FOOD BITE, INFLATION , DEFLATION and VIJOY KRISHNA PADHI of Potteru HARIMANDIR in DANDAKARANYA
Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 183
Palash Biswas
Malkangiri
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| Malkangiri | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Orissa |
| District(s) | Malkangiri |
| Population | 5,04,128 (2001[update]) |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Area • Elevation | • 170 m (558 ft) |
Coordinates: 18°21′N 81°54′E / 18.35°N 81.90°E / 18.35; 81.90 Malkangiri (Oriya: ମାଲକାନଗିରି){{is a town and a notified area committee in Malkangiri district in the Indian state of Orissa. It is the head quarter of the Malkangiri district. Malkangiri is the new home of the Bangladeshi refugees, who were rehabilitated since 1965 under the Dandakaranya project. Also some Sri Lankan Tamil refugees were rehabilitated in Malkangiri town , following the armed struggle of LTTE in the early 90's (most of them have returned, baring a couple of house holds). Currently it is one of the most naxalite-affected areas of the state.
[edit] Geography
Malkangiri is located at 18°21′N 81°54′E / 18.35°N 81.90°E / 18.35; 81.90[1]. It has an average elevation of 170 m (558 ft).
[edit] Demographics
As of 2001[update] India census[2], Malkangiri had a population of 23,110. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Malkangiri has an average literacy rate of 57%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 65%, and female literacy is 48%. In Malkangiri, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.
[edit] Politics
Current MLA from Malkangiri Assembly (SC) Constituency is Nimal Chandra Sarkar of INC, who won the seat in 2004. Previous MLAs from this seat were Arabinda Dhali of BJP in 2000 and in 1995, Naka Kanaya who won it for JD in 1990 and for JNP in 1977, Nadiabasi Biswas of INC in 1985, Naka Laxmaya of INC(I) in 1980.[3]
Malkangiri is part of Nowrangpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Malkangiri
- ^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999. Retrieved on 2008-11-01.
- ^ "State Elections 2004 - Partywise Comparision for 86-Malkangiri Constituency of ORISSA". Election Commission of India. http://archive.eci.gov.in/March2004/pollupd/ac/states/s18/Partycomp86.htm. Retrieved on 2008-09-15.
- ^ "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Orissa". Election Commission of India. http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2000/background/S18/Orissa_AC_Dist_PC.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-09-15.
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I got phone calls from Malkangiri as well as NAVRANGPUR today amidst the news break DEFLATION while my people may be MAPPED into the STARVATION MAP in ORISSA and CHATTISHGARH.
They feel the HEAT of SALWA JUDUM as many of them love late SHANKAR GUHA NIYOGI, our deserved friend who led CHATTISH GARH Mukti Morcha and had been ASSASSINATED.They love Dr BINAYAK SEN, too.
Despite the fact, our people have no COMPLAINT whatsoever against the MAOIST Movement all around DANDAKARANYA, the MAOISTS also do launch ANTI BENGALI Movement mobilising the Aboriginal Indigenous tribal people in Maharashtra, Andhra, MP, Chattish Garh and ORISSA as the MARXIST Regimented Gestapo chose us as SOFT TARGETS in West Bengal.
I did not visit Dandakaranya for any journalistic or academic or political purpose.
I just followed my father who worked lifelong untired for REFUGEE cause!
My topmost priority had been to clear the AIR of TENSION in between our Indigenous Aboriginal communities, the TRIBAL people and the Bengali refugees who were strategically pitted against TRIBAL Population everywhere in India, so that our HISTORY of INSURRECTIONS would never be able to destroy the BRAHAMINICAL HEGEMONY, which is defended, most unfortunately, by our MARXIST and MAOIST friends, I am afraid to say!
The TRUTH bleeds my HEART and Mind as I consider myself a MARXIST even today!
DR NANDA DULAL Mahant who has written an AUTHENTIC book on MATUA DHARM and DALIT NAVJAGARAN, the Subaltern genuine RENAISSANCE in Bengal after eighteen tedious years of RESEARCH accompanied me everywhere, every time despite poor health.
I know very little about the THEORETICAL and SPIRITUAL aspects of MATUA Religion and FOLKLORE as well as PARA FOLKLORE in Bengal. As DR mahanta explained MATUA academically, it was rather very easy for me to interact with the BELIEVERS as well as FOLLOWERS.
Mr ABHIRAM MALLICK, an activist of MULNIVASI Bamcef, popular everywhere in ORISSA spared time and complemented my speech everywhere in ORIA and local languages with graphic details and quotes from SCRIPTS with surgical precision. It helped us to a great Extent to preach PEACE and COEXISTENCE in trouble zones all over in DANDAKARANYA.
PADHIBABU himself moderated all the INTERACTION and MRS PADHI was present everywhere with Massive WOMEN FOLK Presence. We were welcomed everywhere with full warmth of HEART and MIND!
The government of India claims that in all, an amount of Rs. 7.81 crores has been provided during the Seventh Five Year Plan for rehabilitation of new migrants from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), settled outside Dandakaranya and West Bengal.
The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was followed by the forced uprooting of an estimated 18 million people.
DANDAKARANYA focuses on the predicament of the minority communities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) who were uprooted and forced to seek shelter in the Indian province of West Bengal.
Just consider the responses of Indian federal and provincial governments to the challenge of refugee rehabilitation.
A study is made of the Dandakaranya scheme which was undertaken after 1958 to resettle the refugees by colonising forest land: the project was sited in a peninsular region marked by plateaus and hill ranges which the refugees, originally from the riverine and deltaic landscape of Bengal, found hard to accept.
Despite the BRAHAMINICAL OFFICIAL CLAIMS of substantial official rehabilitation efforts, the refugees demanded to be resettled back in their "natural habitat" of Indian Bengal. The OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS ,however, do not mention the MARXIST MOBILISATION using BANGLA NATIONALITY SENTIMENT and HOME LAND Dream. However, this EXODUS for HOMELAND in WEST BENGAL as promised by the MARXISTS was resisted by the state.
Notwithstanding this opposition, a large number of East Bengal refugees moved back into MARICHJHANPI, the region in SUNDARVANA which formed a part of erstwhile undivided Bengal. Where, without any government aid and planning, they colonised lands and created their own habitats SELF SUFFICIENT most SCIENTIFICALLY.
But the New BORN MARXIST HEGEMONY led by Comrade JYOTI BASU EJECTED them out terming the ISLAND as CORE FOREST AREA and made them the FODDER for the ROYAL BENGAL Tigers.
I have to see the WOUNDS and the DISAPPEARED BLOODSTREAMS all over DANDAKARANYA!
The complex interplay of identity and landscape, of dependence and self-help, that informed the choices which the refugees made in rebuilding their lives is analysed in our DOCUMENTARY MARICHJHANPI directed by TUSHAR BHATTACHARYA.
I had to meet scores of EYEWITNESSes of MARICHJHANPI ETHNIC CLEANSING!
AMONGST the VICTIMS of MARICHJHANPI who survived, Many preferred to become squatters in the slums that sprawled in and around Calcutta.
I know some of them!
I have been writing all the MEMORANDUMS to be drafted by my father since 1963 when I was able to make some sentences in Hindi as a student of CLASS Two.
My father PULIN BABU, the leader of DHIMRI BLOCK Peasant Insurrection in Nainital in 1958, did not wear a SHIRT since 1956 before my birth as he took an OATH to rehabilitate each and everyone whoever happens a refugee in this GEOPOLITICS.
I may understand the TRUTH of the claims made by different governments of various COLOR!
The EAST Bengal refugees were NEVER considered PARTITION VICTIMS as the people migrated from West Pakistan were considered.
The Indigenous aboriginal people who lost their Home land in HINDU Dominated EAST BENGAL districts just because of electing DR BR AMBEDKAR to the CONSTITUTION ASSEMBLY, had to be PUSHED back.
Hence, they had not to be rehabilitated and were dumped into TRANSIT CAMPS. The WEST BENGAL Government headed by DR BC ROY as well as Government of India led by PDT JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU decided thus.
DOLE was introduced first in Great Britain just after World war First followed by RECESSION 1929-31. East Bengal Refugees deprived of CITIZENSHIP and Rehabilitation were KEPT on DOLE.
United Madhya Pradesh had FIVE Transit camp including MANA and KURUT. Most of them were never resettled who led the MARICHJHANPI long MARCH lured by JYOTI Basu and Company and later were MASSACRED and gang raped by MARXIST REGIMENTED GESTAPO.
Marichjhanpi INCIDENT is the BURNING EVIDENCE how the WEST BENGAL Refugees have been treated.
They were DEGENERATED and DEHUMANISED with intense DECULTURALISATION as BENGALI BRAHAMINICAL Hegemony threw them out of BENGALI Geopolitics!
My people were MADE FODDERS for the TIGERS everywhere in all 318 distant places in DEEP Forest areas including DANDAKARANYA and CORBETT fame NAINITAL Terai. Only MARICHJHANPI episode is exposed which is rather a TIP of the ICEBERG.
My PEOPLE were deprived of CITIZENSHIP, Mother tongue, Constitutional Reservation, Civil Rights and HUMAN RIGHTS. They had been PREDESTINED to be DISCRIMINATED.
They were made FACELESS.
Only the MATUA Religion profaced by HARICHAND Thakur and GURUCHAND Thakur linked them all over India.
Potteru HARICHAND GURUCHAND Temple became the CENTRE of BENGALI REFUGEE Mobilisation recently. The head of the Institution is not a Bengali , neither a DALIT like the Bengali refugees.
Vijoy Krishna Padhi is an ELITE ORIA BRAHMIN who is working to awaken,educate,organise and Mobilise our people in DANDAKARANYA. His wife is a KIND lady who is involved in WOMEN`s EMPOWERMENT campaign.
The Couple is OCTOGENARIAN and despite poor Health, they engage themselves most committedly in DALIT LIBERALISATION!
It is encouraging.I stayed in MATUA DHAM in POTTERU and visited DANDAKARANYA region with PADHI BABU who is respected by all sections of the society.
I met the local MP and MLAs, political leaders and heads of local bodies and on the sidelines, I continued to interact with my people INDIVIDUALLY coming from every part of DANDAKARANYA.
Dandakaranya Project (DNK) was set up in September 1958 for the settlement of displaced persons from former East Pakistan and for integrated development of the area with particular regard to the promotion of the interests of the local tribal population. It is an agriculture-oriented project, and most of the displaced persons have been settled in agriculture. 25,156 families were settled (23,859 families in agriculture plus 1297 families in small trade-business) in the project (as of Augest 1984). During the Seventh Plan, a further 500 agriculturist families and 100 non-agriculturist families are proposed to be resettled.
The Potteru Irrigation Project under execution by the Government of Orissa is expected to be completed by 1985-86. In the field of industrial development in the DNK Project, the objective has been to give an agro-industrial bias to the rural economy, to train and develop skills among displaced persons and provide, to the extent possible, employment to the agriculturists and rural artisans. With this objective in view, it is proposed to provide infrastructural assistance to the KVIC, AIHB and such other institutions to start training and production programmes. It is also proposed to provide soft loans to settlers for meeting margin money for setting up indus- tries in tiny and small-scale sectors. Further, funds will be required for capital contribution towards setting up of an oilseed processing unit at Malkangiri and construction of rural Industrial Estates in three growth centres at Malkangiri. '
Since the work in the three zones of the Dandakaranya Project, viz., Unerkote in Orissa and Paralkote and Kondagaon in Madhya Pradesh, has been more or less completed, a decision was taken in May, 1982 to normalise these zones and transfer the assets and institutions to the respective State Governments free of cost. The modalities and date of transfer of the assets and institutions are to be decided in consultation with the State Governments. The process of transfer will commence in 1985-86. Some provision is, therefore, required to make payment to the State Governments.
Keeping in view the position stated above an outlay of Rs. 57.27 crores is provided in the Seventh Five Year Plan for the Dandakaranya Project.
Dandakaranya
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Dandakaranya is a spiritually significant region in India. It is roughly equivalent to the Bastar District in the central east part of India. It covers about 35,600 square miles (92,200 km2) of land, which includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east, including parts of the Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh states. It spans about 200 miles (320 km) from north to south and about 300 miles (480 km) from east to west.[1] Dandakaranya roughtly translates from sanskrit to "The Jungle (aranya) of Punishment (dandakas.")
Dandakaranya is an important place in many Indian Hinduism religious tales. The Dandakaranya zone was the location of the turning point in the Ramayana, a famous Sanskrit epic. The plot for the divine objectives of the Hindu Trinity to uproot the rakshasas from the land was formulated here. According to the Ramayana, it was home to many deadly creatures and demons. Exiled persons resided here and sages had to cross it in order to reach the Vindhya Mountains. Rama, his wife Sita and his brother Lakshmana spent 13 years as exiles traveling around the region. Surpanakha met Lord Rama in this region, where she became infatuated with him. When he turned her down, Surpanakha had her brother Khar Dushan attack Rama, who unsurprisingly, killed him in the subsequent battle.[2]
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>>Subject: dangers of citizenship amendment bill
>Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:19:47 +0000
To, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, MP,Chairman, standing committe on Home Affairs,
Govt of India.
Email:
rs_ha at sansad.nic.in
tapanda at sansad.nic.in
Sir,
In response of ur ads in media inviting publicviews, comments, suggestiond
we put our memorandumin english. pl consider.
UR TIME LIMIT TO POST VIEWS, COMMENT AND SUGGESTIONS DO EXPIRE.
I REQUEST TO U TO CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THE EFFECTED REFUGEE MASSES DO NOT
READ NEWSPAPERS AND THEY HAVE NOT ANY REPRESENTATION. THEY CAN NOT PLEAD
THEIR CASE. HENCE , THE TIME LIMIT MUST BE EXTENDED AND NGOs, REFUGEE ORGS,
POLITICAL PARTIES, SOCIAL ACTIVISTS LIKE MEDHA PATKAR, SANDIP PANDEY,
MAHASHWETA DEVI, ARUNDHATI RAY, BABA AMTE, ASGAR ALI ENGINEER AND WRITERS
AND INTELLECTUALS SHOULD BE INVITED TO REPRESENT THE REFUGEES.
the issue is most serious. it envolves not only our collective history,
human rights, un charter, international laws, diplomacy, and above all the
fate of TWO MILLION REFUGEES WHO CAME OVER FROM EAST BENGAL. it also
involves the humanscape of west bengal, assam, tripura, uttaranchal, 36
gargh, up,mp,maharashtra, and rajsthan along with jharkhand and bihar.
U MUST CONSIDER THAT THIS LOT F TWO MILLION PEOPLE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF
PARTITION AND RIOTS THEREAFTER, ARE NOT TERRORISTS ENBLOCK.
Palash Biswas
journalist, jansatta,kolkata( Indian ExpressGroup)
Writer( Hindi, English and Bengali)
GostoKanan, Sodepur,
Kolkata-700110.
phone:033-2565-9551
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MEMORENDUM
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From: Palash Biswas
We on behalf of 20 million East bengal refugees coming over to India in
different dates and phases since 1947 partition and riots over there
awaiting citizenship and rehabilitation and even minimum human rights
including that of matribhasha and reservation, in different states of India,
submit herewith our views and suggestions.
Views and comments
1. That is evident from the statement of object and reasons of the bill
given by Shri Lk Adwani, home minister of India that the bill has been
mooted with the main object of preventing grant of Indian Citizenshipto
illegal migrants; grant of dual citizenship to foreigners of Indian origin
and compulsary registration with issue of National identity card for all
citizens of India.
2.That it appears from the insertion illegal migrant in the bill that the
central govt. wants to make all types of illegal migrants including East
Bengal Refugees of minority communities in india, who have mostly been
compelled to come clandesinely , inelligible for registration as Citizenof
india U/S 5(1)(A)/5(1)(C)of the citizenship act, 1955 and therefore liable
to be adopted to their counties of origin.
Although it is an attempt in right direction in dealing with anti social,
subversive and terrorist foreign elements, it will put millions of Indian
patriots and freedom fighters of Eastbengal refugeesof minority communities
in India awaiting citizenship and rehabilititionin alarm,sever grief and
tension.
by by inserting the word illegalmigrant in section 5 of the existing
citizenship act, 1955,an abortiveattempthas perhaps been madeby the centre
to validate the questionable executive order n.26011/16/71- 1c dt.
29.11.1971 issued by ministry of home affairsafter the creation of
BanglaDesh in 1971. the said circular suddenly withheld, bannedgrant of
citizenship and refugee benefits to all East bengal refugees of minority
communities coming from Bangladesh.
The said circularwas issued immorally, illegally, in breach of trust/pledge
and in violation of fundamental rightsof minorites of Bangladesh/ Pakistan
to come over to india and enjoy the fruits of independence gauaranted bythe
partition and independence documents. It is also violation of international
laws for refugees and the un charter on rights of refugees.
3. that the proposal for compulsary registration of all citizens and issues
of National Identity Card to them with a view to screening out and
identifyingthe foreignersin india is a lofty idea and can be made meaningful
and workable only when Bangladesh/ Pakistani refugees of minority communites
are simultaneously granted National Identity Cards.
Suggetions
Special provisions should be made to safeguard the rigths as well as the
citizenship of those refugees who are resettled all over India after
partition.
The flaw of refugees should be chequed immidiately. and until the atrocities
agnaist minorities beyond border stop it is next to impossible.
Specific provisionbe made in the bill for Bangladeshi/pakistani refugees of
minority communities staying in India continuously for registration as
migrants. So the tortured ones may be saved.
