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According to the report, the UPA government has spent Rs 8.5 crore to advertise the anniversary of the birth of Sardar Patel over the last four years. |
But, contrary to the claims by Modi during the NDA government (between 1994 and 2004), while Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the PM there was a time for 2 consecutive years (2001-2002) when not a single advertisement for Sardar Patel was published by the Government. |
On Thursday in Kevadia,Gujarat laying the foundation stone of Sardar Patel's 182 meter high statue, 'the Statue of Unity', Modi said, "Earlier, there was no advertising for the anniversary of Sardar Patel. |
While the DAVP's records show that in 2009-10 up to 3 million, in 2010-11 to Rs 4.10 crore, in 2011-12 and Rs 2.7 crore and in 2012-13 to Rs 1.4 crore UPA had been spent on advertising for Sardar Patel. |
When the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, Manish Tewari, was asked about Modi's claims he said that what the BJP's PM candidate said was not based on the facts. |
In 2008 the UPA did not publish any ads in the name of Patel. |
Tiwari said that it was because of the economic downturn in that year. |
The amounts spent on promoting Sardar Patel are far less than the amount spent on the birth and death anniversaries of the Nehru - Gandhi family members. |
DAVP has spent 33 crores on the birth and death anniversaries, 21 crores for former PM Rajiv Gandhi, 14.5 crores for Indira Gandhi and Rs.9.38 crores for Jawaharlal Nehru, on print advertising. |
When Manish Tiwari was asked about the difference, he said, "it should not be seen from the perspective of spending on advertising. |
Because the price of advertising depends on several things, such as the size or frequency of the advertisement for that year. |
The fact is that it shows our dedication without understanding that the people opposed to this are busy taking care of the legacy of a great leader. |
Today he will meet the families of the people who died in Patna last Sunday. |
As it is Narendra Modi's second visit to Patna just a week after the blasts the security has been tightened. |
The police have examined the route of Modi's visit and the sites of the meeting thoroughly. |
Police will keep an eye on the people coming to the meetings. |
The Gujarat police force, the NSGIB and the State police force will take care of security. |
Modi's protective shield will be tightened. |
Meanwhile, questions are being raised about the urn procession undertaken by the BJP, carrying the ashes of the people who died in the blasts. |
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has accused the BJP of spoiling the atmosphere. |
Trekking through mud, rivers and jungle to provide free medical care |
Dr. Georges Bwelle is bringing free health care to rural villages in Cameroon |
Bwelle and his team spend almost every weekend seeing hundreds of patients |
There aren't many doctors in the west African country; just one for every 5,000 people |
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For 21 years, Georges Bwelle watched his ill father slip in and out of consciousness, traveling to hospitals that weren't equipped to help him. |
Jamef Bwelle was injured in a 1981 car accident near Yaounde, Cameroon's capital. |
He suffered only a broken arm at first, but an infection developed and spread to his brain, creating a hematoma that would affect him for the rest of his life. |
There were no neurosurgeons in Cameroon, Georges Bwelle said. |
We would have taken him out of Cameroon if we had the money. |
Instead, Bwelle spent years escorting his father to overcrowded clinics and hospitals, getting whatever treatment they could get. |
It's not easy, Bwelle said. |
You can leave home at 5 a.m., running to the hospital to be the first, and you are not the first. |
There are a lot of patients. |
Some people can die because they are waiting. |
The situation hasn't changed much since Bwelle's father passed away in 2002. |
In Cameroon, there is only one doctor for every 5,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. |
For comparison's sake, the ratio in the United States is one doctor for every 413 people. |
And even if they could see a physician, many Cameroonians couldn't afford it. |
Two out of five people in the country live below the poverty line, and nearly three-quarters of the country's health-care spending is private. |
The only problem they have is poverty, Bwelle said. |
And with poverty, they cannot enjoy their life. |
Seeing his father and so many of his countrymen suffer, Bwelle was determined to do something about it. |
Dr. Georges Bwelle and his team of volunteers have performed 700 free surgeries in the past year. |
He became a doctor himself, working as a vascular surgeon in Yaounde's Central Hospital. |
And he started a nonprofit, ASCOVIME, that travels into rural areas on weekends to provide free medical care. |
Since 2008, he and his group of volunteers have helped nearly 32,000 people. |
