’t lead peaceful life as there will be threat in the state every minute. So, this has to be controlled and monitored in order to maintain the peace in the state every second in the state. Failure in this will lead to turbulence in the state. The best example for this is the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The citizens in J&K experience the threat of killing every second. They don’t lead peaceful lives. This is purely because of the inefficiency of government to maintain the law and order perfectly. Let’s see who of the two can maintain Law and Order efficiently.

a. Chandra Babu Naidu:

In his term of 15 years as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, the law and order was never disturbed in the state. He organized the police department very well to maintain the peace and discipline in the state. He never tolerated the breach of law and order. He took several hard actions against those people who damages the peace in the state. He spares no one even their own party people. He is disciplined and he incorporates the same in the state.

b. JaganMohan Reddy:

YS JaganMohan Reddy and his family is known for the faction in Rayalaseema region. They murdered many people as part of their faction. His grandfather, Raja Reddy is known as famous faction leader in the rayalaseema. He have committed every crime like murder, Land grabbing, Rapes, etc. The same ideology is adopted by Jagan as he is also involved in many murders, especially Parital Ravi’s murder. Their MLAs also are involved in many murders, theft, forgery etc.

People of Andhra Pradesh chosen Chandrababu Naidu when they were asked this question “Who will be AP CM in 2019”. They answered “Are we fools to choose the devil into Rule?”

So, there is the perfect answer Mr. Chandrababu Naidu is going to win the upcoming elections with bumper majority and become the CM again.

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ఏప్రిల్ 11న ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్‌లోని 175 అసెంబ్లీ స్థానాలకు పోలింగ్ జరగనుంది. వీటి ఫలితాలు మే 23న వెల్లడి కానున్నాయి. ఈ నేపథ్యంలో ఏపీలోని ప్రధాన పార్టీలన్నీ తమ అభ్యర్థుల వివరాలను ప్రకటించాయి. మార్చి 25న అభ్యర్థుల నామినేషన్ల దాఖలు ముగిసింది. మార్చి 28 వరకు నామినేషన్ల ఉపసంహరణ గడువు ఉంది. మరి, ఏయే పార్టీ అభ్యర్థి ఎవరితో పోటీ పడనున్నారో ఇక్కడ చూడండి. 

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Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019

Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019 GS-2 Legislative council Why in news? The Madhya Pradesh government has indicated that it plans to initiate steps towards creation of a Legislative Council. Not all states have two Houses. Which are the ones that do, and why is a second House needed? Why a second House  Just as Parliament has two Houses, so can the states, if they choose to. Article 71 of the Constitution provides for the option of a state to have a Legislative Council in addition to its Legislative Assembly.  As in Rajya Sabha, members of a Legislative Council are not directly elected by voters.  Opinion in the Constituent Assembly was divided on the idea.  Among the arguments in its favour, a second House can help check hasty actions by the directly elected House, and also enable non-elected individuals to contribute to the legislative process.  The arguments against the idea: a Legislative Council can be used to delay legislation, and to park leaders who have not been able to win an election.  Under Article 169, a Legislative Council can be formed “if the Legislative Assembly of the State passes a resolution to that effect by a majority of the total membership of the Assembly and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of the Assembly present and voting”. Parliament can then pass a law to this effect. States with LCs  Currently, six states have Legislative Councils.  Jammu and Kashmir too had one, until the state was bifurcated into the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.  Tamil Nadu’s then DMK government had passed a law to set up a Council but the subsequent AIADMK government withdrew it after coming to power in 2010. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019  Andhra Pradesh’s Legislative Council, set up in 1958, was abolished in 1985, then reconstituted in 2007.  The Odisha Assembly recently passed a resolution for a Legislative Council.  Proposals to create Councils in Rajasthan and Assam are pending in Parliament; the PRS Legislative Research website lists the status of both Bill as pending. Members  Under Article 171 of the Constitution, the Legislative Council of a state shall not have more than one-third of the number of MLAs of the state, and not less than 40 members.  In Madhya Pradesh, which has 230 MLAs, the proposed Legislative Council can have at most 76 members.  As with Rajya Sabha MPs, the tenure of a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) is six years, with one-third of members retiring every two years.  One-third of the MLCs are elected by the state’s MLAs, another one-third by a special electorate comprising sitting members of local governments such as municipalities and district boards, 1/12th by an electorate of teachers and another 1/12th by registered graduates. The remaining members are appointed by the Governor for distinguished services in various fields. LC vis-à-vis Rajya Sabha  The legislative power of the Councils is limited.  Unlike Rajya Sabha which has substantial powers to shape non-financial legislation, Legislative Councils lack a constitutional mandate to do so; Assemblies can override suggestions/amendments made to a legislation by the Council.  Again, unlike Rajya Sabha MPs, MLCs cannot vote in elections for the President and Vice President.  The Vice President is the Rajya Sabha Chairperson; an MLC is the Council Chairperson. What next in MP  Having promised a Legislative Council for Madhya Pradesh in its election manifesto, the ruling Congress is working on a resolution that will be presented in the next Assembly session. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019 Rajendra Singh, chairman of the Congress manifesto committee in 2018, said the party has discussed the issue and is serious about constituting a second House. GS-3 Bond yield and curve Why in news? Bond yields have featured in news reports both globally and within India in recent months. In India, government bond yields fell sharply in the wake of the Union Budget, although they have come off the lows in the past few weeks. Internationally, US treasury bond yields plummeted last week, but they too have moderated after it became clear that governments almost everywhere have shown the desire to boost economic growth. What are bonds?  A bond is an instrument to borrow money.  It is like an IOU.  A bond could be floated/issued by a country’s government or by a company to raise funds.  Since government bonds (referred to as G-secs in India, Treasury in the US, and Gilts in the UK) come with the sovereign’s guarantee, they are considered one of the safest investments.  As a result, they also give the lowest returns on investment (or yield). Investments in corporate bonds tend to be riskier because the chances of failure (and, therefore, the chances of the company not repaying the loan) are higher. What are bonds yields?  Simply put, the yield of a bond is the effective rate of return that it earns.  But the rate of return is not fixed — it changes with the price of the bond. But to understand that, one must first understand how bonds are structured.  Every bond has a face value and a coupon payment.  There is also the price of the bond, which may or may not be equal to the face value of the bond. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019  Suppose the face value of a 10-year G-sec is Rs 100, and its coupon payment is Rs 5. Buyers of this bond will give the government Rs 100 (the face value); in return, the government will pay them Rs 5 (the coupon payment) every year for the next 10 years, and will pay back their Rs 100 at the end of the tenure. In this case, the bond’s yield, or effective rate of interest, is 5%.  The yield is the investor’s reward for parting with Rs 100 today, but for staying without it for 10 years. Why and how do yields go up and down?  Imagine a situation in which there is just one bond, and two buyers (or people willing to lend to the government).  