Lok Sabha Budget Session Report Card: Owaisi hits century

By TCN News,


Congratulations, Mr Asaduddin Owaisi on making a century of questions on the floor of the Lok Sabha during February-May Budget Session 2010. Perhaps this is the first time that a Muslim parliamentarian has asked more than 100 questions in a single session. Well done, Hyderabad MP of Majlise Ittehadul Muslimeen. Third time in a row Owaisi leads Muslim MPs in the report card of floor performance exclusively presented by TCN.

Though cumulatively Muslim Lok Sabha Members have asked far more questions in this session than theirs in some last sessions put together, majority, still have remained silent. Of 30 Muslim Lok Sabha Members, 16 remained silent in the 32-day session spreading over three months with long intervals. The 16 include four Ministers.


The non-speakers include 7 members of Congress, 3 from Trinamool Congress, 2 each from Bahujan Samaj Party and National Conference and 1 each from Muslim League and Janata Dal United.



Among the top performers are Asaduddin Owaisi (102), JM Aaroon Rasheed (64), Shahnawaz Hussain (62), ET Muhammed Basheer (40) and MI Shanavas (40).

What is good is that consistent performers have far improved their own performance, resulting in 430 questions asked by Muslim MPs in the session that started on February 22, 2010 and ended on May 7, 2010. In the Nov-Dec 2009 session the total number of questions asked by them was 167 and only 84 in the July-Aug 2009 session.

Type of Questions

Questions are of three types:-

Starred, Unstarred and Short Notice Questions


A Starred Question is one to which a member desires an oral answer in the House and which is distinguished by an asterisk mark. When a question is answered orally, supplementary questions can be asked thereon. Only 20 questions can be listed for oral answer on a day.

An Unstarred Question: is one which is not called for oral answer in the House and on which no supplementary questions can consequently be asked. To such a question, a written answer is deemed to have been laid on the Table after the Question Hour by the Minister to whom it is addressed. It is printed in the official report of the sitting of the House for which it is put down. Only 230 questions can be listed for written answer on a day.

A Short Notice Question is one which relates to a matter of urgent public importance and can be asked with shorter notice than the period of notice prescribed for an ordinary question. Like a starred question, it is answered orally followed by supplementary questions.

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Name: Mr. Abdul Mannan Hossain
Age: 57
Constituency: Murshidabad (West Bengal )
Party name: Indian National Congress(INC)

No of days present : 15/32

No. of questions: 0

[The report has been compiled by Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net Patna Correspondent]

Source : Lok Sabha Website[As updated till 31st May 2010]

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Bihar’s budding scientist Meraj Ahmad working on rail engine

By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net,

Meraj Ahmed, 24, living in Betiah, a backward district in Bihar, has won several awards for his innovations – the recent one from President of India. Nowadays he is working on a rail engine like that of bullet train. But his bullet train engine will run on the normal railway track. Talking to Mudassir Rizwan of TwoCircles.net Meraj gives detail about his innovations, his life and problems, and his future plans.

Mr Meraj, please tell us about you and your background.

I am Meraj Ahmad. I am from a lower class family in Betiah district in West Champaran. We are 3 brothers and a youngest sister. My father is in Revenue department where he works as a clerk. Economic problems have always been with my family. I have done I.Sc. (Mathematics) by doing tuition. I started doing innovation from class VII. I have done so many innovations, some very new. I want to do something big in future. I want to be a big scientist and serve the society and the country.





What is your first innovation?

Firstly I have created a “Picture tube charger”. When TV becomes old then its picture is not shown clearly. With my charger the picture tube can be charged again. After that we will get new quality picture tube that can run up to 4 years. It costs only Rs 150. You can charge your home battery of 12 volts also with this charger.

I heard that you got award for this innovation.

Yes, President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil gave me a prestigious national award for the grassroot innovation.

Tell me about your other innovations that you have done.

I have done 20 inventions. They include “Rat trapping machine” and “Magnetic weighing balance”. This magnetic weighing balance ensures exact weight and there is no need of mass or weight and it’s not costly either. Secondly, I made a new type of “Cycle”. Without pedalling it will run up to 10 minutes. It has some other features also. If there is crowd on your way, you can pull brake and after crossing the crowd when you leave clutch the cycle will start running automatically.





