[Assam] Prahar
Prahar (http://www.prahar.org/ ) : Aims & Objective of the Organization: i) To provide and encourage primary education among rural and Tea Tribes without any distinction of caste, creed, religion and gender. ii) To provide welfare schemes to the poor, widow, destitute women and children of rural tea garden, semi urban and urban areas. iii) To provide adequate training to the rural youths, women and girls for attaining leadership, discipline, determined and responsible citizen for social and common causes. iv) To open, form, establish, promote, set up, run, maintain, assist, finance, support and/or help the various community development programmes / activities and also construct and develop the community hall, sanitation, public roads, public cemetery, charitable dispensaries, libraries, reading room, short stay home, rest house and building / institution for use and welfare of the general public. v) To establish, promote, run, maintain, assist community health centre, day care centre, blood bank, ambulance service, de-addiction cum rehabilitation centre, care and support centre etc. for use and welfare of the general public. vi) To act as mediator society for micro finance, micro insurance & micro credits linkages and to bridge the gaps between the apex funding agencies, financial institutions, banking organization, development institution etc. and the under privileged people, Self Help Group (SHG) etc. & to procure, promote, take over and carry out insurance activities & act as corporate agent for such activities. vii) To establish, arrange, implement & construct facilities to develop condition of drinking water, low cost housing, low cost sanitation programms in rural semi Urban and Urban areas. viii) To start, establish, run, take over, arrange &/or manage production centre, vocational training centre, including computer training centre, fine arts, craft, handloom weaving, jute & handicrafts, music, painting, yoga & other vocational, professional and income generation subjects and activities. ( agriculture, animal husbandry, jute, bamboo craft, food processing & preservation etc. ) ix) To conduct, arrange, undertake, organize & implement various kind of child welfare programmes/ activities, assist and help child labour, labour welfare programmes. x) To start, maintain, assist, take over programme in relief measure in those parts which are/or become subject to natural calamities like famine, food poisoning, fire, flood, earthquake, cyclone etc. and establish any home, institution or society for the welfare of victims of natural calamities and / or to provide food / shelter welfare of victims of natural calamities and / or to provide food / shelter to any person from time to time. xi) To start, establish, arrange, maintain, organize and assist any welfare programme / project for upliftment of disabled, blind and physically handicapped person, street children and orphan. xii) To implement, arrange, provide, organize, assist medical camps such as health checkup, eye operation camp blood donation camp, mobile health programme, immunization programme, vasectomy, tubectomy, leprosy education, malaria prevention and provide assistance necessary for living to the needy person who are otherwise incapable or handicapped or mentally or physically retarded. xiii) To open, fund, establish, maintain and assist in leper asylum, old age home, orphan home, and other institutions for providing and helping poor, destitute, elderly person, widow and orphan of all faith and communities. xiv) To establish, arrange, organize, run agricultural production activities animal husbandry development, fishery development, supply of power tiller, agricultural machinery, tractor, irrigation appliances, seeds, fertilizers etc. xv) To organize procurement and marketing activities of agricultural, livestock, diary, poultry and ancillary product of the farmers and to construct its own storage facilities and to organize transport facility for the same. xvi) To organize, foster electronics usage, creation of employment in rural areas through the use of electronic products as well as electronic production, servicing and maintenance in rural areas. xvii) To implement, organize, monitor, arrange and collaborate in programmes on environmental awareness, forest, wildlife, pollution, environmental degradation, protest against cruelty to animals, creation of social forestry and to develop community and private non-forest waste lands for soil moisture conversation, plantation afforestation, horticulture, floriculture, herbarium and pasture development and other ecological development programmes etc. xviii) To popularize science & technology and to stimulate temper among people, students, weaker communities, scheduled caste/tribe women and others etc. and development of technology for improving the
Re: [Assam] Sentinel letter - a correction
"The powers that be & their ardent supporters are not really concerned with things like rule of law, fairness, and victims' rights only when they are at the receiving end." Should have read "The powers that be & their ardent supporters are really concerned with things like rule of law, fairness, and victims' rights only when they are at the receiving end." Sorry about the 'Not' coming in at the wrong time:-) --Ram On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Ram Sarangapani wrote: > Nice logical, passionate letter in today's Sentinel. The sad part is that > the author of this letter, Mr. Rajkhowa probably doesn't realize that his > appeal will most certainly fall on deaf ears. The powers that be & their > ardent supporters are not really concerned with things like rule of law, > fairness, and victims' rights only when they are at the receiving end. > > > Highlights mine. > > --Ram > > > *No Amnesty Please* > > A few days back, Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly PK Mahanta > told the media that the ULFA cadres coming overground should be granted > general amnesty. People have not forgotten the terror created by the > surrendered ULFA (SULFA) after they were granted amnesty