Odisha Matric results published- top ten Saraswati Vidyamandir 13 student,top 100-52 Saraswati Vidyamandir students

Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education today declared the results of Annual High School Certificate (HSC) examinations-2012. Total pass percentage 67.9 percent and percentage of Regular pass is 70.8.

Nearly twelve hours before the scheduled declaration of 2012 Matriculation examination results, the website of Board of Secondary Education (BSE) website has been allegedly hacked last night. While results are circulated in social network sites, the ‘leaked’ list also contains names of the top 100 students. List of top 100 students circulates in social media.
Dibyanshu Kar of Oupada High School, Balasore has topped in this year’s Matriculation examination with 588 marks. While Ankit Mahapatra of Saraswati Vidyamandir, Boudh secured 583 marks, Sthitaprajna Nath Sharma of Ravenshaw Colleagiate School, Cuttack secured 582 marks to bag second and third spot respectively.

The other students who are in top ten list include Nirlipta Mahanta of Saraswati Vidyamandir, Keonjhargarh (4), Gopabandhu Hota, SN High School, Soro (5), Snigdha Swarupa Dalai, Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Neelakantha Nagar, Sourav Sabat, Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Neelakantha Nagar, Devi Prasad Prusty, saraswati VidyaMandir, College Sqare (6), Sibananda Panigrahy, Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Neelakantha Nagar (6), Sasmita Sahoo, P S Girls High School, Balakati (7), Shubham Saswat Rout, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, College Square (8) and Upasana Mallick, PBK High School, Banarpal (8).

THE SOCIAL SERVICE OF UTKAL BIPANNA SAHAYATA SAMITI ON THE EVE OF RATHAYATRA

Puri ( vsk ) – A number of service activities is being initiated at Puri on the eve of Ratha Yatra by Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti, Odisha, the Seva unit of Rastriya Swayam Sevak Sangha starting from Netroschhoba to Sunabesha.

The paramedical service organized by UBSS in the campus of DistrictHospital,Puri was opened by Sri Adwaitya Charan Dutta, the RSS Khetra Pracharak in charge of Odisha andWest Bengal. Medical treatment was given to sixty patients in the above medical centre where four ambulance were engaged through day and night. Twenty doctors were engaged in the above mission who had distributed medicines to 420 patients. 400 swayam sevaks of RSS were working inside the security zone of three Ratha from 8 am to 6 pm. 55 Swayam Sevaks have distributed 25000 water pouch through 5 centres. Swayam Sevaks will continue to work for road cleaning ,water distribution, and medical treatment till Suna Besha. UBSS has requested people to work for tree plantation,water conservation, and abolition of polythene. RSS Pranta Pracharak Sri Jagdish Prasad Khadanga, Pranta Pracharak Pramukh Sri Simanchal Khatua, Sri Mohini Mohan Mishra, all India Secretary,Bharatiya Kisan Sangha, Sri Binaya Bhuyan, chief of Dharma Jagaran Samiti,Odisha have directed and guided the above Seva work at Puri.

NCERT ignores Odisha’s Buddhist heritage sites

Despite the Odisha Government’s efforts over the last decade, there is limited awareness about the Buddhist sites of the Ratnagiri-Lalitagiri-Udaygiri belt not only in India and abroad but even in the State.

A main reason for this is that while other major Buddhist sites in India such as Bodh Gaya, Sanchi and Nalanda are mentioned in school textbooks across the country, the important NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) books, which are used by the CBSE and by people taking various competitive examinations including the civil services do not mention the Buddhist sites of Odisha, laments leading non-resident Odia (NRO) Chitta Baral.

In particular, there is a map of major Buddhists sites in India in the NCERT 12th grade history book available at http://ncert.nic.in/ncerts/l/lehs1dd.zip. There is no site from Odisha in this map, not even Ratnagiri-Lalitagiri-Udayagiri.

But Ratnagiri-Lalitagiri-Udaygiri is more than a major Buddhist site in India, and many scholars and researchers of India and abroad have compared Ratnagiri with Nalanda, which is considered one of the first proto-university of the world.

The organisers of the first symposium on Buddhist heritage of Odisha have compiled various quotes from research papers and books on this, and the compilation is available at http://bit.ly/ratnagiri. “Readers are requested to explore this link to get a sense of what we have in Ratnagiri-Lalitagiri-Udaygiri, Odisha, and what researchers around the world think about it,” says Prof Baral.

“The goal of our first symposium on the Buddhist heritage of Odisha to be held on July 5 in Seattle as part of the annual OSA (Odisha Society of Americas) convention is to address the above anomaly and strategise to have Ratnagiri mentioned in the NCERT and other text books and lay the groundwork for establishment of a Ratnagiri-Puspagiri international university as a revival of Ratnagiri and Puspagiri Mahaviharas, similar to the recent establishment of the Nalanda International University in Bihar.

In the symposium, USA-based researchers (some non-Indians) will discuss the issue and lend their support. The tentative agenda of the symposium and its goals are in the web pages given above.

The plan is to follow up this event with a larger symposium in Bhubaneswar where textbook writers from the NCERT, CBSE, ICSE and other boards can be invited and told about Odisha's Buddhist heritage, especially about Ratnagiri-Lalitagiri-Udaygiri, and taken to those sites and encouraged to include them in their textbooks.

The organisers think that having Ratnagiri-Lalitagiri-Udaygiri mentioned in textbooks that are read by tens of millions of children of India in their formative years will be more effective and long-lasting than any ad campaign, even the ones costing hundreds of crores.

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Surjeet is home, after 30 years in Pakistan prison




After 30 years of incarceration in Pakistan on charges of being a spy, Surjeet Singh returned home Thursday to a tumultuous and teary welcome from family and friends.



Held in Pakistan on spying charges in the early 1980s, Surjeet, 69, was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail early Thursday and made the road journey to Wagah, on the Pakistan side of the border, before entering his homeland.

Smiling and waving to family members, friends and supporters, Surjeet thanked Pakistani border officials as he walked across the zero line at the international border.

He was garlanded and hugged by family members and fellow villagers from Phidde in Ferozepur district. Dozens of camera crews and media persons jostled with each other to capture the moment.

"I am very happy to return after 30 years and meeting my children and family," Surjeet said.

"Indian prisoners are treated well in Pakistan jails. Sarabjit Singh is also doing well there. He has sent no message with me. Leave it to me, I will get him released... Please don't ask anything more," Surjeet told reporters here, referring to Sarabjit Singh, also from Punjab who has been in Kot Lakhpat jail.

Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and black turban and carrying two bags, Surjeet was brought to the Wagah border on the Pakistan side in a prison van.

Though he had been freed, his left hand was in handcuffs. The accompanying policemen got down with him but did not open the handcuffs.

He smiled and hugged his lawyer. Once the formalities were completed, he crossed to the Attari side of the joint border checkpost, about 30 km from Amritsar, where his family and friends waited excitedly to meet him.

His son Kulwinder, holding a box of sweets, couldn't hold back his tears. The family had given up hope of seeing him again, presuming him to be dead after he went missing near the border in Ferozepur sector in 1982.

"I was only two-three years old when he went missing. This is the biggest day of my life," said Kulwinder, with his mother Harbans Kaur next to him.

"We are very happy that he is being finally released. We will have big celebrations," said Kulwinder, who arrived here Thursday morning with family members, relatives and villagers.

Indian border officials took Surjeet, who had spent 30 years in Pakistani jails on charges of spying, into a room for a briefing. Surjeet completed his life term in 2005.

"We are all very eager to receive him. We will make him very comfortable here," Surjeet's daughter-in-law said in his village.

From Attari, his family members took Surjeet to Amritsar to offer prayers at the holiest of Sikh shrines, Harmandar Sahib (popularly known as Golden Temple).

Pakistan authorities are also likely to allow nearly 300 Indian fishermen to walk back to India after their release from Karachi prison Wednesday. Most of the fishermen are from Gujarat.

They were in Pakistani custody for periods ranging from a few months to three years after they were accused of violating Pakistan's territorial water off the coast of Gujarat.

Surjeet's release came in the midst of the controversy and flip-flop over the release of Sarabjit Singh.

