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June 8, 2009

Posting policy of the Jharkhand Forum

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Dear All,

 

Johar, these are the Jharkhand Forum's norms and other information. It is assumed that all registered members or active users are familiar with the rules and guidelines presented here.

 

 

=== KNOW EACH OTHER ===

 

Jharkhand Volunteer (a group of virtual volunteers; that maintains websites, video and forum for Jharkhand Org.) is actively working to promote each and every member or active user of Jharkhand Forum including all non-profit NGOs working in India.

 

At Jharkhand Forum, we would like to suggest you to create a profile page on JHARKHAND NETWORK – http://network.jharkhandi.com that’s a free to use networking website.

 

 

=== Rules and guidelines ===

 

Following norms and guidelines which are designed to ensure the forum is fair and respects the interests of its users and members.

 

1/ Time is money for everyone.

 

While posting your message to 'Jharkhand Forum' please always Remember, you are taking up someone's time, so please avoid one line messages in forum like –

 

Thank you for your reply or I am good or Greetings or I agree etc. For one line greetings or appreciation message – you may use the ‘Jharkhand Instant Messenger’ @ jharkhand.org.in/forum or forum.jharkhand.org.in

 

 

2/ Respect always do matter.

 

As you know most of Jharkhand Forum members / users have never met, in order to avoid any misunderstanding and to demonstrate respect for the other members / users, please keep the following norms in mind when you are communicating through Jharkhand Forum:

 

·                     Follow the same standards of politeness that you would in any other situation. 

 

·                     Feel free to express your ideas, thoughts, and feelings, but do so in a way that will   respect others.

 

·                     Prepare your correspondence in a professional manner & please use respectful salutations.

 

·                     Everyone makes mistakes. Don't criticize others’ simple errors. Check your spelling and grammar.

 

 
3/ Always Remember.

 

Please, don't pass on chain-letter-type messages, advertisements, materials from another website without mentioning it's original source, virus alerts, signing request for petitions, job adverts, give-away, email asking for financial supports and dire warnings etc. Also, please avoid followings in your personal e-mail signature – Resume or Personal Profile links of any kind i.e. supported by commercial advert links.

 

NOTE: Forum websites has linked with these specific websites for following things –

 

Jobs: http://jobs.jharkhand.org.in | Email for posting adverts – jobs@jharkhand.org.in

 

Resume: http://resume.jharkhandi.com | Email: resume@jharkhandi.com

 

Petition: http://petition.jharkhand.org.in | Email: petition@jharkhand.org.in

 

Funding Appeal: http://funding-appeal.economics.org.in | Email: forum@jharkhand.org.in

 

 

 

4/ 100 percent Freedom.

 

Jharkhand Forum gives you 100 percent freedom to express your voices / thoughts / ideas / opinions / experiences and suggestions etc.

 

All members / contributors are responsible for their own comments and neither ‘A Global Network of Jharkhand’ nor the Jharkhand Forum's Management Team can be held responsible for any views expressed on Jharkhand Forum.

 

 
5/ Insults and threats will not be accepted.

 

Please be respectful of others even when you do not agree with them, if that is asking too much then please ignore them.  Insults and personal attacks are not welcome on this forum and any member who resorts to such behaviour will be warned first and then moderated if they persist. Members should feel free to be able to express themselves in a non judgmental environment. This does not mean other members can not question any view that has been express, nor should you expect your own view not to become the subject of debate, but that members should not be attacked personally for the view they hold, and only their reasoning should be open to criticism.

 

Anyone who threatens another member, or acts in such a way which causes another member to feel threatened, will be banned from the Jharkhand Forum.

 

 
6/ Think before replying Jharkhand Forum’s email.

 

·                     Don't assume everyone is passionate about your cause. In other words, before hitting the Reply button, be sure you are replying to the correct party. If you are replying to a Jharkhand Forum e-mail, does your reply need to go to everyone, or is it intended for the sender / contributor only?

 

·                    Ensure you have read an understood a message before replying to it, don't just skim read or assume someone's position. If you feel someone is misinterpreting you then don't get caught up on it.

 

·                     Both sides of the argument are available for other members to be able to make up their own mind.

 

·                     If you constantly try to push the same point people may get fed up or consider you unable to back up your position. And please try to reply to the spirit of the original message rather than a literal interpretation.

 

 Also,

 

·                     Make sure your name and perhaps your city/town/place/country is on every message you send so that others can identify you.

 

·                     Make sure everyone is familiar with any jargon being used; be aware of acronyms and abbreviations.

 

·                     Don't type in all capital letters. It looks like shouting.

 

·                     Don't type in all lower-case letters. This is known as mumbling.

 

 
7/ Change the subject line.

 

It is inevitable that many discussions will go off on tangents or change direction, if this happens please, change the subject line to reflect the new topic of conversation.

 

 
8/ Misuse and Copyrights Issues.

 

At Jharkhand Forum, harassing any member or staff or approaching any member for network marketing purpose or misuse of any services and violation of norms will be dealt strictly. 

 

In Forum, please don’t post or pass other’s work with your name. Don’t forget to mention its original source in original form. You are allowed to re-publish or forward any email (of Jharkhand Forum) to third party without altering its emblem and links.

 

Please, do not copy, paste or reproduce the contents and materials of any websites of ‘Jharkhand Org’ for your personal or commercial blog or website. In such activity, you will be accused in violating of Cyber law and liable to face legal consequences. If you want to use any material for a non-profit purpose then approach to permission@jharkhand.org.in with details of your request.

 

 

=== Complaints ===

 

If you have any complaints regarding Jharkhand Forum, any of its members or particular messages then please, mail complain@jharkhand.org.in. It would be appreciated if you do not post your complaint to the forum (or to a contributor) as this has a tendency to cause disruption and can take longer to resolve than by being dealt with in private.

 

As a general policy it will be brought to someone's attention if there has been a complaint about them, although the anonymity of the complainant will be respected.  Unless someone is clearly acting in an unacceptable way they will be left to decide whether or not they wish to change their behaviour, only when there have been several justified complaints, or if a member consistently ignores warnings, would someone be censured.

 

Termination or banning of membership from Jharkhand Forum will always be a last resort after all other attempts have failed.  If some does offend you then the best advice is always to try and ignore them, just as you would in real life.

 

 

 

=== Function ===

 

Jharkhand Forum is the open access public website and can be access in all parts of world.

 

Anything once posted at Jharkhand Forum make shortly available at its 30+ websites such as such as http://reporter.jharkhand.org.in/ | http://blog.jharkhandi.org | http://group.jharkhand.org.in/ | http://express.jharkhand.org.in/ | http://forum.jharkhand.org.in/ | http://adivasi.jharkhand.org.in/ | http://blog.jharkhand.org.in

 

All websites of Jharkhand.ORG are advert-free (no advertisements at all) and fast loading website (which work at minimum internet speed) and quick posting so, its just take few minutes to appear your contents here.

 

All websites are maintained by Jharkhand Volunteer. Contact Email: cohort@jharkhand.us or volunteer@jharkhand.org.in or volunteer@jharkhand.org.uk

 

At Jharkhand Forum no sign-up is required. To post your contents (press release, messages, articles, write-up, issues for public discussions and documentary video here, simply send it to Jharkhand@yahoogroups.com.

 

If you wish receive contents in email then sign-up at http://egroups.com/list/jharkhand or write to forum@jharkhand.org.in or jharkhand.forum@gmail.com or jharkhand.forum@yahoo.com

 

For further information or support, please email us at above emails id.

 

 

 == About ==

 

Jharkhand Forum is an easiest accessible public forum, where everyone’s voices / thoughts / ideas / opinions / experiences / suggestions are heard without any intermediate moderation. It invites you to share anything on developments issues and welcome your active participation in discussions.

 

Jharkhand Forum is the part of Jharkhand.ORG (an independent non-profit organization). For more info about it please visit at www.jharkhand.org.in

 

Foundation Year –

 

Jharkhand Forum was founded in 2005

 

Popularity –

 

Jharkhand Forum is the first forum of its kind in India. Everyday, it is visited by large no of people (800-1200 people per-day approx.) worldwide and it has 12,000 registered users / contributor.

 

Focus Issues –

 

It’s focussed on hot issues of India that includes – Developments, Industrial Displacements, Adivasi, Dalit, Mines, Minerals, Environment, Health, Education, Naxal, Poverty, Corruption, Governance, Crime, Forest and Socio-Economic problems etc.

 

Geographical Coverage:

 

India only

 

 

Members / Users / Contributors Backgrounds -

 

Jharkhand Forum’s members are from all kind of Professions including Development Professionals, Researchers, Writers, News Reporters, University Teachers & Students, Govt. of India's officers, Policy makers, NGOs and NRIs etc.

 

Members' Profile –

 

It can be openly access at http://network.jharkhandi.com

 

Geographical Region of Membership -

 

Worldwide

 

Language of communication -

 

English

 

Activities –

 

Sharing information in public through the websites, blog, email lists and an e-newsletter, facilitate debate and discussion and raise awareness and understanding.

 

Facilitating networking among professionals, academics, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners involved in development, within and beyond India;

 

Facilitating mutually beneficial relationships and meaningful co-operation between the academics, media community and development professionals, including policy-makers, civil society groups, and development NGOs;

 

 

Best Regards,


Moderators,
Jharkhand Forum
 

 

 

 

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04.      ==>      Email A/c-> http://jharkhandi.com/email.aspx

05.      ==>      Network -> http://network.jharkhandi.com

06.      ==>      Documentary -> http://documentary.jharkhand.us

07.      ==>      Petition -> http://petition.jharkhand.org.in

08.      ==>      Districts -> http://jharkhandi.com/district.aspx 

09.      ==>      Funding Appeal -> http://Funding-Appeal.economics.org.in

10.      ==>      Naxal Terror -> http://naxal.jharkhand.org.uk

 

Language Blogs -

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02.      ==>      Mundari -> http://mundari.jharkhandi.com 

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04.      ==>      Oraon -> http://kurukh.jharkhandi.com

05.      ==>      Kharia -> http://kharia.jharkhandi.com 

06.      ==>      Kurmali -> http://Kurmali.jharkhandi.com

07.      ==>      Santhali -> http://santali.jharkhandi.com

08.      ==>      Panchpargania -> http://panchpargania.jharkhandi.com



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June 7, 2009

Proposed India’s biggest Special Economic Zone in danger of being scrapped

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The threat to the SEZ follows the Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the land acquisition process that otherwise has to conclude by Monday, June 8. A Bench headed by Justice B Sudarshan Reddy dismissed Mumbai SEZ’s plea challenging a Bombay High Court interim order that refused to stay the land acquisition process. A stay by the Supreme Court would have made the deadline redundant.

The company has spent Rs 600 crore on land acquisition but the process had stalled following protests in 22 villages. The state government then held a referendum on the project among villagers last year but has not yet released the results.

Mumbai SEZ had filed a writ petition last month before the high court, seeking a direction to the Raigad district administration to speed up the land acquisition initiated under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1984.

Land acquisition for SEZs has to be completed within two years from the date of approval.

The Mumbai SEZ project, which was to come up over 10,000 hectares at an investment of Rs 40,000 crore, was approved in June 2005 and the deadline has been extended twice.

A Mumbai SEZ spokesperson declined to comment when asked about the company’s course of action.

Senior Maharashtra government officials, however, said the project’s future appeared bleak, given that the state was headed for Assembly elections in October. Land acquisition for industrial projects is a highly emotive issue and no government wanted to do anything that was perceived as being harmful to the villagers’ interests.

Sources familiar with the developments, however, said there was hope for Mumbai SEZ. One, the Supreme Court simultaneously issued a notice to the Maharashtra government on another plea by the Mumbai SEZ, seeking to transfer its petition pending before the Bombay High Court.

Last year, the apex court had transferred a number of SEZ cases to itself from various high courts. All the writ petitions, some by land owners and some in public interest, challenge the validity and procedure of land acquisition in various states for building SEZs. The Supreme Court is yet to hear those cases.

J P Dange, the state’s additional chief secretary (revenue & forests), said the government would take a decision on granting an extension to the land acquisition process only after receiving a specific request from the company to that effect.

Convener of the People Against Globalisation, Ulka Mahajan, who headed the anti-SEZ agitation, welcomed the apex court’s decision and said, “The decision has strengthened our belief that even mighty corporations can be forced to eat humble pie using peaceful and democratic means of agitation.”

The state government will need to carry out detailed consultations and study the legal provisions before deciding what to do with the land the company has already acquired from farmers, Dange said. If the project is scrapped, one option available to the state government is to return the land after taking it over from the company. However, the state government can also use it for other public purposes. A Supreme Court judgement in the case involving the Kerala government allowed such a change of purpose, an official said.

BS Reporter / June 6, 2009,

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05.      ==>      Network -> http://network.jharkhandi.com

06.      ==>      Documentary -> http://documentary.jharkhand.us

07.      ==>      Petition -> http://petition.jharkhand.org.in

08.      ==>      Districts -> http://jharkhandi.com/district.aspx 

09.      ==>      Funding Appeal -> http://Funding-Appeal.economics.org.in

10.      ==>      Naxal Terror -> http://naxal.jharkhand.org.uk

 

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02.      ==>      Mundari -> http://mundari.jharkhandi.com 

03.      ==>      Khortha -> http://khortha.jharkhandi.com 

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06.      ==>      Kurmali -> http://Kurmali.jharkhandi.com

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Uranium Mining in Nalgonda and Tummalapalle (Andhra Pradesh)

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Mr. Jairam Ramesh,

Minister for Environment and Forests,

Government of India

 

Dear Sir,

 

Sub: Uranium Mining and Nuclear Power

 

It was a great pleasure to meet an approachable Minister like you. We are very happy that you have taken time to listen to what people had to say.

 

At the outset, we would like to say, “No to Uranium Mining in Nalgonda and Tummalapalle and anywhere else. No to Nuclear Power.”

 

In our discussion regarding the above, on 6th June, 2009, we had four major contentious issues which were raised by you:

 

First – You said that we had a rich deposit of Uranium in AP. I wish to differ with that claim, since the quality of ore in Andhra Pradesh is very poor, i.e., is only 0.045% which means hardly one ton of usable uranium from 3000 tons ore processed every day. The only thing that will be left after 300 days of operation per year and 30 years of mining and processing, is a mind boggling, 2 Crores and Seventy lakh (27 million) tons of   Radioactive Wastes in just one mine which will contaminate the only water source for six districts including twin cities, in terms of irrigation and drinking. While in Tummalapalle the quality of ore is even lower.  

 

Second – You said that with renewable energy like Solar and Wind power we cannot generate large amounts of power like 10, 000 MW, which will only be possible by using Nuclear Power Generation. However, as I had already mentioned, Nuclear Power generated in India with total installed capacity of about 4,000 MW, has only been about 2.8% of the total energy used in India. This is less than the present electricity being generated by Wind Mills alone.  Together Solar and Wind power today generate about 14% of the total energy used in India.

 

Even with the projection of 50,000 MW (as envisaged by Dr. Abdul Kalam) for the year 2030, it will only be 12.5% of the total projected energy use of India for year 2030 which is 4, 00, 000 MW.  As per one estimate, the entire accessible uranium in India is just enough to produce 10.000 MW! 

 

So, in what way is Nuclear Energy the answer to India’s Energy security?

