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chhattisgarh-net Messages In This Digest (5 Messages) 1a. Re: Legal grounds, book on laws/policies relating to natural resourc From: rahul 2. Fwd: Lunch with BS: Narendra Jadhav From: Xavier Dias 3. Meeting India's tree planting guru From: sri venkat 4. National Motorsports SuperCross Bike Racing at Raipur on 4th October From: Ujjwal Deepak 5a. Re: 55% kids in MP malnourished From: op goel View All Topics | Create New Topic Messages 1a. Re: Legal grounds, book on laws/policies relating to natural resourc Posted by: "rahul" aaroh...@yahoo.com   aarohini Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:21 am (PDT) thanx. look forward to reading it. 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 ________________________________ From: Nandini Sundar <nandinisundar@yahoo.com> To: chhattisgarh-n...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, 19 September, 2009 17:33:10 Subject: Re: [chhattisgarh-net] Legal grounds, book on laws/policies relating to natural resources in Jharkhand This chapter is entirely on PESA and deals with the legal arguments in the high court as well as supreme court. Framing the Political Imagination: Custom, Democracy and Citizenship --- On Sat, 9/19/09, rahul <aaroh...@yahoo. com> wrote: From: rahul <aaroh...@yahoo. com> Subject: Re: [chhattisgarh- net] Legal grounds, book on laws/policies relating to natural resources in Jharkhand To: chhattisgarh- n...@yahoogroups. com Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 1:50 AM from the blurb and the contents it seems that the non enactment of PESA and in fact the non holding of panchayat elections in Jharkhand has not been discussed in the book. this is a sordid ongoing saga which as usual is now stuck in the supreme court with no end in sight ( the SC has reserved its judgment and seems to be in no hurry to deliver it) and it has an important bearing on the state of affairs prevailing there. please clarify. Rahul Banerjee 74,Krishnodayanagar ,Khandwa naka,Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India-452001 Cell no: +919926791773 webpage: http://rahulbanerje e.notlong. com blog: http://anar- kali.blogspot. com Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (4) 2. Fwd: Lunch with BS: Narendra Jadhav Posted by: "Xavier Dias" reachxd...@gmail.com Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:22 am (PDT) *Lunch with BS: *Narendra Jadhav 'Caste' in different roles Latha Jishnu / New Delhi August 11, 2009, 0:56 IST Also Read Related Stories News Now - Panel to complete mid-term review of 11th Plan<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/panel-to-complete-mid-term-review11th-plan/17/33/363413/> - Pune varsity becomes first to go international<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pune-varsity-becomes-first-to-go-international/17/33/359687/> - IDBI to securitise infra loans worth Rs 1,000 cr<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/idbi-to-securitise-infra-loans-worth-rs-1000-cr/17/33/366545/> - PM forms committee to expedite road projects<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pm-forms-committee-to-expedite-road-projects/17/33/366480/> - Montek meets PM, reviews price situation<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/montek-meets-pm-reviews-price-situation/17/33/366380/> - Trai seeks financial details of broatcasters<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/trai-seeks-financial-detailsbroatcasters/17/33/70231/on> Also Read Related Stories News Now - Sensex continues winning streak<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sensex-continues-winning-streak/73856/on> - IMF approves sale of some of its gold<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/imf-approves-salesomeits-gold/73888/on> - NAM, block politics outdated and irrelevant: US<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nam-block-politics-outdatedirrelevant-us/73887/on> - Maha polls: Sena to contest 169, BJP 119 seats<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/maha-polls-sena-to-contest-169-bjp-119-seats/73886/on> - Israel wants US to prevent Iran from acquiring N-weapons<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/israel-wants-us-to-prevent-iranacquiring-n-weapons/73885/on> More<http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-narendra-jadhav/366522/bsheadline.php> The former central banker who has headed India�s largest university and run the Afghan economy is now finalising plans to shake up India�s education sector Food can be a distraction when people simply want to talk. And talk a lot. So it�s just as well that newly-inducted member of the Planning Commission *Narendra Jadhav* decides we will lunch in his smartly refurbished room at Yojana Bhavan on New Delhi�s Sansad Marg, saving us plenty of time and precluding the dilemma of what to order from tantalising a la carte menus, writes *Latha Jishnu*. [image: Narendra Jadhav]Jadhav�s efficient secretary Sudha Rajagopal appears familiar with her boss�s lunch preferences and has ordered dosas from the Coffee Board�s outlet in the Planning Commission office to start with, followed by a grilled cheese and onion sandwich from Quick Bites which offers the illusion of choice to those who want a break from south Indian fare. Lunch in this government office turns out to be