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[ZESTCaste] MRPS mahadharna for SC categorization bill

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MRPS mahadharna for SC categorization bill
Submitted by Newsleaks on November 24, 2011 – 7:05 pm

By: Syed Najaf Ali Shaukat, Bureau Chief, Andhra Pradesh

Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS), Andhra Pradesh, has decided
to organize 'Madiga Dandora Mahadharna' on December 10 at Indirapark
here, demanding the Central government to introduce SC Categorization
Bill in the on-going Parliament Session.

Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, MRPS state president
Perupogu Venkateswarlu Madiga alleged though the Madiga Community has
been fighting for SC categorization since last 17 years, due to Mala
leaders' influence, the Congress government was delaying the
introduction of the SC Categorization Bill in the Parliament so far.
He charged that the State government was diverting crores of SC
development funds to other welfare programmers, taking advantage of
the differences between Mala and Madiga communities. He urged the
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy to take the reasonability to
convince the Central government to introduce SC Categorization Bill in
the Parliament on the basis of Usha Mehra Committee report. He warned
that about one crore Madiga Community people would not tolerate if the
congress party hurt their sentiments and rights. He also warned that
the Congress party would face the wrath of Madiga community in the
2014 elections if it failed to concede SC Categorization demand.

He demanded the State government to amend LIDCAP G.O and allot Rs 1000
crore fund to provide employment to 16 lakh Madiga community people.
He wanted the government to set up a Special Corporation for SC
sub-caste community, distribute three acre land to landless Madiga
community families and construct Madiga Bhavans in Telangana,
Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra regions in the state.

Mr Venkateswarlu alleged the MRPS president Manda Krishna Madiga was
trying to dilute the Separate Telangana agitation in the name of
Social Telangana though people of Telangana were agitating for
separate State. He alleged that the Central government was playing a
drama on Telangana issue though 4.5 crore people of the region were
agitating for separate state.

Telangana MRPS Founder president Botla Bhikhapati Madiga, MRPS general
secretary M.S. Raju Madiga, Politburo Member Mekala Narendra Madiga,
Telangana MRPS co-convener Vakkala Venkata Madiga, State joint
secretary G. Gopal Madiga, state executive member K. Joan Madiga and
state vice president J. Anjaneyulu Madiga were also present.

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[ZESTCaste] Six upper primary schools for SC, ST to be set up in state

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Six upper primary schools for SC, ST to be set up in state

Written by Imphal Free Press | November 24, 2011 | 0 Comments and 0 Reactions

NEW DELHI, November 24 (agencies): Government today decided to relax
the norms for setting up six additional upper primary residential
schools for girls belonging to predominantly SC, ST, OBC and minority
communities in Manipur.

The Union cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, approved the proposal for relaxation of the norms for
sanctioning six additional Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas one each
in the districts of Bishnupur, Imphal (East), Imphal (West), Senapati,
Thoubal and Ukhrul in Manipur.

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya are residential schools at the upper
primary level for girls belonging to predominantly SC, ST, OBC and
minority communities in educationally backward blocks with rural
female literacy lower than the national average.

In Manipur, KGBVs are operational in Tamenglong, Churachandpur and
Chandel districts.

The cabinet decision paves way for all the nine districts of Manipur
to have KGBVs which will provide residential educational facilities in
the difficult terrain of Manipur thereby increasing access to
education for girls in the remote areas of the State.

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[ZESTCaste] Nod to 3,500 new autos to run on city roads

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Hyderabad | Posted on Nov 25, 2011 at 12:01am IST
Nod to 3,500 new autos to run on city roads
indianexpress Express News Service , The New Indian Express

HYDERABAD: The state government has given permission for registration
of 3,500 new auto rickshaws to ply in the city on the condition the
autos should be run on LPG or CNG, for addressing pollution concerns.

Out of these 3,500 new autos, 500 will be reserved for applicants from
SC/ST categories. The balance 3,000 will be available for applicants
under open category. The process of registration should be completed
by January 31, 2012.

The government took the decision after careful consideration of public
demand for transport facility by increasing total number of
three-wheelers plying from the existing 73,535 to 77,035.

The transport commissioner will issue necessary permission to the
Regional Transport Officers in a day or two.

According to officials, the decision� was taken keeping in view that
some parts of Rangareddy district have been merged into the GHMC, to
provide an alternate transport system.

Also there were several requests for issue of registration of new
autos from people of various communities and the transport
commissioner also felt necessary to increase total number of autos
plying in the city.

According to principal secretary of transport, roads and buildings D
Lakshmi Parthasarathy said 5,066 auto rickshaws were plying in the
merged part of Rangareddy and with addition of another 3,500 autos,
the number has gone up to to 77,035.

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[ZESTCaste] Media doesn’t need Katju’s New Order (Opinion)

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Media doesn't need Katju's New Order
Nov 25, 2011 - Vivek Sengupta |

