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The discussions may involve comparisons to to other projects, states etc as well as lack of development or regress if in any areas - basically this means that both positive and negative aspects are open to discussion.]]> <![CDATA[Who will be our next PM]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=31 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:50:18 +0000 pragya20]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=31 <![CDATA[RTE Act Vs. The Indian Education Megaproject ... A Comparison on 12 Key Parameters]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=46 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:10:16 +0000 ashish_puntambekar]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=46 Sirs,





Over the next 30 years the RTE Act is going to cost the country Rs 69 Lakh Crores while allowing for a capacity expansion that will provide for 8 - 10 Million Children ( net addition ) upto the class VIII level.



Given its current SSA expenditure commitments, the Government's RTE Act therefore does not have a specific plan to build the massive number of New Schools that are so urgently required, especially at the secondary level ( Currently there is a shortage of 5,50,000 + secondary schools in India according to the Planning Commission ).



Essentially, we will be spending Rs 69 Lakh Crores , Without Adding much New Capacity as most of the money will be spent on Opex items such as salaries to run the present system. In fact even the 8 - 10 Million addition mentioned above is being achieved by asking existing private schools to accomodate dis-advantaged children.



Introducing ... The Indian Education Megaproject



It may interest readers to know that an alternative project " The Indian Education Megaproject " has been submitted to the Planning Commission and the Ministry of HRD which Creates additional, world class Capacity on a massive scale while improving accessibility and greatly reducing cost of Education in India.





The Education Megaproject has the following defining characteristics :



1. Megaproject will build 30,000 New Schools across 28 states and 7 Union Territories & Share its Teachers with 420,000 existing Schools ... to cover an additional 126 Million Children till class XII by 2024. Focus will be on Secondary Education.



2. Budgetary Support Required for Operations over 30 years is Rs 4.84 Lakh Crores ( 1/15 th the cost of the RTE Act ) as the Project uses alternative financing and does not need much budgetary support. The Project's Capex of Rs 6 Lakh Crores is also funded by 14 different sources outside the Governments Balance Sheet.



3. Project is Market Friendly and encourages New Schools...All 30,000 New Schools are under PPP. The Innovation within the Megaproject is in its Financing.





In the note pasted below, the Right To Education Act ( RTE Act ) has been compared with the Indian Education Megaproject on 12 Different Parameters .





In fact, to implement the spirit of the Right to Education, It makes sense to go for a Project based solution that expands the School System in India on a Massive Scale.







Sincerely,







Ashish Puntambekar

Project Designer

The Indian Education Megaproject

http://www.nataraja.org.in/masseducationproject.htm











The Author is a Corporate Planner and Large Project Design Specialist with a fortune 500 company. Views expressed are personal.







**************************************************************************************************************************







Can we do better than “ The RTE Act ” ?





By Ashish Puntambekar



Ever since the Supreme Court order on the 12th of April, upholding the RTE Act, there has been huge uncertainty and panic within the school system in India with both school managements and parents very worried about the implications of the courts order. Schools are worried that it will ruin their finances and parents are panicking at the thought that schools across the nation might cancel admissions for the coming year to comply with the 25 % quota requirement.



The unstated question in peoples minds is “ Is there a better way than the RTE Act ? “







Introducing “ The Indian Education Megaproject ”

Stakeholders in schools across India may be pleasantly surprised to learn that in June 2010, a landmark project “ The Indian Education Megaproject “ with a capacity to provide high quality education, totally free of cost to 126 Million children had been submitted to the Ministry of HRD and the Planning Commission.



The Education Megaproject envisages the construction of a massive system of 30,000 New Hub Schools under Public Private Partnership, across 28 states and 7 Union Territories. Each of these Hub schools will in turn share its teachers with 14 other smaller schools within a radius of 50 Km thereby covering an additional 420,000 Schools nationwide.



The Megaproject has a Teacher Centric concept as against the current Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan ( SSA ) which is literacy centric. This essentially means that in order to attract qualified people the Education Megaproject provides attractive inducements : Good Salaries for teachers, Excellent Housing, and Free Healthcare. The central idea being that if we can motivate qualified people to take up careers in education, Universal literacy will follow by itself.







System of 18 Million Vouchers

The Megaproject focuses on the poorest children by introducing a system of 18 Million Vouchers which are allotted by means of a simple aptitude test ( not a Knowledge Test ) administered nationwide. The objective is to take children at all age levels into the school system on a scale not possible under the RTI Act. This will dramatically reduce entry barriers to allow admission into the Megaprojects vocational school system. For the same score, the voucher will favour the disadvantaged child by using an inverse algorithm which takes into account the child’s education history and family income. The New Hub schools will be overstaffed with twice the number of teachers required to enable sharing with other smaller village / slum schools in its area. Each voucher will therefore pay for the education of 6 other children ( in addition to the winner of the voucher ), to achieve a coverage of an additional126 Million Children across India.



The cost of educating each child, despite a much higher quality level, within the proposed Megaproject system, is comparable to that which is currently achieved within the SSA. Most importantly the Megaproject creates massive New Capacity while the RTE act on the other hand leaves New School Construction to the individual states. In fact, the RTE Act destroys the economics of existing schools and discourages the building of new schools by private parties.



To quantify the massive beneficial impact, the Megaproject has been evaluated against expected RTE Act outcomes within the prevailing School system on 12 key parameters.



1. Additional Capacity Creation : The Education Megaproject adds 30,000 New schools ( each with 600 seats ) under Public Private Partnership and upgrades 420,000 existing SSA schools by sharing its qualified Teachers. The RTE Act actually does the opposite, by not fully reimbursing 25 % quota implementation costs it destroys the finances of private schools thereby discouraging further private investment.



2. New Teachers Recruitment and Training :





Govt. of India is still not clear where it will find the 1.2 Lakh teachers to implement the RTE. The Education Megaproject on the other hand will execute a massive plan to induct and train 17.4 Lakh New Teachers. The project will deploy 10,000 search consultants to find suitable people from other professions and back up the recruitment drive with a Rs. 800 Crores advertising budget. Once the people are found they will be trained in 500 New Teacher Training institutes set up under Phase I.

3. Focus Area : Under RTE, Govt is not thinking beyond Class VIII. In comparison the Megaproject accommodates all children who do not have a school. Its real focus however is class V to class XII where there is a huge shortage of over 5.5 Lakh secondary schools.



4. Capital Cost : Under RTE, the Central Govt. has abdicated responsibility by leaving the job of setting up of new schools to State Governments. The Megaproject is the exact opposite. It is a centrally sponsored scheme that will invest Rs 6 Lakh Crores over an 8 – 10 year construction period. In doing this it will also create 2 Million new Jobs in the construction phase and catalyze another 4 million new jobs nationwide by 2030.



5. Operating Cost : The RTE has an Operating cost of Rs. 2.3 Lakh Crores each year. Over the next 30 years it will cost the Union Budget Rs 69 Lakh Crores ( without discounting ). The Education Megaproject is however engineered to generate most of its yearly Opex of Rs. 1.93 Lakh cores its internal Financing structure. It will need only Rs. Sixteen Thousand Crores each year from the Union Budget. Over a 30 year period, its cost to Govt. of India will be Rs 4.8 Lakh Crores. Much lesser than the current RTE plan.