All refugees rehabiliated all over india must be registered as Indian
citizens s they hold permanent addresses and property, ration card and
voting rights for generaations.
palash biswas
5 th july 2003
Those of us who believe in punarjanma (rebirth) want to be born free like the dolphins and albatrosses traveling around the world; or for some it is to be a film star or the cricket captain; Rabindranath or Bill Gates; or free-wheeling baul (singing minstrels of Bengal). Yet, we can not be sure if we will be reborn in our images until I revisited Dandakaranya Hindu refugee villages in the summer of 2008 after more than 40 years since my last visit. My elder brother Dada or Sankar, was a medical doctor from 1950s through 1970s for refugee rehabilitation. I visited him several times in 1960s in Koraput, Orissa, then headquarters of the Dandakaranya Development Authority (DDA). I was enchanted by Dandakaranya’s beauty with forests and rolling hills, with a mix of Oriya tribal and non-tribal population, Bengali and peoples from other Indian provinces giving the small place its cosmopolitan character. Being DaktarBabu’s (doctor’s) brother lots of people knew me than I could ever know them. I received namaskar greetings from strangers during my hikes through neighboring villages and hamlets. I became a part of them. Once a friend of mine and I hiked to the top of Tabletop Mountain, a popular destination for visitors, a short distance outside Koraput town. We missed a pack of hyena that ignored us for a prey they were after. Our knowledge of hyena was of the caged animal we saw at zoo not as a ferocious predator. Some peasants working in fields below noticed this extraordinary saga. Before our return hours later the entire community was ready to give us lessons on avoiding wildlife danger.
During those trips I met many people including a one-time DDA head, Mr. Saibal Gupta and his wife Ashokadi. She was the only person whom I met in the 1960s and again in 2008 in Calcutta before and after my trip. Ashokadi gave me books to read on Dandakaranya before my travel, and I had to give her an eyewitness report on June 3, 2008 after my return mentioning about rebirth of persecuted Bengali Hindus now as devoted Orissan. Dandakaranya Forest covers a large swath of central India that stretches into states of Chattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
In the 1960s an occasional treat was to travel with Dada in his medical van – space permitting – during his medical camps to exotic places: Malkangiri, Nowrangpur, Pakhanjore, Bastar, Raipur, Umorkote, Kanker, Jagdalpur and more. These trips were mostly pre-planned, sometimes taking days, except for emergencies. Trips took him to new refugee villages as well to sparsely located tribal villages. I still remember Dada rushing to Raipur Station which was the first stop of the Hindu refugees heading from Bangladesh (East Pakistan)-West Bengal border to their new life to an unknown destination. As anti-Hindu pogroms were routine in Bangladesh (East Pakistan) Dada’s stay at Raipur depended on the severity of injuries of arriving Hindu refugees. One of the worst was that of the Hazrat Bal Danga killing of 1964 when tens of thousands of Hindus were killed in Bangladesh, and millions of poor oppressed-caste Hindu peasants were forced to flee their homeland. Government of India shipped those hapless victims directly to Raipur in Madhya Pradesh – including injured and rape victims – over 24 hours by train from the border, instead of going though transit camps in West Bengal. In the 1960s villages were in the formative stages, with forest being cleared for habitation and cultivation, with barely any commercial, educational and social facilities. Lives were at the edge of existence, future uncertain. Deaths due to disease and wild animal attack were common. Yet at every hamlet old and new residents welcomed Doctor’s party with great warmth and enthusiasm. Individuals shared their stories of misery and happiness. People would walk miles to see a doctor. Some would insist on gifts of cucumbers, chicks, baby animals and bird eggs. (Dada raised a dog, a peacock and a peahen from those gifts as pets.) This time in one Malkangiri village Usha Debi introduced her son Biswajit as your “Dada’s son” because of Dada delivered Biswajit successfully of her complicated pregnancy. Nevertheless, each refugee was acutely aware then that they were not only starting a new life, but also being reborn as a completely new person with ties permanently cut from their ancestral land of thousands of years.
The Punarjanma (The Rebirth): My trip came to fruition when our friend Basanti introduced me to his elder brother Dada, The Hon. Arun Dey, an Orissa State Legislator, who then introduced me to The Hon. Nimai Chandra Sarkar, an Orissa Legislator from Dandakaranya. Traveling again in 2008 reminded me of noted Bengali writer S. Wazed Ali’s Bharatbarsha: Things remain the same forever in India. In spite of the recent breathtaking transformation in India I took the same train to Vizianagram in Andhra Pradesh State, disembarked at the same late hour and caught the same night bus to Dandakaranya. This time however I went directly to Malkangiri, 5 to 6 hours away from Koraput where the bus stopped before sunrise. (Now there is a train from Koraput to Calcutta that I took on my return journey.) At the Malkangiri bus stop three young Sarkar associates, Goruranga, Arjun and Dilip, welcomed with a bouquet of wild flowers and reliving me of my two serious concerns while visiting remote areas: transport and lodging. They had arranged a rental car and the Circuit House for lodging. They had also scheduled visits to a number of villages, meetings with community leaders, homes, clubs, associations, and ashrams. Dandakaranya was settled almost entirely by poor, oppressed-caste Hindu peasant victims of Islamist persecution.
I remember Dandakaranya as a land with villages tucked in midst of forest. Now it is the other way. Dandakaranya Forest is a slow growth forest with little rainfall. Thus initial years of struggle from wet agriculture of Bangladesh to a dry land cultivation was extremely difficult for poor, often illiterate, peasants. Generations of struggle has now made Dandakaranya a food surplus area from a deficit region. A young tribal man told visitors as to how tribes benefited from intermingling with Bengalis by learning from them crop diversification, irrigation, raising farm animals, different types of cultivation, education and more. What was remarkable was that the signs of prosperity were everywhere. Each family has replaced their original mud building with brick and concrete. After a long search we found one original mud-walled, tin-roof home that belongs to the family of Sri Subal Namo. NamoBabu graciously welcomed us to his home.
Most homes have flowering and fruit trees, and vegetable gardens. All have gola granaries full of harvest. From nothing people have built shops, businesses, transport companies, consultancy, mandirs, ashrams, clubs, schools and industry. Of Malkangiri’s four rice mills two belong to people who didn’t even have their shirt on their back. Some have become teachers, professors, lawyers, doctors, industrialists, bankers, politicians and civil servants. Someone gave me a number of a young man who is now working in the U.S. Every family has one or more cell phones, and bicycles are being replaced by motor bikes. Riding Gouranga’s bike I too felt like being reborn in God’s land. The refugees have elected legislators (and in Chattshgarh State.) Villages didn’t look that different from their ancestral Khulna, Faridpur, Rongpur, Mymanshingh villages, except for the lack of ponds. Still a few brave ones have built ponds raising fish and rearing ducks. In discussions several concerns were voiced: Orissa’s ban on Bengali medium schools. (Initially there were Bengali-medium schools, but that was changes later. Recently Orissa has agreed to offer one subject to be taught in Bengali, while West Bengal supplying the books. Both promises have allegedly been reneged by both states; yet refugees were proud to be born in Holy Orissa); non-native language instruction is making them socially backward; West Bengal’s Communist-Marxist Chief Minister Jyoti Basu’s mass killing of Dandakaranya’s Hindu oppressed-caste poor peasants at MarichJhapi when one of their struggling families returned and settled in the state; non-fulfillment of rehabilitation promises; Maoist Communist’s divisive communalism resulting in Bengali, tribe, Oriya polarization. (There have been many Bengali-Oriya, Bengali-tribal marriages that all communities gladly accepted); and more. They are acutely aware of their rebirth at Dandakaranya after their mass killing in their ancestral Bangladesh home. Still people frequently asked, “What would have happened if we stayed back in our homeland in Bangladesh – life or death?” Knowing anti-Hindu pogroms and apartheid in Bangladesh I could not answer that question, but one resident summarized: “It was God’s wish that we were to be reborn – have punarjanma – in this God’s land of beauty and wealth called Dandakaranya.”
June 2008
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The Left Government in West Bengal is not new to Mass Murder of Innocent Citizens. Nandigram is just the latest in the series. Before Nandigram it was the Morichjhapi massacre of the 1970s, featured in Amitav Ghosh's Hungry Tide. There, it was East Bengal refugees in the Sundarbans who were cordoned off, fired on and the survivors evicted. The cost in lives is still unaccounted, but it is likely that thousands were killed.
In the 1960s and 1970s (especially after the Bangladesh war of independence in 1971, Mujibur Rahman’s assassination in 1975 and Zia-ur-Rahman’s coming to power) communal agitations were directed against the Hindus who had remained in East Bengal. Hounded out of East Bengal, Bengali Hindus from East Pakistan and subsequently Bangladesh entered West Bengal in the hope of settling down. They were however sent to various inhospitable areas outside West Bengal with the assurance that they would eventually be relocated in West Bengal. Ironically, during that time CPM Led opposition, denounced the Congress attempts to evict the refugees from West Bengal and promised that when they came to power they would settle the refugees in West Bengal and that this would, in all probability, be on one of the islands of the Sundarbans.
In 1977, when the CPM Led Left Front came to power, they found the refugee had taken them at their word and sold their belongings and land to return to West Bengal. In 1978 a group of refugees fled from the Dandakaranya camp in Madhya Pradesh and came to the island of Morichjhapi in the Sundarbans with the intention of settling there. In all, 1,50,000 refugees arrived from Dandakaranya1 expecting the government to honour its word. Morichjhanpi, an island in the northern-most forested part of the West Bengal Sundarbans, had been cleared in 1975 and its mangrove vegetation replaced by a governmental programme of coconut and tamarisk plantation to increase state revenue.
The state government was in no mood to tolerate such a settlement. It stated that the refugees were ‘in unauthorised occupation of Morichjhanpi which is a part of the Sundarbans government reserve forest violating thereby the Forest Acts’. However, according to journalist Niranjan Haldar, who extensively reported and researched the carnage, the refusal of the Udbastu Unnayansil Samity, an association of refugees, to merge with the CPI(M) led to their eviction.
On the January 31, 1979 the police opened fire killing 36 persons. The media started to underscore the plight of the refugees of Morichjhanpi and wrote in positive terms about the progress they were making in their rehabilitation efforts. Photographs were published in the Amrita Bazar Patrika of the February 8, 1979. Fearing more backlash, and seeing the public growing warm towards the refugees’ cause, the chief minister Jyothi Basu declared Morichjhanpi out of bounds for journalists and condemned their reports. The repeated pleas from the dwellers of the island did not reach the mainland owing to the iron fisted control of the left front, over the media. The plight of the refugees was supposed to be published in parts in the Bengali Daily Jugantar,25th July, however after the first part, it had to be discontinued. Later the editor Amitava Chaudhuri wrote, how the CPM led government forced him to back off from carrying forth the further publications, in spite of the declaration of the forth coming 2nd part in the 25th July issue itself.
After the failure of the economic blockade (announced on January 26 – an ironical twist to Republic Day!) in May the same year, the government started forcible evacuation. Thirty police launches encircled the island thereby depriving the settlers of food and water; they were also tear-gassed, their huts razed, their boats sunk, their fisheries and tube-wells destroyed, and those who tried to cross the river were shot at. To fetch water, the settlers had now to venture after dark and deep into the forested portion of the island and forced to eat wild grass. Several hundred men, women and children were believed to have died during that time and their bodies thrown in the river. In all 4,128 families who had come from Dandakaranya to find a place in West Bengal perished of cholera, starvation, disease, exhaustion, in transit while sent back to their camps, by drowning when their boats were scuttled by the police or shot to death in Kashipur, Kumirmari, and Morichjhanpi by police firings. How many of these deaths actually occurred in Morichjhapi we shall never know. However, what we do know, is that no criminal charges were laid against any of the officials or politicians involved.
http://jokesfromindianleft.blogspot.com/2008/03/morichjhanpi-massacre.htmlEast Bengali Refugees
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
East Bengali Refugees are people that left East Bengal following the partition of Bengal, which was part of the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.
[edit] History
In 1947, Bengal was partitioned into the Indian state of West Bengal and the Pakistani province of East Bengal. East Bengal was later renamed East Pakistan, which subsequently broke away from Pakistan to form the independent country of Bangladesh. Most of Sylhet district in Assam also joined East Pakistan and was subsequently considered to be East Bengal.
[edit] Settlement
The majority of East Bengali refugees settled in the new state of West Bengal, but a significant number[quantify] also moved to the Barak Valley of Assam and the princely state of Tripura which eventually joined India in 1949. Around 0.5 million were also settled in other parts of India, including the East Pakistan Displaced Persons' Colony (EPDP) in Delhi (subsequently renamed Chittaranjan Park) and Orissa. The estimated 0.5 million Bengalis in Delhi and 0.3 million in Mumbai are also largely East Bengali refugees and their descendants.[1]
[edit] Scope
The exact number of refugees has never been officially collected and estimates vary considerably.
In the immediate aftermath of partition, commonly attributed figures suggest around 3 million East Bengalis migrating to India and 864,000 migrants from India to East Pakistan. [2] Indian government estimates suggest around 2.6 million migrants leaving East Bengal for India and 0.7 million migrants coming to East Pakistan from India. [3]
[edit] Further Migration
[edit] 1950s
In 1950, it is estimated that a further one million refugees crossed into West Bengal. [4] The 1951 Census of India recorded that 27% of Kolkata's population was East Bengali refugees. [5]
[edit] 1960s
Migration continued, primarily from East Pakistan to India, right up to the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, both on an on-going basis and with spikes during periods of particular communal unrest such as the 1964 riots and the 1965 India-Pakistan War, when it is estimated that 600,000 refugees left for India. [6] Estimates of the number of refugees up to 1970 are over 5 million to West Bengal alone. [7] This includes around 4.1 million coming between 1946-1958 and 1.2 million coming between 1959 and 1971. [8]
[edit] 1970s
Another major influx came in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It is estimated that around 10 million East Bengali refugees entered India during the early months of the war, of whom 1.5 million may have stayed back after Bangladesh became independent. [9]
The outflow of Hindus from East Bengal had a particularly negative effect on the Hindu community of East Pakistan and subsequently Bangladesh, as a significant portion of the region's educated middle class and political leadership left. The heights reached by many of the East Bengali migrants and their descendants, including Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize and Megh Nad Saha's pioneering work in Astrophysics are considerable.
[edit] Notable Refugees and Migrants
- Achintyakumar Sengupta (Noakhali; literature)
- Amartya Sen (Dhaka, economics/academia)
- Bijon Bhattacharya (Faridpur, cinema)
- Buddhadev Bose (Comilla; literature)
- Chuni Goswami (Kishoreganj; sports)
- Manik Goswami (Kishoreganj; sports/journalist)
- Comrade Muzaffar Ahmed (Noakhali; politics, founder of Communist Party of India)
- Debabrata Biswas (Barisal, music)
- Jibananda Das (Barisal, poet)
- Jogendra Nath Mandal (Barisal; politics, First Law Minister, Pakistan (1947-1950)
- Jyoti Basu (Dhaka; politics, Chief Minister, West Bengal 1977-2000)
- Bimal Roy (Dhaka; cinema)
- Hemanga Biswas (Sylhet; music)
- Hiralal Chakraborty (Noakhali; Publisher - Founder of Prakashani Limited and Nababidhan Press)
- Humayun Kabir (Faridpur; literature and academics)
- Ila Mitra (Khulna, human rights activist)
- Kazi Abdul Wadud (Faridpur; literature)
- Lokesh Chandra Chakraborty (Noakhali; Pricipal - David Hare Training College, Jadavpur)
- Madhabi Mukherjee (Barisal; cinema)
- Mahasweta Devi (Dhaka; literature, human rights)
- Megh Nad Saha (Dhaka; science)
- Mrinal Sen (Faridpur; cinema)
- Narendranath Mitra (Faridpur; literature and journalism)
- Nirad Chaudhuri (Mymensingh; academia)
- Nirmalendu Chowdhury (Sylhet; music)
- Pankaj Roy (Dhaka; Cricketer)
- Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi (Dinajpur, politics)
- Ratan Kumar Guhathakurta (Barisal, Civil Engineer/Corporate - General Manager: Oil & Gas Division ~ IVRCL Infrastructure Ltd.)
- Ritwik Ghatak (Dhaka; cinema)
- Pannalal Ghosh (Barisal; music)
- Sachin Dev Burman (Comilla; music)
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Dhaka - Bikrampur; writer)
- Suchitra Sen (Pabna, cinema)
- Sunil Gangopadhyay (Faridpur; writer)
- Sunil Ganguly (Faridpur; musician)
- Tulsi Lahiri (Rangpur; music and cinema)
- Ustad Alauddin Khan (Brahmanbaria; music)
- Ustad Bahadur Hossain Khan (Dhaka; music)
- Vilayat Khan (Mymensingh; music)
- Utpal Dutta (Barisal, theatre)
- Suchitra Sen (Pabna, Cinema)
- Bhanu Banerjee (Dhaka, Cinema)
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On the periphery of existence
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Striking simplicity ... Tribal women at a handpump in Padampur.
THE highway to Malkangiri is so bad it would be better to walk all the way. The 700-km drive from Bhubaneshwar lasts over 24 hours, the stretch after Koraput being the longest.
Given the poor transport facility, the time and money spent to and from Malkangiri can be high. If the drive were smooth, one could marvel at the hill ranges the trees so tall you couldn't see the tops; the cloud rings round the hills.
Malkangiri is a dusty, shabby town on the edge of the State with nothing to offer. There is a market but you will not find anything worth buying. Tea stalls are aplenty, as are small eateries. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalions here to curb the People's War Group (PWG) menace number as much as the general population. The town throbs till dusk, by 9 p.m. shops close, only the jawans can be seen. A few bright yellow diamonds dangle in front of phone booths. The only creatures are stray dogs.
The twin language formula, Oriya and Bengali, is a spill-over of the Nehruvian Dandakaranya Project — to resettle refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan, and another wave after Bangladesh was born in 1971. The Orissa Government now insists that all children must learn Oriya.
The town has a strong presence of Bengalis — hawkers, petty shop owners, drivers and Government staff from refugee families. There have also been a few IAS officers, doctors and engineers from the refugee population. "When I came here with my parents in 1963, Malkangiri was a jungle. I graduated from here,'' said Minister Arabinda Dhali.
"We cleared the area and cultivated the land given to us. We built our houses. What you see today is a result of the initiative of the families resettled here,'' said a group of Bengalis.
Tribals walk down from their enclaves once a week to sell their wares. "Tribals are not good traders. They cannot bargain and will accept what you offer. So they are cheated by the Bengali refugees," said Sajal Satpathy who owns a phone booth in Malkangiri. The locals seem to dislike the refugees.
The interface between the Bengali settlers and the tribals is a keg of explosives, say political pandits from 700 km away. A visit to Padmapur, Jharapalli and some other villages showed otherwise.
