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Sonu Nigam tweets against Azaan, creates a controversy

By: PTI | Bhubaneswar | Published:June 9, 2017 6:50 pm
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The people living in two kilometre from the coast will hear siren much ahead of either the tsunami or cyclone hit the land (PTI/For representation only)

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...ople-about-tsunami-cyclone-in-odisha-4696499/

Odisha government will install Early Warning System (EWS) to caution people about arrival of major natural calamities like tsunami and cyclone. Chief Secretary A P Padhi has directed the officials of the Revenue and Disaster Management department to ensure installation of World Bank assisted EWS by August 15.

The people living in two kilometre from the coast could hear siren much ahead of either the tsunami or cyclone hit the land, said special relief commissioner (SRC) B P Sethi. He said the system is being set up in 22 blocks of six coastal districts like Balasore, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Puri and Ganjam districts. “L&T has been selected through a global tendering process to execute the work,” Sethi said adding the project cost is Rs 75.09 crore.

The State Disaster Management Centre will be connected with as many as 161 towers to be set up. While reviewing progress of the project, Padhi has directed the concerned officials to to ensure setting up of towers at the schools, Panthaniwas, fishing harbours, Central Industrial Security Forces camps, gram panchayat offices, police stations and tehsil offices in coastal areas.

The chief secretary also requested the BSNL to provide the necessary bandwidth to propagate information on natural disasters and to the Energy department to ensure electricity connection to run the equipment. The State Disaster Management Centre (SDMC) will have six towers at the district level, 22 towers at Block level, 14 in fishing jetties and 122 siren towers spread over 22 coastal blocks while six digital mobile radio stations will be connected to the system, the SRC said.

The system can provide advance information about both cyclones and tsunami disasters, Sethi added. While the World Bank will provide Rs 66.77 crore, the state government will spend remaining Rs 8.32 crore for the purpose of installing EWS.

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After singer Sonu Nigam tweeted in April expressing his displeasure on being woken up early by loudspeakers blaring the azaan from a mosque, Maulana Ajmal Khan, the Imam of Chandigarh’s Jama Masjid, said that the loudspeakers should not disturb the non-Muslims.

On the third Friday of Ramzan, when Muslims from across the city had gathered for their afternoon prayers, Khan said, “We should not bother our neighbours unnecessarily. The volume of our loudspeakers should be brought down to a level that it does not disturb them. I believe that disturbing the neighbours is a nuisance, which is forbidden in Islam.”

He added, “We make announcements at Sehri (before sunrise) at about 3:40am when the other residents are sleeping. We should avoid doing this. It is a sensitive issue and anybody is free to take action against us. One can move court as well.”

Khan gave an example of one of the mosques in Kerala where the authorities have decided to recite azaan once in five times.

“They have decided that only a single azaan will be delivered from the Masjid and others in the area will repeat it without any noise,” Khan added.

In a recent observation made by the Punjab and Haryana high courts, it was stated that azaan is undoubtedly an integral part of Islam, it does not necessarily have to be blared through loudspeakers.

The court had made this observation in connection with a plea filed against Nigam who had tweeted, “I am not a Muslim, and I have to be woken up by the azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India.”
 
SC has already put a law in place.
No amplified Azaan from 10 PM to 6 AM.

It is the duty of the present government to enforce it.
Why the Modi government is silent on this?
Votes?

Its about 3 years of his inaction ...And counting..
Does the central government enforce loudspeaker bans
 
When is his next concert in Middle East?

Any good Arabic or Persian music he recently pirated?
 
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