In such a scenario, the selling price of the bond may go from Rs 100 to Rs 105 or Rs 110 because of competitive bidding by the two buyers.  Importantly, even if the bond is sold at Rs 110, the coupon payment of Rs 5 will not change.  Thus, as the price of the bond increases from Rs 100 to Rs 110, the yield falls to 4.5%.  Similarly, if the interest rate in the broader economy is different from the initial coupon payment promised by a bond, market forces quickly ensure that the yield aligns itself with the economy’s interest rate.  In that sense, G-sec yields are in close sync with the prevailing interest rate in an economy.  With reference to the above example, if the prevailing interest rate is 4% and the government announces a bond with a yield of 5% (that is, a face value of Rs 100 and a coupon of Rs 5) then a lot of people will rush to buy such a bond to earn a higher interest rate.  This increased demand will start pushing up bond prices, even as the yields fall. This will carry on until the time the bond price reaches Rs 125 — at that point, a Rs-5 coupon payment would be equivalent to a yield of 4%, the same as in the rest of the economy.  This process of bringing yields in line with the prevailing interest rate in the economy works in the reverse manner when interest rates are higher than the initially promised yields. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019 ]What is happening to US govt bond yields at present? What does it signify?  The global economy has been slowing down for the better part of the last two years.  Some of the biggest economies are either growing at a slower rate (such as the US and China) or actually contracting (such as Germany).  As a result, last week, US Treasury bond yields fell sharply as there was confirmation of slowdown in Germany and China.  Reason: investors, both inside the US and outside, figured that if growth prospects are plummeting, it makes little sense to invest in stocks or even riskier assets.  It made more sense rather, to invest in something that was both safe and liquid (that is, something that can be converted in to cash quickly).  US Treasury bonds are the safest bet in this regard. So, many investors lined up to buy US Treasury bonds, which led to their prices going up, and their yields falling sharply. And what is a yield curve, and what does it signify?  A yield curve is a graphical representation of yields for bonds (with an equal credit rating) over different time horizons.  Typically, the term is used for government bonds — which come with the same sovereign guarantee.  So the yield curve for US treasuries shows how yields change when the tenure (or the time for which one lends to the government) changes.  If bond investors expect the US economy to grow normally, then they would expect to be rewarded more (that is, get more yield) when they lend for a longer period. This gives rise to a normal — upward sloping — yield curve (see chart).  The steepness of this yield curve is determined by how fast an economy is expected to grow.  The faster it is expected to grow the more the yield for longer tenures. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019  When the economy is expected to grow only marginally, the yield curve is “flat”. What then is yield inversion, and what does it mean?  Yield inversion happens when the yield on a longer tenure bond becomes less than the yield for a shorter tenure bond.  This, too, happened last week when the 10-year Treasury yield fell below the 2-year Treasury yield.  A yield inversion typically portends a recession.  An inverted yield curve shows that investors expect the future growth to fall sharply; in other words, the demand for money would be much lower than what it is today and hence the yields are also lower. How good is yield inversion at predicting a recession?  Although US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was quoted as saying Monday that “eventually there’ll be a recession but this inversion is not as reliable, in my view, as people think”, yet US data show historically that barring one episode in the mid-1960s, a yield inversion has always been followed by a recession. Sulphur dioxide pollution Why in news? A new report by Greenpeace India shows the country is the largest emitter of sulphur dioxide in the world, with more than 15% of all the anthropogenic sulphur dioxide hotspots detected by the NASA OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) satellite. Almost all of these emissions in India are because of coalburning, the report says. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019 Sources  The vast majority of coal-based power plants in India lack flue-gas desulphurisation technology to reduce air pollution.  The Singrauli, Neyveli, Talcher, Jharsuguda, Korba, Kutch, Chennai, Ramagundam, Chandrapur and Koradi thermal power plants or clusters are the major emission hotspots in India, the report says.  In a first step to combat pollution levels, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change introduced, for the first time, sulphur dioxide emission limits for coal-fired power plants in December 2015.  But the deadline for the installation of flue-gas desulphurisation (FGD) in power plants has been extended from 2017 to 2022. Other global sources  The report also includes NASA data on the largest point sources of sulphur dioxide.  The largest sulphur dioxide emission hotspots have been found in Russia, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Serbia.  Air pollutant emissions from power plants and other industries continue to increase in India, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the report says.  In Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Turkey, emissions are currently not increasing — however, there is not a lot of progress in tackling them either. Emission trends  Of the world’s major emitters, China and the United States have been able to reduce emissions rapidly.  