---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravi Kuchimanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 6, 2007 7:08 AM Subject: [Aid-awareness] Draw IIT-Kanpur director's attention to causes of recent deaths and help save future lives. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends, The letter and links below provide information on two tragic deaths at IIT-Kanpur. You can help by adding your name to the letter to help seek compensation from IIT for victims' families and to improve working conditions and health care at IIT. Please pass it on to all concerned friends and lists and it will be particularly good if IIT students, faculty, staff and alumni can read and sign the letter. We hope such vigilance by concerned citizens, both at IIT-Kanpur and by all of us in India and around the world, will help prevent avoidable deaths in future, both due to poor working conditions and apathy in health care delivery. Thanks! Ravi Kuchimanchi Alumnus, IIT-Bombay. * * *Child's Tragic Death <http://aidindia.org/main/content/view/503/86/> | Electrocution Death<http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,202/>| Enquiry Committee Report <http://aidindia.org/main/content/view/507/86/> | **Letter to IIT-Kanpur Director<http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,201/> * *Deaths at IIT-Kanpur spur demand for proper treatment of workers.<http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,201/> **Please read and sign letter<http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,201/> * <http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,201/> To Professor Sanjay G. Dhande The Director Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Kanpur, 208016 Dear Prof Dhande, We are shocked to hear about the death of a laborer's child in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and the apathy of the administration towards this incident. The Institute's Health Center refused to admit the child on August 25, 2007 when he was bitten by a snake/scorpion, and knocked at its door, battling for his life. Within a week there was another death on campus -- Mr Udayvir Yadav, a worker who was not provided proper electricity connection to equipment he was using, was killed by electrocution on August 30. These two incidents suggest poor and exploitative working conditions within the IIT campus at Kanpur, India. These are avoidable deaths that have occurred on grounds of an Institute that claims excellence in technology internationally. We expect that good technical institutions would provide technically safe and efficient working conditions in their campuses, as required by human rights legislature, born out of equal respect for the lives of the elite and labouring classes. These events expose a completely opposite picture. *We demand that IIT-Kanpur:* 1. Compensates adequately the families of both victims. 2. Provides free health care facility at the IIT's Health Centre and referral facility when needed, for all labourers, permanent and casual working on the campus. 3. Regularly monitors working conditions of all workers and labourers on campus, including those engaged via contracts and sub-contracts to third parties, for safety, compliance of remuneration with minimum wage act and provision of proper education and health-care to all their family members including children. 4. Ensures that the voice of Minimum Wage Monitoring Committee, set up with involvement of IIT-Kanpur's director in 2000, is heard and implemented on issues concerning worker rights. 5. Comes out with an explanation why the Security guards and Health Centre were so callous to the needs of a child on the threshold of death and what steps will be taken to prevent the recurrence of such incidents in the future As the principal employer, IIT Kanpur is accountable to the welfare of all the workers engaged on campus. *Cc:* Dr. Manmohan Singh,Prime Minister of India Dr Arjun Singh ,Minister for Human Resource Development Professor M. Anandakrishnan , Chairman Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Members of the Board of Governers IIT Kanpur In Solidarity, Sign letter<http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,201/> Petition link: http://aidindia.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,201/ _______________________________________________ AID-awareness is grateful to Shreyas, Ved, Anish and Devi for their tremendous technical support. We are also grateful to numerous contributors who make us more and more aware about the Indian world around us. Aid-awareness mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please login at http://lists.aidindia.org/mailman/listinfo/aid-awareness --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
