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ranjani --- On Fri, 3/6/11, Kamayani <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kamayani <[email protected]> Subject: [humanrights-movement:4402] Fwd: Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur To: Date: Friday, 3 June, 2011, 7:26 PM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: charu pathak <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM Subject: Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur To: Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur and the repression of workers' movement New Delhi, 3 June. The three-member fact-finding team comprising media persons and social activists which enquired into the incident of firing on factory workers on 3rd May in Gorakhpur city of Uttar Pradesh has raised questions on the role of the local administration and police while demanding a high-level enquiry in the incidents.The fact-finding team which visited Gorakhpur from 19 to 21 May released its report in New Delhi today. The team included Delhi-based journalist Nagarjuna Singh, political commentator and activist from Kolkata Sourav Banerjee and documentary filmmaker from Delhi Charu Chandra Pathak. The team met a number of officials, trade union leaders, workers, social activists, politicians, media persons and concerned citizens in Gorakhpur to collect facts and opinions about the incident of firing, police action on workers and the continuing labour unrest in Gorakhpur.The report says that the immediate cause of the firing was that around 1500 workers of several factories went to New Delhi to participate in the May Day rally organised by the Workers Charter Movement despite the opposition of factory owners. 18 leading workers of a yarn mill Ankur Udyog Ltd. were suspended. On the morning of 3rd May when some armed persons attacked the workers and were trying to forcefully take workers leader Prashant inside the factory premises, the workers protested and threw stones in their defence. This was followed by firing from within the factory gates which caused injuries to 19 workers and a girl student. The fact-finding team concluded that the 3rd May incident is not an isolated incident but culmination of the conflict between workers and factory owners in Gorakhpur since two years. The workers are struggling for their basic rights for more than two years which has infuriated the owners. The administration is not responsive to the workers' demands. The enquiry brought into sharp focus the fact that the workers are not being heard and the callousness and repeated use of force by the administration is worsening the situation.The team has demanded that the UP government must order a high-level enquiry into the firing in Ankur Udyog Ltd. The report has termed the divisional commissioner's order of magisterial enquiry as preposterous because the role of the local administration in the episode is under a cloud. The other recommendations of the report include arrest of named accused of the firing, solution of problems of workers by negotiations held in cordial atmosphere with workers and their leaders, an enquiry into the compliance of labour laws in factories of Gorakhpur, enquiry into the role of the police and payment of compensation to the injured workers. -- Nagarjuna Singh, Senior Sub-Editor, Hindustan, New Delhi Ph: 9953623417, Email: [email protected] -- Sourav Banerjee, Ph: 9811841341, Email: [email protected] -- Charu Chandra Pathak, Ph: 9818376996, Email: [email protected] -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews. http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/ http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights 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/humanrights-movement?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights 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/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