They have achieved this feat by switching to clean energy sources;  China, in particular, has achieved success by dramatically improving emission standards and enforcement for sulphur dioxide control. Solid fuel burning Context Firewood, animal dung, and agricultural waste are some of the fuels commonly used in households across India as a means of generating energy for cooking, light, and heating, among other things. According to a summary of seven research papers published in Ideas for India on August 19, the burning of such solid fuels, like firewood, impacts the health of household members and accounts for somewhere between 22% to 52% of all ambient air pollution in India. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019 The study postulates that, based on this evidence, switching to cleaner fuels such as LPG for household use will have a dramatic impact on pollution levels and health problems due to pollution. Why should solid fuels be avoided?  Firewood, animal dung, and agricultural waste are some of the fuels commonly used in households across India as a means of generating energy for cooking, light, and heating, among other things.  One of the many pollutants produced on the burning of such solid fuels is fine particulate matter.  Fine particulate matter refers to particles or droplets with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres (0.000001 metres) or less, and is also known as PM2.5.  Such particles can travel deep into the respiratory system, and exposure to them can cause several adverse health effects, both short-term and long-term, including respiratory problems and heart disease. What is Household Air Pollution and how dangerous is it?  The emissions of PM2.5 generated by the burning of solid fuels in households is termed Household Air Pollution (HAP).  The study claims that approximately 800,000 premature deaths occur in India every year as a result of exposure to HAP indoors.  Moreover, the HAP produced indoors travels outdoors, and becomes a contributor to ambient air pollution, with around 300,000 more premature deaths per year attributable to exposure to outdoor HAP.  The median estimate for the contribution of HAP is, according to the study, around 30%, far greater than that of industries (2%-10%), power plants (8%-15%), and transportation (8%-11%).  The contribution of HAP to premature mortality is, as per the median across all studies, 58% higher than premature mortality due to coal use, 303% higher than that due to open burning, and 1,056% higher than that due to transportation. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019 How many people use solid fuels in India?  In states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and Assam, around 72.1% of the population regularly uses solid fuels, and the median annual ambient is 125.3µg/m^3, a level that is rated “unhealthy” as per the Air Quality Index, and can lead to serious health concerns with prolonged exposure. What are the study's recommendations?  The study asserts that immediate action is required to rectify the harm caused by HAP.  It points to initiatives undertaken by the government of India to promote LPG for use in households as opposed to the traditionally used solid fuels, such as the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.  However, the study claims that more effort is required, in particular, increasing the use of electricity as a substitute in these scenarios, and ensuring that the use of LPG is sustained. Tardigrades Why in news? On April 11, the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet attempted to land on the Moon, but crashed on the surface. It was carrying a number of items — including thousands of specimens of a living organism called tardigrade. What are tardigrade?  The tardigrade, also known as water bear, is among the toughest and most resilient creatures on Earth.  The question is: did the thousands of dehydrated tardigrades on Beresheet survive the crash? And if they did, are they now living on the Moon?  The tardigrade can only be seen under a microscope.  Half a millimetre long, it is essentially a water-dweller but also inhabits land and, a 2008 study found, can survive in the cold vacuum of outer space. Daily Current Affairs Dated On 20-Aug-2019  In 2017, another study found that if all other life were to be wiped out by a cataclysmic event — a large asteroid impact, a supernova or a gamma-ray bursts — the tardigrade would be the likeliest to survive.  The tardigrade can endure extreme hot and cold temperature levels. How do they survive?  Although the tardigrades on the spacecraft were dehydrated, the organism is known to “come back to life” on rehydration.  In fact, they themselves expel water from their bodies and set off a mechanism to protect their cells, and can still revive if placed in water later.  However, there is no evidence of liquid water on the Moon, although there is ice.  Without liquid water, it is possible that the tardigrades will remain in their current state, unless future astronauts find them and revive them in water.  The tardigrade derives its name from the fact that it looks like an eight-legged bear, with a mouth that can project out like a tongue.  Its body has four segments supported by four pairs of clawed legs.  A tardigrade typically eats fluids, using its claws and mouth to tear open plant and animal cells, so that it can suck nutrients out of them. It is also known to feast on bacteria and, in some cases, to kill and eat other tardigrades.  Although they are famed for their resilience, they are destructible too. Should a human being swallow a tardigrade with her food, her stomach acid will cause the flesh of the tardigrade to disintegrate. On the Moon, should they find liquid water and revive, the tardigrades might not last very long in the absence of food and air, according to Live Science magazine, which quoted Kazuharu Arakawa, a tardigrade researcher at Keio University in Tokyo.

