Chhattisgarh district loses 6000 girls a year

 

JASHPUR ( Chhattisgarh): It's a cold, windy morning inThuthiamba village in the interiors of Jashpur district and

Basanti, 20, is clutching her one-year-old son close to her chest for both warmth and comfort. She is ravaged by the thought that the child will grow up never knowing who the father was.

Basanti was just 12 when she was taken to New Delhi for domestic work by a woman from a nearby village. Six years later, she returned home five months pregnant after being repeatedly raped by men in the household where she worked.
There are thousands of girls like Basanti in Jashpur, which has emerged as a major hotspot for trafficking of minor girls and women as domestic help to different parts of the country, especially Delhi and Mumbai. Most of these girls end up being physically abused and sexually exploited. A few end up fighting AIDS.
During the just concluded winter session of the assembly, Nanki Ram Kanwar, the state home minister, said more than 6000 young girls and women were reported missing so far in the past one year from Jashpur and neighbouring districts alone. Officials at the state department of women and child development, however, put the figure at more than double - at about 13,000 girls. A survey conducted by State Resource Centre, Adult and Continuing Education in 2009 said there were about 20,000 girls who were trafficked to other states in the past 7-8 years.

யாழ். மாணவர்கள் விடயத்தில் சர்வதேசம் வேடிக்கை பார்க்கிறது: வைகோ

யாழ்.பல்கலைக்கழக மாணவர்களை  பயங்கரவாத தடைச்சட்டத்தின் கீழ் கைது செய்து சிறைகளில் அடைத்து வைத்துள்ள சம்பவம் தொடர்பில் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்காது ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சமை உட்பட சர்வதேசம் வேடிக்கை பார்த்துக்கொண்டிருக்கின்றது. என்று மறுமலர்ச்சி திராவிட முன்னேற்ற கழகத்தின் பொதுச் செயலாளர் வைகோ தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

இதுதொடர்பில் அவர் இன்று ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை வெளியிட்டுள்ள ஊடக அறிக்கையில் மேலும் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதாவது,
போராடிய வீரர்களை மட்டுமல்லாமல், ஆயுதம் ஏந்தாத அப்பாவி பொதுமக்களையும் இலட்சக்கணக்கில் இலங்கை இராணுவம், இந்தியா உள்ளிட்ட நாடுகளின் ஆயுத உதவிகளோடு கொன்று குவித்த கொடுமையின் உண்மையும், ஐ.நா.மன்றம் கடமை தவறி வேடிக்கை பார்த்த அநீதியும், சர்வதேச சமுதாயத்தின் கவனத்திற்கு வந்துள்ளது.

பயங்கரவாத தடை சட்ட திருத்தத்தை எம்.பிக்கள் நிராகரிக்க வேண்டும்; மனித உரிமைக் கண்காணிப்பகம் கோரிக்கை

இந்தியாவில் நடைமுறையில் உள்ளசட்டவிரோத நடவடிக்கைகள் தடுப்புச்சட்டத்தில் மேற்கொள்ள  உத்தேசிக்கப்பட்ட திருத்தங்களை நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் நிராகரிக்க வேண்டும் என்று மனித  உரிமைகள் அமைப்பான மனித உரிமை கண்காணிப்பகம் கோரியுள்ளது.

பயங்கரவாதத்துக்கு எதிரானசட்டமாகப் பயன்படுத்தப்படும் மேற்படிசட்டத்தில் திருத்தங்களைக் கொண்டு வர நாடாளுமன்ற மக்களவை கடந்த 30 ஆம் திகதியே ஒப்புதல் அளித்துள்ளது.

தீவிரவாத அமைப்பு ஒன்றைத் தடை செய்யும் காலப் பகுதியை இரண்டு ஆண்டுகளில் இருந்து 5  ஆண்டுகளாக அதிகரிக்கவும் தீவிரவாத அமைப்புடன் தொடர்புடைய நபர் என்ற வரையறையை  விரிவாக்கவும் குறித்தசட்டத் திருத்தம் வழிகோலியுள்ளது.

