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The Chakmas find it very difficult to live in their adopted state
Ashis K. Biswas
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FOR the 65,000 Chakma settlers in Arunachal Pradesh, life has not become any easier, despite a Supreme Court stricture earlier this year, directing the state government to refrain from deporting them. The Supreme Court had even asked the Chakmas to apply for Indian citizenship, but most of the refugees are yet to get hold of the forms.

The plight of the Chakmas, who migrated from the Chittagong hill tracts of erstwhile East Pakistan in 1964, was summed up by Subimal Chakma of the World Chakma Organisation: “Our people have to secure the citizenship forms from the district commissioners at Lohit, Papumpare and Changlang.

Chakmas claim the state government is flouting the apex court’s directive to ensure security to the tribe and to help them get Indian citizenship.

Most of the people have to come from remote areas and there is no security for them.

Phuloram Chakma (50) was attacked and killed by some local toughs a few days ago at Medo while returning from work. There have been other incidents as well. As a result, we cannot go to the headquarters to get the requisite forms. The administration, which wants us to quit the state, takes no notice of our complaints.” The Chakmas claim that the state administration is flouting the apex court’s January 9 directive—to ensure security to the beleaguered tribe and to forward the forms for citizenship, filed by the Chakmas, to the Centre.

What fuels Chakma fears about a more difficult life ahead is the stand adopted by Chief Minister Gegong Apang. Sources in the Committee for the Citizenship Rights of Chakmas allege that 10 Chakma elders were rounded up at random by the state administration from Diyun recently. They were interned at the state capital, Itanagar, for a day and later taken to the chief minister’s chamber. Apang reportedly told them that it would be useless to stay on in Arunachal Pradesh as the local people resented their presence. The local tribes outnumber the Chakmas 10 to one. The elders pointed out that such matters should be discussed with the committee but Apang refused to listen. The next day the state government came out with a press note, saying the Chakmas had agreed to move out of Arunachal Pradesh provided they were given adequate land. Chakma leaders were taken unawares: “Wedon’t know on what basis the government made this claim. There was no discussion with us or our organisations.”

Arunachal Pradesh government sources, however, deny that Chakmas are being physically prevented from securing their forms. “No such complaint has been made to us nor any violence has been reported. The situation is under control,” said a state government spokesman. This despite the fact that the state government recently published an 80-page white paper on the problems posed by the Chakma and Hajong refugees. Initially, 14,000 people were settled as political refugees in Arunachal Pradesh—their numbers have now swelled to around 65,000, the paper observes. “There is nothing in common between the Chakma refugees and the tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh. The Chakmas should by rights go back to Bangladesh, not stay here.”

Chakma organisations view the matter differently. Many Chakmas have been born after 1964, making them Indian citizens by law. Local tribes often employ the Chakmas at a pittance for agricultural or other hard labour. But they have been systematically ignored or abused. After the expiry of the September 30, 1994 ‘quit Arunachal’ deadline served by the All-Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union, the government officially withdrew minimum facilities accorded to them—their schools were closed, they were thrown out of government offices, medical aid was stopped, even during emergencies. As the white paper concedes, the divergence between the official stand, which is really a crystallisation of local sentiments against the refugees, and the Chakma perspective is too wide to be ignored. The state government and the Chakmas are united on one point: only the Centre can help end the prevailing deadlock.

Given the present fluid situation at the Centre with only the BJP taking a helpful stand towards the Chakmas, Northeast observers do not see the Deve Gowda Government exerting itself unduly to solve the ethnic tangle. Which means more trouble for the Chakmas, who have been shunned in their homeland, and are being rejected by their adopted state. Says a Chakma leader: “Only if India accepts us, our survival as a distinct ethnic group will be assured. This is why we want our citizenship. If we fail, we will end up as a displaced tribe with no territory or settled address, abandoned by history.”

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Chakma people
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The Chakmas

Total population
0.7 million
Regions with significant populations
Majority populations in Bangladesh and India
In Bangladesh the Chakma’s reside in the Chittagong Hill Tracts area. Mostly found in the following Indian states: Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura

Languages
Changma or Chakma

Religion
Theravada Buddhism

The Chakmas (চাকমা or Chakma), also known as the Changma (চাংমা), are a community inhabiting the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and India. The Chakmas are the largest ethnic group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, making up more than half the tribal population. A tribal group called Tangchangya (তঞ্চংগ্যা) are also considered to be a branch of the Chakma people. Both tribes speak the same language, have the same customs and culture, and profess the same religion, Theravada Buddhism.

Contents
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1 History
1.1 The East India Company Period
1.2 Modern time
2 Religion
3 Language
4 Culture
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History
Ethnically, the Chakmas are Tibeto-Burman, and are thus closely related to tribes in the foothills of the Himalayas. Their ancestors came from the Magadha Kingdom (now Bihar, India) to settle in Arakan and most of them later moved to Bangladesh, settling in the Cox’s Bazar District, the Korpos Mohol area, and areas of the present Mizoram. The Chakmas were historically the rulers of Chittagong Hill Tracts under the control of a king. Today, however, the power of the Chakma king, Raja Debashish Roy, is merely symbolic.

The Arakanese referred to the Chakmas as Saks or Theks. In 1546, when the king of Arakan, Meng Beng, was engaged in a battle with the Burmese, the Sak king appeared from the north and attacked Arakan, and occupied the Ramu of Cox’s Bazar.[1]

Diego de Astor, a Portuguese, drew a map of Bengal, which was published as Descripção do Reino de Bengalla in the book Quarta decada da asia(Fourth decade of Asia) by João de Barros in 1615.[2] The map shows a place called “Chacomas” on the eastern bank of the river Karnaphuli, suggesting that this is where the Chakmas used to live at that time. The Arakan king Meng Rajagri Salim Shah (1593-1612) conquered this land, and in a 1607 letter to a Portuguese merchant, Philip de Brito Nicote addressed himself as the highest and most powerful king of Arakan, of Chacomas and of Bengal.[3]

Defeated by the Arakanese, the Chakmas entered the present Chittagong Hill Tracts and made Alekyangdong, present-day Alikadam, their capital. From Alekyangdong they went north and settled in the present-day Rangunia , Rauzan, and Fatikchari upazillas of Chittagong District.

In 1666, Shaista Khan, who was then Mughal Governor of Bengal, defeated the Arakanese, conquered Chittagong, and renamed it Islamabad.[4] However, in the early days the Mughal supremacy was confined only to the plain areas of chittagong, and the Chakmas remained practically unaffected. After a few years, when a dispute developed between the Mughals and the Chakmas, the Mughals demanded tribute from the Chakmas for trading with Chittagong[5].

In 1713, peace was established, and soon a stable relationship developed between the Chakmas and the Mughals; the latter never demanded complete subjugation from the former. The Mughals also rewarded the Chakma king Sukdev, who established a new capital in his own name, in an area is still known as Sukbilash . There are still ruins of the royal palace & other establishments. Subsequently the capital was shifted to Rajanagar.

[edit] The East India Company Period
Three years after the Battle of Plassey, Mir Qasim the new Nawab of Murshidabad rewarded the British East India Company with Chittagong, Burdwan and Midnapur. On 5 January 1761 the company representative Harry Verlest took over charges of Chittagong from Subedar Mohammad Reza Khan. But the Chakma king Sher Doulat Khan who was practically independent through nominally paid tribute to the Mughals, didn’t accept the hegemony of the Company and their demand of taxes at enhanced rate. A protracted war started and it continued up to 1787. The East India Company launched four offensives against the Chakmas in 1770, 1780, 1782 and 1785. In 1785 the Company started peace negotiations with the then Chakma king Jan Box Khan, son of Sher Doulat Khan. Later in 1787 the king accepted the sovereignity of the Company and agreed to pay 500 maunds of cotton annually. The peace agreement or treaty was signed at Kolkata [6].

The main provisions of the treaty between the Governor General Lord Cornwallis and the Chakma king were as following

The East India Company recognised Jan Box Khan as the Raja of the Chakmas
It was agreed that the collection of revenue was the responsibility of the Raja
The British Government would preserve the tribal autonomy and migration from the plains would be restricted
Jan Box Khan was bound by the treaty to maintain peace in his territory.
British troops would remain in the Chakma territory not to terrify the Chakmas but to protect the land from the inroads of the fierce tribes.[7]
In 1829, Halhed then Commissioner of Chittagong reaffirmed that

“ The hill tribes were not British subjects but merely tributaries and we recognized no right on our part to interfere with their internal arrangrements. The near neighbourhood of a powerful & stable government naturally brought the Chief by degree under control and every leading chief paid to the Chittagong collector a certain tribute or yearly gifts. These sums were at first fluctuating in amount but gradually were brought to specific and fixed limit, eventually taking the shape not as tribute but as revenue to the state ”

.[8]

[edit] Modern time
Like in India, the Chakmas have lived in the modern state of Bangladesh much before it gained its independence. However, recent migrations of ethnic Bengalis into traditionally Chakma regions of Bangladesh have raised tensions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Successive governments have dealt forcefully with Chakma uprisings, and finally ended the conflict with The 1997 Peace Treaty. The only seat of political power and identity is the “Chakma Autonomous District Counsil” in India, though it covers only 35% of the Chakmas living in Mizoram State in India.

[edit] Religion
The vast majority of the Chakma are followers of Theravada Buddhism, a religion that they have been practising for centuries. Of late, reports surfaced that several foreign and local missionaries have been trying to convert the Chakmas in to Christianity without success[citation needed]. This created resentment and upset among some Chakmas.[9][10]

[edit] Language
Main Article Chakma language.
Originally speaking a language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman family, some of the Chakmas have been influenced by neighboring Chittagonian, an Eastern Indo-Aryan language closely related to Bengali. Many linguists now consider the modern Chakma language (known as Changma Vaj or Changma Kodha) part of the Southeastern Bengali branch of Eastern Indo-Aryan language. Changma Vaj is written in its own script, known as Ojhopath.Chakma language is written in an alphabet which allowing for its cursive form, is almost identical with the Khmer character, which was formerly in use in Cambodia, Laos, Siam and southern parts of Burma.

[edit] Culture
The Chakma’s are a people with their own culture, folklore, literature,traditions. The Chakma women wear an ankle length cloth around the waist which is also called Phinon and also a Khadi wrapped above the waist. The phinon and the khadi are colourfully hand weaved with various designs, the whole designs being first embroidered on a piece of cloth known as alam. Biju, a cultural new year is the festival of Chakma People.

[edit] References
^ Sir Arthur P.Phayre, Chief Commissioner of Burma. History of Burma. p. 79.
^ [1]
^ Sugata Chakma. Parbattya Chattagramer Upajati O Sangskriti. p. 19-20.
^ Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). The Mughul Empire, Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, ISBN 81-7276-407-1, p.230
^ Saradindu Shekhar Chakma. Ethnic Cleansing in Chittagong Hill Tracts. p. 23.
^ Government of Bangladesh. The District Gazetteer of Chittagong Hill Tracts. p. 35.
^ Dr. Suniti Bhushan Kanungo, Professor of History, University of Chittagong. Chakma Resistance to British Domination 1772-1798. p. 52.
^ S.P Talukder. The Chakmas: Life & Struggle. p. 36.
^ Crosswalk.com – Bangladesh Church Burned as Four Faiths Clash
^ Baptist Militants kill Five Chakma Tribesmen
[edit] External links
Interview with the Chakma King
Stateless Chakma refugees in India
Banglapedia entry of the Chakma
Photos of the Chakma people
Encyclopedia Britannica article
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I am SORRY for not writing on rajiv Kumar`s latest film `NO BODY’S PEOPLE in NO Body`s Land’ dealing with the Pathetic plight of CHAKMA Refugee in the North East belonging originally to CHITAGANG Hill Tracts , now in Bangladesh. These Most Peaceful Buddhist tribals are now BRANDED as Illegal Immigrants and they face a HELL of Troubles specially in ARUNAHAL Pradesh.

CHITAGANG Hill Tract demography was consisted of NINETY EIGHT Non Muslim Tribal People who wanted to remain in India. Their demand was rejected . As many of the Non Muslim districts of East Bengal along with Shrihatt in Assam were gifted to Pakistan by REDCLIFF mission dictated by Manusmriti hegemoy to which the POWER was transferred eventually, CHITAGANG Hill tracts was also made a part of Pakistan which provided them a STRATEGICAL Port in the East. The demography remained NON Muslim even after the partition while the Ruling hegemony delibrately manipulated the Human Scape . Just befor INDO SINO war in 1962, they constructed a BIG DAM in CHT evicting out lacs of Chakma Tribals who influxed all over North East. Then, the Government of India, planned to create a Human wall in NEFA and rehabilated the CHAKMA Refugees in the Dense forest of NEFA along with the border of China. The Chakma people accepted the DESTINY and tried their best to live in peace and harmony. But as like the Bengali dalit Refugees scatterd all over India and even in Tripura and Assam and entire North East have become the subject of ETHNIC Cleansing, they may not chose a better option as survival strategy.

Rajiv zoomed the camera right into the Mind set of the CHAKMA Human scape beginning his journey from GOHPUR Rly station. He shot beautiful Visual Landscape, an asset of the film but Never Forget to focus on the PUZZLE how the GOVERNMENT of India run by the BRAHMIN Rulers used the Refugee Problem violeting all aspects of Human Rights!

I saw the docu film in Film division some months before and just forgot. Last DASHAMI, I visted rajiv`s home in kalikapuron the Bypass in absence of Rajiv as he was awya in bareilly to attend a Marriage party. This time the youngest son of Poet Biren Dangwal got married. I spent some time with the kids, GOLU and PRITHU once agin. The boys showed me the DVD of the film on LCD.

Meanwhile, while I write on the Chakma people, Militants of outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have abducted six tribals from Taichakma region of south Tripura district but later released half of them, police said today.

The ultras abducted the tribals of Chakma community at gun point from their village on Wednesday but later freed three of them while demanding Rs 50,000 for the release of others, they said.

Police have launched a massive search operation in the area for safe release of the abducted tribals.

Rajiv Kumar, as I know is very calm and most clear with his concepts. It is a Film Division Project and within this limitation, it may not be dismissed as a Typical Film Division Film. Rajiv Kumar has dealt with the Landscpae and Humanscape for the First time. But his treatment is amzing. We are habitual to focus on North east with another Film Division Director, Joshy Joseph. I ahve worked with both rajiv and Joshy. They very in styles and methods of Production but NEVER fail to acomplish the agenda of a Perfect IMPRESSION with surgical Precision.