The Pakistan side had Tuesday evening announced that Sarabjit, who is facing death penalty on terrorism charges, would be released after his death sentence was commuted by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari.

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रथ पूजा को श्रद्धालु उत्साहित, संध्या दर्शन आज

महाप्रभु श्री जगन्नाथ, प्रभु बलभद्र, देवी सुभद्रा और श्री सुदर्शन आड़प मण्डप में विराजमान किए हैं। गुरुवार को महाप्रभु की संध्या दर्शन नीति सम्पन्न होगी। शुक्रवार को बाहुड़ा यात्रा में महाप्रभु निकलेंगे श्रीमंदिर के लिए। शनिवार को रथ के ऊपर महाप्रभु को सोने के वेश में सजाया जाएगा, जिसे सोनावेश कहा जाता है। तीनों रथ गुण्डिचा मंदिर के सिंहद्वार के सामने लगने के बाद महाप्रभु पहण्डी विजे होकर आड़प मण्डप में अवस्थान कर रहे हैं। अब तीनों रथ में महाप्रभु बाहुड़ा यात्रा में निकलने के लिए तीनों रथ को दक्षिण मोड़ कर नाकचड़ा द्वार के सामने रखा गया है। मंगलवार को देवी सुभद्रा के दर्प दलन रथ दक्षिण मोड़ कर नाकचड़ा द्वार के सामने रखा गया था। बलभद्र जी के तालध्वज रथ आधे रास्ते तक खींचा गया था। रात हो जाने की वजह से रथ खींचने का कार्य बंद कर दिया गया। आज दोनों तालध्वज और नंदीघोष रथ को खींच कर नाकचड़ा द्वार के सामने खड़ा कर दिया गया है। रथ खींचने के लिए काफी मात्रा में सुरक्षा व्यवस्था की गई थी। पुलिस कर्मचारी रथ खींचे थे। भक्त भी रथ खींचते हुए पुण्य अर्जन किए हैं। शरधाबाली इलाका जनसमागम से भर गया है। तीनों रथ पर चढ़कर दर्शनार्थियों ने भगवान विजय स्थली का दर्शन कर रहे हैं। श्रीगुण्डिचा मंदिर के अन्दर आज सभी नीति सम्पन्न हो रही है। गुरुवार को संध्या दर्शन के लिए श्रीमंदिर प्रशासन की ओर से स्वतंत्र नीति निर्घण्ट प्रस्तुत किया गया है। रात के 9 बजे के बाद दर्शन बंद कर दिया जाएगा और महाप्रभु की अन्दर की नीति सम्पन्न होगी। बाहुड़ा यात्रा में निकलने के लिए महाप्रभु को सेनापटा लागी किया जाएगा। खिचड़ी भोग खाकर महाप्रभु शुक्रवार को बाहुड़ा यात्रा में निकलें

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राष्ट्रपति पद के लिए प्रणब

19 Odisha, Jharkhand kids rescued in Kovai

By J Santhosh|ENS - COIMBATORE

28th June 2012 07:48 AM

• End of an ordeal: The Odisha children, who were rescued from a home in Kanyakumari, bid farewell before boarding a train to their native village. EPS

Pointing to serious gaps in the anti-human trafficking setup in the State, 19 children, hailing from Odisha and Jharkhand, were found illegally confined in an unauthorised children’s home in the district.

This has come to light barely four-days after a batch of 18 Odisha children were rescued from a church premise in Kanyakumari district.

The Social Welfare Department unearthed the racket while probing the recent incident in Kanyakumari district. “We found that the children were brought to Kanyakumari by the accused priest Claret from the Blessing Welfare Society located at Sirumugai in Coimbatore district,” said a highly-placed source.

The Coimbatore district police had alerted the Social Welfare Department about large number of Odisha children illegally held at the Blessing Welfare Society home nearly nine months. But apparently, the officials had not considered the tip-off with due seriousness even in the wake of 23 Nepal girls rescued from the Micheal Job Orphange.

Rajkumar, who was running the home, is now under judicial custody after the Kanyakumari police arrested him three days ago. “The children were taken from the parents by promising that they will be given quality education and other facilities. But the children were not even sent to school and were kept confined in a room under inhumane conditions,” said Pradip K Patra, state coordinator of Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), Odisha, who is in the State to retrieve the children.

Nellai Group Homeward

The Tirunelveli Child Welfare Committee was on Wednesday ordered to take back the 18 children rescued from a church, to their native, Odisha. B Nalan of the CWC said the children left for Odisha on a train via Chennai on Wednesday.

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कौन बने प्रधानमंत्री?

Source: चेतन भगत

पिछले हफ्ते मैंने अपने पब्लिक फेसबुक पेज पर यूं ही एक सरल-सा पोल करवाया था। मैंने एक सरल प्रश्न पूछा था : भारत का प्रधानमंत्री किसे बनना चाहिए? विकल्प भी सरल थे : राहुल गांधी, नरेंद्र मोदी और इनमें से कोई नहीं। मेरा इरादा किसी तरह के पक्षपात का नहीं था। पेज पर देशभर के फेसबुक यूजर्स ने छह हजार से अधिक वोट दिए। राहुल गांधी को 5 फीसदी वोट मिले। नरेंद्र मोदी को 76 फीसदी वोट मिले। शेष प्रतिभागियों ने दोनों में से किसी को नहीं चुना। यह एक सार्वजनिक निर्णय था और मैं इसे नियंत्रित नहीं कर सकता था। इसे मेरे पब्लिक फेसबुक पेज www.facebook.com/chetanbhagat.fanpage पर देखा जा सकता है।

नहीं, मैं यह कहने की कोशिश नहीं कर रहा हूं कि यह देश का फैसला था। वास्तव में यह राष्ट्रीय जनादेश से बहुत अलग भी हो सकता है, क्योंकि फेसबुक का उपयोग करने वालों में युवा, समृद्ध और तुलनात्मक रूप से अधिक शिक्षित भारतीयों की संख्या अधिक है। जैसा कि कहा जाता है, फेसबुक का उपयोग करने वाले अधिकतर लोग तो चुनाव में वोट डालने भी नहीं जाते। वहीं मोदी के भी कुछ उत्साही समर्थक हैं, जो इस तरह के पोल होने पर उनका समर्थन करने पहुंच जाते हैं।

बहरहाल, इन आंकड़ों को पूरी तरह से नजरअंदाज कर देना भी मूर्खतापूर्ण होगा। सायबरस्पेस में नरेंद्र मोदी की हमेशा से ही एक तरह की फैन फॉलोइंग रही है, लेकिन इसके बावजूद 5 के बनाम 76 की बढ़त हासिल करना चौंकाने वाला है। इसका मतलब है कि मोदी के प्रशंसक वर्ग में पिछले दो साल में नाटकीय बढ़ोतरी हुई है। यह केवल गुजरात में चलाया गया सेंपल पोल नहीं था। यह राष्ट्रीय पोल था।

नरेंद्र मोदी की तुलना में राहुल गांधी राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर कहीं बेहतर ढंग से पहचाने जाने वाले ब्रांड हैं। वे युवा, सुंदर, सौम्य और कुछ मायनों में आकांक्षापूर्ण भी हैं। फिर देश के युवाओं ने उन्हें क्यों वोट नहीं दिए? और यदि नरेंद्र मोदी वास्तव में ही इतने दोषपूर्ण हैं, जैसा कि उन्हें बताया जाता है, तो लोग उन्हें वोट क्यों दे रहे हैं? नरेंद्र मोदी के उदय की क्या वजह है? और इससे भी अधिक जरूरी बात यह है कि क्या वे गुजरात और सायबर प्रदेश की पसंद होने के साथ ही 28 राज्यों की पसंद भी बन सकते हैं?

