A very good evening aspirants, welcome to the Hindu newspaper analysis brought to you by Shankaray's Academy for the date 9th of December 2021. So these are the list of news articles chosen for today's discussion. First we will be discussing about a previous year preliminary examination question. In that we will be discussing some of the important economic facts and followed by that we will be discussing about an editorial article. In that we will be discussing about the LPVG revolution in India and thirdly we will be discussing about an important article regarding the BIS and finally we will end our discussion by discussing about an important article regarding the Lok Haikta. So now without wasting much time let us get into the news article discussion. So for today let us start our first discussion with this previous year question. See this is not even a previous year question because this question was asked very recently in the 2021 problems. Let me read the question for you. Indian government bond yields are influenced by which of the following? Statement 1, actions of the United States Federal Reserve. Statement 2, actions of the Reserve Bank of India. And Statement 3, inflation and short term interest rates. Let the correct answer using the code given below. Option A 1 and 2 only, option B 2 only, option C 3 only and option D 1 2 and 3. See to answer this question first we must know what is a bond and then we must have known what is a bond yield. So this is what we are going to see in this discussion. We will first see what is a bond, its types then we will see what a bond yield is and finally we will see how the bond yield can be influenced. Just pay attention because you are only going to answer the question at the end. So I hope you are all aware of the fact that whenever or whomever is going to start a business if there is a shortage in the capital required here the capital means the amount of money that you use to start a business so that you can earn more money on it. So we call it as a capital. So whenever or whomever is going to start a business and if there is a shortage in the capital then he or she will first get a loan from the bank or he or she will raise the capital needed from the financial market. I hope you are all aware of this fact. So now what is this financial market? See a financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction cost. But are these securities? See securities are fungible and tradable financial instruments used to raise capital in public and private markets. Let's understand these terms clearly with an example. Imagine you are going to set up a coffee shop and for that you need 5 lakh rupees. But you have only 3 lakh rupees. So what will you do for the remaining amount? Obviously you will borrow it from the bank. The second option to raise capital for business apart from the bank is the financial market. See it actually enables resource mobilization in the country. You may now be wondering how the financial market facilitates resource mobilization. See this is where the securities are put to use. Securities they act as an instrument to raise capital in the financial market. So it is nothing but a financial contract or a evidence of transaction signed between a lender and borrower. To understand better let's take the same example. So in case of a financial market you can actually raise the entire 5 lakh capital in the financial market itself. Let's see how. When it comes to financial market you can divide the capital required into parts. This 5 lakh can be divided into parts and by listing your name in the BSE that is the Bombay Stock Exchange you can issue your securities. So instead of going to the bank and asking for 5 lakh rupees and increasing your liability you can instead borrow it from the financial market by issuing securities. So here is the first difference between the bank and the financial market. In financial market there is a direct contact between the borrower and the lender. But in banks there is no direct contact between the borrower and the lender because the banks they give out the deposit money of some other person as loans to you. So in such cases you really don't know from whom you are borrowing. But in case of financial market there is a direct contact between the borrower and the lender. Secondly the terms and conditions of the transactions is determined by the lender in banking sector whereas in the financial market the borrower that is me I am going to set up a coffee shop and I need the capital. So I determine the terms and conditions. So these two are the major difference between the financial market and the banking. So I can determine the terms and conditions which means I can issue securities in what of a denomination I want. For example I can divide the 5 lakh rupees into 10,000 rupees per bond and issue 50 securities like that to raise the 5 lakh capital or I can break it into 1000 rupees per bond and issue 500 bonds. It depends on my decision. Just remember one thing each security will have its own interest rate and a maturity period. So you cannot issue securities without these two because by investing in your coffee shop the investor should also get a profit right. So every bond will have a maturity period and a rate of interest. For example just imagine to raise this 5 lakh rupees and to set up a coffee shop I am issuing 500 bonds which have a capital of 1000 rupees each. It has a maturity period of one year and the rate of interest is 5 percentage per month. Which means the investor will get 5 percentage of 1000 every month as interest until the end of one year. At the end of one year I have to return the capital amount 1000 rupees to the investor itself. So I have to pay 5 percentage of 1000 rupees every month to the investor. Which means for 12 months I have to pay 50 rupees each month and at the end of one year I have to return the capital amount 1000 rupees to the investor. So what happening here is in between I can use this money to set up my coffee shop and the investor will also get a return of 1600 rupees just by investing in my coffee shop. So all these terms and conditions will be mentioned in the securities. This is why I said securities are fungible and tradable financial instruments which are used to raise capital in public and private markets. This is also the reason why I said it is a financial contract or evidence of transaction signed between a lender and borrower which acts as an instrument to raise capital in the financial market. See debentures, t-bills, bonds or just other names of the securities issued by different entities. For example, t-bills or short term debt securities issued by the central government and there is another term called commercial papers which are short term debts issued by the industrial companies. See these are all securities with different names and just remember each securities differ and varies in their terms and conditions and it depends on the issuer of the security. I hope by now you have clear understanding about what is a security and what is a capital and what is a maturity period and what is a rate of interest. So now let us see the types of securities. See there are actually three types of securities. The example which we saw is the debt security. Securities which are similar to loans repaid with periodic payments are called debt securities. They are usually short term securities which means they have maturity period equal to one year or lesser than one year. So the next type is called the equity securities. In case of an equity it actually provides ownership right to the holder. So if I am selling my security the buyer or the investor who is buying my security, he actually holds the ownership right in my company. So this type of security is known as equity security. Equity securities are usually long in term and they do not have a maturity period because whomever is holding ownership right they will get dividend instead of interest. So in case of debt security I have to pay interest every month or every year it depends upon the security and in case of equity I have to pay the dividend that is the profit earned to the share holder and the third type is known as hybrid. See this security is the combination of the debt and equity. Apart from this some of the securities includes stocks and bonds, raw materials and precious metals which are known in financial market as commodities. So we can issue securities on commodities also. So these are the types of securities you have to make note of. Now let's move on to see what a bond yield is. See before that just remember the financial market is classified into two types namely the money market and capital market. Usually the money market consists of short term bonds which have a maturity period less than one year and it does not include equity securities. We just saw what is the equity security. So in contrast to the money market the capital market consists of the transaction which is long term. So in the capital market the transaction actually takes place for a longer period usually more than a year. The capital market is utilized to start a new business or to expand the existing business and just remember based on the transaction nature the capital market can be classified into primary market and secondary market. See the primary market is where securities are created. It is this market that firms sell new stocks and bonds to the public for the first time. So the primary market is the place where the securities are actually created. Then what is this secondary