 

You might say “that is why we have signed the Indo-US Nuclear Deal“. If we have to depend up on outside resources for our energy requirements, in what way can we say we are “energy secure”?  Considering that all will be well and we will have unconditional access to Uranium from all over the world, here is a fact to be considered:

 

“If the current level of nuclear energy production is maintained, it is estimated that all (currently and future) accessible uranium would be dug up in next 50 years. The present share of nuclear energy in the total global energy consumption is just 2.7%, with 442 nuclear power plants worldwide. China has been forecasting the construction of numerous nuclear power plants over the last 25 years but so far, it has only built eleven out of which three are very small.”

 

And if production does increase then these deposits of Uranium may not even last up to 50 years.

 

Therefore, even globally, Nuclear Energy is not a viable option.

 

Why must we spend such huge amounts of tax payers’ money to generate such a small amount of energy?

 

Third – With reference to Radioactive Wastes, you had said that in India all precautions are being taken to safely dispose of the wastes and you had very kindly invited us to view the facilities in Jharkhand. We would very much like to see the facilities and like to educate ourselves on this matter.

 

However, as per our knowledge and repeated press reports in national and international press like BBC, and noted universities like Kyoto University (Japan) it is well known that UCIL and other Nuclear establishments working under the DAE are not following any environmental and people safety precautions. They have no disaster preparedness plan, which should be in public domain. So far they have not seemed to share information with  regard to radiological hazards with the public living in the surrounding areas (Which is mandatory). The incidents and accidents taking place in all these installations are always brushed aside as “DAE’s policy is to deny such incidents”, which as informed public we are not ready to accept. Before launching any new activities, DAE should learn to be more transparent and gain public good will.

 

These are but a few points in support of our argument to Say No to Nuclear Power.

There are many more, but would not like to take any more of your precious time. If given time as you had mentioned, we will be able to present all our arguments to you. Once again, we wish to thank you for initiating this democratic process of dialogue.

 

With a hope that you will consider the safety of current and future generations,

 

Sincerely,

 

Saraswati Kavula

Movement Against Uranium Projects, Andhra Pradesh.

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02.      ==>      Resume / CV -> http://resume.jharkhandi.com

03.      ==>      Marriage -> http://shaadi.jharkhandi.com

04.      ==>      Email A/c-> http://jharkhandi.com/email.aspx

05.      ==>      Network -> http://network.jharkhandi.com

06.      ==>      Documentary -> http://documentary.jharkhand.us

07.      ==>      Petition -> http://petition.jharkhand.org.in

08.      ==>      Districts -> http://jharkhandi.com/district.aspx 

09.      ==>      Funding Appeal -> http://Funding-Appeal.economics.org.in

10.      ==>      Naxal Terror -> http://naxal.jharkhand.org.uk

 

Language Blogs -

01.      ==>      Sadri -> http://nagpuri.jharkhandi.com

02.      ==>      Mundari -> http://mundari.jharkhandi.com 

03.      ==>      Khortha -> http://khortha.jharkhandi.com 

04.      ==>      Oraon -> http://kurukh.jharkhandi.com

05.      ==>      Kharia -> http://kharia.jharkhandi.com 

06.      ==>      Kurmali -> http://Kurmali.jharkhandi.com

07.      ==>      Santhali -> http://santali.jharkhandi.com

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June 6, 2009

PLIGHT OF DALIT CHRISTIANS

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Without going into details of how enlightened Hindus have dealt with the unconscionable practice of untouchability, let us audit the record of the Church in India with regard to the dalits.

The dalits constitute 15% of the total Indian population and 20% of the Hindu population. As per the 2001 census, there are 24.20 million Christians in India of which the Christians of South India constitute 12.5 million, more than half the total Christian population of India, and those of the North-east, 5.4 million. The total population of Tamil Nadu Christians is 3.8 million, Karnataka one million, Kerala 6 million, Andhra Pradesh 1.2 million and Goa 0.4 million. Dalits constitute 65% of the total South Indian Christian population. Some Christian groups even claim that dalits constitute 70% of the Christians of Tamil Nadu. But the secular intellectuals of this country and the US State Department, who screech that religious freedom includes the right of Christian missionaries to convert Hindus, have not cared to answer the pertinent question, “what is the attitude of the Church and its Hierarchy to social empowerment of dalit Christians within the community given the high percentage of the dalits and tribals in the total Christian population and the power-sharing equation in the Christian hierarchy between the priests belonging to the upper castes and the dalits?”

As per the data currently available on the Catholic Bishops Conference of India website,

The CBCI has over 200 members-bishops from the Latin, Syro-Malabar and the Syro-Malankara ecclesial traditions in the country among whom are 155 heads of the dioceses, of whom there are 3 cardinals, 29 Archbishops and 123 bishops. There are 2 co-adjutor bishops (one of whom is a co-adjutor Archbishop), 12 auxiliary bishops and 36 retired bishops.

A squeamish media and dishonest activists taking up the cause of dalits in Durban, in the US State Department and in the European Parliament have never summoned the courage to ask the Catholic Church to make public the number of dalit and tribal bishops, archbishops and cardinals in their fold. Except for Goa and Kerala, in the rest of India, dalits and tribal people constitute the major percentage of Christians and yet the Christians who claim that the dalits are voluntarily converting to the Christian faith to end discrimination and to empower themselves, have not told us how many dalits and tribal people have been elevated to the highest positions of bishops, vicars-general, priests, directors, professors in seminaries, and surgeons and heads of departments in their hospitals and medical colleges. The Christian community has not told us if their premier educational institutions reserve 30% of their seats for dalit Christian students, if at least 30% reservation is maintained in the recruitment of dalit teachers and professors in St Stephen’s, in New Delhi, in Loyola College in Chennai and in Christian Medical College, Vellore. What is the power-sharing equation of the positions held by upper-caste and dalit Christians in the schools, colleges and hospitals run by the Christian missionaries in this country? How many dalit or tribal Christians have risen to the highest positions in these Christian social, educational and religious organizations? Unasked and unanswered questions, these.

Anti-Hindu activists working for the ‘dalit cause’ have not dared to address themselves to this question just as the US has not dared to address itself to the issue of its flawed democracy. In the US, which prides itself on being the world’s oldest democracy, even after centuries of democracy, no woman and no African-American, Jew, Hindu or Muslim has ever been considered to even participate in the race for the White House. And the US State Department and the USCIRF lecture to the Indian government on human rights of dalits and women! Notwithstanding American double-standards on equal rights and religious freedom, Nirmala Deshpande, Teesta Setalvad, John Dayal, John Prabhudoss, Cedric Prakash, Kamal Mitra Chenoy and others routinely depose against the Hindu community before the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor!!

Let us see what one of the highest-ranking members of the Vatican Hierarchy has to say in this regard. Archbishop George Zus, apostolic pro-nuncio to India addressed the Catholic Bishops’ Council in December 1991, in Pune. In his inaugural address to the Catholic Bishops, he stated, “The dalit Christians make 65% of the ten million Christians in the South, but less than 4% of the parishes are entrusted to dalit priests. There are no dalits among the 13 Catholic Bishops’ Council of Tamil Nadu or among the Vicars-general and the Rectors of seminaries and Directors of social assistance centres”. (“Dalits in India” by John Massey, Manohar Publications, New-Delhi, 1995, page 82.) John Massey is a Punjabi dalit Christian. The secular intellectual establishment and the Christian community it seems is ignorant about this simmering discontent among the dalits who converted to the Christian faith hoping to be empowered. And yet, the dalits still within the Hindu fold have risen to the highest positions in all walks of life including to Rashtrapati Bhavan. Sadly, little has changed in 2006 for the dalits within the Christian fold.

Much noise is also made about the despicable practice of untouchability which is placed at the door of Hindu dharma even though there is no religious sanction for it in the religious content of our traditions. Be that as it may but untouchability is not the only form of discrimination faced by the dalits. There are other forms of discrimination too and, as shown above, these concern their positions in the Christian institutions and also their marriage practices. What is the percentage of inter-caste marriages among the Christians belonging to the upper-castes and how many of the upper-caste converts to Christianity have married into families of the dalit Christians? How many upper-caste Christians will accept the holy water from a dalit Christian priest, if any, and in how many churches and cemeteries have walls been erected to separate the upper-caste laity from the dalits, in death as in life? If dalits are indeed converting to Christianity, not because of force, allurement or coercion, but voluntarily to empower themselves, to end discrimination and to improve the quality of their lives, then it is relevant to ask our editorialists and human rights activists, how many have indeed been so ‘empowered’ in Christian institutions and organizations and if social discrimination of the dalits within Christianity has indeed ended.

P.N.Benjamin

 
 
   

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June 5, 2009

ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, PRATIBHA DEVISINGH PATIL TO PARLIAMENT

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New Delhi, 4th June, 2009 Honourable Members,

1. I am extremely happy to address the first session of both Houses of Parliament after the elections to the 15th Lok Sabha. My greetings to all members, especially the newly elected members of the Lok Sabha. They are here having spent the last few months in the scorching heat trying to persuade their voters on how they could best represent the aspirations of their electorate. They now have the mandate and the opportunity to translate the hopes and aspirations of the people of India into change in the everyday lives of the people. It is indeed a unique privilege given to a chosen few to represent the hopes of over a billion people, a sixth of humanity.

2. I am sure that their anxieties, hopes and dreams will weigh on you as you commence your work. I urge you to use each day of the next five years in giving substance to those aspirations and in doing so, find greater meaning in your own lives. My good wishes are with you.

3. I congratulate the members of the Lok Sabha for unanimously electing the Speaker and that too a woman who is a Dalit with honourable credentials. This has enhanced the prestige of India’s democratic traditions, that of the House and its members.

4. Last week the State of West Bengal was affected by a cyclone inflicting damage to lives and property. Let us convey our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved families. My Government will extend all possible succour to the cyclone affected people of West Bengal.

5. I would like to congratulate the Election Commission and the lakhs of officials, who conducted the smooth and largely peaceful elections to the 15th Lok Sabha. Election to the Indian Parliament is truly the greatest festival of democracy in the world and this mammoth task has been executed exceedingly well. Democracy is one of the finest ideas that humankind has produced and every Indian election celebrates the freedom of choice that powers this idea. India has a unique place in the consciousness of the world as the largest functioning democracy. When an elderly woman in a remote village proudly holds up the indelible ink mark on her index finger, she is telling the world that she has the power to make change in her country.

6. In 2004 my Government had set before the country a vision of an inclusive society and an inclusive economy. It worked diligently towards translating this vision into policies and programmes. My Government sees the overwhelming mandate it has received as a vindication of the policy architecture of inclusion that it put in place. It is a mandate for inclusive growth, equitable development and a secular and plural India. My Government is determined to work harder and better to realize these goals.

7. A continuing priority of my Government would be to consolidate the ongoing flagship programmes for inclusion. This will require re-energising government and improving governance. It will require meeting the challenge of restoring economic growth, which is now hurt by the global economic slowdown, back to a higher growth path. High growth is necessary to provide the government the capacity to expand opportunities for employment. It is necessary to provide resources to increase outlays in education, health care and infrastructure to meet the needs of all regions and all people. My Government will ensure that the growth process is not only accelerated but also made socially and regionally more inclusive and equitable. The yearning of our people for inclusiveness – economic social and cultural — and the rejection of the forces of divisiveness and intolerance that my Government spoke of in 2004 continues as both its inspiring vision and its unfinished business.

8. My Government is acutely conscious of the challenge of rising expectations. There would be ten broad areas of priority for my Government for the next five years.

– Internal security and preservation of communal harmony;

– Stepping up of economic growth in agriculture, manufacturing and services;

– Consolidation of the existing flagship programmes for employment, education, health, rural infrastructure, urban renewal and introduction of new flagship programmes for food security and skill development;

– Concerted action for the welfare of women, youth, children, other backward classes, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, minorities, the differently-abled and the elderly along with strengthened social protection;

– Governance reform;

– Creation and modernization of infrastructure and capacity addition in key sectors;

– Prudent fiscal management;

– Energy security and environment protection;

– Constructive and creative engagement with the world and – Promotion of a culture of enterprise and innovation.

9. My Government will maintain utmost vigil in the area of internal security. A policy of zero-tolerance towards terrorism, from whatever source it originates, will be pursued. Stern measures to handle insurgency and left wing extremism will be taken. Government has already prepared a detailed plan to address internal security challenges to be implemented in a time-bound manner. The Multi-Agency Centre will be strengthened to ensure effective intelligence sharing and processing and Subsidiary Multi-Agency Centres will be activated in all States. The National Investigation Agency has become operational and will be empowered to handle terror-related offences. Central and State police forces and intelligence agencies will be expanded and fully equipped with the best technology. A national counter-terrorism centre will be established to take pro-active anti-terrorism measures. Special Forces and Quick Response Teams will be raised and deployed in vulnerable areas. Enhanced information and intelligence sharing on a real time basis, would be made possible by the creation of a net-centric information command structure.

10. My Government will actively pursue police reform and in order to ensure the active participation of the citizenry in internal security, community policing will be promoted. At the same time government will continue to constructively engage with all groups that abjure violence in the Northeast, Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country.

11. Communal harmony shall be preserved at all costs. The mandate my Government received was unmistakable in that the people wanted the country’s secular fabric to be protected. With this objective my Government will seek early approval of the Bill introduced in Parliament for the prevention of communal violence.

12. Our armed forces are the nation’s pride, a symbol of our values of sacrifice, valour and the spirit of national integration. India’s defence forces stand committed to the task of defending the territorial integrity of the country. They will be fully enabled with modern technology to repel any threat from land, sea or air. To enhance combat efficiency as also to address the requirements of modern day warfare, a number of steps are under way. The welfare of ex-servicemen will continue to be accorded high priority. The Committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary, to look into the issue of One Rank One Pension has already commenced its work and expects to complete it by the end of June 2009.

13. The Unique Identity Card scheme for each citizen will be implemented in three years overseen by an Empowered Group. This would serve the purpose of identification for development programmes and security.

14. My Government was able to accelerate growth substantially in the last five years to a record five-year average of 8.5%. This produced an impressive expansion in high quality jobs and also gave us the capacity to guarantee rural employment and expand social and economic infrastructure in an unprecedented manner. My Government gave a new deal to agriculture. Public investment in agriculture was increased, farm loans of over Rupees sixty five thousand crore waived and there were handsome increases in procurement prices. These measures contributed to a revival of agricultural growth. My Government was able to expand access to education through a large number of new schools and other educational institutions, support a mid-day meal programme covering over fifteen crore children, provide nearly a crore of deserving students with scholarships each year, loans to over 16 lakh students and create a new wave of investment in institutions of higher education. It was able to revamp rural public health infrastructure and massively expand social protection through insurance schemes and pensions. Government was also able to effect pay revision for its employees including defence personnel, public sector employees and teachers in colleges. My Government could also increase assistance to States substantially in the last five years. All these initiatives were possible because high growth generated more resources. It is therefore imperative that our growth momentum is resumed.