पहले राहुल गांधी के बारे में बात करते हैं। प्रथम परिवार की अनुकंपा की चाह रखने वाले कांग्रेसजनों और अंग्रेजी मीडिया ने राजनीति में राहुल के प्रवेश का जोर-शोर से स्वागत किया था। राहुल ने अपने पदार्पण पर कई उम्मीदें जगाईं, लेकिन वे एक ऐसे समय परिदृश्य पर उभरे, जब कांग्रेस का मुश्किल दौर चल रहा था। व्यापक पैमाने पर घोटाले हो रहे थे और सरकार दंभ का प्रदर्शन करते हुए भ्रष्टों को बचाने और भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी आंदोलनों को कुचलने की कोशिश कर रही थी।

राहुल ऐसे मौकों पर जनता के सामने नहीं आए। आलोचनाओं के समक्ष मौन धारण कर लेना आमतौर पर एक अच्छी रणनीति होती है, लेकिन केवल तभी, जब आलोचना बेबुनियाद हो। कांग्रेस नैतिक रूप से गलत थी और उसने आरोपों को स्वीकार करने से भी इनकार कर दिया। लोकपाल बिल को भुला दिया गया, सीबीआई ने सरकार का साथ दिया और न्याय प्रक्रिया की धीमी चाल से भी उसे फायदा हुआ। ऐसे में राहुल गांधी से ज्यादा की अपेक्षा करना शायद ज्यादती ही थी। राहुल को भारतीयों के बदलते सांस्कृतिक रुझानों के कारण भी मुश्किलों का सामना करना पड़ा।

हालांकि भारतीय अब भी वंश परंपरा पर मुग्ध रहते हैं, लेकिन देश का शिक्षित तबका अब अधिकार बोध से जुड़े सवाल उठाने लगा है। कांग्रेस को अपने रवैये पर पुनर्विचार करना होगा। उसे सोचना होगा कि राहुल को मुश्किल हालात से दूर रखने से बेहतर तो यही होगा कि मुश्किल हालात पैदा होने की नौबत ही न आए।

दूसरी तरफ नरेंद्र मोदी का कद निरंतर बढ़ता ही गया है। निश्चित ही अनेक लोग इसका श्रेय गुजरात में हुए विकास को देते हैं, लेकिन किसी व्यक्ति की ‘कल्ट फॉलोइंग’ के लिए विकास का रिकॉर्ड ही काफी नहीं होता। मोदी की लोकप्रियता का राज उनका व्यक्तित्व है। उनमें जिस तरह की त्वरा है, समृद्धि और निर्णयशीलता के प्रति उनके जो आग्रह हैं, वह देश के युवाओं की मानसिकता के अनुरूप हैं। आज अच्छे कॉलेजों में पर्याप्त सीट्स नहीं हैं और अच्छी कंपनियों में पर्याप्त जॉब्स नहीं हैं। युवा चाहते हैं कि इन समस्याओं का समाधान हो और उन्हें लगता है मोदी ऐसा कर सकते हैं।

युवाओं को भले ही स्वार्थी कहा जाए, लेकिन सच तो यही है कि वे इतिहास के किसी विवादित अध्याय की अधिक परवाह नहीं करते। जब आपका भविष्य संकट में हो, तब आप किसी और के अतीत की अधिक चिंता नहीं कर सकते। वास्तव में मोदी की लोकप्रियता का एक राज उनकी निरंतर होने वाली आलोचना भी है। कांग्रेस के मोदी-विरोधी आलाप ने मोदी की लार्जर दैन लाइफ छवि बना दी है।

एक समय था, जब मोदी का समर्थन करने का मतलब था सांप्रदायिक करार दिया जाना। लेकिन आज मोदी का समर्थन करने का मतलब है कांग्रेस की नीतियों का विरोध करना। और चूंकि लाखों लोग बदलाव चाहते हैं, इसलिए वे मोदी की ओर आकृष्ट हो रहे हैं। लेकिन क्या मोदी को मिलने वाला सायबर समर्थन देश की सड़कों तक पहुंच सकता है? कहना कठिन है। हो सकता है। इंटरनेट अक्सर आगामी घटनाओं की पूर्वसूचना देता है। अन्ना आंदोलन भी सड़कों पर उतर आने से पहले इंटरनेट पर फैल चुका था। यदि मोदी भाग्यशाली साबित हुए, यदि वे विनम्र बने रहे, अतीत की घटनाओं के लिए वास्तव में खेद प्रकट करते रहे और सही कदम उठाते रहे, तो यह उनके साथ भी हो सकता है।

मोदी की पार्टी भारतीय जनता पार्टी और उसके गठबंधन सहयोगियों को भी यह समझना चाहिए। उन्हें भी नरेंद्र मोदी पर दांव लगाना चाहिए, जो विवादों के बावजूद लोकप्रियता के सोपान चढ़ते जा रहे हैं। साथ ही उन्हें अंदरूनी कलह पर रोक लगाकर अगला चुनाव जीतने पर अपना ध्यान केंद्रित करना चाहिए और जनसमर्थन जुटाना चाहिए। यदि वे ऐसा नहीं कर पाए तो उनका प्रधानमंत्री फेसबुक तक ही सीमित रह जाएगा।
(लेख में व्यक्त विचार लेखक के निजी हैं।)

SAKALA -Orissa to follow Karnataka Model

June 27th, 2012, 10:56 pm

Bangalore June: 27 :‘ORISSA Government is all set to implement the Guarantee of Citizens’ Services Act. The Orissa cabinet has approved a draft bill in this regard and has been sent for approval of the Central Government’ said Sri. B.K.Patnaik, Chief Secretary of Orrissa, here today. He was on a visit to Bangalore to study the process of implementation of Guarantee of Citizen Services Act.

Sakala Logo

He was talking in ameetiung arranged in this regard under the chairmanship of Sri.S.V.Ranganath, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Karnataka. He interacted with the heads of implementing departments. Dr.Shalini Rajaneesh, Principal secretary, DPAR and Mission Director Sakala, Sri.Maneesh Moudgil, Additional Mission Director Sakala, Dr.B.R.Mamatha, Joint Director and Nodal officer for Publicity Sakala, and other senior officers of different implementing Departments of Home, Revenue, E-Governence, Transport and others were present in this interactive session.

Dr.Shalini Rajneesh, while addressing the meeting, said that, SAKALA the process of implementation of sakala, and said that Citizen services Act is as good and as effective as RTI Act.

Mr. Maneesh Moudgil explained the practical problems in implementing SAKALA and also assured that the Mission had taken it as a challenge and had deviced mechanism to overcome hurdles.

Sri.S.V.Ranganath who chaired the meeting said that Government is striving hard to simplify the procedural process and its also thinking of bringing 300 more services under the purview of Sakala. He opined that the acceptance of SAKALA by the political leadership of the State barring any political affiliations is the main reason for the phenomenal success of Sakala.

Dr.B.R.Mamatha, the nodal officer, publicity, SAKALA, said an Action Plan for Publicity of SAKALA was a consciously Planned Strategy and was aimed at creating awareness about SAKALA to every nook and corner of the State.This has led to its success. She said that involving both conventional and non conventional media for the publicity and using innovative methods like social networking sites were the reason for this effective publicity.

ABOUT SAKALA:

Sakala; What the system essentially means for the common man is that the bureaucracy will have to deliver within a set deadline a list of services notified in the Karnataka Gazette.

In all, 151 services of 11 major government departments have been brought within the ambit of Sakala, and they are Commercial Taxes, Education, Food and Civil Supplies, Health and Family Welfare, Home, Labour, Revenue , Transport and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj.

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SAKALA: Enthuses school Children

Bangalore, June 27: The SAKALA Programme ( Karnataka Guarantee Of Services to Citizen Act) has also managed to generate interest among socially conscious school students. Aditi Mallya school located in Yelahanka have come forward to assist the Department of Information in the Publicity Campaign launched by the Department for a period of one year.

The students of class 12 of Aditi Mallya school today attended a workshop on SAKALA organized by the Department Of Information for them.

Dr.Mamatha.B.R., Joint Director, Department of Information and Nodal Officer, Publicity, SAKALA, addressed the students about the Act, its benefits and the communication, Action Plan adapted by the Department.

The students will be assisting the Department in door to door campaign, Social networking campaign and will also prepare creative software for audio-visual Media, Street plays and such other activities.