6. Sources Of Finance : As opposed to the RTE Act which will get all its 2.3 Lakh crores from the Union Budget, the Education Megaproject has 14 different and innovative pools of Finance, including :



(1) US $ 15.6 Billion currently lying un-utilized with the World bank / ADB,



(2) Increasing FSI’s on some PSU land and auctioning it to raise US $ 40 Billion



(3) 5 % Dis investment in Public Sector Undertakings



(4) Using 5 % of Indian Foreign Exchange Reserves



(5) A 0.02 % tobin Tax on Forex Transactions





The important thing here is that the entire Capital cost of 6 Lakh Crores will be raised without a single paise coming from the Union Budget or the State Government Budgets. The innovation in this project is therefore in its financing. The money is already there but it has never been used by government. The Megaproject simply taps into these sources in a coordinated manner. The detailed 50 page financing document is available for free download on the following link.



http://www.nataraja.org.in/site_includes...ncepts.pdf



7. Capacity of Accommodate Disadvantaged Children : The current RTE plan catersto an expansion for only 8 – 10 Million disadvantaged children in addition to the millions already covered under the SSA. The Megaproject on the other hand has been designed for an additional 126 Million Children because Govt. planners have not properly counted tens of millions of children.



8. System Of Selection : The RTE Act leaves the identification of poor children to the Block Development Officer. This will create massive corruption as Poverty Certificates will now be auctioned. The Megaproject avoids this by implementing a system of 18 Million Vouchers which will be won through a simple aptitude test. The objective is to take children at all age levels into the school system on a scale not possible under the RTI Act. This will dramatically reduce entry barriers by allowing admission to all into the Megaprojects vocational school system. For the same score on the test, a disadvantaged child will be given a preference. Scope for Corruption in this system is Zero.



9. Programme Control and Monitoring : The RTE Act and the current Govt. school system, lacks a proper system to monitor quality and compliance. The Megaproject instead executes a large IT system that floats on a massive and sophisticated Computer network making all decisions totally transparent and visible. The Voucher System Algorithms will generate systemic alerts when specific triggers are hit or when decisions are not taken within specified time limits. System will be decentralized at state level and will allow granular and drill down functionality to the village school level.



10. Annual Cost Per Child : Implementing the RTE Act will cost the Govt. Rs. 12000 per child per year. For the Education Megaproject this number is Rs 14,490. This cost will be absorbed by the project. For the children of disadvantaged groups, of course, the education if totally free. Under the RTI act, some of the cost is borne by private operators as the government does not re-imburse them fully. This is a sort of penalty for setting up a private school. This does not happen under the Megaproject financial structure. In fact the Megaproject subsidizes even children from higher income groups to the extent of 30 %. It therefore provides truly affordable education.





11. Quality of Education : The RTE Act will further ruin education quality as 46 % of India’s 4.7 Million Teachers have not studied beyond class XII. In Bihar just 21 % of teachers have passed their class X exams. This has happened mainly due to a Literacy centric mindset in the SSA system. In comparison, the Megaproject will deliver very high performance by sharing it 17.4 lakh Graduate Teachers backed by a massive IT Network to reach remote villages. In addition, the project has a huge, IT driven, adult literacy evening programme to include people who have missed out over the last 20 years.



12. Project Objective : The Megaproject has a clear objective of constructing School Infrastructure and preparing human resources needed to support a US $ 4.5 trillion economy in India by 2025. The RTE act, though based ostensibly on the very noble objective of social inclusion is in fact a populist scheme with no clear vision in its execution.







Education Megaproject Financing & Startup Issues

Education is a state subject and since the states do not have adequate resources, the financing for this project will be enabled by central legislation and through a financing structure that the Vajpayee led NDA government first deployed to build the Golden Quadrilateral Project. They also set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), named the National Highways Authority (NHAI) to do the construction work.



The Education Megaproject uses the same structure as Govt. of India is already very familiar with it. The only difference is that instead of a special tax on Diesel and Petrol that was adopted for financing the Roads system, the education project will use 14 different financing sources which are totally new, such as using money lying un - utilized with the World Bank for example. The only thing left to do then, to get the Education Megaproject off the ground is to get Parliament to pass two separate Acts as follows :



1. The Indian Social Infrastructure Corporation Act



2. The Education Megaproject Fund Act



To do this fast, the two Acts can be brought in by means of an Ordinance by the Government and then ratified by Parliament within 3 months. No Political Party will oppose an Education Project so Its safe to say that the entire legal process in Parliament can be completed within 6 months.



The first Act will set up an SPV to construct the project while the second act will enable the raising of money from 14 un-conventional sources of finance. It needs to be mentioned here that since Education generates massive demand within an economy, even printing money to finance schools, is in theory at least, non inflationary. The Education Megaproject however, is an excellent scheme based on innovative financing that besides creating 2 million new jobs during its construction phase and nearly 3 million new jobs during its operations phase is also a huge GDP and investment Multiplier. It is very different from the RTE Act which though good in its intention is retrogressive and un-imaginative in its execution





Forward Path

A total of 70 Pilot projects are planned with two pilot schools including a teachers training institute in each state and Union Territory to test various systems before mass rollout in 2014. Simultaneously, steps will be initiated to launch the first of four bidding rounds which by June 2014, will offer 6000 New Hub schools on PPP basis to private parties as part of Phase I.



The supreme court was very right in upholding the RTE act as it stands for Equality of Opportunity. But given the inertia we have within government, it may be necessary for School Associations, Parent Groups and Civil Society to approach the apex court once again to plead for the Education Megaproject as it is a market friendly scheme in the public interest.



Those interested in the Education Megaproject and its ideas are invited to download all the projects detailed plan documents, Project Presentation and calculations from the Nataraja Foundations website.



http://www.nataraja.org.in/masseducationproject.htm



Senior Responses to the project from The Planning Commission and other organizations is on the following link.



http://www.nataraja.org.in/site_includes...h_2011.pdf











- Concluded -



]]> Sirs,





Over the next 30 years the RTE Act is going to cost the country Rs 69 Lakh Crores while allowing for a capacity expansion that will provide for 8 - 10 Million Children ( net addition ) upto the class VIII level.



Given its current SSA expenditure commitments, the Government's RTE Act therefore does not have a specific plan to build the massive number of New Schools that are so urgently required, especially at the secondary level ( Currently there is a shortage of 5,50,000 + secondary schools in India according to the Planning Commission ).



Essentially, we will be spending Rs 69 Lakh Crores , Without Adding much New Capacity as most of the money will be spent on Opex items such as salaries to run the present system. In fact even the 8 - 10 Million addition mentioned above is being achieved by asking existing private schools to accomodate dis-advantaged children.



Introducing ... The Indian Education Megaproject



It may interest readers to know that an alternative project " The Indian Education Megaproject " has been submitted to the Planning Commission and the Ministry of HRD which Creates additional, world class Capacity on a massive scale while improving accessibility and greatly reducing cost of Education in India.





