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Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:52 am (PST)
trafficking of tribal women from north cg is a serious problem and definitely needs to be discussed along with other gender issues.
Rahul Banerjee
74,Krishnodayanagar ,Khandwa naka,Indore,Madhya Pradesh, India-452001
Cell no: +919926791773
webpage: http://rahulbanerjee.notlong.com
blog: http://anar-kali.blogspot.com
--- On Tue, 24/2/09, vijendra Aznabi <vij...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: vijendra Aznabi <vij...@gmail.com>
Subject: [chhattisgarh-net] Re: Annual meet of CGnet at Bilaspur area
To: chhattisgarh-n...@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 24 February, 2009, 10:32 AM
Can we devote one session to Women's issue in Chhattisgarh.
Especially, having discussion on Girl trafficking in North CG,
violence on women, and seeing NREGA, right to food schemes and Forest
Rights from Women perspective.
Vijendra
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Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:53 am (PST)
Dear friends,
A couple of days ago had posted details about the harassment of Shamim
Modi of the Shramik Adivasi Sanghathan, Harda, Madhya Pradesh.
Please sign this petition in her support.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Shamim/petition.html
in solidarity,
Laxmi
Women's Resource Centre
Above Unit 105-108
Defence Colony Flyover Market
New Delhi 100 024
Please note that our email address has changed. Write to us at
saheliwomen@gmail.com
- 3a.
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Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:54 am (PST)
the nirmal gram awards are an even bigger hoax than the nrega where there is still some monitoring going on. a decent toilet in which one would like to sit and shit and that would also not contaminate the underground water needs atleast Rs 15000 to build. but the subsidy being provided is only Rs 2000. consequently a very shoddy toilet is built which is rarely used. and where it is used it seriously contaminates the ground water leading to diseases and loss of earnings much greater than when the people are defecating in the open.
Rahul Banerjee
74,Krishnodayanagar ,Khandwa naka,Indore,Madhya Pradesh, India-452001
Cell no: +919926791773
webpage: http://rahulbanerjee.notlong.com
blog: http://anar-kali.blogspot.com
--- On Tue, 24/2/09, Pravin Patel <reachppatel@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Pravin Patel <reachppatel@yahoo.com>
Subject: [chhattisgarh-net] Re:NREGS: CAG slams Chhatisgarh govt
To: chhattisgarh-n...@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 24 February, 2009, 1:22 PM
Dear all
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the performance of the state in NREGA indicates that the award that was given to the Chhattisgarh for its excellence in implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, (NREGA) was based on the false information that the state had submitted to the union rural development ministry.
Let me go one step ahead. I believe the state has expertise in how to hide the facts and not only that, how to decorate it so that it not only sounds better but becomes award winning stuff. Dantewada district is the worst hit with violence, over 700 villages destroyed, three and half lakh tribals displaced with government confirming only 47,000 with them. The district has the highest number of illiterates and below poverty line people in the state but for reading, the District Collector gets the President´s Award. I doubt that the district collector has got the reward to hide the Salwa Judum facts.
Now let us talk about Bastar District where also the collector got the award of the President of India, for sanitary cleanness program or so. But an investigation will prove how hollow those reports are. I strongly believe that to suffocate the voice the tribals who are desperately trying to protect their property rights, the way, the voice of the tribals is crushed by making mockery of the Panchayat Extension of Schedule Area Act, the collector has been rewarded. I bet, let an independent investigation be made, truth will surface the way it has surfaced in NREGA.
We already know what has happened into the road construction where hanky funky deal with very poor quality road has come out with the central investigation team. Chhattisgarh has become the biggest grazing and hunting ground where any body from any where in the world can do what eve r they want to do but still manage to show clean faces and win awards.
Take any other chapter, Sarva Siksha Abhiuyan, Sam Vikas Yojna and Nava Anjhor where an independent audit will show more corrupt faces to the public. Chhattisgarh has expertised in how to project falsehood and win awards.
That is why we must say, Mera Chhattisgarh Mahan.
Pravin Patel
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Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:08 am (PST)
Soldier, dancer, doc: Many roles of women Naxals
22 Feb 2009, 0129 hrs IST, TNN
SOUTH BASTAR: Eighteen-year-old Radha looks too young to be called a
comrade. But there's no mistaking the gun she swings over her shoulder.
Radha's desire to be a part of the ongoing festivities in Dandakarnya
forest's Bhumkal divas is almost infectious. But it is a measure of her
guerrilla discipline that she skips the festivities until her sentry duty is
over.