Specially Rajiv who had always been a most sincere friend since my Nainital DSB college days, has the credit to involve me in the media. Joshy has made me INDULGE in it. I knew nothing abut Film Making and had been quite unawre of the Celluloid Aesthetics until Rajiv consulted me on his task to make a film on Bihar Genocides. He just dropped in my office at grant lane in a fine morning. We went out and sat just before Lal bazar Police Head Quarter on the Foot path amidst the slumdwellers swarming around. He offered me to join his team. I was quite reluctant and he tried his best to convince me. I did not change his mind. Then, we discussed at length the Bihar genocide realities. He shot the film in Jehanabad while two genocides took place back to back. he treated the subject so correctly that he got the National award for best director in Documentary Soocil realism catagory. It was the `HORROR of Darkness’.Then he draged me in film making and I wrote the script and diologues of his First Feature film `VASEEYAT’.He got each and every man belonging to Nainital and scattered all over the country. he revived the Yugmanch Nostalgia. We worked together once again and spent a few weeks in Banaras for outdoor shooting. GIRDA, Zahoor,DK, Neeraj, IDRISH and others gathered. We had a nold friend rooted in ALLAHABAD, as our local production in charge.

Then, I worked with Joshy right in North East. We shot just three KM away from KOHIMA in Maram valey under Senapati district of Manipur. We spent a full month there. My father was ill and eventually died in 2001 when i managed to see him in death bed. But I dared not to skip the Explosive experience. This was the beginning of my North east Link.

Rajiv was working on the topic for last five years.I had interactions with Chakma refugees resettled in Tripura and originally we planned to shoot in Tripura. Rajiv also did the Location survey in Tripura. Tripura Government agreed to cooperate. But rajiv realised very soon that Chakma refugees in Tripura do not want to expose themselves as they have already adjusted in the Main stream. Meanwhile Anti Chkma Movement got momentum and rajiv decided to shoot right in Arunachal.

Just realise the reality in North east which has been ISOLATED from the mainstream of the country as we have become familiar to treat each other as FOREIGNERS!About 15,000 children in Mizoram, aged six to fourteen, are deprived of schooling even though the northeastern state is India’s second most literate after Kerala, an official report said.

“After finding that around 15,000 children, mostly tribals, are deprived of formal education, the state’s mission of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) sent education volunteers as mobile teachers in the interior villages,” a report of the Mizoram education department said.

The mobile teachers would persuade the children and their parents to enrol themselves in government schools.

According to the report, the children deprived of education were mainly concentrated in Lunglei, Lawngtlai and Saiha districts of southern Mizoram and Mamit district in the east adjacent to Tripura.

Of the 15,000 illiterate children, 40 percent were school dropouts and the remaining had never been enrolled in schools. In Mizoram, 88.80 percent of the 900,000 people are literate.

“The main reasons for staying away from educational institutions were poverty, child labour, absence of schools in their and adjacent villages and parents’ ignorance,” the report added.

It said: “Majority of the children who are not attending schools belong to Chakma and Reang (communities) as the two communities are primitive and nomadic tribes and practise ‘Jhum Cultivation’ (shifting or slash and burn cultivation).”

“It is hard to bring tribal children to schools due to their shifting from one village to another frequently,” the report added.

In the mountainous state of Mizoram, education was first initiated and popularised by the British. Missionaries were responsible for the growth and institutionalisation of education in the state, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh.

The first educational institution in Mizoram was initiated by missionaries in the Aizawl region in 1897. Later, three more government primary schools opened in Aizawl in 1898.

On the other hand, CHT Commission urges government to investigate grave violations of human rights of indigenous people and to fully implement the CHT Accord of 1997.

Below is an article published by: The Daily Star

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Commission yesterday expressed grave concern over the violations of human rights of the indigenous people at Sajek in Rangamati and urged the government to investigate the incidents immediately.

“As you are aware, tension between indigenous peoples (Paharis), Bengali settlers and the army has been rising in Sajek for many years, and has reached particularly intense levels over the past year,” the commission said in a letter to the prime minister.
The letter signed by CHT Commission Co-chairs Eric Avebury, Sultana Kamal and Ida Nicolaisen was also sent to the CHT affairs ministry, Peace Accord Implementation Committee, Parliamentary Standing Committee on CHT affairs ministry, home ministry and the National Human Rights Commission.

The commission urged the government to ensure that those found responsible for violations are arrested and prosecuted and that reparations are made to the victims for their security and safety.

“On April 20 last year, a group of settlers attacked several indigenous villages, injuring people and burning down more than 70 houses, with no effective intervention by the authorities and despite the presence of nearby army camps. Subsequently, many indigenous people fled the area and lived in hiding,” said the letter.

“On August 19 the same year, Ladu Moni Chakma, aged 55, of Sajek, was killed. Although arrests have been made regarding the killing, no one has yet been charged either for the arson attacks or the killing,” it added.

“On May 6 this year, two settlers — Alkajjya and Mojibor — were allegedly kidnapped from Sajek, and their bodies recovered from the same area four days later.”

“It appears that six Pahari villagers were arrested on May 10 in connection with this incident, and since then, many Paharis have alleged continuing harassment by the army,” the letter said.

“On July 2, 2009, a group of local Paharis held a press conference in Dhaka where they made a number of allegations concerning arrests, persecution and land occupation in Sajek.”

“Following their return to their villages, they alleged that they were harassed by settlers and army personnel, and that two local people from Sajek had been arrested and questioned about the particulars of the participants of the press conference,” the letter added.

“The failure to implement key provisions of the CHT Accord, including the return of land to the indigenous peoples and the withdrawal of temporary army camps from the area is a major contributory factor to such violations,” the CHT Commission said.

To fully implement the CHT Accord of 1997, the commission urged the authorities to put an immediate end to all attacks against indigenous communities and individuals in CHT.

Brief history
Early Period

Prior to the advent of the British colonial rule, very little is known about the region’s history. It is generally assumed that prior to settling in the region, its various indigenous inhabitants were “nomads” transmigrating from one area to another. Circumstantial evidences may be supportive of this assumption – the Jhum cultivation system (also known as rotational or swidden cultivation) which was the primary livelihood means for most of the ethnic groups before they settled down for a sedentary lifestyle is basically a nomadic type of agriculture.

Although no historical facts can be given, the earliest people to arrive in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) may belong to the larger Kuki group of peoples: Lushai, Pankho, Mro, Kyang and Khumi. The subsequent migration came from the Tripura group: Murung and Tripura. The Marmas are basically from the Arakan region of the present-day Myanmar (Burma).

The origin of the Chakmas – the largest and most dominant indigenous group – is veiled in legends. According to this legend, they came from a place called Champaknagar and descendants of one of the Prince of the kingdom – Bijoygiri. But legends apart, they probably settled in the CHT at least as early as the sixteenth century – a map of that period by a Portuguese named Joao De Barros show a people called “Chakomas” living in the region, although the exact relations between the Chakomas of Barros’ map and the Chakmas could not be fully corroborated.

During the late eighteenth century when the rule of the East India Company was established in the province of Bengal, the Chakmas exerted the greatest influence and their kings exercised almost total control over indigenous society of the region.

Early contacts with the British

As a result of the victory at the battle of Plassey in 1757, the East India company became the virtual rulers of Bengal. In 1760, the then Nawab of the Province, Mir Kasim, in a secret treaty, ceded the three districts of Burdwan, Midnapore and Chittagong to the British to the authority of the Company. With the arrival of the British rule, the then Chakma chief – Jun Box Khan -agreed to pay a yearly tribute in cotton amounting to nine maunds (about 350 kg) in lieu of which he and his subjects got access to trade with the plains.

Following this agreement, Mr Henry Verelest, the representative of the East India Company at Chittagong, issued a Proclamation recognizing the jurisdiction of the Chakma Raja over “All the hills from the Pheni River to the Sangu, and from Nizampur Road (Dhaka-Chittagong Road) to the hills of the Kuki Raja (State of Mizoram, India)”.

However, peace between the British and the Chakma Chief did not last long and by 1777 a general war broke out between the two parties with Ronu Khan, the general of the Chakma King, formally declaring war against the British. The war ended in 1987 when the British had imposed an economic blockade and forced the Chakma Raja Jan Bakhsh Khan to a negotiated settlement.

However, despite this episode of war, British role in the region remained very marginal, being mainly limited to a collection of annual tax in cotton or in cash. This relative “sovereignty” of the CHT is deftly summarized in the statement of Mr. Halbed, Commissioner of Chittagong, in 1829;

“The hill tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts are not British subjects, but merely tributaries, and we have no rights on our part to interfere with their internal arrangements”.

British Rule (1860-1947)

Following the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, the Crown took over the direct administration of their Indian colonies from the East India Company. In 1860, by Act XXII, a separate district – Chittagong Hill Tracts – was curved out, with its headquarters located in Chandraghona. Captain Magrath was appointed as the first District Superintendent of the district.

In 1867 the position of the district Superintendent was changed into Deputy Commissioner by virtue of Bengal Act XXII and Captain Thomas Herbert Lewin (known legendarily as “Lubin Saab” to the Chakmas and “Thangliana” to the Mizos) was appointed as the first Deputy Commissioner. In the following year, the district headquarters was transferred from Chandraghona to Rangamati.

In 1882, the district was sub-divided into three separate Circles and a new Circle – Mong Circle – was created by curving out the Chakma Circle, in addition to the two existent Circles – Chakma and Bohmong Circle.

In 1900, the British administration enacted the CHT Regulation Act 1900 (popularly known as the CHT Manual). It laid down detailed rules and regulation for the administration of the CHT and stipulates provisions to address the particular context of the region (e.g. recognition of the Chiefs and the traditional institutions in the administrative system, the region as “special” tribal dominated area and restriction of permanent settlement and acquisition of land by the outsiders). To this day, the CHT Manual is frequently referred to and although various subsequent legislations amended many of its provisions, parts of it are still in force.

This provision of the special status of the Chittagong Hill Tracts was further underlined with the Government of India Act 1935 that designated the district as a “Totally Excluded Area”. This meant a formal recognition for the region and its indigenous inhabitants to the entitlement of specific legal provisions for their safeguards, including restriction on settlement of peoples (mainly Bengalis) from out side of the region.

Pakistan Period (1947-1971)

In 1947, the sub-continent was partitioned in two separate states on the basis of religious nationhood and Pakistan was born comprising of the areas in the eastern and western parts where Muslims were the majority. The Chittagong Hill Tracts, though overwhelmingly non-Muslim (to the extent of 97%) at that time, found itself in the new state of Pakistan. Its proximity with the Chittagong region and the greater Bengali culture are thought to be the primary reasons for its inclusion in Pakistan, although various differing versions in this regard also exist. In fact, a section of the indigenous societies of the region demanded its inclusion in India (Chakma Circle) and in Myanmar (Bohmong Circle).

The first Constitution of Pakistan in 1956 gave recognition to the special status of the CHT. This was further strengthened in 1962 when CHT was recognized as a “Tribal area” and provided with relevant constitutions guarantees. But, in a dramatic turn from the previous status, in 1964, the government revoked the special status of the CHT and henceforth the region ceased to be provided with any specific legal or constitutional safeguards.

Another very important event during the Pakistani regime is the construction of a hydro-electric dam at Kaptai in 1960, situated around 20 km downstream of Rangamati town. The dam created a huge artificial lake over an area of 1,036 square kilometers. But most importantly, it submerged approximately 40% of all cultivable lands of the region and in the process around 50,000 families (about 1/3 of the total population at that time) lost their ancestral homes.

The compensation for the victims was far from appropriate – in fact many did not receive any compensation at all – which together with the fact that the government took the decision of revoking the special status of the CHT around that time; the seeds of discontentment of the indigenous peoples of the region were sown.

The permanent loss of habitat from the Kaptai dam gave birth to another tragedy. In the absence of any compensation most of the evicted families re-settled elsewhere in the region. But a good number of them, mostly Chakmas, decided to migrate to India and where they were rehabilitated in the present-day state of Arunachal Pradesh by the Government of India. None of them received any official recognition of their status in India and are still languishing as ‘stateless people’ in Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian authorities still refuse to fully carry out the implementation of the verdict of India Supreme Court, delivered in early 1996 that recognized the Indian citizenship of these people who now number around 80,000. The entire episode still resonates deeply in collective psyche of the CHT indigenous peoples, which the Chakmas came to call the ‘Bar Parang‘ (the calamitous Great Exodus).

Bangladesh Period (1971-present)

Bangladesh emerged as an independent state on 16 December 1971 after a nine-month long war. Its birth, rooted in the ethno-centric ethos of ‘Bengali Nationalism’, the new-born country was declared as a unitary, independent and sovereign Republic, to be known as the “People’s Republic of Bangladesh”, and effectively failed to address the concerns of the CHT peoples; 1) Autonomy for the region, 2) Retention of the CHT Regulation 1900, 3) Recognition of the three Circle Chiefs and 4) Ban on the influx and settlement of people of non-indigenous ethnic communities into the region. These demands were made immediately after independence through a delegation led by Manabendra Narayan Larma, the sitting Member of Parliament from the region, when it called on Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in February 1972. Following the failure of the meeting with the Prime Minister, Larma founded a regional political party – Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samity (PCJSS) in March 1972. A military wing – Shanti Bahini – was later added to it.

In 1975, Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and almost his entire family were brutally assassinated in a military coup d’état. This particularly shocking incident and the subsequent uncertainty prevailing over the country at that time led M N Larma to go underground and to wage an insurgency against the government of Bangladesh for the rights of the CHT peoples.

The insurgency effectively continued for the next two decades, impacting severely on the fabrics of the CHT society; rapid demographic transformation resulting from government sponsored programs rehabilitating around 300,000 Bengalis from the plains that rendered the region’s indigenous peoples into minority overnight, internal displacement being as high as 70% of the total indigenous population, massive environmental destruction and refugee problems (at one point there were reportedly over 60,000 indigenous refugees who took shelter in the neighboring State of Tripura, India). The region became heavily militarized and throughout the insurgency periods, there have been repeated accusations of human rights violations that included massacres, mass tortures, sexual abuse/violence and religious intolerance against the government and the armed forces by various national and international media and human rights organizations. Many of these allegations were substantiated by neutral third party investigations – the most prominent being that of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission, which periodically published human rights reports under the title ‘Life is not Ours’.

By 1990s, a truce was declared and after prolonged negotiations, a Peace Accord was signed between the PCJSS and the Government of Bangladesh on 2 December 1997. It was expected that the Accord would finally put an end to the hostilities and conflicts and provide a certain specific guarantees as to the status and legal safeguards for the region and its indigenous populations while paving the way for future socio-economic development. However, the signing of the Peace Accord let to a divide in the indigenous movement in the CHT and to date, the Peace Accord remains largely unimplemented.

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This elderly Chakma woman being moved to safety from the marauding Bangladesh military and the Bangladeshi settlers.
On 25th January 1986, an Indian Army Brigadier, a Major, a Captain with the Deputy Commissioner of Lunglei, along with a Superintendent of Police came to the refugee camp at Tagolok Bak, Mizoram, India. There were over 300 Army, BSF (Border Security Force), CRP (Central Reserve Police) and MRP (Mizo Ram Police) in strength and many Mizos who were present there. The Indian Army Brigadier held a meeting with the leaders of the Chakma refugees at the refugee camp. At first the Indian Army Brigadier made a speech in Hindi language which the Chakma refugee leaders could not understand. Then the Captain interpreted his speech in the Bengali language as follows: “You know that in the last SAARC conference held in Dhaka, there was a talk between Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Bangladesh President Ershad about your repatriation. On the basis of their talks, you will be handed over to the Bangladesh Army on 29th January, 1986 and you will have to go. You should not feel sorry for this. Rather should you be grateful to India for giving you shelter, security and ration for the last 19 months.” After his speech the Chakma refugee leaders became panicky and prayed for permission to talk with the Indian Brigadier about their problems. But the Brigadier outrightly said: “You have not the right to speak a word”.