The Education Megaproject has the following defining characteristics :



1. Megaproject will build 30,000 New Schools across 28 states and 7 Union Territories & Share its Teachers with 420,000 existing Schools ... to cover an additional 126 Million Children till class XII by 2024. Focus will be on Secondary Education.



2. Budgetary Support Required for Operations over 30 years is Rs 4.84 Lakh Crores ( 1/15 th the cost of the RTE Act ) as the Project uses alternative financing and does not need much budgetary support. The Project's Capex of Rs 6 Lakh Crores is also funded by 14 different sources outside the Governments Balance Sheet.



3. Project is Market Friendly and encourages New Schools...All 30,000 New Schools are under PPP. The Innovation within the Megaproject is in its Financing.





In the note pasted below, the Right To Education Act ( RTE Act ) has been compared with the Indian Education Megaproject on 12 Different Parameters .





In fact, to implement the spirit of the Right to Education, It makes sense to go for a Project based solution that expands the School System in India on a Massive Scale.







Sincerely,







Ashish Puntambekar

Project Designer

The Indian Education Megaproject

http://www.nataraja.org.in/masseducationproject.htm











The Author is a Corporate Planner and Large Project Design Specialist with a fortune 500 company. Views expressed are personal.







**************************************************************************************************************************







Can we do better than “ The RTE Act ” ?





By Ashish Puntambekar



Ever since the Supreme Court order on the 12th of April, upholding the RTE Act, there has been huge uncertainty and panic within the school system in India with both school managements and parents very worried about the implications of the courts order. Schools are worried that it will ruin their finances and parents are panicking at the thought that schools across the nation might cancel admissions for the coming year to comply with the 25 % quota requirement.



The unstated question in peoples minds is “ Is there a better way than the RTE Act ? “







Introducing “ The Indian Education Megaproject ”

Stakeholders in schools across India may be pleasantly surprised to learn that in June 2010, a landmark project “ The Indian Education Megaproject “ with a capacity to provide high quality education, totally free of cost to 126 Million children had been submitted to the Ministry of HRD and the Planning Commission.



The Education Megaproject envisages the construction of a massive system of 30,000 New Hub Schools under Public Private Partnership, across 28 states and 7 Union Territories. Each of these Hub schools will in turn share its teachers with 14 other smaller schools within a radius of 50 Km thereby covering an additional 420,000 Schools nationwide.



The Megaproject has a Teacher Centric concept as against the current Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan ( SSA ) which is literacy centric. This essentially means that in order to attract qualified people the Education Megaproject provides attractive inducements : Good Salaries for teachers, Excellent Housing, and Free Healthcare. The central idea being that if we can motivate qualified people to take up careers in education, Universal literacy will follow by itself.







System of 18 Million Vouchers

The Megaproject focuses on the poorest children by introducing a system of 18 Million Vouchers which are allotted by means of a simple aptitude test ( not a Knowledge Test ) administered nationwide. The objective is to take children at all age levels into the school system on a scale not possible under the RTI Act. This will dramatically reduce entry barriers to allow admission into the Megaprojects vocational school system. For the same score, the voucher will favour the disadvantaged child by using an inverse algorithm which takes into account the child’s education history and family income. The New Hub schools will be overstaffed with twice the number of teachers required to enable sharing with other smaller village / slum schools in its area. Each voucher will therefore pay for the education of 6 other children ( in addition to the winner of the voucher ), to achieve a coverage of an additional126 Million Children across India.



The cost of educating each child, despite a much higher quality level, within the proposed Megaproject system, is comparable to that which is currently achieved within the SSA. Most importantly the Megaproject creates massive New Capacity while the RTE act on the other hand leaves New School Construction to the individual states. In fact, the RTE Act destroys the economics of existing schools and discourages the building of new schools by private parties.



To quantify the massive beneficial impact, the Megaproject has been evaluated against expected RTE Act outcomes within the prevailing School system on 12 key parameters.



1. Additional Capacity Creation : The Education Megaproject adds 30,000 New schools ( each with 600 seats ) under Public Private Partnership and upgrades 420,000 existing SSA schools by sharing its qualified Teachers. The RTE Act actually does the opposite, by not fully reimbursing 25 % quota implementation costs it destroys the finances of private schools thereby discouraging further private investment.



2. New Teachers Recruitment and Training :





Govt. of India is still not clear where it will find the 1.2 Lakh teachers to implement the RTE. The Education Megaproject on the other hand will execute a massive plan to induct and train 17.4 Lakh New Teachers. The project will deploy 10,000 search consultants to find suitable people from other professions and back up the recruitment drive with a Rs. 800 Crores advertising budget. Once the people are found they will be trained in 500 New Teacher Training institutes set up under Phase I.

3. Focus Area : Under RTE, Govt is not thinking beyond Class VIII. In comparison the Megaproject accommodates all children who do not have a school. Its real focus however is class V to class XII where there is a huge shortage of over 5.5 Lakh secondary schools.



4. Capital Cost : Under RTE, the Central Govt. has abdicated responsibility by leaving the job of setting up of new schools to State Governments. The Megaproject is the exact opposite. It is a centrally sponsored scheme that will invest Rs 6 Lakh Crores over an 8 – 10 year construction period. In doing this it will also create 2 Million new Jobs in the construction phase and catalyze another 4 million new jobs nationwide by 2030.



5. Operating Cost : The RTE has an Operating cost of Rs. 2.3 Lakh Crores each year. Over the next 30 years it will cost the Union Budget Rs 69 Lakh Crores ( without discounting ). The Education Megaproject is however engineered to generate most of its yearly Opex of Rs. 1.93 Lakh cores its internal Financing structure. It will need only Rs. Sixteen Thousand Crores each year from the Union Budget. Over a 30 year period, its cost to Govt. of India will be Rs 4.8 Lakh Crores. Much lesser than the current RTE plan.



6. Sources Of Finance : As opposed to the RTE Act which will get all its 2.3 Lakh crores from the Union Budget, the Education Megaproject has 14 different and innovative pools of Finance, including :



(1) US $ 15.6 Billion currently lying un-utilized with the World bank / ADB,



(2) Increasing FSI’s on some PSU land and auctioning it to raise US $ 40 Billion



(3) 5 % Dis investment in Public Sector Undertakings



(4) Using 5 % of Indian Foreign Exchange Reserves



(5) A 0.02 % tobin Tax on Forex Transactions





The important thing here is that the entire Capital cost of 6 Lakh Crores will be raised without a single paise coming from the Union Budget or the State Government Budgets. The innovation in this project is therefore in its financing. The money is already there but it has never been used by government. The Megaproject simply taps into these sources in a coordinated manner. The detailed 50 page financing document is available for free download on the following link.



http://www.nataraja.org.in/site_includes...ncepts.pdf



7. Capacity of Accommodate Disadvantaged Children : The current RTE plan catersto an expansion for only 8 – 10 Million disadvantaged children in addition to the millions already covered under the SSA. The Megaproject on the other hand has been designed for an additional 126 Million Children because Govt. planners have not properly counted tens of millions of children.



