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Today's topics: * AIIMS issue : 20 point failure of Dr P Venugopal. - 2 messages, 2 authors http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/7c1b3ee6d2dcae5 * " I am an RTIian......" - 2 messages, 2 authors http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/d62dea2369eff1d6 * Fwd: Chapter Activities! - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/e3b76e97af8c094e * Is all the government plans really permeate the people - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/260195e6a2a77f56 * Face of the future: Economic Development Vs Population Growth. - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/76b78d4b682431dc * Call for nominations for Vacated Positions in Central Team :: LAST DATE : July 19,2006 - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/e15032ce13510e39 ============================================================================== TOPIC: AIIMS issue : 20 point failure of Dr P Venugopal. http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/7c1b3ee6d2dcae5 ============================================================================== == 1 of 2 == Date: Fri, Jul 14 2006 8:51 am From: "Prahalathan KK" Hi Jagannath, Dr. Venugopal is the director of AIIMS... Whatever his problems with the ministry now are you can't refute the fact that he's a great cardiac surgeon and teacher which was recognized by the government with a Padma Bhushan. Dr. Venugopal is the director of AIIMS NOT the God of health to solve all these problems. These questions should've been put to Dr.Ramadoss who is obviously more powerful being the Union health Minister. I don't know what your motives are behind taking such a Anti-Venugopal stand... Either Casteist or Cheap Publicity... Please have some consideration for the intellect of the people you're writing to. Stripping of degrees from a person just because he was silent on issues which he doesn't have a power to regulate.... ha ha ha Regards, Dr. Prahalathan KK http://www.prahalathan.blogspot.com/ 'Those who condemn politics to be the last resort of a scoundrel are bound to be ruled by scoundrels' - Plato ----- Original Message ----- From: Jagannath Chatterjee To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:27 PM Subject: [BM_discussion] AIIMS issue : 20 point failure of Dr P Venugopal. Dear Sirs, Many of you are up in arms that I have supported Dr Ramadoss in the tussle between him and Dr P Venugopal. My mailbox is full of mails critcising my views. I am not in favour of the medical community in general as they are criminally silent regarding the many glaring shortcomings that the fraternity is facing today. Can anyone please let me know what steps Dr Venugopal has taken to address the following problems plaguing the industry? 1. The doctor-drug industry nexus. 2. Lack of continuous education for doctors. 3. Lack of exposure to and knowledge of other healing methods. 4. Over medicating purely to achieve industry targets. 5. Overusing the surgery room for increased profits. 6. Prescribing unnecessary diagnostic tests. 7. Lack of concern for the patients, treating them like commodities and exploiting them mercilessly. 8. Not raising voice against dubious and dangerous medical practices like vaccinations, body scans, x-rays, radiation, ultrasound, chemotherapy, ART in case of AIDS, GE drugs etc. 9. Refusing to see the emerging evidence that bacteria and viruses cannot be the cause of disease. 10.Not educating the public on healthy living. 11.Not speaking out against the junk food and drinks industry. 12.Not speaking out against pollution and environmental dangers and related matters that affect health. 13.Not revising the current health policy of the country which does not put adequate emphasis on hygiene, nutrition, prevention of illnesses and is woefully out of tune with ground realities. 14.Not informing the patient about side effects of various medicines and medical procedures and obtaining informed consent before administering them. 15.Complete failure in curbing chronic diseases, let alone cure them. 16.Treating the condition without hunting for the cause. 17.The rising incidence of iatrogenic (medicine caused) diseases and deaths. 18.Creating unnecessary panic and fear of disease in patients. 19.Unnecessarily criticising proven holistic healing systems and trying to convey that they are "dangerous" for health. 20.Retaining critical patients who they cannot cure instead of referring them to other medical systems. Now please tell me why I should support Dr Venugopal in his bid to retain the Chairmanship of our country's premier medical institution? I believe Dr Venugopal should be stripped of all his degrees and awards for keeping silent on the above issues, which are more important than the issue of who scores over whom in the present tussle over power. Regards, Jagannath Chatterjee Health Reform Activist. - In [EMAIL PROTECTED], R.