Almost every Friday, he and up to 30 people jam into vans, tie medical supplies to the roofs and travel across rough terrain to visit villages in need. |
Their luck doesn't always hold out. |
They've had to push vehicles through rivers and mud more than once. |
But when they arrive, they receive a true heroes' welcome: a feast, singing and dancing, and the best accommodations the community can offer. |
In these villages, free medical care is truly a cause for celebration, and Bwelle -- with his big smile and boundless energy -- is more than happy to join in the fun. |
The next morning, the team begins meeting with hundreds of patients. |
We are receiving 500 people in each trip, Bwelle said. |
They are coming from 60 kilometers around the village, and they're coming on foot. |
Each of these weekend clinics provides a variety of medical care. |
Many people are treated for malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, diabetes, parasites and sexually transmitted diseases. |
Others might receive crutches, a pair of donated eyeglasses or free birth certificates -- documentation that's required for school but that many impoverished families simply can't afford. |
In the evenings, the team will do simple surgeries with local anesthesia. |
Operations are usually done in a schoolhouse, town hall or home; after the procedure, patients get up and walk to the recovery area to make way for the next person. |
With the group's generator lighting the operating room and sanitizing equipment, Bwelle and his volunteers work into the early hours of Sunday morning. |
It's a backbreaking pace, but village musicians usually help keep the team motivated. |
They are beating drums all night to keep us awake and continue our work, Bwelle said. |
On Sunday, the team heads back to the city, tired but proud of their work. |
The group -- a mix of Cameroonian doctors and foreign medical students -- has performed 700 free surgeries in the past year, and they know that their help can make a world of difference to those they help. |
One man explained that the free hernia surgery he'd received will allow him to work again. |
This will change my future with my family, the man said. |
In addition to holding these weekend clinics and working as a hospital surgeon, Bwelle also works nights at private medical clinics around Yaounde. |
It's this second job, he said, that funds about 60% of his nonprofit; the rest is covered by private donations. |
I'm not sure when he sleeps, said Katie O'Malley, a second-year medical student from Drexel University in Philadelphia and volunteer with Bwelle's group. |
He is always either at the hospital or trying to make money for the organization so he can go on these campaigns. |
For medical and nursing students such as O'Malley, who come from the United States and Europe to join Bwelle on his missions, it's a hands-on opportunity they'd never get at home. |
We've been able to scrub in on surgeries where we help blot blood away or hold tools for Dr. Bwelle, O'Malley said. |
That's not something you'd ever get to do in America as a second-year medical student. |
The student volunteers usually pay their own way to Cameroon, often arriving with donated medical supplies. |
But once they arrive in Yaounde, their board, transportation and instruction are covered by Bwelle. |
He's a hero, without a doubt, O'Malley said. |
He gives his life to this organization, and his desire to help the Cameroon people is everlasting. |
For Bwelle, the near-constant workload isn't a hardship. |
Helping others live happier lives, fulfilling a promise he made to his father, is something that brings him great joy. |
I am so happy when I am doing this work, Bwelle said. |
And I think about my father. |
I hope he sees what I am doing. |
To make people laugh, to reduce the pain, that's why I'm doing this. |
Check out the ASCOVIME website and see how to help. |
You may not believe it but it is true. |
Not only that, but the name of Mission road was changed to the name of the City Legislator, Anjali Kumar. |
Actually, the Jharkhand Development Youth Forum had changed the name to express their anger at the bad condition of the roads. |
The program was led by the JMM central secretary, Sachchidanand Pandey. |
While addressing a rally Modi said, "If you listen to all the speeches given by all the leaders of Congress, then you will see that they never talk about what they have done." |
He said, "Congress has become so arrogant that does not answer media questions." |
Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister and it is his government, yet they want Modi to respond. |
Answering the public's questions is your duty. |
Clearly, Modi was referring to Sibal, who had told journalists in Delhi that Modi wants to create an environment where he is in control, where he gives his speeches and he does not talk to journalists in order to avoid their questions. |
Sibal challenged Modi to a face to face debate. |
Modi said, "I promise the people of the country that when the BJP will form the government in 2014, then we will submit a report each year to the public." |
Congress has given the tickets to all his former legislators. |