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[email protected] Today's topics: * An article on selling of Public Sector Units - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/616f04f7aef31cee?hl=en * Reg: Kolawade - 27 January 2007 - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/ab8369d2349319f?hl=en * Simply Yuva Magazine - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/b3faf102fe6243cb?hl=en * Update and Message from Central Team - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/a1699e635ba78fd9?hl=en * Roadmap for Constitution Implementation - 2 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/aacf68be1880d1cc?hl=en * India still not 'shining': Rights Activist - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/598e38fe207db54b?hl=en ============================================================================== TOPIC: An article on selling of Public Sector Units http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/616f04f7aef31cee?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Tues, Jan 30 2007 2:38 pm From: Rishikesh http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv6n1/psus.htm Public Sector Units: Privatisation or Economic Destruction?* N. Bhattacharyya * It is a misfortune for the successive caretakers of the Indian state that even in the age of globalisation there are still some residents who have the courage to challenge the Government of India's policy on the sale of the Public Sector Units (PSUs). A large number of these units were built up brick by brick with the money of poor tax-payers. In a semi-feudal and semi-colonial economy, tax collected from indirect sources like sales tax, excise duty etc. and paid by millions of Indian people living in cities and villages has remained around 4 times higher than that paid by the business community of this country as direct tax. In India the highest rate of income tax is 30 percent while in the USA, the so-called heaven of the rich people of the world, it is still as high as 50 percent and tax is paid by businessmen unlike our rich who feel proud of evading it! Around 35 percent of India's GDP is said to be black money or income not disclosed officially to avoid tax. The proposal to privatise the Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) State Electricity Board was not only opposed by *lakhs *of workers and their families but also by the consumers of power in U.P., who wanted an assurance from the government that after privatisation the tariff on power would not go up. There is a well-planned campaign against our workers which says that the loss of power both in production and distribution is due to the corrupt practices of the low-paid employees. It is the business community and their mafia who are primarily responsible for the sickness not only of the power industry but also of the rest of the PSUs. If the employees are corrupt, what stops the bureaucracy from proceeding against them under the various Acts? The Central Vigilance Commission is publishing the names of corrupt bureaucrats, but people are accustomed to these official gimmicks. The U.P. Indian Administrative Service Association once decided to publish the names of its most corrupt members, but nothing concrete happened. Politicians decide where electrical power should be free or subsidised but they blame the workers and poor consumers for the sickness of the industry. In Punjab a rich peasant gets power free of cost, but a poor agricultural labourer has to pay through his nose for his single bulb connection. In Maharashtra the Shiv Sena - BJP Government decided to allow Enron to sell power at the highest rate in the country and at the same time ordered the Maharashtra State Electricity Board to supply free electricity to the rich cultivators particularly to the sugar barons of the state. In Delhi no one dares to disconnect the illegal power consumption of factory and hotel owners who enjoy political patronage cutting across political affiliations. However, the shanty dwellers in Delhi are shown in the media as the main culprits in stealing power, though it is well known that they use power for home consumption and that it is a small proportion of total electricity consumption in the state. The government says it will not shoulder the management of industry and commerce, rather its responsibility will be to look after only law and order issues. Who is stopping them from prosecuting the criminals stealing power according to the laws of the country? Industrial tariff for power in India is very high. In Madhya Pradesh it is Rs 3.81 (if S. Kumar's hydel project on the Narmada river at Maheshwer / Mandeleswer is allowed to work, the cost of power will rise to Rs 5 per unit). In comparison in Canada it is Rs 1.70, in Thailand it is Rs 0.80 per unit. With the coming of the USA giant Enron into Maharashtra the power tariff will jump to Rs. 5 and above from the existing Rs 3.51 per unit. (*Economic Times, *4.2.2000). The Indian state allows power pilferage by the big industrialists and rich farmers while the poor consumers have to suffer paying a higher tariff and endure long periods of load-shedding even in winter when consumption goes down. The Indian state is taking full advantage of the lack of organisation of consumers and the massive illiteracy in the country. It is good that the majority of Indian poor who are called *adivasis *and *dalits *and who officially accounted for 24 percent of total population in 1991 have yet to see electric lighting in their rural huts, though the Rural Electrification Corporation has encroached on their small pieces of land to install huge structures to connect transmission lines to carry electricity to the cities. Till today the government cannot blame them for loss of power! We make an attempt to 'peep' into the organised loot that is going on in India by vested interests in the name of 'development' not only during the last 10 years of 'reform' but also since the days the Britishers were planning to hand over administrative powers to the Indian business community and with their consent and retained with themselves economic decision making powers for the Indian market. The Bombay Plan (1944-45) of the Indian business community which was authored by stalwarts like Sir J.R.D. Tata, G.D. Birla, Sir Shri Ram, Kasturbhai Lalbhai, A.D. Shroff and John Mathai and others affirmed 'that practically every