market. See the secondary market is a market where investors purchase securities or a search from other investors rather than from issuing companies themselves. So for example if I am issuing a bond and A is buying the bond from me A can hold the bond until the maturity period or in between itself he can sell it to another person. It only depends on the person who holds the bond. So when I issue a bond I issue it in the primary market and when A wishes to sell my bond to another person then he sells it in the secondary market. I hope you understand the difference. Now coming back see there is a term called market price. Now let's understand what is this market price is. See market price is the price at which debt securities are exchanged between the buyers and sellers in the secondary market. So if I am issuing a bond for 1000 rupees and the person A he buys it from the primary market from me and after certain period he wishes to sell it to B and instead of 1000 rupees he wishes to sell it for 950 rupees or he wishes to sell it for 1200 rupees. So the price at which the debt security or exchange between the buyers and sellers in the secondary market is known as market price. So here is where the inflation plays a very important role. See inflation is the I hope you are all aware about the term inflation. Inflation is the rate of increase in price over a given period of time. We can otherwise say during inflation the value of money or currency actually goes down. See what actually happens is during the times of inflation the rate of interest increases for the floating bond and the newly issued fixed bond. Floating bond is nothing but a bond which has a variable interest rate and fixed bond will have a fixed rate of interest and does not fluctuate. So during the inflation what happens the rate of interest increases for both the floating bond and the newly issued fixed bond. So as a result the pre-existing fixed bond which are available in the market becomes less attractive due to decrease in their real rate of interest. Because of all these the market price of the pre-existing fixed bonds decreases to compensate for the loss of the interest. Let's understand this with an example. Consider company A is issuing a bond for 1000 rupees. With the maturity period 5 years and the rate of interest 9% per annum. And the inflation rate is 5% so initially the person has to pay 1000 rupees to the company and the company will pay interest every year. So the first year he will get paid 90 rupees and the second year 90 rupees, third year 90 rupees, fourth year 90 rupees and the fifth year also 90 rupees. And at the end of the 5 years the person will get 1400 rupees which includes 1000 rupees as capital and 450 rupees as rate of interest. Now another company B after one year assume the inflation rate is 6% instead of 5% and this company B is issuing same 1000 rupees bond for the 5 years. With the rate of interest here is 10% instead of 9%. The company B is in a situation to offer the security at 10% because of the inflation. So the same person if he invest in company B initially he have to pay an capital of 1000 rupees and at each interval he will get a rate of interest of 100 rupees. So at the end of the 5 years he will have 1500 rupees which will include 1000 rupees capital amount and 500 rupees as rate of interest. Now assume I brought a bond from company A and after one year I wish to sell the bond in the secondary market. Here no one will buy the bond if I sell the bond for the same terms and conditions because after one year the inflation rate has increased 1% and the rate of interest has also increased by 1%. And as I said you earlier during inflation the value of the money will go down. So my bond it will actually will not be attractive if I sell it with the same terms and conditions. Now to make my bond attractive what I will do is I will sell the bond at 950 rupees instead of 1000 rupees. So the buyer will get 1310 rupees at the end of the 5th year which includes 360 rupees as the rate of interest and 950 rupees as the principal amount. Here also you might get a doubt if the buyer he buys the company B's bond he will get 1500 rupees but instead if he gets my bond he will get only 1310 rupees. The profit is still with the company B bond. See this is not the case here. If the buyer he buys company B bond he has to invest 1000 rupees as a whole and wait for 5 years and then at the end he will get 1500 rupees. But here within 4 years he will get 1310 rupees. So this is what we called as yield. So the formula for yield can be said as yield is equal to returns the whole divided by investment. So for example I am investing 1000 rupees and I am getting a rate of interest of 90 rupees in back. So yield will be equal to 90 divided by 1000 into 100 which is equal to 9 percentage. Now for another example imagine the same 1000 rupees bond is sold at 950 rupees due to the inflation and I will get a rate of interest of 90 rupees. So the yield is equal to 90 divided by 950 into 100 which is equal to 9.5. The yield will be 9.5 here. So we saw an example with inflation the same will happen during the deflation. So during deflation in order to make my bond attractive what I will do is I will sell the bond at 1000 and 50 rupees I will sell the same bond at 1000 and 50 rupees and the interest will be about 90 rupees. So the yield will be equal to 90 divided by 1050 into 100 which is equal to 8.5 percentage. So from these what we can infer is the rate of interest is directly proportional to rate of inflation. So if the inflation is high the rate of interest actually increases and the inflation is inversely proportional to market price. So if the inflation is high the market price should eventually go down to make the bond attractive. So to put it in simple words during inflation the rate of interest actually increases the yield also increases and the market price it actually decreases. So in case of deflation the rate of interest it actually goes down the yield also goes down and the market price will actually goes up. So with this we came to the end of this question discussion. Now you try to answer the question in the comment section. If you have any doubts please mention it in the comment section I will discuss about them in my upcoming videos. So now let us move on to the first news article discussion. Now let us take up this editorial article for our next discussion. See this article talks about the LPG revolution in India and it also talks about the price rise of LPG cylinders and its impact on the environment. See even though the government is working hard to encourage access to clean cooking energy there are still some flaws in them and people they still prefer to cook with biomasses. Here biomass refers to the total quantity of plants and animals in a particular area. So people they prefer or they choose to cook with biomasses which not only causes health related problems but also causes indoor air pollution and external air pollution. So to tackle this issue the authors of this editorial has suggested some of the important points let us see them one by one. The syllabus relevant to this article is highlighted here for your reference please go through it. See for more than a year the persistent rise in the price of LPG cylinders has been draining many household budgets. The LPG refill price have climbed by more than 50% age. If you remember last year the LPG refill price was roughly 600 rupees and in the November this year it is over 900 per cylinders and since May 2020 there has been no refill subsidies as well. See all these factors have raised genuine concerns about many households now slipping back to using polluting solid fuels such as firewoods and dunk cakes for cooking. See according to the global burden of disease study 2019 solid fuel conception for cooking is the main cause of air pollution and related premature deaths in India. It also reported that in India alone over 6 lakh people die prematurely each year due to air pollution. See the government has also taken many steps to promote access to clean cooking energy in order to address this issue head on. For example the government issued more than 80 million subsidized LPG connections through the Pradhan Mandarin Ujwala Yojana scheme but how far have we been able to perciate households to avoid using biomass is the question here. See as per the India residential energy survey 2020 which was conducted by the council on energy environment and water and the initiative for sustainable energy policy according to this survey LPG has surpassed biomass as the most popular cooking fuel in India. See nearly 85% of Indian households have access to LPG and 71% utilize it as their primary cooking fuel compared to only 30% a decade ago. See this change in trend can be attributed to the success of Ujwala Yojana consumption linked subsidies and the progressive strengthening of the LPG distributorship and this of course would have had a great impact on the set as contribution to air pollution. These steps have contributed to the significant reduction of air pollution of course however the battle is only half won why because due to the high LPG prices almost 30% of the Indian households they continue to utilize biomass as their primary cooking fuel. So even though government is trying to incentivize people and promote clean cooking fuel but still due to high LPG prices people are left in a situation in which relying on the biomass is the only option. So because of this high LPG prices almost 30% of the Indian households