8. System Of Selection : The RTE Act leaves the identification of poor children to the Block Development Officer. This will create massive corruption as Poverty Certificates will now be auctioned. The Megaproject avoids this by implementing a system of 18 Million Vouchers which will be won through a simple aptitude test. The objective is to take children at all age levels into the school system on a scale not possible under the RTI Act. This will dramatically reduce entry barriers by allowing admission to all into the Megaprojects vocational school system. For the same score on the test, a disadvantaged child will be given a preference. Scope for Corruption in this system is Zero.



9. Programme Control and Monitoring : The RTE Act and the current Govt. school system, lacks a proper system to monitor quality and compliance. The Megaproject instead executes a large IT system that floats on a massive and sophisticated Computer network making all decisions totally transparent and visible. The Voucher System Algorithms will generate systemic alerts when specific triggers are hit or when decisions are not taken within specified time limits. System will be decentralized at state level and will allow granular and drill down functionality to the village school level.



10. Annual Cost Per Child : Implementing the RTE Act will cost the Govt. Rs. 12000 per child per year. For the Education Megaproject this number is Rs 14,490. This cost will be absorbed by the project. For the children of disadvantaged groups, of course, the education if totally free. Under the RTI act, some of the cost is borne by private operators as the government does not re-imburse them fully. This is a sort of penalty for setting up a private school. This does not happen under the Megaproject financial structure. In fact the Megaproject subsidizes even children from higher income groups to the extent of 30 %. It therefore provides truly affordable education.





11. Quality of Education : The RTE Act will further ruin education quality as 46 % of India’s 4.7 Million Teachers have not studied beyond class XII. In Bihar just 21 % of teachers have passed their class X exams. This has happened mainly due to a Literacy centric mindset in the SSA system. In comparison, the Megaproject will deliver very high performance by sharing it 17.4 lakh Graduate Teachers backed by a massive IT Network to reach remote villages. In addition, the project has a huge, IT driven, adult literacy evening programme to include people who have missed out over the last 20 years.



12. Project Objective : The Megaproject has a clear objective of constructing School Infrastructure and preparing human resources needed to support a US $ 4.5 trillion economy in India by 2025. The RTE act, though based ostensibly on the very noble objective of social inclusion is in fact a populist scheme with no clear vision in its execution.







Education Megaproject Financing & Startup Issues

Education is a state subject and since the states do not have adequate resources, the financing for this project will be enabled by central legislation and through a financing structure that the Vajpayee led NDA government first deployed to build the Golden Quadrilateral Project. They also set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), named the National Highways Authority (NHAI) to do the construction work.



The Education Megaproject uses the same structure as Govt. of India is already very familiar with it. The only difference is that instead of a special tax on Diesel and Petrol that was adopted for financing the Roads system, the education project will use 14 different financing sources which are totally new, such as using money lying un - utilized with the World Bank for example. The only thing left to do then, to get the Education Megaproject off the ground is to get Parliament to pass two separate Acts as follows :



1. The Indian Social Infrastructure Corporation Act



2. The Education Megaproject Fund Act



To do this fast, the two Acts can be brought in by means of an Ordinance by the Government and then ratified by Parliament within 3 months. No Political Party will oppose an Education Project so Its safe to say that the entire legal process in Parliament can be completed within 6 months.



The first Act will set up an SPV to construct the project while the second act will enable the raising of money from 14 un-conventional sources of finance. It needs to be mentioned here that since Education generates massive demand within an economy, even printing money to finance schools, is in theory at least, non inflationary. The Education Megaproject however, is an excellent scheme based on innovative financing that besides creating 2 million new jobs during its construction phase and nearly 3 million new jobs during its operations phase is also a huge GDP and investment Multiplier. It is very different from the RTE Act which though good in its intention is retrogressive and un-imaginative in its execution





Forward Path

A total of 70 Pilot projects are planned with two pilot schools including a teachers training institute in each state and Union Territory to test various systems before mass rollout in 2014. Simultaneously, steps will be initiated to launch the first of four bidding rounds which by June 2014, will offer 6000 New Hub schools on PPP basis to private parties as part of Phase I.



The supreme court was very right in upholding the RTE act as it stands for Equality of Opportunity. But given the inertia we have within government, it may be necessary for School Associations, Parent Groups and Civil Society to approach the apex court once again to plead for the Education Megaproject as it is a market friendly scheme in the public interest.



Those interested in the Education Megaproject and its ideas are invited to download all the projects detailed plan documents, Project Presentation and calculations from the Nataraja Foundations website.



http://www.nataraja.org.in/masseducationproject.htm



Senior Responses to the project from The Planning Commission and other organizations is on the following link.



http://www.nataraja.org.in/site_includes...h_2011.pdf











- Concluded -



]]> <![CDATA[The Presidential Election]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=47 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:12:17 +0000 ravish]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=47
The condition of the BJP led NDA is such that a sizable section of the constituents have announced their open support to the Congress and UPA candidate Shri Pranab Mukherjee.The JDU and Shiv Sena both have announced their support for the NDA candidate. A section of the BJP may also vote for him through the secret ballot. The NDA has been so divided from within that it has even failed to put up a strong candidate against the UPA nominee. As a last resort it has decided to support Shri P.A. Sangma, who has the support of two regional parties, namely the AIDMK and the BJP. It will only be a symbolic fight as Shri Sangma will not be able to put up any stiff fight against the UPA nominee.

The other significant development that has come to light is that the SP and BSP both have come forward to support the UPA candidate. On the other hand, the Tirnomool Congress, a constituent of the UPA has so far refused to support the UPA candidate officially. It is also observed that cracks have developed within the Left Front. While the CPM has decided to support the UPA candidate the CPI has decided not to do so. Thus we find that all the major political formations are divided house.

We also find that the Bihar Chief Minister Shri Nitish Kumar has already opposed Shri Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the NDA.There may be many other leaders within the NDA who may not want to project Shri Modi as a future Prime Minister.

Under these circumstances, it is unlikely that the NDA will be able to throw up any serious challenge to the NDA during the 2014 General Elections. This does not mean that the NDA will have a walk over. There are several elements within the NDA apart from the TMC of Bengal that may try to have a better bargain and may change sides on the eve of the elections]]>
The condition of the BJP led NDA is such that a sizable section of the constituents have announced their open support to the Congress and UPA candidate Shri Pranab Mukherjee.The JDU and Shiv Sena both have announced their support for the NDA candidate. A section of the BJP may also vote for him through the secret ballot. The NDA has been so divided from within that it has even failed to put up a strong candidate against the UPA nominee. As a last resort it has decided to support Shri P.A. Sangma, who has the support of two regional parties, namely the AIDMK and the BJP. It will only be a symbolic fight as Shri Sangma will not be able to put up any stiff fight against the UPA nominee.

The other significant development that has come to light is that the SP and BSP both have come forward to support the UPA candidate. On the other hand, the Tirnomool Congress, a constituent of the UPA has so far refused to support the UPA candidate officially. It is also observed that cracks have developed within the Left Front. While the CPM has decided to support the UPA candidate the CPI has decided not to do so. Thus we find that all the major political formations are divided house.

We also find that the Bihar Chief Minister Shri Nitish Kumar has already opposed Shri Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the NDA.There may be many other leaders within the NDA who may not want to project Shri Modi as a future Prime Minister.

