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chhattisgarh-net Messages In This Digest (7 Messages) 1a. Re: Killing of 6 innocent tribals by From: yashwant ramteke 2. The Secret Suicide Pact From: Shubhranshu Choudhary 3. 36garh Diary | 29 August | 2009 From: CGNet 4. Cong mulls NAC revival with Sonia as chief From: CGNet 5. Off topic : PMO has 28,685 secret files, none made public this year From: CGNet 6. Community Guide to anti Mining campaigns From: Xavier Dias 7. India's failed monsoon worst since 1972 From: Rishi Pathania View All Topics | Create New Topic Messages 1a. Re: Killing of 6 innocent tribals by Posted by: "yashwant ramteke" yash_ramt...@yahoo.co.in Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:26 am (PDT) [Attachment(s) from yashwant ramteke included below] Dear friends, According to today's Navabharat, Bastar edition (page 12) Naxals have issued a letter giving death sentence to 4 police officers in Bastar for "killing 8 innocent tribals in Operation Greenhunt on August 9, 2009". According to Navbharat, Bastar West division commander of CPI Maoist Madvi Sujata has written in the letter that there was no naxal camp in the Vechapal area where police had claimed of killing 8 maoists in Operation Greenhunt. According to the letter all the killed were innocent villagers The death threat has been given to IG Bastar Mr Longkumer, DIG Mr Kalluri and SPs of Bijapur and Dantewada Mr Mohapatra and Mr Mishra I have attached a note based on the Navbaharat report in Kruti Dev 011 font regards Yashwant {Moderators Note : If you do not have Kruti Dev 011 font then a PDF version of the rough write up based on the Navbharat article can be found at the URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chhattisgarh-net/files/Green%20Hunt%20maoist%20threat%20letter.pdf ( If you do not have a yahoo account then use ID : group36garh@yahoo.co.in Password : raipur to access the file More on these killings can also be read in the Tehelka article by Himanshu Kumar at http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne290809havoc_and.asp } Attachment(s) from yashwant ramteke 1 of 1 File(s) 27 news for press release Dantewwada.doc Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (5) 2. The Secret Suicide Pact Posted by: "Shubhranshu Choudhary" s...@cgnet.in Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:54 am (PDT) *The Secret Suicide Pact * *Vidarbha claims an occasional burst of attention, but unknown to most, Chhattisgarh has become India’s largest farmer graveyard, writes **SHRIYA MOHAN* [image: image] *Loss beyond words* Hemram Yadav’s children refuse to reveal why their father killed himself in 2006 *PHOTOS*: VIJAY PANDEY CHHATTISGARH HAS for long been in the national eye for its Naxal threat. But few know of its other grave crisis that has been kept carefully under wraps – that its farmers have been silently killing themselves for nearly a decade now. Five states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh — account for just a third of the country’s population but twothirds of the India’s farmers’ suicides. The number of farmers who have committed suicide in India between 1997 and 2007 now stands at a staggering 1,82,936 according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a wing of the Union home ministry. When Chhattisgarh became an independent state in 2001, for the first time NCRB compiled data for it separately, recording an alarming 1,452 farmer suicides in the state in that year. For every one lakh people, seven farmers killed themselves. In comparison, Maharashtra saw four farmer suicides for every one lakh of its population in the same year. To offer an even better comparison, take Maharashtra’s farmer suicide capital, Vidarbha, with 1.5 lakh fewer people and roughly the size of Chhattisgarh. While Vidarbha saw the most farmer suicides in 2006, with 1,065 farmers killing themselves, Chhattisgarh saw 1,483 the same year and 1,593 the next year. Yet, while Vidarbha’s suicides made national headlines, Chhattisgarh is in denial till date. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=cr050909the_secret.asp Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 3. 36garh Diary | 29 August | 2009 Posted by: "CGNet" cgnet...@gmail.com Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:45 pm (PDT) Dear friends, Pls find the 36garh Diary for 29th August 2009. This contains links to the news items related to Chhattisgarh from today's newspapers. http://cgnet.in/Med/diary/atdocument.2009-08-29.3248373018 Pls let us know how do you find it and we are also looking for volunteers who can help us make 36garh Diaries. We will be very keen to help you learn how to make them regards Moderators Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 4. Cong mulls NAC revival with Sonia as chief Posted by: "CGNet" cgnet...@gmail.com Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:45 pm (PDT) Cong mulls NAC revival with Sonia as chief PTI 29 August 2009, 03:46am IST NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the Supreme Court judgment validating an amendment to network the law that had been legislated to protect MPs from disqualification for holding certain offices of profit, Congress has began to explore the possibility of resurrecting the National Advisory Council with party president Sonia Gandhi as its chairperson. After Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan’s disqualification in 2006 under Article 102 of the Constitution for holding an office of profit under the UP government, all parties unanimously agreed to amend Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959 to exempt 40-odd offices from the purview of office of profit that helped around 50 MPs to retain membership in the last Lok Sabha. However, Sonia chose to defuse the political storm over her being chair of the NAC and resigned the post and also quit as LS MP. Her gambit worked very well and she recontested only to win by a huge margin. However, as the amendment was challenged in the Supreme Court by two PILs, she had expressed disinclination to head the NAC before the SC gave its verdict. Immediately after the clear mandate from SC validating the amendment, serious discussions on the judgment were held among top party leaders and it was suggested that NAC be resurrected with Sonia as chairperson. The legal validity of such a move is also being examined closely. Now, bringing the NAC back to life can be a viable project though Congress leaders feel it will be worthwhile only if Sonia were to head it. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Cong-mulls-NAC-revival-with-Sonia-as-chief/articleshow/4947061.cms Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 5. Off topic : PMO has 28,685 secret files, none made public this year Posted by: "CGNet" cgnet...