For all her teenager-enthusiasm, Radha carries the significant mantle of
being a third-generation Naxal fighter. Her grandfather joined the rebels
and his two sons followed suit. Radha, her older brother and a sister are
gun-toting comrades, familiar with the terrain, comfortable with their way
of life.
There are several young girl comrades in this group. On the one hand
innocent, on the other trained to shoot and debilitate, these girls are a
strange mix of girly behaviour and warrior grit. Comrade Soni, 18,
transforms from soldier in olive
fatigues to
a dancer in a red-and-white sari, her gun resting on the ground as she
takes to the stage, with the intensity of a focused soldier.
Not everyone is in fatigues here, although all the women are trained
fighters. Comrade Sanjini for one doesn't wear the olive uniform and could
pass off as any other tribal woman if it weren't for the black plastic
holster she casually slings over her right shoulder. Sanjini heads the
chetna natya manch. As head, she reworks traditional Gondi
songs to
include Red lyrics.
To each his peace, and these women find peace in their fight against the
State. No matter the risk to their lives or the sacrifices they make, these
women are almost fierce in asserting that this is the chosen way of life.
Comrades Sanjeev, Sonai and Ranita were injured in an encounter. Comrade
Janila's was the first stop they made. Fluent in Gondi and barely able to
speak Hindi, Janila is the resident
doctor-nurse.
As part of the Doctor Squad, she tends to the injured trio, dresses their
wounds and gives them ''ampicillin injections''. She rejects a safer life.
''I would never have been happy raising
children and
tending to the fields. I have greater control over my life here.
Working
for the party, for the people is the life I enjoy,'' she states.
For the only married woman we met, Comrade Roopi is a picture in contrast.
Tall and lean, the bespectacled Roopi is from Andhra Pradesh and her Naxal
husband is with another cadre. She does not want to talk about the life she
has left behind.
''It's been six years since I saw my mother. I do miss her,'' she says but
is quick to add that it would be the same if she were working in some other
city. Her role as educator involves daily classes with the tribal locals,
where she teaches Maoist philosophy. She tells them, she says, of how
imperialist forces have oppressed them, looted their forests and destroyed
their way of life. The present day government is equally oppressive, she
adds.
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Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:09 am (PST)
3,000 ex-Maoists line up to join Chiranjeevi party
22 Feb 2009, 0539 hrs IST, TNN
HYDERABAD: Hundreds of former naxalites, who jettisoned the Maoist
movement in the last ten years, will join the Prajarajyam Party on February
24.
According to party sources, around 3,000 former militants of various
factions of the CPI (ML) and CPI (Maoist) will join the newly-floated party
in Hyderabad in the presence of PRP chief Chiranjeevi and Yuvarajyam
president Pavan Kalyan.
This was the culmination of around six months of hardwork to mobilise the
former rebels and bring them into PRP. The association of Marxist-Leninist
singer Gadar and other pro-naxal intellectuals with the actor are said to
have coordinated the move.
First meeting of the former naxalites was organised in Guntur in December
last attended by over 800 people. The meeting was addressed by Dr P Mitra,
party's senior leader.
"In fact we wanted to organise a meeting in each district. But, due to
logistic reasons and lack of time, a state-level meeting is planned in
Hyderabad on February 24," former People's War activist I Satyanarayana told
STOI.
Satyanarayana, a native of Guntur, was a member of the erstwhile Radical
Youth League. He quit the extremist organisation due to personal reasons.
"Even though thousands of people left the movement long ago they are not
able to lead a peaceful life because of the hostile attitude of the police
and lack of support from the government. So, they feel only PRP can restore
a sense of security among them," Satyanarayana said.
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Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:09 am (PST)
*Caught in the Naxal-government crossfire *
* NDTV
*Saturday, February 21, 2009, (Gadchiroli (Maharashtra)) A change of mood is
evident in Gadchiroli district, once the heart of the Naxal movement in
Maharashtra. Villagers who at one time sent their sons into the Naxal
movement are witnessing a change of heart.
But the movement clearly does not seem to be weakening. It's acquiring a
wider base going by the Naxal encounter in which 15 policemen were killed
earlier in February. So where does Naxalism continue to derive its strength
from? "The Naxals have guns. So do the police. The Naxals come with guns and
frighten us. So do the police. What have we done? We look after the jungles,
we depend on it for our livelihood and we live in it," said Kanubai Shimpi,
a resident. The sentiment is not uncommon in Naxal terrains.