Cap on cooking gas cylinders results in chaos Confusion Over Cheap Refills, KYC

Fri,Dec 7 2012:New Delhi: Shoddy implementation of the government’s new quota system for subsidized cooking gas has resulted in chaos. There’s confusion about how many subsidized cylinders a consumer is entitled to in the remaining six months of 2012-13 since the scheme was announced on September 13, 2012.
    That day’s government release was unambiguous. It said: “The number of subsidized LPG cylinders available to each consumer in the remaining part of the current financial year will be three.” But some dealers believe that consumers have already run out of their quota, while some others insist that unless consumers fill up the KYC form, cylinders can’t be given to them.
    Similarly, there’s confusion over what it takes to fill up the KYC (know-your-customer) form. Ask Ananya Gupta of Mumbai’s Matunga. She was suddenly asked to produce her marriage certificate, PAN card, bank account details and the original registration book by her dealer for her KYC form or face discontinuation of gas supply.
    Original registration book? Is that the blue book that most consumers have misplaced? Questions such as these are redundant because the KYC form makes no such demand. It requires two things: identity proof and address proof. And for this driving licence, passport, ration card, phone or electricity bill, Adhaar card and several other ordinary things will suffice.
    But dealers don’t know or pretend not to. P N Seth, vice-president of the All-India LPG Dealers’ Association, for instance, doesn’t know about the three-cylinder quota in the six remaining months of the year since September. He said, “Most consumers have completed their quota and are now buying non-subsidized gas.”
    All-India Indane Distributors’ Association president A Ramachandran said consumers were “not cooperating”. He said, “If they don’t submit the KYC form by year end (the new deadline), the connections would be blocked.”
    An Indane dealer in Anna Salai, Chennai, helpfully added: “Once a connection is blocked, it can only be unlocked after government permission.”
WHO NEEDS TO FILL KYC FORM? 1 If your name appears in oil company’s transparency portal under ‘multiple connection holder’ head. Dealers too have this list 2 If you are applying for a new cooking gas connection 3 If you want to transfer or regularize existing gas connections
    KYC (Know Your Consumer) form has to be submitted along with proof of identity and address for updating your address with distributor Winter of discontent for LPG consumers in the hill states
    In this confusion over gas supplies, a black market in cylinders is flourishing. Some consumers said they were buying cylinders well above the non-subsidized price range of Rs 885-950 band (depending on VAT) per cylinder.
    A consumer in Delhi’s Alaknanda area, Mitashi Saxena, was unsure about whether she was required to fill a KYC form or not, and wondered whether she would get subsidized cylinders next year. “We’re a family of eight and have two kitchens. But we still don’t know whether we need to fill the form. And our distributor doesn’t seem to know either,’’ she said. Another resident complains of delayed service.
    Bangalore homes are no exception. Suguna Ganapathy of Jakkur said, “I’ve called the distributor a number of times. He asks me whether I have second gas connection and to surrender it if I do. I am confused and helpless,” she said. Krishna Moorthy from Adyar in Chennai said, “I surrendered my additional connection and submitted the KYC form to the dealer, but the distributor is still not giving me refills.”
    For people in hill states like Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, where families need more fuel to keep warm, it’s going to be a winter of discontent. “We’ve not been contacted by our dealer and run out of out quota. We’re planning to spend some time with relatives in the plains,” said Shivani Joshi of Nainital.
    In Chandigarh, too, large families that don’t have separate kitchens on different floors, have been jolted by the new condition.
    Lucknow housewife Rita Singh spent several tense days when the cylinder did not fetch up even eight days after booking – as against the normal period of 48 hours. “When Iasked, they said most of their staff was engaged in KYC verification,” she said. A visit to any gas agency here will explain the delay. The person who used to book the cylinders is multi-tasking – preparing booking slips, attending complaints, distributing KYC forms and answering queries of confused consumers.
    (Inputs from Richi Verma in Delhi, Shariq Majeed in Ludhiana, Chittaranjan Tembhekarin Mumbai,Christin Mathew Philipin Chennai) 

 Source:TIMES NEWS NETWORK 

SC: Is 5 L grant licence to kill? Says 191 Fake Encounters In 5 Years Distressing