they continue to utilize biomass as their primary cooking fuel and another 24% they combine LPG with biomass and use as a cooking fuel. Now let us see which area actually contribute to the biomass utilization. See the biomass utilization is primarily concentrated in rural areas particularly in states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Mathya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. Even the slums in the cities they are also important hotspots where biomass is commonly used for cooking. Now why is this happening? Because of the easy availability of free biomass and lack of home delivery of LPG refills they further reduce the efficacy of LPG as a reliable and affordable proportions. So to sustain the country's momentum on clean cooking energy access and thereby providing cleaner care for all the authors of the editorial proposes three key steps. We shall see them one by one. The first suggestion is to reintroduce LPG refill subsidies for low income households. See to cover all of their cooking energy demands an ordinary Indian household would have to spend roughly 10% of their monthly income on LPG at current refill pricing. According to a CEW analysis this is only half of the real share of reported cooking energy expenses as of March 2020. Just imagine this is only half of the real share of reported cooking energy expenses. Then how huge will be the next half? Just imagine. So to completely switch to LPG at current pricing over half of all Indian households they will have to at least double their cooking energy cost. The ability of households to pay LPG on a regular basis has been further harmed as a result of loss of income and livelihood caused by the new coronavirus outbreak. So thanks to the new coronavirus outbreak it has reduced the ability of households to pay LPG on a regular basis. So considering all these factors subsidies must be reintroduced in order to support LPG use in many households. Here the authors suggest an effective price of 450 per LPG refill. So if the price is 900 rupees now the authors they suggest an effective price of 450 per LPG refill as a subsidy. See this step could ensure that the average percentage of actual home cooking energy expenditure is comparable to pre-pandemic levels. The government may take this into account when deciding whether or not to introduce the LPG subsidy. Apart from this the author also suggest the government to explore diverse approach to identify beneficiaries. See this may include limiting the subsidy provisions to 7 to 8 LPG refills annually and excluding well to do households using robust indicators. For example, lowering the income based exclusion limit for LPG subsidy to 2,50,000 a year from 10 lakh a year or excluding families owning a non-commercial four wheeler vehicles can significantly reduce the number of eligible beneficiaries. So if identifying beneficiaries is a problem the government should explore diverse approaches to identify beneficiaries. They can limit the subsidy provisions or they can exclude well to the households. This may or this can significantly reduce the number of eligible beneficiaries so that the scheme actually goes to the poor and needy. So the second suggestion. The second suggestion is to ensure that LPG is available at all time for all consumers. See only half of the rural LPG consumers get refills delivered to their homes. While the other half must travel around 5 kilometers one way to get a cylinder. This gap in the delivery of LPG cylinders to those steps can also be found in metropolitan areas notably in slum communities. Now the utilization of biomass in urban slum families is mostly due to this aspect. So the LPG supply chain must be strengthened and a timely service delivery should be enforced. This has to be done especially in states with a large number of Ujwala connection and slum populations. Apart from this the rural distributors they must have to be complemented. The rural distributors they must be complemented with higher incentives for distributing LPG cylinders in the rural areas at same or similar commission. So government must incentivize the rural distributors as well. Next creating a new market for locally available biomass is the third step. See the government needs to pilot initiatives focused on promoting the use of locally available biomass in decentralized processing units that manufacture briquettes and pellets for industrial and commercial establishment.  Pellet fuels or biofuels made from compressed organic material or biomass. So government have to pilot initiatives focusing on promoting use of locally available biomass in decentralized processing units which manufacture briquettes and pellets for industrial and commercial establishment. For example the national thermal power corporation recently invited applications to supply biomass pellets to fire their power stations. So likewise the government should also establish pilot initiatives which will create or promote a new market for locally available biomass. Apart from this the government can incentivize entrepreneurs to participate in such activities also. Similarly households can be incentivized to supply locally available biomass including crop stubble or dunk cakes to compressed biogas production plants which are being set up under the sustainable alternative towards affordable transportation scheme. So the households they can be incentivized to supply locally available biomass to these compressed biogas production plants. So such measures they not only enhance local income and livelihood opportunities but also encourage rural families to use LPG on a regular basis. So these are the three important points or the three important suggestions that are given by the authors of this editorial. The first suggestion is to reintroduce LPG refill subsidies. The second suggestion is to ensure that LPG is available at all time for all consumers. And the third suggestion is to create a new market for locally available biomass. See the prime minister introduced the Ujwala 2.0 scheme in August. You remember the goal of this Ujwala 2.0 is to provide 10 million extra free LPG connections to low income homes. So it actually demonstrates the government's commitment to expand access to clean cooking energy. But ensuring the affordability and timely availability of LPG cylinders for refills is very important to hold the moving households away from polluting biomass. And it is also very important for reaping the advantages of the Ujwala scheme's five year commitments. These measures would go on a long way towards enhancing our residents health and well-being also. So this is what the article tries to convey here. And in this discussion we saw about three important suggestions given by the authors of the editorial to increase the LPG connection. So with these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Now our next discussion is based on this advertisement about the BIS CAR app and the features of the app. So today let us first see about what is BIS and then we will see some of the features of the app. See first BIS stands for Bureau of Indian Standards. Remember BIS is the National Standard Body of India and it is a statutory body which means this BIS was established under an Act of Parliament. Remember ISI that is the Indian Standards Institution. It is the predecessor of this BIS. So why do we need a standard body for India? BIS was established to ensure that the operations of standardization, labelling and quality certification of goods performed in a coordinated manner. So it was set up for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods. So now what is the purpose of this BIS? See this BIS was established to ensure that the operations of standardization, labelling and quality certification of goods or performed in a coordinated manner or not. So it was set up for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods. See standardization is nothing but the process of creating standards to guide the creation of a good or service. So to put it in simple words the process of developing standards to guide the creation or production of a good or service is known as standardization. See initially BIS was set up by the BIS Act 1986 and then in 2016 a new Bureau of Indian Standard Act 2016 was notified. Just remember this act strengthened the activities of BIS with respect to standardization and certification of goods, articles, processes, systems and services. So note that formulation of Indian standards is one of the core activity of BIS. See the standards it actually covers a wide range of economic sectors and includes important segments of the economy. These standards they not only provide an assurance to the consumers but also help the industry in upgrading the quality of their goods and services. Now who is actually formulating Indian standards? See these Indian standards are developed by specialist technical committee which function under the division councils of BIS. So they only formulate the Indian standards and the standards are also reviewed on a regular basis. So based on the requirement the standards are either reaffirmed or updated or revised or even withdrawn after periodic reviews. So these are some of the important points that you have to note. The standards are subjected to periodic review and after periodic review the standards are affirmed or amended or revised or even withdrawn based on the requirement. Just remember according to the policy of BIS its standard formulation activity has been harmonized or has been aligned