aspect of economic life will have to be rigorously controlled by the Government'. Wadia and Merchant also said, 'The future for investment which the authors of the Plan envisage is evidently a holy alliance between foreign capitalists and themselves on a profit-making basis, of which we have had such bitter experience in the past and in the present.' (P.A. Wadia and K.T. Merchant, *The Bombay Plan: a Criticism*, Bombay, 1945, pp. 29-40 and pp. 43-47). H.V.R Iyenger of the Indian Civil Service who retired as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India said in the late sixties, 'Indeed, there seems little difference between the basic approach of the Bombay Plan and the approach of the Planning Commission of the Government of India ' Though many people still believe that Nehru wanted to make our economy socialistic in actual fact it was the business community who guided the government to build an infrastructure for their 'profit' accumulation and appropriation. A propaganda mill is working overtime stating that the previous license-permit Raj was socialistic and that the new liberalisation, globalisation and privatisation is a fundamental break from socialism. This is absolutely false. Under Nehruvian 'socialism' and Indira Gandhi's 'nationalisation' and abolition of 'privy purses' drama the big business houses were allowed officially to corner all licenses, they enjoyed absolute freedom to exploit the unorganised 'bonded' consumers. Monopoly and oligopoly of both Indian business houses and foreign capitalists were the order of the day. Many committees and commissions clearly established the nexus between policy makers and the business families in this conspiracy against the country. They conspired to bleed the consumers and destroy the natural resources of this country and went on accumulating unaccounted wealth in foreign banks with the connivance of a corrupt bureaucracy and criminal politicians. It is a total fraud on the part of Indian business community to blame the Congress government alone for the present sickness of the Indian economy. An average Indian knows how these business families and their imperial masters colluded with the politicians to rob this country and create an ever-widening gulf 'between the haves and the have nots'. Since 1991 Indian big business houses have gone out of their way to welcome the arrival of more MNCs. Some of them immediately sold off their enterprises to them and started afresh their commission agency business from where they had started in the early fifties when foreign capitalists left India and sold their 'managing agency houses'. Transnational Corporations are busy in acquisition, amalgamation and absorption. Indian big business houses are advertising in the media and through the Internet to sell their units to the highest foreign bidder. There is a rush to sell shares through American Depository Receipts (ADR) or Global Depository Receipts (GDR) or both. Each private operator is trying individually to raise as much foreign loan as possible through the External Commercial Borrowing (ECB). The government of India, now run by the Bhartiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance, has no obligation to see that the foreign exchange raised in this process is brought to India and used for the specific purpose for which it was permitted. In the meantime the government has replaced the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act by another soft law called the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) which has no authority to bring to book foreign exchange manipulators. The Central government too is competing with the private sector to sell off profit-earning public sector units embodying *crores *of rupees of hard-earned taxpayers money. The BJP which was previously known as the Jana Sangh is basically a north Indian small traders' party and today it is in power for the third time in three years, The trading community from all parts of the country is willing to support the BJP. During its 13 months rule in 1998-99 it decided to withdraw the Essential Commodities Act to allow traders to fleece the unorganised consumers. It allowed mustard oil dealers in the capital of the country to poison consumers by selling adulterated edible oil. It also ignored its responsibility when onion wholesale traders hijacked the market and sold onions for Rs 60 and more per kilogram, till public protests compelled the government to intervene and it was forced to import and sell onions through the public distribution system. They promised to bring a new Essential Commodities Act with sharper teeth but nothing has happened. It is a complete breach of trust and well-planned fraud on the citizens of the country. Recently the Indian government sold off a 75 percent share of Modern Food Industries to Hindustan Lever Ltd. which is a subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever Ltd for the paltry sum of Rs 105 *crores*. If tomorrow they purchase the rest of the 25 percent share for another Rs 30 or Rs 40 *crores *, they will inherit a company whose net worth is some thousand *crores *of rupees. The land value of its Delhi factory alone today is reported to be more than 2000 *crores*. Is this democracy or simple plutocracy? The government wishes to have a 'strategic sale' of Indian Airlines. It is not unknown to Indian politicians that Margaret Thatcher privatised British Airways in the eighties and today under private ownership British Airways is already declared sick. Will they nationalise it again as our politicians did with a large number of sick private sector units in the past after their owners were allowed to squander the resources of those companies. Will the private air transporters fly on uneconomic routes to different parts of the country as Indian Airlines was ordered to do or will they concentrate only on the profitable routes? The Indian state officially shows interest in the 'development' of this vast country of one billion people, but individually all the states and the centre have declared themselves virtually bankrupt and they cannot meet their day to day minimum administrative commitments without raising additional loans internally. Internal debt as a percentage of GDP was 45.44percent in 1985-86, it went up to 51.51 percent in 1991-92 and in 1998-99 it stood at 51.05 per cent of GDP. Interest payment on loans as a percent