RSS former Chief Inaugurates 11th National Training Camp of Muslim Rashtriya Manch

June 28th, 2012, 12:58 pm

Puskar, Rajasthan June 27: “Muslims in India have not come from outside but belong to this country and is an inseparable part of the national life of this country like their Hindus”, observed K S Sudarshan, former Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) here on Tuesday.

KS Sudarshan, Former RSS Sarasanghachalak

Sudarshan was delivering inaugural speech at the inauguration of the 11^th National Training Camp of Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) at Hotel New Park here at the historical township of Pushkar. MRM National Convener Mohd,. Afzal, co-convener and incharge of the camp Abbas Ali Bohra, Chhattisgarh Waqf Board Chairman Salim Ashrafi and former national convener of MRM Salavat Khan were prominently present on the dais.

Sudarshan said that all those living in India were Hindus. He narrated an incident from the life of Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid of Delhi while he was on haj pilgrimage to Mecca. There he was asked to state his identity which came out to be Hindu as he was from Hindustan. Hence, Sudarshan said “we are all Hindus and this is our country Hindustan”.

Delving into the historical beginning of Muslim Rashtriya Manch a decade ago the former RSS Chief said that he had asked former President of All India Imam Council Maulana Jameel Iliyasi as to why the Muslims considered themselves as ‘minority’ when they belonged to this society and country as much as the Hindus?

The former RSS chief, K.S. Sudarshan, meets Shia leader Maulana Hamidul Hasan at his residence in Lucknow on Sunday, November 09, 2009

The former RSS Chief who was most respectfully referred to as ‘Param Sarsanghchalak’ by Imran Chaudhary and Mohd Afzal, explained in detail how the British rulers wedged a divide between the Hindus and Muslims after 1857 war which both had fought together and how the Congress in independent India reduced the Muslims to a mere vote bank. He also narrated the role of the then RSS Chief M S Golwalkar in persuading Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir to merge his state in India.

He appealed the Muslims to understand this game of the Congress party and save themselves from being reduced to mere vote bank in the future.

MRM National Convener Mohd Afzal in his speech traced the beginning of MRM and said that the MRM endeavored to impress upon the people that Islam is really the religion of peace and that there was no place for violence and terrorism in the name of Islam.

Referring to the fatwa issued by the Darul-uloom Deoband against terrorism in the name of religion, he said that it was the efforts and campaign by the MRM that prompted Deoband to issue such a fatwa denouncing terrorism and wanton killings in the name of jihad and religion.

He said that the MRM activists have unfurled the national tricolor at Srinagar in Kashmir and sang Vande Mataram there braving all adverse situations. Not only this, the MRM participated in the MRM delegates participated in the Amarnath Shrine Board agitation and submitted a memorandum containing signatures of 10 lakh Muslims from the country to the President demanding ban on cow slaughter.

He said that the MRM believed in the concept of Hindutva which according to him was all encompassing and included the gurudwaras, churches and baba garib nawaz meaning the Sikhs, Christians and Muslims are covered by the term Hindu.

Referring to the current debate on RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement on who should become the next prime minister of the country, Afzal said amidst thunderous applause that the MRM felt that the next prime minister should be a ‘swayamsevak’ of RSS.

He said that the MRM would set up a blood bank shortly and to mark the beginning of this project a blood donation camp would be conducted on June 27 at the camp venue. He said that Abbas Ali Bohra, national co-convener of the MRM has declared to finance the project.

Earlier, Dr Munnavar Chaudhary, Convener of Rajasthan made the introductory remarks while Abubaker Naqavi, co-convener conducted the program.

The three-day event will discuss issues in Jammu and Kashmir in the light of the report of the interlocutors appointed by the union government on Kashmir problem, and other organizational matters. Mentor of MRM Indresh Kumar will also be interacting with the participating delegates.

The three-day event is being attended by over 200 activists from 25 states.

Muslim Rashtriya Manch is a pro-Muslim organisation which follows the Ideology of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS.

LeT ‘plot’: All alert in Puri

by Express News Service - BHUBANESWAR

28th June 2012 12:20 PM

http://newindianexpress.com/states/orissa/article553110.ece

A day after Assam DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury sounded an alert over probable LeT threat to Odisha, the State Government swung into action and beefed up security measures at Puri. The nine-day Rath Yatra is slated to conclude on Friday with Bahuda.

Security was heightened at the 12th century Sri Jagannath temple while DRDO defence establishments in Balasore tightened the arrangements. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the State Police has strengthened the measures and is prepared to meet the challenges.

The Jagannath temple has been subjected to three-tier security with bomb disposal and anti-sabotage teams pressed in the vicinity of the shrine. Public must intimate about any suspicious movement, Puri Police said.

At least four units of dog squads and bomb disposal squads each were pressed in and around the shrine while the beach was kept under strict surveillance.

“One of the major challenges for the police in the pilgrim town is keeping a tab on stray vehicles, given the unregulated nature of parkings. That will now come under strict checking,” senior police officials said.

In view of Rath Yatra, the Puri Police has already created parking lots at Zilla School, SCS College, Girls School, Baliapanda and Talabania areas. It was gearing up to scan the unorganised parking lots. More policemen were deployed at all the entry points for checking vehicles entering the town. All the hotels and lodges in the City were being subjected to fresh checks while a close surveillance was kept on foreign nationals.

Since the pulling of chariots is over, the inflow of pilgrims to the town as well as the temple has thinned down. However, police were in no mood to leave anything to chance since ‘Bahuda Yatra’ too draws a large number of devotees.

Sources pointed out that the Assam DGP’s input was the same which the State Police had received a few days before the Rath Yatra. “It was a general input, but nothing is being taken lightly,” sources said.

बच्चों को गैरकानूनी तरीके से रोककर रखने वाले चर्च के फादर को गिरफ्तार

बाल मजदूरों को लाने दो टीम तमिलनाडु गई

भुवनेश्वर : तमिलनाडु के चर्च से मुक्त कराए गए बच्चों को वापस लाने के लिए ओड़िशा से दो टीमें कन्याकुमारी के लिए रवाना हो गई हैं। उद्धार किए गए सभी बाल मजदूर गजपति जिले के हैं एंवं उनका स्वास्थ्य ठीक है। बच्चों को गैरकानूनी तरीके से रोककर रखने वाले चर्च के फादर को गिरफ्तार कर लिया गया है। यह सूचना राज्य समाज कल्याण बोर्ड के निदेशक सुजाता आर.कार्तिकेयन ने दी है। सभी बच्चों की उम्र 5 से 10 साल के अन्दर है। श्रीमती कार्तिकेयन ने तमिलनाडु पुलिस से मिले तथ्यों के आधार पर बताया है कि सभी बच्चों को वहां के शरणालयम में रखा गया है एवं तमिलनाडु शिशु कल्याण समिति जांच के दायित्व में है। इसके अलावा राष्ट्रीय शिशु सुरक्षा कमीशन द्वारा भी इस मामले में हस्तक्षेप किया गया है। तमिलनाडु भेजे गए दो टीम में चाइल्ड लाईन सदस्य एवं आईपीसीआई के एक कंस्लटेंट को प्रतिनिधि के रूप में इस टीम में भेजा गया है। यह टीम सभी बच्चों को तमिलनाडु से ओड़िशा लाकर उनके परिवार वालों को सौंप देगी।

तीनों रथ का दक्षिणमोड़

पुरी :

बीते 21 जून से आरंभ हुई महाप्रभु की नौ दिवसीय रथयात्रा के 6ठे दिन मंगलवार को तीनों रथ का दक्षिण मोड़ आरंभ हुआ। प्रभु के रथ को धूमधाम से नाकचणा द्वार के सामने पहुंचाया गया।