Under these circumstances, it is unlikely that the NDA will be able to throw up any serious challenge to the NDA during the 2014 General Elections. This does not mean that the NDA will have a walk over. There are several elements within the NDA apart from the TMC of Bengal that may try to have a better bargain and may change sides on the eve of the elections]]> <![CDATA[Reforming and Restructuring Indian Political Process]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=49 Wed, 23 May 2012 20:25:51 +0000 ramana]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=49


Quote:If there had been no free and fair election in India, it would not have been possible for so many different individuals belonging to different political parties and formations to be the Prime Minister of India. So the sweeping statement that free and fair election is a pipe dream is not correct.

In a vast country like India , with so many different political parties having diverse ideology, there is every possibility of minor aberrations in the democratic electoral process, but that does not mean that the system has failed.



Having said that one has to acknowledge that in the last sixty years, the progress of the nation in many important sectors have been much below the acceptable level. This failure cannot be attributed to the flaw in our system of governance. It has been due to the collective failure of the entire political class.

Today corruption has become a major issue and it is greatly influencing the process of governance , irrespective of which political formation is occupying the drivers seat. In the last 15 years or so, the regional parties have become an important factor and no government ca be formed without their support. This has given rise to various pressure groups within the ruling coalitions. In the process it has encroached upon the accountability responsibility of our political leaders. It has in fact weakened the decdision making ability of the governments that have been formed in the recent past at the Central level.[b/]



Therefore, the need of the hour is to restructure our political formations before the next general election. [b]I call upon the distinguished members of this forum to start a debate on the issue with some original thoughts, keeping in view the complex nature of the electorate and the complex nature of the problems that face the nation today.



I request a discussion on the points highlighted in his above post namely:



- Progress of the nation has been sub-par in many areas

- This failure can be attributed to the entire political class across all parties

- Corruption is very pervasive and eating into the body politic of India

- Raise of regional parties has led to pressure groups that led to action paralysis, erosion of accountability and weakened the decision/policy making ability of government.]]>


Quote:If there had been no free and fair election in India, it would not have been possible for so many different individuals belonging to different political parties and formations to be the Prime Minister of India. So the sweeping statement that free and fair election is a pipe dream is not correct.

In a vast country like India , with so many different political parties having diverse ideology, there is every possibility of minor aberrations in the democratic electoral process, but that does not mean that the system has failed.



Having said that one has to acknowledge that in the last sixty years, the progress of the nation in many important sectors have been much below the acceptable level. This failure cannot be attributed to the flaw in our system of governance. It has been due to the collective failure of the entire political class.

Today corruption has become a major issue and it is greatly influencing the process of governance , irrespective of which political formation is occupying the drivers seat. In the last 15 years or so, the regional parties have become an important factor and no government ca be formed without their support. This has given rise to various pressure groups within the ruling coalitions. In the process it has encroached upon the accountability responsibility of our political leaders. It has in fact weakened the decdision making ability of the governments that have been formed in the recent past at the Central level.[b/]



Therefore, the need of the hour is to restructure our political formations before the next general election. [b]I call upon the distinguished members of this forum to start a debate on the issue with some original thoughts, keeping in view the complex nature of the electorate and the complex nature of the problems that face the nation today.



I request a discussion on the points highlighted in his above post namely:



- Progress of the nation has been sub-par in many areas

- This failure can be attributed to the entire political class across all parties

- Corruption is very pervasive and eating into the body politic of India

- Raise of regional parties has led to pressure groups that led to action paralysis, erosion of accountability and weakened the decision/policy making ability of government.]]> <![CDATA[Brahmin caste as a political and social attractant]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=50 Fri, 18 May 2012 07:23:00 +0000 rcscwc]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=50


What is there percentage in INdian population? Don't jump to conclusions. Not more that 7%.



What is their share in wealth of India? Nearly ZERO agricultural land holdings. Nearly ZERO share in BIG business Houses. Then where are they? What is their influence on present day politics and VOTE bank politics? Pan INdia, nothing. Locally, 6-7% cannot be ignored, when each vote counts.



Does it explain why Rahul, the khangress yuvaraja claims to be a Brahmin? He would appeal to more people if he claimed to be a DALIT!! But then de Nobili too claimed to be a Roman Brahmin!!



Brahmin is a desirable caste. Why so? Clear. Brahmins have a tradition od education. THey do know that education is their SALVATION. OK, reserve 50% or more posta in govt. But their educational merit cannot be suppressed for long. Have you noticed that 75% candidates clearing CA and CS exams are in fact Brahmins? Ever noticed that middle and top positions in MNCs are occupied by Brahmins?





Brahmin is an ATTRACTIVE label. Rahul wants it, Gujarat khangress wants to mobilise brahmins against Narendra Modi, a SC Teli by caste.

***



Today in my paper.



A brahmin kills his wife for suppressing her OBC casre!!!



I do not not countenance this killing. He could have filed for divorce on grounds of SUPPRESSION OF INFORMATION. He could have got a divorce too. But please note the suppression of information about her caste.

***

I do know about much horrible cases, where the caste WAS suppressed.[/indent]]]>


What is there percentage in INdian population? Don't jump to conclusions. Not more that 7%.



What is their share in wealth of India? Nearly ZERO agricultural land holdings. Nearly ZERO share in BIG business Houses. Then where are they? What is their influence on present day politics and VOTE bank politics? Pan INdia, nothing. Locally, 6-7% cannot be ignored, when each vote counts.



Does it explain why Rahul, the khangress yuvaraja claims to be a Brahmin? He would appeal to more people if he claimed to be a DALIT!! But then de Nobili too claimed to be a Roman Brahmin!!



Brahmin is a desirable caste. Why so? Clear. Brahmins have a tradition od education. THey do know that education is their SALVATION. OK, reserve 50% or more posta in govt. But their educational merit cannot be suppressed for long. Have you noticed that 75% candidates clearing CA and CS exams are in fact Brahmins? Ever noticed that middle and top positions in MNCs are occupied by Brahmins?





Brahmin is an ATTRACTIVE label. Rahul wants it, Gujarat khangress wants to mobilise brahmins against Narendra Modi, a SC Teli by caste.

***



Today in my paper.



A brahmin kills his wife for suppressing her OBC casre!!!



I do not not countenance this killing. He could have filed for divorce on grounds of SUPPRESSION OF INFORMATION. He could have got a divorce too. But please note the suppression of information about her caste.

***

I do know about much horrible cases, where the caste WAS suppressed.[/indent]]]> <![CDATA[India Election Results]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=55 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:17:44 +0000 rithika]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=55


The five prominent states Punjab, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand and Goa are experiencing the election fever from the last month. With most of the uplifts and downward attitude of the political parties, ruling power and oppositions, etc, citizens of the country now have the chance of deciding the future Government.

Whatever it is, the final [url="http://indianballot.com"]election results[/url] is going to decide the future Government and an efficient leader who can withstand in all standard as well as can support the voters in all means.



Let's hope for the best results and the best leader who is going to make our nation as the super power without any corruption,etc.]]>


The five prominent states Punjab, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand and Goa are experiencing the election fever from the last month. With most of the uplifts and downward attitude of the political parties, ruling power and oppositions, etc, citizens of the country now have the chance of deciding the future Government.