of GDP went up from 2.86 percent in 1985-86 to 4.87 percent in 1999-2000. During 1999-2000 the gross market borrowing of the government is projected at Rs 84014 *crores*, while the centre would be paying an estimated Rs 88000 *crores *as interest on its liabilities, up from Rs 77248 *crores *in 1998-99. Due to the devaluation of the rupee, over- invoicing and under-invoicing of imports and exports respectively, accelerated by the withdrawal of restrictions on imports, the Indian balance of trade is permanently out of the control of the central government. The foreign debt is mounting rapidly and we are paying back to the G-7 countries more than what we are receiving as fresh loans annually. The external debt in billions of US dollars was 83.8 at the end of March 1991, it went up to 99 in 1995 and came down to 95.2 in September 1998. In such a scenario there is no other alternative for a country of one billion people than to behave as a schoolchild under the command of the G-7 countries and their managed institutions like World Bank, IMF and WTO. Our ruling elite had to express its regrets for its nuclear experiments and had to assure USA that it would sign the CTBT and only then did these countries agree to withdraw sanctions. Wherever the multinational corporations have set up their tents in the third world countries, they have wilfully destroyed the natural resources of these countries and virtually made them new colonies without any responsibility to the people. They enter these countries as agents of 'development' but end up as agents of 'destruction'. In India, officially administrative powers were handed over to the elite group who enjoyed their confidence in 1947, but despite tremendous sacrifice made by ordinary people, till today it is a common scene invariably in all cities- small or big- to see human beings fighting for food with dogs in the filthy dustbins. *Lakhs *of young people in the cities are shown on television merrily drinking soft drinks produced by the MNCs while, in the villages people are forced to drink muddy water and suffer from a hundred and one diseases. Mr. Narasimha Rao, one of the Prime Ministers who was ordered to introduce 'reform' in India in 1991 had to agree publicly in a meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry last year that his reform measures had only introduced producers of fast food industries, consumer durables and big automobiles for the narrow roads of India. It is the President of India who has had to warn the government recently that its 'privatisation' policies had only created a market for the MNCs but that growing retrenchment and social disparities have created tremendous social tensions. The number of people below the poverty line has increased tremendously both in the villages and in the cities during the reform regime. Small traders and a large number of small-scale industries are closing down their shutters. Big business has already replaced many of them. The President's suggestions of the need for 'pedestrian crossings' in first track lanes is a clear warning signal against imperialist exploiters and their Indian puppets. Most of our PSUs are economically viable and the nation receives a huge amount every year of corporate taxes from them. Their counterparts in the private sector evade paying any tax or they pay a very small amount which cannot be avoided. The following Table-I shows that so far as payments of corporate tax are concerned, it is the PSUs who pay the highest amount of corporate tax. * Table I Top Advance Tax Payers in Mumbai Region * (Rs. *crores*) Company Expected Tax in March 00 Tax collected in 1998-99 Difference % * Deposit Insurance Credit Guarantee Corporation 802.53 755.53 6.22 * Life Insurance Corporation 744.91 613.66 21.39 Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. 697.33 600.00 16.22 * Indian Oil 425.91 452.00 -5.77 ** Hindustan Lever 294.67 250.00 17.87 * Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 251.89 353.00 -28.64 ** Mahindra & Mahindra 66.67 42.53 56.75 ** Reliance Industries 64.67 42.53 56.75 ** Tata Sons 59.33 65.20 -9.00 * Public Sector Units ** Private Sector (*Economic Times* dated 27.1.2000) There is need for a large amount of money and these PSUs are laying golden eggs. Till yesterday our politicians used to call them *Navratna *(the Nine Jewels). Now they are to be handed over to the private sector so that they can enjoy a monopoly in the market economy. The Indian Petrochemical Corporation Ltd., one of the *Navratnas* which earned huge profits till destabilisation was started by the politicians is going to be handed over to its competitor Reliance with a 26 percent stake so that they may enjoy a monopoly in the petrochemical market! In this game of disinvestment/ strategic sale/ privatisation, our politicians were advised to go slow by their foreign masters and not to be in haste. The following Table II shows how their disinvestment / sale campaign performed during the last decade. * Table II PSU Equity Disinvestment * *Year* *Budgeted* *Actual* 1991-92 2,500 3,038 1992-93 2,500 1,961 1993-94 3,500 -48 1994-95 4,000 5,078 1995-96 7,000 362 1996-97 5,000 380 1997-98 4,800 912 1998-99 5,000 9,006 1999-2000 10,000 1,500 Total 44,300 22,189 (Rs *crores*) (*Hindustan Times *10.10.99) Our imperialist masters understand, that the PSUs which are owned by the Indian public are a threat to the monopoly exploitation by the MNCs and they should be demolished. As US $ 100 billion external debt is due from India the G-7 countries through the World Bank, IMF and WTO have the possibility of controlling the economic and foreign policies of this country.