Age Correspondent

Justice Katju, the new Press Council chairman, continues to rub
journalists the wrong way. Within weeks of taking over last month, he
has managed to get the backs up of almost the entire media fraternity.
He has made sweeping generalisations denouncing the media, sought to
expand the purview of the Press Council from just the print media to
include news television and demanded draconian powers for the Press
Council that would enable it to wield the "danda" and strike fear in
the hearts of journalists.
Not the best way to open innings for the head of a body which purports
not only to serve as a watchdog of the press but also to preserve the
freedom of the press and maintain and improve standards.
Justice Katju's complaints about the press have found widespread
resonance. Not just among media consumers but also many journalists.
It is acknowledged that there is much that is exceptionable with the
manner in which journalism is being practised in India today. But it
is also felt that he misses the big picture, betrays lack of knowledge
about how the media works and makes the mistake of regarding the media
as a homogenous entity.
But there is something more disturbing about his views. He appears to
belong to a school of thought championed by the Indian government in
the 1970s and the 80s. Justice Katju says, "It is the duty of all
patriotic people, including the media, to help our society" by
focusing on issues of poverty, economic backwardness, feudalism and
social backwardness. This call to duty brings to mind the
Soviet-inspired theories propounded by the champions of a New World
Information and Communication Order some three decades ago. News is a
social good and must serve a social purpose, they said, not a
commodity in the competitive marketplace. Providing information is a
social function; it should not be a business transaction. There was an
insistence that the press purvey "development news". Shedding its
adversary role, the press must make common cause with the government
in the supreme task of nation-building, it was asserted.
A "committed" press would obviously be under the thumb of the
government. What if Justice Katju gets his "danda" and uses it to
nudge the press towards such a subservient role? Far from taking India
forward, he appears inclined to take the country back in time.
It is surprising Justice Katju does not name the rise of paid news as
a major challenge. If he can direct his energies constructively to
help contain this threat by re-establishing the clear line of division
between paid content and editorial matter, he will have done the
country a signal service.
The other area where he could contribute is persuading editors to pay
attention to the decline in standards. The way to do it is to not to
describe the entire press corps as lacking in education, as he has
done. A surer bet would be to urge the media to invest more in hiring
better quality staff and, thereafter, in training them.
Justice Katju's admonitions would have gone down better with the media
if he had also acknowledged its tremendous contribution to the growth
of democratic society in India. It is the press which is bringing to
light all that is wrong with governance in the country. It is not
difficult to guess how society would have erupted had it not been for
the pressure cooker effect of the press.
On the other hand, the media, news TV in particular, must ponder why
the learned judge has found many takers for his views. The hysterical
tone of some channels and their readiness to be judge, jury and
prosecutor, giving short shrift to needs of balance and accuracy, have
not gone down well with viewers. News broadcasters would do well to
see this as an opportunity to put in place, at the level of individual
channels, a mechanism to have an internal ombudsman, a viewers'
editor, of the sort that the Hindu newspaper has, to address concerns
of accuracy and balance in as close to real time as possible.
Justice Katju would have carried more conviction if he had not treated
the media as a homogenous monolith, discounting its tremendous
variety. It is this variety that provides choice to the consumer and
allows for balance.
He may have issues with the quality of news coverage. He must realise
that this has a lot to do with the economics of newsgathering. More
importantly, such is the variety of media outlets in the country that
no real issue or significant development goes unreported. Seeking
homogeneity in the press or threatening to use strong-arm methods is
not the answer to challenges of coverage. Both will impose curbs on
the freedom of the press. Such curbs are unacceptable. None other than
Mahatma Gandhi made that clear: "The press is a great power, but … an
uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from
without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be
profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning
is correct, how many of the journals in the world would withstand the
test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the
judge? The useful and useless must like good and evil generally go
together and man must make the choice."
So, the Mahatma abhorred control from without and lauded choice.
Justice Katju appears not to like choice and he seeks to regulate from
without.
"Self-regulation is no regulation," he has told TV news broadcasters
and asked them whether they were willing to come under the Lokpal, if
not under the Press Council! The Lokpal! Could he be serious?

Vivek Sengupta, public affairs analyst, is founder and chief executive
of the consulting firm Moving Finger Communications

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[ZESTCaste] Parties cave in to Dalit outrage‚ include rep in SRC

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Parties cave in to Dalit outrage‚ include rep in SRC

Added At: 2011-11-24 7:20 PM

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Speaking during today's House session‚ UCPN- Maoist lawmaker Tilak
Pariyar and other Dalit lawmakers had warned of obstructing House
proceedings if Dalit representation was not guaranteed in the SRC.

KATHMANDU: Following pressure from Dalit communities and various other
organisations demanding the Dalits' representation in the recently
formed State Restructuring Commission (SRC), a meeting of the three
major political parties—UCPN-Maoist, CPN-UML and Nepali Congress
(NC)—on Thursday decided to appoint an additional member from the
Dalit community in the SRC.

The eight-member SRC was formed on Tuesday with two members each from
the three major political parties and United Democratic Madhesi Front
(UDMF) sans coordinator. The parties however, had reached an agreement
to lead the SRC on a rotational basis after they failed to finalise
the coordinator.

Speaking during today's House session, UCPN- Maoist lawmaker Tilak
Pariyar and other Dalit lawmakers had warned of obstructing House
proceedings if Dalit representation was not guaranteed in the SRC.
Similarly, various Dalit communities had also cautioned of launching a
stern agitation against it.

During the meeting of top brass held at the Ministry of Peace, in
Singha Durbar this afternoon the leaders also came to a conclusion
that the regrouping of Maoists combatants was satisfactory. However,
the main opposition parties UML and NC had attracted the attention of
the UCPN-Maoist towards the property return move saying that it was
not implemented as per the agreement reached among the parties
earlier.

The meeting also took up the issue of the extension of the Constituent
Assembly (CA) term but failed to make any concrete decision regarding
the issue.

Though a bill was tabled at the legislature-pariament today seeking
the 11th amendment of statute to extend the tenure of the CA by six
months, NC and UML have been voicing their reservation over the
extension saying that the extension depends on the progress made in
the peace process. They are yet to finalise the fate of CA.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

[ZESTCaste] MRPS mahadharna for SC categorization bill

[ZESTCaste] Six upper primary schools for SC, ST to be set up in state

[ZESTCaste] Nod to 3,500 new autos to run on city roads

[ZESTCaste] Media doesn’t need Katju’s New Order (Opinion)

[ZESTCaste] Parties cave in to Dalit outrage‚ include rep in SRC

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