The Bengal settlers near Padmapur have named their village Subhaspalli, it adjoins the area where the tribals live in Padmapur. The settlers work hard. Women, girls too, roll bidis, while others make brooms from coconut fronds. Some families run canteens and petty shops, sales are usually on credit basis. The settlements have electricity but no health care or irrigation facilities. They are completely dependent on the rains. "Yes, we suffer a lot. We have told our elected representative, but nothing has been done. When tribals pledge their land, we lend cash, and till their land until they repay the debt. There has been no problem with them so far, but for how long?" asked a settler.
The Revenue Minister, Bishwa Bhushan Harichandan said in Bhubaneshwar that there were reports of tribals being alienated from their land. He said that both the Bengali settlers and tribals were encroaching on Government land. The firing in Raighar tehsil on October 30, 2001 in which three tribals were killed was a result of tension between Bengalis and tribals. At Jharapalli, the school was a line of three single-storey buildings, each about 200 square feet. Weeds grew in cracks on the walls, the windows had no bars so the children passed in and out. Passing through the school, literally, shouldn't be a problem. "But the drop-out rate is high. Tribal children, especially girls, do not study beyond the third standard, but children of settlers go through the system," said the headmaster. "The family will beg if necessary, but they will make their children study," said a group of Bengali settlers. Bags of paddy were stacked to the ceiling and paddy was piled high on the ground in almost every house in this village.
Trudging uphill to Padmapur village, I saw two women cleaning vessels at a hand pump at the edge of the village. They wouldn't talk, wouldn't pose for the camera.
The huts were scattered all around, each had an entrance barred by bamboo-splits. It was cool inside. Sabu Koya saw me watching a woman pasting cowdung on the walls and the cracks in them. "The cowdung will dry and the insects within will die," he said.
In one hut was the desari (medicine man). Bheema Pangi, bent with age, brought out his handcrafted bag — an assorted collection of medicinal plants for fever, diarrhoea, and body ache. Treatment is free. "My son is not interested in this because it does not earn me any money. He'd rather work as a labourer in town. The Government has done nothing to protect this system, and when I am gone, this knowledge will die with me," he said in a resigned voice.
Bheema Pangi said, "We have a village headman. And we listen to what he says." B.D. Sharma wrote in his book Whither Tribal Areas? "... in some tribal regions existing Panchayati Raj system comprising three tiers of Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samities and Zilla Parishads have been accepted by the tribal people. But in other regions, the traditional organisational structure and leadership are still influential. The Panchayati Raj system has not been a success. There is need, therefore, to ensure that ... the traditional systems are allowed to play their due role." The tribals speak Oriya with many words from their tongue, which made translation difficult. "There is a school at Bandhuguda four km away," said one of the young tribals, "but our children refuse to go there. What will they learn that can be of use to them and to our way of life here?"
A typical hearth in a tribal hut in Malkangiri.
The simplicity of the tribals is striking. They are also poor. Most families do not have enough money to buy rice from the Public Distribution System. So hard cash means a lot to them but, despite their need.
These people have their own ways and would rather be left to themselves. They do not want to lose their tribal heritage. The tribals of Orissa, as elsewhere, are a marginalised lot.
Not only are they deprived of their habitat but they are also coerced to substitute their robust social organisation that has evolved over centuries for something completely alien to them. Development requires inputs, and the most important is land — For its natural resources — trees and minerals, for roads and to accommodate a growing population as well as industries. In the systematic encroachment by decision makers to appease those who matter, the rights of the tribals who cannot raise their voice are easily trampled upon.
Driven to an edge, with nothing but the precipice of poverty and destitution in sight, it is no wonder that even a simple lot turns against the oppressors at times.
* * *
Bitter pill
THE health care system in Malkangiri district is awful. Medical sub-centres for hilly areas exist on paper. You will not find one even if you hunted. The buildings are non-existent and health professionals routinely evade the postings by going on leave.
As the Collector, Vir Vikram Yadav, said, "Malaria is endemic here, and we have been trying our best to control it." The chief district medical officer (CDMO), Dr. Satchidananda Mishra, said, "We have one medical sub-centre for every 3000 population in a cluster of villages. The multipurpose health worker (MPHW) is required to visit one village everyday."
The local people said, "The sub-centres do not work, more so if they are up in the mountains. How is an MPHW to reach a village on a difficult terrain?" Obviously not many have the ability to crisscross the hills.
The local people said, members of the People's War Group (PWG) take the medicines — and sometimes even guide the MPHWs to attend to the sick — to remote areas. If they had not, then given the `excellent' health care delivery system (with health department staff taking leave en masse and poor supply of life-saving drugs), many would perish.
The fear psychosis has had an impact in the district. The administration seems to have woken up to people's needs.
* * *
`Politicking has led to tension'
THE Orissa Minister for Cooperation, Textiles and Handlooms, Arabinda Dhali lives in the centre of a multi-ring security cordon. Jayanarayan Mishra, deputy chief whip of the State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was present the day I met Dhali at his home in Bhubaneshwar. A translated excerpt of the discussion in Bengali and Hindi:
To what extent has the People's War Group (PWG) created a problem in Malkangiri?
ARABINDA DHALI: The PWG has won the trust of the tribals and has been instigating them saying that the Government has not provided them water, medical facilities, schools and good roads. Basically, the PWG found Malkangiri a safe haven. They cultivated ganja and amassed a good amount of wealth too.
JAYANARAYAN MISHRA:
Malkangiri is the last district in the list of priorities. So the worst officials are posted there as a punishment. They know that after Malkangiri, nothing can be worse. So they make the most out of it — by diverting Government project funds. There is no administration in Malkangiri. The Minister may deny this but it is the truth. So people are angry. There is also the issue of non-Bengali settlers from East Pakistan and Bangladesh. The Naxals today are thugs. The PWG cadres today terrorise the people. The problems between Bengali settlers and tribals are of recent origin...
A.D.: Yes. It was peaceful even a decade ago. After Independence, there was no development work in Malkangiri. It was only after I got elected in 1992 that I took up development work, including the Poteru irrigation scheme.
The tension between Bengalis and tribals is because of politicking. I won in 1992 because the traditional Congress vote bank elected me instead. You see, there are 30 per cent Bengalis and 70 per cent tribals in the Dandakaranya Project area. The Congress strategy has been to create a problem to split the votes. What else could cause a flare-up between the two who have co-existed peacefully for 40 years? There are so many cases of tribals marrying Bengalis.
What about the reported cases of rape of tribal women by Bengali settlers?
A.D.: There have been only two reported cases of rape in the last five years. Aren't much more rape cases reported from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai? When women and men live in a society, the possibility of violations always exists.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/02/24/stories/2002022400530200.htm
20.34 The Rehabilitation Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs runs an industrial concern known as the Rehabilitation Industries Corporation Ltd., at Calcutta. It is fully financed by the Government of India. It has been incurring losses since its inception. For its revitalisation, an amount of Rs. 153 lakhs was required, of which a sum of Rs. 117 lakhs has already been paid to the Corporation. The balance of Rs. 36 lakhs has to be paid to the Corporation in the first year of the Seventh Plan.
Repatriates from Sri Lanka
20.35 Under the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreements of 1964 and 1974, six lakh accountable persons together with their natural increase were to be repatriated to India. Of these, 3.34 lakh accountable persons, comprising 1.15 lakh families, have already been repatriated upto 31st March, 1985. During the Sixth Plan, resettlement of 25,000 families was targeted, for which an outlay of Rs. 35 crores was approved. However, at the end of the Sixth Plan, 34,214 families have been rehabilitated at a cost of Rs. 31.87 crores.
20.36 In the Seventh Plan, 40,000 families are expected to be settled. Housing assistance will be provided to 32,900 families. The outlay provided is Rs. 73.43 crores. The families are proposed to be settled with the help of the small trade/business loan schemes (27,400), self-employment schemes (3500), Repatriate's Cooperative Bank Schemes (6500), industrial schemes (2000), and plantation schemes (600).
Repatriates from Burma
20.37 The resettlement work pertaining to Burma repatriates is almost complete, but residuary work regarding payment of second and subsequent installments of small trade/business loans and loans for construction of houses etc., are required to be given to about 7,000 families. Rs. 2.10 crores have been provided for completion of this work during the first two years of the Seventh Plan
Repatriates from Uganda, Zaire and Vietnam
20.38 The work relating to the settlement of repatriates from Uganda, Zaire and Vietnam is almost complete. A token provision of Rs.1 lakh has been made in the Seventh Plan for any residuary liabilities.
Chhamb Displaced Persons
20.39 As a result of the Indo-Pak Conflict, 1971, about 18,700 persons displaced from Chhamb Niabat area in Jammu & Kashmir were accommodated in 3 camps at Kishanpur Manwal where they were given immediate relief. The work of rehabilitation of these displaced persons is almost complete. However, there are still about 30 families left who are yet too be allotted land; also, 779 families have been allotted land less than on the admissible scale. It is proposed to sanction a special scheme on the pattern of IRDP for these families. The details of these schemes are being worked out by the State Government after a family to family survey. For this purpose, a provision of Rs. 20 lakhs has been made in the Seventh Plan on an "ad hoc basis". For other residuary work, a provision of Rs. 20 lakhs is required in the Seventh Plan. Thus, a total provision of Rs. 40 lakhs has been made in the Seventh Plan for the outlays on Chhamb displaced persons.
Settlement of displaced persons from Pakistan (Sind) in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
20.40 As a result of the 1971 Indo-Pak Conflict about 8,600 families in Rajasthan and 1,600 families in Gujarat of Pakistani nationality, who crossed over to India, were maintained in 32 relief camps.
20.41 As it became clear that there were no prospects of these DPs returning to Pakistan, a decision was taken in March, 1978 to grant them Indian citizenship and rehabilitate them on a permanent basis. In pursuance of this decision, schemes for the resettlement of these DPs were formulated by the State Governments of Rajasthan and Gujarat and sanctioned by the Central Government. These displaced persons were settled in Rajasthan and Gujarat. They have to be given loans, and the State Governments have also to provide infrastructural facilities in the rehabilitation areas.
20.42 A total amount of Rs. 1.44 crores comprising Rs. 94 lakhs for Rajasthan and Rs. 50 lakhs for Gujarat during the Seventh Plan (1985-90) has been provided.
Permanent Settlement of Displaced Persons Occupying the Tenements in Kotla Ferozeshah Complex
20.43 A proposal is under consideration to shift the displaced persons occupying the tenements in Kotla Ferozeshah Complex to some alternative site. Since no decision has yet been taken, a token provision of Rs.1 lakh has been made in the Seventh Plan.
396
Stationery and Printing
20.44 In order to augment the printing capacity in the Central Sector, a provision of Rs. 6 crores has been included in the Seventh Plan. This will be utilised for the establishment of a Parliament Press, a new building for the Government of India Press at Santragachi, setting up of three Government of India Presses at Jaipur, Ranchi and Gauhati, besides on-going commitments.
20.45 In the States and UT Sector, an outlay of Rs. 56.08 crores has been included. The major part of this outlay is expected to be utilised on new machinery and equipment.
20.46 Annexures I and II indicate the Seventh Plan outlays for the various programmes outlined in this chapter.
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ANNEXURE-20.1
Seventh Plan-Outlay on other Sectors
(Rs. crores)
Sl. Heads of Development Centre States UT's Total
No.
1 2 3 4 5 6
1. Statistics 40.78 48.24 4.00 93.02
2. Rehabilitation of
Displaced persons 146.03 - 0.10 *1 146.13
3. Planning Machinery 8.16 64.54 2.80 75.50
4. District Planning - 622.31 4.75 627.06
5. Stationery and Printing 6.00 50.08 6.00 62.08
6. Public Works - 549.92 18.90 568.82
7. Training for Development 4.93 8.98 2.90 16.81
8. Public Distribution
System 2.50 41..21 2.80 46.51
9. Official Languages-
Hindi 2.00 - - 2.00
10. Others - 1.00 *2 0.12 *3 1.12
11. Unallocated 5.74 42.00 - 47.74
TOTAL 216.14 1428.28 42.37 1686.79
Notes: 1. For rehabilitating in A & N Islands.
2. Includes Rs.0.80 crores for National Small Saving and Rs. 0.20 crore for Parliamentary Affairs.
3. Includes Rs. 0.05 crores for Small Savings Schemes and Rs. 0.07 crore for strengthening of Accounts and Goa Gazetteers.
398
ANNEXURE-20.2
Seventh Plan-Outlays on Rehabilitation: Centre
(Rs. crores)
Sl. Schemes Plan
No. outlay
1 2 3
1. Old migrants in West Bengal (including Indian
enclaves in former East Pakistan) 3.20
2. Migrants outside West Bengal (in Dandakaranya.
& other places) in agricultural and non-
agricultural occupations.
(i) Dandakaranya Project 57.27
(ii) Agricultural occupations outside
Dandakaranya 7.41
(iii) Non-agricultural occupations 0.40
3. Repatriates from Sri Lanka 73.43
4. Repatriates from Burma 2.10
5. RIC Ltd., Calcutta 0.36
6. Repatriates from Uganda, Zaire and Vietnam 0.01
7. Western Border Areas:
(i) Chamb displace persons 0.40
(ii) Displaced persons from Pakistan (Sind)
of 1971 Conflict in States of
Rajasthan, Gujarat 1.44
(iii) Permanent settlement of displaced
persons occupying the tenements in
Kotla Ferozeshah Complex 0.01
TOTAL 146.03
RSS leader shot, rebel hand suspected | |
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Bhubaneswar, March 19: Suspected Maoists gunned down an RSS leader in Kandhamal early this morning, rekindling tension in the communally sensitive district after a brief lull. Talking to The Telegraph, Kandhamal superintendent of police S. Praveen Kumar confirmed the incident. He said Prabhat Panigrahi, the head of the RSS’s Kotgarh block unit, was shot by a group of 15-20 “suspected Maoists” at Rudiguma village. Eyewitnesses said the group of armed men descended on the village around 2am, called the victim out of his house and sprayed bullets on him. Printed posters were found pasted on the walls of his house. The posters decried “Hindu communal politics”. “Those who are doing politics in the name of the Hindu religion will be punished,” a poster read. Kumar said senior police officers had reached the spot to investigate the killing. “A combing operation has been launched in neighbouring areas,” he added. Panigrahi’s death triggered strong resentment among the local Hindu community. Irate residents blocked the Kotagrah-Muniguda road, demanding protection and a Rs 10 lakh compensation to the RSS leader’s family members. Additional forces have been deployed in and around the village to prevent any untoward incident. However, the forces reached the village late because the approach road was blocked by felled trees, police sources said. The deceased RSS leader had reportedly been arrested for his alleged involvement in the Kandhamal communal riots that began after the murders of VHP leader Laxmananda Saraswati and his four associates on August 23, 2008, in Jaleshpeta ashram. He was released from the Baliguda jail on bail on March 14 and was staying at the house of an RSS activist. Sources said Panigrahi was on the Maoist hit list and the rebels had issued threats, through posters, to award “death” to those who were allegedly involved in the communal riots that killed several innocent civilians. The incident is likely to precipitate tension and figure in the BJP and the Sangh Parivar campaigns for the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections scheduled to start soon. Union leader killed In another incident, Maoists abducted a Citu leader and labour contractor, Ravi Oram, from Sundergarh and beheaded him yesterday night. The headless body of the 35-year-old leader was found late in the night in a forested area near his home in Renjda village. A Maoist poster was also recovered from the spot. It said that the party had awarded death penalty to a “police informer”. Rourkela superintendent of police Santosh Bala said that they had begun a probe into the case. Preliminary investigations have revealed that some 20-25 masked men were reportedly seen abducting Oram on Tuesday. The Citu has called a bandh tomorrow in protest against the incident. |
Elite Engineered Recession
11 02 2009Elite Engineered Recession
Andrew Winkler
For the past 12 months at keast, there has been an unprecedented scare campaign by elitists and their brownie points addicted puppets, warning us of an imminent recession, bigger and better than the ‘Great Depression’. The latest two installments were the ‘monthly 500 million US job losses’ Freudian of Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi[1], who left quite an impression, and the dire ‘worst recession in 100 years’ warning of UK minister Ed Balls.[2]
Their behavior is remarkable since in all previous recessions our leaders did their utmost to downplay the economic downturn, in an effort to improve consumer confidence. The immediate question flowing from this observation is why this time there is a concerted effort of leading politicians, industrial bosses and media – mainstream and alternative alike – to talk down the economy and create nothing short of panic? And the most important question of all: Who benefits from all the economic scaremongering?
The answer is fairly obvious: the same people who benefit from the ‘Islamic Terror’ scaremongering, those 500+ obscenely rich, intermarried crime families who rule our world in a feudal system cleverly disguised as democracy. One of the easiest ways of manipulating us to accept their ‘solutions’ is by scaring us with whatever scarecrow works, be it Communism, neo-Nazis, AIDS, Muslim extremism, school shootings, global warming, bird flu, economic meltdown you name it. And every of those ‘solutions’ brings us more taxes and less freedom.
Those in the know either prostitute themselves to this self-chosen ‘ruling elite’ or are too busy making ends meet to do anything about it. The few of us who aren’t, rely on the Internet to spread the word. Which brings me to the reason why I doubt that all that doom and gloom is for real. If those scary predictions became reality, too many people would have time and motivation to investigate what’s really happening. With nothing to loose but their illusions, they would have no reason to keep avoiding looking behind the smoke and mirror.
Our ruling crime families must walk a fine line between scaring us enough to more easily manipulate us and not making life unbearable for too many of us, or their entire Matrix-like virtual reality might collapse.
We should also bear in mind that the difference between boom and recession is only a few percentage points in economic activity. Even during the ‘Great Depression’ in the 1930’s, economic activity was only down by about 5 percent. Such tiny differences can easily be manipulated by higher or lower interest rates as well as increased or decreased public and corporate spending. I strongly suggest that we have a look at who has engineered the current economic downturn and send them lawn-mowing in Mongolia for the rest of their lifes.