unexpectedly pleasant. We are seated at a small table by the window which boasts clear glass and has an elegant rolled up *chik *instead of the standard issue curtains. There are fresh white flowers on the dining table and a view of sorts, so it doesn�t matter if the dosa is in an advanced stage of rigor mortis. Every bit of the makeover, from the faux antique occasional table to the chairs, has been decided by Jadhav himself between trips to Pune where he has just relinquished charge as Vice Chancellor of the University of Pune and talking assignments in different towns. �I like to oversee the smallest detail so that the result is just right,� says this economist who has spent most of his working life (31 years) in the staid Reserve Bank of India which he left as principal adviser and chief economist. He is finalising plans to shake up education, specially higher education, with lessons gleaned from his two-year stint in Pune. He is also mulling ways of creating an army of white collar workers in the country, people who are employable and useful to the economy. For Jadhav, the vice-chancellorship was his breaking out assignment, the perfect job for a central banker seeking a more public role that would give him popular leverage. When the job was offered to him in 2006 he was in Afghanistan where he had been sent by USAID as the country�s chief economic counsellor. He was leading a team of economists who were formulating fiscal and monetary policy for the war-ravaged country, fixing interest rates, the interest rates and �generally running the country�s economy,� as he tells you with an amused glint in his eye. That, I learn over the course of this lively but unusual lunch, is a marked Jadhav trait. He likes to throw in such hubris-laden statements unmindful of their impact because he revels in his achievements and accomplishments. And as he admits candidly, �modesty has never been my forte.� Despite the power and pelf of the Kabul job (he was getting Rs 1.24 crore a year), he couldn�t resist the chance to become the VC of Pune University which, he never tires of reminding audiences, is the largest traditional university in the world with 650,000 students, 536 affiliated graduate colleges and 330 recognised institutes. But the real reason he took the assignment (with a 95 per cent cut in his salary) is personal. �Pune is a place of rednecks and I was keen to go there as the Pope,� declares Jadhav with unconcealed delight. Not too long ago it was the seat of the Peshwas, the hub of a caste-ridden society where �my folk were humiliated and mistreated for their accident of birth.� There is the slightest rise in pitch as Jadhav relates how �my ancestors had to go around with a pot strung around their neck so that their spittle would not pollute the ground and with a broom tied to their waists to wipe out their footprints.� So the caste thing is out, and I am relieved that I did not have to broach the subject of his caste myself. The fact that Narendra Jadhav is a Dalit may be irrelevant to his academic and professional achievements but remains central to his narrative. In the future it may become even more important. Critics say he has played the caste card to get where he is, but Jadhav gets testy when asked about it. �I wasn�t even made deputy governor, for heaven�s sake. So what are they talking about?� True, he made a splash with his books on his Dalit family, a story that has been published in many languages, from Marathi to Korean, French and Italian, and has gone into many editions. *Untouchables *(published abroad) is an international bestseller while *Outcaste: A Memoir *brought the remarkable saga of the Jadhav family � he is the first generation to go to attend school � to a wide audience here. It is the Dalit factor that makes Jadhav of special interest to the political parties. What he did at the RBI or for the Ethiopian government in the 1980s is irrelevant in this context. Jadhav has a certain way with the crowds with his earthy Marathi speeches � he got unprecedented crowds whenever he held public meetings as the VC � and his innovative schemes at Pune University which took academia to the villages have made him a popular figure in Pune. But the big draw for political parties, the reason why they are all keen to flaunt him is the Narendra Jadhav success story. �It is what I represent � the symbol of hope for a large mass of Indian society that is waging a battle against prejudice, illiteracy and disempowerment,� he says. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a father-figure (�he treats me like the son he does not have�) and friend since the time Jadhav worked with him when he was governor of the RBI in the early 1980s, lauds him as such. So would it be easy for Jadhav the Dalit icon to turn into a politician leveraging the caste advantage? �I am a people�s person,� he claims, �and without the people factor I�d be lost.