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Violence, reports of EVM glitches and missing names mar round one of Election 2019

New Delhi: Election 2019 kicked off to a troubled get started on Thursday with two people today currently being killed in clashes in Andhra Pradesh, IED blasts in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, studies of EVM glitches and many grievances from voters about their names not getting on the electoral list.

As round a person of the seven-section Lok Sabha election began in 91 constituencies across the duration and breadth of India, from the hills of Kashmir to the islands of Andaman and Nicobar, reports of unrest and irregularities cast shadows more than the world’s major poll system.

There had been reviews of violence from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh even though the chiefs of various events, like TDP’s N Chandrababu Naidu, AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal and PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti, arrived ahead to complain about administrative and other lapses.

In Andhra Pradesh, the place elections were held for 25 Lok Sabha and 175 Assembly seats, a single worker from the ruling Telugu Desam Bash and a single from the key opposition YSR Congress were killed in a clash in a village in Tadipatri Assembly constituency in Anantapuramu district.

Condemning the killing of his bash worker, TDP president Chandrababu Naidu accused the YSR Congress of indulging in violence to win the election.

The opposition countered it by expressing followers of local TDP MP and MLA, the JC brothers (MP J C Diwakar Reddy and MLA J C Prabhakar Reddy) attempted to rig votes in a polling booth in Veerapuram village.

The two parties clashed in other areas of the state as very well with reports of stone throwing and allegations of attacks and vandalism coming in from Eluru city as nicely as from Jammalamadugu in Kadapa district and Narsaraopet constituency in Guntur district.

Elsewhere in the point out, Madhusudan Gupta, a applicant of the Jana Sena Get together, was arrested just after he smashed an EVM in Guntakal, alleging that party symbols were being not properly printed on the ballot unit.

In Maharashtra, Naxals activated an IED blast close to a polling booth in Waghezari location of Gadchiroli district whilst voting was underway, police stated. There were no casualties.

Later in the working day, two law enforcement commandos escorting a poll social gathering were injured in an IED blast in Etapalli in the district.

In the Naxal stronghold of Chhattisgarh, 4 guerrillas were arrested and firearms seized from them in Bijapur district while the poll procedure was underway.

In the early hrs of the morning, Naxals detonated an IED in Narayanpur in Bastar area. No casualties ended up documented below too.

A lot of miles away, an IED was detected in an oil pipeline passing through a tea garden in Assam’s Dibrugarh district. Security forces rushed to the place to make sure there is no trouble.

In Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh, BSF staff fired in the air at a polling booth when some people, who were not carrying their identity cards, tried out to forcibly enter the premises to cast their votes, police said.

If the sporadic incidents of violence was one be concerned, the other was the studies of EVM glitches and voters not becoming allowed to exercising their franchise.

“No made place is working with EVMs as they are prone to manipulation. We have for this reason been demanding that we revert to the ballot paper method,” Naidu explained immediately after casting his vote in Undavalli village in Amravati amid a lot of reviews of EVMs not functioning thoroughly.

Delhi Main Minister Kejriwal took to Twitter and tagged folks who claimed their names or the names of their family have been deleted from voter lists.

“What is taking place EC? Are these elections reasonable?” Kejriwal questioned.

“Anti-BJP votes deleted all across India. Studies coming from all throughout India that votes have been deleted on unparalleled scale. Why are all defective EVM devices seen to be voting constantly for BJP?” he explained in a tweet.

Businessperson Kiran Mazumdar Shaw’s mom was a person of those whose identify was deleted.

“She is so upset I simply cannot tell you becos she has been at the identical handle for 19 a long time. So significantly for ‘verification’,” Shaw explained in a tweet.