परंपरा के अनुसार मंगलवार को श्रीगुंडिचा मंदिर का द्वार खुलने के बाद मंगल आरती, मइलम, तड़पलागी, अवकाश, सर्वसाधारण दर्शन, रोस होम, सूर्य पूजा, द्वारपाल पूजा, गोपालबल्लभ नीति के बाद सकाल धूप सम्पन्न की गई। इसके बाद परंपरा अनुसार दक्षिण मोड़ के लिए आज्ञामल विजे किया गया। पूजा पण्डा सेवक श्री अंग से आज्ञामाल विजे कर रथ के ऊपर रखे थे। आज्ञा माल प्राप्ति के बाद आरंभ हुआ था दक्षिण मोड़। घंट-घंटा ध्वनि के साथ श्री गुण्डिचा मंदिर के सिंहद्वार से दक्षिण मोड़ के लिए रथ खींचा गया था। पहले देवी सुभद्रा के दर्पदलन रथ का दक्षिण मोड़ किया गया है। पुलिस और भक्तों ने दर्पदलन रथ को खींचकर नाकचणा द्वार के सामने लाए। इसके बाद प्रभु बलभद्र जी के तालध्वज रथ का दक्षिण मोड़ किया गया। घंटुआ के घंट ध्वनि के साथ ताल ध्वज रथ को खींचकर नाकचणा द्वार को लिया गया। वरिष्ठ पुलिस व प्रशासनिक अधिकारी की उपस्थिति में रथ का दक्षिण मोड़ किया गया। रथयात्रा के समय रथ खींचने से वंचित हुए श्रद्धालु दक्षिण मोड़ के लिए रथ खींचे थे। रथ में आज्ञामाल विराजमान के बाद श्री गुण्डिचा मंदिर में भोग मण्डप, यात्रांगी महास्नान, घंट छता सर्वांग, नई लागी वेश आदि पारंपरिक नीति सम्पादन की गई। रास्ता प्लेन हो जाने के कारण रास्ते पर दक्षिण मोड़ के लिए बालू डाला गया था। आने वाले 28 तारीख गुरुवार को महाप्रभु का संध्या दर्शन होगा और 29 तारीख शुक्रवार को बाहुड़ा यात्रा सम्पन्न होगी। तीनों रथ में विराजमान कर चतुर्धा मूर्ति सिंहद्वार की ओर प्रस्थान करेंगे

'Report on J&K contrary to India's stand on the state'

'Report on J&K contrary to India's stand on the state'

तारीख: 6/26/2012 2:37:32 PM

(VSK-INDRAPRASTHA)

Dismissing the interlocutors report on the state of Jammu and Kashmir and questioning the credentials of the interlocutors, National Convener of Jammu Kashmir Study Center, a Jammu-based research group, Arun Kumar, says that the report only captures the perception of the country.

Arun Kumar asserts that the report dilutes India's stand on J&K. Kumar argues that while the country has always maintained that J&K is an internal matter, the report says, 'J&K should be acting as a bridge between Indian, Pakistan and central Asia', a considerable shift from India's traditional stand on the issue.

Kumar feels that though many of the observations cited in the report might be correct, the conclusions drawn are a complete mismatch, mainly because the recommendations of the report were predecided.Arun Kumar spoke to rediff.com's Priyanka.

How do you see the report?
Broadly speaking, we feel that the mandate and mission of the entire exercise is in itself debatable. The interlocutors were appointed by the home ministry. All their programs and meetings there were arranged by the government. And the ministry decides to put up the report online after keeping it with themselves for seven months saying the views expressed are not of the government? What does this mean? Were they (the interlocutors) representatives of the government of India?

So, you think this report has been made by the home ministry?
Of course, the interlocutors had gone to the state of Jammu & Kashmir on behalf of the home ministry. This is a home ministry's report. Whatever recommendations the interlocutors have made are those of the home ministry. Furthermore, we suspect that the recommendations made were scripted well in advance. We knew it would be like this.

Look at how the interlocutors were chosen. The interlocutors are neither residents nor stakeholders of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. MM Ansari (former central information commissioner and one of the interlocutors) has never even been to J&K before this report. Their credentials are doubtful. There is non-seriousness about the report.

What are the issues in the report that trouble you the most?
There are many. For instance, the report says that the state of J&K should be acting as a bridge between Indian, Pakistan and central Asia. How can J&K being a bridge when it is an integral part of India.

The report uses the term 'Pakistan Administered Kashmir' whereas we say 'Pakistan Occupied Kashmir'. How can they use such a term? This word is used by the separatists. We have been fighting in the United Nations for 64 years that Pakistan is the aggressor and we are the victim. Pakistan has never addressed this region as Pakistan Administered Kashmir; they call it 'Azad Kashmir'.

In a decision taken by the Pakistan supreme court in 2004, the court said that it cannot interfere in matters related to Azad Kashmir. Hence, something that has been established that the region is not a part of Pakistan is being challenged by the report.

The interlocutors are speaking the language of the separatist because they are their agents. Look at their credentials. Both Dilip Padgaonkar (eminent journalist) and Radha Kumar (noted academician Radha Kumar) were regulars at Ghulam Nabi Fai's (Kashmiri separatist) conferences.

What do you think the report is trying to build?
In 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and General Musharraf had come together to work on a track to diplomacy and a pact was believed to have been agreed upon. Besides others, the pact, broadly, said that LOC (Line of Control) would be accepted as the international border, and the state of Jammu & Kashmir would be given maximum autonomy on both sides. It thus tried to achieve a win-win situation for both India and Pakistan.

The purpose of this report is to legitimise the pact between Manmohan Singh and Musharraf.

How is this win situation for India?
The question that comes to everybody's mind is whose report is this? Is this the government of India's report? The interlocutors appointed by it.

Our stand has always been that Jammu & Kashmir is an internal matter. But soon after the pact, the prime minster says that both Pakistan and India are victims. Later, it is conceded that a dialogue should be started with representatives from PoK and people from Pakistan. You are then accepting it as a dispute. Gradually, they are shifting from what our policy on J&K has always been.

The report makes some grave observations about conditions in Kashmir?
The report cites that the reasons of victimhood of Kashmir are rigged elections, arrest of popular leaders and human right abuses and violence perpetrated by militants, and security forces. How can you equate the two?

Look carefully at the use of words; you can't say the security forces perpetuated violence.

The report later concludes that all these factors collectively resulted in a start point for religious extremism. Hence there are demands in the state ranging from 'azadi', 'establishment of Islamic state', 'autonomy self rule' and 'an achievable nationhood'.

And all this happened because 'Special Provisions' under article 370 was taken back? I can assure you that nobody in Jammu & Kashmir can tell you that. Don't you see any international party or Pakistan's role here?

Doesn't the report capture the popular or majority sentiment of what the people of the state feel?
All the major political leaders who claim to represent the entire state -- Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Mirwaiz, Yasin Malik, Sajjad Lone, all of them represent only two districts out of the 22 districts in the state. And all of them represent only one section, namely the Kashmiri speaking Sunni Muslim. Don't the remaining 20 districts have any leader or representation?

18 percent of the state population is Gujjar Muslim. Where is their leader? 90 percent of the population in Kargil is Muslim. Where is their leader? Basically, they have captured the perception of the country. These people are not the real voice of the state.

What are the other problem areas in the report?
The report has not addressed the real issues of Jammu & Kashmir. There is a chapter on economics that says that there is heavy corruption in the 16 flagship schemes started by center, and no infrastructure development can happen without assistance from the central government. After making all these observations, they say employment can't be generated because there is no investment, and hence the special status of the state should remain.

There is a total mismatch between the observations made and the conclusions drawn. Furthermore, there is nothing about the settlements of over 10 lakh PoK refugees. Where is the roadmap on how to bring Kashmiri pundits back?

There are about four lakh refugees on the west part of the state. They have been living without citizenship for the past 64 years. Why doesn't the report address their problems?

There is a false concept of Kashmir alone being the victim. Isn't Jammu a victim; isn't Laddak region a victim?
There is no 73rd and 74th amendment in the state and panchayati raj has not been implemented. After making all these observations, the report recommends that Parliament should not extend any new law.

All this is politics of appeasement. As long as you see problems in Jammu & Kashmir from a Hindu-Muslim angle, as long as vote bank politics rules, there will be no solution. You will have to see it as a national security issue.