Then after the Brigadier’s speech, the Deputy Commissioner of Lunglei on behalf of the Mizoram government spoke to the refugee leaders in broken Bengali in this manner: “You are shameless. Don’t you know that this is Mizoram, this is not your country. You can’t stay here. You should be ashamed of yourself. Do you know what is the meaning of push back? You are going to be pushed back by any means”.

Then refugee leaders tried to explain that they did not come here to stay. They would return to their homeland if their demands were fulfilled by Bangladesh. At that moment the Deputy Commissioner threateningly shouted and ordered the refugee leaders to go out.

After the Brigadier left the refugee camps, curfew orders were announced through loudspeakers throughout the refugee camps for indefinite period and no one was allowed to come out of the camps.

On the 29th January, 1986 during the early hours of the morning, before the Sunrise, all the refugee camps were surrounded and the refugees were bodily searched by the MRPs and the CRPs. At 7 or 8 o’clock in the morning the BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) party arrived in a motor launch on the western side of Tagolok Bak across the Karnafully river and took up positions at a nearby garden. Then another motor launch slowly proceeded towards the refugee camps’ wharf. The Mizo Police Superintendent gave order to the refugees to remain in the camps and not to come till further instructions. The MRPs have already rounded up the refugee camps. Then the first batch of 51 families of Chakma refugees were gathered from the camps and taken to school premises from where they were being taken towards the BDR motor launch, But the refugees realising their fate, started shouting loudly: “We don’t want to be handed over to the BDR, we are afraid of them. They will kill us!”. At this moment, the MRPs swooped down upon refugees, young and old, men, women and children were all beaten up indiscriminately and force was used to make them board the BDR motor launch. The refugee men tried to save their women and children from beatings by the MRPs, But the MRP became more furious and indiscriminate beating continued with more ferocity. As the refugees were crying for help to save them from the MRPs, refugees from other camps went to their rescue, They tried to make the MRPs understand and not to be so cruel. But the MRPs including the CRPs giving a deaf ear to their appeal, fell upon these helpless refugees just like tigers. The Mizo SP (Superintendent of Police), through a loudspeaker, gave order to shoot the refugees, and the Mizos who were also present with their catapults with marbles, threw stones at these pitiful refugees. The refugees became panicky at this hostile treatment by the Mizo people, MRPs and CRPs. They tried to run away for life. But by that time all the refugee camps were rounded up by the Indian Army and BSF personnel. They caught the fleeing refugees and handed them over one by one to the cruel hands of the MRPs and CRPs. The MRPs and CRPs tied the refugees on the necks and waists with ropes and pulled them as if they were not human beings and then handed them over to the BDR who received them with such happiness that while counting them in the motor launch they picked each one for each number.

While these refugees were being taken to an unknown place in Barkal area, they were subjected to physical tortures, young girls and women were raped. The BDR personnel picked the refugees left and right when they were disembarked from the motor launch. The plight of these Chakma refugees seems to be precarious as the Bangladesh Governments policy of extermination of the tribal people continues unabated.

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The US and the Internal Islamic Threat

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The United States is now gradually waking up to a growing internal Islamic menace which desires to kill in the name of Islam. In the past week you have had three different cases involving Islamists who desired to kill and intimidate the people of America. In the United Kingdom the same problem exists but just like in America, under President Obama, both nations are pandering to Islam and propagating false lies about this religion. Therefore, it is time to focus on the real factors behind the growing Sunni Islamic threat within America and in other nations.

The first important factor that must be understood is that this threat comes from radical Sunni Islam and not from Shia Islam. In America and the United Kingdom you have many Shia Muslims; however, it is clear that all major global Islamic terrorism derives from radical Sunni Islam.

It is also abundantly clear that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community is not involved in terrorism because their brand of Islam is based on different interpretations and this branch of Islam suffers greatly in Pakistan and other nations, for example in Indonesia. Therefore, it is vital to understand where the focus should be because Ahmadiyya Muslims and Shia Muslims, and other branches of Islam like the Alevi, must be split from where the problem exists.

In Lebanon you do have Shia terrorist organizations however they are focused on either internal problems in Lebanon or on the situation in Israel. Also, in Yemen you have current problems with the restive Shia population but once more this is an internal matter and not based on expanding jihad and the same applies to Shia organizations in Iraq and Pakistan.

Therefore, Islamic terrorist attacks in America, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and other nations, have all been done by radical Sunni Islamists. Also, the inspiration behind these terrorist attacks is coming from the same avenue and this avenue of terrorism and global Islamic jihad can be traced back to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

B. Raman, a specialist in this field stated in the South Asia Analysis Group, paper number 1767, that “While the Deobandi extremists have been backing—openly or covertly— Al Qaeda and its ideology, the Barelvis have been uncomfortable over it. Many of them have been critical of the use of the Pakistani territory by Al Qaeda and the (International Islamic Front) IIF for their terrorist operations in other countries. They have also been worried over the implications of the message disseminated by bin Laden in January, 2006, in which he claimed that plans for another terrorist strike in the US homeland were already underway.”

B. Raman also states that “There are two main groups of Sunni sectarian organisations in Pakistan—the Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, both strongly Deobandi-Wahabi-Salafi and both members of the IIF, and the Sunni Tehrik, strongly Barelvi and anti-Deobandi-Wahabi-Salafi. Since many years, the Sipah-e-Sahaba and the LEJ have embarked on a campaign for the Arabisation and Wahabisation of the Barelvi Muslims and for removing the distorting influence of Hinduism. The Sunni Tehrik has been resisting the onslaught of the Deobandis, Wahabis and Salafis.”

Therefore, just like B. Raman points out, we can apply this to the international arena because the same forces and with Saudi financial backing, irrespective if government or organizations or wealthy individuals, is spreading the same message of hate to other nations far and wide. Yet why do nations like America, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom, and many others, allow this?

It is abundantly clear that the Muslim community in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s is very different to elements within the Muslim community today. According to B. Raman he states that “For the last fifteen years, there has been a conflict between the Deobandis and the Barelvis for the control of the mosques and their funds not only in Pakistan, but also in the UK. Previously, the Barelvis used to control the mosques in the UK frequented by immigrants from the sub-continent, but they have since been driven out by the Deobandis and Wahabis. This was the starting point for the radicalisation of the Pakistani-origin Muslims in the UK and in the other countries of West Europe. The ISI (Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence) has been supporting the Sipah-e-Sahaba and the LEJ in Pakistan as well as in West Europe.”

Therefore, it is clear that funding within Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is causing mayhem and it is obvious that you have “a war within Islam” and “an ongoing Islamic jihad” against moderate Muslims, other sects within Islam and against non-Muslims. Other channels of funding throughout the Middle East also applies but the mindset and ideological thinking is based on the same branches of Islam and it is clear where the counter-jihad must begin.

Yet amazingly, and even after September 11th, whereby nearly all Sunni Islamists were Saudi nationals; the United States destroyed a secular based nation in Iraq and ignored the greater problem. After all, how many American soldiers and other international forces have been killed by radical Saudi Islamists in Iraq or by Saudi Arabian organizations which preach jihad and hatred?

Given this, it appears that the focus of attention is based on the wrong area and even today Saudi Arabian funding is creating mayhem in mainly Muslim societies or mainly non-Muslim societies where Muslim minorities are growing.

Walid Phares, author of “The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad,” and of many other books and a senior expert in this field, stated “Petro-Islamism is also having a big impact in the higher education sector. As Walid Phares, an expert on global terrorism remarks in The War of Ideas (2007), globally, “a wave of oil funding hit university after university, college after college, and research centre after research centre. The objectives were fully ideological: further the cause of Islam, support the Palestinian cause, and plant the seeds of the concept of an illegitimate West.”

In Britain, a report about the growing rise of Islamic funding by Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies highlighted the nature of the problem. The report stated that more than $491 million dollars have been spent on funding Islamic study centres and other forms of propagation. These institutions include Cambridge and Oxford, therefore, radical Islamists have gained a foothold in major circles.

I myself studied at the University of London and radical Islam was clearly a daily problem and militants were often trying to spread their hatred and propaganda. It is also noticeable that Omar Sheikh who was convicted for the beheading of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, also studied at the London School of Economics.

Getting back to the radical Sunni Islamic threat then it is vital to confront this threat openly and to stop hiding behind liberalism, moral relativism, or untold excuses for why we must understand the causes behind radical Sunni Islam. The apologist brigade, for example Karen Armstrong, and countless others, portray Islam to be a religion of peace but Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, did not show much peace towards his enemies, instead he either enslaved them, had them killed or they were exiled.

Another important factor which must not be overlooked is history. For example the Buddhist/Hindu lands which are now called Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan (especially influenced by Zoroastrianism), and other nations; all allowed diversity despite occasional bouts of religious tensions. Therefore, you had Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Nestorian Christians, Pagans, Zoroastrians, and other faiths, all mingling together in a vast region

However, the onset of Islam changed all this because over time in both Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, the older religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism (the oldest religion), would be Islamized because of several factors.

These factors were multiple but clearly the role of Islamic jihad, dhimmitude, jizya, massive persecution, slavery, forced conversion, control of resources, and so forth, all culminated in a tide of Islamization.

Yet the leaders of these areas would also have believed that accommodation could have been met and that Islam was just another religion. However, Islam is based on victor and vanquished, and this religion is more like an ideology because it fuses religion, politics, economics, law, and the regulation of society, together and clearly non-Muslims are unequal (indeed Buddhists and Hindus are deemed to be subhuman because they are not people of the Book) in accordance with the teachings of Islam.

Even in 2009 apostates from Islam can be killed in accordance with the teachings of Mohammed and other religious believers are still suffering from Islamization. This applies to Christians being burnt alive in Pakistan, apostates from Islam being killed in Somalia, attacks against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan, persecution of Baha’is in Iran, Christian pastors being beheaded in northern Nigeria, Assyrian Christians and other minorities (Shabaks, Yazidis and Mandaean) also fear daily attacks and the same applies to the persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt.

The forces of Islamic jihad is ongoing and Buddhists face severe persecution in southern Thailand and the Chittagong Hill Tracts (also Christian and Hindu tribal’s) in Bangladesh and of course Buddhism in history always collapsed when Islamic armies conquered their lands.

I stated in a past article, that “Today, just like the 7th century, Islam is still killing apostates or persecuting them. Today, just like in the 7th century, Muslims are still waging wars against non-Muslims in countless numbers of nations. Today, just like the 7th century, Muslim fanatics are still killing fellow Muslims who are deemed to be not Muslim enough.”

“The apologists will keep on making excuses; however, it is clear that in many parts of the Islamic dominated world, that hatred still dictates. Therefore, in 2009, just like in the 7th century, non-Muslims still suffer enormous persecution and some Islamists are still dreaming of spreading Islam by the sword or by propaganda.”

Now this war against non-Muslims and moderate Muslims alike is being waged in northern Nigeria against Christians, against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan, against Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and against Buddhists in southern Thailand. The same also applies to countless other conflicts or nations where minorities suffer enormous persecution, for example the persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt.

This jihad is now being propagated within nations like America and the United Kingdom. Yet how can you confront your enemy when you have to play by political correctness, pander to the very same people who want to enforce Islamic Sharia law on you or have dialogue with a religion which supports killing all apostates and treating non-Muslims unequally in Islamic Sharia law?

If we ignore the past diversity of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, then one day our civilizations may end up the same way?

After all, just like the past, religious leaders and elites within the Buddhist, Hindu, Nestorian Christian, and Zoroastrian communities did not understand the true nature of Islam. However, by the time they understood it was too late and today Buddhism in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a distant memory and the same applies to Zoroastrianism in Uzbekistan. At the same time, in the modern world Buddhism may soon be a distant memory in southern Thailand if Islamists get their way and maybe Iraq will soon have no more Mandaeans?

Walid Phares comments on recent events in America and states that “The North Carolina cell, the New York subway plot, the Dallas attempt, the Illinois case, added to the previous cases of the shooting of a soldier in Arkansas, the precedent New York cells, Georgia’s young Jihadists, all the way back to the infamous Virginia paintball network, if anything gives us the genome of what is morphing inside the country — a vast body of dispersed cells with at least one binding force — the Jihadi ideology. The question thus is to find out who is propagating the doctrines of Jihadism: who is funding it; who is protecting the indoctrination operation which leads naturally to the rise of homegrown or foreign linked, lone wolves or packs of Jihadists, Terrorists. That is the real question: where is the factory?”

Therefore, it is vital to stop major funding which is spreading radical Sunni Islam and to focus on where the threat is. It is also vital that national governments work together and that history is not forgotten. Also, more attention must be focused on persecution and injustice “within the House of Islam” and the “real Mohammed” must be told instead of the Western liberal version which is bent on appeasement and revisionism.

By Lee Jay Walker
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http://www.aina.org/news/20090929013056.htm

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The Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bengali: পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম Parbotto Chôṭṭogram) comprise an area of 13,180 km2 in south-eastern Bangladesh, and borders India and Myanmar (Burma). It was a single district of Bangladesh till 1984. In that year it was divided into three separate districts: Khagrachari, Rangamati and Bandarban. Topographically, this is the only hill intensive area of Bangladesh.

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According to the 1991 census the population was 974,447 of which 501,114 were tribals and the rest were from different communities. The indigenous peoples, collectively known as the Jumma, include the Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Tenchungya, Chak, Pankho, Mru, Murung, Bawm, Lushai, Khyang, Gurkha,Assam,Santal and Khumi.[1]

The current population is between 1 million and 1.5 million.[citation needed] About 50% of the population are tribals and mainly followers of Theravada Buddhism. 48% of the inhabitants are Bengali Muslim settlers. The remainder are followers of Hinduism, Christianity and Animism. [1]. At the time of the partition of India in August, 1947 non MusIims constituted 98.5% of the population of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Buddhists were 85%, Hindus (mainly Tripuri tribe) 10%, Animists 3% and Muslims 1.5%

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The early history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts is a record of constantly recurring raids on the part of the eastern hill tribes, and of the operations undertaken to repress them. The earliest mention of these raids is to be found in a letter from the Chief of Chittagong to Warren Hastings, the Governor-General, dated April to, 1777,’ complaining of the violence and aggressions of a mountaineer named Ramu Khan, the leader of a band of Kukis or Lushais ; and that they continued without any long intermission down to 1891 when the Lushai Hills were annexed to British territory. The recorded population increased from 69,607 in 1872 to 101,597 in 1881, to 107,286 in 1891, and to 124,762 in 1901. The Census of 1872 was, however, very imperfect, and the actual growth of population has probably not exceeded what might be expected in a sparsely inhabited but fairly healthy tract.[2]

When the 1901 census was taken there were no towns, and 211 of the villages had a population of less than 500, while only one exceeded 2,000. The population density, excluding the area of uninhabited forest (1,385 square miles), was 33 persons per square mile. There was a little immigration from Chittagong, and a few persons had emigrated to Tripura. The proportion of females to every 100 males was only 90 in the district-born, and 83 in the total population. Buddhists numbered 83,000, Hindus 36,000, and Muslims 5,000.[3]

The Chittagong Hill Tracts, combining three hilly districts of Bangladesh, were once known as Korpos Mohol, the name used until 1860. In 1860 it was annexed by the British and was made an administrative district of Bengal. As of today, it is a semi-autonomous region within Bangladesh comprising the districts, namely, Chengmi (Khagrachari District), Gongkabor (Rangamati District), and Arvumi (Bandarban District).