15. The current financial year is expected to see a slowing down of growth on account of the global recession. My Government has responded to this unforeseen situation with a range of measures, including three stimulus packages, which have begun to show results. It is a matter of satisfaction that the Indian economy has not suffered the kind of slowdown that has been witnessed in almost every other country of the world. Government has also actively engaged with the international community, especially through the forum of the G-20, in order to ensure that coordinated action is taken at the global level and the necessary reforms brought in at the earliest. Our immediate priority must be to focus on management of the economy that will counter the effect of the global slowdown by a combination of sectoral and macro-level policies. My Government will focus attention on sectors that are adversely affected, especially Small and Medium Enterprises, exports, textiles, commercial vehicles, infrastructure and housing. This must be accompanied by measures to achieve a countercyclical expansion in public investment in infrastructure sectors including public-private partnerships in these sectors. Financing the investment will be a critical constraint and my Government is determined to ensure that innovative steps are taken in this area, consistent with a medium-term strategy of prudent fiscal management.

16. Our country has benefited from large foreign investment flows in recent years. These flows, especially foreign direct investment, need to be encouraged through an appropriate policy regime. There is also a need to augment resources in the banking and insurance sectors in order to permit them to serve the needs of society better. Towards this end my Government will recapitalize the public sector banks to strengthen their financial position and also bring legislation to establish a regulator for the pension sector.

17. The momentum of public investment in agriculture and irrigation built up in the last five years will be further expanded and the three major instruments — the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, National Food Security Mission and the National Horticulture Mission — introduced by my Government strengthened.

18. The flagship programmes which my Government introduced have moved the country towards inclusive development. It would be our endeavour to consolidate these programmes in the next five years. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has proved to be what it promised-an effective social protection measure and the largest programme in the world for rural reconstruction. Its transformational potential is unfolding before our eyes. My Government would enlarge the scope of works permitted under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act presently limited to unskilled manual work. The opportunity for improving land productivity through the NREGA will be maximized through better convergence of NREGA with other programmes. To ensure transparency and public accountability, independent monitoring and grievance redressal mechanisms will be set up at the district level.

19. The National Rural Health Mission has begun to strengthen rural public health infrastructure. The Mission would be consolidated to make perceptible reduction in infant mortality and maternal mortality in the next five years. Vaccine producing institutes in the public sector will be revived to support the immunization programme. My Government will expand the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to cover all families below the poverty line in the next five years. Malnutrition has emerged as a major health challenge needing urgent response. Hence the nutrition delivery programme will be comprehensively revamped to bring it under the watch of panchayat institutions and move to provision of hot cooked meals in anganwadis.

20. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has been able to provide access to children to elementary schools and retention has increased on account of the universal mid-day meal programme. The focus will be on making quality education a right through the enactment of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill now under consideration of Parliament. The Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan will universalize access to secondary education. The massive expansion in higher education through new institutions under implementation in the Eleventh Plan will enable the country to meet the challenge of education in full measure. In the last five years, a wide range of scholarships and educational loans was introduced for the needy and deserving students. This effort will be reviewed and further strengthened. Government’s strategy for higher education will be formulated around a three-fold objective of expansion, inclusion and excellence. The suggestions given by the National Knowledge Commission will guide the formulation and implementation of the strategy.

21. While male literacy went up to over 75 percent in the last census and is expected to be higher now, female literacy was only 54 percent in 2001. My Government will recast the National Literacy Mission as a National Mission for Female Literacy to make every woman literate in the next five years. Increased female literacy is expected to become a force multiplier for all our social development programmes.

22. My Government launched Bharat Nirman five years ago as a time-bound business plan for rural infrastructure. It has succeeded in reaching basic infrastructure of roads, electricity and telephone to a large number of villages. It has also achieved most of the targets of rural water supply, rural housing and has increased irrigation potential. The remaining tasks will be completed in the second phase of Bharat Nirman. It is also proposed to set enhanced targets for Bharat Nirman in the second phase.

– The Indira Awas Yojana, which exceeded the original target of sixty lakh houses for the period 2004-2009, will now take up double the target of rural housing to one crore twenty lakh houses to be completed in the next five years.

– Rural Water supply programme will be completed by 2011 and handed over to be managed by panchayats in the next Plan.

– The rural telecommunication target will be set at reaching 40% rural teledensity in the next five years and expanding broadband coverage to connect every panchayat to a broadband network in three years. The scheme for Common Service Centres or e-kiosks will be suitably repositioned to be a network of panchayat-level Bharat Nirman Common Service Centres to provide government services to citizens in rural areas.

– New targets would be set for rural electrification, irrigation and road connectivity.

23. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with approval of projects of nearly Rs. 50,000 crore in the last four years is reshaping our cities and has been widely welcomed. It will continue to focus on infrastructure, basic services and governance reform and increase support to cities to upgrade public transport. Over 15 lakh houses are under construction for the urban poor. There is a need to focus urban housing programmes on the poor living in slums. My Government proposes to introduce a Rajiv Awas Yojana for the slum dwellers and the urban poor on the lines of the Indira Awas Yojana for the rural poor. The schemes for affordable housing through partnership and the scheme for interest subsidy for urban housing would be dovetailed into the Rajiv Awas Yojana which would extend support under JNNURM to States that are willing to assign property rights to people living in slum areas. My Government’s effort would be to create a slum free India in five years through the Rajiv Awas Yojana.

24. My Government proposes to enact a new law — the National Food Security Act — that will provide a statutory basis for a framework which assures food security for all. Every family below the poverty line in rural as well as urban areas will be entitled, by law, to 25 kilograms of rice or wheat per month at Rs. 3 per kilogram. This legislation will also be used to bring about broader systemic reform in the public distribution system.

25. Government is acutely conscious of its responsibilities to provide greater opportunities for women, youth, other backward classes, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, minorities and the elderly as well as strengthen measures for social protection for categories with special vulnerabilities. Some concrete steps that are proposed to create equal opportunities for women are reservation to elected bodies at all levels, reservation in jobs and a National Mission on Female Literacy.

26. Over 50 percent of our population is below 25 years of age and their creative energy is our greatest strategic resource. The challenge is to invest in their education, employability and employment. India has the capacity to contribute to a fourth of the global work force if it invests in skill development of its youth. Education which provides employable skills holds the key for equal opportunities for Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Minorities. My Government has in the last five years brought in legal changes and investment in this direction. These would be consolidated. Besides making massive investment in education, government will focus on the national skill development initiative that has commenced operation with the very ambitious goal of creation of 500 million skilled people by 2022 so that we realize the demographic dividend.

27. The implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act would be monitored to ensure that all title deeds are distributed by end of 2009.

28. My Government will continue to accord the highest priority to the welfare of minorities. The Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities and the action taken on the recommendations of the Sachar Committee have, to some extent, succeeded in ensuring an equitable share for the minorities in government resources, jobs and plans. Steps under way would be consolidated further. Government would strive to strengthen and modernize the administration of wakfs, reform the management of Haj operations and set up an Equal Opportunity Commission.

29. The Amendment Bill to the Land Acquisition Act and the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill prepared to protect farmers and others dependent on farming from unfair displacement and which was placed before Parliament could not be carried through. It will be our endeavour to have these bills reintroduced and enacted in the budget session of Parliament.

30. My Government considerably enhanced provisions for social security through old age pension for all people below the poverty line and above 65 years of age, all handicapped people and all widows above the age of forty. It will examine extending social protection to other persons at special risk. Social security schemes for other occupations like landless labour, weavers, fisherfolk, toddy tappers, leather workers, plantation labour, construction labour, mine workers and beedi workers will be appropriately expanded.

31. An area of major focus for my Government would be reform of governance for effective delivery of public services. Reports of the Administrative Reforms Commission would guide the effort. Reform of structures in the higher echelons of government, increased decentralization, inclusion of women and youth in governance, process reform and public accountability would be key areas for focused action. As part of process reform, all proposals to the Cabinet will have to report on how the proposal under consideration will enhance the goals of equity or inclusion, innovation and public accountability.

32. My Government will initiate steps within the next hundred days on the following measures:

– Early passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament providing for one-third reservation to women in State legislatures and in Parliament;

– Constitutional amendment to provide 50 percent reservation for women in panchayats and urban local bodies. Women suffer multiple deprivations of class, caste and gender and enhancing reservation in panchayats and urban local bodies will lead to more women entering the public sphere;

– Concerted effort to increase representation of women in central government jobs;

– A National Mission on Empowerment of Women for implementation of women-centric programmes in a mission mode to achieve better coordination;

– A voluntary national youth corps which could take up creative social action around the river cleaning and beautification programme beginning with the river Ganga;

– Restructuring the Backward Regions Grant Fund, which overlaps with other development investment, to focus on decentralized planning and capacity building of elected panchayat representatives. The next three years would be devoted to training panchayat raj functionaries in administering flagship programmes;

– A public data policy to place all information covering non-strategic areas in the public domain. It would help citizens to challenge the data and engage directly in governance reform;

– Increasing transparency and public accountability of NREGA by enforcing social audit and ensuring grievance redressal by setting up district level ombudsman;

– Strengthening Right to Information by suitably amending the law to provide for disclosure by government in all non-strategic areas;

– Strengthening public accountability of flagship programmes by the creation of an Independent Evaluation Office at an arm’s distance from the government catalysed by the Planning Commission. It would work on a network model by collaborating with leading social science research organizations and concurrently evaluate the impact of flagship programmes and place it in the public domain;

– Establishing mechanisms for performance monitoring and performance evaluation in government on a regular basis;

– Five Annual Reports to be presented by government as Reports to the People on Education, Health, Employment, Environment and Infrastructure to generate a national debate;

– Facilitating a Voluntary Technical Corps of professionals in all urban areas through JNNURM to support city development activities;

– Enabling non government organisations in the area of development action seeking government support through a web-based transaction on a government portal in which the status of the application will be transparently monitorable;

– Provision of scholarships and social security schemes through accounts in post offices and banks and phased transition to smart cards;

– Revamping of banks and post offices to become outreach units for financial inclusion complemented by business correspondents aided by technology;

– Electronic governance through Bharat Nirman common service centres in all panchayats in the next three years;

– A model Public Services Law, that covers functionaries providing important social services like education, health, rural development etc. and commits them to their duties, will be drawn up in consultation with states;

– A National Council for Human Resources in Health as an overarching regulatory body for the health sector to reform the current regulatory framework and enhance supply of skilled personnel;

– A National Council for Higher Education as recommended by the Yashpal Committee and the National Knowledge Commission to bring in reform of regulatory institutions;

– Develop a “brain gain” policy to attract talent from all over the world into the 14 universities proposed in the 11th plan to position them as “Innovation Universities”;

– A roadmap for judicial reform to be outlined in six months and implemented in a time-bound manner;

– Targeted identification cards would subsume and replace omnibus Below Poverty Line (BPL) list. NREGA has a job card and the proposed Food Security Act would also create a new card. Identification of beneficiaries for other programmes which currently use the omnibus BPL list would improve identification based on programme objectives with the common underlying principle that all identification of beneficiaries will be done through gram sabhas and urban local bodies and the list placed in the public domain to be open to challenge;

– A Delivery Monitoring Unit in the Prime Minister’s Office to monitor flagship programmes and iconic projects and report on their status publicly;

– Suitably institutionalized quarterly reporting on Flagship programmes as “Bharat Nirman Quarterly Reports” where Ministers would publicly report on progress through the media.

33. Infrastructure is a fundamental enabler for a modern economy and infrastructure development will be a key focus area for the next five years. Public investment in infrastructure is of paramount importance. Bottlenecks and delays in implementation of infrastructure projects because of policies and procedures, especially in railways, power, highways, ports, airports and rural telecom will be systematically removed. Public-private partnership (PPP) projects are a key element of the strategy. A large number of PPP projects in different areas currently awaiting government approval would be cleared expeditiously. The regulatory and legal framework for PPPs would be made more investment friendly. My Government will continue its special emphasis on infrastructure development in the North-East and Jammu and Kashmir and enhance connectivity to these regions.

34. Our fellow citizens have every right to own part of the shares of public sector companies while the government retains majority shareholding and control. My Government will develop a roadmap for listing and people-ownership of public sector undertakings while ensuring that government equity does not fall below 51 %.

35. My Government is firmly committed to maintaining high growth with low inflation, particularly in relation to prices of essential agricultural and industrial commodities. It will steadfastly observe fiscal responsibility so that the ability of the Centre to invest in essential social and economic infrastructure is continuously enhanced. This will require that all subsidies reach only the truly needy and poor sections of our society. A national consensus will be created on this issue and necessary policy changes implemented.

36. My Government has been able to significantly increase realization of direct taxes as a result of improved and simplified tax administration and this process will continue. The roadmap for moving towards a Goods and Services Tax will be vigorously pursued. My Government is fully seized of the issue of illegal money of Indian citizens outside the country in secret bank accounts. It will vigorously pursue all necessary steps in coordination with the countries concerned.

37. Coordinated action for energy would be guided by the integrated energy policy. The effort would be to see that at least 13,000 MW of generating capacity is added each year through a mix of sources -coal, hydel, nuclear and renewables. Village and rural household electrification and reduction in aggregate technical and commercial losses will continue to be given the highest priority. Competitiveness and efficiency in the power sector will be enhanced through time-bound measures, including operationalising the provision of open access.

38. The pace of oil and gas exploration will be intensified and India’s oil diplomacy aggressively pursued. Reforms in the coal sector, for which a detailed blueprint has been prepared, will be pursued with urgency. The international civil nuclear agreements will be operationalised with various countries even as domestic sources of uranium are exploited and work continues on the indigenously designed fast breeder and thorium reactors.

39. My Government will ensure that our space programme which has achieved wide recognition continues to bring rich dividends to society in agriculture, tele-medicine, tele-education and by providing information to rural knowledge centres, besides contributing to telecommunication, television broadcasting and weather forecasting. Several innovative initiatives commenced by government in the science and technology sector in the last five years and now under implementation will be further strengthened.

40. My Government is proactively addressing issues of climate change through eight national missions. Of these the National Solar Mission, the National Water Mission, the National Mission on Energy Efficiency, the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture and the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat will be launched by the end of this year. The National Ganga River Basin Authority, set up recently will evolve a new action plan for cleaning and beautifying the river in partnership with the basin states.

41. My Government’s foreign policy will continue to pursue India’s enlightened national interest, maintaining the strategic autonomy and independent decision-making that has been its hallmark. India has a vital interest in the stability and prosperity of our neighbours. The highest priority will be accorded to working with our friends in SAARC to promote stability, development and prosperity in the region. Government will sincerely work with our neighbours to ensure that outstanding issues are addressed and the full potential of our region is realized.

42. My Government will seek to reshape our relationship with Pakistan depending on the sincerity of Pakistan’s actions to confront groups who launch terrorist attacks against India from its territory. We will support initiatives in Sri Lanka, which can lead to a permanent political solution of the conflict there and ensure that all Sri Lankan communities, especially the Tamils, feel secure and enjoy equal rights so that they can lead a life of dignity and self-respect. India will make appropriate contribution to rehabilitate those affected by the conflict. In Nepal and Bangladesh, where multi-party democracy has returned, India will work closely with both countries to continue expanding bilateral ties for mutual benefit. Government will strengthen our close and vibrant partnerships with Bhutan and Maldives and continue to assist in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

43. The momentum of improvement of our relations with the major powers will be maintained. The transformation of our partnership with the United States of America will be taken forward. Our strategic partnership with Russia has grown over the years, and we will seek to further consolidate it. With countries of Europe and Japan my Government will continue the sustained diplomatic efforts, which have produced qualitative changes in our relations since 2004. The multi-faceted partnership with China will be expanded.