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Listing negative aspects of Dr. Venugopal does not automatically become > any form of "defence" for Ramadoss' actions. > > If anything, Dr. Venugopal should have been removed a long time ago, > if his conduct has been wrong. Anything negative about him will no > longer be seen in isolation. > > That Ramadoss has an agenda here can not be denied! > > regards, > R....... > "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. == 2 of 2 == Date: Thurs, Jul 13 2006 11:17 pm From: Jagannath Chatterjee Dear Dr Prahalathan, I was not trying to be funny, nor am I a casteist or an oppurtunist. I take the side of patients in their fight against insensitive doctors. In other fields like engineering etc. we talk about inert structures that affect human beings indirectly, but the medical industry directly deals with the lives of the people. The issues I have raised should be the concern of EVERY doctor. Unless the honest doctors speak up the system is not going to change because the system recognises only the majority voice. Dr Venugopal IS guilty of keeping silent on this issue as being the Director of AIIMS he is second only to the health minister, or rather he is above the minister because not all health ministers are doctors, unlike in the present case. Dr Venugopal is a professional. He is thus also expected to have the macro view and not just involve himself in the nitty gritties of the institution. Instead of trying to prove his personal supremacy or trying to cling to power by using political clout, he would have made his country proud if he would have concentrated on overcoming the glaring shortcomings of the medical industry. He cannot claim that he is not aware of these issues. If a non medical person like me, who has been at the wrong end of the medical profession, can return from his death bed, study about medical claims, conduct his own investigation and find out the real problems then a person who has studied to become a doctor and has gone on to become the most eminent person in his field should feel ashamed of himself for turning a blind eye to burning medical issues. Regards, Jagannath. Prahalathan KK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jagannath, HA HA HA HA HA ..... very funny! Dr. Venugopal is the director of AIIMS... Whatever his problems with the ministry now are you can't refute the fact that he's a great cardiac surgeon and teacher which was recognized by the government with a Padma Bhushan. Dr. Venugopal is the director of AIIMS NOT the God of health to solve all these problems. These questions should've been put to Dr.Ramadoss who is obviously more powerful being the Union health Minister. I don't know what your motives are behind taking such a Anti-Venugopal stand... Either Casteist or Cheap Publicity... Please have some consideration for the intellect of the people you're writing to. Stripping of degrees from a person just because he was silent on issues which he doesn't have a power to regulate.... ha ha ha Regards, Dr. Prahalathan KK http://www.prahalathan.blogspot.com/ 'Those who condemn politics to be the last resort of a scoundrel are bound to be ruled by scoundrels' - Plato ----- Original Message ----- From: Jagannath Chatterjee Subject: [BM_discussion] AIIMS issue : 20 point failure of Dr P Venugopal. Dear Sirs, Many of you are up in arms that I have supported Dr Ramadoss in the tussle between him and Dr P Venugopal. My mailbox is full of mails critcising my views. I am not in favour of the medical community in general as they are criminally silent regarding the many glaring shortcomings that the fraternity is facing today. Can anyone please let me know what steps Dr Venugopal has taken to address the following problems plaguing the industry? 1. The doctor-drug industry nexus. 2. Lack of continuous education for doctors. 3. Lack of exposure to and knowledge of other healing methods. 4. Over medicating purely to achieve industry targets. 5. Overusing the surgery room for increased profits. 6. Prescribing unnecessary diagnostic tests. 7. Lack of concern for the patients, treating them like commodities and exploiting them mercilessly. 8. Not raising voice against dubious and dangerous medical practices like vaccinations, body scans, x-rays, radiation, ultrasound, chemotherapy, ART in case of AIDS, GE drugs etc. 9. Refusing to see the emerging evidence that bacteria and viruses cannot be the cause of disease. 10.Not educating the public on healthy living. 11.Not speaking out against the junk food and drinks industry. 12.Not speaking out against pollution and environmental dangers and related matters that affect health. 13.Not revising the current health policy of the country which does not put adequate emphasis on hygiene, nutrition, prevention of illnesses and is woefully out of tune with ground realities. 14.Not informing the patient about side effects of various medicines and medical procedures and obtaining informed consent before administering them. 15.Complete failure in curbing chronic diseases, let alone cure them. 16.Treating the condition without hunting for the cause. 17.The rising incidence of iatrogenic (medicine caused) diseases and deaths. 18.Creating unnecessary panic and fear of disease in patients. 19.Unnecessarily criticising proven holistic healing systems and trying to convey that they are "dangerous" for health. 