Footnotes:
[1] The Guardian
[2] The Independent
Andrew Winkler is the founder and editor/publisher of dissident blog ZioPedia.org and independent news site RebelNews.org. You can read more of his writings in the editorial section of ZioPedia.org. Andrew can be contacted on
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Hindus keep their stolen money ($1,500 billion) in Swiss banks
SANJEEV KUMAR SINGH, R.NO. 50-DR.B.R. AMBEDKAR HOSTEL, BHU, VARANASI- 225 001
Shocking. Shocking. Revelations of Swiss bank accounts will be a big shock. If black money deposits become an Olympics event, India would win the gold hands down. The second best Russia has four times lesser deposits. US is not even there in the counting in top five. India has more money in Swiss banks than all the other countries combined.
Recently, due to international pressure, the Swiss Govt. agreed to disclose the names of the account-holders only if the respective govts. formally asked for it. The Indian Govt. is not asking for the details. No marks for guessing why?
We need to start an agitation to force the govt. to do so. This is perhaps the only way, and a golden opportunity to expose the high and mighty and weed out the corrupt upper castes. Forward this message to all honest Indians.
Is India poor? Who says? Ask the Swiss banks. With personal account bank deposits of $1,500 billion in foreign reserve which have been misappropriated, an amount 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt, one needs to rethink if India is a poor country?
Dishonest industrialists: Dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians and corrupt bureaucrats have deposited in foreign banks in their illegal personal accounts $1500 billions, which have been stolen by them. This amount is about 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt. With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and betraying them.
Once this huge amount of black money and property comes back to India, the entire foreign debt can be repaid in 24 hours. After paying the entire foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central Govt. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central Govt. will be able to maintain the country very comfortably.
25,000 thieves: Some 80,000 people travel to Switzerland every year, of whom 25,000 travel very frequently. ‘Obviously, these people won’t be tourists. They must be travelling there for some other reason, believes an official involved in tracking illegal money. And, clearly, he isn’t referring to the commerce ministry bureaucrats who’ve been flitting in and out of Geneva ever since the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations went into a tailspin.
Just read the following details and note how these dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians, corrupt officers, cricketers, film actors, illegal sex trade and protected wildlife operators, to name just a few, sucked this country’s wealth and prosperity. This may be the picture of deposits in Swiss banks only. What about other international banks?
Top five: Black money in Swiss banks: Swiss Banking Association report (2006) details bank deposits in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of following countries:
INDIA —$1,456 BILLION
RUSSIA —$470 BILLION
U.K. —$390 BILLION
UKRAINE — $100 BILLION
CHINA — $96 BILLION
India with $1,456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than the rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947.
Can we bring back our money? Why not? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind — the loot of the aam aadmi (common man) since 1947 by his own brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, bureaucrats and some businessmen.
The list is almost all-encompassing. No wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. What is even more depressing in that this ill-gotten wealth of ours has been stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the world’s best known tax havens. And to that extent the Indian economy has been stripped of its wealth.
Western conspiracy: Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that go on to govern such tax havens. However, one may well be aware of Swiss bank accounts, the shorthand for murky dealings, secrecy and of course pilferage from developing countries into rich developed ones.
In fact, some finance experts and economists believe tax havens to be a conspiracy of the Western world against the poor countries. By allowing the proliferation of tax havens in the 20th century, the western world explicitly encourages the movement of scarce capital from the developing countries to the rich. In March 2005, the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published a research finding demonstrating that $11.5 trillion of personal wealth was held offshore by rich individuals across the globe.
Bofors money: The findings estimated that a large proportion of this wealth was managed from some 70 tax havens. Further, augmenting these studies of TJN, Raymond Baker — in his widely celebrated book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free Market System, estimates that at least $5 trillion have been shifted out of poorer countries to the West since the mid-1970.
It is further estimated by experts that 1% of the world’s population holds more than 57% of total global wealth, routing it invariably through these tax havens. How much of this is from India is anybody’s guess.
What is to be noted here is that most of the wealth of Indians parked in these tax havens is illegitimate money acquired through corrupt means. Naturally, the secrecy associated with the bank accounts in such places is central to the issue, not their low tax rates as the term ‘tax havens’ suggests. Remember, Bofors and how India could not trace the ultimate beneficiary of those transactions because of the secrecy associated with these bank accounts?
Can anybody save India?
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/march2009/articles.htm
From Dec.1, 2006 —for about two years— we started publishing a new column, “India Shining”, regularly in every issue of DV on p.13. The short reports published in this column are taken from the Brahminical toilet papers to prove the false claim of the ruling class that India’s “gallop” into unprecedented prosperity is all bullshit. Such a false claim of quantum jump from 8.6 to 9% to 10% GDP is proved wrong by the very toilet papers who made this claim.
Reckless exploiters: India’s ruling upper castes cannot be more than 15% of our population. They are led by the vaidiks who have been the traditional centuries-old exploiters whom Budha, Guru Ravidas, Nanak, Phule, Dr. Ambedkar, Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy fought. They are the country’s leaders of thought and action having co-opted the other three caste groups—Kshatriya, Vaishya and to some extent even the shudra—and converted them into reckless, heartless exploiters.
What we have in the country today is the rule of this 15% upper castes who alone are the Hindu.
The exploited people comprise the SC/ST/BCs (65%) and Muslim/Christian/Sikhs (20%).
We have given this caste-wise statistical break-up in almost every writings on the subject.
With minor exceptions this 15% ruling class constitute the fair-skinned “India Shining” group and the rest are their servants and slaves. However, some among the slave castes and communities did break the barrier and became the bum-lickers. Sharad Pawar, the Maratha war-lord, Chandra Babu Naidu, the Khamma cooli, Narendra Modi, the Gujarati Teli, today, are some examples among the political class.
Near the gates of swarga: This 15% rulers together with their bum-lickers have twisted our very value system and bent our very way of life to suit their immediate needs. What is worrying is the way these rulers are killing the very future of our children by instilling in them all false and dangerous values. Unthinking people reading these “India Shining” stories in the media get the impression that the country is flowing with milk and honey. And that we are just a couple of miles away from the gates of swarga.
What appears as their outward success — even as the inner strength of the country’s core values are collapsing — is due to the Brahminical toilet papers and TV which they have captured to distort and destroy the minds of those who are willing to get their minds destroyed. Once you make the youth gullible with such powerful psychological assaults the weak minds simply succumb. But the Bhoodevatas remain unchanged. While they pulverise our brains, their values are fully rooted in the system propounded in their holy Vedas and Shastras.
Kamasutra: Their main preoccupation is eating, entertainment, sex (kamasutra), and cheating. A life of perpetual pleasure and leisure.
From centuries they have been only pleasure-seekers and without doing any work they subject the rest to mental and physical crucifixion — which our people willingly undergo. This is the painless operation which in other words is called Hinduism. For details, please read our book, Know the Hindu Mind (DSA-2008, Rs. 100). They have been doing this since centuries and anybody coming in the way is mercilessly tackled and finished. DV has published articles on how they killed Saint Ravidas and his disciple Meerabai. (DV Feb.1, 2009 p.9: “Why Guru Ravidas was murdered?”). The cumulative effect of the Brahminical “India Shining” is proved in the recent Beijing Olympics. (DV Edit Sept.16, 2008: “Beef-eating & Olympics: India suffers Himalayan humiliation because of Hindu hate-mongers”).
As the overwhelming 85% of the slaves of India have no media of their own except Dalit Voice, what they paint as “India Shining” is taken as the supreme truth.
But the United Nations has created a new organisation called the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), an official of which recently visited India and his report speaks out the truth.
BILLIONS TRAPPED IN POVERTY
India fails to meet MDG standards
TAJUDEEN
By official reckoning the GDP of India now belongs in the global elite if economies numbering only 12 countries in the world that have a trillion dollar economy. But how is this wealth spread across the country? The top 5% of the population control almost 40% of this wealth with more than 50% in the hands of top 10% altogether and the bottom 10% owning only 0.2% of the nation’s wealth and the bottom 50% owning less than 10% of the wealth. Gandhi’s statement about there being enough in the world to satisfy our need but not enough to satisfy our greed, is even truer of India today. But is anyone who matters listening? Interacting with some of the community political activists of the poorest of India shook my Gandhian/Congress Party of India loyalties. Any believer in the Mahatma has to stay away from V.T. Rajshekar, the crusading veteran journalist, V.T. Rajshekar who is the Editor of Dalit Voice. My brief interaction with him and reading some of his books such as the collection of essays he edited, Gandhi You Do Not Know, gave alternative analysis of the man that is very much less rosy than popularly understood and believed. We went to a village just 15 kilometer from New Delhi that gave us the starkest contrast of life in India. It is indeed incredible: cows moving as sacred animals holding up traffic, buffaloes used as we use cows — dispensing milk, tuk tuks, tricycles, all kinds of cycles, an assortment of Indian made cars. In short any movable objector being is used for transport.
In Bardarpur Khaddar, a small village of not mor than a couple of thousands, predominantly Muslim and Dalit (lower caste of Untouchables) you come face to face with how poverty and inequality affects the majority Indians. A country that has produced its own missiles, is leading in science and technology, ICTs, trading and manufacturing and almost anything else, yet the 400 children in this village have no school, no health facilities and travel to Delhi with extreme difficulty.
At an interaction with the community I asked them if they had elected representatives at the local, state and central levels and they answered “yes”. I then challenged them to use their votes to deny political power and legitimacy to leaders who will not respond to their needs. One of the community leaders, with obvious pain and frustration on his face, shook his head and told us that they had tried that and no one noticed. The explanation is that they are an insignificant demographic and political force without power to threaten the powers that be. When people do not have faith in their vote, what do they care if India is the smallest or largest democracy in the world?
As India celebrates its 52nd independence on 15th August its political leaders must address the incongruous situation that affects millions of its population who are structurally trapped in poverty. India will meet the MDGs, but hundreds of millions of Indians like the villages of Badarpur Khaddar, will not. Neither Gandhi nor Indian movies can satisfy them, only concrete action by their leaders.
Naxalism gets complicated with RSS & big business infiltration
V.T. RAJSHEKAR
On our first visit to study the naxalite problem in Chattisgarh (Sept.23-25, 2006), we were able to gather lot of information from the series of meetings we had at Raipur with journalists, Dalit and Tribal leaders, and some NGOs.
For the first time the Prime Minister himself in his Aug.15 “Independence Day” speech admitted the naxalite problem as a “national problem” and equated it with “terrorism”. But we don’t agree with his assessment. Naxalism is also terrorism and the two should not be separated but fought with equal determination.
Since India’s ruling upper castes (15%) are mainly urban-based and “terrorism” is an urban problem, they are forcing the govt. to concentrate only on “terrorism” (read Muslims).
UPPER CASTE LEADERSHIP
However, not much importance is given to naxalism because the urban areas, where most upper castes live, are not affected. Urbanites are not interested in anything rural though naxalism is affecting a major portion of India and the Chattisgarh and AP states are the worst hit.
Both terrorism and naxalism are by-products of acute socio-cultural-economic deprivation which is affecting at least half the population of India. But the govt. is treating naxalism as a police problem.
The entire naxalite foot soldiers are our village-dwelling people — SC/ST/BCs, landless labourers or small farmers —who constitute over 65% of the country’s population and the worst deprived lot. The upper castes having scented the deep discontentment within the SC/ST/BCs exploited these innocents and taken over their leadership.
Both the Peoples War Group (PWG) and the Moist Communist Centre (MCC), now merged and renamed Maoist Party, are headed by Brahminical upper castes. But those fighting and falling dead facing police bullets are our people. That is why we are deeply worried.
The defeat of the BJP in the last election has made the upper castes realise that it is difficult to fool the oppressed SC/ST/BCs in the name of religion (Hindutva). But it is easier to exploit the SC/ST/BCs in the name of “class” (naxalism). Give a gun to the angry, deprived SC/ST/BC and make him kill the “class enemy”. And then the police, controlled by the same upper castes, are ready to rush and gun down the “naxalite killer”.
Naxalism has offered a short-cut to establish Hindutva — better than dividing people on religious basis by dubbing Muslims as terrorists.
ROLE OF TATAS & RUIAS
Already the Salwa Judum is fully infiltrated by the Hindu terrorist party RSS cadres. The Tatas and the Marwari Ruias of the Essar Group, interested in mining, are financing the Salwa Judum. Both the Maoists and the Salwa Judum cadres are tribals and they are often made to clash and kill each other. The industrialists are interested in getting Tribal lands vacated to start their mining work.
Chattisgarh, particularly its capital Raipur, has suddenly started buzzing with industrialists interested in exploiting its mining wealth. The politicians are kept pleased with bribe. Its diamond mine has attracted the world’s No.1 diamond magnates, the De Beers, a South African Jewish business house.
COURSE CHANGE FOR RSS-BJP
The RSS-BJP, which is an upper caste outfit, is exploiting the situation. But if it has to shift its focus on Salwa Judum naxalite activities, it will amount to a course change from religion (Hindutva) to “class struggle” which is totally strange to the double-distilled vaidiks controlling this Hindu terrorist party. But the RSS cadres are enthused. Big money is coming from big business and while mingling with innocent Tribals in remote forest areas they get the company of drinks and women. Since the Hindutva heroes do not attach any importance to ethics or morality as the end justifies the means, they are going at full speed.
We had a meeting with journalists at the Raipur Press Club and being mostly upper castes they complained about the naxalite violence and fully defended the role of Salwa Judum.
Already over a fifth of India is affected by this Manuwadi marxism of the naxalite brand. Almost the whole of Tribal-dominated Chattisgarh is affected. Right from Nepal down to Karnataka through Andhra Pradesh the Manuwadi Marxists are spreading their naxalite net.
We have nothing against the naxalite rank and file because they are all our own blood brothers as SC/ST/BCs. Our complaint is only against its upper caste leadership which is misleading them and making them easy victims of police bullets. The principal problem of India is caste system (Brahminism) resulting in socio-cultural-economic deprivation of SC/ST/BCs (65%), Muslim/Christian/Sikhs (20%). Instead of tackling this disease, the govt. is trying to cure the symptom (law and order problem). India is already sinking. The Manuwadi marxists will further push India to the bottom. We admit loopholes in the Salwa Judum which again treats it as a law and order problem. As days pass the rural India is sinking. If the existing police-problem-approach is not changed, the whole country will pass into the hands of Manuwadi marxists.
DV Aug.16, 2006 p. 16: “Caste war within naxal leadership” & “Naxalism enslaves Dalits better than Hindu nazis”.
DV Edit May 16, 2006: “Red star over India: Danger of manuwadi marxists further enslaving starving Dalits”.
DV June 16, 2005 p.6: “Manuwadis in naxalite garb” & “DV proves right on Naxalite natak companies”.
DV Edit Aug.16, 2004: “Converting PWG into political party is fine but under Dalits, keeping Brahminical leaders out”.
DV May 1, 2000 p.7: “If PWG is menace why upper caste rulers are soft on it?”
DV June 16, 1997 p.11: “How to rescue Gaddar drugged by marxism?”
DV May 1, 1997 p.11: “Whose hand behind shooting Gaddar?”
DV May 16, 1996 p.20: “Gaddar good-bye to marxism: PWG faces Dalit revolt”.
DV Edit March 16, 1996: “Dalit doubts & fears on nationality question: Is it a bid to destroy growing caste consciousness?”
DV Nov.16, 1995 p.5: “PWG expels Dalit singer”.
DV Edit Nov.1, 1991: “Three-month notice to nazi naxals: Hands of SC/ST/BCs, Hindu human rightswalas are warned”.
DV Edit Sept.16, 1991: “Nazis in the garb of naxalites try to divert AP Dalits from Ambedkarism & destroy their identity”.
DV Edit June 16, 1989: “Naxalites & Marxists join hands with NTR to crush AP Dalit Maha Sabha”.
DV May 16, 1989 p.10: “Khamma bid to implicate AP Dalit Mahasabha”.
DV Aug.15, 1981 p.5: “Caste prejudices among Naxalites”.
DV Sept.1, 1981 p. 6: “What is Naxalism?”
COMMUNICATION
Maoist International tributes to DV : Supports Dalit revolutionary party
AYYANKALI
Maoist International Movement (MIM), the American-based Black organisation with a world-wide sweep, has taken note of you and Dalit Voice. Its website says:
The Dalit Voice speaks for those known in the West as “Untouchables” in India. “Untouchable” is a social status acquired by birth in India’s unique division of labor called the caste system — one of the most vexing problems in the world, difficult for people from other countries to relate to.
In that one acquires one’s caste by birth, there is a parallel to race as it is seen in the United $tates. In fact, in India today, quotas for so-called Backward Castes are an issue quite parallel to affirmative action in the United $tates. As we speak, privileged medical students are protesting against quotas for so-called Backward Castes for admission to medical school.
MIM supports reservations by race and “we believe quotas are necessary and especially useful in aiding objective thinking”.
“CLASS” IS “CASTE”
MIM after studying the DV website has understood that there are three upper castes including the Brahmins in India. But it has not fully grasped India’s intricate caste system. However it has come to know that India’s caste system is unique in the world.
“What we can say is that India has arranged class organization differently than the rest of the world. Yet, Mao believed that even race and nation are ultimately expressions of class; more so this is true of caste”.
MIM says Dalit Voice has some good information on caste and other problems in India.
It says:
MIM has no sympathy for mechanical and individualist sociology but the question of whether entire organizations should be composed of Dalit caste people is legitimate. Such separate caste organisations if they form should work with all organizations of exploited people oppressed by U$ imperialism.
In other words, the MIM supports Dalits setting up their own revolutionary party. This should interest Gaddar, K.G. Satyamurthy and Anaimuthu.
ROLE OF BRAHMINS
According to the MIM, “On a theoretical basis it is not appropriate to say that caste is merely superstructural. (as Savarna Maoists claim). This is a big tribute to Dalit Voice. The Editor of Dalit Voice, V.T. Rajshekar, was once a marxist but he fell out of this manuwadi marxists when they refused to recognise “caste” as “class” under Indian condition.
It is likely that the DV family may find these two points positive.
Yet MIM is not correctly informed of the role played by Brahmins.