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-report-on-j-k-contrary-to-indias-stand-on-the-state/20120625.htm

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Faltering half-steps on J&K

Faltering half-steps on J&K तारीख: 6/27/2012 2:42:33 PM (VSK-CHENNAI) Nirmala Sitharaman Nearly 36 hours after the last session of Parliament and seven months after its submission, the Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors’ report quietly appeared in the public domain. Two years ago, following the state administration’s failure to handle the summer of stone pelting and an all-party meeting in Delhi, the ministry of home affairs appointed a three-member group to assess and report the ground situation. Not withstanding the repeated demand by Opposition parties, the terms of reference were left to the individual members to define and interpret. Even as the group’s work began, continued and ended, the members’ interpretation of the terms of reference kept coming, bewildering the nation. Titled A New Compact with the People of Jammu and Kashmir the interlocutors assert “the political settlement we propose”. They believe a broad consensus “exists on critical issues” and to build on this consensus they recommend the setting up of a constitutional committee to review all Central Acts and Articles of the Constitution of India extended to the state after 1952. The great stalwarts who framed our Constitution did not provide any special status to J&K through Article 370, and that this was a transitory provision was specified by the use of the words “for the time being”. We know that J&K has been declared and treated as a constituent of the Indian Union even as per Article 370(1)(d). However, the interlocutors recommend deletion of the word “temporary” and replacing it with “special”. Needless to say, this recommendation implies amending the Constitution and making the much abused Article 370 permanent. By now, it is understood that Article 370 has been invoked to deprive the people of J&K the benefits of developmental legislations that help provide opportunities to people of the rest of the country. The interlocutors have a penchant to give sweeping and grandiose solutions where simple and perhaps “doable” ones can serve better. This also leads them to contradict themselves. The report stresses the need for participatory self-governance and urges greater devolution of powers for the panchayati raj institutions. The state government, misusing Article 370, has not allowed the 73rd and 74th amendments to our Constitution to come into force in the state. A simpler recommendation would have been to remove Article 370 itself and to fully implement panchayati raj. On June 23, the nation remembered Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, who became a martyr fighting that in India there cannot be two nishan (flags), two pradhan (Prime Ministers) and two samvidhan (Constitutions). The report suggests going back to those days by recommending usage of the terms wazir-e-azam and sadar-e-riyasat. This ingenious suggestion shows that the interlocutors have not applied their mind to think afresh with changing times. That the group has appropriated more authority for itself than the country was given to believe is evident from their suggestion for an agreement with Pakistan on Kashmir, which they describe as a “win-win” situation. The reference to the sovereignty of Pakistan on the erstwhile princely state are domains that are tenuously brought into the terms of reference; this was unwarranted and avoidable. It disregards the stated Indian position and undermines our sovereignty. And that too after declaring: “...the sovereignty, territorial integrity, security shall not be compromised.” Consistent with their grandiloquence, the interlocutors recommend that the strategic importance of Jammu and Kashmir as a bridge between Central and South Asia should be kept in mind. The interlocutors attempt to project the Nehru-Sheikh Abdullah accord (1952) as more sacrosanct than the constitutional provisions. They audaciously comment on the verdicts of the Supreme Court. Courts are guardians of the Constitution. In the absence of well-defined law on a particular matter, the Supreme Court’s verdict serves as law. No accords, albeit between a Prime Minister and a Chief Minister can be treated as a substitute for prevailing law. In particular, the Nehru-Abdullah accord does not have any constitutional validity. At best, it can be considered as a gentlemen’s agreement that can serve a political purpose. The report claims that the political settlement they propose takes into account the deep sense of victimhood prevalent in the Valley. Together with this, the language they use when talking about the Army or police such as “brutalisation” forms the undercurrent of this report. However, the Kashmiri Pandits and others, broadly classified as “displaced persons” who are in their own country living in migrant camps and do not have voting rights, seem to have made no impression on the interlocutors. Their recommendations, cultural confidence-building measures and suggestions for building a consensus among key stakeholders — none have any specific suggestions on how the displaced persons will be enabled to return. It seems the interlocutors have ignored the Kashmiri Pandits completely barring a one-line reference: “Making the return of all Kashmiris, mainly Pandits (Hindu minority) a part of state policy.” The lack of development in Ladakh and Kargil areas also seem to be of no concern. It may just be a coincidence that the interlocutors did not hold a round table conference for consultation in the Ladakh region, while they held the same in Jammu and Srinagar. It is necessary to recall that in February 1994, Parliament had passed a resolution not just stating that Jammu and Kashmir inclusive of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is an integral part of India, but also resolving to retrieve PoK. However, contrary to this resolution, we find the report calling PoK as Pakistan Administered Kashmir and together with other recommendations, nearly conceding this territory to Pakistan. It can thus be seen that through the proposed “New Compact”, the interlocutors have rejected the idea of greater integration and thrown out everything our Constitution-makers had envisaged. ------- The writer is a BJP spokesperson. The views expressed in this column are her own. Source : http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/dc-comment/faltering-half-steps-jk-000 ... ...

UN help sought for religious freedom

UN help sought for religious freedom

तारीख: 6/27/2012 1:57:42 PM

(VSK-CHENNAI)

CHENNAI, JUNE 27, 2012 : The United Nations Organisation (UNO) was on Saturday requested to conduct a probe into the genocide, oppression, and the systematic annihilation of people of Tamil origin in Lanka. The call was made by an inter-religious, inter-denominational forum, here on Saturday.
The UNO should ensure religious freedom in Sri Lanka, the forum represented by Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore A M Chinnappa, Prof Saraswathi, India Towheed Jamaath(INTJ) president S M Bakkar, Tamilaga Muslim Munnetra Kalagam leader Hyder Ali, National League leader Basheer, Tamilaga Hindu Thurraviyar Peravai Swami Sada Sivananda, PUCL leader T S S Mani and Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam MP Advocate Pandimadevi said.
The forum said that no religious symbols, be it Christian, Muslim or Hindu, were allowed to exist in the post-war Lanka as religioius fanatics are bringing down places of worship. Mani observed that theocracy followed in Lanka had given no room for secularism. Enlisting the number of Catholic priests abducted and murdered by the Lankan government, Chinnappa said that the information has been passed to the Vatican. “Since Bishop of Mannar Rayappu Joseph exposed such abductions and murders, his life is under threat”, he said.
The forum also flayed DMK chief M Karunanidhi for his attempt to gain political mileage through the issue when he could have saved the lives of thousands of Lankan Tamils while the civil war was at its pinnacle. Chinnappa said the forum’s next course of action would be based upon mass mobilisation of support.

newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article549574.ece?service...

Nalanda University project marred by irregularities, nepotism

Nalanda University project marred by irregularities, nepotism तारीख: 6/26/2012 2:55:29 PM (VSK-CHENNAI) NEW DELHI / PATNA, 26 JUNE 2012 : Nalanda University, a prestigious project of the UPA government, is yet to take off. It has been marred by irregularities and nepotism. In the centre of the storm is the newly appointed Vice Chancellor, Dr Gopa Sabharwal. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, chairman of the Interim Governing Board of Nalanda University and Nalanda Mentor Group (NMG), had recommended her as one of the three candidates. In his letter on February 6, 2009 to the then External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, the Nobel laureate says ‘it has been a difficult choice’ (selecting a Rector). He recommended three names in the following order—1. Dr Gopa Sabharwal (Sociologist, Delhi University and Lady Sri Ram College) 2. Dr Ramchandra Guha (Historian, biographer and writer) and 3. Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Political scientist, President, Centre for Policy Studies). The Nobel Laureate’s letter, written on a Harvard University letterhead, is a single page communication. It carries no details about the selection process, search committee or annexes any document submitted by the candidates. There is no information about the total number of candidates considered for the said post. Sabharwal was eventually chosen though she doesn’t have the necessary qualifications; she was only a reader in the sociology department of Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi. The UGC states that vice-chancellors of central and state universities should be distinguished academics who have been university professors for a minimum of ten years. Appointment Before kAct Enforced: Sabharwal was made ‘Vice Chancellor Designate’ through a DO letter dated September 9, 2010 instead of the mandatory Office Order. Fresh communication dated March 19, 2012 signed by Sanjay Singh, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs confirmed her as the Vice-Chancellor, Nalanda University with retrospective effect from October 8, 2010. This was before the Nalanda University Act, 2010, was enforced by the Ministry w.e.f November 25, 2010. Orders Galore: At the time Dr. Sabharwal was officially claiming to be the Vice-Chancellor, Nalanda University, the MoS, External Affairs E Ahmed—in a statement to the Rajya Sabha on August 25— 2011, denied that any Vice Chancellor has been appointed. On two of the three office orders, Dr. Sabharwal had signed as ‘Vice Chancellor’ even before her confirmation.Copies were marked to the Registrar, Delhi University. The first is dated January 20, 2011 appointing Dr Anjana Sharma, Associate Professor of English, Delhi University as OSD (University Development) in Nalanda University. Incidentally Dr Sharma has co-authored a book with Dr Sabharwal. Sources say the Ministry of Finance has not sanctioned the post. Sabharwal explains, “The decision to get them on board was taken during the last board meeting in Patna. Dr. Sharma joined us as the OS, in order to get the university functioning.” However, not even construction has started. Sabharwal also appointed Dr Padmakar Mishra, Deputy Registrar, Delhi University as OSD (Finance). Both appointments were made without issuing public notifications, mandatory for government jobs. Capital Affair: The VC, meanwhile, works out of an office in Delhi. The university’s Governing Board is in a fix over toilets for her and her OSD in the Rajgir Office. Dr Anjana Sharma is on record saying that since there was no proper toilet facility in Rajgir, they chose Delhi. In the building lease and other document, Delhi is marked as the Headquarters of the university in contravention of the Nalanda University Act, which clearly states that the HQ shall be located in the district of Nalanda only. Sabharwal explains, “You cannot start office functions or classes at Rajgir without all the facilities on campus.” http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article550328.ece#