20.Retaining critical patients who they cannot cure instead of referring them to other medical systems. Now please tell me why I should support Dr Venugopal in his bid to retain the Chairmanship of our country's premier medical institution? I believe Dr Venugopal should be stripped of all his degrees and awards for keeping silent on the above issues, which are more important than the issue of who scores over whom in the present tussle over power. Regards, Jagannath Chatterjee Health Reform Activist. - In [EMAIL PROTECTED], R.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Listing negative aspects of Dr. Venugopal does not automatically become > any form of "defence" for Ramadoss' actions. > > If anything, Dr. Venugopal should have been removed a long time ago, > if his conduct has been wrong. Anything negative about him will no > longer be seen in isolation. > > That Ramadoss has an agenda here can not be denied! > > regards, > R....... > "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo. --------------------------------- Why keep checking for Mail? The all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta shows you when there are new messages. ============================================================================== TOPIC: " I am an RTIian......" http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/d62dea2369eff1d6 ============================================================================== == 1 of 2 == Date: Fri, Jul 14 2006 4:58 am From: Sundeep Jalan Sathiyon, I FORSEE HUGE EMLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN RTI. an expert RTI volunteer can work as a RTI agent in the same fashion AS AN INSURANCE AGENT FUNCTION. it is not very difficult to be an expert RTI volunteer. ANYBODY WHO IS EVEN 10TH PASS OR EVEN NOT THAT CAN become RTI agent. he shall be entrusted with the task of UNDERSTANDING THE GRIEVANCE OF THE APPLICANT & FRAMING appropriate questions to the appropriate authority. I DONT THINK THE HARASSED APPLICANT WILL MIND PAYING TEN rupees for the services of the RTI agent. I THINK THE BLUEPRINT CAN BE EFFECTIVELY DRAFTED. PLS SUGGEST HOW THIS CAN BE EFFVTVLY PUT TO USE. i wl gt bk wth MY bluprnt. JAYHIND sandeep BHARAT --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on Yahoo! Answers India. So, whats NEW about the NEW Yahoo! Messenger? Find out. == 2 of 2 == Date: Fri, Jul 14 2006 6:41 pm From: satya This is an Excellent Suggestion... We need to pass on this Idea to willing ppl .. or identify the right ppl ourselves.. On 7/14/06, Sundeep Jalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sathiyon, > > I FORSEE HUGE EMLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN RTI. > an expert RTI volunteer can work as a RTI agent in the same > fashion AS AN INSURANCE AGENT FUNCTION. > it is not very difficult to be an expert RTI volunteer. > ANYBODY WHO IS EVEN 10TH PASS OR EVEN NOT THAT CAN become > RTI agent. he shall be entrusted with the task of UNDERSTANDING > THE GRIEVANCE OF THE APPLICANT & FRAMING > appropriate questions to the appropriate authority. > I DONT THINK THE HARASSED APPLICANT WILL MIND PAYING TEN > rupees for the services of the RTI agent. > I THINK THE BLUEPRINT CAN BE EFFECTIVELY DRAFTED. > PLS SUGGEST HOW THIS CAN BE EFFVTVLY PUT TO USE. > i wl gt bk wth MY bluprnt. > > JAYHIND > > sandeep BHARAT > > > ------------------------------ > Find out what India is talking about on Yahoo! Answers > India.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailanswersshare/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/> > So, what's NEW about the NEW Yahoo! Messenger? Find > out.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmessenger/*http://in.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/> > > > -- "|| bRaHmAiVa sAtYaM ||" ============================================================================== TOPIC: Fwd: Chapter Activities! http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/e3b76e97af8c094e ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Fri, Jul 14 2006 3:03 pm From: "information team bharat uday mission" Dear Brothers and Sisters, This mail contains following topics : 1. BM Pune : Update on Activities in last week 2. BM Nashik : minutes of meeting 3. BM Nashik : meeting announcement 4. BM Bikaner : New Team Formation 5. BM Delhi : Down with Terrorism : Join candle light march 1. BM Pune : Update on Activities in last week Dear All, We will have discussion on bm_pune group and if you ever feel many mails are coming then please edit your membership<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BM_pune/join>to 'Daily Digest' . In last week we have had 1) *Visit Orphan Home Visit by* Manoj, Pradnya, Amol, Jagdeesh, Rahul, Narendran. The purpose of visit was to assess the need of Home and find ways of helping them. As immediate help we will give them a set book of IX std. Finance as usual need. We will go through their accounts and then see how much expenditure is required for a child in a year. Some govt. subsidy can also be given to such home, but probably the officer is asking for undertable deal. More details will follow from people who visited. 