Jaitley is richest NDA minister, Sadananda Gowda's wealth is growing fastest

If wealth is health, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers is pretty much in the pink. Of the 44 members in Modi’s ministerial team, no less than 41 - or 91 per cent - are crorepatis. 

This compares rather favourably with the United Progressive Alliance II’s Council of Ministers, where 47 of 79 ministers - just about 60 per cent - were similarly wealthy. 

Union Finance and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley is the richest minister of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, with assets totalling Rs 114.03 crore. 

It is Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, however, whose assets have shown the greatest increase, rising by Rs 10.46 crore since he took over as minister. His wealth has shot from Rs 9.88 crore as declared in the Lok Sabha elections to Rs 20.35 crore now. 

The wealth of Modi’s ministers has been analysed by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) by comparing the declarations filed for the Lok Sabha elections in May this year and those sent about five months later to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). 

Declarations of 45 ministers, including Modi himself, have been analysed. Of the 45 ministers, 37 had contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and eight are members of the Rajya Sabha. Unlike the railway minister, Jaitley’s assets have shown an increase of Rs 1.01 crore in the same period. 

Jaitley’s assets rose in value from Rs 113.02 crore during the Lok Sabha polls to Rs 114.03 crore in the 2014 disclosure to the PMO. He is fond of luxury cars and has declared ownership of high-end cars like a Porsche worth Rs 1.02 crore, and vehicles from Mercedes Benz and BMW among others. 

Gowda’s growth is on the fast-track primarily because he has acquired a commercial building worth Rs 13.49 lakh as well as a residential building worth Rs 11.65 crore. 

Matter of assets 

The average value of assets of Modi’s Council of Ministers, according to the declarations on the PMO website, is Rs 14.32 crore. Following Jaitley on the rich list are Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Rs 108.31 crore) and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and New and New and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Rs 94.66 crore). 

According to the ADR, many Union ministers including Gowda, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ananth Kumar, Jitendra Kumar, Manoj Sinha, and Santosh Kumar Gangwar have not declared the value of their agricultural land in their declarations. 

On the not-so-rich side, the least wealth has been declared by Sudarshan Bhagat of BJP (Rs 59.13 lakh) followed by Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava of the BJP (Rs 65.71 lakh) and Ram Vilas Paswan of the Lok Janashakti Party (Rs 95.71 lakh).

Among the ministers who contested the Lok Sabha 2014 elections, the highest increase in assets in five months has been shown by D.V. Sadananda Gowda of the BJP (Cabinet Minister for Railways). Gowda is followed by Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Radhakrishnan P. of the BJP, who has shown an increase of Rs 2.98 crore from the Rs 4.09 crore he declared in the Lok Sabha polls.

The reason for the increase in the property of many ministers, including Radhakrishnan P., has been difficult to evaluate as some ministers have not declared the values of their assets in a comprehensive format. 

The great dip 

There are 16 ministers whose wealth has shrunk in the jour- ney from the General Elections to the Council of Ministers. The greatest decrease is for Exter- nal Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj whose wealth has fallen by Rs 3.89 crore (from Rs 17.55 crore to Rs 13.65 crore). 

She is followed by Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North-eastern Region Gen. (Retd) V.K. Singh of BJP, who has declared a decrease of Rs 3.13 crore (from Rs 4.11 crore declared in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to Rs 98.27 lakh declared in the disclosure to the PMO). 

The former Army chief is followed by Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan of BJP who has declared a decrease of Rs 1.28 crore (from Rs 2.82 crore declared in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to Rs 1.54 crore in the disclosure to the PMO). 

The declaration of assets by the ministers has been made according to the Code of Conduct issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs which makes it mandatory for every minister to disclose details of their assets and liabilities. 

The 2009 Cabinet of the UPA had 47 crorepati ministers, of which 38 were from the Congress, five from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, two from the Nationalist Congress Party, and one each from the National Conference and Trinamool Congress. 

NCP leader Praful Patel was the richest of the lot, with assets worth Rs 89.9 crore.

How to enable RSS Feed

What is RSS?

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a widely used technology for transmitting information across the Internet and intranets. Many Web sites offer RSS Feeds you can subscribe to, so you can get the latest information from the source automatically.

You can also subscribe to RSS Feeds from SharePoint libraries, lists, and other elements, so you can see when someone adds a document or changes a list item.

How RSS can be consumed in SharePoint?

You can use an RSS Viewer Web Part to display an RSS Feed on a SharePoint site. RSS Feeds and the RSS Viewer Web Part provide you with a convenient way to view information from many sources on a single page. For example, by adding RSS Viewer Web Parts to your My Site page, you can view RSS Feeds from external sites that provide information such as news and weather reports. You can also keep track of changes in libraries, calendars, and lists on other SharePoint sites.