‘सत्यमेव जयते’ का लोकार्पण

(विश्व संवाद केंद्र, इन्द्रप्रस्थ)

नई दिल्ली, 26 जून 2012 : राष्ट्रीय पत्रकारिता कल्याण न्यास की ओर से सोमवार, 25 जून को कान्स्टीट्यूशन क्लब में आयोजित पुस्तक विमोचन कार्यक्रम में गोपाल व्यास द्वारा लिखित एवं संजीवनी प्रकाशन द्वारा प्रकाशित पुस्तक ‘सत्यमेव जयते’ का लोकार्पण किया गया।
राज्य सभा सांसद गोपाल व्यास की पुस्तक ‘सत्यमेव जयते’ भारत में जारी आपातकाल की पृष्ठभूमि पर आधारित है। जिसका लेखन कार्य आपातकाल के दौरान मीसा कानून के तहत जेल में बंद भारतवंशियों की गलत सरकार और उसकी नीतियों के विरोध में किये प्रयासों का शब्द चित्रण हैं। इस पुस्तक की तटस्थता और तथ्यों का परिपूर्ण भाव से प्रयोग उन लोगों के लिए भी लाभप्रद होगा जिन्होंने आपातकाल को केवल पढ़ा या सुना है। उन्हें इस पुस्तक के माध्यम से आपातकाल की सही जानकारी और उस वक्त भारत की स्थिति का भी सही अंदेशा हो सकेगा। यह बातें जनता पार्टी के अध्यक्ष सुब्रमण्यम स्वामी ने कहीं। उन्होंने आपातकाल पर प्रकाश डालते हुए कहा कि उस समय सरकार के विरुद्ध लोग दो तरह से प्रयास कर रहे थे। आंदोलनकारियों का एक वर्ग भूमिगत होकर लोगों तक अपनी बातों को पहुँचाने तथा सरकार की निरुकुश नीतियों का देश पर पड़ने वाले प्रभावों की सूचना प्रदान करता था। दूसरी और एक वर्ग प्रत्यक्ष रूप से सरकार के विरुद्ध विद्रोह कर रहा था और मीसा बंदी के रूप में जेल से ही अपने बेहतर भारत के निर्माण के लिए आंदोलन चलाए हुए था। इस विपरीत समय में इस पुस्तक का लेखन प्रारम्भ हुआ था। पुस्तक की विशेषता यह है कि इसमें किसी व्यक्ति, स्थान या फिर घटना को सही नाम से नहीं लिखा गया है। इसमें नाम काल्पनिक हैं लेकिन घटनाओं का समायोजन यथार्थता के आधार पर किया गया है।
पुस्तक के लेखक और पूर्व राज्यसभा सदस्य गोपाल व्यास ने अपनी पुस्तक के बारे कहा कि यह आपातकाल के दौरान भोगी गयी पीड़ा और उसके बाद भी सरकार के खिलाफ लोगों के प्रयास की कहानी है। इसमें दर्शाया गया है कि कैसे सरकार ने राष्ट्रहित की बात करने वालों पर अत्याचार किये और देश के लिए अपना सर्वस्व लुटाने को प्रतिबद्ध लोग अपने प्रण पर अडिग रहे।
कार्यक्रम को संबोधित करते हुए हिन्दुस्थान समाचार के अध्यक्ष नंदकिशोर त्रिखा ने कहा कि आपातकाल ने देश को काफी पीछे धकेल दिया है। उस पर वर्तमान सरकार की नीतियां तो देशवासियों के लिए अभिशाप ही साबित हो रही हैं। उन्होंने बताया कि आपातकाल के दौरान सीधे तौर पर प्रथम कदम के रुप में मीडिया पर अंकुश लगाने का काम किया गया। पुस्तक विमोचन कार्यक्रम का संचालन हिन्दुस्थान समाचार के कार्यकारी सम्पादक हेमंत विश्‍नोई जी तथा धन्यवाद ज्ञापन हिन्दुस्थान समाचार के मुख्यकार्यकारी अधिकारी अनिरुद्ध शर्मा ने किया। इस अवसर पर पूर्व राज्यसभा सदस्य और पुस्तक के लेखक गोपाल व्यास, अग्रिम कारपोरेट सर्विसेज लिमिटेड के निदेशन प्रमोद माहेश्‍वरी, पूर्व राज्यपाल केदारनाथ साहनी, भाजपा नेता ओमप्रकाश कोहली, हिन्दुस्थान समाचार के संरक्षक श्रीकांत जोशी और सहसंरक्षक लक्ष्मीनारायण भाला, पत्रकारिता संस्थान काशी विद्यापीठ के निदेशक ओम प्रकाश सिंह आदि लोग उपस्थित रहें।

Noted Additions in RSS Organizational Base of Karnataka South Unit; says annual

Noted Additions in RSS Organizational Base of Karnataka South Unit; says annual report
तारीख: 6/25/2012 2:33:36 PM
(VSK-CHENNAI)

BANGLORE, JUNE 2012 : The overall organizational base of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, South Unit, Karnataka has been witnessing a solid addition in its numbers. The annual report released recently by RSS shows that the number of Shakhas has indeed gone up.

The figures of January 2011 showed a total number of 2597 Shakhas in 1698 places under the RSS Karnaaka Dakshin Pranth, which comprises of 13 districts of southern Karnataka. However, the estimate taken in 2012 shows a remarkable addition in the Shakha number, taking it to 2715, at 1788 places.
The weekly gathering ‘Milan’ showed 248 in 2011, which has now gone up to 332 in 2012. The places where neither Shakha (daily) nor Milan (Weekly) are organized, witnesses Sangh Mandali (Monthly gathering), which was 130 in 2011. This number has increased as many as 4 times, making it 429 in 2012.
Taking into account the Sangha Shiksha Vargs, the 20 day long training camps of RSS Cadres, the statistics reveal participation by a total of 1248 new Swayamsevaks in the current year, who have acquired sangh training. In 13 districts a total of number of 29 Prathamik Shiksha Varg (7 day training camp) were held, where training has been imparted to as many as 3709 new Swayamsevaks.

The Seva Vibhag of RSS Dakshin Pranth has organized 6898 various Seva activities at 2434 places in southern Karnataka. Nearly 2000 individuals participated and received training in special seminars. They consist of Yoga, Balagokulam, Bhajana, Self-Help groups, Mobile Library, Grama Vikas, water conservation etc.

Jalabharatati, a project dedicated towards the creation of awareness on water conservation has published 2 major books on ‘Rain Water Harvesting’ and ‘100 ways of Water Conservation’. In connection with this, special workshop on water conservation was conducted at 36 places, where 1950 students, 305 teachers and 907 farmers participated.