2) *Attended presentation of TTS(Tribal Talent Search) Program by * *Milind Dhatte* <http://www.milindthatte.com/>* * *Brief idea* Talented youth in tribal area with or without education continue to work as unskilled labour. Virtual absence of opportunities and the bondage of struggling for subsistence inhibit their talent. A handful of educated tribal youth succeed in getting jobs in cities, they leave their villages and community behind. Their prosperity probably helps their individual households but does not help the community. Development efforts in tribal villages continue to be dependent and tend to make dependency chronic. Health and education projects by NGOs and governments though absolutely essential are in essence a charity. Their purpose is not to promote prosperity in tribal villages. Self-employment loans by government and semi-government bodies are often wasted, for they do not come with a package of entrepreneurship development. Tribal youth hardly have an opportunity to learn market wisdom and entrepreneurship. Tribal Talent Search program (TTS) is targeted at addressing some of these problems. *The TTS mission* is to find talented tribal youth (a flexible age group of 16-25 years) and support them with finance and capacity-building for a limited period of 24 to 36 months. The program takes the form of a partially guided fellowship. The selected youth get an honorarium every month. This is to free them from the worries of subsistence of their families and to enhance some risk-bearing capacity for the would-be entrepreneur. The period of 24 months has a staggered program of orientations, trainings, and workshops for developing the youth as entrepreneurs or as leaders of development. *The TTS vision *is that the program will create a group of socially sensitive and locally prosperous individuals. These individuals will be free of government or political dependency. They shall form the next generation of "leaders of development" within tribal communities. The TTS shall develop them as individuals who care for their community and help other talented youth prosper. The program envisions a ripple effect creating more and more hubs of self-propelled prosperity in tribal areas. The program has concept 'Resource Person group" in which a person is supposed to devote 15 days a year in tribal area, live with identified youth, understand them and guide/suggest/help them in developing local enterprenuer in them as the object said above. Please follow with either Milind or me for more details and interest. 3) *Tree Planatation* I got information on saturday from Tekadi Person that there is going to tree plantation in Parvati Hill Side. Program was on Sun morning 7:30, so couldn't inform the group. We had planted more than 40 plants. We also saw snakes which were rescued by some of Tekadi guys. Later I was given chance to introduce to Tekadi people, around 20 in number, mostly students. There we met Mr. Vinod Jain a very active tree saver who has done lot of work in saving and was able to save more 400 trees in 3 months from illegal cutting. He said that there are three kinds of permission about tree in Pune Muncipal Region. 1. Cut the tree and plan at least three more tree else where.(Small Trees) 2. Transplant the tree.(Mostly mid sized). 3. Trimming, mostly for large trees. So if you see anybody cutting tree, immediately ask for the permission and if person refuse to show the premission. You can contact Mr. Vinod Jain(9422305735) . Keep this contact handy. He will take care all things like dealing with Police or PMC. They have been successfully able to save hundreds of trees. We had meeting on Sunday and was attended by Prashant Nandi Rishikesh Satya Ashwin Ketaki Deependra(First Timer) We had discussed about *ALL Hands Meeting on 23 July. *More details will follow in separate thread. It was decided that we will comeup with executable plan for next six months by All Hands meeting and preparation will start in forrm of discussion on group. Keep following. Let's Keep Marching towards "The Rise of a Great Nation". -- Thanks and Regards, Rishikesh --------- "Like Power comes with Responsibilities, Freedom comes with Self-Discipline." 2. BM Nashik : minutes of meeting dear all a meeting of nashik chapter of bharat uday mission was held at SSY hall on 9th july, inspite of the riots. 9 members could attend the meeting: 1 pranav 2. abhilasha 3. purva 4. gaurav 5. aditya 6. supriya 7. rashmi 8. sushodh* 9. anshul (* new member) minutes: 1. update on the activities of the last few days. the projects committe has been meeting regularly. the tree plantation project (landscaping) is on in full swing, and now only 6 members will be working on it: a. design - kedar, purvi b. letter drafting etc - pranav, rahul, supriya c. legal - mridula a m,eeting has been scheduled today with the NMC officials wherein we will formally seek permission for the landscaping project. rest of the members will now start work on 2 new projects: blood group database and school books project. 2. mridula and nupur had been to NMC last week and did a great job of getting the list of all the marathi medium schools in nashik. there are two lists: NMC run and privately funded schools. this activity will be coordinated by abhilasha. in this activity, we will be taking the school text books, notebooks etc from the privately run schools and donating them to the NMC run schools, and the schools in adivasi areas. all the members who are interested in this project pls call abhilasha on 9850509635. other members who will be involved in this project are purva ahire and gaurav bagwe. 