Have you got any support from govt.?

No, I did not get any support from the government. Some media persons came here and told me that they will try to provide me some help, they also told me to do marketing of what I innovate, but I don’t want how to do marketing and I don’t want to stop at the President award. I want to become a scientist. If anybody wants to help me then I want to continue my education. I want to do B.Tech. from a good institution.

On which projects are you working nowadays?

Nowadays I am working on 2-3 things. One is train. I am working on a fast train engine that will take only half the time of a fast train that takes 16-17 hours to cover 2000 kmss. Among fast trains there is train called bullet train. For bullet train, there is a special track, special engine and special configuration. But I am making a structure of an engine that will run on the same track but will cover 16-17 hours journey in only 8-9 hours.

Are you getting any support for your train project?

Till now I am not getting any support but one of my relatives who is a railway staff is giving me some monetary support. He encourages me to work on the project.

In future what do you want to do?

I want to do B.Tech. from a good university and also want to work on new innovations. If I am given chance I want to put before people what is in my mind.



Meraj's first innovation


Your message to Muslim youngsters and youth?

At this program of Rahmani 30, their successful candidates of IIT-JEE said that they had support of their teachers and parents but I want to say that I have got President Award without any support. I did not take any tuition as I could not afford. What I am today is the result of my own hard work. I want to tell the youngsters that if they are getting any economic or physical or any problem they should fact it. They will get success one day and everyone will know them.

Hammad Ali, first Muslim boy to get 90% marks in Bihar matric exam

By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: He comes from a humble family and studies about 16-18 hours a day. The result must not be unexpected. Hammad Ali of Rajender High School in Siwan has got sixth position in Bihar board examination 2010 for class X. With 90.4% marks, he has created history for the Muslim community in the state.





Ali, in fact, is among 11 students in entire state who have got 90% or above marks this year, first time in the history of Bihar School Examination Board. And he is only Muslim among them. The highest marks getter among the Muslim students last year was Muhammad Shah Jahan. He had got rank 9 with 86.6% marks. The results for Bihar board examination 2010 were declared on May 22.

“I feel good,” says Ali expressing his feeling on this achievement. Eldest son of a high school teacher and part time homeopathy doctor, Ali (14.5 years old) gives credit for his success to his father and homemaker mother.

“I did hard work. I study about 16-18 hours a day,” says Hammad Ali.

About his ambition, he tells TCN: “I want to crack IIT-JEE and become an engineer.”


Out of total marks of 500, Ali has got 452: Urdu (90) Hindi (87) Maths (86), Natural Science (93), Social Science (96) and English (60).

Ali’s father Khursheed Anwar spends most of what he earns on the education of his four children. He has high dreams about them. Ali’s elder sister is doing IA from Islamia College, Siwan. His two younger brothers are also studying in schools.

Topper in Bihar board exam this year is Anupam Neha (92.8%) of SS Girls High School, Biharsharif. In top five there are four girls and one boy.

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Hot April disturbs normal life in Patna

By TCN Staff Reporter,

Patna: No sooner summer season started this year than the whole nation came under the unrelenting heat wave which has taken many lives so far in different parts of the country. In the month of April, the temperature is presenting the scene of hot month of June. Condition is similar in Bihar’s capital city of Patna where the running April has been recorded as the hottest April in one decade. With each day, heat is going up here.




The temperature on 24th April was recorded 42.3 degree Celsius and 42.5 degree on 25th April while today it has been recorded 43 degree. This has disturbed the daily life of the people in the city.





People feel very difficult to go out of homes after 9am. Markets are seen deserted and most shops are closed for 4-5 hours in the noon time. Girls are seen going to schools and colleges with covering whole body including faces and using sunglasses. Parents are worried until their children return home from schools and they try to keep them inside the houses after the school time. Roadside vendors also do not dare to be on the road under the scorching sun and roads also wear deserted look at midday.




Shortage of water supply and regular shedding of electricity for several hours every day add salt to the wounds of people. People fear that when the situation is so bad in this month what will happen in May and June.


[Photos by Mudassir Rizwan of TwoCircles.net in Patna]