Fri,Dec,7 2012:New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre whether Rs 5 lakh compensation awarded by National Human Rights Commission to the family was the cost of killing a person in a fake encounter.
    A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana P Desai was worried by the blatant breach of the constitutional scheme of things where erring armed forces personnel and trigger-happy policemen went unpunished after payment of compensation to the victim’s family. “Even in a proven case of fake encounter, all that a person gets is Rs 5 lakh,” the bench said.
    It said the NHRC’s report on 1,671 complaints of fake encounters, in which it found 191 to be true, was distressing to say the least.
    Appearing for PIL petitioners from Manipur, who had alleged over 1,500 extra-judicial killings by armed forces personnel and police in the last three decades and sought withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), senior advocate Colin Gonsalves said it appeared as if payment of Rs 5 lakh gave the license to kill a person in cold blood.
    The court was informed that most fake encounter cases were pending in the Guwahati high court after completion of the magisterial inquiry. The bench asked, “What does the HC do to ensure matter (such fake encounters) does not occur in future?”
    Gonsalves said even after magisterial inquiries in 10 cases proved these to be fake encounters, the HC did not order prosecution of the accused. One of the 10 victims of fake encounter was a 12-year-old boy who was allegedly shot point blank outside his house and another a 19-year-old whose body was found in a mutilated state. For the Union government, additional solicitor general Paras Kuhad said of the 1,500-odd complaints of fake encounter cases, there was “not a single which was concluded as a case of fake encounter”. When the court wondered how a 12-year-old could be a militant and killed in this manner, Kuhad narrated an incident where militants kidnapped students from a school, trained them for furthering militancy and it was later found how young boys were part of the banned group.

source:TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Enter FDI, Exit Manu To empower dalits, do away with India’s antiquated retail trading system

    A couple of months ago, the UPA government cleared Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail. It is a politically risky step. But for once, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh showed both spine and spunk biting the bullet. Since then, both Left parties and the BJP have expressed serious reservations over the decision. The general view is that it will affect the lakhs of small, indigenous kirana stores spread across the country. Interestingly, nobody has spoken about the FDI effect on the fledgling class of dalit entrepreneurs in India.
    With the debate on FDI in retail intensifying, members of the Dalit Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) fanned out in Delhi’s Azadpur fruit and vegetable mandi to find out if dalits become successful adhatiyas. Generally described as middlemen, adhatiyas preside over mandis (marts) and regulate trading in foodgrains, vegetables and fruits. From farms to kirana stores, they call the shots. Every apple we eat, every grain of wheat we crush into flour, every tomato we consume, must pass through the hands of some adhatiya or other. The Mandi Parishad rules make it mandatory for farmers to bring their products to adhatiyas. Kisans who bring their trucks full of apples from Shimla or vegetables from Meerut don’t have the freedom to sell their produce to whosoever they want. It is some adhatiya who sells their produce for a commission.

3 Jamia students among 6 held for Delhi gang rape

New Delhi: Six young men, including three law students from Jamia Milia Islamia University, allegedly kept a 16-year-old girl by force in a Defence Colony house in south Delhi, and raped her repeatedly for 10-12 days.
    The victim, a class XI student, had in September run away from her parents’ home in Delhi and had been living with a woman friend before the incident. Her parents have been informed and her statement recorded in front of the magistrate. A medical examination has confirmed the rape.
    The girl’s parents had earlier lodged a case of kidnapping after she went missing. The victim is believed to have been taken to a house in Sarai Jullena, south Delhi, and sexually assaulted there as well.
    Police sources said the girl initially stayed with a woman friend who on November 15 asked the victim to find another accommodation as she had to shift to another house. The victim alleged that her friend suggested she could stay with her friend, Pulkit, one of the accused, who claimed to be in Delhi Police. In good faith, the victim shifted to Pulkit Chaudhry’s place in Defence Colony.
    Pulkit, who hails from Panipat, and his friends soon came to know that she had left home and began to intimidate her. They also threatened to inform her parents about her whereabouts. The accused then raped her. Even Pulkit’s friends who visited him raped the girl, police said.
    A hunt is on to nab the other two accused. 

 

source:TIMES NEWS NETWORK