with the relevant standards laid out by international entities. So the standards which are formulated by the BIS will always be aligned with the relevant standards laid out by international entities. These entities are International Organization for Standardization that is the ISO and International Electrotechnical Commission that is the IEC. So far more than 19,500 standards have been formulated by BIS but formulating standards will not alone ensure good quality products right. It actually needs to be checked whether such standards are followed in the production or making of goods or articles or during processes, systems and services. So for this purpose BIS has the conformity assessment. So actually BIS operates four schemes under this and these schemes are for product certification, system certification, foreign manufacturers and for compulsory registration. So for example for certifying a product a standard mark is put on the product. The standard mark is popularly known as the ISI mark. Therefore presence of ISI mark on a product indicates its conformity to the relevant Indian standard and this ISI mark is used by the manufacturers on any products or articles which conforms to a standard. The ISI mark is only used by those manufacturers who have obtained license from BIS make a note of this. But note that this certification scheme is made mandatory as well as voluntary for certain products. Remember two 11 products that is 211 products have been made mandatory considering health and safety. Others have been made voluntary so for those 211 products consumers should not buy it if it does not have the ISI mark. For example these foods and related products should have these ISI marks. You can take any packaged drinking water and check whether it has IS14543 marking or not. Similarly there are ISI standards for milk powder, food grade and plastic feeding bottles. You can see here in this image right. So this is what actually BIS does. So BIS is the national standard body of India and it is a statutory body. Its predecessor was the erstwhile Indian standard institution that is the ISI. And the main purpose of BISI is to ensure that the operation of standardization, labelling and quality certifications of goods are performed in a coordinated manner or not. Remember initially BIS was set up by the BIS Act 1986 and then in 2016 a new Bureau of Indian Standards Act 2016 was notified. So we saw that formulation of Indian standards is one of the core activities of BIS and we also saw how these Indian standards are developed. We saw that specialist technical committees which function under the division councils of BIS they actually develop the Indian standards and these standards are also subjected to review. So now moving on see this ISI mark is for products. Similarly we have the hallmark for the articles of the precious metals of gold, silver or platinum. We covered hallmarking on August 21st analysis. I request you to go back and watch the video it will be very helpful for you. So overall these standards, certifications and testing have many benefits. They provide safe reliable quality goods to consumers. They help in minimizing health hazards to consumers. They also promote exports and import subsidies and many other benefits. Next about its composition see BIS is a body corporate that is its general super intense directions and management west with its governing council. The minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution is the ex-officio president of the governing council. It has more than 25 members representing both centre and state governments, members of parliament, industry, scientific and research institutions, consumer organizations and professional bodies. Now let us briefly see about the BIS care app. See it was launched by the BIS in 2020. So it is a mobile app created to protect the interest of consumers. Using this app consumers can check the authenticity of the ISI mark products and hallmarked products. Apart from this the consumers can see information regarding IS standards and many other. The consumers they can also lodge compliance using this app. So this is all you have to know about BIS and BIS care app. So in this discussion we saw about BIS. We saw that it is a national standard body of India and we saw some of the important functions of the BIS. We saw who formulates the BIS and we saw that the standards formulation activity actually aligns or coordinates with the relevant standards laid down by international entities. And apart from that we also saw how BIS help us to check the product is good or not. We saw some of the examples in that and we saw some of the benefits of standardization, certification and testing of products. And finally we saw about the composition of BIS and at the end we saw about BIS care app. So with these learn points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Now let us take up this news article for our next discussion. See this article here it talks about a PIL petition. PIL is nothing but a public interest litigation and this petition is actually demanding an independent investigation into the 2012 selection process for assistant public prosecutors that is the APP. So what happened was during the selection process 61 of the 197 candidates they allegedly committed fraud and falsified signatures of some of the trial court judges. So this is what the petition is about and it demanded an independent investigation into this 2012 selection process for assistant public prosecutors that is the APP. So what the Karnataka High Court did was it disposed the PIL by directing Lok Ayukta to look into the issue. Apart from this the High Court also directed Lok Ayukta to complete the disciplinary proceedings within four months. So this is the crux of this news article. With this article as a background let us understand more about Lok Ayukta. So this will be very important for your preliminary preparation. See we know that corruption is the root cause of administrative problems in India right. So though there are many anti-corruption agencies in India most of these anti-corruption agencies are not truly independent. Many of these agencies are only advisory bodies with no effective power to deal with this evil of corruption and their advisers is rarely followed. So to address this issue the Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta Act 2013 was enacted and it mandated for the establishment of Lok Pal at the union level and Lok Ayukta at the state level. So both the Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta are statutory bodies and these do not have any constitutional status. As they are created by your law they are statutory body and they don't have any constitutional status. See these institutions they perform the function and role of an ombudsman. For those who are not aware ombudsman he is an official appointed to investigate individuals' complains against a company or organization especially against a public authority. So these institutions they actually perform the functions and role of an ombudsman and they inquire into allegations of corruption against certain public bodies or organizations. So to put it in simple words the Lok Ayukta it is an anti-corruption authority constituted at the state level. See it investigates allegations of corruption and moral administration against public servants at state level and is also tasked with speedy redressal of public grievance. So these are some of the points that you have to make a note of. Lok Ayukta it was established under the Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta Act 2013 so it is a statutory body and it does not have any constitutional status. And these institutions they perform the functions and roles of an ombudsman that is they inquire into allegations of corruption against certain public bodies or organizations. Apart from investigating allegations of corruption and moral practice against public servants at state level they are also tasked with speedy redressal of public grievance. So now let us have an insight about Lok Ayukta. See the origin of Lok Ayukta can be traced to the ombudsmen in Scandinavian countries. The administrative reform commission that is 1966 to 70 had recommended the creation of the Lok Pal at the center and Lok Ayukta in the state level. And the Lok Ayukta is created as a statutory authority with a fixed tenure so that it can discharge its function independently and impartially. The person appointed is usually a former High Court Chief Justice or former Supreme Court judge. So the public can directly approach the Lok Ayukta with complains of corruption, nepotism or any other form of moral practices against any government official. Just remember the power varies in different states for example Karnataka Lok Ayukta it includes in its ambit CM that is the Chief Minister, Ministers and ministers of state legislature all officers of state government, chairmen, vice chairmen of local authorities, statutory bodies or corporates established by or under any law of state legislature including cooperative societies, persons in the service of local authorities, corporations owned or controlled by the state government. So all of them come under the ambit of Lok Ayukta in Karnataka and the power actually varies in different states. This is what you have to note here there might be exclusive statements in the problems remembering these facts will help you in eliminating such options. So in this discussion we saw about the Lok Ayukta, we saw about its origin, we saw about the functions