A journalist travelling to these parts often hears how villagers are caught
in the crossfire. The situation is same in the red corridor of Gadchiroli,
where for generations, families have sent their sons into the Naxal
movement. Since the Naxal encounter in February, eight villagers have been
rounded up and the entire settlement is under watch. "This is not our fault.
It's the fault of the Naxals. We had nothing to do with this encounter. If
we listen to the Naxals we lose out. We don't listen to them anymore.
They punish us by not letting us cut bamboo from the forests," said Bainabai
Husendi, resident, Markegaon village. A reaction which until recently would
have been unthinkable of from villages like Markegaon, which are traditional
Naxal strongholds. In neighbouring Mardya too, simmering anger against Naxal
impositions. "They don't let the roads get built. They don't let us earn a
living.
They prevent EGS Schemes from being set up. Because of them the road in this
village is still not built. They have been around 25-30 years, but we have
not got any benefits out of their movement," said Bhaskar Kadem, Mardya
resident. "Earlier they would come with guns and insist we give them food
and shelter. We would agree out of fear. Now the village has decided that we
will die but will not support them.
They threatened us when we took this stand. But when they came to the
village our women stood in front and said kill us but we won't let you harm
our men. After some time they stopped coming," said Shivaji Norute,
resident, Mardya village. In this opposition by villagers, officers like
Rajesh Pradhan, Superintendent of Police at Gadchiroli, have found a
foothold. "In the last four to five years, we have started many innovative
concepts like 'Gaonbandi' and 'Jan Jaagran' where police camp in villages
for 10 days with different government departments, and offer them schemes
and certificates for jobs. Surrender policy had paid off, more than 140 had
surrendered.
This is not due to just administration. People have also realised that the
talk which has been going on for 25 years has not happened on the ground,
the Janta Sarkar, the Utopian ideologue, not happening," said Rajesh
Pradhan. Many Naxals like Suresh Harami have also left the movement. "They
give speeches on people's rights, but don't practice it. Earlier if
villagers were suspected of supporting the police, they would be given a
warning and then tried in a people's court. Now they just enter a village
and kill them," said Suresh.
Then how has Naxalism not shown any signs of weakening, spreading its base,
taking on the might of the state? "Today no one can say openly they are
associated with the movement," said Susan Abraham, Human Rights lawyer.
Susan Abharam spent nine years in the region as a labour activist. Her
husband, now in jail, was accused of being a Naxal. She says tribals and
villagers continue to support the movement even if it is only because these
regions are so underdeveloped.
"Why is it that you don't hear of starvation deaths in Gadchiroli, but you
do from neighbouring Melghat. It may not address many issues but there is an
emphasis on primary health, primary education and to oppose established
levels of exploitation," said Susan. "If development is coming in any form
to this region, it's coming in the form of roads because it easier for
security forces to move. But if there is development in terms of health and
education, it's because of what the Naxals have been doing," said Bernard
D'Mello, deputy editor, Economic & Political Weekly. Whether the Naxals have
done enough on the ground in terms of health and education is debatable, but
the movement seems to have brought visibility.
"When I was a small girl there was no school and no hospital in my village.
When someone fell sick they got no treatment. Now that has changed. They
made the government aware that villages like ours exist," said Lakshmi, a
surrendered Naxal. When we visited Gadchiroli the villagers are angry that
policemen have been killed on their land. Just a few weeks later, many of
them took to the streets, angry because Tribal Welfare Minister Vijay
Wadettivar threw a file at a villager who was asking for her dues. It's in
this grey area, this sense that neither the government nor the Naxals will
unconditionally support them; that Naxalism in former strongholds like
Gadchiroli manages to find some shadow of support.
(NDTV 22/2/09)
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Posted by: "Shubhranshu Choudhary"
s...@cgnet.in
Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:59 am (PST)
75 Naxal-affected districts covered under Home Affairs Min: Jaiswal
*New Delhi, Feb 25 : The Government today clarified that contrary to
reports that there were 55 Naxalite-affected districts, 75 districts were at
present covered under the
Security< http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-100062.html#>Related
Expenditure scheme of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
*
Minister of State for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal said in a written
reply in the Rajya Sabha that for focused attention for security and
development, 33 districts in eight states had been taken up for planning,
implementation and monitoring of development schemes.
Further, a task force on left wing extremism had been set up under the
Cabinet < http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-100062.html#> Secretary
''to coordinate and oversee the efforts of the various development
Ministries'' , he added.
--- UNI
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