DV should convince the MIM that the savarna upper castes comprise the “middle class” as well as the rich. Not only that, DV has said how Banias helped the British East India Company with finance and supplies.
There are also instances like the Brahmin Peshwas joining hands with the Portuguese (or may be the British) to finish off Kanhoji Angre’s (fisherman caste) Maratha navy. Yet other instance is when Brahmin Peshwas joined hands with the English to defeat the nationalist Tipu Sultan.
DV also has enough information about Bania comprador behaviour. So, only DV is well placed to take up the task of exposing today’s fake Maoist parties.
EXPOSE SAVARNA MARIXSTS
Once DV exposes Banias and Brahmins as comporador traitors, any genuinely revolutionary Maoist party that Dalits form will be recognised at the global level by the MIM as well as several fraternal parties.
As things stand, the savarna maoists have already been accused of Trotskyism by the MIM. If DV can also get hold of the erstwhile PWG’s literature boasting of how it distributed Pol pot badges, our savarna maoists will be totally exposed globally. This is a task worth taking.
If K.G. Satyamurthy, Gaddar and Anaimuthu form a new revolutionary maoist party led and run by Dalits, MIM is most likely to support it at the international level. This would be the final nail in the coffin of savarna maoism. (DV Edit May 16, 2006: “Red star over India: Danger of manuvadi marxists further enslaving starving Dalits”).
International Monetary Fund: Global economy to contract in ‘Great Recession’
10 03 2009
IMF Managing Director DominiqueStrauss-Kahn
“The IMF expects global growth to slow below zero this year, the worst performance in most of our lifetimes,” IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told African political and financial leaders in the Tanzanian capital.
“Continued de-leveraging by world financial institutions, combined with a collapse in consumer and business confidence is depressing domestic demand across the globe, while world trade is falling at an alarming rate and commodity prices have tumbled” Strauss-Kahn added.
As advanced countries focus on problems in their own economies, Strauss-Kahn called on the international community not to forget Africa, where regional growth is expected to slow sharply to 3 percent this year, half the rate of the past five years.
Strauss-Kahn warned the projection for 3 percent “may be too optimistic”.
“Even though the crisis has been slow in reaching Africa’s shores, we all know it is coming and its impact will be severe,” he said. “We must ensure that the voices of the poor are heard. We must ensure that Africa is not left out,” he added.
He said the crisis threatens to unravel Africa’s economic and social success over the last decade and that millions of people will be thrown back into poverty.
“This is not only about protecting economic growth and household incomes - it is also about containing the threat of civil unrest, perhaps even war. It is about people and their futures,” he added.
He said the combined impact of economic and financials shocks on Africa’s growth will be severe. Financial flows are becoming more scarce, trade financing even scarcer and more expensive and foreign investment in Africa’s stock and bond markets has fallen, he added.
“As growth around the world has almost come to a halt, demand for Africa’s products is plunging. Tourism revenue is likely to decline as consumers around the world are tightening their belts,” Strauss-Kahn said.
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said the crisis poses the greatest danger to Africa in recent history and threatens to reverse, even wipe out, hard won social-economic gains.
“So far Africa’s voices on this unnerving situation have been muted,” Kikwete told the 300 delegates.
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FOOD BITE, INFLATION , DEFLATION and VIJOY KRISHNA PADHI of Potteru HARIMANDIR in DANDAKARANYA
Palash Biswas
| Inflation near zero but food bites |
| Inflation tumbled today to a historic low at 0.44 per cent but there was no whoop of euphoria either from the Manmohan Singh government or the markets. ... | Read.. |
Rulers embracing world’s most hated country
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: The co-operation and co-ordination between the Jews and the “Jews of India” is going on at such a break-neck speed that it looks as if the zionist Israel is going to take over India’s defence forces:
Jerusalem: Israel has emerged as India’s largest defence supplier, overtaking Russia. It has signed defence deals worth $9 billion with New Delhi in the last decade, a media report here said on Feb.15. “There is close co-operation and the Indians respect the Israeli systems and our experience in fighting terror”, a defence official was quoted as saying by the Jerusalem Post. (Hindu, Feb.16, 2009).
While many countries in the world have not even recognised Israel, which has emerged as the one single country causing most of the troubles the world is facing, the upper caste rulers of India are embracing the world’s most hated country.http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/march_a2009/reports.htm
I got phone calls from Malkangiri as well as NAVRANGPUR today amidst the news break DEFLATION while my people may be MAPPED into the STARVATION MAP in ORISSA and CHATTISHGARH.
They feel the HEAT of SALWA JUDUM as many of them love late SHANKAR GUHA NIYOGI, our deserved friend who led CHATTISH GARH Mukti Morcha and had been ASSASSINATED.They love Dr BINAYAK SEN, too.
Despite the fact, our people have no COMPLAINT whatsoever against the MAOIST Movement all around DANDAKARANYA, the MAOISTS also do launch ANTI BENGALI Movement mobilising the Aboriginal Indigenous tribal people in Maharashtra, Andhra, MP, Chattish Garh and ORISSA as the MARXIST Regimented Gestapo chose us as SOFT TARGETS in West Bengal.
I did not visit Dandakaranya for any journalistic or academic or political purpose.
I just followed my father who worked lifelong untired for REFUGEE cause!
My topmost priority had been to clear the AIR of TENSION in between our Indigenous Aboriginal communities, the TRIBAL people and the Bengali refugees who were strategically pitted against TRIBAL Population everywhere in India, so that our HISTORY of INSURRECTIONS would never be able to destroy the BRAHAMINICAL HEGEMONY, which is defended, most unfortunately, by our MARXIST and MAOIST friends, I am afraid to say!
The TRUTH bleeds my HEART and Mind as I consider myself a MARXIST even today!
DR NANDA DULAL Mahant who has written an AUTHENTIC book on MATUA DHARM and DALIT NAVJAGARAN, the Subaltern genuine RENAISSANCE in Bengal after eighteen tedious years of RESEARCH accompanied me everywhere, every time despite poor health.
I know very little about the THEORETICAL and SPIRITUAL aspects of MATUA Religion and FOLKLORE as well as PARA FOLKLORE in Bengal. As DR mahanta explained MATUA academically, it was rather very easy for me to interact with the BELIEVERS as well as FOLLOWERS.
Mr ABHIRAM MALLICK, an activist of MULNIVASI Bamcef, popular everywhere in ORISSA spared time and complemented my speech everywhere in ORIA and local languages with graphic details and quotes from SCRIPTS with surgical precision. It helped us to a great Extent to preach PEACE and COEXISTENCE in trouble zones all over in DANDAKARANYA.
PADHIBABU himself moderated all the INTERACTION and MRS PADHI was present everywhere with Massive WOMEN FOLK Presence. We were welcomed everywhere with full warmth of HEART and MIND!
The government of India claims that in all, an amount of Rs. 7.81 crores has been provided during the Seventh Five Year Plan for rehabilitation of new migrants from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), settled outside Dandakaranya and West Bengal
I have been writing all the MEMORANDUMS to be drafted by my father since 1963 when I was able to make some sentences in Hindi as a student of CLASS Two.
My father PULIN BABU, the leader of DHIMRI BLOCK Peasant Insurrection in Nainital in 1958, did not wear a SHIRT since 1956 before my birth as he took an OATH to rehabilitate each and everyone whoever happens a refugee in this GEOPOLITICS.
I may understand the TRUTH of the claims made by different governments of various COLOR!
The EAST Bengal refugees were NEVER considered PARTITION VICTIMS as the people migrated from West Pakistan were considered.
The Indigenous aboriginal people who lost their Home land in HINDU Dominated EAST BENGAL districts just because of electing DR BR AMBEDKAR to the CONSTITUTION ASSEMBLY, had to be PUSHED back.
Hence, they had not to be rehabilitated and were dumped into TRANSIT CAMPS. The WEST BENGAL Government headed by DR BC ROY as well as Government of India led by PDT JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU decided thus.
DOLE was introduced first in Great Britain just after World war First followed by RECESSION 1929-31. East Bengal Refugees deprived of CITIZENSHIP and Rehabilitation were KEPT on DOLE.
United Madhya Pradesh had FIVE Transit camp including MANA and KURUT. Most of them were never resettled who led the MARICHJHANPI long MARCH lured by JYOTI Basu and Company and later were MASSACRED and gang raped by MARXIST REGIMENTED GESTAPO.
Marichjhanpi INCIDENT is the BURNING EVIDENCE how the WEST BENGAL Refugees have been treated.
They were DEGENERATED and DEHUMANISED with intense DECULTURALISATION as BENGALI BRAHAMINICAL Hegemony threw them out of BENGALI Geopolitics!
My people were MADE FODDERS for the TIGERS everywhere in all 318 distant places in DEEP Forest areas including DANDAKARANYA and CORBETT fame NAINITAL Terai. Only MARICHJHANPI episode is exposed which is rather a TIP of the ICEBERG.
My PEOPLE were deprived of CITIZENSHIP, Mother tongue, Constitutional Reservation, Civil Rights and HUMAN RIGHTS. They had been PREDESTINED to be DISCRIMINATED.
They were made FACELESS.
Only the MATUA Religion profaced by HARICHAND Thakur and GURUCHAND Thakur linked them all over India.
Potteru HARICHAND GURUCHAND Temple became the CENTRE of BENGALI REFUGEE Mobilisation recently. The head of the Institution is not a Bengali , neither a DALIT like the Bengali refugees.
Vijoy Krishna Padhi is an ELITE ORIA BRAHMIN who is working to awaken,educate,organise and Mobilise our people in DANDAKARANYA. His wife is a KIND lady who is involved in WOMEN`s EMPOWERMENT campaign.
The Couple is OCTOGENARIAN and despite poor Health, they engage themselves most committedly in DALIT LIBERALISATION!
It is encouraging.I stayed in MATUA DHAM in POTTERU and visited DANDAKARANYA region with PADHI BABU who is respected by all sections of the society.
I met the local MP and MLAs, political leaders and heads of local bodies and on the sidelines, I continued to interact with my people INDIVIDUALLY coming from every part of DANDAKARANYA.
Dandakaranya Project (DNK) was set up in September 1958 for the settlement of displaced persons from former East Pakistan and for integrated development of the area with particular regard to the promotion of the interests of the local tribal population. It is an agriculture-oriented project, and most of the displaced persons have been settled in agriculture. 25,156 families were settled (23,859 families in agriculture plus 1297 families in small trade-business) in the project (as of Augest 1984). During the Seventh Plan, a further 500 agriculturist families and 100 non-agriculturist families are proposed to be resettled.
The Potteru Irrigation Project under execution by the Government of Orissa is expected to be completed by 1985-86. In the field of industrial development in the DNK Project, the objective has been to give an agro-industrial bias to the rural economy, to train and develop skills among displaced persons and provide, to the extent possible, employment to the agriculturists and rural artisans. With this objective in view, it is proposed to provide infrastructural assistance to the KVIC, AIHB and such other institutions to start training and production programmes. It is also proposed to provide soft loans to settlers for meeting margin money for setting up indus- tries in tiny and small-scale sectors. Further, funds will be required for capital contribution towards setting up of an oilseed processing unit at Malkangiri and construction of rural Industrial Estates in three growth centres at Malkangiri. '
Since the work in the three zones of the Dandakaranya Project, viz., Unerkote in Orissa and Paralkote and Kondagaon in Madhya Pradesh, has been more or less completed, a decision was taken in May, 1982 to normalise these zones and transfer the assets and institutions to the respective State Governments free of cost. The modalities and date of transfer of the assets and institutions are to be decided in consultation with the State Governments. The process of transfer will commence in 1985-86. Some provision is, therefore, required to make payment to the State Governments.
Keeping in view the position stated above an outlay of Rs. 57.27 crores is provided in the Seventh Five Year Plan for the Dandakaranya Project.
Inflation near zero but food bites | |
| JAYANTA ROY CHOWDHURY | |
New Delhi, March 19: Inflation tumbled today to a historic low at 0.44 per cent but there was no whoop of euphoria either from the Manmohan Singh government or the markets. Economists had predicted that inflation — which, unlike other nations, is measured against wholesale prices in India — would head below one per cent this week. However, it fell below half a per cent and is widely expected to dip below zero next month. But for voters who line up at the election booths next month, this is a mere statistic since the prices in retail markets continue to remain high. Inflation measured by the four consumer price indices hovers well above 10 per cent. The basket of items in these indices is different from the wholesale index. Food prices have a roughly 70 per cent weight in the consumer price indices. Economists said the fall in inflation could provide greater headroom to the RBI to announce another round of interest rate cuts. However, bankers in Mumbai were sceptical about such a possibility as the central bank has already trimmed the rate-signalling reverse repo four times in the past seven months. The reverse repo is the rate at which commercial banks park surplus cash with the RBI. One source of worry for the Manmohan Singh government is the fact that wholesale prices of food items are still rising by 7.4 per cent over last year’s levels. “Energy and manufacturing product prices have come down but the food prices are still rising,” said D. Joshi, chief economist with credit rating agency CRISIL. “This means that the man on the street is still feeling the pinch at a time when the prospect for pay rises isn’t great.” “The decline in inflation is more because of the higher base last year than any significant drop in prices,” admitted cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar. Global crude oil prices had started rising a year ago and had peaked at over $140 a barrel in July 2008, which sent the wholesale index soaring. Crude oil prices have since moderated to $50 a barrel. Wheat prices have risen by a third in the past two years from Rs 900 a quintal to Rs 1,200 a quintal in the wholesale market. Sugar has almost doubled from Rs 13 a kg to Rs 25 a kg. The retail price of rice has risen from Rs 15 a kg to Rs 22 a kg. Rising food prices have had a critical impact on election outcomes. In 1998, the BJP lost power in Delhi and Rajasthan after onion prices rose six-fold. Yogendra Yadav, psephologist and political commentator, said: “Common people are not concerned with what economists describe as inflation numbers but rather with price rise and livelihood issues.” Added Sudha Pai, of JNU’s Centre for Political Studies: “People generally do not like a price rise and often tend to punish incumbent governments because of it.” |
On the periphery of existence
| The tribals of Orissa are a marginalised lot. Deprived of their natural environment and traditional social organisation, they have been driven to the edge of poverty and destitution, writes GOUTHAM GHOSH. They are beginning to rise against their oppression. |
Striking simplicity ... Tribal women at a handpump in Padampur.
THE highway to Malkangiri is so bad it would be better to walk all the way. The 700-km drive from Bhubaneshwar lasts over 24 hours, the stretch after Koraput being the longest.
Given the poor transport facility, the time and money spent to and from Malkangiri can be high. If the drive were smooth, one could marvel at the hill ranges the trees so tall you couldn't see the tops; the cloud rings round the hills.
Malkangiri is a dusty, shabby town on the edge of the State with nothing to offer. There is a market but you will not find anything worth buying. Tea stalls are aplenty, as are small eateries. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalions here to curb the People's War Group (PWG) menace number as much as the general population. The town throbs till dusk, by 9 p.m. shops close, only the jawans can be seen. A few bright yellow diamonds dangle in front of phone booths. The only creatures are stray dogs.
The twin language formula, Oriya and Bengali, is a spill-over of the Nehruvian Dandakaranya Project — to resettle refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan, and another wave after Bangladesh was born in 1971. The Orissa Government now insists that all children must learn Oriya.
The town has a strong presence of Bengalis — hawkers, petty shop owners, drivers and Government staff from refugee families. There have also been a few IAS officers, doctors and engineers from the refugee population. "When I came here with my parents in 1963, Malkangiri was a jungle. I graduated from here,'' said Minister Arabinda Dhali.
"We cleared the area and cultivated the land given to us. We built our houses. What you see today is a result of the initiative of the families resettled here,'' said a group of Bengalis.
Tribals walk down from their enclaves once a week to sell their wares. "Tribals are not good traders. They cannot bargain and will accept what you offer. So they are cheated by the Bengali refugees," said Sajal Satpathy who owns a phone booth in Malkangiri. The locals seem to dislike the refugees.
The interface between the Bengali settlers and the tribals is a keg of explosives, say political pandits from 700 km away. A visit to Padmapur, Jharapalli and some other villages showed otherwise.
The Bengal settlers near Padmapur have named their village Subhaspalli, it adjoins the area where the tribals live in Padmapur. The settlers work hard. Women, girls too, roll bidis, while others make brooms from coconut fronds. Some families run canteens and petty shops, sales are usually on credit basis. The settlements have electricity but no health care or irrigation facilities. They are completely dependent on the rains. "Yes, we suffer a lot. We have told our elected representative, but nothing has been done. When tribals pledge their land, we lend cash, and till their land until they repay the debt. There has been no problem with them so far, but for how long?" asked a settler.
The Revenue Minister, Bishwa Bhushan Harichandan said in Bhubaneshwar that there were reports of tribals being alienated from their land. He said that both the Bengali settlers and tribals were encroaching on Government land. The firing in Raighar tehsil on October 30, 2001 in which three tribals were killed was a result of tension between Bengalis and tribals. At Jharapalli, the school was a line of three single-storey buildings, each about 200 square feet. Weeds grew in cracks on the walls, the windows had no bars so the children passed in and out. Passing through the school, literally, shouldn't be a problem. "But the drop-out rate is high. Tribal children, especially girls, do not study beyond the third standard, but children of settlers go through the system," said the headmaster. "The family will beg if necessary, but they will make their children study," said a group of Bengali settlers. Bags of paddy were stacked to the ceiling and paddy was piled high on the ground in almost every house in this village.
Trudging uphill to Padmapur village, I saw two women cleaning vessels at a hand pump at the edge of the village. They wouldn't talk, wouldn't pose for the camera.
The huts were scattered all around, each had an entrance barred by bamboo-splits. It was cool inside. Sabu Koya saw me watching a woman pasting cowdung on the walls and the cracks in them. "The cowdung will dry and the insects within will die," he said.
In one hut was the desari (medicine man). Bheema Pangi, bent with age, brought out his handcrafted bag — an assorted collection of medicinal plants for fever, diarrhoea, and body ache. Treatment is free. "My son is not interested in this because it does not earn me any money. He'd rather work as a labourer in town. The Government has done nothing to protect this system, and when I am gone, this knowledge will die with me," he said in a resigned voice.