In restive Jammu and Kashmir, which was usually tranquil with no studies of violence, the National Meeting and the PDP alleged that uniformed personnel coerced folks to vote for the BJP and EVMs malfunctioned in some destinations with the Congress button not performing throughout polling in Jammu’s Poonch space.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti tweeted a video displaying voters elevating anti-BJP slogans right after they had been purportedly roughed up by the BSF for not voting for the BJP.

“Using armed forces at polling stations to coerce men and women to vote for the BJP demonstrates their desperation & hunger to usurp energy by hook or crook,” PDP president Mehbooba Mufti explained in her tweet.

In accordance to Nationwide Conference’s Jammu provincial president Davinder Singh Rana, a uniformed officer coerced voters in Poonch’s Arai Malka spot to vote for the BJP.

A community administration formal attained the place and the uniformed officer has been eradicated pursuing grievances by the voters, he claimed.

National Convention vice president Omar Abdullah posted a online video of presiding officer from Poonch spot describing the malfunctioning of an EVM button.

Assuring that voting, which was stalled in some polling booths in Poonch location, would soon resume, the presiding officer was questioned which button was not doing the job.

“Haath ka button (button showing hand),” he claimed. The hand is the election symbol of Congress occasion.

Much more than 14 crore individuals had been outlined to vote in the 1st stage, held in 91 Lok Sabha constituencies spread throughout 18 states and two union territories.

The votes for the election, becoming held in excess of seven phases, will be counted on Could 23.

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Telangana is bribing its way to the polls