by the Hiteswar > Saikia government. They were also allowed to retain their arms, with the > strength of which they opened a syndicate in all the businesses to collect > goonda tax. The law-abiding people have had enough of the taste of general > amnesty. > > The members of the present pro-talk ULFA group were arrested by Bangladesh > security forces and were handed over to their counterparts in India, and > they were till recently in Assam’s jail. All their arsenal and funds > collected by way of extortion, kidnapping and killing have remained with the > self-styled c-in-c of the terrorist outfit, Paresh Baruah. *Now the > pro-talk group has neither shield nor sword with them, and they are under > the strict surveillance of the security forces. Their children are also > growing up. In such a situation they have no other option but to opt for > peace talks. No doubt, this is a good sign, but only time will tell whether > the talks will be infructuous or bear fruit.* > > Like other children, their children also deserve good education and care. > They are innocent and should not suffer for the crimes their parents have > committed. > > *The members of the revolutionary-turned-terrorist outfit were so cruel > that they did not hesitate to brutally kill women and school-going children, > as well as to sever the limbs of people before finally killing them, > suspecting them to be police informers. Simply saying sorry and admitting > their past crimes as mistakes are not enough. * > > Irrespective of the outcome of peace talks, no political party, whoever > comes to power, should ever think, even in their wildest dreams, of granting > general amnesty to the members of the terrorist outfit who have criminal > cases pending against them. People cannot simply ignore the agonies of the > families of the victims — thousands of men, women and children who lost > their lives at the hands of these terrorists. It will also be an insult to > the kith and kin of those thousands of families who were the target of the > outfit’s bullets. > > The government should also seriously fight the cases against the criminals > in the court of law so that the guilty are suitably punished. *The ULFA > leaders should self-introspect and repent for their crimes by languishing in > jail; only then will things come to their logical conclusion.* If Binayak > Sen can be unfairly sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court in > Chhattisgarh for sedition and having links to Maoists, then why cannot the > members of a terrorist outfit be punished, especially since they have killed > thousands of innocent people in the name of revolution? > > Deepak K Rajkhowa, Guwahati-1. > > ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Sentinel letter
Nice logical, passionate letter in today's Sentinel. The sad part is that the author of this letter, Mr. Rajkhowa probably doesn't realize that his appeal will most certainly fall on deaf ears. The powers that be & their ardent supporters are not really concerned with things like rule of law, fairness, and victims' rights only when they are at the receiving end. Highlights mine. --Ram *No Amnesty Please* A few days back, Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly PK Mahanta told the media that the ULFA cadres coming overground should be granted general amnesty. People have not forgotten the terror created by the surrendered ULFA (SULFA) after they were granted amnesty by the Hiteswar Saikia government. They were also allowed to retain their arms, with the strength of which they opened a syndicate in all the businesses to collect goonda tax. The law-abiding people have had enough of the taste of general amnesty. The members of the present pro-talk ULFA group were arrested by Bangladesh security forces and were handed over to their counterparts in India, and they were till recently in Assam’s jail. All their arsenal and funds collected by way of extortion, kidnapping and killing have remained with the self-styled c-in-c of the terrorist outfit, Paresh Baruah. *Now the pro-talk group has neither shield nor sword with them, and they are under the strict surveillance of the security forces. Their children are also growing up. In such a situation they have no other option but to opt for peace talks. No doubt, this is a good sign, but only time will tell whether the talks will be infructuous or bear fruit.* Like other children, their children also deserve good education and care. They are innocent and should not suffer for the crimes their parents have committed. *The members of the revolutionary-turned-terrorist outfit were so cruel that they did not hesitate to brutally kill women and school-going children, as well as to sever the limbs of people before finally killing them, suspecting them to be police informers. Simply saying sorry and admitting their past crimes as mistakes are not enough. * Irrespective of the outcome of peace talks, no political party, whoever comes to power, should ever think, even in their wildest dreams, of granting general amnesty to the members of the terrorist outfit who have criminal cases pending against them. People cannot simply ignore the agonies of the families of the victims — thousands of men, women and children who lost their lives at the hands of these terrorists. It will also be an insult to the kith and kin of those thousands of families who were the target of the outfit’s bullets. The government should also seriously fight the cases against the criminals in the court of law so that the guilty are suitably punished. *The ULFA leaders should self-introspect and repent for their crimes by languishing in jail; only then will things come to their logical conclusion.* If Binayak Sen can be unfairly sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court in Chhattisgarh for sedition and having links to Maoists, then why cannot the members of a terrorist outfit be punished, especially since they have killed thousands of innocent people in the name of revolution? Deepak K Rajkhowa, Guwahati-1. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