Bheema Pangi said, "We have a village headman. And we listen to what he says." B.D. Sharma wrote in his book Whither Tribal Areas? "... in some tribal regions existing Panchayati Raj system comprising three tiers of Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samities and Zilla Parishads have been accepted by the tribal people. But in other regions, the traditional organisational structure and leadership are still influential. The Panchayati Raj system has not been a success. There is need, therefore, to ensure that ... the traditional systems are allowed to play their due role." The tribals speak Oriya with many words from their tongue, which made translation difficult. "There is a school at Bandhuguda four km away," said one of the young tribals, "but our children refuse to go there. What will they learn that can be of use to them and to our way of life here?"
A typical hearth in a tribal hut in Malkangiri.
The simplicity of the tribals is striking. They are also poor. Most families do not have enough money to buy rice from the Public Distribution System. So hard cash means a lot to them but, despite their need.
These people have their own ways and would rather be left to themselves. They do not want to lose their tribal heritage. The tribals of Orissa, as elsewhere, are a marginalised lot.
Not only are they deprived of their habitat but they are also coerced to substitute their robust social organisation that has evolved over centuries for something completely alien to them. Development requires inputs, and the most important is land — For its natural resources — trees and minerals, for roads and to accommodate a growing population as well as industries. In the systematic encroachment by decision makers to appease those who matter, the rights of the tribals who cannot raise their voice are easily trampled upon.
Driven to an edge, with nothing but the precipice of poverty and destitution in sight, it is no wonder that even a simple lot turns against the oppressors at times.
* * *
Bitter pill
THE health care system in Malkangiri district is awful. Medical sub-centres for hilly areas exist on paper. You will not find one even if you hunted. The buildings are non-existent and health professionals routinely evade the postings by going on leave.
As the Collector, Vir Vikram Yadav, said, "Malaria is endemic here, and we have been trying our best to control it." The chief district medical officer (CDMO), Dr. Satchidananda Mishra, said, "We have one medical sub-centre for every 3000 population in a cluster of villages. The multipurpose health worker (MPHW) is required to visit one village everyday."
The local people said, "The sub-centres do not work, more so if they are up in the mountains. How is an MPHW to reach a village on a difficult terrain?" Obviously not many have the ability to crisscross the hills.
The local people said, members of the People's War Group (PWG) take the medicines — and sometimes even guide the MPHWs to attend to the sick — to remote areas. If they had not, then given the `excellent' health care delivery system (with health department staff taking leave en masse and poor supply of life-saving drugs), many would perish.
The fear psychosis has had an impact in the district. The administration seems to have woken up to people's needs.
* * *
`Politicking has led to tension'
THE Orissa Minister for Cooperation, Textiles and Handlooms, Arabinda Dhali lives in the centre of a multi-ring security cordon. Jayanarayan Mishra, deputy chief whip of the State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was present the day I met Dhali at his home in Bhubaneshwar. A translated excerpt of the discussion in Bengali and Hindi:
To what extent has the People's War Group (PWG) created a problem in Malkangiri?
ARABINDA DHALI: The PWG has won the trust of the tribals and has been instigating them saying that the Government has not provided them water, medical facilities, schools and good roads. Basically, the PWG found Malkangiri a safe haven. They cultivated ganja and amassed a good amount of wealth too.
JAYANARAYAN MISHRA:
Malkangiri is the last district in the list of priorities. So the worst officials are posted there as a punishment. They know that after Malkangiri, nothing can be worse. So they make the most out of it — by diverting Government project funds. There is no administration in Malkangiri. The Minister may deny this but it is the truth. So people are angry. There is also the issue of non-Bengali settlers from East Pakistan and Bangladesh. The Naxals today are thugs. The PWG cadres today terrorise the people. The problems between Bengali settlers and tribals are of recent origin...
A.D.: Yes. It was peaceful even a decade ago. After Independence, there was no development work in Malkangiri. It was only after I got elected in 1992 that I took up development work, including the Poteru irrigation scheme.
The tension between Bengalis and tribals is because of politicking. I won in 1992 because the traditional Congress vote bank elected me instead. You see, there are 30 per cent Bengalis and 70 per cent tribals in the Dandakaranya Project area. The Congress strategy has been to create a problem to split the votes. What else could cause a flare-up between the two who have co-existed peacefully for 40 years? There are so many cases of tribals marrying Bengalis.
What about the reported cases of rape of tribal women by Bengali settlers?
A.D.: There have been only two reported cases of rape in the last five years. Aren't much more rape cases reported from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai? When women and men live in a society, the possibility of violations always exists.
20.34 The Rehabilitation Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs runs an industrial concern known as the Rehabilitation Industries Corporation Ltd., at Calcutta. It is fully financed by the Government of India. It has been incurring losses since its inception. For its revitalisation, an amount of Rs. 153 lakhs was required, of which a sum of Rs. 117 lakhs has already been paid to the Corporation. The balance of Rs. 36 lakhs has to be paid to the Corporation in the first year of the Seventh Plan.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/02/24/stories/2002022400530200.htm
Repatriates from Sri Lanka
20.35 Under the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreements of 1964 and 1974, six lakh accountable persons together with their natural increase were to be repatriated to India. Of these, 3.34 lakh accountable persons, comprising 1.15 lakh families, have already been repatriated upto 31st March, 1985. During the Sixth Plan, resettlement of 25,000 families was targeted, for which an outlay of Rs. 35 crores was approved. However, at the end of the Sixth Plan, 34,214 families have been rehabilitated at a cost of Rs. 31.87 crores.
20.36 In the Seventh Plan, 40,000 families are expected to be settled. Housing assistance will be provided to 32,900 families. The outlay provided is Rs. 73.43 crores. The families are proposed to be settled with the help of the small trade/business loan schemes (27,400), self-employment schemes (3500), Repatriate's Cooperative Bank Schemes (6500), industrial schemes (2000), and plantation schemes (600).
Repatriates from Burma
20.37 The resettlement work pertaining to Burma repatriates is almost complete, but residuary work regarding payment of second and subsequent installments of small trade/business loans and loans for construction of houses etc., are required to be given to about 7,000 families. Rs. 2.10 crores have been provided for completion of this work during the first two years of the Seventh Plan
Repatriates from Uganda, Zaire and Vietnam
20.38 The work relating to the settlement of repatriates from Uganda, Zaire and Vietnam is almost complete. A token provision of Rs.1 lakh has been made in the Seventh Plan for any residuary liabilities.
Chhamb Displaced Persons
20.39 As a result of the Indo-Pak Conflict, 1971, about 18,700 persons displaced from Chhamb Niabat area in Jammu & Kashmir were accommodated in 3 camps at Kishanpur Manwal where they were given immediate relief. The work of rehabilitation of these displaced persons is almost complete. However, there are still about 30 families left who are yet too be allotted land; also, 779 families have been allotted land less than on the admissible scale. It is proposed to sanction a special scheme on the pattern of IRDP for these families. The details of these schemes are being worked out by the State Government after a family to family survey. For this purpose, a provision of Rs. 20 lakhs has been made in the Seventh Plan on an "ad hoc basis". For other residuary work, a provision of Rs. 20 lakhs is required in the Seventh Plan. Thus, a total provision of Rs. 40 lakhs has been made in the Seventh Plan for the outlays on Chhamb displaced persons.
Settlement of displaced persons from Pakistan (Sind) in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
20.40 As a result of the 1971 Indo-Pak Conflict about 8,600 families in Rajasthan and 1,600 families in Gujarat of Pakistani nationality, who crossed over to India, were maintained in 32 relief camps.
20.41 As it became clear that there were no prospects of these DPs returning to Pakistan, a decision was taken in March, 1978 to grant them Indian citizenship and rehabilitate them on a permanent basis. In pursuance of this decision, schemes for the resettlement of these DPs were formulated by the State Governments of Rajasthan and Gujarat and sanctioned by the Central Government. These displaced persons were settled in Rajasthan and Gujarat. They have to be given loans, and the State Governments have also to provide infrastructural facilities in the rehabilitation areas.
20.42 A total amount of Rs. 1.44 crores comprising Rs. 94 lakhs for Rajasthan and Rs. 50 lakhs for Gujarat during the Seventh Plan (1985-90) has been provided.
Permanent Settlement of Displaced Persons Occupying the Tenements in Kotla Ferozeshah Complex
20.43 A proposal is under consideration to shift the displaced persons occupying the tenements in Kotla Ferozeshah Complex to some alternative site. Since no decision has yet been taken, a token provision of Rs.1 lakh has been made in the Seventh Plan.
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Stationery and Printing
20.44 In order to augment the printing capacity in the Central Sector, a provision of Rs. 6 crores has been included in the Seventh Plan. This will be utilised for the establishment of a Parliament Press, a new building for the Government of India Press at Santragachi, setting up of three Government of India Presses at Jaipur, Ranchi and Gauhati, besides on-going commitments.
20.45 In the States and UT Sector, an outlay of Rs. 56.08 crores has been included. The major part of this outlay is expected to be utilised on new machinery and equipment.
20.46 Annexures I and II indicate the Seventh Plan outlays for the various programmes outlined in this chapter.
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ANNEXURE-20.1
Seventh Plan-Outlay on other Sectors
(Rs. crores)
Sl. Heads of Development Centre States UT's Total
No.
1 2 3 4 5 6
1. Statistics 40.78 48.24 4.00 93.02
2. Rehabilitation of
Displaced persons 146.03 - 0.10 *1 146.13
3. Planning Machinery 8.16 64.54 2.80 75.50
4. District Planning - 622.31 4.75 627.06
5. Stationery and Printing 6.00 50.08 6.00 62.08
6. Public Works - 549.92 18.90 568.82
7. Training for Development 4.93 8.98 2.90 16.81
8. Public Distribution
System 2.50 41..21 2.80 46.51
9. Official Languages-
Hindi 2.00 - - 2.00
10. Others - 1.00 *2 0.12 *3 1.12
11. Unallocated 5.74 42.00 - 47.74
TOTAL 216.14 1428.28 42.37 1686.79
Notes: 1. For rehabilitating in A & N Islands.
2. Includes Rs.0.80 crores for National Small Saving and Rs. 0.20 crore for Parliamentary Affairs.
3. Includes Rs. 0.05 crores for Small Savings Schemes and Rs. 0.07 crore for strengthening of Accounts and Goa Gazetteers.
398
ANNEXURE-20.2
Seventh Plan-Outlays on Rehabilitation: Centre
(Rs. crores)
Sl. Schemes Plan
No. outlay
1 2 3
1. Old migrants in West Bengal (including Indian
enclaves in former East Pakistan) 3.20
2. Migrants outside West Bengal (in Dandakaranya.
& other places) in agricultural and non-
agricultural occupations.
(i) Dandakaranya Project 57.27
(ii) Agricultural occupations outside
Dandakaranya 7.41
(iii) Non-agricultural occupations 0.40
3. Repatriates from Sri Lanka 73.43
4. Repatriates from Burma 2.10
5. RIC Ltd., Calcutta 0.36
6. Repatriates from Uganda, Zaire and Vietnam 0.01
7. Western Border Areas:
(i) Chamb displace persons 0.40
(ii) Displaced persons from Pakistan (Sind)
of 1971 Conflict in States of
Rajasthan, Gujarat 1.44
(iii) Permanent settlement of displaced
persons occupying the tenements in
Kotla Ferozeshah Complex 0.01
TOTAL 146.03
RSS leader shot, rebel hand suspected | |
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Bhubaneswar, March 19: Suspected Maoists gunned down an RSS leader in Kandhamal early this morning, rekindling tension in the communally sensitive district after a brief lull. Talking to The Telegraph, Kandhamal superintendent of police S. Praveen Kumar confirmed the incident. He said Prabhat Panigrahi, the head of the RSS’s Kotgarh block unit, was shot by a group of 15-20 “suspected Maoists” at Rudiguma village. Eyewitnesses said the group of armed men descended on the village around 2am, called the victim out of his house and sprayed bullets on him. Printed posters were found pasted on the walls of his house. The posters decried “Hindu communal politics”. “Those who are doing politics in the name of the Hindu religion will be punished,” a poster read. Kumar said senior police officers had reached the spot to investigate the killing. “A combing operation has been launched in neighbouring areas,” he added. Panigrahi’s death triggered strong resentment among the local Hindu community. Irate residents blocked the Kotagrah-Muniguda road, demanding protection and a Rs 10 lakh compensation to the RSS leader’s family members. Additional forces have been deployed in and around the village to prevent any untoward incident. However, the forces reached the village late because the approach road was blocked by felled trees, police sources said. The deceased RSS leader had reportedly been arrested for his alleged involvement in the Kandhamal communal riots that began after the murders of VHP leader Laxmananda Saraswati and his four associates on August 23, 2008, in Jaleshpeta ashram. He was released from the Baliguda jail on bail on March 14 and was staying at the house of an RSS activist. Sources said Panigrahi was on the Maoist hit list and the rebels had issued threats, through posters, to award “death” to those who were allegedly involved in the communal riots that killed several innocent civilians. The incident is likely to precipitate tension and figure in the BJP and the Sangh Parivar campaigns for the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections scheduled to start soon. Union leader killed In another incident, Maoists abducted a Citu leader and labour contractor, Ravi Oram, from Sundergarh and beheaded him yesterday night. The headless body of the 35-year-old leader was found late in the night in a forested area near his home in Renjda village. A Maoist poster was also recovered from the spot. It said that the party had awarded death penalty to a “police informer”. Rourkela superintendent of police Santosh Bala said that they had begun a probe into the case. Preliminary investigations have revealed that some 20-25 masked men were reportedly seen abducting Oram on Tuesday. The Citu has called a bandh tomorrow in protest against the incident. |
Elite Engineered Recession
11 02 2009Elite Engineered Recession
Andrew Winkler
For the past 12 months at keast, there has been an unprecedented scare campaign by elitists and their brownie points addicted puppets, warning us of an imminent recession, bigger and better than the ‘Great Depression’. The latest two installments were the ‘monthly 500 million US job losses’ Freudian of Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi[1], who left quite an impression, and the dire ‘worst recession in 100 years’ warning of UK minister Ed Balls.[2]
Their behavior is remarkable since in all previous recessions our leaders did their utmost to downplay the economic downturn, in an effort to improve consumer confidence. The immediate question flowing from this observation is why this time there is a concerted effort of leading politicians, industrial bosses and media – mainstream and alternative alike – to talk down the economy and create nothing short of panic? And the most important question of all: Who benefits from all the economic scaremongering?
The answer is fairly obvious: the same people who benefit from the ‘Islamic Terror’ scaremongering, those 500+ obscenely rich, intermarried crime families who rule our world in a feudal system cleverly disguised as democracy. One of the easiest ways of manipulating us to accept their ‘solutions’ is by scaring us with whatever scarecrow works, be it Communism, neo-Nazis, AIDS, Muslim extremism, school shootings, global warming, bird flu, economic meltdown you name it. And every of those ‘solutions’ brings us more taxes and less freedom.
Those in the know either prostitute themselves to this self-chosen ‘ruling elite’ or are too busy making ends meet to do anything about it. The few of us who aren’t, rely on the Internet to spread the word. Which brings me to the reason why I doubt that all that doom and gloom is for real. If those scary predictions became reality, too many people would have time and motivation to investigate what’s really happening. With nothing to loose but their illusions, they would have no reason to keep avoiding looking behind the smoke and mirror.
Our ruling crime families must walk a fine line between scaring us enough to more easily manipulate us and not making life unbearable for too many of us, or their entire Matrix-like virtual reality might collapse.
We should also bear in mind that the difference between boom and recession is only a few percentage points in economic activity. Even during the ‘Great Depression’ in the 1930’s, economic activity was only down by about 5 percent. Such tiny differences can easily be manipulated by higher or lower interest rates as well as increased or decreased public and corporate spending. I strongly suggest that we have a look at who has engineered the current economic downturn and send them lawn-mowing in Mongolia for the rest of their lifes.
Footnotes:
[1] The Guardian
[2] The Independent
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Hindus keep their stolen money ($1,500 billion) in Swiss banks
SANJEEV KUMAR SINGH, R.NO. 50-DR.B.R. AMBEDKAR HOSTEL, BHU, VARANASI- 225 001
Shocking. Shocking. Revelations of Swiss bank accounts will be a big shock. If black money deposits become an Olympics event, India would win the gold hands down. The second best Russia has four times lesser deposits. US is not even there in the counting in top five. India has more money in Swiss banks than all the other countries combined.
Recently, due to international pressure, the Swiss Govt. agreed to disclose the names of the account-holders only if the respective govts. formally asked for it. The Indian Govt. is not asking for the details. No marks for guessing why?
We need to start an agitation to force the govt. to do so. This is perhaps the only way, and a golden opportunity to expose the high and mighty and weed out the corrupt upper castes. Forward this message to all honest Indians.
Is India poor? Who says? Ask the Swiss banks. With personal account bank deposits of $1,500 billion in foreign reserve which have been misappropriated, an amount 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt, one needs to rethink if India is a poor country?
Dishonest industrialists: Dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians and corrupt bureaucrats have deposited in foreign banks in their illegal personal accounts $1500 billions, which have been stolen by them. This amount is about 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt. With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and betraying them.
Once this huge amount of black money and property comes back to India, the entire foreign debt can be repaid in 24 hours. After paying the entire foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central Govt. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central Govt. will be able to maintain the country very comfortably.
25,000 thieves: Some 80,000 people travel to Switzerland every year, of whom 25,000 travel very frequently. ‘Obviously, these people won’t be tourists. They must be travelling there for some other reason, believes an official involved in tracking illegal money. And, clearly, he isn’t referring to the commerce ministry bureaucrats who’ve been flitting in and out of Geneva ever since the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations went into a tailspin.
Just read the following details and note how these dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians, corrupt officers, cricketers, film actors, illegal sex trade and protected wildlife operators, to name just a few, sucked this country’s wealth and prosperity. This may be the picture of deposits in Swiss banks only. What about other international banks?