Latest Updates - M. N. & Associates - It’s a government holiday in Telangana but at the chief electoral officer’s office housed in the old Secretariat building in Khairatabad in Hyderabad, there is no such indication. With less than two months to go before the country’s youngest state goes to vote on December 7, holidays are unthinkable, says Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Rajat Kumar, in between meetings with various officials to oversee poll preparations. As the state’s 2.3 crore voters get ready to decide whether incumbent Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao and his Telangana Rashtra Samithi will stay on for another term, one of the priorities in the upcoming election (and the general elections in 2019) would be to curb the illicit flow of liquor and cash distribution. With good reason. According to Election Commission data, the highest amount of cash seized during the last general elections in 2014 came from undivided Andhra Pradesh, which accounted for more than half of the total seized money. 66296777 Telangana CEO Kumar says that the highest amount of cash seized should not automatically be interpreted as the region seeing the highest amount of cash changing hands. But having given that disclaimer, Kumar says it remains a cause for concern, along with the distribution of alcohol to voters. With the exception of Kerala, the flow of cash offered as an incentive to voters during elections is a problem in other south Indian states as well, say analysts. 66296792 With election dates only recently announced, campaigning is still gathering steam. In Hyderabad, enforcement of the model code of conduct has left the city bereft of the larger-than-life cutouts of the chief minister and the trademark pink buntings and posters of his party. Yet, instances have already emerged of money being offered as inducements. 66296856 For instance, E Ravinder Reddy, the TRS candidate from Yallareddy, 140 km from Hyderabad, was caught on camera offering a group of women Rs 5 lakh if they passed a “resolution” saying they would vote for his party (the women are also seen bargaining about whether that would be enough). The state’s home minister, Nayini Narasimha Reddy, too, found himself in a controversy after he mentioned that KCR had offered Rs 10 crore for his electoral expenses if he agreed to contest from a different constituency, a statement he later backtracked on.Incidentally, the three richest MPs in the current Lok Sabha are from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.According to the Association of Democratic Reforms, TDP’s Jayadev Galla from Guntur tops the list with assets of over Rs 683 crore, followed by TRS’s Konda Vishweshwar Reddy from Chelvella, with `528 crore and BJP’s Gokaraju Gangaraju from Narsapuram in Andhra Pradesh, with declared assets of over Rs 288 crore.“Andhra has long been a pioneer in the use of cash in elections. But others like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are catching up. Each election now sets a new record,” says Jayaprakash Narayan, former MLA and founder of the Foundation for Democratic Reforms, at his eighth floor office. From the balcony of the office in Begumpet, one gets a panoramic view of Pragathi Bhavan, the sprawling camp officecum-residence spread across 9 acres that KCR got built after coming into power, reportedly at a cost of Rs 50 crore.The trend, says Narayan, began with TDP’s Naidu and the late YS Rajasekhar Reddy of the Congress, who was involved in mining and a host of other businesses. “One started the trend and the other followed, till it became endemic to the electoral process.” 66297358 M Kondandaram, one of the leaders in the agitation for a separate state of Telangana and founder of the Telangana Jana Samithi, estimates that the trend of using a lot of cash in elections began in the post-liberalisation elections of 1994, when Naidu began using management techniques in polls. “This period also saw the rise of crony capitalism. Liberalisation initially had little impact on states but Andhra was an exception, being one of the reform oriented states. It also saw the coming together of business with politics.” Kodandram’s Jana Samithi recently entered into a “grand alliance” with the TDP, Congress and CPI in Telangana to take on the TRS. “We see a strong nexus between contractors and political power; projects are driven by contractors, who pay a lot of commission and then raise money, which gives the politicians the confidence they can manage the elections with money, ” says Kodandaram, during a conversation at his single storey residence in Tarnaka in the city. He alleges that in the upcoming elections, the TRS is prepared to spend Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 1,500 crore.The TRS refutes these allegations, saying there is no question of ticket distribution being done on the basis of a candidate’s wealth. “The majority of our MLAs in 2014 were those active in the agitation for the last 15 years,” says TRS member of Parliament B Vinod Kumar.The party’s MLAs would be seeking reelection on the basis of the KCR government’s performance and hence need not depend on cash or liquor for votes, he adds. “But the Opposition might think that it will help them.”V Lakshmana Reddy, a former professor and founder of Election Watch, says when the non-profit began working in 2004, voters would be offered Rs 200 by candidates and only 30-35% of them would be accepting it. But now, this has even gone up to Rs 3,000, which is accepted by 80% of voters.“Money is usually given directly to voters along with pamphlets, by volunteers under the cover of night. They can evade the police by alerts passed around through mobile phones,” says Reddy. Election Watch, which counts former Chief Election Commissioner JM Lyngdoh as one of its advisors, plans to campaign against the use of cash for votes in the upcoming elections as well.Narayan says parties have also innovated in distributing money. “I heard of a case in a bypoll in Andhra where voters were given Rs 20. The notes would have a particular marker. After voting, people could go and redeem the Rs 20 note for Rs 2,000.”They also end up having to distribute money to more voters now, as opposed to paying only those they considered likely to vote for them earlier because voters seek money from all quarters.With electoral expenses being so high, candidate selection, too, now depends on how much they would be capable of spending, says Narayan. “While big expenditure does not guarantee victory, non-expenditure now guarantees defeat,” says the former MLA.Breaking this cycle of paying voters would require a generational effort, he adds. CEO Kumar is confident that the Election Commission has been able to curb the overt distribution of cash, in general. “But we have seen reports of tokens being distributed for liquor. That’s a major concern in the elections in Telangana.”How the Election Commission plans to crack the whipC-Vigil, an Android app, will be used during the Telangana elections. Citizens can upload photos or videos of violations of the model code of conduct on the app, which will be monitored by the Election Commission. The returning officer of the constituency where a violation is reported has to pass it on to a mobile unit within five minutes:Election Commission officials will distribute voter slips on the eve of the election. Earlier, parties were allowed to distribute the slips 48 hours before elections. But it was suspected that this was being misused to offer voters inducements or campaign at the last minuteVulnerability mapping and criticality analysis of poll areas is done by the police and district electoral officers. Sources of threats and intimidation are identified, taking into cognisance past incidents. The commission then launches confidence building measures in these areas through visits and interactions with the votersTelangana will deploy 70,000 police officers and 275 companies of paramilitary forces, in addition to the state machinery and personnel of the excise and income tax departments, to monitor proceedings. Chartered Accountant For consultng. Contact Us: http://bit.ly/bombay-ca