Whatever it is, the final [url="http://indianballot.com"]election results[/url] is going to decide the future Government and an efficient leader who can withstand in all standard as well as can support the voters in all means.



Let's hope for the best results and the best leader who is going to make our nation as the super power without any corruption,etc.]]> <![CDATA[Swamy Scores]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=59 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:48:47 +0000 Guest]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=59 Swamy scores, SC sets rules for prosecuting authorities[/url]
Quote:The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that public officials must decide within three months on applications seeking permission to prosecute government authorities. This order is in context of Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy seeking permission from the Prime Minister's Office to prosecute former telecom minister A Raja in the 2G spectrum allocation scandal.



There should be a time frame for deciding on applications seeking prosecution of government officers, the court ruled. If the government fails to decide on an application, then it shall be deemed that the prosecution of an authority has been allowed.



The order is a slap on the face of the UPA government, said Swamy while speaking to reporters after the court order. The court accepted Swamy's application seeking investigation against the Prime Minister's Office.
]]> Swamy scores, SC sets rules for prosecuting authorities[/url]
Quote:The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that public officials must decide within three months on applications seeking permission to prosecute government authorities. This order is in context of Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy seeking permission from the Prime Minister's Office to prosecute former telecom minister A Raja in the 2G spectrum allocation scandal.



There should be a time frame for deciding on applications seeking prosecution of government officers, the court ruled. If the government fails to decide on an application, then it shall be deemed that the prosecution of an authority has been allowed.



The order is a slap on the face of the UPA government, said Swamy while speaking to reporters after the court order. The court accepted Swamy's application seeking investigation against the Prime Minister's Office.
]]> <![CDATA[Maoist Movement in the States]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=71 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:43:56 +0000 ravish]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=71
In course of time, the Maoists started extortion from the wealthy to finance their movement and started procuring arms from various sources, including raids on police stations. Since the proclaimed aim of the movement was to bring in economic improvement of the rural poor, a few left leaning intellectuals joined in to provide moral support to the movement. It took years for the movement to gather strength and a stage came when the organisation started posing serious threat to the State itself and started running a parallel administration in certain parts of the country.

In the initial years of the movement, not much attention was paid either by the Central or the State Governments. This gave a false sense of strength amongst the Maoist organisation in the various States. They stated organising themselves into a interstate militant organisation and started carrying out serious armed raids, not only against public property but also started physically eliminating its opponents including public servants.

The real cause of the growth of this movement had been the lack of economic development in certain pockets of the country. This resulted in continued struggle against poverty for the people of these under developed areas. We need not go into the causes of this neglect by the State of these areas of the country and the people leaving in these areas, as that is not the aim of this blog.

The continued neglect of the affected areas, allowed the Maoist movement to gather strength. The outfit became a serious security threat to the nation. In recent times, it has carried out large scale subversive activities which caused the death of several hundred civilians as well as government officials.

We cannot blame any particular political formation for the continued neglect of these areas and the people staying in these areas. In fact, it is a collective failure on the part of all political parties that resulted in this situation.

During the last three years, serious efforts were started by the Central and various State Governments to contain the situation. It was realised that development work in the affected areas needs to be undertaken in conjunction with police action. Certain sections of the civil society felt that it is a socio economic problem and needs to be resolved through negotiations. They were totally opposed to any police action against the Maoists. This resulted in a stalemate, as divergent views and strategies came into play.

The indecision on the part of the policy and decision makers resulted in the loss of many innocent lives. Finally when the law enforcing forces were inducted in the affected areas, they were hampered in their efforts by uncoordinated action on the part of various State forces and lack of intelligence. The sudden induction of central forces saw heavy casualties as they were easy targets as sitting ducks.

Slowly but steadily the Para military and police forces were geared up to meet the challenge. Modern and new equipment were provided to the forces and they were trained in counter insurgency jungle warfare. Efforts were made to build up the intelligence gathering machinery . At the same tile, serious efforts were made for the economic development of the affected areas. The development efforts were opposed by bthe Maoists and this resulted in slowing down of many projects. However, in course of time the policy of opposition to development alienated a considerable section of the rural population against the Maoists. They realised that supporting the insurgents are not in their interest. A few of them started switching sides and that gave the State the much needed intelligence, particularly regarding the movement of the armed Maoist elements within the dense jungles.

These developments finally yielded results. The chief organiser in the Eastern Sector Shri Kishanji, who was reported to be responsible for at least 70 killings was finally gunned down by the security forces on the 24th of November. It is the biggest success of the security forces in recent times. Let us hope now better sense will prevail amongst the rest of his team and they will come to the negotiation table, bringing an end to bloodshed and insecurity.]]>
In course of time, the Maoists started extortion from the wealthy to finance their movement and started procuring arms from various sources, including raids on police stations. Since the proclaimed aim of the movement was to bring in economic improvement of the rural poor, a few left leaning intellectuals joined in to provide moral support to the movement. It took years for the movement to gather strength and a stage came when the organisation started posing serious threat to the State itself and started running a parallel administration in certain parts of the country.

In the initial years of the movement, not much attention was paid either by the Central or the State Governments. This gave a false sense of strength amongst the Maoist organisation in the various States. They stated organising themselves into a interstate militant organisation and started carrying out serious armed raids, not only against public property but also started physically eliminating its opponents including public servants.

The real cause of the growth of this movement had been the lack of economic development in certain pockets of the country. This resulted in continued struggle against poverty for the people of these under developed areas. We need not go into the causes of this neglect by the State of these areas of the country and the people leaving in these areas, as that is not the aim of this blog.

The continued neglect of the affected areas, allowed the Maoist movement to gather strength. The outfit became a serious security threat to the nation. In recent times, it has carried out large scale subversive activities which caused the death of several hundred civilians as well as government officials.

We cannot blame any particular political formation for the continued neglect of these areas and the people staying in these areas. In fact, it is a collective failure on the part of all political parties that resulted in this situation.

During the last three years, serious efforts were started by the Central and various State Governments to contain the situation. It was realised that development work in the affected areas needs to be undertaken in conjunction with police action. Certain sections of the civil society felt that it is a socio economic problem and needs to be resolved through negotiations. They were totally opposed to any police action against the Maoists. This resulted in a stalemate, as divergent views and strategies came into play.

The indecision on the part of the policy and decision makers resulted in the loss of many innocent lives. Finally when the law enforcing forces were inducted in the affected areas, they were hampered in their efforts by uncoordinated action on the part of various State forces and lack of intelligence. The sudden induction of central forces saw heavy casualties as they were easy targets as sitting ducks.

Slowly but steadily the Para military and police forces were geared up to meet the challenge. Modern and new equipment were provided to the forces and they were trained in counter insurgency jungle warfare. Efforts were made to build up the intelligence gathering machinery . At the same tile, serious efforts were made for the economic development of the affected areas. The development efforts were opposed by bthe Maoists and this resulted in slowing down of many projects. However, in course of time the policy of opposition to development alienated a considerable section of the rural population against the Maoists. They realised that supporting the insurgents are not in their interest. A few of them started switching sides and that gave the State the much needed intelligence, particularly regarding the movement of the armed Maoist elements within the dense jungles.