* * Indian organised labour, who have gained reasonable economic prosperity after independence in comparison to their lesser privileged brothers in the unorganised sector, should be in a strong bargaining position to stop the privatisation of the PSUs. Moreover, at this moment the BJP's trade union has the largest membership and they should be reminded of their obligation to the labour movement of this country. In the last ten years the government wanted to collect Rs 44000 *crores *to meet its budget expenses by selling off the PSUs but it ended up spending hardly 50 percent of the budgeted receipts. That was done also by selling PSU scripts at throwaway prices. Today there is more than one method to sell shares, and if the government followed transparent policies, they could get much better prices. But look, by merely changing Telecom policy last year from a licence fee system to a revenue sharing one the government gave up its legal claim to a huge amount of Rs 50000 crores as licence fees. The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General has given its note of dissent but the scam goes on. Here we have a government which is compelled to give more and more concessions to the big business houses e.g., no tax on profits from exports, concessions on Depreciation allowances and Development rebate etc. Very large companies who earn huge book profits need not pay any tax, even the minimum amount of corporation tax levied recently on the so-called no tax companies is going to be diluted. Non-performing assets of the nationalised banks stand today at more than Rs 45000 *crores *and a Confederation of Indian Industry committee suggested the winding up of three such banks with huge non-performing assets. When bank workers suggested that it was the big business houses led by the well known office bearers and members of the Trade Associations who had failed to return the bank loans of the nationalised banks and that their names should be made public, the government departments took the plea of the 'secrecy' clause of the Banking Law. Big businesses are the main clients of foreign banks not because they are operationally efficient but because these people have huge sums of money stashed away in foreign countries. But they go to the nationalised banks when they are assured by the politicians that they need not repay their loans, of course against some price. Instead of privatising nationalised banks, an independent tribunal headed by a retired judge should be appointed by the people of this country to find out how these public funds were systematically siphoned off and who did it. In the meantime recovery should be made of outstanding loans by all means including announcing the names of defaulters and humiliating the so-called self imposed 'trustees' of this vast economy. The promoters of privatisation should know that the Indian people in the dawn of 21st Century will not allow their country to be destroyed further without registering suitable challenges. The government will definitely sharpen its black laws like the old Terrorism and Disruptive Activities Act and continue annihilating peoples' representatives as encounter killings in different parts of the country. Indian history is at crucial juncture. The writing on the wall is clear and unambiguous. As Suniti Ghosh has pointed out 'in the course of the struggle not only will be country be changed but they (the fighting Indian people) themselves will be transformed. The filth of the ages will be swept clear.' Click here <http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv6n1/index.htm> to return to the April 2000 index. -- Co-opearation and not competition, is key to success for entities having 2 or more units. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Reg: Kolawade - 27 January 2007 http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/ab8369d2349319f?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Jan 31 2007 12:14 pm From: Rishikesh Dear All, We had an excellent visit to Kolwade. Amit has noted our experience in mail below. We also found that childeren were planting and doing gardening of school. They were also applying diluted waste of cow on floor of classtooms. It is a common practice for keeping floors dust and insect free in kuchchha houses. It was yet another example of co-operative learning and living. We also noted one thing. When asked "Why peacock is our national bird?" . One of the answer was that 'dev' (god) has created them beautiful, so they are. Here we also saw one calender consisting of pictures of god and godess. The thing here to note that secular credential of our education system are under question even at this stage. Though these observations look no offensive but in long run may get worse forms. We also noted one thing. When we asked them 'how can we improve upon english'. There similar(same) answer from all students. Something like we should cram all words taught. Should go and repeat what teachers taught. This is our educations system. Though answer these answer look common but here our thinking process should start, as why is this case at all? Somebody commented on education system as "It is a hospitals where sick are thrown out" . Regards, Rishikesh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amitraj R. Deshmukh Date: Jan 31, 2007 11:40 AM Subject: Reg: Kolawade - 27 January 2007 Hello all, First of all I am extremely sorry for being late to send this email. This is to update all with the Kolawade Happenings. *Activity Date:* 27 January, 2007 *Team:* Hrushikeah Amitraj *Details:* ** *1. *The session started at 10:50 AM with the students of 7th and 8th class. There were 14 students. *2.* * *The Team had a common plan to execute. One of the primary aims was to establish a relationship with the students. Hence language of communication Marathi. *3. *Students introduced themselves and a discussion about Republic Day was initiated. As per the observation students came from all levels of knowledge. 1 or 2 of them were not aware of the significance of Event and some were able to describe what it is. 4 of the students had participated as speakers in the Republic Day Celebration. Speeches were on various National Icons. Hinge sir had given them the speeches in English. Two of the students also sung a poem written by *Kusumagraj*. *4. *After 30-35 minutes student were comfortable with the team. This made the team to start talking about -> 'Why Marathi and Hindi seem easy to talk as compared to English' -> 'How do we understand Marathi even before we go to school' -> 'What if we would have heard English from the childhood and not Marathi' Main purpose was to make them think of how we find a language easy to use. Students were able to conclude that it is all about using the language frequently. *5. *After this, team asked the students to draw pictures of anything they see in daily life such as Fruits, Animals, Trees etc. and also write the names in Marathi and English (if they know). They were allowed to discuss and get the name. -> Total of 15 pictures were drawn. -> There was only a single repetition. -> Out of all these, students learnt around 