� That�s an odd statement from a central banker who spent three decades and more writing on economic issues � he has 11 scholarly books and close to 100 papers to his credit � and championing Manmohan Singh�s liberalisation policy, but Jadhav was evidently honing these skills during his time at the RBI. In the past five years, parties have been wooing him but his political career is now on hold. He refused a Congress ticket in 2004 because he wasn�t ready for the plunge, but lost his chance this year owing to the battle for seats between Sharad Pawar�s NCP and the Congress. Mayawati is keen on a Dalit of his stature and is known to have offered to put him up from a seat of his choice, while the BJP had offered to make him their Pune candidate. The Planning Commission assignment is seen as the Congress Party�s recompense for having yielded Pune to the NCP (which lost the seat to the Shiv Sena, incidentally). But Jadhav is keen to correct the impression that it is a staging post for political career. �I am delighted with my Planning Commission portfolio,� he says �because education in particular is critical for India at this juncture than at any other time because of the demographic dividend we can earn.� As Jadhav dilates on the challenges of his portfolio (it includes labour, employment, sports and youth affairs along with art and culture) we dig into an amazingly pink concoction of ice cream with generous helping of fruits to round off the meal. It comes from Kool Corner, the outlet which meets Yojana Bhavan�s craving for dessert, and helps me sweeten my last question. Would he plump for a political future or bide his chance to become the RBI governor and put the first Dalit signature on the India�s currency? Jadhav�s response is characteristic: Does it have be an either or choice? Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 3. Meeting India's tree planting guru Posted by: "sri venkat" ahvenkit...@gmail.com   viji123 Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:22 am (PDT) http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/8257563.stm 19 September 2009 01:11 UK E-mail this to a friend <http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/email/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8257563.stm> Printable version <http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8257563.stm?ad=1> Meeting India's tree planting guru By Amarnath Tewary BBC News, Bihar [image: SM Raju with tree planters in Bihar] Mr Raju is single-handedly organising the re-forestation of his state (All pics: Prashant Ravi) *An Indian civil servant, SM Raju, has come up with a novel way of providing employment to millions of poor in the eastern state of Bihar.* His campaign to encourage people to plant trees effectively addresses two burning issues of the world: global warming and shrinking job opportunities. Evidence of Mr Raju's success could clearly be seen on 30 August, when he organised 300,000 villagers from over 7,500 villages in northern Bihar to engage in a mass tree planting ceremony. In doing so the agriculture graduate from Bangalore has provided "sustainable employment" to people living below the poverty line in Bihar. *'Lack of awareness'* Mr Raju has linked his "social forestry" programme to the central government's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) which is also designed to provide employment to poor people. [image: SM Raju] *I told the villagers that they would get 100 days employment in a year simply by planting trees and protecting them* SM Raju Under NREGA - initiated in February 2006 as the government's most ambitious employment generation scheme for poor people - the authorities are bound by law to provide a minimum of 100 days of employment a year to members of families living below the poverty line. About 44% of Bihar's population fall into this category. "The scheme has brought benefits to thousands of families since its implementation," said a recent International Labour Organisation report. But Mr Raju says that Bihar - being the poorest and most lawless state of India - has not been able to spend the allocated NREGA funds. "This is because of a lack of awareness among officials about the scheme," he said. The poor monsoon this year has led to lower agricultural outputs, while flash floods in some northern districts has made the situation even worse, he said. "So the idea struck to my mind, why not involve families below the poverty line in social forestry and give them employment under this scheme for 100 days? "Under the scheme, each family can earn a minimum of 10,200 rupees ($210)." *Target* The civil servant immediately made a blueprint of his idea and got the support of senior state officials. [image: Tree planiting in Bihar] Villagers throughout the state have planted thousands of saplings In June Mr Raju released a comprehensive booklet of "dos and don'ts" and distributed it to village heads and district officials. His initiative meant that NREGA funds were fully utilised - in the past this has not always been the case. "I told the villagers that they would get 100 days employment in a year simply by planting trees and protecting them. The old, handicapped and widows would be given preference," he explained. Every village council has now been given a target of planting 50,000 saplings - a group of four families has to plant 200 seedlings and they must protect them for three years till the plants grow more sturdy. "They would get the full payment if they can ensure the survival of 90% of the plants under their care. For a 75-80% survival rate, they will be paid only half the wage. If the survival rate is less than 75%, the families in the group will be replaced," the guidelines say. Under NREGA rules, each worker has to be paid 100 rupees ($2) per day for 100 days