These developments finally yielded results. The chief organiser in the Eastern Sector Shri Kishanji, who was reported to be responsible for at least 70 killings was finally gunned down by the security forces on the 24th of November. It is the biggest success of the security forces in recent times. Let us hope now better sense will prevail amongst the rest of his team and they will come to the negotiation table, bringing an end to bloodshed and insecurity.]]> <![CDATA[Denmark funding unrest in India]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=72 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:58:50 +0000 rcscwc]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=72


Government officials said the inquiry has been ordered after the home ministry received information that funds, often running into crores of rupees, received by these NGOs have been given to social activists to stage protests and resort to other agitational programmes against government policies, creating unrest in the country....



The reports said the Indian ambassador in Denmark reported that the newly-elected minister for development cooperation, Christian Friis Bach, has voiced plans "to use the Danish official development aid as a tool to generate popular unrest in recipient countries", so that citizens can get their rights by fighting for them.



Friis, a member of the Social Liberal Party, is reported to have cited India's Right to Food Campaign while explaining his approach. He is reported to have said that a group of citizens sued the government because 400 million people did not have sufficient food, though it was their constitutional right. However, it is not clear whether the inquiry has been ordered after receiving the envoy's report or before that.



10 NGOs under lens for using foreign aid to fan unrest - Times Of India

***



Wonder why Denmark is not being treated as hostile state. What is GOI afraid of in declaring Denmark as rogue terrorist state. Mark that Denmark has rejected extradition of gun running terrorists.



]]>


Government officials said the inquiry has been ordered after the home ministry received information that funds, often running into crores of rupees, received by these NGOs have been given to social activists to stage protests and resort to other agitational programmes against government policies, creating unrest in the country....



The reports said the Indian ambassador in Denmark reported that the newly-elected minister for development cooperation, Christian Friis Bach, has voiced plans "to use the Danish official development aid as a tool to generate popular unrest in recipient countries", so that citizens can get their rights by fighting for them.



Friis, a member of the Social Liberal Party, is reported to have cited India's Right to Food Campaign while explaining his approach. He is reported to have said that a group of citizens sued the government because 400 million people did not have sufficient food, though it was their constitutional right. However, it is not clear whether the inquiry has been ordered after receiving the envoy's report or before that.



10 NGOs under lens for using foreign aid to fan unrest - Times Of India

***



Wonder why Denmark is not being treated as hostile state. What is GOI afraid of in declaring Denmark as rogue terrorist state. Mark that Denmark has rejected extradition of gun running terrorists.



]]> <![CDATA[Factor 'Anna' on Politics!]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=82 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:18:29 +0000 Capt M Kumar]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=82
The LensOnNews pre-poll survey said the Congress was expected to finish third, with the Haryana Janhit Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi tipped to win comfortably.



Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD) Ajay Chautala would be "a distant runner-up", the survey said. The Congress candidate is Jai Prakash.



The survey was carried out Oct 8 and 9 across six of the nine assembly segments of Hisar constituency among a representative 593 voters. The poll findings carry a margin of error of five percent. http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news...urvey.html



Team Anna has urged Hisar voters to hand a "historic defeat" to the Congress for not supporting the Jan Lokpal Bill proposed by Anna Hazare.]]>
The LensOnNews pre-poll survey said the Congress was expected to finish third, with the Haryana Janhit Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi tipped to win comfortably.



Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD) Ajay Chautala would be "a distant runner-up", the survey said. The Congress candidate is Jai Prakash.



The survey was carried out Oct 8 and 9 across six of the nine assembly segments of Hisar constituency among a representative 593 voters. The poll findings carry a margin of error of five percent. http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news...urvey.html



Team Anna has urged Hisar voters to hand a "historic defeat" to the Congress for not supporting the Jan Lokpal Bill proposed by Anna Hazare.]]> <![CDATA[Jan Lokpal movement]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=92 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:13:12 +0000 Capt Manoj Singh]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=92 <![CDATA[RURAL MUSLIM WOMAN PROBLEMS IN THE KASHMIR VALLEY CRISIS]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=102 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:24:35 +0000 balbirranawat2009]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=102


“REMEMBER” Woman is a backbone of any strong society. She is a source of constant support and motivation to the entire family. She is timid, soft and sweet and bears more pains then men. Woman are more innovative and self reliant and Lastly, given an opportunity they grow and excel in all spectrum of life.



ASPIRATIONS OF A MOTHER/WIFE/DAUGHTER ARE :-



MOTHER

A Good Medical Care.



Ø Economically sound.



Ø Self Pride in the family.



Ø Highest Status in the family.



Ø Confirmed old age pension by the govt.



Ø A religious place to worship.



Ø Tension free old life/respect from her children.



Ø Special privilege by the govt.



Ø Decent last rites.



WIFE (A married woman, especially when considered in relation to her husband)



Ø Respectful Status as a wife.



Ø Self Pride/status in the family.



Ø Financial Security in terms of bank account.



Ø A religious place to worship.



Ø Tension free old life/respect from her children.



Ø Special privilege by the govt in govt jobs.



Ø Cheap/free medical care.



Ø Easy jobs – in village cottage industries.



Ø Women empowerment – Sarpanch/pradhan/join political parties.



Ø Free education upto degree level.



DAUGHTER



Ø A secured childhood.



Ø A healthy and confident child.



Ø Free/cheap medical care.



Ø Marriage to be solemnised before 25 yrs of age.



Ø Freedom to take up any job available in the valley or out side.



Ø Social freedom to interact with other communities.



Ø Compulsory deposit in banks by the parents.



Ø Option of mass marriage to be exercised by the govt for girls not getting married.



Ø Compulsory NCC training/self protection training in school and colleges.



Ø Monitory stipend by the govt to all girl Child.



PROBLEM FACED



Basic amenities like village road, drinking water and electricity are not available in many villages till date.



Ø Malnutrition and almost nil medical care is available in the rural villages.



Ø School & colleges are only for name sake. More number of primary and middle schools be



opened.



Ø Unhygienic living conditions as no hygiene and sanitation facilities exist in the villages.



Ø There is no provision to supply K-oil and other daily needs.



Ø High infant mortality exist.



Ø Social welfare organisation are not reaching out to the villages.



Ø Village Panchayats are male dominated.



Ø Inter caste marriages are banned.



Ø Social discord exist in the rural society.



Ø Poor communication network.



Ø No cold storage facilities exist, hence their fruit/agriculture products suffer.



WAY AHEAD !



State Govt should ensure that all rural villages are provided with basic amenities like



approach road, drinking water and electricity.



Ø Basic Primary Health Care Centres are made available in the rural areas with availability of



medicines and doctors.



Ø Govt waste land be given to the poor to cultivate for their living.



Ø Availability of local market to their sale their product and also availability of modern



farming technique/precision agriculture tools.



Ø Reduce domestic violence/abuse through awareness by the NGOs/print and media



coverage.



Ø Adoption of children by other social communities. Rules to be relaxed by the State Govt.



Ø Curb on human right violations. No violation be accepted.



Ø Law of Land must be followed in true spirit.



Ø Environmental rights be safe guarded for a better tomorrow awareness.