of the Lok Ayukta and we also saw who can be appointed as a ombudsman. With this we came to the end of the news article discussion now let us move on to the next part of the news article discussion which is the preliminary practice questions. Now look at this first question this question is about BIS with reference to Bureau of India standards BIS consider the following statements. First statement it is a statutory body second statement its standard mark is mandatory for milk powder and packed drinking water. Third statement it is the only body in India to develop standards which of the statement given above is or incorrect. You have to find the incorrect statement option A 1 only option B 3 only option C 2 and 3 only and option D 1 and 2 only. See statement 1 is correct because it is established under BIS Act 2016 so it is a statutory body. Now coming to the second statement the second statement is also correct because these are some of the products or the food products where standard marks is main mandatory by government. Moving to the third statement see this is a exclusive statement it mentions that BIS is the only body in India to develop standards. Look at the word only so you have to check twice before answering this question. See the third statement is actually incorrect because there are a few other dedicated standard bodies in India that also develop standards in their specific domains such as telecom engineering centre in the telecoms sector, Indian road congress IRC in the areas of roads and bridges, directorate of standardisation under the ministry of defence standards, research design and standards organisation or DSO for standardisation of railway equipments and applications. Apart from this there are a few other ministries or departments and regulators who also develop standards for their respective statutory or regulatory provisions or purposes. These include Food Safety and Standards Authority of India FSSAI for standards on food safety, Central Pollution Control Board CPCB for standards on emission or discharge of environmental pollution, Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation CDSCO the standards for drugs and medical devices etc. So the correct answer here is option B3 only because the third statement is alone incorrect and the other two statements are correct. Now look at the second question this question is about Lok Ayukta with reference to Lok Ayukta consider the following statements. Statement 1 Lok Ayukta is constituted at the union level and Lok Pal is constituted at the state level. And second statement Lok Ayukta is a constitutional body which of the statements given above is or or correct. Option A1 only, option B2 only, option C both 1 and 2 and option D neither 1 nor 2. See the correct answer here is option D neither 1 nor 2. Now look at this first statement this statement is incorrect because it is given in the opposite manner. Lok Pal is only constituted at the union level and Lok Ayukta is constituted at the state level under the Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta Act 2013. Now look at the second statement the second statement is also incorrect because both Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta are statutory bodies. They are established under the Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta Act 2013 we saw that in the discussion. And if a particular body or commission is mentioned in the constitution then only it will be called as a constitutional body. So the correct answer for this question is option D neither 1 nor 2. The main questions are displayed here please go through it write an answer and post it in the comment section. So with this we came to the end of the news article discussion. If you like the video, like, comment and share and do subscribe to Shankaray's Academy YouTube channel. Thank you.


Hey everybody, what's going on, it's your man Kory, welcome to the Digital Dash, where I'll be giving you guys tips on how to market your sons and get those numbers booming. And today, what I want to talk with you guys about is something pretty simple. It came from a question that I got in my DMs front of my followers and it was pretty much, you know, to boil it down, does spamming work? This person had a couple of ideas that they wanted to do that I thought failed more so in the category of spam. So we had a conversation about it and we got to a point where he asked the question is does spamming work sometimes? Is it or can it be a good marketing tactic to spam comment sections, spam inboxes and things like that? And I used to think that it was something that was kind of like obvious, like no, you shouldn't be doing that. But the more I see artists doing it, the more I see underneath comment sections, the more I get it. I realize it's something that does need to be touched on and it's something that needs to be talked about. Does spamming really work? But before we get into all of that, come follow me on Instagram. I'll make sure to put my ad name on the screen. Come talk to me. Come engage with me. Come give me some video ideas. All of that good stuff. And with that being said, let's get right into it. So before we get into the morals of spamming, does it work? Does it not work? The semantics of spamming. Before we even talk about all of that stuff, let's first clearly define what exactly spamming is because I've realized that some artists do it because they don't know that they're doing it. They don't have a clear definition of what spamming is. And the best way I've come to look at it is spamming is pretty much sending someone unsolicited content, information or messages to the point that it becomes harassment. Now what justifies harassment is different from person to person. Some people don't mind a comment from you saying, go check out my music. Most people don't like it, but some people don't mind it. And the time stems back pretty much to emails to the birth of emails to the point where we got spam messages, right? We will get these messages sent to our inbox that we did not want because they talked about something we did not care about. It was information that we did not care to receive because we had not giving that person the permission to give us that information or whatever we gave them permission for, we weren't expecting to get that right. And that's what it pretty much boils down to. There are two types of marketing that I refer to as interruption marketing and permission marketing. And interruption marketing is what we tend to think of in traditional marketing things. It's your ads, it's commercials. It are things that interrupt the natural flow of whatever you're going through. So a Facebook ad popping up on the timeline is interruption marketing. An influencer posting a promotion they did is interruption marketing. Their follower base wasn't used to seeing that type of content or isn't used to having that type of content placed in front of them. Whereas permission marketing is pretty much asking people's permission first to market to them. So this is getting someone to opt in for your email list. For social media, it's getting someone to follow you right. By someone following you there pretty much saying, Hey, I give you permission to show me your content. Do your worst, do what you will. And spamming breaks that permission in a way that one is usually with people we haven't built a relationship with, right? So we're coming to these random people asking them to perform an action. But we have not yet even introduced ourselves to them or something like that. This is the first time they've come to know us or they haven't naturally found their way to you based on their own interest in their own doing. So spamming them pretty much makes it feel like you're taking away their choice to decide whether or not they want to do the thing that you're asking them to do. And just to back up a little bit, let's define a couple of things that can be viewed as spam from people on the outside. And don't get it wrong. Sometimes you can get away with these things. Sometimes great things does happen out of doing these, but most of the time the people who are on the receiving end of it view it as spam. Like take it from someone who's receiving some of these things from a consumer standpoint. And what some of those spammy techniques look like are DMing random people unsolicited links, just randomly DMing someone your song, leaving comments on the post that are pretty much begging someone to come and check your music out. Those, hey, could you please come leave a review on my music or I'm a XYZ type of rapper from ABC. Can you come check me out? Another form of spamming is excessive promotional posts. And this one is one of the ones that is a little bit touch of a subject because it really does boil down to the artist content strategy. But when you see someone posting, let's say their cover art four times in a day, it gets to a point where you're like, Hey man, that is enough. I have seen this. This is too much. And the way that artists can kind of get around that is pretty much just diversifying the content they have to promote wherever they're promoting. Because using the same of one promotional material, especially in a short period of time to the point where it feels excessive, we'll start to feel spammy to the people on the outside of it. Another popular spammy thing that I see artists do is dimming industry people with no real follow up game plan to what's going to happen. I don't like to think of myself as a industry person, but even