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Corrections and clarifications

The first paragraph in a report “Assam violence echoes in Lok Sabha” (December 4, 2007) was: “The Opposition on Monday staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha dissatisfied with the government stand on the recent violence in Assam and the demand for granting Scheduled Tribe status to six tea and ex-tea garden communities of the State.” It is incorrect. The second paragraph in an article “Behind the Adivasi unrest in Assam”, by M.S. Prabhakara (Op-Ed, December 3, 2007), says: “The Adivasi, a nomenclature now adopted by the approximately two-million strong Tea Garden Labour and ex-Tea Garden Labour community, is not the only community in Assam seeking classification as a Scheduled Tribe. Five other communities (the Tai-Ahom, the Moran, the Motok, the Chutia and the Koch-Rajbongshi), all presently classified as Other Backward Classes (OBC), have also for long been pressing for recognition as Scheduled Tribes ….”

>>The second paragraph in a report “Narora Unit 1 recommissioned” (December 4, 2007) was: “The nuclear power plant of 220 MWe was recommissioned after ‘en-ass coolant channel replacement (EMCCR),’ enhancing the service life of the unit by another 30 years ….” It should have been “Enmasse Coolant Channel Replacement (EMCCR)”. (This is a major “ageing management activity”, according to the Department of Atomic Energy.)

>>A sentence in the fifth paragraph of a Ted Corbett report “England shines on opening day” (“Sport”, December 2, 2007) was: “But, as the ungainly Michael Vandort, the out-of-sorts Mahele Jayawardene, the emerging Chaminda Silva and the work in progress Jehan Mubarak fell to Hoggard’s brisk, purposeful fast medium, it seemed we had a three-day game in prospect in which Murali might face another wait for his 709th wicket.” It should have been Chamara Silva. The error was corrected in the later editions.

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