9 new words. -> As an additional input, it was seen that majority of the students are extremely good at drawing. It was observed that -> One or two students were not well acquainted with the English Letters. -> Almost all the students were active enough. *6. *As a whole these two activities were carried out. Next, they have been given with an assignment of preparing a chart of Containing -> PICTURE -> Corresponding Marathi Name -> English Name Students are now aware - why they need to do this. However, they have their exams from 5th Frb. Onwards, hence they have been told to complete this after exams. *7. *Session was finished at around 12:30 PM. Students have been informed about next session (Feb. 3, 2006, 11:00 AM). *Notes:* -> Team had a good Friendly talk with students, inclusive of jokes, making fun etc. -> No teachers were present during the session, which was good. -> Students did not get tiresome. -> Difficulty level can be increased by 1 step. -> Students were asked whether it is a repetition of what they already know, and should we modify the path. However, they are fine with this. -> A point was always made that students were made aware of reasons behind performing these activities. *Conclusion:* This visit resulted in -> a good (friendly) bond between the TEAM and the students. -> acknowledgment of *one* good way to communicate with the students. Apart from these there are certain other points to be discussed which directly or indirectly relate with this activity. Hrushikesh, please add to this if you find some thing left away. Warm regards. -- Co-opearation and not competition, is key to success for entities having 2 or more units. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Simply Yuva Magazine http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/b3faf102fe6243cb?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Wed, Jan 31 2007 10:00 pm From: Krishanu Bhattacharjee Hello Everyone, Please Send more and more matters for our magazine effort and you are going to make it successful.This is a autonomus and independent effort of BM family by the youths of India. Krishanu I m sending the the proposal document of the magazine also. Friends, It is yet another start from youth of India among numerous diverse efforts who are the torch bearers of a great movement Bharat Uday Mission started by some conscious and responsible youths of India. Aim of Bharat Uday Mission is to cleanse the rotten social and political system completely and encourage the participation of more and more youths in the complete development of India, socially, economically, scientifically, morally, and in all respects with equality for every citizen. Our Effort of Simply Yuva will provide a platform to all like minded youths and youth organizations to be a part of this great movement Bharat Uday Mission and put their effort for complete development of India. The voices of youth come in bold and innovative way. Simply Yuva is a platform for independent expression by youths in their way, may be Lalkaar, Khalbalee, Gandhigiri or in their independent writing, in their language. Unlike rest of the world, Indian youth are not only concerned with Sexuality, City, Fashion and Money; they are also very much aware to the mess of politics, corruption, development and future of India. It is positive trend to see that joining politics is no worse thing for youth. Now they think that it is the only way to put country on right track. Main objective of Simply Yuva is to promote and nurture such efforts though web n print media. Our main stream media is producing disastrous feed to children and youths. While making poor copy of western media, they all forget Indian values and need of a youth in current circumstances. Even vernacular media is fallowing them. And you have no option to choose among them. Our effort is to eliminate such drawbacks and give a shape for positive medium for youths. It is just an innovative way to put all creative and expressive works of youth together n it will work as an embryo for independent and courageous youth voice. The time has arrived when we are on the verge of launching Simply Yuva as the voice of Youth with following timeline: 1. Submission of Articles for 1st Offline Private Circulation and online edition in Hindi, English n Hinglish- 10th February 2. Our Editorial Meetings- 3,4,10,11 February 3. Launching of Online Edition- Before 11th February 4. Launching of 1st Offline Private Circulation Edition Before 15th February 5. Distribution and marketing Throughout February Segments of Proposed Online n Offline Editions of Simply Yuva 1. Articles related to Countrys Development, Society n all relevant social Issues by Youths n Teenagers 2. Articles related to Countrys Development, Society n all relevant social Issues by Experts 3. NEWS about System Inefficiency, corruption n proposed action on relevant matters 4. Information regarding Youth Events 5. Fictional writings, humorous writings n poems with social messages( Competitions may also be organized) 6. RTI Case Studies 7. Development Of India Case Studies about all sectors 8. Information regarding research works of Universities, schools, colleges, entrepreneurs, individual students, innovators n proposed action about their implementations 9. Information about Career opportunities n Entrepreneurship opportunities 10. Independent Blogging Section n Feedbacks. 11. Current Social NEWS on almost all sectors. So Friends, come out with your passion, voice of your mind n heart, take out your pen n mouse n keyboard n be an activist in one way for the sake of yourself as we the people n 70% amongst us (youths) are future of India n responsible for the development of Our Nation in a good or Bad way. So come on, Yuvaon .Now or Never Join This Effort of Simply Yuva Youth ki Awaaz By the youths of Delhi Chapter of Bharat Uday Mission And Soon to be our National voice of Youths. Mail all your articles to the following ids: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Contact: Amit: +91-9911059101 Krishanu: +91-9312724066 Vikram Bhat: +91-9310610006 Avinash: +91-9313090473 Mahesh: +91-9968282278 Robin: +91-9212302866 Aman: +91-9213406045 --------------------------------- Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Update and Message from Central Team http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/a1699e635ba78fd9?