I get weird links sometimes from people I've never talked to that just randomly DM me a YouTube link that randomly DM me a SoundCloud link with no context to the link whatsoever. It's like, I don't know you. I don't know what's going on. You are spamming me. You are violating my personal space. And I know if I think that way, if little old Horry thinks that way, how do you think the A&R at such and such feels? How do you think the editor at this publication feels about it? It starts to feel like spam. And another really popular spammy technique that has really only come about because of social media is the creation of the spammy Autobots. And these are the bots that we see all on Instagram. That as soon as you post a hashtag, they comment, hey, great work. Such and such really wants to come work with you. Or, hey, this is fire, dude. You should send your link to XYZ. And I know we see it. I know if you use hashtags, you've definitely seen this happen. And as funny as it sounds, as much as you would think that people wouldn't do that, I see them so much that I think that someone is clearly selling these people on this being the greatest idea ever because it is crazy. I really want to talk to some of these people and see what these conversion rates are because I've literally never clicked on one of those comments and follow up to see what's going on. And as people start to hop into the automation space, they try to program these bots that you can't really program thoughtful comments with because you can't program unique comments to every single situation. We haven't advanced that far. So when people get into the space of setting up these automatic comment box, it comes off as spam, which leads me into the next thing that I want to get into is what are the solutions to spamming? What can you do outside of just DMing random people your links? Outside of leaving random, unthoughtful comments underneath posts that don't have anything to do with but are more self-serving and promotional. What can you do outside of shooting random industry people your music that will actually start to gain you some traction and not put you in the category in people's minds as a spammer? Because once you are in people's minds as a spammer, sometimes it's hard to undo that damage and get them to look at you differently. So what can you do? And it pretty much boils down to something really simple. That is make your content, make good content, have an actual solid content strategy for things that you're releasing, things that you're planning to come out, put that content in front of a bunch of people in other promotional ways, influencers, shoutouts, ads, hashtag research, whatever you name it, pull in those people that are interested in your content and then push them to something that gives them permission or that gives you their permission to start marketing to them and start pushing your stuff to them. Like I said, it could be email subscribers or in the most simple sense, getting them to come follow you on whatever platform it is. So that's pretty much the solution to spamming or the alternative to spamming is making good content, putting it in front of people in a way that don't mind finding that content and then gain permission from the people that are interested to do further marketing through emails, followings, SMS marketing, whatever you choose to do. And I'm realizing, I guess I never really answered the question of, does spamming work? And look at it this way before you go. Sometimes you will catch people with debate. I feel victim to clicking on those random comments. I know people that have, sometimes you do, but 99% of the time, what you're going to end up doing is boxing yourself into a category that hurts you in the long run. It's a box that you don't want to be in. And there is the box in the title and the tag of being a spammy artist because that ruins your relationship with that person right out the gate. And sometimes you shoot yourself in the foot and don't give yourself the further chance to develop their relationship and turn a person into a real fan just because you wanted to be a little bit harassy and do some spamming. So that being said, I guess no, it doesn't work. Stop spamming people. Stop spamming people.  Now as always guys, if you feel like you learned anything today, please like and share this video, hit those post notifications as well as I wouldn't want you guys to miss anything. Once again, my name is Kory and I'll see y'all next time.


First of all great to see you first time all season congratulations on this win congratulations on the entire season we understand this is one step along the way just if you can your emotions moving forward with this group and taking care of business in the first round yeah look look it's always great to win a playoff series and we haven't done that yet with groups so it's thrilling you know we've got to give Boston a lot of credit first and foremost you know to come up against forward little opponent like that they played hard you know they gave us a lot of different looks out there so hopefully they got us ready for the next series as well and and you know you look at the mood in the locker room after the game today and there was a lot of relieved faces a lot of smiling faces guys are enjoying the moment but at the same time this isn't really an opportunity for us to go and go great we're here we've a long way to go yet that's what we're shooting for yeah you could tell there was emotion and celebration but you did because this is not the end goal this is considered one step along the way everybody knew what the the whole season was about the anticipation for this season and you knew that this was also the evolution of this franchise and all of it coming together the way that it has what did you like about what you saw from this team in this opening round series well you know to be honest it was a little bit like a training camp you know we haven't had our guys you know healthy and available all year so you know to be able to put a week together prior to the playoffs and then you saw your glimpses in the game you know we'd string it together four or five plays with string because our quarter you know for us it's gonna be like you know how do we close our quarters now you know guys getting used to play to play with each other and so forth and and you know the camaraderie building on and off the court you know I think we've had honest conversations amongst the group with the coaches the players and so forth and all that's building you know that's that's that camaraderie is building and you know it's fun to watch the evolution of the guys and they keep getting better when you keep score and you maintain the results as part of the record book fans from the outside may not view it any differently than it's always been but it has been completely different in how you handle a team how you put this all together based on the restrictions and yet here we are first round is over you move on to the second round and I'm sure your head is spinning with what the season has been like yet this part's over and now you prepare so there's almost a more normalcy to this in many ways because it's a regimen of what's next well we know what's next you got to match up with the Milwaukee Bucks next yeah absolutely and you know the good thing for us is you know a lot of our guys have been through this a lot which is great which is great and they'll be leaders and they'll be leaders in the clubhouse and so forth and you know we know we've got to get a little lucky you know we've got to manage the guys throughout this course this next series we know it's gonna be difficult Milwaukee's a heck of a team but I give our coaching staff performance staff you know they've done an amazing job this whole year and just getting the trust of the players through what what's been a season unlike any so far so you know it'll be better we continue to stay healthy knock on wood and go out there continue to grow and and we'll see where it goes your impressions of Steve Nash in his first go-around as a head coach in the NBA playoffs great I think Steve will be the first to tell you I've said a few times yeah he doesn't know he doesn't know yet and he's he's growing and he's he's asked his coaching staff for advice all the time but it's been it's been amazing to see the humility which he approaches the game the respect that he has from his players and the poise I mean you see him out there and I know half the year or most of the year we've had a mask on so you currently read his lips the whole time but the advice he's been giving the players and the listening I think that's so important what he does is he listens to his players the same way he was when you know he was a two-time MVP so you know he's proved his worth out there show on the ambiance from these fans just the playoff feel just having people hear the switch from early in the season to now that's been the part that's hard to wrap your brain around because it's just so drastic from one end of the spectrum to other your feelings just being here in this moment yeah you know words can't really describe it to be honest I think this is what what we've been shooting for for five years it's not done but this is where we want to get to and to have I'm so glad the fans are backpacking Barclays again you know we're nothing without them and we need them we're gonna need them for this for this next series and so forth so great to hear their emotion behind and to be honest the bar needs it you know everybody wants to get behind the nets here and it's amazing and you know I know our players felt it out there which is terrific