in a year. *Increase in funds* Mr Raju even came close to planting one billion saplings on a single day. [image: Tree planiting in Bihar] The scheme has become a huge success "I started preparing for this and motivating villagers by announcing the date as 30 August," he said. "The target for every village panchayat (council) was to plant 6,000 saplings from 6am to 6pm to achieve the target of one billion. At the end of the day, we found out that we were just just short of the target, but it was still a world record," the beaming civil servant said. Significantly, his scheme has even stopped the migration of poor labourers from the area in search of employment elsewhere during monsoon time. "We never thought we would get employment for planting trees and protecting them," said Paigambarpur village head Indra Bhusan, whose community - like many others - planted over 30,000 saplings mostly on both flanks of the 14km embankment which criss-crosses their village. The saplings planted are both fruit and non-fruit trees. The non-fruit seedlings have been planted on the banks of the embankment and on state and national highways - while fruit bearing trees are planted inside the villages. This year the central government has given more money to the scheme. Meanwhile, the Bihar civil servant is busy collecting the facts and figures to get his feat listed by Guinness World Records. "Bihar has edged out Pakistan from the record book," he said flashing a confident smile. "Its all become possible due to villagers. I owe them a lot." Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 4. National Motorsports SuperCross Bike Racing at Raipur on 4th October Posted by: "Ujjwal Deepak" ujjwal.dee...@gmail.com   deepakujwal Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:22 am (PDT) [Attachment(s) from Ujjwal Deepak included below] Dear All, Greetings from Chhattisgarh Motor Sports Association. Chhattisgarh MotorSports Association is organizing National Supercross Bike Racing 2009 at Science College Ground, Raipur Chhattisgarh on 3rd & 4th October 2009. Dept. of Sports and Youth Welfare and the Dept. of Tourism are extending their full support to organize this event. Participants from all across the country have confirmed their presence along with professional racing teams. Chhattisgarh Motor Sports Association is committed to promote motorsports in this part of the country and therefore is ready to go that extra mile to make the event happen. Chhattisgarh Motor Sports Association is privileged to have the honor of hosting the event after the successfull organization of Dirt Track Championships and TSD rally for two and Four Wheelers. The event is much awaited by the people and the media...and the motorsports enthusiasts of the state. Please find attached the creative of the event. May we Invite everybody along with family members for this thrilling event on 3rd and 4th October.... Regards, Ujjwal Deepak Secretary General, Chhattisgarh Motor Sports Association 0 97021 27000 Attachment(s) from Ujjwal Deepak 1 of 1 Photo(s) National SupeCross -Raipur.jpg Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 5a. Re: 55% kids in MP malnourished Posted by: "op goel" opg...@yahoo.com   opgoel Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:23 pm (PDT) dear rahul you have made an interesting but a very wild statement. kindly answer the following: 1. are the farmers under any pressure to grow soybeans? 2. what stops the farmers from growing different lentils if the prices of the same are many times that of soybeans? currently soybean is selling at rs17.00 per kg in the mandi where as the moong and urad are above rs50.00 per kg. 3. have the farmers benefitted by cultivating soybeans ? 4. should the farmers have the freedom to grow a crop of their choice or should they follow the advice of social activists like you? 5. if the cost of protein is calculated in rupee terms then soy protein is the cheapest. why is it not being given to the children in the tribal and rural areas? opgoel --- On Sat, 9/19/09, rahul <aaroh...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: rahul <aaroh...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [chhattisgarh-net] 55% kids in MP malnourished To: chhattisgarh-n...@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 11:36 AM the malnourishment is due to the excessive cultivation of soyabean which has driven out highly nutritive kharif crops like moong, udad, tuvar, chawla etc. these cheap sources of protein could be processed and eaten by the small and marginal farmers themselves. but now these have become so expensive that they cost around Rs 100 a kilo. soyabean is mainly cultivated for extracting its meal which is an important constituent of feed for beef cattle which provide protein to beef eating people. thus the cultivation of soyabean is basically depriving the poor in this country of a cheap source of protein to feed people elsewhere with a costly source of protein. it is a highly anti-social and anti-environment policy and a part of the disastrous agricultural policy that has been followed in this country for close to half a century now. �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 Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (3) Recent Activity  3 New Members Visit Your Group Yahoo! 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