44. My Government will continue to work with other developing nations. It will contribute to all efforts at peace in West Asia through the establishment of a viable Palestinian State at the earliest. The traditionally close ties with countries in the Gulf will be strengthened. The process of engagement with Africa reenergized with the first Indo-Africa Summit organized by my Government will be further expanded. The multi-dimensional partnerships with countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific as well as Central Asia and the Latin American region will be consolidated.

45. The Indian diasporas estimated at over twenty-five million across the world is an important economic, social and cultural force and my Government will deepen its engagement with it. Our ties and kinship with the diaspora make us acutely conscious of their well-being and to be sensitive to their concerns. As a responsible member of the international community, India will work with other countries in tackling issues of common concern such as international terrorism, the global economic crisis, climate change, energy security and reform of multilateral institutions to reflect contemporary realities.

46. Honourable Members, my Government believes that in the knowledge society in which we live today, creativity, innovation and enterprise hold the key to people and nations realizing their potential. The “dreary desert sand of dead habit” must be left behind. Our young people are tearing down the narrow domestic walls of religion, region, language, caste, and gender that confine them. The nation must invest in their hope. My Government will ensure that its policies for education and science and technology are imbued with a spirit of innovation so that the creativity of a billion people is unleashed. The next ten years would be dedicated as a Decade of Innovation. It may be a symbolic gesture but an important gesture to drive home the need to be innovative in finding solutions to our many challenges. India’s young population is naturally restless and wants to see change quickly. My Government carries the weight of their dreams. Together let us dedicate ourselves to making each day of the next five years, a day closer to the realization of their dreams.

Jai Hind

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Evangelists and Religious dogmas: Lets shut down our labs, universities and research centres and just peek into religious books and take from them readymade scientific and technical knowledge ! Will this work ?

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Christian missionaries are setting up schools, colleges and hospitals because of their religious beliefs? Yes, this is exactly what they’re doing. Every act of social service is undertaken in the name of their scriptural personal god (Jesus) or in order to propagate their naive religious beliefs and not for the sake of genuinely helping the poor to get rid of their misery in the spirit of humanism or secularism.

In what way is social service connected with religious dogmas?

The task of providing safe drinking water, electricity, roads, public transportation, recreational facilities, educational institutes and health care centres are civic duties that the government and concerned citizens take up for the welfare of all especially the poorer sections without bringing into the picture religious superstitions.

If service to the poor is what counts irrespective of social, economic, caste, religious, linguistic and race distinctions then in what way are religious myths relevant to doing good to people? Can all this not be done in a disinterested, humane and secular spirit?

Or do you mean to say that the scientific discoveries, technological inventions and medical advances are not the work of scientists (most of whom are by the way atheistic or agnostic) and that they’re found in the religious scriptures? If so then let’s shut down our labs, universities and research centres and just peek into religious books and take from them readymade scientific and technical knowledge ! Will this work ? Obviously, the answer is a big NO ! Even the code of morals and ethics found in these books are not unique but are common to all cultures and peoples sine the time man could reason irrespective of their religious leanings or atheism.

If say the Bible was a mine of scientific and technical knowledge then it would make sense for evangelists to go about establishing schools, hospitals, creches and vocational training centres in the name of their personal god Jesus.

However, religious books, instead of revealing scientific facts and encouraging the scientific spirit, have only exacerbated ignorance, superstitions, violence and divisions in society. It goes without saying that nothing scientific, rational or technical is found in religious literature but on the contrary these so-called “revealed” books contain numerous cock and bull stories of extra-cosmic god, creation out of nothing, immaculate conception, resurrection and burning logs of wood in hell over which “sinners” and “infidels” will be roasted in the “afterlife”. Besides, when there exists no proof to corroborate the historicity of the scriptural prophets , I wonder at the warped imagination of these religious bigots and missionaries who with impunity go around peddling their inane beliefs in the name of their personal god under the guise of social work and in the process influence the gullible to abandon one set of ignorant religious practices and adopt another set of equally or more ignorant beliefs.

If upliftment of society through social service and the wonders of science and technology is the aim stick to just that. There’s no need to pollute the already vitiated mental atmosphere of people with more potent does of toxic and mumbo jumbo religious dogmas.

But do the missionaries really desire the abolition of poverty in the world? I doubt it for then where will they find needy people to “serve” and “convert” to their pet beliefs?

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The Electoral Message of Development, that combines the social with the economic and the industrial with the agricultural and creates low cost jobs can be a step towards peace with justice

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I would be labouring the obvious if I were to repeat that the recent elections were fought purely on personalities, not on issues. Only two states brought some issues to the fore. In Tamil Nadu the voters seem to have held the Centre responsible for the perceived neglect of the Sri Lanka Tamils and punished the two Congress ministers for it. Mr Mani Shankar Iyer lost and Mr P. Chidambaram scraped through with a wafer thin margin while the DMK improved its tally. In West Bengal the elections were fought around the issue of development. Though development was mentioned at the national level only in passing, the voters seem to have given the UPA a second chance because of many schemes it had initiated. That has implications also for Assam and the rest of the Northeast.

In West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress fought the elections on the promise of combining industrialisation with agriculture. But the party does not have any clear thinking on it. So if it comes to power it can be expected to continue displacing people in the CPM controlled areas just as CPM did it in the TMC constituencies. However, the issue itself is important because West Bengal has the potential to combine the two. After the Left Front came to power, West Bengal ceased to be the most industrialised state in India but it achieved the highest annual agricultural growth at 5.6 percent. This was possible because of the reform of the bargadari (sharecropper) system, focus on irrigation and successful land reforms.

Till then the bargadar had to give 50 to 60 percent of the produce to the landowner, so he lacked motivation to go beyond a single crop. The Left Front pegged the zamindar’s share at 25 percent of the first crop and that was to be decided by the tenant. The state built 23 medium and a few hundred minor irrigation dams in the 1980s and 1990s and implemented the land reforms. Out of 2,085,000 hectares distributed to the landless till 1995 all over India, 383,000 hectares (18.4%) were in West Bengal. The first two measures motivated the tenant to grow a second and a third crop. Allotment under the land reforms was mostly to Dalits and tribals. That gave them a stake in agriculture. There certainly was a political motive. Most land was distributed through the CPM-controlled panchayats but the measures were successful.

In 2001 the Left Front promised to industrialise the state in order to create jobs for the youth. However, the state made no effort to combine industries with agriculture. Rich agricultural land was acquired or committed to industry with no consideration for its losers, when rocky land was available in its neighbourhood. By December 2006 the state had committed 296,000 acres to various industries. That included some land allocated to Dalits and tribals under its land reforms. It was taking away with one hand what it had given with the other.

Though the TMC promise to combine agriculture with industry remains vague the issue itself is important in West Bengal as well as in other states. Ways have to be found of combining them as well as social with economic interests. That seems to be the message also at the national level. In 2004 the Shining India campaign of the NDA failed so no party used this slogan in 2009. However, every now and then Dr Manmohan Singh spoke of development as the contribution of the UPA. He could do it because the UPA had initiated many people-oriented schemes such as National Rural Employment Guarantee and Tribal Rights over Forest Land. Their implementation has been weak in many states but if implemented properly they can solve many livelihood-related problems. The message of the voter seems to be that these and other measures should be implemented with vigour and that ways have to be found of combining the economic with the social interests.

Also Assam and the Northeast need to learn that lesson. The annual economic reports show that for the last decade the registered job seekers in Assam have remained constant at 15 to 17 lakhs. The rural youth do not have access to the employment exchanges. So one can assume that the real number of the unemployed is not less than 30 lakhs. In the region as a whole their number exceeds 40 lakhs. That problem has to be solved if the youth are to find hope in the future of the region. The type of industrialisation that is being envisaged cannot achieve that goal. Major industries today take up an enormous amount of land and thus deprive their owners of work on it. But because of mechanisation the cost of producing an industrial job has gone up to Rs 15 lakhs. So the backlog alone will require Rs 600,000 crores and that money is not available.

Equally important is the threat from the 48 major dams proposed to be built in the region within a decade and more later. They will destroy much of the biodiversity for which the region is known and will deprive thousands of persons, mostly tribals, of their land and work in order to turn the Northeast into what Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee called the powerhouse of India and Southeast Asia. But little is being said about people’s right to livelihood. Experience in the rest of India shows that dams displace and impoverish thousands of persons, deprive them of access to work and marginalise them. There is no reason to believe that it will be different in the Northeast but that is being ignored.

One does not plead for an end to development. Some big industries and medium dams are needed. But these industries cannot solve the unemployment and livelihood problem. While building a few of them, the main thrust has to be on another type of agriculture, agro-based industries and low cost employment generation by combining agriculture with industry. People-oriented development would require that much production, processing and marketing be done by the local communities. That can also provide an alternative to militant outfits. A study by the Peace Studies Division of Guwahati University shows that unemployment is a major (though not the only) cause for the youth to join the militant outfits. Development that combines the social with the economic and the industrial with the agricultural and creates low cost jobs can be a step towards peace with justice.

 
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Director
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110 Kharghuli Road (1st floor)
Guwahati 781004
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Injustice done to the Adivasi in terms of land alienation inspite of the Bhudan / Gram Dan movement: A consultation report

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Odisha Shanti O Sadbhabana Abhiyan (OSSA) organized a consultation at CYSD Bhubaneswar on 2nd June 2009 to discuss in detail the growing unrest at Narayanpatana (Koraput). Prominent social activist from the affected area and the OSSA fraternity gathered to take stock of the situation and plan for the future action strategy. The issue was discussed at length and the following major opinions were generated in the process.

• That the present situation has mainly emerged out of the years of injustice done to the tribals in terms of land alienation in spite of the Bhudan/Gram Dan movement which was an intense one in the district of Koraput. All kind of land settlement act has failed to ensure the entitlements of the tribal people in the area and therefore land is the main issue and central to the solution of the present crisis.

• Tribals have been victim of the misinformation campaign by local politicians, Mahajans,money lender etc not to legally posses land to have respite from land rent payment. Community and mass ownership of land by tribals have converted to mass transfer of land to non tribals opportunist.

• Tribals do not have any other means of sustainability except land vis a vis the non tribals and also some better off tribals. Therefore there is no other means but the restoration of tribal land rights that will decide the prospect of long term peace and harmony in the affected areas.

• Apart from the problem of Land, the problem of liquor and daily wage disparity and discrimination, indebtness etc had added to the intensity of the present unrest. However violence of any kind can’t be justified for all kinds of past exploitation and atrocities on tribals and all efforts should be made to resolve the issue through peaceful dialogue and negotiation among the rival groups.

• There is commonly shared mutual apprehension and threat perception among the rival groups like SANGAM and ANSAGAM does not have any rational base but being propagated by vested interest in the media and else where. The perception that the CHASI MULIA ADIVASI SANGHA Is all for violence killings and destruction is also not totally true. However there is confusion among leadership and there is also apprehension that it could result in castist polarization and large scale violence if not contained at present.

• Government can’t remain just a mute spectator to this present violence and shed its responsibility by merely providing relief and security to the affected people which is also not being properly done. It must ensure that the land right of the tribal people is reinforced at the earliest and people must be reassured regarding this through all possible means.

• In order to restore confidence among the tribals govt. must work in tandem with civil society groups already active in the area and working on this issue and must broaden the sphere peace committee by including all the stake holder of the present crisis.

• The relief and rehabilitation measures must be augmented in the view of arrival of the monsoon and proper security measure must be taken to check further violence in the area.

CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSE

• Civil society groups are already active in the area on this issue and have started the dialogue process among different groups. The steps already taken or planned are as follows.

1. Making independent assessment of the damage of house and property.

2. Analyzing historically the root cause of the problem including preparing a data base of total land ownership, share of tribal and non tribal and the free land available.

3. Facilitating community dialogue among the affected population and the CMAS.

4. Encouraging the involvement of local lawyers and journalists to in the dialogue process and also to bring out the truth of the matter and discouraging exaggeration.

OSSA in this concern decide to send a five member team consisting some senior members like Sri Aditya Pattanaik, Md. Ziauddin Ahmed, Sri Hansharaj Mishra, Manoj Jena and Askhya Kumar to visit Narayanpatana and make an independent assessment of the whole issue before deciding any future couse of action on the issue.The team shall come back around 10th of june and a further consultation shall be organized to develop clarity and take a position on the issue. The consultation ended with Dr. Bhagbanprakash thanking the all the following members present in the consultation who made the meeting a success.

Members in the Consultation

1.Sri Ratan Das 2. Hansraj Mishra 3.Basanti Jena 4.Rajeswari Dalai 5.Manoj Jena 6. Md. Ziaudin Ahmed 7.Madhumita Ray 8.Askhya Kumar 9.Bijay Kumar Baboo 10.Badal Kumar Tha 11.Lalit Mohan Mishra 12.Bidu lata Hunak 13.Ramakanta Jena 14. Sri Prafulla Sahoo 15.Dr. Bhagbanprakash 16. Prof. Radhamohan 17.Aditya Pattanaik 18. Sri Kailash Acharya 19.Sri Subhranshu Panda 20.Pradeepta Sundaray

 
 
   

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Racism in India: Towards darker skin

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Racism in India: Towards darker skin
 
It is very interesting to note how Indians are ill treated ( thorugh media coverage ) these days in Australia.
We are all  not blind to the fact how the aborigines were and are treated in Australia and how the country is strict with immigrant laws.
 
While we discuss so much about the way our Indian students were ill treated, we also can not forget the fact about which economic background these students hail from. They probably may not have undergone such marginalisation in our country, probably because they hail from socio culturally and economically sound families. It is unwise to discuss these concerns when we speak of ill treatement done to us because we are Indians.
 
It is also time for us to reflect whether within India we are happy with the way we treat each other.
On the oneside, we are happy and proud of our rich heritage of socio cultural mixing. This is wonderful and this has been prooved again and again, even in our recent general election.
 
HOwever, we can nor forget the fact that many choices are done in our country based on colour. 
Our flims hail fair colour
Our spot interviews prefer  beauties (as additional qualification)
Our TV reporters should have fair skinned, even if their English or vernacular may not be accurate.
Even our Cricketers must be fair skinned.
 
What happend to the dark skinned experts
in the field of Media? 
In our films?
Among our Nurses,
among our doctors?
 
If one has to take a census of the people employed in Higher strata, we are shocked to see that India is by and large racist towards her own people.
 
We have built up a culture of preference to fair skinned.
 
Most of our advertisements focus only fair skinned ones and neglect the darker skinned, even if he or she is an expert. 
 
This calls for the need of India to rededicate what Gandhi spoke on Antyodaya, the welfare of the last becoming our priority. 
 
This way, we would find special preference to the marginalised, the oppressed, and the poor. 
These are not only the Tribals and Dalits but darker skinned Indians at last. 
 
Until we, Indians give priority to the welfare of the lease, we would not come to work for the welfare of all people. This is the way to give dignity to Humans as humans, by going beyond the colour of the skin.
 
Till then, it is not only Australia, but any country would look down upon our country….
 
But it is left to the Indians to prove our credibility and honesty with ourselves in accepting each one with great respect.
 