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Feb 5 2007 6:49 am From: "Moderator BharatUdayMission" Dear All BM Members, Please read this mail carefully for very IMPORTANT updates on The Mission. A central team was formed in the Pune National Meet (Nov'06). The team had taken up the task of getting the organization registered officially and bringing in place a proper organizational structure. *Update Since National Meet* ** The team has achieved the following things since the National Meet: * The constitution for the organization has been drafted . Please findattached a draftfor the same. A posting has been made on the BM_Discussion Google group by Dr Prahalathan (Constituent Assembly Convener) for members to post their comments. Please use the forum for discussions. * Chennai Chapter has got registered organization named "BHUMI" under Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act 1975. Currently the executive of this organization is composed of members from Chennai only. To utilise this registration for the general purpose of The Mission, we have to form a proper national executive and replace the current executive of Bhumi. This involves getting the Constitution implemented. * The new website with lot of wonderful features has been developed by the Information team headed by Saurabh Bharat. * Work on an Information Management System (to manage all the BM's information) has been going on. We have now ready, the minimum system ready to manage the membership information. * The work on getting the organization's bank account is near completion. * We have finished work on the Uniform logo, letterhead and visiting card(with the help of Pune chapter). *This signifies some very important things:* * We are no longer, an Internet based organization. Now we *exist formally on ground. ** This makes all the registered members of Bhumi legally responsible for their acts on behalf of the organization. * The onus is on US now to organize ourselves in a better structure, that is defined by the Constitution. We, the members of Central team, are starting the activity of implementing the constitution now. A separate mail with the Instructions for all the members to implement the constitution will be sent soon. Members in the central team will be contacting the chapter coordinators and help them get the constitution implemented. Lets all work together and take the Mission ahead towards a uniform and proper organizational structure. Central Team, Bharat Uday Mission. -- "We have only one Passion, The Rise of a Great Nation." www.bharatudaymission.org ============================================================================== TOPIC: Roadmap for Constitution Implementation http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/aacf68be1880d1cc?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 2 == Date: Tues, Feb 6 2007 10:03 am From: "Moderator BharatUdayMission" Dear BM Members, With the email, we are embarking upon *one of the most Significant activities so far* for the organization. We are starting the implementation of a Uniform, Defined organizational structure for ourselves. The Constitution of the Organization has been made created by the Constituent Assembly over the last few months. Please see the draft attached. The structure we are trying to establish will be in accordance to the Constitution. *The attached image shows the Orgnizational Structure.* The roadmap is defined to get the structure envisioned in place for the first time. After the first National level structure is formed, the system is supposed to be self-sustaining. *Please understand the following points, before you read the roadmap.* ** READ THE CONSTITUTION DOCUMENT VERY CAREFULLY.* In case of any queries, Please post on [email protected] under the discussion thread opened for this purpose. The Constitution team members: Dr Prahalathan ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9884188018 )and Abhijit K ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9960139666 ) shall take care of your doubts . * The Constitution classifies Chapters in India into: *Chapters and Active Chapters.* ** * Only chapters that show reasonable level of activity will be recognised as ACTIVE CHAPTERS that will be able to participate in the decision making process of the mission. Rest of the chapters, will continue to be associated with the Mission and BE HEARD, but they'll have to satisfy certain criterion (defined in the constitution) to be considered ACTIVE. * We has asked for membership data from all the chapters around a month back. Depending on the data submitted to us, following chapters have been identified as Active Chapters: Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Gwalior, Delhi.* *Some of the Chapters could not send the information and hence their status was not decided. *This list is not exhaustive*. Please contact Abhijeet R (9960726006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* ),* or Abhijit K ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 9960139666) or Avik Sarkar ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9820267763 )all Central Team Members, to get clarifications on status of your chapter. * No State level Council/Executive shall be formed as of now. We'll have only Chapter and National Level organization. As we grow, the Constituent assembly (BM_Constitution yahoogroup) will ammend the constitution to suit our needs. *Roadmap* *All The Chapters* 1. To compile the membership information of all the members in two categories: Associate member and Active Member, as follows: Active Members: All persons who have been members for the past 3 months and have done considerable activity in the opinion of Majority of Associate members of the chapter. Associate Members: All other persons associated with the Chapter All the Members together shall be referred to as "The Chapter Council". 2. Send this list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deadline: 15th Feb 2007. 3. Those chapters who have already sent a list, may send an updated list. 4. From among the Active Members, choose by consensus or election: Secretary, Joint Secretary, Treasurer of the chapter. This applies only if the chapter has atleast 3 active members These functionaries should satisfy criterion defined in provision 3.3.4 of the constitution. 5. Inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] names of the 3 functionaries. Deadline: 25th Feb 2007. 