Top five: Black money in Swiss banks: Swiss Banking Association report (2006) details bank deposits in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of following countries:
INDIA —$1,456 BILLION
RUSSIA —$470 BILLION
U.K. —$390 BILLION
UKRAINE — $100 BILLION
CHINA — $96 BILLION
India with $1,456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than the rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947.
Can we bring back our money? Why not? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind — the loot of the aam aadmi (common man) since 1947 by his own brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, bureaucrats and some businessmen.
The list is almost all-encompassing. No wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. What is even more depressing in that this ill-gotten wealth of ours has been stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the world’s best known tax havens. And to that extent the Indian economy has been stripped of its wealth.
Western conspiracy: Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that go on to govern such tax havens. However, one may well be aware of Swiss bank accounts, the shorthand for murky dealings, secrecy and of course pilferage from developing countries into rich developed ones.
In fact, some finance experts and economists believe tax havens to be a conspiracy of the Western world against the poor countries. By allowing the proliferation of tax havens in the 20th century, the western world explicitly encourages the movement of scarce capital from the developing countries to the rich. In March 2005, the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published a research finding demonstrating that $11.5 trillion of personal wealth was held offshore by rich individuals across the globe.
Bofors money: The findings estimated that a large proportion of this wealth was managed from some 70 tax havens. Further, augmenting these studies of TJN, Raymond Baker — in his widely celebrated book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free Market System, estimates that at least $5 trillion have been shifted out of poorer countries to the West since the mid-1970.
It is further estimated by experts that 1% of the world’s population holds more than 57% of total global wealth, routing it invariably through these tax havens. How much of this is from India is anybody’s guess.
What is to be noted here is that most of the wealth of Indians parked in these tax havens is illegitimate money acquired through corrupt means. Naturally, the secrecy associated with the bank accounts in such places is central to the issue, not their low tax rates as the term ‘tax havens’ suggests. Remember, Bofors and how India could not trace the ultimate beneficiary of those transactions because of the secrecy associated with these bank accounts?
Can anybody save India?
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/march2009/articles.htm
From Dec.1, 2006 —for about two years— we started publishing a new column, “India Shining”, regularly in every issue of DV on p.13. The short reports published in this column are taken from the Brahminical toilet papers to prove the false claim of the ruling class that India’s “gallop” into unprecedented prosperity is all bullshit. Such a false claim of quantum jump from 8.6 to 9% to 10% GDP is proved wrong by the very toilet papers who made this claim.
Reckless exploiters: India’s ruling upper castes cannot be more than 15% of our population. They are led by the vaidiks who have been the traditional centuries-old exploiters whom Budha, Guru Ravidas, Nanak, Phule, Dr. Ambedkar, Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy fought. They are the country’s leaders of thought and action having co-opted the other three caste groups—Kshatriya, Vaishya and to some extent even the shudra—and converted them into reckless, heartless exploiters.
What we have in the country today is the rule of this 15% upper castes who alone are the Hindu.
The exploited people comprise the SC/ST/BCs (65%) and Muslim/Christian/Sikhs (20%).
We have given this caste-wise statistical break-up in almost every writings on the subject.
With minor exceptions this 15% ruling class constitute the fair-skinned “India Shining” group and the rest are their servants and slaves. However, some among the slave castes and communities did break the barrier and became the bum-lickers. Sharad Pawar, the Maratha war-lord, Chandra Babu Naidu, the Khamma cooli, Narendra Modi, the Gujarati Teli, today, are some examples among the political class.
Near the gates of swarga: This 15% rulers together with their bum-lickers have twisted our very value system and bent our very way of life to suit their immediate needs. What is worrying is the way these rulers are killing the very future of our children by instilling in them all false and dangerous values. Unthinking people reading these “India Shining” stories in the media get the impression that the country is flowing with milk and honey. And that we are just a couple of miles away from the gates of swarga.
What appears as their outward success — even as the inner strength of the country’s core values are collapsing — is due to the Brahminical toilet papers and TV which they have captured to distort and destroy the minds of those who are willing to get their minds destroyed. Once you make the youth gullible with such powerful psychological assaults the weak minds simply succumb. But the Bhoodevatas remain unchanged. While they pulverise our brains, their values are fully rooted in the system propounded in their holy Vedas and Shastras.
Kamasutra: Their main preoccupation is eating, entertainment, sex (kamasutra), and cheating. A life of perpetual pleasure and leisure.
From centuries they have been only pleasure-seekers and without doing any work they subject the rest to mental and physical crucifixion — which our people willingly undergo. This is the painless operation which in other words is called Hinduism. For details, please read our book, Know the Hindu Mind (DSA-2008, Rs. 100). They have been doing this since centuries and anybody coming in the way is mercilessly tackled and finished. DV has published articles on how they killed Saint Ravidas and his disciple Meerabai. (DV Feb.1, 2009 p.9: “Why Guru Ravidas was murdered?”). The cumulative effect of the Brahminical “India Shining” is proved in the recent Beijing Olympics. (DV Edit Sept.16, 2008: “Beef-eating & Olympics: India suffers Himalayan humiliation because of Hindu hate-mongers”).
As the overwhelming 85% of the slaves of India have no media of their own except Dalit Voice, what they paint as “India Shining” is taken as the supreme truth.
But the United Nations has created a new organisation called the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), an official of which recently visited India and his report speaks out the truth.
Police official killed in Naxal attack
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Cong-NCP can only gain in Vidarbha
Economic Times - Mar 10, 2009
For these segments, the 2009 election is the first ballot test after tribals in Chhattisgarh launched an armed Salwa-Judum campaign against Naxals. ...
The Shark Has Pretty Teeth
Tehelka - Feb 27, 2009
... encounters in Naxal infested Chhattisgarh and more recently, the Salwa Judum, a violent and indisciplined government-sponsored counter-Naxal effort. ...
Police official killed in Naxal attack
Of peace & rights
Set to repeat the blunder
RPF thanks people on 30th raising day
RPF expresses gratitude
Cong-NCP can only gain in Vidarbha
The Shark Has Pretty Teeth
BILLIONS TRAPPED IN POVERTY
India fails to meet MDG standards
TAJUDEEN
By official reckoning the GDP of India now belongs in the global elite if economies numbering only 12 countries in the world that have a trillion dollar economy. But how is this wealth spread across the country? The top 5% of the population control almost 40% of this wealth with more than 50% in the hands of top 10% altogether and the bottom 10% owning only 0.2% of the nation’s wealth and the bottom 50% owning less than 10% of the wealth. Gandhi’s statement about there being enough in the world to satisfy our need but not enough to satisfy our greed, is even truer of India today. But is anyone who matters listening? Interacting with some of the community political activists of the poorest of India shook my Gandhian/Congress Party of India loyalties. Any believer in the Mahatma has to stay away from V.T. Rajshekar, the crusading veteran journalist, V.T. Rajshekar who is the Editor of Dalit Voice. My brief interaction with him and reading some of his books such as the collection of essays he edited, Gandhi You Do Not Know, gave alternative analysis of the man that is very much less rosy than popularly understood and believed. We went to a village just 15 kilometer from New Delhi that gave us the starkest contrast of life in India. It is indeed incredible: cows moving as sacred animals holding up traffic, buffaloes used as we use cows — dispensing milk, tuk tuks, tricycles, all kinds of cycles, an assortment of Indian made cars. In short any movable objector being is used for transport.
In Bardarpur Khaddar, a small village of not mor than a couple of thousands, predominantly Muslim and Dalit (lower caste of Untouchables) you come face to face with how poverty and inequality affects the majority Indians. A country that has produced its own missiles, is leading in science and technology, ICTs, trading and manufacturing and almost anything else, yet the 400 children in this village have no school, no health facilities and travel to Delhi with extreme difficulty.
At an interaction with the community I asked them if they had elected representatives at the local, state and central levels and they answered “yes”. I then challenged them to use their votes to deny political power and legitimacy to leaders who will not respond to their needs. One of the community leaders, with obvious pain and frustration on his face, shook his head and told us that they had tried that and no one noticed. The explanation is that they are an insignificant demographic and political force without power to threaten the powers that be. When people do not have faith in their vote, what do they care if India is the smallest or largest democracy in the world?
As India celebrates its 52nd independence on 15th August its political leaders must address the incongruous situation that affects millions of its population who are structurally trapped in poverty. India will meet the MDGs, but hundreds of millions of Indians like the villages of Badarpur Khaddar, will not. Neither Gandhi nor Indian movies can satisfy them, only concrete action by their leaders.
Naxalism gets complicated with RSS & big business infiltration
V.T. RAJSHEKAR
On our first visit to study the naxalite problem in Chattisgarh (Sept.23-25, 2006), we were able to gather lot of information from the series of meetings we had at Raipur with journalists, Dalit and Tribal leaders, and some NGOs.
For the first time the Prime Minister himself in his Aug.15 “Independence Day” speech admitted the naxalite problem as a “national problem” and equated it with “terrorism”. But we don’t agree with his assessment. Naxalism is also terrorism and the two should not be separated but fought with equal determination.
Since India’s ruling upper castes (15%) are mainly urban-based and “terrorism” is an urban problem, they are forcing the govt. to concentrate only on “terrorism” (read Muslims).
UPPER CASTE LEADERSHIP
However, not much importance is given to naxalism because the urban areas, where most upper castes live, are not affected. Urbanites are not interested in anything rural though naxalism is affecting a major portion of India and the Chattisgarh and AP states are the worst hit.
Both terrorism and naxalism are by-products of acute socio-cultural-economic deprivation which is affecting at least half the population of India. But the govt. is treating naxalism as a police problem.
The entire naxalite foot soldiers are our village-dwelling people — SC/ST/BCs, landless labourers or small farmers —who constitute over 65% of the country’s population and the worst deprived lot. The upper castes having scented the deep discontentment within the SC/ST/BCs exploited these innocents and taken over their leadership.
Both the Peoples War Group (PWG) and the Moist Communist Centre (MCC), now merged and renamed Maoist Party, are headed by Brahminical upper castes. But those fighting and falling dead facing police bullets are our people. That is why we are deeply worried.
The defeat of the BJP in the last election has made the upper castes realise that it is difficult to fool the oppressed SC/ST/BCs in the name of religion (Hindutva). But it is easier to exploit the SC/ST/BCs in the name of “class” (naxalism). Give a gun to the angry, deprived SC/ST/BC and make him kill the “class enemy”. And then the police, controlled by the same upper castes, are ready to rush and gun down the “naxalite killer”.
Naxalism has offered a short-cut to establish Hindutva — better than dividing people on religious basis by dubbing Muslims as terrorists.
ROLE OF TATAS & RUIAS
Already the Salwa Judum is fully infiltrated by the Hindu terrorist party RSS cadres. The Tatas and the Marwari Ruias of the Essar Group, interested in mining, are financing the Salwa Judum. Both the Maoists and the Salwa Judum cadres are tribals and they are often made to clash and kill each other. The industrialists are interested in getting Tribal lands vacated to start their mining work.
Chattisgarh, particularly its capital Raipur, has suddenly started buzzing with industrialists interested in exploiting its mining wealth. The politicians are kept pleased with bribe. Its diamond mine has attracted the world’s No.1 diamond magnates, the De Beers, a South African Jewish business house.
COURSE CHANGE FOR RSS-BJP
The RSS-BJP, which is an upper caste outfit, is exploiting the situation. But if it has to shift its focus on Salwa Judum naxalite activities, it will amount to a course change from religion (Hindutva) to “class struggle” which is totally strange to the double-distilled vaidiks controlling this Hindu terrorist party. But the RSS cadres are enthused. Big money is coming from big business and while mingling with innocent Tribals in remote forest areas they get the company of drinks and women. Since the Hindutva heroes do not attach any importance to ethics or morality as the end justifies the means, they are going at full speed.
We had a meeting with journalists at the Raipur Press Club and being mostly upper castes they complained about the naxalite violence and fully defended the role of Salwa Judum.
Already over a fifth of India is affected by this Manuwadi marxism of the naxalite brand. Almost the whole of Tribal-dominated Chattisgarh is affected. Right from Nepal down to Karnataka through Andhra Pradesh the Manuwadi Marxists are spreading their naxalite net.
We have nothing against the naxalite rank and file because they are all our own blood brothers as SC/ST/BCs. Our complaint is only against its upper caste leadership which is misleading them and making them easy victims of police bullets. The principal problem of India is caste system (Brahminism) resulting in socio-cultural-economic deprivation of SC/ST/BCs (65%), Muslim/Christian/Sikhs (20%). Instead of tackling this disease, the govt. is trying to cure the symptom (law and order problem). India is already sinking. The Manuwadi marxists will further push India to the bottom. We admit loopholes in the Salwa Judum which again treats it as a law and order problem. As days pass the rural India is sinking. If the existing police-problem-approach is not changed, the whole country will pass into the hands of Manuwadi marxists.
DV Aug.16, 2006 p. 16: “Caste war within naxal leadership” & “Naxalism enslaves Dalits better than Hindu nazis”.
DV Edit May 16, 2006: “Red star over India: Danger of manuwadi marxists further enslaving starving Dalits”.
DV June 16, 2005 p.6: “Manuwadis in naxalite garb” & “DV proves right on Naxalite natak companies”.
DV Edit Aug.16, 2004: “Converting PWG into political party is fine but under Dalits, keeping Brahminical leaders out”.
DV May 1, 2000 p.7: “If PWG is menace why upper caste rulers are soft on it?”
DV June 16, 1997 p.11: “How to rescue Gaddar drugged by marxism?”
DV May 1, 1997 p.11: “Whose hand behind shooting Gaddar?”
DV May 16, 1996 p.20: “Gaddar good-bye to marxism: PWG faces Dalit revolt”.
DV Edit March 16, 1996: “Dalit doubts & fears on nationality question: Is it a bid to destroy growing caste consciousness?”
DV Nov.16, 1995 p.5: “PWG expels Dalit singer”.
DV Edit Nov.1, 1991: “Three-month notice to nazi naxals: Hands of SC/ST/BCs, Hindu human rightswalas are warned”.
DV Edit Sept.16, 1991: “Nazis in the garb of naxalites try to divert AP Dalits from Ambedkarism & destroy their identity”.
DV Edit June 16, 1989: “Naxalites & Marxists join hands with NTR to crush AP Dalit Maha Sabha”.
DV May 16, 1989 p.10: “Khamma bid to implicate AP Dalit Mahasabha”.
DV Aug.15, 1981 p.5: “Caste prejudices among Naxalites”.
DV Sept.1, 1981 p. 6: “What is Naxalism?”
COMMUNICATION
Maoist International tributes to DV : Supports Dalit revolutionary party
AYYANKALI
Maoist International Movement (MIM), the American-based Black organisation with a world-wide sweep, has taken note of you and Dalit Voice. Its website says:
The Dalit Voice speaks for those known in the West as “Untouchables” in India. “Untouchable” is a social status acquired by birth in India’s unique division of labor called the caste system — one of the most vexing problems in the world, difficult for people from other countries to relate to.
In that one acquires one’s caste by birth, there is a parallel to race as it is seen in the United $tates. In fact, in India today, quotas for so-called Backward Castes are an issue quite parallel to affirmative action in the United $tates. As we speak, privileged medical students are protesting against quotas for so-called Backward Castes for admission to medical school.
MIM supports reservations by race and “we believe quotas are necessary and especially useful in aiding objective thinking”.
“CLASS” IS “CASTE”
MIM after studying the DV website has understood that there are three upper castes including the Brahmins in India. But it has not fully grasped India’s intricate caste system. However it has come to know that India’s caste system is unique in the world.
“What we can say is that India has arranged class organization differently than the rest of the world. Yet, Mao believed that even race and nation are ultimately expressions of class; more so this is true of caste”.
MIM says Dalit Voice has some good information on caste and other problems in India.
It says:
MIM has no sympathy for mechanical and individualist sociology but the question of whether entire organizations should be composed of Dalit caste people is legitimate. Such separate caste organisations if they form should work with all organizations of exploited people oppressed by U$ imperialism.
In other words, the MIM supports Dalits setting up their own revolutionary party. This should interest Gaddar, K.G. Satyamurthy and Anaimuthu.
ROLE OF BRAHMINS
According to the MIM, “On a theoretical basis it is not appropriate to say that caste is merely superstructural. (as Savarna Maoists claim). This is a big tribute to Dalit Voice. The Editor of Dalit Voice, V.T. Rajshekar, was once a marxist but he fell out of this manuwadi marxists when they refused to recognise “caste” as “class” under Indian condition.
It is likely that the DV family may find these two points positive.
Yet MIM is not correctly informed of the role played by Brahmins.
DV should convince the MIM that the savarna upper castes comprise the “middle class” as well as the rich. Not only that, DV has said how Banias helped the British East India Company with finance and supplies.
There are also instances like the Brahmin Peshwas joining hands with the Portuguese (or may be the British) to finish off Kanhoji Angre’s (fisherman caste) Maratha navy. Yet other instance is when Brahmin Peshwas joined hands with the English to defeat the nationalist Tipu Sultan.
DV also has enough information about Bania comprador behaviour. So, only DV is well placed to take up the task of exposing today’s fake Maoist parties.
EXPOSE SAVARNA MARIXSTS
Once DV exposes Banias and Brahmins as comporador traitors, any genuinely revolutionary Maoist party that Dalits form will be recognised at the global level by the MIM as well as several fraternal parties.
As things stand, the savarna maoists have already been accused of Trotskyism by the MIM. If DV can also get hold of the erstwhile PWG’s literature boasting of how it distributed Pol pot badges, our savarna maoists will be totally exposed globally. This is a task worth taking.
If K.G. Satyamurthy, Gaddar and Anaimuthu form a new revolutionary maoist party led and run by Dalits, MIM is most likely to support it at the international level. This would be the final nail in the coffin of savarna maoism. (DV Edit May 16, 2006: “Red star over India: Danger of manuvadi marxists further enslaving starving Dalits”).
International Monetary Fund: Global economy to contract in ‘Great Recession’
10 03 2009
IMF Managing Director DominiqueStrauss-Kahn
“The IMF expects global growth to slow below zero this year, the worst performance in most of our lifetimes,” IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told African political and financial leaders in the Tanzanian capital.