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Thanks to Cell phone, we are in touch with our families and relations. I get daily updates from Dineshpur. Sabita keeps her in touch with dharmanagri as well. Her mother is doing very well a the age over Eighty Five. She eats everything NOn Veg and digests well. She is not UNWELL or Ailing as sabita was afraid of. The old lady is suffering from Old age only. but we had to visit Bijnore in the first half of september as my sister in law, the wife of sabita`s eldest Brother Satya Gopal, SHOBHA Boudi informed us on phone that her condition was Critical. Thanks to the Cell Phone , Sabita had a good Family get Together after a long time. She also met her niece after almost two decades. Nimmi is married in Hastinapur. sabita had to cross the ganges on Motorbike only!

Dharmveer, the Ex Governor is no more. His younger brother Satyaveer has also departed. The Princely family is represented by Kuwanr Udayan and his wife is the the district Board chairman. I Never knew the couple. But I never missed an opportunity to meet Dharmveer and Satyaveer. I had been working in Meerut for SIX years as chief sub Editor in dainik jaagaran during 1984 to 89.I had felt all the heat of the Hot Waves of Hindutva in Riot Torn Meerut and later in Bareilly while the Mosque was attacked by Kar Sevaks for the first time. When the Babri Mosque was Demolished ultimately, I had already shifted in Kolkata! I wrote some short stories on those experiences in Burning Cities in the Cow belt. Ande Sente LOG, the Egg Hatching people, a short story collection was published in 1997.

I also wrote a NOVELLETTE on the theme of communal harmony and some personal experiences inand around Bijnore itself,named US Shahar Kaa Naam Batao Jahan Dange Nahee Hote, NAME The city which is Never Riot Torn!

Being in Meerut, i was able to note the Minutes of Hindutva resurrection and the COMMUNILISATION of Indian Masses! I also noted the socil changes in Uttar pradesh, Bihar and entire Cow belt. I was witness to the RISE of Mayawati, Lau Prasad, Mulayam, Paswan and Meira Kumar and the string of jat leaders. I also watched the Tikait version of Peasant Uprising and the Kham Politics reminiscent of Chandal Movement and peasant and tribal insurrections in colonial India.

I intervied Kuwnwar Dharmveer and got some important lessons on Bengal before finally landing in Bengal! I visted Hastinapur,Nainital and Bijnore even at drop of a Pin during the period. Mobilised the Mhatosh Resistance in Hills and Plains!But i had to leave Meerut most unwillingly as I had serious differences with the management. But now when I have been wanting to eject out myself from Kolkata and return Home, I have no escape route and Home lies Thousand Mile away!

Our People have been scattered all over India. Almost all of them had been banished in dense forests as in all over Dandakaranya, Nainital and Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri and Baharaich, Andaman and Nicobar!These are the refugees who migrated from east Bengal as partition victim since their Home Land in Hindu Majority districts Jassore, khulna, Barishal and faridpur were gifted to Pakistan to eject out the Militant dalit castes who had been leading dalit and Peasant Insurrections since the EAST India Rule.Some people from Noakhali have been also resettled as in Kendrapara, Orissa. Premanand Mahajan, the present MLA from Pantnagar in udhamsingh Nagar family belongs to a family, the only one in Dineshpur who came from Chittagang.Most of the Comilla and Chittagang and some of Dhaka district refugees along with Silhat migrated to Assam, tripura and all over North East. Kushthia, Pabna and majority of Jassore refugees exchanged properties in West Bengal as most of our kith and kin resettled in North 24 Parganas, Malda and Nadia districts. Some people from Khulna crossed river Icchamati and settled in Sundervana area!

Only today I visited TAHERPUR where FORTY Thousand families who refused to go out of Bengal were FORCIBLY REHABILITED. They got nothing for livelihood but only Five KATTA piece of land for each family for residential purpose and a ten shed to take shelter ad hoc!I would write the report in details very soon.

Namoshudra, Paundra Kshtriya and Rajbanshi were the most militant castes in West bengal which controlled the Dalit Muslim Politics in Bengal. After partition, Rajbanshies chose to settle in West Bengal but most of Namoshudras and Paundra Kshtriyas with other sc castes and their out caste Brahmin Preists had been thrown out of bengali geopolitics. I have written it time and again.

But the refugees coming a little late around 1960, were resettled in former princely states and Big farms and zamindaries as the landlords handed over the extra land to avoid Ceiling! Some land were also acquired from Vinoba`s Bhudan Ygya! It happened in bihar and uttar Pradesh. In UP, the Bengali refugees were settled in the state of Raja Jwala prasad and they lived and have been living as the loyal subject of the former Princes! Dharmveer, the former Governor of West Bengal, Kunwar Satyaveer, former minister have been the chief Patrons for these colonies! In rampur District, Swarg Farm land and in Nainital shakti farm land had been allotted to the refugees. Later,five colonies adjacent to shaktifarm were rehabiliated in open air jail Jail camp in Nainital district. Two more villages in Bijnore in Chowk Manirampur were established on farmland!

As it was the case of the refugees settled in baharaich District, in Bijnore also the Bengali Refugees had to cultivate in flooded fields as the land would often be inundated by the Ganges, following very near! In eighties, the scenerio changed with the construction of ganges barrage! Now all the four colonies Dharma Nagari,Ghasiala, Chandpurand Hemraj are well connected with Meerut, New delhi, dehradoon and Nainital. They had a tough connetivity problem earlier as our people used to travle by Trucks on khatema Panipath route.

These four colonies were branded as STARVING all the year Round. Nainital People hated them as they were affluent comparatively and used to call them as BHATE MARA, the people who have no food. The Bijnore refugees would exchange Metromonial Relations amongst them. Later, while HASTINAPUR refugee transit camp was established in Meerut District in the Ancient Pandab capital to co opt the refugees in the Sick cotton mill MADAN Mill , which was eventually locked out, Bijnore people got grooms for their daughters and brides across Ganges!

My father used to vist his people in Bijnore very often. Enroute to and from Delhi he would land in the villages but the Subject of the former Princely state would not respond in any attempt of Mass Mobilisation for any Refugee movement. They could not violet Loyality to the saviour Princely Family! But they loved my father and respected him very much. These people would come over in nainital for seasonal Farming Jobs. The educated boys would come to get training from dineshpur ITI. Some of them wer musicians and Folk singers who would sing Ramayan. They earned Bread and Butter from nainital terai. They were Never in any Position to demand anything as the Kunwar sahib had to decide everything in their day to day life! But my Father was never DISAPPOINTED and always kept in touch with his people!

All of a sudden he selected a BRIDE for me from Dharmanagari Village and fixed the date of marriage without consulting me as my fatherin law late Satish Mandal as a refugee leader had been his friend! He had served as a technitian in ram ganga Project in kalagarh. The girl was fair and educated , an M. A. in Economics. My In laws were not acquainted to me. But as I had been an youth ICON amongst Bengali Refugees all over they needed not to see me at all.At that time I was working as a sub Editor in dainik Awaz, Dhanbad. Meanwhile I was engaged to a Kolkat Girl. However, the relation could not sustain itself as the girl was insisting me to make a career as most of her family and relations had! My father was very worried and knew well that I was not interested in marriage. He strategically, fixed my sister Renu`s marriage in Dharmanagari at the same date. he just sent me the Photo and a message consisting the date of the marriage. I was in SMABAY Boarding House with slaes and Medical representatives and was RELUCTANT not to marry! But my friends in Dhanbad convinced me on the ground of family prestige and belatedly I landed in dharma Nagari!

I am skipping the details hoping to write it down some time else! I just want to highlight how our People have been DISPERSED in such a way that we may not defend them anywhere until local COMMUNITIES support them and someone like the Princes in dharmanagari, ND Tiwari and KC Pant in Nainital decide to use them as MOBILE Vote Bank. since our people are scattered in such a way , they may not lead and are predestined to follow. In Bengal, they could have changed the Demography and Vote Bank Equation , hence they have been BANISHED in such a random merciless way and have been left with the Option to extinct away losing their IDENTITY and Citizenship, Civil and human rights!

It’s preposterous! When Rahul Gandhi travels by train, the media rants and raves over the money saved. And when he breaks bread with Dalits and spends night in their homes, Mayawati fumes, his party sulks!

BIJNOR, or BIJNAUR, a town and district of India in the Bareilly division of the India. The town is about 7 m. from the left bank of the Ganges. Bijnor, the most western district distt. of U.P. is situated just 12 Km from either both way from pious Ganga on Meerut road or from Ganj a great saint Vidur’s home where he spent his rest of life after dispute with Duryodhan. “Duryodhan ki meva tyagi saag Vidur ghar Khayoji” these popular lines generated where Lord KRISHNA visited beloved bhakt “Vidur” at his residence (Ganj). Our country’s name BHARAT comes out from the name of great Chakraverty King Bharat who spent his childhood at Bijnor.

The DISTRICT OF BIJNOR has an area of 1791 sq. m. The aspect of the country is generally a level plain, but the northern part of it rises towards the Himalayas, the greatest ele cation being 1342 ft. above the sea-level. The Koh and Ramganga are the principal rivers that flow through the district, and the Ganges forms its western boundary. In 1901 the population was 779451, showing a decrease of 2% in the decade. The country is watered in most parts by streams from the hills, but a series of small canals has been constructed. Sugar is largely exported. A line of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway from Moradabad to Saharanpur runs through the district.

Little is known of the early history of Bijnor. In the time of Mughal emperor Akbar, Bijnor formed part of the Delhi empire. However, in the early part of the 18th century, the Rohilla Pashtuns established their independence in the country called by them Rohilkhand; and about 1748 the Rohilla chief Ali Muhammad made his first annexations in Bijnor, the rest of which soon fell under the Rohilla domination. The northern districts were granted by Ali Muhammad to Najib Khan, who gradually extended his influence west of the Ganges and at Delhi, receiving the title of Najib-ud-daula and becoming paymaster of the royal forces. His success, however, raised up powerful enemies against him, and at their instigation the Marathas invaded Bijnor. This was the beginning of a feud which continued for years. Najib, indeed, held his own, and for the part played by him in the victory of Panipat was made vizier of the empire. After his death in 1770, however, his son Zabita Khan was defeated by the Mahrattas, who overran all Rohilkhand.

In Najibabad, there was a fort of great Daqait Sultana. The fort is still situated in Najibabad and it has been said that the vehicles can easily be run on the width of the fort.

In 1772 the Nawab of Oudh made a treaty with the Rohillas, covenanting to expel the Marathas in return for a money payment. He carried out his part of the bargain; but the Rohilla chieftains refused to pay. In 1774 the Nawab concluded with the East India Company government of Calcutta a treaty of alliance, and he now called upon the British, in accordance with its terms, to supply a brigade to assist him in enforcing his claims against the Rohillas. This was done; in the Rohilla War, the Rohillas were driven beyond the Ganges, and Bijnor was incorporated in the territories of the nawab, who in 1774 ceded it to the British East India Company. From this time the history of Bijnor is uneventful until the Mutiny of 1857, when (on the 1st of June) it was occupied by the nawab of Najibabad, a grandson of Zabita Khan. In spite of fighting between the Hindus and the Muslim Pashtuns the Nawab succeeded in maintaining his position until the 21st of April 1858, when he was defeated by the British at Nagina; whereupon British authority was restored.

NIC -District Unit Bijnor was setup in Nov, 1988. Naturally all work incuding site allotment from District Administration, its preparation, installation of Micro Earth Station and systems etc was really a challanging and creative job to accomplish in short possible time for NIC officers and that came in existence in operation condition in 1989. Then it was another milestone to trained the manpower of the users, mainly district official, who were unaware of computer, to acquaint with the new culture of computerization of their work. But with our dedicated efforts we got succeed to do all excellantly. A number of training program were organised to develop thier interest.

Inauguration of Land Record Computerisation

Of course, initailly it was very tough job for District Informatics Officer to tackle all type of projects sponsored by district officers, state and central sponsored project at the same including envisaging the usage and potential of NICNET. A number of state level projects sponsored by NIC UP State Unit with the help of respective state directorate was having generation of reports used for local help and their data transmission through NICNET to NIC UP state unit for state level report generation which eliminiated all type compilation with the help computer and some project are still running since then. Infect NICNET was heavily used and still is being used. Best use of NICNET was demonstrated during round wise data transmission of 1991 parliamentry election result throught INDIA as actually a compiled report statewise result/position/leading etc of all MP or any individual could be seen at any moment. Doordarshan had been one of the best user of this data for onward transmission to its National Channel.

Since inception of this district centre, it have been going on providing a number of decision and support to the district admin in thier no of challanging activites like deployment of personnel during elections through randomization including counting, repolling etc, conducting exam for local recruitment and thier result declaration including thier tabulation etc with the help of computer. This is one the Ist district in U.P. when election duties were generated through computer in 1996 parliamentry election.

NIC, National Informatics Centre, functioning under M/o Information Technology, in collectorate Bijnor has undertaken a number of projects sponsored by district level officer, we study their functioning in detail and their requirement etc and provide the best decision and higly analised report to full their complete requirement in brief and as much large as possible. There are some projects sponsored by state and central level which we simply implement, as we get ready made s/w, here with the concerned department, if directed we transmitted their data at state/central level, and generate report locally, we also modify the s/w provided us to meet out the local requirement as far as possible.

This district centre remain Ist in UP to implement a number of projects like conducting exam for local recruitment, deployment of personnel in parliamentry election 1996, proposal of district plan fund allocation, Court Information System. Some other successful projects undertaken by this centre are Indira Awas Monitoring System, Scholarship Distribution Monitoring System, Revenue Recovring Monitoring System, Allotment of 10th Financial fund for Distt Panchyat Office, Public Greviences, Monthly Monitoring Reports used by Distt Magistrate and Commisners and others. BSA payrolls and pensions and several others projects are the best running projects. At crucial time NIC is also used like during UPSEB strike etc. grading of lekhpal,amin and peon of all tehsils etc. Technical supports are being provided to DRDA also. In treasury we are proving full support in their TISNIC implemenation for all computerization of their account and computerized cheque printig pension distribution, We are also providing technical support to distt admin and others officers in their work of computerization and its expension as and when required.