Hey friends today. I am hanging out at Disney Springs We are gonna do a little dinner and maybe a little shopping the Edison invited us out to come try some of their menu I have never eaten down inside the restaurant before. I've only stopped by and had appetizers and drinks So that'll be the first for me, but also I'm in the hunt for a new spirit Jersey Maybe a Halloween one. I don't know any who's let's go do this We are gonna jump right into the Edison because it looks like we're gonna get some rain here But I'm excited the food looks fantastic here One of the coolest things about the Edison is basically the decor inside like look at this little waiting area Soon as you walk in the door, those are some fancy chairs This restaurant has one of the coolest looking things to it. I've ever seen I absolutely love everything in here Luckily, I won't be dining alone. I have company this evening Jackie super enthused Very fancy and you look all fancy The Edison has some amazing cocktails Including some nifty named prohibition ones like the Tesla the bootlegers basil But what I'm going with is the old-fashioned and I'm gonna have it smoked too Don't you love a little smoke in old-fashioned? And like I mentioned before the restaurant is basically themed with a prohibition Kind of error and I just love the way it looks in here mixed with like some steam punk very cool They have black and white movies actually playing on the walls and even a place for some live entertainment Jackie Oh, yes, I would love it all of the staff is all dressed in like kind of a great Gatsby attire And I really like it it makes it look really fun and hip. It's like a real good party in here all the time While we wait for our drinks. We've got some candy bacon I was really excited to get this since I seen it hanging on the menu outside while hanging here, too But look at that That Again bring out a lot of the earthiness of everything squeeze oils on the outside So now the fun part When this part and everything goes together You get to get the smoke in the ice in the drink instead of having to see people Yeah, this is amazing guys, thank you This smells Absolutely amazing guys. I don't know what to tell you But when he like lit the lemon on fire and then just the smell of the just the the smoker was unbelievable I can't wait to try it But I will definitely indulge in an old-fashioned every once in a while and this is like so amazing Like if I do this is how I have to do it. That's just how I have to do it.  I love it and it kind of sticks right to the clothespin so you can eat it Just like that. It's a good lollipop. Do you cheers that? Cheers cheers But I'm going all in on this That might be the best bacon I think I've ever had I absolutely love it And you can see the little Charm marks that they do because they cook it right there with the the actual blowtorch. I love it Now we need to start thinking about food When that's the queen cut prime rib that we are looking out outside I really might want to get that but maybe the short rib as well They have a lot of good a lot of good offerings even some burgers and then of course the desserts So far just sitting back here drinking a smoked old-fashioned with some candy bacon. It sounds like an amazing time I'm having an amazing time Jackie told me the sauce is pretty delicious. What kind of sauce is it? It's like a Sweet it's sweet with like a little bit of salty savory So I'm gonna dip my bacon in it. Look at how funny this looks It does right. Oh, it's like a jet. It's like a jam. Yeah. Oh fancy Honestly, I'm a very plain guy very plain guy, but I really have to say the bacon is better with the sauce Yeah Another really cool thing when you do wear the bacon You kind of get a little souvenir because you get to take the clothespin home with you Get to maybe just like Food is here guys and take a look at this. These are the carrots and mashed potatoes. Look at that prime rib Unbelievable. Oh, yeah. Oh Jackie's looks great. That's the short rib. These look fantastic. I'm a little I'm blown away You too Normally I would go about getting a prime rib probably around mid-rare But since this is gonna be on film and a lot of people are sensitive to the meat I decided I'm gonna go up to a medium and kind of split it in the middle So half of the people that only eat it very rare and some people that like it cooked Everyone's happy. Hopefully Jackie got the short rib and I did decide to go with the prime rib and it came with the side of mashed potatoes And then I got a side of carrots too because I thought they looked really cool. Yeah, aren't they? They look awesome try it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're definitely we're sharing the carrots. Yeah, but this is Unbelievable guys And this fancy thing is a pop over a pop over It's oh, I like that one. Oh, yeah And of course we're gonna have to go a little prime rib. Oh wait, nope a little prime rib And a little bit of mashed potatoes all in one bite I'm so excited to try this Unbelievable that is the best prime rib I've had in a very very long time the mashed potatoes are really good as well Honestly, I never thought I'd be one to say that the carrots are one of my most enjoyable things about this meal They are so delicious. They have a little bit of a crunch a little bit of a crisp now I like soft carrots and these are just really good and I also like candy carrots So if you do like candy carrots and soft carrots, you'll like this because it's not completely hard a little bit of a snap But wow overall everything together He's one of my favorite meals at Disney I'm not I'm not saying that just for saying it because I really do love prime rib now There's one other prime rib. I do have to try and that's at Saratoga. I will make my way there But I've been looking for a good prime rib spot I think I've talked enough about the food now. I just want to eat it. It is that good.  So so surprisingly delicious. Not that I didn't think it would be delicious, but That was my second choice. Yeah, it's very high quality. Like the meat tastes very high quality the carrots the potatoes like I'm I'm really surprised at like The level of freshness and quality of this It's good stuff. Yeah, this is good stuff. I didn't expect like I knew it would be good You know what I mean? Like yeah, like that's the ticket good This is like a fancy nice dinner for a special occasion. Oh, yes Yeah, that did not stand a chance. That's all I'm gonna say didn't say the chance unbelievable food right here Take a look at this right here This is the maker's mark private select Absolutely fantastic 108 proof. Holy moly with this And I am actually gonna try it Look to go with our very delicious drinks. We got some spamoni Spamoni, huh? This looks very interesting. Doesn't it? Yeah, it really really does. I'm very Excited, but you're on your phone You're on your phone. You're Instagrammer And that is spamoni Strawberry pistachio chocolate gelato coated with chocolate raspberry sauce and whipped cream It really does look really really good I just noticed they hit in mickey there. How crazy is that? I'm on I'm using all my strength right now Yeah, I did it. Oh, wow. Look at the inside I feel so fancy because I actually I'm gonna use the main dish, but look at this I'm gonna side dish here. Oh, yeah. So this is new one again Neapolitan elevated Neapolitan elevated. It's just elevated with like finer nicer ingredients That was an absolutely delicious dinner. Now. I think we're gonna head back out to the disney springs area Maybe hit world of disney or disney style. Like I said, I'm still looking for that spirit jersey Just look at how cool this place actually is though That's what I like actually coming and hanging out here It is just a really like cool environment very hip very prohibition hip And now it is actually nighttime and the springs have come alive Very busy tonight. It's open till 10 o'clock. So we're gonna head on over to the world of disney area See if we can get some good shopping done But look at these guys they're rolling into the Edison improper attire. I have to say You guys look fantastic Wow This is how it's supposed to be done And as we were actually walking on over to the world of disney We noticed they have some live music going on and I don't know if you can notice I still have my clothes pin from my bacon It's really awesome to actually see all of the live entertainment. Hey guys It's nice to see the live entertainment coming back to disney springs Actually the other day I came here and I just sat on top of the paddle fish and watched the sunset And I didn't use that footage for anything So maybe I'll put that in right now for you guys and then we're going to continue on a shopping journey So enjoy the sunset real quick. We'll only be a couple seconds Hoping on getting in actual spirit jersey But it looks like they're directing traffic all the way down here And the wait time to get in the world of disney is anywhere between 20 to 30 minutes So I think I might go to disney style or unique low and see what they have This just seems like a long wait when normally I can just come back any other day If you're here on vacation, do you want to get in the world of disney? You got to wait You got to wait Instead of waiting in the long line at the world of disney we hopped over to unique low And they have some pretty cool disney shirts Now these are like a little different