6. All chapters (and not only Active chapters) should do this for uniformity, future inclusion as Active chapter and proper coordination. *Active Chapters* 1. After doing above steps, select/elect one person to be representative on National Council. This person may or may not be one of the 3 Functionaries mentioned above. However she/he must be an active member. Select someone who will be willing to manage the affairs of BM at the National level. 2. Inform the name of the Representative to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deadline: 25th Feb 2007 *New Bhumi Executive* 1. The National Council representatives shall form the National Council. They shall elect from among them: National General Secretary, One Joint Secretary, National Treasurer. Deadline: 5th March 2007 2. The National Council so formed will take a decision on replacing the current placeholder executive of Bhumi. Deadline: 15th March 2007 *Afterwards* * The current Central team shall hand over all the responsibility and authority to the New National Council. The current central team shall be dissolved. * The National Council (formed with one representative of each Active Chapter) shall be Supreme Governing body of the Mission. * All the other existing teams (like Information team, Constituent assembly, Policy team) shall continue to function while this exercise is going on. * The National Council, once it is formed, will decide on the future of all teams except Constitutent Assembly. * Constiutent assembly shall continue to function, as per provision 6.1.4 of the constitution. It will make amendments, as needed from time to time, to the Constitution. * The remaining provisions of the Constitution shall be implemented by the National Council. Lets all participate in this Nationalwide exercise and take our Mission towards better organizational structure. Expecting Enthusiastic Cooperation from all of you, Central Team, BM. -- "We have only one Passion, The Rise of a Great Nation." www.bharatudaymission.org == 2 of 2 == Date: Mon, Feb 12 2007 7:52 am From: "Moderator BharatUdayMission" Dear All, The forwarded mail is being resent to ensure proper visibility and attention of all the BM members towards this significant activity happening in the Mission. All the activer chapters and most of the chapters have started the implementation process. Make sure that your chapter is also a part of this process and gets it due recognition within the new strcuture. Regards, Moderatorbm. PS: please pay attention to the deadlines. ----------------------------- Dear BM Members, With the email, we are embarking upon *one of the most Significant activities so far* for the organization. We are starting the implementation of a Uniform, Defined organizational structure for ourselves. The Constitution of the Organization has been made created by the Constituent Assembly over the last few months. Please see the draft attached . The structure we are trying to establish will be in accordance to the Constitution. *The attached image shows the Orgnizational Structure.* The roadmap is defined to get the structure envisioned in place for the first time. After the first National level structure is formed, the system is supposed to be self-sustaining. *Please understand the following points, before you read the roadmap.* ** READ THE CONSTITUTION DOCUMENT VERY CAREFULLY.* In case of any queries, Please post on [email protected] under the discussion thread opened for this purpose. The Constitution team members: Dr Prahalathan ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9884188018 )and Abhijit K ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9960139666 ) shall take care of your doubts . * The Constitution classifies Chapters in India into: *Chapters and Active Chapters.* ** * Only chapters that show reasonable level of activity will be recognised as ACTIVE CHAPTERS that will be able to participate in the decision making process of the mission. Rest of the chapters, will continue to be associated with the Mission and BE HEARD, but they'll have to satisfy certain criterion (defined in the constitution) to be considered ACTIVE. * We has asked for membership data from all the chapters around a month back. Depending on the data submitted to us, following chapters have been identified as Active Chapters: Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Gwalior, Delhi. **Some of the Chapters could not send the information and hence their status was not decided. *This list is not exhaustive*. Please contact Abhijeet R (9960726006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* ),* or Abhijit K ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 9960139666) or Avik Sarkar ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9820267763 )all Central Team Members, to get clarifications on status of your chapter. * No State level Council/Executive shall be formed as of now. We'll have only Chapter and National Level organization. As we grow, the Constituent assembly (BM_Constitution yahoogroup) will ammend the constitution to suit our needs. *Roadmap* *All The Chapters* 1. To compile the membership information of all the members in two categories: Associate member and Active Member, as follows: Active Members: All persons who have been members for the past 3 months and have done considerable activity in the opinion of Majority of Associate members of the chapter. Associate Members: All other persons associated with the Chapter All the Members together shall be referred to as "The Chapter Council". 2. Send this list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deadline: 15th Feb 2007. 3. Those chapters who have already sent a list, may send an updated list. 4. From among the Active Members, choose by consensus or election: Secretary, Joint Secretary, Treasurer of the chapter. This applies only if the chapter has atleast 3 active members These functionaries should satisfy criterion defined in provision 3.3.4 of the constitution. 5. Inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] names of the 3 functionaries. Deadline: 25th Feb 2007. 6. All chapters (and not only Active chapters) should do this for uniformity, future inclusion as Active chapter and proper coordination. *Active Chapters* 1. After doing above steps, select/elect one person to be representative on National Council. This person may or may not be one of the 3 Functionaries mentioned above. However she/he must be an active member. Select someone who will be willing to manage the affairs of BM at the National level. 