VEERA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING offers 4 years bachelor’s degree courses in Electrical & Electronics, Computer Science . Admission to these courses is made through a merit list prepared on the basis of the score of the candidates in the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, (SEE-UPTU). In these courses the reservation available to different reserved categories like SC, ST and OBC is as per the Government of India norms.

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VEERA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING offers 4 years bachelor’s degree courses in Electrical & Electronics, Computer Science . Admission to these courses is made through a merit list prepared on the basis of the score of the candidates in the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, (SEE-UPTU). In these courses the reservation available to different reserved categories like SC, ST and OBC is as per the Government of India norms.

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Admissions are open to students who or whose parents are domicile of UP State only except for NRI/Foreign National/PIO. There is no age limit for admission to Colleges/Institutions affiliated to UP Technical University, Lucknow.There is NRI quota in B.Tech & B.Arch courses, where seats are reserved for NRIs, their sons/daughters and real brother/sisters in Govt. aided institutions. The children of real brother/sister and son/daughter of NRI who have obtained minimum 50% marks in PCM subjects in Intermediate or equivalent examination, may also be considered for admission in Govt. aided institutions, if the seats remain vacant.5% of the total seats in State funded/Private Engineering Colleges/Institutions are reserved for NRI candidates. Such candidates need not appear at the Entrance Examination.One seat is available in each Technical Institution/Professional Institution in above programmes, affiliated to UPTU for sons and daughters of Kashmiri Migrants who have secured at least 50% marks in qualifying subjects at 10+2 level or equivalent examination. Direct admission to Kashmiri Migrants is made as per the latest instructions of AICTE and orders from UP Govt.Domiciled candidates have to meet the following criteria:Candidates who have passed the qualifying exam from an institution located in the State of U.P. and who do not claim for reserved category, are eligible for admission to all the courses at all the institutions against available general (unreserved) seats.Candidates who have passed the qualifying exam from an institution located in the State of U.P., are domicile in U.P. and belong to SC/ST/OBC of UP, are eligible for admission to all the courses at all the institutions against available reserved seats of their category.Candidates who have passed the qualifying exam from an institution located outside the State of U.P., whose parents are domicile of UP and who have not claimed for reserved category, are also eligible for admission to courses affiliated to UP Technical Univ., Lucknow.Candidates who have passed the qualifying exam from an institution located outside U.P., whose parents are domicile of UP and who belong to SC/ST/OBC of UP, are also eligible for admission to courses offered at institutions affiliated to UP Tech. Univ., Lucknow against reserved seats of their category. Relaxation is given to domicile requirements of parents in cases of:Defence Personnel settled in UP on the date of Admission test, after retirement/being disabled in action. It is also applicable to Defence Personnel killed in action, and the dependents settled in UP on the date of Entrance examination. The advantage of horizontal reservation available in Armed Force sub-category is also admissible to the sons/daughters of such defence personnel.Defence personnel who are not domicile of UP but are posted in UP on the date of Admission test. However, the advantage of horizontal reservation in Armed Force sub-category is not admissible to the children of employee belonging to UP cadre. At Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, there is a provision for 5% seats for Non-Resident Indians/NRI sponsored students. At B.S.A. College of Engineering & Technology, there is a provision for reservation of 5% seats for NRI/NRI sponsored students.At DIT School of Engineering, special reservation is available for Kashmiri Migrants.At Institute of Technology & Management, the admission is made through SEE-UPTU entrance exam in State quota.At Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology, there is a provision for 5% reservation for NRIs/NRI sponsored candidates.At Shivdan Singh Institute of Technology & Management, 5% seats are reserved for NRI/NRI sponsored students.

RAJA JWALA PRASAD

Note: This is not done by me – the author is unknown.

Raja Jwala Prasad was born in the year 1872 in a middle class Zamindar family of Mandawar town in the Bijnor district of UP. From the very beginning he showed great proficiency in studies and in due course became one of the most brilliant students of the Allahbad University. After taking his B.Sc. and Bachelor of Arts from Allahabad, he joined the Thompson Civil Engineering College at Roorkes. This was the leading civil engineering college at that time and the top students at the college were ensured of service in the Imperial Engineering Service in India. Admission to the college was by a system of competition in which Raja Jwala Prasad stood first and was thereafter duly admitted. He passed out from the Thompson Civil Engineering standing first in the college and receiving all the top medals and certificates at that time which had existed before his time. After passing out from the Thompson College, he joined the Imperial Engineering Service in the then United Province. After a couple of years in the U.P. he was sent on deputation under the late Sir Ganga Ram to Delhi at the Delhi Darbar which was to be held to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s regime. The friendship and understanding which he developed with Sir Ganga Ram during the time that he worked with him in Delhi continued throughout their respective lives. After a few years subsequent to the Delhi Darbar, Sir Ganga Ram got him on deputation to the Patiala State in Punjab as the State Engineer, where Sir Ganga Ram was at that time, after retirement from the government, working as the Chief Engineer to the State. In Patiala, Raja Jwala Prasad was responsible for the construction of a number of buildings., including the palace which is now the centre of all the sports activities in India and a water works for the supply of water to Patiala.

At that time, the most advance Hindus were greatly attracted to the Arya Samaj, a branch of the Hindu Society, which was intended to free the Hindus from the evils of the caste system, rigid beliefs in superstitions and customs that had no connection with the Vedic Hindu culture and love of the country which at that time was under the subjugation and rule of the British.

It was the last part of the Arya Samaj teachings that attracted the disapproving attention of the British rulers at that time. The Inspector General of Police in Patiala suspected the movement of sedition and working against the continuance of the British rule in India. The Inspector General worked on the then ruler of Patiala against the Arya Samaj movement and after obtaining his approval started criminal actions against the Arya Samajists in Patiala including against Raja Jwala Prasad who was at that time the President of the of the Arya Samaj movement in Patiala. He was accused of seditionist activities against the British rule of India and of harbouring war against the Queen Empress of India. This persecution of the Arya Samaj attracted India wide attention and important lawyers and others in the country such as the late Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya, Sir Sunder Lal, Pt. Moti Lal Nehru, Late Lala Lajpat Rai and others stood up to fight the prosecution against Raja Jwala Prasad. The enquiries of the case went on for a period of two years, which, was a period of great anxiety to Raja Jwala Prasad and all the members of his family and friends. However, ultimately, the case was withdrawn having been found to be without any substance and Raja Jwala Prasad was restored to his position in the Imperial Engineering Service in the United Provinces. That was about the year 1910/11.

Thereafter, he worked in various capacities in the Irrigation Department of the United Province and in the year 1916 was sent on deputation to Banaras to help in the construction of the Banaras Hindu University under the guidance of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya. Sir Ganga Ram was functioning as the Honorary Chief Engineer of the Banaras Hindu University at that time, but the actual work had to be done by Shri Jwala Prasad. The magnificent buildings in the Banaras Hindu University, it’s colleges, hostels, laboratories, the temple and the general layout are all standing testimonies to the engineering skill and knowledge of Shri Jwala Prasad. The main work in the University was completed by 1921 and Shri Jwala Prasad reverted to the UP government as a Superintending Engineer in the Irrigation Department. After functioning for a few years as Supdt. Engineer he was elevated to the post of Chief Engineer, Irrigation in the UP in 1924 and continued to be so till 1930 when he retired from the service of the government. He was the first Indian in India to be appointed to the post of a Chief Engineer in any state and as such was the fore runner of the start of complete Indianisation of the engineering service in India. During his period as Chief Engineer, he was responsible for evolving life irrigation and for generating power from the falls in the canals in the UP. After completion of his term as the Chief Engineer, the British Government conferred on him the title of a Raja. This was presumably because after retirement he decided to get into agriculture like his esteemed friend, Sir Ganga Ram. In addition he continued to function as Honorary Chief Engineer of the Banaras Hindu University and also was for a number of years it’s Pro-Vice Chancellor.

Throughout his life, Raja Jwala Prasad was greatly interested not only in the Arya Samaj, but also in all sectors of social development and education. He was an ardent Arya Samajist and there are many buildings of Arya Samaj all over UP and Punjab which were constructed with his advice and help. In his own community, for the help of needy students, he started the Arya Vidya Sabha and also worked actively for abolition of dowry and reduction and unnecessary heavy expenditure on marriages and other social functions. Even after retirement he continued to take active interest not only in engineering but also in the working of the Banaras Hindu University, in educational enterprises and in works of social development all over the country. In the year 1944, he unfortunately passed away at the early age of 72 because of a heart attack, leaving behind a wife, three daughter and three sons.

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Dharma Vira (20 January 1906 – 16 September 2000) was a former Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India and former governor of Punjab, West Bengal and Karnataka .

[edit] Early life and education
Dharma Vira was born in Patiala on 20 January 1906, the son of Raja Jwala Prasad and Bhagyati Devi. He studied at Muir Central College in Allahabad, before coming to London to read for the ICS examinations at the London School of Economics. He returned to India in November 1930.

[edit] Career
Dharma Vira joined the ICS in early 1931 and his career proceeded quickly after he married Dayavati Ganga Ram in 1932. He was a Resident Magistrate in Uttar Pradesh, but from 1941 became more involved in central Indian government affairs. He became Deputy Chief Controller of Imports during 2nd World War, and was Textile Commissioner for India in 1945. After Independence,he worked closely with Jawaharlal Nehru, and was Joint Secretary to the Indian Cabinet in 1947. He then became Principal Private Secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru, 1950-51, and Commercial Adviser to the Indian High Commissioner in London, 1951-3.

In 1954 he was appointed Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, in which capacity he served until 1956. On his return to India he served as Secretary to the Ministry of Rehabilitation until 1962 and was Secretary to the Ministry of Works, housing and Supply in 1962.

From 1963-1964 he was Chief Commissioner of Delhi and then from 1964-1966 Cabinet Secretary and Secretary to Union Council of Ministers and became Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission

He served as Governor of:

Punjab and Haryana 1966-67
West Bengal 1967-69
Karnataka (Mysore),1969-72
and was Chairman of the National Police Commission, 1977-83. Dharam Vira served as the President of the Bharat Scouts and Guides from November 1973 to September 1976.

In terms of post-independence India, he was the senior and most distinguished civil servant, and was awarded the Padma Vibhushan award in 1999. He died on 16 September 2000.

Accounts of him stress his congenial but firm nature, his addiction to golf, and his integrity.

Hastinapur
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Hastinapur (Hindi: ???????????) (Hastinapura in Sanskrit) is a town and a nagar panchayat in Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

History
Hastinapura was the capital of the kingdom of the Kauravas, belonging to the Kuru dynasty of kings.

[edit] Founding by Kuru King Hasti
King Hasti of Kuru Race founded the city of Hastinapur. The throne of this city was the prize over which the Kurukshetra War of the epic Mahabharata was fought between descendants of King Hasti. Many incidents in the epic Mahabharata took place in this city of Hastinapura. The first reference to Hastinapur in Hindu texts comes as the capital of Emperor Bharata.

[edit] Present-day location
In the present-day Hastinapura is a town in the Doab region of Uttar Pradesh, called Hastinapur, 37 km from Meerut and 110 km from Delhi. Geographical details: Situated at 29 degree 09′31.50 degree North & 77 degree 59′19.46″ East. Hastinapur is 120 KM North-East of Delhi on Delhi-Meerut-Bijnore Highway. You need to take a turn to Bijnore highway (NH-119) from Meerut from where Hastinapur is approx 38 KM away. Road is good & clean (average speed is 50 KM/hour) & green with trees and agricultural farms both sides.Population is approx. 30,000. Regular buses are available from 6 AM to 9 PM from Meerut which is the nearest Railway station (42 km). Nearest Airport: New Delhi. (120 km)

[edit] Brief history

Ancient Indian (Bharata) cities and Places(Title and location names are in English.)Historical Details:

Literal Meaning: Hastinapura = Hastin (elephant) + pura (city) = city named after the elephants.

History of this place begins Jain religion. Three gods of Jain religion names: Shanthinath, Khunthunath & Arahnath were born here and become 5th, 6th, 7th Chakravarti kings. It is also described as Gajpur, Hastinapur, Nagpur, Asandivat, Brahmasthal, Shanti Nagar and Kunjarpur etc. in Shashtras.

Grandson of Samrat Ashok, king Samprati has built many temples here during his empire. The ancient temple and the stupas are not present today since this city has survived through many periods of conquest like the Mughal Invasion which destroyed and devastated most of the Hindu religious places. Hastinapur city was located on the earlier course of the Ganges River. Hastinapur was once washed away when the river changed its course but was resettled in nearby area. This occurred in the fourth generation of Emperor Janmejay.

Excavation at Hastinapur was carried out in early 1950s, by B.B. Lal, of the Archaeological Survey of India. Although the main aim of this excavation, mentioned by Lal himself, “was to find out the stratigraphic position of the Painted Grey Ware with reference to other known ceramic industries of the early historical period”1, Lal could not resist attempting a correlation between Mahabharata, the text, and the material remains that he uncovered at Hastinapur. This exercise led him to historicize some of the traditions mentioned in the text, as well as link the appearance of the Painted Grey Ware with the arrival of the Indo-Aryans in upper Ganga basin areas.

[edit] Demographics
As of 2001[update] India census[1], Hastinapur had a population of 21,248. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Hastinapur has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 67%, and female literacy is 57%. In Hastinapur, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 372

Palash Biswas

Tharoor says ‘no comments’ on twitter remark
17 Sep 2009, 1835 hrs IST
Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs keeps away from the Twitter trouble. He refused to comment on his ‘cattle class’ remark that he had made on the social networking site ‘Twitter’ yesterday (September 17) on the recent austerity drive.

While the minister is abroad on an official visit, sources in his office have said that no clarification has been sought and hence the Minister hasn’t made any comment yet.

Shashi Tharoor had yesterday made comments that “he will travel cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows.” BJP had sought Tharoor’s expulsion from the post of Union Minister calling his remarks “a cruel joke and insult” to crores of people travelling in general class.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chauhan had said that having made such insensitive and insulting comments, he did not deserve to be a Union Minister. However, Congress also disapproved Tharoor’s remark on economy class travel.

We totally condemn it (Tharoor’s comments). The statement is not in sync with our political culture. His remarks are not acceptable given the sensitivity of all Indians,” said AICC Spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan.

“Certainly the party does not endorse it. It is absolutely insensitive. We find it unacceptable and totally insensitive,” she said when asked to comment on Tharoor’s remarks on Twitter, a social networking website.
http://www.timesnow.tv/Tharoor-says-no-comments-on-twitter-remark/articleshow/4327550.cms

Shh(ashi)! Laugh at your peril
OUR BUREAU

New Delhi, Sept. 16: In this season of the austerity epidemic, the Congress cannot be accused of profligacy on one count: humour.

A tweet by junior minister Shashi Tharoor has got the Congress all twitched up, bringing forth abomination worthy of a dour old party.

Tharoor had tweeted in reply to a question that he would travel by “cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows”.

Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to receivers known as followers (in Tharoor’s case, the particular follower happened to be a journalist).

The reference to “cattle class” did hurt the Congress that stands for the aam aadmi but what seems to have really got the party’s goat is the crack at “holy cows”.

The Congress is now trying to figure out the identity of the “holy cows” Tharoor had in mind. Given the number of “holy cows” the oldest party in the land has, it should take some time to arrive at a consensus.

Was Tharoor taking a potshot at Sonia Gandhi, the spearhead of the current austerity mania, for setting the stage for his ouster from a five-star hotel where he was staying paying from his pocket?

Or was he throwing the tweet at Rahul Gandhi, who unfurled his brand of belt-tightening by travelling in a train’s chair car — a ride that was unfortunately spoilt by stones hurled by mysterious miscreants? (Not read in Twitter: a joke doing the rounds is that police themselves might have thrown the stones to ensure that the young Gandhi sticks to his security routine and spares them the headache of guarding trains.)

The Congress would not answer such questions. But Tharoor, who tweeted and took a flight to Liberia en route to Ghana, is in trouble back home.

“We totally condemn it (Tharoor’s tweet). It is completely unacceptable and can come from somebody who is unaware of our political culture and social realities,” Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said. “Certainly, the party does not endorse it. It is absolutely insensitive. We find it unacceptable.”

The Congress has rarely condemned a minister in a similar manner at an official media conference. Sources said the issue was discussed by senior leaders and a conscious decision was made to send out a tough message to those who seek to ridicule the austerity measures.

More than what Natarajan said, what she left unsaid should alarm Tharoor more, if the political rookie can figure out the importance of silence in the party.

Asked if Tharoor should be dropped from the cabinet, she said it was for the high command to decide. On another question if making such “an elitist person” a minister was a mistake in the first place, the spokesperson said it was the prerogative of the Prime Minister.

Tharoor is scheduled to return on September 21, unless the tweet-quake brings him scurrying back.

Tharoor’s tweet came in response to a question by the follower who himself had referred to “cattle class”.

Cattle class is widely used to frown on the way some airlines herd passengers into the low-fare section, not a direct reference to the passengers themselves. Besides, Twitter is not meant for official discourse but chit chat — a tool millions use to celebrate the spontaneity of communication and the urge to get across their

140-character opinion on everything under and above the sun.

But Natarajan had done her own research. “Cattle class is a jargon, a slang. A politician should not use it. In India, where millions of people travel by ordinary class, we don’t show such insensitivity.”

Those who know Tharoor, an author who has a way with words, said he could also have been referring to the general hysteria over belt-tightening by using a harmless pun (“holy cow”) that goes with “cattle”.

Not that the Congress does not have leaders whose razor-sharp wit can squeeze a smile out of even the most poker-faced colleagues and rivals. But the usually garrulous withdrew into a shell this evening, refusing comment even off the record — perhaps a reflection of a reluctance to be gored by those protecting the holy cows.

In a nation of such gravitas, Tharoor is unlikely to find many willing to bell the holy cows or enjoy a good laugh.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090917/jsp/frontpage/story_11506963.jsp

Forget petty differences to fight & finish our common Brahminical enemy
SIDDARTH BARVE, C/O ANUPAM BOOK CENTRE, 9,10&11 PARK VIEW, STATION ROAD, NALLASOPARA (W), THANE DT. – 401 203

I wish to pen down this piece with malice towards none.

There was an international exhibition of crabs. There were many containers of crabs but only few with peculiar characteristics are described here.

In one glass container there were strong white and black crabs. All these crabs were looking artificially strong but were bullying all the time, wanting to force themselves out of the glass container. But as the container had a lid they could not get out. When inquired the exhibition guide said these were American crabs.

AMAZING INDIAN CRABS
In another container we could see a majority of the crabs quietly lying at the bottom. The few of the cunning lot were trying to bully and force their way out. The guide said they were from Israel. Those that were lying and those bullying and suppressing the others were from the same country but the latter ones forcing themselves to come out are the zionist Israeli crabs.

Another container had crabs pretending to fight among each other. But actually each one was trying to help the other to get out of the container. They all had one objective to get out of the container en mass. The guide said “these were Aryan Eurasian crabs”. They are originally from the Arctic Pole which later migrated to Asia. “They are very cunning and always want to establish supremacy over other crabs by any unethical means”.

There was a huge gathering to see these peculiar crabs from different parts of the world. The most astonishing thing about the container was that it had no lid. Most of the crabs in each container were fast asleep. Many crabs were actually pretending to sleep which we could make out.

Some crabs were trying to climb up but the other “awakened” crabs pulled them down and never allowed a single crab to get out.

NEED FOR ENEMY
The exhibition guide said:

Ladies and gentlemen, the most astonishing and fascinating crabs on earth are exhibited here in the container without any lid. These are the aboriginal Indian crabs. Majority of them are always sleeping and many of them are pretending to sleep. Even if you try to harm, they will not react but try to run away. Very few of the awakened crabs try to come out of the container but immediately other crabs pull them down so much so even when the container was open not a single crab could get out”.

Every one clapped at this amazing piece of information.

I read an article in DV (June 16, 2009 by our Brother Dr. V.D. Chandanshive) titled: “Which BAMCEF should DV support”.

I thank Dr. Chandanshive because he is among the very few awakened ones who is not sleeping or pretending to sleep as the aboriginal Indian crabs. But I sincerely fail to understand whether there is any need for us to have an enemy — the Aryan Brahmins — since we seem to be capable enough to fill this gap.

I am at a loss to understand if our intellectuals are working to uproot the cruel Brahmanvadi establishment or trying their level best to save the enemy.

LAST 100 DAYS
To the best of my knowledge Kanshi Ram along with D.K. Khaparde, Dina Bhanaji etc. launched a social mission to uproot the centuries-old Brahmanvadi establishment. None ever claimed that he started it or claimed its ownership.

Together they invented a weapon to unite over 6,000 castes and subcastes of SC/ST/OBC and minorities through social and geographical networking. These missionaries were confident that if they carry on the mission successfully they could throw away the Brahmanvadi establishment which was the one and only cause of all sufferings. All the above great leaders created history after Babasaheb Ambedkar.

My sincere request is keep aside all your differences, unite, equip yourselves and face the deadly enemy.

As soon as the Congress, the original Brahminical party, won on May 16, 2009 a very special deadly programme, “Eventful 100 days of the new Govt.” took the highest priority. The most surprising part of this programme was that neither the Congress, which drafted the blue-print of the programme, nor parliament had anything to do with it. The blue-print was prepared by a blood-sucker industrialist, and handed over to Manmohan Singh through Harsh Patti Singhania, president of FICCI and all the major industrialists. Read the very first page of the Economic Times (May 20, 2009): “100 Days reforms blueprint readied”. That means govt. policies are made not in parliament.

The Brahminical Congress and Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) and the “Leftists” have converted our parliament into a farce. The PM appointed a committee, “Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Commerce” before privatisation started. This committee consisted of three blood-sucker industrialists: G.P. Goenka, Rajeev Chandrashekar, then FICCI president, and Nusli Wadia. These three jokers submitted a report: “How to get disinvestment going, building India’s future”.

ARUN SHOURIE ROLE
You will not believe that World Bank agent Manmohan Singh did his best to strictly implement the above private report. BJP on coming to power formed a new ministry called Disinvestment Ministry and the notorious Arun Shourie as the minister in charge.

This Punjabi Brahmin was honoured for writing a book, False God, against our great leader, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.

The moment he became the minister, he started attacking his prey. He sold off the govt.-owned Centaur Hotel in Bombay worth Rs. 500 crores (on the day of its sale) for just Rs. 83 crores to a fictitious company floated by a BJP supporter, Batra Consultancy. Within 3 months Batra Consultancy sold the same hotel for Rs. 116 crores to another blood-sucker BJP supporter, Sahara India. The rest of the booty was equally shared by all the street chores.

SALE OF AIRPORTS
This is daylight robbery by the Brahmanvadi party supported by the Congress. The saddest thing was after purchasing Centaur Hotel from this Batras, Sahara India handed over a letter to all the employees of Centaur Hotel terminating their services.

No news was published in the Bania papers. A 32-year-old young employee of the hotel, my neighbour, went into depression and died.

Centaur Hotel under the Hotel Corporation of India was sold exactly in the manner as mentioned in the conspiratorial private report, “How to get Disinvestment Going: Building India’s Future”.

The most sensitive sector, our airports, are also being sold to private capitalists. The latest being the Bombay Airport to GVK and the Delhi Airport to GMR as mentioned in the above report. No media reported it. In the Bombay airport, the fate of 2,010 permanent AAI employees, mostly from the SC/ST and OBCs, is sealed and they will be thrown out on the road any time.

SHARE MARKET BOOM
All the Brahmin-Bania suckers have joined to eat the fruits of the struggle made by our great leaders and we like the aboriginal inhabitant, Indian crabs, are either sleeping, pretending to sleep or busy pulling each others legs.

The Economic Times (May19, 2009) reports that the share market sensex shot up by 2110.97 points in just 60 seconds. Never did such a thing happen in the Indian stock market history. Why the hungry monsters were so happy? They were happy not because of the Congress victory but their agenda of unlimited privatisation of profit-making public sector undertakings to loot the country is coming up.

AIR INDIA TAMASHA
Only the share of profit-making PSUs have gone up in this 60 seconds. SAIL up by 21%, SBI 20%, BHEL 18%, Powergrid 17%, Indian Oil 17%, ONGC 16%, Bharat Petroleum 15%, GAIL 13%, NTPC 11%.

Many more profit-making PSUs will be sold to the butchers at throw- away prices. These PSUs have contributed Rs. 1,65,993 crore to the govt. exchequer during 2007-08. This information was suppressed. Economic Times (March 4, 2009) published this as a 2×4 inch item on page 4. This contribution is more than 25% of the annual budget for the year but no recognition by the govt.

What a conspiracy. But we are all fast asleep.

A big drama is going on about Air India. The govt. wants to show that it is trying to save it from a big loss. The media will create a horrible picture and make matters more worse for not paying the salaries to its employees for a month or two. They have further taken a decision to save Rs. 500 crore in the wage bill of its employees.

When Air India is “making a huge loss” how can it afford to buy 111 new aircraft to add to its existing 150 aircraft? Can there be bigger tamasha than this? A decision to sell Air India after merging it with Indian Airlines, will be soon taken. The Economic Times came out with the true picture. On May 20, 2009 it published a report headlined: “Let foreign airlines pick up stakes in Indian carriers”.

That means Air India is going to be privatized after a partial disinvestment along with a initial public offer (IPO) and sold along with the new aircraft to foreign airlines with an Indian partner within 100 days.

The Aviation Ministry headed by Praful Patel, the main culprit and the villain of this tamasha, has taken pains for the last 3 to 4 years by steering Air India Corporation in such a way that it goes into loss and, therefore, a strong case for sell-out is made. Praful Patel and the Congress in close consultation with the BJP and leftists will share the booty as was done in the case of selling two precious airports of our country.

OVER 35 LAKH JOB LOSS
This big Navtanki of selling PSUs worth millions of crores only for few thousand crores to the Indian corrupt capitalists under the pretext of collecting money for removal of poverty, empowering women and other popular tamashas only for a budget period of less than one year.

Over 7 lakh jobs in organised sector and over 28 lakhs in un-organised sector will perish once for all by the end of the year.

All the job loss will affect our people — aboriginal Indians.

ZIONIST ENTRY
The Economic Times (June 3, 2009) published a dangerous report: “Rothschild is invited by the govt. to draw up disinvestment (privatisation roadmap”.

This zionist group had enslaved the British economy in the 18th century, artificially created the depression of 1929, and now enslaving the American economy and funding wars and creating artificial economic crisis throughout the world.

The present world-wide “slow down” is a deliberate creation of these Rothchilds. Such a merciless butcher has been invited by their Brahmanvadi blood brothers.

UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS
You could stop a shark in the ocean from killing you but stopping the Rothchilds from killing you and the many generations to come is unthinkable. The only victims will be the original inhabitants of India.

We have still some time left to save ourselves. So instead of asking uncomfortable questions to Dalit Voice — “Whom shall DV support?” and making a case out of nothing/non-issues by throwing ball to other courts, let the wretched unite.

We request each and every awakened son and daughter of Mahatma Phule, Periyar Ramaswami, Shahu Mahraj, Babasaheb, Birsa Munda and all my minority converted Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Budhists to come together, leave aside all such differences and strengthen the mission of true liberation — true freedom for all of us and put an end to the dreaded disease, a disaster and cancerous appendage — Brahmanvad, and throw it out of our country once for all.

I sincerely thank Brother Dr. V.D. Chandanshive for giving me an opportunity and inspiration to write this small piece.

http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/sep_a2009/editorial.htm

Tharoor travelled economy much before austerity drive, Aides claim! Hypocricy has no limit in Indian Brahaminical Politics. Prabhsh Joshi, the Hindutva Zionist Icon of Sangh Gandhian Core Ideology Non Negotiable believes that the Brahmins are born to Rule and others should do all the LABOUR including Sports and entertainment! Manusmriti Rule is Holy thing in India. Joshi says all the competent Leader in different spheres of life in India, are only Brahamins. Being a posed Gandhian himself, he does not mention Gandhi, a gujrati bani as EFFICIENT leader but Pin Points on only Gandhi Nehru Dynasty as well as SANGH Brahmins as the IDEAL Icons of Indian Society.

Japanese two wheeler major Yahama launched its super-bike ‘VMAX’ in the country priced at Rs 20 lakh (ex-showroom-Delhi).

The company also launched limited edition of its ‘FZ’ series in three variants.

“I am hopeful that these bikes will get the same kind of enthusiastic response as our recently-launched other products got. The company has registered a year-on-year growth of 80 per cent during the month of January to August and we expect the coming months to be also fruitful,” India Yamaha Motor Managing Director and CEO Yuki Mine Tsuji said.

The new VMAX comes with a 1,679 cc engine.

Tell me who would use the car? Minister of Foreign affairs spends Rs twenty Five lacs per day for a SUIT in a five Star Hotel then Flies in ECONOMY Class out of SOIDARITY with the Holy cows! The Cattle Flight is in No Means has to do anything with Indian Economy as all natioanl revenues and Resources are DIVERTED to the Killer Money Machine and for the CAPTURE the Mass Destruction agenda is being acomplished with merciless Surgical Precision under US Israel survellience! Newspapers and Media dare not to write anything against ECONMIC Reforms and genocide culture rather they JUSTIFY the Hegemony cuture of Ethnic Cleansing! Internal Censorship is so strong and MIND control Infinite, NO RESISTANCE is Possible. Even the Resistance like nandigram, singur, lalagrh and Gorkhaland are HIJACKED by the Manusmriti hegemony! Austerity Game is not OFFLINE, Not DERAILED! Mind You!