-Nithiya Sagayam
 
 
   

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Multi-billion project to revive Mughal monuments in Sahibganj District

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A dilapidated building in Rajmahal that housed the zonal railway headquarters during British rule 

 

Historical monuments languishing in neglect for the past six decades in Rajmahal, Sahebganj, will soon get a facelift. The state has drawn up a Rs 3-crore renovation and beautification plan to turn the erstwhile capital of united Bengal into a tourist destination.

 

State tourism secretary Arun Kumar Singh, who recently visited Sahebganj, said the immense tourism potential of the town had prompted the drive. He said the renovation plan would cover the Singhi Dalan, Baradwari, Maina Biwi tank, tanksal (treasury) and Kanhaiyasthan — all dating back to the Mughal period.

 

On May 13, a team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), accompanied by state tourism department co-ordinator Sridev Singh toured Rajmahal. Singh told The Telegraph Rs 3 crore would be spent to repair the tottering edifices.

 

Though the project includes all the above mentioned monuments, two most prominent Mughal creations — the tomb of Miran and Udhwa Nala — find no mention.

 

According to professor Yogendra Prasad Roy, the head of history department at Sahebganj College, Miran was the son of Mir Zafar, who engineered Sirajudullah’s defeat and Bengal’s takeover by the British after the battle in Plassey in 1757.

 

Miran’s tomb at Mahajantoli is on the verge of extinction with encroachment being a major problem. The Udhwa Nala, where Siraj was caught while trying to flee, too needs attention. Roy said it was unfortunate that the tourism department had overlooked the two very important witnesses of history.

 

When asked why the tomb and the nala were missing from the renovation list, the tourism secretary said they “will most certainly be included” as will the building that currently houses the Rajmahal police station, but was the zonal railway headquarters during the Raj rule. The police station will be shifted to a new building at Naya Bazar.

 

Archaeological Survey of India has already started renovation work at Baradwari and also at Jama Masjid, which was built by Maan Singh, the then governor of emperor Akbar.

 

May 23, 2009 / Telegraph

 

 

 
 
   

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The large no. of Australian and Chinese workers are engaged in Bokaro, Giridih and Latehar industrial site of Jharkhand

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Calcutta-based Electrosteel Castings Limited, at the centre of a foreigner vs local row raging at the site of its upcoming steel plant near Bokaro, had been apprehending trouble for sometime and had even apprised the local administration about their fears.

 

While revealing this, state industry secretary N.N. Sinha also alluded to the hand of vested interests in the dispute over attendance that was triggered on Monday and blew up into a full-scale confrontation between local villagers and the Chinese workforce of the plant yesterday.

 

“This kind of problem erupts suddenly and we do not know if there are vested interests working from behind,” Sinha said, even as he applauded companies investing in Jharkhand for engaging “highly-skilled foreign workers” in their projects here.

 

At least three ongoing industrial projects are using overseas talent from China and Australia — as many as 650 Chinese engineers and workers, engaged at various project sites, were currently living in the state.

 

Calcutta-based Electrosteel Integrated Limited (EIL), which is a subsidiary of the Rs 1,400 crore Electrosteel Castings Limited, has engaged 600 Chinese labourers at Parbatpur, 35km from Bokaro, where they are helping set up a 3MTPA steel plant.

 

Giridih-based Atibir Industries Company Limited, that’s building a Rs 350 crore steel unit of 0.6MTPA, is using 22 Chinese engineers at its site in Mahtodih, about 8km from the district headquarters.

 

Abhijeet Group’s Corporate Power Limited has engaged Shanghai Engineering Power Construction Company (SEPCO) as an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for its 1,200 MW thermal power plant that’s coming up at Chandwa in Latehar. At least 20-25 SEPCO engineers are working at the site.

 

The group has also engaged Australian mining company Thiess with expertise in deep mining activities (beyond 300ft) at the Chittarpur coal block in Chandwa where it has been granted mining rights over 55.34 hectare.

 

Company sources said once mining would start, they would have at least 50 Australian engineers stationed at the site.

 

All these company’s have their own reasons for hiring foreign expertise. “They are skilled workers who are very fast in their job,” said an EIL official, referring to their Parbatpur project.

 

“We have hired their services on a turnkey basis and given that our project is already delayed, they come in handy for us,” he added.

 

At Parbatpur, EIL has a workforce of 1,800, including the 600 Chinese workers.

 

But in state that is politically volatile with an unemployment rate that’s higher than the national average, using foreign expertise could turn out to be a tricky affair.

 

“It’s probably a cost saving mechanism, but I don’t think foreign labourers are wanted for civil or machinery commissioning work for a steel plant,” said Lazrus Khess, assistant general manager (projects) of Maharashtra-based Mukand Engineers Limited, a company specialising in such work.

 

Jayant Jaipal Singh, senior manager (corporate affairs) of Essar Steels, Jharkhand Limited, said without taking local villagers into confidence and ensuring them jobs in the sector, no company can think of prospering in any state. “Moreover, there is widespread resentment in Jharkhand over giving up agricultural land for industry,” he said.

 

May 14, 2009 / Telegraph

 

 
 
   

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Extra ordinary marriage of an orphan Jharkhandi Girl in Garhwa

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An orphan, she had hand-to-mouth existence for 18 years, but last weekend her mehndi budget touched a cool couple of thousands. If a lavish marriage function — the guest list swelled over 5,000 — was the cake, the twin toppings were Garhwa deputy commissioner and superintendent of police who did her kanyadaan.

 

So, was it a windfall? Or the magic wand of the fairy godmother that got Garhwa’s very own Cinderella her prince charming? Not exactly. Rita Kumari has a group of local journalists — playing big brothers in the real sense — to thank for a wedding she possibly never dreamt of.

 

Born and brought up to grapple with poverty in a nondescript, two-roomed thatched house in Jarhi village of Dandai block of the district, the teen lost all hope when her 10-year-old brother, Durgesh, fell ill a fortnight ago. To meet medical expenses, she began selling bits and pieces — roof tiles, bamboo poles — of her lone shelter. The telling picture of destitution brought a group of scoop-happy journalists to Jarhi.

 

They faced a hostile village. “We were warned against publishing her pictures. Villagers said all we journalists do is mock and sell poverty for our own benefit. That was a turning point,” said Dhananjay Tiwari, a scribe with a Hindi daily, who along with nine like-minded journalists formed Samarth Bharat.

 

The group played cupid for Rita, fixing her match with Umesh Ram, a 22-year-old farmer of Korkoma village in Meral block. The couple tied the knot on Sunday in the presence of who’s who of Garhwa, including DC Vijay Kumar Singh and SP Saket Singh.

 

“I had never seen such a marriage. It was unique and being part of it made me feel proud,” said Vijay Kumar, who played the father of the bride along with the SP.

 

The wedding of Rita and Umesh continues to be the talk of the town even two days later. Samarth Bharat spent more than Rs 50,000 on the wedding that saw over 5,000 guests. The menu was simple, but relished by all who wished the couple and her journalist “brothers” well.

 

Tiwari, also the secretary of Samarth Bharat, said it was a call of duty. “We are glad to see that they are happy. Umesh has agreed to take care of Rita’s brother, too,” he said.

 

All’s well that ends well? Not quite the end. Samarth Bharat says it is just the beginning of a mission. The band of “brothers” is now hunting for a match for two other orphan girls of Jarhi.

  

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Rampage at principal’s office, ransacking furniture and breaking the nameplate by students.

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Dumka, June 3: Principal of AS College today faced the wrath of his students for making his son appear for two board exams this year.

 

Around 150 students, belonging to Chatra Sangh and Chatra JD(U), went on a rampage at principal Nagashwar Sharma’s office, ransacking furniture and breaking the nameplate. They also locked the institute for an indefinite period.

 

Sharma was in his cabin when the incident took place, but escaped sensing trouble.

 

The protesters alleged that Sharma had misused his position to admit his son, Navin Prakash, at two institutes — Gita Devi DAV School and AS College — so that he could appear for both CBSE Class XII and intermediate examinations this year.

 

According to them, Sharma had done this to make more college options available for his son. If Navin failed to score good marks in one board exam, he could get a berth in a good college by showing the marks of the other exam, the students pointed out.

 

President of Chatra Sangh Ajoy Dubey said Navin had appeared for the CBSE exam from Gita Devi DAV School and secured 68.8 per cent in science while he scored 82.8 per cent in intermediate examination from AS College. Suman Pandit, the president of Chatra JD(U), demanded an inquiry. They said they would keep the institute under lock and key till Sidho-Kanhu Murmu University (SKMU) takes action.

 

SKMU registrar A.N. Pathak said he was unaware of the incident while principal Sharma declined to comment on the matter.

 

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Bokaro Steel Plant efforts to stop rampant looting of coal that is imported from Australia

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In an effort to stop rampant looting of coal that is imported from Australia, the Bokaro steel plant has impressed upon the railways to change the route of trains that transport it from Bengal’s Haldia port, where the consignments land.

 

The senior security commissioner of Adra Railway division, P.K Gupta, announced this after a meeting with the general manager of Bokaro Steel Plant, S. Tripathy, today.

 

“A new strategy to curb the malpractice was chalked out after consultations with the Railway Protection Force and other security agencies, including the district police, at the meeting. All agreed that the present route should be changed to stop looting of coal,” said Gupta.

 

Bokaro Steel Plant imports Australian coal at a hefty price on a regular basis. The coal, which arrives at the Haldia port, is transported to the plant in Bokaro via goods trains that take the Haldia-Gomoh-Chandrapura-Tupkadih route. But from now on, the trains would take the Haldia-Bankura-Adra-Bhojudih route to reach the plant.

 

New railway tracks have already been laid on the plant premises to connect it with the new route. Trains will start plying on the new route within a week.

 

“We were forced to change the rail route as we were losing crores of rupees because of large-scale looting of coal. Even the railways has been incurring huge loses over the past several years,” Gupta said.

 

Sources said that goods trains carrying imported Australian coal were deliberately stopped or delayed at outer signals of several stations, including Gomoh, Chandrapura and Tupkadih

 

Obviously, there was a nexus between the coal thieves and train drivers, who were paid off handsomely to stop the trains at their bidding. Once the trains halted, hundreds of villagers, including women and children, forcefully boarded them and threw out coal on the tracks.

 

Local goons, waiting outside, would immediately collect the coal and flee. No security personnel dared to stop them as the thieves reportedly enjoyed the patronage of local crime lords and political leaders. As a result, the malpractice has been continuing for years now.

 

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Re: Environmental Public Hearings are a mockery of the law in Jharkhand

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Dear Mr. Stan Swamy
I completely agree with your posting that environmental hearings are only a mockery. I could not agree that it is so only in Jharkhand. And of late the Environmental Public Hearing processes also have been thoroughly diluted with the amendments. Maiking your voice heard has become nerly impossible in these hearings. But still we can do a couple of things like, sending our written petitions to the Secretary of State Pollution Control Board before the date of hearing by registered post with AD. And the second precaution is that we can ask for a video/audio recording of the whole proceedings of the Public hearing or can insist to to it for ourselves. Before the hering we ask the SPCB to record the proceedeings as that is warranted by the law and after the hearing ask the SPCB to produce the same under the right to information on the ground that due to non availaility of space you could not be a part of it and need the proceedings. This combination will be like a scissor that has the ability to cut from both the sides. And added to this we can on our own prepare the proceedings minutes and despatch copies to the panelists and most importantaly to the Secy, Department of Environment and forests. I know that this had worked in case of Sterlllite industries public hearing in Jharuguda way back in 1997. Well a lot has changed in between, and we have to find the way out.
 
Hope these interventions may be used in case of subsequent hearings. For this perticular hearning,  # write down a more detailed proceedings and send the same to the Secy of SPCB, and Secry of MoEF asking for a more fair hearing.
# And do not forget to mark a copy of the same to the Honourable  High Court seeking your right to be heard. And let us hope some result comes out.
#Also with the proceeding minutes submit a detailed report of the impact of the mining if availbable.
# Through the court or directly under the RTI, ask the SPCB whether the expansion will be damaging or not and whether they will be accountable for the damage that will be inflicted by the mines. This is where the question will be uncomfortable for the SPCB.
 
Thats it for now.
Tapan Padhi
National Institute for Development
280 Saheednagar
Bhubaneswar

 

 
   

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Internationalising Caste

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Do we want “caste annihilation or � caste equalization�?

Dr. Ambedkar may have said: � Caste has killed public spirit. Caste has destroyed the sense of public charity. Caste has made public opinion impossible… Virtue has become caste-ridden and morality has become caste-bound.–B.R. Ambedkar, in Annihilation of Caste, 1936

However, the book itself has more to do with annihilation of Brahminical religion (Hinduism) than “Annihilation of caste” itself. In fact, the title happens to have been chosen by an organization called, Jaati todo, samaaj jodo,� which had organized a seminar under the title of “annihilation of caste.” The book itself is nothing but the lecture that Ambedkar had written for presentation at the said seminar. It was mostly a critique of Hindu religion.

My personal feeling is that what we really need is “equalization of caste rather than “annihilation of caste.” This is because if the lower castes were not identified with their caste identity, it will be difficult for them to partake their due share of power at the expense of extra power tha t the upper castes have accumulated during the time when upper castes have been overtly as well as covertly preferred caste for assignment of all kinds of power. If the lower castes do not have the caste ID, how can they claim any share of power? In the absence of group ID, all will be treated simply as individuals and in the race of individuals the upper castes would be assured of being way ahead. Any time its (caste’s) disclosure happens to be to the advantage of the upper castes, they can disclose it, otherwise, officially there will be no caste/class ID.

We must understand that annihilation of a concept is not an easy thing to do, as it exists primarily in the mind. We cannot get into one’s mind and verify whether a concept is dead or not. What we can ensure is equalizing groups based on the concept. Even though originally the concept might have been invented for the sake of exploitation of some people under a given identity, we not only can, but need to, take help of the same IDs to ensure empowerment of various caste groups equitably. Once that (equalizing) is done, the ID itself may gradually wither away. Even if it does not wither away, at least it would not be being used for the purpose of exploitation.

Caste ID is like union ID. Without unions, it is easy to exploit individuals, particularly if there are abundant of people of a particular skill or no skill and they have no work. On the other hand, when they are in groups, it20is more difficult for them to exploit them. They will be able to go on strike and support each other during hard times. As I have already said, it may have been invented for the sake of exploitation, it can now be profitably used towards better purposes, including equalization of grpups.

One can say that it (caste) can and is being used towards bad purposes too, like enabling higher castes in helping each other at the expense of those the lower castes. However, as long as we have democracy moderating the power of groups, the disadvantaged groups will have their democratic power giving them needed added boost towards equalization.

What about the case when middle class people are in majority and they are discriminating against the lower class/caste? Even in that case caste categorization can be used to help them because the middle class should know that it is the existence of the lower paid lowest class/caste that pulls down their own wage structures too. If the lowest wage is pushed or pulled higher up, the wage structure of the middle class/caste too will go up.

Thus no matter how we look at the issue of “caste,” what we really need is “equalization of caste” rather than “annihilation of caste.”

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The Rs 155-crore Ranchi Ring Road project alleged for illegal acquisition of land by Nagri Villagers

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The Rs 155-crore Ranchi Ring Road project, aimed at ending traffic snarls in the capital, is experiencing unexpected hiccups within two years of its commencement.