@gmail.com Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:46 pm (PDT) PMO has 28,685 secret files, none made public this year Himanshi Dhawan, TNN 28 August 2009, 12:36am IST NEW DELHI: What steps does the government follow while deciding to declassify its old secret documents? You may never get to know since the manual that details the declassification process in the country is itself marked confidential. Meanwhile, the PMO has admitted it has 28,685 secret files but has not declassified any this year. The Indian government's arbitrariness and complete lack of transparency regarding classified material is in sharp contrast to the international practice of making secret files public after 25-30 years. Some countries declassify their documents after just 10 years. While the government says it makes files public after 25 years, the policy remains largely on paper. In response to an RTI query, the PMO said it had declassified 37 files in 2007, 25 files in 2008 and none in 2009. However, even these declassified records cannot be accessed by a bonafide researcher, let alone an ordinary citizen, as the material continues to be housed in the PMO and has so far not been transferred to the NAI. ``If the records continue to be held by PMO, there can be no access to such material. Proper and time-bound declassification is in national interest,'' said Anuj Dhar from endthesecrecy.com. Dhar, along with Chandrachur Ghose, has been campaigning for transparency in administration through regular declassification of records. Ghose had filed the RTI application seeking information on the government's declassification policy. In response, the PMO said, ``Declassification of files is done as per the manual of departmental security instructions issued by the ministry of home affairs. The ministry has marked this manual as confidential and has declined to provide it.'' The Public Record Rules, 1997, state that records that are 25 years or more must be preserved in the NAI and that no records can be destroyed without being recorded or reviewed. On paper, it's mandatory for each department to prepare a half-yearly report on reviewing and weeding of records and submit it to the NAI. The rules also stipulate that no public records which are more than 25 years old can be destroyed by any agency unless it is appraised. RTI activists, however, complain that these rules are rarely followed. While the PMO says the declassification process is ``continuous'', its response on the number of files that have been declassified inspires little confidence. Only one file was declassified in 2005 and two in 2006. Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative programme coordinator Venkatesh Nayak, who had also filed a RTI asking for the manual of departmental security instructions, was denied the information as well. The matter is at present before CIC. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/PMO-has-28685-secret-files-none-made-public-this-year/articleshow/4942811.cms Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 6. Community Guide to anti Mining campaigns Posted by: "Xavier Dias" reachxd...@gmail.com Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:12 am (PDT) [Attachment(s) from Xavier Dias included below] hello all, speaking of community guide to anti-mining campaigns, here is a good one that comes out of the experience of indigenous communities in Latin America fighting mining corporations. am not suggesting that this will be helpful and new information to all, but is worth a flip through. ciao, nity Attachment(s) from Xavier Dias 1 of 1 File(s) Guide for Communities-lowres.pdf Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 7. India's failed monsoon worst since 1972 Posted by: "Rishi Pathania" rishipatha...@hotmail.com   rishipathania Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:16 am (PDT) India's failed monsoon worst since 1972 Fri, Aug 28 08:27 PM India's monsoon rains may improve next month but are still set to be the worst in four decades, and the slow filling of reservoirs is putting winter crops and power supplies at risk. Monsoon rains, the lifeline for farms that support more that half of India's 1.1 billion people, have been patchy this year and about 40 percent of India's districts are drought-hit. The head of the weather office, Ajay Tyagi, said September rainfall will improve, but the four-month season since June would still be about 20 percent below normal, making it the worst since 1972, when there was also a severe El Nino phenomenon in which changes in sea temperature in the Pacific Ocean affects weather. Low rains have ravaged India's rice crop and hit soybean, cane and groundnut, and disrupted the flow into the main reservoirs that are vital for hydropower generation and winter irrigation. "Water storage in reservoirs is a very good regionalised and robust indicator of realistic rainfall in the vast catchment. It is a much better and practical parameter as compared to point estimate measured by rain-gauges," the farm ministry said. Reservoirs are important for hydropower, which accounts for a quarter of India's generation capacity of about 150,000 megawatts. They also provide water to irrigate winter crops. CROP DAMAGE A 19 percent rain deficit in 2002 reduced India's summer-sown harvest by 22 percent and the output of winter-sown crops by 13 percent. This year, the cane crop in the top producing state of Uttar Pradesh is expected to shrink about 16 percent because of drought in most parts of the region, raising prospects of large raw sugar imports by the world's top consumer of the sweetener. Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said the sugar industry had agreed to provide more sugar at lower prices during the festival season in the next two months to rein in prices. India's soybean output may drop as much as 19 percent in the new season because of failed monsoon rains, reducing soymeal export deals to a trickle, traders and industry officials said on Friday. "We expect about 8-9 million tonnes output," said Sandeep Bajoria, chief executive of Mumbai-based trading firm Sunvin Group and past head of many trade bodies including the Central Organisation for Oil Industry and Trade. That amounts to a fall of 9 to 19 percent from last year's production of 9.6 tonnes, and compares with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's estimate of 10 million tonnes earlier this month. Traders said India's soymeal sales had slowed down because of doubts over the harvest, after the worst monsoon in seven years. (Additional reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav) Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity  7 New Members  1 New Files Visit Your Group Yahoo! Finance It's Now Personal Guides, news, advice & more. Weight Management Group on Yahoo! Groups Join the challenge and lose weight. Yahoo! Groups Mental Health Zone Learn about issues Find support Need to Reply? Click one of the "Reply" links to respond to a specific message in the Daily Digest. 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