As far as Austerity is concerned, it is always related to Holy cows. In Holy Scripts, all Brahamins are HONEST and POOR and a living a life of AUSTERITY which justifies their role as Supreme Leader in Indian Society of caste system based on Discrimination, Injustice and Inequality. The Manusmriti makes the Eighty percent Indigenous aboriginal Minority communities the Bonded Labour of the Brahamins. Brahmins had all the MAJOR Four Rights in Indian society: one: Right to EDUCATION, Right to TEACH and Preach, Right to ARMS and Right to Property. Enslaved Majority Black Untouchables had no RIGHTS at all. They had to SURRENDER Property, Life and Land to the Brahamins. The Phenomenon repeats in So Called Free India, a Colonial Peripherry of zionist corporate US Imperialism , ruled by the Zionist Foreigner Brahamins who are Genetically Proved Original JEWS! Corporate Democracy may be PERSONIFIED as the Holy COW , the Ancient Poor and Honest Brahamins, to whom we have to SURRENDER Everything to get MOKSHA as all RITUALS have to be performed by only the Brahamins!

Monopolistic Aggression against BLACK Untouchable rural BHARAT varsh by the NRI shining India is ICONISED with Diffrent Brands in Diffrent Spheres. parliamentary representation and constitutional Job Reservation and quota make no DIFFERNCE as the Brahmins empowered with PONA Pact ENSURED to chose themselves who would represent the Untouchables, Minritis, Scheduled tribes and OBC. Economy and Policy making , Public utilities, Civil society, Intelligentsia and MEDIA are the FIELDS prohibited for the majority SC, ST, OBC communities! Hence the MIND Control is COMPLETE and the Brahaminical Hegemony continue to Perform the ASHWAMEDHA Yagay, now defined as Industrialisation, development, Infrastructure, Modernisation, IT, National Integrity and Security, war against Terrorism, Indo US Nuclear Deal, LPG, Open Market, Retail chain, URBANISATION, ECONOMIC Reforms and Miltary OPTION of Repression with Zero Intolerability! All these things ROOT into manusmriti Core ideology , MOTHER of all Indian and foreign Idelogies! So the BRAHMIN Returns with all the VENOM and VENGEANCE! And it is AUSTERITY!

Thus, the BRAHMIN marxist gestapo Led, the West Bengal government Thursday invited IT major Wipro and infosys to start new centres at Rajarhat in the northeastern fringes of the city and promised to give 45 acres of land to each of the companies.

“I’m proposing today (Thursday) through the media that we are ready to give 45 acres of land each to Wipro and Infosys. They can come and immediately take possession of the land and start new centres,” Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said at a press conference here Thursday.

“These companies can create 16,000 jobs in two years. I had a talk with my colleagues. We will start talking to the companies. The price of the land will be negotiated with theses companies,” Bhattacharjee said.

Wipro, Infosys rejected Buddha’s offer

Days after scrapping the proposed IT township project at Rajarhat, the West Bengal government said it had suggested alternative land to Infosys and Wipro, a proposal rejected by the IT majors.

At a meeting of the ruling Left Front in Kolkata, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee informed that Housing Minister Gautam Deb had offered alternative 10 acre each to the two IT firms at New Town, Rajarhat, but they spurned the proposal, an LF leader said.

The two companies said they needed more land to set up their shop and the government was trying to accommodate them, Bhattacharjee told the meeting.

“The government wants to see that the two companies did business in the state,” the chief minister was quoted as having told the meeting.

Earlier in the day, LF chairman Biman Bose told reporters that the state government had not rejected the proposals of Wipro and Infosys for setting up units near the metropolis.

Bhattacharjee told the meeting that the government had only scrapped the IT park which was to come up near the controversial Vedic Village resort, Bose said.

In April 2008, the state government had inked two MoUs — one each with Infosys and Wipro — for setting up IT facilities, for which they had sought 90 acre each. While for Infosys it would had been the first project, Wipro was planning a second one. A company had been floated for setting up an IT park near Vedic Village which now stood scrapped.

Hypocricy Unbound. Almost Three lac Corore for Nuclear ARMAMENT, Another Three lacs for BAILOUT for False Recession, Two lac corore for sixth pay commission. NGOs to Implemet Flagship Progrrames! Utilities Privatised. Disinvestment, Deportation, displacement and EXODUS Infinite! And the bastardised Politics perform the VEDIC Ritula of AUSTERITY as DEATH silently takes away LIFE !

So, Determined to imbibe austerity in its policies, the government has asked various departments to scrap or downsize expenses on insignificant activities by up to 10 per cent when they submit proposals for Budget 2010-11.

The Finance Ministry in the Budget Circular for 2010-11 said, “The estimates (RE 2009-10) must confirm to… instructions, which stipulate a 10 per cent and five per cent cut in non-plan, non-salary expenditure and other economy measures.”

For the next fiscal, the circular added, “It is necessary to review the existing expenditure budget… to priorities the activities and schemes, both on the plan and non-plan side and identify those activities and schemes, which can be eliminated or reduced in size or merged with any other scheme.”

As part of its economic drive, the Finance Ministry, earlier in the month, advised ministries and departments to cut by 10 per cent expenditure on travel, seminars, exhibitions and other office expenses. In case of other non- plan expenditure, the they were asked to reduce expenses by five per cent.

Following the government instructions on austerity, several ministers, including Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, have started flying economy class.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday indicated that her ministry may refer allegations of irregularities in recruitment during the tenure of her predecessor Lalu Prasad to CBI.

“If necessary, allegations of irregularities in Railway Recruitment Boards (RRB) and Railway Recruitment Committees would be referred to an outside agency,” she told reporters in reply to media reports that she has ordered a CBI inquiry into the allegations of irregularities in recruitment during Lalu’s tenure.

MPs belonging to Lalu’s rival JD-U had alleged that people sold their land to the former Railway minister’s relatives in exchange for railway jobs and contracts.

The Union Minister said irregularities in recruitment have also come in from North Eastern and South Eastern Railways and from states like Orissa.

“There are also reports from the vigilance commission and the High Court has also given a verdict,” she said, adding “several MPs have also complained about such irregularities.”

However, she clarified that the inquiry was “not against Lalu. I have respect for him. This is against corruption in a particular department”.

On the other hand, Business confidence in India is on the rise, defying the global downturn, says the country’s apex business chamber as India pitches here strongly to attract more foreign investment in the core sectors of industry.

“Certainly there is a movement in foreign institutional investment and foreign direct investment has also begun to pick up,” said Amit Mitra, secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).

“While rest of the world is shrinking, core sectors of steel, cement and auto industry in India are beginning to grow,” Mitra told IANS on phone ahead of an institutional investors conference in New York starting Thursday.

Noting that the FICCI business confidence survey index for India which had plunged to 44 in the third quarter of 2008-09 had risen to 64 in the first quarter and 67 in the second quarter, Mitra said: “We are here to further kindle these forces.”

Besides supporting the institutional investors conference, FICCI has also organised a round table for US businessmen Thursday with TKA Nair, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Ajay Shankar, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy Promotion, and Meera Shankar, India’s ambassador to US.

It’s also hosting a dinner Thursday with India’s Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for major power companies including General Electric and Price Whitney.

These meetings are being organised ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s state visit here in November.

Meanwhile, Kamal Nath, India’s Minister for Road Transport and Highways held a roundtable in America’s financial capital focusing US investment attention on India’s roads and highways. India’s road network of 3.32 million km is second only to the United States and is in need of major upgrades.

Speaking to premier US engineering, construction and investment firms, Nath said: “This is one of the most important projects the Government of India has ever undertaken. Roads and Highways cross the country and touch every facet of life, as well as provide vital connectivity for trade and commerce.”

India is set to launch the world’s biggest Public Private Partnership programme that will result in the development of 15,000 km of roads and highways over the next three years at a cost of $70 billion. The current five year plan calls for $500 billion in upgrades to India’s infrastructure sector-with about one-third of the investment coming from the private sector.

The roundtable was hosted by the US-India Business Council, in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, who has come under fire for his stay in a luxury hotel, had been travelling economy class much before the austerity measures were announced by the government.Sources close to Tharoor said the minister had taken almost 5 flights from Aug 9, travelling to Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi, and on all occasions he had booked himself in economy class. Tharoor ran in a spot of trouble for a message he posted on the social networking site Twitter, in which he said he would travel “cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!”

The Congress on Wednesday said minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor’s remarks that he would travel in “cattle class out Shashi Tharoor of solidarity with all our holy cows” were not acceptable and the party high command may also decide if any disciplinary action is to be taken against him.

“The party strongly disapproves the statement of the minister. It is unacceptable, not respecting political or any other sensibilities,” said Congress spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan.

On his page on the micro-blogging site Twitter, Tharoor was asked, “Tell us minister, next time you travel to Kerala, will it be cattle class?” His reply: “Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows.”

Asked whether any disciplinary action would be taken against the former UN diplomat, the spokesperson said: “This is something that the high command will decide.”

The Congress and the government it leads have launched an austerity drive against the backdrop of drought in some parts of the country and rising prices of essential commodities.

Tharoor as well as external affairs minister S M Krishna were asked earlier this month to move out of five-star hotels where they had been staying for over three months – though at their own expense.

Tharoor, who was staying at the Hotel Taj Mahal on Man Singh Road, is now staying at an Indian Navy guesthouse.

“The austerity measures were announced mid-August during the party’s working committee meeting but it came into effect later. However, Tharoor has been on these economy flights earlier. He began taking a Kingfisher flight from Mumbai to Kochi on Aug 9,” said a close aide. The sources also pointed out that Tharoor was unlikely to respond to Congress spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan who disapproved of the expression “cattle class” the minister used in his latest tweet.

Natarajan took strong exception to the term and, while refusing to be drawn into commenting whether any kind of disciplinary action was being initiated, said Tharoor was perhaps not conscious of the sensitivities since he was new to Indian politics.

“He is out for a week travelling to Ghana and Liberia where he has important engagements. I don’t think he has time to respond to this (charge),” added the aide.

Ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi led the push to trim official spending in the backdrop of the country struggling with the worst drought in two decades and food prices on the rise.

Sonia Gandhi asked all Congress MPs to accept a 20 percent pay cut for a year and also set a personal example by forgoing her normal chartered plane and flew economy class to Mumbai early this week.

Her son and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi went one step ahead and travelled by train to Ludhiana in Punjab instead of chartering a helicopter.

Times of India reports:

The comic figure of “Tweety bird” lived dangerously, avoiding the machinations of the neighbourhood cat. As minister of twitter, UN
diplomat-turned-Congressman Shashi Tharoor might well be tempting fate with his unplugged comments on his party’s austerity drive.

Having shown little taste for the rules of politics that often require a discreet silence, Tharoor has been an unrepentant twitterer. He has tweeted boldly about how boring he finds meetings as MoS for foreign affairs and having been peremptorily asked to move out of his five-star digs recently, he has shown no inclination for more “austere” ways.

In keeping with his view that he was hardly in the wrong as he was paying his bills, he tweeted that he would definitely travel “in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!” The suggestion that the austerity drive was a put on and the dig at economy travellers did not go down well with the party. Spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan told reporters that the party “strongly disapproves of the statement and finds it unacceptable”. She said Tharoor’s comments hurt sensitivty of people as thousands of Indians travelled economy class every day.

Natarajan deplored the minister’s remarks and said, “This is not respecting the political sensitivity; we don’t approve of such statement.”

What seemed to have incensed the leadership was the minister’s flippant remarks poking fun of the current austerity drive as a gesture to the drought-affected people.

While party chief Sonia Gandhi flew economy, general secretary Rahul Gandhi travelled in the chair car of Shatabdi Express to Ludhiana. With elections in Maharashtra and Haryana only weeks away, Tharoor’s comments should be music to the Opposition camp.

Asked if any disciplinary action was being contemplated against the minister, Natarajan said it was for the party high command to take a decision about it. She termed Tharoor’s views “insensitive” and not in tune with the party’s culture.

Natarajan also averted a direct response when asked if “our holy cows” in Tharoor’s twit had an allusion to Rahul.

However, unmindful of the storm his posting had raised, Tharoor went on twittering or “twitting” as some chose to describe it, about the traffic jam at Dhaula Kuan he faced on his way to the airport. He wondered if he was going to miss his flight.

Another posting was about the sartorial change his first foreign trip had brought about. “Am wearing a tie for the first time in six months and hating it,” he wrote. Tharoor discovered the benefit of being in `mundu’ as an MP from Kerala. “Politicians’ garb at least freed my neck from this noose!”
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Doctors to get extra money to work in rural areas: Azad
Doctors who opt to work in rural areas will be duly compensated with extra money and weightage points that will help them while going for
higher studies, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced on Thursday.

“The only way to attract the attention of doctors to work in difficult, most difficult and inaccessible areas is through incentives. We have requested the states to give us the list under the above categories. We can provide extra money as extra incentive,” Azad told reporters.

“Assam has already done it. To encourage rural postings, additional weightage will be given in the post graduate examination at the rate of 10 percent for each year of rural service. It will be subject to a maximum of 30 percent extra weightage for three years of rural service,” he said while giving details of his ministry’s achievements in the last 100 days.

Azad said this service will have to be rendered after the internship period only. This service will not only help the National Rural Health Mission, but also help the MBBS doctors in accumulating extra weightage points for further studies,” he added.

The Assam government had Wednesday appointed nearly 800 doctors in a recruitment drive that is expected to revolutionise the region’s rural healthcare sector.

The recruitment campaign has a catch though, as the appointments were made for a one-year period as part of the government legislation that makes it mandatory for all MBBS graduates to serve for a minimum of one year in rural health centres.

“Assam has become the first state in the country to have carried out such a historic recruitment drive by appointing 768 doctors for rural postings in one single day,” state Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said after handing over appointment letters to the doctors in Guwahati.

The young doctors would be getting a monthly fixed salary of Rs.25,000, besides free accommodation in their area of posting.

Ishrat’s family moves SC against stay on Tamang report
Family members of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed allegedly in an encounter by Gujarat police on Thursday moved the Supreme Court
challenging High Court’s order staying a magistrate inquiry report which had described the incident as fake encounter.

The Gujarat High Court on September 9 had stayed metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang’s report on the plea of state government which had contended that the observations made in the report were beyond the jurisdiction of the judicial magistrate.

A single judge bench of Justice Kalpesh Javheri, while staying the report, had also ordered the appropriate authority of the high court to look into the actions of magistrate Tamang and take necessary action.

Magistrate Tamang’s report had said the encounter in which 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three others were gunned down in 2004 while allegedly plotting to kill the Gujarat chief minister was fake and executed in cold blood by police officers for selfish motives.

The report of the investigation conducted by the magistrate had held senior police officers responsible for “staging” the encounter.

The four persons, claimed to have been killed by the police in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on June 15, 2004 were Ishrat, Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani.