 

Villagers of Nagri have put brakes on the construction of a flyover on the proposed 23km, six-lane road alleging illegal acquisition of land.

 

The district administration claims that plots were acquired in lieu of compensation to owners, but villagers have a different story to tell.

 

“Officials say that our land, agricultural fields have been lawfully acquired. If so, how come we got no money. None of us know anything about acquisition. When did it happen?” said Ghanshyam Turi, a resident of Nagri.

 

Sources in the district administration said an “abortive” land acquisition bid had been carried out in 1958. The “official holder” of land, Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), failed to get possession and that allowed descendants of then land owners to retain the plots, which are coming in the way of the proposed road.

 

“The flyover, to be constructed after a 10.7km stretch, will connect NH-75 (near Kathitand on the Ranchi-Daltonganj route) with NH-33 (near Vikas Vidyalaya on the Ranchi-Hazaribagh route). But work has been halted because local villagers are opposing construction, saying that the land belongs to them,” said a senior project official. He said the protesters had erected a wire fence and a display board claiming ownership.

 

According to plan, the project has been divided into seven phases. The official deadline for the project is July 2010, but only 20-25 per cent work has been completed in the past two years. The project, a joint venture of Delhi-based Somdutt Builders and Shrinet & Shandilya Construction Private Limited, has exhausted Rs 30-40 crore so far.

 

Ranchi additional collector Birsa Oraon said Governor Syed Sibtey Razi had recently sought speedy execution of the project. “But we are facing a problem. Efforts are on to solve the matter through negotiation. I have directed the concerned circle officer to get details of the land in question,” he said.

 

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Every fifth day in the Jharkhand State is crippled by a bandh (economic blockade)

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Every fifth day in the state is crippled by a bandh reason why truck owners are deeply perturbed. On Wednesday, the Jharkhand Truck Owners' 

 

Association (JTOA) expressed concern over such a "painfully frequent phenomenon about 70 in a year called by Maoists in the state and failure of the government to control the trend.

 

According to the association, bandhs and the resultant collpase of transport are hitting business in the state quite hard.

 

"Not only is this costing us dear, this bandh," JTOA president Uday Shanker Ojha said. "Nowhere else in the country do so many bandhs occur 70 days in a year," he added.

 

In fact, in the past 12 months, various Naxalite organisations have called no fewer than 70 statewide bandhs in Jharkhand, crippling its road transportation and the railways, often the soft targets of Maoists.

 

The JTOA has announced that it would organize a march to the Raj Bhawan on July 2 to attract Governor Syed Sibte Razi's attention.

 

During such bandhs truck owners suffer most. The Red rebels often torch their vehicles, and even kill the drivers.

 

The Maoists also block the roads, causing delay in the delivery system, and also vandalize vehicles.

 

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The arrest didn’t come out of the blue,” 34-year-old Padma says as she tries to remember the event. “There were whispered warnings, but nobody took it seriously. After all, we were only a bunch of friends holding classes for villagers on socialism.”

 

But that was enough for the police in Dharmapuri, one of Tamil Nadu’s naxalite-infested districts. Padma and 24 of her friends were arrested under POTA in 2001. Their crime? They took classes in self-­defence, but their talks on socialism and labour rights smacked of naxalite behaviour. That was the clincher, though she didn’t suspect it then. “We did nothing even remotely illegal,” Padma insists.

 

“That day, the villagers were insistent that we should leave. So finally we did and decided to take the first bus out. We walked through one village after another, but the bus service had been stopped,” she shrugs.

 

“We just didn’t realise how serious it was till two police vans stopped us on the way and told us to get in,” says Padma, a graduate in civil engineering. It was her uncle who introduced her to the left ideology.

 

Ask S A R Geelani, vice-president of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners, and he’ll tell you that you can be arrested for almost anything. After all, he was in jail simply because he knew one of the accused in the December 2001 Parliament attack.

 

The case of Muhammad Rafiq Shah is even worse. He was arrested for “carrying out” the 2005 blasts in Delhi. The police sketch matches his face. But the then Kashmir University Vice-Chancellor Abdul Wahid Qureshi says flatly that Rafiq was on the campus on the day of the blasts. The then Delhi police chief, KK Paul has given Rafiq a clean chit, but the Special Cell maintains he is guilty. So he languishes in Delhi’s Tihar Jail as an undertrial.

 

Guilty or innocent, people like Padma are among thousands arrested across the country for having a political opinion that challenges the norm. According to the general secretary of the committee, Prof Amit Bhatt­acharrya, there are 75,000 political prisoners in Kashmir alone.

 

On the day Padma was arrested, she and her friends were frightened. When a senior member in the group dared to challenge their arrest, the officers beat her, she says.

 

“We were dragged into the van. I was particularly vulnerable as I’m from Andhra Pra­desh. The police kept insisting I had links with the People’s War Group. They even lea­ked reports to the press that a Naxal woman from Andhra had escaped and might be now caught in an encounter.” Padma was 28 then. “I knew anything could happen to me.”

 

At the police station, they demanded to see their lawyer. “The police were asking us to confess that we are Maoists.” All 25 were produced before a judge two days later, but legal representation came only 15 days after their arrest. They were to be held in judicial remand in Vellore.

 

At the prison, everyone was wary of them. “Maybe they were warned that we were terrorists,” says Padma. They had to fight every inch for just treatment. “We heard the first girl who went into the room weeping and when we looked in, we saw her stripped naked for a search. They’re not supposed to do that, only frisk prisoners. So we insisted on fair treatment. It worked, but maybe only because we were terrorists,” she smiles.

 

Still, though conditions in the prison were poor, the women were not tortured, the fate of many other political prisoners. Rafiq, in Tihar jail, says he was forced to drink his urine. Padma and her friends were released on bail after two and a half years, but the ordeal wasn’t over. They had to stay in Chennai for a year, to register their presence at the police stations. The police weren’t idle either. “Police would persuade house owners not to lodge terrorists. There would even be notices stuck outside our doors.”

 

The women had no home for about 15 days. “We were moving from one lawyer’s house to another. Finally, we decided to camp in front of the judge’s house in protest. Then he passed an order in our favour.”

 

Their troubles are not over, though. “We decided to form the Revolutionary Women’s Liberation Organisation (RWLO), to empower women. But when we tried to hold meetings to raise awareness about their rights, no would give us a venue,” she says.

 

On March 8, they had invited the revolutionary poet and folk singer Gaddar (Gummidi Vittal Rao) to preside over a meeting. “But the venue was closed to us at the last minute. A few days earlier, the owner called us to say that we needed police permission to have Gaddar at the venue. We immediately approached the court who said it wasn’t necessary. But the owners were not convinced and so we were virtually forced to call the meeting off.”

 

Padma and her friends invite Naxalite leaders and have something in common with the Maoists. “But we don’t belong to either. We also abjure violence.”

 

 So what are they? “Individual revolutionaries,” says Padma. “Isn’t that possible?” Apparently not, given the record so far. But it is for these ambiguities that the state needs to provide space. 

 

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Naxal Conflict Is India’s Most Violent domestic conflicts

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India’s Maoist insurgency has become the most violent of its domestic conflicts, said the Asian Center for Human Rights, an independent monitoring group.

 

The broad network of Maoist cells known as the Naxalite movement is present in at least 11 of India’s 28 states, especially in rural, impoverished and heavily forested eastern India. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the movement is India’s most serious internal security threat and his government said this week it would step up its response to the guerrillas and other domestic threats.

 

“Current security-driven responses are not working; indeed they are counter-productive” in addressing the Naxalite uprising, the New Delhi-based center said in a statement accompanying the report’s release today. It said some Indian security forces have operated with “impunity.”

 

The Indian government has said the Maoists are among the country’s main security threats.

 

“Terrorism, Naxalite violence and insurgency in the northeast are the key challenges before the country,” Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told reporters in New Delhi this week. He said Singh’s Congress party-led government, re- elected this month with an increased parliament majority, will “respond with speed and decisiveness” to security threats.

 

The human rights report also criticized the government of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, for what it said is an increase in suppression and atrocities against Dalits, those at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy.

 

Caste Hierarchy

 

While the state’s chief minister is a Dalit, people from the group “continue to be denied entry into temples” and schools, and denied the use of water wells, because of traditional religious beliefs, the report said.

 

From 2005 through 2008, the Naxalite conflict has led to 1,965 civilian deaths, more than either of India’s two regional secessionist movements, in Kashmir and in the northeastern states, the center said in its annual human rights report. During the same period, the number of security personnel killed in Naxalite clashes doubled, while declining in other conflict zones, the report said.

 

“Among the armed opposition groups, the Naxals were responsible for the gross violations of international humanitarian law,” the center said in the report. The movement has used “violence of extraordinary brutality, including the gouging out of eyes, bludgeoning to death and slitting of throats of those suspected of colluding with the state.”

 

The Naxalite movement is named for the West Bengal village of Naxalbari, where impoverished villagers staged an uprising against landowners in 1967. The movement seeks to overthrow the government to improve the lives of the poor.

 

Singh’s government was criticized by opposition parties after the November terrorist attack in Mumbai that killed 166 people. The government has since then created a federal anti- terrorism agency, strengthened coastal borders, improved training for anti-terrorism officers and bolstered the country’s intelligence agencies.

 

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Many killings never probed in Adivasi India

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Madkam Deva walks 20 paces off a dirt footpath cutting through a verdant forest, before stopping at a place where large orange ants crawl over a dark, decomposing maroon stain. He then points to a similar splotch a few feet away where he says two villagers were executed by police in January.

 

"I'm scared they'll come after me, now," said the 20-year-old Deva, who shows a reporter a pink scab where a bullet grazed his right forearm before he escaped with four others into the forest.

 

Deva's story in this remote corner of eastern India boils down to this: Police rounded up 24 members of the Gond tribe of the village of Singaram for questioning as part of a counter-insurgency campaign against Maoist guerrillas. Instead, Deva says 12 were murdered en route to the police station.

 

Police chief calls claim fake

Rahul Sharma, the police superintendent in the Dantewara district of southern Chhattisgarh – one of India's least developed states – provides an equally vivid but contradictory account.

 

"This is absolutely a fake allegation – that (the police) killed defenseless people," said Sharma, who says he has lost 60 police officers in the past year fighting Maoist insurgents known as Naxalites. (The word Naxalite comes from the West Bengal village of Naxalbari, where a rebellion against landowners broke out in 1967.) "It was a very genuine encounter."

 

Each year, thousands of Indians are killed in so-called "encounter killings," or shootouts between Indian security forces and criminal elements, ranging from Maoist rebels to petty thieves. Human rights groups say the military often kills rebel sympathizers and police have been known to place guns in the hands of criminals after executing them.

 

"It is the only way they can get awards and promotions," said Vrinda Grover, a human rights activist in New Delhi.

 

India's limited forensics capabilities makes investigating the claims of either police or human rights groups difficult to verify. And no state agency keeps statistics on the number of encounter killings.

 

In fact, the national media often echo police versions of events, allying with a middle-class that increasingly fears rising crime and terrorism, and a consensus that civil liberties are not as important as public safety and national security, says Bela Bhatia, a fellow with the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi.

 

India is second only to Iraq in the number of deaths from terrorist attacks, according to the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, which notes that 3,674 Indians were killed in terrorist attacks between January 2004 and March 2007.

 

Determined to see a strong security apparatus flex its muscle, the Indian media often lionizes "encounter specialists." In the 2004 Bollywood film "Ab Tak Chappan," Hindi for "Until Now 56," the hero is a policeman who has executed 56 criminals in fake encounters.

 

Most encounters involving slain criminals are not investigated; and those that are investigated can take from five to seven years before a suspect police officer is arrested, rights activists say.

 

The Chhattisgarh killings, however, appear to be an exception to the rule due to local anger sparked by the large number of victims. In February, the highest state court ordered an inquiry starting with autopsy reports of the 12 victims.

 

Some 50 families live in Singaram, a low-slung collection of dry fields, where cattle and chickens amble freely and men shinny up skinny palm trees to harvest a natural palm wine called toti. Walking is the dominant form of transportation and cell phone reception is nonexistent, dirt roads give way to footpaths, and most residents survive on just one meal a day.

 

"The fact that the victims are tribals living in a remote jungle area shows that the middle class is not really concerned about the poor," said Bhatia, referring to a lack of outrage in other states over the incident. "Unless it affects them directly, the reality is that they don't speak up."

 

But in Chhattisgarh, each side has its detractors, witnesses, political supporters, policy experts, and social activists.

 

The account by Police Superintendent Sharma is corroborated by police officers involved in the raid and conservative politicians while Deva's version is substantiated by the four men who escaped with him, and villagers who saw the police sweep through their homes that morning. All the victims lived in an area almost completely controlled by Naxalites, who are typically better armed than the police.

 

No association with rebels

Villagers concede that some of the victims were Naxalite sympathizers, albeit part of the general militia, not hard-core cadre. But most had no association with the rebels, they say.

 

In coming weeks, facts should become clearer. The survivors, their lawyers and human rights groups are pressing state courts and the federal government for a high-level investigation that could take months.

 

In the meantime, the highest court in a neighboring state issued a landmark decision that may influence the Chhattisgarh decision. Andhra Pradesh, which has the highest rate of encounter killings in India, recently ruled that all such incidents resulting in death must be investigated immediately.

 

"It shows that the rule of law is not antithetical in fighting any of these menaces of leftist insurgents, terrorists and common criminals," Grover said.

 

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Drought-hit Assam Village’s Frog Wedding to Appeal to the Rain Gods – Barun Devata

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CHIPOHA VILLAGE, ASSAM, INDIA (JUNE 1, 2009) ANI - Fed up with the prolonged dry spell in the region, Indian villagers in northeastern Assam state married off frogs in a unique custom to please the rain god, with hopes of an early monsoon.

 

Residents of the entire Chipoha Village turned out to witness the unconventional marriage ceremony of the two frogs, caught by the villagers themselves.

 

The frogs were decked out with fine clothes, and the female frog was even given a necklace by the village women for the marriage, which was conducted by a priest according to traditional Hindu rituals.

 

The locals believed that the marriage would bring plenty of rainfall to their village, which has been grappling with a prolonged dry spell for past couple of months.

 

"It's a traditional belief that when a frog marriage is performed, Barun Devata (rain god) is pleased and it rains. Since there has been no rain for the past couple of months we have performed this frog marriage to invoke Barun Devata. I am sure the rain will come very soon," said Deepika Gogoi, a local.

 

The marriage was a desperate measure by the villagers to get rainfall in the parched region.

 

"The marriage went off well. Our region is absolutely parched and we need rain. We didn't know what else to do. We hope that now the rains will finally come and people can start cultivation," said Uttam Goswami, priest.

 

The farmers in Assam are facing major problems due to the protracted dry spell in the region. The lack of water has also affected their crops, mainly paddy.

 

India's June-September monsoon rains are a major influence on the farm-dependent economy, as two-thirds of Indians live in villages.

 

 

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CARRYING A MOBILE OR A LAPTOP IS NO REASON FOR THESE THICH SKINNED ANIMALS WHO ARE RAIDING AND ROBBING OUR INDIAN STUDENTS

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RACIALISM HAS BEEN PROVED AND THIS HAS GOT TO BE STOPPED!