Ø State and non-state actors role be checked so that, they do not commit human right



abuses. (like NGOs and MNCs) in the remote villages.



Ø Govt should ensure effective “Community Activities” on personal, legal, health, education



and sanitation projects to bring awareness to the women folks.



Ø Compulsory posting of health educators and health workers in each and every remote



village in the valley.





OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE



OPTION – I



Ø J&K State Govt with the help of central aid takes up this “CORE” problem i.e. addressing by providing them the basic living amenities so as to lead a comfortable and content life, thereby, making a positive impact on the male member’s psychology, this will in long run help in improving the present situation in the crisis torn valley.



or else



OPTION – II



Ø The Army takes over the responsibility to address this core issue through its ongoing “ Op Sadbhawana”. TA Bn (girls) be raised by the Central Govt wherein, the enrolment for ladies and girls from the Kashmir Valley are enrolled with minimum 10+2 education std. These girls then teach the illiterate rural community the various facets of healthy, clean and hygienic life. All Govt development pgmes are executed through this girls TA Bn in a planned/phased manner.



If not, then



OPTION – III



Ø A combination of the above two, wherein, both the State Govt and the Army in the valley creates a “Composite Organisation”, wherein, eminent civilian personalities with the senior medical lady officer of the Armed Forces work on the enhancement of rural women in the Kashmir Valley.



Ø Govt/Non Govt/NGOs organisation are co-opted in the above composite organisation, so that, maximum benefits is derived from them, for the welfare of the women.



LASTLY !



A little sincere efforts by the Govt and the society can see a Happy/Prosperous/Smiling Kashmir]]>


“REMEMBER” Woman is a backbone of any strong society. She is a source of constant support and motivation to the entire family. She is timid, soft and sweet and bears more pains then men. Woman are more innovative and self reliant and Lastly, given an opportunity they grow and excel in all spectrum of life.



ASPIRATIONS OF A MOTHER/WIFE/DAUGHTER ARE :-



MOTHER

A Good Medical Care.



Ø Economically sound.



Ø Self Pride in the family.



Ø Highest Status in the family.



Ø Confirmed old age pension by the govt.



Ø A religious place to worship.



Ø Tension free old life/respect from her children.



Ø Special privilege by the govt.



Ø Decent last rites.



WIFE (A married woman, especially when considered in relation to her husband)



Ø Respectful Status as a wife.



Ø Self Pride/status in the family.



Ø Financial Security in terms of bank account.



Ø A religious place to worship.



Ø Tension free old life/respect from her children.



Ø Special privilege by the govt in govt jobs.



Ø Cheap/free medical care.



Ø Easy jobs – in village cottage industries.



Ø Women empowerment – Sarpanch/pradhan/join political parties.



Ø Free education upto degree level.



DAUGHTER



Ø A secured childhood.



Ø A healthy and confident child.



Ø Free/cheap medical care.



Ø Marriage to be solemnised before 25 yrs of age.



Ø Freedom to take up any job available in the valley or out side.



Ø Social freedom to interact with other communities.



Ø Compulsory deposit in banks by the parents.



Ø Option of mass marriage to be exercised by the govt for girls not getting married.



Ø Compulsory NCC training/self protection training in school and colleges.



Ø Monitory stipend by the govt to all girl Child.



PROBLEM FACED



Basic amenities like village road, drinking water and electricity are not available in many villages till date.



Ø Malnutrition and almost nil medical care is available in the rural villages.



Ø School & colleges are only for name sake. More number of primary and middle schools be



opened.



Ø Unhygienic living conditions as no hygiene and sanitation facilities exist in the villages.



Ø There is no provision to supply K-oil and other daily needs.



Ø High infant mortality exist.



Ø Social welfare organisation are not reaching out to the villages.



Ø Village Panchayats are male dominated.



Ø Inter caste marriages are banned.



Ø Social discord exist in the rural society.



Ø Poor communication network.



Ø No cold storage facilities exist, hence their fruit/agriculture products suffer.



WAY AHEAD !



State Govt should ensure that all rural villages are provided with basic amenities like



approach road, drinking water and electricity.



Ø Basic Primary Health Care Centres are made available in the rural areas with availability of



medicines and doctors.



Ø Govt waste land be given to the poor to cultivate for their living.



Ø Availability of local market to their sale their product and also availability of modern



farming technique/precision agriculture tools.



Ø Reduce domestic violence/abuse through awareness by the NGOs/print and media



coverage.



Ø Adoption of children by other social communities. Rules to be relaxed by the State Govt.



Ø Curb on human right violations. No violation be accepted.



Ø Law of Land must be followed in true spirit.



Ø Environmental rights be safe guarded for a better tomorrow awareness.



Ø State and non-state actors role be checked so that, they do not commit human right



abuses. (like NGOs and MNCs) in the remote villages.



Ø Govt should ensure effective “Community Activities” on personal, legal, health, education



and sanitation projects to bring awareness to the women folks.



Ø Compulsory posting of health educators and health workers in each and every remote



village in the valley.





OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE



OPTION – I



Ø J&K State Govt with the help of central aid takes up this “CORE” problem i.e. addressing by providing them the basic living amenities so as to lead a comfortable and content life, thereby, making a positive impact on the male member’s psychology, this will in long run help in improving the present situation in the crisis torn valley.



or else



OPTION – II



Ø The Army takes over the responsibility to address this core issue through its ongoing “ Op Sadbhawana”. TA Bn (girls) be raised by the Central Govt wherein, the enrolment for ladies and girls from the Kashmir Valley are enrolled with minimum 10+2 education std. These girls then teach the illiterate rural community the various facets of healthy, clean and hygienic life. All Govt development pgmes are executed through this girls TA Bn in a planned/phased manner.



If not, then



OPTION – III



Ø A combination of the above two, wherein, both the State Govt and the Army in the valley creates a “Composite Organisation”, wherein, eminent civilian personalities with the senior medical lady officer of the Armed Forces work on the enhancement of rural women in the Kashmir Valley.



Ø Govt/Non Govt/NGOs organisation are co-opted in the above composite organisation, so that, maximum benefits is derived from them, for the welfare of the women.



LASTLY !



A little sincere efforts by the Govt and the society can see a Happy/Prosperous/Smiling Kashmir]]> <![CDATA[Haripur nuclear power - how to fake the bews]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=104 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:08:17 +0000 rcscwc]]> https://india-forum.com/showthread.php?tid=104


TOI reports that 25,000 farmers depend for livelihood on these 5,000 acres, families come extra. Farmers ALONE give a population density of 6,250 per sq. km, against 904 for the whole of the state. Compare it against 12,000 for Delhi.



Which cities are located on acres? Is the news FAKE? But whatever the case, fate of the complex is sealed, same as Tata Nano project. No go.



Can India hope to industrialise like that?]]>


TOI reports that 25,000 farmers depend for livelihood on these 5,000 acres, families come extra. Farmers ALONE give a population density of 6,250 per sq. km, against 904 for the whole of the state. Compare it against 12,000 for Delhi.



Which cities are located on acres? Is the news FAKE? But whatever the case, fate of the complex is sealed, same as Tata Nano project. No go.



Can India hope to industrialise like that?]]>