Buddha govt offers 45 acres each to Wipro and Infosys

West Bengal government on Thursday offered 45 acres each to Wipro and Infosys for setting up units at Rajarhat, said Chief Minister
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

“I’m proposing today (Thursday), through the media, that we are ready to give 45 acres of land each to Wipro and Infosys. If they agree to the proposal, they can come and immediately take possession of the land and start new centres,” Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told a press conference at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) state headquarters. ( Watch Video )

“These companies can create 16,000 jobs in two years. I already had a talk with my cabinet colleagues, IT Minister Debesh Das, Housing Development Minister Gautam Deb and others about the proposal. We will start talking to the companies. The price of the land will be negotiated with them,” Bhattacharjee said, adding that the land will be given on lease to both the IT giants.

On the infrastructure, he said that Rajarhat area already had housing, market complexes and road facilities.

“Now the state government will talk to these companies with the proposal. We can immediately hand over the proposed land to them (Wipro and Infosys).

“A few months back we’d identified land near Vedic Village area to set up an IT township there. But we didn’t have any idea that they were acquiring land with muscle power and also with the help of some anti-social elements. Some unfortunate things also happened there… I was little upset with that,” the chief minister said.

He said that the state government immediately dropped the project and decided not to go ahead with it as it was not morally correct, following the trouble that erupted over Vedic Reality – a joint venture between the private party and state’s key IT agency Webel.

The proposed IT township at Rajarhat near Salt Lake had become controversial following allegations that land sharks – allegedly backed by promoters of Vedic Realty – had been involved in land acquisitions.

The state government depended on Vedic Realty to get land for the 1,600-acre IT project.

Both Infosys and Wipro had sought 90 acres from the state government for their ventures. ITC Infotech was also eyeing space in the IT hub.

Bhattacharjee said the land was already with the state government and they would just have to change the land map at Rajarhat slightly to accommodate the IT players.

300 terrorists waiting to sneak into J&K
Around 300 terrorists are waiting across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for an opportunity to infiltrate into
India, prompting the Army to strengthen its anti-insurgency security grid.

The terrorists have been spotted moving in batches from place to place along the LoC, apparently in search of vulnerable spots from where they could infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir, Defence Ministry sources said on Thursday.

The attempt was to push in as many terrorists as possible before the onset of winter when snowfall will make the mountainous terrains impregnable, the sources said.

“The next two months are crucial,” they said, expecting a jump in the infiltration attempts.

In the recent times, there have been a number of attempts at infiltration, many times accompanied by firing from across the LoC to provide cover to such bids.

Security forces have killed at least 25 terrorists while foiling these infiltration attempts last month and these encounters took place at points along the LoC.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an address to a conference of state police chiefs on Tuesday, had termed as worrisome secessionists and militant groups in Kashmir making common cause with “outside elements” and noted that infiltration across the LoC was going up.
46% Indian kids suffer from malnutrition: Study

Despite India’s recent economic boom, at least 46% of its children up to the age of 3 still suffer from malnutrition making the country home

to a third of the world’s malnourished children, a study said today.

Noting that the country is an “economic powerhouse but a nutritional weakling”, the report by the British-based Institute of Development Studies (IDS), which incorporated papers by more than 20 India analysts, said “at least 46% of children upto the age of 3 in India still suffer from malnutrition.”

“It’s the contrast between India’s fantastic economic growth and its persistent malnutrition which is so shocking,” Lawrence Haddad, director of the IDS told The Times.

The UN defines malnutrition as a state in which an individual can no longer maintain natural bodily capacities such as growth, pregnancy, lactation, learning abilities, physical work and resisting and recovering from disease.

The report said India will not meet the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving its number of hungry till 2043 though it had committed in 2001 to reach it by 2015.

The report also highlighted the Government’s failure to improve basic living standards for most Indians despite its unprecedented economic growth since 2004.

Sonia, ICICI’s Kochhar among top 20 powerful women

Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, Chanda Kochhar, CEO of ICICI Bank India and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chairman, Biocon India are the only Indians in Forbes annual list of the 100 most powerful women. (See full List)

The list, which was released last night, includes fiery chief executives, brilliant politicians and beloved queens, but the model for all women who seek influence, is the cautious and uncharismatic German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Nooyi is listed as the third most powerful woman in the world, while Sonia Gandhi Kochhar and Shaw are ranked 13, 20 and 91 respectively. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed is the only other South Asian in the list and is ranked 78.

Americans make up 63 of the 100, while only four women from Britain make the grade

In assembling the list, Forbes looked for women who run countries, big companies or influential nonprofits. Their rankings are a combination of two scores: visibility – by press mentions – and the size of the organization or country these women lead.

Besides Gandhi and Kochhar, Biocon’s chairman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw also featured in the list at number 91.

Gandhi improved her ranking from 21 last year to 13 this year, while Mazumdar-Shaw moved to 91 from last year’s 99th place.

Nooyi retained her third position in the list.

Bahujan Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, who was ranked 59th in last year’s list, did not figure in the latest list put up on Forbes.com.

Regarding Gandhi, Forbes said, she is “still the country’s dominant force since she reluctantly entered politics in the 1990s.” The landslide victory in the recent general election further strengthened her position as the leader of “India’s most powerful political party” – Indian National Congress.

Kochhar was named as the first woman boss of India’s second largest lender ICICI Bank and took charge in May this year. “She now oversees a bank with assets of USD 100 billion,” Forbes said. She was instrumental in transforming the retail business of ICICI Bank and turning it into a retail banking powerhouse.

Besides, Anglo American Chief Cynthia Carroll, Temasek CEO Ho Ching, Kraft Foods Chief Irene Rosenfeld, DuPont head Ellen Kullman, WellPoint CEO Angela Braly, Areva Chief Anne Lauvergeon and Sunoco head Lynn Elsenhans are among the top 10 powerful women.

Interestingly, speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (35) was ranked ahead of Hillary Clinton (36), the US Secretary of State, Michelle Obama (40), the first lady of the US, and Queen Elizabeth II (42).

Other dignitaries in list are Melinda Gates (34), the Co-chairman Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Oprah Winfrey (41), Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed (78) and Chile President Michelle Bachelet (22) among others.

Forbes’ Powerful Women list is based largely in terms of influence rather than celebrity status or popularity.

In assembling the list, Forbes looked for women who run countries, big companies or influential nonprofits.

“Their rankings are a combination of two scores: visibility — by press mentions — and the size of the organisation or country these women lead,” the US-based magazine said.

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Govt takes no stand on gay sex, leaves it to Supreme Court

Shying away from taking any stand on gay sex, the government on Thursday virtually left it for the Supreme Court to decide on the “correctness” of the Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexuality.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, considered the report of the three-member Group of Ministers formed on the issue and decided that Attorney General G Vahanvati will “assist” the Supreme Court on it.

“The Cabinet decided to ask the Attorney General to assist the Supreme Court in every way desired by it in arriving at an opinion on the correctness of the judgement of the High Court,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told reporters.

To a volley of questions, she repeated the same formulation of her statement and said the Supreme Court can decide if the High Court was “right or not” in decriminalizing gay sex.

She refused to say anything more on the issue, maintaining that she was not authorised to “explain” further as the matter related to Cabinet proceedings. The Cabinet decided against taking any stand on the issue to avoid getting caught in any controversy, a minister said, explaining why it was left for the Apex court to take a view.

The Delhi High Court had passed an order about two months back legalising sex between consenting gay partners, earlier considered a criminal act under Section 377 of the IPC. Some religious bodies opposed it. A Christian organisation, a disciple of Yoga guru Ramdev and Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) have approached the Supreme Court which sought the government’s response by October one.

The Supreme Court had earlier refused to stay the High Court order, saying it would await the response of the government. In view of the sensitive nature of the issue, the government set up a Group of Ministers comprising Home Minister P Chidambaram, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Law Minister Veerappa Moily to formulate a view on it.

The GoM was understood to have suggested that the government should not take a stand but leave it to the Supreme Court to decide. Indicating the GoM’s view earlier this week, Moily had said the Cabinet should not be expected to take any stand as the government would only assist the Supreme Court in arriving at the “right” decision.

“The decision has been already given by the Delhi High Court (decriminalising gay sex). The only question is certain appeals have been filed before the Supreme Court in which we (government) are not the party…the parties are petitioners and respondents. Our law officers will deal with the question,” he had said.

Meeting on Chinese incursions postponed

The China Study Group meeting to discuss the fallout of Chinese incursions into Indian territory, which was to be held on Thursday, has been postponed. No reason was given for the postponement of the meeting.

National Security Advisor M K Narayanan was to hold the meeting with top officials including Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and Secretaries of Defence, Home and Foreign Ministries. The meeting was expected to take stock of the situation along the Sino-India border and to chart the future course of action, official sources said.

Besides Chandrasekhar, the meeting was to be attended by Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar, Home Secretary G K Pillai and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao. Top officials of the three armed forces and the Intelligence Bureau will also attend the meeting.

The meeting was to be called to take stock of recent reports of incursions by the Chinese army in Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, involving the air dropping of expired food canes, painting of rocks red among others.

Another media report said that two Chinese Sukhoi fighters had transgressed into Indian air space last month. The Indian Air Force, however, says no unscheduled flight inside Indian air space had taken place last month.

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India snubs China, clears Dalai Lama’s Arunachal trip

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New Delhi: Snubbing Beijing’s diktat, New Delhi has cleared the visit of the Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh. The Tibetan leader is also expected to visit Tawang which China covets.

China’s dismissal of Indian concerns on border intrusions have left South Block troubled and dissatisfied. But now it’s China’s turn to face a clear snub from a neighbouring nation.

External Affairs Minister, SM Krishna said, “Arunachal Pradesh is a part of India and Dalai Lama is free to go anywhere in India. The only point is that he is not expected to comment on political developments.”

Adding insult to the Dragon’s injury, the Tibetans said Arunachal is a part of India, warning that China’s border violations were provocative.

“The encroachment and insertion in the border area and not only in the northeast but also in the western borders is seen. It is seen particularly in Ladakh as lot of Ladakhi nomads have been disturbed (and it has been noticed) quite at length inside India, they have entered and they have painted even the rocks,” said Tibetan leader Samdong Rinpoche.

Although reports of China firing at Indian border guards in Sikkim have been denied, tensions on the border have left some people in Sikkim uneasy about the future.

A local journalist, Arjun Rai said, “In 1962 there was some friction between India and China. So from then onwards we are feeling insecure. Anytime China can attack India.”

Of late, China appears to have woken up to the damage to its image. Indian journalists In Beijing, Indian journalists were given a rare briefing where peaceful intentions were reiterated. But the gap between Beijing’s words and ground reality remains unresolved.

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Bharti Retail to become $1 bn firm by 2015: Mittal
New Delhi: Bharti Retail exuded confidence that it is “on course” to become a billion dollar company by 2015, and will open 40 more stores in the next three months notwithstanding the economic slowdown.

“We have now 28 Easyday (small stores), including two medium stores, running in the North and we shall be adding another 40 or so to make them 70 by December 2009,” Rajan Mittal, vice chairman and managing director, Bharti Enterprises, told PTI.

The company will also open its second cash-and-carry store under the 50:50 JV with US-based Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retail chain, by December this year.

“We are going as per our plan. Our plan is very clear. We want to be a Rs 1,000 crore (company) in the next three years by 2010-2011,” Mittal said.

On whether the retail business of Bharti Enterprises — which owns India’s largest telecom company under Airtel brand — be another billion dollar (about Rs 4,800 crore) company by 2015, Mittal said, “So if it is Rs 1,000 crore in three years. Surely…It should be earlier than that.”

He, however, said it would require stabilisation in the real estate and the retail market. “My personal ambition is that it should be more quicker than telecom… This is not about my company. It is about ecosystem.”

Mittal said only about five per cent of the industry constitutes organised retail, which is projected to grow to 25-30 per cent, opening growth opportunities for all.

Bharti plans to invest up to $2.5 billion by 2015 in retail business, covering 10 million square feet. Mittal said the slowdown has had only a marginal impact, mainly on account of “yo-yo” in real estate, but there was no change in the company’s eight-year plan.

Talking about the 40 new stores that are coming up in the National Capital Region, he said, “We now have 28-29 Easydays and two stores which are medium stores…By the end of the year, we plan to have about 70 stores.”

Mittal said majority of the new stores will be in the small format — about 3,000 square feet each. Of these, five stores will be in the medium format (up to 50,000 sq ft), called ‘Easyday Market’, and most of the new ones will be in and around Delhi.

About the back-end, wholesale business, he said “We had targeted to open two cash and carry… One we have already opened and one we hope to open in December.”

The existing store is in Amritsar and the other one will also come up in Punjab, he said.

Asked whether Bharti has been moving slow in the retail business, compared to other players, Mittal said, “First three years are very clear, it is our learning. We want to do it the correct way. Just opening stores makes no meaning. There is lot of other stuff that needs to be handled. We are actually on course.”

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Mumbai In a bid to tackle rising frauds in the banking system, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to build up a data or information pool of large-value frauds and analyse them periodically. This may act as a knowledge repository for policy responses.
The central bank has also said that in the matter of fraud investigation, banks may take immediate steps to identify staff with proper aptitude and provide necessary training to them in forensic audit so that only such skilled staff is deployed for investigation of large-value frauds.

It has been observed that the trend is more disquieting in retail segment, especially in housing and mortgage loans, credit card dues and internet banking.

Moreover, it is a matter of concern that instances of frauds in the traditional areas of banking such as cash credit, export finance, guarantees, and letters of credit remain unabated, the RBI said.

Banks are also advised to initiate necessary action at their end at the earliest.

“Banks may, with the approval of their respective boards, frame internal policy for fraud risk management and fraud investigation functions, based on the governance standard relating to the ownership of the function and accountability for malfunctioning of the fraud risk management process in their banks,” the RBI said.

Given the thin line of difference between serious wrongdoings and frauds, the bank should immediately put in place an adequately enabled and efficient ‘internal oversight framework’ that can prevent the wrongdoings and take punitive measures against the wrongdoers, the RBI said.

The Board for Financial Supervision (BFS) has felt the chief executive officers (CEOs) of the banks must provide singular focus on the “Fraud Prevention & Management Function” to enable effective investigation and prompt accurate reporting to appropriate regulatory and law enforcement authorities, including the Reserve Bank.

The board has also observed that in terms of higher governance standards, the fraud risk management and fraud investigation function must be owned by the bank’s CEO, its audit committee of the board and the special committee of the board, at least in respect of high value frauds.

Accordingly, they should own responsibility for systemic failure of controls or absence of key controls or severe weaknesses in existing controls which facilitate exceptionally large-value frauds and sharp rises in frauds in specific business segments leading to large losses for the bank.

The banks’ special committee of the board, which will be chaired by the CEO, should own the Fraud Investigation & Monitoring Function and discharge the relative oversight responsibility in a pro-active manner, the RBI said.

At present, the special committees are apprised by the banks’ senior management. It has been observed that the said committees give routine instructions on follow-up actions. The banks may have to review the roles and responsibilities of the vigilance function, internal audit function and risk management function.

“On the basis of the review, it may be decided as to what realignments and modifications are needed to ensure that ‘monitoring and investigation of large-value frauds’ are recognised as a distinct ‘function’ and the dedicated unit which is adequately enabled and free from potential conflict of interest is assigned the responsibility to undertake the function,” the RBI said.

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