RSS IT Milan Swayamsevaks (RSS Swayamsevaks who are IT professionals) organized a Kannada Parichaya Varg in about 200 apartments of Bangalore. Around 3200 non-Kannadigas who live in Bangalore learned Kannada, last year.

http://samvada.org/2012/news/noted-additions-in-rss-organizational-base-of-karnataka-south-unit-says-annual-report/

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हवाई अड्डे का विकास या ऐतिहासिक धरोहरों का विनाश?

हवाई अड्डे का विकास या ऐतिहासिक धरोहरों का विनाश?
तारीख: 6/23/2012 6:50:51 PM
नई दिल्ली, 23 जून 2012 : क्या महात्मा गांधी की समाधि को दिल्ली से गांधी नगर या जवाहरलाल नेहरू की समाधि को इलाहाबाद ले जाया जा सकता है? यदि नहीं तो यह अन्याय हमारे पूर्वजों और देवताओं के साथ ही क्यों?

दक्षिण दिल्ली में पालम हवाई अड्डे के निकट, सुप्रसिद्ध होटल रेडीसन के सामने स्थित है एक गांव नांगल देवत। इस गांव के लोगों ने देश की आजादी के आन्दोलन व विनोबा भावे के भूदान आन्दोलन में अग्रणी भूमिका निभाई। मुगल काल में भी उसके ऊपर अनेक आक्रमण हुए थे। इस गांव के दोनों छोर पर मन्दिरों व संतों की समाधियों की एक अविरल श्रृंखला है। मन्दिरों के साथ बगीचे व पेड़ों ने उसे एक आध्यात्मिक व रमणीक स्थल के रूप में प्रसिद्ध किया है। मन्दिर के गुम्बद, उसकी स्थापत्य कला और दीवारों का ढांचा मन्दिर की प्राचीनता का बखान करता है। किन्तु अब नांगल देवत नाम का वह ऐतिहासिक गांव अस्तित्व में नहीं है और प्राचीन ऐतिहासिक मंदिरों को कभी भी ध्वस्त किया जा सकता है। यह सब हो रहा है इंदिरा गांधी अन्तरराष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डे के विस्तार के नाम पर, जिसके लिए जी.एम.आर. नामक कम्पनी को ठेका दिया गया है।

1964-65 में जब पालम हवाई अड्डे का विस्तार हुआ तब गांव की बेहद उपजाऊ लगभग 12,000 बीघे जमीन नांगल देवत के ग्रामवासियों से छीन ली गई। इसके बाद सन् 1972 में गांव की आबादी को वहां से कहीं अन्यत्र चले जाने का नोटिस थमा दिया गया, किन्तु एक बड़े जन आन्दोलन की सुगबुगाहट की भनक लगने पर सरकार को अपना फैसला टालना पड़ा। लेकिन सरकार कहां चुप बैठने वाली थी, उसने सन् 1986 में 'अवार्ड' सुनाया और सभी को गांव खाली करने का आदेश दे दिया गया। तब 360 गांवों की पंचायत बुलाई गई, लोगों ने संघर्ष किया। 1998 तक यह मामला निचली न्यायालय में चला। इसके बाद ग्रामवासियों ने दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय का दरवाजा खटखटाया और दरियाब सिंह बनाम यूनियन आफ इण्डिया नामक मामला दर्ज कराकर न्यायालय से गांव को बचाने का निवेदन किया। यह सब चल ही रहा था कि एक दिन 2007 में भवन निर्माण कम्पनी जी.एम.आर. ने भारी संख्या में पुलिस बल लगाकर चारों ओर से बुलडोजर चला दिये और मन्दिर परिसर को छोड़ पूरे गांव को मलवे के ढेर में बदल दिया। लोगों को अपना सामान भी घरों से निकालने का समय नहीं दिया गया। गांव के बुजुर्ग श्री हंसराज सहरावत बताते हैं कि इस हादसे को सहन न कर पाने के कारण अब तक गांव के लगभग 300 लोगों ने अपनी जान दे दी है। ग्रामीणों को न वैकल्पिक जगह दी गई और न परिवार को सिर ढंकने के लिए टैंट की व्यवस्था की गई। जी.एम.आर. ने मात्र छह माह का किराया देकर अपना पल्ला झाड़ लिया और लोग दर-दर की ठोकरें खाते रहे।

इसके बाद जुलाई, 2007 में जी.एम.आर. ने 28 एकड़ में फैले भव्य मन्दिरों, संतों की समाधियों व शमशान भूमि को अपने कब्जे में ले लिया। धीरे-धीरे जी.एम.आर. ने मन्दिर को न सिर्फ चारों ओर से लोहे की टिन से सील कर दिया बल्कि वहां अपने आराध्य की पूजा-अर्चना करने आने वाले भक्तों को भी रोकना प्रारम्भ कर दिया। आज वहां न तो भक्तों के अन्दर जाने का सुगम रास्ता है और न ही वाहन खड़े करने के लिए व्यवस्था। सुरक्षा के भारी-भरकम ताम-झाम देखकर लोग काफी हैरान-परेशान हैं। इन मंदिरों के प्रति लोगों की अगाध श्रद्धा का अन्दाज इसी बात से लगाया जा सकता है कि चारों ओर से भगवान के घर को सीखचों में बन्द करने के बावजूद लोगों ने 'बाउण्ड्री' के नीचे जमीन में गड्ढे खोदकर वहां से मन्दिर में प्रवेश का रास्ता बना लिया है। हर वृहस्पतिवार व अमावस्या के दिन यहां भक्तों का मेला लगा रहता है। श्राद्ध पक्ष में कनागती अमावस्या के दिन तो यहां बड़ा भारी मेला अब भी लगता है, जिसमें महाराष्ट्र, गुजरात, राजस्थान, पश्चिम बंगाल, हरियाणा, उत्तर प्रदेश व मध्य प्रदेश सहित अनेक राज्यों के लाखों लोग अपने-अपने पितरों का तर्पण यहां आकर करते हैं।

नांगल देवत के लोगों ने अपने गांव की उपजाऊ जमीन और उसके बाद अपने घरों को उजड़ना तो किसी तरह अपने दिल पर पत्थर रखकर स्वीकार कर लिया, किन्तु मन्दिरों के लिये ग्रामवासी तिलमिला जाते हैं। 'जब खेत छिन गये, घर छिन गए तो इतनी दूर से आकर अब मन्दिरों का ही क्या करोगे?' इस प्रश्न के उत्तर में ग्राम प्रधान चौधरी सहराज सहरावत कहते हैं, 'चाहे हमारी जान चली जाए किन्तु अपने आराध्य देवों को हम किसी भी कीमत पर वहां से हिलने नहीं देंगे।' समाधियों व मन्दिरों के अन्यत्र स्थानांतरण के सुझाव पर गांववासी पूछते हैं कि क्या महात्मा गांधी की समाधि को दिल्ली से गांधी नगर या जवाहरलाल नेहरू की समाधि को इलाहाबाद ले जाया जा सकता है? यदि नहीं तो यह अन्याय हमारे पूर्वजों और देवताओं के साथ ही क्यों? वे आगे कहते हैं कि जब इसी हवाई अड्डे के टी-2 रनवे नं 10 व 28 पर बनी पीर बाबा रोशन खान व बाबा काले खान की मजार का रख-रखाव ही नहीं मुस्लिम श्रद्धालुओं को वहां दर्शन कराने के लिए जी.एम.आर. कंपनी अपने वाहन व अन्य सुविधाएं दे सकती है और मजारों के कारण रनवे को 'शिफ्ट' किया जा सकता है तो आखिर हमारे मन्दिरों के साथ ऐसा सौतेला व्यवहार क्यों?

सूत्र बताते हैं कि जी.एम.आर. इन प्राचीन मन्दिरों को तोड़ने की योजना बना रही है। उसने इस हेतु पुलिस बल मांगा है, जो कभी भी मिल सकता है। देखना यह है कि लोगों की आस्था और उनका स्वाभिमान जीतता है या छद्म सेकुलर सरकार का झूठा अहंकार। (सौजन्य- पाञ्चजन्य)