MORE THAN 90,000 INDIAN STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA TODAY. IDPL WILL CLOSE ON THE SPOT AND SO WILL OTHER AGENCIES WHO CALL AND ASK INDIAN STUDENTS TO GO TO AUSTRALIA FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.

THE DUMB AUSTRALIAN THUGS AND GOONS AND BABOONS FAIL TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR ANCESTORS WHERE ALL DEPORTED FROM DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND MADE THEIR LIFE ON AUSTRALIAN SHORES.

COLOUR IS SKIN DEEP AND INDIANS HAVE BETTER VALUES AND GROOMING TOO, ANY DAY INDIANS STAND OUT AS SOLID EXAMPLES OF DECENT UPBRINGING AND HARD WORK. THEY WORK 19 HOURS TO MAKE UP EXTRAS AND THIS CAUSES THEM TO RETURN TO THEIR SHARED ACCOMMODATION AND FLATS AND ROOMS ETC LATE NIGHT.

THE IDIOTS AND DRUG DUDES WHO ARE MOSTLY DROP OUTS AND VAGABONDS ON THE STREETS OF AUSTRALIA, HAVE TO BE PUNISHED WHEN CAUGHT RED HANDED. HOW IS THIS GOING TO HAPPEN, MORE BEAT COPS, MORE STREET WATCHES, MORE CAMERAS ON ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTS AND MORE POLICE IN MUFTI MUST BE EMPLOYED TO PATROL THE ENTIRE DANGEROUS AREAS, THE LIGHTING IN AND AROUND MELBOURNE IS SO POOR.THIS GIVES MANY OF THESE ROGUES PLUCK TO ATTACK THE INDIAN STUDENT AT NIGHTS IN LONE AREAS, AND DARK AND POORLY LIGHT PLACES.

THE STREET LIGHTS ARE VERY POOR IN GENERAL, THE ROAD SIGNAGE IS ALSO VERY POOR AND NEEDS MORE LOOKING INTO.THERE IS NO EXCUSE TO ATTACK ANY OF OUR INDIAN STUDENTS AS WE INDIAN PARENTS GO THROUGH A VERY TOUGH TIME TO COLLECT FUNDS AND EVEN GUARANTEES TO OBTAIN THE VERY STUDENT VISA, ITS A NIGHT MARE FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOW WAITING AND PRAYING FOR THEIR CHILDREN TO COMPLETE AND RETURN TO INDIA ANY DAY.

CARRYING A MOBILE OR A LAPTOP IS NO REASON FOR THESE THICH SKINNED ANIMALS WHO ARE RAIDING AND ROBBING OUR INDIAN STUDENTS, AT KNIFE POINT AND EVEN HARMING THEM, TWO OR MAY BE MORE ARE DYING TODAY, WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH?

WHERE IS THE MEDIA TODAY? HUSHING UP THE ACUTAL NUMBER OF INDIAN STUDENTS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF SUCH EVIL AND MURDEROUS ACTS BY GANGS WHO ARE TOO SMART AND CLEVER TO GET CAUGHT. THIS HAS GOT TO BE STOPPED IF AUSTRALIA WANTS OUR INDIAN STUDENTS THERE ON EDUCATIONAL GROUNDS AND FOR EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES.

THE ENTIRE WORLD SHUOULD NOT JOINTLY DEMAND THE SAFTEY OF ALL INDIAN STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA AS IT AMOUNTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS: ANY ACT THAT TAKES A TOLL ON ANY HUMAN BEING MUST BE TREATED AS A CRIME IN ACCORDANCE TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS.

NO MORE TALKING, WE WANT TO SEE ACTION AND SOUND PROTECTION FOR ALL OUR INDIAN STUDENTS, WEITHER THEY EAT- VEGETABLES, MEATS OR SEEDS.

WITH SINCERE FEELINGS, AND DEEP SORROW TO THE PARENTS OF THESE VICTIMS

Dear Father Cedric Prakash,

You are beating around the bush, and this in no time to stirr up the already wounded students and parents International Forum.

Do you think all the parents of these Indian students are going to sit on and watch any more torture and murderous attacks on their innocent and defenceless children in Australia?

No, you are mistaken, the amounts of money spent , and being spent and still has to be spent for the completion of what ever course the Indian student has taken —– is a huge amount.

Not going to go down the drain, 900,000 Indian students are there in Australia, and what will happen if all should decide enough is enough and throw the opportunity of this foreign education of lesser cost and harm to their mind, soul and bodies.??????????

Racialism has to be stopped at any cost, and more security has ot be provided for all the Indian students in Australia. They work the 19 hours they are allowed to work and this causes them the returning to their rooms or shared flats etc late at nights.

Action on the gangs and hooligans, thugs and vagabonds must be very harsh. Not repeat crimes of racialism should be hushed up, photos of those who do such bulling must be splashed in all the leading news papers and news boards all over Australia , this can stop such barbarious attacks on our innocent , young, well behaved Indian Students, who come from the cream of the Indian Society today.

Not any family can afford to send a child of theirs abroad , just like that, much pains and efforts are taken and being still carried out to meet the fees, and all, give us peace of mind and guarantee that our Indian students will never be disturbed again – not in Australia which is a far better country where 1% of ragging is carried out till date.

BARBARA THYAB ALI

 

 

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Bapla: The Santhal Adivasi Marriage

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Marriage in Santhal Adivasi community is sign of a prosperity and beginning of new life. In spite of some social upheaval in social norms during the past century in Santhal communities, one can find the institution of marriage is very strong. Bapla is a Santhali word which means marriage. Marriage have significant place in Santhal society. In Santhal like most ancient societies needed a secure environment for the perpetuation of the species. Although in many views, Santhals marriage as a private expression of their love for one another, but for centuries Santhal matrimony has been a very public institution impacted by tradition, culture, religion and  Santhali laws. Santhals marriage is private as well as social obligation. Without joyful night by singing, dancing, drumming and playing flutes Santhal marriage is not considered.

History of marriage in Santhal:

Discourse of Santhal’s marriage starts with two names Pilchu hadam and Pilchu bhudi. Folklore is believed that, Santhal’s world started with them and they were the first couple to get married. Rest followed and modified in due course of time.

Anthropologists have documented a diverse variety of marriage practices in Santhals cultures. Edward Westermarck defined Santhal’s marriage as "a more or less durable connection between male and female, lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of the offspring.”

The anthropological handbook Notes and Queries (1951) defined marriage as "a union of a man and a woman such that children of the woman are recognized as legitimate by both parents”.

Meaning of Santhal marriage:

The ritual of marriage generally comes in the life of all boys and girls in Santhals. Monogamy is the usual form of marriage. Bigamy is also allowed. Levirate and Surrogate marriage are possible depending on the situation. Pre-marital relation within lineage group is not allowed. But in case of other lineage group it is excused and finally results in marriage or social segregation. Marriage may take place between boys and girls of two lineages but generally it is avoided. They generally follow village exogamy. Usual way of acquiring bride is by bride-price (Gonog) and through the consent of parents of boys and girls. But marriage by exchange, elopement service and love may also take place followed by customs only.

The Santhals have different category of marriage. Their marriages are exogamous and these marriages called as `Bapla` are of twelve types namely Sanga Bapla, Kadam Bapla, Kirin Bapla, Upagir Bapla, Tunki Dipil Bapla, Itut Bapla, Nirbelok Bapla, Diku Bapla, Sange Bariyat, Haram Bariiyat, Gardi-Jawain.

At the end or mid of every marriage, the bride price is collected. A woman made pregnant by another male can be socially accepted and converted in marriage. Divorce can be obtained easily; however, some alimony has to be given whole divorcee. If marriages are undertaken within one`s own group, such couples are ostracized and chased away from society. There is also the practice of the son-in-law staying in his in-laws` house.

Marriages in Santhals are regarded as pure and sacred. It is therefore done with all customs. First few steps are common in every type of marriages. Parents of boys or girls will appoint an interlocutor called Raibaar. Raibaar is that who, mediate in initiating talk about marriage proposal to either family. Generally Raibaar is known by both the family, and have jesting relation with both boy, girl and parents too. Each process customs are followed strictly by the Raibaar and parents of boy or girl. One can divide the whole process in different phases.

Phases in Bapla:

Phase 1: (Sar Sagun) Talk initiated by Raibaar to both the families.

In this phase Raibaar take initiative to visit both families. He talks mostly with parents (if parents are dead, then head of the family) about the other family’s interested in bride for their son/brother. Raibaar allow girl’s family to have discussion with other family members. After few weeks or couple of day’s times, if girl’s family shows interest will inform Raibaar. So, that he can inform boy’s family for the further processes.

Phase 2:  (Orah duar njel) Visiting of parents and relatives to each other’s home

If girl’s family shows interest in the proposal put up by Raibaar. It means they are ready to go for further process, which is visiting to each other families. By visiting each other’s families, they will not only examine the condition of living, status and other things but also check how the family members are and presenting themselves in front of other family members. For that reason not only parents, relatives also visit to observation and discuss in various issues. After going back to respective home all family members come together and share point of their observation and all will give their opinion for the proposal. But in most cases final decision is only depends on the parents of the boy or girl.

Phase 3: (Horah chinah) Final decisions and conveyed by Raibaar.

After family has come to the final decision they will convey their decision through Raibaar. And it is his responsibility to convey other family. If the decision is negative, the process will end in this phase. If the decision is positive, the process will continue to next phase of marriage. Both parents will convey their decision to Majhi (headman of village) in order to get social sanctioned and involvement. It is rarely possible to arranged marriage without Majhi and villagers. Process also includes with substantiation by presenting cloths (most often) for to be bride and groom and the process is called Horoh Chinah.

Phase 4:  (Taka chal) Express decision to Manjhi (or Majhi) (headman of the village) and arrangement of marriage.

Parents will convey their decision of marriage to other family boy or girl by going to Majhi’s home. After got confirmation from parents, Majhi call Jogmajhi and assign him to prepare for marriage. Majhi, Naike, Jogmajhi and villagers are also stake holders of marriage in village. Many customs are incomplete without the help of Majhi, Naike and Jogmajhi. And villagers play a vital role in helping marriage’s whole processes. Taka Chal is the custom included with the process.  In this process groom’s family has to hand over meager money to bride’s family.

Phase 5: (Newta) Invitation to relatives and final preparation of marriage

After conveying decision of marriage to Headman, family members will be relaxed because they know the Majhi will take care of the customs and ceremonies. Family members will be busy inviting their relatives, friends, near and dear once. But first invitation is always to the Majhi.

Phase 6: (Bapla) Holding of Marriage

Different categories of Marriage:

1.         Sangha Bapla (Ader bapla): Sangha Bapla (Marriage) is referred to marriage done by elder brother’s wife by younger brother in case of death and lost. It is common understanding between bride and groom side. Also need consent from wife of elder brother. This marriage is done in order to prevent anyone from widowhood. Society accepts followed by some rituals and customs by more hor (five eminent people of village) villagers, naike and manjhi haram (headman). In brief it is required a man to become the husband of a deceased brother’s widow.

2.         Kadam Bapla: Kadam Bapla is generally done under kadam tree with all rituals and customs. This is oldest kind of marriage in Santhal community. In olden times, Santhals had no strong witness then nature. Kadam tree is useful and considered to be sacred in Santhal tradition. Now a day’s even branch of Kadam tree is solving the problem- if kadam tree is not available.

3.         Kirin Bapla: Kirin in Santhali means purchase. Kirin Bapla is referred to purchase of to be bride from her parent’s home. In Santhali family, everyone in family contribute to occupation, which is agriculture. Therefore, each family member is considered to be manpower. To compensate manpower one has to pay certain amount for bride to their parents. It is not considered to bride price but a customs for identify value of bride.

4.         Upagir Bapla: Santhal community is open towards interaction to male or female. Any male or female get along and come to common consent of getting marriage. Society accepts such kind of unionism and considered as marriage. It is without the information of parents but, later on parents are being informed by messenger of village i.e. assigned by Headman. Such kind of marriage occurs from haat (village, daily or weekly local market), pata (mela or community celebration of some occasion). There is special function for newly married couple called Tiril-Tarob. Where villagers have rights to ask and clear their doubt about both of them. This custom is done through a representative by headman. The entire question is being asked in indirect way to maintain the decorum of custom. Question like, have you ever married? Is being asked as “have you crossed anyone barricade before?”

5.         Tunki Dipil Bapla: This kind of bapla is also known as Rahi Chaudal Bapla (portable house for bride). After finishing all customs bride sit inside decorated rahi chaudal to groom’s house. Bride has to be taken only in Rahi Chudal by the villagers/relatives from groom’s village.

6.         Itut-Sindur Bapla:  Process of applying vermillion in mid of forehead of bride by the groom is called Itut. Usually the process is done in door of bride’s home. This process is part and partial of marriage custom. And Itut custom is being done after completing certain years too.

7.         Nirbelok Bapla: This kind of marriage is fixed in the childhood by parents. Nirbelok means who is not attended the age of adult.

8.         Diku Bapla: Replicating Hindu methods of marriage or other than Santhal custom is called Diku Bapla. Diku in Santhal means outsider, term Diku was being used to denote British or any outsider in pre Independent India by Santhal Adivasi.

9.         Haram Bariyat Bariyat:  Haram mean old man in Santhal. Marriage led by Haram hor.

10.       Sange Bariyat or Sange: Marriage accompanied by many.

11.       Ghardi-jawain: In such marriages, groom is liable to stay in bride’s house after marriage. This sort of marriage is mostly with single girl child family or elite Santhal family.

 

Some Santhali Marriage terms used above:

Gonog is a bride price, that groom has to pay to the bride’s family. Generally it’s a pair of oxen. It helps the family in agricultural activities.

Merhed-Sakom: It is to be a distinctive feature for married person (especially bride). So that she can be identified by others in social occasions and other functions or in general day to day life. It’s a special kind of bangle only for married women. It is social obligation to wear Merhed Sakom to all married women. There is special function for wearing of Merhed Sakom in the process of marriage.

Daram-Gande: If bride is having elder sister and not married. This process is to respect her by presenting pair of cloths. It is social custom, by which she will not be able to touch groom after marriage. And also, if groom is having elder brother, bride is not supposed to touch him after marriage.

 

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Some 3,000 villagers have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony in eastern India for two monkeys.

 

The "bride" was dressed in a five-metre long sari and decked in flowers. The ceremony took place last Thursday in Ghanteswara village in Orissa state.

 

The guests were served a feast of rice, lentils, vegetables, fish and sweets.

 

Monkeys are revered idols in Hindu mythology. But the couples that took in and "married" off the two monkeys in Orissa say they love them as pets.

 

The monkey marriage took place some 200km (125 miles) from the Orissa state capital, Bhubaneswar.

 

The "groom", a three-year-old male monkey named Manu, was taken by procession to a temple in the company of hundreds of bemused onlookers, accompanied by loud music, dancing and fireworks.

 

'Unique experience'

 

Women welcomed the groom with loud, synchronised ululations typical in a Hindu marriage while priests chanted sacred hymns.

 

"It was a unique experience for me. It was the first time I conducted a marriage between two animals. But I followed all the rituals that I do in human marriages," said Daitari Dash, the priest.

 

Women prepared the female monkey, named Jhumuri, as they would a human bride, draping her in a red sari and smearing her with sandalwood paste.

The monkeys were showered with gifts by those present. They included a gold necklace for the bride, donated by a local businessman.