design that you can only find here at unique low I gotta take this clothespin off. It looks ridiculous about this shirt. Oh, yeah This is like an aloha mickey one aloha I like it. I like it. They have a lot of aloha Like this one that just says mickey aloha right here and guess how much these shirts are $9.90 They don't have any spirit jerseys in this store, but they do have some pretty cool disney sweatshirts I love a lot of these mickey sweatshirts. Look at this one It's really cool seeing like old school style mickey. This one's cool Oh, and then you can take a look at this one right here. I like this these ones I think are only uh 29.99. That's really good Another really cool thing that they have here other than just the sweatshirts and no spirit jerseys Is they have mickey and mini but in all different types of designs and I like that Of course, you got steamboat willy classic mickey, then he got cowboy mickey then he got Hawaiian mickey like aloha mickey Chinese mickey. There's so many different. What's this one down here? It's like mickey painting. Oh, I like that one Oh, I think I might get one of these Wait a second. I am mind blown because now I can see all the mickeys above me and it's blowing my mind There's a little bit of a light there But take a look at all those cool mickeys and all the different mickey designs and they have all the t-shirts This is really cool. And these are 1990. So that's really cheap So I decided I'm gonna get one of the classic mickey shirts. I'm trying to show it to you But it's a little not easy Oh, yeah, that's cool guy the Hawaiian mickey Honestly, I didn't know it was Hawaiian. I just thought it was cool guy mickey, but that's why I got it And isn't that cool like they give you a little like backpacks as bags And then take a look at all of these ones too So like they have cars right here and then a lot of Pixar stuff monsters incorporated sully See these things are amazing. They're $14. I'm sorry, but I really do love unique love Now I decided maybe I want to get myself a drink and why not stop at the hole in the wall Because I hear they have basically the biggest beers you can get on property or in disney springs It also looks like they have a wide selection of actual draft beers I'm kind of interested in this Bloomsday pale ale. That's orange blossom. Is it orange blossom? Oh, well, maybe we're gonna give that a go, but that's the same brewery fancy Man, there it is 32 ounces for $15. That is such a deal. I know it's kind of heavy Wow, what did I do here? Oh wow some more entertainment too Wow This is such a surprisingly huge beer and I should have probably not went with a beer that I've never had before It does taste pretty good, but I mean I would probably a little bit more at ease drinking like a Bud Light I had to actually take a seat so I can finish my beer But I was kind of doing the math and this is such a value You're basically almost close to getting three beers for the price of like one premium beer And this is kind of a premium beer. I mean they had all different types of Drafts there. So you may want to check out a hole in the wall and plus it's called a hole in the wall That's that's cool on its own And now it seems like everyone is Exiting disney springs for the night. It's sad that it's closing at 10 o'clock Which is kind of still early, but on the weekends. It's definitely opened up a lot later So I'm happy that we can still experience all of the springs at night during the weekends And with that, I think I am done here. I'm sorry. I keep on switching out my mask But I just like having multiple masks throughout my day Even though this is slightly used because it's the one I started with anyways Thank you so much for watching the video. I hope you enjoyed it I enjoyed making it and thank you to the Edison for Inviting us out to try the menu because that was fantastic prime rem One of the best meals I've had in disney in a very long time. So thank you guys and That's gonna do it. Hope you guys enjoyed it. See you next time. Bye


Today's day is November 13th and my name is Max, and I'm the project manager for the city forward storm order team who is helping deliver this project. The contractor for the Viola storm during relocations project will be forward civil constructors and we have Brad Cadwell from that company on the call tonight. So, jumping straight into it, the Viola storm during project location. It's right just east of white settlement road, kind of near the new traffic circles that have recently rebuilt. It's just north of West 7th Street and just east or just west of Main Street and just east of 199 or Henderson Street. This project is going to be right at the intersection of Viola and Kansas Street kind of near the new roundabouts. So, in conjunction with this project, it's actually a series of projects that is with the forward central city stormwater program. It's a number of relocation projects of the forward city of forward is working on in conjunction with tier WD as well as the Army Corps of engineers to help relocate or install new stormwater infrastructure in advance of the future bypass channel. In total, we've got about six projects for them being led by the city of Fort Worth and two of them being led by the United States Army Corps of engineers. Our project is on the south. It's called the South bypass channel. It's broken up into two separate projects. This project is going to be relocating existing stormwater outflow directly into the Trinita River. It's just going to be a more direct route than where it goes today. So, again, just to drop overview, this is a partnership between USACE and tier WD. The reasons for the program is to relocate stormwater ahead of all the United States Army Corps bypass channel projects and a few of the other miscellaneous projects going on the area. For this program, there is a reimbursement plan in place. So the projects that we are constructing, there is an efforts between tier WD and the Corps to help reimburse those expenses that the city are fronting for these projects. The scope of this project includes the construction of a new storm drain outfall that ties directly into the current Trinity River. This will connect existing storm drain systems within the area and basically reroute it directly into the Trinity River. Currently, if we were to leave it in place, it would be blocked by the future bypass channel that's pretty much running right parallel between Arthur Street and Green New Street coming up north. The anticipated project schedule with the construction start of January 2024 and we expected to take about nine months with the expected completion date of August of 2024. Total construction cost is estimated at about $6 million. With this project we do anticipate having a number of roadway impacts specifically to Kansas Street and Viola. The majority of the work that's going to be commencing will be within the levee template. So pretty much on the outside towards the Trinity River on the other side of the levee, there will be some minor impacts that are going to be had in Viola and Kansas Street whenever you get into tying in the future system. All of those we will be coordinating with the property owners in and around that area or any sort of impacts to their property. We don't have a definitive timeline yet of those roadway closures or any sort of lane closures. But once we get more information, we'll be reaching out to each of those property owners. And with that, that's the end of the presentation. Again, my name is Max Aronson. I'm the project manager for the city of Fort Worth. On the call as well, we have Brad Cobble from Forward Civil Construction. And at the end, we have a project web page that you can find out more information from. So if you have any questions, please feel free to unmute yourself now and go ahead and ask those. Also, there's a chat option on this. If your phone's not working, please feel free to type those into the chat and I'll have somebody read them off to us. Okay, well, I'll stay on the line for a couple more minutes in case any other questions pop up. But again, feel free to, if you do have any questions in the meantime, or the future, please feel free to reach myself at the email. Paste it on the screen or at the phone number based on the screen and I have been recording. And if you do have follow up questions, I think Max to share with you his contact info. Do we have anyone on from the council district office? I would like to share or ask any questions. Okay. And max, I've been looking at the chat and I don't see anything in there for you right now. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Again, I think we'll wait another minute or so. If you guys come up with anything. Oh, this is Linda. Do we want to tell people where they can find the presentation if they want to see it later? Yes, I will be sending it out to Laura and should be uploaded to the project web page that has the link at the bottom. You have any issues finding it just going to search be all the storm drain relocation on the search tab on the city for with website. It should be one of the first options that pops up. Thank you, Linda and Max. And also the recording from tonight will also be posted there. I should have something there tomorrow. If not tomorrow, the next day. Sounds great. Thank you, Laura. Okay. Thanks for joining tonight. Again, we'll have everything uploaded. If you guys have any questions, please forward to reach out to myself. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, everybody.