“Continued de-leveraging by world financial institutions, combined with a collapse in consumer and business confidence is depressing domestic demand across the globe, while world trade is falling at an alarming rate and commodity prices have tumbled” Strauss-Kahn added.
As advanced countries focus on problems in their own economies, Strauss-Kahn called on the international community not to forget Africa, where regional growth is expected to slow sharply to 3 percent this year, half the rate of the past five years.
Strauss-Kahn warned the projection for 3 percent “may be too optimistic”.
“Even though the crisis has been slow in reaching Africa’s shores, we all know it is coming and its impact will be severe,” he said. “We must ensure that the voices of the poor are heard. We must ensure that Africa is not left out,” he added.
He said the crisis threatens to unravel Africa’s economic and social success over the last decade and that millions of people will be thrown back into poverty.
“This is not only about protecting economic growth and household incomes - it is also about containing the threat of civil unrest, perhaps even war. It is about people and their futures,” he added.
He said the combined impact of economic and financials shocks on Africa’s growth will be severe. Financial flows are becoming more scarce, trade financing even scarcer and more expensive and foreign investment in Africa’s stock and bond markets has fallen, he added.
“As growth around the world has almost come to a halt, demand for Africa’s products is plunging. Tourism revenue is likely to decline as consumers around the world are tightening their belts,” Strauss-Kahn said.
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said the crisis poses the greatest danger to Africa in recent history and threatens to reverse, even wipe out, hard won social-economic gains.
“So far Africa’s voices on this unnerving situation have been muted,” Kikwete told the 300 delegates.
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India & the Struggle for Tamil Eelam
- An Amoral Role
IPKF Departure & the Orissan Odyssey
Tamil International, 1 April 1990
An odyssey is a long adventurous journey, or a series of wanderings. How the EPRLF and ENDLF leaders and cadres and families left Trincomalee for Madras, then left for Visakhapatnam, and eventually ended up in Orissa after five days of sailing and waiting at sea, was itself an odyssey for a total of 1,335 men, women and children.
The drama began on March 8 at 6.30 a m when the first ship, Harsha Vardhana, carrying about 750 refugees lay anchored about three miles from Madras harbour. It was not allowed to berth for several hours. Later, it was allowed to berth in the east quay under tight security, but the passengers were not allowed to disembark.
Mr Premachandran of the EPRLF told The Hindu: "When they left Trincomalee, they were told they will disembark in Madras. I do not know what is going on. So they are going to proceed to some other destination. The Government of India has organised this ship. Something is going wrong in Tamil Nadu." He did not know whether it was the IPKF or the External Affairs Ministry which organised the refugees' sailing in the vessel.
Another ship, the Tippu Sultan, carrying a further contingent of about 600 was also on its way to Madras harbour. Both ships were under Navy charter, and both were refused clearance, apparently on the instructions of the Tamil Nadu Government.
The Hindu, quoting unknown "sources", said the decision to ferry the refugees from Trincomalee to Madras was taken at a meeting of the External Affairs Minister Mr I K Gujral and the North-Eastern Provincial Council Chief Minister Mr A Varadaraja Perumal in New Delhi in
January / February this year. Only on the basis of that decision that both Harsha Vardhana and Tippu Sultan were hired. "This is an official agreement. Most probably, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister does not know about it. How is it possible that the two ships can come to India unless there is an agreement?", the sources asked.
Whichever the "sources" that told this to The Hindu, they were letting the cat out of the bag. If the decision was taken as early as January / February, it showed that the EPRLF leadership was aware of the ground realities, that such an eventuality was likely to occur. Why then go through the exercise of declaring the provincial council into a constituent assembly of Tamil Eelam unless it was meant to be a mockery and a farce? Or was it to create a situation whereby the Premadasa Government would have found it difficult to repeal the Sixth Amendment? It was obvious that the intention was mischievous.
Karunanidhi's Defence
Defending the action of the Tamil Nadu Government in asking the Centre to divert the refugees to some other state, Chief Minister Karunanidhi said there were reports that those who were coming by the ships belonged to militant groups. If these people started moving freely in Tamil Nadu, their opponents from other groups would track them down, leading to clashes. "This Government does not favour the movement of armed militants in the state", he said. At the same time genuine refugees would be received in Tamil Nadu and given all necessary facilities. So far, 3.000 refugees had come to the state and they had been lodged in Mandapam and Kottapattu camps. Mr Karunanidhi said the State Government had been surprised when it had been told only a day before the scheduled arrival of the two shiploads. Immediately, the Prime Minister and others at the Centre were apprised of the "undesirable results" of allowing militants to land in Madras, including deterioration of the law and order situation.
Andhra also refuses entry
The next stage of the drama occurred when even the Andhra Government now run by Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) denied entry to the two shiploads. After both State Governments had refused disembarkation, it was planned to divert the two ships from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh to the Paradeep port in Orissa. But the idea was given up as it was found that the State machinery there was not in a position to handle such a large number of people. So the Andhra Pradesh Government agreed to their disembarkation at Visakhapatnam on condition that the refugees were immediately transported to Orissa by road. They were then taken in 29 buses to the Koraput district in Orissa, after waiting several hours both at sea and at the registration counters inside the port. They were thoroughly checked for any weapons before they joined the queue at the registration counters.
Among the Tribals
Meanwhile on the 10th, an Indian Air Force plane landed at the Orissa capital of Bhuvaneshwar, carrying a further 296 refugees, including the Secretary General of the EPRLF Mr K Padmanabha, two ministers of the Northeastern Provincial Council, ten council members and some unidentified leaders of the ENDLF and TELO and their families. Perumal's secretary K Vigneshwaran, his wife (a Sinhalese) and children were also reported among those who arrived in Bhuvaneshwar. The refugees later left for Malkangiri and Satiguda in the tribal-dominated Koraput district, about 625 km from Orissa capital.
Resentment all round
But that of course is not the end of the story. Firstly, official circles in Orissa are unhappy that Chief Minister Biju Patnaik had given in to Prime Minister V P Singh's request to house these people in Orissa. Sources speaking to The Hindu on condition of anonymity said that Mr Patnaik should have consulted the officials before giving his consent. The district administration has been suddenly over-burdened with the presence of these Sri Lankans, particularly in an area where the Naxalites of the People's War Group are already causing security problems. The Health Department at Koraput is not geared to meet the medical needs of this sudden influx in the district. A Times of India report dated March 13 says: "The Orissa Government appears to have bitten much more than it can chew by providing shelter to the EPRLF and ENDLF cadres and their families. Faced with the enormous task of providing an adequate security cover to the refugees from possible attacks by LTTE guerillas as well as to maintain law and order in the region known for its periodic pitched battles between the police and the Naxalites, the government officials are already beginning to throw up their hands in despair. To add to their woes, there is palpable tension in the air because of the resentment expressed by the local tribals against the encroachment of their area by the Tamil refugees. As it is, there have been a series of clashes between the tribals and the Bengali refugees resettled here after the Bangladesh war... Apart from the problem of providing security, the police are not quite sure how to handle the refugees themselves, most of whom are militants trained in guerilla warfare."
Bitterness among Refugees
As for the refugees themselves, "the bitterness over the Tamil Nadu Government's refusal to grant asylum to them is writ large on their faces", says a Special Correspondent writing to The Hindu. "The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has buckled under the pressure of the LTTE", their leaders say. Perhaps to protect people like you from the LTTE group which are moving about in Tamil Nadu that the State Government has asked you not to enter there, a newsman suggested to a vocal EPRLF activist Sukumar. "We have no such fear" he said. "When
we, unarmed people, are in such dire straits, we are made to run from pillar to post. Is this the way Tamil Nadu Chief Minister is protecting the interests of Sri Lankan Tamils?... When we deserted the island, our destination was naturally a Tamil atmosphere. We are denied that privilege", he said.
One refugee who was interviewed, Mrs Manoranjithan, said: "My son and I who owe allegiance to the EPRLF have come, but my husband who is an independent person has refused to come saying that things would change for the better there and so there is no need to run away."
Another Times of India report says: " The refugee camp has an unusually large number of teenagers, all of whom describe their vocation as "warfare." And in the midst of such a militant lot, it is surprising to find out one of them named "Gandhi" Devaraj, who can speak quite a bit of Hindi. He said he was named "Gandhi" by the IPKF soldiers with whom he had worked for a long time...(possibly as an informer - Sourpuss). Of course not all the refugees are committed to leading a militant life-style for ever. There is 39-year old N Regal, who wishes to go to Madras and start his carpentry business. "We cannot live in Orissa indefinitely. How can we earn our livelihood here." That they cannot live here permanently is echoed by most of the refugees, some of whom have come with their families. Lodged in the Dandakaranya sheds, once used by refugees from East Bengal, the Sri Lankan Tamils appear to be distinctly unhappy in the otherwise picturesque surroundings. There are no toilets, no bathrooms. Men, women and children are forced to bathe in a canal nearby. The language is a major barrier too.. Even as one takes a look at the camp from an elevated site, the place presented a pathetic sight with the refugees huddled in groups behind barbed wire fencing, armed policemen keeping a constant vigil on them and the refugees themselves moving around with dazed look like the survivors of a shipwreck. "Lunch time" was at 4 p m. A long queue was seen before a makeshift kitchen for food. When they returned the plates contained just a lump of rice and a sprinkling of Sambar and assorted cooked vegetables. Asked whether the food is sufficient, a woman refugee just grinned and moved... some of the young men in their teens and 20s were in slings and heavy bandages for injuries said to have been caused in their fight with the LTTE."
Every passing day makes it worse
The Orissa Government is tying itself up in knots with every passing day. Tension is mounting among the tribal inhabitants, says a report in The Independent of 15th March. Police arrested a group of agitators for blocking the traffic leading to the Tamil shelter camps, but later let them off. Slogans like "Go back Sri Lankan Tamil refugees" echo the tribal-dominated district. Tribal organisations headed by the Koraput Zilla Adivasis Hari
jan Unnayan Parishad (Koraput district tribal harijan development council) has threatened to launch an agitation if the refugees are not withdrawn from the area immediately. The council has already sent memoranda to President Venkatraman, Chief Minister Biju Patnaik and Congress (I) president Rajiv Gandhi in this regard. Meanwhile, as the Dandakaranya resettlement of Bengal refugees is to be wound up soon, there is bound to be disenchantment among the Bengali settlers over the government's patronage of the Tamil refugees. Even a former Orissa minister and Congress (I) leader Raghunath Patnaik, a local MLA, in a strong statement threatened to "throw out the unwanted foreigners by force If the authorities failed to withdraw them immediately.
Another report says that within a week of their arrival here, the Tamil refugees have begun distress sale of their valuables and gold ornaments. Lanka currency of Rs 3 is being swapped for one Indian rupee... Intriguing is the sudden arrival of an MP of the Lanka Government (!) Mr Ananta Sankari with two others Mr Rajan and Mr Viji, supposed to belong to a TUL F faction. They are believed to have conferred in secrecy with ENDLF members at Malkangiri on March 12 night on the future course of action...
The latest report is that at least ten refugees have escaped from the camps !
But where is Perumal ?
Now that he has led his "people", unlike Moses, into a promise-less land, where is Mr Annamali Varadaraja Perumal ? Where have his "puppeteers" in RAW hidden him? The first report of course said that he was heading for "an unknown destination in India." Some said Bangalore, but that cannot be. Although the Bangalore climate is very mild, it can turn hot for Mr Perumal because there is a powerful pro-LTTE Indian Tamil lobby in the city. In Colombo when newsmen asked Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne about the whereabouts of the UDI declarer, he said: "I understand he is in Mauritius.. perhaps he is helping the sugar industry." The Indian Government official in Delhi made a cryptic comment; he said he has been authorised to say that he was not in India! The Independent, Bombay in its column "Private Eye" (March 16) says: "Though Indian correspondents in Colombo have reported that Perumal has arrived in India, New Delhi has officially denied it. But the Chief Minister's family including his mother is known to have arrived by IPKF IL-76 aircraft from Trincomalee in Bhuvaneshwar....The forgotten refugees who wait for justice after 60 years
Gallery: 60 years since partition
They fled the slaughter of India's partition. Now 7,000 still live in 'temporary' Coopers Camp, West Bengal
- The Observer, Sunday 5 August 2007
- Article history
As he speaks Kajal, 85, inhales heavily on a hand-rolled bedi cigarette and looks out over the marshland, mostly jute and paddy fields, stretching east towards the 2,000km Bangladesh border.
Kajal is part of a community history forgot. For the past 60 years he has lived in Coopers Camp, a place largely ignored by modern India. With a population of more than 7,000 people, each resident is a family member of those who escaped from Pakistan amid the horrors of British India's partition, out of which emerged the states of Muslim West and East Pakistan (1,600km apart) and mainly Hindu India.
'India was a dream for us when we left everything behind during partition in 1947,' says Kajal. 'I was 15. We had lands near present-day Dhaka [in East Pakistan, which after a civil war became Bangladesh in 1971]. But as Hindus, my parents were threatened unless they handed over their home to Muslims. So we escaped. We hoped for a new life, for land, for homes. But 60 years on India has given us nothing, not even a nationality. My parents, like I will, died here in the same temporary camp they fled to. I sit here before you a refugee now as I was when I crossed the Bay of Bengal.
'I never had the option to leave and I have been unable to give my children and my grandchildren the education they need. It is my biggest regret.'
In Coopers Camp stories of the flight in 1947 are rarely shared with outsiders. Sitting alongside her grandson in one of the most rundown corners of the camp, Visaka Das, 84, who is now blind, said: 'We came across to India from Dhaka in 1947. Our house was burnt down and my parents' lands were seized. I was a newlywed. I wore my wedding sari on the freighter we took across the Bay of Bengal. There were thousands of people on the boat, people were falling off into the water and drowning as we crossed to India at night. Along the coast we could see houses being burnt. As we fled Dhaka, I remember dead bodies being burnt by the roadside. I remember the screams of a Hindu family, our neighbours, being burnt alive in their home.
'I don't remember much about my wedding. I can recall being crushed on the boat ...and seeing the fear in my husband's eyes. To escape from that, we thought God would reward us, but the life we have had since has been no life. My husband died in 1984, a refugee. I am a widow, but my family have to survive on daily labour. My grandson had no schooling and his prospects are poor. Unlike me, he has an Indian permit but it is stamped with Coopers Camp, he is still a refugee, he can't get work. His future is my biggest worry.'
Coopers Camp is the sub-continent's oldest and least-known refugee camp. A hangover from another era, it represents a major embarrassment for the progressive West Bengal government, which remains focused on industrial development around Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). As India has grown from strength to strength amid economic resurgence, life seems to have passed by the people of 'Partition Camp 17', 200km north of India's famous 'City of Joy'. Few Indians even know of the camp's existence.
It is a reminder of the largest human movement in history, which began on the stroke of midnight on 14 August, 1947. Partition was the culmination of the slow fracturing of British India under sectarian pressure, as the Muslim League, fearful that Muslims would be submerged in a new Hindu-dominated independent India, pushed for division. The alternative, warned the League's leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, would be huge bloodshed. It was a move that was opposed both by the secular Congress Party, made up largely of Hindus, and by Gandhi, who believed Hindus and Muslims should be able to coexist.
But the lethal riots that broke out in 1946 during pro-division protests by the Muslim League put paid to even the idea of a loose federation. Instead, it was agreed that British India be divided into two states, as defined in a plan drawn up by the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, along a border set by Britain.
The consequence was the flight of about 10 million refugees, Hindus from Pakistan and Muslims from India, amid terrifying bloodshed. More than one million people on both sides of the divide became the victims of murderous sectarian assaults. Few people were ever prosecuted for the deaths, known as the sub-continent's hidden genocide.
In a concession to the powerful Muslim League, India was effectively split in two by the British, creating East and West Pakistan. Thus, on the 14 August every year, Pakistan celebrates its creation, while India celebrates independence from the British. For the older generation like Kajal Roy, memories of 1947 are largely a cause for grief. It was a time when he lost his home, his future and his family was ripped apart.
According to Indian historian Prafulla K. Chakrabarty, the true horrors of partition were underplayed at the time, a trend that continues today with the marginalisation of thousands of existing refugees from 1947.
'It is probably beyond the comprehension of most people that refugees could exist from partition 60 years ago, but it is one of the bitterest present-day truths of India's split with Pakistan. For those outside India the horrors of partition, the slaughter of over a million people, simply came too soon after the Second World War and the Holocaust; the collective mind of the West could absorb no more. In India the outlook was different: the murderers cut across social and religious lines, so many were implicated that none was brought to trial, and that sense of injustice still remains but is largely suppressed.'
For those in Coopers Camp, the injustices of partition continue in a more palpable economic sense. They still live on government handouts and have to fight tooth and nail to get Indian nationality: even those born here struggle to get recognition. Most of the original refugees have remained stateless for the past six decades. Many of the older residents are still too frightened to leave the camp for fear of being deported. It is the elderly, above all, who feel responsible for the suffering of their children and grandchildren who continue to fight to survive in the camp.
The millions of Indians living in Punjab and Bengal bore the brunt of partition in a way that still defines their existence. For Punjab, partition brought an exchange of population - the Hindus coming from western Punjab to India and the Muslims moving from eastern Punjab into Pakistan - that was primarily a once-for-all affair. But for West Bengal the influx continued for many years after partition, and continues in different forms today with the mass exodus of economic migrants from Bangladesh.
Although still technically a refugee camp, the boundary fence that once surrounded Coopers Camp is long gone. An established community, the camp has its own market, small clinic and two schools. Most of the camp-dwellers, including the women, rely on daily labour to keep their heads above water. Most earn less than 150 rupees (£2) a day.
According to Lakshmi Venkat, who runs an adult education programme for the Coopers Camp residents, empowering the third and fourth generation of camp dwellers to leave is the hardest task of all. She said: 'To cope with the huge influx of refugees into West Bengal in 1947, the Indian government decided to send the "excess" refugees in the region, 100,000 of them, to outposts like the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Those who refused to go, including most of the Coopers refugees, quickly found themselves disenfranchised ...
'Sixty years on, trapped by circumstance, a lack of education and prejudice against them, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original refugees still have no faith in India and nowhere else to go. There is no longer any excuse for ignoring them.'
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