 

"I feel as if my own daughter is getting married. I cannot bear the thought that she would not be with us anymore," Mamina, the woman who has been looking after the female monkey said.

 

Mamina has been looking after Jhumuri since her husband found her at a local temple.

 

The male monkey, Manu, was found in a mango orchard in a neighbouring village by a couple who raised it as their pet.

 

The two monkeys, who were kept in chains before the marriage, have now been released by their owners.

 

They have been spotted hanging out at the temple where the "marriage" took place.

 

A local villager, Mitrabhanu Dutta, said the event was a "nice way to release the monkeys from captivity".

 

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I went through the above article very carefully. All persons have freedom to criticise others for their wrong work. But rarely there are some persons in the world they will even criticise others for their noble work. Late Mother Therese left all her pompous life and took noble service to serve the suffering and rejected ones in the society. Even her enemies who first stood against her service, became friends. Even Muslim countries came forward to offer their cooperation in order to carry out her yeoman service to the public irrespective of cast, creed and colour. It is very easy to write all non-sense sitting in a glass house, but it is very difficult to serve the lepers and aids affected persons by throwing their precious lives into risk.
 
Of course, seeing her yeoman service and sincere attitude some people must have come to Christianity. She never tried to convert anybody by force or giving some other allurements. The whole world appreciated her excellent service and granted her many national and international awards. One day the great writer Kushwant Singh asked her why you perform this service of sacrifice, she calmly replied 'I see the gracious love of Lord Jesus Christ in others. Hearing her answer he wept without his knowledge. This had come in the Times of India News several years back.
 
Many people have not taken efforts to study the positive side of Christianity which faced severe persecution up to 3rd century. Of course, there were many people who really deserted the life style of Lord Jesus Christ and went after the titles and pleasures of this world. The crusades always remain in the pages of history  as a black spot. The Christian leaders who are supposed to stand with suffering class in the society, stood with Emperors and Kings. During communist revolution in Russia many such leaders were sent to gallows. The so called communists leaders Lenin and Stalin massacred millions of innocent people. Ultimately this movement has become outdated. However, the teachings of Lord Jesus Christ are outstanding. Of course, the so called spiritual leaders must have gone from the the original path. But their services are sincere and genuine.
 
Many people do not know the truth that the Christian missionaries went to the unreached areas of the world. They established best Schools, Colleges and Universities, Even  they formulated grammar for all languages in India too. They impart best education. The Christian community as whole imparts 80% of social work in the world. The Christian countries welcome other religions and allow them to make their own worship places which I saw throughout the world. If you take the whole world, the best education goes to the Christian community and top most leaders including LK Advani of BJP studied in Christian colleges. If there should have been forced conversion, the whole population of this world would have been Christian community. In India too best Schools and Colleges are run by christian community with so many number of social works. Of course, as long as the weaker human beings conduct these programmes, there will be some mistakes and errors. Graham Stain was burnt alive but his wife pardoned the hard core criminals who did it.
 
Late Fr Damien left his own house and parents in Europe and went to Hawaii Islands to take care of the lepers and ultimate he died of leprosy. What a genuine and sincere love for the humanity?. The people who are least worried about the affliction of the suffering class, can write anything as they want. What is the contribution by the so called Communists in India? The West Bengal went back to 100 years and in Kerala nobody comes to establish any company? They are really looting the public in the name of socialism. The Stalin and Company killed millions of poor ordinary people. Ultimately Russia rejected the socialism which is wrapped in hypocrisy.
 
Let us not condemn the sincere and yeoman service whether it is being done by Hindu Brothers, Muslim Brothers, Sikh Brothers or Christian brothers. Let us admire and appreciate instead of slinging mud against them.
 
With regards and compliments to Jharkhand Group.
 
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“You Indians are good in sweeping and mopping,” an Australian commented on me while I was working part-time with a global fast-food joint in Brisbane. The lady’s comment left me enraged, but honestly speaking, I could not respond because the statement came as a bolt from the blue. I had been in Brisbane for just two months at that time, and hence was not prepared for such a remark on my nationality. That was just the beginning of my tryst with racism. 

Recent incidents related to alleged racist bias against Indians in IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders and at an airport by Air France has forced me to pen down my encounter with racism in Australia, referred to as a ‘multi-cultural country’. Although I continue to have a number of Australian friends, I still feel the pain of being the target of racist comments during my stay in Brisbane, just because the colour of my skin was different and I hailed from India, still looked upon by many as the country full of poverty. 

I was consciously reminded again and again that I am a Brown, an Indian, to downgrade me. Well, I proudly call myself an Indian, and pity those who look down on others because they have a dark skin, directly hurting their own country’s image. 

“I support underdogs,” a British commented when a friend of mine asked him about the reason behind his support to the Indian cricket team. I was shocked to hear when another Indian friend told me that an Australian refused to take food from his hands because of his brown skin. Brown-skinned people, whether Indians, or Asians for that matter, are often the soft targets of goons or ‘bad elements’ in some parts of Australian cities. Recently, an Indian was robbed and beaten up in a moving train in Melbourne. And surely, there are a number of incidents that go unreported. 

“How did you afford to come to Australia?” is an oft-asked question there, as for White-skinned people Indians are synonymous with poverty. “The country is producing billionaires, Sir,” used to be my reply when faced with this question. I wrote White-skinned because the term actually includes Europeans, Americans, British and Australians. I wonder how they fail to recall the poverty in their respective country. Physicians, heal thyself! 

Why is it so that we Indians (most of us, especially those who haven’t travelled abroad) are crazy about foreigners and not vice-versa? Why do they not look at us with same excitement and enthusiastic smiles when we visit their countries? 

One of my neighbours has trade links with a Russian. He invited the Russian lady to his daughter’s wedding, and the whole ‘desi mohalla’ almost died for getting a picture clicked with that ‘videshi mahila’. Strange! 

Why do foreigners get more respect than us in our own country? While chatting with a colleague of mine the other day, I was told that a guard at a shop only reluctantly opened the door for him. However, the same guard did not only whole-heartedly welcome foreigners, but also bowed his head in respect. 

I guess the almighty dollar plays a big role in our attitude towards foreigners. But are we really so poor that we are ready to sell our country’s respect to gain a few dollars? We do not need to hang our heads in shame, I believe. 

Speaking off-the-cuff, I feel most of the time that we get racially abused by foreigners, because we feel that way for ourselves. The colonial attitude has failed to peter out in our mindset. For most of us Indians, a White-skinned person is always right. We feel thrilled if we get to talk to a foreigner even once in our lifetime.

My experience teaches me that the more we try to imitate the English people, the more we lose ourselves. Here, ‘we’ refers to ‘Indians’. We can wear international brands, copy the American or British accent, or for that matter, get the residency permits, but one thing can never change and that is the skin of our colour. We will always be Brown, and always Indians. I am proud to be one, are you?

Yes, I am an Indian

Kamna Arora

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Jhalmuri Journey of a Jharkhandi Ladki

Filed under: Jharkhand — jharkhandorguk @ 9:34 am


 

 

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Muri is one of those easily-forgettable, falling-off-the-map kind of nondescript places. It was my first proper venture into Jharkhand and I looked forward to it with a gusto everyone around me found completely unwarranted and unsettling. The manner in which I managed to find projects in farflung areas baffled all. My family wrung their hands in despair as harried wellwishers rattled off tales of naxalite horrors. M, (my “expedition partner”) and I shrugged nonchalantly. One’s got to do what one’s got to do. Period.

 

After a week of another set of utterly worthless exams, I looked forward to some Jharkhandi respite. The trip began. With an ill omen. Some days just don’t go right. The India-Australia match got washed out. The auto guy tried to fleece us thinking we were not from Delhi (that’s a new one). AND we missed our train. After a dhakkemaar journey in a snail-paced, fungus-infested train, we finally reached Muri.
 
 
 

 

As I got off the station, I was struck by the common-placedness of the rickety little town (yes i have this annoying habit of making up words when I can’t find the right ones). Had I expected Jharkhand to be a new land? With different people peeing along the tracks? Different calamities facing them? Different trees and birds? Different houses lining the roads? Different potholes in those roads? Different smells? As the days passed by, it sunk in. No matter where you go, the essential being of a people is the same.

 

The trees will rustle in the wind. Dogs will stretch their paws, yawning the days away. Cows will eject humungous piles of dung. The mud will smile each time the rain tickles her. People will make small talk about the weather, no matter how many fields they have ploughed or how many daughters they have left to marry off. I will miss my mother and not be able to remember the last time I hugged her. The clouds will pout into unexpected shapes against the blue blue sky. And children will ride their bicycles through all the puddles.

 

I find myself on a train again, rattling away from this land of the obscure to a land where obscurity is one thing you strive too hard to get. –

 

Jharkhandi Ladki
 
 

Jhalmuri” (jhal = mirchi/chilli + muri = puffed rice)

a papercone full of firey chillis, pungent mustard oil and scruffy fingers

 
 
 
 
   

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CITI MICRO ENTREPRENEUR AWARD (CMEA) 2009 [2 Attachments]

Filed under: Jharkhand — jharkhandorguk @ 5:30 am

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Dear All,
 
Pl find document on CMEA 09, seek your support in getting  nomination  from Jharkhand . Pl let me know your response , and no of application form required , which i will send by post . Pl mentioned the postal add.
 
Thanks
 
Gopal
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Gopal Jha
Manager – Projects
Partners in Change
House No. 5516, DLF Phase – IV,
Gurgaon – 122002, Haryana
Ph: 91-124-4261175 (direct); 91-124-4261176-77 extn. 25
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Environmental Public Hearings are a mockery of the law in Jharkhand

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Public Hearings for Environmental Clearance of various Developmental Projects was made mandatory under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) notification in 1997. Public Hearings allow for people’s participation in the decision making of developmental projects and is the only opportunity for people to raise their concerns about the proposed project. It is the responsibility of the State Pullution Control Board (SPCB) to call for a public hearing when a project is proposed in an area.

The story of UCIL-Jaduguda and the struggle of the mostly Santal Adivasi People against the company is not unknown to the general public. UCIL has been operating for over four decades now. Many of the social problems like the just compensation for the land acquired, cost of medical treatment for radiation-caused illnesses among the workers and the local population, contamination of land, water and air have not been addressed at all.

People have been demanding (a) no new uranium mine (b) bring the existing mine under the international safety guide lines (c) return of tribal land acquired earlier, but not utilized for mining (d) provide livelihood and rehabilitation to the displace people.(f) clean up of the contamination (g) an independent study about the environmental contamination and health effects among the people (h) continuous monitoring of the water bodies to ensure that the radionuclides do not seep into the aquifer, the life line of more than 100,000 people.

The ‘Public Hearing’ on 26 May 09: This hearing was held to get the peoples’ consent for a capacity addition of 20% (from current 2020 tpd to 2500 tpd or uranium ore to be milled) and for another tailing pond to house the radioactive mill tailing. The total tailing that will be let off in the pond will be about 850,000 tons per year. About 15 acres of forest land has also been sought for these.

As per the law, the venue of the meeting should be near the affected communities. But on 26th it was held in the UCIL colony whereas the affected people are not usually even allowed to enter. However, the affected Santal tribal people together with their organisation Jharkhandis Organisation Against Radiation (JOAR) wanted to enter the hall, they were prevented by the employees of the company who had already occupied the hall.

The public hearing was held in the private land of UCIL, near the camp of the Central Industrial Security Forces. Early morning, hundreds of UCIL workers and other beneficiaries had occupied the chairs kept in the hall for the public hearing. The real public, who have lost their lands for the mines and whose health has been damaged due to radiation, had no place in the entire process. There were lots of public and there were also lots of policemen and members of different security forces. For every one person not in uniform, there was one person from the forces in uniform, some wielding batons, others with rifles and some in riot gear. Though most of the workers are exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, most of them consider themselves fortunate and lucky. That is quite expected in a country where the wage rates/returns in farming is very low and there is not any other job opportunity.

Around 11 AM, the General Manager of UCIL read out a document listing the details of the project. The presentation by the general manger lasted for about 30 minutes. After this, the organizers announced the names of the speakers from the ‘public’. Everybody was unanimous on one issue – UCIL provides jobs, food, clothing and houses. All talks about radiation is anti-national propaganda. UCIL has to be protected at any cost. There is no need to hear any viewpoint which is against the interests of the company.

JOAR and other organizations fighting on environmental issues related to radiation, livelihood issues related to loss of land due to mines and contamination of farmlands and water bodies decided to boycott the drama called public hearing, as there was no possibility of presenting the view of the affected people.

“when compared with hunger, pollution is a small issue” is the slogan raised by the workers and other employees of UCIL. Is this the mental attitude to which the ruling class in India is bringing the poor and downtrodden in India? Such an attitude would in the long run prove disastrous. If allowed to continue, pollution will become a bigger killer than hunger itself.

Stan Swamy

 
 
   

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Re: Stop sacrifice of animals on the name of religious tradition

Filed under: Jharkhand — jharkhandorguk @ 3:19 am

Barbara wrote: “Even for Bakri Eid, there are rules and regulations to be followed or the sacrifice is null and void.”
 
This is the height of specious reasoning  as Barabra fails to understand the cruelty involved, the  illogic and ill effects of animal sacrifice or slaughter on self and enivironment. Her only defence is myth that’s drawn from scripture.
 
The myth of  the Jewish patriarch Ibrahim (Abrahim) sacrificing an animal instead of his son after clearing a stringent test of faith devised by Yahweh (Jehovah)  forms the basis of the Eid ul Adha (Bakri Eid) celebration.
 
Firstly, Ibrahim/Abraham cannot be said to be a historical person as there exists no hard proof to corroborate his existence and even if we believe that he was a real person there’s no way of substantiating the tale of an extra-cosmic god appearing to him and testing him in the said manner and thereafter miraculously arranging for an animal to be sacrificed instead of his beloved son.
 
Stories of the extra-cosmic god (Yahweh/Allah) somehow creating out of nothing,  somehow governing the cosmos and people’s lives despite this extra-cosmic being having no causal connection with anything, capriciously dividing humaity into “believers” and “non-believers”, asking believers to discriminate against non-believers, abusing non-believers, threatening to roast or barbecue non-believers and sinners in some hell after death, appearing to certain individuals, despatching invisible angels to convey worn out, fictional and ordinary information to certain men (prophets), testing chosen individuals and asking them to cruelly sacrifice animals are certainly the stuff of fairytales that’re aimed at undeveloped intellects.  
 
Halal or non-halal methods of killing beasts are both barbaric and reveal a sadistic mindset at work that seeks to inflict pain on helpless animals who die a most horrific death and whose toxic flesh is then relished by believers and meat eaters alike. With believers they naively think that their chimerical extra-cosmic god who creates out of nothing is mighty pleased with their despicable sacrifice and feel themsleves blessed while none pauses to think of the cruelty involved, the ill effects of meat eating on the psycho-emotional-physical human self and the stress put on natural resources and the unbalances created in the enivironment by  the commercial breeding millions of animals for the table or for sacrifice.
 
It’s time to adopt a eco-sensitive, rational and compasionate way of life that promotes life and growth.
 
Vegetarianism is food with a proven benign philosophy at its crux and from the practical perspective it is a karma free diet !
 
 
Live and let live !
 
 
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