3. the blood grp database project cudnt be discussed as both dr. sachin and manasi cudnt attend the meeting. this will be discussed in the next meeting. 4. the nashik chapter will be sending 2 members to the central task force: anshul pancholi and pushkar shukla. this will help us a lot in getting an idea as to what all activities are being undertaken by other chapters, as well as nashik chapter will get more involved in the central team activities. regards aditya 3. BM Nashik : meeting announcement dear all, a meeting of the nashik chapter of bharat uday mission had been arranged this sunday. ALL ARE REQUESTED TO ATTEND THE MEETING, AS THE LAST MEETING WASNT VERY FRUITFUL DUE TO THE UNFORTUNATE RIOTS IN MANY PARTS OF THE CITY. date: 16th july'06 venue: SSY hall. time: 5 pm sharp. (members are requested to be there 10 min earlier, so that we can start the meeting on time.) directions to get to the venue: When going from ashok stamb towards gangapur, take a right turn at mama mungi karyalaya. Where the road ends, there is `T'. take a left turn and go straight towards Chintamani mangal karyalaya. A little ahead of the karyalaya, you will find a service station on your right. Ahead, take a right turn, into the colony. Again take the first right and go straight. A little down this lane on the right, you will find the SSY hall. (you can just enquire around there) agenda: 1. update on landscaping project 2. update on school books project 3. discussion on the 'peace week' being organized by bharat uday mission on a national level 4. initiation of new activities (probables: adharashram (an orphanage), some old-age home, right to information act, gramin vikas yojana etc.) 5. update about the task force from the team. 6. update on the national convention held last month in jaipur 7. discussion on initiation of a NEWSLETTER for nashik chapter 8. coordination with other chapters (e.g. greeting card project) 9. discussion on the state level convention which can be held on 6th august. 10. plan for 15th august, independence day celebrations 11. update on the constitution drafting process. 12. any other point that may be brought up for discussion 13. collection on contributions for the month of july 14. discussion on opening of a bank account ALL MEMBERS ARE ONCE AGAIN REQUESTED TO BE PRESENT FOR THE MEETING, AS IT IS IMPORTANT. ALSO PLEASE DO GET ALONG UR FRIENDS AS WELL. PLEASE EMAIL UR CONFIRMATIONS TO THIS ADDRESS, OR CALL ME ON 9822507135. regards aditya BM Nashik 'Those who condemn politics to be the last resort of a scoundrel are bound to be ruled by scoundrels' - Plato If you agree with above quote, then be a part of second freedom struggle of India, Bharat Uday Mission, at http://bharatudaymission.org "We have only one passion, The rise of a Great Nation." 4. BM Bikaner : New Team Formation Dear All, Following members has created the bIkaner chapter and these members will look after the activity of the team Name Chapter Responsibility Mobile Number E-Mail Id 1. pankaj ojha Bikaner Co-ordinator 9928089724 pankaj_ojha22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>m 2. subhash panwar Bikaner Member 9928088724 ess_pee_03 [EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://us.f513.mail.yahoo.com/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3. praveen purohit Bikaner Member rajpurohitpraveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>m 1. pankaj ojha will be coordinator of Information management team and He will have access to moderatorbm a/c for coordination purposes. He can assign responsibilities to other members if required. 2. All the members will be given proper time to learn things and will be assisted by admin team members. 3. The team strength will be increased after august first week and the candidates will be chosen on the basis of efficiency and activity . 4.Any person can be the member of the team by loging in at BM_Bikaner Chapter at yahoo group. 5. BM Delhi : Down with Terrorism : Join candle light march Friends, There is a condolence candle light for vitims of mumbai blast. (more in pumphlet) Date 15 July, 2006 Time: 6.30 PM Venue: India Gate Due to legal boundation we will participate Individually! Please contact any of coordinators in that regards.. please show ur presence. NOTE- Take print copies of this pumphlet for distribution. Regards, -- with love and affection, Amit Kumar Srivasatva -- "We have only one Passion The Rise of a Great Nation." www.bharatudaymission.org -- "We have only one Passion The Rise of a Great Nation." www.bharatudaymission.org ============================================================================== TOPIC: Is all the government plans really permeate the people http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/260195e6a2a77f56 ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Fri, Jul 14 2006 3:36 pm From: "hitesh verma" Hello Friends, We should take this thing in mind. For any movement to become a success it should have a direct link with the general public. May be various government policies fail because they are not in touch with the people. For example, YUVA a new initiative against AIDS. The colloboroters are NACO and Ministries of youth. What I want to say is "are this policies really in touch with people." We should check these things. Right to Information Act is a great act which may tell about these things. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Face of the future: Economic Development Vs Population Growth. http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/76b78d4b682431dc ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Fri, Jul 14 2006 4:56 am From: Jagannath Chatterjee Dear Friends, Population growth is a problem that few of us have the courage to face upfront. It is infact the largest problem facing the world today. Never before in recorded history has the world faced such an organised assault from man. This problem negates all gains in various spheres. Human resource has today become a liability, not an asset. Sometimes it feels cruel that we are proceeding at a breakneck speed towards more sophisticated automation when labour is so cheap and the unemployment situation so acute. We are also seeing a disturbing trend where one can be gainfully employed for a very short time. By the time one approaches the late 30's one can sense the pink slip approaching. Career oppurtunities for the middle aged is restricted. The board room is getting younger by the day with young recruits occupying senior positions. The future seems bleak. One has to earn fast and earn the maximum while the going is good to keep up with the times. All our efforts at framing a corruption less society may well be a dream. Honesty and ethics are a load on the shoulder, they have to be offloaded in order to progress in the "right direction". Honesty is no longer the best policy, it is a millstone around the neck. Resource wise we are on the brink of acute scarcity of the commodities we have always taken for granted, the minimum food, water, land and natural resources. Oil is expected to last only another few decades. Vital minerals too face the same fate. Forests may wear away faster. Pollution is a threat that is looming large by the day. The routine activities of the world's population is beyond the tolerance limit of our fragile ecosystem. We are hemmed in from all sides. And yet we are surging forward, destroying, plundering the world, in the name of growth, in the name of progress. Will the population problem ever be resolved without a catastrophe affecting the earth? It seems unlikely. War and natural calamities, epidemics of fatal diseases seem the only solution. Or is it? That is a question no one likes to answer, but the answer stares us in the face. There is no escaping it. Regards, Jagannath. Growing imbalance between the economic development and population growth http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/136252/1/6684 The World Population Day is being marked worldwide with focus on reproductive health of young people. The growing imbalance between the economic development and population growth has been a major global challenge. The developing nations are the ones that have been confronted with the demographic imbalance as population growth has outstripped the economic growth rate. To look at the global economic balance-sheet, nearly three million people almost half of the world's population are absolute poor, who live on less than two dollars a day. The imbalance between the population and economic growth is posing a serious humanitarian crisis in the developing countries. Despite serious efforts to control high population growth, the situation is still far from satisfactory. Nepal is also not an exception and shares similar problem as other developing countries. According to experts, the economic growth needs to be at least double that of the population growth rate. Nepal's population growth is 2.25 per cent whereas the GDP growth rate is slightly more than that. Nepal's population took only three years to reach 24.8 million from the earlier 23 million. These figures have, of course, sounded an alarm bell, which are indicative of the fact that Nepal is heading towards further humanitarian and developmental crisis if the present trend of population growth is not checked and development activities swiftly accelerated. Other development indicators, too, have not shown very positive trends. Already stung by massive poverty, huge unemployment and slow development, Nepal has already experienced several social, economic and environmental problems. As the population is growing rapidly, the nation is increasingly facing food insecurity. The growing population rate has put more stress on the natural resources, which is likely to create further catastrophes. The country is facing more environmental problems now than ever before. Poverty and population growth appear to be twin children and it is apparent that without addressing one, the other problem cannot be solved. The other aspect that needs to be addressed is the knowledge about reproductive health among the young people. The knowledge of reproductive health helps decide the family size. This would simultaneously address poverty and check population growth. It is now imperative that serious efforts from all sides need to be made to strike a balance between the population and economic growth to ensure a sustainable future for the country and the people. Source:The Rising </TBOD "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? 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