A Corporate Active Directory user can configure a RSS feed webpart to subscribe to any RSS feeds published inside and outside corporate network. Current scenario it is NOT possible to subscribe to an external RSS feed. This shortcoming calls for a need to enable internet access in the SharePoint web applications.

When a corporate Active Directory user subscribes to an external RSS feed, the feed aggregator will check the publishers site for any new content and then collects the information and represents it in the RSS feed webpart.

Current functionality will not be impacted in a negative way. More functionality will be available.  The traffic is routed through the proxy / firewall like all other internet traffic from clients. Any request to an external URL will be validated and verified by the existing firewall mechanism thus eliminating any potential risk to information or environment.

Logical Architecture

Implementation

Step 1: Browse to Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

Step 2: Select the Web Application where the internet access is planned. Focus on the ‘Configuration Editor’ under ‘Management’

Step 3: Right click and select ‘Open Feature’

Step 4: Under ‘Configuration Editor’ à ‘system.net’, select the ‘defaultProxy’ section.

Step 5: Under ‘Configuration Editor’, provide appropriate values for the attributes below.

For more help on the attributes below, please refer to 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa903369(v=vs.71).aspx

Step 6: After providing all attribute values, try using the ‘Generate Script’. This functionality provides you with managed code and scripts that helps to perform all the steps explained here in an automated fashion in acceptance and production farms. Please also keep in mind about making changes in a multi server environment. You can find more information from the below article.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spwebconfigmodification.aspx

Note: You could skip further steps and start planning implementation step of your choice or continue further by making changes directly via the configuration editor.

Step 7: After providing all attribute values, please select ‘Apply’ from the menu from left side.

Step 8: Verify the web.config of your application and see if the changes are reflected.

Step 9: Add a RSS Viewer webpart on your SharePoint page and configure the webpart to consume an online RSS feed.

Introducing Query Rules

A Search Keyword works for the exact query 'image library' or 'picture library', while a Query Rule can improve search for a whole lot of different image queries.

Yet if all you want to do is promote results to the top for a query — worry not! It’s as easy with Query Rules as it was with Search Keywords. In fact, if you’re upgrading from SharePoint 2010 Products, SharePoint 2013 Preview transforms all your old Search Keywords into Query Rules for you.
So let’s create a Query Rule that fires on the exact query ‘image library’ or ‘picture library’, then promotes a result for the Image Library to the top of the page.
First, we’ll go to the Query Rules management page. On your search center’s upper-right-hand corner, click the gear icon, then select Site Settings.

Next, on the Site Settings page, under the Search heading, click Query Rules. Note that you may see a Search Query Rules link under Site Collection Administration. This happens if you’re the Site Collection administrator and the search center is the site collection’s root site. Don’t click that one; those Query Rules affect every site in the site collection, and for now we want to focus only on the search center site.

Now that you’re on the Query Rules page, the first question to ask is “Where will the user be?” For example, do you want to manage Query Rules for your main Enterprise Search? Or for People Search? Or Video Search? Each search experience, out-of-the-box or custom, can have its own Query Rules.
This is what we call the query’s context. You configure Query Rules for a particular context by using that first row of dropdowns in the Query Rules management page.
 
To manage Query Rules for a specific search experience, use the first dropdown to pick the Result Source for that experience. We’ll go into Result Sources in another post — for now, think of them as a SharePoint 2010 Federated Location plus a Search Scope. Each search experience sends queries to a Result Source, and that source guarantees results meeting certain conditions. For instance, People Search sends queries to the Local People Results source, which only returns People results.
We want our new Query Rule to fire on the main Enterprise Search. That search experience sends queries to the Local SharePoint Results source (which includes everything SharePoint crawls except People). So choose Local SharePoint Results from the first dropdown.
Next, click Add Rule to start creating your new rule.

Having picked a context, we just need to give the rule a name, then specify its conditions and actions. In other words, say when this rule will fire, and what it will do when it does. This is very similar to creating a Search Keyword in SharePoint 2010:

1. Give the rule a name: Image Library.
2. In the Query Conditions section, leave the condition type on “Query Matches Keyword Exactly”. In the textbox, type the queries we want to match, separated by semicolons: image library; picture library.
3. In the Actions section, since we want to promote a result to the top of the page, click Add Promoted Result. These are just like Best Bets in SharePoint 2010.   
   
4. In the Add Promoted Result dialog, fill out the title, URL, and description.
   
5. Click Save in the dialog, then Save in the Add Query Rule page.

And that’s it…you’ve created a Query Rule! To try it out, go to your search center and search for ‘image library’ or ‘picture library’ (note that it can take a few seconds for the Query Rule to start working).

This Query Rule, while simple, demonstrates the high-level steps for creating all Query Rules.

1. Pick the context (e.g., queries sent to the Local SharePoint Results source).
2. Specify the conditions (e.g., fire if the query exactly matches ‘image library’ or ‘picture library’).
3. Specify the actions (e.g., promote a result for the Image Library).