2. Inform the name of the Representative to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deadline: 25th Feb 2007 *New Bhumi Executive* 1. The National Council representatives shall form the National Council. They shall elect from among them: National General Secretary, One Joint Secretary, National Treasurer. Deadline: 5th March 2007 2. The National Council so formed will take a decision on replacing the current placeholder executive of Bhumi. Deadline: 15th March 2007 *Afterwards* * The current Central team shall hand over all the responsibility and authority to the New National Council. The current central team shall be dissolved. * The National Council (formed with one representative of each Active Chapter) shall be Supreme Governing body of the Mission . * All the other existing teams (like Information team, Constituent assembly, Policy team) shall continue to function while this exercise is going on. * The National Council, once it is formed, will decide on the future of all teams except Constitutent Assembly. * Constiutent assembly shall continue to function, as per provision 6.1.4 of the constitution. It will make amendments, as needed from time to time, to the Constitution. * The remaining provisions of the Constitution shall be implemented by the National Council. Lets all participate in this Nationalwide exercise and take our Mission towards better organizational structure. Expecting Enthusiastic Cooperation from all of you, Central Team, BM. -- "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: India still not 'shining': Rights Activist http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/598e38fe207db54b?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Thurs, Feb 8 2007 4:19 pm From: Rishikesh http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_still_not_shining_Rights_activist/articleshow/1580178.cms MUMBAI: As long as one out of four Indians go to bed hungry every night, human rights for all will remain a dream in India, says an international human rights activist. While a mere three percent of India was "shining" in metropolitan cities, a whopping 80 percent of over one billion people living in rural deprivation and urban slums were "whining", John Samuel, international director of Bangkok-based Action Aid, said. Samuel, visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the Sussex University, said unless the country addressed this paradox of tremendous growth with unprecedented inequality, the promises in the Indian constitution about provision of basic human rights could not be realised. "When 50,000 people die every single day across the world due to poverty, the challenge is to use human rights as a means to expose injustice, discrimination and double standards," Samuel said on the sidelines of a February 6-8 conference titled 'Human rights based approach to development' here. "About 250 million Dalits, Adivasis (tribals) and indigenous people are at the receiving end of the growth-driven economic globalisation, perpetuating inequality, and poverty and consequent conflicts," asserted Samuel, who has been in the forefront of advocacy for human rights and social justice in India and internationally for more than two decades. "When only a minute section of the society gets benefit from the neo-liberal globalisation and the large majority are pushed into further deprivation, perpetuating inequality and when such inequality is also connected to identities of the excluded, it becomes a breeding ground for conflict, violence and armed insurgencies," he warned. Hence, the key challenge for the policy makers, Samuel said, is whether the country should invest more budgets for education, primary health care and livelihood protection of the majority or to increase the number of police force and army to contain the unrest. "These are the hard choices the political leadership has to make today to nurture a peaceful and prosperous India," he said. "These are all pressing challenges for real human rights, in the face of unbridled economic globalisation, based on exploitative extraction of natural resources and livelihoods, driven by powerful corporate interests," Samuel said. Today more than ever there is a greater challenge for human rights activists to work towards economic, social and ecological justice. "Human rights should be a means for a new transformative politics and ethics, where the poor and excluded can claim their human rights and economic capabilities," Samuel said. It was a myth, Samuel observed, that economic globalisation is an inevitable roller-coaster ride to prosperity. But another world is indeed possible, a world truly committed to human rights and social justice, a world without poverty and discrimination. Pointing out the need to work as citizens to claim human rights and demand accountability and transparency from the state, Samuel said: "It is citizens who are the owners of the state and its shapers, and not the other way around." The paradox, he said, in Indian democracy is promoted by undemocratic and non-transparent political practices. Hence, there is a crisis of democracy, governance and leadership in the country. "Electoral politics is captured by the kith and kin of career politicians at the cost of ethical leadership. Hence, human rights cannot be seen only as a set of treaties, conventions and principles. Human rights should be a means to resist discriminative practices in all spheres," Samuel observed. There is a need to make the state accountable, there is a need to bring ordinary people to fight for human rights violations against Dalits, Adivasis, indigenous peoples, women, ordinary people, civil societies and excluded communities, Samuel said. A collective approach is needed for a pluralistic struggle for human rights not based on Western tradition but inspired by the struggle waged by great Indian social reformers like Kabir, Birsa Munda, Jyotibha Phule, Pandita Ramabai, Narayan Guru et al, he stressed. -- Co-opearation and not competition, is key to success for entities having 2 or more units. ============================================================================== You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BM_discussion" group. 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