new delhi the centre said nobody in the government prevented author salman rushdie from attending the jaipur literature festival and it was the organizers who cancelled his programme no one prevented rushdie from coming to india he is a person of indian origin pio he does not require a visa home minister p chidambaram said when asked why rushdie had not been allowed to attend the fest he said a lot of things were attributed to the government without noting the facts he added that the government had only issued an advisory on january 17 to delhi mumbai and jaipur that protests were likely to occur when rushdie visits their city and they were obliged to provide security and take adequate measures that is a routine advisory that we would have sent whether it is rushdie or anyone else visiting india if there is a protest likely we will send the advisory nobody prevented him coming to india any decision taken by the organizer of the literature festival was a decision taken by them and he said so on television the home minister said the decision to cancel the video conferencing was the decision of the organizer not by the rajasthan police in fact the rajasthan police had said go ahead and have a video link chidambaram said when asked as to why the proposed video conferencing of the author was cancelled the ministry has also announced that software giant infosys ltd will train 100 engineering students from jammu and kashmir every year on advanced information technologyenabled services chidambaram said the approval committee of special industry initiatives sii jammu and kashmir had on january 11 approved the proposal of infosys ltd to train 100 engineering graduates and master of computer applications students in one year the minister also described as unfortunate condemnable and rare the incident involving some border security force bsf personnel beating up a bangladesh national adding that the guilty will be punished talking to mediapersons here chidambaram said the bsf personnel found to be prima facie involved in the incident have been suspended anyone found guilty will be severely punished he said a video had surfaced earlier in january showing a man being kicked and beaten by men donning bsfstyle dark green fatigues in west bengals murshidabad district along the indiabangladesh border the bsf had suspended eight personnel after they were prima facie found involved in the incident